Class Notes – Profiling Paul Bellantoni ’82

Class Notes

1951

Fred Lovejoy and Rusty Robb gave a reunion lunch on August 23, 2020, for the following classmates: Higginson, Miller, Piper, Rintels, and Whitney, followed by cocktails at Lovejoy’s. The group recognized the passing of Edwards, Johnston, and Sears in recent years. David Rintels, who won Fenn’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2016, flew up to Hanscom Field from his home in Martha’s Vineyard so his classmates could honor him for his play, Clarence Darrow.

1953

Dave Frothingham reports, “In April 2021, Patty and I moved from our home on Skidaway Island, GA, to The Marshes of Skidaway, which is a superb continuing care facility only about four miles from our previous home. We are now very happily settled in an amazing cottage overlooking the salt water marsh.”

1952 REUNION

We’ll be celebrating our 70th reunion this fall, on Friday, September 30, 2022. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn.org/classnotes.

1954

Bartley Calder offers some Fenn reminiscences for his classmates: “Still memories of joy and fear. Joy on the football field as an end who wasn’t thrown passes, because in those days, helmets didn’t allow for glasses. Fear, when Roger Fenn, as I drank from the stone fountain, yelled at me, ‘Recess is over! Get into class!’—his science class. Not my best subject. Best wishes to all of you, those classmates still around, and those of you who have migrated to the next. I remember each one of you.” John Hall reports, “All well here in Israel, dealing as best we can with COVID. Still busy scanning legacy earth science reports as libraries go digital. The city of Jerusalem is rebuilding at a fantastic rate, and the Motza Valley below us, inhabited for the past 9,000 years, is becoming the city’s major western interchange with a 2,200-mile long tunnel.” Jay Olmsted and his wife, Karen, moved to Burke, VA, in the spring of 2021.

1957 REUNION

We’ll be celebrating our 65th reunion this fall, on Friday, September 30, 2022. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn.org/classnotes.

David White writes, “I am enjoying the best of both worlds between Waterstone of Wellesley, a retirement community, and maintaining my summer home in Marlboro, VT, for the warm weather months. Though retired from working for the Marlboro Music Festival after more than a quarter century, I still visit the campus for concerts, rehearsals, and special events. After a year’s ‘sabbatical’ due to COVID in 2020, the concerts resumed this past summer and were welcomed by all. Warm greetings to all in the Fenn community.”

1960

We are sad to report that Baer Connard’s wife, Priscilla, passed away on December 7, 2021. Our condolences go out to Baer and his family.

1962 REUNION

We’ll be celebrating our 60th reunion this fall, on Friday, September 30, 2022. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn.org/classnotes.

1965

Nathanael Slater sent a photo (below) along with the message, “Have apron, prep breakfast; it gets production going.” You rock that Fenn apron, Nathanael! He also reports, “Abc Dadb c.2009-2011, LOC c.2012, ISBN January 2020 Kindle and paper, hardback this month; pictorial nonfiction #1 of 7, ibid The Lantern 1965, Q.E.D. naturally historical description of art in work and love of life further beyond WWII’s Normandy beach landings, way following upon way showing how it can, interconnectedness even disarming terminal seriousness.”

1966

David Tew writes, “Thanks for dropping my news into the last alumni news column. I had no idea the school had grown so much, adding a ninth grade, new buildings, athletic facilities, etc., but of course I should have expected no less. The issue’s focus on Mark Biscoe was fascinating. I had no idea that he’d been a dorm master during his earliest years. When did boarding cease at Fenn, by the way? I think there were a very few boarders remaining when I started the fourth grade in 1962. [Editor’s note: In 1974, Fenn’s Board of Trustees voted to phase out the boarding program gradually.] We now live not too far from where Mark did in Maine, but we’d never connected. One day I learned he was giving a talk about the maritime history of the area, a common interest. After the talk, I went up to ask him a question, and he recognized me. I was amazed. From seventh grade Latin in 1965!?! He even remembered that I stumped him in class one day with a question about a Latin palindrome. We spoke for a while, and I told him that his Latin class had been an enjoyable and instructive introduction to the structure of language. It had a significant effect on my future. I studied Latin and Greek throughout Brooks School and some at Harvard, where I went after Fenn. I subsequently married a Wellesley girl who was a Classics scholar. We’re still married forty-five years later, and our children have suffered her endless corrections to their grammar since. But they appreciate it! Fenn’s focus on the Transcendentalist traditions of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts was significant also, since I lived on the other side of Walden Pond and would walk or ride my bike through Walden Woods and around the pond to school on sunny days. Their philosophies and writings were a wonderful way to be exposed to American literature and history. Many thanks!”

