Andover magazine — Winter 2015 by Phillips Academy

WINTER 2015

C r e at i v i t y & Innovation

Center: Janice Cheon ’16 Clockwise from upper left: Jaleel Williams ’15, Olivia Berkey ’15, Janice Cheon ’16, and Carlos Hoyt, associate dean of students Jack McGovern ’15 and Kieto Mahaniah ’16 Jaleel Williams ’15 and Olivia Berkey ’15 From back to front: Sabrina Appleby ’17, Olivia Berkey ’15, Hannah Beaudoin ’17, and Director Judith Wombwell Lauren Lee ’18, Daniela Ronga ’18, Justine Wang ’15 (center), and Claudia Meng ’18 Jaleel Williams ’15 (Nutcracker) and Erica Nork ’16 (Rat King) Hannah Beaudoin ’17 and Olivia Legaspi ’15 (Michaela Barczak ’15 in background)

The Nutcracker Enchants Audiences were once again mesmerized by PA’s magical performance of The Nutcracker, set in colonial Andover during the Revolutionary War. Judith Wombwell, instructor and chair of the theatre and dance department, directed December’s production, which featured Andover students, faculty, and faculty children, as well as visiting dancers from the Boston Ballet.

C on te nts

Adam Larkey/NBC

Michael Malyszko

F E AT U R E S

22 Launch! With more than $20 million in its coffers, the Tang Institute at Andover roars to life

24 Turning Back the Clock

Faculty Voices

Alums share their campus tales of creativity & innovation

Starting on page 25

32 Dream, Create, Innovate A spotlight on six alums who are breaking new ground

38 The Addison’s Judith Dolkart

DEPARTMENTS

Framing the future of education at the Addison Gallery of American Art

6 From the Head of School 7 Dateline Andover

42 Celebrating 50 Years of Expeditionary Learning

14 The World Comes to Andover 15 On Course

The evolution of Search & Rescue/Outdoor Pursuits

18 Philanthropy Highlights 20 Sports Talk

46 The Andover Alumni Award of Distinction

48 From the Archives 50 Connection

Clemency Chase Coggins ’51, John T. Darnton ’60 & Susan Goodwillie Stedman ’59 receive this year’s awards

54 Andover Bookshelf 56 Class Notes

49 Crossword Puzzle

119 In Memoriam

A decidedly Andover & Abbot–centric challenge

Facebook

YouTube

Instagram

Andover Alumni App

122 Tales Out of School

Linked In

SmugMug

Twitter

PA Mobile

Andover | Winter 2015

FROM THE EDITOR WINTER 2015 Volume 108 Number 2 PUBLISHER Tracy M. Sweet Director of Academy Communications EDITOR Kristin Bair O’Keeffe Director of Publications DESIGNER Ken Puleo Art Director ASSISTANT EDITOR Jill Clerkin CLASS NOTES EDITOR Jane Dornbusch CLASS NOTES DESIGNER Sally Abugov CLASS NOTES COORDINATOR Laura MacHugh CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Amy Appleton ’79, Clyfe Beckwith, Catherine Carter, Jen Charat ’93, Stephanie Curci, Mark Cutler, Jane Dornbusch, Audrey Doyle, Lori Ferguson, Vic Henningsen ’69, Tom Hodgson, Reem Hussein, Joel Jacob, Derek Jacoby, Nora Johnson ’50, Christina Landolt ’02, Lixia Ma, Amy Morris, Jane Paffard Nichols ’61, Robert Reynolds ’42, Adam Roberts, Karen Seaward ’68, Donald Slater, Juliet Sorensen ’91, Nick Stoneman ’78, Jeff Strong ’78, Paula Trespas, Thayer Zaeder ’83 PHOTOGRAPHERS David Becker/NBC, Igor Burlak, Jill Clerkin, Mark Cutler, Paula Driscoll, Neil Evans, Lisa A. Gennetian, P’15, Leah Hamann ’17, John Hurley, Jamie Kaplowitz, Adam Larkey/NBC, Travis Magee, Michael Malyszko, Liana Margolese ’15, Christine Marshall-Walker, Dariush Néjad, Gil Talbot, Dave White, Torrance York ’84 © 2015 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Welcome to the winter 2015 issue of Andover! This themed issue is keenly focused on creativity and innovation, one of the three pillars of our recently launched strategic plan, Connecting Our Strengths: The Andover Endeavor (sp2014.andover.edu). In the following pages, we explore how the encouragement of—and opportunities for—creativity, experimentation, and courageous questioning at both Abbot and Phillips academies laid the groundwork for personal and professional lives steeped in originality and inventiveness. Starting on page 25, current faculty members share thoughts about what inspires them. We give you a sneak peek into a new and exciting interdisciplinary course, Sense of Place, which blends biology, ecology, history, and a whole lot of perambulating (page 15). We celebrate the launch of the Tang Institute and the 50th anniversary of Outdoor Pursuits, an evolution of Search & Rescue (pages 22 and 42 respectively). And in “Dream, Create, Innovate,” we shine a spotlight on six alumni whose Andover and Abbot experiences helped ignite unusual and fulfilling careers (page 32). We also feature a marvelous collection of Tales Out of School. Robert Reynolds ’42 wends us back in time to a pivotal cello competition (page 26), Jane Paffard Nichols ’61 takes us on a wild adventure through the kitchen of Draper Hall (page 24), and Nick Stoneman ’78 leaves us all hoping that our children were or are as creatively supported by their teachers as Nick was by Diz and Audrey Bensley (page 26). As you laugh, cry, and reminisce about your own high school days, consider the following: Who inspired you? Who urged you to follow your dreams? In which class did you discover a passion that still burns within you today? Please share these stories with us on social media using the hashtag #ItStartedAtAndover. Finally, be sure to take a shot at the Andover-Abbot–centric crossword puzzle (page 49) and enjoy, like a kid, the buzzing flipbook (starting on page 25).

Andover, the magazine of Phillips Academy is published four times a year—fall, winter, spring, and summer—by the Office of Communication at Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, Andover MA 01810-4161. Main PA phone: 978-749-4000 Changes of address and death notices: 978-749-4269 alumni-records@andover.edu Phillips Academy website: www.andover.edu

Kristin Bair O’Keeffe

P.S. In the spring and fall 2015 issues, we’ll continue exploring the pillars of the Strategic Plan—first equity and inclusion and then empathy and balance. Compelling stuff ahead!

Andover magazine phone: 978-749-4677 Fax: 978-749-4272 E-mail: andovermagazine@andover.edu Periodicals postage paid at Andover MA and additional mailing offices. Postmasters: Send address changes to Phillips Academy 180 Main Street Andover MA 01810-4161 ISSN-0735-5718

CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

Equity & Inclusion

EMpathy & Balance

Follow Andover on Twitter: @AndoverMagazine

TO T H E EDITOR

Dear Editor,

A comment on this fall’s issue, if I may: WOW!

—Walter N. Morrison ’45 Truro, Massachusetts Dear Editor, The Pot Pourri sales campaign in 1952 was capped by posters in every bathroom stall, which read: “As you sit with bended knee—think of buying the Pot Pourri.” Brilliant!

—Mike Bromberg ’52 The Sea Ranch, California Dear Editor, Flagstaff Court has been a geographic reference point for many years. I am sure alumni, students, and faculty fondly remember its signature paths bounding two rectangles within the court and running diagonally across each of them, eventually meeting at the flagpole in the middle. My twin brother Nat and I graduated with the Class of 1964. Because we were identical twins, it occurred to us that the measured distance of our normal walking stride must also be identical. So we decided one day to test out the theory. Starting at one end, we marched off in different directions. We had mapped out a fairly complicated route, each of us going up and down mirror images of the various diagonals until, after several turns, we met precisely at the middle, shook hands, and flashed a sharp synchronized salute at the flag. Unbeknownst to us, [Headmaster] John Kemper was standing in front of Day Hall observing. He laughed and said, “I’ve never seen anything like this in my entire life. You guys just might have a career in the military.”

—William Semple ’64 Warrenton, Virginia

In my very first class at Andover, Mr. [Robin] Crawford, my advisor and history teacher, handed out weather and crop reports for the previous 10 years for a nearby Massachusetts town and asked us to describe its socioeconomy. Others began to write, and I sat there not knowing where to begin. This was nothing like the rote-memorization history classes I was used to, and was coming on top of plenty of culture shock an international student can experience in their first month. I tried to catch the teacher’s eye and ask for a pointer or two, but he had no intention of helping with this intro assignment. As others around me scribbled faster, I started to panic, increasingly sure of two things: I will never pass this class, and I need all my focus to avoid sobbing that very minute. At the end of class, I waited for all to turn in their work before I stood up. With a blank sheet in my hand, tears now streaming down my face, I tried to get out the words “I don’t know how I’ll do this,” meaning the class or maybe Andover as a whole, but Mr. Crawford looked me in the eye and firmly said only, “You’ll be OK.” Over the next year, he taught us sternly and unforgivingly (his feedback on papers often consisted of entire paragraphs crossed out with “uhm…no” written next to them), but also with thoughtful encouragement (“get it written, not right” is something I’m still actively practicing). He was both generous and demanding, in the way that only someone who cared deeply about our future could be. And I was OK. More than OK.

Macro Mystery Can you identify the campus location of the item below?

If you think you know, send your answer to: andovermagazine@ andover.edu

Stumped again! No winners of the fall 2014 Macro Mystery!

Mr. Crawford came and went in my life, but I’ll never forget him. Thank you, and rest in peace.

—Selena Hadzibabic ’02 New York, New York Editor’s note: Please see Robin Crawford’s obituary on page 119. 1972

Search & Rescue Read about its 50-year history (page 42)

ERRATA Fall 2014 On pages 18–19, we should have noted that photographer John Hurley shot the photos of Iris Deng, fingerprinting with instructor Rebecca Roy, and making shoe impressions. On page 51, we neglected to note that student activities director Chris Capano, student program coordinator Stephanie Wong, and instructor in theatre and dance Erin Strong organized—and their departments partially funded—the Abbot Bazaar. Well done! And on page 84, we should have noted that Emma Kaufmann-LaDuc ’17 took the photo of the Chris Gurry ’66 gathering at the Andover Inn.

This little primate is one of two matching oak newel posts at the bottom of the Graham House Counseling Center’s main stairway. Constructed in 1915, Graham House was originally the home of AUV (Auctoritas, Unitas, Veritas), the PA secret society pledged by President George Bush ’42.

Please share your thoughts with us Andover, the magazine of Phillips Academy welcomes your comments, suggestions, and involvement. Letters may be edited for length, grammar, and style. Please e-mail andovermagazine@andover.edu or call 978-749-4677.

Throughout the October 17 launch of the Tang Institute at Andover (see page 22), ImageThink artists graphically recorded all events, from Head of School John Palfrey’s opening remarks and the announcement of Oscar Tang ’56’s founding grant of $15 million through Harvard educator Erin Driver-Linn’s illuminating keynote address. At right: Peter Currie ’74, board president; Rachel Skiffer, dean of policy and strategic planning; and Head of School John Palfrey

Andover | Winter 2015

Michael Malyszko

Andover | Winter 2015

Dave White

From the Head of School

getting

started “It started at Andover.”

at the Peabody, or astronomy in Gelb. Over and over, we hear these stories from our students and alumni.

“It started at Abbot.” Thousands of compelling stories, the life stories of our alumni, start with one of these two simple sentences. And when I consider this, I marvel at the fact that Phillips Academy and Abbot Academy, now merged into one great school, have not just persisted for so long, but thrived—especially when so many other schools founded in the same era did not. The secret, I believe, is a potent combination: a deep devotion to principles of long-standing force and a relentless commitment to making things better. In the great liberal arts tradition, today’s Andover makes an extraordinary array of new beginnings possible for our students. A 14-year-old can come to Andover thinking she is a math/science student dedicated to playing soccer, only to discover a lifelong love of Elizabethan poetry and crew. An 18-year-old devoted to the humanities and language study might be drawn in by the visual arts at the Addison, archaeology

“It started at Andover when I first walked into Mr. [Seth] Bardo’s English class.” “It started at Abbot in Mademoiselle [Germaine] Arosa’s French class.” And so on. New opportunities to create such stories are thriving at today’s Andover. Recently we launched the Tang Institute, a physical and virtual hub for entrepreneurial exploration that offers faculty and community members a place where they can try out and test innovative approaches to teaching and learning [see story, page 22]. Building upon the long tradition of creativity and innovation at Andover, our faculty has big ideas about connected learning, learning in the world, experiential learning, socialemotional development, interdisciplinary work, and more. Some of the work done by students and faculty will be enabled by technologies in common use today; some will call upon technologies not yet developed or even imagined; and some will have nothing at all to do with technology.

to endow the Institute. His successor, Peter Currie ’74, followed that with a gift of $5 million, which, along with funding several other initiatives, endows a chair for the Institute’s director; founding director Caroline Nolan is the first incumbent of the Currie Family Directorship. These two landmark gifts demonstrate the power of philanthropy across generations of leadership at Phillips Academy. Oscar’s and Peter’s generosity and partnership will offer thousands more students the opportunity to say, “It started at Andover.” For this, I am grateful. As many of you know, our newly launched strategic plan, Connecting Our Strengths: The Andover Endeavor [sp2014.andover.edu], focuses on our aspirations for our students, their experiences, and what they will get started at Andover and beyond. Our students and faculty will partner to make extraordinary things happen in all range of fields— academics, community service, the arts, music, and athletics—in the years to come, just as they have for more than 200 years. Much of it wouldn’t be recognizable to our founders, but the spirit and principles behind these innovations would be utterly familiar. I couldn’t be more excited by what lies ahead.

To lead us in this new endeavor, two generations of Board of Trustees presidents have come together. Trustee Emeritus Oscar Tang ’56, board president from 2004 to 2012, made a founding gift of $15 million

Readers: What started at Phillips or Abbot academy for you? Join the conversation online using the hashtag #ItStartedAtAndover. We want to hear your stories! 6

Andover | Winter 2015

John Palfrey

D ate lin e an do v er

For the Record

Fall Trustee Weekend Focuses on Strategic Plan The Board of Trustees centered much of its fall agenda on funding sources and early initiatives of the Academy’s Strategic Plan. Connecting Our Strengths: The Andover Endeavor was also the topic of a joint session of the board and the Alumni Council. Head of School John Palfrey and Rachel Skiffer, dean of policy and strategic planning, led a Q&A and discussed implementation progress. In a separate session of the Alumni Council, members voted to approve the council’s new strategic plan, A Catalyst for Lifetime Engagement (see story, page 50). Trustee Weekend also included the following highlights: • Channeling innovation—Offering a keynote talk in Cochran Chapel, Tony Wagner, author, Harvard expert in residence, and founder of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, spoke about education and the innovation economy (see page 14). • Celebrating generosity—With a view of Elson Courtyard as their backdrop, trustees and alumni gathered to thank Trustee Louis Elson ’80 for his generous support of the transformed community plaza. • Closing the books—The board accepted the Academy’s FY14 operating results. As of June 30, 2014, Andover’s endowment recorded a 16.8 percent gain, with a portfolio valued at slightly over $1 billion.

• Planning with vision—The board centered much of its Campus Master Plan discussion on athletics, including program philosophy, facility needs, and potential funding sources. • Signing off on wellness—Trustees and members of the campus community signed their names on a steel beam that is now a permanent part of the Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center, on track to open this December. • Hearing from students—Eighteen students, led by copresident David Gutierrez ’15, broke bread with trustees and shared their perspectives on wellness and balance.

Neil Evans

Special Faculty Honors

Honored, from left, were Christine Marshall-Walker, biology instructor, with the Schmertzler Life Sciences Instructorship;  Dale Hurley, mathematics instructor, with the Phelps Instructorship; Kathy Birecki, athletics instructor and trainer, with the Martha Cochran Teaching Foundation; Tasha Hawthorne, English instructor, with the F.C. Robertson Instructorship; Lisa Joel, associate dean of admission, with the Elizabeth Rogers Instructorship; Sue Buckwalter, mathematics instructor, with the Elizabeth Millbank Anderson Teaching Foundation; Catherine Carter, classics instructor, with the John C. Phillips Teaching Foundation; and Frank Tipton, history and social science instructor, with the Class of 1915 Garrigues Teaching Foundation. During a special faculty luncheon held October 3 in the Smith Center, eight faculty members were recognized for their many contributions to the Phillips Academy community, inside and outside the classroom. Prior to announcing the prestigious teaching instructorships and foundations, Dean of Faculty Patrick Farrell told the 200 or so faculty members in attendance that the event should

also be viewed as an opportunity to “celebrate teaching in the broadest sense of the word. As we compliment, honor, and praise these people, please know that I am, on behalf of John [Palfrey] and the Board of Trustees, complimenting, honoring, and praising each of you here today. You have my sincere and deep gratitude for all you do for our students.”

Joseph Bae ’90 Elected New Charter Trustee On November 18, Board of Trustees President Peter Currie ’74 announced the election of Joseph Bae ’90 as a charter member of the board; his sixyear term commenced immediately. “We are thrilled to welcome Joe to the board, especially as we embark on the implementation phase of Andover’s new Strategic Plan,” said Currie. “His deep regard and enthusiasm for Andover coupled with his expertise in finance and matters affecting alumni and parents in Asia will serve the school extremely well. In fact, his contributions already have had profound impact.” Bae currently serves on the Andover Development Board, on the Investment Committee for Andover’s endowment, and as a founding member of the Andover Asia Council. His generosity through two capital campaigns and annual giving extends to several of Andover’s key priorities, including support for need-blind admission, student scholarships, and construction of the Sykes Wellness Center. “Andover has played such an important role in my life,” said Bae. “I look forward to deepening my engagement with the school and its incredible leadership team.” A 1994 graduate of Harvard College, Bae has worked for nearly 19 years at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a leading global alternative asset management company. Since 2005, Bae has served as the managing partner of KKR Asia and is based in Hong Kong, where he lives with his wife and their four children.

Andover | Winter 2015

D ate lin e an do v er

Dave White

Griffith to Become PA’s First Assistant Head for Equity and Inclusion

Linda Carter Griffith, a 25-year veteran of Phillips Academy’s faculty, will become the school’s first assistant head of school for equity and inclusion, effective July 1. In addition to her current roles as dean of the Office of Community and Multicultural Development (CAMD) and instructor in English, Griffith has served as a

house counselor and cluster dean and in a variety of other student advocacy roles. In announcing Griffith’s appointment, Head of School John Palfrey spoke directly to key priorities of the strategic plan, Connecting Our Strengths: The Andover Endeavor. “I have asked Linda to take on this newly restructured role at this time for a host of reasons,” he said. “Although Andover has been at the forefront of initiatives related to diversity and multiculturalism for many years, we still have much work to do as a community dedicated to serving youth from every quarter. The goals set forth in The Andover Endeavor, especially with respect to equity and inclusion, call upon us to think anew about our commitments in this area.” “Linda is incredibly plugged in to issues surrounding campus climate and always thinking about how these

issues affect student life and learning,” he continued. “She has brought some of the most fraught issues of the day to the forefront of our community. She’s helped us navigate the complexities of race, gender, and diversity in its multilayered forms and led us to greater self-awareness as a community.” Palfrey said he looks forward to working with Griffith to further shape this new role and continue to address these issues in an “open-minded, thoughtful, and respectful manner.” Palfrey and Griffith also plan to appoint an associate-level CAMD dean to help develop and guide student diversity programming as well as directly support underrepresented students of color. Griffith first came to Andover in 1986 to teach English in the (MS) 2 outreach program; she joined the full-time faculty in 1990. Prior to her

appointment as dean of CAMD, she served as a cluster dean for 10 years, helped develop the Life Issues curriculum, served as advisor to CAMD cultural clubs, and taught in the summer African Institute and in Kenya and Tanzania through the International Academic Partnership. As dean of CAMD, Griffith develops programming to raise awareness and encourage understanding of differences in race, gender, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic class, geographical origin, and sexual orientation. She oversees faculty development and student workshops, guides student mentoring groups, and coordinates 25 student clubs. Griffith holds a BA degree from Vassar College and an MEd degree from Cambridge College. She lives on campus with husband Graeme and their son, Carter.

—Tracy Sweet

Revitalizing Our “Ideal Andover” “Our campus—so beautiful, functional, and iconic—deserves a master Given the care with which PA’s new Campus Master Plan, its first since 1996, planning effort of this magnitude to ensure we make the right decisions for the is being approached, alumni need not worry about shocking changes to their future,” said Muench. beloved campus. The “Ideal Andover” (at right), created by architect Charles —Jill Clerkin Platt in the early 20th century—and much-admired nearly a century later— will be respected and preserved. “The Academy’s layout is thoughtful and deliberate, and its sense of place is very strong,” said Nancy Jeton, special assistant to the head of school. “We take our responsibility to steward, protect, and enhance this campus very seriously.” Jeton and Director of Facilities Larry Muench are coleaders of the Campus Master Plan process, which involves several committees. “The past decade has seen huge changes in technology, teaching and learning methods, and study habits,” said Jeton. “To make the best possible use of our facilities, it’s time to take a hard look at aging campus infrastructure, over- and underutilized spaces, technology needs, life- and work-style changes, and accessibility. And then there are issues of sustainability, student safety, and campus security.” With sagacious planning, tradition, innovation, and technology can indeed harmoniously coexist. Beyer Blinder Belle, an architecture firm that has assisted Princeton, Amherst, and Dartmouth in developing campus plans featuring the adaptive Phillips Academy has a rich tradition of campus planning, carefully considering everything from use of historically significant buildings, was recently selected tree species to building style and location to land preservation. The new Campus Master Plan, intended to provide a framework for decisions over time, will be completed in early 2016. to help the Academy with this important undertaking.

Andover | Winter 2015

Double X-C Win at Interschols

Neil Evans

The 2014 Interschols Team—Back row, from left: Lauren Smith ’15, Natalie Yeh ’17, Katherine Sweetser ’17, Elizabeth Tso ’18, Olivia Brokaw ’18, Jess Gearan ’18, Alana Gudinas ’16, Sharon Zhang ’16, Lily Augus ’16, Gillian Cline ’16, and Marina Hunt ’17. Front row: Qiqi Ren ’15, Sharon Platt ’15, Parker Tope ’16, Grace Rademacher ’18, Michaela Jones ’18, Peyton McGovern ’16, and Carmen Bango ’16. Seated: Anoush Shehadeh ’15, captain.

New Challenges for Longtime Faculty Members

Elliott ’94 Named New Dean of Students

Yasmine Allen has been named the Academy’s new assistant dean of faculty. Currently a Spanish language instructor and chair of the Spanish department, Allen is also a house counselor in Nathan Hale House and a spinning coach. She is involved in a trial run of the Folio evaluation process and was part of the iPad pilot in 2013–2014 (see winter 2014 issue). Prior to joining the Andover faculty in fall 2000, Allen earned an MA degree in Spanish language and literature from Purdue University, where she was a lecturer. Raj Mundra has accepted the position of assistant dean of students and residential life, a role filled by Carlos Hoyt since 2006. Mundra came to Andover as a teaching fellow in 1991 and has been an instructor in biology and an assistant football coach since 1996. Currently cluster dean of Pine Knoll, he also has served as a house counselor, lacrosse and swimming coach, and assistant dean of the Office of Community and Multicultural Development. Mundra is the 2005 founder and current director of Niswarth, a Learning in the World program in India. Allen and Mundra start their new roles at the beginning of the 2015–2016 school year.

Jennifer Karlen Elliott ’94, an instructor in history and social science, dean of Abbot Cluster, and girls’ squash coach, has been appointed PA’s next dean of students, effective July 1. She will replace Paul Murphy ’84, who has served as dean of students since 2008. The dean of students position is a six-year rotating appointment made by the head of school. In addition to managing the five cluster deans who head up a campus network of adults dedicated to student programming and support, the dean of students oversees residential and day student life and plays a lead role in building community and handling disciplinary matters. Elliott says she will continue to place the health and well-being of students above all else and will seek every opportunity to get to know individual students. “I am eager to continue working to make Phillips Academy a more inclusive, communicative, and supportive learning environment for our students,” she said. Prior to joining Andover’s faculty in 2010, Elliott taught history and served as associate dean of students/dean of resident faculty at the Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, Calif. Before that, she taught, coached, and served as dean of students at Westminster School in Simsbury, Conn. Elliott holds a BA degree from Dartmouth and an MA degree from Lesley College. She lives on campus with husband Grant and their four children. Andover | Winter 2015

Gil Talbot

Neil Evans

Lisa A. Gennetian, P’15

Nineteen girls’ varsity runners topped off their undefeated season with a victory at the NEPSTA Div. 1 Interschols at Hotchkiss on November 9. Big Blue’s top seven runners—four in the top 10—secured the team’s first varsity win since 2010 with 32 points (see page 21 for more). “The coaches are incredibly proud of this team, which stands solidly alongside some of the strongest teams in the program’s history—and there have been many,” said Coach Rebecca Hession. “We’re thrilled about the 2014 season and the contributions that every runner made to this team.” The girls’ JV team also placed first at Interschols, for the 14th time in the past 15 years, with 25 points. The individual champion was Sharon Zhang ’16. This was the final season for Nancy Lang ’83, who has coached girls’ cross-country with great success since 1994 (see page 13).

D ate lin e an do v er

Photos by Neil Evans

Red Reigns on Geek Day! A few days before Andover-Exeter Weekend, Blue Key Head Bianca Navarro Bowman ’15 and Justice Robinson ’18, pictured at left, and an army of strangely clad cohorts convened to poke fun at our bookish rivals to the north.

Student-Led Book Tour Begins at AISNE Six student leaders of PA’s Out of the Blue book project earned rave reviews for their presentation at the AISNE (Association of Independent Schools in New England) Diversity Conference in October. Nearly 100 educators packed the session to learn how their schools could develop their own version of Out of the Blue and, in turn, give voice to personal stories surrounding diversity in its multiple forms. George Michael Hakim, a teacher from Lexington (Mass.) Montessori School, had this to say: “It was incredibly inspirational to have a group of students present—and present so well—at the conference. It’s one of the things I hope my students can achieve someday.”

Andover | Winter 2015

Winter at the Addison Light/Dark, White/Black January 17–July 31 Beyond their effectiveness in depicting three-dimensionality and conveying light and shade to construct the illusion of space, black and white—rich with symbolism, metaphor, and association—have long fascinated artists. Comprising challenging juxtapositions, harmonious ensembles, and unexpected pairings, this exhibition explores how artists use different formal elements and mediums to exploit the associative character of black and white and visually render conceptual themes. Through this lens, the work of artists such as Josef Albers, Roy DeCarava, Carroll Dunham, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Ray Metzker, Louise Nevelson, Dorothea Rockburne, Fred Sandback, Frank Stella ’54, Ad Reinhardt (whose avant-garde treatise on this subject inspired the title of the exhibition), and others from the Addison’s permanent collection will come into focus. Generous support for this exhibition was provided by the Mollie Bennett Lupe & Garland M. Lasater Exhibitions Fund. This exhibition was curated by Allison Kemmerer, the Addison’s Mead Curator of Photography and Curator of Art after 1950, and Kelley Tialiou, Charles H. Sawyer Curatorial Assistant.

Naum Gabo, Linear Construction No. 2 (Variation No. 1), 1950, perspex with nylon monofilament, 24 x 17 ½ in., Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, by exchange, 1952.19

Collection Intervention: Ellen Gallagher’s DeLuxe February 7–May 17 Ellen Gallagher (b. 1965) brings together imagery from myth, nature, art, and culture to create complex works in a wide variety of mediums. This season, the Addison is delighted to be able to exhibit Gallagher’s seminal print portfolio, DeLuxe. To create this remarkable series of 60 works, the artist used beauty- and hair-product advertisements from vintage African American magazines as raw material, which she then transformed via a broad range of printing techniques. Further subverting and recontextualizing the original ads, Gallagher added Plasticine, paint, coconut oil, toy eyeballs, and glitter to each of the printed surfaces. This playful, provocative series offers sly and insightful commentary on modernism, mass media, fashion, identity, and race in mid-century America. DeLuxe serves as inspiration for groupings of works chosen from the Addison’s permanent collection that explore the multiple layers of material and meaning revealed in Gallagher’s work. Generous support for this exhibition, curated by Allison Kemmerer, was provided by the Mollie Bennett Lupe & Garland M. Lasater Exhibitions Fund.

Ellen Gallagher, Mr. Terrific from DeLuxe, 2004–2005, portfolio of sixty with photogravure, etching , aquatint and drypoint with lithography, screenprint, embossing , tattoo machine engraving , laser cutting and chine collé, 13 x 10 ½ in. (33 x 26.7 cm), courtesy Two Palms, New York

Heaven and Earth/Heaven on Earth February 7–April 5 Curated by Judith Dolkart, the Mary Stripp and R. Crosby Kemper Director of the Addison, this exhibition features works from the collection that explore the known and the unknown in representations of the world around us.

Spring 2015

Be sure to visit www.andover.edu/museums/addison.

Alfred Maurer: At the Vanguard of Modernism April 25–July 31 Light/Dark, White/Black will remain on view through the spring and summer.

Alfred Maurer, Still Life with Pears, c. 1930–31, oil on board, 26 x 36 in. (66.04 x 91.44 cm), Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase

Andover | Winter 2015

D ate lin e an do v er

Grasshopper Night 2014

Left: Nurilys Cintron ’15 plays and sings “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder.

Students pulled out all the stops for “Haunted,” this year’s Family Weekend talent show. A fog machine, strobe lights, and fake bats and spider webs helped create the spooky aura of a haunted house. “We encouraged the acts to dream big, to push the limits of our technical capabilities,” said technical director David Benedict ’15. “It took a lot of extra work, but it was worth it.” Julian Otis ’16 and Teddy Lasry ’16 emceed the show.

Top: The a cappella Keynotes include, from left, Jaleel Williams ’15, Alexa Pagano ’16, Natalie Yeh ’17, Brooke Keene ’16, Nate Redding ’16, Miriam Feldman ’18 (with mic), Emily Bachwich ’17, Kalina Ko ’17, Anna Dear ’16, and Ethan McIntosh ’15. Photos by Gil Talbot

Left: Yorkies, from left, are Jason Jin ’15, Rudd Fawcett ’18, Tyler Shen ’17, Elliot Sagay ’15, Nate Redding ’16 (with mic), Bach Hoang ’15, and Joel Peña ’16.

Andover | Winter 2015

Farewell—And Thank You! Nancy Lang ’83, associate dean of faculty, has been appointed head of school at Journeys School in Jackson, Wyo. The pre-K through 12 independent school—part of Teton Science Schools—educates and trains children, youth, and adults through the study of nature and placebased education. An instructor of mathematics since joining the Academy in 1993, Lang also was a house counselor for 14 years. Her 16 years as head coach of girls’ cross-country included six championships and coach of the year honors. Lang will begin at Journeys School on July 1.

Frank Tipton, instructor in history and social science, has been named assistant head of school at Gann Academy in Waltham, Mass. Gann is a pluralistic day school that integrates intensive Jewish studies with the sciences and humanities. Tipton is currently the cluster dean of West Quad North. Since coming to PA in 2005, he has helped advance the Academy’s history and social science curriculum and “access to success” initiatives, and served as an advisor in the Office of Community and Multicultural Development. He will join Gann’s head of school, Rabbi Marc Baker ’93, this summer.

Neil Evans

Leah Hamann ’17

Andover will bid adieu this summer to two popular faculty members who have served the school in numerous important roles.

A Gift to the Youth of Andover

Paula Driscoll

Head of School John Palfrey is shown here presenting a symbolic check to Bill Fahey, director of Andover Youth Services, and Andrea Zaimes, assistant board chair of the Andover Youth Foundation (AYF), on December 16. AYF Board Chair Diane Costagliola ( far left) looks on, as does PA Chief Operating and Financial Officer Steve Carter. “We couldn’t be more excited to receive this awesome gift,” said Bill Fahey, director of Andover Youth Services, when he learned that Phillips Academy had made a $500,000 commitment to the town of Andover’s Cormier Youth Center project. Construction of the 21,000-square-foot building—which also includes a gymnasium, fitness room, classrooms, video lab, and

offices for the town’s Youth Services Department—began in August 2014. “We are incredibly grateful to Phillips Academy, its trustees, and John Palfrey for believing in Andover Youth Services and our mission,” continued Fahey. “I fully believe this major gift will inspire others in the community to contribute to the final fundraising effort and allow us to move into a completed youth center

this coming June.” “We’re thrilled to be able to support the youth center and to see Phillips Academy’s founding principle of non sibi—not for self—animated in the energy and dedication of those behind this important project,” Palfrey said. “As educators, fellow parents, and neighbors, we’re pleased to do our part.” —Amy Morris

Andover | Winter 2015

The Wo rld C o mes To andover

Tony Wagner Educator, Author, and Harvard Innovation Lab Expert in Residence Students, trustees, and Alumni Council members gathered in Cochran Chapel on November 7 to hear Trustee Weekend keynote speaker Dr. Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World, discuss how PA can inspire students to become innovators by nurturing their creativity and sparking their imaginations. In particular, Wagner noted the importance of helping students overcome the fear of failure and how group projects increase innovation. He encouraged faculty to consider how Google’s practice of allowing employees to spend a chunk of their time on a “passion project” might be mirrored to benefit Andover students. “Dr. Wagner addressed a crucial issue,” says Won Woo Kim ’15. “To instill entrepreneurial and critical thinking abilities in students, teachers must devise methods of innovation in classrooms.” An international student learning about American schooling, Kim says Wagner reaffirmed his belief that creative and purposeful pedagogy engenders higher student achievement. Wagner’s visit was coordinated and funded by the Tang Institute and the Office of the Head of School.

Pamela Ryckman Author and Journalist With more women running major companies today than ever before, Pamela Ryckman discussed the importance of connections in establishing equal rights for women in the workplace. A networking and mentoring session with attendees followed the Kemper Auditorium presentation. Ryckman, a former investment strategist, is the author of Stiletto Network: Inside the Women’s Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business. Mihika Sridhar ’16 praises Ryckman for changing her mind-set about the females in her social circles: “I loved how she stressed that we should rely on other women and girls to foster opportunities for ourselves and others, rather than fostering competition.” Ryckman’s September 26 visit was arranged by Trustee Allison Picott ’88, hosted by The Girls’ Leadership Project, and funded by Andover Fund gifts in support of Women on Andover Hill.

—Debby Murphy ’86, Director of Alumni Engagement Rosalind Wiseman Author and Parenting Expert Gender, sex, and the challenges inherent in navigating the marvelous but sometimes murky space of human intimacy were the subject of Rosalind Wiseman’s speech at All-School Meeting on October 29. The teacher and author covered topics such as bullying, ethical leadership, and responsible use of social media, as well as the “rules of hooking up” and the importance of privacy in sexual relationships. Wiseman is the author of Queen Bees and Wannabes, on which the movie Mean Girls was based. Her visit was made possible by the Dean of Students and Dean of Studies offices.

—Carlos Hoyt, Associate Dean of Students for Personal and Community Education Llana Barber Teacher and Author In the second half of the 20th century, the city of Lawrence, Mass., experienced deindustrialization, suburbanization, and substantial immigration from Latin America. Resultant social and economic transformations were among the topics of Llana Barber’s talk October 17 in Kemper Auditorium. “Too often, I hear negative stereotypes about Lawrence that are either outdated or untrue, and Ms. Barber set the record straight by providing a context for the waves of immigration and fluctuating economy,” says Alba Disla ’15. “Her visit made me even prouder to hail from such a historically and culturally rich city.” Barber teaches immigration and urban history at the State University of New York–College at Old Westbury. Alianza Latina and CAMD sponsored her visit.

—Clara Isaza-Bishop, Instructor in Spanish

Andover | Winter 2015

Rosetta Lee Teacher, and Diversity Trainer and Speaker Headlining All-School Meeting on October 22 was this year’s Youth from Every Quarter speaker, Rosetta Lee, who discussed cultural competency skills for the 21st century. Lee described how she came to acknowledge and embrace her Asian ethnicity and spoke about the need for students to extend their definition of diversity beyond race. Class, gender, ability, age, nationality, and religious beliefs also make up one’s identity, agrees Carrie Ingerman ’15. “Identity goes even further when considering the environmental factors that make each person an individual,” she says. Lee is a teacher at Seattle Girls’ School and a diversity speaker and trainer. Her visit was sponsored by CAMD and funded by the Hosch Family Fund.

—Linda Griffith, Dean, Office of Community and Multicultural Development (CAMD) Alex Myers Activist, Archivist, and Author Raised as a girl, Alex Myers started living as a boy at age 17 and was the first openly transgender student at Phillips Exeter and Harvard College. On October 10 in Kemper Auditorium, Myers kicked off Gender & Sexuality Alliance (GSA) Pride Weekend with a keynote address in which he discussed identifying as transgender and the issue of gender identity as a whole. The following day he led a teaching workshop on gender identity and discussed with students visible queerness at boarding schools and in the media. A longtime English teacher at private high schools, Myers is the author of Revolutionary, which tells the story of his ancestor, Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man and fought in the Revolutionary War. His visit was sponsored by the GSA and CAMD.

—David Gardner, Instructor in English and LGBT Advisor Meredith Chin ’01 Former Manager of Corporate Communications, Facebook Growing up in a biracial family, achieving international success in the sport of fencing, and becoming an early employee of Facebook were just a few of the things of which Meredith Chin ’01 was proud. Still, she struggled silently. It wasn’t until she came out to family and friends that she unlocked her true self. On December 5, Chin led a conversation with a large group of students, faculty, and staff in the Underwood Room. She focused on the importance of bravery, human connection, and helping others find their voices. The Asian Society, Gender & Sexuality Alliance, and MOSAIC sponsored her visit.

—Aya Murata, Faculty Advisor to MOSAIC and to Asian and Asian American Students

ON C O U R SE

e c a l p f o e s n se by Jill Clerkin

Outdoorsy new course spurs deeper connections to places, people, and the natural world A wild blend of experiential learning, history, ecology, philosophy, and fresh-air fun, Sense of Place was two years in the planning. In September, its seven inaugural students— armed with field notebooks, sneakers, and water bottles—set out to discover what creates “a sense of place” and the many attributes that might make a place worth protecting. Focusing first on the robust history of their 500-acre home away from home, the class later explored local forests, rivers, and ponds as well as human influences and environmental issues. They covered a lot of ground, figuratively and literally, in their 10 hours together each week, meeting with 17 on- and off-campus experts and often walking six or seven miles in a single afternoon. Antonella Menta Fernandez ’15 chose the course because it sounded like “a door to unexpected learning.” She was not disappointed. “It was interdisciplinary in a way I never thought was possible,” she says. Sense of Place was crafted by co-instructors Christine Marshall-Walker, who also teaches biology, and Mark Cutler, who also teaches Spanish and has led Outdoor Pursuits, formerly Search & Rescue, since 2004 (see page 42). “We wanted our students to ‘own’ their journey through a wide variety of disciplines, terrain, and primary sources—and for their hard work to be fueled by personal, relevant appreciations of this place,” says Marshall-Walker. “A sense of place leads ultimately to a responsibility of place,” says Cutler. “These students are future stewards of land, buildings, and history in their home and other communities.”

“The Andover campus is like a palimpsest —a manuscript that reveals a previous text that was erased and written over.” —Paul V. Turner, Academy Hill

Andover examined—To better understand the human and natural forces that have shaped today’s Phillips Academy, students met with Addison Gallery, Peabody Museum, and Archives and Special Collections educators; traipsed with campus experts through Cochran Sanctuary for evidence of its changing ecology; and talked with various townspeople, including members of the Andover Historical Society. “I am now far more appreciative of PA’s vast history,” says Hanover Vale ’15. A touch of technology—Using HistoryPin, a website that encourages the sharing of local history, students “pinned” archival information to several campus locations, and Rebecca Savord ’15 added a video she created about changes to PA’s “west quadrangle.” (Visit www.historypin.org.)

Paddling through time—Guided by local conservationist Bob Rauseo, students explored the Shawsheen River and learned about its uses, modifications, and economic impact. Later, on a textile mill tour in nearby Lawrence, students peered down on the convergence of the Shawsheen and Merrimack rivers. “We were shocked by the amount of trash clogging the intersection,” says Kieto Mahaniah ’16. In his notebook, Mahaniah starred these words from Rauseo: “Nature is where we get our wealth as well as where we dump our waste.”

Andover | Winter 2015

ON C O U R SE Ladybugs preparing to hibernate

3 Biophilia an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems; a longing to interact with the natural world

Engaging the senses (from Lily Grossbard ’15’s blog)—Met at Bicentennial Elm, picked up Stott Trail, headed through Stanley Reservation and cemetery to Pomp’s. Beautiful walk. Joined by two Andover High students and teacher. At Sand Pit, discussed glaciers and geological structures. Looked for elusive Foster’s Island; found deer tracks and ladybugs. Trudged through significant mud. Discussed man-made dams and how human presence has affected Andover watershed.

Photos by Jill Clerkin, Mark Cutler, Neil Evans, Liana Margolese ’15 & Christine Marshall-Walker

Andover | Winter 2015

Curlicue au naturel

Day trip to Cardigan (from Grossbard’s blog)—Bad start: I overslept. Was 30 minutes late and condemned to van’s middle front seat. Goal: to climb Cardigan Mountain in N.H. The drizzle could not deter us, but a torrential downpour and foreboding rumbles suggested retreat to AMC Lodge. When the sky cleared we stopped by the sustainable campsite (built by Sally Manikian ’00), featuring a latrine that self-composts!

Lessons in conservation—Along with two colleagues, John Kimball (left), grandson of the founder of Ward Reservation, met with students in the Log Cabin and later on the trails to talk about the 700-acre reservation’s ecology and history, forest forensics, and the challenges of land preservation. Chair of the Property Committee, Kimball lives in the original Ward home on the reservation. “One might associate a reservation with a piece of land that is kept wild and untouched by humans,” says Xin Wen ’15. “Thus, it might come as a surprise that behind successful land conservation are very deliberate plans and human effort.”

Bittersweet, a common invasive vine in the area

A view from atop Holt Hill—About two miles from campus, Ward Reservation, once predominantly farmland, now has 10 miles of mostly wooded trails. Kimball and Adam Rollfs (center), caretaker of the Ward for the Trustees of Reservations, explained that they are working to clear trees and restore grassland habitats to encourage the return of early–20th-century bird and butterfly species. A carnivorous pitcher plant— in Andover!

Students were fascinated by the Ward’s rare “quaking bog” ecosystem, which has no soil. The moist, springy ground, which surrounds a glacial pond, is made up entirely of vegetation.

What inspires? Artist, naturalist, and former Elson Artist-in-Residence James Prosek (above) joined students to talk about the intersections of nature, art, and science. He gave each student 10 minutes to “create art” along the Cochran Sanctuary path using whatever nature provided; the results were surprisingly expressive and varied. At the Log Cabin, home base for Sense of Place, the group took time to do some drawings, paintings, and reflection.

A three-hour hike—On a cold, windy Saturday, Sense of Place students and faculty hiked to an AMC hut for an overnight in the White Mountains. Sally Manikian ’00 (right), assisted by Savord and Owen Corey ’15, led the group through an intense and, students said, highly relevant LNT (Leave No Trace) Trainer course, which teaches outdoor (and life) skill sets and ethics. On Sunday, the group awoke to 30-degree inside temps, sizzling bacon, and new-fallen snow. An AMC backcountry resource conservation manager, Manikian also races dogsleds (see fall 2014 issue).

Andover | Winter 2015

P H I LANTH R OP Y H IGHLIGHTS

Philanthropic Rivalry Revisited

The Strategic Plan: A Coast-to-Coast Rollout

In the week before their annual fall athletic rivalry, Andover and Exeter once again engaged in friendly competition of a different sort: the Andover-Exeter Young Alumni Challenge. In a rematch of last year’s philanthropic nail-biter, classes from the past 15 years competed to bring in the largest number of gifts for their respective alma maters.

Phillips Academy hit the road in late fall and early winter to introduce the school’s new strategic plan, Connecting Our Strengths: The Andover Endeavor. Head of School John Palfrey led the way, with visits to Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, San Francisco, New York City, and Washington, D.C. The program included screenings of The Vision Film: Connecting Andover’s Strengths and Aspirations, produced in partnership with Frank duPont ’71 of Winton/duPont Films. More than 600 alumni and parents attended the various events. The rollout resumes in the spring with gatherings in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Chicago, and London. To view the Strategic Plan and The Vision Film, visit sp2014.andover.edu.

1,240 15 $32,559 young Andover alumni from

classes

made gifts totaling

over

days in November.

new

150

donors

participated in the challenge.

45.6%

Wellness Center Shapes Up Construction of the Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center continues at a rapid pace. The building has reached full height, outer walls are enclosed, and work on HVAC systems is underway. “We’re on schedule and doing well,” says Project Manager John Galanis. “Framing for the interior and exterior walls will take us through the winter, and the roof and masonry are coming this spring.” The wellness center, slated to open in late 2015, will combine traditional medical services and psychological counseling with a wide variety of important new programs, including personal health assessment, yoga, and meditation.

was the highest participation rate of all Andover classes, achieved by the Class of

2005

for two years in a row.

48 gifts Andover

stood between

and victory.

Exeter 1,288 Andover 1,240

Andover | Winter 2015

Neil Evans

Total gifts: In a “topping off” ceremony on November 24, the wellness center’s final steel beam was signed by the construction crew, PA trustees and administrators, and other project supporters, including ( front to back) trustees Scott Mead ’73 and Tom Beaton ’73, Trustee Emerita Betsy Parker Powell ’56, and trustees Tammy Snyder Murphy ’83 and Tristin Batchelder Mannion ’82.

Gurry Rink Named for Iconic Coach

The Abbot Academy Association

Fulfilling Dreams Since 1974

John Hurley

Did you know that Andover is the only independent school in the world with its own internal foundation? Or that this foundation has been supporting creativity and innovation on the PA campus (and beyond) for more than 40 years?

Honoree Christopher Gurry ’66 looks on as Head of School John Palfrey tells the crowd of students, faculty, and alumni about Gurry’s 40 years of service to the Academy—as a history and social science instructor, house counselor, and head hockey coach, with coaching stints for the golf and lacrosse teams as well. Gurry retired in spring 2014. On Saturday, January 17, South Rink was renamed in honor of Christopher Gurry ’66. Thanks to an anonymous donor, the Gurry Rink joins the adjacent Harrison Rink in being dedicated to an icon of Andover academic and athletic excellence. Harrison Rink was named for legendary hockey coach and former athletics director Ted Harrison ’38, who coached decades of players, including Gurry, for whom he also was a longtime mentor. “This honor is so deep for me because of my relationship with Ted,” said Gurry. “His influence on me was profound and strikes a deep chord with me and my family.” The lobby connecting the two rinks prominently features a photograph (below) of one of Harrison’s championship teams, with Gurry on the starting line (front row, fifth from right). “It seems like just yesterday that we all skated off the ice with a 5–1 trouncing of Exeter to finish a very memorable 1965–66 PA hockey season,” said teammate Jack Turco ’66. “Chris, PA’s fearless captain, scored four of the five goals!” —Adam Roberts

When Andover and Abbot merged in 1973, it was assumed that Abbot’s $1 million endowment would merge, too, into Andover’s coffers. But a few wise Abbot trustees had another idea. They insisted on setting Abbot’s unrestricted funds aside to grow and prosper and become a uniquely innovative internal funding source to be managed by the Abbot Academy Association (AAA). The association’s purpose was—and is—to “preserve the spirit, dignity, and high standard of the Abbot Academy tradition” through support of students, faculty, and staff who dare to dream of and pursue educational, cultural, athletic, and other creative ventures that would not otherwise happen. That original $1 million has grown to nearly $10 million today. The AAA’s 11-member board meets twice a year to award grants totaling upward of $500,000 annually for innovative projects that range from a few hundred dollars—to help start a student club, build bat houses in Cochran Sanctuary, or create a faculty family garden—to much larger multiyear grants to develop interdisciplinary teaching projects, travel abroad, and, most recently, seed the Barbara Landis Chase Scholarship Program and the newly established Tang Institute at Andover. We are delighted that upcoming issues of Andover will regularly report on the surprising range of AAA grants awarded, the people who applied for them, and the many needs met and dreams fulfilled. —Susie Goodwillie Stedman ’59 President, Abbot Academy Association

Who’s Doing What with AAA Grants? The spring issue of Andover will take a closer look at the 27 AAA grant proposals that were awarded full or partial funding in November 2014.

1966

Andover | Winter 2015

S P O RTS TALK

Andover-Exeter 2014 The nation’s oldest prep school rivalry celebrated its 137th year in November. Playing on their home fields, PA’s field hockey, football, and girls’ soccer teams triumphed, and boys’ soccer battled to a 1–1 tie. In a post-weekend e-mail, Head of School John Palfrey shared scores and lauded participants and fans. “Most impressive and important of all,” Palfrey wrote, “was that every minute of every game I saw was best-characterized by a high degree of sportsmanship, teamwork, camaraderie, and determination. Every one of Andover’s athletes and coaches distinguished himself and herself over this season, from JV all the way through varsity.”

Left: Lydia Paris ’17, Issraa Faiz ’15, and Gunga (top row); Amadi Lasenberry ’17, Jordan Swett ’15, and Ladan “Liddy” Kasraian ’17 (bottom row) Below left: Eliza Quigley ’15

Photos by John Hurley

Below: Dylan Mott ’15

Andover | Winter 2015

A h

let th

dli ne

2014 NEPSTA Div. 1 Interschols Champions: Girls’ Cross-Country (see page 9) Named All–New England: Carmen Bango ’16, Michaela Jones ’18, Peyton McGovern ’16, Grace Rademacher ’18, and Anoush Shehadeh ’15, captain Boys’ Cross-Country: 2nd place at NEPSTA Div. 1 championships Named All–New England: John Gorton ’15, Paul McGovern ’15, Ethan McIntosh ’15, and Ralph Skinner ’16 Field Hockey: 15–1–1 finish set PA field hockey record for most wins in a season. Eva Toffoloni ’15 named NFCHA All-American and to NEPSAC Class A All-Tournament Team, and broke PA single-season scoring record with 23 goals and all-time scoring record with 49 goals

Above: Natalia Suarez ’17 Above right: Evie Elson ’15 and Kory Stuer ’15 (top row); Catalina Feder ’15 and Tiffany Bauman ’16 (bottom row) Right: Jumaane Ford ’16 Below: From left, Darcy Burnham ’18, Erica Shin ’16, Franziska Trautmann ’16, Alex Becker ’15, and Annette Bell ’16

Girls’ Soccer: Kinsey Yost ’15 named NSCAA All-Region (New England), All-State, and All-NEPSAC Class A Boys’ Soccer: Dylan Mott ’15 named NSCAA All-Region (New England), All-State, All-NEPSAC Class A, All-NEPSSA, and All-WNEPSSA and broke PA all-time scoring record with 48 goals; Josh Murphy ’15 named All-NEPSSA Alternate, All-WNEPSSA Honorable Mention; Andy Manos ’16 named All-NEPSAC Class A, NEPSSA 11th-Grade All-Star; Brandon Girard ’16 named NEPSSA 11th-Grade All-Star Football: Dane Wagner ’15 named NEPSAC Class A All-Star NSCAA All-American, All-New England, NEWMAC Athlete of the Year (2nd consec. year): MIT soccer star Ambika Krishnamachar ’11 Former Andover field hockey tricaptains play on: Among many other honors, Salisbury University’s Summer Washburn ’11 named First Team NFHCA All-American, CAC Player of the Year; Brown’s Shannon McSweeney ’11 named All–Ivy League First Team, NFCHA Senior Game selection; and Colby’s Kellie Walsh ’11 named All-NESCAC, NESCAC All-Sportsmanship

Andover | Winter 2015

the audience to think big, be bold, take risks—and find ways to actively contribute to creative initiatives and diverse partnerships, both internally and externally. The program concluded with a lively interactive reception. Audience members had the opportunity to connect with Institute fellows, who eagerly shared early ideas, prototypes, and working models for their projects. Just weeks after the launch, Peter Currie ’74, president of the Board of Trustees, made a $5 million commitment that will further propel the Institute and support other strategic initiatives of the school. Part of his gift will endow the Institute’s leadership under the Currie Family Directorship.

by Kristin Bair O’Keeffe & Tracy Sweet

n October 17, Phillips Academy celebrated the official launch of the Tang Institute at Andover. An enthusiastic audience—faculty, students, alumni, and numerous members of the extended Andover community—enjoyed the daylong program, which expounded on the role of the Institute as a platform and hub dedicated to supporting community ideas for innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Opening remarks by Head of School John Palfrey and Trustee Emeritus Oscar Tang ’56 included the impetus for the creation of the Tang Institute and a gracious thankyou to the many generous people who contributed to its development. Palfrey announced that Tang had provided a founding grant of $15 million in support of the Institute, calling him one of the “great friends and benefactors of this school.” Moments later, the best-kept secret on campus was revealed. The Institute—for the past year referred to as the Andover Institute—would thereafter be named the Tang Institute at Andover. Thunderous applause was accompanied by a flurry of students who ran into the theatre handing out Tang Institute swag to audience members. The afternoon set an ambitious vision for the Institute and its potential to engage with, learn from, and have a positive impact on conversations about the future of education on a national and global scale. Speakers encouraged

Andover | Winter 2015

Caroline Nolan, who joined Andover one year ago to design programming and infrastructure for the Institute, is the inaugural Currie Family Director. She was previously associate director at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Tang and Currie’s generosity, combined with additional support from fellow trustees, alumni, and parents, brings total Institute funding to more than $20 million. “We are tremendously grateful for Peter’s gift and humbled by the fact that two generations of trustee leadership have eagerly stepped forward to establish a solid foundation for the faculty-inspired work of the Tang Institute,” said Palfrey.

In addition to announcing Oscar Tang ’56’s founding grant of $15 million, Head of School John Palfrey ( far left) outlined the vision and plans for the future of the newly named Tang Institute at Andover. In his opening remarks, Oscar Tang ( far left, top) highlighted the school’s founding values, specifically non sibi (not for self) and private school with a public purpose. “I’ve always believed that Andover is blessed with superb intellectual talent,” he said. “Our faculty and the school are at their best when they share those gifts beyond campus.” Caroline Nolan ( far left, bottom), Institute director, moderated a conversation about the exploration of the modes and models of the Institute, highlighting the work of Andover faculty in embracing practices such as experimentation, rapid and iterative prototyping, the use of new technologies, and the implementation of flexible assessment models. Keynote speaker Erin DriverLinn (center), director of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) and associate provost for institutional research, provided insight into the Institute’s work with regard to the concepts of authority, transparency, and mystery. Dean of Policy and Strategic Planning Rachel Skiffer (left) moderated a conversation between Peter Currie ’74 (top) and John Palfrey that outlined both the school’s 2014 strategic plan, Connecting Our Strengths: The Andover Endeavor, and the plan’s connection to the creation of the Institute.

Photos by Michael Malyszko

During a panel discussion about the power of networks and collaboration, Connie Yowell (left), director of education at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, emphasized that there have been three massive shifts in the possibility of what pedagogy can look like in education: participation, production, and networks. For complete coverage of the launch events, visit tanginstitute.andover.edu.

Andover | Winter 2015

Turning Back the Clock

Draper’s Late-Night Marauders

Alums share their tales out of school

Winter 1961. About 8 p.m. Senior year. In those days, the door-closed, lights-out curfew was 9 p.m. A group of us, gathered in my room under the pretext of studying, decided we were hungry. Juniors and seniors lived in Draper Hall; the dining room and kitchen were in the basement. With a posse of giggling accomplices, I headed down to the dining hall. The doors leading from the hall into the kitchen were locked. A small door to the side of the dining room was unlocked. With the posse at my heels, I followed a maze of narrow passageways leading into the bowels of the building, past purring furnaces, electrical panels, boilers, crates, dripping faucets.

by Kristin Bair O’Keeffe With the advent of the Tang Institute (page 22), the launch of the new Strategic Plan, and expanding conversations about the effects of globalization on education, the campus is abuzz with talk about creativity and innovation. In what ways do we nurture creativity in—and outside of— the classroom? How do we help students pursue their interests, mine their talents, and find their voices? How do we encourage students to innovate? How do we empower them to become changemakers in our everchanging world? What projects should Andover undertake with others? How can partnerships boost innovation and bridge cultural differences? And how can we share what we do with others near and far? While the norm when talking about creativity and innovation is to look ahead—to shine a bright light on all that is novel and new—it’s also important to look back at what worked in the past, to reflect upon the experiences and interactions that ignited passion and determination in students, and to affirm that creativity and innovation were integral parts of an education at Abbot and Phillips academies, both before and after they became one. In the pages that follow, alums from as far back as 1942 share stories about experiences that had lasting impact— stories about teachers, classes, late-night adventures, trust, challenge, persistence, and much, much more.

Andover | Winter 2015

by Jane Paffard Nichols ’61

I have only a faint memory of that leg of the journey, but I remember vividly the moment my eyes fell upon the box of keys hanging on the wall. The door to the box was open. Directly next to the box was a small bathroom. The night watchman was in the bathroom. I could hear him moving behind the closed door and see his shadow shifting against the light through the cracks. Holding my breath, I stepped up to the key box, scanned the rows of white disc labels, grabbed the key marked “kitchen,” and raced to the dining hall. I unlocked the door to the kitchen, and we perused the contents of the fridge. Bypassing carrots and bowls of lettuce, we hauled out a large stainless steel tray of puddings— butterscotch puddings with meringue topping—and made our way up the stairs to my room. We ate the puddings. Every last one. Then, giddy from the sugar and the easy success of our first foray, we returned to the kitchen to make breakfast. Somewhere between the scrambling of the eggs and toasting of the toast, the night watchman appeared. Thankfully, he was as amused as he was bemused. I can’t remember our punishment. Whatever it was, the satisfaction derived from outwitting the authorities overshadowed any sense of shame or remorse, and our antics filtered through the student population with much undeserved admiration. I bequeathed the key to an underclassman upon graduation—a kind of trophy in honor of spirited defiance and sheer luck. I believe it was used again the following year.

Faculty Voices

Remembering The Phillipian, Freedom, and Fat Louie by Jeff Strong ’78 Working on The Phillipian in the mid-1970s was fun and exhausting. Finding reporters, chasing stories, editing copy, typesetting, cutting, waxing, and pasting up the paper every week took so much energy and time that we barely slept. All-nighters, fueled by coffee and NoDoz, were the norm, and the basement of Evans Hall was the staff’s true home on campus. But the rewards were there, both large and small— from the occasional recognition and appreciation of classmates and teachers to the tightly parsed praise (or, more often, on-point criticism) from Phillipian advisor Tom Lyons to the hinted-at “automatic” admission to Harvard for the editor in chief. To me, however, the absolute best part of The Phillipian was the most executional: The trip to print the paper every week at the Harvard Crimson.

Remember, this was a different time and place—when students of legal age (18) could drink at the student pub in the basement of the Andover Inn, when a Compugraphic typesetting machine could be used to produce both a front-page news story and a credible fake ID card for slightly underage students, and when The Phillipian’s operating budget easily covered a weekly Chinese dinner at Yenching—including a few technically illicit beers—in Harvard Square. So the culmination of each week’s seemingly Herculean effort to put together the paper involved helping produce the aluminum printing plates, watching Louie load them into the press, seeing the first few issues come off the press, and then heading off to a late dinner filled with typical teen conversation. A couple of hours later, we’d load the bundled papers into the designated driver’s car and head back to PA. I still remember shivering and dozing off to WCOZ-FM in Latin instructor Carl Krumpe’s kid’s old, unheated Saab, my stomach full of General Tso’s chicken and Tsingtao, and slowly waking up to the newly released live version of “Free Bird” as we drove down Main Street on the way to Evans Hall. Now, every time I hear Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird,” I am transported back to the chilly winter of 1977, and I wonder how my fellow Phillipian editors are doing and why Mr. Krumpe never got the heater fixed in his kid’s rickety Saab. The Crimson is still around, although Fat Louie is long gone, and Saabs have become increasingly rare, but Lynyrd Skynyrd still goes on the road occasionally. Last year, when I toured Harvard with my college-applicant son, we had lunch at Yenching, and I thought back to all those Phillipian nights in Cambridge. I ordered General Tso’s chicken and a Tsingtao and smiled. That time, however, I didn’t get carded.

