class notes Constituency Codes* ’GB ’00 TT PTT P GP GGP FA PF FR HOS FHS IHOS
Alumna/us from Grace Bement era (1925–1947) Alumna/us Class Year Trustee Past Trustee Parent Grandparent Great Grandparent Current Faculty or Staff Past Faculty or Staff Friend of Bement Head of School Former Head of School Interim Head of School
Keep in Touch! Recent marriage? Exciting adventure? New baby? Visited with fellow alumni/ae? *Constituents are listed with their Bement affiliation following each name. For example, John ’72 and Alice PF Smith P’95 means that John is an alum from the Class of 1972, and Alice is a past faculty member. Together, they are parents of a student who attended Bement Class of 1995.
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Pamela Lee Cranston ’64 writes: “My husband, Ed, and I are enjoying retirement in Oakland, CA. As an Episcopal priest, I continue to assist at a local church here in the San Francisco Bay Area. One benefit of being in lockdown in 2020 is that I was able to write a lot. In 2020, my newest book, Searching for Nova Albion, was a semi-finalist in the Poetry Society of Virginia 2020 North American Poetry Contest. Also, I won fifth place in the national 2020 Writer’s Digest Poetry contest for my poem ‘My Grandfather’s Typewriter.’ My niece, Rebecca (daughter of David C. Lee ’67, who sadly died in 1995), and her husband now have two adorable girls, ages three years and ten weeks old.”
Phil Barreda ’82 is doing well and enjoying time fishing with his son under the Rickenbacker Causeway in Key Biscayne, FL.
Ned Reade ’67 writes: “I have officially ‘retired’ from teaching art
and Samantha Lawson welcomed William Castle Barnard Lawson, born December 12, 2020. Besides being a proud new dad, Nick’s mom, Amy Gordon P’99 ‘03, PF reports, “Nick is a psychiatric social worker and therapist working in a New York City Mobile Behavioural Health Unit that functions as an alternative to re-incarceration for a population coming out of Rikers Island, many of whom have been diagnosed with severe mental illnesses.”
and art history at the Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, NY. I taught my last classes via Zoom in May 2020 during the pandemic, and the school graciously allowed us to stay in our campus home for one more year as ‘artists-in-residence.’ So with time on my hands, I opened the Live 4 Art Gallery in Pawling, featuring the work of local artists and others in the greater Hudson Valley area. I also taught an eight-week and a six-week session of watercolor workshops online through the winter into spring. A highlight was having Jennifer Montgomery Bethlenfalvay ’68 join my class from her home in Denver! The wonders of remote education!”
Richard Herchenreder ’75 writes: “I’ve reached age 60 and hope I have achieved some wisdom to build on my Bement education. I am continuing my practice as a Certified Internal Auditor and was recently elected to the board of the Institute of Internal Auditors’ Southern New England Chapter. Every day I use skills I learned at Bement from Miss Hawks, Tim Young, and others as I perform planned audits for banks and credit unions all over New England. I really enjoyed the recent online gathering of Bement alumni/ae, which is something I hope is repeated. My best regards to all members of our Bement family.” 32
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Phil Barreda and son
Nick Lawson ’99
Nick with William at almost seven months old
Joanna Pasiecnik ’06 sold a comedy/fantasy web series project, The Campaign, to the Fantasy Network.