Eamon Hegarty ’04 and his son, Cormac

1967 REUNION

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1970

Alumni Class Senator Charlie Denault, cadenault@gmail.com

1971

Alumni Class Senator Jamie Jones, jbjones@seamanpaper.com

1972 REUNION

Reunion Volunteers Brad Bailey, bailey13@comcast.net James Owens, jace58@comcast.net John Reichenbach, john@reichenbach.org

We’ll be celebrating our 50th reunion this fall, on Friday, September 30, 2022. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn.org/classnotes.

1977 REUNION

We’ll be celebrating our 45th reunion this fall, on Friday, September 30, 2022. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn.org/classnotes.

1978

Alumni Class Senators David Brown, dhbrown333@gmail.com Bill Lawrence, lawrencewa@gmail.com

1979

Andrew Mockler provided an update on his family. His wife, Jennifer Marshall, is an artist and art teacher. Their older daughter, Sophia, plays violin with the Minnesota Orchestra, while their younger children are still in school. Lucas, following in his parents’ footsteps, is an artist, working on an M.F.A. in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Oonagh, their youngest child, is a freshman at Barnard College, where she is forging her own path by studying science. After receiving a B.F.A. degree in art from Cornell, Andrew went to Yale for his M.F.A. in painting and printmaking. He has been a printmaker for 25 years, and his press, Jungle Press Editions, is located in Brooklyn. Andrew claims, “It all started with Jean Carter in the silk screening hut at Fenn!”

1980

Alumni Class Senator Jon Cappetta, cappettajon@gmail.com

1982 REUNION

Reunion Volunteer JK Nicholas, jknich66@gmail.com

We’ll be celebrating our 40th reunion this fall, on Friday, September 30, 2022. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn.org/classnotes.

On September 3, Paul Bellantoni posted on Facebook, “THE BIG REVEAL: Today a personal dream-come-true, over 40 years in the making, becomes official. I (well, my voice) join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If y’all go to see Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings this weekend, the ‘effort’ (sound) of every punch thrown, kick, block, thrust, parry, jump, hit taken, power-up, earth shattering blow, even several breaths and one soul-rending scream that comes from Wenwu—a.k.a. the Mandarin (the hero’s father and the main villain)—is my voice. It was an incredible experience, truly once-in-a-lifetime, that has seemed unreal from start to finish. Being the one voice, alone, on the giant Disney soundstage was AMAZING! I cannot believe this is my life.” Congratulations, Paul! See our profile of Paul on p. 80.

1983

Alumni Class Senators Andy Majewski, amajewsk@hotmail.com Scott Van Houten, smvccc01@gmail.com

1984

Chip Dinsmore shipped out to Australia this past May. “I had to check all the boxes for them to grant me entry— COVID survivor, fully vaccinated, good health, two-week hotel quarantine. After approximately nine months of single-digit COVID infections in Australia, I was the lucky prize to break that streak, and we went into strict lockdown in early July....The COVID party never stops! At least I have beautiful weather in the Sydney winter, and I’m near a beach for daily swims and surfing. I’ll probably be in Australia through next January and then I’m off to Italy and the U.K. to launch our business there. I hope to get some time to travel around the country.” A.J. Sohn was thrilled to watch son Carter ’19 receive the Patriot365 Award from Concord-Carlisle High School varsity football coach, Josh Reed, after his junior year season this fall. The award recognizes players “who embrace and exhibit hard work, accountability, discipline, commitment, teamwork, and overcoming adversity with a positive attitude on and off the field.” A.J. shares, “Seeing Carter receive this award was one of the proudest moments of my life. He has turned out to be the man I had hoped, and Fenn certainly played a very substantial role in his development.” (See photo on p. 87 in the 2019 class notes.)

COME ONE, COME ALL – Reunion and Homecoming Weekend 2022!

