MB Fall 2013 Class Notes by Moses Brown School

Fall 2013

Moses Brown

Class Notes

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The cover of this special edition of Class Notes depicts a class taught by Peter Ferry ’09 at Moses Brown last spring. As a Scholar in Residence, Peter performed two movements of Ney Rosauro’s “Concerto for Marimba” with MB’s upper school wind ensemble, took part in workshops with students, and gave several performances. One piece he shared with the MB community was entitled “Staying the Course,” a memorial percussion solo written in 2007, dedicated to the U.S. service men and women who lost their lives in the Iraq War. Peter graduated from the Eastman School of Music in May and appeared at TEDx this past October.

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The mission of the Moses Brown Alumni Association is to foster lifelong relationships with the school and fellow alumni.

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know I appreciated their hard work and long hours toiling in the classroom and Seth Gifford writes “The 75th reunion on the athletic field molding champiis a good chance to thank Moses Brown onship teams and track stars. The likes School for the 12 years I spent at the of Raines, Paxton, Cate and Whitford school and to thank all of the teachers who cannot be duplicated. I would like to do had to work extra hard to push me along now — what I failed to do then — and to graduation in 1939. The teachers of sit down and talk to them and see how that ilk went way beyond teaching their things were going. It’s too late for that; respective subjects. I would like them to so I’ll just say thank you!”

1943 Dick Sherman was the past president of both the Falmouth Hospital Auxiliary and Tisbury Waterways, Inc. Before this he served in WWII in South Pacific on an LST (landing ship tank) and was called back for Korean service. Dick and his wife Patty live in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

1948 Class Correspondent Marshall Cannell 25 Sheridan Rd Wellesley Hills, MA 02481-5418 781-237-0055 MCa4nnell@aol.com

Burrill Getman writes, “In October of 2009, my wife Bee and I moved into a continuing care retirement community in Naples, Florida. We thoroughly enjoy the active lifestyle and our beautiful independent living apartment, however we still return to our golf villa in Iowa for the summer.” Bill Myers is a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association which established a corporation, RV-12 Inc., to teach 12 Sarasota-area teenagers how to build a plane. Six members of the EAA pitched in to purchase the $60,000 airplane kit and spend time on Saturdays in an airplane hangar surrounded by every tool imaginable, as well as charts, instructions, wires and bolts, building the plane. They expect to have the plane in the air by December.

1946 Dean Woodman ’46 visited MB

in the fall — see www.mosesbrown.org/ mbvision or the next issue of Cupola for more on this historic event.

Reunion 2014 1949 Blake Cady has retired from a career in surgical oncology at the Lahey Clinic after 14 years, as well as Harvard Medical School/Deaconess Hospital (16 years), Brown Medical School/ Women & Infants Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital (10), and Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Hospital

(5 years). Blake shares, “Fortunately, I am healthy — as is my wife Dorothy.” Blake and his wife live in Brookline, Massachusetts. Bill Brackett writes, “65 years is a long time ago. I was wondering if anyone in ’49 is living on the west coast of Florida now. If so, thought maybe we might want to connect for lunch or something. I will not be able to get to Providence next spring. Ann and I are continuing to learn and grow at Plymouth Harbor, a retirement community in Sarasota. It all started at MB where I gained a love of learning and a sense of humility before my God. Keep your head high and look to the horizon. We are blessed in so many ways. Peace, Bill.” Bill can be reached at brackettab@gmail.com. [Editor’s note: Bill now has his class list and learned that there are no 1949 classmates on the west coast of Florida, however Ed Desrochers lives in Mico on the Atlantic side. There are a total of 177 active alumni who call Florida home.] Nat Herreshoff writes, “I am now retired from two careers. I was first a high school teacher of German and history in Mt. Holly, New Jersey near where MB’s headmaster taught. I also taught for a college in the evenings. My second career was havnig a selfemployed tax business. My wife Mary and I spend winters in Naples, Florida. We travel a good deal much of it overseas. I have been very busy lately writing newsletters about geneology and other subjects.” Nat also included in his note that Moses Brown was a great-uncle of his, several generations back. He was the brother of his ancestor John Brown. Two of Nat’s greatgrandfathers attended the school in the 1820s. Members of his mother’s Quaker family, the Chases of Prudence Island, have attended the school for generations. Nat’s great-grandmother Harriet Chase died in the main building in 1881 while taking care of his grandfather Halsey Chase during an epidemic sickness at the school.

