Gatherings & Gestures - Worldwide Woodstock Day ’09

We celebrated the bonds that connect us despite the distances that separate us. These are just some of the memories.

Irvine Gathering #2

From: Shalini Agarwal
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 11:38 AM
To: Chris Starr
Subject: Fw: A couple of pictures from Sunday hike
Hello Chris,

We had an interesting postscript to the Oct 24 lunch...a hike in the Mt. Baldy area.
Here are some pictures - Del Freisen, Ester Jantzen and Kamila (non-woodstock friend).
We are thinking of starting a  LA/OC area WOSA hiking club...what do you think?

Happy Thanksgiving!
Shalini


----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Del Friesen
Sent: Mon, November 16, 2009 10:38:05 AM
Subject: A couple of pictures from Sunday hike
Thanks everyone for an interesting day.  

This is the address to see some of Anna's soot images. You will need to click on the tabs at the top of the page.

             
Click here to download:
Irvine_Gathering_2_tagGatherin.zip (988 KB)

 

Boston Gathering
via flickr.com

From: Ananya Kejriwal
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:17 PM
To: Chris Starr
Subject: WWD day Follow up

Hi Chris,

Sorry, it took me so long to get back to you. Here are the people that attended our Boston Gathering at Mark Wagner's house:

Class Name
Warren Rees
1978 Sue (Townsend) Fendrock
1981 Clelia Solis
2008 Anchal Lochan
1964 Rajan Nanda
Hilary Nanda (spouse)
1979 Andrew Turco
1995 Krishnan Jhalani
1990 Harsh Chowdhary
1990 Ameeta (Sherring) Chowdhary
1996 Sonam Wangmo Jhalani
1966 Phil Schoonmaker
1972 Sherri Petievich Perelli
1991 Ethel Kawesa
1967 Mark Wagner
2008 Palzom Pradhan
2008 Sharon D'Souza
2008 Ananya Kejriwal
Staff Jamie Van Drunen
Staff Ethan Van Drunen
1996 Castro and Kirsten Laicer
Karim Wahid
1991 Jonlyn Freeman
1986 Robert Meyer
1936 Barry Alter
2004 Afshaan Alter
1970 Kathry Grosvenor
Ken Grosvenor (spouse)
1958 Jean Benedict Hurley
1979 Merti Rittgers

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cholu/page1/ is a link to the pictures that Mark Wagner took. The first three pages are from the WOSA reunion.

Thanks,
Ananya

A Gesture from Ben MacKenzie (Staff)

From: Benjamin MacKenzie
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 7:30 PM
To: alumnicoordinator@wsalumni.com
Subject: A belated picture from WWD
Chris--
I know that I did not alert the entire Woodstock World to my WWD plans however, when the day came I found myself in need of a gesture. Unfortunately I was swamped with a good deal of homework for graduate school, yet my girlfriend Kristina has become so fully indoctrinated in the ways of Woodstock that after watching the day in the life of woodstock  video we decided to take a quick picture as a study break (hence the black tea--it's not great black tea, but I'm a grad student, I can't afford good stuff)

I then returned to studying and continued searching for a way to define the complex, four-pointed, romantic entanglements in the dramatic work of Hispanic author Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, what word could I possibly use to describe this thing...and through the fog of academia it came to me: THE QUADRANGLE! (Given the number of broken hearts I saw there over my two years...I felt that was appropriate--and another reminder of Woodstock)

Hope all is well for you
Ben 

Irvine Gathering

From: Shalini Agarwal
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:16 PM
To: Chris Starr
Subject: Fw: Oct 24 lunch

Chris,
Here is the picture and note on the gathering at India Cookhouse in Irvine.

back row:
Esther Jantzen '63, Delbert Friesen '65,   Pat Major ,65,   Noel Seefeldt '72,  Linda Seefeldt (spouse),   Vinta Shumway Oviatt '70

front row:
Shalini Prakash Agarwal '72,  Anna Friesen (spouse),  Cynthia Jantzen Belden, ‘63 , Glenn Belden (spouse), Kevin Oviatt, Shiraz Lall (2005)

 
We ate and chatted through a delicious lunch at an Indian restaurant, then several of us went to Shalini’s home for tea. Shalini showed pictures of her hike from Gangotri to Badrinath in 2008.

Esther Jantzen shared photos and experiences of her facinating pilgrimage last year in Northern Spain: The Way of St. James (Spanish name: El Camino de Santiago de Compostela), where legend has it that the remains of the apostle, Saint James the Greater, are buried.  It was one of the important Christian pilgrimages during medieval times through which a plenary indulgence could be earned.  Esther did the about 500-mile route on foot, staying at small village inns along the way. 


 

Ut/Wy Gathering

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Powell Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:42 AM
To: Chris Starr
Subject: Ut/Wy WOSA gathering

Chris, here was the group from our lunch in Utah: (L to R) San San
Nu (office Staff 1992-2002 + Tahira`s mother) holding grandson, Tahira
Sanjenbam Carroll(`00) with daughter, Karen Krenz (Staff), Sue Warner
Birkinshaw (`62), Virginia Sanford McGraw (`63), Mary Ruth Powell
(`72),and Paul Hackney(`77). Missinf from the picture are the three
husbands: Fernando Carroll, Paul Joines and Mike McGraw. I do hope this time the picture goes through. Mary Ruth Powell

A Gesture from Arjun Sarap '84

From: Arjun Sarup
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:54 AM
To: alumni
Subject: Emailing: WScapJ09

Hello,

To celebrate Worldwide Woodstock Day, I wore my WS bucket hat all over central and west Japan in October.  Here I am in front of Matsumoto-jo, quite happy to advertise my school.

Regards,

Arjun Sarup '84

Nurnburg Gathering

(download)

From: Karishma McDonald
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:45 PM
To: Chris Starr
Subject: At long last

Dear Chris, 

 The people who attended are as follows:

Class Name  
1958 Mehernush Kapadia
1986 Christoph Berndt  
1987 Irene Winkler Walter
1994 Rahul Ghosh
1996 Annette Heise
1996 Karishma Nursingh McDonald
1997 Karuna Winkler Diehl


Karishma.

A Gesture by Ken & Lynn Copp (Staff)

From: Ken Copp
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:58 PM
To: Chris Starr
Subject: Emailing: biker 2 09
Chris,
     we were biking a "rails to trails" in Louisiana on Oct 24 & this was a snack break.      ken & lynn copp 

Indianapolis Gathering

From: Gaurav Arora
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:20 AM
To: Chris Starr
Subject: WOSA photo

Chris,
I am sorry I do not have all the spouse/S.O. names.
Present are
Gary Peterson ('71) and spouse Carolyn
Marjorie Hill ('42)
Ada Bruce (Haagen) ('69) and spouse
John Burkhalter ('69) and spouse
Jonathan Crider ('02) and guest
Gaurav Arora ('93) and spouse Rebecca and kids Anya, Ava, and Asha

Gaurav