Alumni, mark your calendars for September 30 and October 1 for Fenn’s Reunion and Homecoming festivities! All alumni are invited to help celebrate reunion classes ending in 2 and 7 on Friday evening and join in the family-friendly Homecoming Day on Saturday. If you would like to volunteer for your class as a reunion volunteer or class senator, please contact Alan O’Neill ’98, Director of Alumni Relations and Alumni Giving, at aoneill@fenn.org or (978) 318-3517. Thank you!

1985

Jonathan Spooner and his wife, Leah Wichler, had a baby boy, Samuel Mason Moser Spooner, on April 21, 2021. Congratulations!

1987 REUNION

We’ll be celebrating our 35th reunion this fall, on Friday, September 30, 2022. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn.org/classnotes.

1989

Alumni Class Senators Matt Boger, mattboger@yahoo.com Brian Davidson, bw_davidson@yahoo.com

1990

Alumni Class Senator Alex Zavorski, zavorski@gmail.com

Kevin Keegan earned a certificate in privacy law and cybersecurity in 2021 from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Subsequently, he and a business partner whom he met at USC started a company called Daylight, which offers corporate digital responsibility (CDR) products and services to startups and other organizations. Kevin and his wife, Nicole, live in Los Angeles, CA, with their son, Sawyer.

1992 REUNION

Reunion Volunteer Ben Bing, benbing1@gmail.com

We’ll be celebrating our 30th reunion this fall, on Friday, September 30, 2022. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn.org/classnotes.

Ben Bing is a fourth grade teacher in Woburn, MA. He has two sons, Alexander (7) and Eric (4). Eric Goddard is the captain of an oil tanker, “Overseas NY.” Chris Lane, who teaches at the University of Rhode Island, received a Fulbright Fellowship to spend six months at the University of ParisSaclay in France to conduct research on the evolution of parasitism in marine organisms.

1994

Alumni Class Senator Breman Thuraisingham, breman_t@yahoo.com

Rob Achtmeyer has been pivoting from classroom teaching to launching Mountain Made Adventures, an adventure travel company. He notes, “After completing the trans-New Hampshire Overland Adventure Route with some friends over the summer, I have been developing a trail for Maryland.” Alec Duncan is an oil and gas geologist with Occidental Petroleum, where he manages a small team of geologists who target and drill wells in Colorado and Wyoming. On the Fenn Connect platform, he wrote, “The 2020 pandemic and associated oil downturn allowed me the time to embark on my training as a personal and professional coach through the Coactive Training Institute. I started my own coaching practice on the side (www. slatecoaching.com) and now focus on helping people create and manage change in all areas of their work and personal lives. I have clients all over the country, so don’t hesitate to reach out!” Jonathan Rosen and his wife, Katy, spent a week in June sailing around Belize, which quickly became one of their favorite cruising destinations. In September, he and his team took first place out of more than 20 boats sailing in the Rolex Big Boat Series, J105 class. Jonathan works full time for Burning Man Project, where he heads up product management. After many years in San Francisco, CA, they just bought a house in San Rafael in Marin County. (See photo below.)

1996

According to his brother Aaron ’02, Luke Colby finished manufacturing engine parts that will land on the Moon in 2022 as part of Astrobotic Technology’s Lunar Lander. On Thanksgiving, John Jenkinson and his husband, Amos Wolff, welcomed daughter Vera Jenkinson Wolff to their family. Vera was born on November 25, 2021, and weighed 7 lb. 6 oz.

1997 REUNION

Reunion Volunteer & Alumni Class Senator Nat Carr, ncarr@fenn.org

We’ll be celebrating our 25th reunion this fall, on Friday, September 30, 2022. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn.org/classnotes.

1998

Alumni Class Senator Patrick Jones, patrick.jones.p@gmail.com

1999

Alumni Class Senators Ryan Connolly, ryan.connolly@ms.com Sam Takvorian, stakvorian@gmail.com

Roger Hewer-Candee is now living in New York City and working as an attorney at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in their Asset Management Group.