1951 Bud Brooks ’51 writes, “I now have two granddaughters at the University of Oklahoma, a granddaughter in senior year at the Episcopal School of Dallas, and a fine baseball-playing grandson in ninth grade at St. Mark’s School of Texas. Football is not his number one game. It’s baseball that’s number one with him. He turned 15 in August and has already played more than 200 baseball games. He’s a left fielder, catcher and second baseman (his favorite position). Last year, Grant’s coach called him the best second baseman he has had in his 13 years coaching the team. His batting average this spring was .571.” Bud is pictured with his grandson Grant Brooks at his first JV football game of the season. Needless to say, Bud loves to watch him play sports.

1951 Class Correspondent J. Parker “Scotty” Scott 38 Fountain Avenue Barrington, RI 02806 401-245-2428 jpscott7779@gmail.com

1952 Over a year ago, Fred Blakeman joined a local men’s barbershop harmony group, The Bull Run Troubadours. He is in the chorus and sings bass, which is the easiest of barbershop four part harmony for him due to his good “filler voice”. The last time he sang in an organized group was with the Naval Aviation Cadet Choir while going through flight training in 1955. He encourages anyone who enjoys singing to look up a local group. Fred lives in Dumfries, Virginia with his wife Nancy.

1953

Last May, B.G. Goff ’53 and Michael Geremia ’53 attended their 50th Reunion at Brown University as part of the class of 1957.

Class of 1953 - 60th Reunion

1956 1953 Tom Rockel writes, “For those who are still alive and kicking I wish you the very best. 1953 was truly a vintage year.” Tom was unable to attend his 60th reunion and was missed by his classmates, show at top right (front then back row, left to right): John Dowling, Jack Marshall, Dick Gower, Al Sickinger, Bill Rooks, Paul Welch, Pete McLean and Phil Anderson (Dick Oresman & Woody Winslow were missing from picture).

1955 Class Correspondent Jack Houriet 2525 Turner Rd. Willow Grove, PA 19090-1625 215-657-3786 jwhour@jwhour.cnc.net

Last October, in recognition of Dottie and Jerry Leon’s permanent move from Pennsylvania to Naples, Florida, Carolyn and Buzzy Curtis and Alice and Jack Houriet took the Leons to dinner in Valley Forge. Buzzy and Carolyn stayed with Jack and Alice and returned to Rhode Island the next day.

Class Correspondent Denny Baker 1164 Riverwind Circle Vero Beach, FL 32967 772-569-9606 normandjr19@gmail. com

Joel Altman reClass of 1958 - 55th Reunion ports, “I’m still plugging away with artist management. In our time a few miles from Aspen where August, my client Roberto Plano was my wife Lynn teaches skiing while I on the jury of the Cleveland Internatake our motor home to Arizona for tional Piano Competition and played the winter with a few trips back to a piano concerto with the Chautauqua the snow for lessons!” Two of his five Symphony Orchestra in New York, grandchildren graduated from college, conducted by the associate conductor with two more in the next two years of the Boston Symphony.” Joel, now and his fifth is still in high school. Pete self-employed, still practices optometry would have shared more, but he was off 1.5 days a week in North Attleboro, to spend the day golfing at the Aspen Massachusetts, a five-minute walk from Golf Club. where he grew up and his 5 grandchildren who help to keep him young. Pete Kerr was happy to retire in 1993 from the business of life insurance. He writes, “I spent 30 years trying to teach people how to manage their money, and was determined to do the same for myself. It worked, with some lucky real estate transactions tossed into the pot. We’ve lived in Gloucester, Kailua, Scottsdale, and Aspen and now share

1958

Angie Incerpi writes, “Retired, enjoying life, fly fishing, wood carving, bird hunting, etc.” He and his wife Ginnie live in Danville, Vermont. Pictured at his 55th Reunion, Angie is in the middle flanked by Bob Smith, Peter Iovino, Bob Schaller, and Adrian Hendricks.

1959 Larry Kilham’s second volume of his Juno Trilogy — A Viral Affair — is now available at Amazon’s Kindle Store. The book describes what happens when American intelligence discovers a mad dictator is planning a viral pandemic attack: they persuade a top U.S. computer scientist, Dr. Tom Renwick, to work with the lady AI supercomputer, Juno, to develop smart, human-like robots to combat the contagion. Larry says, “A mysterious stranger and a romance change everything.” Much of the book’s action takes place on the Cape in Woods Hole, the Elizabeth Islands, Falmouth and Nauset Beach. Larry and his wife Betsy recently returned from a fabulous river cruise in Burma going from Bagan to Mandalay. Here he is pictured with a friend at the Schwedagon Temple in Rangoon (now Myanmar). After their trip, the Kilhams settled down for Santa Fe’s summer season.

