Winter | Spring 2020
Radio Days "We were excited and a little nervous getting reacquainted with the equipment, but it came right back to both of us!" said Mark ’85 and Marlene (Popeo) ’86 Nickerson at the WSHL Alumni Takeover Weekend in February.
After his dad passed away, Daniel Murphy '81 searched for a way to honor him. He became a mason and then a shriner with the Anah Shrine in Bangor, Maine, where he joined the clown unit in order to continue his father's legacy of helping children. For the past 20 years, Murphy has performed as Shamrock the Clown.
Kathleen (Hilliker) Burkinshaw '90 knew little of her mother's childhood."I was 10 years old when I noticed she had nightmares every August," Burkinshaw recalls. "When I pressed her about it, she told me she was actually from Hiroshima, not Tokyo as she had told everyone." Burkinshaw writes about her mother's experience of losing her family to the atomic bomb in The Last Cherry Blossom.
When Kathleen Quinn-Kortis ’79, owner of Woodside Woolies Farm in West Barnstable, was 8 years old her grandmother taught her how to knit. "During recess in grade school, I would be out on the playground sitting with a ball of yarn and knitting needles making something," remembers Quinn-Kortis.