2000

Alumni Class Senators George Carr, gcarr4@gmail.com Matt Ward, mward@fenn.org

In November 2020, George Carr and his wife, Molly, welcomed Oliver Carr, their second son, to the family. It’s been a productive six months for other members of the class of 2000, and they may want to call on George for parenting advice. David Khuen ’01 passed along the exciting news that his brother Brad Khuen (who now goes by his first name, Charles) and his wife, Marielle, were delighted by the birth of their son, Hayden Avery Khuen,

“Aughhh!” “Ooof!” “Yeow!”

Paul Bellantoni ’82 does voiceover work for the Marvel Universe

He has voiced a singing elf in a Dungeons and Dragons game and made a Cowardly Lion Christmas ornament croon, and he’s played a French baking pan, a German scientist, and a doctor explaining the symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis.

After a successful career as an opera singer, he began to do voiceover work and once played an anthropomorphic superhero bunny dentist for a Colgate cartoon commercial, in which he rapped about the importance of good oral health. The shift from opera singer to animated bunny struck him as funny: “I could hardly stop gleefully giggling long enough to finish the session.”

Paul Bellantoni ’82 is an actor, singer, and voiceover (VO) artist whose deep, resonant voice has propelled him into work in documentaries, video games, national commercials, audiobooks, animation, corporate videos, films and movie trailers, and roles in dramas and musicals. His first TV gig was playing a kid hanging out in a college bar in the soap opera One Life to Live. He made his film debut in the animated crime thriller Ruben Brandt, Collector in 2018.

Paul has done VO work full-time for a decade. This type of acting is highly competitive and more demanding than most people think. “It’s equal parts art and craft. The most difficult part is learning how to make a living at it,” he says. It’s nice to score an “awesome commercial gig” that calls for fifteen minutes in the studio, after which the actor is paid residuals for a year. But “more emotionally and artistically rewarding,” he notes, is narrating a novel, which requires the actor to play several roles and make every character distinct and believable.

In the Marvel universe, Paul voices Uatu, “The Watcher,” in the Marvel Super Wars video game, and recently he secured a voiceover role in the Marvel feature film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. He can be heard providing the “breaths and efforts”—sounds made in fight scenes and during other exertions—for the supervillain Wenwu/The Mandarin.

Using his stentorian voice and sometimes props such as swords or sticks to better suit the sound to the action, Paul dispensed and received punches and kicks with grunts, gasps, and other noises generated during fighting. Sometimes his roles call for dialogue. Though doing evil voices is “a blast,” Paul is a “virulent pacifist” and will not do VO for games or films that feature extreme realistic violence, saying “That’s not something I want to put into the universe.”

Providing “efforts” for Shang-Chi was a “super cool” experience, Paul says. COVID tested and given a code name and UPC code to get into the lot at Disney Studios in Burbank, he did two rounds of auditions, won the part, and

didn’t know it was for a Marvel movie until shortly before the shoot. The job came with such perks as a prime parking spot in front of the soundstage and his own personal assistant.

Though he was a Marvel comic book fan in his Fenn days, Paul had no idea this kind of work would be his career path. He says that because his parents chose Fenn for him, “it’s their fault that I became an actor.” The sixth grader was drawn immediately to drama and music for more than one reason. As soon as he was old enough he tried out for the Fenn Nashoba musical “just to meet girls who weren’t my sisters!”

Paul’s favorite Fenn memories include being taught history by Jim Carter ’54 (“He was inspiring.”), music by Heather Thomson, and French by Patsy Edes. Madame Edes, says Paul, led a Fenn/Nashoba trip to France, “which opened up the world outside my own” and launched his lifelong love affair with the city of Paris. Years later he attended Madame Edes’ funeral and when guests were allowed an opportunity to say a few words, Paul offered a Faure song, in French, “with poetry I thought she would appreciate.”

Paul continued to seek out acting and singing roles at Buckingham Browne & Nichols, where he was cast “in literally every show in every semester I was there.” He earned a B.A. from New York University in journalism, with a major in public relations and a minor in music, and while there had an internship at Columbia Pictures and MGM.

By the time Paul graduated from NYU, “I knew I wanted to be an actor. Performing called to me.” He began auditioning for theatre roles and was cast in Equity Showcase productions, in “underfives” (under five lines) in soap operas, and in commercials. For his off-Broadway debut he played Mr. Earnshaw, the father, in a musical version of Wuthering Heights, “despite being younger than my two kids!” Trained as a stage actor, Paul has extensive theatre credits in contemporary roles and off-Broadway musicals and has performed as Macbeth and as Old Hamlet’s Ghost.