Faculty illustrations by Frances Pitochelli McCormick

Joel Jacob Instructor, Mathematics At most liberal arts schools, limited connections exist between mathematics and other fields. In my high school and college education, the offerings for “applied” mathematics courses meant taking a computer science, physics, or statistics class. Here at Andover, the educators at the Addison Gallery and the Peabody Museum opened my eyes to other possibilities. My students build real-world connections between mathematics, art, and history; their mathematics education is a vehicle for connecting them to our campus, our school’s history, and the material-rich troves in our institutions. These opportunities are as abstract and rigorous as a course that purely teaches proof writing, logical reasoning, and equation solving in the traditional classroom. However, I would argue that students build deeper and stronger connections to math when they are learning experientially. Can they hold an artifact and articulate a mathematical argument in context? Can they explain the importance of a mathematical principle using the tools and space around them? If the answer is a resounding “yes,” then those students are one step closer to becoming tinkerers and innovators instead of mere doers.

Andover | Winter 2015

Creativity & Innovation

To a tightly scheduled PA student, this weekly excursion felt like freedom. It involved a day student with a car; two or three other Phillipian editors/reporters; the grumpy but lovable Louie (“Fat Louie” to us, behind his ample back), who ran the printing press at the Crimson; an inexpensive meal at a restaurant in Cambridge; and a post-midnight drive back to a sleeping Andover campus.

We asked 11 faculty members about inspiration, creativity, and innovation. Here’s what they had to say.

An Eye for Art, Courtesy of the Bensleys by Nick Stoneman ’78 It has taken me several decades to realize how impactful Diz and Audrey Bensley’s influence has been on my life. In the midst of the academic pressure cooker of PA, they offered a way to see the world— its shapes and forms and beauty—that I had never before experienced. They encouraged imagination, fostered artistic experimentation, cast aside the stigmas and labels we as adolescents put on one another, and saw us each simply as a creative being. Throwing a pot, drawing a sketch, snapping a picture, cutting out shapes and forms—we were engaged by and enlightened about the relations of shape, color, angle, light, perspective. The Bensleys’ space was a safe space, free of the critique of peers, full of ideas and inspiration. Little did we know that in the midst of all this, the foundation for our future appreciation of architecture, design, ideation, and entrepreneurship was being fostered. We learned that it was OK to dip our toes into the sea of imagination—even if many of us weren’t seen as “artsy” and had little to no training. I didn’t know what the Bensleys were aspiring to accomplish, but surely they knew, in their souls, the lifelong gifts they were so unassumingly bringing home to roost. It was their influence that got me off of Wall Street and into carpentry and design work. And it was their influence that subsequently inspired me when I became an educator to steer my school in the direction of helping every student rediscover what our traditional classrooms squeeze out—the creative core that is so essential to the human experience. Perhaps the Bensleys—in the visual arts program they helped to develop—were ahead of their time, but for me, they were just in time. Of all the great experiences I had during my years on campus, the time spent under their tutelage unequivocally had the most enduring impact.

The Sound of Music Sours by Robert Reynolds ’42 I came from a family of musicians (my mother was a piano teacher, my older brother played the piano, my younger brother played the violin, and an aunt was an opera singer), so it was natural for me to continue the family tradition by taking up the cello. In 1941, at age 17, after graduating from high school and being accepted to Yale, I was shipped off to Andover for a year of seasoning. Apparently my application mentioned that I played the cello, so I was invited to join the Academy symphony orchestra, which I did. As a bonus, the Academy provided private cello lessons taught by Gerard Haft, first cellist of the Boston Symphony, who came to Andover each week. Mr. Haft not only gave me lessons but also played in the orchestra with me and the only other cellist, William Lyons Phelps II (grandson of the famous Yale professor), fortifying the cello section. It was a wonderful experience. Our performances included trips to local girls’ schools where I could experience female companionship, something lacking at Andover. As the year progressed, my cello-playing proficiency improved to the point where I decided to enter the annual music competition held on June 8 in Cochran Chapel. I had learned that an alumnus had endowed a prize for cello playing. With only one other cellist in the competition, I felt I had a pretty good chance of winning. Alas, the competition was a disaster. The other musicians were outstanding organists or pianists—such as classmate William Sloane Coffin, who played Beethoven’s Sonata Pathétique flawlessly. I, on the other hand, played several simple pieces by unknown composers. The judges decided not to award a prize for cello playing that year. That was the end of my cello career.

Andover | Winter 2015

Lifetime Lessons in Art and Photography by Karen Seaward ’68 and classmates Many of us were charmed by our art teacher, Mrs. Virginia Powel. In addition, we were the vanguard of a fledgling black-and-white photography class, taught by Wendy Snyder. Abbot hired a real up-and-coming photographer to teach us; Wendy Snyder was studying with the great Minor White in Boston at the time and would bring his knowledge to us. Today we wonder if these teachers realized how transformative their teaching was for us, how delightfully wicked we thought we were, and how scared we often felt when using the small rooms and darkroom on the condemned fourth floor of Draper Hall. This gave an edge to these classes, which may be one reason they were so memorable, as is evident by the comments below from a few of our classmates. Jane Brown: “Mrs. Powel, as part of the PA constellation of talent, drew on the innovations of [PA art instructor] Diz Bensley (these were many and included introducing photography, art, and film into the classroom). She modified his message—and likely the materials and projects—to suit our resources at Abbot. Many of us recall assignments to take Polaroid camera images and develop them in the darkroom; therewith these teachers bestowed various lessons. The first was looking at the ordinary in another way.” Julie Crane: “Looking for artistic photos while walking in the cemetery down by Old South Church, I remember my perspective of nature—and life—changed. It was my first validation that maybe I did have an artist’s eye like my father, even if I couldn’t draw a stitch! The second lesson was discovering that we could develop our images and watch them come to life in the darkroom and then walk away with a print—the evidence—in our hands.”

Jane Brown continues: “The Polaroids we carried around captured, for the first time for some, an artistic sensibility and burned into our retinas the glowering clouds, reflective puddles, and syncopated series that came with heightened powers of observation. Mrs. Powel encouraged observation with abandon but also introduced a lexicon that was new and exciting: All those picket-fence posts with one askew were arresting, and this had a name. And the process of black-and-white film development on Draper’s fourth floor was empowering; we felt independent and accomplished taking a picture and having a print in hand as a final product. No other class did that at Abbot up to that point. Think? Yes. Calculate? Yes. But see and create and be systematic as part of the creation process? No. It was a parting legacy the school gave to us seniors that many of us treasure.”

Karen Seaward ’68

I was born in Sudan but moved to Kuwait as a very young child. There, until the equivalent of ninth grade, I attended a British international school with students from all over the world. My mother tongue is Arabic, while English was the language of my formal education. My parents strived to maintain our Sudanese culture while we grew up in Kuwait and had British cultural values emphasized at school. In those formative years—my time in Kuwait ended abruptly with the first Gulf War—I heard historical events recounted in different languages and from different perspectives. I heard history from the colonist, the colonized, the aggressor, the defeated, and those eager to stay above the fray. Growing up the way I did helped me realize early on that history can present two sides, probably more, to the same story—the story of us and the story of the other—but the history I lived taught me to stop being shocked when I learned there is always more to the story. Even at that young age, I learned the benefits of being not just multilingual but also conversant with others based on different perspectives and experiences. The best of my peers, because of their ability to listen, empathize, and learn from those different from them, were “citizens of the world,” eager to contribute to the “global village” long before these were clichés and the Internet and mass and social media made the world so much smaller. Their example served me well as I bounced back to Sudan, then to Malaysia, then Egypt, all before coming to the U.S. for college. As a teacher, I work to prepare students to be ready for and open to these challenges so they do not find themselves shut off from the world around them educationally, culturally, socially, or, eventually, professionally.

Andover | Winter 2015

Creativity & Innovation

Cary Cleaver: “From mid-senior year on, I was a photographer. I’ve always had a camera, and I’ve constructed or converted a dozen kitchens, bathrooms, and spare bedrooms into darkrooms over the years. In 1996, I learned how to hand-color my black-and-white prints, and once again I saw the world through fresh eyes, reminding me of Mrs. Powel’s class in 1966.”

Reem Hussein Instructor, Biology

Shooting Stars by Nora Johnson ’50 I arrived at Abbot as a sophomore in September 1947, excited about leaving home in New York. I’d already met my roommate, also a new girl, in the city. We’d gone to Radio City Music Hall together, and Shirley had deeply impressed me by gracefully crashing the long movie line, flashing a charming smile as we elbowed our way past the ticket booth and into the lobby before anybody could stop us. “Dahling, it’s the only way we’ll ever get in. I really don’t want to stand around here all afternoon.” She was English; she lived in Mexico City. Once at Abbot, we found we had a lot in common—we were equally adventurous, energetic, and mischievous. We found the work easy and everything else pretty boring. Being city girls, we weren’t used to confinement or life in the country. But we didn’t sulk or cry, or beg our parents to take us home, as some did: We weren’t quitters, and for our separate reasons, we dreaded losing face. So we thought of a project to fill the empty hours. We would put on a musical show, which we would write, produce, direct, and act in, and we would even write original music! I think now that Marguerite Hearsey, the principal at the time, was a very wise woman. I suspect she knew that if she didn’t let us try this laughably impossible project, we’d find worse ways to expend our energy and might well drive her crazy. She knew she had a couple of live ones. Permission was given, and we actually mounted I See Stars. It was derivative, to put it mildly: It had a hundred things wrong with it, but it was all original and, to this day, I’m proud of it. It was a complicated show-within-a-show, with a love story, feeble show-biz humor, and several noisy singing-and-dancing numbers. We rounded up all the talent in Abbey House. One girl wrote original songs, another wrote lyrics. I wrote the script and sort of directed. We made our own costumes. Shirley said she didn’t care what she did as long as she could have a scene sitting on a high ladder in very short shorts (she was a strawberry blond with lovely long legs), eating an apple and saying, “Gawn, ducks, wyncha make yerself scarce.” So I wrote that into the script. As I recall, we had no help from the faculty, though I could be wrong. We put on the show in the auditorium, and the whole school, or most of it, came. Parents came. A reporter from the local newspaper came and reviewed it, mostly favorably except he thought it suffered from “a slight lack of plot.” (He was very kind.) It was a triumph—and, after that, the work got a lot harder and Andover boys began appearing. There was a lot of snow and we learned to ski and, somehow or other, Abbot found ways to employ the enormous energy of 14-year-olds. My everlasting thanks to the wise Miss Hearsey.

Andover | Winter 2015

Winning Isn’t Everything by Jen Charat ’93 I’m sure Coach Nancy Boutilier and those who played girls’ varsity basketball with me in the winter of 1990 remember that season well. Most of us were new to the varsity team that year, and our record reflected our inexperience. We didn’t win a game all season, and we averaged 26 points per game. I know this stat, because for all these years I’ve kept the piece that Coach Boutilier published that winter in The Phillipian. In it she wrote, “Some people might be tempted to call this an unsuccessful season, but nothing could be further from the truth.”

Several of us on that 1990 team were juniors that year. We came from all over the country, but for me, a kid from California who wasn’t accustomed to New England winters or to living in perennial darkness—daytime in winter at Andover was swallowed up by the nighttime!—that losing basketball team was a source of sunshine and strength. If you’ve never experienced a losing season, this may be hard to understand, but that 1990 season produced a team of athletes who grew by leaps and bounds. I’m back in the California sunshine now, where my husband and I are raising three sons. We coach our boys’ soccer and Little League teams, and if there were ever a practical application for the phrase “Winning isn’t everything,” you’d better believe that a soccer or baseball team of 10-year-old boys is it. When one of our boys’ teams has a losing season, I know just the right words to use to shine light on the experience. And I don’t know if this is a good or bad thing, but my oldest son has heard the story of the 1990 Andover girls’ varsity basketball team so many times, he may feel like he lived it too. I don’t know about my former teammates, but I wouldn’t trade that season for any other.

Oh, boy. What doesn’t inspire me? Even thinking about how I should answer this question inspires me. Being able to hear the train a mile away down the hill when I am leaving Gelb makes me wonder about how the sound must have been bent by a cold layer of air—will it snow soon? Watching the effects of a sunrise by the sinking shadow line from the top of a goldenorange deciduous tree in late fall—what will the day bring? Yesterday the leaves got caught in a swirling wind and settled by my doorstep; today a stronger wind blows, but the leaves stay put. What changed? Hearing a student’s excitement about her success in solving a problem or the dismay of a student as he describes his apparent lack of success in getting the answer, neither realizing how far they have come in six short weeks of instruction. Practicing with the volleyball team day in and day out, watching team members form familial bonds so deep that they respond as much to body language as they do to spoken words, and observing proud parents absorb how much their child has developed into a mature adult—part of a team, part of a game, part of life. Inspiration lurks around every corner on this campus, like chaos theory, where just one small difference in input can result in a completely new outcome with the same conditions. I teach the same classes every year and yet not one of them has ever been the same. Every day brings new adventures, and I find immense joy in making new connections, finding ways to thread seemingly separate ideas, defying the odds of making something work. I challenge myself to find the positive; the best day ever is when I can make someone smile.

Andover | Winter 2015

Creativity & Innovation

Coach Boutilier’s piece goes on to articulate why winning isn’t the only standard of achievement worth measuring and how that season helped all of us see that. To this day, I take strength in reading her words about “what a leap of faith it is to allow inner standards of achievement to outweigh the external standards.” And of the 10 seasons I enjoyed playing volleyball, basketball, and softball at Andover, that first basketball season may have been the most formative for me in terms of bonding with the team and learning good sportsmanship in times of adversity. I remember we laughed a lot that season, not on the court—where we worked hard, put in our best effort, and celebrated small but meaningful moments of achievement—but off of it, on the bus, in Commons, in the locker room, and back in our dorms. I’m lucky that one of the girls from that team is one of my best lifelong friends; she made sure I cracked a smile at the funny birthday card she sent on the occasion of my 40th year on this Earth.

Clyfe Beckwith Instructor, Physics

The Return of Halley's Comet by Amy Appleton ’79 It was the spring of the return of Halley’s Comet. A recently minted college graduate, I received the Andover Bulletin with a mixture of nostalgia and dread. What would those crackerjack classmates be up to at this early juncture in their launching careers? Already there were signs of astronomical accomplishments and stellar successes. They were superstars. It was humbling and inspiring to read about such precocious winning. Then, too, there was the sentimental pull back to Andover Hill— the tales of favorite teachers and remembered spots on campus, and the tidal tug of returning to classes each September. Does anyone ever overcome the draw of going back to school in the autumn, surrounded by antique brick buildings and ancient elms? I turned to the very first page of Class Notes to see if the old boys— the really old boys—of Andover still felt the way I did. That’s when I noticed a submission by someone much farther in time from 01810 than I was, Keith F. Warren. Mr. Warren, secretary for the great Class of 1910, wrote about the last time Halley’s Comet had swung through our neighborhood of the universe. He and some of his classmates had climbed onto the rooftops at night to witness the phenomenon. I was amused that the rule breaking by those students— whose birthdates scraped the end of the 19th century—centered on something as quaint as star-gazing! A professor, appalled by their lack of preparation for recitations the next day, had scolded them thusly:

Andover | Winter 2015

“Comets may come and comets may go, but our work goes on forever!” The boy, now an old man, wrote: “I don’t know why I continue to write these notes, because I’m quite sure no one reads them. Full many a note is born to be unread and waste its substance on the printing house floor.” Though his impressions of Andover were still vivid, there was a defeated, deflated tone to his writing. Most of his classmates were no longer around to reminisce. Part of the Andover experience, I realized, was the joy in sharing it with friends, classmates, even strangers. How many times have we seen a familiar bumper sticker, baseball cap, or sweatshirt and been motivated to ask a stranger, “Which cluster were you in? Who was your American history teacher? How is the bell tower?” How quickly do the years melt away and what a strong bond forms with an erstwhile stranger when the commonalities begin to mount. “Pine Knoll? Me, too!” “Mr. Lyons? I loved him!” “Still ringing? Still ringing!” It tolls for us. Something clicked as I read Mr. Warren’s melancholy musings on his distant boyhood. I had to let him know that just because most of his classmates were gone, that did not mean his notes would land, unnoticed, on the printing house floor. I had to tell him that they had reached someone. I had to confide to him that they had reached me. So I sat right down and wrote him a letter. As I wrote, I thought about Andover, about how Ted Sizer had always carried an elegant ink pen in his pocket, about how Andover Blue the skies always seemed for the big game, no matter the outcome, about how the air wafted and was warped by the intense heat of

the large, burning wooden “A” at the bonfire the night before the game my lower year, about the handsome upper in a flannel shirt who had winked at me from the other side of that furious flame.

—from spring 1986 Andover Bulletin

I told the nonagenarian that I enjoyed his notes and felt a shared sensibility, even though we had never met. We became pen pals, that old boy and I, bound together by Andover and by the twice-ina-lifetime, 75-year perihelion of Halley’s Comet. He sent me a gift, a slim blue volume etched in gold, his autobiography. It is still on my bookshelf to this day. I read it and responded. We wrote back and forth until the day a letter came from his son informing me that my friend, with whom I had attended Andover seven decades apart, had died. I wrote back to his son, reminding myself that even this man was probably half a century older than I, and said how much the correspondence with his father had meant to me. We had been strangers with common ground, and that ground was Andover.

I was writing a paper for a summer course on Sallust, a Roman historian, and my search in the OWHL catalog returned an interesting hit shelved in “Sp. Col.” That turned out to be our Special Collections, housed in locked cabinets on the second floor of the library. One shelf held a 1526 edition of what purports to be a speech lambasting Cicero: Oratio contra Ciceronem. This winter, with help from Director of Archives and Special Collections Paige Roberts, my Latin 300 students will take a short break from reading Cicero to investigate this text, begin to learn how to decipher manuscript abbreviations, and undoubtedly relish its gratuitous digs at the mighty orator. They are already familiar with the aspects of Cicero’s character that emerge from his own speeches; the Oratio rounds out the picture by illuminating some contemporary criticism, and this helps shape the lens through which we read his oratory and interpret his political influence. I suspect that my students will respond with enthusiasm—and empathy—to the accusations of pomposity and verbosity, but I also expect that this exercise will ultimately whet their appetites for Cicero.

Andover | Winter 2015

Creativity & Innovation

Dear Mr. Warren, I wrote. Please do not think that your notes languished on the printing house floor. They landed in my mailbox and touched my heart. We are linked, you and I, and all Andover alumni, by the time we spent in that special place. Full many a comet may come and go, but we are connected not only by our work there, which does go on, but also by whatever drives us out into the cool night to observe the poetry of the skies. My senior year, we tumbled out of the dorm in our bathrobes and slippers to see an aurora borealis dance through the dark New England night. Our house counselor stood with us in perfect, silent wonder.

Catherine Carter Instructor, Classics

by Jane Dornbusch

Creativity is hard work. A muscle. Collaborative. Contemplative. Mental. Physical. It’s problem solving, discipline, practice, passion, and, only occasionally, a bolt from the blue. So said a group of extraordinary PA grads when asked about their creative processes and what makes them tick. From dancers to scientists to educators to American Ninja Warriors, these alumni are deeply engaged in tapping their own creativity and fostering the creativity of those around them—sometimes in unexpected ways. To fund his open-access studio, Nadeem Mazen ’02 helped create a video for Grammy Award–winning band OK Go that involved laser-cutting 3,000 pieces of toast. In the aftermath of the recent grand jury decision in Ferguson, dancer Graham Johns ’14 posted a video of the “I Been Buked” portion of Alvin Ailey’s “Revelations” on Facebook to express his thoughts on the events and add to the conversation. And Dorothy Cheney ’68 spent years doing fieldwork in Africa, trying to understand the inner workings of monkeys’ minds. Clearly, there’s no one way to be creative or to define what’s meant by “creativity.” But one clear consensus did emerge from our conversations: These alumni all agree that Andover helped lay the groundwork for whatever they’re engaged with today. “The fact that Andover encourages the real debate of ideas, with people taking different points of view—that is something so magical and unique,” says Momo Akade ’00. “That’s a tremendous gift Andover gives.” Creativity and innovation are among the tenets of the Academy’s new strategic plan, Connecting Our Strengths: The Andover Endeavor. It’s not just about finding new approaches to pedagogy, though that is paramount. It’s also about the ways in which an Andover education can encourage and nurture creativity. Meet six graduates for whom Andover pointed the way toward a lifetime of creativity and innovation. 32

Andover | Winter 2015

Dorothy Cheney ’68

“We were in a remote area of South Africa, and we had to wing it, coming up with ideas for research. It was inspiring and a huge amount of fun. I decided it was what I wanted to do.” She joined her future husband at the University of Cambridge, earning a doctorate in biology there. Cheney currently studies the baboons of the Okavango Delta in Botswana. She and her husband have written acclaimed books on primate behavior, including How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species and Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. As the titles suggest, the couple is deeply engaged in trying to understand the workings of animals’ minds. Figuring out just how to do that is a challenge.

The playback experiments embody the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that so often leads to scientific discovery. “Creativity, in science generally, is a huge component,” says Cheney. “I think you also have to really love what you’re doing and not care too much if it doesn’t translate immediately into big publications.”

Derek Jacoby Instructor, Music For a composer, the creative process can often be something of a mystery, a particular combination of inspiration, hard work, gut feelings, and experience. Having to articulate and defend aesthetic principles is not easy in an abstract language such as music. I have found that the act of teaching itself has served as a great inspiration for my compositional work, in the sense that it has most effectively made me better at my craft. Working with such bright students has compelled me to distill and organize my own thoughts on an abstract and subjective topic to a much greater extent. This necessary clarity, developed originally for the student, is invaluable when I apply it to my own music. Over time, it has given me a better understanding of music composition and of the application of creativity, which has allowed me to see my own compositional work in a clearer light.

Before Cheney and her husband began their work, she says, “the systematic observation of animals in the wild hadn’t been done.” The groundwork for pursuing a new and untried approach may have been laid at Abbot Academy. The late ’60s, she notes, were tumultuous times, and not always happy ones. “But one great thing about Abbot was that I never got the message I wasn’t expected to have a career. It wasn’t a finishing school,” she says. “To do well academically was seen as a worthy goal. That gives you the self-confidence to pursue risky ideas. In fact, the riskier the better—that was the impression I got.” ■

Andover | Winter 2015

Creativity & Innovation

ou might call Dorothy Cheney ’68 an accidental primatologist. Cheney, a University of Pennsylvania biologist whose work focuses on the communication and social behavior of non-human primates, came within a hair’s breadth of attending law school after graduating from Wellesley. “But my now-husband [Robert Seyfarth, with whom Cheney conducts research jointly] was studying primate behavior and was going to do field research,” says Cheney. “I thought I’d go with him, to take a break after college and before law school.

Early on, Cheney and Seyfarth came up with a series of “playback experiments” designed to mimic baboons’ social interactions. They recorded the calls and screams of various members of a particular baboon social group, then played them back in sequences and combinations that wouldn’t occur naturally. The baboons’ reactions provided insight into their social relationships, their hierarchies, and, yes, their minds. Cheney’s research has turned up key findings about baboons’ social networks—findings that have implications for understanding human social networks. “Watching them was like reading a Jane Austen novel,” she says.

Courtesy of GigaBryte

Courtesy of Echoing Green

development program that prepares talented minority students to attend independent schools (Brooklyn native Akade is herself a product of the Prep for Prep program). In each of those settings, Akade found that sneakers were a way to connect with her students.

Momo Akade ’00

She had a concept—creating an “augmented reality” app for her history students—but a classmate suggested she learn something about programming first. Hence, she found herself in that lecture hall, when lightning struck.

Thus was born GigaBryte, home to what’s probably the world’s first programmable sneaker. Akade knew she wanted to get kids, especially minority kids, hooked on programming early— preferably before they reached high school—and that to do so, she needed a platform that would really speak to their interests. Says Akade, “There were tons of children’s programming platforms out there, but I knew they wouldn’t appeal to everyone. They were robots or other traditional formats. My students were passionate about sneakers and sneaker design. I said, what if we could get them to do sneaker design and add a technology component? What if we see whether the crazy idea of programmable footwear could work as an education platform?” GigaBryte sneakers feature a light display that wearers can program to form various designs and patterns, learning basic coding in the process. Some 700 students have tested the shoes so far, and if all goes well, Akade hopes for a “public launch” by this summer.

“There were over 500 students there,” Akade recalls. “At Stanford, it’s all about creating with technology, and this class was the place to be. And as I looked around, I noticed there weren’t many kids who looked like me. There were lots of Asian and white students, but only a handful of black students and women. We were underrepresented. So I switched gears, because I thought this was a huge problem. I realized I wanted my students to create things, not just consume apps.”

It might seem a circuitous route—from history teacher to sneaker programmer—but Akade has tacked several times before, with a willingness to go wherever her interests and ideas carry her. She studied architecture for three years at Yale before realizing that her true interest was history. After Yale, she taught, first at Choate Rosemary Hall, then at the Dwight Englewood School; most recently, before grad school, she was dean of students and a history instructor at Prep for Prep, a leadership

hen Momo Akade ’00 had her aha moment, she was someplace she never expected to be: in a packed Stanford University lecture hall, attending a class on basic computer science. “I knew nothing about computers,” says Akade. “The class was life-changing,” she says—but not for the obvious reasons. At the time, Akade was a student in Stanford’s Learning, Design, and Technology Program, part of the Graduate School of Education. A history teacher, Akade says she had always been fascinated by technology, “but as a teacher, I wasn’t using it in ways that were effective. The program at Stanford was a year of looking at technology in education, at how to bring technology into the classroom.”

Andover | Winter 2015

So she had a concept; the next step was executing it. In this she was guided by what she describes as her “two creative modes.” The first is collaborative: “I love brainstorming in cross-disciplinary teams, in this case with a software and hardware engineer, an educator, a designer…. This helps me push my own thinking and allows me to come up with ideas outside my comfort zone.” The second is rather the opposite. Says Akade, “Some of my biggest breakthroughs on challenges have come in my down time, when I’m decompressing, out for a run or hiking…. I go between those two. It’s branching out, opening up, and letting others in, but it’s also focusing in and processing and synthesizing.” That, she says, is very much the way Andover worked for her, too. “When you look at PA, that’s what it’s designed to do. It’s a series of intense, sometimes combative, collaborations, followed by opportunities to decompress. By senior year, I could figure out when to collaborate and when to focus in and synthesize.” Ever the historian, Akade likens GigaBryte to a Trojan horse. “It’s something kids think is fun and cool,” she says, “but at the same time, they’re learning critical skills for the future.” Her plans include conducting coding workshops at sneaker stores—venues, she says, that function as de facto community centers for her target customers. Sneaker shop as classroom? Surprising, perhaps. But, as Akade certainly knows, inspiration has a way of striking in the most unexpected places. ■

Dariush Néjad

he first thing Nadeem Mazen ’02 did when he graduated from MIT was attempt to drive from England to China. The Mongol Rally is an annual fundraising event, and though he made it only as far as Kyrgyzstan, Mazen’s takeaway could easily serve as his life motto, too: “The journey is as important as the destination.”

Nadeem Mazen ’02

Not surprising, then, that when he returned to MIT for a graduate degree in neuroscience, he spent much of his time in the MIT Media Lab, working with 3D and laser printers. So exciting was the technology that, he says, “it was astonishing to me that it wasn’t in every school, on every street corner.” Never one to leave a problem unsolved, he launched danger!awesome, a Cambridge, Mass., open-access studio and “maker space” that puts those technologies within anyone’s

What Mazen loves about danger!awesome is its potential to help customers tap into their “innately human” creativity, he says. “[People] don’t make time to make and create, the way they’d make time for family or work.” Danger!awesome provides a framework for carving out that time. But Mazen’s creative ventures don’t end there. He’s also CEO of Nimblebot, an agency offering animation, video production, website design, and software programming. He says, “One of our mantras is we can do creative work for those least likely to be able to afford it, to tell their incredible stories.” As such, clients have included nonprofits and social justice organizations. Mazen’s latest foray takes him in an entirely different direction: Recently, he was elected a Cambridge city councilor. He was surprised by the win—a rarity, he says, for a first-time candidate. And even in the prosaic world of politics, he sees a place for creativity: “[My win] was a statement about creative approaches to social justice problems.... There’s plenty of room for innovation.”

Christina Landolt ’02 Instructor, Music I am most inspired by the students who look me in the eye and say, “I don’t want to be here.” Most often what they mean is that their previous experience studying music was focused on a style of music they disliked and that they’re not thrilled at the idea of being graded on a subject in which they believe one is either gifted or not. Yet when I ask what they listened to on their iPhones on the way to class, every one of them has an answer. Then we have a way to begin. This fall, it was Taylor Swift. You can’t imagine my joy when, at Family Weekend, a mother told me that her daughter had interrupted their conversation in the car to crank up Taylor Swift’s newest single in order to explain to her mother exactly how auto-tuning and upbeat synthesized drums had helped Taylor transition into a “pop” artist—something we had discussed on the first day of class. My favorite part of this job is convincing students that they do have a voice in music, that their observations are valid, and that they can cultivate their listening skills into a more sophisticated opinion about the aesthetics of the musical world around them. The excitement for me as a teacher is that accomplishing this goal will require me to find a different path for each and every student.

If Mazen seems to do more than any 10 people, he might have PA to thank. The most successful creative people, he contends, “just love working hard, in a way few others can.” Being at Andover, he says, gave him early, invaluable experience in multitasking. “Andover is where I learned how to work hard,” he says. And, perhaps, learned to enjoy the journey, too. ■

Andover | Winter 2015

Creativity & Innovation

Mazen has never hewed to expected paths. As an undergraduate, he studied engineering. But he also found time to learn about film and video, study in Egypt, work for social justice causes, join the Muslim Students’ Association, and pursue an interest in global development. “My most creative moments happened outside the classroom. I kind of dabbled in everything I could,” he says.

reach. Customers can collaborate with staff or learn to use the equipment themselves. Projects that have come out of the studio range from leaves etched with lines of poetry to laser-engraved shoes.

n his senior year at PA, Graham Johns ’14 decided to defer his admission to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in order to accept a position in the trainee program at Boston Ballet.

onathan Franzen’s 2010 novel Freedom garnered a bit of controversy, earned varied critical responses, won a spot on Oprah’s Book Club list—and, perhaps unexpectedly, inspired a dance about the collapse of the planet and the struggle to make the world sustainable. But then, Sayer Mansfield ’10, who created that dance while a student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, finds inspiration in surprising places. Dance, she says, is not just about executing moves. “There’s a kind of open, passionate, curious mind that has to be present in every moment,” says Mansfield. “Dance really is about being here now.”

Igor Burlak

Johns was chosen for the program on the strength of his January 2014 audition for Boston Ballet’s “summer intensive” program. Like many young people who aspire to dance professionally, Johns had been participating in such summer programs for years. But to be asked so early in the process to stay on after the summer is, as he says, “a big thing.”

Mansfield’s creativity and her dance chops are currently being stretched and challenged in her role as dance apprentice at Pilobolus Dance Theater, the acclaimed modern-dance troupe based in Washington, Conn. Mansfield landed the coveted one-year apprenticeship last spring (the first female dancer to do so), beating out hundreds of other aspirants. Pilobolus is known for its quirky, mind- (and body-) bending style, as well as its high-profile collaborations with partners ranging from Art Spiegelman to Maurice Sendak to MIT’s Distributed Robotics Lab. Mansfield gives Andover at least some of the credit for helping her through the grueling audition process.

Most of Johns’s fellow trainees were so immersed in dance

Graham Johns ’14

The demands of the trainee program have, at times, left him footsore and drained. But to Johns, hard work, discipline, and creativity are inextricably linked. Pondering just what “creativity” means in a field as bound by tradition and structure as ballet, Johns notes that at the highest levels, dance is not simply the execution of choreography. “Once you reach a certain threshold of technique, it’s fully about your expressiveness: how your body looks, your face and head and neck and shoulders, and the speed of your little movements. It’s not just how good your turnout is or how high you can lift your leg or how many pirouettes you can do.” Toward that end, he’s reminded of something Martha Graham once wrote. “She said that [creativity] is like a muscle, like a tool. You come into the studio every day and train your mind to be able to be creative. It’s not inherent, but something you work toward. That’s how you find new things—that’s how dance is creative.” ■

Andover | Winter 2015

Travis Magee

from a young age that they completed high school online to accommodate their rigorous schedules. Seeking a broader experience, Johns instead chose Andover. At PA, he says, “I surrounded myself with dance—which is very possible, if you want to do it.” Though he knew that attending Andover might leave him behind his peers as a dancer, he has no regrets about taking an atypical path: “I wouldn’t change what I did for anything. I’m a different person for having gone there, in terms of maturity, intellect, book smarts…and I understand dance better, sort of from a higher perspective.”

“I made it to the final cut and was asked a lot of cool questions,” Mansfield recalls—questions not so much about dance but about love and challenges and travel experiences. “When they were interviewing me,” she says, “it was ‘full Sayer,’ not just ‘dancer Sayer.’ At that moment, I was exceptionally grateful for Andover, because I’d been thrown into a fierce fire at PA that took me beyond the studio.”

Sayer Mansfield ’10 As an apprentice at Pilobolus, Mansfield wears many hats: She teaches, performs, practices with the company, plays an understudy role, works on the administrative side, and contributes to the company’s collaborative choreography process. That Pilobolus is one of the more cerebral dance companies around is only a plus for Mansfield. “Pilobolus needed me to bring both brain and body,” she says. “They are asking so much of me—in the best way possible.” ■

David Becker/NBC

Tom Hodgson Instructor and Interim Chair, Philosophy and Religious Studies

MattHEW Wilder ’97

“L

ooks very good there on the Warped Wall,” intones American Ninja Warriors (ANW ) host Matt Iseman as contestant Matt Wilder ’97, apparently using nothing but momentum, balance, and strength, launches himself up the side of a 20-foot-high curved wall. When Wilder reaches the platform at the top and pauses briefly to gesture in triumph, Iseman proclaims, “Hey, he’s playing to the crowd! The PhD is enjoying it!”

As his ANW sobriquet suggests, Wilder came to it through climbing. He’s spent years as a professional climber, competing on a national level. Although he first caught the climbing bug at summer camp, the interest was nurtured at Andover. “I learned a lot about the sport at Andover through peers and faculty who were into climbing,” he says. At PA, he became very involved in Search & Rescue (now known as Outdoor Pursuits ; see page 42); Russian instructor Vic Svec, says Wilder, “did a climbing-specific S&R” that further focused Wilder’s interest. “They’re very open to fostering the passions of the students [at Andover],” Wilder observes. “That’s one of the special things about the school.” Wilder submitted an audition tape to ANW in February 2014, figuring he had an unusual and

In ways that may not be immediately obvious, creativity plays a crucial role in both of Wilder’s professional pursuits. “I think of climbing as a problem-solving framework,” he says. “You’re faced with some challenge or obstacle, and you need to figure out how to get through it.… If you open your mind to alternative solutions, you can find an easier, more efficient, or more reliable way, and all those things factor into success.” Wilder brings creative problem-solving to bear in his other job, too. “The problems we’re facing [at Sensory, Inc.] are unconstrained; they’re ones that haven’t been answered. Whenever you face those types of problems, you have to open your mind to all sorts of different approaches and really be creative in what you try,” says Wilder. Watching him navigate the obstacles on ANW, a viewer can sense him undergoing a similar process of choosing the best solution from among many. He could be describing either vocation when he says, “Sometimes the problem itself is open-ended. You don’t necessarily know what path you’re going to take or what the final results will be.” And, concludes this ninja scientist who thrives on solving problems, “That’s the exciting part.” ■

Andover | Winter 2015

Creativity & Innovation

Yes, he is. As Wilder—a.k.a. Dr. Climb—flings himself through the series of gravity-defying, gasp-inducing obstacles during the TV competition’s Denver finals round, there’s no place he’d rather be. “It’s the ultimate playground for adults who like that sort of thing,” says Wilder. He appeared in the show’s sixth season in 2014 and hopes to compete again this year.

compelling profile. That’s where the “Dr.” part of “Dr. Climb” comes in: In addition to being a professional climber, Wilder holds a doctoral degree in computer science. He’s an expert in machine learning and cognitive modeling who works as a research scientist at Sensory, Inc., in Boulder, Colo.; his focus is on computer vision technology.

All truth is simple? Wouldn’t it be nice. But no, that can’t be right: Complete experience? One accurate, adequate, comprehensible, coherent set of concepts? A language perfectly suited to capture it all? No way. Lies all, illusions, dreams to put thought to sleep at the end of long days of struggle for survival, for control, for recognition, for Justice. Another way? Question. A few [Kant-inspired questions] to start with: What can I know? For what can I hope? How shall I act? What is a human being? Find your own. Search the past for answers. Test them against direct personal experience, shared experience guided by method, logic, rational discourse about what is important. Turn today’s best answers into policies in a life, in a classroom, in an institution. ReThink, ReAct, Repeat.

Framing The Future of the Addison Gallery A Conversation with Judith F. Dolkart

by Lori L. Ferguson Judith F. Dolkart is not shy, not afraid to make decisions, and not one to waste time. Shortly after arriving on campus as The Mary Stripp and R. Crosby Kemper Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art, she launched “In the Air,” an initiative through which she and her staff identify timely issues and then select objects from the collection that respond to them. The first offering was “Back to School,” an installation that challenged viewers to think about how, where, and from whom they learn—and also reminded them that access to education has, in many instances, been hard fought. The next installation in the series will focus on immigration. “We won’t be taking a position on the matter,” explains Dolkart, “but rather saying ‘Look at some of the ways that artists have addressed this issue in the past.’ It’s important to be reminded that our struggles with these issues are not confined to the present, but rather are topics that artists, and the public at large, have confronted repeatedly.”

Dave White

Andover | Winter 2015

Artists play an active role in shaping our views, Dolkart points out, because they’re not only reporting history, they’re also interpreting it—and even making it. “Artists are putting forth their own ideas, and their views inevitably color their output, whether they are creating landscapes, portraits, or abstract art,” she observes. “This diversity of viewpoints in turn offers a multitude of occasions for dialogue.”

Donald Slater Instructor, History & Social Science; Research Scholar, Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology

Dolkart came to Andover from The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, where she served as deputy director of Art and Archival Collections and Gund Family Chief Curator. She took up her duties at the Addison last July and immediately dove headlong into the process of learning more about the gallery’s role on campus and in the community and formulating ways in which it can become even more relevant.

Jamie Kaplowitz

“Being able to participate in defining the Addison, not only with respect to Phillips Academy but also as an American art gallery, is incredibly appealing. Since being appointed director, I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of American art museums in this country, particularly because my specialty is European art,” says Dolkart. “I’ve been considering questions like, ‘What is this country? How is it represented? What does it mean to be an American?’ I find these to be rich topics for exploration, particularly in an academic setting like Andover. Here, we can think innovatively about what and how we learn, and the gallery’s collection can be used as a lens through which to interpret our world.”

Like many people at Andover, at times I feel overwhelmed because I am captivated by such a variety of interests. I think, however, that there is one connecting thread that runs through the majority of my intellectual pursuits: material culture. Things. Stuff. For me, it is not the modern consumerist perspective that is interesting, but rather seeing objects as things that, like people, can have constantly evolving biographies. Material culture items can change hands, be involved in social interactions, and are modified, saved, and discarded—all the while accruing cultural, historical, emotional, and even spiritual value as interpreted by different people at different times. Most fascinating to me, perhaps, is that within some cultures such items even transcend the mundane category of “object” and are seen as “subjects” or active social agents. As an archaeologist, using material items to help students better relate to the history and social science curriculum feels natural. And with the Addison Gallery, Peabody Museum, and Archives, Andover has perhaps the most impressive collection of material culture at any U.S. high school. Where else could I take students to connect with a silver cast by Paul Revere, an original 1661 Eliot Bible, and ancient Maya ceramics—all without leaving campus?

In early fall, Judith Dolkart met with the Addison Community Ambassadors, a student community service group that is exploring how people learn in and through museums and developing ideas for the use of social media to enhance museum teaching and learning. Andover | Winter 2015

Creativity & Innovation

“One of the three pillars of Andover’s new Strategic Plan is creativity and innovation, which dovetails beautifully with the mission of an art gallery,” says Dolkart. “Joining the Addison at this juncture allows me to align our goals with those of Phillips Academy.” The Addison had initiated its own strategic planning process, notes Dolkart, but this was paused when her predecessor,

Brian Allen, accepted the directorship at the New-York Historical Society. She is now recommencing the process and feels the timing couldn’t be better.

Jamie Kaplowitz

“Art is magical; it has the power to transform.” During Family Weekend in October, Judith Dolkart led tours of the Lorna Simpson exhibition.

Dolkart’s initial experiment with “In the Air” has been warmly received by teachers on campus as well as the surrounding community, and she is intent on identifying other ways to draw visitors to the gallery. For the moment, however, she’s grateful to have a number of exhibition projects already developed and in the pipeline.

identities shape experiences in the world and art’s role in challenging these assumptions. She concluded her visit by reviewing self-portrait projects created by Academy students in an advanced studio art class.

Dolkart also is enthusiastic about the Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence program, which brings artists to campus each year to engage students and the community. Documentary photographer Lorna Simpson was the most recent artist to visit campus, offering a lecture to a packed house one night and the next day delivering lectures on her work to high school photography students from Lawrence and Andover. Simpson then joined an Academy English class to discuss how gender, race, class, and other social

The Museum Learning Center is another resource Dolkart appreciates. “Although frequently scheduled, students also use the MLC as a quiet place to do their work,” she explains, “and I’m absolutely thrilled by that. Every time they enter the Addison, there’s the possibility for them to have a chance encounter with artwork, which may affect their educational process in some way.”

“It’s so important for people to understand that artists are a part of the world and respond to it in a multitude of Although still settling in, Dolkart is ways,” observes Dolkart. “The Elson already keenly aware of the tremendous Artist-in-Residence program is a longresources at her disposal and the wealth standing offering here at Andover, and it’s of possibilities they represent. She notes, absolutely terrific. Students relish their for example, that each year students in interactions with the artists, and members Art 300 have the chance to plan and mount of the surrounding communities benefit their own exhibition in the Museum tremendously as well.” Addison Student Learning Center (MLC). “Students must Ambassador Sarah Schmaier ’16 confirms think about what objects to present, how this assertion. “When I spoke with Lorna, to present them, and how to identify the I could tell that she really cares about what narrative that informs them. They explore she’s doing. It was very powerful to speak the challenges of interpretation and with the actual artist after all the time I had experience the satisfaction inherent spent around her work with the Addison’s to object-based learning.” curators and other ambassadors.”

Andover | Winter 2015

No one is more enthusiastic about Dolkart’s ability to achieve her goals than

Head of School John Palfrey. “Judith brings the sophistication that comes with working in some of the art world’s most important museums along with the sensibilities of a teacher,” says Palfrey. “I can’t wait to see what she and her excellent staff will do to tie the Addison’s work in to day-to-day teaching and learning at Phillips Academy, and how she will develop the collection and share the gallery’s works with the rest of the world. Judith is just the right person to lead the Addison at this moment in its history.”

The benefits of integrated, object-based learning are well recognized, explains Dolkart, and drawing upon material culture adds a powerful component to the educational process. “Students learn differently—some visually, others audibly— and communicating information through a complex yet integrated array can be a potent teaching tool.” Dolkart hopes the American exploration project will be the Addison’s first collaboration with the recently formed Tang Institute, a campus initiative that encourages team-based project work, global connectivity, and hands-on experimentation (see page 22).

Andover alumni are yet another constituency that Dolkart hopes to cultivate more actively. She has already talked with members of the Office of Academy Resources about ways to enhance alumni interactions with the Addison during reunions and is seeking ways to have more ongoing interactions with alumni in the area. “Many alums enjoy coming back and seeing their favorite works in the Addison during reunions,” says Dolkart, “but it would be equally wonderful to create some new favorites for them to enjoy.” One idea that Dolkart is exploring: creating a compendium of alumni memories involving the Addison. “Art is magical; it has the power to transform,” Dolkart concludes. “There’s something very special about the wonder of an encounter with an object. One can certainly take an intellectual approach to art, but it’s important to remember that you can approach art emotionally as well. I hope that students depart Andover having had both experiences. If every student has at least one meaningful interaction with the Addison, I’ll have done my job.”

Lixia Ma Instructor and Chair, Chinese Learning a foreign language not only opens a door to another culture, another world, it also creates a new identity and perspective. I personally went through that amazing journey while learning English at a young age, and I relish the opportunity to share the excitement of such a journey by teaching my students Chinese. From imitating the sounds, copying the characters, piecing together a sentence, students are on their way to creating brand-new worlds of their own in a different language. However, at this stage they can’t be too creative yet; what they do is follow what teachers say and what native speakers say. And when writing characters, they have to copy them stroke by stroke and get the whole word right. Once they have the basics, they are able to freely express their thoughts in creative sentences or start to create their own writing style. I view the relationship between foundational knowledge and creativity as a coexistent entity; one without the other will be meaningless, if not useless. As a teacher, I am constantly striking a balance of the two. Have I given my students the nuts and bolts, and have I also left enough blank space for them to create their own masterpieces?

Lori L. Ferguson is a freelance writer based in southern New Hampshire. She enjoys writing on lifestyle topics as well as all things artistic.

Andover | Winter 2015

Creativity & Innovation

Dolkart is deeply grateful for the support she has received from all corners of campus. “Everyone wants the gallery to be a place that’s creative and experimental,” she says. Dolkart is not likely to disappoint. For starters, she would love to spearhead an interdisciplinary project that, drawing upon resources from across the Academy, looks at the exploration of America through the lens of history, art history, archaeology, science, and literature. “Using the Academy’s diverse collections—including archaeological materials from the Peabody Museum and the incredible Knafel Map Collection—I think we could explore a vast expanse of time using a rich, interdisciplinary approach.”

“The possibilities for collaboration between the Addison Gallery and the Tang Institute offer exciting promise in terms of building upon the gallery’s rich history of connected learning and of engaging diverse audiences, both near and far, in creative and inventive ways,” observes Tang Institute Director Caroline Nolan. “The approach of the Addison resonates with many of the early Institute modes, particularly around supporting teachers and students as they experiment with and draw connections between a variety of learning contexts, tools, and approaches.”

Years of Expeditionary Learning—and Counting! by Mark Cutler This school year marks the 50th anniversary of a legendary Andover program—Search & Rescue (S&R). Known as Outdoor Pursuits since 2010, Phillips Academy’s version of Outward Bound has been changing lives since the visionary duo of Headmaster John Kemper and faculty member Joshua Miner introduced expeditionary learning to the PA campus in 1964. Amazingly, the program has endured a half-century of change in the industries of outdoor education and risk management—narrowly avoiding its demise on more than one occasion— and has remained thoroughly relevant through the ages.

healthy physical exercise that also was good for mind and soul. However, after a yearlong experiment with The Break, the inertness of tradition proved insurmountable. Such a sweeping change, it appeared, might limit the Academy’s “eminence on the athletic field, its Andover way of doing things,” lamented Miner. Ultimately, he said, faculty were “not in search of innovation.” The Break did leave a mark on the Academy’s physical education program

by introducing the now staple drownproofing. It also paved the way for Miner to weave additional elements of Hahn’s educational philosophy into the fabric of Andover life—specifically in the form of expeditionary learning via the Outward Bound method. This influence inspired Miner to institute a novel experiential outdoor program at Andover that he called Search & Rescue. THE GOOD OLD DAYS

Within two years, the S&R name had become an anachronism, in the view of former S&R director Nat Smith. “We were still looking at Outward Bound as a model, but increasingly just for exercises, not [to form] a search and rescue team,” says Smith. As Outward Bound and S&R matured, the freethinking attitudes of the ’60s and ’70s compelled innovation and limit-pushing in Andover’s program. Alumni remember scaling “The Wall”; exploring subterranean tunnels that linked distant sectors of campus; running to Holt Hill and the Shawsheen River; glissading

ORIGINS

In 1981, Miner wrote in Outward Bound USA: Crew Not Passengers that, prior to conceiving S&R or Outward Bound USA, he had hoped to replicate at Andover a program called The Break, which he had learned about from German educator, philosopher, and Outward Bound–founder Kurt Hahn while on the faculty at Gordonstoun in Scotland in the 1950s. Miner believed The Break would counter PA’s competitive culture by pitting Andover boys not against one another and their interscholastic rivals, but against themselves in 1973 42

Andover | Winter 2015

Many graduates share vivid memories of S&R’s crisis simulations, particularly those staged from atop Memorial Bell Tower. These exercises entailed lowering the “injured” over the balustrade approximately 100 feet back to the ground using equipment and rope systems that, by today’s standards, were crude. Rappelling and rock climbing were still new sports back then and, for that reason, “caught the imagination of the [community] the most,” says Gary Meller ’68.

Hiking Mt. Lafayette in New Hampshire, 1975; photo by Peter Wyman ’75

been an S&R operation, Benedict concluded by writing, “[The residents] would like to be informed in advance of such strange and ominous undertakings calculated to stir the apprehensions of the citizenry! I hope you will find ways and means of doing so.”

in winter down a glacial escarpment at Pomp’s Pond; partaking in three-day solo wilderness expeditions; and challenging themselves to survive with nothing but a live rabbit, a pot, and some matches.

This activity, and perhaps others for which S&R was becoming notorious, excited the students but also provoked a bit of controversy among Academy administrators. In April 1966, Dean G. Grenville Benedict wrote a pithy memo to Jerry Pieh, then director of S&R, in response to a recent incident witnessed by residents of Dascomb Road in Andover; they had seen boys being dumped from a car at the edge of the woods. Assuming it must have

COMING OF AGE

In spring 1971, Kemper published a letter to the PA community to assuage anxiety over the liberalization and democratization of the school, including increased freedom and inevitable coeducation. He highlighted programs that could “offset the corrosiveness of the phenomena which concern” families, citing S&R as one that would “instill confidence and compassion in our students.” As the Academy revised its operational ethos and merged with Abbot, S&R gained a reputation as one of the most egalitarian “sports” offered at Andover, one in which students and faculty of all backgrounds participated in the same activities and collaborated in fully complementary roles.

I’m inspired by how many different ways there are to teach and how different the kids are from one another and from me. In a class with 15 students, there are 15 new lenses on Goodbye Columbus or Fences or Midnight’s Children, and I never know what they will be. We’re all constantly learning from one another, and the students keep teaching me how to teach them. In my senior elective on postcolonial India this fall, the discussion on language and power that I introduced at the beginning of the term became more resonant for all of us because my students who are bilingual or who come from multilingual countries kept pursuing it. One student’s focus on feminism in the novel pushed past my own engagement with the female characters and provoked great discussion that was sustained because it mattered so much to her. Teaching seems to be a job where there is no “enough”: You’re never done. I find that humbling but also a great challenge, an intellectual one and a social one. When students and I find points of contact between a text, one another, and our lives inside and outside the class—our homes, our families, a French class, an economics lecture—it feels magical. That’s when the kids are excited to share but equally excited to listen and learn. When we get it right as a class, it’s amazing. I know we made it happen together, and I was the smallest part of that.

Students consistently have found a level playing field in S&R and Outdoor Pursuits, perhaps nowhere more than on the bell tower. Lydia Goetze, S&R instructor from 1980 to 1995 and director for three years, Andover | Winter 2015

Creativity & Innovation

One memorable S&R tradition was the Night Drop Off, an orienteering exercise, in which students evaded their “enemy” (faculty members patrolling in vans and other passersby) as they made their way from a faraway location back to campus in the dark, with nothing but a rudimentary map of the area that did not disclose their starting point. Gary Meller ’68 recalls: “In order to get home, we had to find the road, but in order not to get caught, we had to dive into the bushes every time a car came by. Since this was a Friday night, there were a lot of cars on the road, and we made very slow progress back toward the school. I think the last person arrived sometime Saturday morning.”

Though this episode may have been a small blip on the screen, there is no escaping the real risks and consequences of rugged adventure. In winter 1969, the program suffered a tragic loss when Mark Larner ’69 died in a freak accident while descending Mt. Adams. “Today, such an event would destroy a program,” says Faculty Emeritus Vic Henningsen ’69, a good friend of Larner’s and an S&R student leader at the time. “But such was the culture of the time—both nationally and at the Academy—that S&R continued. Two weeks later, classmate Jim McGinnis and I led a group of eight lowers on a long climb of Mt. Washington via the Boott Spur and Lion Head trails.”

Stephanie Curci Instructor, English

Vic Henningsen ’69 on Search & Rescue My first encounter with Search & Rescue (S&R ) came in fall 1965, when, as a ninthgrader, I volunteered to be a “victim” in a rescue drill and was lowered out of a second-floor Sam Phil window in a stretcher. I took winter S&R as a lower and became a student leader (the first!) as an upper. In those days, Andover was still a farm town with lots of open country, and students knew little of the surrounding area—we could leave campus to go downtown only twice a week; we could leave on a day or overnight excuse twice a term. Hence, even venturing somewhere as close as Holt Hill or Pomp’s Pond was exploring terra incognita. For a number of us, S&R was literally a way of escaping a highly restrictive Academy culture for an afternoon or a weekend. The program attracted a varied assortment: outdoor enthusiasts, artists, musicians, actors, and others who found daily life at school chafing. Nat Smith was the director, and a more gifted educator and leader I have yet to meet. Nat and S&R kept more than one unhappy student from abandoning PA. It’s a pleasure, and a bit of a surprise, to see that the program has endured. Its survival reflects how 1966 it has astutely adapted to changes in school and student culture. In the ’60s and ’70s, the program’s uncertainty was what made it successful: No one asked what time S&R students would be back because they knew it depended entirely on the challenges the day brought. Today’s overly scheduled youth wouldn’t sign up for such a situation, nor would today’s risk managers permit many of what were for us routine activities. But I expect that a significant amount of challenge as well as the sense of accomplishment and the camaraderie we enjoyed in the old days remain very much present in Outdoor Pursuits. If they didn’t, the program would have collapsed years ago. I wasn’t much of an athlete, but I was an active hiker and backpacker and S&R looked like a natural fit. In those days, Cochran Chapel and Sam Phil bells regulated our lives, so I liked showing up for S&R every afternoon with absolutely no sense of what was about to happen to me for the next few

Andover | Winter 2015

hours—knowing that making my afternoon class would depend entirely on my own and my group’s ingenuity in getting ourselves out of whatever situation Nat Smith created to challenge us. It was an injection of glorious unpredictability in an otherwise grimly predictable life. And I truly enjoyed the people who took S&R in those days, folks I don’t think I would have come to know in any other way. When I returned to the program as a faculty member, further developing student leadership was a priority. In those still highly structured times, the partnership that formed between student leaders and faculty instructors was quite unusual. We handed student leaders significant responsibilities— quite empowering for those so chosen—and they handled it well. For some, it was their defining Andover experience. I learned much from the pedagogy of S&R : Set a challenge and let a group of students figure out how to meet it with only minimal advice (largely safety-related) from the adult. S&R was one of Andover’s early “studentcentered” educational endeavors, and I’m sure that approach to education in the field significantly influenced my own classroom teaching. My S&R experience certainly influenced other aspects of my early career, which included a number of tours as a seasonal park ranger in northern Vermont and four years as director of Harvard’s Freshman Outdoor Program when I was doing my doctorate there in the ’80s. By the time I returned to Andover in 1985, I’d been leading groups in the mountains for 20 years and decided it was time to retire from the “mountain business.” Since then, all of my outdoor activities—and there are many—have been solo ventures. But I retain fond memories of—and great respect for— Andover’s wonderful program. Vic Henningsen ’69, instructor emeritus in history and social science, was an S&R student leader (1967–1969), S&R instructor (1974–1979), and S&R director (1976–1979).

describes the experience of three young men who had signed up to see whether they could overcome their fear of heights. When it came time to rappel, she says, the boys expressed a sense of urgency. “Tie me down—NOW!” they said as they stepped onto the balcony. The first two made it down with the group’s help, but the third, despite his best attempt to initiate the descent, stood in tears for 20 minutes. The next day he returned for another shot and immediately lowered himself over the edge. Thousands of students and faculty have made their mark on S&R throughout the past five decades, and the program has been shepherded by passionate directors: Pieh, Smith, Barry Crook, Henningsen, Henry Wilmer ’63, Goetze, Ed Germain, and Christopher Shaw ’78. [And now Mark Cutler, who took the reins in 2003. Ed.] In 1978, the family of now-Trustee George Ireland ’74 created an endowment that saved S&R from extinction by detaching it from the purse strings of the Academy. Likewise, the Abbot Academy Association has funded training for faculty, installation of challenge course elements, and construction of a climbing wall named in honor of Josh Miner that has reinvigorated campuswide interest in rock climbing. EVOLVING BUT NOT WAVERING

What is it that continues to draw students into courses like S&R in the 21st century? For Sally Manikian ’00, now backcountry specialist for the Appalachian Mountain Club, it was the opportunity to be outside of the standard Andover environment, with people who valued quirks and suspended judgment. “It was that I often returned to my dorm slightly dirty and sometimes bruised from the bumps and scrapes of climbs,” Manikian says. “It was that the way of leading came

Kurt Hahn’s 10 Principles of Expeditionary Learning

naturally to me, a facilitative leadership whereby you set up scenarios for the success of others in pursuit of a greater whole. It was the fact that our time together was spent amid trees, open air, and silence.”

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

The primacy of self-discovery The having of wonderful ideas The responsibility for learning Empathy and caring Success and failure Collaboration and competition Diversity and inclusion The natural world Solitude and reflection Service and compassion

Anna Harrison ’13 found that “being able to push my limits and make decisions under pressure has made me a much more confident and successful person and student.” Now in her second year at Georgia Tech, she is serving as an outdoor instructor, building on many of the skills she acquired as an S&R participant and Outdoor Pursuits student leader. In 2010, S&R adopted the more descriptive name of Outdoor Pursuits to reflect modern trends and Academy initiatives, and updated its mission statement:

While no longer offering many of the quintessential S&R activities, Outdoor Pursuits has remained true to its foundational precepts in the Hahnian vein and continues to impact students’ lives in meaningful ways. The program has stepped up its commitment to leadership development with a fully integrated Senior Outdoor Leadership Opportunity (S.O.L.O.), in which student veterans of Outdoor Pursuits engage as colleagues with faculty instructors to plan and execute Outdoor Pursuits activities. Two outdoor leadership awards are offered to S.O.L.O.

MOVING FORWARD

Miner opened the door to new ways of thinking about educating the whole student when he brought The Break to Andover. As Henningsen surmises, “Today’s Outdoor Pursuits is worlds different from the S&R I took as a student and directed as a young faculty member but is no less successful for that difference.” Expeditionary learning is a modality that PA is now willing to embrace on a larger scale, as evidenced by a resurgence of global programming, the launch of the Tang Institute, and a new Strategic Plan that has some distinct similarities to Hahn’s 10 principles (see above). As Andover seeks innovative means of teaching and learning in the 21st century, let us embrace the past as we anticipate the future and prepare our students to be expeditionary thinkers and doers.

Thayer Zaeder ’83 Instructor, Art In my own experiences as a teacher and an artist, inspiration comes in many forms and from many sources. It is never a static thing. Sometimes I am inspired by the work of my students as they express themselves with a boldness that I find refreshing. Other times I’m moved by the work of contemporary artists, ancient artifacts and pots, or the complex beauty in the natural world. As fickle as inspiration can be, I return often to a few core ideas that always fuel my interest in creative exploration. As an object maker and someone involved in a 30-year affair with clay, I’m forever trying to discover vessel forms that have appealing proportions and shape. My love of the material of clay also motivates me to celebrate its tactile qualities through an exploration of surface. Somehow marrying form and surface into a compelling and well-crafted object is my inspirational ground zero. I also believe strongly that inspiration is a natural by-product of thoughtful inquiry and endeavor in the studio. I discover so many good ideas simply by doing and being open to the possibilities that are suggested through process. For me personally, the alternatives that emerge are often better than the seed idea. As an art instructor, I try to pass on this wisdom—that inspiration can be found rather than divined.

Mark Cutler, a PA faculty member since 2003, recently launched an interdisciplinary course rooted in Outdoor Pursuits with colleague Christine Marshall-Walker (see page 15). Along with teaching Spanish and directing Outdoor Pursuits, Cutler is also a house counselor in Fuess House and codirects the HUACA Project in Peru. He and wife Melanie have two daughters and a large dog.

Like the Phillips Academy S&R/Outdoor Pursuits Facebook page to receive updates and share your own stories.