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1959 Joel Davidsen ’59 writes, “Kendra and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with our family with an Alaskan cruise. I look forward to seeing everyone May 10, 2014 for the 55th!”

1959 Stephen Thornton writes, “My wife and I have been enjoying our retirements in grand style, traveling and golfing both in the United States and abroad, visiting with my children in San Francisco, Boston, New York, and here in R.I. We have been enjoying our grandchildren’s sports exploits as they follow in their mother’s and uncles’ footsteps. It doesn’t seem possible it has been 11 years since my retirement as director of the William M. Davies Technical School except when I look in the mirror and wonder who that old person is looking at me. We went to Kendra and Joel Davidsen’s 50th wedding anniversary which was also attended by classmates Bunny and Drew Kemalian and Nancy and Tom Godfrey. Everyone had a wonderful time.”

1963 Class of 1963 boarders gathered for a photo. From left to right are Larry Bishins, John Pennington, Kit Sinton, Bill Ballaine and Dave Ottmar. Chuck Davis is missing from picture, too, but attended Reunion with his wife Mary. It was the first time that Chuck, Bill and Larry returned to campus since they graduated. We were glad to have them back!

1963

1963 Bill Ballaine writes, “Whew...50

years. Odell, Herman, Sulloway, Paxton, Ransome, Pratt, Zeoli ... the names resonate after five decades”. Bill has been a lawyer for 40 years and is a founding member of a boutique 50-lawyer civil litigation firm based chiefly in NYC. His wife Joan is a U.S. magistrate judge and they have raised two girls in Brooklyn Heights. Their daughter Katie just graduated from Yale in May and their younger daughter Annie is a Yale sophomore. Both play squash. Bill writes, “I’ve been (undeservedly) blessed. MB is one of those blessings — more so than I knew at the time.”

After spending most of his business career in marketing and sales, Donald Jepson retired in February 2012. He now lives on the coast in Wareham, Massachusetts with his wife after selling their house in Northampton. They are animal care volunteers at the National Marine Life Center in Buzzards Bay where they are helping to rehab injured seals and cold stunned

As a former member of the MB tennis team, Steve Carney ’63 played doubles with the boys’ varsity players Luca DiNapoli ’16, Jay Gupta ’13, and Mark Bucknam ’15 this past spring, a week after his 50th reunion.

John Pennington attended his 50th

sea turtles. Donald shares “Go during daylight hours to www.nmlc.org and click the webcam link to view some of their patients. The goal of NMLC is to rehab and release the marine animals/ reptiles as soon as possible, so if no seals or turtles are shown on the website, then they have done their job!”

reunion last May where he was able to reconnect with many old classmates and the city of Providence. He writes, “I owe Moses Brown for the desire and discipline to earn a partial scholarship to Harvard.” John put together the 50th Reunion E-book, a labor of love. A big thank you to John for a beautiful, thorough job and getting so many classmates to submit entries! Want a copy? Email ejpennington@yahoo.com or alumni@mosesbrown.org.

REUNION 2014 1964 Scott Harker P.O. Box 1189 Groton, MA 01450-0196 978-448-5318 se_harker@charter.net

50th reunion fever is spreading….. On the day of the annual faculty/staff Advance (opening days’ professional development before school officially opens), two different former students visited MB, both connected to the Class of 1964, celebrating their 50th reunion next May.

King “Doc” Odell and the Runci Family

Christian Davin de Champclos, who was a boarder for

Matt Runci ’64 and Madeleine Albright

his sophomore year 1961-1962, was visiting from France with his son.

Later that same day, former student John “Kicker” Kilborn, who attended from nursery through third grade, gave his wife Renata a tour of the old lower school where he famously slid down the bannister. John went on to graduate from St. George’s and now lives and works in Germany. Both Christian and John are interested in staying in the loop about Reunion festivities and can be reached at numericandco@wanadoo.fr and jkil51@aol.com, respectively.

Lee DeRosa is an optometrist in Maine. He will be celebrating his 50th reunion on May 10, 2014. Fred Huntington is retired and living in Norwalk, Connecticut and unfortunately will not be able to come up to Providence to celebrate his reunion.