When he was told that his voice was “too big” for most contemporary musical theatre roles and that he might be better suited to opera, Paul switched gears, singing leading bass-baritone roles across the U.S. and in Europe. He made his solo debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. In 2008 he wrote a guidebook for American singers wanting to perform in Europe.

The seed for Paul’s acting and singing career was definitely “planted at Fenn,” he says. Fenn is responsible, too, for the deep and abiding friendship he forged with Norm Veenstra ’82, whom Paul calls “my brother by choice.” They have remained connected for nearly forty-five years.

Paul proposed to his wife, Patricia, in Paris. “It’s a terribly romantic story,” he says. Patricia is a user experience design manager for City National Bank and the couple shares their L.A. home with “a trio of fluffy feline dependents” and various cacti and fruit trees. When he’s not doing VO work, Paul reads voraciously, particularly Sci-Fi, watches old silent-era cartoons and classic Hollywood movies, and delights in early radio and television personalities such as Burns and Allen.

Two Fenn experiences have remained with him for decades, Paul says, and both involve Mark Biscoe H’95. One early fall day in sixth grade Paul felt particularly low, realizing that although he had “breezed through” public elementary school, he was “not prepared for the level of study expected at Fenn.” He struggled “mightily,” mostly in Mark’s social studies class.

One early fall day in his first year at Fenn, Paul was sitting dejectedly under a tree outside Mark’s classroom when Mark came outside and sat next to him. “He asked me what was wrong, and I poured forth all my frustration and confusion,” Paul recalls. Mark “listened until I was finished” and then assured him that he was clearly a capable student who would do fine.

“His firm but kind words turned me around,” says Paul. By the end of the semester, he had earned honors for effort and after that, he made the Honor Roll for the rest of his time at Fenn and then at BB&N.

Another memorable Biscoe encounter occurred nearly two decades later, when Paul was performing with the Portland (Maine) Opera, in a rustic theatre outside of the city. After the show, Paul had changed out of his tux to head back to his hotel, when “who did I see standing there, beaming at me, but Mr. and Mrs. Biscoe.” They had seen Paul’s name in the paper and attended the performance.

“I have never forgotten those two events, one which set me back on a course from which I would never again stray,” says Paul, “and the other touching me beyond words.” — Contributed by Laurie O’Neill

“It’s equal parts art and craft. The most difficult part is learning how to make a living at it.”

on July 17, 2021. Marielle’s maiden name is Hayden; we’re sure she was happy to share it! Peter Leopold and his wife, Maia, welcomed daughter Gemma Tamar Leopold to their family on September 2, 2021 (photo below). The month of September also brought the arrival of a second daughter for Vikram Rao and his wife, Deepthi Yeturu. Ichcha Rao, whose first name means “wish,” joins big sister, Ishta. Finally, Adam Bakow and his wife, Allison, celebrated the arrival of their son, Jacob Patrick Bakow, on December 19, 2021. He joins Baxter, the dog, in the Bakow family.

Peter Leopold’s daughter Gemma

2001

Alumni Class Senator Jimmy Hall, jkhall4@gmail.com

2002 REUNION

Reunion Volunteers Aaron Colby ’02, acolby86@gmail.com Harris Rosenheim ’02, hrosenheim@gmail.com

We’ll be celebrating our 20th reunion this fall, on Friday, September 30, 2022. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn.org/classnotes.

Aaron Colby and his fiancée, Elyse, tied the knot on June 12, 2021 (photo below). They were lucky to be surrounded by family and friends for both the ceremony and reception on a beautiful day during lulls between COVID-19 waves and thunderstorms! In work-related news, one of Aaron’s start-up companies was finally acquired in a small private deal with Cook Biotech. With family trips, including a trans-Panama Canal cruise with Disney, and time spent in Hawaii, the Colby family feels truly blessed this year. On December 22, Hugh Doyle and his wife, Brittany, celebrated the first birthday of their daughter, Emilia. She was born just before Christmas in 2020, weighing 7 lbs. 15 oz., arriving home in time to join her brother, Hunter, for the holiday festivities. Billy Stone passed his NCLEX exam, which the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) administers to test the competency of nursing school graduates in the U.S. and Canada. Jon Weigel has joined the faculty of the Haas School of Business at University of California Berkeley. He is an assistant professor in the school’s business and public policy group. Jon writes, “It’s an island of political economy researchers in a business school. In my biased view, it has about the ideal mix of being a great university with an amazing location, so it’s a dream come true to be here.”