Andover | Winter 2015

Creativity & Innovation

In Outdoor Pursuits, students are encouraged to push their limits both physically and mentally in a variety of outdoor settings, while honing their skills in leadership, teamwork, environmental stewardship, and global citizenship. In the tradition of Kurt Hahn, we seek to learn while doing, and develop ourselves and each other not just for the outdoors but also through the outdoors.

participants and rising seniors, including the Barron Family Outdoor Leadership Award, which extends a full scholarship to participate in a Hurricane Island Outward Bound School course. Award recipients are immersed in the principles of expeditionary learning in the wild and return to Andover with the credentials to infuse aspects of that philosophy back into Outdoor Pursuits and other leadership opportunities at the Academy.

2014 Andover Alumni Award of Distinction Photos by Gil Talbot

The third annual Andover Alumni Award of Distinction (AAAD) presentations were held at All-School Meeting in Cochran Chapel on November 5, 2014. Susan Goodwillie Stedman ’59, John T. Darnton ’60, and Clemency Chase Coggins ’51 (pictured above) spoke about their varied career paths and Abbot Academy and Phillips Academy memories. Later, they visited classrooms and met with various student groups. The AAAD honors alumni of Phillips Academy and Abbot Academy who have served with distinction in their fields of endeavor and strives to connect students with these inspirational role models.

Andover | Winter 2015

Susan Goodwillie Stedman ’59

Civil Rights Activist, Educator, and Author After graduating from Stanford, Susan Goodwillie Stedman ’59 worked for the National Women’s Committee for Civil Rights and soon became executive assistant to Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women. During the tumultuous summer of 1964, she volunteered to work in Mississippi on a secret project. “Wednesdays in Mississippi” brought together black and white Northern and

Southern women to help ease racial tensions. Stedman later tackled international economic and social justice issues at the U.N. and with the Ford Foundation in West Africa. As head of the Goodwillie Group, she was an advisor to USAID, the U.N., and various NGOs. In the mid-1980s, she was named Refugees International’s first executive director. “We cannot know ourselves until we open ourselves to those who are different from us,” Stedman told

the student audience. “When we do, our souls expand, lights go on, we get it.” Caroline Lu ’15 (pictured at left) introduced Stedman. “She is phenomenally accomplished yet extremely humble,” says Lu. “I was inspired by her fearlessness and her choice to yield her privilege as a means to achieve social progress.” Stedman currently serves as board president of the Abbot Academy Association.

John T. Darnton ’60

New York Times Foreign Correspondent and Author Award-winning journalist and best-selling author John T. Darnton ’60 spent nearly 50 years—his entire career— with the New York Times. In 1979, Darton received his first George Polk Award in journalism for his coverage— while based in Nairobi—of the civil war in Rhodesia, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, and the fall of Uganda’s Idi Amin. As Warsaw bureau chief, he received his second Polk Award—and

the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting—for his coverage of the rise of the Solidarity movement and the imposition of martial law. At All-School Meeting, Darnton revealed that he was expelled from Andover just three months short of graduation. Although at first he saw himself as “a largely innocent victim,” he says he later gained considerably more perspective and is grateful for Andover’s talented teachers and the lifelong skills he acquired. “Life is serendipitous, and events that may seem insupportable

at the time may turn out to have a positive side,” he told students. “Never despair.” Phillipian Editor in Chief Jamie Chen ’15 (pictured at left) was riveted by Darnton’s many anecdotes, which included barely escaping imprisonment in Africa and smuggling copies of his stories out of Warsaw. “When he visited the Phillipian newsroom, he charmed our board with jokes and words of support,” says Chen. “He was inspiring and eloquent but so down-to-earth.”

Clemency Chase Coggins ’51

Art Historian, Maya Scholar, and Educator Clemency Chase Coggins ’51’s groundbreaking article, “Illicit Traffic of Pre-Columbian Antiquities,” published in Art Journal in 1969, helped initiate what has become an ongoing dialogue among archaeologists, art historians, art dealers, legal scholars, lawmakers, and the general public on the subject of safeguarding cultural property. Her decades of dedication to protecting antiquities

stemmed from her doctoral work at the archaeological site of Tikal; she realized that important cultural artifacts were routinely being looted from Guatemala and Mexico. Coggins has published extensively on Maya history and iconography. She worked closely with congressional committees to develop the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act and was appointed by President Reagan to the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee.

recounting the twists and turns of her own career, Coggins urged students to “remain open to unimagined possibilities.” “Ms. Coggins generously shared her expertise in archaeology and examined ceramic Mayan figurines with students at the Peabody Museum,” says Helen Simpson ’16 (pictured at left). “The stories she told about Abbot Academy gain new relevance as students continue to work through issues of gender 40 years after the merger.”

Andover | Winter 2015

F r o m the Archiv es

Frost Reveals a 68-Year-Old Secret by Amy Morris

When poet Robert Frost visited Andover in the spring of 1960 to deliver the school’s annual Lana Lobell Lecture, no one, not even he, thought he’d use the occasion to reveal a secret kept for 68 years: that his good friend from Lawrence, Mass., Ernest Jewell (Class of 1893), had slipped a poem written by Frost into an “early nineties” edition of the Phillips Academy Mirror, listing its author as “Anonymous.”

to Frost’s recollection, eviscerated the already famous poet “like a schoolboy” for the prank. “Dr. Stearns’s indignation was so vivid, couched in terms so violent, that it was decades before Mr. Frost remembered ‘The Traitor’ again,” wrote Fitts of the poet’s confessional experience. “A good Freudian would probably say that the whole episode buried itself in his unconscious.” Of the poem’s merit, Fitts wrote that Frost had “no flattering opinion of it.” “It’s all in the first line,” he told Fitts. “It’s pretty clear that I was reading Ossian at the time.” (Ossian is a 1760 collection of poems by Scottish poet James Macpherson.) After Andover’s discovery of “The Traitor” in 1960, Frost summoned Fitts and Most to his Cambridge home, where he presented them with an old leather-bound book. It was Ossian. “It’s one of the oldest books I have,” he told the men, “one of the five or six I brought with me from San Francisco. …‘The Traitor’ comes right out of Ossian.”

According to Steve Most ’61, editor of The Mirror at the time of the poet’s visit, Frost couldn’t remember the title or subject of the poem, but he knew the first line had something to do with a bird. A search conducted by Oliver Wendell Holmes Library staff turned up the piece. Its title: “The Traitor.” In 1960, America’s most preeminent living man of letters was 86 (he would die within three years) and biographers, critics, and academics had analyzed, criticized, and documented virtually every aspect of his words and life, save for his unpublished works and correspondence. Biographers knew Jewell as Frost’s Lawrence High School friend and as the first person to publish a Frost poem: As student editor of their high school magazine, The Lawrence Bulletin, Jewell printed Frost’s “Tenochtitlan” in 1890. According to Frost, Jewell left Lawrence High for Andover in 1892 and sought to be part of PA’s student literary magazine. “He wanted to dazzle the editorial board by contributing a poem,” recalled the poet in a 1961 interview granted to English instructor Dudley Fitts. Frost said he had forgotten about the matter until he visited Andover as a lecturer in 1915. At that time, he described the caper to then-principal Alfred Stearns. Stearns, according 48

Andover | Winter 2015

After revealing the inspiration for “The Traitor,” Frost wanted to talk about his childhood pal, Jewell: “He was the kind of friend you have only three or four times in a lifetime,” he told his guests. “He kept belittling poetry—where would it get me?—but I always thought he had a sneaking pride in my waywardness.” In a 1986 interview with Frost scholar Philip L. Gerber, Jewell’s son, William M. Jewell, said the two men remained close until his father’s death. According to “Remembering Robert Frost,” in a 1986 issue of New England Quarterly, as lifelong friends often do, they had different takes on their shared history. The younger Jewell said that when he told his mother how Frost had revealed the existence of “The Traitor” and how he told the Andover community that he did it to help Jewell get in good favor with The Mirror editors, she responded, “That scalawag!” Mrs. Jewell insisted that if there were any favors between the two over that poem, it was her husband who had helped Frost. Mrs. Jewell, who grew up in Lawrence with both men, clearly recalled Frost saying to her late husband, “Ernest, you submit this. I want to see whether I can get it published.”

3 4 5 7

8 9

10 13

12 14 16

22 23 24

27 29

31 32

Test Your Andover/Abbot IQ Across: 4. Rare name given by Kristina Ballard ’11 to PA’s temporary dining hall 5. Rappelling this memorial was once an S&R tradition 7. Female rower who won two Olympic golds 9. Without this, knowledge is dangerous 13. Abbot girls would take this Walk to visit the Grove 15. Abbot seniors’ annual White Mountains winter sports extravaganza 17. Created “Ideal Andover” 20. Recent Grammy-nominated a cappella group that includes Kevin Olusola ’06 22. Griffins’ foil 25. TRON: Legacy star 26. Abbot National Medal of Arts recipient 27. China Beach star 28. Abbot’s admission soared under her reign 31. Harriet’s better half 32. Phillipian’s founding editor 33. Queen bee of GW 35. Yacht cartographer turned muralist in residence 36. Bulfinch is to Pearson as ______ is to Bulfinch

Down: 1. Brought Asian fusion cuisine to the TV masses 2. The “lodge” where Philena McKeen lived out her final days 3. Claude Fuess’s “new Andover plan” included dropping this two-year requirement 6. Her tutor, Philip, goes to Andover, and her mother knows the dean 8. The best All-American Steve Sorota said he ever coached 10. Evans Hall’s resident caiman See page 118 11. Before Shuman for answer key 12. An extinct cluster 14. Shark dispenser 16. Creator of PA seal 18. In 1925, this country bestowed Abbot Academy with a national medal for aiding its reconstruction through education 19. 1873 Abbot alumna who wrote Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 21. Andover boys named their Civil War outfit after this Union martyr 23. He put an end to Andover’s secret societies 24. Abbot’s literary magazine 28. Abbot girls and PA boys were this freed slave’s most devoted ice cream customers 29. This Andover trustee never missed a meeting, despite his side gig as U.S. Secretary of War 30. In 1967, Sargent Shriver presented the first of these awards to 65 alumni for serving in the Peace Corps 34. In Uncle Sam’s day, seniors burned his Greek grammar book before Commencement

Andover | Winter 2015

C ONNE CTION

John Hurley

Gen. McCaffrey’s Message: Be Prepared

Engaging Alums for Life The Alumni Council recently approved its new strategic plan, titled A Catalyst for Lifetime Engagement and built on the premise that an informed, active, and networked alumni body is essential to a vital Academy. The plan guides the council’s work under two major themes: engaging alumni “Beyond the Hill” and supporting the Academy’s needs “On the Hill.” “The plan’s overarching values of inclusion and service echo those of the Academy,” said Nobu Ishizuka ’78, chair of the council’s Strategic Planning Committee. “For alumni, these represent ideals they grew up with and carry with them in their daily lives.” “I get very excited when we talk about the concept of ‘Andover for life,’” said Alumni Council President Tom Beaton ’73. “Imagine being engaged in meaningful ways with the school and connecting with a global community of alumni who share similar values and have deep respect for our school. Our paths in life are as diverse as our experiences at Andover. For me, that’s what makes this such a compelling vision.” Founded in 1946, the Alumni Council continues to evolve to meet the changing needs of the Academy and its 25,000 alumni. The full strategic plan can be seen at www.andover.edu under the Alumni tab.

Former Marine Corps Capt. Seth Moulton ’97 and Gen. Barry McCaffrey ’60, USA (Ret.) On November 6, Gen. Barry McCaffrey ’60, USA (Ret.), delivered the keynote address at PA’s fifth annual Veterans Day dinner in Paresky Commons. Andover and the Military, an alumni affinity group, hosted the event, which was attended by scores of alumni, faculty, and friends of the Academy—many of them veterans and active military members. Alumni Council President Tom Beaton ’73 and the group’s chair, former Marine Corps Capt. Seth Moulton ’97 (elected Massachusetts congressman just two days prior), gave the introductory remarks. After attending West Point, McCaffrey was deployed to Vietnam, where he earned three Purple Hearts and two Silver Stars for valor. During the Gulf War, McCaffrey commanded the 24th Infantry Division. His final command was of the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), where he oversaw all U.S. military activities in Central America and South America. “Right now we’re in the midst of a period in Washington when people are saying, ‘We’ve seen the end of warfare.’ Foot warfare, tank warfare, warfare at sea, that’s all past [they say]…. And I would say that’s short-sighted,” said McCaffrey. “The Andover boys and girls in the room today, before they are 50, will see all sorts of threats to our allies or the American people. And we’ve got to be prepared.” McCaffrey is one of PA’s two highest-ranking military graduates.

Save the Date!

Student Musicians to Perform in Shanghai

To register with Andover and the Military, visit www.andover.edu/Alumni/connect/Military.

Annual Meeting of the Alumni The annual meeting of the Andover-Abbot Alumni Association will be held during Reunion Weekend on Saturday, June 13, 2015, at 11 a.m. in Cochran Chapel at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. All alumni of Phillips Academy and Abbot Academy are cordially invited to attend.

Andover | Winter 2015

Members of the Academy Chamber Orchestra, Academy Choir, and Fidelio Society—71 students in all—have been invited to perform at the prestigious Shanghai Arts Festival during spring break. The March 13 performance will take place at Shanghai Symphony Hall and include works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Orff as well as traditional American and Chinese pieces. A performance on March 12 will take place at Datong High School. Hosted by Datong High School, Andover students and accompanying faculty will spend the rest of their weeklong stay exploring Shanghai. Head of School John Palfrey, in the city on Academy business, will attend both performances. Tickets can be purchased at the door.

SLAM Celebrates 20 Years Alumni of SLAM (Spirit Leaders of Andover Madness) gathered on a Saturday in mid-January to reconnect, reminisce, and meet the 2015 SLAM team. Willing and able alumni were taught a special routine to perform along with current SLAM members at the boys’ and girls’ varsity basketball games that afternoon. SLAM combines traditional cheerleading with African American stepping, which features complex rhythms and sounds created by a combination of footsteps, spoken word, and hand claps. “In the beginning, skeptics accused us of being stereotypical cheerleaders,” says Angela Brown ’96, who, along with Ashanti Hosier ’95, founded SLAM in winter 1995. “Ashanti and I had to meet with the Athletics Board and the Women’s Forum to assure them that we would give equal attention to both the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams.” “SLAM was coed, and the girls wore the field hockey teams’ skirts our first year,” says Brown. “When naysayers complained that our skirts were too short, their argument quickly crumbled when we informed them that if we needed longer skirts, so did the members of the field hockey teams!” That winter, the athletics department would not pay for SLAM—technically a club—to travel to Exeter to cheer at the Andover-Exeter matchups. “Paul Kalkstein [faculty emeritus, ’61], my English teacher and the boys’ varsity basketball coach at the time, chartered a bus for us,” recalls Brown. To this day, she is not sure whether he used his own funds to pay for it. Coach Belinda Canavan (right), a former New England Patriots cheerleader and All-American diver, has worked with SLAM for most of its 20 years. “We still do a lot of the same steps from the 1990s, but many have become tighter, stronger, and more complicated, and music has been added,” she says. “SLAM is still coed and boys are very welcome, but not many have tried out in recent years.” During winter term, SLAM practices nearly as much— and sometimes more—than a typical varsity team, putting in 90 minutes per practice daily and performing at up to four basketball games per week. Cocaptains Antonia Leggett ’15 and Alejandra Uria ’15 and other teammates practice the routines throughout the year and create their own choreography for dance performances.

John Hurley

—Jill Clerkin

Center photo: Members of SLAM past and present include, from left, Carolyn Chica ’08, Antonia Leggett ’15, Jara Crear ’08, Sheya Jabouin ’11, Unwana Abasi ’13, Joyce Wang ’15, Natalie Landaverde ’18, Haley Scott ’11, Angela Brown ’96, Aniebiet Abasi ’11, Nicole Rodriguez ’17, Caroline Lanteri ’18, and Miriam Feldman ’18. Andover | Winter 2015

C ONNE CTION

the Buzzzzz

Kathleen Dalton, instructor in history and social science, recently shared the stage with Evan Thomas ’69 as part of a panel of presidential biographers at a Massachusetts Historical Society seminar…

After 28 years, Ian Bond ’80 has left his diplomatic post in the UK’s Foreign Office to become the director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform, one of the country’s leading think tanks…

Andover alums picked up two seats in the House of Representatives in the 2014 midterm elections, with Seth Moulton ’97 winning the 6th Congressional District in Massachusetts and Bruce Poliquin ’72 taking the 2nd Congressional District in Maine…

Restaurateur Nico Freccia ’82 is building a new production brewery in San Leandro, just across the Bay from his San Francisco pub, The 21st Amendment. The new facility will be in an old Kellogg’s factory that made Pop-Tarts and Frosted Flakes for 30 years…

Dana Delany ’74 stars in Hand of God, an atmospheric mystery now streaming on Amazon. Delaney plays the wife of a corrupt judge searching for the man who assaulted his son… Actor Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s Anatomy) is developing Mike Cannell ’78’s auto-racing book, The Limit, for the Sundance Channel… Rachael Horovitz ’79 produced the film My Old Lady, written and directed by her father, Israel Horovitz, which premiered in Toronto in 2014…

Sharon Block ’83 has been renominated by President Obama to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board after serving in 2014 as senior counselor to U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez… Photographer and blogger Brooke Williams ’84 was recently featured with her mother and daughter in Redbook magazine, sharing family beauty secrets… The New York Times profiled the struggles and success of software sales startup Yesware’s cofounder and CEO Matthew Bellows ’86… Classical pianist Ulrich Murtfeld ’87 just released a CD dedicated to American composers, including George Gershwin, Samuel Barber, and Philip Glass… Tim McAllister ’87 has been selected (for the fifth time) to fly for the U.S. Soaring Team at the 2016 FAI World Gliding Championships in Pociunai, Lithuania…

Andover | Winter 2015

Karl Kister ’87’s documentary Hanna Ranch about visionary cattleman Kirk Hanna and his personal struggle to protect the environmental ranching movement in Colorado is now playing in select theaters across the country…

After leaving the corporate world behind to pursue a career in music, Maki Hsieh ’92 recently crowdfunded an album using Indiegogo and Kickstarter. Thirty-six percent of the money raised came from Andover classmates…

Elee Kraljii Gardiner ’88’s Vancouver-based nonprofit writing program, Thursdays Writing Collective, just raised $7,000 via Indiegogo to publish its seventh anthology, Voice to Voice…

Donna Kaminski ’94 was honored this past summer as the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians’ Resident of the Year…

Terri Stroud ’88 traveled to Egypt with Democracy International to witness that country’s presidential election. Deployed to the Giza Governorate, she visited dozens of polling stations and observed all stages of the voting process in the shadow of the pyramids… On September 18, Olivia Morgan ’90 proudly watched as First Lady Michelle Obama named the 2014 National Student Poets in the Blue Room of the White House. Morgan, who serves on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, created the student poet program three years ago… This past fall, Misty Muscatel ’01 received the “Great Manager Award,” one of Google’s most prestigious staff honors, given to only nine managers in the sales organization worldwide…

Vicki Salinas ’97 left the World Bank to become the city of Oakland’s chief resilience officer, a position funded through the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program… John Bourne ’99 has cofounded Holderness & Bourne, a golf apparel line specializing in shirts blending a classic look with an athletic feel… Shaun Blugh ’03 has been elected Boston’s first chief diversity officer, joining a team led by Chief of Staff Daniel Koh ’03… Colin Touhey ’06 has cofounded CitySeat, a bike wear company in New York City designing funky seat covers for shareride bikes… Competitive archer Joe Wilkin ’08 has gone global in his career, crushing some senior competition in England, Morocco, and beyond…

Please e-mail BUZZ suggestions to andovermagazine@andover.edu.

Torrance York ’84

Connecticut

Phillips Academy Alumni & Parent Events, February–June 2015 San Francisco

Stanford University

National & International Events Feb. 2

Vero Beach, Fla.

Abbot-Andover Luncheon

Feb. 4

Miami, Fla.

With Secretary of the Academy Thom Lockerby

Feb. 6

Naples, Fla.

With Secretary of the Academy Thom Lockerby

Feb. 7

Ft. Myers, Fla.

With Secretary of the Academy Thom Lockerby

Feb. 8

Sarasota, Fla.

With Secretary of the Academy Thom Lockerby

March 11 New York City

Reception and Performance by Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance

March 13 Shanghai

Strategic Plan Rollout: An Evening with John Palfrey and Phillips Academy Orchestra/Fidelio Concert

March 14

Hong Kong

Strategic Plan Rollout: An Evening with John Palfrey

March 16

Seoul

Strategic Plan Rollout: An Evening with John Palfrey

March 20

Jupiter, Fla.

Andover-Exeter Golf Day

April 7

Chicago

Strategic Plan Rollout: An Evening with John Palfrey

May 21

London

Strategic Plan Rollout: An Evening with John Palfrey

Campus Events Stanford University

New York City

Feb. 28

Andover-Exeter Winter Athletic Contests

April 10

Non Sibi Project: Relay for Life with Kate Wiener ’11

April 24–25

Non Sibi Weekend

April 30–May 2

Trustee and Alumni Council Weekend

May 9

Grandparents Day

June 7

Commencement

June 12–14

Reunion Weekend: All classes ending in 0s and 5s

For the most up-to-date listings, visit the Office of Alumni Engagement event calendar at www.andover.edu/alumni.

Andover | Winter 2015

a n d o v e r BOOKSH ELF

Dirty Chick: Adventures of an Unlikely Farmer by Antonia (Tellis) Murphy ’92 Gotham Books It might be tempting to dismiss Dirty Chick as yet another entry in a familiar genre: the back-to-the-land memoir wherein urban sophisticates decamp to the country, enjoy humorous interactions with colorful locals, and finally find peace through making goat cheese. But Murphy’s tale of her own rustication, achieved by moving from San Francisco to New Zealand, charms with its barnyard humor (both literal and figurative), self-awareness, and pull-no-punches attitude. The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America by Corinne T. Field ’83 University of North Carolina Press Early feminists and advocates of African American rights, says former alumni trustee Field, shared a common goal: to allow women to claim the full rights of “equal adulthood”—equal not just in the eyes of the law, but in the cultural sphere. This comprehensive, rigorous review of that struggle, covering the period from the American Revolution through Reconstruction, suggests that the historical infantilization of women, both black and white, continues to have repercussions today.

The Rogue’s Road to Retirement: How I Got My Groove Back after Sixty-Five by George S.K. Rider ’51 Skyhorse Publishing Dylan Thomas could have had George Rider in mind when he penned the line “Do not go gentle into that good night.” Rider, 82 when this book, his first, was published, knows he’s in life’s third act—but he has no plans to exit the stage quietly. In The Rogue’s Road to Retirement, Ryder lays out his guidelines for aging with verve, style, and not a little audacity, with himself as Exhibit A. The former Wall Streeter’s post-retirement adventures include (but are not limited to) appearing in a music video, dancing in a Pepsi commercial, and getting doused with Gatorade for Sports Illustrated, not to mention undergoing a hip replacement and a bout with prostate cancer. All are relayed here with laugh-out-loud humor and the narrative ease of the born raconteur. But perhaps the most significant late-in-life achievement he recounts was making himself over as a writer. Handed the job of class secretary for PA ’51, Rider jumped in with both feet, attending writers’ workshops and conferences in an effort to make his literary output worthy of class notes. That effort is emblematic of the wholeheartedness he urges readers to embrace, whatever their age. Rider’s philosophy is encapsulated in his “3 Rs”: Recharge your batteries, record your memories, revel in what should and can be the best time of your life. Rage against the dying of the light, as Dylan Thomas advised? Nah—Rider’s too busy having fun.

Andover | Winter 2015

A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience by Emerson W. Baker ’73 Oxford University Press So much has been written about the Salem witch trials that the author, a Salem State University professor of history, nearly apologizes for contributing to the glut. But this volume serves as a worthy addition to the canon by contextualizing the events, shedding new light on certain aspects of the trials, and dissecting the aftermath. Among other conclusions, Baker argues that the episode engendered one of the first political cover-ups in American history. Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine by Lital Levy ’90 Princeton University Press The threads that make up the IsraeliPalestinian conflict are further tangled by the roles of language there: Hebrew and Arabic are as enmeshed and as fraught as the people who speak them. Levy examines the interplay of these languages—and what that interplay says about the ongoing challenges in Israel—through the lens of literature, examining the work of writers who have made bold forays across the language divide.

Mastering Running by Cathy Utzschneider ’73 Human Kinetics You’re never too old to get off that couch: That’s the core message of Mastering Running. A detailed guide for runners over the age of 35—that is, in the masters category—the book offers a wealth of information to those who wish to run competitively. Covering training, injury prevention, nutrition, and much more, it’s an indispensible guide for serious runners, or anyone who’d like to become one. Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West by Lucy R. Lippard ’54 The New Press Lippard, a distinguished activist, art critic, and author, has written more than 20 books on art, politics, and place. In her newest volume, she takes as her jumping-off point the gravel pits dotting her adopted home state, New Mexico. Pondering the broader repercussions of the pits, she touches upon everything from native culture to drinking water to 9/11. Undermining is a thought-provoking meditation on the interconnectedness of geography, geology, politics, culture, and art.

INADDITION

41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush ’64 Crown Publishers

The Door of the Sad People by Alexander Blackburn ’47 Rhyolite Press Borderlands USA, or, How to Protect the Country by Car by Ben Batchelder ’78 Earthdog Press Redeeming Words: Language and the Promise of Happiness in the Stories of Döblin and Sebald by David Kleinberg-Levin ’58 SUNY Press

—Written by Jane Dornbusch Been published recently? Please send your book to Jane Dornbusch, Office of Communication, Phillips Academy, 180 Main St., Andover MA 01810-4161. After your book is announced, it will be donated to the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library. Autographed copies appreciated! Regrettably, due to the high volume of books written by alumni, not all books will be featured in the Andover Bookshelf. Selection is at the discretion of the class notes editor.

By any measure, George H.W. Bush ’42 has led an exceptional life. Son George W. calls 41, his admiring account of his father, a “love story,” a tribute to the solid American virtues—courage, loyalty, service—the elder Bush embodied “from his earliest days.” (Or, to put it another way, finis origine pendet.) The book is organized chronologically, beginning with a brief sketch of GHWB’s forebears and ending with “the hardest year”—1992, the year he lost the presidential election to Bill Clinton. His life might nearly serve as a social history of America in the 20th century. At 18, after graduating from Andover during wartime, he chose to enlist, becoming the Navy’s youngest pilot and surviving being shot down over the Pacific. At Yale, as captain of the baseball team, he met Babe Ruth. The upward trajectory continued, carrying him from Texas oilman to politics to the nation’s highest office. From first to last, his days have been marked by industriousness and purpose. “George Bush did not waste time,” the author writes. “He filled every minute of every day with activity.” Yet his ambition never became overweening. No matter their political leanings, readers cannot but be impressed by a man who rose to the top while keeping his sense of integrity, humor, and humility intact. The facts of George H.W. Bush’s life are well known, but 41, full of personal anecdote and telling detail, fills in our portrait of the man.

Andover | Winter 2015

Before they were famous

1. Gardner Cox, Class of 1923, The Mirror 2. Harriet Frances Osborne, Class of 1864, The Courant 3. William Hamilton, Class of 1958, Pot Pourri 4. P.D. Eastman, Class of 1928, Pot Pourri 5. Anne Cleveland, Class of 1933, The Courant 6. Carl Andre, Class of 1953, The Mirror 7. Ivan Chermayeff, Class of 1950, The Mirror 8. Frank Stella, Class of 1954, The Mirror 9. Wendy Ewald, Class of 1969, The Courant 10. Jeff MacNelly, Class of 1965, The Mirror 11. George Campbell Harding, Class of 1885, The Mirror 12. Robert Hallowell, Class of 1906, Pot Pourri 13. George Tooker, Class of 1938, The Mirror

Andover | Winter 2015

Compiled by Amy Morris. For more, visit phillipsacademy.smugmug.com and click â&#x20AC;&#x153;From the Archives.â&#x20AC;?

www.andover.edu/intouch CLASS NOTES 8

1935 ABBOT

Doris Schwartz Lewis 250 Hammond Pond Pkwy., Apt. 515S Chestnut Hill MA 02467 617-244-7302 doss123@webtv.net

1937 PHILLIPS

John Foskett 4694 Rue Bayou Sanibel FL 33957 239-472-1726

1938 ABBOT & PHILLIPS

Dana Lynch ’68 P.O. Box 370539 Montara CA 94037-0539 650-728-8238 Dana.h.lynch@gmail.com

1939 PHILLIPS Joseph F. Anderson Meadow Ridge 100 Redding Road, Apt. 2118 Redding CT 06896 803-767-1667 jfanders@truvista.net

[Editor’s note: The Academy has received word that Charles Donovan passed away on Aug. 30, 2014. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.]

1940 ABBOT

Nadene Nichols Lane 125 Coolidge Ave., #610 Watertown MA 02472 617-924-1981

The winter-to-spring is the same yearly. I fly to Dubai to visit my daughter, and later I fly to Islamabad, Pakistan, to visit my granddaughter and her three children. Then I go back to Dubai. This year, my granddaughter Katherine Lane will be married in April in Atlanta. All the Lane family members are planning to be there for the occasion. Andover | Winter 2015

PHILLIPS

Blake Flint 1762 Bay St., #401 Sarasota FL 34236-7751 941-955-9396 cbflint@comcast.net

Brad Murphy did not attend the reunion this year, as it conflicted with another family gathering. Since Brad has been our regular returnee, it may be that no one from our class attended. Brad and his wife, Margaret, are doing well and celebrated their 60th anniversary in September 2014. They have nine grandchildren but no great-grandchildren as yet. Brad and I did some reminiscing. We were both very fond of Latin and history instructor R.I.W. “Bill” Westgate and his wife, Sheila, whom we came to know as good friends. We recalled the Latin play, which Dr. Westgate originated and which became an annual event for many years. And don’t forget the hurricane of September 1938 or the terrifying wails of “Kali-i-i,” which sent the faculty into something akin to apoplexy. Bill Casey is in independent living at a continuing care facility. He spends his days reading and monitoring his investments. He is proud of his grandson, who was selected to work with a very prestigious group in Sweden working on the “origins of life.” His granddaughter, having excelled in tennis and played the circuit for several years, turned her attention to skiing. She was on the U.S. Ski Team and is now a senior executive with a Sierra Nevada ski group. Best of all, she calls her grandfather every single day! George Gibbs is doing well, still playing club tennis three times a week. His wife, Sally, fell and broke her hip and now gets around with a walker, whereas George does not even use a cane. Their daughter and granddaughter have moved in with them and are a great help. George spoke about the movie Earthlings, which deals with animal cruelty. It impressed George so much that he became a vegan. George and Sally have three great-grandchildren—two living in Michigan and one in the Marines, back from a tour in Afghanistan. Sad news: Jack Cuthbertson died on May 25, 2014. Jack was beloved by his classmates as a warm, selfless, and altogether charming human being. They elected him president of the lower middle class, president of the upper middle class, and president of the senior class. Jack was on the varsity football, basketball, and baseball teams. He was president of the student council and found time to be in the choir, the glee club, and the Latin club. After Andover, Jack went to Amherst then served in the U.S. Army Air Forces, rising to the rank of captain. Following the war, Jack was president of Plummer’s, a family-owned retailer in NYC. After a stint at Xerox as a senior sales executive, he moved into real estate, which became his consummate love. He headed the Cape Cod Board of Realtors and then moved to Naples, Fla., where he continued his real estate career for many years. It was a joy to know Jack. R.I.P.

Andover | Winter 2015

1941 PHILLIPS

[Editor’s note: William Cochran has stepped down from his role as class secretary. The Academy greatly appreciates his service. Any member or members of the Class of 1941 interested in taking on the class secretary position should contact Laura MacHugh at lmachugh@andover.edu or 978-749-4289. The Academy has received word that Harvey M. Kelsey Jr. passed away on July 30, 2014. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.]

1942 ABBOT

Ann Taylor Debevoise Pinnacle Farm 222 Daniel Cox Road Woodstock VT 05091-9723 802-457-1186 Ann.T.Debevoise@valley.net

[Editor’s note: The Academy has received word that Rose Wind Stone passed away on Sept. 16, 2014. Please see her obituary in the In Memoriam section.]

PHILLIPS Robert K. Reynolds 185 Southern Blvd. Danbury CT 06810 203-743-0174 rreynolds06@snet.net

It seems strange writing class notes for the winter of 2015 in summer of 2014, but we have a long lead time that must be observed. In my fall notes I mentioned that in June I appeared in a video filmed in Portland, Maine, about the Depression of the 1930s, having qualified because I lived through the Depression and have clear memories of it. The video is scheduled for release in April, and although it will have limited distribution, I can report that my performance was outstanding. For those of you who feel that your advanced age prevents you from making any more contributions to society, I am living proof that you are never too old. I recently learned of the death of John Russell Treadwell on Feb. 16, 2014. John was a graduate of West Point and received a master’s degree from Princeton. After teaching social sciences at West Point and at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., he retired from the military and was vice president of United Brands in New York. His survivors include two daughters,

three grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and a brother, James. He was entombed at West Point. Back in August, I received an e-mail from Jack Raymond thanking me for sending him a copy of my essay on our senior year at Andover. His memory is better than mine, and he recalls that at the student assembly in George Washington Hall on December 8, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a sound system was set up so that we could all listen to President Roosevelt’s address to Congress requesting a declaration of war against Japan. Jack recently contributed to the Library of Congress his collection of some 20,000 audio recordings—music from American and European stage and screen musicals dating from the 1890s to the present. It’s nice to be able to leave one’s footprints in the sands of time. Also in August I received a nice letter from Al Raphael, currently living in North Andover. He recalls that on Dec. 7, 1941, he was reading Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. “Singularly appropriate,” he says, “since I was not disturbed by the war until I got to Yale,” from which he was drafted into the field artillery and became a gunner on a 155 howitzer. He credits the Andover typewriting course with allowing him to do reasonably well at Yale and Harvard Law, his penmanship then and now being indecipherable. Al and his late wife, Dorothy, lived for 30 years in Vermont (near Sugarbush ski area), where he practiced law, skied, golfed, and traveled. His son, Bruce Raphael ’81, is a PA graduate, and his grandson, William Raphael ’18, has just begun his junior year at Andover, making three generations of Raphaels attending or having attended Andover. I’m saddened to report that Lane McGovern died on July 31, 2014. After graduating from Andover, he attended Harvard briefly then served in the U.S. Army 742nd Tank Battalion for three years during WWII. Returning to Harvard, he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, then earned a JD cum laude from Harvard Law School. His distinguished career as an attorney included arguing cases before the United States Supreme Court. In addition to his wife, Ann McGovern, his survivors include four daughters and seven grandchildren. On a happy note, congratulations to Jack Power and his wife, Lee, who celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary back in June 2014 in Port Charlotte, Fla. Jack served in the Navy during WWII. He and his wife raised eight children— probably a class record. He was last on campus in 2012 to watch his granddaughter, Hannah Beinecke ’12, play on the field hockey team. Our surviving members are dwindling in number. I have a copy of our class day exercises from June 11, 1942, which lists 296 graduates. Of those, 247 have died, including five in WWII, leaving 49 living members, a 17 percent survival rate.

www.andover.edu/intouch 1943 PHILLIPS Richard L. Ordeman 619 Oakwood Ave. Dayton OH 45419 937-299-9652 mbo510@aol.com

Thanks again to Mary and Dick Harshman, there will be another 1943 Naples, Fla., class gathering at the Harshmans’, this one on Feb. 25, 2015, at 11:30 a.m. It’s always a good get-together, and Dick makes incredibly delicious sandwiches! Please let Dick or me know if you can join us. The last class notes included a piece on Wendy and Jim Munro’s experiences riding high-speed trains in China. Bard Smith followed up that story with a China train experience of his own, writing, “Paths crisscross, given enough time. Some take longer; this one took 70 years. Jim’s reference to being in the train station in Tianjin (huge city in North China) early this year parallels my year in Tianjin in the First Marine Division (1945–46), repatriating the Japanese arriving by train from Manchuria; I met them and made sure they got on another train going to the coast, where they would board a U.S. Navy troop ship en route to Japan. Those 1945 trains barely ‘hummed’ along.” Jack Morris lives in Bremen, Maine. He tells me he lives only 10 feet from the water, but 12 feet above it. Without cable, and with trees (which he won’t cut down) that partially block his satellite reception, he only receives several PBS channels. In spite of the lack of TV, Jack, who passed the 90-year mark earlier this year, seems to be enjoying life. He says he does more reading than anything else. At the end of our conversation, he mentioned he was a little lame but walks his dog, who’s a little lame too. Hal Owen was at Andover from 1955 to 1991, teaching English and theatre and contributing much to the school in other ways as well: overseeing the creation of the theatre department, directing more than 40 musicals and plays, coaching sports, and directing the Andover Summer Session. After retirement he moved to Maine, where he lives in a Camden retirement home in the winter and on Matinicus Island in the summer. Matinicus is five miles long and located about 30 miles off the Maine coast. Hal has lost his wife. However, his five children live in the area. As to activities, he says he plays Ping-Pong if someone asks him and an occasional game of bridge, but after talking to him, I bet he’s a lot more active than that. I was impressed to find Charlie Weiner at his office on a mid-September Monday morning— impressed because I don’t think we have too many other classmates who have offices outside their homes. Charlie told me he’s 90 but still in good health, as is Lynn, his wife of 62 years. He’s reduced his international marketing client base in recent years but is still very active in the business. Charlie and Lynn have a place on Shelter Island, N.Y., at the

tip of Long Island, where they spend three months in the summer and many weekends during the year. Though Charlie’s been an active sailor over the years and participated in international races, he says those days are behind him, and he’s happy with his 22-foot outboard. Charlie and Lynn have three sons and three grandchildren. Audrey Bensley, Diz Bensley’s widow, sounded good on the phone in early September, although she indicated she’d been quite ill. Audrey has moved to a retirement home in North Andover and feels good about being there. Her daughter Jennifer ’78 lives in Greece, six miles from Marathon, and teaches English. Daughter Wendy ’69 has lived on Samoa for 20 years. Audrey’s two surviving sons, Zachariah ’88 and Christopher ’76, live in the area. I’m sorry to report the loss of another classmate. Bill Pabst died on May 28, 2014. During WWII, Bill served with the 86th Infantry Division in both the European and Pacific theaters. Following the war, he attended Babson College. Bill had a wide-ranging business career that included investments, manufacturing, cattle ranching, real estate, and distributing boats and RV vehicles. Bill is survived by his wife, Mary Lee, two children, two grandchildren, and a great-grandson. He is also survived by six stepchildren and seven stepgrandchildren. Our class extends its sympathy to Bill’s family.

1944 ABBOT

Emily McMurray Mead P.O. Box 292 Etna NH 03750 603-643-3741 Emily_mead@valley.net

PHILLIPS Angus Deming 975 Park Ave., Apt. 2A New York NY 10028-0323 212-794-1206 ademingusmc@aol.com

Maybe it’s a case of post–70th Reunion doldrums. Or maybe it’s just a spell of relative inactivity induced by the lazy days of summertime (summer 2014, that is). Whatever the reason, our classmates have not exactly set the world on fire since the last time they sent news of themselves. Rest assured, though, the Class of  ’44 still has a pulse. Consider Stan Dickey. “Not much new but wanted you to know I’m still hanging in there,” he reported by e-mail back in mid-August. “Did play golf today—though just nine holes. Did reasonably well and felt even better.” Stan must have come in off the links just in time to avoid getting soaked by bad weather that definitely put a damper on Long Island around then. “Unbelievable rain on Tuesday

[that would be August 12, 2014],” Stan went on to say. “No less than 8.2 inches here in Massapequa, N.Y., in one day. Lots of closed roads and quite a few cars abandoned. Got a leak in the crawl space.” Declared our ever-philosophical classmate: “This will give you some idea of how exciting life in Massapequa has become. If it weren’t for a glass of wine before dinner...” Nevertheless, Stan had what he called a “bright spot” to report—namely, that his grandson Paul had volunteered for the Peace Corps and been assigned to Guatemala. His stint in the troubled Central American country should prove both exciting and challenging. A couple more of our classmate-philosophers offered their own observations on life at our somewhat advanced age. They’re appropriately meditative, but they do sound just a tad downbeat now and then. In a handwritten note he sent me, Roger Strong said, “I wish I had some inspirational news, as we all seem to be reaching the end of the tunnel (where is the light?).” In the very next breath, though, Roger confessed that “summer has been restful and quiet.” That’s more like it. Forget about that tunnel, will you? In a somewhat similar vein, Dick Abrons, in one of his periodic blog posts on the Huffington Post, pondered “Old Age Revisited.” Writing at the age of 87, and post–70th Reunion, Dick penned an update on an essay he wrote on the same blog on his 80th birthday. On that previous occasion, he had listed the usual laments about attaining the status of old age. This time around, he writes, he knows it’s old age because he can feel it in his bones. And what does that mean? He says he now has trouble “covering one half of a doubles court.” To which I would respond, If you’re able to get out on the court at all—let alone chase balls in a game of doubles—you’re doing just fine. Anyway, Dick seems to have found our 70th Reunion revivifying. “I walked all over the majestic and once merciless campus,” he wrote. “Anxieties and fears that had followed me into maturity seemed to melt away. Yes, that is a good thing.” And so it is. Incidentally, if you want to know what Dick Abrons has been doing all this time, here is his resume in a nutshell, as posted at the head of his blog: “Playwright; vice chairman and former president, Henry Street Settlement; director, Grow NYC; director, Bronx Children’s Museum; president, Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation; retired founding partner, First Manhattan Co.” If you want to “become a fan” of Dick’s blog, go to http://huff.to/1u4uyT8 and follow the prompts. Good news from Sherwood “Woody” Stockwell out in Colorado. He’s finished his latest book, titled Sherwood. No, it’s not all about him. Rather, it’s the tale of a roguish hero of the Old West by the name of Rupert Sherwood, described in the book’s subtitle as “Stowaway, Jockey, Rancher, Prospector, Gambler, Saloon Owner, Mine Owner, Politician, and Owner of Prunes the Burro.” It’s conceivable, given their shared name, that Rupert and Woody might be distantly related—though that may also be a bit of a stretch. Whatever the Andover | Winter 2015

case, Woody’s book can be obtained from the publisher, Western Reflections Publishing, in Lake City, Colo., and is also available through Amazon. I conclude with a great story from Bob Lilien about his remarkable feat as an elderly but veteran squash player. This all happened early in 2014, but I received word of it from Bob too late for the spring notes, and it then got crowded out by the reunion edition. But it’s still a good yarn. Here it is, in Bob’s own words: “[In January], I played a onegame match as part of an exhibition at the Union Club in NYC with Nick Matthew, three-time world squash champion and former number-oneranked player in the world. Nick kept the match close by ratcheting down his power and putting the ball where I could reach it, and at match point, mirabile dictu, I lucked out with an unreturnable [shot], to the cheers of the crowd. Nick inscribed a copy of Sweating Blood: My Life in Squash, his recent book, with the words, ‘To Bob, the world’s best 80+ squash player.’ In a later e-mail exchange, he narrowed the field by thousands by writing, in part, ‘I reckon you must be the best player for your age in the world.’ If I live long enough the field will inexorably disappear. That same week, my daughter Julie played five points with Karim Darwish, then ranked sixth in the world, on the glass court at Grand Central Terminal. Julie is the current women’s national champion in both the 40 and 45 [age classes] and has 14 national titles to her credit. Cherished items for the memory bank.” Great going, Bob. Get ready for a return engagement when you’re 90.

1945 70th REUNION June 12–14, 2015

PHILLIPS William M. Barnum 89 Angell St. Providence RI 02906 401-861-6083 wmbarnum@hotmail.com

Dear PA ’45 classmates, Hal McInnes was kind enough to send me a copy of Larry Ward’s obituary. For those of you who didn’t know, Larry died on June 1, 2014. He spent most of his adult life working for the familyowned Palm Beach Company, a leading men’s tailored apparel manufacturer. After Andover he enlisted in the Marine Corps, and after that, he attended Harvard. He scored the only and winning ice hockey goal against Yale in a 1948 match. (It’s OK; I still liked him.) He was an outstanding golfer and played in Kennebunk Beach, Maine, for 75 years. He worked with youth sports, including hockey and baseball. There never was a more likeable friend, and I believe we were all very lucky to have him as a classmate. There may be other

Andover | Winter 2015

news from other classmates, but I think I would like to dedicate these notes to Larry. God bless you all.—Bill Barnum

1946 ABBOT Sarah Allen Waugh 441 Pequot Ave. Southport CT 06890 203-259-7640 SallyAW@optonline.net

PHILLIPS Richard R. Hudner 24 Merrill St. Newburyport MA 01950 978-462-0103 rickhudner@gmail.com

The New York Times carried the obituary of Tony Ritter, as well as several condolences from organizations with which he was affiliated. Tony ran his family’s clothing manufacturing business. The condolences all mentioned his lively wit. He passed away on Aug. 22, 2014. Out in Sharon, Conn., Jack Lynch is “hangin’ in there.” Frank Jones, who has spent time with his son in California, flies back East and visits Jack. Dick Kimball, who lives across the Connecticut border in New York, also meets up with Jack. On a personal note: My granddaughter, Joanna Weaver, in her third year at College of the Atlantic, in Bar Harbor, Maine, is studying filmmaking. She has flown to Denmark with other students to visit the island of Samso, which is internationally known for its work on energy efficiency. She will be doing video documentation. Islands in the state of Maine pay some of the highest energy rates in the U.S., and future energy options create unacceptable environmental degradation. So her work will help local organizations improve Maine’s energy future.

1947 ABBOT Mary Lou Miller Hart 47 Harborview Road Lewes DE 19958 302-644-9249 mlhart@comcast.net

It is a beautiful day in September. It looks like fall may be on the way after a hot summer. Jane Lewis Gleason writes about sitting on her front porch overlooking Kezar Lake, in Maine—so calm. How I envy her! When we are young, we have problems with children. Joyce Huntington Knights writes, “Hardest to deal with is our dear dog. He ruptured his cruciate ligament and tore the meniscus. He’s

been operated on but needs restricted activity for three months and he’s not used to anything but go-go-go! A bit hard on us all—nine weeks to go!” Any of us who have had pets knows how easily they become a part of the family. Joyce and her husband, Cal, are still doing same old, same old and are glad they can. Virginia “Ginny” Eason Weinmann writes: “I have recently switched to gmail as my main e-mail service, so I have a new address! The address I will be using primarily from now on is veweio@gmail.com. I will continue to receive e-mail at my old address, vew@cox.net, but I will be responding from my new one. Please update your address book information. A signature will be attached to all my e-mails as a reminder, in case you forget!” Harriet Beecher Stowe conceived of throwing Abbot Academy’s first Bazaar in 1854 to raise funds for a campus initiative. On September 20 of that year, great crowds attended to catch a glimpse of Mrs. Stowe. The organizers raised approximately $2,000. This past year, the Abbot Bazaar and Spring Carnival was held on the Abbot Circle, marking the 40th anniversary of coeducation. The most memorable traditions from the Abbot Bazaar were revived and combined with a Spring Carnival, for a day of fun for the whole family. Events included a bake sale, face painting, a hula-hoop contest, pie throwing, musical entertainment, a special dance performance, and much more. There was a special viewing in Davis Hall of the Abbot Academy oralhistory film The Girls of Abbot by Charlie Stuart ’62. Afternoon activities were followed by a cookout dinner.

PHILLIPS Bob Lasley 1958 Cherryvale Court Toms River NJ 08755 ralasley@comcast.net

Once again I have heard virtually nothing, so here goes. I’m just back from a two-week tour of a place called Russia and can report it’s an incredible place. My wife, Judy, and I, along with Ned Mulligan’s widow, Grace, and her husband, Tom Kurtz, spent three days in Moscow in a Marriott hotel, seven days on a riverboat en route to St. Petersburg, stopping at several very small villages, and four days in St. Petersburg in a Radisson hotel. We visited every palace, castle, and church, most of which were very heavily gilded with gold paint. Don’t stand still near one or you’ll get covered with gold paint. A few places were totally unbelievable: the Hermitage Museum, the Winter Palace, and Peterhof Palace. St. Petersburg is a much prettier city than Moscow, but both were interesting, despite the presence of KFC, McDonald’s, and 7-Eleven stores. Of particular note was the absence of tall buildings; six or seven stories was the norm. Also in St. Pete, some of the major streets were eight lanes wide

www.andover.edu/intouch and also had generous sidewalks, which required underground tunnels to cross. The language barrier made any assessment of the people almost impossible, but I saw no evidence of even the slightest hostility, and the very few Englishspeaking people were quite friendly. Enough of the travelogue—go see it if you can. Talk about refusing to retire: I recently received from Alex Blackburn a copy of his just-published novel about the Ludlow massacre of 1914, The Door of the Sad People, as well as a short note sending his greetings to the class and a copy of an interview in the Bloomsbury Review. The interview is pretty much a bio, and in case you’ve forgotten the 50th Reunion book, Alex may well be the only member of the class who witnessed a test explosion of the atomic bomb—right after Yale graduation. Of greater moment, he’s had a great career as an author, editor, and professor of literature at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. He’s written or edited some 30 books, and he’s still writing and being published. I’m exhausted just thinking about it. I connected with Bob Silver for lunch in New York (between visits with the Sloan Kettering people) and enjoyed a further review of his wanderings. I think he’s off to Paris for one of his periodic visits. He does enjoy life. I also contacted Vic Tyler’s wife, Mary, who reports that Vic is making headway, but it’s still a long struggle. Mike Suisman and Elsa Daspin Suisman’s granddaughter, Frances Haft Yackel, is graduating with the Class of 2015 after four great years at PA. The final word is good news: I have no reports of any of the class succumbing to age. Keep up the good work.

1948 ABBOT Gene Young 30 Park Ave., Apt. 12C New York NY 10016 212-679-8931 panchogene@gmail.com

These notes are being written in early September 2014, so adjust yourselves accordingly. Jane Kenah Dewey and I were interviewed during our reunion in June 2013 for a film about Abbot. The completed film, containing interviews with alumnae from many classes, is being shown in selected cities such as New York and Boston and on campus on various occasions when alumni are on hand. A schedule should be available on the Andover website, www.andover.edu. Jacqueline Kay Schlosser says that she’s “chugging along.” This fall Jackie and her husband, Alfred, took a cruise through the Canadian Maritimes, starting in Quebec and traveling through Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Nancy Elliot Stewart moved from the country into a condominium in her town, Pennington, N.J.,

Roger McLean, Bob Segal, Allen West, and Dick Lindsay, all Class of ’48, took in a Red Sox game at Fenway Park over the summer.

after her husband died last year. She occasionally volunteers at a soup kitchen and says, “I swim, I walk, I read, I draw, I sew, I cook.” Mary Muessel Pulling earned a master’s degree in special education but is now retired. She is looking forward to the reopening, in her hometown of Atlanta, of a university program for seniors, which offers classes in a wide selection of subjects in current events and the arts. Her fellow students are retired professionals, many from the faculty of nearby Georgia Tech and Emory, who sometimes also act as teachers in her classes. Rosemary Jones visited her son, Jeremy, his wife, Amy, and her grandson, Gabriel, in their new home in Marblehead, Mass., this summer. Jeremy drives to Andover for business at least once a week and goes right by the Abbot gates. You may remember Jeremy as one of our class children, who accompanied his mother to several reunions. He remembers us once a week! Because no one sends me news, I’ve been telephoning classmates, more or less at random. It’s been great to catch up with 60-plus years’ worth of news! For myself, I’ve been staying fit and enjoying myself taking ballroom dancing lessons (much more fun than the gym!). I have also done the waltz—and the tango and rumba and cha-cha— in Vienna, Dubai, and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., at dances organized by my studio. I’d truly love to hear from you! Please feel free to call, write, or e-mail me.

PHILLIPS Robert Segal 118 Sutton Hill Road North Andover MA 01845 978-682-9317 robsegna@verizon.net

As summer drew down, Roger McLean called from Falmouth, Maine, to say that he had tickets

for a coming Red Sox night game against the Orioles and to ask whether I might be able to join him and classmates Allen West and Dick Lindsay. We would eat at the ballpark. I had not been to Fenway since lower year. I accepted and drove in from Andover with Dick. The Sox were already 20½ games out, but how could anyone resist the mini reunion and a chance to take in the Green Monster? We navigated the crowded streets, rendezvoused at Roger’s hotel, and marched four strong, topped with Red Sox caps, to Yawkey’s stadium. (Did you know that Shew Hagerty’s uncle was a confidant of Tom Yawkey?) We did avail ourselves of the elevator to the third level, but we climbed and hustled our way through the crowds to seats high behind the batter’s box. I could hear my internist howl when I ordered an Italian sausage with everything; it was great. We came close to a few foul balls from home plate, but fortunately for our dignity we were not given any opportunities. Of course the Sox lost the game, but the loss was to first-place Baltimore. Some younger folk deferred to us on the way down and insisted we move ahead in line at the elevator. We found our way back to the car and our route out of the city. Roger stayed over to visit the Museum of Fine Arts the next day. The Boston group met in September. Phil Aronson, Bob Brace, Norm Henderson, Mike Hurwitz, Bob Segal, Al West, and Bob Whitney attended. We were not able to resolve the ISIS crisis. Along with Nancy and Mike Hurwitz, my wife, Maralyn, and I joined Barbara and Dick Rubin for dinner before the Rubins left for Florida, where they moved into a new retirement community. Our man Dan Garland called attention to Paul McHugh’s column in the Wall Street Journal concerning transgender surgery. Paul continues to stand at the forefront of psychiatry. Bill Miner called in August to tell me that Bill Freeman had passed away, and a subsequent Andover | Winter 2015

note from him included an obituary and the personal observation, “Bill was a very close friend of mine at Andover for three years and a great roommate of mine for all four years at Yale. We have kept in close touch over the many years and met at Mory’s every fall for the past several years.” William Goodell Freeman passed away peacefully after a long illness in Mountain Lake, Lake Wales, Fla., on July 26, 2014. Bill extended his wide circle of friends from Andover before graduating from Yale, where he was a member of Wolf ’s Head and manager of the national finalist hockey team in 1951–52. After serving in the Air Force as a first lieutenant, he joined Texaco, where he spent 35 years in marketing, becoming a general manager. He and wife Ruth were able to travel extensively and enjoyed work tours in the Caribbean. After his retirement, Bill turned to academia, teaching and coaching hockey at the Brunswick School for three years. He honed his skills at golf as he spent more of his time in Florida and is reported to have made a notable chocolate chip cookie. But his first love was his family: his wife, Ruth, and their three daughters and two grandsons. We lost, too, Paul Hotchkiss Miller, who died on May 30, 2014, in Meriden, Conn., after a long illness. “Loosh” was captain of the soccer team and manager of the track team at Andover. He graduated from Yale with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and served as a lieutenant in the Army. He spent most of his career with Fafnir Bearing in New Britain, Conn., as director of manufacturing engineering and plant facilities. Paul served on countless governmental and private boards and received the Meriden Citizen of the Year Award given by the Rotary. He leaves his wife, Carol, two daughters, a son, and five grandchildren. Finally, we report the death of James Irving Stockwell in Boston on July 14, 2014. He passed away unexpectedly following complications from surgery. Predeceased by his wife of 52 years, Elsie, he is survived by five children and five grandchildren. He grew up on Boston’s North Shore. Jim graduated from MIT and served with the U.S. Air Force in Korea. On completion of his service, he returned to Boston. He loved working at the leading edge of technology and cofounded Adage, Inc., a manufacturer of computer graphics equipment, in 1957. After working there as president, treasurer, and director, he changed directions and joined Heidrick & Struggles, an international executive search firm, where he was a partner and the director of the Boston office until his retirement in 1992. Jim was a board member of several for-profit and nonprofit organizations. He was an avid birdwatcher and an all-around nature enthusiast. He graciously gave his time and resources to many causes and efforts, expecting little in return other than integrity and accountability. After living in several locations around Boston, he settled at the Carleton-Willard Village retirement community

Andover | Winter 2015

in Bedford, Mass., where he remained active as a lecturer and writer for the Villager. We heard from Chuck Maslin following the deaths of Jim Stockwell and Paul Miller, and it occurs to us that our e-mail list is incomplete and in some instances incorrect. If you have received e-mails from me, you’re fine, but if you have not and would like to read the occasional update, send me your e-mail address.

1949 PHILLIPS

James P. McLane 28 County St. Ipswich MA 01938 978-356-4149 jpmcl@cs.com

Today’s notes start with a quiz, the answer to which relates obliquely to Andover. The question: Who was the greatest swimmer of all time? (Present company excepted.) The mythological Leander, whose love for Hero cost him his life swimming the Hellespont? Spitz, Thorpe, Phelps, or maybe Johnny (“Me Tarzan, you Jane”) Weissmuller? None of the aforementioned. The answer: Duke Kahanamoku. He swam in five Olympics. His early times were so good that the timers did not believe their watches and were accused of using alarm clocks instead of stopwatches. He broke the existing 100-yard-free world record by 4.5 seconds. He was A-list famous, made a dozen movies, and was the paramour of the oh-so-rich and beautiful Doris Duke. Duke Kahanamoku’s younger brother, Sergeant, attended Andover briefly in the ’30s. Rumor had it that he simply arrived on the school’s doorstep without benefit of administrative trivia like entrance exams or interviews. The 1930 Pot Pourri reports his setting a record in the 100-yard freestyle, but thereafter he was a no-show who was not awarded a letter and did not compete in the Exeter meet. Word of mouth had it that he went home to Hawaii, tired of dealing with frigid Andover. Back to more timely matters, Buddy Linn tells of tending, along with spouse Lynn Linn, to his extended family of 21 descendants. Our prolific author, Edward Packard, is trying to get grandkids weaned away from computer games and on to more reading. At the same time, he is collaborating on a new computer game based on one of his books. Is this literary irony? My last knee-pad job for news, in the opinion of Paul Brodeur’s computer, was considered junk mail. Is that what is called faint praise? He reports that Tania and Tony Robinson visited. Already an accomplished artist, Tania is continuing her painting studies in Provincetown, Mass. If you had a case of the dulls this summer, read up. Paul’s daughter, son, and three grandchildren were in the ocean off Nauset Inlet in son Stephen’s fishing boat when they sighted a 20-foot great white shark. Stephen videotaped the entire event, accompanied

by the shrieks of the children; the footage was then featured on ABC World News. Some happy news from Paul Cleveland: His grandson, Alexander, entered the junior class at Andover this fall. Paul’s son, Peter, graduated in the ’80s. Bill Rhangos leads a tough life: tennis three days a week, gym two to three days, crewing on a 39-foot C&C sloop. Nice retirement plan. We have been trading thoughts on the now-famous Demoulas family squabble over the 71-store Market Basket supermarket chain. It’s a case in which the employees walked out in protest over the firing of the president; $1.5 billion settled the dispute. The families are Bill’s cousins. He shopped there as a lad when it was a small mom-and-pop shop in Lowell. Bill Torrey is still a groupie on the upscale traditional and classic jazz scene. Each November, he sponsors a group of international jazz artists at an annual festival, and he has made many friends with this group. He also directs his family scholarship fund, which has been providing exceptional academic experiences over the years. Bill harks back to our days in the Andover pool, thinking that perhaps those workouts were responsible for two nautical survivors still around today. We have a wonderful update from Buzz Tilton. He wrote, “After PA, I went to Middlebury, then became a Naval aviation cadet, getting my wings in 1955. I was stationed at Jacksonville, Fla., flying F9F-8 Cougars, spending six months in 1956 on the aircraft carrier Coral Sea. I got out of the Navy in 1957 and joined the N.H. National Guard, flying numerous aircraft until retiring in 1976. I married Carol More in 1959 and we have three fine sons. I worked for Chubb Life Insurance Company for 34 years, retiring in 1991. In 2000, Carol and I built a home in Calusa Lakes, Nokomis, Fla., where we reside. After recent hip and knee replacements, I am no longer playing golf but hope to try again when the weather cools off. Otherwise, I am doing fine, and we are enjoying our life together in Florida.” Maggie and Turk Smith, whose condo overlooks Marblehead Harbor, have staged some memorable luncheons for Carol and me. Turk sent an old print of the late Spider Swenson standing precariously on a pinnacle where Turk says he would not have stood “for love nor money,” at Inspiration Point in Yellowstone National Park during a 1949 trip with Turk and Buzz Tilton. Bill Fleming says that at this stage of the game his news is no longer interesting nor even news— just aging along quietly, enjoying all the physical and emotional changes you reap with old age and marveling at the new discoveries in science and medicine in particular. Bill is glad there are so many “jaw dropping” discoveries and inventions that still excite the mind and give hope for a brighter future for mankind. Beautifully said, Bill. Finally, let me thank all of you for your thoughtfulness in keeping me informed.

www.andover.edu/intouch 1950 65th REUNION June 11–14, 2015

ABBOT

Nora Johnson 1619 Third Ave., Apt. 13G New York NY 10128 212-289-2097 noraj31@gmail.com

Our 65th will be upon us before you know it, and it is my job and pleasure to announce that PA wants us to come very badly. Andover alumni have started early and are working hard to make this reunion the best ever. They have been made aware by your class secretary that Abbot attendees at the 60th (all four of us) felt slightly lost and not included—and they are eager to welcome us back. This is something of a challenge, because there are far fewer of us than there are of them, and Abbot is now more of a concept than a real place. The old Abbot memories have to be dug out, dusted off, and hung in a strong light, to remind us that this was the place where we spent a few important and—let’s hope—happy years. The school is dangling some temptations to help persuade us to be there. For instance: Rooms at the Andover Inn. No cold, slippery black mattresses, and your own bathroom. Solid comfort at this centrally located, delightful hotel… for a slight addition in price. Golf carts (in addition to, of course, the shuttle buses to taxi us around campus). Once, I would have laughed at this Republican icon, but since my spine has become S-shaped, with accompanying misery, I think it’s a great idea. Extension of the reunion to four days—the better to accommodate long-distance travel and provide more time to see everybody and do everything. You don’t have to stay the whole time, of course, but with an extra day you’d be able to get to the places you might have missed…or just lounge around somewhere and people-watch. The old boys have gathered together and come up with a bouquet of suggestions about other small matters, based on criticisms of the last reunion. (You may laugh, but remember, God is in the details.) A few are: Bigger, much more legible name tags, which can be read without burying your nose in someone’s lapel. And the kind that hang around your neck— no pins to stab yourself on or sticky tags that keep falling off. It may sound like a nothing, but don’t forget, you have to wear the thing the whole time or be invisible. Better food. After last time, many felt the need for gastronomic upgrading. An improved bar scene. No drippy, spilly, tacky plastic glasses. And please, a few nuts or chips. After all, consider the cost of the reunion—plus the flying, driving, train-riding, and taxis, not to mention years of generous contributions to the old school!

