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PA ’55 class notes Andover Magazine Fall / Winter issue 2025-2026

Addendum to Bob Kohler’s class note Fall / Winter 2026 – 2027

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Bodies and Souls: Robert and Frances Coulborn Kohler Collection 

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
March 14, 2026 – July 12, 2026
https://www.pafa.org/museum/exhibitions/bodies-souls 

About the Kohlers & their Collection 

The Kohlers began collecting with purpose after seeing Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) in 1981. The range of figurative work in that exhibition led them to explore a wider range of that genre among living artists in the 1980s-2010s. They followed their gut but also paid attention to the advice of dealer Allan Frumkin who told them to “buy the toughest work you can stand.” That struck a chord with the Kohlers and led them to focus on artists who made figuration relevant to their inner and social lives.

In turns irreverent, hilarious, sensual, vulnerable, expressive of dreams and of trauma, the work reflects the full range of human experience—all the messy and multilayered conditions of being in a body. Many makers in the Kohler collection acknowledge the existence of the unseen, the alien, the frightening, that which is below the surface, out of reach, just beyond the light. The collection often favors artists unafraid to enter darkness and the unknown in order to reveal a deeper truth.

The Kohler collection also provides a way to see how artists interact with a network of friends, colleagues, and others who provide support throughout their lives. Networks of artists active in Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and western Massachusetts are prominent in the collection, but they overlap and reveal mutual interests. Understanding the relationships between artists, especially groups of artists active in specific communities, tells compelling stories about the values and the character of a place. It is a way to center people rather than style, gets at the heart of what artists care about in a particular moment and place, and brings empathy to bear on what artists depict.

Woodmere Art Museum
March 7, 2026 – June 7, 2026
https://woodmeremuseum.org/exhibitions/bodies-and-souls-robert-and-frances-coulborn-kohler-collection

“Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.” — bell hooks

Bodies and Souls traces the imaginative and ethical force of representational art while celebrating the growth of Woodmere’s collection through the generous underwriting of Robert and Frances Coulborn Kohler.  Woodmere’s continuing partnership with the Kohlers is grounded in a commitment to Philadelphia’s artists and to works in which visibility and self-definition are actively claimed.

Focusing on late twentieth and early twenty-first century paintings, drawings, and sculpture by artists including Barbara Bullock, Roland Ayers, Marta Sanchez, Sidney Goodman, Andrew Turner, Henry Bermudez, Ashley Flynn, Anne Minich, Twins Seven Seven, and many others, the exhibition reveals how representational figurative practices insist on presence. These artists depict bodies as relational, vulnerable, and resilient, attending to gender, sexuality, interiority, and urban life, while countering erasure and exclusion with strong visual narratives. 

Bodies and Souls presents representation as a liberatory strategy—one that enables artists to see and be seen on their own terms, documenting embodied experience while imagining more just and humane ways of being in the world.

Bodies and Souls is presented concurrently with an exhibition of the same title featuring the Kohlers’ personal collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (https://www.pafa.org/museum/exhibitions/bodies-souls-kohler-collection).

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Arnold Thackray

Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
Arnold.thackray@gmail.com215-873-8245
Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

Arnold Thackray received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1966. He has held faculty appointments in Oxford (visiting fellow, All Souls College), Cambridge (fellow, Churchill College) and at the LSE, Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was the founding Chairman of the Department of History and Sociology of Science, and today is the Joseph Priestley Professor Emeritus.  Dr. Thackray is the former president of the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

Dr. Thackray’s interests lie in the historiography of science, and in understanding technology, medicine, and science as elements of modern culture. His first investigations were into European intellectual history and resulted in Atoms and Powers: An Essay on Newtonian Matter-Theory and the Development of Chemistry (1970). That work led on to John Dalton: Critical Assessments of His Life and Science (1972) and–indirectly–to Gentlemen of Science: The Early Years of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (two volumes, 1981 and 1985, co-authored with Jack Morrell).

A second train of research concerns the American chemical and chemical engineering community in the past century, especially within a context of quantitative history and policy concerns. The co-edited volume Toward a Metric of Science: The Advent of Science Indicators (1974) was followed by Chemistry in America, 1876-1976: An Historical Application of Science Indicators (1985, co-authored with R.F. Bud, P.T. Carroll and J.L. Sturchio) an edited series of volumes on The Chemical Sciences in Society and, most recently, by Arnold Beckman (2000).

