Class Notes

Important Class Notes News

We are changing our approach to helping you share your news with your classmates. With the advent of many digital options for keeping in touch and a long decline in submissions for alumni news notes, Class Notes will no longer be published in Loomis Chaffee Magazine after the current issue. Many of you already rely on Loomis Chaffee Facebook class pages and the LC Connect online platform to engage with each other, and we have several new ideas in the works to enable you to share news of life’s small moments, big milestones, and Pelican gatherings with each other. Stay tuned for more information about these offerings.

1962

William J. Kronholm shares that he has finally been chased from the East Coast by the hurricanes. He and his wife, Lynne, moved to Peoria, Ariz., just outside Phoenix. William plans to try to make it back to Windsor in 2022 for his 60th Reunion and for the 25th Reunion of his daughter Jenn L. Kronholm Clark ’97.

1963

At the end of 2020, Samuel M. Sipe Jr. retired from the practice of law at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C., after 42 years. Although he missed his 50th Reunion, he writes that he has felt a continuing connection with classmates through email communications and occasional meetings. “I have particularly enjoyed regular meet-ups over recent years with Bob Lehrer, a classmate who learned to think for himself and express himself forcefully, a fine exemplar of what our school sought to accomplish.” Fellow alumni can reach Samuel at his new email address, samuelsipe1@gmail.com.

1969

Kevin O’Malley shared that his series of 26 screenplays is now available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle format. Set in 1968, “Shut Up and Be Pretty” is a tale of boarding school best friends in love with the same girl. Kevin writes that it is the “perfect lockdown literature from an earlier ‘restricted-to-campus’ era.”

1975

Susan Hurwit writes that she continues to love her work as a child and adult psychologist in Newton, Mass. Her story “The Space Between Human Beings,” created as a response to people’s curiosity about what happens in play therapy, has “moved audiences at Story Slams in the Boston area.” Susan’s recent article about being a therapist during the pandemic, “Finding the Perch; Psychotherapy During Times of Mutual Uncertainty and Grief,” was published on psychotherapy.net. Now single with two adult children, Susan spends time with her parents, Joan and Albert Hurwit ’49, who live in Hartford, Conn.; her sister, Elizabeth Hurwit ’78, who lives in Chevy Chase, Md.; and her brother Jeffrey Hurwit ’73, who also lives in Newton.

1979

Ed Goehring’s sister, Kate Goehring ’82, reports that Ed continues to do well as a tenured professor at the University of London, Ontario. His daughter, Yutaka, is now 4 years old and speaking English, Japanese, and French.

1982

Kate Goehring writes: “Work as an actor and grants specialist continues to be really fulfilling. I did a gender-bending production of The Importance of Being Earnest in Central Park, King John at the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C., and then went on to be in the Broadway company of The Inheritance, directed by Stephen Daldry. COVID-19 shut all of Broadway down, but our show still grabbed some Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards (and we’re looking forward to the Tonys ...). Fortunately, no one at Loomis ever told me to put practicality over curiosity. It’s really been working out!”

2004

Betty Stolpen Weiner shared that she and her husband, Adam Weiner, moved to Weston, Conn., and welcomed a son, Jacob “Jake” Alexander Weiner, on December 24, 2020. Betty writes that after maternity leave, she will be starting a new job as director of development at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., and hopes her fellow alumni will visit her there.

2013

Benjamin Russell was admitted to the Florida Bar on December 2, 2020. He writes that he is expanding his practice of property insurance litigation into the Sunshine State in addition to his existing practice with the New Orleans-based firm of Lobman Carnahan Batt Angelle & Nader.

Ed Goehring ’79 with his wife, Yuko, and daughter, Yutaka

Kate Goehring ’82 at the production of King John at the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C.

Betty Stolpen Weiner ’04 with her husband, Adam, and son, Jacob

Grace Lyons ’19 and Nathaniel Lyons ’16, children of Trustee Doug Lyons ’82, with fellow Pelican Ramesh Shrestha ’18 (middle), on Aspen Mountain