50th Reunion Chair Matt Runci writes, “Earlier this year, I retired from my position as CEO of Jewelers of America and Board Chair of the Responsible Jewelry Council. Wrapping up a 30+ year career managing industry associations in the luxury goods sector, I decided to downshift to a lower gear so that I could devote my professional energies to the work that I have found most rewarding over the last 15 years: building social,

ethical and environmental responsibility into the global supply chain for precious metals and gemstones. Having spent these past years building a new international organization in London to carry on this work, I intend now to spend my time writing and speaking to varied audiences, including students and businesspeople, about what they might learn from my experience and apply in their own work.” Matt’s friend, former Secretary of State and U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright

recognized his accomplishments at the Jewelers’ of America’s GEM Awards. Secretary Albright was known to use her pins as a tool of diplomacy and published a book entitled Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box. Says Matt, “Laraine and I expect to move soon from Ridgefield, Connecticut to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We are blessed with six grandchildren — three boys and three girls. The eldest — Alexander ’19 and Harrison ’20 — have followed their dad Chris ’88 to MB, while their mom Beth teaches in Moses Brown’s lower school. Ashley lives in New Jersey and has been blessed with triplets — Jack, Riley and Hadley — and Addison, ages 6 and 7. In our spare time, Laraine and I also enjoy reading and travel, and I still live my longtime passion for Austin-Healeys. “I’m joining many of our former classmates to plan our 50th Class Reunion and extend an invitation to everyone to return to Moses Brown on May 10, 2014!”

1968 Brad Penney is currently living in Washington, D.C. He missed his 45th reunion to see his son graduate from college in Virginia the same weekend. Congratulations to Brad’s son Stephen!

place. Greg writes, “Just writing this brings back great memories of practicing at Swansea CC and Agawam Hunt. Watching coach Bill Mullin’s 2 iron come apart almost weekly was hilarious!”

Reunion 2014 1979 Amy Roebuck Jones writes, “All

1973 After years of searching the world for “action,” Dean “Snowbird” Kemph returned, sunblock in hand, this summer to his Rhode Island roots and connected with classmates Kirby, Fine, Kemph, and fellow 1973 “Florida or Bust traveler” Greg Marsello for an evening of good food and stories. By the end of the evening, Deano stood tall and threw down the gauntlet by announcing, “If Fine and Kirby sign on for our 45th Reunion, I will be there!”

1978

David Hall writes, “Still paintin’

away. You can take a look at DaveHallLandscapeArt.com or on Facebook at Dave Hall Landscape Art.”

Congratulations to Renee and Hardi Parker who were married in October 2012 in John’s Creek, Georgia. They live in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

1972

Greg Gammell is the head coach

Each year, the Blues Foundation presents the Keeping the Blues Alive Awards to individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to blues music. In the literature category, Bob Riesman received an award for his book I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy.

of the Rhode Island College men’s golf team. This past May, he traveled with his team to Florida for the NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championship. As champions of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference for the second year in a row, the 2013 championship provided them an opportunity to improve on their 2012 NCAA results which they did, moving up to 34th

is well in Chesapeake, Virginia. Our daughter Ally is 15, a freshman at Great Bridge High School and on the cross-country team! She is carrying on the running tradition just like her mom. My husband Andy retired from the U.S. Navy a year ago and works as a civilian for the same group. Hope to see folks at the Reunion in May!”

1982 Tom Cotter supported the Institute

for the Study & Practice of Non-violence by performing at the Columbus Theatre and for MB’s own fifth graders learning about nonviolent solutions. Kade Tyrrell ’20, one of the boys who took the course, said, “The biggest thing I probably took away from this is... Never go to just violence. Try to talk it out with the person you’re arguing with, if the problem goes to the physical stage, it’s gone too far.” Parents expressed their pride at the result. Also, Tom performed as a special guest on the live result show of America’s Got Talent in August. Tom continues to keep us and America laughing.

1983

1983 Amy Hawkins Fawcett and her husband Sean moved to Cape Elizabeth, Maine three years ago. After working for two years at Apple, she accepted a position at Waynflete School in Portland. Margaret and Caroline, who started in the Infant Toddler Center at MB, recently graduated from UVM (sociology) and BU (neuroscience) in May. Their youngest daughter Haley is a freshman at Cape Elizabeth High School.

Hugh Hysell ’83 recently won a Tony Award. 1980

Harriet Dashoff Lockshine’s son Louis is entering the eighth grade. He received the Outstanding Award for Woodwinds in beginning band at his middle school and aspires to be a politician or musician.