2003

Alumni Class Senators Jack Carroll, je.carroll10@gmail.com Bronson Kussin, bronson.kussin@gmail.com Christian Manchester, christian.d.manchester@gmail.com Mike Spiak, mtspiak@gmail.com

Christian Manchester is engaged to Audrey Coulter. They expect to get married in 2022, COVID permitting. Stephen McCarthy shared the exciting news that he is engaged to Ekaterina Shoman. They’ll be married in

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Paris on September 5, 2022. Congratulations, Christian and Stephen! Ryan Melia released “Years Ahead,” an album of songs he wrote and recorded at home this past year during the COVID pandemic. The album is available on Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, Bandcamp, etc. Ryan wrote on Facebook, “Hope you enjoy them and that they bring some warmth and calm in these snowy, rainy days.” Charlie Wolff and his wife, Ashley, celebrated the holiday season with the birth of Christopher James Wolff on December 21, 2021.

2004

Freemon Romero and his wife, Stacy, welcomed their first child on May 29, 2021. Son Calix Carlos Romero was born at 5:28 a.m., weighing 8 lb. 3 oz. and measuring 20.25 inches long. Fenn’s Gold team will be cheering on this future member!

2005

Alumni Class Senators Spencer Lovejoy, slovejoy424@gmail.com Will Stone, william.l.stone12@gmail.com Pete Valhouli-Farb, pvalhoulifarb@gmail.com

Krish Jaiman is currently attending the Harvard Graduate School of Education, studying educational leadership. He’s also working with the city of Somerville in their Racial and Social Justice Department, helping develop their “Reimagining Policing” initiative. John McBride and his wife, Niki Nikatos, celebrated the birth of Evanthia “Evi” McBride Nikitos on August 28, 2021. She weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz. and was 20 inches long.

2006

Alumni Class Senators Tyler Davis, davist.boston@gmail.com Luke Eddy, luke.a.eddy@gmail.com

In December 2020, Colin Beckwitt completed the Step 3 exam in the medical licensure process. Belated congratulations, Colin! 2020 was also a big year for other members of the class of 2006. JB Henderson moved from Boston to Raleigh, NC, in November 2020. Six months later, he married Sarah Robertson on May 7, 2021, in her hometown of Paducah, KY, surrounded by family and their five best friends. Both Long joined the Roycemore School in Evanston, IL, in March 2020. He is the Athletic Director, teaches physical education and Spanish, and also serves as the school’s summer camp director. His new work address is: Roycemore School, 1200 Davis Street, Evanston, IL 60201. Jeff Trotsky has given up his construction career for the moment and has gone back to the field of education. He is teaching seventh grade science at Salem Academy Charter School, a co-ed school of 400 students, grades 6-12, serving the diverse student population of Salem, MA, and the surrounding communities.

2007 REUNION

Reunion Volunteer & Alumni Class Senator Will Joumas, wbjoumas@gmail.com

We’ll be celebrating our 15th reunion this fall, on Friday, September 30, 2022. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn.org/classnotes.

Kyle Bojanowski married Kate Kiernan in July 2021.

Winston Pingeon ’08, former member of the U.S. Capitol Police

2008

Hot Rod Charlie, the thoroughbred race horse in which Dan Giovacchini and four Brown University classmates own a share, finished second in the 2021 Kentucky Derby and ran a close second in the Belmont Stakes five weeks later. All of Fenn was cheering for Charlie! James Pingeon, who graduated from the University of Vermont in 2019 with a degree in economics, is back in the Boston area, working as an assistant estimator for Knollmeyer Building Corp. After being brutally attacked on January 6, 2021, defending the U.S. Capitol with his riot squad, Winston Pingeon has left the Capitol Police after more than five years of dedicated service to Congress and our country. He has since been interviewed for a variety of press publications, including ABC News, where he discussed his passion of watercolor painting as a form of healing from the trauma, and for HBO’s documentary Four Hours at the Capitol. An artist since his time at Fenn, Winston continues to paint watercolors, many inspired by his time on Capitol Hill and the January 6th insurrection. Chris Rutledge made his acting debut playing Tim from Whole Foods in a new movie by Joel Haver called Drowning in Potential, which is about two actors trying to make it in L.A. Check out Chris’ segment starting at minute 56:00 on YouTube at www. youtube.com/watch?v=17GcrgNXygE.