Well, a guy at least deserves a good, hefty, and free drink in a piece of decent, if rented, glassware. He should make his fourth million only to get his Bottega Veneta pants soaked with martini? Get outta here! Umbrellas. This is New England. How about a stack of them? Gender matters. PA wives/partners and Abbot alumnae have expressed serious boredom with the old-boy culture that is, after all, the heart of the occasion. Women’s topics have been suggested as compensation—but surely not sewing circles or cupcake making! Women are now as interested in Middle East wars as men are in grilling fish. The answer must be in enough gender-neutral but interesting talks. Me, I’d go for astronomy, or Jane Austen, or the Islamic religion, or a really good garden tour, or the culture of the ’50s, or an art lecture connected to something in the Addison Gallery…all of which would distract from “Ho-hoho, remember the time we got drunk and did some awful not-funny thing?” PA would welcome Abbot’s participation in planning these events. Would anyone like to stand up before a group and talk about her life and/or occupation? Or help in planning other sessions of “Back to the Classroom”? If you would like to become involved in this, e-mail Antony Herrey ’50 (reunion chair) at newportproperty@gmail.com or Eric Wentworth ’50 (class secretary) at ebw@bellatlantic.net. At their meetings, the PA alums mentioned connection. Where was Abbot at the last reunion? They couldn’t even find us—and no wonder, because there were only four of us, and we were sticking together because we didn’t know the campus and didn’t know any people. Attention, PA alums and accompanying wives or partners: There’s a simple and humane solution. Keep a sharp eye out for lost ladies, and if you see one, approach her—she might be an Abbot girl! Talk to her; introduce her to a group of your friends. Lead her to the next event, take her under your wing. Be a good host, as though she were a guest at your home. She’ll be beyond grateful. Please come, Abbot ’50! They’re waiting to welcome us!

PHILLIPS Eric B. Wentworth 2126 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Apt. 32 Washington DC 20008 202-328-0453 ebw@bellatlantic.net

Tony Herrey, who’s chairing our 65th Reunion June 11–14, traveled to Berlin in late August to continue working with the German writer of an illustrated biography of his father, a noted architect and designer. Tony is otherwise devoting much of his time to promoting record reunion attendance of our octogenarian classmates and their families,

including those who have rarely if ever shown up at past get-togethers. One remote class member he successfully reached was John Avery, who for many years had been living in Denmark. You may remember John as a cross-country runner. John was delighted to hear from Tony about the reunion, though he had to send his regrets, writing, “I would like nothing better than to attend it, but sadly my health has recently taken a turn for the worse, and I am unable to travel. Please give my warmest greetings to our classmates who are there. I will be with you in spirit. “Despite my poor health,” John went on, “I continue scientific research and writing on quantum theory, together with my son James, who is working in a closely related field at the Niels Bohr Institute. It is a great privilege and pleasure to be able to work with him. I have six children (from two marriages) and six grandchildren. My Danish wife, Birthe, was trained in medicine, but has spent most of her career doing medical research.” I looked up John on Wikipedia and read about his distinguished career as a theoretical chemist, researcher, University of Copenhagen professor, author of Information Theory and Evolution and other books, and world peace activist involved with the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Another classmate who’s based overseas is Andy Hall, who, with his wife, Felicia, dwells most of the time in Spain but keeps an apartment in Boston’s Back Bay. “Here in Spain,” Andy wrote, “we had a family reunion in June, wrapped around our 60th wedding anniversary. Although not all nine grandchildren could make it, every family was represented. What’s more, those who hadn’t been here for a while said that they want to mend their ways and return more often! A victory!” Andy also described a July cruise in Spain on an elegant four-masted ship: “Our particular cruise was in and around the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Valencia. It started in Palma and visited all the islands, with additional stops in Valencia, where we had memorable paella, and in Sant Carles de la Ràpita, near the mouth of the Ebro river, where at 11 a.m. (!) we debauched on oysters with cava (the Spanish equivalent of Champagne or prosecco).” Andy said he would enjoy coming to our reunion as he and Felicia make the spring rounds of stateside college and high school graduations. “It’s been a long time since I’ve had this pleasure,” he wrote. While few of us venture back to Andover for new classroom experiences, those who do can find it rewarding. “I’ve just experienced the joy of being back in class at Andover!” Jerry Schauffler wrote in mid-August. “During a delightful visit with my granddaughter, Skylar Jeveli, while she was attending Summer Session, I had the privilege of sitting in on two classes: international relations and robotics. The first one in particular was over-the-top fascinating. Fourteen students from around the world Andover | Winter 2015

focused on the Arab Spring and the responses of the U.S. and other nations. By sitting in on this discussion, any gathering of current world leaders could have learned an invaluable lesson as to how bright, engaged people from wildly diverse backgrounds can have civil discourse while working together to create a common solution to the most sticky of problems.” Bill King and his partner, Jayne Palmer, proudly showed off their new digs on Front Street in Bath, Maine, overlooking the Kennebec River, to Pim Epler, Phil Brooks, and their wives, who visited in August. Bill and Jayne had spent many months expanding and renovating what had been Jayne’s house. “They all seemed suitably impressed,” Bill reported. “I have been retired since 1990 from a retail career—sold a business and became a Florida resident,” Jerry Epstein reported. “We spend summers on Cape Cod with various remnants of five children and their families. Occasionally try to play a decent round of golf without too much embarrassment. Have lost a bit off my ‘fastball’ but slog on. Have family in the Andover area so pass through the campus occasionally with some wonderment.” Pressed for more golf news, Jerry added, “I haven’t competed in tournaments for several years but do visit a driving range to fight the incursions of age in my backswing.” Jerry, you may recall, was team captain at Andover. Don Botto wrote that he was finally shooting his age in golf—“twice in July, due to shorter courses and my age.” Don reported that he made his first hole in one in July. Charlie Flather reported, “I took two of my children and my 10-year-old twin grandchildren on a Danube cruise from Budapest, Hungary, to Nuremberg, Germany, in late June.” Charlie’s grandchildren actually include two sets of twins. Meanwhile, Charlie wrote, he moved in January from his house in Marblehead, Mass., to RiverWoods, a retirement community in Exeter, N.H.: “I have family roots in the town, in that some ancestors lived in Exeter as far back as the early 1700s and as recently as the mid-1800s.” Charlie was keeping his Middlegreen Associates office in downtown Boston and commuting by train from Exeter. He writes, “I’m there several days a week but work in Exeter on most of the days I do not have an appointment in the city.” Also showing up for work at his own office in Boston was George Abrams, who wrote, “I am still at my office pretty much every day, doing law work and holding several board positions. Like to keep doing it for a while.” As Charlie, George, and other classmates demonstrate, our work ethic is alive and well! [Editor’s note: The Academy has received word that Richard Eder passed away on Nov. 21, 2014, Guillermo E. Gonzalez Jr. passed away on Sept. 23, 2014, and Robert C. Todd Jr. passed away on Sept. 15, 2014. Please see their obituaries in the In Memoriam section.]

Andover | Winter 2015

1951 ABBOT

Connie Hall DeNault 37 Green St. Marblehead MA 01945 781-631-9233 dkdenault@comcast.net

PHILLIPS George S.K. Rider 22 Curiosity Lane Essex CT 06426 860-581-8199 ridercrawford@gmail.com

Two events dominated our summer. On June 14, daughter Jenny ’86 was married to Bill McKeever at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Essex, Conn. One hundred ninety family members and friends gathered for the three-day celebration. The reception was held at the Essex Yacht Club on a perfect summer afternoon and evening. Alex Donner ’70’s orchestra provided the best dance music I can ever remember. Lots of Cole Porter! They are simply the best. The happy pair honeymooned in Italy and Greece. Dick Kapelson could not make it: His family was throwing a surprise 80th birthday party for him and had to reveal the surprise at the last minute to keep him from attending the wedding. How come I’m 82 and Dick is 80? Bill Duffy was in for overhaul and repairs, including a new hip, and was also unable to attend. Late summer preparation of my book, The Rogue’s Road to Retirement, kept me very busy. Reality set in six weeks after the wedding at a breakfast in Old Saybrook, Conn., with Jenny, my agent, and the editor. Jenny was helping me get the final manuscript ready to meet a Sept. 1 deadline. What a scramble. The book is due out in January 2015. Andover and the Military is having a busy and productive year. In April, as a part of the Non Sibi Weekend celebration, the school and Andover and the Military hosted events honoring the life and sacrifice of Erik Kristensen ’91. During dinner, between the outdoor memorial service and a private screening of the movie Lone Survivor in Cochran Chapel, Charlie Dean ’79, initiator and producer of the idea, presided over presentation of a special lapel pin to each Andover veteran in attendance. At this past year’s June reunion, trustee Tom Beaton’73 and Charlie Dean attended the Saturday all-hands alumni meeting held in the Chapel. At the conclusion of the meeting, all veterans were asked to come forward to receive pins. Tom and Charlie were astounded to award more than 75 Andover male and female veterans. One Marine wanted three pins: One for his dad, an Andover Marine; one for himself; and one for his Andover son, who is now serving in the Marines. At this writing, we

were busy with the next edition of the Blue Guidon, due out before our November Andover and the Military dinner. Please join Andover and the Military—it’s easy and rewarding! More Navy: In mid-September, my wife, Dorothy, and I planned to attend the USS Abbot (DD-629)’s reunion, headquartered at Pawtucket, R.I. It looked to be a busy five days: trips to our old home port in Newport; the submarine base in Groton, Conn.; the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., for a special lunch; and a formal dinner Saturday. I expected the highlight for me would be the memorial service on 9/11, held on the fantail of the USS Massachusetts (BB-59), honoring those shipmates now departed, and luncheon aboard. It’s always a grand gathering. Two surviving “plank owners” (members of the original ship’s company), dating back to 1942, planned to be with us! Peter Baldwin is still very much still at it. His new book, A Scattering of Seeds, follows Gleanings, published in 2011. He writes, “Every one of you to whom I am sending this news has figured within the stories and the story of my living. You will find stories that will reflect on your story or stories.” Be well, Peter! Go to http://bit.ly/1oaU46B for more information. Kenly Webster responded to an e-mail I sent around about WWII and Normandy. He lost an uncle during the Battle of the Bulge and was thankful for the reminder. Bob Barton gently chided me with the observation that I had made a mistake in a recent column. I’m not passing the buck, but I did quote from an e-mail sent to me by Tony Thompson, secretary of his class at Stanford, who wistfully listed the names of several classmates from Andover who had departed: George Stewart, Bob Kimball, Packy Maxwell, and the aforementioned Bob Barton. Bob assures me that he has made a miraculous reappearance; he was heading out to play tennis so he can retain the tennis (non) trophy he won by defeating Dock Houk at the last reunion. He also remembered Jerry Schultz’s “odd-looking shoes” in an earlier communication. What say you, Jerry? Bob, sorry about the typo, but glad you’ll defend your title against Dock! I recently forwarded an e-mail about “What Cool Really Means,” which depicted a number of  ’50s-era movie stars, including Angie Dickinson, shown with her arm on Dean Martin’s shoulder on the set of Rio Bravo in 1959. In response, Tony Thompson recalled that he and Tony Mayer were Life magazine’s two hires in 1959. He once took a call from Angie, who phoned in sick. Doc Castle and wife Nancy vacationed for 10 days in Barcelona, Spain. He lamented that they were unable to stay longer because Nancy is a fulltime professor at Northern Illinois University. Doc had just spoken to Charlie Bradley and received the upsetting news that Charlie is battling a rare disease and is housebound. Billy Lee e-mailed me for the addresses of Ed Nef and Joe Bartlett. Ed’s was easy. I wrote

www.andover.edu/intouch Billy that as far as I know Joe has disappeared and is probably somewhere in a witness protection program! Any help here? With a few words left on my word count, attention on deck! Will the following sound off for the next notes (the rest will be called out in short order): Joe Bartlett, Jim Doak, Bob Doran, Don Falvey ’52, and Nick Thorndike. At ease! Stay well.

1952 ABBOT

Mary “Molly” Edson Whiteford 149 Pine Valley Road Lake Oswego OR 97034 503-636-0980 mwhiteford149@gmail.com

PHILLIPS Mike Bromberg P.O. Box 423 The Sea Ranch CA 95497 707-785-3910 mjbromberg@pbnlaw.com

Peripatetic Jim Kern reports that his September 2012 hip replacement surgery did not go well. But he had a “do-over” in August 2013, and fortunately, he was able to get his hiking boots into the snow again during the summer of 2014 in Norway and France. He traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark, as well. Ray Foote saw T.K. Vodrey and wife Peggy in Greenwich, Conn., while T.K. was staying with Phyllis and Tony Potter in spring 2014. T.K. has sold his restaurants but continues to be “full of energy and some great stories,” says Ray. Pierce Bullen retired from the State Department in 1995 with senior officer rank and spent some years in part-time teaching and activity in rental real estate. He fully retired in 2011, and wife Helene and he moved to a retirement community in Raleigh, N.C. Bob Keith writes that his son Barker, who lives in Bermuda, visited Shelby Tucker ’53 in Oxford, England. Shelby showed him where Bob’s brother, John ’53, spent some time years ago. Jim Downey celebrated his 80th with his seven children and their spouses, 14 grandchildren, two brothers, one sister, and about 20 old pals at his Wisconsin farm in May 2014. He describes it as “a glorious day.” His favorite present was a flowering crabapple tree that “will outlast us all.” Harris Faigel has been doing genealogical digging; he’s found cousins all over the world and has visited many. Bruce Warr and partner Verla have been volunteering at a wetlands sanctuary near Omaha. He describes an encounter with a green heron. He was kind enough to send along a photograph, which, unfortunately, I cannot provide. Lex Thielens stopped by Andover on a spring trip to Maine, with a stay at the Andover Inn

and dinner at Paresky Commons. He enjoyed interacting with students at a parents’ meeting on applying to college. Lex also attended the advanced Mandarin class and a French class, which he enjoyed greatly. I enjoyed hearing from our songster, Dick Parke. Dick sang professionally until the early ’70s. His wife, Susan, is a member of the education staff at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. While he maintains “too many tanks of tropical and fancy goldfish” and “plays” with antique model trains, some older than he, he claims to be supported by Susan and supervised by Felix and Zinka, their Tonkinese cats. He concludes that he is “living proof that it is better to be lucky than good, smart, talented, etc.” My wife, Lisa, and I are about to leave for Mazan, in Provence, France, to celebrate my 80th with 16 friends, including my sons Eric and Bruce, the restaurateurs. This will be my 61st trip to France. Steve Whitney would be proud! Before you put this down, send me a letter or an e-mail bringing me up to date on your life. The sand is running through the hourglass! As ever.—Mike

1953 ABBOT

Patricia Eveleth Buchanan 9 The Valley Road Concord MA 01742 978-369-6838 pebl35@comcast.net

PHILLIPS Bill Joseph 225 W. 83rd St., Apt. 5Q New York NY 10024 347-907-4647 (cell) wjoseph80@hotmail.com

If you were to turn to Steve Quint’s bio in the 50th Reunion book produced by Bill Kaufmann, you would find a picture of Steve in his Elks Lodge treasurer’s regalia. He remains active, supervising the lodge’s gambling activities. Johns Manville, Steve’s employer, moved him to Colorado in 1972, where he has remained. His daughter lives in New Jersey. I spoke briefly with Dave Kaplan, whose wife, Nancy, remains in need of constant care. Gordon Mackenzie lives in Fairfield, Conn. Having retired, he remains active in his church and enjoys duplicate bridge and golf. He has two grandsons and one granddaughter. The classmate Gordon sees and talks to most frequently is Bill Ridgway (see below), who was also a classmate of his at Princeton. Facebook advised me of Neal Robinson’s recent birthday, so I called and caught up. He was in the midst of a backyard cookout with his

wife, three out of four children, and 13 out of 16 grandchildren. Orville Mann is still practicing in the family law firm. He’s in Upper Nyack, N.Y., recovering from a second knee replacement. He is waiting to get back to doubles tennis and golf. He also spends four months in Florida annually. John Poinier now has a second hip replacement to go with his two knees and shoulder. And he still skates. (Maybe it’s a good thing I never learned to ice skate properly.) John has four married daughters and two grandchildren. He continues to work at KMS Financial Services. Bill Ridgway continues to live in Old Lyme, Conn. He is spending his retirement walking his dog, painting his fences, running his model train layout, and enjoying his 12 grandchildren. George Reindel and wife Cathy are healthy and happy. Recently they followed an annual ritual and met Frank Moore, George’s Andover and law school roommate, at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. George has given up tennis but enjoys summers on the shores of Lake Michigan. He has three children and one granddaughter. Pete Perkins is living in Plano, Texas, and working on his garden. He has four children, 10 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren! Geoff Root ranches in Oklahoma, where he moved years ago from Vermont, the place he had settled upon leaving the Marine Corps, after service in Vietnam. He has four children, one of whom lives on 40 acres of the ranch (the others are in DC and Virginia), and a double bypass. It was Andover summers working on the Nevada ranch of Bill Wright ’50 that prepared him for this work. I was surprised when Harry Loberg reminded me that he left PA after lower-middle year. I only arrived as a lower. I remember him so clearly I find it hard to believe that we only overlapped for a single year! Harry retired as a full-time California judge in 2003 and served as an assigned judge for six or seven additional years. Harry and wife have two daughters, each of whom has two children of her own. One daughter lives 20 minutes from Harry, the other 45 minutes. Harry has no close friends from PA but has received fundraising calls from Joe Mesics and Skip Kimball over the years. The best thing Shelby Tucker ever sent me was John Ratté’s poem, “Andover, June Eight 1953.” I only wish life really followed art. Unfortunately, John’s reference to “the bits we send for the Bulletin / [A]bout the great things we’re doing…” is not very reflective of life. In memoriam: Albert Washington Pearsall III died on Aug. 13, 2014, after suffering a major heart attack. He had had a heart condition for several years. Ray Lamontagne texted, “The thing I remember most about Al was that he was always smiling! Lovely man.” Our condolences and sympathy go to wife Corlas and their children and grandchildren. Walter Alexander died on June 20, 2014. He ran his family’s business for 42 years and was active throughout his career in many civic activities and charities as well as business boards. Walt’s wife, Andover | Winter 2015

Karen, wrote, “He was a tough old Scot with a very kind heart, and we will mourn what we no longer have—a quirky wit, a sweet heart, and a rock to lean on.” An epitaph of which anyone would be proud. Walt had four children, two of whom graduated from Andover, and 11 grandchildren, one of whom entered PA in fall 2013. We send our condolences to Karen and to the whole family. Stay well, and keep those cards, letters, and e-mails coming.

1954 ABBOT

Nancy Donnelly Bliss 31 Cluf Bay Road Brunswick ME 04011-9349 207-725-0951

Kudos to all classmates who participated in the worthwhile endeavor to raise more than $20,000 for the Brace Center for Gender Studies for our 60th Reunion gift. I agree with Diane Cookman Stallworth, who wrote, “Amazing fundraising! Nothing like active women on a cause-oriented mission.” Many Abbot alums will be interested in knowing that I had two wonderful notes from Miss Adele Bockstedt, who was a French teacher while we were at Abbot. She is 95 years old and lives in Florida. She sent her best wishes as we celebrated our 60th Reunion and wrote, “What a great bunch of promising women!” After seeing our group picture, Miss Bockstedt said that she recognized many of us and that we had weathered the 60 years with great success. Lucy Lippard and I had some good visits while on our walks on Kennebec Point in Georgetown, Maine. Lucy, who lives in New Mexico, is well and continues to write and lecture in the field of art as well as on environmental issues, particularly concerning the Southwest region of the country. Lucy’s latest book, Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West, was recently published by the New Press. According to an introduction to a review, the book deals with environmental issues such as gravel pits and fracking and “contextualizes” them within a spectrum of larger problems, while looking at the histories of the West, photography, and land art. Thanks, Lucy, for continuing to have a strong voice on so many important environmental issues. Francie Nolde and her husband, Hugh Fortmiller ’52, were able to attend a luncheon held this past summer with former head of Abbot Don Gordon ’52. The gathering was particularly meaningful since Hugh and Don were classmates at PA. Later, they enjoyed dinner with Don and his wife, Ruth, where they were able to continue reminiscing and to enjoy good conversation about their lives today. In July, Peggy Moore Roll spent time with Paige Roberts, PA’s director of archives and special collections, talking about Abbot and the material

Andover | Winter 2015

Paige has collected for the archives. Peggy has graciously donated many photos and other memorabilia, including her class ring, and urges other Abbot alums to do likewise. I am sad to report that Ann Norwood passed away at home in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., on June 9, 2014. Ann led an amazing, full life as documented by her obituary in the local paper: “Dr. Norwood generously shared her wisdom, wit, kindness, and joy as teacher, counselor, pastor, cousin, friend, and adopted grandmother.” She was remembered by Diane Cookman Stallworth as “a very sweet, kind, and very smart classmate.” Sarah Harrington Williams wrote, “Very sad to hear that Ann Norwood passed away. She was indeed a ‘dear soul.’ One memory has always stayed in my ‘memory bank’ about Ann. We were playing field hockey one afternoon, and Ann got hit in the face by the ball. It cut her cheek and she bled quite profusely. [PE teacher] Miss Judd told me to hold the compress on Ann’s cheek and to walk her to see the nurse. It is strange that I remember that so clearly…and other things, not so much!” Sarah also wrote that she is well and feels “fulfilled owning and managing a rescue/rehab facility for farm animals.” Valjeanne Brodeur-Paxton remembers being at Boston University with Ann Norwood and is grateful that Ann had a rich and fulfilled life. Valjeanne also wrote that she had a busy summer acting as interim chaplain at a local medical facility. I continue to enjoy life in Maine. We had a grand summer at the cottage on the ocean, where we enjoyed visits with the family, walking on the beach, and generally savoring each special day. I have also enjoyed having more contact with the folks in the alumni office at PA and look forward to being involved in keeping the legacy of Abbot alive. I am grateful to all who stay in touch and for your support. As Sarah Harrington Williams wrote, “Stay well and be happy.” —Nancy

PHILLIPS W. Parker Seeley Jr., Esq. W. Parker Seeley, Jr., & Associates, PC 855 Main St., 5th Floor Bridgeport CT 06604 203-366-3939 ext. 483 wps@seeleyberglass.com

Unfortunately, little news has come over my transom since the euphoria that spawned my reporting of the 60th Reunion. Linda and Kent McKamy met Tish and Hugh MacMillan in New York to participate in the September 21 People’s Climate March the day before the UN meeting regarding the global climate crisis. Kent has been appointed adjunct professor at the New York Theological Seminary, teaching a once-a-week class in communications (written, verbal, and nonverbal communications and essay writing) to a group of 14 inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. The course takes place inside the prison and runs

for eight months. Kent has created a first-of-its-kind prison ministry at his church (Brick Presbyterian Church in NYC). His teaching role is part of his commitment to helping incarcerated folks (men and women) reenter society positively, productively, and securely after they have served their sentences or are paroled. He reports that the recidivism rate among the many former Sing Sing students now released is zero. Ken MacWilliams, our tireless Virtual Continuing Reunion (VCR) leader, continues to keep track of us all and to keep the pot boiling with challenging topics on current issues and a great amount of reference information about various medical conditions, reflecting his tireless pursuit of a healthy lifestyle and his many associations in the medical services field. Jud Sage writes that he has just finished writing Pitcher: The Life and Loves of an Athlete, which he intends to self-publish; his The Irish Connection is available on Amazon. Dan Woodhead writes that his book, Modoc Vengeance, is now listed on Amazon. Anyone who has read it may write an Amazon book review, and he would welcome same (positive or negative). Tony White, emeritus professor of history at Sonoma State University, writes that he will lead a sixth trip to a Latin American country, this one a spiritual and historical journey to Cuba for 20 people, scheduled for Feb. 15–22, 2015. Tony has been a professor for 38 years and is active in the Latin American community in Santa Rosa, Calif., where he lives. Commitments for the trip were due by Nov. 17, 2014, which likely will not be relevant as this issue goes to press and is distributed later. Nonetheless, he can be contacted at 707-538-9129 or tonwhite@sonic.net.

1955 60th REUNION June 12–14, 2015

ABBOT Nancy Eastham Iacobucci 17 Wilgar Road Etobicoke ON M8X 1J3 Canada 416-231-1670 n.iacobucci@bluelink.andover.edu

Unfortunately, I am beginning with the very sad news that Kim Dow, the husband of Kathy Stirling Dow, died of pneumonia on May 22, 2014. During his 54-year marriage to Kathy, Kim was always a loyal supporter of Abbot ’55 at reunions, and we shall certainly miss him. Kim also had some other important Abbot connections: He served the school as treasurer during some financially difficult years, and he was on the search committee that chose Donald Gordon as head of school after Mary Crane. Our class sends heartfelt sympathy to Kathy and to Kathy and Kim’s two sons, David and Michael.

www.andover.edu/intouch On a happier note, three Abbot ’55 classmates had a lovely May visit at the home of Sue Appleton Jowett in Brunswick, Maine. Sue had contacted me to see if I might be traveling to New England for my college reunion, and the “mini” evolved from there. Kathy Lloyd met me at the Boston airport and we drove to Brunswick, where we stayed in a hotel. That is a significant bit of the story, since at one point we three elderly ladies had a swim in the hotel’s pool, sharing it with a child at least 70 years younger than we! “Hanging out” at Sue’s lovely home was a most important activity, as we gazed out over the beautiful Gurnet Strait (part of the New Meadows River), admired Sue’s amazing art collection, and chatted (and, of course, ate very well!). It was also fun to have time with Sue’s husband, Doug, before he departed in the wee small hours one morning, with his boat on a trailer behind him, heading to Cape Cod to run a fishing trip. I had two specific “to-do” things on my list, and we accomplished those. One was to go shopping at L.L. Bean, where Sue, as a former employee, was a very helpful “salesperson.” Of course, we then had to have a photo taken of the three of us in front of the giant L.L. Bean boot! We met an old Maine friend of mine nearby for lunch, during which we were amazed to discover that an old friend of hers (and mine) had a long-ago connection with Doug—it is indeed a small world! My second “to-do” item was to have a lobster feast, which was accomplished when the three of us had a delicious lunch overlooking another one of the many inlets in the Brunswick area. A third event, not on my list but much appreciated, was an excellent tour of Bowdoin College, given by Sue; I had never seen that campus before and was very impressed with how beautiful it is. Altogether it was a wonderful visit with old friends, as well as a good Maine “fix” for me. Not surprisingly, I have not had any news from any other classmates to report. If no news comes my way, there will be no column for Abbot ’55 (or, as I once threatened, I shall start making up things about you all). In either case, you have been warned!

PHILLIPS Tom Lawrence 1039 1/2 Sweetzer West Hollywood CA 90069 323-654-0286 323-804-4394 (cell) yogi@earthlink.net

Having helmed the class’s first two reunions before becoming a West Coaster, I had misgivings about handing over the job to Peter Briggs for our 25th conclave in 1980. Silly me! Unwittingly, I had tapped the classmate who was arguably our best administrator and go-to guy in secondary education. And with Don Oasis at his side, Peter made both our 25th and 50th Reunions memorable occasions. Peter passed away on July 25, 2014, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, after a brief illness.

At Andover, he was on the circulation board of The Phillipian and earned varsity letters in football, basketball, and track. He was captain of the football team, and in the third quarter of the 31-6 victory over Exeter, he threw the Red offense for losses on three consecutive plays and blocked a fourth down punt. At Harvard, his performance on the freshman football team was good enough for a mention in the fledgling Sports Illustrated, and he lettered in football, track, and lacrosse. Upon graduation, Peter enlisted in the U.S. Navy and used his swimming skills for explosive ordnance disposal while serving as a lieutenant aboard the USS Wasp (CV-18), which was part of the 1962 Cuban naval blockade. Peter’s burgeoning (and heretofore unmentioned) concern with education led to his appointment as an academic dean and teacher at the Naval Academy Preparatory School. His Navy discharge brought Peter to a faculty position at Newton (Mass.) South High School, where three years of exposure to public education led him to Stanford University for advanced studies and to Johns Hopkins for a master’s degree. In 1969, he was recruited by the National Institute of Education to serve as deputy assistant secretary in charge of research and dissemination of validated teaching techniques for secondary schools. When trustee Gerry Jones saw a disheartening turnover at the helm of Greenwich (Conn.) Country Day School, he brought Peter to the school, and so began a 16-year stint as headmaster. He initiated a daycare center for faculty and staff children, vastly improved faculty housing and salaries, introduced a comprehensive lower-school foreign language curriculum, and oversaw technology programs for the elementary grades. In 1990, Peter married Maura Resk, and two years later they became Texans as he began an eight-year tenure as headmaster of Greenhill School in Dallas. There, he created an office of diversity, increased the endowment, implemented innovative arts and technology programs, and joyfully coached middle school football. In 2001, Peter became president of the Texas division of Richard Milburn Academy, a group of public charter schools designed to help students, mostly from urban, low-income families, who have struggled in traditional school settings. He was responsible for nine schools serving more than 2,000 at-risk students, achieving an average 83 percent graduation rate, and he helped win a $6 million competitive grant for expansion of the RMA model to six additional schools. Peter was described by Tom Perryman, Greenhill’s assistant headmaster, as “a tough boss…not afraid to knock heads and rattle cages. He was driven to excellence; he demanded excellence.” “No nonsense” was another frequent characterization—which was true, until it was utter nonsense. Peter’s puckish sense of humor and belief that fun had a place in education had Greenwich students encountering the “undead” in their biology lab. The Greenhill Halloween Horribles parade became an entrenched annual display of

Kathy Lloyd, Sue Appleton Jowett, and Nancy Eastham Iacobucci, all Abbot Class of ’55, posed in front of the L.L. Bean boot while visiting Freeport, Maine, last spring.

silliness led by the headmaster. Perhaps this trait is best illustrated by a story told by Douglas J. Lyons, Peter’s successor at Greenwich Country Day. In a tribute to Peter posted on Greenwich Country Day’s news website, he wrote, “My first meeting with Peter…was September 1991, and I was a finalist candidate for the headmaster position.… The assistant to the headmaster welcomed me into the office, where I waited for Peter, who, I was told, was watching the annual mothers vs. daughters field hockey game. I had not been told that Peter had been commissioned by the mothers to join their team. “Peter arrived in a full dress hockey uniform— jersey top, pleated skirt, knee socks covering the lower part of his hairy legs. A blonde wig with long braids and deep red lipstick completed the transformation of the headmaster into a rather large field hockey mother. Without once referencing his costume, Peter offered me an assessment of the challenges the school would likely face in the next decade, defined the many reasons for his love and pride in Country Day, and assured me that, if selected, I would have ‘the best job in education.’ “A few days later, a handwritten note from Peter…congratulated me on my composure in our meeting, said he hoped I saw the humor in the scene, and promised me that the role of headmaster at Country Day would be serious business but not without opportunities to have fun.” Upon returning to Gloucester, Mass., Peter devoted himself to his wife, his many grandchildren, and his golf game, in which he indulged off and on with Jack Doykos, Steve Clarkson, Beez Morton, John Palmer, Bob Ferguson, Art Murphy, Art Hotchkiss, and Gerry Jones. It’s hard to imagine the number of young people who passed through Greenwich Country Day over 16 years, through Greenhill in eight years, and through Richard Milburn Academy’s campuses during Peter’s third career. It’s even more difficult to imagine how one man who walked in our midst as a youth could so profoundly have touched and enhanced so many lives…Y. Andover | Winter 2015

Last summer, Gar Lasater, Don Erdman, John McBride, Tam Scott, and Jim Taylor, all Class of ’56, met for a hike and long lunch at John’s ranch in Snowmass, Colo.

1956 ABBOT Anne Woolverton Oswald 7862 East Greythorn Drive Superstition Mountain AZ 85118 480-374-4281 317-502-0339 (cell) Woolvie56@gmail.com

[Editor’s note: Class secretary Anne Woolverton Oswald has asked if any classmates from the Abbot Class of  ’56 would like to share the job of class secretary with her. Please contact Laura MacHugh at 978-749-4289 or lmachugh@andover.edu if you’re interested in helping out.]

PHILLIPS Phil Bowers 322 W. 57th St., Apt. 30F New York NY 10019 212-581-0538 philbowers@verizon.net Philip R. Hirsh Jr. 106 Body’s Neck Road Chester, MD 21619 prhjr@rockbridge.net

How do you quickly assemble five classmates for a long hike and the chance to reminisce over a leisurely lunch? Apparently, all it takes is one e-mail to trigger such a spontaneous gathering. That’s how John McBride, Jim Taylor, Don Erdman, Gar Lasater, Tam Scott, and their wives got together at John and wife Laurie’s Snowmass, Colo., cattle ranch one day last summer. “We all seem to be in fine fettle,” Don reported. For Gar, it was a matter of “old friends in good spirits having

Andover | Winter 2015

fun again.” Jim took advantage of the moment to hire a guide for a highly successful day of “nymphing” (trout fishing, not to be confused with “nymphetting,” an entirely different enterprise). Tam and wife Susan spend summers in Carbondale, Colo., and winters on the Arizona-Mexico border near Patagonia, Ariz. They moved there from Montana because Montana was becoming “too crowded,” Tam says. Not so Patagonia, a town of 900, elevation 4,000 feet. Tam notes how much the border area has changed recently. He often encounters and helps desperate folks who have crossed the border but are wandering lost in the unforgiving high country terrain. Like a lot of us who used to love to hunt, Tam finds shooting game has lost its glow, and he now prefers to hike the area, kicking up quail and other wildlife. Alec Sutherland has been teaching English since 1971, mostly at Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y. Along the way, two Fulbrights and a Rotary professorship have taken him to Lebanon, Yemen, and Sri Lanka. Unable to cut the academic cord, he continues to teach some graduate seminars, and, he says, “I guess I’m retired, but if someone wanted me to mentor a master’s degree program, I would probably do it.” Alec and I shared some favorite Andover stories, especially about the great Dudley Fitts, whose uncensored Greek translations, Alec recalls, got him in trouble with puritanical New Englanders. Alec says, “He was thrilled to be banned in Boston.” Fitts’s relationship with T.S. Eliot led to a quote said to have been overheard on the steps of the Andover Inn in a conversation between Eliot and his muse, Emily Hale. Hale to Eliot: “Oh, no, dearie, we’re too old for that.” When the millennium rolled around, Alec and wife Mindy decided the best place to experience it would be in Namche Bazaar, Nepal, with a full view of Mt. Everest. The New Year came to find Alec barely able to breathe. He was

air-evacuated out and quickly recovered. “If you ever want to spend a whole lot of money really fast, get helicoptered off Everest,” says Alec. We’ve taken Everest off our bucket list. Belated congratulations to Ernie Latham and his bride, Ioana (the Romanian equivalent of Joanna, pronounced “Yo-anna”). They were married in December 2013 and divide their time between Bucharest and Washington, D.C. Ernie is a retired career diplomat with the U.S. Foreign Service, a Fulbright scholar, linguist, filmmaker, and authority on virtually every aspect of Romanian life and history. “I left the U.S. with Elvis Presley and returned with Michael Jackson,” he says. Ernie’s 2012 book, Timeless and Transitory, a collection of his essays on Romania, is an absorbing read, richly documenting the interface between Romania and the English-speaking world in the 20th century. Hardly a dry read, there are femme fatale spy stories, biographies of famous writers, and even a footnote revealing how the G-spot got its name. Another book to watch for is Sven Kraemer’s Inside the Cold War: Karl Marx to Ronald Reagan. Sven is in the “last throes” of editing the 850-page manuscript ahead of publication. We heard about the book during our Berlin trip; between Sven and Julian Herrey, we were entertained and educated in amazing detail about European history and geopolitics. Much of what Sven writes about comes through his firsthand experience, starting in the office of the secretary of defense; he then spent nine years at the National Security Council in the White House under three presidents, worked as a staffer for Senator John Tower, and served as President Reagan’s NSC director of arms control. There’s lots more, but you can see how rich his experience has been. Sven presents an insider’s view of the way democracy deals with extremist forces and highlights “the sense of urgency” needed to combat those arrayed against freedom and democracy today. A surprising number of us are reluctant to retire completely, giving up careers that have energized us over many years. Equally prevalent is an increase in the pleasure of reading, often coupled with writing. Jim Fisher, career writer for the Kansas City Star for 40 years, author of several books, and writer for PBS NewsHour (formerly The MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour), put it this way: “The real pleasure of being retired is the opportunity to educate and re-educate myself through nonstop reading.” Jim is also a railroad buff and enjoys tinkering with old machinery on his Kansas horse farm. I caught up with him as he was about to crank up his old Ford tractor to take his restored 1949 manure spreader for a spin. He laughingly challenged me to find news in that image. Done: I see a happy, engaged man doing what he enjoys. At our age, you can’t beat that for news. John Morrison is another classmate not quite ready to let go of work. While he has retired from his career in nuclear physics and advising the secretary of defense, he continues to manage a shopping mall he owns in California, work he somehow

www.andover.edu/intouch does in his “spare time,” he says, from his home in northern Virginia. Bill Towler and his wife continue to publish City Newspaper, an alternative newsweekly with the second-largest circulation of any newspaper in the Rochester, N.Y., area. When I spoke with Bill, he was planning a family Christmas trip to Spain with children and grandchildren, something he and wife Mary Anna do every other year. Stay busy, stay well. —Phil Hirsh

1957 ABBOT Anne Boswell 5 Choate Road Hanover NH 03755-1701 603-643-5043 aboswell@valley.net Lucinda “Lulu” Cutler 267 Legend Hill Road Madison CT 06443-1881 203-779-5859 lucindacutler@gmail.com

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder” and “No news is good news” are adages not to be taken literally. Please—we need to keep in touch, and how wonderful it is to know a bit about where we all are now, since we have lived a lot of life since our Abbot days. Please send Anne and me some tidbit to share. Much love from both of us.

PHILLIPS Stephen C. Trivers 151 South Rose St., Suite 611 Kalamazoo MI 49007 269-385-2757 Stephen@StephenTrivers.com Gregory Wierzynski 4426 Klingle St., NW Washington DC 20016 202-686-9104 gregor@wierzynski.com Class website: www.andover57.ning.com

Sadly, we have lost two more classmates. Bob Bohorad died in June after a courageous battle with cancer. Bob was retired in Naples, Fla. After Andover, he went to Princeton, got a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and joined a law firm founded by his father in Pottsville, Pa. He spent his entire career there. According to the local paper, he left a mark on the community as an officer and director of many civic and charitable organizations. George Breed died in Jackson, Wyo., of pulmonary fibrosis, also in June. George worked most of his professional life as a marketer in HewlettPackard’s medical group, after which he retired to Jackson so he could indulge his passion for the

outdoors. Dan Tracy, who grew up with George in Marblehead, Mass., and went on to Dartmouth with him, recalls, “He was a great hockey player and sailor.” As for Dan, he writes, “[Wife] Jan and I are living in West Hartford, Conn., where we have lived for 30-plus years. Jan was widowed, and we have been married for 18 years. Between us we have three sons, one daughter, and eight grandchildren. I retired from Arthur Andersen in 1998. Since then, I have kept active with board work, as well as with serving as CFO of the Chef Geoff restaurant group in DC, which is owned by my two sons. My son Geoff is married to Norah O’Donnell, who co-hosts the CBS This Morning show.” After years of trekking through much of Africa and India as an agricultural researcher, Elon Gilbert and wife Susie have settled down on the Flathead Indian Reservation, in western Montana. “We don’t have cable,” he writes. “Our surround entertainment system features the Mission and Rattlesnake mountain ranges, hay pastures filled with cattle, and our two dogs.” Elon keeps a hand in agriculture as a volunteer with Bankers without Borders, an international anti-poverty organization, and vice chairman of a Montana biotech startup. Elon and Susie are off to India early in 2015 to visit friends and, presumably, duck the rigors of a Montana winter. This was the year of the big 75 for many of us, and Jim Stewart marked the milestone with a raucous party by the shores of Keuka Lake, in New York’s wine country. Fifty guests, including Lee and Tom Terry, were treated to an evening of bagpipe music and song, and appropriate libations, in an old wine cellar. Jim told three of his favorite jokes. “Tom and Lee were fantastic, playing guitar and mandolin and laughing at all three jokes,” Jim reports. As usual, summer was a time of travel. The aforementioned Terrys spent part of July in Paris with the Hartford Chorale, giving concerts in churches, including an a cappella performance in Chartres Cathedral. They explored Paris for a few days after the group left, then moved on to England’s Lake District and Scotland. Also in France were Cynthia and Dick Guthrie, with their son and his family. After two weeks of croissants and pains au chocolat, plus vin rouge every night with dinner, Dick says he was ready to join Weight Watchers. Anne and Gary Hammond took a Baltic cruise in July to beat the Arizona heat and celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary. Lew Neisner spent a week helping a friend navigate his sailboat up the Intracoastal Waterway in Florida in May and nine days and nights at the Rochester [N.Y.] International Jazz Festival in June. His summer’s highlight, however, was attending his grandson’s bar mitzvah in Raleigh, N.C. In mid-September, Lew resumed his usual gig teaching courses on Sherlock Holmes and art history at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. John Douglas spent two weeks in August tooling around Russia. No sooner was he back in

Burlington, Vt., than he started gathering works for a show in Nice, France. His art is also on display in two local galleries. Do check out his stunning images on the class website. Phil Olsson took a trip of another kind, to an orthopedic surgeon in New York. Phil has been hobbled since January 2013, when he mangled a hip in a skiing accident. When we met for lunch in September, he was on crutches but free of pain and optimistic that his latest surgery would have him bicycling again. Previously we’ve chronicled Jim Blackmon’s adventures as a gentleman farmer. But he’s still engaged full time as an engineering professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, so I asked him to describe his day job. It turns out that Jim is a serial inventor, well ahead of the curve in several fields, notably solar heliostats, mirrors that turn so as to keep sunlight focused on a target throughout the day. Jim has long argued that small mirrors are better than the large ones favored by the Department of Energy, and he’s finally been vindicated. “The heliostats at the [new] solar field in Ivanpah, Calif., are almost identical in size to [ones I used] in 1973,” he writes. “I also work on a method of spotting enemy weapons and IEDs, and a novel valve that can be changed out without the need for upstream and downstream isolation valves. This might be nice for homes and pipelines, not to mention spacecraft. I have also developed a very lowcost method of providing high-pressure propellant to rocket engines.” There’s more, but not enough space to mention it all. “One of the challenges for me these autumn days seems to be a diminution of energy,” Bill Sterling writes from his home in California’s Anderson Valley. If so, one would never know it. He’s resumed his legal practice and helped raise $32,000 for the local high school. He writes, “There is a deep cultural divide between the Anglo and Hispanic communities here.…The schools are the principal meeting place, yet as Anglo enrollment diminishes, whatever intercultural tones there were hitherto will continue to fade.” As usual, you will find Bill’s eloquent ruminations on the class website. —G

1958 ABBOT

Parry Ellice Adam 33 Pleasant Run Road Flemington NJ 08822-7109 908-782-3754 peaba@comcast.net

Sally Leavitt Blackburn was sorry to miss our 55th Reunion due to her granddaughter’s dance recital. Sally is doing well. She went to Russia last fall on a cruise, which she enjoyed. This spring she is going down the Amazon. “It pays to have a travel agent who has been a friend for over 30 years,” she says. She is already planning to be at our 60th in 2018 and sends her best to all in our class. Andover | Winter 2015

PHILLIPS Dermod O. Sullivan Morgan Stanley 590 Madison Ave., 11th Floor New York NY 10022 800-468-0019 dermod.o.sullivan@ms.com

I am pleased to announce to the class the induction of Gil Bamford into the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor on June 14, 2014. The official statement accompanying this honor follows: “Gil Bamford attended Andover for four years as a day student, lettering in football, basketball, and lacrosse his upper and senior years. “In football, Bamford was captain of the varsity team his senior year and named to the Second Team All–New England Prep Team. In a game against Bowdoin College freshmen in the fall of 1956, he set Andover’s single game rushing record—a record that held for 24 years. Legendary coach Ted Harrison ’38 described Bamford as one of the best running backs he had ever coached at Andover. Also a gifted lacrosse player, Bamford was named to the Second Team All–New England Prep Team in lacrosse his senior year. “Bamford continued to play both football and lacrosse at Harvard. After graduation, he enjoyed a long and successful career with Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc.” At the risk of turning this column into the obituary page, what follows are three announcements of classmates’ passings. I feel their lives deserve more than one-liners in the magazine. Julian E. Minard died June 24, 2014, from non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The son of the late PA history instructor Kenneth Minard, he grew up in Andover, Mass. He graduated from Brown University and served in the Navy for 26 years, received a master’s degree from the Naval Postgraduate School, and attended the Naval War College. After retiring from the Navy, he worked as a telecommunications analyst for Artel, LLC, contracted to the state department. He is survived by his wife, Christine, his children, Sarah and Alexander, and six grandchildren. Norman Henry Munn passed away February 3. Jonathan Middlebrook and your secretary roomed in Jackson House lower year with Henry. Jonathan remembers Henry as a wonderfully free spirit. He recalls Henry played Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing. I remember that Henry had settled on a career in archaeology, even at that young age. He favored spectacular neckwear, but not of the Andover Shop variety. At Harvard, he famously introduced himself to the dining hall by saying, “I’m the tie guy.” Henry’s daughter writes, “Dad was a unique and gentle individual, a man with a deep passion for learning and a sense of wonder that was almost like that of a child—something very rare to find in an adult. He lived a simple life, in the sense that he was not interested in material goods. As long as he had

Andover | Winter 2015

books to read, paper and a pen to write, access to the best libraries, and the means to visit museum exhibitions, he was a happy man. Nothing energized him more than books and art.” In June, Pat Gorman died of cancer in San Francisco, long his residence. His good friend Mac Gordon writes the following touching obituary: “Pat came to visit following the 55th Reunion, which he had flown 3,000 miles to attend. Although he put on a brave front, it was clear that he was lacking his usual energy. We took him to a local doctor, who determined that he was anemic; we fattened him as best we could. But soon after he got back home, his doctors diagnosed cancer of the lymph nodes.” Mac continues, “Pat had two nicknames at PA: ‘Pathfinder’ and ‘Gimpy.’ I think ‘Pathfinder’ was the creation of Manch Wheeler, who might be better able to explain its origin. Pat was an accomplished outdoorsman (once, on a camping trip, I remember watching him light a fire without matches, using just ultrafine tinder and friction) and a leading member of the Outing Club; this might explain why ‘Pathfinder’ stuck. Originally part of the Class of  ’57, Pat had a nasty accident with an axe that nearly severed his foot while working with the crew cleaning up after Hurricane Carol during his lower middle year. After a long recuperation, he returned as a member of the Class of  ’58. The nickname ‘Gimpy Gorman’ followed, which was, I believe, the creation of fellow combination ’57–’58 classmate, the late Elijah Kent Hubbard, who had a lifelong fascination with alliteration. “Although he may be remembered by many classmates as an eccentric intellectual, Pat was also a spirited athlete, playing on the varsity football, hockey, and lacrosse teams, a considerable accomplishment, particularly in light of the axe accident. “After Andover, Pat went to Dartmouth, which he left (of his own volition). He completed a bachelor’s degree at the College of Wooster, in Ohio. Although he never received any advanced degrees, his curiosity and intellect made him a walking encyclopedia, always ready with facts and figures to apply to the conversation at hand. Long an admirer of longshoreman-philosopher-author Eric Hoffer, Pat held many tough blue-collar jobs, which would require several pages to document in their entirety: Stevedore, sailor, ranch hand, fishing guide, explorer, farmer, and welder were just a few. For most of the past two decades, he made a living setting up and taking down trade shows and large exhibits. He kept in good physical shape and never had plans to retire. Pat’s aspirations, however, went way beyond manual labor. After many years of trying, he finally received a U.S. patent for a scheme for modular, floating airport runway sections that he hoped would be acquired by San Francisco and other coastal cities in need of more runway space. “Although a truck-driving accident in the early ’60s caused doctors to put a metal plate in his head, he recovered from this trauma without permanent disability. But in his 20s, he was diagnosed

with bipolar disorder, for which he took medicine throughout the rest of his life. More than anything, this may have accounted for his sometimes extreme garrulousness and other occasionally odd behavior. But he wasn’t crazy by any means; he was just a ‘genuine character.’ “Pat leaves behind his wife, Janet Petersen Gorman, a son by a previous marriage, Atarbes (Art) Gorman, and three sisters.”

1959 ABBOT Nathalie Taft Andrews 2407 Ransdell Ave. Louisville KY 40204 502-459-5715 dulcie@iglou.com

In less than 12 hours, I got a delightful set of seven “tidbits” in response to a last-minute, overdue call for news. It is Columbus Day as I write this, and I am home—more because I greeted more than 600 guests at the museum on Saturday than because it is a bank holiday, but I’m grateful for the day at home nevertheless. Nona Porter wrote, “And this is how you celebrate Columbus Day? What a saint! [Husband] Roger and I are still between Connecticut and New Hampshire, with philatelic forays to Baltimore, Hartford, Boston, NYC, London, and New Jersey. How’s that for small news? (I recommend a book titled Miniature Messages: The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Stamps.)” Joan Synnott Ardrey sent “a quick reply to mention that my second (and most likely last) publishing effort is up and running on Amazon. This time it’s Celtic Courage: A Condensed History of Irish Rebellion, Resistance and Resilience, prompted by years of research into my family’s 100 percent Irish heritage. It was a satisfying project. Aside from that, no other news—as they say, ‘No news is good news’!” Gale Barton Hartch thanked me for organizing our news and added: “I try to think up things to share and usually give up, but just to help you, here are a few tidbits. “[Husband] Tom and I are well, and life has not changed much for us. We enjoy our eight grandchildren, going to tennis matches, field hockey games, soccer games, and, more recently, water polo matches. I am picking up my paintbrush and palette again, as the colder weather is more conducive to indoor activity. “Judy Agor Aydelott lives 30 minutes away, and we had a fun walk in the woods, investigating a stand of ground pine (Lycopodium) which has been a subject of study for me and one of my granddaughters. “Our son Todd Hartch published a new book (The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity, Oxford University Press, 2014). A highlight of the year was a book reading Tom and I sponsored at a local

www.andover.edu/intouch library branch. Next April, Oxford University Press will publish Todd’s third book, a biographical analysis of the career of Ivan Illich, a Catholic priest-philosopher in Mexico. “Take care, ’59ers. Come for lunch and a walk in the woods if you are near Greenwich, Conn. Cheers.” Judy Agor Aydelott sent a more detailed description of her walk in the woods with Gale: “Gale Barton Hartch, who lives nearby, and I had a great walk in the woods behind her house a couple weeks ago. Actually, a walk with Gale is, indeed, a nature walk, as the biologist in her comes out in full color, and we inspected the flora and fauna up close and personal. She has a 12-year-old granddaughter whom she has inspired to follow in her footsteps, and the two of them work on science projects and are like two peas in a pod. Beautiful! “My husband and I are off to China tomorrow and are looking forward to learning about the culture and the mystery—at least, it’s a mystery to me—of China. We’re on a Dartmouth trip, with a professor who has lived in China and speaks Mandarin as our guide. We’ve had all our shots and are ready to go!” Good news from Elsie Kellogg Morse: “After a summer punctuated with chemo treatments and an early fall with radiation (all targeting a small breast tumor with a very healthy prognosis), I’m ready to ‘live it up!’ One high point was a walk on a spectacular South Dartmouth, Mass., beach with Zee Makepeace Douhan, whose down-to-earth, insightful humor continues to make her such a delightful classmate and friend. “Here’s hoping you’ll get lots more tidbits. I’m thinking that people typically respond well to immediate deadlines, so you may find you’ll want to be making up such a last-minute story every time, even if it isn’t true!”

PHILLIPS David Othmer 4220 Spruce St. Philadelphia PA 19104 215-387-7824 davidothmer@aol.com

Slim pickings on the news front: Bill Bell reports that he and wife Barbara “enjoyed a visit to Scotland in August, including a trip to the castle of my paternal grandmother’s clan (MacLean)” and that “Jim Hayman, Susie Goodwillie Stedman ’59, and I were all glad to see Lee Webb playing an important role in the campaign to replace the current Maine governor in November.” Quinn Rosefsky continues his remarkable second career as a watercolor artist—many of you saw his work at our 50th Reunion. He has continued to paint and appears to have increased his productivity and the complexity of his work since then— not a statement that can be said about many of us! So here comes the real news: how prolific we have been as a class—both Andover and

Abbot—in the book-writing department. I’m sure I will have missed a few, but here, in alphabetical order by author, is the list I have. I will happily publish additions and corrections, which I am sure to get, in subsequent notes! Kathy Barnes ’59: Daddy Misses Kisses and Candy at War and Son, A Soldier’s Work Is Never Done; Jerry Bremer: My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope; John Briley: Seafoam Wavefollower and the Mysterious Ghost; Chris Costanzo: My CIA: Memories of a Secret Career; Thomas Davis: Philosophy: An Introduction Through Original Fiction and Discussion and Suffer Little Children. Wade Ellis: Structured Programming Using Turbo BASIC; Mitch Gail: AIDS Epidemiology: A Quantitative Approach; Susan Goodwillie Stedman ’59: Now Hear This: The Life of Hugh S. Knowles, Acoustical Engineer and Entrepreneur; Voices from the Future: Our Children Tell Us about Violence in America; and (in collaboration with Dorothy Height) Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir. Jim Hayman: The Chill of Night; The Cutting; and Darkness First; Al Killilea: Confronting Death: College Students on the Community of Mortals and The Politics of Being Mortal; Erik Lunde: Horace Greeley; Kirby Jones: With Fidel: A Portrait of Castro and Cuba; Liz Marvin Mulholland ’59: Surviving High Society: Lots of Love Trumps Lots of Money; David McLanahan: Surgery and Its Alternatives: How to Make the Right Choices for Your Health; Dan Reiff: Architecture in Fredonia, 1811–1972; Small Georgian Houses in England and Virginia: Origins and Development through the 1750s; Washington Architecture, 1791–1861; and Teacher, Scholar, Mentor: Dr. Harry Reiff of St. Lawrence University. Lex Rieffel: Restructuring Sovereign Debt: The Case for Ad Hoc Machinery; Ed Shapiro: Lost in Familiar Places: Creating New Connections between the Individual and Society and The Inner World in the Outer World: Psychoanalytic Perspectives; Laurie Smith Fusco ’59: Lorenzo de’ Medici, Collector of Antiquities. Scott Thompson: Power Projection: A Net Assessment of U.S. and Soviet Capabilities and National Security in the 1980s: From Weakness to Strength; Ron Upton: Guidelines for Laboratory Quality Auditing; Ted White: Earl Warren, A Public Life; Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self; The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges; The Constitution and the New Deal; The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience; and The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815–35. A remarkable list, totally befitting the people we are and the lives we have lived. Enjoy them all!