He is a producer of Vanya + Sonia + Masha + Spike which won for Best Play and was nominated for five other awards. He was also up for a Tony last year as a producer of Peter and the Starcatcher which ended up winning five Tony’s. In August, he joined the cast of the off-Broadway production My Big Gay Italian Wedding & My Big Gay Italian Funeral. Congratulations, Hugh!

Brian Nichols has been nominated

as ambassador to Peru. He previously served in this bureau as a Deputy Assistant Secretary from 2010 to 2011. From 2007 to 2010, Brian was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia. From 2004 to 2007, he was director of the Office of Caribbean Affairs in the Department of State Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. From 2001 to 2004, he was a Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. Brian joined the Foreign Service in 1989 and his first assignment was Consular Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru. He has also served overseas in Mexico and El Salvador. He received a B.S. from Tufts University. As for MB accolades, in 2008, Brian received the 25th Reunion Alumnus Achievement Award (MBAA’s first award, established in 1966). We look forward to Brian’s confirmation as ambassador!

Alessandro Thompson’s art

1988

fabrication company, Barnacle Bros Sculpture & Custom Fabrication has been doing well. He has been focusing his career towards building furniture, motorcycles, and special purpose vehicles for festival arts parades. His son is now four years old.

Jennifer Gottlieb Faber currently lives in Mansfield, Massachusetts where she is a stay-at-home mom of two girls, ages 14 and 10. She coaches her older daughter’s lacrosse team and teaches third grade in Hebrew School. She had wonderful memories of her years at MB and enjoyed seeing everyone again at her 25th reunion.

Congratulations to Libby Drew Hunt and her husband Alan, who celebrated the birth of their daughter Madison in February. They just moved from Newcastle, England to their family farm in New Jersey.

Christina Banks Simmons

Beth Vadala Zerilli recently

enjoyed her 25th reunion this past May when she came back with her husband and kids.

left Toronto and moved back to New England after 15 years away. She and her husband Salvatore live in Rockport, Massachusetts.

Class of 1988’s 25th Reunion Reunion 2013: Great turnout for the Class of 1988, great time had by all!

1990 Class Correspondent Julie Reitzas 1688 Drift Rd. P.O. Box 302 Westport Point, MA 02791-0302 508-636-6928 tnbjr@msn.com

Allison and Gardner Humphreys are still living near Washington, D.C. Gardner works at George C. Marshall High School in the Fairfax County Public Schools system as a college and career counselor. Allison works for the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Gardner shares, “Our children, Jay, 9, and Ella, 4, are growing up frighteningly fast.”

1985

Jamie Worrell ’85 was recently named by Plan Advisor Magazine as one of the Top 100 Retirement Plan Advisors in the country last December. Jamie, a 20-year industry veteran, leads a team whose mission is “creating ongoing successful retirement plan experiences for employers and employees.” Jamie lives on the East Side; his son William ’17 is a freshman at MB.

1991

Adam Olenn ’91 writes, “My short

story “Trent’s Head” has been included in episode 2 of JiffyCast, the flash fiction podcast. It’s a dark story built on a chain of conditional statements. Read by the author, and backed by creepy banjo music from same. I’ve heard that a gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.” Adam is a two-time Grub Street scholarship winner and Bread Loaf contributor. His stories have appeared in print and online journals. Adam contributes quarterly to an award-winning music magazine and also is an avid musician, nature-lover, and devoted family man. He lives in Massachusetts with his beautiful wife and children. Listen to Adam’s story at http://jiffycast.wordpress. com/2013/06/26/22.

REUNION 2014 1994 For the second year in a row, Dan Gilbert trounced Ben Cooper, Seth Kertzer, and Lex Sadasivan (along with several lesser challengers) to capture the top spot in their fantasy football league.

1994 Maya Young Lama Lee was born in January to Yangchen Lama ’94 and Steve Lee. Congratulations on their newborn daughter.

As the Director of the Hub, the high school initiative of the Providence After School Alliance, Damian Ewens has been working with a team that is the first in the country to deliver out of school learning experiences for high school students that result in graduation credit and open digital badges. This is another step towards realworld work connected to student interests and need. He has been deeply involved in the open digital badges work, which is providing a critical tool in this next phase of education. Damian launched a company, Codery, www.GoCodery.com, which is developing a badge design and a hosting platform to support the space. He and his wife Stephanie also recently moved to a new home in Cranston.

