Sylvia Peck

Posted on: Apr 09, 2024 at 10:12 AM

Have a great, beautiful Birthday and enjoy several more trips around the Sun!

Happy Belated, dear Shelley. I hope you had a wonderful elegant dinner together.

Weren't you very close to being class valedictorian? I remember thinking, back in Shaker, senior year, that for smartest girl, anything we ever both tried for, you would win; unless possibly it were a costume party complete with Venetian masks...... and you couldn't be bothered.

Thus began my opting out of AP math and going as full Bohemian as the anti-war movement would allow. Now, some 50 years later, I am so splendidly proud of how brilliant you must have been, as your father's daughter, to never dumb yourself down for popularity or the easy answer. Congratulations on your children and your family, and for tracking me down (in rehab!) for my second knee replacement)...... I will head back to the Cape in April, once they clear me for mobility.

I am so glad you wrote. So glad you understand about fathers. So glad you had a candle burning. It will help me this April 7th, on my Dad's yhartzeit.

The quiet integrity of doing the right thing,

Isn't that funny? I am sure Sid and Howard knew each other, and respected each other, and were able at least once to roll their eyes together over.... daughters!!

Posted on: Mar 11, 2024 at 10:25 AM

I lost my beautiful Dad, Sid Peck, about a year ago, April 7, 2023, and just couldn't speak of it. Paula, I did see you were looking for me, but I just couldn't come up with any words for the big hole he left. I know I should have written some sort of tribute-- but i just stayed limp and quiet. Anyway-/ good wishes to all and thanks for my birthday greetings. I am about to be wheeled into surgery for a left knee replacement at Mass General, so --- waving to the shaker lakes.... and please someone wish Shelley M. a happy birthday March 18th for me ....Sylvia

Posted on: Apr 12, 2023 at 4:44 PM

Sylvia, belated happy birthday. Best wishes for a wonderful year filled with health and great writings. Stay safe and be well.

Posted on: Apr 09, 2023 at 1:16 PM

Hope you have a great Birthday!!!

Posted on: Jan 08, 2023 at 6:06 PM

Posted on: Jan 05, 2023 at 12:53 PM

Hi, Paula! Isn't this a hoot?! I found it in an old folder -- no idea why I saved it. But the author must have wanted me to show you, because you are mentioned so many times ..... Hmmmm. Somebody from Woodbury who knew Stewart ......

I found an old Manila folder with some artifacts. This page I'll also send to Paula Lawson because she is mentioned so often I think the author who must have passed it to me anonymously wanted to get Paula's attention, also. I do not recognize the handwriting, but I must have saved it to remind myself of Woodbury days.

Fifty years later, no hard feelings. Jim McCutcheon, maybe? Somebody who liked 'Lawson'....

Hi, Benjamin-- this is from Sylvia Peck. I remember Martin Ribar well, and saw that you mentioned Martin in your recent condolence. I didn't immediately recognize your name, but I completely recognized your picture.
I have been trying to find the name of our theater director for so long! I remember the mustache -- and I remember sort of red hair (but maybe the mad hatter us mixed in there with my memory. Were you in "Alice"?
I somehow thought our director's last name started with an 'F', like Fielding or Fletcher or something. I don't remember calling him Mr. Barner-- so maybe we are thinking of a different guy. The man I am thinking of had returned from Manhattan to teach at Shaker. He would do a dramatic play in the fall, and a musical in the spring. I was in the musicals.
I knew Martin through Paul Sapin, I think. But I remember him cheering me up when I despaired of learning my lines or hitting high C.

Have a great rest of the week --

(I arrived at Woodbury in 7th grade).

Posted on: Oct 30, 2022 at 1:01 PM

Posted on: Oct 30, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Hi from Sylvia on the Cape! Give me your contact info!

Posted on: Jul 21, 2022 at 8:54 PM

Dear Alan,

I was so touched by the in memorial video. And I love the timeline. Is it available as a pdf? It's priceless.

All best,

Sylvia

Posted on: Jul 21, 2022 at 9:07 AM

My heffalump.

Posted on: Jul 21, 2022 at 9:05 AM

I just finished watching the ‘In Memoriam” video. It was beautifully done, and so evocative. Eerie to see the building from any viewpoint, and the instrumentals were so lovely. I remembered each face, and kept getting lumps in my throat. The early deaths were so poignant and the recent losses, a weight. Alan, you and the co-producer did a terrific, terrific job.

I was sometimes squinting at the name tags in the photo booth, but it was still amazing to recognize faces from the past.

All is well here on Cape Cod. My springer pup, Geordie Clare is approaching 63 days pregnant with her first litter, and we take off for Maine soon after she rounds her 8th week this Sunday. Nine weeks to gestation and the uncertainty of miracles…..
I am sorry to have missed this 50th reunion, because for the most part, the years make us kinder…..but I couldn’t leave my pregnant girl who resembles herself with a large heirloom seedless watermelon inside; much like the first illustration of the elephant swallowed by a boa constrictor in “The Little Prince”.
The last time I was in Maine was around six weeks ago when I picked my joyous bewildered dog up from multiple breeding dates with her championship stud, I had a long lunch with Bill Ginn and his wife June, who live near Waterville. It was rural and shady and I met their two Icelandic ponies to boot, which was butter cake to a horse crazy soul like me. Those conversations were a small pocket of reunion, to cherish; and I know I would have had more opportunities for such, had I seen more of you this summer. But life intervenes…

I would have hugged any of you! We did have the best music, and it was a heady, bold time to be young.

Posted on: Jun 10, 2022 at 4:59 AM

Happiest of birthdays, Paula Lawson! Maybe you all will get to the Cape this summer. Keep me posted on your summer travels. Hugs from afar.

Hi, Jan. I visited you once when you lived near Gramercy Park. Where in the city are you now? I will be near Lincoln Center today. Happy Passover. Happy Easter. All best to you and Arnie.