NEWS & NOTES

1996

Carla von Trapp Hunter

(Also, trustee 16–present)

Amidst the pandemic and much-revised plans, David Rothenbucher and I were joyously married on July 11 with a very small group of masked and socially distanced family and friends in attendance.

2003

Evan Johnson

Started at Glass House and now I started a business in 2014 called Glass of Water, designing and creating awesome things. I got married in May. I talk about my NCS life all the time. Brief but impactful. Changed my views on life completely.

2012

Marcos Fernandez

(Also, current NCS staff, CTT 05–08, staff 15–17)

After a short hiatus, I have returned to North Country School. I am currently taking a semester off from college to gain some teaching experience from my friend and—I’m stoked to say—colleague, Larry Robjent. I am in the process of completing my BS in geology from Northland College. You can usually find me in WallyPAC designing and building, or at the Crag throwing down! When I am not working, I enjoy hiking, rock climbing, ice climbing, cross-country skiing, spreading the gnar butter on the shred bread (a.k.a. skiing), melting metal, and giving back to the com- munity I love, NCT. If you have any rock identification questions please seek me out!

2015

Joe DePaola

This will be my third year as a volunteer firefighter in my local fire department in Westchester, NY. In February, I achieved my certification as a NYS Emergency Medical Technician. Since then I’ve been spending a lot of my time with my local ambulance corps, serving my local community.

When COVID hit shortly after I became an EMT, I began working with a private ambulance company in the Bronx, assisting and transporting patients from all over the city in the middle of the COVID crisis. At the start, three patients a day were COVID positive. The hospitals were stretched thin. Eventually, though, after a month or two of the worst, things began to get better, and eventually I would only have one COVID patient a week, if that. New York pulled through in so many ways.

After working there for three to four months, with COVID being somewhat controlled in NYC, I decided to enroll in Westchester Community College, where I currently study with a major in paramedicine. I will hopefully be a NYS paramedic in November next year!

As I’ve grown older, I’ve found that NCS played an essential part in my childhood, and helped make me who I am today. My current passion to serve others and my community, I have found, started back at NCS.

2017

Audrey Wilson

I graduated from Vermont Academy in 2020 and I am now attending the University of WI/Oshkosh. Initial plans are for the nursing program.

Ctt Friends

Malcom Willison

CTT 41–43

Fellow camper Eric Wagner (NCS 38, CTT 41–43) has been painting for years, landscapes and visual expression of mathematical concepts—he's been a lifelong mathematician. And Bill Kinzer (CTT 42–43) has been composing music. I published a book of poems, A House of Her Own: Poems on the Afterlife of Elizabeth Bishop’s House in Key West, and a short play, A House of One's Own, which was produced in Key West and in NYC. I am now working on a longer version. We escaped Key West in late June for upstate New York and the Adirondacks.

Susan Richards

CTT 59–63

I am a New York Times bestselling author of three books. I live in Kennebunkport, ME, with two pups. Camp Treetops was the defining experience of my life, my happiest memories.

Mary Hordubay McKenzie

CTT 71–74, NCS staff 82–83

Making the best of this new way of life. Enjoying having a full house for the first time in six years. Spending quality time with Sam (25), Sarah (20), and Sam’s dog Finn, all who would otherwise be working and going to school in D.C. We were planning on Friends’ Weekend to celebrate the centennial summer. Hopefully we will get to do that next year instead. Best to all and be well. We miss the North Country!

Trish Harris

CTT 93–99, staff 03–06

Living and working in D.C. is treating me well, even in 2020. As a graphic designer in Democratic politics, I scored big with a career that is both creative and impactful. Last October I got married in a whimsical and colorful ceremony to my husband, Bryan. This October our band Bound released our second album, “Haunts,” to warm