1994 In February 2012 in Los Angeles, Adam Machado ’94 won a Grammy for Best Al-

bum Notes for the 136-page book he wrote to accompany “Hear Me Howling! Blues, Ballads & Beyond: The Arhoolie 50th Anniversary Box Set.” He’s pictured with Chris Strachwitz, the founder of El Cerrito-based Arhoolie Records, a small record company which has captured more than 50 years of traditional American roots music. Adam credited his stepfather, Robert Sayre, with implanting him with an early love for music. Adam lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

Greg Renza ’94 and his wife

Lauren have twin sons, Zach and Cooper, who are nearly three years old.

1995 Dan Gareau has been working on an educational science outreach project in hopes of furthering public interest in science. His most recent video is a rap music video that translates the principal of peer review into hip-hop language. In the past he has also made videos about lasers and sharks. Currently he is working on a hand-held melanoma scanner. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/MelanomaDetector.

Jamie and Domenic Grieco recently welcomed their first daughter into the world in April. Congratulations to the new family.

1990s Jack Craig caught up with Wiley ’98 and Justin Cerilli ’95 when he visited New York City this summer. Jack coached Wiley and Justin who were top wrestlers for MB. Nicole Sheusi ’97 of Bristol is now the director of marketing for Tockwotton on the Waterfront , a senior living facility, which relocated to East Providence. We wish her luck in her new job! The old building on the East Side was purchased by Ben Ben Tré ’97, founder of Roosevelt International Academy. RIA, which promotes Chinese and American exchange, established its headquarters on East Street and the building serves as a dormitory for the international high school students.

Lisa Harrison Speidel and her

husband Champe were recently featured in the Providence Journal in an article praising their restaurant in Bristol, Persimmon. This restaurant holds dinners to raise money for the James Beard Foundation, which include scholarships for aspiring chefs. Dinners such as these have raised $4.2 million for foundation programs. Champe was nominated for the James Beard Award as Best Chef Northeast for the third straight year.

Andy King reports, “After MB, I got a degree in music from Colby College (Waterville, Maine), spent some time in San Fran doing a terrible job that I hated, moved to Vermont and attended cooking school and met my

1997

Becky Shaw O’Hara ’99

celebrated the birth of her child Katie in March. Becky and her husband Jeremy moved from St. Louis, Missouri and now live in Norfolk, Massachusetts.

future wife. After briefly dabbling in fine food and food writing, Jackie and I settled in on baking and spent the next three-plus years honing our craft in Portland, Maine. After having a baby and weighing our options, we opened our own bakery in Salem, Massachusetts (www.ajkingbakery.com). We have been lucky enough to get some good press, make a small name for ourselves around the Boston region and win some awards. Last year were approached to publish a cookbook which we did!” Andy and Jackie wrote Baking By Hand: Make the Best Artisanal Breads and Pastries Better Without a Mixer.

1999

2000

Anna Cerilli Zitnay ’00 and

2001

her husband Doug celebrated the birth of their daughter Emma in March.

2001 Mike Sipala and his wife Lindsey

Julia Fritz ’01 writes, “I graduated from Mount Sinai in 2011 and am now in my final year of residency in pediatrics at Maine Medical Center in Portland. I have fallen in love with Portland and will be staying at least one extra year as chief resident. I have been lucky enough to get involved in some international health experiences and spent a month in northern India this past February working in rural clinics along the outer Himalayas. I’m hoping to continue this in the coming years and am always looking for new global health opportunities.”

celebrated their son Nathaniel’s first birthday last May.

Jordana Zeldin was named direc-

tor and curator of ArtBridge in 2009, and is one of the 26 artists selected for its first public installation, First Exposure, exhibited on London Terrace Gardens in Chelsea. Brought on board to expand the reach of the organization, she has facilitated the production of its subsequent five installations. In addition to her work at ArtBridge, she has begun to curate independently, most recently as part of Young Curators, New Ideas IV at Meuelensteen in Chelsea. She holds a BA from the University of East Anglia in England and resides in Brooklyn.

Congratulations to Jenna Rampone Rose and her husband who

welcomed their son Max to the world last January. They look forward to sending him to Moses Brown where he would be the class of 2031! Jenna and her husband live in Pawtucket.

2002 Class Correspondent Liz Donat 519 N 40th Street Seattle, WA 98103-7714 401-864-9600 emdonat@gmail.com

Jim Falcon married Shannon Carney last October in Tampa, Florida where they now live. James works for Jabil Circuit in St. Petersburg. Matt Fishbein, Derek Freeman and Vark Markarian were Jim’s ushers at the wedding.

