78 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2025 In Loving Memory Robert Pendleton ’53 (1937 - 2025) was a battery maker, student, mathematician, lawyer, United States Coast Guard Reserve Captain and beloved father and husband. Bob grew up in New Jersey and later in Massachusetts. He spent his younger years roaming the woods and the neighborhood villages, occasionally living with his older sister and her husband. When he was 13, his father, newly remarried and living in Florida, arrived one day, swept Bob up and carried him to Florida, where he was enrolled in the Ransom School for boys. Young for his class and confused about all the changes in his life, he was counseled to wait one extra year before entering college. He spent that year at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Upon entering Oberlin College, Bob met Elsa Walther and, in the middle of their senior year, they married. Bob studied economics and mathematics at Oberlin. His father had planned that Bob would take over Penn Battery Company upon college graduation, but Bob had discovered a passion for learning, especially algebra, and chose graduate school at Indiana University instead. After finishing graduate school, he spent time each year on his Coast Guard Reserve commitment, which he kept for 24 years, retiring as a captain. To support his wife and two sons, he began teaching while completing his graduate education, writing his PhD dissertation while teaching at Dartmouth College. This led the family to MIT for two years, then to Louisiana State University. The last years of his academic career were spent at Whittier College in California as chair of its math department. Bob always felt that “math is a young man’s game” so, as he reached middle age, he studied law and entered the California Bar. Although he enjoyed his law classes and passed the bar exam on his first try, he missed mathematics. He joined the federal civil service as a mathematician in a Navy lab in the Eastern Sierra and worked there until his retirement. Bob leaves his wife, Elsa, and two sons, Bryan and Phillip. Retired Circuit Court Judge Alan A. Dickey ’61, who served four decades on the bench, passed away on August 29 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 82. Alan Adee Dickey was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, but lived most of his childhood in Miami. He was a graduate of Ransom Everglades, then continued his education at Stetson University and the University of Florida law school. He was elected to the position of county judge in 1976, then moved onto the circuit bench in 1991. He served a term as chief judge from 2001-03. Dickey was a widely respected jurist who was reelected to each of his terms without opposition. He retired as the longest serving judge in the history of Florida’s 18th judicial circuit. Alan was a past president of the Sanford Rotary Club, receiving multiple Paul Harris Fellowship awards during his membership. He loved travel, people, country music and Florida Gator football and basketball. He was a beloved member of the community and recognized everywhere he went; he was well known for treating everyone with kindness and respect. Long-time local lawyer Joyce Fuller stated, “there has never been a kinder, more studious, patient, honest, fair example of what a judge – a human – should be.” Alan adored his family. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Laurie, sons Kevin (Sharon) and Ryan (Allyson) and five grandchildren: Hannah, Nathan, Julia, Campbell and Caroline. They will always cherish great memories of their beloved Papa. Richard Sager ’70 was born on July 7, 1952, in Coral Gables, Fla. He received his undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College, and his double Master of Business Administration and Health Administration from Stanford University. After college, he moved to San Diego, where he found his ideal city for the remainder of his life. He was a real estate broker and developer, as well as a sculptor and painter. Richard was a moving force in the San Diego LGBTQ+ community. He chaired the San Diego HIV Funding Collaborative, was a co-founder of the San Diego Human Dignity Foundation, an LGBTQ community organization, was a former board chair of ARTS, a Reason To Survive, which provides arts based programs for at-risk youth, and Sue Grinnell Baskin ’67 (August 9, 1949 - June 16, 2025) passed away at her home in Holyoke, Mass. Sue will be deeply missed by her husband, Carlisle (Lyle) Baskin, and daughters, Poe Harlow and Sienna Baskin (Christa Douaihy); her grandchildren, Lina Douaihy, Jackson and Miles Baskin; her sisters, Sara Smith ’69 and Barbara Grinnell ’68; her brother, Rob Grinnell ’74; her nieces and nephews; and the many youth she mentored and friends whose lives she changed. Sue was born August 9, 1949, in Miami, Fla. She attended Everglades School for Girls, where her mother, Harriet Grinnell, taught English at both the Everglades School for Girls and Ransom Everglades. She also attended Skidmore College and Florida International University. She met her husband, Lyle, at Players Theater in Miami, where he was a set designer and she was the stage manager. The Miami theater scene was a vital part of their lives. She taught at Alexander Montessori and later served as a tutor and supervisor at Sylvan Learning Center. She was a renowned youth mentor and Religious Education Director at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Miami. She was also a master knitter and seamstress. In midlife, she and her husband moved to the mountains of Clyde, N.C., where they raised Suri alpacas. In her later years, she and Lyle moved to Holyoke, Mass., to be close to their children and grandchildren.
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