1960 55th REUNION June 12–14, 2015

ABBOT

Lynne Furneaux Clark P.O. Box 1087 Manchester Center VT 05255-1087 802-362-1744 puffinplace@aol.com

Hard to believe that it’s time for another set of notes. Your class secretary has been preoccupied with medical issues (both her own and husband Dave’s) stemming from age and the onset of related issues. One piece of sad news that reached me just recently informed of the death of Kristianne Graham Andrews at age 71 in Falmouth, Mass. She had a full life and made many contributions to the local community. Cally Williams is planning a 55th reunion in Santa Fe, N.M., in October 2015. She and husband Frank crossed the Atlantic on a cruise ship in May, debarking in Barcelona, Spain, for tours around the countryside. Susan Lothrop Koster is looking forward to the reunion in Santa Fe, N.M., in October. She is “happy, healthy, and thankful,” as are her children and grandchildren. Amelia Comas O’Brien reports she and husband Robert had a great summer in their cabin in the woods of Salisbury, Conn. They had all the children and grandchildren (nine) visit by themselves or with friends of theirs. Amelia had a knee replaced in March, and even though she is still doing physical therapy, it has changed her life. Without it, she could not walk more than two blocks. Robert has recovered very well from his stroke. His left side is mildly affected, but he can lead a normal life. Kathy Stevens hosted houseguests from Andover, Hampshire, England, for a week as part of the Andover Sister Towns Association. Lindsay Knowlton planned to go birding in Arizona and Southern California this winter, just to get out of the cold, and then will go to France this spring for a couple of weeks. She writes, “Will finally see Normandy beaches and Giverny. Can no longer shovel snow because of a partially torn rotator cuff. I’m looking forward to our class reunion.” Aida Sharabati Shawwaf is not working in any official capacity at the UN; her husband is a diplomat in this country, and her obligations are purely social. But she would like to mention her work in education for women in Saudi Arabia, her efforts in establishing and presiding over the Alzheimer’s Association Lebanon, and her work now with the Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. My sincere thanks for all the contributions. I would love to hear from more classmates for the next edition. —Lynne Andover | Winter 2015

PHILLIPS Mike Burlingame 111 North Sixth St., Apt. 301 Springfield IL 62701 217-206-7364 (work) 217-299-9306 (cell) mburl2@uis.edu

Make plans now to attend our 55th Reunion June 12–14. Al Fox and Tom Campion have agreed to organize the event, much to the relief of Wally Winter, who reports that he sees his role as that of an “instigator rather than the chair/ coordinator.” Wally urges all of us to help Al and Tom as much as we can, and more. As Tom aptly put it, “Reunions are special simply because the relationships between classmates are special. Even those who haven’t let go of the adolescent emotional scars caused by a tough, unsympathetic school can benefit greatly by reconnecting with classmates and healing the wounds. Also, it helps to pay some debts of respect to a school that gave us the best education we ever had. PA is reviving and retooling. John Palfrey is the real deal, and the changes are palpable and real. Come take a look.” Those of us who attended our memorable 50th Reunion agree wholeheartedly. Tom and his wife spent October in Tuscany. They went (so Tom alleges) in response to a request from Italy’s prime minister, Matteo Renzi, who asked them “to come stimulate the Tuscan economy.” Toward that end, Tom added that “I’m doing my best by ordering a new bike, costing more than the used Jeep we own, over there.” Allen Ward reports that at his 50th Brown reunion he saw Al Daniels, who “looked well and is working for a division of Oracle in Boston.” In May, Allen and his wife, Carol, spent several days in Montreal and Quebec City. They enjoyed both but preferred Quebec’s “charm and history.” A few months later they visited Lake Sunapee, N.H., and the nearby summer estate of Abraham Lincoln’s private secretary, John Hay. (As one who has edited some of Hay’s writings, I have spoken there and commend it to your attention. It’s called The Fells and is beautifully located.) David Edgerly and his wife, Mariella, now live in London again, after spending a couple of decades in Turkey, where David had worked. They split their time between London and the Greek island of Andros, with occasional visits to their favorite watering holes in France and other parts of the Continent. They had an agreeable visit with Nick Allis and his wife, Oyun, when they passed through London in June. David writes occasional columns for the Financial Times, as well as a blog titled Levantine Musings (levantinemusings.blogspot.com) that, as the name implies, comments on events in the area called the Levant—the broad sweep of the Eastern Mediterranean from Thessaloniki in Greece to Alexandria in Egypt. David reports that “despite its economic and political struggles, Greece remains

Andover | Winter 2015

a wonderful place to visit—especially in October and May. It is especially worthwhile once you get off the beaten track and head to some of the lesser-known islands (the Sporades, Mytilene, or Leros, for example), northern Greece, or the Peloponnese.” David would be happy to connect with classmates who make it to London or Greece. In June, Jeremy Wood married Catherine Thompson, with Toni and Laird Smith, Sue and Charlie Bradford, Nick Danforth, and Nick’s partner, Robin Jones, in attendance. The following month, Laird and Toni, who were visiting friends on Martha’s Vineyard, bicycled over for a gettogether with Jeremy and his bride. Since last spring, Jeremy’s house, which was built in 1903 as a school and later converted into a residence, has been undergoing muchneeded exterior repairs and repainting, along with improved interior stair railings and other small improvements meant, as he puts it, “to anticipate old age and decrepitude. Our Lady of Perpetual Maintenance being the patron saint of all owners of old houses, it never ends. All work is being handled by a trio of trusted carpenters/craftsmen who have done work for me off and on over the past 40-odd years. I trust them to the point that most work has taken place without my fussyarchitect in-person on-site supervision, but thanks to iPhones and Facetime, we communicate quickly, easily, early, and often.” I continue to teach at the University of Illinois Springfield and write, when not back in Connecticut to be with my fiancée of 26 years’ standing, Lois McDonald. I am now composing a brief book on Lincoln’s emotional life as part of the Southern Illinois University Press’s Concise Lincoln Library. (Some of you may wonder how anyone who wrote a 2,000-page biography of Lincoln might contribute to a concise Lincoln library. I managed to do it in 2011 with Lincoln and the Civil War.) In November, John Darnton received an Andover Alumni Award of Distinction. During his half century at the New York Times, John won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Solidarity movement in Poland, became cultural affairs editor of the paper, and made the bestseller list for his fiction and nonfiction books. My esteemed predecessor as class scribe, Dick Bourne, professor emeritus at the University of Baltimore School of Law, died in July at the farm where he lived with his wife of 14 years, Anne Crook. He had only recently retired from the law school, where he had taught since 1978. The former president of the school called Dick “a wonderful colleague and one of those special men who told you what they thought with good will and a twinkle in their eye.” Dick and I worked together on The Phillipian, I as managing editor and he as general manager. With Woody Wickham, Jeremy Wood, Wally Winter, and others, we somehow managed to put the newspaper together and get it out on schedule week after week. Those were the days. In 1958, Dick invited me to spend spring vacation with

him at his home in Danville, Va., where we had a grand time. His father was a genial physician who accepted hams, produce, and other forms of in-kind payment in lieu of money. His mother was exceedingly gracious and kind. Mark your calendars for our 55th Reunion, June 12–14. See you then!

1961 ABBOT

Carolyn “Cally” Butler Dow 44 Spruce St. Portland ME 04102 207-899-4178 Callydow365@gmail.com

PHILLIPS Paul Kalkstein 42 Doubling Point Road Arrowsic ME 04530 207-443-5675 pkalkstein@gmail.com

Some of us are slowing down; some are go, go, go. Sitting apprehensively one morning in a periodontal waiting room, I greeted a friend who had come in for implants. He mentioned that his wife had just read a book about a septuagenarian who found he had a financial choice between getting dental implants and returning to the Saronic island of Hydra. In Travels with Epicurus, this man, Daniel Klein, tells why he eschewed the implants in favor of travel and contemplation. The thesis of the book, as I understand it, is that old age is not something to be put off or avoided but rather a time to be embraced and enjoyed. I’m OK with that—how about you? As septuagenarians ourselves, we are bound to be faced with losses. I received some counsel from David Kirk: “Memories can be rejuvenating fiber! [Son and daughter-in-law] Nathaniel and Laura are expecting their second in June. [Daughter] Anne has just found a job in Bogotá, Colombia, and [son] Garrett graduates from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan May 2. We are all mentors! We are Team Kirk, and [wife] Peggy is still our inspiration.” I reminded David of a time I visited him at his fraternity. “I remember your visit to Penn,” he wrote. “I was the ‘Ale Man’ and received a monthly stipend from an ad agency to promote Ballantine and complimentary kegs for pumping ale. I still have a source and have an ale from time to time.” I should hope so. Mike Bragg ducked out from the cold winter in the Georgia mountains for solace in Vero Beach, Fla. That set him thinking, he writes, about “relocating from the North Georgia mountains. The large house and increasing maintenance concerns for it and the accompanying 45-plus acres were

www.andover.edu/intouch

Yuto Watanabe ’11

only going to get harder to keep up with, when, at the same time, this aging body would continue becoming less able than it was the year before.” So Mike sold out, just before tax day, and moved to Arrington, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville. He writes, “When I decided to get ‘vanity’ plates for my two vehicles when I registered them in Tennessee, I selected GATE 65 for one, to honor my graduation from Colgate University, and ANDOVER for the other.” That’s the spirit. Jim Sprague e-mailed that “Frank MacMurray and I went to a fancy dinner in honor of John Marks, as he prepared to reduce his DC presence at Search for Common Ground. David Kirk was supposed to attend but was stranded by tornadoes in Texas. Frank is still working on the fund for PA in honor of Ned Cabot. I am still running the de Beaumont Foundation but am looking forward to stepping down from the day-today activities of that.” From Hawaii comes word from Frank O’Brien, who writes, “I have lived in Hawaii since the Army brought me here, in 1971. I met my wife, Christine, here on a blind date. We married that year and recently celebrated our 42nd anniversary. Since getting out of the Army, in 1973, I have practiced law in Honolulu. In February 2014, I won a landmark case in the Hawaii Supreme Court relating to abused and neglected children. I started off filing suits against the state for injuries that children suffered at the hands of parents or foster parents, but after we settled one case against the state for around $5 million, I realized that hitting them for large settlements did not produce a corresponding change for the better within the system. After that, I went to work helping families and children within the system, on the theory that I would rather prevent kids from being hurt than sue the state for damages after they are injured. It has been very rewarding. Retirement is not something that I think about. I would have to say that I am more fearful of having to quit than I am of having to keep working. I still enjoy getting up in the morning and going to work. “Tom Stirling ’59 and I interview students from Hawaii who are applying to Andover. One of the first persons that I interviewed was a refugee from Laos. She was admitted to Andover on a full scholarship but did not even have the funds to purchase winter clothes. We got the alumni association here geared up and raised the money to send her off. She went through Andover, college, and medical school and is now practicing as an internist in Texas. When I see all the achievements and talent of the current applicants, I wonder how I ever got in. “From time to time in the class notes, I see notes from people who do not think fondly of their years at Andover. For myself, it did what preparatory schools are supposed to do: It prepared me for college. The transition to college life was easy and pleasant, and the years at college were four of the most exciting and fun years of my life. So I have a very fond place in my heart for the school and everything that it gave me.”

Stay in Touch! Visit our “one-stop Web page” that consolidates all the various ways of connecting with Andover friends and classmates. At www.andover.edu/intouch, you can link to Alumni Directory, Andover’s Facebook page, Notable Alumni, and lots more. Of course, you can still update your records in the traditional ways: ● Visit

www.andover.edu/alumnidirectory, and log in to update your information

● E-mail ● Call

alumni-records@andover.edu

978-749-4287

● Send

a note to: Alumni Records, Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, Andover MA 01810-4161

Looking out over the Wiscasset, Maine, harbor after our annual lunch, Wells Walker echoed Frank’s last comment, saying, “I didn’t know so many people were unhappy at Andover.” Ah, forgive, forget. Marnie and I, on our way to celebrate our 48th anniversary with Ruth and Ed Quattlebaum ’60 (who got married the same day we did) on Cape Cod, had a pleasant lunch with Susan and Pierre LaTour in West Chatham, Mass. Pierre recalled, from his stint on the Andover faculty, playing golf with Deke, Ted Harrison, and Gray Baldwin. “They were pretty bad,” said Pierre. Feature that foursome.

place for long, but NYC is still our base, at least for now. I was an interpreter at the UN for 28 years and retired 10 years ago, then studied Arabic for five years, but now I’m back to athletics, swimming competitively and playing tennis less competitively. I still enjoy reading all the languages I’ve studied. Guy and I together have a total of six children; one died of heart disease at 13 months. We have three grandchildren, ages 8, 6, and 6 months. Two are in California and the youngest is in upstate New York. Hard to keep up with all that’s going on.” A happy, healthy, and active 2015 to all of you!

PHILLIPS

1962 ABBOT

Kathrin Krakauer 240 Columbia Drive Bomoseen VT 05732 802- 273-2548 kkrakauer@shoreham.net

The only news I have is the following update I received from Marcia Hill. She writes, “I am living in NYC with my husband, Guy Struve, and we go back and forth to the San Francisco Bay Area, where we bought a house a few years ago. We also have been traveling a great deal, so we’re never in one

Vic Obninsky 1101 Navarro St. Santa Rosa CA 95401 707-230-2271 707-843-5784 (fax) vpobninsky@comcast.net

I want to congratulate Steve Abbot for receiving the United States Naval Academy Distinguished Graduate Award in 2014. He will never tell you anything about himself; I will not hesitate to do so now. After Annapolis, Steve was a Rhodes Scholar. He became a test pilot and later was the commanding officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt during Operation Desert Storm; he then became the commander of the Sixth Fleet. His last duty Andover | Winter 2015

was deputy commander of NATO air, land, and sea forces under Gen. Wesley Clark. He retired to help Gov. Tom Ridge establish the Department of Homeland Security for George W. Bush ’62. Steve now heads the Navy–Marine Corps Relief Society and leads us all in non sibi activities. Bravo zulu, admiral! After almost a year’s planning, our 52nd reunion is over. This was the first known official reunion of a Phillips Academy class away from Andover Hill. The location in the High Sierras was perfect, and people took advantage of hiking, golfing, and fishing in addition to enjoying a lot of old-fashioned fun in the form of eating, drinking, dancing, and conversation. Attendees were (in order of registration received): Jack Fabiano, Lura and Bill Schubach, Kim and Dan Jenkins, Marjorie and Steve Abbot, Margel and Steve Kaufman, Jeannie and Hal Byrd, Artemis and Mike Davey, Caroline and Nick Knueppel, Diana and Jeff Hill, Laura and Claus Emmer, Sam Caldwell, Pamela and Tony King, Judy and Chris Armstrong, Becky and Lee Gilbert, Tom Israel, Judy and Dick Dennis, Linda and Bob Lux, Bea and Tom Crystal, Sue and Al Reiter, Vic Obninsky and friend Manana, Ace Lake, Annie and Doug Wales, and Jo Ann and Hobey Birmingham. Five quadruped family members were also in attendance. It was the first Andover experience for six of our classmates since June 8, 1962. They all seem to be extremely happy that they attended, and there was a unanimous vote that the class leadership plan to do this on an annual basis; the next event will probably be in early October 2015, and the organizing committee will regroup, looking for a 53rd reunion location somewhere between here and back East, but not on campus. Freedom appears to be addictive, and we did this on our own, without adult supervision. The important thing to know is how closely bonded we former adolescent boys remain. I have enough information to fill the next two columns, but I will start with bringing you up to date on the six fellows who have been out of contact with Andover since graduation. Tony King and his wife, Pam, live near me in Freestone, Calif.; he is a famous artist. Ace Lake and I enjoyed eating dinner at their home shortly before we left for the Sierras. I don’t know how to describe Tony’s artistic style except death is like a combination of Salvador Dalí and Albert Bierstadt; if I were an art critic, I would call it “natural expressionism.” I wrote about Tony recently and feel the heavy breath of editors on my neck. Bill Schubach is an oncologist in Seattle and went to Stanford with Tony. He has a delightful wife, who has been a clerk for a federal judge for many years but does not practice law. Lura contrived to get me to dance with her. This was not difficult, because she is very good-looking; she is also patient with a legless lawyer. Bill was part of the Stanford University swim team, and I suspect he set some records there in addition to the ones he broke as a senior at Andover. He enjoyed himself very much, wants to remain in contact the with classmates that

Andover | Winter 2015

he met, and has been active in our mailing list without complaint for more than six months. Claus Emmer returned to Venezuela after he graduated from MIT. Shortly thereafter, he met a delightful Cuban exile named Laura, and they married and immigrated to America in the 1980s and became American citizens. Claus dropped the Bohemian appendage to his surname and has traveled all over the world using his engineering expertise for a company in Minnesota. We had a number of delightful talks about world travel, the current political situation, and our days together in the Ryley Room and Isham Infirmary playing cards and smoking cigarettes. Neither of us smokes cigarettes anymore, but cigars are a definite necessity in our lives. Nick Knueppel has a PhD degree in mathematics from the University of California and has taught many math subjects at the local high school and junior college in Walnut Creek, Calif. He married his college sweetheart, Caroline; we have broken bread together a number of times, and we both attend the Cal football games. Nick lived in Foxcroft South as a senior and wanted to contact various dorm mates. Hal Byrd was already signed, but he got in touch with Bob Lux and Dick Dennis. Bobby has a PhD degree in heart things and has been a professor of cardiology at the University of Utah for most of his life. He has remained close friends with our classmate Chris Nelson, and he says he will use every blackmailing technique at his disposal to get Chris to join us at the 53rd reunion next year. Dick and I did not have too much time to talk, but I know he and his wife played golf with Steve Abbot and the other members of two foursomes that Hobey Birmingham set up at Graeagle country club. Tom Crystal was someone I did not know well at PA, but we had several nice talks at dinner. I never knew we were classmates at Columbia, but Tom was an engineer and graduated in three years. He went on to earn a PhD degree in engineering at Stanford and has settled on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, in Palo Alto, Calif. Tom’s suggestion to those worried about serious things is rather simple and befits an Andover gentleman: “Have fun!” His wife, Bea, is also not hard on the eyes. She wore a black cocktail dress and advised me that this was the first time she had worn a skirt since her wedding. I think that more or less brings you up to date on the fellows who have been out of touch for 52 years. Ace Lake presented me with a wonderful surprise. It was a combination of a Phillips Academy medal and two New York Yankees championship rings. The mat was autographed by all classmates in attendance. He said it was obvious Andover and the Pinstripes were the most important things in my life. Both have brought me great joy and occasional pain, but they have never betrayed me or let me down. The same is true of you individually and collectively. I am honored to be part of this group. I am sad to report the passing of our classmate George Peters, a quiet and very nice guy. Let’s keep getting together while we can!

1963 ABBOT

Cynthia F. Kimball 7 Thoreau Road Lexington MA 02420 781-862-6424 cynthiakimball@earthlink.net

Greetings to you all! I have received a note from Margaret Brown Coakley, who writes, “This summer was spent dividing my time between daughter and mother—the generation that has been called the ‘filling in the sandwich,’ so to speak. Many of you may have been in similar roles, too. I had gone many years without grandchildren, but how quickly the picture changes! Rev up the energy level, or what?! My daughter, Mary, has a toddler named Sam, was expecting this fall, and is finishing up a thesis to top it off. My son, Phil, was planning to be married around the same date in the fall. Let’s hope they don’t both happen at exactly the same time! My mother (Mary Brown, Class of  ’38) lives with my sister (Jane Brown, Class of  ’68), who is her primary caretaker. From time to time, I visit to offer a break to them, including 10 days in N.H., where we all pitched in to help with their farm. Oh, yes, we did get in a long hike, too! I recognize that family involvement is important, and I’m learning to balance things a bit. I will continue to teach the exercise class at the senior center and do singing and house projects. I consider myself lucky to have all these outlets.” Hilary Hayes Geyer has been using some of her wonderful artistic skills at work, designing produce section displays. She reports, “All week, we had been celebrating the ‘tomato festival.’ I had cut up mostly small grape tomatoes or snack tomatoes, yellow and red, for people to sample, dropping one of each color into the little soufflé cup, and I made a salsa out of tomatoes, onions, avocadoes, etc. and gave out samples in soufflé cups, with chips. My cart was situated by the front door, where the tomato bins were. The tomatoes were pale and not very ripe, and there was a large picture of an ugly farmer advertising his farms, supposedly where the tomatoes came from. The produce manager was sitting nearby, his chin in his hand, looking glum. I looked up from my cutting board and said to him, ‘I am tired of looking at this ugly farmer and these drab tomatoes. I think we can do something to liven up this display.’ He exclaimed, “Oh, yes, please—I have been trying to think of something.” So I locked my cart, and after getting permission to buy some stuff on the store budget, I proceeded by obtaining a red-and-white tablecloth, burlap ribbon, small picket fencing, a low green vine, and my antique clothespin collection. Later, we had an old country look for the tomato bin, and we placed some brightly colored peppers in between the tomato sections to brighten them up a bit and got rid of the picture of the farmer, so that when the shoppers entered the store, they might be more inspired to buy from our fresh produce, especially after tasting my samples.” If only we all could shop in such a lovely setting!

www.andover.edu/intouch

There was a great turnout at the PA Class of ’62 mini reunion held in California in September. Nearly two dozen classmates, along with many of their spouses, attended.

PHILLIPS John C. Kane Jr. 28 Puritan Park Swampscott MA 01907 781-592-4967 Jkane2727@aol.com

Roger Ritvo has turned 70. Normally that would not merit lead status, and other, less impressive citizens (your scribe, for one) are testament to the proposition that quantity of life is still possible, regardless of quality. That Roger achieved his milestone during the period of his grant to teach at the University of Latvia, while continuing his research through the Riga Business School on NGOs in post-Soviet societies (Azerbaijan and Georgia), elevates its notability (and reflects quality and quantity). The teaching grant was originally to be carried out in Ukraine and was relocated for obvious reasons. Roger reports that he planned to be abroad until Dec. 25, “taking a month in London to meet up with my wife, who remained in the U.S. Learning as much from students as they learn from me.… Life is good.” And, from an e-mail sent prior to his departure, came the news that he “was named the ‘outstanding teaching professor’ at Auburn University’s college of business for the 2013–2014 academic year. Best part is that the process includes student input and voice. Teaching full time for the past seven years has made those days and years on the ‘dark side’ (administration) seem long ago.” A lot for Roger and family, and us, to take pride in. Cooper Wood has retired from his cataloging job at the Winter Park (Fla.) Public Library to care for his handicapped wife; he recalled living in Blanchard House, where the intimidating Mr. Gierasch “left my boxes sitting in a puddle in the basement the previous summer.” Picking up on the Obama-Putin reference in my March 2014 e-mail begging for copy, Cooper wrote, “Any

changes in your Putin views since Crimea? Of course, as an anarchist I wish mankind would grow up and erase all borders. But as long as there is an NRA and a Tea Party, that will never happen!” Wonderful news from Bill Damon: In October he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As of his e-mail, Bill and spouse were planning “to build a couple of weeks vacation around that Cambridge [Mass.] ceremony,” possibly visiting PA and seeing classmates with whom Bill had reconnected at the 50th Reunion. From Bill Hartman: “Since our 50th, [wife] Marilyn and I enjoyed a leisurely sail with friends along the northern coast of France, pulling into ports for fresh pain au chocolat for breakfast and Calvados for…whenever. In March, we spent three weeks in Spain, driving from Barcelona through Andalusia and ending up in Madrid. While the mixture of Roman, Moorish, and Christian cultures was fascinating and the art and architecture magnificent, the real highlights were in the little things like sharing with the chef of a small tapas bar the joys of his cooking. Then, this past May, I experienced how tentative everything is. In less than two seconds, I was the victim of a three-car crash. Fortunately, no one was hurt, though my car was totaled; I couldn’t help wondering, What if ? On a positive note, I have been working with Don Way as class agent. It’s been a treat connecting with many of our classmates on behalf of a truly wonderful and significant institution. I hope others will participate in helping to sustain Andover’s relevance and preeminence.” Bill’s work and Don’s (the latter especially on Andover and the Military) have been superb. Next, a truly neat adventure that Jan Askman is experiencing as I write: “Last fall, I reunited with a childhood classmate from Hamilton, Mass. We played Little League ball and were Cub Scouts together before I got to Andover. We hadn’t seen each other for about 55 years but found the spark of friendship we had abandoned as kids. Rick

Wetherbee wound up a professor of marine biology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. After we tore up the Mojave Desert in my ATV last year, he approached me about doing some trekking in Nepal. So, in September, I am meeting Rick in Kathmandu, and we are trekking the foothills of the Himalayas with a guide and sherpas for two weeks. And as a result of the glowing reports from Lou Lower about Bhutan, which Lou and his wife, Adrienne, visited earlier this year, we have tacked on an additional eight days there to see that very private country and the remarkable scenery and religious sites. Our deposits and visas are in place, so this will happen. And it better be this year, because I’m pretty sure this will be close to a last hurrah. Age has been kind to me but unrelenting nonetheless.” I am hoping to find a way to share the results of Jan’s adventure. Finally, Jon Vipond shared these thoughts, which reflect the input of his spouse, Tim Bunner, whom many of us met at the 50th: “The 50th Reunion for me was a wonderful experience, and I enjoyed the perspective gained in the intervening years but well premised and founded on the Andover experience and education long ago. Tim, however, found me and [the rest of] us to be a bit lax and regressive in that we returned to and dwelled, in his view, on our self-described, or at least self-imaged, ‘damaged selves’ of the early 1960s. He has unsuccessfully tried to impress on me over these past 30 years how I must move beyond the half-remembered and probably inaccurate hurt and disappointment of a very privileged youth and reflect on all the collective advantages. I think I have, and I realize how lucky I was to have been sent to Andover by a father who felt it was the most transformative experience of his life in the 1920s, as it was of mine in the 1960s.” I agree with both perspectives, Tim’s and Jon’s. For many of us, Andover was a hard place, from which we have moved on. It was also a wonderful place that taught and connected us. Andover | Winter 2015

1964 ABBOT Allis Brooks Hanley 206 Sioux Place Loudon TN 37774 865-458-8872 dhanley@bellsouth.net

I received several contributions for Andover magazine. Thanks to Joan “Whippie” Trimble for getting us back on track. Somehow she talked me into taking over her job. I hope that you’ll continue to send in news of your accomplishments. It was especially good to hear from some classmates who did not attend the reunion in June. Carol Barker Guilford missed the reunion because her sixth grandchild was due to be born around the same time. She was glad to be home and to be of help to her son. Now she has a 3-month-old granddaughter named Natalie! Carol babysits on Fridays for her 11-month-old grandson (different family), so is spending plenty of time with the grandkids. She loves it! She and her husband, Gary, were in the midst of trying to plan an October trip to New Hampshire, Maine, and Boston, with a quick stop in Andover. She continues to volunteer at an alternative high school. She states a common feeling that many of us share: “It seems to be very easy to fill my time, now that I am retired.” Lucy Bingham writes, “So sorry to have missed all of you at the reunion. But Diana Kiarsis Mayer just came for the weekend, and it was a joy to get reconnected. Even while kayaking, eating, walking, and visiting with friends and family, we never stopped talking and, in the process, rediscovered why we had chosen to be roommates all those years ago.” I have enjoyed seeing Lucy’s entries on Facebook. (We have our own group. Just search for “Abbot Classmates ’64” and we’ll “friend” you). She and Whippie are great photographers! Susie Localio reports, “I am glad the reunion went well. I just returned from the East, taking my nephew to Camp Treetops and visiting my brother in Jay, N.Y. It was hot and humid, and the black flies were in full force. So it is rather lovely to get back here to the coolness of the Northwest, with not a biting insect in sight. We have been eating from our garden for several months now. The zucchini is starting to come in. We plan to go up to the high country (Seven Lakes Basin in Olympic National Park) for two five-day trips. Our gear gets lighter to make up for our age getting heavier. The grandchildren thrive. Knocking wood, I can say that all is well.” We all enjoyed hearing the works of Gwyneth Walker at our reunion. She also contributed her bit of news, writing, “It was certainly enjoyable to visit with you, even if briefly, at the reunion. Since that time, I have been mostly in my New Canaan, Conn., home, composing a new opera to be premiered in Louisiana in the spring. On the few occasions when I have left home, it

Andover | Winter 2015

was to drive up to Vermont (where I have a small second home) to see friends and enjoy the scenery. All very ‘New England’! There was an all-Walker evening concert in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in NYC on Nov. 29.” Joan Harney Wiles wrote, “It was absolutely wonderful to see everyone at our 50th Reunion in June. I was thrilled to see so many old friends, including roommates Gwyneth Walker and Susan “Sukey” Stafford. A highlight of the weekend was dancing to terrific music selected by Bob Marshall ’64 after dinner on Saturday night. Thank you, Bob. A great time! And then the surprise of my life—three weeks later I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and at the end of July I had surgery. I’m happy to say that I’m doing really well and am very optimistic about the future. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the 55th, if not before!” My husband, Dan, and I spent June at our family’s house in East Haddam, Conn., and then returned to Tennessee. We traveled to Anchorage, Alaska, to view our son’s assumption of command ceremony at Elmendorf AFB. We enjoyed seeing the area around Anchorage with our son, Jonathan, his wife, Katherine, and our grandson,Wyatt. At 2½, Wyatt can already name all of the arctic animals, and we managed to see nearly all of them. [Son] Daniel is in Boulder, Colo., and [son] Matthew is in Atlanta. I have been busy as the president of our women’s guild at church. I enjoyed going to see the Medal of Honor quilts when Knoxville hosted the Medal of Honor Convention in September. Dan and I also went to the Charlie Daniels concert honoring the recipients of the award. Hope you’ll keep your messages coming! It’s wonderful to hear from all of you!

PHILLIPS Ken Gass 2107 Evening Star Lane Bellingham WA 98229 360-393-2612 (cell) agassk@aol.com

Crisp, clear days were upon us here in the Pacific Northwest when these notes were compiled for the winter Andover magazine. Time travel can be effortless when it evokes a period and place of youthful vigor and potential, such as those sunny autumn afternoons at Andover, running off to far-flung soccer fields, cleats pounding pavement and crunching leaves. Classmates, unlike grand brick buildings and sports fields, do change with the years. Reunions, and these class notes, update and strengthen old relationships and provide opportunities to get to know other classmates in more than name. By the numbers, Andover lists 266 in our class, whether walking at our graduation or not, reduced by 26 who have died. Of the 240 surviving members of PA ’64, 60 percent sent in bios for the reunion book, 60 percent contributed to the reunion campaign, and 44 percent attended the reunion. Bully for us!

Last June, my wife and I headed Down East after our reunion to South Bristol and Tenants Harbor, Maine, to visit my wife’s family and added a guided tour by Charlie Durfee of his Woolwich, Maine, woodworking shop, www.cdurfee.com. Both his home and shop were designed and built by Charlie, who was formally trained as a wooden-boat builder and is now a renowned craftsman of wood furniture, featured in articles in Fine Woodworking magazine. Charlie later wrote, “It was a lot of fun to have you and Francie here, and hopefully that will happen again sooner than later. Judy and Dick Howe also stopped by on a swing through Maine. Nice spinoff from the reunion!” Retirement no more defines our class than do the narrow preppie customs we once strove to model. From our reunion book bios to the reunion sharing-circle discussion on what matters, we have reported on what occupies us now: family, of course, as well as continuing valued occupations; finding creative ways to relax and grow; and focusing on strengthening our local communities, to name just a few. Two classmates not reporting in the reunion book have graciously sent in notes on their unique approaches to challenging themselves. Jon Morey wrote, “I am working with a local group to establish a conversion charter STEM high school. If all goes well, we will have N.Y. state approval next month and open the school in September 2015. I am hoping to help implement some exciting ideas in secondary school education.” View John’s work at http://bit.ly/1uxCzhI. Keith Muscutt passed on what he termed a “self-indulgent link,” http://bit.ly/1qBh6kZ, that I would term nothing short of superhuman, even were it describing someone half our age. His avocation for nearly three decades, and now—after retiring as assistant dean of the division of arts at UC Santa Cruz—a prime pursuit, is unlocking the secrets of the long-lost Andean Chachapoya people, a cultural precursor to the Incas. The China panel presentation at our reunion reminded us of the wealth of knowledge about that country held by our PA and AA classmates and kindled a desire to take further advantage of that expertise. Panel presenter Peter Schandorff needed little encouragement from L.E. Sawyer to organize yet another of his great China adventures, numbering more than two dozen. Sixteen classmates and spouses have made reservations to travel with Peter April 14–29, 2015, including L.E. Sawyer, Randy Elkins, Chuck Rounds, Ames “Mac” Nelson, Ken Gass, Dana Waterman, and Steve Calderwood. There is capacity for up to eight more, but do not delay. Contact Peter at pschand@charter.net or 314-773-3808 by the middle of February if you’d like to join the trip! As demonstrated by the example of prior class secretaries Bob Marshall, Peter Schandorff, and Tom Seligson, these class notes exist to share events in our lives, whether or not first reported in the NYT or WSJ. Emulate Keith Muscutt and send in your self-indulgent news and milestones. Thank you.

www.andover.edu/intouch 1965 50th REUNION June 11–14, 2015

ABBOT

Karen Swenson 20100 SW Peavine Road McMinnville OR 97128 503-472-2988 chezkren@gmail.com

I spoke to many Abbot classmates as we approached the deadline for the 50th Reunion book. I gathered some news to relate, but first a sad note. Ann Bradshaw Barrows died at home surrounded by her family on June 30, 2014, after a long battle with breast cancer. Ann was wonderful about sending me the family Christmas newsletter, which allowed me to keep up with her lovely family of four children and husband Nate. Becky Reynolds Zielinski and her husband, Gene, were able to visit Ann and her family in early June, as part of a trip they took to the Northeast. Becky has written a piece about Ann for the reunion book, which will be mailed out to us in late winter. Emily Davis has been a resident of South Carolina for many years, but she was in Maine enjoying, among other things, some sailing when I spoke with her yesterday. (It is currently September as I write this.) Emily’s parents lived in Connecticut when Emily was at Abbot but then moved to Maine, so Emily has spent considerable time there as well. Sarah Watson DeCew was not able to join Janet Barker and me in San Francisco in late July because of the early birth of Sarah’s second grandson. Sarah just finished a stretch of time in Connecticut helping out her son and daughter-inlaw with the new baby and his older brother. She will shortly be heading home to Nevada. Janet and I enjoyed spending a few days together, visiting Pacifica (where Janet’s art studio is) and other locations nearby on the California coast, plus touring San Francisco to see some of her artwork and going to Berkeley, where we had lunch at Chez Panisse. Delicious! Betsy Foote Pope was in England and Wales with her husband and their daughter’s family in August. Betsy’s daughter was singing with her choir there; they also visited cousins in Oxford. Betsy loves living in the Pacific Northwest, in the San Juan Islands of Washington. She is very involved in her community, Friday Harbor. When I spoke with her, she mentioned she had been hiking in the North Cascades and kayaking in the San Juans in recent days. It is a truly lovely part of the country. At this writing, Allison “Sunny” Morrill was enjoying travel time in France. I know this because I am a friend of hers on Facebook. There are quite a few of our Abbot classmates who use this form of social media. It is a great way to keep in touch and

be able to see current photos of friends and family. Margrit Krakauer Schneeweiss lives in Germany, but she headed to Vermont at the end of August. Margrit is planning on sending some of her work in to the “creative works” class exhibit at the reunion. I hope others of you will be doing this as well. Janet Barker is the Abbot committee contact for that. Among the classmates who plan on attending the reunion and haven’t been back to Andover previously are Liz Eder McCulloch and Emily Davis. It is a somewhat daunting undertaking for those who haven’t been in contact much with classmates, but for those who make the effort, the rewards are many. Those of us who are on various reunion committees have been working hard to contact classmates both about the reunion book and the reunion itself. The reunion book chairperson is Ellen Huntington Slade, and committee members for the book include Sarah Watson DeCew, Barbara Dow White, Toney Hopkins, Anne McDermott, Barbara Lawton Oberg, myself, Tunket Spaulding, and Melanie Fales Davis. We have tried to contact everyone in the class, but there are some people for whom we have no contact information. If any of you know the contact information for the following classmates, or have had contact with them, we would love to hear about it: Pat Carrick, Elizabeth “Beth” Hubbard Churbuck, Lucinda Buxton Lawton, Constance Goehring Mitchell, Antoinette Roche, Melissa Scott Smith, and Laura Beckvold. My e-mail and phone number are always included at the top of this column, or you can get in touch with any of the committee members above. The reunion cochairs from Abbot are Melanie Fales Davis (mdavis@huronconsultinggroup.com) and Tunket Spaulding (martha.spaulding@ gmail.com). If you have any questions or input regarding any facet of the reunion, please contact Melanie, Tunket, or me. Other classmates who are also helping with one or more facets of the reunion include Sarah Massengale Gregg, Katherine Abler Harvey, and Becky Reynolds Zielinski. We truly do want you all to participate, and we hope to see you next June 11–14 in Andover.

PHILLIPS Nick Marble 10674 North Osceola Drive Westminster CO 80031 303-439-7819 nick.marble@yahoo.com

Hard to believe, but by the time you read this, our 50th Reunion will be only a few months over the horizon. Like the guy said: If I knew I was gonna live this long, I woulda taken better care of myself. Mike Sheldrick somehow survived seven weeks of sub-zero global warming and frozen pipes (winter 2014) and enjoyed hiking and

canoeing with his daughter’s family at the old homestead in the Adirondacks over the summer. Graeme Means continues his architecture biz in Aspen, Colo., but also spent a month mountain biking and camping in Israel (Mount Hermon to Eilat, Red Sea and Galilee areas, Negev Desert). Fellow Coloradan and über style-setter Court Dixon submitted his preferences for reunion garb: pouchettes (figure it out yourself), taped ankles and/or loafers, madras, and pink shirts. Hey, the guy spent many years as a Boulder haberdasher, so we gotta trust his judgment. Or not. Colorado newcomers Jim Milmoe and wife Alex now reside permanently in the gorgeous ski town of Breckenridge, about 90 minutes from the kids in mile-high Denver. Closer to sea level, or maybe even below it, Chuck Vinick works on “renewable energy technology for deployment in ocean currents, waves, and tidal flow regimes.” Chuck’s artist wife Susan had exhibitions in Naples (Fla.) and California. Meanwhile, son Matthew is a TV sports producer who recently covered an Ultimate Frisbee event in Cincinnati. Doug Pirnie and wife Roxanne toured Yosemite under pedal and foot power. Back at home (in NYC) Doug still conducts tours at the American Museum of Natural History, presumably on foot, but maybe on one of those Segway thingies (he didn’t specify). It’s a very big museum. Update on Dick Cromie: He’ll attend in June and respectfully suggests large name tags to better accommodate aging eyes and memories. Last summer, Dick took on the Sisyphean (his term) task of maintaining/repairing his sprinkler system and is now in the plumbers’ union. Call him. I’m sure he’d appreciate the work. Jim Eller visited Antarctica last year (January is prime time down there) and has now toured all seven continents. Tim Mahoney now parks the car in South Dartmouth (Mass.) but maintains some professional ties and an apartment in LA. I had a nice chat with Peter Clapp, who was trying to find contact information for Brock Baker. Pete found and forwarded an article about the PA faculty and staff reaction to the then almost-unthinkable proposition of the school going coed. I quote Conrad: “The horror! The horror!” Sons of Phillips, indeed! An entire school hymn would have to be significantly altered or relegated to the scrap heap. Not to mention having “predatory females” (thank you, Mr. Benedict) legitimately prowling the hallowed halls of our ivyencrusted brick dorms and classroom buildings. I watch a lot of TV, and I get a lot of mail. Every day, I catch at least one Viking River Cruise ad on the tube, and every week (or so) my mailbox gets a very cool booklet, promising an unforgettable travel and cultural experience. It seems that the sun always shines on the Danube, the Rhine, and the great cities of Europe, and the Viking folks want to prove it to you. Well, my inherent skepticism had kept me from following up on the tempting offers, until I heard from Tony Gibson, Andover | Winter 2015

whose wife was also skeptical until they took the plunge last year. Now, Tony sez, it’s the only way to go: great food, great wines, terrific side trips, no seasickness. My wife, Kerry, and I just might give it a shot. Well, it wasn’t Viking, but Steve Seeche and his SO canoed the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe, escorted by a flotilla of hungry, hungry hippos and even hungrier crocodiles. On another continent, Steve also plans to connect face to face for the first time with his Viennese pen pal of almost 50 years, after participating in an April 2015 Mediators Beyond Borders conference in Romania. Back in the States (Vermont, to be specific), Herb Ogden keeps in close touch with Gerrit Lansing, son of Jim Lansing, who passed away in 1989. Together, Herb and Gerrit (an avid outdoorsman like his father) hiked Bald Mountain, near Bennington. Herb describes Bald Mountain as looking more like the Sierras than the Green Mountains. Sometimes, I paraphrase the notes that you guys send to me, without (I hope) disturbing their meaning or intent. It’s the small luxury of being your highly noncompensated scribe. However, Peter Burkhard’s one-sentence submission would have suffered with any editing, so here it goes, intact: “Peter Burkhard’s radio and TV ad campaigns for Dinovite and Texas SuperFood sustain a modest lifestyle in Atlanta near his two grandsons (Eli, 3½, and Maksim, 1½), whilst elder daughter Caroline pursues a PhD in alternative energy engineering and policy at Georgia Tech and younger daughter Liz and husband Uli, now in Nuremberg, Germany, support their three orphanages in Ethiopia and India via ticket sales to Liz and The Lions concerts in London, Paris, Munich, and points south.” John Jameson and wife Patricia will be with us in June. Their daughter, Virginia, completed a double master’s degree in sustainable development and international relations before joining her boyfriend in Japan, where he taught English. Michel Scheinmann is now a father-in-law: Son Gabriel married Michelle Battat in Boston. On the home front, in late August Kerry and I welcomed home son Owen and his SO, Rochelle Jones, from four years of teaching English in South Korea and Taiwan. Then we took off for a week in Hawaii, on Oahu and the Big Island. OK, guys, it’s my last chance to urge you all to be there in June. Fifty years went by quickly, but they did indeed go by, and it’s time to reunite and reminisce. It won’t be Woodstock. It won’t be Burning Man. I promise. But it will be fun to see how young we all still are, and to party like it’s 1965 just one more time, even if we have to pack it in by 9 p.m.

Andover | Winter 2015

1966 ABBOT Blake Hazzard Allen 481 School St. Rumney NH 03266 603-786-9089 603-359-0870 (cell) blakemanallen@gmail.com pakistan.partnership@gmail.com

Greetings from the turn of the summer and a shift from living rurally and working remotely to stacked suitcases. Beth Humstone made a pit stop en route to her Vermont camp on Lake Champlain. We spent a packed afternoon together. Why waste words? We went directly to the heart of an ongoing generational dialogue: how to lead a purposeful life at this stage and phase. Beth continues to teach planning—online and internationally—and serves on aligned boards. With her year divided between Vermont and Concord, Mass., we also discussed the importance of community and compatibility, a topic that extends to our Abbot community and years of friendship as well. Thanks also to some of the classmates who reached out on Facebook. Although I post on Facebook judiciously due to professional reasons (and verbal back stories), information is always appreciated. And please connect with me through that medium if it is easiest. Fast scrolling through several posts yielded news of Italy trips for Florida’s Bethe Moulton and Maryland’s Marcia Watson Goldberg, gorgeous Cape Cod scenes from local Margy Ryder Kornblum and Santa Fe stray Lucy Crane Draper, a Bahamas jaunt for Texan Judi Bricker Flanagan, and Dawn Woodworth VonGillern happily visiting Lake Geneva, Wis., from Illinois. Thanks to the round-robin e-mail group too, with Rose-Jane Bendetson Sulman on Cape Cod, Marty Wies Dignan in York, Maine, Peigi Donaghy Huseby in Portland, Ore., and Melinda Miller Patterson in Craftsbury Common, Vt., sharing intergenerational summer stories and celebrations. And last: Congratulations to Ruth Sisson Weiner on joining the The Governor’s Academy (Governor Dummer Academy in our day—remember those dishy boys?) as director of annual giving. With best wishes for winter 2015.—Blake

PHILLIPS Ray Healey 740 West End Ave., Apt. 111 New York NY 10025 212-866-8507 drrayhealey@gmail.com

Dear friends, When you walk out of the elegant residence of Deborah and Warren Baker in Chicago and cross a quiet lane, the first thing you encounter is a sizable statue of Shakespeare. When you walk a few more steps, you’re inside Lincoln Park, and it’s a stone’s throw to the nifty Lincoln Park Zoo, where this correspondent spent well over an hour checking out zebras and giraffes and great apes and other critters—and then had the singular experience of observing an animal I had never heard of, the Sichuan takin, a buffalo-like creature from the Himalayas whose golden fur is believed to have inspired the myth of the quest for the golden fleece. This piece of information naturally transported me back to our days at Andover, where I recall we learned about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for said fleece from teachers like the classicist Dudley Fitts. But I digress. I was in Chicago with my wife, Claudia, for 10 days, helping our older daughter Melina—who had spent the past year as a law clerk to a federal judge in Nashville—segue to a new job teaching law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law; felicitously, she had found an apartment a little over a mile from Warren’s place, and Warren and Deborah graciously invited us to stay with them while we got Melina’s new place furnished. Warren has had a long and distinguished career as a corporate lawyer in Chicago, at firms including Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP, and Winston & Strawn LLP. He has served his clients well and fought corporate battles in venues from New York to Silicon Valley, but recently he has elected to chart a new path. As he writes, “After almost 40 years as legal counsel, handling a wide variety of issues for family businesses and the families that own them, I have transitioned my role as their trusted advisor to a new independent platform. I founded the Family Business Fulcrum (FBF), an advisory business for family businesses. In my role as principal, I now advise these longtime clients and a growing roster of new clients as an independent advisor in connection with a wide variety of issues that include succession, governance, wealth transfer, exit strategies, and ownership consolidation, issues that arise at times of generational transition and within current family and company governance structures.” (For more information, go to http://linkd.in/1qP6vkw.) Warren is lucky in many respects but principally in that he is married to Deborah, a beautiful and whip-smart Swarthmore graduate (English literature major—my favorite) who, through her own firm, provides major advice and counsel to nonprofits. When she learned that I had a passion for literature,

www.andover.edu/intouch and particularly for the 18th century, she remarked, “Of course, everybody should read Clarissa,” that famous novel by Samuel Richardson. Warren and Deborah have two daughters, Lindsay ’05 and Hillary ’08. Lindsay, who studied at Vanderbilt and Penn after PA, is headed for a design career and possibly for further studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. Hillary, who attended Tufts, now works for a nonprofit in San Francisco called EducationSuperHighway. (By the way, Warren has maintained his close ties to PA by acting as an informal adviser on how to attract more minorities and lowerincome students to our beloved institution.) I had never spent more than a day or two in Chicago, so I was eager to get the lay of the land. I asked Warren if I could walk into town one morning, and he said, “Walk out the front door, across the street, and into the park, take a right and keep on walking south, and when you get to the edge of the park and walk under an overpass, you’ll be in town.” And indeed he was right; I landed on North Astor Street. Before I knew it, I was at the Art Institute of Chicago. During my previous visits to Chicago, in my years at Forbes magazine, it had been my supreme pleasure to host tastings of single-malt whiskeys of many kinds at an ultra-fancy hotel along the lakefront; some of the gentlemen who came to drink at those events were local notables such as Lee Eddy, Andy Abbott, and Dave Mook— and every year, I could count on a visit from my buddy Warren Baker. Over cocktails one evening, Warren recounted some of his sporting activities over the past few years. He keeps fit by doing a lot of rollerblading, in his local park and on the local lanes; he has also played club hockey for years. In fact, Warren has been running (and bankrolling) a hockey club for years, climaxing in an annual fundraising extravaganza in Barbados (but that’s another story). He is also a member of a ski club that has an event every year in the Rockies. Warren, you’ll recall, belonged to a few clubs at PA, including the French Club, the Africa Club, the Russian Club, the Press Club, and the Sailing Club (where he joined fellow sailors like Charley Sawyer, Doug Prophet, and Roger Billings). Warren has continued to sail, maintaining a sizable sloop on the Chicago waterfront and, of course, enjoying his local sailing club. I am running out of my allotted space, but I must add a footnote about the glorious weekend that followed our week in Chicago, when Warren and Deborah further extended their hospitality by inviting us to join them at their beach house on Lake Michigan, a lovely cabin on a bluff in the woods, with the beach below; when you are up on top, you’d swear you were in an Adirondack forest, but when you descend a long wooden stairway to the waterfront, you would swear you were on the dunes and the sandy beach of the Hamptons. Magical. One last footnote: As we New Yorkers headed back home after our splendid sojourn in Chicago, Warren and Deborah were on their way to Machu Picchu, Peru. Bon voyage.

1967 ABBOT

Anstiss Bowser Agnew 21 Canoe Trail Darien CT 06820 203-912-5264 aagnew@forestdaleinc.org anstissa@aol.com Catherine Hoover Petros 25119 U.S. Hwy. 40 Golden CO 80401 303-526-5202 chpetros@msn.com

Warren Osborne Collins hosted a frolicking mini reunion attended by Judy Hannegan Sherman, Weezie Huntington, Nancy Porosky Harris-Frohlich, Anstiss Bowser Agnew, and a few husbands. The midsummer weekend festivities took place at the Collins’s home, located in the midst of their beautiful organic farm in upstate N.Y. Warren, a most talented chef and warm hostess, took us around her Kinderhookarea haunts, including the Kinderhook Farmers’ Market (which Warren used to oversee), the Old Chatham Sheepherding Company (maker of some unbelievable cheeses), and Olana, the home of Hudson Valley painter Frederick Church. Judy and Anstiss had to leave early on Sunday (they are still working women), but the rest stayed and drank margaritas and ate spicy food while watching the FIFA World Cup Final game. What a weekend. We had an awesome time. Whenever our class reconnects, there are uncontrolled laughter and unavoidable tears as we share happiness, joy, loss, and struggle. We all send tremendous thanks to Warren for orchestrating such a moving reunion.

PHILLIPS Joseph P. Kahn 28 Gallison Ave. Marblehead MA 01945 781-639-2668 josephpkahn@gmail.com

From Aptos, Calif., geochemist Mark Logsdon writes, “Having eventually made it all the way to the water’s edge—well, you can see it from here— I seem to have moved farther and farther from my Andover contacts. But not so much from Andover, which continues to hold me in somewhat mysterious ways. (When sleep is hard, I find it helpful to imagine myself walking the attendance-sheet route that I had to do as my scholarship job lower year: I can easily imagine my route, and I find that very calming.)” His work on mining-related environmental chemistry, Mark adds, continues to leave him “fascinated and learning every day,” never more so than when supervising students’ dissertation

research. Classmates with whom he maintains semiregular contact include David Van Wyck (Tucson, Ariz.), Harvey Kelsey (Bayside, Calif.), Tom Sinclair (Orange County, Calif.), and Dan Cunningham (NYC). Last July, Bruce Reider was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM). Bruce serves as team doc for the UChicago athletic program— work that earned him the university’s Starkey Duncan Service Award—and, by the AOSSM’s tally, has delivered 86 national and international presentations, edited six text books, and written dozens of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and editorials during his long and distinguished career in sports medicine. Bill Robinson and I were among many Phillipian alums solicited to donate to the paper’s current endowment fund, which we happily did. That campaign prompted Luis Menocal to chime in, “I’ve said this before, but I do get more nostalgic with every year that goes by. It’s the Cuban blood. I hope to see you both at our 50th. Seems it was just yesterday that I was screeching at assembly, asking for Phillipian ‘pay laters’ to cough up some money.” If you’re still in arrears to Luis and the paper, now’s your chance to settle the debt by cutting a check to The Phillipian, c/o PA. You’ll feel better for it, believe me. Yet another Rising Storm reunion was scheduled to take place in October (post column deadline), when ageless bandmates Tony Thompson, Bob Cohan, Charlie Rockwell, Rich Weinberg, Tom Scheft, and Todd Cohen were signed to play a gig in Somerville, Mass., as part of radio station WMBR’s “Pipeline! At 25: 50 Years of Boston Rock” celebration. Todd spoke to local media about the Storm’s staying power, saying, “My personal take on the band’s longevity is that The Rising Storm has been for each of us more than simply a memory of high school, and more than a series of get-togethers to reconnect and make music. It has also served as a kind of touchstone that continually has helped remind us who we are and helped us think about who we have become.” Well put. Checking in from California, Peter Anderson writes that in 1988, he “left MGM/UA Home Video and changed professions to become a registered nurse and had a clinical career in HIV and oncology nursing at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. In the late ’90s I went back to school (yet again), completed a master’s degree at the UCLA School of Nursing, and have been a nurse practitioner specializing in HIV and men’s health for the past 13 years.” His work with a Southern California men’s medical group as an HIV specialist and clinical researcher earned him a 2009 Distinguished Alumni award from UCLA’s nursing school. Peter and his longtime partner, John Riley, were married in July 2013. He writes, “We have lived in Silver Lake in LA for almost all that time and moved into our home in 2000, well before the neighborhood became so very hip. We share it with two golden Andover | Winter 2015

From left, Joby Nadel and father Jim Nadel ’68, along with Gary Meller ’68 and son Brian, attended the Stanford Jazz Festival, which was founded by Jim 43 years ago.

Debbie Webster ’68 married Michael Wile in Sedona, Ariz., in July.

retrievers and a Lab-terrier mix and are likely now best known as ‘Gruncles’ Pete and John for our great-nieces and -nephews. We have a loving, fortunate, and very wonderful life.” Speaking of time flying by: After 26 years writing features for the Boston Globe, I have accepted a generous buyout offer—not the norm in my profession these days—and will be moving into a new career phase: part retirement and part, I hope, meaningful work that I undertake because I want to, not because I need to. My e-mail address is changing (see above), and as always, I welcome classmate news, whether you’re still working or not.

1968 ABBOT

Karen Seaward 659 Kendall Ave. Palo Alto CA 94306 klseaward@att.net

Surprise, surprise! In honor of Annette Davis Esteves’s long service to us as class secretary, a number of voices came through on e-mail channels. But first, here’s a thank-you to the class secretaries preceding Annette: Cher Lewis, Kathy Wies Dietz, and Cary Cleaver! Kitt Cary Cowlishaw responded first and

Andover | Winter 2015

said she was in Helsinki to see her baby granddaughter; this was a teaser line, since she did not give any details. Diane Russell was at the Getty Center in LA with her daughter; her 95-year-old aunt lives within walking distance and Diane visits three or four times a year to see how she’s doing. Daisy Siedler Schnepel and her husband, Paul, are working on restoration jobs in Providence, R.I., including their home. While gutting the first floor, they found an 1809 half-cent piece in the wall and lots of changes to hearths. She describes this as a lifelong restoration project; she also planned some R&R on Martha’s Vineyard and a trip to Toronto to an American Ceramic Circle Symposium. Cary Cleaver wrote that she is spending time with her horse these days and started riding bareback to improve balance and “inter-species communication.” Sharon Hughes Fiyalka and husband Art enjoyed their summer on Fire Island, N.Y.; their house was totally rebuilt after taking on lots of water from Superstorm Sandy. She loved their trip to Spain, where they were surrounded by Gaudì architecture. Dorothy Cheney is still at Penn and involved in research on cognition and behavior of nonhuman primates. She writes, “Several years ago, [my husband and I] had to give up our research project in the Okavango Delta of Botswana, due to an intractable confluence of bureaucracy and elephants. We did all of our research on foot, and Botswana is...experiencing an almost exponential increase in elephants. We were spending most of the day skulking behind trees in efforts to avoid elephants in high dudgeon, and the risk became too great. Our two girls...have embarked on Worthy Careers: One is in health/ HIV and one in international human-rights law.” Toby Dondis wrote that she and her husband are enjoying their kids, both married, and their “four fabulous grandchildren.” Her son is a tech coordinator and coaches lacrosse. Her daughter is a speech pathologist working with babies and toddlers. She writes about her 36 years at

her personalized gift business: “Very busy with wedding paper invitation ‘wardrobes’ and gifts; the paper business is alive and well, and Web presence brings customers from all over the world.” We heard from Constance Coughlan, who is a CPA in Napa, Calif. Her business is in three main areas: CPA-firm QA, financial statement audits (government, nonprofit, and small business), and tax and consulting, primarily in the wine industry. She is on the road a lot for her work, from Hawaii to Portland, Ore., to Denver to places in California named Ukiah, Eureka, and Cerritos. Her two sons are grown, and she delights in her grandson. We heard from Nan Roberts, who spent time with Paula Atwood in Stonington and Mystic, Conn., then visited with Lanie Finbury near Abbot, taking in another of Lanie’s historical preservations. Nan also reminded us of our upcoming landmark birthdays and how this might be an occasion to celebrate with a mini reunion in Florida. This got a response from Cher Lewis, who described her Italian home as cold and rainy this past summer but made warm by visits from family and friends, including Kathy Nelson. In addition, she planned to be in Miami this winter. Barbara Camp Linville said she will show up in Florida even if she is younger than most of us. Paula Atwood wrote that she is semiretired from working in the clinic at the submarine base in Groton, Conn. This past year, she went to Mexico for three weeks, including a week in Oaxaca, which she found very pleasing. As in 2013, she went to Peru on a medical mission and took her niece, who is in nursing school; afterward, they went to Machu Picchu, which Paula called “spectacular.” Juliana Crane wrote that she is still working at the Travelers, hopes to meet with Paula nearby in Connecticut, and is ready for a mini reunion in Florida. We heard from Anne Moses Bennett, who had been in Boston visiting her 95-year-old mother. Anne has been busy writing and illustrating children’s books; the first one went on Amazon in

www.andover.edu/intouch 2013 and the second one this past August. Anne urges us to visit her in Greece, still the “intriguing, beguiling, amazingly resilient, many-layered, stunningly beautiful ‘gateway to the East’ it always has been.” The finale of our news was Debbie Webster writing that she got married in July to a guy who shares her passions for cycling, hiking, and travel. She attached a stunning photo as well!

PHILLIPS Gordon Baird 27 Fort Hill Ave. Gloucester MA 01930 978-283-0390 Gordon@rampartsfarm.com

Part II of Bruce Hughes’s ’04 ramblings on 1968 (Part I appeared in the last issue): “Dean Grenville ‘G-squared’ Benedict was formidable: Just look at the double-digit number of people whose job descriptions fulfill the functions to which he alone attended. Until he decided to reinvigorate ‘The Royal Blue,’ the Saturday night projectionist had only demanded the refrain as his due. But Benedict, buttressed by the 8 ’n 1, insisted on teaching us the entire song for the first time. Part of his concern seemed to stem from another pet peeve: the fact that so many students didn’t ‘know’ the name of their school and referred to it as ‘Andover Academy.’ After forcefully reminding us, he probably thought that spelling it out in cadence in song might help.’ “Often maligned for his ‘absence,’ John Kemper left me with two personal memories to counter John Boyle’s. The first was from fall ’64, when he bounded up Evans Hall steps into the biology lab where I was struggling alone. Next thing I knew, he was peering through the microscope and asking questions, trying to set the ‘new boy’ at ease. The second was when he beamed approval as Mike Turner’s father took over from the inexperienced Mike to light up my victory cigar after we whitewashed the Exies, 6-0. Never saw Kemper so pleased. “Then there was ‘Sons of Phillips.’ I believe that the initial lyrics were: ‘Sons of Phillips, rise to praise / Stalwart souls of other days / Other men who, from this place, wandered forth, the good and great / And on her constitution’s page, wrote our ancient heritage...’ As for ‘The Royal Blue,’ Gary Meller has provided us the lyrics. For a while, David ‘Sharkey’ Chase had posted the lyrics online along with other Phillipiana, a fact that I found amusing as I had been told by a competent, high-ranking member of the administration back in fall ’00 that an assembly was to be held a month later to teach the song—they were supposedly looking for the lyrics. I offered to provide them— even the jazzed-up recording from the Bicentennial—all for naught. One can’t ignore the context. The kids are forbidden bonfires and burning A’s— as we’d had back then—ostensibly so that religious sensibilities will not be offended.

“I am pleased to hear about the release of Juan Segarra. I last saw him when he came down to NYC from Cambridge, shortly after his political conversion. He called on the ‘rabbit’ whom I dated in college, found me there, and described to us his enlightenment during a visit to the montañas in Mexico, where he contracted hepatitis by drinking from a puddle. While dinner was being prepared by my friend, Juan read undistractedly from Mao’s Little Red Book. He seemed quite sincere when he lectured my friend during dinner that they should learn also from their enemies—of whom I inferred that I had to be one, due to my nationality. My friend was amused, as her political bona fides antedated his, and I took no offense as he was a classmate and a friend, and such talk was commonplace in college circles then. Years later, I heard of his conviction and his confederate’s supposed escape to Cuba. “I shall adopt John Buchanan’s response concerning sarcasm. In fact, if you don’t hear from me on any issue, assume that my thoughts are the same as his. ...Having been exposed to the ‘jock’ culture and interaction of several recognized Catholic institutions, I suspect that we were pikers when it came to barbs. If anything, our skins were thickened just enough to wade into any debate and perhaps withstand some of the buffets of life. “Lastly, are we certain that one of the three standards for passing drown-proofing was being under water and trying to complete the course for over 60 seconds? I thought it was 120 seconds. I also recalled that it was John Woolsey who completed it all three ways. For my part, I completed the circuit twice. The first time, Mr. Sorota did not see my gesture that I was going for it (we were only given one official attempt). As my lifeguard was holding my arm, preventing me from slipping under after completion of the first two-lap circuit, Steve came to say that he hadn’t seen me and that I would have to do it again. At the next session, I did do it again, and understandably found it to be much harder.” —BH Following up on Neal Rendleman’s memories, reported in the spring issue, Bruce Hearey rejoins: “It was Meredith Price, the Andover Cottage housemaster, who quite expertly talked me out of leaving when I was extremely homesick, using reverse psychology…perhaps Neal missed that aspect of it. Plus, there was no ‘ghetto’ at AC; we had some apparently comfortable folks (Philip Buttenfield, Bruce Hughes), some upper middles (Brian Hopkins, Rex Armstrong perhaps), several middle-class folks (Russell Pickett, Donald Gates), some lower middles (Kenneth Blake, Alan Oniskor, me), and a couple of country folks (Robert Bossany, Neal).…It was a mishmash, and, except for Roger Riley, all survived for four years. “Also, I never felt put upon as a scholarship kid, and I never felt pressure to study or deprived of playing sports (besides, we all had to be doing some sport or physical activity every term). So I am not sure what Neal is talking about when he says

he had to study while others were playing sports. No one was more out of place at Andover than I. My first three grades were a 51 and 45 in math and a 68 in history; intimidated by everything, I was not coming back lower year. Price, Deke, and the draw of seeing PA friends again pulled me back for lower year, and I never looked back. I liked my scholarship jobs too: Ringing the chapel bells, working in Commons—they kept my mind off things and let me meet upperclassmen. Just another view.”