2009

Alumni Class Senators Sam Doran, saminthenewsroom@gmail.com Thacher Hoch, thachmo94@comcast.net

Nick Church was accepted to Boston College’s Carroll School of Management last year. He started the M.B.A. program in January 2021 and will be completing his coursework on a part-time basis while he continues to work full-time on the financial planning and analysis team at American Tower. Thomas Cowan is pursuing his M.B.A at Harvard Business School, as well as a master’s degree in public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He started his programs in the fall of 2020 and expects to graduate in 2023. Sven Lerner married his Phillips Academy classmate, Abby Chung, this past summer on Lake Wentworth in New Hampshire. Christian Wesselhoeft served as best man. Sven received his M.S. in computational and mathematical engineering from Stanford University in 2021 and is continuing his studies there for his Ph.D. in the same field. Tim Morrill became engaged to Delphine “Delly” Garneau on January 22, 2021, while in the Virgin Islands. A September 2022 wedding on Nantucket is planned.

2010

Alumni Class Senators Drew Coash, drewtcoash@gmail.com Will Crowley, crowleywi@gmail.com Gabe Lekorenos-Arnold, gabelekorenos@gmail.com

Chris Giles, Gabe Arnold, and Graham Hunt have all moved in together in NYC. If you are in the Chelsea neighborhood, give them a shout!

2011

Alumni Class Senator Nate Sintros, nathaniel1756@gmail.com

Hunter Moskowitz is engaged to Zoe Kamil. Jackson Price started his new job as budget analyst and participatory budget coordinator at Cambridge City Hall on April 5, 2021.

2012 REUNION

Reunion Volunteer Jordan Swett, jordan.d.swett@gmail.com

We’ll be celebrating our 10th reunion this fall, on Friday, September 30, 2022. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn.org/classnotes.

Jon Tesoro graduated from Holy Cross in the spring of 2020 with a B.A. in accounting. In November 2021, he left RSM, an audit, tax, and consulting firm, to join Deloitte as an audit and assurance senior associate.

2013

Thomas Gross graduated from Northeastern University last spring with a bachelor’s degree in finance and data science. In July, he joined Blue Star Capital as an analyst. Also in July 2021, Nick Walters completed his master’s degree in music at the University of Cambridge, where he has just begun work on his Ph.D., researching church music of the early

Tudor period. Cole Winstanley received a dual M.S./B.S. degree from Stanford University in May 2020. His undergraduate major was in symbolic systems/artificial intelligence, while his graduate degree was in electrical engineering.

2014

Alumni Class Senator Chad Arle, chad.w.arle@gmail.com

Garren LaPlante graduated from Elon University in May 2021. He’s staying in North Carolina, where he’s enrolled in massage therapy school in Raleigh. Garren hopes to do therapy in a sports program or training crew for college—or perhaps even the pros. Justin Robb served as co-captain of the Eckerd College rugby team this past fall, and based on the photographs grandfather Russ Robb ’51 shared, he plays hard! See photo below. Justin graduated in December 2021 at the completion of the fall term.

2015

Alumni Class Senators Walker Davey, daveywa@bc.edu Ben Zide, benjaminzide@gmail.com

Hayden Galusza and Fenn schoolmate Max Ewing ’17 rowed together for Wesleyan University in the Men’s Collegiate Eights at the 2021 Head of the Charles this past October. Hayden is team captain this year and was elected to the First Team, IRCA All American for 2021. See photo at right.

2016

Alumni Class Senators William Locke, wlocke2000@comcast.net Tad Scheibe, scheibetm@gmail.com

Callan Fries entered Wesleyan University in the fall of 2020 and has been a member of their varsity football team for two years.

