2006 HIGHLIGHTS in the BossClarkDilgardClark Household:
- The absolute best highlight of the 2006 year was the birth of Philip Stenson Dilgard-Clark who was born to Carolyne and Seymour on August 29. He has been a source of joy for Amy and Roger who are revelling in finally having a local grandchild they can spoil. Click here for more pictures of the cutie.
. - The annual ABA meeting earlier in August gave Roger and Amy (and Ashley) the perfect excuse to travel to Hawaii -- where Ted and Jaymie are now living.
- Ashley spent spring semester of her junior year in studying at the Frei Universitat in Berlin. Of course, the semester didn't start until April, leaving her time for her big European tour. Click here for her "blog."
- Roger and Amy traveled to Berlin to join Ashley for a soccer-stuffed week in the midst of the World Cup. See our pictures. Ashley spent the spring and summer there studying at the Frei Universitat in Berlin.
- Bowser, after a full and wonderful 16 years, died peacefully. We will miss him. Click here for his obituary -- it didn't make the New York Times, but we are happy to share it.
- Amy and Ashley took a week touring Bavaria in the snow! Check out their pictures.
- Roger went to China to participate in a conference at Wuhan University.
- In August 2005, Mary (Amy's sister) donated a kidney to her husband, Gary, who suffers from PKD polycistic kidney disease. They both continue to make wonderful progress. Click here for a short newscast about PKD featuring Gary and Mary! More importantly, click here go to the PKD website and sponsor Mary and Gary in their annual walk to raise money for the PKD Foundation. Below -- the entire Boss clan!
2005 HIGHLIGHTS in the BossClarkDilgardClark Household:
- Ted had a solo show of his glasswork in October at the Viscosity Gallery in Seattle, Washington.
- July saw the BossClark Household teaming up with the LewisStartzman household. Roger, Amy, Ashley and Ted joined up with Jaymie, her mom Deb, her two sisters Michaela and Mariah, and their dad Mike for a wonderful week vacation in Ocean City. Not a very energetic time -- but wonderful to share it!
- Roger and Amy's forty Chinese students came to Philly for the summer -- and along with eight other Chinese scholars wer entertained at the BossClark house! Click here for a group photo!
- Roger and Amy spent the spring semester teaching in Temple's LLM program in Beijing. It was a fantastic time: in addition to lots of lecturing, they spent time with friends Tony and Susan Browne from NZ (Tony is now the New Zealand Ambassador to China) , and of course our dear friend LingLing Liu. For our pictures, Click here.
- Ted and Jaymie joined us for the last 18 days. We had a great time exploring Beijing, then trekked to Tibet, Sichuan (home of the giant panda), and Gansu (home of the Gobi Desert). Got some great pictures -- click the destination to check them out!
- This summer, Ashley interned on Capitol Hill in DC for Congressman Rob Andrews. What a great experience!
- Waitangi Day 2005 was a roaring success; Amy and Roger returned from New Zealand specifically for the event (since they had been warned that people were going to hold the party as usual whether or not the travelers deigned to show up). This year, the crowd on the steps (a.k.a. Ashley's crowd) took some great pictures. Click here to see them!
- Amy and Roger finished up their semester stay in New Zealand with another grand tour. The other Roger (aka Dennis) and Debbie joined them for two weeks exploring the South Island and part of the North.
- Ash and her crowd spent their spring vacation on Saint Thomas. How did they pull that off?
- Seymour and Carolyne have been traveling as well, the latest destination being Puerto Rico.
- Carolyne joined the Dechert law firm, were she is currently working in the corporate department. Check out her listing at the firm!
2004 HIGHLIGHTS in the BossClark Household
- Ted and Jaymie graduated from Evergreen State College in June. Pictures.
- Carolyne graduated from Rutgers Law School in May, receiving her degree from Roger. More pictures.
- Rupert graduated from Victoria University in Wellington -- the 3rd generation (after Roger and Melissa) to do so (Roger was there for it) . Rupert's father, Malcolm, completed his PhD at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Rupert, Amy and Roger joined Malcolm's father and sister at the graduation
- Ashley finished her first year at Middlebury College, took intensive French over the summer, and traveled to Istanbul (see her Turkey pictures).
- Hillaria gave birth to Aviv Goodgame Sprinkle on March 6, 2004
- Grace graduated from City Kids pre-school and began school at Marsden School. Click here to see Grace's Page
- Roger finally made it to Samoa -- where he was treated like royalty! Indeed, the Prime Minister gave a formal dinner in his honor and presented him with his own kava bowl (not that Roger will drink the stuff). Roger and Amy climbed Mt Vaea in Apia to visit the grave of Robert Louis Stevenson. Check out the Samoa pictures!
- The visit to Samoa allowed Roger to yet another country to his list of "countries I have run in". Also added in 2004 were Thailand and Costa Rica.
- The new hit theatre production Sniper in which Rupert had a part received the Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for New Zealand's most original production of the year!
2004 REUNIONS
This year has been a big one for reunions! Amy returned to Bryn Mawr College for her 35th reunion (BMC "clusters" its classes so it's actually one year off!). And even better, she and three of her roommates from senior year had an informal reunion in Ocean City -- the first time the four had been together since graduation.
Roger returned to Wanganui to celebrate Wanganui East Primary School's 100th anniversary, where he met up with many of his classmates from the 1940s. And in October, Roger and Amy attended Roger's 40th law school reunion in Wellington: dinner at Bellamy's (the dining room of Parliament), followed by a dim sum lunch the next day. Eighteen of the thirty-five members of the 1964 graduating class were at the event.