1969 ABBOT Madelon Curtis Harper 529 Poppy Way Aptos CA 95003 831-345-9111 (cell) madelon@madeloncurtis.com

I guess many of you were busy with your fall schedules, as I didn’t get a very large response for notes this time around. Maybe the wonderful reunion we had tired everyone out. A big thank-you, however, to those who did write in, as it is always my goal to have our column in the magazine. Keep the news coming! Deborah Elliott reports that she is “still a docent at the Smithsonian’s Asian art galleries and loving it. After a summer lull, we have new exhibitions in the Sackler focused on the Middle East, my part of the world, so I am delighted. There is a small exhibit on Persian calligraphy, jewellike; one on an American archaeologist, Wendell Phillips, who had amazing adventures in Yemen; and then a larger one on travelogues and objects collected while traveling, with multiple curators participating. I look forward to giving the tours. I’m fine, cats are fine, houses are maintaining, and mostly I am living the life of a hermit-scholar, which I like. The ladies and I are still meeting twice a week for qigong and tai chi and are making progress.” Great news, Deborah, and we hope you will come to the 50th! Of course, Katrina Moulton Wollenberg wrote in, and I love the fact that I can always count on her for interesting news. She reports, “I have just returned from a magnificent and relaxing vacation in Maui with my oldest son, Andrew; his wife LeAnna; my partner, Michelle; and her sister, who just retired from her restaurant (Nunu’s Mediterranean Cafe in Oklahoma City) the day of departure. It was totally relaxing, divine, and a blast. My son is launching his new business as I write this, and I hope he fares well after 1½ years of research and work. I am in the middle of a remodel of my kitchen and master bath. It looks beautiful as we progress, but there are decisions each and every day. Need to return to swim class for exercise and health (mental and physical). Promise to start again tomorrow. Hope all my dear friends out there are doing well, have hope and inspiration on a daily basis.” Andover | Winter 2015

Mary Schiavoni wrote that she and her husband bought a building for their Chewy Tubes business, and by the time you read this, they will probably have moved in. It was a nice surprise to hear from Margie Sater Lord, who wrote, “Now that I know there’s a new trend for our generation, I’m on board—I have ‘un-retired’! I got a last-minute call from a friend in need of a teacher and have reentered the classroom scene. I am four days into teaching a combined second and third grade and loving it. Not crazy about the one-hour commute each way, getting up at 5:30, but happy when I get there. The amazing thing is that I am teaching about one-tenth of a mile from the house I lived in as a baby and toddler. Talk about full circle! This is also the school I attended just pre-Abbot; surreal but kind of neat to be rounding things out this way. I’ve seen Margaret Gay twice this summer and loved catching up. Have a date with Betsy Hoover Sexton for Columbus Day weekend, so Abbot friends are top of my list. Love to all!” Jennifer Cecere wrote that she, Anne Dillard, and Wendy Ewald had a great mini reunion in NYC last July. Jennifer said that it was really great to be together again. If anyone is in Newport Beach, Calif., check out her sculpture at the Civic Center Park; it will be there through 2016. She will be giving a talk, date TBD. Go to http:// greenpublicart.com for more information. As for me, Gali Hagel and I have tried unsuccessfully to get together. We live just a little too far away from each other here in the San Francisco Bay Area to get together spur of the moment. I have been busy with my teaching (ballet, Pilates) and acting. Husband Stephen and I planned to head to Martha’s Vineyard at the end of September for his son’s wedding. It will be a nice time of year to be there. This past August we took a lovely road trip down the Oregon and California coasts for a week. I had never visited that area, and it was fun to travel with no exact plan as to where we would stop each night. We saw the big redwood parks, Crater Lake, etc. I became enamored of lighthouses, as we visited many beautiful ones on the way down. I can’t believe how much the northern California coast reminds me of Maine and New England. Which state in the country has the largest number of lighthouses? Michigan! A piece of trivia that we learned. Till next time!

Andover | Winter 2015

PHILLIPS Hugh Kelleher 12 Atwood St. Newburyport MA 01950 617-448-8073 hughkelleher1@gmail.com

Time to learn the Florida Gators fight song! That was the challenge Jeremy Bluhm faced when he was in, of all places, India, visiting a school for poor kids on the outskirts of Delhi. If the kids learned the Gators’ fight song, Florida alums would donate to the school. Mr. Bluhm to the rescue. He got the tune (via the Internet) and taught it to the kids. Video appeared on YouTube and at Gator football game. Funds raised. Kudos to Jeremy, who continues to be, one suspects, one of the few Jewish organists at a Catholic church in Australia. Nat Winship was married in early September to Hope Requardt in North Sandwich, N.H. Congrats, Nat and Hope! Facebook shows nice photos of the newlyweds and of family and friends at the big event. Thanks again to the wonders of the Internet, a number of our classmates, including Chuck Critchlow, Granger Benson, Charley Donovan, and others, have already sent Nat their best wishes via Facebook. Peter Gallett of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been in touch with the powers that be at Ye Olde PA to discuss a different sort of technology: solar thermal systems for heating and hot water. This is a very useful idea, and I pass along this little-appreciated fact: You get a much bigger bang for your investment buck with solar thermal (hot water) than with photovoltaic (electricity). It is much easier to use the sun to create hot water than to convert its energy to electricity. One of our class’s most creative craftsmen is Kevin Gardner of New Hampshire, author of The Granite Kiss and a stone-wall builder for nearly 40 years. He was recently in nearby Rowley, Mass., lecturing on the history of New England stone walls. Kevin’s book is really beautiful. There are few places more magnificent than the shores of Lake Champlain on a clear August evening. This summer I was up in Burlington for the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival and met up with Mark Snelling and Charlie Kittredge, who, Rob Reynolds reminded me, was the captain of our lacrosse team. After a fine meal in Burlington, we proceeded to Charlie’s boat for a sunset spin around the lake. Charlie is still commuting pretty regularly down to Crane & Co. in Western Mass., and Mark travels some to South America for his copper wire business. All agreed that work is nice, but boating on Lake Champlain is better. A recent article in the Boston Globe recollected Charlie’s mom, Marjorie Kittredge, who passed on at age 86 in 2010. She was the first to introduce equestrian therapy for emotionally and learning disabled kids. Windrush Farm in Boxford, said her obituary, was started with “three horses, five emotionally challenged/learning-disabled boys, and a handshake.” Today, it is a national model for innovative therapies.

Jim Shannon retired as head of the National Fire Protection Association. In what may be a first for our class, he had the honor of having a building named after him on the NFPA campus in Quincy, Mass. Jim did a genuinely fantastic job as head of NFPA and expects soon to be involved on a parttime basis in some international electrical code work. Jim is quite the hiker and spends a lot of time at the vacation home he and wife Silvia share near New Hampshire’s Presidential Range. This summer Jim and I went on a day hike in the White Mountains, and the mountaintop views were unbeatable. Fred Strebeigh was unable to make our June reunion for good reason: He was in Budapest with his partner, Yale English professor Linda Peterson. Fred, who continues to teach at Yale, seems to make good use of his summers. He recently spent one of them in Siberia, and many years ago, on the very weekend of our class’s 20th Reunion, he was one of the few American witnesses to the historic 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising. Speaking of history, Nate Cartmell, who is a veritable Wikipedia of lost and nearly lost information, was one day musing on various roles played by the actress Gloria Swanson. (Note to Nate: We are aware of your rates and hope this was not on billable time.) Nate came across the fact that her lead role in Sunset Boulevard was written by D.M. Marshman ’41, father of our classmate David Marshman. Mr. Marshman won an Oscar for his screenplay, sharing it with two others, including director Billy Wilder. Nate’s research spurred me to look up David. Again, the miracle of technology created a special opportunity. Within six minutes, David was located, and we were on the phone. There may be a lesson there: These days, if you want to find one of your old buddies, there’s a good chance you can do it. David and his wife, Sue, work for Coldwell Banker Real Estate in Venice, Fla., and he had some great recollections of his days in Will Hall, where once he traded rooms with Evan Thomas. (An informal archaeological expedition during our recent reunion confirmed that Will Hall can now be located only by its remaining foundation.) David stays in touch with Dave Sedgwick, a clinical psychologist in Charlottesville, Va. Dave has had a highly successful and useful career as a Jungian analyst. Check out his book, Introduction to Jungian Psychotherapy: The Therapeutic Relationship. David M. also stays in touch with John Clark and Joe McGhee. Joe was one of those among us who attended PA on a newsboy’s scholarship. He later went on to a career in diplomatic service. Last I heard from John, he was teaching and coaching in Connecticut. John was an amazing athlete, and knew how to play the beautiful game before most Americans could spell futbol. Perhaps John and Joe will be—or already are— among those retiring in the near years. It is a strange concept for so many of us who still have the souls of  ’69 beating inside us. Whatever you are up to, send along your news—via whatever technology works for you.

www.andover.edu/intouch 1970 45th REUNION June 12–14, 2015

ABBOT Penny Snelling Sullivan 972 Summit St. Lebanon PA 17042 717-274-0498 sullivan@mbcomp.com Sandra A. Urie 38 Prospect St. Winchester MA 01890 781-729-4480 sandraurie@gmail.com

Let’s start right off with a save-the-date notice. Our 45th Reunion will be the weekend of June 12–14, 2015. More details will be forthcoming, but we hope many of you will plan to be at Andover in June. Sad news to report: Sandy Urie’s father, Richard C. Urie, passed away on Aug. 24, 2014. He was very present at Abbot during our time there. He drove many Abbot girls to Boston on the weekends, and he took many of us to the best restaurants in the area, such as Pier 4 and the General Glover House, and presided over many visits to Friendly’s. He and Sandy’s mother, Marion, frequently opened their home to many of us. We sure were fortunate to be in Dick and Marion’s care! Quite a few e-mails are bouncing back to us, making it difficult to stay in touch. Please send (or e-mail) your most recent e-mail and street address, so we can update our addresses, gather news to share, and find out if our classmates are still working or retired on some tropical island. —Penny and Sandy PHILLIPS Peter Williams 3070 Shamrock North Tallahassee FL 32309 850-893-3342 Petewilliams1@hotmail.com Frank Herron 38 Prospect St. Winchester MA 01890 617-852-0126 ffherron@gmail.com

Class Guideline No. 71: Even when leaning against a highly polished bar, shaking hands with that tonic and gin, pay attention to your surroundings. On a Thursday in late July, after hearing a presentation on the restoration of the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan, I (Frank Herron) hoisted sail and scudded over to the bar at a yacht club. While perched there, I heard someone call my name. I loosened my grip on the tumbler and

turned. There, to my shock and awe, stood Graham Skinner. We had first met in the fall of 1967, as new 10th graders sharing a three-room “suite” (with fireplace!) in Eaton Cottage. He looked in July just about the same as he did that long-ago September. Wry grin? Check. Floppy hair? Check. Bright eyes? Check. Graham had just traveled from his home in California to Massachusetts so he could sail with his dad from Marblehead to Nantucket on a Bermuda 40 for a rendezvous of Hinckley boats and their owners. (We, alas, have only a twoperson ocean kayak.) Graham and I caught up that evening and then the next day at the wharf amid the Hinckley hulls. While at Brown, Graham— now a grandfather—caught the engineering bug. He piled an engineering degree on top of his Brown diploma and then worked at Lockheed Martin for a long time. And now? In something resembling retirement, he commutes regularly from his home in Los Gatos—via Route 17 South—to Soquel High School in Santa Cruz. He teaches AP physics. (Somebody’s got to do it, right?) Other news from California has come (via Vimeo, not face to face) from Paul Yeuell, fueled by the 40th reunion of Stanford’s class of 1974. Paul was among a group of classmates who submitted 90-second “updates.” Paul devoted his clip to his treasured relationship with his full-blood Belgian Tervuren (if you are in Brussels, then it’s a Chien de Berger Belge). A check of the American Kennel Club’s website indicates that Paul picked a dog that matches his own characteristics: intelligent, courageous, and alert. One other characteristic of dogs—including his, which is named Bodie— that Paul appreciates: They “allow themselves to receive love.” The segment was filmed at their Sundaymorning sheep-herding class, which Paul says is “the highlight of both our weeks.” As the segment draws to a close, an excited Bodie runs off to begin his class. Paul calls after him: “Bring me sheep! Bring me sheep!” Perhaps we could hire Bodie next year to help us round up enough classmates to ensure a good turnout for the 45th Reunion. It appears that Alex Donner has had little trouble getting clients to flock to the musical engagements for Alex Donner Entertainment. His outfit had a busy spring and summer. In addition to a steady diet of society weddings and all that, venues included the Boscobel House and Gardens in the Hudson Valley, Gotham Hall in Manhattan, and the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. Alex sums up the playlist: “It was Gershwin to Gaga and everything in between.” Alex recalled that in November 2011, he and his orchestra played on Andover’s Great Lawn at the 80th anniversary of the Addison Gallery. All went well until someone asked that he turn the volume down so students in Bartlett could study. Alex recalled that the mini-confrontation sent him

briefly back to 1969. He recovered. He risked probation by pushing back gently, saying, “We’ve both got a job to do” and continuing the song. There were no repercussions. He will still be welcome back for the 45th Reunion. That high number reminds us that time is marching onward. It presents many challenges. That has happened with Nick Leone, who wrote in July that he had spent the previous 10 weeks taking time off from work (thanks to the Family and Medical Leave Act) to help care for his 90-yearold mother, Jane. He explained that he was doing this “as she journeys through her final years with dementia.” As of the end of July, however, he realized that demands were too pressing, so he left his position as a regional president for Apartment Life. Nick noted that he and his wife, Cindy, enjoyed a break with a quick trip to Boston in early July. Cindy had never been to the fabled Hub, and, says Nick, “she really loved it.” The weather cooperated, thanks largely to Hurricane Arthur’s strong veer to the east. However, Nick wonders whether Cindy would “say the same thing if we came in February,” when the difference between Boston and their hometown of Charlotte, N.C., would be near its peak. Following up: Here are the answers to the quiz at the end of last issue’s column (matching the names with the comments about the “Kemper and the Unkempt” article in Andover magazine): One: Rich Samp. Two: Mark Kelly. Three: Chuck Willand. Four: Jim Quinby. Five: Fred Peters. Six: David Short. Hmmm. The end is here. Can’t believe this issue has a Class of 1970 submission with no mention of Chip Boynton. This flows from Class Guideline No. 27: With discipline, all is possible. [Editor’s note: The Academy has learned that Richard Burr Tweedy Jr. passed away on Nov. 4, 2014. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.]

1971 ABBOT

Sara Ingram 500A E. 87th St., Apt. 12D New York NY 10128 212-879-4665 sara-ingram@earthlink.net Abby Johnson 1983 Maison Way Carson City NV 89703 775-885-0612 saged183@gmail.com

Mary McCabe knows all about staying connected to Camp Fatima for exceptional citizens, where she is in her 45th year of fun and service. She produced “The Sound of Music” at the camp this Andover | Winter 2015

summer, complete with nuns and breathtaking sets of edelweiss-dotted mountains. Or is that dotted Swiss? Heide Kropp Riess and Sara Ingram visited Nancy Phillips Peoples in Maitland, Fla., and had a blast experiencing all the local fun. First on the agenda was admiring the newly painted red front door of Nancy’s gorgeous and welcoming home. After that it was on to a boat tour of the nearby lake, a walk through the local farmers’ market (kettle corn, anyone?), a movie at a dinner theatre, and having Nancy’s mother over for her birthday. It was agreed that another mini reunion should be scheduled as soon as possible. Judy Fletcher Woodbury and husband Doug “downsized” from a little house to a great condominium with more square footage and less outside work, still in Cumberland, Maine. She writes, “Doug and I are enjoying redecorating and looking forward to using this as a base where we can just lock the door and do extended travel. We are negotiating my time to retirement (he is already retired). I have become more active in civil legal-aid efforts, joining the board of the Maine Bar Foundation, continuing fundraising for the Campaign for Justice, and doing some pro bono work. We have a new program to provide limited legal services to homeless people through a local homeless resource center, which I will participate in. My first shifts are in September, so I may have some interesting experiences.” Judy welcomes visitors; she has two guest rooms! Alexandra Rollins Upton visited her husband, Gordon, who is currently working in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania under a contract to build up its infrastructure. She writes, “I went over this past summer to check up on his digs and his gigs. Holding off as long as possible, we finally set the date for when we could see the great migration in the Serengeti. I flew past Mount Kilimanjaro on the way to Dar and witnessed the full July moon rising through a lovely cloud cover. What a powerful, sublime sight. We landed in the Kilimanjaro Airport, and the crew opened the doors so that those of us who were going on could get some fresh air. Fresh, indeed. African air has a moist softness about it that is extraordinary and, paired with the smell of Africa —a mix of burning wood (acacia, I think), burning trash, dust, and life at its richest—evokes all sorts of memories and images, real and imagined. We witnessed the million and a half wildebeests and fewer but many, many other winged, four-legged, and other assorted combinations of critters in Tarangire National Park, the Ngorongoro Crater, the Rift Valley, and the Serengeti. At Lake Manyara, we saw hundreds of thousands of pink flamingos—a pink floating mass as far as you could see. Leaving the region, we saw Mount Kilimanjaro above the clouds, Zanzibar in all of its glory, and then back to dusty, dirty Dar.” Dory Streett has taken a new job as counselor at Ridley College, a K–12 school in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Quite a change from Shanghai, where she and husband

Andover | Winter 2015

Dave were last working. Before Dory’s northern migration, Lucy Pope and her husband, Mark Worgaftik, visited Dory in South Thomaston, Maine. Later in the summer, Lucy and Mark also visited Carol Kennedy McCarthy and her husband, Dave, at both their home in Binghamton, N.Y., and their new family cottage on a lake in nearby Pennsylvania. Beatriz McConnie Zapater traveled to Iceland this summer. She writes, “Yes, volcano eruptions were imminent, but the beauty and the language help take your mind off the threat. It is an awesome place to visit.” After 24 years, Abby Johnson finally made the trek east from Nevada to Asheville, N.C., to visit Linda Hynson. She writes, “Linda introduced me to the best of Asheville, including the Southern breakfast at Biscuit Head, Malaprop’s Bookstore, and of course the gardens of the Biltmore Estate.” The warm, humid weather in Asheville was a prelude to Abby’s week of vacation in super-humid and super-fun Bermuda. She says, “We snorkeled on a reef that had sea fans as flamboyant as Jimi Hendrix’s purple haze.” Shelby Salmon Hodgkins’s granddaughter arrived in August. “That makes five grandbabies— all age 3 or under. What fun family gatherings will be with that wonderful group. Our lone grandson will certainly learn how to act with the female sex, with that many little ladies in the family!”

PHILLIPS Frank duPont 8 Nichols Drive Hastings-on-Hudson NY 10706 914-478-7818 dupont@wdfilms.com

I’ve had the pleasure recently of returning to PA to make a video capturing the vision for the school under the guidance and leadership of John Palfrey. For those who have not had the chance to meet the 15th head of school, he’s extraordinary. A modest yet brilliant educator, writer, and law professor attuned to what Andover can be in the 21st century, he’s in touch with the shifting landscape of education today, and what’s more, he has a natural gift with students. The film was scheduled to debut in early November, with plans to share it with the public shortly after. Look for it on the PA website and at school events. Dave Winton told me a wonderful story, which in a sense captures this 21st century Andover. He was headed to JFK after a brief visit to NYC, in an Uber rideshare. The driver was a middle-aged African man. After a while, Dave engaged him in conversation. In short order, he learned that this man’s three children attended Dartmouth, Columbia, and Penn. Dave asked him about the high schools they attended. The driver’s daughter, Chioma Ngwudo ’11, graduated from PA and is now a senior at Columbia with a compelling

resume. She and Dave planned to talk by phone later that week! I see Greg Zorthian every few weeks over coffee or a game of squash. Greg has been serving on the Phillipian advisory committee and recently analyzed the cost structure, helping cut printing costs in half. Greg has had a rich career in media, as general manager of Time and Fortune, cofounder of Forbes.com, and global circulation director and president of U.S. operations for the Financial Times. Currently, he’s consulting in the media space. Greg and his wife, Robin, have been married for 27 years and live in Greenwich, Conn. His daughter, Julia Zorthian ’11, was editor of The Phillipian and is currently editor in chief of the Yale Daily News. His son, John, is a junior in high school. I had lunch with Phil Kann not long ago. Though we work only a few blocks apart in NYC, this was a first! He continues to practice the writer’s craft in advertising and B2B territory, is divorced, has two grown kids, and lives in Westport, Conn. He enjoys doing the work of class agent and stays in touch with longtime buddies Seth Walworth, Charlie Keefe, and David Cuthell. Commenting on the merits of PA reunions, Phil described one such occasion where he found himself next to Buzz Olson and Sandy McAdam, two classmates about whom he held opinions but frankly knew nothing. They hit it off. Phil and Buzz stayed in touch. And years later, they’re in a book club together! Walworth reports on his daughter Elizabeth, who is studying improv with the Groundlings in LA. He writes, “This is what can happen when someone with no performance DNA marries into a family with roots in vaudeville.” Seth’s wife, Susan, is a very popular teacher in San Marino, Calif., making him “Mr. Mrs. Walworth” to the kids in town. Son Chad, he writes, “makes black boxes for Uncle Sam that end up in places like Iraq. That is all I am allowed to know.” Rick Prelinger writes with delight about becoming an associate professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz. He says, “University life has been replete with surprises, especially for a non-college graduate like me.…As you might expect, I’ve taught the Found Footage class, among many others.” He continues to make unconventional documentaries, including No More Road Trips, a featurelength “participatory” film made completely with home movies from his archives, and urban history films about San Francisco and Detroit. Rick writes that he and his spouse, Megan, “just completed a series of atlases for the Exploratorium on the history, natural history, and culture of San Francisco Bay. We continue to host all visitors at our library (prelingerlibrary.org) on Wednesdays for research, conversation, project development, and scheming.” Paco de Onis released a feature documentary this year titled Disruption, about women in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia moving from marginalized

www.andover.edu/intouch

A large number of classmates turned out for a birthday celebration and mini reunion for the Class of ’72, held at the Cape Cod home of Jonathan Atwood. In front, from left, are Toby Lineaweaver, Bill Boak, Bijan Amini, and Tim Kiley (husband of K.T. Nourse Kiley). In the middle row, from left, are Missy Baird, Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, Elizabeth Hall, Nancy Pinks Bennett, Julia Gibert, and Amy Broaddus MacNelly. In the back row, from left, are Amanda Cobb ’73, Betsy Miller ’73, Jim Mayock, K.T. Nourse Kiley, Doug Hinman, Jonathan Atwood, Sheridan Liu, Frank Cregg, Richard Darner, Sam Butler, Tony Hewett, Walter Maroney, Jim Johnson, Andy Russem, Jocko MacNelly, and Jon Hulbert.

poverty to inclusive economic citizenship through asset-building programs. As Paco puts it, “Sounds pretty technical, but very human stories.” Chris Duble writes, “We are done with college, at least the undergraduate part!” His wife, Kathi, misses their two girls but is delighted to have had her ninth book published, a young adult novel called Madame Tussaud’s Apprentice. Chris sees Steve Weiner a lot. Chris says Steve “is the tuna fishing (harpoon only) king of the Maine coast all summer and helps coach PA girls’ varsity hockey during the winter.” I got the news on Fred Johnson from his wife, Jennifer. As she recounts, they sold their home of 20 years in Cincinnati, and, “in lieu of a new corporate job someplace,” they moved to the family farm, Johnson Estate Winery, in western New York. An idyllic spot, but not quite retirement. Jennifer writes, “Fred will be up early tomorrow as the picker will rumble in at 6 a.m. sharp to pick six acres of riesling. Soon the crush pad will have gained a line of grape bins full of goldengreen grapes…and the morning tractor sounds will be joined by the periodic tiger growl of the bladder press.” Fred is “farm manager” as well as owner, so summers are busy, but winters leave time for travel to see children. Spencer ’06 is now an officer in the Navy and Blaine ’08 is graduating from Fudan University in Shanghai this summer. Ken Lacey lives in Cheshire, England, with his wife, Anne Grayson Alderman. Married for 30 years this November, they have two children born in England who now live in Africa. Nick works in

South Sudan for Oxfam; he builds refugee camps and is their gender-based-violence and protection advisor. Kate manages a safari lodge in Livingston, Zambia. Ken extends this invitation: If anyone is visiting the UK, contact him at ken.lacey@hotmail.co.uk or +44 7831 863505.

1972 ABBOT Julia Gibert 300 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 7ED England + 44 0 7766 022832 juliagibert@gmail.com

In September, those of us who could make the trip gathered at Jonathan Atwood ’72’s house on Cape Cod for a second and final celebration to mark our 60th birthdays. The official rule for the party was “It starts when you arrive” (with the unwritten corollary that it doesn’t end till you’re gone). No one who came early and stayed late was disappointed. Jon, affectionately dubbed “The Great Gatsby” by Nancy Pinks Bennett, was the perfect, and perfectly inscrutable, host. Jon’s habit was to disappear, sometimes for hours at a time, only to rematerialize laden with croissants, orange juice, bananas, chocolate, peanut butter, tea, and (of course and most perfectly) lobsters, scallops, and swordfish. Missy Baird spent a couple of months hunting

down, nagging, and cajoling all our classmates —AA and PA—to come, and Nancy worked tirelessly with Jon to bring it off. Everyone was wonderfully generous, arriving with cases of wine and beer, apples, peaches, apricots, chips, cookies, and more. Elly Mish brought an enormous homemade cake for everyone to share, and on Saturday evening, with the party in full swing, we sang happy birthday to ourselves. Perhaps the most notable, perfectly Abbot event of the evening was K.T. Nourse Kiley consulting Liz Hall, recently retired as a vet working for The Seeing Eye, Inc., and now living in New Hampshire, about her (K.T.’s) dog’s chronic sneeze. There followed a full five minutes of alternate snorting while the two tried to reproduce, identify, and analyze exactly the sound that K.T.’s dog made. Somehow it reminded me of countless conversations about shared homework half a lifetime ago: Is that the ablative? What’s the natural log? Does anyone remember the next line of Caliban’s speech? My cunning, bullying plan to have everyone scrawl their own class notes at the Saturday evening party was not a complete success, mainly because no one was indiscreet but also because I managed to lose them in transit: I am 60, after all. Sandy Reynolds-Wasco was the amanuensis for K.T.’s news, which was of her sisters, all also Abbot alumna, so I can leave that for their own class secretaries. K.T. was her same wonderful, larger-than-life self, arriving Saturday with husband Tim, who always managed to hold his own, mix with the crowd, and get in on all the Abbot pictures. Andover | Winter 2015

Sandy and her husband, David, were between gigs (to use the term I have learned from my actor son), having just finished the movie Fifty Shades of Grey. As a team, Sandy and David are responsible for the “look and feel” of a movie, Sandy in particular for set design. You might recall that Sandy and David were nominated for a BAFTA (that’s the Brit equivalent of an Oscar) for Inglourious Basterds. Inevitably, they are particularly noted for their work with Quentin Tarantino. Elly’s notes consisted mainly of a capital-letter exhortation to EAT CAKE NOW, which we duly obeyed, while Amy Broaddus MacNelly received yoga instruction from Louis Tenenbaum ’72 on how to breathe deeply and cope with a ’72 reunion. Two Abbot women from ’73, Amanda Cobb and Betsy Miller, also joined our celebrations. Beth Urdang Shiro couldn’t come for the very good reason that she was celebrating, with her daughter Faryn, the first birthday of granddaughter Abby. Liz Padjen and Tad Gillespie ’73 were at a boat show instead. Maud Lavin was well into the first term of the academic year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was up for a reunion in NYC, and we couldn’t convince her that a direct flight to Boston was just as quick and that getting to Jon’s in East Sandwich from Logan was actually faster than going from JFK to Manhattan. Next time! Marna Parke Borgstrom was otherwise engaged, and Sarah Richardson Bearden was at a National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy conference in Seattle. Brenda Friend Brandt, Meredith Keller, Angie Deitrick Duffy, and Libby Spader Naficy were all too busy with work. We wanted all of you; I only mention those whom we almost, but not quite, convinced to come. I tacked on a few days in NYC and had a chance to visit a little longer with some of the guys from PA ’72. Bill Boak ’72 very kindly drove me back from the Cape, Bijan Amini ’72 wined and dined me in his inimitable style, and Andy Russem ’72 and I talked about our kids at a sidewalk bar in Manhattan. Before I dragged myself back to JFK and home, I had tea with Arnon Mishkin ’72, David Schwartz ’72, and David’s wife, Susan. Arnon’s daughter Allison is just back from completing a master’s degree at Oxford, and David’s new venture is a commission to write a biography of the physicist Enrico Fermi, to be published in late 2017.

PHILLIPS Tom Rawson P.O. Box 1361 Eastsound WA 98245 206-632-8248 tomrawson@gmail.com

Apparently once every five years is not enough for the PA/Abbot Class of ’72. Not even once annually will cut it. No, the ’72 crew had to re-une twice this year, ostensibly for the purpose of ringing in our seventh decade. The second 2014 gathering of the clan (the first, in February, was chronicled

Andover | Winter 2015

in an earlier edition of Andover magazine) occurred September 11–14 on Cape Cod, and Walter Maroney graciously sent the following account: “So this is old age: The bunch of us dancing in Jon Atwood’s house on Cape Cod, a 1750s farmhouse undergoing renovations, filled with art. As good a metaphor as any for this crew: Old, renewing, full of beauty. How did we ever live past 60? Sheridan Liu came in from California, his hair gray bristles; later in the evening, Liz Hall ’72 found him in the Abbot yearbook, that long black hair spilling down across each shoulder. Richard Darner, back for the first time in decades, came from Houston with a richly weathered face. Sam Butler, a grandfather, father of a 3-yearold, was fresh back from his second daughter’s wedding. He never did make temporal sense, anyway. Louis Tenenbaum, richly bearded and somehow radiating happiness, came up from DC, where he designs and builds living spaces for folks with disabilities. Frank Cregg is still the definitive Nathan Detroit. Jocko MacNelly and wife Amy Broaddus MacNelly ’72 were there. He’s got this glorious snow-white ponytail hanging down his back; he lives outside Philadelphia, teaching and playing music with some of his idols. Doug Hinman is basking in retirement in a house farther out the Cape, with a peace-giving view of the Atlantic. Bijan Amini, who grew up in Tehran, Iran, was so much a member of our class that not even official expulsion worked; he’s a lawyer in NYC, head shaved, who danced all night with the women from Abbot. Jim Johnson is deep into a second career as a bike tour leader, fresh back from Croatia, due to hit western Ireland in another month. Toby Lineaweaver, psychologist, told stories about dogs, living and dead. Tony Hewett and Jonathan Hulbert each looked unconscionably similar to their childhood selves. I envied Tony’s ability to grow that moustache 40 years ago. Over it now. Pete Morin ’73, guitarist and indie novelist, ducked in and out the night I was there. David Harsch ’73, who describes himself as “chief cook and bottle washer” at Seasand Samoyed Sanctuary in Mashpee, Mass., was there. Atwood’s daughter dropped by. She’s 26 and in a graduate theatre program. Ridiculously beautiful, nice to us old folks, and lord, how her father glows in her presence. “Over the long weekend, there was time on the beach; there are photographs of Jocko and Louie doing something that looks like exercise with Missy Baird ’72, Nancy Pinks Bennett ’72, and Julia Gibert ’72, with her new, fashionably mussed haircut growing progressively wilder in the wind. Late in the night, we ate birthday cake and retired to couches, looking through that Abbot yearbook. God almighty but we were young once, younger than Atwood’s daughter, younger than we could ever remember ourselves being. If this is how you get old, I thought, it ain’t half bad. “And at night’s end, I wrapped my arms around Julia, whom I first met on a debate team in junior

high and who lives on a barge in England. ‘I’ve known you since we were 12 years old,’ I whispered at her. Love you dearly, girl. True dat.” Many thanks to Walter for this report. Other PA gents in attendance included Jim Mayock, Andy Russem, and Bill Boak, as well as Dave Swanson ’73. Additional Abbot ’72 representatives were Elly Mish, K.T. Nourse Kiley, and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, joined by AA ’73ers Betsy Coward Miller and Amanda Cobb. Plans are already afoot for another Class of ’72 birthday bash next year. After all, 61 is a prime number, so once again we will be in our prime— certainly a cause for celebration. Not that we ever had to search far for a reason to party. We want you at the next shindig! Publicity will likely be through Facebook and personal e-mails, so join the Andover/Abbot Class of 1972 Facebook page and be sure PA has your correct current e-mail address. Because apparently, once every five years is just not enough.

1973 ABBOT Jane Cashin Demers 43 Morton St. Andover MA 01810 978-470-1684 (home) 978-502-8733 (cell) jane.demers@gmail.com Noreen Markley 783 Wooddale Road Bloomfield Village MI 48301-2468 248-645-0536 noreenmarkley@aol.com Marcia B. McCabe 10 W. 66th St., Apt. 22B New York NY 10023 917-796-1594 mbmg55@gmail.com

What a summer the Abbot Class of 1973 had! The summer activities kicked off with the Abbot Bazaar on May 31, held on the Abbot Circle. This event was combined with the PA Carnival, a study break during exam preparations. Although many aspects of the Bazaar of our youth were missing (notably the bake sale, the plant station, and the white elephant booth), it was delightful to see the Circle full of students, faculty, and children. The Abbot Hall steps were used as a stage for various musical offerings of the day. The Girls of Abbot film was shown twice during the Bazaar, and many of us chose to see it twice, laughing and crying at the same time. The Abbot Class of 1973 was in the room. Present were Debra Heifetz Stein; Dee DeLucia and her mother, Lorraine; Elizabeth Coward Miller; Jenifer McLean Cooke; Jane Cashin Demers; Phoebe Aina Allen and her wife, Liz; Kristine Tomlinson; Ann Palermo McCready and her daughter, Gaby; and me, Noreen Markley,

www.andover.edu/intouch with my daughter, Emily Timm ’11. All loved the film. Afterward, several of us went to the Andover Inn for refreshment, sharing stories about various faculty members. In July, Don Gordon ’52 returned to the Abbot Campus for an Abbot Academy Association luncheon. Our class was well represented by Dee DeLucia, Kim Grecoe Sherwood, Amanda Cobb, Elizabeth Coward Miller, Jenifer McLean Cooke, Leslie Hendrix, and Debra Heifetz Stein. In July, I traveled to Chicago for a weekend with my daughter, Emily. I arrived early and was met by Vicki Wood DeBoest. Vicki has been in Chicago for several years, and we spent a fabulous day at the Magritte exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Vicky is fabulous and as dedicated to using her Fitbit as Connee Petty Young. Anne Weisman Hogeland and husband Andy hosted a get-together at her home in Williamstown, Mass. Several rabbits made it to the event: Amanda Cobb; Molly Prescott Porter with husband Dare; Connee Petty Young with husband Jamie; Carmen Vinales Cunningham; Anne Spader Byerly with daughter Lily and husband Paul; Cathy Armsden with husband Lewis Butler; and Jane Cashin Demers with husband Walter. The photos on Facebook show happy people. Connee also contacted several others as she toured the eastern U.S. She met with Priscilla Martel ’74 and Karen Awad Tyler ’72. Connee also ran into Sarah Bayldon Beaman in a Vermont store, an unplanned encounter. Later that same week, part of the group moved to Amanda Cobb’s house, where photos show Connee, Jenifer, and Molly enjoying life near the water. Also present were Kim, Dee, Lynn Chesler, and Eleanor Mish ’72. Abbot Class of 1973, we are approaching a big birthday! Other classes have had a gathering dedicated to the milestone. If you are interested in an event, please join the Facebook group Abbot Rabbits by contacting me or any of the people mentioned above. Elizabeth Coward Miller attended the Class of 1972’s party and gathered ideas. Amanda Cobb also was at that party. —Noreen

PHILLIPS Pete Morin 41 Border St. Scituate MA 02066 pbmorin@comcast.net www.facebook.com/pete.morin2

Somewhat belatedly, I wish to report that Jeff Howard, principal of Howard+Revis Design Services in DC, spearheaded the recently completed renovation and redesign of the National Civil Rights Museum, located on the site of the original Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., where Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. Jeff has amassed an amazing and impressive resume during his professional career (including creating a Smithsonian exhibition of roadside diners), but no

project has been more impressive than this. Look for a feature article in Andover magazine in spring 2015 (if all goes according to the tentative plans). Michael Pierce wins the prize this quarter for most amusing news, reporting, “An architect who shares my space spends time on Mt. Desert Island, in Maine, and for some reason I asked him if he knew Wells Bacon. Ever since, he drops local maritime papers with arrows pointing to Wells winning or placing in some sailing race.” Michael also said Will Schutte was visiting from SF, but he didn’t give me the lowdown on that. He just lamented the golf courses yellowing in the autumn coolness. Bill Robinson has more on the creative front. He writes, “In January, I finished Birthday Symphony for full orchestra, based on speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. This will be performed in spring 2015 by the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra (assuming all goes well). Had a concert in February that is now posted on my YouTube channel (go to YouTube and search for ‘WizardBill’). I continue as a lecturer in physics at NC State.” I’ve listened to Bill’s music—check it out. Very interesting. Joe Smith refuses to encumber his life with Facebook but has the e-mail thing down. He writes, “I am delighted to share that on March 11, 2015, Phil Bauman, Leslie Hendrix ’73, and I will be cohosting an Andover-Abbot wine and hors d’oeuvres party at the Koch Theater in Lincoln Center to kick off the 2015 season of Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance. This is the new, expanded incarnation of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, which is now 60 years old. Leslie and I have been huge fans of Mr. Taylor’s work for about 20 years; Phil is the company’s orthopedist extraordinaire, and I am the company’s treasurer. There will be a fantastic performance of two of Taylor’s greatest hits plus one brand-new work immediately following the get-together. Other than that advertisement for my favorite cause, it has been a dull summer, despite the wonderful weather New York has been blessed with. Leslie and I went to Las Vegas right after Labor Day to celebrate a friend’s 50th birthday (we hang out with kids), and Leslie actually had a lot of fun, despite her gloomiest forebodings. I finally learned how to play craps and won enough to pay for a dinner!” Leslie embellished Joe’s report slightly, adding that Phil repaired the ankle of one of the company’s awesome dancers, who was able to return to the stage within the year. And she eschews any of the credit for the coming production, writing, “I’m playing a strictly sidekick role but can add that we’ll all get great seats and a nice excuse to drink wine overlooking the Lincoln Center plaza—the advantage of having the guys who are looking after the money and saving dancers’ careers in charge!” Edie Wilson ’73 reported, “I had a great dinner with Marcia McCabe ’73 in San Francisco last Friday, and Steve Sullivan’s widow, Jay, who is now back in SF working for McKinsey, is coming up to the ranch this weekend.” Edie is running mechanical engineering at Omnicell, with lots of

China travel for manufacturing, and her daughter, Olivia, transferred to Vanderbilt this past fall as a sophomore. Phil Bauman corroborated Joe’s report, having just returned, he writes, from “a whirlwind tour of Australia with American Ballet Theater, where I also serve as orthopedic consultant. Dove the barrier reef, climbed the Sydney Harbour bridge, held koalas and pythons, hung out with kangaroos, and even took care of some injured dancers with ABT (nothing serious) while I was Down Under.” Dave Swanson and I crashed a great party down at the Sandwich, Mass., farm of Jon Atwood ’72, where many members of that class gathered to celebrate their 60th birthdays. From all corners came Sheridan Liu ’72 (Oakland, Calif.), Julia Gibert ’72 (UK), Louis Tenenbaum ’72 (DC), Nancy Pinks Bennett ’72 (Mass.), K.T. Nourse ’72 (Mass.), Missy Baird ’72 (Fla.), Sandy Reynolds-Wasco ’72 (LA), Jocko MacNelly ’72 and Amy Broaddus MacNelly ’72 (Philly), Elly Mish ’72 (Mass.), Bijan Amini ’72 (NYC), Jonathan Hulbert ’72 (Mass.), Jim Mayock ’72 (SF), Andy Russem ’72 (NYC), Liz Hall ’72 (N.H.), Bill Boak ’72 (NYC), Jim Johnson ’72 (Tenn.), Sam Butler ’72 (N.H.), Walter Maroney ’72 (N.H.), and Richard Darner ’72 (Texas), and I’m sure I’ve missed several others (check out their notes). I think there was even a brief sighting of David Harsch, but it’s all a little fuzzy. Swanson has moved into a cool place in Plymouth, Mass., from which he will commute to his teaching job(s) at Boston area colleges. At this writing, it looked like the annual pilgrimage of Pete Morin, John McDonald, David Donahue, Dave Swanson, and Steve Rooney to Manchester, Vt., and the Ekwanok Golf Club might be in peril. By publication time, I hope that a new novel, Full Irish, will have hit the online bookstores. I cowrote it with an Irish woman who feels the same way about Irish politics that I do about U.S. politics: contemptuous and fatalistic. Finally, I am obliged to report that the descendants of J. Montague Fitzpatrick have threatened a trademark infringement case against the Class of 1973, owing to the appearance of the name and image of their ancestor on the class’s Facebook page. As counsel for the class, I intend to put up a vigorous defense on the grounds of “fair use.”

1974 Jack Gray 80 Central Park West, Apt. 20F New York NY 10023-5215 212-496-1594 jackgray@BlueLink.Andover.edu

I, for one, am following up vigorously on the often made but seldom kept promise to stay in touch after reunion. For example, last weekend I Andover | Winter 2015

attended an Andover commemoration of our two schoolmates who died on 9/11—Todd Isaac ’90 and Stacey Sanders ’94—with a tour of the newly opened National September 11 Memorial & Museum and a walk around the memorial pools, stopping at both names carved into the metal above the cascade. I had hesitated to go to either place, as have many New Yorkers who were in town that day. The company of Andover friends and many members of Todd’s family made the difference. At the reception later, the fabulous Marcia McCabe ’73 held court before meeting an out-of-town friend for an Eagles concert at Madison Square Garden. As the party wound down, Betsy Gootrad and I ducked out and grabbed dinner, where we discussed bank bailouts and I discovered that Betsy (many, many years later) attended the same Chicago grade school my mother did. At the reunion and after, Lissy Abraham and I discussed the potential pleasures and terrors of retirement. After decades at Apple, Lissy’s beginning to look beyond the grind, not surprisingly at a field related to her love of making music. She and her band, the Ballistic Cats, have just released another CD. Postretirement, she’s interested in exploring music therapy for treating autistic children. Laura Richards has moved back into town from the wilds of New Hampshire! Specifically, she has taken possession of a condo apartment in Watertown, Mass., near Cambridge. She is very excited to be back in greater Boston, after many years in the country. Those of us who love urban life are certain she made the right move. Dana Delany stars in a pilot now streaming from Amazon, Hand of God, an atmospheric mystery set in a small town. Dana plays the power behind the throne. In one scene, she confronts a con man/preacher, seamlessly moving from light banter (with an inside reference to the soaps) to a most personal threat. It read to me like a subtle wink to the audience, all while staying in character. Of course, recalling Dana’s narrative at the reunion about filming the show (“He let me grab his balls!”) made watching it all the more fun. At the reunion, Mason Wilkinson mentioned he would be in New York with his clients Crosby, Stills & Nash and suggested we get together then. True to his word, he reached out and invited me to join him backstage at the Beacon Theatre. An hour before the show, Mason was busy and I was observing. A subordinate asked Mason for the truck key Mason wore around his neck for the obvious reason, which this man had found out the hard way—his key was locked inside said truck. Mason did not express any rebuke but did hesitate as he handed it over. Message delivered. I love watching real pros do their jobs. Just then, Graham Nash entered the small room and Mason introduced me as his friend, to which Graham exclaimed, “You have friends?!” I assured Mr. Nash that he did indeed.

Andover | Winter 2015

1975 40th REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Mari Wellin King 1884 Beans Bight Road N.E. Bainbridge Island WA 98110 206-842-1885 marjoriewk@gmail.com Roger L. Strong Jr. 6 Ridgeview Circle Armonk NY 10504 914-273-6710 strongjr@optonline.net Peter Wyman 963 Ponus Ridge Road New Canaan CT 06840 203-966-1074 peter.wyman@merrillcorp.com

Dear Class of 1975: It is time to mark your calendars for June 12–14, 2015, because, crazy as it may sound, we are approaching our 40th Reunion! More than 100 of our classmates attended the 35th Reunion, and stories still circulate about the fantastic time had by all. Our fearless leader, Brian Burke, Felecia Elias, and others on the team will be at it again, organizing a magical weekend of reconnecting with old friends and sharing life stories, as well as reminiscing about some of the wild times from our days at Andover together. As Brian says, “Everyone leaves with a smile.” There is a Facebook page set up for our class, so please join if interested. Dan Cooper sent word from California: “Brad Geier, as you likely know, is still reveling in the magic of his first grandchild, Beau Bradley. Can members of the Class of  ’75 really be grandparents? Brad still looks like the same babyfaced kid talking his way out of an encounter with the PA police! I continue to be busy with two kids yet to start college, Megan, 13, and Justin, 17. I’m working out of my house in Palo Alto, Calif., these days, doing some consulting in the realm of pharmacovigilance and risk management for pharmaceutical products making their way to market and following approval. I am hoping this phase of life will ultimately transition to fiction writing. I have much to work with in the way of content and ideas but am feeling the urgency to get it out before my failing memory takes its toll on recall, syntax, and spelling!” Lewis Butler moved his office to a larger space in San Francisco. His architecture business continues to be busy, driven by tech and finance. He writes, “What I’m enjoying most is the trend toward green design, and we’ve now completed two LEED Platinum houses, which basically operate with net zero energy consumption.” Lewis is looking forward to reunion—his first one since our 10th. Stephanie Curtis Harman also sends word

from California: “I haven’t written or been to a reunion in years, so it’s time for a change on both counts. [Husband] Fred and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary recently and have been living in the Bay Area for the past 23 years. We are officially ‘empty nesters.’ [Daughter] Allison is a freshman at Stanford. Although it’s not too far from our Woodside home, she decreed she is not coming home until Thanksgiving! [Son] Stephen is a senior at UC Boulder and [daughter] Kirsten, USC ’13, is having a great time living and working in San Francisco. I continue working for various volunteer organizations in the Bay Area, including Part the Cloud (www.alz.org/partthecloud/), which raises money for Alzheimer’s research. I can’t wait to see everyone in June!” Dennis Pratt has been creating a thriving personal-growth community in Greater Boston, with more than 100 events (workshops, parties, study groups) in the past year. “And I am expanding the ‘alternatives to traditional schooling’ market— primarily ‘learning centers’ where homeschoolers learn together. My 15-year-old daughter attends one of these learning centers, when she isn’t studying math or writing blogs at home, or taking ASL, marine biology, or other classes elsewhere. My wife is happily ensconced in her new job at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston. We are enjoying life in Westwood,” he writes. Bill Kavanagh sends this news: “I have been staying in touch with Kurt Silverman, who is still taking great photos of the moon and exploring the Andover area with his camera when he’s not busy traveling the world for work. Meanwhile, I’m regularly taking my cameras to Bethlehem, Pa., where I’m in production on a documentary film about economics, life, work, and making ends meet in a former steel town.” In Denver, Margot Kent Timbel has retired from full-time oil and gas exploration. She is consulting now, but, she writes, “mostly enjoying flexibility to do college visits with our youngest, Mackenzie. Have earned my yoga teacher certification and use it teaching yoga to vets with PTSD at the VA hospital in Denver. What a contrast!” Eben Gay’s son, Bob, got married in June and is a cook at Stone Soup in Burlington, Vt. Daughter Patsy is a dance archivist in NYC. Peter Van Raalte works in NYC with his partner at Corinthian Capital, Tony Pucillo. He writes, “Tony and his family are all doing well, with all three kids graduated from college and gainfully employed. In addition, we frequently see Peter Wyman at our offices in Manhattan. Peter and I have a longstanding tradition of attending the opening week of the U.S. Open for tennis. Daughter Julia graduated from Colorado College in May and is living in Crested Butte, Colo., writing online ski reviews; my son Nick is at the University of San Francisco; and Alex is a senior at N.H.’s Proctor Academy.” Paul Suslovic is now living in the Bay Area with Anne Wakefield Atkinson. He is looking forward to our reunion and writes, “I was struck by the

www.andover.edu/intouch welcoming Andover ’75 community out here in the Bay Area. A few of us newcomers—Tony Nahas, Elizabeth Snelling, and myself—move to the area, and suddenly there is a community of classmates getting together to welcome us. Anne and I have had dinner with Kate Rohrbach and her partner, Bill Meyers, at their place in Sausalito. While up in Seattle, we visited with Mari and Dick King and went to a Mariners game with Roger Kohn. When we were on the East Coast, we visited with Matt Finnie and Geoff Richards. Before I moved to California, I shared celebratory meals with Phil Hueber and his wife, Judy, and Joan Bozek and her husband, Robert Linde. I guess my point is that there are Andover classmates all over the place, and it’s always such a great time to touch base, share a meal, and compare notes on where life has taken us. What better time to see many classmates all in one place than reunions? It’s not about what great feats we’ve accomplished (or not!) in business or academia or reality TV. It’s about rediscovering and renewing our relationships, which started, in many cases, 43 years ago. We’ve all grown and changed— and been through changes—and yet our Andover friendships remain, undiminished and even deeper with the passing years. As many of us adjust to empty nests and reordered priorities, this is the time to enjoy and nourish our long friendships with classmates—or start new ones.” Well stated! Wishing all of you the best and hope to see you in June! —Mari

1976 Ruben Alvero 7875 S. Wabash Court Centennial CO 80112 303-358-8739 ruben.alvero@ucdenver.edu Lisa Barlow 530 9th St. Brooklyn NY 11215-4206 lisabnyc@gmail.com

It’s wonderful to see how many of our classmates remain in close touch. “Thirty-eight years since graduation and still going strong!” writes Karin Krivobok Stienemeier of her recent visit with Dan Malis, Pam Eaton, and Michael Krumpe. “We were all day students during most of our PA years. Acquaintanceship and schoolmate status has turned into warm friendship, with Facebook helping to rekindle common interests, the exchange of thoughts and ideas. “Dan and his lovely partner, Carolyn, kindly agreed to host our son, Jasper, who just turned 17 this week. They showed him Boston, Cambridge, and of course their gorgeous place in Westport, Mass., gave him good advice on college, and helped improve his English. He was taken to a Patriots practice game and on a sunset cruise and got to taste great American food. My husband,

When Karin Krivobok Stienemeier ’76 visited the U.S. with her family over the summer, classmate Dan Malis hosted a get-together at his Westport, Mass., home. From left are Dan Malis, Ludger Stienemeier (Karin’s husband), Michael Krumpe ’76, Karin Stienemeier, Jasper Stienemeier (Karin’s son), and Pam Eaton ’76.

Ludger, and I arrived from our home in Frankfurt, Germany, for a five-day visit, which Dan and I had secretly organized to surprise Jasper. Pam and Michael joined us in Westport for great lobster, beach fun, and much laughter, making the stay special for all of us.” Alan Cantor is still ascending to great heights, most recently in the company of Mark Schiewetz and Henry Wigglesworth, when they made it to the top of Mt. Jackson in New Hampshire. “Mark’s been helping me, step by painful step, qualify for the New Hampshire 4,000-footer club (climbing all 48 such mountains in the state), while Henry flew in from DC for this climb up what was, for me, number 30,” Al writes. “Henry, a nationally competitive runner, barely broke a sweat, but I enjoyed his company enough that I didn’t resent his absurd level of fitness.” Of family and work, Al writes, “Pat and I celebrated 31 years of marriage this summer—and it’s been a wonderful partnership throughout. Though our nest is now empty, we still largely center our lives around our kids: Becky, who works in public health in Boston, and Max, a filmmaker recently relocated from NYC to LA. Since January 2012 I’ve been running my own consulting business, working primarily with communitybased nonprofits needing help with strategy, getting money in the door, reorganizing, merging, or struggling with staff-board issues. I’m having a total blast, and I’m finding lots of time to write about the nonprofit sector, which is both a great creative outlet and a way of making sense of what I see in the field.” Larry Fong and Labeeb Abboud, both Brooklynites, have spent time together recently in their ’hood. Larry writes, “It is gratifying to

see another late bloomer enjoying family life. Labeeb, wife Kristen, and their incredibly charming daughter, Sophie, came to our house to celebrate the post-Sandy renovation of our garden floor in Red Hook. Labeeb continues to meld fund management with doing good through HIV research and treatment initiatives in Africa and other developing regions.” Larry has also stayed in touch with Barky Penick. He writes, “Nicole and I had a lovely visit with Barks and his wife, Jennifer, in DC last November. Barky is thriving professionally as Ernst & Young’s tax guru for energy mergers and enjoying mixing work with play in his extensive travels with Jen.” Dody Clark says that most of her PA reunions take place via Facebook, but that she “looks forward to reconnecting in person one day.” I’ll take this opportunity to remind Dody and the rest of us that our 40th Reunion is coming up in June 2016, so that is a relatively easy thing to make happen. Dody writes that she is still living outside Cleveland in Bay Village, Ohio, where she is the director of the school district’s childcare center and its before- and after-school program. She writes, “I remain passionate about early childhood as I, like many educators, balance government directives and the reality of taking care of 200 children daily. My husband, Terry, and I celebrated 30 years of marriage and lots of laughter with a trip to Hawaii. Our kids are grown, one living in California, one back in Ohio with us. My mom is still alive, so I make lots of trips back East as well.” Ted Exstein is living in Germany, where he has been since 2012. “I moved with my family to work on an Army contract—first in Heidelberg and now in Wiesbaden,” he writes. “This unique opportunity Andover | Winter 2015

What ’s new with you? Get married? Move? Change your e-mail address? Let PA know! You can update your information in any one of the following ways: ● Visit

www.andover.edu/ alumnidirectory, and log in to update your information

● E-mail

alumni-records@andover.edu

● Call 978-749-4287 ● Send

a note to:

Alumni Records Phillips Academy 180 Main Street Andover MA 01810-4161

has allowed us to see more of Europe than we were able to do previously, and we have had a blast traveling around with our two sons. The other main benefit is seeing the world from another perspective. Anyone traveling to the Frankfurt area is welcome to get in touch with us—we have even been known to travel to Paris and Rome to meet up with friends and family!” Debora Weston and I keep missing each other on her stateside visits, but she took the time to update us on her life these days. “I am part of many statistics: I have a young(ish) child of 15 and an old(ish) parent who is struggling with the last piece of the life puzzle. I am a servant of two masters. I am sure many of you out there echo the challenge of helping your parents find a dignified living situation that includes moments of pleasure. “Living and running a business in London has me low on the day-to-day logistics of parental care but scoring high on the anxiety and guilt-o-meter. And I still have to get my child into university. I envy those of you who have lived through that stress already. “I have been an actress living in London for the past 35 years, and, like a salmon powering upstream, managed to beat the odds until a few years ago. So I parlayed my skill sets into a business and now spend most of my time working with Fortune 500 companies designing and delivering leadership programs focusing on presence and impact. This also leads to lots of airport hours, so I really did not have a good excuse when Ms. Barlow dropped me a note looking for news. “My son, Ethan, is a peach who has, for an English rugby player, an unhealthy obsession with American football. He makes me laugh a lot, which is not bad for a teenager.

Andover | Winter 2015

“I have had the good fortune to spend much of my time after Andover connected to many of you guys, especially when you wash up on English shores. And finally, my confession: On occasion I deliver master classes to the acting students at Exeter, where a best buddy is in charge of the department.”

1977 Buck Burnaman 222 Nod Hill Road Wilton CT 06897 203-834-9776 bburnaman@msn.com

1978 Jeff Strong jstrongnyc@gmail.com Jamie Clauss Wolf 514 Ribaut Road Beaufort SC 29902 843-694-7443 Jamie.wolf@thestartover.com

Joe Tatelbaum writes, “My hair grew back and I lost 50 pounds.…Sorry, no photos available.” Stay tuned for Joe’s possible return to Northwestern for an MD/PhD degree, which he’ll probably complete in a year or two. Bill Vandeventer visited with Mike Cannell and family in Sun Valley, Idaho, for a week. BVD brought along his dogs, Zolt and Aalto, and visited the various architectural projects he’s working on there. Mike said he received a text from Caroline Sheahan while lunching with BVD halfway up the Sun Valley ski mountain (content of text, like Joe’s photos, not available). Mike Cannell’s perhaps more interesting news: Patrick Dempsey (a.k.a. McDreamy on Grey’s Anatomy) is developing Mike’s car-racing book, The Limit, for the Sundance Channel. The Limit grippingly tells the story of the fight between American Phil Hill and German Wolfgang von Trips for the 1961 Formula One world championship. Dempsey, an avid race car driver, told ESPN.com that he plans to turn Mike’s book into “a sort of Mad Men in the racing world of the 1960s.” Should be fun—and Mike also says he’s finished a rough draft of his second nonfiction book, so expect to preorder on Amazon by the time Joe finishes that MD/PhD degree. (And definitely read The Limit—it’s fast, fun, has 38 five-star reviews on Amazon.com, and is only $14.99 in paperback.) Jeff Strong emptied his nest in Brooklyn, N.Y., in September by investing heavily in Ikea and Bed Bath & Beyond, overfilling the family SUV twice, and dropping his twins off at colleges he could not dream of being admitted to if he applied now. He’ll

be filling his new free time with a variety of pursuits (including hair regrowth and weight loss to match Tatelbaum’s) but will not be renting out his kids’ rooms on airbnb.com. Laura Viehmann reports with progress! She says, “I am pleased to report that after months of feeling more tired and ill, I am having a good response to the new treatment. I drive in to Mass General once a week (well, actually I have a terrific driver) and get a break after three treatments. My hair has suffered. I call it the Einstein look: sparse, white, and fluffy! Well worth the sacrifice, since I am no longer stuck in the chair half the day. I wonder how I’ll feel by the time we read the news? Still, I head in to work (pediatrics) three short days a week and still manage to teach about and advocate for breastfeeding.” David Durkee writes in for the first time in a long time, and it’s awesome to hear from him again. Way to set an example for those long-silent types, David! He writes, “Earlier this year, I decided to make a major change in my professional life. After working for Adobe for 12 years (and other companies before that) developing software, I decided that I wanted to do that same job for myself. So I quit my job and started on my current project, a graphics and creativity application for Mac OS X called Comic Strip Factory. I’ve been working on it for just over five months and making great progress. Hope to have it on the market by late this year or early next. Aside from that, I got back into theatre five years back and have been active with my local community theatre group, Eden Prairie Players (edenprairieplayers.com), acting, directing, and running Web, e-mail, and Facebook promotion. I can’t believe how long it took me to get back to theatre after graduating from college, but it turns out to be a pretty common story in the community theatre world.” Chris L. Mastrangelo helped me find some classmates on Facebook. On that subject, he says, “There are some people who you see on Facebook and recognize immediately from their current profile picture. Others, I have to go back and look them up to see if I recognize them. I fall into the latter category because I have changed considerably since my days as a ‘bearded kid.’ The only guy with more facial hair than me at Andover was the late Peter Marvit. Two other people whom I did not recognize at all when I first ‘friended’ them on Facebook were Wayne Robinson and David Durkee, whereas some guys, like Peter Tobeason, John Pucillo, Jamie Tilghman, and Ed Frechette ’77, look exactly as they did at Andover, or maybe even better.” (On that note, I had to go look them all up on FB. See for yourself: Same or better?) Chris then moves on to family news and says, “I moved my older daughter back to college at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond in late August, and I have a younger daughter who started 11th grade this past fall. I have been an IT consultant in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia for the past 20 years. My wife, Susan, just

www.andover.edu/intouch got a certificate for 20 years as a teacher in Fairfax County, Va., where we live ‘inside the Beltway,’ on the other side of the Potomac from DC. My wife’s college graduation year is 1983, and my older daughter graduated from high school in 2013, so I have never been to a reunion, because I have been booked in all the years ending in 3s and 8s so far. We did manage to go to a Penn reunion in 2003, and that was a lot of fun, connecting with college friends. Maybe I will make it to a PA reunion some day.” We hope so, Chris, as you are quite the connector! Jeff Swartz shares, “Married over my pay grade these 30 years; two married sons/magnificent daughters-in-law-and-in-our-hearts, third son a junior at university. Worked in our family business for 25 years; after three generations, sold it in 2011. Full-time focused on my small part in building civic imagination/capacity and supporting heroic social-change agents, usually from our adopted home in Jerusalem. Frightened by the naked triumphalism of hatred on display globally; shaken by rampant/rabid anti-Semitism, overwhelmed/ nearly overwhelmed by seeming lack of moral compass and felt absence of principled leadership everywhere I look. Where are non sibi American political leaders? Wilderness helps—Paintbrush Canyon in the Teton Range (Wyo.) was a hopeful day recently.… National parks reflect civic boldness, societal wisdom, principled leadership, and respect for truth greater than those indicated by a polled question or referenced in a salacious tweet. Praying for, and working for, better days.” Share your current e-mail, phone, or FB address so we can include your news in the next edition. Thanks!