A third, more occasional line of enquiry has resulted in various articles on the development of the history and sociology of science as a field of scholarly endeavor, and in edited volumes on Science and Values: Patterns of Tradition and Change (1974), and on Science After Forty (1994).  Dr. Thackray served as editor of Isis, the official journal of the History of Science Society, for seven years, and as editor of the Society’s newer journal, Osiris, for ten years.

Dr. Thackray has been active in the public life of scholarship, serving on a number of boards, including that of the American Council on Education. He is a former President of the Society for Social Studies of Science, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.   Dr. Thackray was the Treasurer of the American Council of Learned Societies from 1985 to 1996, and is currently a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Press.  He has twice been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, has served as George Sarton lecturer of AAAS, and is a recipient of the Dexter Award of the American Chemical Society.

PA ’55 Class Notes Andover Magazine Fall / Winter 2025

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Roger Algase: “I am still going strong as a  business and professional immigration lawyer at the age of 88, fighting for justice and human rights for non-citizens and US citizens alike, as well as speaking out against Israel’s Gaza genocide. I am still in regular touch with my good friend, classmate and fellow Latin student in “Porky” Benton’s class, David Harrison. I am supported in my work by my wife of the past 30 years, Satoko Ishikawa, and am in close touch with my two daughters from my first marriage, Sara Levin and Julie Fracchia, as well as my two grandchildren Jack and Justin Levin, all of whom live in or near Orlando, FL. ”

Ray Clevenger:  “As I wrote for a long-ago reunion book, I am not sure exactly what Sam Phillips did for me, but my life since Andover has been blessed and I am pretty sure Sam had something to do with the opportunities I have had in life and the person I turned out to be. I still feel that way. At the recent reunion, I stayed in my senior dorm (Paul Revere North) and went to look at my upper room in Johnson South.  I had forgotten how spartan the rooms were and still are.  Classrooms looked pretty much the same, as did the beauty of the campus, now dotted with fancy new buildings. I have no reason to doubt that Andover is still a meaningful and positive experience for most of its students, at least, so I hope it can last.”

Tom Hale: “It was at Andover that I encountered God and determined to my best ability to follow Christ. I believed He was leading me to become a medical missionary to the poorest (at the time) country on earth — Nepal. I entered medical school and on the first day of classes I met my future wife Cynthia Berberian. She also had determined to become a medical missionary. And so after a year we got married, and then, after medical training and two years in the Army, we went off to Nepal where we served for twenty-five wonderful years. Andover was the first step in that journey.”

September telecon with Jim Liles: He and Suzie still drive 1,000 miles from the Ozarks in Arkansas to the two-story house he and his son built 20 years ago. Ten miles from Grand Lake in the Colorado Rockies, where, not long ago, they were joined every other year by Bob and Linda Rogers. Where they still get together with Perry Lewis. After Jim’s daughter Diana finished her African studies at Ohio State Steve Kaye helped pay for her trip to Africa.

The honor of instigating The Great Route 28 Detour Caper belongs to the class of ’54. To the upperclassman of uncertain identity who asked Jim to “give me a hand” pointing the detour sign down Hidden Field Road. When Dave Gunn moved cones the deed was mostly done and the perpetrators had “split and run.” “My God, what have we done!” Jim’s reaction when the bus appeared that reverberates still.

Peter Parsons interrupted an email with this: “Right now I have a super typhoon NANDO on top of me.” That was September 21 5:59 PM Pacific. Next day, at 7:20 AM, he wrote, “Now I am lying in my sofa with typhoon Nando thrashing my surroundings with heavy rainfall, and I am praying that my house does not slide down the hill.” Repeated attempts to rouse Peter by email went unanswered until the 30th and this: “We were without electricity and internet on and off for the two week duration of TWO TYPHOONS, Nando and Opong. I did swim my 1000 meters for a few days, but fierce winds and rains kept me away for several days. My only loss was two old pine trees. During the time indoors we looked over our Pot Pourri of 1955. It was fun seeing all the guys and places.”

Bob Rogers: “Andover, Class of 1955!  I remember those Andover years well because my long-term memory is better than my short.  Linda and I now live in Albuquerque, New Mexico where the sun shines brightly every day and the Balloon Festival arrives annually to fill the sky with colorful bounty. It is amazing to look up into the morning sky and see hundreds of colorful balloons drifting to the hither and yon. We left the East coast 7 years ago to help with a newborn grandchild while our daughter completed her medical residency at UNM. Our son and his family live in Salem, MA. Do I still make music the answer is definitely yes but only when I’m in the mood. We’ve had some lovely visits with Jim and Suzie Liles in Colorado and Arkansas and I assure you Jim can still identify correctly every bird he hears. Good cheer to all my classmates.” 