2005 Gabe Amo serves as staff assistant in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs as the liaison for Lieutenant Governors, State Treasurers, and Secretaries of State. Previously, he worked on the Obama 2012 campaign as national political coordinator and on various

political campaigns in his home state of Rhode Island. Gabe is a graduate of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where he received a Truman Scholarship, and was a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford.

Carlton Reeves was a finalist in the MillerCoors Urban Entrepreneurs Series Business Plan Competition. He presented his business plan to a panel of nationally renowned judges in Chicago for a chance to win part of the $150,000 prize pool. Carlton is the founder of Reeves Technologies LLC and creator of Tabit, a mobile point-ofsales service for the food and beverage industry that provides reduced credit card fees and enhanced data analytics to promote sustainability and improve profitability of businesses within the food and beverage industry.

2003

Peter Asante ’03

recently moved to Seattle, Washington where he is doing a pediatric residency, with interest in adolescent medicine, at the Seattle Children’s Hospital.

2002

Pam Granoff Simon ’02 has attended the Carnaval parades at the Sambadromo in

Rio de Janeiro for the last two years, seeing all of the incredible floats, costumes and dance numbers come to life. This year she was able to dance and be a part of the samba school, Uniao Da Ilha. Pam writes, “They take it very seriously, and anyone participating has to learn all the words of the Portuguese song, be smiling, singing and dancing the entire time, without dropping any of the costume because the school is judged on it and it is on live TV. The costumes include many pieces, and are heavy, weighing about 25lbs.” On her blog, ny2rio.com, Pam documented her experiences as well as restaurant reviews and trip itineraries. Pam has been working in the tech sector since moving to Brazel, organizing the country’s first digital Demo Day and Entrepreneur Week. She just moved from Rio to Sao Paulo with her husband Daniel whom she married last March, and is happy to be living in a city.

2005

Congratulations to Shawn Neves and Hilary Snyder, both from the class of 2005, who were married last May. Hilary graduated from Drexel Medical School a week before the wedding and has recently begun her ob/gyn residency at the Carilion Clinic in Roanoke,Virginia. Shawn, having left corporate tax to form his own architectural restoration business, has begun the restoration of an old log farmhouse that they purchased near Roanoke. See the progress at http://fixing7freedomfarm.blogspot.com. Pictured from left to right are Adam

Kaplan ’05, Hilary, Shawn, Rob Lavoie ’05 and behind them are Ted Allister ’05 and Joshua Neves ’12.

2006 Class Correspondent Nate Silver 2046 W. Cortez #2 Chicago, IL 60622 401-272-3319 silver.nate@gmail.com

Prabhat Dhar, Nathaniel Ring and Nikhil Sen ’07 completed the

San Francisco Giant Half Marathon in August in honor of their good friend and classmate Evan Spirito who passed away last November from lung cancer. The money raised for the Evan Spirito Memorial Foundation went to the oncology department at Massachusetts General Hospital where Evan was treated. Well done, gentlemen! Inspired by the Evan Spirito Memorial Golf Tournament last year and the hard work and effort so many friends and family put towards the event, Michael Kelly organized an annual fishing tournament in Evan’s name this June. Matt Osofisan was top overall angler with three blue fish and one striped bass. Michael writes, “Matt was also the winner of largest striped bass with a 36” striped bass caught aboard the Case Closed with myself as captain. Fishing with me were Johnny Shaw, Tom Sherman, Terry Moran, and Zach Chafee ’07. Adam Tracy and his family also fished the event as well as Dylan Schmitz ’07.” Michael continues, “Evan was an avid fisherman and like anything he took on, he excelled at it; putting together a fishing tournament was obvious. It certainly was no easy task, especially since living so far away complicated the situation, but I knew that my fellow MB alumni and friends of Evan would be a tremendous help.” Michael completed his master’s degree in marine affairs and policy from the University of Miami last fall and works

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2007 for the Billfish Foundation. They are a non-profit, NGO for billfish (sailfish, marlin, swordfish) conservation and deal with international fisheries management issues and work to influence policy toward conservation and promoting the numerous conservation and socioeconomic benefits that sportfishing can contribute to local economies. We thank Michael for his work on establishing the annual Evan Spirito Fishing Tournament.