1979 Amy Appleton 2201 Hall Place N.W. Washington DC 20007-2217 202-338-3807 Applta9@aol.com Rick Moseley 7703 McCallum St. Philadelphia PA 19118 215-275-5107 rdmoseley@gmail.com Doug Segal 1556 North Orange Grove Ave. Los Angeles CA 90046 323-969-0708 dougsegal@earthlink.net

Children: I often hear parents describe them as mirrors, but I prefer to think of them more as windows, windows that allow us to see into our past as well as our future. When my son, Michael, was about 5 years old, I took him on his first ski chairlift. As I looked over at this little guy, the

memory of riding on the same lift with my own father (for whom Michael is named) flooded through me. Here I was, with my son, on that same lift, seeing my past through him but also wondering if someday he’d be here with a child of his own. Forty Conklin experienced the same sensation at this past reunion when he convinced his 15-year-old daughter to cox the same boat he and Rick Moseley rowed in. Rowing alongside her on the same glassy waters, thoughts of the past, present, and future flooded through him. Geri Pope Bidwell, Kaaren Shalom, and Susan Jenkins Warren must have also been experiencing this state of déjà vu as Geri wrote me after just dropping off her twins, who are now PA lowers. On campus, Geri had bumped into Sue Jenkins, who also has a daughter attending Andover; word has it that Kaaren Shalom had also just dropped off her youngest son for the fall semester. I know many others of you have kids who are also attending or who did attend. I imagine you had similar feelings as you stood with your children in the same places you stood when you were their age. Margaret Shuwall Briggs informed me of Kaaren Shalom’s news, and in addition to having a mini Double Brick reunion with Kaaren, she also connected with Amy Morton for a quick picnic and swim while both were on their East Coast family vacations. Courtney Moss was not able to reunite, as apparently she was off at her own union: her wedding. Congratulations, Courtney! Margaret, meanwhile, had just tearily dropped her youngest off at Northwestern, joining the ranks of many of you who are now empty nesters. She’s currently living in Sherborn, Mass., with her husband and often sees Tori Abbott Riccardi, who lives in nearby Newton. By the time this is published, Margaret will probably have taken advantage of her empty nest by traveling to the SF Bay Area to visit Sarah Moore and Kyra Maes Kuhn. Chris Peacock and wife Alyson are also in the E.N. club, having dropped off their daughter, Katie, at Blair Academy. Their son, Timothy, graduated from Brown in 2012 and is now working in Silicon Valley. Chris comments, “It shows we’ve reached a certain age when our news is mostly of our offspring.” Carroll Bogert is also a full-fledged E.N. member—her oldest daughter just graduated from Stanford, and the younger one is at Carleton College. Carroll is living in NYC and currently appears in the documentary E-Team, about human rights researchers in Syria and Libya. Carroll also spent some time this past summer on Lake Michigan sunning with David Daskal and Tom Rubin. Fred Leebron writes that he and Tom met up for dinner in Seattle back in March. Bill Schultz has returned from his 10-year stint abroad and is now living in Atlanta. The youngest of his three kids has another two years at Columbia; his eldest is soon to be married. Which brings to mind another window into the past and future: the not-too-distant prospect of becoming grandparents, as echoed by Paul Whittall, who is

looking forward to that event. His oldest daughter is 28 and living with her husband in Seattle, and his youngest is finishing up college. Paul’s wife works at Keep Your Home California, an organization that helps homeowners grappling with financial hardships to stay in their homes. And yes, in many cases, the news is about our offspring, but not always. Melinda Hobausz could have been writing about her child, but instead it was she and her husband who were just at Burning Man, enjoying the rain, muck, and techno dubstep from the comfort of the solar-powered yurt her husband had built. Kay McCabe recently finished a dance workshop with Pilobolus, coincidentally dancing alongside another PA graduate, who was (gulp) 30 years her junior. But we will focus on the fact that Kay is still going strong in that world. Another who is still going strong in her own world is Ranie Crowley Pearce, who writes of her latest swimming adventure. This past summer she swam around Manhattan before traveling to the southern tip of Argentina to swim in the frigid glacial Argentino Lake at the base of the Perito Moreno Glacier. Gretchen Van Dusen Ramsey ran into John Andrews at a Macalester College crosscountry race where their daughters happened to be competing on the same team. And after 35 years, I am pleased to relay some news from Karen Albert. Karen lived abroad for 15 years; among other things, she spent nine months in Ethiopia volunteering at an orphanage for HIVpositive children. She is now living in the polar opposite place—Malibu, Calif.—but from the sound of it, still taking care of both people and dogs with her company, HealthyMouth LLC. Augustus Schoen-Rene is the technical director at the Smith Opera House in Geneva, N.Y., and is caring for a family member at the other end of the age spectrum, his mom. Paula Elias Ross lost her mom this year, and we send lots of love her way. Paula and husband Hank are still in western Massachusetts, as are Rachel Cartmell and her family. Paula, Rachel, and Jennifer Melville are among the many classmates I had hoped but failed to see this past summer. Roger Kass was happy to see Jorge Pedraza and his wife at a screening of Roger’s latest film, Emptying the Skies, released in October 2013. Rachael Horovitz also has a new movie that premiered in Toronto this past year, My Old Lady, written and directed by her father, Israel Horovitz. Rachael, among others, spoke of how wonderful the reunion was—“a nourishing reminder of the place Andover holds in my heart.” Sharing that sentiment was Sophia Sayigh, who loved hanging out with Kay McCabe, Amy Appleton, and Suzy Page. Bill Miles enjoyed catching up with Jim Pawlowski, Rick Bradt, Rick Wolk, and Stevie Lake, among many others. I envy those of you who were able to connect in person at the reunion, and though I don’t look forward to the years flying by until the next, I do hope to see you soon.—Doug Andover | Winter 2015

1980 35th REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Jane Shattuck Mayer 80jshattuck@bluelink.andover.edu 781-710-7532

I know you all join me in thanking longtime scribe Kate Thomes for her service. And since I, Jane Shattuck Mayer, now have the baton and the information gathered via the Google Doc I sent per the April 2013 Alumni Council Class Secretaries initiative, I have written these notes based on what is now somewhat dated news. Our next reunion is June 12–14, 2015, so write in and let’s start reconnecting now! Attorney Jonathan Talcott wrote from Washington, D.C., that he is a partner and chair of the corporate group at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough. He has three sons: Robert plays varsity lacrosse at Bowdoin; Charlie was, at that time, a varsity lacrosse player at PA (he has since graduated); and Jack is an elementary school soccer player. Jon remains one of our class agents and keeps in touch with Burke Dempsey, among others. Francisco “Pancho” Nahoe wrote that he has been a Franciscan friar for more than 29 years and a Catholic priest for more than 20 of those. He is currently rector of Saint Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno, Nev., the hometown of his upper-year roommate Eric Wright. Pancho keeps in touch with Lisa Posey Krakowsky, Heidi Steinitz, and Louis Elson. David Hsieh wrote from Walnut Creek, Calif., that he left Cisco for Ubiquiti Networks and loves living in the Bay Area. David and his wife, Lori, have one college-age daughter, Lizzy. John Cavallaro lives in Princeton, N.J., and is director of portfolio and asset strategy at BristolMyers Squibb. Peter Liberman is a professor of political science at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; he lives in NYC with his wife, Sarah, and their two children. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Roth LaFarge is a doctor of internal medicine and women’s health at Mass General Hospital in Boston, where she teaches medical students and heads up the women’s health elective for Harvard Medical School. Lizzie lives in Belmont, Mass., with her family and would love to connect with classmates in the greater Boston area or on Martha’s Vineyard. Edward Hyman is a biochemist in Metairie, La. Michael Eiseman lives in Swarthmore, Pa., with his wife, Nancy, and works in chemical engineering research for DuPont. They have two 20-something boys. David Castagnetti does “strategic government relations” from his home in Bethesda, Md. Doug Gollin is happily ensconced in New

Andover | Winter 2015

Haven, Conn., with his wife, Cheryl, a senior lecturer at Yale. Doug continues to teach and do research on developmental economics with a focus on agriculture, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to writing for academic audiences, Doug helps international institutions, charitable foundations, NGOs, and scientific groups set policy. Ian Bond wrote from London that he had “left the Foreign Office after 28 years as a British diplomat to become the director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform, one of the UK’s leading think tanks.” Ian enjoys his work and said that this is an exciting time to be working in this area. Natalie Geary is a pediatrician and mother of three in Coral Gables, Fla. Susan Getgood, vice president of influencer marketing at BlogHer, Inc., and author of Professional Blogging for Dummies, lives in Bridgeport, Conn., with her son, Douglas. Molly Pyle, a self-employed writer, editor, and historian, lives in Baltimore, with her husband and two stepchildren. After more than 25 years as an actuary, Ilse de Veer earned an MS degree in clinical nutrition and is happily employed as an in-patient nutritionist at a VA hospital and an adjunct at Lehman College. She wrote: “On the occasion of our 20th anniversary, Elayne Livote and I were finally married in N.Y. Better late than never.” Congratulations, Ilse and Elayne! Averill Powers, founding managing director of Syzygy Therapeutics (his third biotech financing startup), lives with Katie Leede ’81 in NYC. Without Averill’s three sons and Katie’s daughter at home, the pair are “kept from being empty nesters” by Katie’s son, Lionel, who attends school in New York. Screenwriter/novelist/playwright Trey Ellis has been teaching in the film and writing MFA programs at Columbia for almost a decade. His play Fly traveled the country last year and he wrote that he has “found time to return to my comedy roots and write on the F/X TV show Totally Biased with Kamau Bell, produced by Chris Rock.” Trey does not miss living in Manhattan now that he has moved to Westport, Conn., with his wife and three young children. Geoffrey Phelps, a research scientist for the Educational Testing Service, lives in Princeton, N.J., with his wife and two sons. Attorney Patrick Lynch, a partner at Crowell & Moring, lives in McLean, Va. Deborah Freile, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at New Jersey City University, used her sabbatical to write a geology field guide. Peter Gravallese, an anesthesiologist, lives in Milton, Mass., with his wife and three sons. Nanon de Gaspé Beaubien-Mattrick is president of Beehive Holdings Ltd. and lives in Vancouver, B.C. Elizabeth Daley Draghi is in-house attorney for UBS Global Asset Management; she and her husband, Gary, have four children and live in Wallingford,

Conn. Carmen Mayoral, who lives in Barcelona, Spain, is VP of human resources for the Spanish recycling firm Alberich. Juarez Hawkins wrote: “Where to start? Well, I won two awards—best in media (ceramics) and third place overall—in the 2012 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, juried by, among others, Naomi Beckwith, curator at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. My work was also featured as part of a permanent installation in Hyde Park, honoring Sapphire and Crystals, a collective of African American women artists. I’ve exhibited in two shows with this group, one at the South Side Community Art Center and the other at Woman Made Gallery. The collective also showed at Prairie State College. I was also accepted to show at the Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival. My work has also been selected to appear in two publications.” In addition to all that, Juarez teaches art at Chicago State University. She’d love to hear from classmates and invites everyone to look her up on Facebook or at www.juarezhawkins.com. Unfortunately, due to space constraints, I cannot include all the great news I got through the Google Doc, but don’t despair—I’ll write it all next time! Over the past few years, I have had the pleasure of personal connection with Alan Evans, Verneice “Teri” Hensey Starling, John Furse, Chris Rokous, Julie Hey Lillis, Dianne Hurley, Larry Harris, Josh Greenfield, Posey Krakowsky, and several others. It’s been great reconnecting with so many of you in my travels or online. I look forward to hearing about and seeing more of you soon! Cheers!

1981 Warren Jones Houston Texas 281-450-6457 wcjonesllc@gmail.com Stefanie Scheer Young New York NY 917-287- 6111 stefanie.scheer@gmail.com

Stefanie and Andrew Young had dinner in New York with Donat von Mueller, a former crewmate and roommate of Andrew’s at Princeton, after having not seen him for almost a decade. Donat passed by in his capacity as head of investor relations for GEA Group, a global foodprocessing-equipment provider. Together with his wife, Clarita, and children Tassilo, 14, and Elena, 13, Donat lives in Düsseldorf, Germany. Tassilo has developed a passion for rowing, winning the U17 national championship in a coxed four this summer. Both children enjoy languages and attend a French lycée. Clarita and Donat encourage classmates traveling through Germany to contact them. Best, W&S

www.andover.edu/intouch 1982 Graham Anthony 2502 Waterville Drive Champaign IL 61822 434-989-5800 grahamanthony@earthlink.net John Barton 480 Hulls Highway Southport CT 06890 203-254-7751 (home) 212-230-3235 (work) jwb@tfm-llc.com Parker L. Quillen 170 E. 87th St., Apt. PH1B New York NY 10128 917-923-7400 parkerlquillen@gmail.com

Many of us turned 50 this year, placing us solidly in our adulthood. First prize for those of us who will not go gentle into that good night goes to an unnamed classmate writing from Vegas: “I am poolside at the Monte Carlo.… Fiftieth birthday is coming up next week and…I am going to indulge myself, family, and friends by throwing a kickass party replete with live salsa band and dancing lessons. Got to go…the hula hoop contest is about to begin next to the lazy river, and I intend to take the trophy!” With similar verve but perhaps a more familyoriented bent, Brooks Elder approaches 50 with…a skateboard! He writes, “As of today, with my youngest son’s 11th birthday present, we are now a full long-boarding family—including my lightning-fast Lab, who I harness up for highspeed skijoring on wheels. The turnoff to the lake gets a little dicey, but so far I’ve managed to keep unscathed.” Amy Falls writes that she celebrated 50 with a 1970s-themed party, the highlight of which was a musical performance by her three daughters that “spanned Beethoven to the Beatles, with a Mohawk hairdo thrown in for good measure.” Ritchey Banker Howe was there, along with non-’82ers Win Clevenger ’83 and Katie Leede ’81. Amy is currently managing the endowment at Rockefeller University and keeping a hand in managing Andover’s as well. Amy sees Tristin Mannion regularly there, noting, “Tristin is poised and beautiful as ever.” Tristin celebrated her 50th in the Caribbean with friends, including Alison Beckwith ’81. This fall, Tristin began her term as a charter trustee, with a focus on upgrading Andover athletic facilities. She recently graced Andover’s newly renovated softball fields, throwing the first pitch at the AndoverExeter game. Tristin shares the following: “Three of our kids are swimmers and one rows crew. In May, I was at a swim meet at Brown University with my 16-year-old daughter. While there, Will St. Laurent

walked right up to me! He and his wife were visiting from Florida to see his son, a Brown student, play in a lacrosse game. Will is well, working on an RNA research startup with his brother Georges St. Laurent ’78, coaching lacrosse, and racing motorcycles.” Over the summer, John Ketterer and Charles Taylor celebrated their 50th birthdays at John’s house on Nantucket. A highlight: clamming while wading chest-deep in Nantucket Sound. Shark Week, anyone? Fellow scribe John Barton is living in Southport, Conn., with his wife and two preteen kids, with whom he loves to kayak. “The great thing about kids of this age,” he writes, “is you aren’t primarily caring for them but playing with them.” As Parker Quillen puts it, “A middle-aged man alone on the bumper cars is odd; stick a kid next to him, he is a good dad.” Rufus Ward, Celia Imrey, and Gordon Goldstein are also confirmed 50th celebrants, welcoming this milestone with classmates and friends. Calvin Hsu faces 50 next year. He is living in Hong Kong with his daughters, ages 10 and 13. Einar Westerlund greets 50 in New York City. He writes, “While most of our peers have done the sensible thing and settled in Brooklyn, my family and I have stayed in Tribeca—on the same block my mom lived on in the ’80s. I take a Citi Bike to work every day, regularly seeing classmate Celia Imrey on the Hudson River bike path. “I’ve been working at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart since it was The Daily Show with Craig Kilborn (about 17 years now) and have two children (6 and 12). After visiting Andover this summer, my oldest daughter is surprisingly enthusiastic about the prospect of potentially leaving us and joining the PA Class of ’19.” Einar spent a boys’ weekend in Rhode Island at Pierre Valette’s country house with Pierre, Gordon Goldstein, Eamon Roche ’83, Nick Carter, Rick Cody, and Hank Glassman. Einar continues, “Eamon provided incredible barbecue, smoked on a trailer towed behind his own pickup. Regarding 50, it’s very hard to believe we are really this old—especially if you look at the pictures of Nick and Pierre cannonballing off a Rhode Island cliff in late October. At an age when we are supposed to be buying Porsches and starting anew, I’m going to kids’ soccer games, organizing play dates, and editing interviews with xenophobic crackpots for comedy purposes. Busy times, but very good times, nonetheless.” Nico Freccia writes he is building a new production brewery in San Leandro, just across the Bay from his San Francisco pub. “Our beer brand, 21st Amendment, has been doing very well, and fortunately, craft beer as an industry has exploded,” he writes. “We have been brewing our packaged beer at a partner facility in Minnesota for some years and have maxed out our capacity there. So we made the decision to bring it back home to the Bay Area, where it all started. We are

under construction in an old Kellogg’s factory that made Pop-Tarts and Frosted Flakes for 30 years and are building a state-of-the-art production brewery capable of churning out more than 250,000 BBLs of beer (equivalent to about 4 million cases) per year. The 100,000-square-foot space will also have a full restaurant, beer garden, and event center. We expect to open in Q1 of 2015. So please encourage everyone to pay us a visit, take a tour, and enjoy some tasty brews.” Perhaps a Frosted Flakes– flavored beer is on its way? In his third decade keeping New York empowered at Con Ed, Stephen Wemple greets 50 living in Westchester with wife Donna and 12-yearold daughter Holly. He writes, “We were in Boulder, Colo., over Labor Day weekend and had brunch with Ellen Nordberg before hiking in the Rockies.” Alex Cochran writes, “I retired from the Army upon return from my last tour in Afghanistan, having spent more than 25 years on active duty, and took a position with BAE Systems, working in the DC area. My eldest daughter, Caroline, began as a freshman at Colorado State University this fall, studying equine science, and I stay very busy with my two Boy Scout sons—spending time in the wilderness on my terms, rather than the Army’s! I have lost touch with many of our classmates and look forward to reconnecting soon.” So if you are in the DC area, reach out to Alex and say hello. From all of us, thank you, Alex, for defending us overseas! —Graham Anthony

1983 Andrew L. Bab 170 East 83rd St., Apt 6F New York NY 10028 212-909-6323 albab@debevoise.com

In the last edition of  ’83 class notes, I noted how many of our classmates have become Andover parents, continuing the great Blue tradition and spirit. Some of you have now even graduated as PA parents and have children at or on their way to college. This past June, Angela Lorenz, John Kim, Fritz Reichenbach, Jason Bernhard, and Karen Humphries Sallick, among others, all celebrated—no doubt with mixed emotions—the moving on of their sons and daughters, including Amanda Reichenbach ’14, Adele Bernhard ’14, and Natalie Kim ’14. John Kim waxed poetic about the beauty of the day that recalled for him a flood of memories from our own commencement 31 years ago, including the bagpipers and the circle on the Great Lawn. And Jason Bernhard waxed eloquent as the parent speaker at the Baccalaureate the evening before graduation. His address has been variously described as “tremendous,” “elegantly phrased,” “heartfelt,” and “wonderful.” You can experience it yourself starting at minute 51 at http://youtu.be/ggO-nbo-3_M. Jason is available for weddings and mall openings. Andover | Winter 2015

Jennifer Cray writes from Palo Alto, Calif., that her ninth grader, Tessa, has just begun at Andover. Although she was disappointed not to run into other ’83ers at the reception for alumni parents, she did swing through the Northeast earlier this year to meet up with Stephen Pimpare, Liza Kaufman Hogan, Adam Wise, and Vivian Bache Quam. Jennifer has her own financial planning practice and still loves going to work every day. My older son, Jason, a 10th grader, is just starting at Taft. In swift succession, my younger daughter, Maya, began kindergarten, I drove Jason up to boarding school, and my younger son, Maier, started at nursery school. For all those who have gone through the school application process in New York City, you can imagine what my fall was like! Alex Navab has recently become the sole head of private equity for the Americas at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (commonly known as KKR). No wonder it’s so tough to drag him out to lunch! Victor Consoli is a partner at a hedge fund at Perella Weinberg Partners. Both firms are headquartered in New York City. Victor and his wife live in New Canaan, Conn., as empty nesters, their two daughters off at St. George’s School in Middletown, R.I. I am continually amazed not only at the remarkable accomplishments of our class, but also at the incredibly varied directions in which our classmates’ careers have taken them. Gina Poe, for instance, is an associate professor at the University of Michigan, where her research combines interests in basic sleep processes, development, learning and memory, and optimization of cognitive performance. On a research sabbatical with her family last summer, Gina worked at the Collège de France in Paris, learning a brain recording technique from a “maestro” and teaching a new simulation technique. Sharon Block is excited to have been renominated by President Obama to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board. She has served this past year as senior counselor to U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez. Sharon’s twins, Charlotte and Eli, are heading to Oberlin College and the University of Chicago, respectively. Yet another classmate’s eldest son is heading to college—Zoe Littlepage’s. She e-mailed from Houston to say she is still practicing at her law firm, specializing in defective pharmaceutical drug cases. Patrick Wilson, an independent money manager, and his wife, Nina, have four kids, two of them at Andover, and are very involved with local causes. From Denver, former Marine George Caulkins writes that he serves on the board of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, which runs the National Museum of the Marine Corps, outside Washington, D.C. Patrick Powdermaker lives near Andover, in Newton, Mass., with his wife, 13-year-old son, and 9-year-old daughter. Patrick has his own building-and-remodeling company, which keeps

Andover | Winter 2015

him busy. Kathy Macoul e-mailed to say she has recently spent a fair amount of time in Atlanta and while there met up with Matt Gilligan, Michael McCollum, Hilary Condren, and Daniel Mead. Tamar Szabo Gendler, who is Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy, professor of psychology and cognitive science, and deputy provost for humanities and initiatives at Yale University, was in May appointed the school’s first dean of the faculty of arts and sciences. Way to go, Tamar! Karl Jacoby, formerly a professor of history at Brown University, has recently taken up a similar position as a professor of history and ethnic studies at Columbia University. At the other chronological end of the educational spectrum, Lisa Carley Fay reports that her job as a teacher of toddlers at a Montessori School is by far the most satisfying work she’s ever done. She and her husband, John, sent their first child off to college this year. Two wishes of congratulations are in order! First, to Christine Kubacki Atherton, who last year celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary with her husband, Mike. Wow! I’ve tied the knot twice and can’t boast 25 years of marriage. Second, to Ravin Jain, whose wife, Janet, gave birth to twin boys Baxter and Oliver this past August. They are Ravin and Janet’s first children. Ravin writes that he often sees Duke Phan, who, like Ravin, practices as a neurologist, and John Byrnes, who has a steadily growing movie-production company. I was delighted to have Chris Fitch stop by recently to meet my family. We grabbed some Indian food nearby, reminisced, chatted about Chris’s journey to West Africa, where he learned to play native instruments, and debated ObamaCare. This summer Chris caught up with Greg Luke, his three kids, and his wife, Suzanne Cryer Luke, an actress with many credits to her name, including appearances in Sex and the City and the movie Wag the Dog. Chris also traveled to Tibet and Shanghai, his father’s birthplace. I would like to invite all of you to join me and other ’83ers for drinks in New York City each month. We had our first get-together in July: Jason Bernhard, John Harpole, Chris Thompson, Tricia Finneran, Jeff Stafford, Karen Humphries Sallick, and I had a great time catching up and swapping new—and old—stories. We expected a larger turnout in September. If you live in the New York City area—or are just passing through—and would like me to add you to the invite list, please just send me an e-mail at the above address. But please include some printable news as well. Remember, there is no shame in sharing updates of your doings more than once or even twice a year!

1984 Alexandra Gillespie 52 Amelia St. Toronto ON M4E 1X1 Canada acoonpie@gmail.com William P. Seeley Department of Philosophy 73/75 Campus Ave. Bates College Lewiston ME 04240 wseeley@bates.edu Adam Simha 84 Rice St. Cambridge MA 02140-1819 617-967-3869 adam@mksdesign.com

Hi, folks! Fall has finally arrived here in Maine. The kids are back in school and Bates is back in full swing (which, if I can admit it, always throws me back a bit to late September in the early ’80s). We tried to reach out to a crowd of you who couldn’t (or didn’t) make it last spring to greet the break of dawn with us in the Bishop common room (somehow we didn’t discover the pool table in the basement until it was too late—I blame Chris Gildehaus and Rob Kellan). Let me start by mentioning that Rachel Bacon joined us briefly last June by text message with a greeting for Adam Simha: “Hello, Adam!” Adam did not eschew the temporal duration of material presence with such active aplomb—he looked great in tight open-faced Egyptian cotton and a navy wool windowpane blazer! Alternatively, neither Jim Reische nor his wisdom were in attendance last June. But I hear from the prairie wind that good things and great adventures are afoot amidst the rolling sage of Iowa. Stalky Henderson writes that he has been happily married for 23 years to his wife, Margit. He has two daughters and spends a lot of time chasing the youngest from rink to rink in and around Denver on the youth hockey circuit. He says that the balconies in Stuart can be repurposed now that hockey bags don’t stink as much as they did when Eric Thieringer was his roommate, all those years ago. Stalky (enthusiastically) doesn’t regret turning away from the law one bit. He also tells me that the life of a stay-at-home dad is the secret to eternal youth! Which leads me to a funny story (which isn’t about stay-at-home dads). I was standing at the start of a ski race last spring with my son. We were bundled up against the snow in face masks, goggles, etc., as were the father and son next to us. For all the world they were total strangers, but then the dad next to me turns to tell his son to get his skis on and...wait for it...the voice belongs to E.T. He and his son were up from New Jersey to check out Sugarloaf, in Maine, and try their hand at the New England U14 racing

www.andover.edu/intouch scene. Small world. So...I recounted a simulacrum of that story in a graduation address this spring, adding Stalky’s name for emphasis, of course, and...his older sister walks out of the crowd afterward to introduce herself. Smaller world (and I have stories now). Scott Bertetti tells me the quick skinny is that he and his family live in New Jersey. He works for Bayer in global marketing, with responsibility for one of their radiotherapy treatments. When he is not on the road for Bayer, he spends most of his time keeping up with his daughter and two sons and their soccer schedules, taekwondo matches, recitals, and dance performances. His folks have been after him to give up Dartmouth reunions and return home for the Andover version now and again. But he says he met his wife at Dartmouth, so Hanover usually wins out. Scott often sees Steve Hochman at Dartmouth functions, and John Ogden ’85 is married to one of Scott’s wife’s close friends, so they cross paths now and again. Although we failed to gather the Adam Simha Andover All-Star Starlight Rock and Roll Arkestra at reunion, Duncan Robinson reports from Chicago that he has decided to dip a toe in the craft-spirits business after an inspirational tour and a stint volunteering at an unnamed but up-and-coming local distillery (Adam tells me that it’s named there, just not here by Duncan). Marc Silverstein has not commented on this development, but it seems to be in the air. I recently ran into Einar Westerlund ’82 who told me he is having a run at similar rum joint. Sturgis Woodberry writes that not much is happening. He is still living a peacefully anonymous existence in Darien, Conn. He and his family, including his father, took a nice trip to Ireland (three generations of Woodberrys on the road!) to see their ancestral town—which was fabulous. He did buy his neighbor’s canoe recently at a yard sale, but it has yet to see water. Elizabeth Gill writes that she got her certificate to teach Samadhi yoga. John Pickett is, at this writing, on the links at Ballybunion in Ireland. Brooke Williams, her mom, and her daughter were recently featured in Redbook magazine, sharing beauty tips for the whole family. Adam has been following Harold Engstrom’s monumental construction projects via Facebook. He says they are impressive! Peter Nesbett and his wife are still plugging away in the arts. Their latest project is currently on display in Brussels, Belgium. I would like everyone to know that Mischa Frusztajer and his son Miklosh are a stand up stand-up act. They taught me all I need to know about timing last spring...and a crowd of new jokes. Saving the best for last, as always, our own Alexandra Gillespie has decided to throw caution to the wind this year with the following: Anyone from our class who knows her real birthday is invited for drinks and cake at 4:30 that afternoon in 2015. I say let’s err on the side of caution and drop by every day. See you tomorrow, Alex. —Bill

1985 30th REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Chris McCarthy 8 Wilkie Terrace #09-05 228031 Singapore +65 9864 7918 chrismccarthy@gmail.com Pamela Paresky P.O. Box 8878 Aspen CO 81612 pamela@ayearofkindness.com

For close to 30 years, I have eagerly awaited our class notes to find out about moves, marriages, vacations, families, new jobs, and other adventures. Our class secretaries have done an unbelievable job, and I have relied on them to provide me with everyone’s stories. Then the unthinkable happened: No class notes in the last issue! And it hit me: If we don’t send notes, no notes appear. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times that I contributed, yet Chris McCarthy and our former class secretaries somehow valiantly crafted notes despite miscreants like myself. As an apology to Chris, I offered to help write our class notes. Reunion is June 12–14, 2015, and now is the time to call, e-mail, and generally pester your friends about coming! Soon, Alison Smith Lord and Dorothea Herrey will be letting us know what to expect. (As someone who typically skipped reunions until our 25th, I can tell you that you do not want to miss it!) Sadly, John Winters will have to miss it. He’s moving to New Zealand! Happily, he has been married for 23 years to Janine Penfield and has three children, Elisif, 21, John William, 17, and Cassandra, 13. “I have come to value my time at Andover…and the teachers and fellow students more and more,” he writes. Tim Smith, wife Sandy, and daughters Callie, 14, and Mimi, 11, live in Maine, so let’s hope we’ll see them at reunion. Recycling artist Graham Bergh (see his work at rebike.com), father of Tabor, 13, reveals he had a crush on Alice Stubbs at PA. Alice writes that Kate Cooper Augus’s daughter is at PA. Alice’s son Buzzy Barrow, my son Jared Zuker, and Eric Ma’s son Nico are all PA juniors in America House this year. Eric’s older son, Win, is at Skidmore, and Alice’s younger son, Davis, is 12. Eric, a longtime Morgan Stanley veteran, lives in Bangkok. Work often takes him to Singapore, where tech entrepreneur Chris McCarthy lives with wife Nancy and where I spent three weeks delivering a leadership course for Nanyang Business School. Chris gave me a tour of Singapore, complete with an alumni dinner with Sarah Corbin ’98 and Nicholas Koh ’08. And Chris took the leadership course! Montana girl Beth Britton surprised

herself and taught in Japan for a year. Margot Mims reports that she reconnected with Ing-nan “Nancy” Shen, who lives in mainland China, where Ben Schwall works, although he lives in Taipei. (Does he win the award for longest commute?) Ben and wife Emmy welcomed another baby this year, for a total of four children under the age of 7. (Yun Lee ’86 and husband Tom are godparents.) Jeff Thomas and wife Peg in Spokane, Wash., might win the award for biggest family: six children (if you count the one at Exeter). Jeff writes that son Connor applying to boarding schools motivated “some” of his other children to “work harder and do their best all the time, a testament to the type of long-distance inspiration that Andover can create.” (You know you have a big family when you can refer to “some of ” your other children.) Jeff also writes that he reconnected with Joe Bardetti ’84, Mike Morris ’86, Jim Ventre ’79, and Mike Kuta. How did we get so old that our teaching fellows (like Jim Ventre and Mike Kuta) and contemporaries (like Debby Murphy ’86, Paul Murphy ’84, and Nancy Trepanier Lang ’83) are in leadership positions at Andover? Some of us, like Elizabeth Somers Urdang and her husband, Jeff, are even empty nesters. Liz writes that her daughters, Ellie, 15, and Kitt, 13, are “pursuing their dreams of becoming competitive ski racers” at the Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont. Liz, in Connecticut, says that she is grateful for “Andover friends with whom I can pick up at any time, no matter how long since our last conversation.” “Grateful” is how many of us feel about Liz DeLucia. In fact, tell her that you have kids at PA, and she will become their adoptive aunt! The night before Andover move-in day, she hosted the three America House juniors at her Andover home. We old-timers reminisced while the young’uns clearly wished they were playing video games (until Liz produced ice cream and ushered them into the other room, where they quickly bonded). Alice Stubbs is grateful for “healthy children, good friends, tennis, Starbucks, and New Zealand sauvignon blanc, in that order.” At Liz’s, as I sipped my cabernet, it struck me that Alice is not only stunning but looks about 25 years old. (Mental note: Switch to sauvignon blanc.) With the boys out of earshot, we laughed about Kate Flather’s hysterical (and entirely unprintable) PA story (with which she promises to regale you at reunion). Printable story: Kate recalls answering a 1988 ad in the San Francisco Chronicle for bike messengers. During her interview, Teddy Keim and Seth Brooks walked in! (“I’m 99 percent certain it was them,” she remembers.) Anyone on Facebook knows that Seth is a talented amateur wildlife photographer. He works at Dartmouth, where I caught up with Whit Spalding, who just might win the “looks exactly the same” award at reunion. As I sat outside the Andover Inn with Marcella Larsen ’84 (mother of junior Eva Chilson ’18), and a glass of sauvignon blanc, we said goodbye Andover | Winter 2015

to Eric Ma and wife Patreesa, who were off to visit Eric’s America House roommate, Vivek Davé, an accomplished serial entrepreneur in N.H. Vivek has a daughter, Janaki, in 11th grade and a son, Tejas, in fifth. The news from Margot Mims is a reminder that we are at an age when loss becomes a regular part of the tapestry of life. She writes, “In the past two years I lost my mom to brain cancer, my dad to emphysema, and a sister to breast cancer. The biggest thing I learned is, ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff.’ And during the time of hardship wonderful things can happen. I got married.” Her note brings to mind the PA teachers we have lost over the years. Fortunately, both Peter Washburn and Tom McGraw are still with us, but sadly, both recently took leaves of absence. Peter is not returning to PA, and as for Tom, only time will tell. I report this to prompt us to keep in touch with the teachers we loved. They do the hard, important, and often thankless work and rarely get to see the final results. Let them know how you turned out—and let them know that they still matter to you. In closing, if you expected to be in the notes and were not, I did not receive an e-mail from you, so please reach out to one of us for the next edition. Make sure we have your e-mail address, and please join our class Facebook page. (Search Facebook for “Phillips Academy Class of 1985” and click the “join” button to be added.) See you at reunion! —Pamela

1986 Kathleen Campbell DiPaolo 2516 Vista Drive Newport Beach CA 92663 949-689-3314 (cell) 949-209-2043 (fax) Kathleen@kathleendipaolodesigns.com Caroline Langston Jarboe 3124 63rd Ave. Cheverly MD 20785 301-322-4241 (home) 301-379-6572 (cell) caroline_jarboe@yahoo.com

Hi, class! So, summer is over, and the school year has begun. Andover is in full swing again. We have had a few classmates give tearful goodbyes as they dropped their kids off on campus! Eunice Lee left her son off at French House, and Kimberly Doggett Formisano left her daughter off at my old dorm, Paul Revere! Paul Revere rides again! I know we have had others with children at Andover, but I just think it is amazingly full circle. Randall Batinkoff directed, cowrote, and starred in a new film, 37: A Final Promise. The film is about a rock star who wants to end his life at 37. Congrats! I remember practicing lines with Randall during the old days. You can stream

Andover | Winter 2015

the film on any of your devices. The company that Alec Guettel cofounded, Sungevity, Inc., a solar power company created for homeowners who want to design their own solar power systems, has been busy raising money for its sister organization Sungevity.org. Recently, it raised more than $1.5 million for a variety of nonprofits. Way to go, Alec! Kim Guzowski is bridging the gap between traditional education and real application of concepts with her company, Technical Artisans Collective. She is serving as executive director while also pursuing an MFA degree in performance and interactive media arts at Brooklyn College. I was happy to see an article in the New York Times about Matthew Bellows, cofounder and CEO of Yesware, a sales software startup. It was a great case-study article and follow-up. I highly recommend reading it; you can find it at http:// nyti.ms/1BSUorm. Tad Beck recently showed his art in Worcester, Mass., at the Worcester Art Museum, in a group show, called Perfectly Strange, on the aesthetic of the strange. I really used my imagination with that title. I tried to get people to send me some funny anecdotes about our time at Andover. I still can’t believe my parents let me go to the Bahamas unchaperoned for senior spring break! David Sullivan (Sullyyyyyy!) wrote that he has been to Cape Cod lately and was thinking about the grad party that Kimberly Doggett Formisano had, which, in turn, reminded him of Kaitlin McDermott’s fun grad party in Old Lyme, Conn. That was a blast! I remember thinking I had seen a slice of heaven—the location and home were so beautiful. Hope everyone had a great rest of 2014! XO, Kath Campbell DiPaolo

1987 David Kopans 2 Princeton Road Arlington MA 02474-8238 781-646-4515 617-947-2454 (cell) dave@kopans.com

Let’s start out by saying how totally cool it is to see a classmate’s talents showcased on iTunes. So take a moment to stop right now and visit the following link to hear Ulrich Murtfeld’s tickling of the ivories in a just-released (as of this writing) CD that is dedicated to American composers: http://tinyurl.com/PAMurtfeld. Ulrich sent in this exciting news from Germany, where he works as a piano pedagogue and concert pianist in Friedrichshafen and Frankfurt. He also wrote in that during his last trip to the United States, a bit over a year ago, he connected with Tricia Paik and Erik Tozzi from our class and Guenter Meyer ’88

and Roberto Woldenberg ’89. Among the topics of discussion, he wrote, was the “sharing of nice memories of our musical activities with the PA orchestra directed by Mr. Thomas.” OK, let’s continue the German theme here with a history lesson. In particular, did you know that the sport of gliding emerged after the First World War as a result of the Treaty of Versailles? Tony Gellert probably does, but the rest of us, except for Timothy S. McAllister, I am sure do not. Tony knows because he is a wicked smaht fella (similar to Chris Regan, of course—who will be the only one to get that joke from an experience my wife, Lauren, and I had hanging with him at a bar in Miami some 20 years ago; if you want to know, call up Chris). Tim knows, however, because he was yet again selected to fly for the U.S. National Soaring Team at the FAI World Gliding Championships in Pociunai, Lithuania, in 2016. He must be good, since this is his fifth time on the team. I kid you not. Check out Tim at http://tinyurl.com/PASoaring. When both feet are planted on the ground, Tim reports, “I am happily indulging my passions as rowing coach and husband/dad in Dallas.” Tim is also starting up a business to import and advise on a new series of racing gliders built in Poland. And thus, he says, “If any classmates have picked up or would like to pick up glider racing, then I am your hook-up for a new glider.” Bill Watt is not racing gliders or playing the piano. Indeed, he wrote in that he is “single and losing normal social skills rapidly.” I think we can all excuse this as he is also, mind you, cofounder and CEO of a cancer vaccine company called EpiThany, which has a number of vaccines entering phase one clinical trials over the next 12 months. No time for dating, indeed. Good luck, Bill and EpiThany! Jamie Rosenberg did not write me. His autoresponder did, however. I followed the link to his new e-mail address, and he appears to have started yet another endeavor in the education space that looks pretty cool. It is called ClassWallet.com, and it is “a new and better way to collect, spend, and track money for classrooms without handling cash.” Check it out. Melissa Hardin and Holly Milton each were kind enough to write in to celebrate a longoverdue get-together with Jenny Lim over beers and pizza. Hear, hear to great friends getting together! We should all do more of that. Life is short. Tony Jaccaci reported from China about his successfully teaming up with Jason Fry (author, not power lifter) for a fundraising effort on behalf of the Phillipian Endowment Fund. Apparently Jason shares a little bit of arm-twisting ability with the power lifter of the same name, as the Class of  ’87 class came through with donations from 17 members of the 1987 board—one of the highest participation rates in the campaign. Nice work to Tony, Jason, and the ’87 Phillipian Board!

www.andover.edu/intouch Speaking of The Phillipian, I just opened an old box in my basement to discover that my mom had socked away every single issue from the fall of  ’83 through our graduation! Totally nuts. Fun to read some of those stories and, of course, see Stan Tarr’s big glasses. Actually, we all had pretty big glasses back then. Think for a moment and remember. And, if you want an old Phillipian, please do stop by Arlington, Mass. Cold beer included with your copy. Tony also reports that he and his wife, Lucia Jaccaci ’88, are in their fifth year in Shanghai and that their YK Pao School has grown to 460 kids and more than 100 teachers. Nothing like growing at China speed! Emilio “Mimmo” Iasiello reports that a couple of short films for which he wrote the scripts finally got posted. Here are the links to Tennis, http://tinyurl.com/PATennis, and Stopping Blood, http://tinyurl.com/PAStopping. A quick disclaimer here: I have not watched either. Not due to a lack of desire, mind you. It’s just that I have yet again left these notes to the last minute and can’t take the time, or I’ll miss my deadline. Plus, one of these videos “is unavailable with Safety Mode enabled.” No idea how to turn that off, although I am sure my kids could. Chris Whittier kindly dropped me a line in between the demands of his busy schedule as director of conservation medicine at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts. Recently, Chris reconnected with Louisa Edgerly, who is currently an associate scholar at Seattle University and is helping advise one of Chris’s graduating students. Louisa, it appears from a search of the Web, is doing some pretty terrific things in the field of communication research, public health, and more sustainable human development. Chris also reports that in his travels he had the opportunity for a brief catch-up with Justin Loew (MD, who reports that his oldest son is taller than he is) during a presentation in Newport, R.I. He also saw Gary Sousa at a recent Science on Screen presentation at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Mass., where Chris apparently “was asked to realize a childhood dream that I never actually had by introducing the original King Kong (surely the most fun I’ve ever had or will have public speaking!).” Gunga would be proud. Staying on theme, let’s close with a YouTube link. Seth Berry—now the house majority leader in the Maine legislature!—forwarded to me an e-mail from Karl Kister with a link to the trailer for Karl’s documentary film Hanna Ranch (http://tinyurl.com/PARanch). When you finish listening to Ulrich’s piano, check it out. And after that, please send me your thoughts and what’s up with you for the next class notes. Be well, class. —Dave

Aisha Jorge Massengill, Terri Stroud, Chris Hekimian, and Jon Pratt, all Class of ’88, attended a surprise birthday party for Chris in May.

1988 Terri Stroud 800 4th St. SW, Unit N418 Washington DC 20024 202-486-4189 terri.stroud@gmail.com Laura Cox 21 Merced Ave. San Anselmo CA 94960 415-302-7709 laurajeancox@gmail.com Matt Lavin 1203 Constitution Ave. NE Washington DC 20002 202-365-8593 mattlavindc@yahoo.com Heather Ross Zuzenak 16 Essex St. Medford MA 02155 781-874-1747 hrzuzenak@yahoo.com

Greetings, ’88ers! Here’s the lowdown: Shannon Smith Meyer and her family (husband Dave and children Toby, 13, and Cassidy, 11) went to Italy and Greece to climb this past summer. They were joined in Lake Como by Karin Maus ’87 (an exchange student from Germany who lived with Shannon and her family for a year), Karin’s husband Thilo, and two of her four beautiful children, Johanna, 13, and Ronja, 11. Shannon lives in the mountains of western Colorado near Aspen, at a boarding school where Dave teaches history and rock climbing, and she works for the national conservation group Land Trust Alliance, the umbrella organization for land trusts nationwide. Tanya Selvaratnam is now splitting her time

between NYC and Portland, Ore., where she gets to see Arthur Bradford. Tanya continues to promote her book, The Big Lie, and is working on her next book, which will be about existential dilemmas and radical transformations. She has also completed production on several films, including Catherine Gund’s feature Born to Fly (which premiered at New York’s Film Forum in September), a short film by Chiara Clemente about Alex and Ada Katz, and a music video for Pink Martini and the von Trapps. Paul “Pablo” Valdez remains a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State. He is now serving with his family (wife Katherine and daughters Anna, 10, and Olivia, 6) in Mexico City as environment, science, technology, and health counselor. Joyous news alert! Elee Kraljii Gardiner is 100 percent healthy and cleared by the neurologist from the spontaneous artery injury that sent a blood clot to her brain stem, and she is busy, busy, busy! Her nonprofit writing program, Thursdays Writing Collective, just raised $7,000 via Indiegogo to publish its seventh book. The book will be the printed representation of a year of writing about music and the collective’s collaboration with classical composers and performers. Elee credits English instructor Lou Bernieri with informing her pedagogical approach. She was lucky enough to study with him not once, but twice: during senior year and at the amazing Andover Bread Loaf Writing Workshop. She hopes to bring Lou as a guest lecturer to the collective’s sessions in Vancouver, B.C. Elee and her husband, Robert, vacationed with Suzanna Petren Moritz and her family in Mexico this past spring, and Suzanna, John Kline, and John’s wife, Penny Windle Kline ’87, planned to join Elee in New York in October at a skating gala honoring her mother. Finally, Elee brings news of J.D. King, with whom she spent a year abroad in Andover | Winter 2015

1989 Laura Bauschard 2918 Octavia St. San Francisco CA 94123 415-806-2412 (cell) lbauschard@gmail.com Curtis Eames 978-994-9015 curtiseames111@gmail.com

Andover alumni, friends, families, and well-wishers gathered at the National September 11 Memorial in NYC before attending the Fourth Annual Todd A. Isaac Memorial Basketball Game.

Chile back in the day. J.D. is currently in Chile on a Fulbright for half a year, and for the next half of the year, he and his family will be in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where his wife, Johanna Bond, has a Fulbright for her own legal studies. Sarah Getchell recently became certified as an equine sports massage therapist and is learning myofascial release and movement patterning. Sarah writes: “Though injury prevention and rehabilitation are often the goal, it is amazing to see what touch can do for a horse’s state of mind. Or should I say mind/body/guts, as I am ever realizing how interconnected they are, and I find it completely fascinating.” Sarah lives in Wilmington, N.C., where her husband, Josh, works in set construction, but she says that the uncertain future of the film incentives there might find them looking to move. Leilah Powell still lives in San Antonio. She recently joined the staff of Mayor Ivy Taylor, San Antonio’s first African American female mayor. Leilah is still happily married to the wonderful Scott Day and is still mother to the fantastic and exhausting Catherine, 7, and Carolynn, 5. She is grateful that Facebook has put her back in touch with some PA friends. Rob Patrick continues to make us proud. He was promoted to captain in the U.S. Navy in a ceremony held at the Pentagon in September. He was sworn in by Admiral Jon Greenert, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). Captain Patrick currently serves as the CNO’s deputy executive assistant. In attendance were Rob’s beautiful wife, Jen; his children, Maggie, Makayla, and Trey; his brother, Matthew Patrick ’89; Christine Balling ’86; and our very own Matt Lavin, who somehow managed to pull himself away from his beloved Washington Nationals for the occasion. (I swear Matt gets his mail at Nationals Park.) In September, Peter Welch and Lisa Lopardo Welch dropped their son, Kyle Welch ’18, off at Rockwell, an experience that Peter says was “awesome and strange at the same time.”

Andover | Winter 2015

The Welches also had the chance to connect with Perry “P-Dog” Pownall on the beaches of Swampscott this past summer. Speaking of future PA alums, Janice Neri writes to tell us that her handsome son, Abingdon, just started kindergarten in beautiful Boise, Idaho. Sandra Morales enjoyed a relaxing Labor Day weekend barbeque with Elisa Istueta ’89 and Elisa’s three beautiful children. This past February, while doing consulting work in Kenya, Sandra hung out with Nicole Wynn ’87, who lives in Kenya with her family. Sandra writes, “The last time I saw Elisa was 14 years ago, and the last time I saw Nicole was in 1987. It’s comforting to know that no matter where you may be in the world, and no matter how much time has passed since your last interaction, your Andover family is always there for support. We are so non sibi!” We are indeed, Sandra. We are indeed. Henry Smyth was planning a September get-together with Dan Thomsen, Allan Reeder, Chuck Davis, Scott Straus, and Tucker Levy at his place in northern Baltimore County. He was hoping to get some labor out of these guys. Good luck with that, Hank! As for yours truly, I dined with Monica Brown Andrews, Malieka Bundy, Jill Miller, and Jill’s daughter, the brilliant Jordan Miller-Surratt ’12, while in San Francisco for a conference back in March. (We missed you, Laura Cox!) In May, I had the great fortune to celebrate Chris Hekimian’s 25th 21st birthday with him. His beautiful wife, Tsoghig, threw him a surprise party, which was also attended by Aisha Jorge Massengill and Jon Pratt. And just when I thought that my May could not get any more awesome, I got to travel with a group called Democracy International to Egypt to witness that country’s presidential election. I was deployed to the Giza Governorate, where I visited dozens of polling stations and observed all stages of the voting process in the shadow of the pyramids. Well, that’s all, folks! Until next time.—Terri

Gina Hoods 400 Chaney Road, Apt. 1024 Smyrna TN 37167 423-892-7140 404-667-4939 ghoods@yahoo.com

Greetings from San Francisco! Betsy Wiedenmayer Rogers reports from Tokyo about taking a mini vacation and riding the Shinkansen train to Shimoda, where Commodore Perry landed in the 1800s. She’s juggling four kids at three different schools, Japanese sports and language, and a great husband who travels and runs his own business. Betsy works at the Japan Market Expansion Competition, managing a business program. She had plans to visit Boston in December. Hollis Fuller Morris started a new job managing and teaching at Pure Barre in Bronxville, N.Y., where she lives a few houses away from James McLain and his lovely family. Hollis’s children are in second, third, and fifth grades, and life is good! Wing Taylor in Vancouver loves how his “life revolves around football” these days (both his son’s and the Patriots). Catherine Costanzo made the switch from civil litigation to her dream career of criminal defense law in New Hampshire. She, her husband, James, and dog Sloapy are enjoying their semirural idyll. Christian Parker was selected as a Tony Awards voter. This sounds like a fun gig— being required to see tons of Broadway shows! Orin Herskowitz, Roberto Garcia, Ben Shin, Eric Zinterhofer, Dominic Rambaran, and Rick Yanes caught up in NYC over the summer. Orin enjoyed discussing essentially “the same stuff as 25 years ago, just over betterquality whiskey.” For Henry Gourdeau, life on the PA campus is good. He writes, “Lots of folks are sending kids to PA. We had a baby boy, Samuel Chase Gourdeau, in August. All’s well and great seeing all at 25th reunion!” Elisa Istueta and her three children visited with Annika Green Frostick and her two children in Vermont. Elisa also attended the Todd A. Isaac Memorial Basketball Game, reconnecting with Sheldon Royal, Kent Strong, and friends in other classes (Sandra Morales ’88, Bruce Hamilton ’88, Willie D. Tate ’90, and Marjorie Dambreville ’91). Kristin Humphries Bouchard has been busy running a business, A Natural Take Photography, traveling with her husband, and overseeing her

www.andover.edu/intouch daughter’s high school activities. Kristin had a great visit with Liz Symchych King and her family on Cape Cod. Sean Gottlieb has no updates about his latest reality TV shows, but, he reports, “I did have an excellent sandwich today. And if everything goes well, I plan to have another great sandwich or maybe a salad soon. That might be exciting! Who knows? Just feel blessed to live in a world where I have that choice.” At this writing, I was looking forward to attending the legendary Halloween party thrown by Elizabeth “Libby” Palomeque and her husband, Richard. Thanks to Richard’s job as a marine biologist, Libby’s family travels constantly and is reputed to have rare deep-sea octopi on site, as well as a beautiful daughter and a menagerie of pets. Stay in touch. Cheers.—Laura

1990 25th REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Regina A. DeMeo 1666 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 250 Washington DC 20009 240-621-0559 reginademeo@yahoo.com Thomas W. Seeley 1572 Heifer Road Skaneateles NY 13152 315-263-0052 (cell) 315-685-3416 (work) twseeley@gmail.com

Save the date: Our 25th Reunion begins at noon on Friday, June 12! That’s right, reunion starts Friday, so be sure to take the day off. Enjoyed catching up with classmates and alums at the Fourth Annual Todd A. Isaac Memorial Basketball Game and Reception. So hard to believe it has been 13 years already, but so grateful to have this event so we will always remember Todd. Special thanks to all who posted pictures and tributes to Todd on Facebook. If you haven’t already, please be sure to check them out on the FB page, and if you aren’t on Facebook (yes, I’m talking about you, Stacy Metcalf and Eric Older), please find a friend who is and check them out. I was especially thankful this year for the photo shared by Bruce Hamilton ’88 (from Todd’s brother). Many began the day with a tour of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, seeing firsthand the powerful and moving tribute designed in part by Jake Barton. Sadly, Jake was traveling and couldn’t join us but said he will put the fifth annual event, in 2015, on his calendar. Local Projects, Jake’s media design firm for museums and public spaces, has taken him across the globe this year, including trips to Hawaii, London, San Francisco, and LA. It was great to reminisce with Todd’s Andover roommate, Kent Strong ’89.

The memorial basketball game pitting Youth against Wisdom (a.k.a. us old folks)—the latter featuring, among others, Willie Tate and Sheldon Royal ’89—did not fail to entertain, although, sadly, Youth ended Wisdom’s championship reign (let’s hope that is not a sign of things to come). Enjoyed watching the game at Stuyvesant High School with classmates Rob Milton, Erik Moody, Richard Shin, and Seth Schiesel, as well as Amanda Adams ’93. If not for a few gray hairs, we could have been sitting in Borden gym watching varsity take on Exeter. Of course, the inimitable Imani Moody also graced us with his presence. Too many others were there that I did not get to speak with. Following the game, all gathered at the Palm Tribeca around the corner from Stuyvesant HS. Was thrilled to catch up with Cynthia Bing ’91. Cynthia and family recently moved to Nyack, in Rockland County, N.Y. She might not want to tell you this, but she really loves commuting over New York’s many bridges. Tenure awards are all around! Congratulations to Susan Antebi, who was awarded tenure at the University of Toronto, where she is a Spanish professor. Jonathan Phillips and John Berman ran into each other on the beaches of Wellfleet, Mass., last summer. Berman did not wade into the Atlantic, as Jonathan was not able to convince him that the shark from Jaws was merely an animatronic special effect. Exciting news from Tom Davidson. Tom’s company, EverFi, announced Future Goals, a partnership with the NHL and NHL Players Association that the company described as one of the largestever digital learning initiatives supported through public-private partnership in the U.S. or Canada. EverFi provides a digital platform that provides learning tools to classrooms with the goal of helping today’s students to be college-ready, career-ready, and life-ready. Tom’s company also announced a partnership with the White House for an initiative to prevent campus sexual assaults. Excited to hear more about this at reunion, Tom! (I’m not sure if I mentioned it, but we have a reunion coming up, and it’s kind of a big deal.) Speaking of the White House, Olivia Morgan proudly watched as First Lady Michelle Obama named the 2014 National Student Poets. The Sept. 18 ceremony brought five student poets to the Blue Room at the White House. Olivia, who serves on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, created the program three years ago. After a great six-year-plus run, the Morgan-Plouffe family will soon be trading the Beltway for Silicon Valley, where Olivia’s husband will work for Uber. Which father-son duo has the best combined win-loss record while playing football for Penn State? That is the question being posed on a video board quiz at Penn State home football games by the Schreyer Honors College, the honors program of Penn State University. The answer, of course, is our very own Tony Pittman and his father, Charlie Pittman. I’m sure it comes as no surprise that in

addition to their excellence on the field, Tony and his father were outstanding in the classroom, both being named Academic All-Americans during college. I enjoyed another great weekend at the Carl Smit family compound, now located in Annapolis, Md. Carl, wife Jacquelyn, and children Olivia, Charles, and Jamie were gracious enough to tolerate the Seeley children for the weekend, including enjoying time on Chesapeake Bay in Carl’s new(ish) boat, which allegedly was previously owned by Jon Voight. Carl is settling in to his position helping Under Armour continue its meteoric rise. I still miss the Apple discount. Not as much news to report as I’d like to report, but the summer and fall have been focused on the Todd Isaac memorial and planning our 25th! Have I mentioned that our 25th is coming up in June? Planning commenced in earnest in August, while meeting with Stacy Metcalf over a cup of coffee at the Skaneateles Bakery. From that, we have assembled a reunion planning posse that promises the weekend celebration will be epic. Look for more details as the year progresses. Can’t wait to see everyone and relive our youth, at least for one incredible weekend. Of course, I haven’t changed a bit, but I won’t hold it against you if you have a little less hair or a little more around the mid-section, or are otherwise showing your age. —Tom

1991 Hilary Lerner Gershman 6124 SW 104th St. Miami FL 33156 305-467-6581 hilarygershman@yahoo.com Matt Fleming 221 Edgevale Road Baltimore MD 21210 410-375-8302 Mattfleming91@bluelink.andover.edu

Margot Grover reports that she is still living in Brooklyn, N.Y., with husband Mark Baillie and daughters Harper, 5, and Stella, 3. Juggling her family and her job as a senior partner at Ogilvy & Mather keeps her on her toes, but it’s lots of fun. Steph Pommez Djerejian recently stayed with the Grovers for a week with her two children, Isou and Sebastian, before moving to Hong Kong with husband Greg Djerejian ’90. The Grovers are planning a visit as soon as they can muster the courage for a 17-hour flight with two young children! Speaking of long flights, Taimur Hadi writes from Dubai that he is working hard and loving being the father of 2-year-old daughter Kinza. Taimur travels often to Panama, where he sees Frank Kardonski and Eli Mizrachi. He is also often in New York and catches up with Sasha Kipka. Andover | Winter 2015

Vashon Island, Wash., for her primary care practice, where she is administering some very exciting therapies for high-performance athletes and other patients with pain. On the side, she has been enjoying stand-up paddle boarding, fishing for salmon, and camping with her family. Speaking of children, Ted Latham blew my mind when he told me that he is dropping off his daughter Elizabeth Latham ’16 at Andover for her upper year! Where has the time gone? Ted just started a second job as music director at St. Katharine of Siena parish in Wayne, Pa., and was promoted to coordinator of the DMA in performance program at Temple University, where he is still an associate professor of music studies. I hope everyone had a wonderful fall, and I look forward to staying in touch. All the best.—Matt

1992 Adam Galaburda, René Henery, Chris Stack, and Matt Polly, all Class of ’92, met for a backpacking trip in the Colorado Rockies last summer.