Dick Woods and Robin “celebrated their 65th anniversary this May. He retired in 1992 and the two of them have now traveled to 142 countries and still sail (now under power, having aged out of sail) out of their home in Connecticut, from Maine to the Bahamas. Their three children are scattered across the inland US, so boating is giving way to more sedentary interests such as family.”

Remembrance posted to my website for Louis Michael “Mike” Bell. Also obituaries for Dr. Scott Stewart III; Charles Gordon “Terry” Zug III; and Deborah Green West, Abbott ‘55 and wife of Mike West PA ’55.  [Ref. Abbott ’55 class notes.]

Until we meet again, with thanks to all,

Dave

Deborah West 01/30/37 ~ 09/21/25 Abbott ’55, wife of Michael D. West PA ’55

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Deborah Green West, age 88, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, died peacefully at home on Sunday, September 21, 2025, with George Gershwin playing on WQED public radio.

Debbie is survived and sorely missed by her husband of 64 years, Michael West, her daughter, Alexandra West, her grandson, Tobias Edson, her son-in-law, James Edson and many nieces and nephews.  She is preceded in death by her parents, Marvin and Evelyn Green, and her brother, Marvin Green, Jr.

Born in Syracuse, New York, and growing up in Darien, Connecticut, Debbie attended Abbott Academy, where she first met her husband, Michael.  She later graduated from Wellesley College.  She received a Masters of Social Work from Simmons School of Social Work and practiced as a clinical social worker in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Middletown, Connecticut.  Moving to Pittsburgh, she earned a Doctorate of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh, practicing for years at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, first on their Brief Treatment Unit, and later the Rape Treatment Research Project.  Eventually, she went into private practice as a psychotherapist, where she was of tremendous help to countless people dealing with diverse challenges and had a particularly expert focus on working with adult survivors of childhood abuse.

A strong tennis player, Debbie, together with her husband, won the Pittsburgh Public Parks mixed doubles title in 1985.   Throughout much of her life, she regularly played tennis with friends and was active in organizing and administering a women’s tennis league.

After retiring in 2016, Debbie continued to live with her husband in the Shadyside neighborhood, enjoying friends and cultural events in the arts.  The onset of Alzheimer’s complicated her final years by limiting her mobility and impairing her cognition, but she remained a devotee of educational television programs.

Memorial services are private.  Those wishing to make a donation in Debbie’s memory should direct it to either WQED Multimedia, whose television and radio programming Debbie enjoyed immensely to the very end of her life (www.wqed.org), or the Center for Victims, with which she collaborated closely for many years as a social worker (www.centerforvictims.org).

Ball Funeral Chapel, Inc.

Charles Gordon “Terry” Zug III 02/26/38 – 01/19/25

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Obituary
published on Legacy.com by American Cremation & Funeral Service on Feb. 3, 2025.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Charles Gordon Zug III (known to most everyone as “Terry”) of Chapel Hill, North Carolina on January 19, 2025, in Hillsborough, NC, at the age of 86. We will all miss his great sense of humor, boundless curiosity, love of children, and unwavering dedication to his family and friends.Terry was born on February 26, 1938, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the eldest child of Charles Gordon Zug Jr. and Harriet Loutrel Zug. With his younger siblings Chris and Lisa, who both predeceased Terry, the family lived in Edgeworth Borough, outside of Pittsburgh and spent their summers at Mason’s Island, Connecticut where Terry loved to fish and swim. Terry attended Phillips Academy Andover for high school, followed by Yale University-where he played on the varsity soccer team, and was an accomplished discus thrower for the varsity track team. At Yale, Terry majored in engineering, but eventually decided that he had no interest in a career in engineering. So after graduating in 1959, he enlisted in the Navy.

Terry completed Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, and Mine Warfare School in Charleston, South Carolina in 1960, and was then stationed on two different minesweepers (the USS Dynamic and the USS Gannet) in the Pacific Fleet. He spent a fair amount of that time in Sasebo, Japan, where Terry immersed himself in Japanese culture-including driving around southern Japan on a motorbike, learning to speak conversational Japanese, and developing what would be a life-long interest in Japanese woodblock prints. Terry left active duty in 1963 to attend graduate school, but served in the Navy Reserve for years after-eventually ending his naval career having attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

Back stateside, Terry obtained a master’s degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh in 1965, followed by a Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. It was during graduate school that he met his first wife, Sara Penelope Griswold, whom he married in 1967. In 1968, Terry and Sara moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where Terry began teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of English and Curriculum in Folklore. In 1970, their first child, Charles Gordon Zug IV (known as Geordie) was born, followed by their second child, daughter Eliza Wendell Zug, in 1973. Terry and Sara divorced in 1984.