Wesleyan crew teammates Hayden Galusza ’15 and Max Ewing ’17

2017 REUNION

Alumni Class Senator Nico Bowden, nicobowden@gmail.com

We’ll be celebrating our 5th reunion this year. If you would like to serve on our Reunion Committee, please contact Alan O’Neill at aoneill@fenn.org. Don’t wait until then to update us on what’s new in your life. Email your news to alumni@ fenn.org or enter it online at www.fenn. org/classnotes.

Nico Bowden graduated from Groton School and started his freshman year at Massachusetts Institute of Technology this past fall. Charles Brookby is in his second year at Southern Methodist University, where he is studying economics. Jasper Chartener graduated from the Cambridge School of Weston last spring and is doing a gap year, with plans to travel to Costa Rica and to do some farming in Italy. He’ll enter Clark University in Worcester in the fall of 2022. Max Ewing and Fenn schoolmate Hayden Galusza rowed together for Wesleyan University in the Men’s Collegiate Eights at the 2021 Head of the Charles this past October. See photo on p. 85. Jack Folz is attending Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. In 2020-2021, Ian Moore played hockey for the U.S. Hockey League’s Chicago Steel, which earned its second Clark Cup championship in May 2021. Ian recorded 24 points (10 goals, 14 assists) in 45 games with a plus-22 rating. He’s now a freshman at Harvard, along with three of his Steel teammates, playing right defenseman for the varsity men’s hockey team. William Parker graduated from Concord-Carlisle High School in May 2020 and matriculated at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. John Stewart entered Quinnipiac University last fall after graduating from Acton-Boxborough High School in June 2021.

2018

Alumni Class Senators Sammy Agrawal, samart.agr@gmail.com Sam Remondi, slremondi@gmail.com

Merlin Feist graduated from The Bromfield School and worked at Talise, a restaurant in

Owen Heaton ’17 celebrates earning his pilot’s license

Gloucester, all summer. He was planning to start a Wilderness EMT course this past fall. Ben LaPlante has followed in brother Garren’s footsteps and is attending Elon University.

2019

Alumni Class Senators Adam Ewing, adamrewing@comcast.net Noah Lippa, njlippa@gmail.com Ishan Narra, ishannarra@yahoo.com Surya Rajamani, suryabrajamani@gmail.com

Nick Raciti reports, “After spending almost my entire life in Massachusetts, I recently moved to Franklin, Tennessee. While transferring schools my senior year has been challenging, it has also been immensely rewarding. Living in a more rural area has taught me about a new way of life, a different culture, and very different perspectives. Fenn’s education helped me develop the fundamental skills of hard work, discipline, and curiosity, all of which have helped me transition to a new state and enjoy every moment of it. For that alone, I am sincerely grateful.” Carter Sohn received the prestigious Patriot365 Award from head coach of Concord-Carlisle High School varsity football, Josh Reed, after his junior year season. The award recognizes players “who embrace and exhibit hard work, accountability, discipline, commitment, teamwork, and overcoming adversity with a positive attitude on and off the field.” Congratulations to Carter for this phenomenal achievement! (See photo below and read words of fatherly pride from Carter’s Dad A.J. Sohn in class notes for 1984.) Stuart Strong is in his junior year at Minuteman Tech in their carpentry program. He also works a co-op job with Concord Carpenter. He writes, “I have Mr. Potsaid to thank for inspiring me on this path!” Noah Wells earned his pilot’s license in April 2021.

2020

Alumni Class Senator Theo Randall, theorandall118@gmail.com

Jake Athanasoulas and fellow Fenn football alumnus Jimmy Carlin ’21 were members of the scrappy St. George’s varsity football team that defeated Tilton School by a tight score of 21-20 to win the New England Prep School Athletic Council Ken Hollingsworth Bowl game on Friday, November 19, 2021. See photo below.

2021

Alumni Class Senators Ryan Bettenhauser, rbettenhauser@icloud.com Jack Doherty, Jackpdoherty17@gmail.com Panha Sam, prksam33@gmai.com

See Class of 2020 note to read about the successes of Jimmy Carlin and fellow Fenn football alumnus Jake Athanasoulas ’20 as members of the St. George’s varsity football team.

2022

Alumni Class Senator Timmy Smith, timothymsmith108@gmail.com Luke Waldeck, lukewaldeck@fenn.org