Class Correspondent Lindy Nash 1312 Narragansett Blvd. Cranston, RI 02905 401-527-0896 linden.nash@conncoll.edu

2008 Class Correspondent Natalie Triedman 10 South Ogden Street, Apt. 105 Denver, CO 80209 401-575-3142 nkt387@aol.com

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Having just traveled around the world on a series of geologic expeditions as a Watson Fellow, Peter Buhler ’08 stopped by to catch up with Director of Alumni Relations Karin Morse ’79 to talk about his travels and learn about MB’s plans 2006 for the future. Peter traveled to British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Taiwan, Spain, Chile, Macchu Picchu and the Galapagos Islands After completing her bachelor’s degree in classical voice and musical arts at the Eastman School of Music and teaching and performing for two years in Rochester, to study stomalites and surface geologic features. New York, Meredith Achey ’06 has moved to Baltimore with her boyfriend, Laudon, to complete premedical studies in the Johns Hopkins University post-baccalaureate premedical program. Laudon is hoping to finish his doctorate in early music and historical plucked instruments (lute and theorbo) this year, while she hopes to begin medical school in the fall of 2015. Meredith ran her first marathon in 2010, and also participated in the Nike Women’s Half Marathon in D.C. last April. In the picture Meredith and Laudon are atop the Palais Garnier. 2000s

Kathryn Arthur moved to Santa

Barbara, California and started work at a small start-up called Night Out. She is enjoying the city and is currently training for a half marathon.

REUNION 2014 2009 Class Correspondent Betsy Tammaro 69 Londonderry Way Uxbridge, MA 01569 401-477-6545 betsy.tammaro@gmail.com

Emma Kirkpatrick ’07 and Jonathan Hammel ’06 were recently married,

Hannah Monroe recently gradu-

Allegra Scharff ’07, Seth Levin ’06 and Darcy Chen ’07.

and now make their home in Nashua, New Hampshire. Alumni in attendance were

ated from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina where she double majored in environmental studies and sociology.

Ian Deveau was named the NES-

CAC lacrosse player of the year. As a midfielder, Ian scored 36 goals and assisted on 16 for 52 points. His goal and point totals were career bests. He led the White Mules and was second in the conference in scoring. Ian was All-State and All-American in 2010, when he led Moses Brown to its second consecutive Division I championship.

After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis in May, Rose Heyman moved to New York City to work as an assistant to the Managing Editor of People Digital.

Jill Stockman from College Counseling ran into siblings Walter ’00, Liz ’02 and Marcy Donat ’09 at a restaurant in Wakefield last winter and took this photo. Marcy was visiting from Boston, Liz had flown in from Seattle for winter break, and Walter had the shortest commute from Narragansett. They admit they are generally a happy crowd, but Walter’s anticipated wedding proposal to his fiancée made them even more jovial.

Nate Rickler began his first year teaching as a middle school history teacher at Eaglebrook in Deerfield, Massachusetts, but before he did that he stopped by MB to say hello to his middle school history teacher Jon Gold. Sophie Stevenson began work

as an associate at the Boston office of L.E.K. Consulting in September.

Coach Larry Tremblay was honored by his team and colleagues with a banner which was hung in the new rink this past hockey season. Larry has been coaching the hockey team since 1996. The hockey team moved to the R.I. Sports Center in North Smithfield and to the NEPSAC league.

In Memoriam Moses Brown was sorry to hear of the passing of the following alumni. Look for more on their lives in the next issue of Cupola, arriving in spring 2014: Theodore Tucker ’38 Henry Lind ’39 Nicholas Mumford ’42 Thomas Cary ’43 Robert Kinder ’46 Willard Freeman ’47 Donald Chirnside ’51

Charles Silva ’53 Thomas Paolino ’59 David Curtis ’64 Robert Sondheim ’68 Robert Accola ’77 David Stallman ’78 Kurt Hall ’85

J. Michael Weaver-LaMountain ’85 Lawrence Yacubian ’93 Joseph Ryter ’05 Lynwood Hoxsie, former faculty Richard McLeod, former faculty Manuel Ribeiro, former staff

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Bisbees Back: Former faculty Tom Bisbee (math department chair, 1972-1978) and son Sam Bisbee (who attended lower school until age 9) were on campus this past spring filming Infinitely Polar Bear (with Providence a stand-in for Cambridge). Many students were starstruck by actor Mark Ruffalo, getting pictures and asking for his signature. We, however, were happy to welcome the Bisbee family back to campus!

Former faculty member John George is now teaching math and physics at East Greenwich High School. He became the head football coach there three years ago and enjoys the games against MB. Faculty members like Kevin Matson, Paul Gazin, and Tim Bickford come to see their old friend at these games. The picture features John and his family after the MB/EG game last fall.

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