Terry taught at UNC for 33 years, retiring in 2001. His primary academic passion was folklore–primarily Southern material culture. Throughout his academic career he interviewed and conducted fieldwork with many southern folk artists and outsider artists. He was the author of multiple books on material culture, including the 1986 award-winning Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina-a comprehensive chronicling of the folk pottery traditions of North Carolina. Terry was also a beloved and respected professor, advisor, and mentor to many classes of UNC undergraduate and graduate students.

Terry was instrumental in the founding of the North Carolina Pottery Center, opened in 1998 in Seagrove, NC-the first state pottery center in the nation. Terry served as interim director of the center multiple times, and continued to be very active in the activities of the center well into retirement. Terry was one of the true experts on southern pottery, often speaking at pottery festivals and other events in the southeast.

In 1989, Terry met and fell in love with Daphne Sledge Cruze, and they later married in 2001. Terry and Daphne spent many happy years living together in Chapel Hill in a house full of folk art. In his free time, Terry loved to cook, grow vegetables in his gardens, split firewood with a sledgehammer and wedge, play with Daphne’s and his dogs, collect folk art, watch Pittsburgh Steelers football and UNC Tar Heels basketball games, and spend time with his family. He especially loved children, and enjoyed teasing and playing with his four granddaughters as well as many other children he encountered in his daily life.

Terry is survived by his wife Daphne Cruze-Zug, his son Geordie Zug and Geordie’s wife Marcia Zug, his daughter Eliza Cox and her partner Philippe Rispoli, his stepdaughter Sidney Moffitt and her husband Don Moffitt, his stepson Warren Cruze, his grandchildren Willa Zug, Lucy Zug, Chloe Rispoli, and Isabel Moffitt, and his and Daphne’s beloved Jack Russell Terrier, Maisie.

Dr. Scott Stewart III 12/16/37 – 07/27/25

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Obituary
Anthony Funeral & Cremation Chapels – Brighton/Rochester Chapel on Jul. 30, 2025.

Dr. Scott Stewart III, a pioneering pediatric heart surgeon at Strong Memorial Hospital known for his quiet reserve and thoughtfulness in conversation, was born in Rochester, NY. Gifted with an inquisitive mind and a passion for learning, he attended Phillips Andover Academy, then earned an undergraduate degree from Williams College. He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University followed by an internship at Johns Hopkins and residencies at Vanderbilt and at the University of Alabama, under Dr. John Kirkland.

Scott returned to Rochester in 1973, where he established new techniques in pediatric cardiac surgery and developed a team at Strong specializing in the treatment of pediatric heart disease. He dedicated his life to healing and service as a doctor, earning the respect of patients and colleagues alike for his calm presence, keen intellect and unwavering compassion.

A loving husband and devoted father, Scott had many passions. He found joy on the open water and spent countless hours sailing, which brought him freedom and peace. He was also an avid skier, motorcyclist, antique-car collector, reader and builder of model airplanes. He loved Springer Spaniels, Canandaigua Lake and country music.

Scott is survived by his beloved wife, Andy; sister Martha Stobbs of Atlanta; his sons Scott (and partner, Lara), of Nashville, Doug (Diana) of San Francisco; grandchildren Jackson, Saylor (Dharaa), Twyla; and nieces Lili Ball and Katherine Dobbs.

Louis Michael “Digme” Bell  07/03/37 – 12/24/21. A Personal Remembrance

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Among the giants of our class none stood taller in my estimation than “Digme the Pygmy.” Known to most of us as the Phillipian’s cartoonist, “Digger” would also have been known to many of us as a friend because that was who he was and wanted to be. A friend. True blue for being there for you. True blue for loyalty to the royal blue, Andover.

Meeting me in Omaha to relieve me at the wheel of my U-Haul moving me from Morgantown to Boulder, in August 1995. Where he lived, a far piece from Omaha, but nothing if it was for a friend and especially for an Andover friend. Family and community were the beacons he navigated by and Andover to him was both. Hard to believe that anyone could put the stamp of the common man on a campus full of preppies but he did. Little in physical stature but hardly so as a man of the people.

