| Steve (or, as we used to know him, Mr.
Edgerton) wrote the following note before our 40th reunion ... Dear Sam, Jim and the rest of the Class of '60,
This is my seventh year as a "retired" person after 41 years as
a teacher. Two and a half years at Westtown School, two years of
"alternative service," fifteen and a half years at Penn Charter
School, two years directing an alternative school in Phila., ten years at a
public school (Willingboro High School in NJ) and the last eleven at
Moorestown Friends School here in NJ. At Penn Charter, Willingboro HS and
Moorestown Friends I served as Science Department Head. Chemistry was my
main teaching subject and I have gotten several teaching awards.
Camp Dark Waters is the other big work involvement. I have directed it
for 39 years. This is been very gratifying but I am currently trying to find
someone to serve as Director - interested?
After parting company from Mickey in 1970 , I lived in Phila. in an
apartment for two years and then bought a house in Germantown where I lived
for ten years. In 1982 Mary Ann and I moved to "The Shack" here
across from the camp. We got married in 1985 and that same year had Alice.
She is now an ninth grader at Moorestown Friends, doing very well in school,
playing the recorder, taking riding lessons and reading countless numbers of
books.
Mary Ann is a school nurse at Rancocas Valley Regional High School , a
job which she likes. She has just finished a graduate program in public
health at LaSalle.
As to Cinda and Scott - Cinda is married to Lou Krause, environmental
engineer, and they, have two children, Emily (12) and Joey (9). They both
were campers at CDW last summer. She finally finished college and has her
first job as a first grade teacher at Abington Friends School. Scott lives
in Missoula, Montana. He has a business "Timeless Timbers," buying
and selling used timber. He also works on tour boats as a zodiac driver,
expedition leader or dive master. There are very few places he has not been.
The last four and a half years have not been easy. In Sept. 1995 The
Shack burned to the ground at one in the morning. The three of us got out
safely but everything went up in smoke. We lived in the Lodge at camp until
just before Thanksgiving 1997 when we moved in to our beautiful timber frame
new house. Getting the permits, surveying, getting plans drawn and approved
and contractors lined up took a lot of time but we are very pleased with the
results. I hope each of you can visit us here.
The other "biggie" was a 2-21-98 heart attack which scared us
all. The fortunate part was that it happened on a Sat morning. Mary Ann did
CPR and the squad came quickly. An angioplasty and stent at Deborah Heart
and Lung were done and it seems little damage was done to my heart. Needless
to say in 44 days, two years will have gone by with no cigarettes (after
about 50 years of being a heavy smoker). Changed eating habits and more
exercise have me feeling good and I am sure much healthier.
Photography and wood working are my creative outlets. I cut my own mats
and make my own frames. Much of what I take pictures of is Nature and around
here in the woods.
It will be fun to see you all again - I look forward to that.
Sincerely,
Steve Edgerton |