The little people who weren’t putting up with it anymore in the 60s and 70s. The predatory manipulations of authority that Mike thought unworthy of integrity, human decency, and goodwill — the signatures of his character. His passions were folklore and folk music, his role models standups like Joan Baez and legends like Lead Belly. Whose talents he made a career of broadcasting through college and community radio.

Like KGNU, Boulder’s voice of the common man. He named his program of folk music and blues “Highway 322,” probably more known in its day for Burma Shave ads than for going anywhere. But it brushed by his beloved State College and family farm, and that was somewhere for him. It put him on the map too. When I informed my fiancé, a Boulder resident, that he’d been my roommate at Andover, she exclaimed, “You mean THE Mike Bell?”

THE Mike Bell was what I came to think Andover wanted all its sons in those boys’ school days to be: an original. Taking family genetics from Penn State faculty through Andover and Harvard all the way to a career in Icelandic philology. To become fluent in Icelandic and an authority on Old Norse history and mythology and the Icelandic Sagas.

And proud recipient of an authentic Viking helmet bestowed upon him by his appreciative subjects. A symbol of brute strength that met its match in the untamed clutter of his office on the campus of Colorado University. Where from 1974 until his retirement in 2008 he taught car lore in addition to folk lore and folk music. Conventional stuff compared to his habit, when we bussed home from Rockies games at Coors Field, of dropping by Penny Lane to buy a single cigarette. They don’t make them like this anymore. He’s truly missed.

Call for Class Notes: Fall/Winter Issue Andover Magazine

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To Phillips Academy Class of ’55
From Dave Harrison, class secretary
September 5, 2025

Never more needed than now

From the enthusiasm and thankfulness of our 70th Reunion organizers, Steve Clarkson and John Doykos, to the part two of us have played in shaping and narrating the histories of other countries, Peter Parsons and the late Richard Cowles, there was ample evidence of lives lived, thoughts worth listening to, and differences made in the latest edition of our class notes. The difference between us and generations looking up to us being one of perspective. Moved and moving when, in one instant of spontaneous reflection, we take it all in. So much to be taken in and — how is it possible? As Steve Kaye put it after he looked back and tried: “I can’t explain it. I really can’t.”

His but one of many remarkable journeys through life reflected in our class notes. Owing to many causes but one for sure is Andover. Where we were taken seriously as individuals and given a serious education. We took ourselves and our responsibilities seriously, and the result was uniquely arresting stories. Of lives lived with purpose. Not lived out and wasted but put to good use. Then and now. As role models of talent, discrimination, sensitivity, and resolve. Character combined with humanity that can’t take itself too seriously. The signature of Dave Gunn. Relatability.

Everyone a voice worth hearing and needing to be heard. Thoughtful and heartfelt: the voice of experience that’s never more needed than now. By each other. By those less experienced. By our country.

Is nothing sacred?

When you’re so moved, email your thoughts before October 3. Our draft Fall/Winter notes already feature four guys who didn’t let the grass grow underfoot, including three whose impact was personal. There’s room for more. The wealth of goodwill and hell-raising among us has hardly been tapped!

Please include your current contact info or update it at https://www.andover.edu/alumni/alumni-connect. I’ll try to update email addresses by phone or regular mail. Adding my number to your iPhone contacts will help it recognize me: (303) 746-5983 (Redondo Beach, CA). Thank you!

Our 70th reunion class photo wasn’t scrapped. It just got bumped by all the commotion over the class of ’20 to the next issue. And have you heard? GW Hall is being turned over to students! Administrators are being kicked out! Is nothing sacred? What’s to become of us!

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Steve Kaye suggested that I introduce myself, so you can blame him for what follows. Around GW Hall I was known as “Spike’s mistake.” Referring to Mr. Adriance, the admissions officer. I was let into Andover because my older brother earned his way into Exeter. A record-setting track star plus varsity football (center / linebacker) and varsity baseball (catcher). I stunk at everything except effort, so Steve Sorota took pity and tried to get me a varsity ‘A’ anyway. To put on the handsome Elander & Swanton sweater that I craved and never got. Harvard took pity too, which is how I became their mistake.

So on I went to the patchwork of accidents and mistakes that became my life story. That, like Steve Kaye, I can’t really explain. But all anyone needs to know is that it will be a pleasure to keep the spirit of our 70th Reunion alive if I can help my PA classmates connect. As your class secretary and friend.

Power to you!

Dave Harrison
(303) 746-5983
74apollo350@gmail.com