Farther south, Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of activity for our class. After 11 years in private practice, Al Iarossi is joining the U.S. Department of Justice as a trial attorney in the national courts section. Richard Arnholt is similarly employed, focusing on government contract issues at Crowell & Moring. When not practicing law, Rich keeps busy with his family: wife Katie, who is an attorney at the office of general counsel to the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services, son Henry who is 4½ (but not yet a lawyer!), and Matthew, who is 1½. To keep up with the growing boys, family Arnholt recently moved to a new house in McLean, Va. Blair Lawson reports from LA that she is working for a startup called Beautycounter, which is devoted to developing safer skin-care products. She lives down the street from Mara Raphael, whom she sees almost every day. From time to time, Blair runs into “Andover Angelenos” Steve Matloff and Ben Stout. Ben’s daughter, Nina, attends preschool with Blair’s youngest child, Angie. Fellow Smith Houser Tina Hartell is doing well in Vermont. She has been busy promoting her company, Bobo’s Mountain Sugar, and recently got some great press in Country Living and Esquire magazines. When she is not shipping product, some to locations as far away as Japan, Tina is also on the Northeast food producer/artisan speaking circuit and a full-time mother to 4-year-olds Aida and Wren. Nicole Maxwell is equally active in the Pacific Northwest. She recently opened a new location on

100

Andover | Winter 2015

Allen Soong 1810 Burnell Drive Los Angeles CA 90065 allen.soong@bluelink.andover.edu

We are now officially at the midpoint between the 20th and (gulp) 25th reunions. Put it on the calendar and start planning your 2017 summer around it, folks—it’ll be here before you know it! Writing from Nashville, Tenn., Matthew Cahan reports reconnecting with several classmates after the 20th—running the Big Sur International Marathon with Christine Bergren Orr ’93 and her husband, James; spending quality time with Kevin O’Brien and Jeff Jollon; dining with Matthew Polly and his family in Palo Alto, Calif.; and looking forward to a much-delayed round of golf with Duncan Harris and Chas Parsons in Vermont. (By the way, Matt’s novel in progress, Straight Commission, should be completed and available in 2015.) Speaking of long-delayed group outings, Adam Galaburda, Christopher Stack, René Henery, and Matt Polly had been talking for years about getting together for a backpacking trip. Adam reports they finally managed to sync their schedules and met up in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado this summer. They had a grueling uphill climb, humping 80-pound packs; at an elevation of 12,000 feet, they set up camp for several days and settled in to catch up. Adam is one of two leaders of a top-performing private wealth management team at UBS Investment Bank in New York, and at home, he does the bidding of his three daughters. Matt is at a tech startup on the opposite coast and—not surprisingly, considering his brood of four—is anxiously working toward “a liquidity event.” Chris has begun to find success as a working actor after years of toiling among the many others seeking fame and fortune in theatre, film, and TV. René works on examining ways to sustain fish populations in the California river system. Each has pursued a different path, and

each still holds dear his experience at Andover. Adam writes, “There is no question that the deep friendships we all forged at Andover are enduring, through time and distance.” By the time these notes are published, Rebecca Howland Granne will be weeks away from moving to Pittsburgh with her husband, Mike, and twin 7-year-old boys, after 19 years in the New York area. Rebecca is leaving PepsiCo to become vice president of marketing for pharmaceuticals company Mylan and is seeking play dates if any classmates happen to be in Pittsburgh. In baby news, Melissa Davis Balough reports from her home in Boston that she and her husband, Matt, welcomed a daughter, Anna Katharine, last February. Justin Lattanzio and his wife, Hillary, brought home a daughter, Celia Lynn, to join her two older brothers in May. The following month, Dylan Seff and his wife, Jordan, were blessed with twin girls Westley Belle and Marlowe Quinn. T.K. Baltimore and her husband, Jay Konopka, announced the arrival of their baby girl, Tesla Kay Baltimore, in August. Roger Kimball has somehow found time outside his busy professional life as an investor to re-engage with ski racing as a coach. Not only is he now the head of the weekend U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) racing program at Mohawk Mountain in northwest Connecticut, he also founded a company called Lead Change Racing to operate a ski camp in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, this past summer. Roger writes, “The Alps are amazing. Two tram rides and an underground funicular train to perfect training conditions on the glacier. Who knew there was such awesome snow in the northern hemisphere in July?” For 11 years and counting, Maya Cointreau and Monisha Saldanha have also been multitasking, running Momaya Press along with their day jobs. Observing that the experience of writing is chiefly a solitary affair, in which writers rarely get to see their words in print or hear from their readers, Maya and Monisha set up Momaya Press as an online forum where aspiring writers can post their work and get feedback. Momaya Press also sponsors an annual Momaya Short Story Competition and publishes the Momaya Annual Review. Since 2004, in their spare time, Maya and Monisha have published more than 175 writers, many of whom have been encouraged by this validation of their talent to seek greater success and eventually publish works in other journals. “Most of our waking hours are spent doing things that are functional,” Monisha writes. “It’s a celebration of life to take time out to write a piece of fiction that exists for no purpose other than as an expression. Our own unique, individual, never-to-be-replicated contribution to the world in which we live.” As previously reported in these notes, Maki Hsieh left the corporate world behind to pursue a new career in music. She recently crowdfunded an album using Indiegogo and Kickstarter; 36 percent of the amount raised came from Andover classmates, to whom she is grateful.

www.andover.edu/intouch Her busy summer performance schedule included singing the national anthem and performing on the violin at Progressive Field for a Cleveland Indians game in September. Also in the last notes, we mentioned Jess Matias Wright was moving from Miami to Austin, Texas, with her partner, Allison, and two dogs, Rocky and Pepper, to pursue a PhD degree in advertising. Like Maki, Jess decided corporate life was not for her; instead, she felt drawn toward academia and teaching. It took three years of seeking out mentors, signing on to research projects, and applying twice to the one and only program she wanted to join, but she finally made it. For the moment, her general research agenda will be to explore how advertising may have helped redefine cultural traditions and norms, rather than simply reflecting them. Perhaps more important, Jess hopes to help other minority students find their way into academic careers in fields where they are underrepresented. That’s it for now. Keep those updates coming, and don’t forget to stop by the class Facebook page every once in a while to catch up on the very latest.

1993 Susannah Smoot Campbell 301-257-9728 Susannah.s.campbell@gmail.com Jen Charat 619-857-6525 jcharat@yahoo.com Ted Gesing 917-282-4210 tedgesing@gmail.com Hilary Koob-Sassen +44 7973775369 hksassen@hotmail.com

To give you a context for when these notes are being compiled, we are on the tail end of the ALS ice bucket challenge; lawn signs, robocalls, and ads are beginning to amass for November elections; and we are, on this day, observing the 13th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Rejji Hayes, Alissa Fishbane, Oba Davis, and other alums and faculty planned to attend the Fourth Annual Todd A. Isaac Memorial Basketball Game and Reception at Stuyvesant High School in NYC in September. Others of us were there in spirit. Andrew Frishman writes, “I have now fully transitioned onto the Big Picture Learning leadership team. If there are any folks out there in the PA alumni world interested in talking about how to innovate and transform the public education system, I’m eager to connect!” Andrew lives in Cambridge with his wife, Leigh, and children, Jordan and Lundy. Amy Carr, a lighting designer and director in the concert industry, wrote to say, “By the end of

September, I will have visited every state in the continental United States, and I am planning a trip to Alaska to finish out the states before the end of the year. It turns out Matthew Cahan ’92 also lives here [in Nashville, Tenn.], so we’ve had fun reuniting and had a rockin’ Fourth of July downtown, watching the largest fireworks display in the South and second largest in the country. I also got to catch up with Chris White in NYC in July. He’s doing great and just had his third child.” Maria Burnett, mom of three, is still with Human Rights Watch. She and her family split their time between Kampala, Uganda, and Washington, D.C. William Darling posted that he is working in creative abstract art and original music. Lauren Feldman Smith wrote that Victoria Kataoka was up at Andover and that she got to see Victoria’s adorable baby, James Brown II. In the baby-welcoming club, Lauri D’Agostino Doody’s second child, Mallory, was born in September. Mallory joins big brother Ryan and lots of proud grandparents and other family members. And because publishing a book is not unlike delivering a child, congratulations to Dave Wheitner, author, composer, and coach, whose The Snuggle Party Guidebook was published in August. Dave lives in Portland, Ore. Susannah Smoot Campbell, who was expecting her second child at any minute as of this writing, wrote to share that Willett Bird and Carole Reid Bird spent a month this summer in Rhode Island. Dave Jackson, like many of us, was about to celebrate his 40th birthday. Ramona Gittens Morgan moved from upstate New York back into the city. Alison Wheeler Kennedy spent a week in Vermont with her parents while her girls were in hockey camp. Finally, Jon Buono helpfully reported that all the Pot Pourri yearbooks are available online now. Check our class Facebook page for the link. If you’d like to see more notes in this space next time, please send news. We’d love to include it. —Jen Charat

1994 Moacir P. de Sá Pereira +1 774 473 9856 Google Voice +370 641 27 369 +1 774 473 9856 moacir@gmail.com

Chalk this one up to post-reunion blues, I suppose. Only a few classmates wrote in response to my most recent call for news, but those who wrote will clearly get a little more space for their tales, and that includes me! I’m teaching introductory Lithuanian to Erasmus (European Union exchange) students again this year at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, but I also have a course with Lithuanian students on culture and narrative. I mention this mostly because one segment of the course deals with narrative in comics and graphic novels, for

which we’ll be reading Hillary Chute’s work on the subject. I’m working on a pair of articles in the meantime, while also trying to secure funding to attend the Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Vancouver in 2015, where I will be presiding over a panel discussion. A few more academic notes: I’m certain I reported this before, but it was more than a year ago, so I can repeat. Tanya Sheehan, who is an associate professor in Colby College’s art department, reminded me that Eric Gottesman is the faculty fellow in photography there. They have collaborated, if memory serves, on projects before, so now it’s a fun coincidence that they’re at the same school. Similarly, back in April (yes, I’ve kept the tab open on my browser for almost half a year), I stumbled upon an article in Inside Higher Ed by Sarah Demers Konezny. In it, she describes the paradox of crafting a perfectly reasonable lecture that nonetheless fails to teach the students, reminding us educators that lecturing cannot be the entire picture of actual learning—a perspective that seems a bit bizarre at my (European) university. Tara Bedeau has been keeping herself busy academically, as well. Since finishing a JD degree at Cornell in 2003, she has been practicing at the intersection of employment law compliance, diversity, inclusion, and systems change and organizational development. To complement this work, she spent the summer in an exchange program funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, studying religious diversity and inclusion in Indonesia for eight weeks; her work has been accepted for publication in Indonesia’s State Islamic University Yogyakarta’s journal of sociology of religion. This also dovetails with her completing a master’s degree program in religion at Union Theological Seminary, an affiliate school of Columbia in New York. With the new degree, she hopes to use psychospiritual responses in the realm of conflict management in organizations and other human systems. Donna Kaminski has also decided that an academic path serves her well. In addition to various international global health projects that will be taking her back to Malawi in April 2015, during our reunion she was being honored as the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians’ Resident of the Year. A few weeks later, she completed the residency. Now, she has accepted a clinical faculty position at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset’s family practice’s residency program, keeping her in New Jersey. She wrote to me a few weeks into the program and says that it has been an absolute dream. More academic news! Berk Nelson is now head coach of the Loyola Marymount University ice hockey team, and Rosanna Rodriguez Pena wrote in to say that she had reconnected with Elizabeth Fernandez ’95 after Elizabeth’s three-year teaching stint in Maine. Rosanna was mostly writing, however, to announce another addition to her family, daughter Ana Daniela, who was born on Rosanna’s wedding anniversary. Andover | Winter 2015

101

At Reunion Weekend 2014, four “Double Brick girls” from the Class of ’94 revisited their former campus home. From left are Bronwyn Murray, Emily Liao Chen, Gillian Rickmeier Schmitz, and Tricia Marshburn Davis.

David Callum wrote with some reunion memories of catching up with Enola Williams, Randy Perry, and Alex Hancock. I hadn’t realized that the reunion fell on his daughter Sophia’s first birthday, so it was especially nice that he made the trip. David flew to Washington after the reunion, where Sophia met her uncle Robert Callum ’90 and David participated in the National Club Track & Field Championships. Afterward, he made use of an ancient Andover/Exeter-branded ultimate flying disc while vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard. Emily Liao Chen wrote with her own quick reunion update, which included a photo with three fellow former juniors from Double Brick House: Tricia Marshburn Davis, Bronwyn Murray, and Gillian Rickmeier Schmitz. She hopes a larger contingent will pose together in five years, though she did also meet up with another old dorm mate, Sandra Sarmiento, in Chicago later in the summer. Dimitri Chalvatsiotis also wrote after the reunion to bask in PA’s glow once more for a moment or two. Finally, though she missed our reunion, Abbie Suberman Chen had a mini reunion with Emily Kalkstein Carville in Maine. Abbie recently renovated her home in Seattle and excitedly takes her children to preschool. Other classmates wrote in with quick updates. Marc Syp is in the San Francisco Bay Area. His daughter, Jojo, started kindergarten, and his photo trading app (Snap, Tag, Love), which aims to create some order out of the chaos of one’s photos, is in private alpha. Merry Rose wrote from Culver City, Calif., to note that she’s hoping to take a trip back East to do some video work for the Concord Museum of Concord, Mass. Stephanie Dixon Britz is blogging and working as a social media specialist for a “local garden center with national aspirations” in Massachusetts. Her children are enrolled at the same school as Hannah Sharpless Graff ’s, so Stephanie and Hannah talk gardening from time to time. Marta Rivera Monclova wrote to say, simply, that she’s well and “reasonably contented.” Finally, Danielle Debrule got me a bit jealous with a brief message about being an “enthusiastic sailor” and spending lots of time in Morocco and Algeria, two

102

Andover | Winter 2015

places I’m very, very eager to visit after having lived in Paris for three years. In closing, I can mention that this edition of the class notes was written during the Phillipian Endowment Fund drive. Those who know me well know that the paper meant a lot to me, and I was glad to be part of the group that got a few of our classmates to give. The drive put me back in touch with my imposing editor-in-chief, Josh Rosenfield, and my plea for money on Facebook got at least one confirmed response: Emily Lin capriciously gave while waiting at the airport. These kinds of quick Andover shocks to the system will hold me over until next time, I suppose! If you want to join in on the fun of these little jolts, please consider joining our class’s page on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/pa94fb.

1995 20th REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Lon Haber P.O. Box 4501 Rollingbay WA 98061 323-620-1675 lon@lonhaber.com Margot van Bers Streeter +44 077 393 77700 margotstreeter@gmail.com

As we write these notes, it’s fall, a season of new beginnings, new ideas, and—we can only hope—sunshine enough to see all the Northern Hemisphere folks through the months ahead. As for those of you down South, here’s hoping spring is treating you gently and well. Speaking of sunshine for just a moment longer, this time around we got a healthy dose of it in the form of updates from people we hadn’t heard from in ages, if at all (ahem, Jed Donahue)—which, of course, we absolutely loved. Peter Nilsson wrote to say that life is treating him gently and very well—and that he’s still

teaching at (cough) Deerfield. All in the name of trying to make the world a better place and focusing on educational innovation as a way of doing it, he’s “working with a number of outside educational organizations”—from SXSWedu to the Center for Curriculum Redesign. As if that weren’t enough, I’m thrilled to announce that we’ll soon have yet another addition to the Class of  ’95 nursery: Peter and his wife are expecting their first baby, a boy, in January. Huge congratulations! Pete wrapped up his note by saying that they’re taking recommendations for names, so get thinking and send them in. If you make it interesting, we’ll publish a list in the next notes! (Named in the class notes—what a way to start an Andover career, no? Maybe we should just call him Gunga and be done with it. Or Sam Phil. Or Blue, though that’s kind of been done.) Kristyn Leuner completed a PhD degree in Romantic-era literature at CU Boulder, and right afterward she moved from Colorado to New Hampshire to start a three-year position as a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College, in the Neukom Institute for Computational Sciences and the English department, where she will be teaching. For her postdoc project, she’s building a digital model of a historic 19th-century library of women’s writing. Also in higher education, Tom Chapman Wing got that tenure-track job he mentioned he was hoping for in a previous edition of the class notes. Let’s all congratulate the assistant professor of French at the College of Staten Island. Chapeau, monsieur professeur. J.B. Lockhart has an exciting update: Not only are his two adorable and active sons (James and Xander) doing superbly, the family recently moved to the Connecticut burbs, and J.B. is working for the NBA (they wanted him for his height). Mike Graffeo is back out biking after hip resurfacing surgery last year and looking forward to training and racing again. He and his wife, Kristin, are negotiating the busy lifestyle of gymnastics and Scouting. He hasn’t had too many PA alum encounters these past few months but is looking forward to seeing everyone at the 20th Reunion next year. Ana Kardonski Salaverria has a lot to catch us up on. Since graduating from college she’s lived in Miami, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and NYC and now lives in San Salvador, El Salvador. She loves her Salvadoran life, has been married for nine years, has 3-year-old twins and a 4-year-old, and is working for a leadership and college-skills preparation program for teens that weaves coaching and neuro-linguistic programing (NLP) techniques throughout. She’s just getting back into teaching after spending about three years as a full-time mom and is thoroughly enjoying her return to the workforce and specifically, the world of teaching. Candice Koo reports that a baby explosion has taken place in Hong Kong: Kevin Kwong and Jonathan Shih both welcomed theirs, a boy and girl, respectively, in July, and Candice had her second, a girl, in September. She also shared that Terry Friedlander got engaged earlier this month.

www.andover.edu/intouch

Jed Donahue ’95 married Lisa Chapman in Dallas last May, with several PA alumni in attendance. From left are Brigid Donahue ’96, Fiorella Valdesolo ’96, Jake Levin ’95, Chuck Arensberg ’95, the bride and groom, Scott Trull ’95, Jay Mok ’95, and Justin Kim ’95.

Anyway, we’re going to close this edition of the notes with a truly remarkable first—the first-ever submission from Jed Donahue. Yes, after 19 years, he’s surfaced to tell us what he’s been up to. Did he talk about his career? No. His travels? Not a one. Instead, he broke two decades of silence to tell us about his wedding...and his excitement about our reunion. Really doesn’t get much better than that— I mean, talk about devotion, no? Jed was married in Dallas on May 24 to a glorious Texan named Lisa Chapman, is now living in Reading, Mass., and (not sure how you got roped into this, Lisa, but we love you already) says they’re looking forward to hosting friends for next year’s reunion. This, clearly, is Jed alerting us to the fact that he wants all of us to start pestering him for invitations. Clearly. Good of you, Jed—and much appreciated. And there you have it. Please take a moment to get in touch for the next go-round. As Jed and Mike reminded us, our reunion is rapidly approaching—and it would be great to hear from even more of you as we get closer to heading back to the bell tower. And remember: When it comes to updates, anytime is fine—you don’t have to wait for Lon’s witty and colorful reminder e-mails. Just drop us a line whenever the inspiration strikes! Onward and upward, friends. Hope to hear from you soon.

1996 John Swansburg 396 15th St. Brooklyn NY 11215 john.swansburg@aya.yale.edu

In 2012, Adam Gopnik posited what he called “the Golden 40-Year Rule.” The New Yorker writer was attempting to identify a pattern in American

culture’s persistent nostalgia streak: Why do certain historical moments fascinate us at certain times? Gopnik’s rule held that “the prime site of nostalgia is always whatever happened, or is thought to have happened, in the decade between 40 and 50 years past.” The 1960s, he observed, were obsessed with the 1920s (see, for example, the Beatles’ fondness for period-style ditties like “When I’m 64”). The 1970s, in turn, were fascinated by the 1930s (see, for example, The Sting and Paper Moon). As to why the magic number is 40, Gopnik theorized that though culture tends to be produced by young people, the cultural gatekeepers—the A&R executives and producers and editors who green-light records, movies, and books—tend to be in their 40s. The propensity to look back four decades is their hang-up. Wrote Gopnik: “Forty years past is the potently fascinating time just as we arrived, when our parents were youthful and in love, the Edenic period preceding the fallen state recorded in our actual memories.” Gopnik allowed that there are exceptions to his rule. The dominant 40-year cycle contains within it a shorter, 20-year cycle, wherein the same 40-something arbiters pine for the glories of their own youth. Recently, I’ve noticed a particularly pronounced 20-year cycle at play. The culture feels positively awash in nostalgia for the earlyto mid-1990s—that is, for the period when we roamed the lawns of Phillips Academy. Even if you’re not the type to look back wistfully on your halcyon high school days, you might this summer have found yourself transported to a more acidwashed era. Consider: The video for Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,” indisputably the song of the season, was a carefully choreographed pastiche of 1995’s Clueless. The upstart Hub network aired reruns, each weeknight, of Blossom (an underappreciated coming-of-age serial, in my opinionation, with better writing, more experimentation, and less treacle than The Wonder Years). Nas’s 1994 masterwork, Illmatic, was

the subject of a hagiographic documentary shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. Nike brought back the Air Huarache, the sneaker made famous by Michigan’s (vacated) Final Four runs in the early ’90s. David Lynch revealed never-before-seen footage from Fire Walk with Me, which sadly shed little light on the fate of Dale Cooper. Lifetime aired a madefor-TV movie about Saved by the Bell, which sadly shed ample light on the fate of Dustin Diamond. Bill and Hillary Clinton traveled to Iowa for Tom Harkin’s steak fry. Donna Tartt won a Pulitzer. See what I mean? Everywhere you looked, the first half of the ’90s was there. The takeaway: We’re getting old. But also: If Gopnik’s rule holds, our moment of cultural hegemony is nigh. We should start thinking about how we’ll wield our power. Who will we cast in our remake of Three Days of the Condor, which our parents probably saw on a date? I nominate Matt Damon and Charlotte Newhouse, whose recent Comedy Central Web series, costarring 22 Jump Street show-stealer Jillian Bell, is a must-see. It’s called Idiotsitter—find it. Sarah Pakstis writes with word of her impending marriage to Bryan Murphy ’97. The couple is getting married in Cambridge, Mass., where they live. Sarah notes that one benefit of marrying within the Andover family is that Bryan doesn’t misconstrue mentions of her upper year in high school as semesters lost to heavy amphetamine use. Julia Lloyd Johannsen checks in with a great Andover-related item: “This summer I took over as advisory board chair at PA’s outreach program, the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers. I’ve been on the IRT board for five years and have loved working with its founder, Kelly Wise, and the rest of the board, which consists primarily of PA grads. Although I never took Novel and Drama, I can attest to the fact that Kelly is as much a force of nature as he always was.” (For those of us who did take English 513, that’s at once welcome and Andover | Winter 2015

103

unsettling news. I half expect a call from Mr. Wise any minute now, asking if I’ve finished the reading yet and what I make of the coyotes in True West.) A salute to Julia for her work with the IRT, which endeavors to bring greater diversity to the nation’s teaching ranks; in your secretary’s humble opinion, it’s perhaps PA’s most laudable and important program. If you support the Academy through an annual donation, consider earmarking funds for it. Julia lives in Boston and has two sons, Oscar, 5, and Marshall, 2 and change. Catherine Beirne Donovan had her third daughter, Ava Marie, this summer. She offers this pro tip: “I highly recommend scheduling maternity leave over a summer, if at all possible!” A dispatch from Colleen Reid: “After spending the past 12 years in the [San Francisco] Bay Area, I have now moved back to New England for a twoyear stint doing a postdoc at the Harvard School of Public Health. I have brought my Californianative husband and 2½-year-old daughter with me, and they are adjusting to the strange accents and aggressive driving that this region is known for.” That and Dunkin’, yeah. Still on the West Coast is Emily Ford, who wins for most enviable update (I keep trying to impress upon you guys, this is a competition); she e-mailed just 48 hours after completing the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada, in California. “It was both grueling and magnificent,” she writes of the hike. “I’ve never been so brown in my life, both from tan and filth.” Ann Gallagher Downey has a whole lot of news. She moved to Chicago. She started a job as a neonatologist at Northwestern. She had her third child (Owen). And she’s starting a master’s degree program in healthcare quality and patient safety, “because what full-time physician/mother of three doesn’t need to obtain a master’s?!” As Joey Lawrence might say, Whoa. Marvel at Ann’s achievements and disdain for sleep, and send me word of your latest adventures and advanced degrees. Also: This was a ladies-only edition of the ’96 notes. Where you at, fellas?

1997 Jack Quinlan 514 S. Clementine St. Oceanside CA 92054 760-415-9054 illegalparietal@gmail.com Kelly Quinn 2538 NW Thurman St., 205 Portland OR 97210 919-949-0736 illegalparietal@gmail.com

Hot off the press as we type this set of notes, Seth Moulton just became the first Democrat in 22 years to oust a sitting congressman in Massachusetts, beating John Tierney in the

104

Andover | Winter 2015

September primary! We are now officially on to the next round, a tough race in November. Seth, we’re behind you, and good luck! [Editor’s note: Seth Moulton went on to win the congressional seat in the Sixth District.] Whew! With that officially announced, there’s a ton of other exciting news to share since our last round of notes. Let’s start with the Northwest and Northern California sections of the ’97 crew, as they’ve seen their fair share of reunions and bits of wonderful news. And since one of us is up in Portland, Ore., let’s start there. Nick Wilson married Kate Mast in early September (congrats!). Earlier in the summer, Nick and Kate took an epic cross-country/cross-Canada road trip, stopping in Portland, where I (Kelly Quinn) had the lovely pleasure of catching up with them over a few beers. Nick recently completed a PhD degree in education and accepted a postdoc position at Stanford. Needless to say, several of us are pretty excited that he and Kate are moving west. Post Portland, Nick headed south to San Francisco, where he caught up with Kevin Cline and his lovely family. Kevin and family recently welcomed a new son into the world and bestowed a fabulous name upon him: Thelonious James Felix Caspar Cline. Theo for short! Kevin mentioned that Nathan Hetherington also visited the Bay Area this summer on a quick vacation from teaching at Horace Mann School in NYC. Vicki Salinas and her husband relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area this summer. Vicki left the World Bank to become the city of Oakland’s chief resilience officer, a position funded through the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program. Vicki will specifically be helping the city thrive in the face of all kinds of physical, economic, and social challenges. To wrap up all things San Francisco, Bear Witherspoon is back on the road, motorcycling from Mexico to the great northern part of this country. Last we heard, he was in Montana and, we hope, swinging through the Northwest on his way home. One more nugget from the Northwest. Robert Kinast married Lauren Kaplan in Oregon over Labor Day weekend, with Mt. Hood as the backdrop. Joining the festivities were Marc Hustvedt, Andy Moon, the Kumars (Neil Kumar and Shruti Haldea), and Kelly Quinn. You couldn’t have asked for a better location or a more wonderful mini reunion. Congrats, Robby and Lauren! The news just gets better as we head east, mainly because we heard from a few of you for the first time in a very long time: Jed Wartman, Dean Chiungos, Lisa Galluzzo Borgatti, Mayako Michino, and Vanessa Buia...keep it coming. Jed let us know that he and wife Brynn are up in Waterville, Maine, with their two sons, Micah, 3, and Theo, 4 months. Jed planned to be on campus this fall for Andover-Exeter Weekend. Dean decided that after 17 years, it was about

time to provide an update (thank you!). Dean and wife Beth live in Port Washington, N.Y. Dean commutes into NYC for his job at MLB Advanced Media, where he’s director of content sponsorship. Dean, now that I know this, I’m going to set our media buyers upon you! Dean and Beth are also the proud parents of two rescue dogs: a 3-year-old female named Brian and a 3-year-old male named Lenny. Dean, we’re hoping we hear more from you in the near future! Lisa is still teaching at the Governor’s Academy, where she also coaches, acts as a dorm parent, and is the amazing mom to three beautiful children. Lisa and husband Chris welcomed their new son, Connor, earlier this year, as he joined big sister Tessa and big brother Joseph. Lisa also reports that David Holmes and wife Alice have recently moved back to the States and welcomed a son, Tristan. Play dates abound. Mayako has spent the past several years working on her postdoc research in pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College. Living in NYC has given her a great opportunity to catch up with other Andover alums, such as Creence Lin ’98, Haruki Chitani, and Vanessa Buia. Mayako will be wrapping up her stay in NYC soon and moving to Baltimore. If you’re there, reach out and make her feel welcome. Speaking of Vanessa, this lady has been pretty busy of late. She has been hard at work on building her art advising company, Vanessa Buia LLC Art Advisory. In March, she curated an exhibition of Matt Jones’s paintings at the Richard Massey Foundation in Chelsea, which led to his solo booth at Art Brussels this past year. Her next show was scheduled to open on Nov. 6, 2014, at the Dorfman Projects in Chelsea. It is a group show centered on clean, edgy abstractions. Everyone is welcome to attend. Finally, rounding things up with a bit of an international flair is Jaime Stern. Jaime’s been quite busy over the past few years, moving from New Orleans to Providence, R.I., to be back in New England and reconnect with family and friends. Jaime eventually moved back to Boston, where he is now the director of sales for Sproxil, an IT company based in Boston. Jaime is responsible for global sales and expansion, traveling a ton to places such as London, Amsterdam, and Nairobi, all in an effort to do mobile authentication to combat counterfeiting and illegal diversion of pharmaceuticals; in a nutshell, Jaime and Sproxil help ensure everyone can buy real medicine and help those with few resources in emerging markets to protect themselves from harm, using SMS and mobile apps. Incredible! Jaime’s travels also led him to his engagement; he met his fiancée, Fernanda, in Brazil. Fernanda, who has a PhD degree in biochemistry, recently accepted a position at Ben Gurion University, and so Jaime and Fernanda are off to Israel! Folks, it continues to be a great pleasure to hear from each and every single one of you. Keep the notes and gossip coming. —Kelly & Jack

www.andover.edu/intouch 1998 Zoe Niarchos Anetakis 658 Massachusetts Ave., #2 Boston MA 02118 781-475-9772 zbniarchos@yahoo.com

You know what I’m afraid of ? The concept of two children. I mean, I really know nothing about the topic overall, but at a glance, the first kid seems so fun. New adventures! New life lessons! New everything! When the second comes along, it seems like a little bit of new and a whole lot of busy, which is a polite word for…crazy. But you, my dear readers and classmates, you are embarking on this challenge with gusto. And so we have the first column dedicated to all the little brothers and sisters out there. May their parents not only survive, but thrive. Just like high school. To bring everyone up to speed, in the secondkid ranks we have Amy Mueller Christodoulo and Peter Christodoulo (Daphne and George), Clare Ferraro Johnson (Max and Grace), Lindsey Heller Lohwater (Peyton and Blake), Max Ventilla (Bina and Leo), Moses Kagan (Kingsley and Giles), Lia Welsch McNeely (Helen and Tess), Nate Kirk and Laura Kirk ’00 (Alex and Dylan), Caroline Pollak Marandino (Annabella and Susana), Chris O’Donnell (Ryan and Claire), and Erin Dougherty O’Connor (Adare and Jeremiah). We also have the overachievers, which include Ali Ghaffari, with three daughters, and Christy Tucker Dell’Orfano, also with three kids. Oh, and these are just the kids on my social media feed; believe me, I could go on. Joining the tribe, Andrew Butler, wife Anne, and 2-year-old Wyatt welcomed Liam Thompson Butler this past July. Now that Liam has gotten a good look around, the Butler family is headed to Austin, Texas, where Andy will serve on the faculty of UT Austin in the department of educational psychology. Kurt Spring, wife Holly, and son Walker, age 2, welcomed Kellan Dewar Spring this past August. Despite a brief moment of (perfectly understandable) skepticism, Walker is very much enjoying his built-in best friend and brother. The Springs recently moved to Winchester, Mass., where the boys can be nearly guaranteed proper Boston accents along with lovely farmers’ markets, play dates, block parties, and all the goodies of suburban living (the best part being the accent). Aside from having kiddos, Kurt has spent the past two years working with a real estate private equity firm in Cambridge, Mass., doing asset and portfolio management. Another classmate with a penchant for XY chromosomes is Sarah Zukerman Daly. This past spring, Sarah submitted her book manuscript and, within an hour of submission, gave birth to her second son, Sebastian. I know they say moms are super productive, but Sarah really takes the cake with this one! Sebastian joins big brother Weston in the category “Melt their mother’s heart.” This

Kelly Quinn, Neil Kumar (holding daughter Aria), Rob Kinast, Marc Hustvedt, and Shruti Haldea, all (except Aria) Class of ’97, enjoyed seeing one another at Rob’s Oregon wedding over Labor Day weekend.

January, Sarah will resume her work in South Bend, Ind., at Notre Dame, where she is an assistant professor of political science. The aforementioned book manuscript explores the postwar trajectories of rebel and paramilitary organizations. Like Sebastian’s birth, Sarah’s book is quite timely. Last but not least, we have a dynamic sister duo to introduce. Veronique Prado-Lacoste Smondack welcomed her second daughter, Noemie, in September. Noemie joins big sister Kiara. Both girls are “tout simplement, parfait.” Now that we have regaled the two-kid tribe, I want to make sure I’m not ignoring those in the one-kid group (no-kid classmates, I’ve got your back too). As such, please let me take a moment to congratulate Kim Ballard-Perrin Brewitt on the birth of her daughter, Penelope Ballard Brewitt, in August. Truly, dual congratulations are in order as Kim also completed a PhD degree in ecology at UC Santa Cruz this past summer. Another new parent, Abena Sanders Horton, and her husband, Alex, welcomed son Asa James Sanders Horton earlier this year. Around the same time Asa joined the picture, the Hortons also moved from Atlanta to Jacksonville, Fla. Clearly, despite being in the one-kid camp, Abena and Kim, like many of our classmates, can’t just take one challenge at a time. What is wrong with you people? (I kid!) Speaking of taking on challenges, Chris O’Donnell recently joined Emory University’s health care system as a hospitalist. To make sure that I emphasize an important point in Chris’s career, I would like to make it known that Chris moved from the Duke University system to, ahem, my alma mater, Emory University. Chris is researching “code blues”—kind of like what you see on TV shows, except that, in reality, the outcomes of coding are quite bleak. Chris is working on a predictive scoring system to evaluate which patients are at risk of coding and how codes are handled. He currently has two manuscripts under review. As part of the move, Chris and his family have built a home in the Brookhaven neighborhood. They are very much enjoying life in—I have to say it—Hotlanta. Last but certainly not least, a quick note to wish Abbey Goldstein and new husband Jared Moss a

happy and healthy marriage. They got things off to a good start with a perfect June day (a rarity in New England!) for their wedding in Harwich Port, Mass. The newlyweds are currently based in Washington, D.C., but may head home to Boston soon. We’re ready for you, Abbey! Though I have dedicated this column to all the second children out there (their parents don’t take photos of them, so they need someone to pay attention), no matter what path in life you are taking, I hope you are all happy and well. I love hearing from you, so keep writing!

1999 Kirsten Riemer 72 Connecticut Ave. Greenwich CT 06830 kirstenriemer@gmail.com

It was wonderful to receive so many updates from people regarding professional accomplishments, marriages, and new babies! It appears that the Class of 1999 is spread across the globe and is an extremely busy bunch. Without further ado, here’s what our class has been up to. Campbell Bromberg wrote while in-flight, completing his third transatlantic move. Campbell is once again living in Paris, where he assumed the role of director of events for Louis Vuitton. He promises to send more updates once he has landed and settled. On the other side of the pond, Heather Collamore Skalet was recently promoted to vice president, metropolitan hospitality, for the New York Mets. Heather and her husband, Ari, recently moved to Port Chester, N.Y. With her first submission to the class notes, Jenness Crawford reports that she completed a master’s degree in accounting and an MBA degree from Northeastern University. She is moving back to New York to start a new career as an auditor and will rejoin the Dessoff Choirs, with whom she has performed for the past 10 years. Dan Scofield wrote in to say that he lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and works as a video experience Andover | Winter 2015

105

arrival, the family has moved to Sturbridge, Mass., where Ryan, an internist, joined a hospital group practice. Matt Kalin reports that he will officially be attending Bruins games alone for the rest of his life. Last July, he and his wife welcomed their second daughter, Alexandra “Lexi” Katherine Kalin. So now it’s Matt and three girls! In all seriousness, though, Lexi is great, mom is doing great, and Sophie (the Kalins’ first daughter) has taken the newbie under advisement. Matt and his girls enjoyed many trips to Cape Cod this summer to see Matt’s brother, John Kalin ’96; they spent a lot of time on John’s boat there. Many thanks to everyone who wrote in with submissions. It’s great to hear from so many people. Let’s keep this trend going! Andover alums turned out in force for the August wedding of Kam Lasater ’99 in East Lyme, Conn. From left are Ike Lasater ’68, Garland Lasater ’56, Elizabeth Weiss-Lasater ’01, Elizabeth Johnson Lasater ’96, Miles Lasater ’96, Karen Lasater (bride) and Kam Lasater, Mollie Lasater ’56, Bo Lasater ’86,  Carmelo Larose ’96, Kittie Clark, Will Clark ’89, and Monte Brown ’99.

2000 15th REUNION June 12–14, 2015

designer at a museum design firm in Manhattan. Dan continues to play music and make short films, but unfortunately, not with Michael Ercolini, who is a lawyer living in Brookline, Mass. Dan was recently paid a visit by Noah Kaye, who was on his way from Israel to the University of Oregon in Eugene, where he has begun teaching ancient Greek studies. Dan also reports that John Costantino married Hannah Jayne in October at John’s family’s home in Athens, Ga. In the wedding party were Dan, Eddie Hale ’00, and Zachary Mexico (né Waldman) ’98. John works as an attorney in Athens, Ga. In other wedding news, Kam Lasater married Karen Blanchette at White Gate Farm in East Lyme, Conn., last summer. Kam is still working at the company he cofounded, SeeClickFix, in New Haven, Conn., and his bride is currently working toward a PhD degree in nursing at Penn. There were many Andover and Abbot alums at Kam’s wedding, stretching from the class of 1956 all the way to the class of 2001! Alan Parker Lue wrote in with three updates— the month of August was a busy one for him. He was awarded the CFA charter, but more important, he married Sara Parker. They have double-barreled their surnames into “Parker Lue.” Bill Lincoln also took the plunge, marrying Rosana Lee in May in the chapel at Yosemite National Park. The couple has settled in Washington, D.C., and Bill is working as a junior faculty member at Johns Hopkins. Jennifer Bickford writes that she got engaged to Duncan Birch in July. She was also pleased to see Fred Flather, Sara Smith, Chris Kane, Jeremy Hersch, and Morgan Swett Hersch ’00 at Liza Trafton Ndreu’s wedding celebration last summer. We have a couple of classmates living in Austin, Texas. Juan Agudelo is still at UT Austin, working to complete a PhD degree in ethnomusicology. Juan would like to extend his Texas hospitality to

106

Andover | Winter 2015

any Andover classmates who happen to swing by! Juan’s big news is that he married Kaitlyn Jolly last summer. Andover classmate Michael Cody was in attendance with his beautiful wife, Emily. Also at UT Austin is Jazmine Leon-Wing. Jazmine currently serves as the corporate and foundation relations officer for the Jackson School of Geosciences, where she works closely with major companies in the energy sector, putting her Columbia MBA degree to good use. Jazmine reports that she and her family have had a wonderful year! Her husband, Tisun, earned an MBA degree at UT, which is the reason they originally moved to Austin, in 2010. They absolutely love Texas and have decided to settle there for the long term. Jazmine and Tisun welcomed a baby boy, Aiden James Wing, in the summer of 2013 and can’t believe that he is already more than a year old and walking (and even climbing!). Aiden’s favorite word is “Jo-Jo,” the name of the family’s 7-year-old terrier. Kristy Wiehe is living in LA, where she continues to work as an attorney. She enjoys running the occasional half marathon or full marathon. Recently she, along with classmate Kate Hackett, produced a short film that was shown at the Chicago Comedy Film Festival in October. In addition to her collaboration with Kristy, Kate is working in LA as a film director and editor. Kate was just awarded a 2014 Yaddo residency to finish her screenplay, a narrative feature called Purify My Heart. Yaddo is an artists’ community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Its mission is “to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.” Last but not least, we have a couple of births to report. Last May, Ryan Fillipon and his wife, Nicole, welcomed their first child, a handsome little guy named James Ryan. Since James’s

Jia H. Jung 550 11th St., 4R Brooklyn NY 11215 917-589-5423 (cell) jiajung@alum.berkeley.edu

Happy 2015, year of our 15th Reunion. Unbelievable. Time doesn’t just fly; it skips. Apropos of this phenomenon is the following news from two class members we haven’t heard from in a good long while. Since our 10th Reunion, Emily Wheeler has turned her southern migration westward, recently moving to Scottsdale, Ariz., after five years in Austin, Texas. In Austin, Emily worked as a senior policy analyst for a state senator and then as a director of operations for a local nonprofit. In August of last year, she and her husband welcomed a son, Alexander Ram Gupta. Emily has confirmed that sleep deprivation is an effective form of torture, and she suspects that any surviving parents are actually superheroes. She wants you to know that PHX is a preferable layover to LAX, so please come visit! Meanwhile, Ian Goldberg has been living in LA since 2004, working as a writer and producer in TV and film. He has been a writer on more than 10 shows over the years and most recently wrote and produced on the first two seasons of Once Upon a Time for ABC. He is currently developing pilot scripts with Channing Tatum, David Goyer, and the Kennedy/Marshall Company and is also cowriting the newest installment of Friday the 13th for Paramount Pictures, hitting theatres this November! Although he doesn’t see too many Andover people out in LA, Ian occasionally keeps in touch with Mark Turetsky and Natalie Wombwell ’01, both of whom seem to be doing great. Fantastic to hear from voices new and old as the seasons roll on. Y’all keep making news and, more important, sending it to your faithful class secretary.

www.andover.edu/intouch

Enjoying the June wedding of April Atiba ’02 and Henry Swoboda in Philadelphia were, from left, Benaldo Hernandez ’02, Erin Kerrison ’02, Joey Atiba ’09, Annamarie Atiba ’03, the groom and bride, Erin McGirt Chantry ’02, Elizabeth Thorndike ’02, Sarah Newhall ’02, and Diana Dosik ’02.

2001 Misty Muscatel 203-569-9713 mistina.muscatel@gmail.com

Another quarter full of fabulous ’01er updates. New partners, new babies, new schools, and new cities! Update of the quarter goes to Nickole Rucker Teel, who gave birth to her third son, McKinley Fitzgerald Teel, in July. On top of managing a house of four men, she is also completing her final year of an anesthesia residency at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. Liesl Beecher-Flad has passed all qualifying exams and is now officially a licensed clinical psychologist. She has been offered a staff psychologist position at the VA Maine Healthcare System and plans to stay in Maine for the next couple years, until the gravitational pull of the West grows too powerful. In the meantime, she looks forward to many more weekend trips down to Boston and NYC, and welcomes visitors in the great state of Maine! Speaking of the great state of Maine, Sarah Kline, Rachel Weiner, and I got a chance to catch up with Chris Weiner while we were in Portland, Maine, for Greg Sherman’s wedding this September. Chris is absolutely crushing life in Portland as a commercial fisherman and living the dream. If you don’t follow Chris on Instagram, you’re missing out. Some of the most amazing pictures you’ll ever see are from his boat. Greg married Anne Martin, a fellow “Yalie,” and the wedding was an absolute blast on a picture-perfect weekend. Also in attendance were groomsman Charlie Alovisetti (who rocked the Andover banner as a cape on the dance floor), Meredith Hudson Johnston,

Carl Dietz ’00, and Laura Sanders Wyatt ’00. September was a busy nuptials month for ’01ers, with Patty Kent marrying Todd Robertson ’99 on the same weekend as Greg, also in Maine (Guilford). Andrew Tucker celebrated his wedding in early September, with Ramesh Donthamsetty, Eric Newman, Adam Sklar, Bryan Haughom, and Matt Miller ’00 all present. Although not in September, Joe Lemire married Penelope Sharrock in Vermont on a postcard-weather day in June. Joe was thrilled that Eric Bakkensen, Parag Goyal, Harris Ackerman, and Jeff Heighington ’00 were there to join the celebration. Katy Nassberg and husband Isak are doing well; they’ve bought a house in Cambridge, Mass., and have been spending time with Jen Crawford ’99 before she moves back to NYC. Matt Cohen left the NYC ’01 crew and started business school at McCombs at UT Austin. Matt loves Austin and runs into Alex Thornton a lot, as Alex is in the class above Matt’s at McCombs. James Wylie is about to finish his time in Fremantle, Western Australia. James’s wife, Lillian, has accepted a job in Scotland, and James is looking to start a PhD degree in philosophy and economics with the move. Lizzie Heroy Donnelly and her husband moved from Dallas to the Detroit area in October 2013. Lizzie is continuing her work in exhibitions, this time with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. The Donnellys welcomed their first child, Hugh Terence Donnelly, in June. Daniel Ahn recently moved to Washington, D.C., to work for the U.S. Department of State. Dan’s looking to network with the DC alumni, so ’01ers, make sure to reach out. Andover Class of 2033 continues to grow its fan base, with Liz Edmonds and husband Alan Rosinus welcoming their first baby, Mary Alice, in May. She is a great, calm baby, and they love being parents.

Joe Maliekel and wife Lindsey are great. They live right around the corner from me in NYC, so I see them occasionally walking their son, Gil, who will be close to 2 years old by the time these notes come out. Exciting Maliekel family news: They are expecting their second child in February. Julie Papanek has finished business school at Stanford and joined Canaan Partners, a tech and healthcare venture fund, as a principal focused on digital health and life science startups. The job keeps her connected, seeing classmates from Stanford and PA who are working on startups and at law firms. Lex Renwanz had a career change, moving from nursing to writing! Franny Ritchie and husband Ian conquered a “Tour de Grandparents,” showing off their son, Theo, throughout the month of August. During their travel adventures, they also saw Will Braff, Georgiana Kuhlmann, and Adrea Lee. Maternity leave in the UK is glorious, so Franny is enjoying some time off until January. Raquel Leonard Moreno and husband Orlando are doing well and just moved into their new home in Philadelphia. Raquel is also getting ready to pursue an MBA degree and is looking for a program with a strong concentration on socially responsible business. PA classmates, please reach out to me for Raquel’s contact info if you have any recommendations. As for me, I’ve been traveling a ton, working late nights, and attending weddings as a part-time job. The fall kicked off in an exciting manner when I received one of the most prestigious awards at Google, called the “Great Manager Award.” The award is given to only nine managers within the sales organization globally. It was definitely a career highlight to date, and it has been surreal to see the late nights and hard work pay off! Keep the notes coming, keep being awesome, and let’s get some ’01 reunions on the books for this spring! Andover | Winter 2015

107

Sarah Smith, Alexis Steil Burwell, Eugenie Kim, Keziban Barry, and Chloe Lewis, all Class of ’02, were all smiles at Eugenie’s May wedding in Brooklyn, N.Y.

2002 Paul Crowley 919-724-5868 Skip.crowley@gmail.com Lauren Nickerson P.O. Box 711477 Mountain View HI 96771 Lauren9@gmail.com

Hello there, Class of 2002! Thank you again to everyone who took the time to submit updates and write cheerful e-mails that brighten the day of a certain class secretary. A special thanks to Ryan Coughlan, who even submitted a faux update! One of these days, Ryan, we’ll make the class notes a bit more salacious. Until then, here are some very true and wonderful updates from the Class of 2002. Naturally, the spring and summer brought many ’02ers matrimonial bliss, because it’s wedding season, kids! Two-time Olympic gold medalist Caroline Lind looked absolutely gorgeous when she married the extremely tall and equally muscular Brandon Shald in an intimate ceremony on Aug. 1 in West Windsor, N.J. Eugenie Kim stunned at her May wedding to Jarrod Scuglik in Brooklyn, N.Y. In attendance were Sarah Smith, Kezi Barry, Lexi Steil Burwell, and Chloe Lewis. Sarah Smith will soon have her own wedding, as she got engaged to her boyfriend of seven years. Sarah also recently graduated with an MBA degree from NYU Stern School of Business. April Atiba Swoboda was glamorous in a sparkling tiara when she married Henry Swoboda in June at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. After honeymooning in Aruba, the happy couple moved to Chicago, where April started a hematology/oncology fellowship at Northwestern

108

Andover | Winter 2015

Memorial Hospital. Benaldo Hernandez, Erin Kerrison, Erin McGirt Chantry, Elizabeth Thorndike, Sarah Newhall, and Diana Dosik were all in attendance to celebrate April and Henry. Kara Gaughen married Damien Smith on May 31 at the Red Lion Inn in Cohasset, Mass. Kara and bridesmaids Jessica Spradling Russell and Roxanne Beinart looked absolutely beautiful. Laurel Ingraham Aquadro, James Maffione, Michael Cashman, and Pamela Wessling were also there to celebrate. A few weeks later, many of the same wedding guests reunited to celebrate Michael Cashman’s wedding to Shana Platz. According to Kara, the pair had to brave a hurricane during their nuptials! In addition to Kara, Jessica, and James (who was Michael’s best man), Geoff O’Donoghue (also a best man!), Greg Martin, and Luke Basta were also in attendance. Lauren Nickerson and Robert Dugar got married in an intimate ceremony in Hilo, Hawaii, on Oct. 25. The ceremony took place on a gorgeous Hawaii day at a historic home next to a waterfall. Laura Miller got married on June 29 to Steven Stewart in Newport, R.I. Helen Spink Meier and Sasha Parr Corken were bridesmaids. Natalie Ho was also in attendance. In August, Laura completed a PhD degree in school psychology at Syracuse University, and in September, she began a postdoctoral residency in developmental neuropsychology at MassGeneral for Children at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, Mass. Congratulations to all of the Class of 2002 newlyweds! At this writing, Melanie Cyr was preparing for her upcoming October wedding to Eric Versteeg. Natalie Ho, Amy Galvin, and Stef Kovach all surprised Mel with a bachelorette trip to Portland, Maine, where the girls celebrated like dainty ladies by going lobstering, drinking craft

Caroline Lind ’02 and her new husband, Brandon Shald, are pictured here at their August wedding in West Windsor, N.J.

brews, and indulging in some amazing barbecue. Emily Robbins got engaged to Colin McGinnis. When the two marry next August in New Hampshire, Becca Wexler will be by Emily’s side as a bridesmaid. Andrew Ward found love in business school and is now engaged to fellow Wharton classmate Jacquelyn Lee. Andrew is working for Grovo, an education startup in NYC. First comes love, then comes marriage, and then what’s next? Babies, of course. Amy Padula Dobbins and husband Brian were blessed with an incredible Mother’s Day gift: new son Parker, who arrived in May. In July, Rachel Sobelson Tash and her husband welcomed their son, Charlie. In August, Charlie experienced his first ferry ride, when he and his parents ventured to Fishers Island, N.Y., along with Kate Planitzer. Virginia Frischkorn Edelson and her husband, Jeff, were expecting their first baby to make an appearance toward the end of 2014. Welcome to the world, new Andover babies! Adam Arguelles left his position at the White House and loves his new life in Palo Alto, Calif., where he is currently attending Stanford Law School. Erin Kerrison earned a PhD degree in criminology from the University of Delaware and has just begun a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Alice Torbert Percy is the new head of the organic growers’ supply division at Fedco Seeds and in 2015 will be the board president at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. In May, Olive Stohlman took a position as a research aerospace engineer at NASA Langley Research Center, where she works on solar sails. In the market for a new home in NYC? Israel “Izzy” Matos is your guy. He began working as a real estate agent for Citi Habitats in May. Niki Roberts and her partner, Krisa Benskin, recently purchased their first home in Houston, after Niki passed the Texas bar exam! Following

www.andover.edu/intouch

Kara Gaughen ’02 married Damien Smith at the Red Lion Inn in Cohasset, Mass., in May. From left are Katherine Gaughen (wife of Patrick Gaughen ’99), Roxanne Beinart ’02, the bride, and Jessica Spradling Russell ’02.

a post-bar trip to Argentina and Antarctica, Niki began her legal career as an associate with the firm Bracewell & Giuliani in Houston. Victoria Yu started business school at Wharton in the fall. After four years practicing law at Cravath in NYC (where Betsy Burke is currently working), Baolu Lan relocated to beautiful LA for a change of pace and has been doing M&A work at Gibson Dunn. Finally, and perhaps my favorite update of all, an unbelievable documentary that Pablo Durana worked on, Life According to Sam, won an Emmy! Life According to Sam is based on the incredible life of Sam Berns, a young man with progeria. Pablo spent four years filming with Sam and his family. Pablo sent in a beautiful photo of the pair, both looking quite handsome in tuxedos, at a Progeria Research Foundation fundraiser. Pablo is currently working on a documentary about the illegal ivory trade for National Geographic and PBS and recently finished filming a paragliding expedition across the Canadian Rockies. Don’t forget to submit your life happenings to Lauren9@gmail.com. Aloha! —Lauren

2003 Will Heidrich wheidrich@gmail.com

As always, there are great things to report from the Class of 2003. From weddings to graduations, our classmates have stayed busy and close. Kate Takvorian reported from Boston, where she is completing her third year of medical school. On June 14, she married her fiancé, Dan Hegg, in Boston, surrounded by many of her best friends from Andover: Matt Kane, Ali Rosen Gourvitch, Katie Regner Cannan, and Jackie Brown. Nate Meltzer wrote from Lander, Wyo., where he is stationed between outdoor education trips.

President Obama thanked Adam Arguelles ’02 for his service to the administration, as Adam, who worked at the White House for several years, prepared to leave for Stanford Law School. Adam’s wife, Megan, looked on.

Since completing a master’s degree in adventure education in May, Nate has led trips for both NOLS and United World College-USA in Wyoming and New Mexico. This fall, he proctored a three-month NOLS semester in the Rockies, leading expeditions in backpacking, rock climbing, and snow camping. Chimaobi Izeogu got in touch from Houston this past spring, shortly after completing a master’s degree in architecture at Rice University. When we spoke last, Chimaobi planned a potential return to the Northeast or Chicago at some point. He and I ran into each other last winter in Chicago, so perhaps we are due for a repeat soon. Marianna Kleyman completed a PhD degree this past May. While looking for a biotech or pharma research gig in greater Boston, she helped Ben Sprattler with his wedding this summer, both planning and serving as his best man. Earlier this spring, I ran into Kate Cooper Sawyer on South Congress Street while at a wedding in Austin, Texas. Kate and her husband, Ryan, moved to Austin from New England in March and have enjoyed the change of pace. They both attended Sam Beattie’s wedding to Julie Taylor in Connecticut this past May. Sam counted many other Andover alums among the supporting crowd, including Matt London, Brian Emery, Gardner Gould, and J.C. MacMillan, as well as his sisters, Nell ’05 and Sarah ’07. Matt London began teaching a digital storytelling class at Brown this fall. In addition, his novel, The 8th Continent, came out on Sept. 16, so check it out when you have a chance. On the journalism front, former Phillipian editor Cathy Rampell has started a new job as an op-ed columnist at the Washington Post. Her column runs on Tuesdays and Fridays in the print edition and usually appears online the night before. A trio of longtime Bay Area residents relocated to the Tri-State Area this past summer. Former

East Bay resident Tara Anderson moved to Connecticut in August to begin graduate school at the Yale School of Management. Brian Karfunkel followed suit, moving to Brooklyn to take a post at NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Oddly enough, fellow Andover alum Mike Mueller-Smith ’02 also works there, doing research while completing a PhD degree at Columbia. Finally, Kanyi Maqubela and his wife, Martha, also moved cross-country this summer. Kanyi had plans to circle the ’03 wagons in the Tri-State Area this fall, so keep an eye out for an e-mail from him. Before Tara left California, David Beyer and Janis Rice organized an ’03 bonfire on Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Tara, Viraj Navkal, Nick Franchot, Alexa Raducanu Franchot, and I joined for some s’mores and reminisced about our senior year. Despite losing Tara, Brian, and Kanyi, the ’03 Bay Area group has remained strong. After earning an MBA from Northwestern, Tom Oliphant has returned with his fiancée, Dana LaMendola. Janis Rice and her husband, Brandon, recently bought a condo in the East Bay. They also attended a couple of classmate weddings on back-toback weekends. On Aug. 31, longtime couple Bryce Kaufman and Rachel Levin-Epstein wed in Sonoma, Calif. Janis and the couple’s old friends Alex Minasian, Mimi Butler, and Evan Panich cheered them on. The following weekend, classmates Alex and Mimi exchanged vows in New York. Many of the same principals attended, joined by Bob Yamartino, Ryan McChristian, Zach Cafritz, and Piotr Brzezinski. Next in line may be Bryce and Alex’s longtime pal Evan Panich, who proposed to his girlfriend, Amy, this summer. Duncan Dwyer visited San Francisco in June. Matt Lindsay, Michael Ruderman, Duncan, and I had dinner during his visit, debating the outcomes of the 2002 cluster soccer season and recalling our favorite Phillipian articles. Margaret Ramsey Andover | Winter 2015

109

Pablo Durana ’02 was part of the team that made the award-winning 2013 documentary Life According to Sam, about Sam Berns, a young man with progeria. Here, Sam and Pablo are pictured at a Progeria Research Foundation fundraiser. Sam died on January 10, 2014.

completed a master’s degree in literature and writing this summer. When she returned to Menlo School this past fall as a teacher, she also became the new freshman dean! In SoCal, Nyssa Liebermann wrote that she will again be roommates with longtime friend Lucy Keating; the two are living in Nyssa’s house in Venice, Calif. Nyssa has also stayed in touch with a couple of other classmates: She was a bridesmaid in Danielle Vardaro’s wedding in October and has kept up with both Tony Pucillo and Jen Graham ’04 in Los Angeles. Justin Ng touched base from Hong Kong, where he is now a community manager for Uber. HK has been a fantastic launch for the ride-sharing service; let Justin know if you are in the city sometime this year! As usual, I’ve stayed in touch with Chris Skipper and Andy Hattemer. They’re both doing well in Michigan and NYC, respectively. We have a great group of classmates in the Bay Area, so if you visit sometime this year, let us know.

2004 Ali Schouten 2712 Ivan Hill Terrace Los Angeles CA 90039 617-584-5373 AlisonSchouten@gmail.com

It was a summer of love for the Class of 2004! Rachelle Brignol married Adam Lerner in June, with Margaret Wheeler in attendance. Johanna Marmolejos took a break from her busy job as a real estate agent with Bond to give, says Rachelle, “one of the best maid of honor speeches ever!” Thanks to her job with the Edrington Group, a Scotch whisky company, Rachelle is always up for a Scotch tasting. Jed Kelly also had a June wedding. Jed and his wife live in Chapel Hill, N.C.,

110

Andover | Winter 2015

High spirits and fine weather were in evidence at the June wedding of Laura Miller ’02 and Steven Stewart in Newport, R.I. From left are Natalie Ho ’02, Terri Samel Miller ’74 (mother of the bride), Laura Miller, Helen Spink Meier ’02, and Sasha Parr Corken ’02.

where she is a family medicine resident and he attends Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Also in June, Ashley Lewis wed Dave Masse in New Castle, N.H.; Jackie Dwulet was a bridesmaid and Meg Sullivan attended. The new Mr. and Mrs. Masse spent their honeymoon on a cruise of northern Europe. Meade Curtis married his college girlfriend, Melissa Diener, over Labor Day weekend. In September, Jessica Birecki wed Wallis Osborn. Jacqueline Bovaird was Jessie’s maid of honor. And there was no need for Jacqueline to catch the bouquet—she had gotten engaged to her boyfriend, Josh Wallin, the month before. The two plan to move to Venice, Calif. Jackie Latina celebrated her recent engagement with Katie Ting and Nicole Slezak. Jackie is a resident at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, specializing in internal medicine. Lolita Munos Taub honeymooned in Greece, Israel, and Italy and recently created the #F Show, about and for female entrepreneurs. Livy Coe is still in the Navy and just moved to DC to work at the Pentagon, where he looks forward to seeing Walter Haydock. His last job, at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina, allowed him to catch up with Tom Barron, currently stationed there with the Army. Amy O’Gorman Block is living in Colorado, where she is nursing, hiking, and loving married life. In Santa Cruz, Calif., Ian Hafkenschiel works in Web development for the startup Cityblooms. Martin Quinones is a lawyer living in the SF Bay Area with his cat, Merit. He and his girlfriend, Olga Tomchin, recently took a trip East, where he hoped to reunite with friends from Andover. Lexie Kuhn Peedin is in the third year of a pathology residency in Chapel Hill, N.C. She and her husband, Mitchell, plan to attend the 15th Reunion with children Pippa and Finn. Over in Raleigh, N.C., Alex Thorn still works at Fidelity Investments, doing legal and internal investigations. Many of our classmates have stayed in

Massachusetts. Alanna Hughes is busy with school in Cambridge, working on a dual graduate degree from MIT and Harvard. Will Scharf reminisced to me about the 10th Reunion, where he and Steve Turro took a joyride in a golf cart. Taylor Yates enjoyed some time off to travel in Europe before beginning a job as a tech consultant in Boston. He has since met up for drinks with Jamie Bologna, who is attending graduate school at Boston University. Jamie also recently caught up with Travis Green in Las Vegas. Farther afield, Paull Randt lives in Hong Kong, where he enjoys exploring the restaurant scene. Congratulations to our recent graduates! Garrett Kirk finished up at the University of Michigan and is delighted to have moved back to the East Coast, where Malika Felix is helping him reconnect with other Andover graduates in NYC. Ben Stone completed a master’s degree program in public policy at the University of Chicago and now works for the state of Massachusetts as a budget analyst in the Office of Administration and Finance. Wing-Kit Chu finished up an MBA degree at Duke and has since moved to Austin, Texas, to work for Amgen. He would love to connect with any PA alums in the area. Iris Tien earned a PhD degree in civil systems engineering from UC Berkeley and, after nearly a decade in Berkeley, moved to Atlanta to work as an assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. All is well here in Los Angeles. Sam Levenback was in town for the summer and saw lots of Jen Graham before she moved to New Haven, Conn., to start an MBA degree program at Yale. Derrick Kuan and his girlfriend, Alex, recently joined me for a comedy show at the Upright Citizens Brigade. I get to see Jenny Byer Elgin when she visits her in-laws in Orange County. Her son, Milo, continues to wow both in person and on Instagram. I’ve been overwhelmed by the support from my Andover classmates as I tackled my first

www.andover.edu/intouch

Four classmates from ’03 helped celebrate the wedding of Caroline “Boo” Littlefield ’03 to Par Karlsson in Kalmar, Sweden, in August. From left are Kelly Sinclair, Paul Sonne, Boo, Abbe Anderson, and Stephen Fee.

real writing job for ABC Family’s Young & Hungry. While waiting to hear if the show is coming back, I took a much-needed break to visit the East Coast, catch up on my reading, and relax at my house in Silver Lake, where all of you are welcome if you find yourselves in LA.

2005 10th REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Matt Brennan matthew.s.brennan13@gmail.com Alex Lebow alexlebow@gmail.com

First things first: Congratulations to Nicole Crocker Villarreal, who was married in Rhode Island on Aug. 2, with Kaia Kessler and Maya Lucaci-Vashee in attendance. Nicole’s husband, Dustin, is a PhD degree candidate in geology at the University of Houston, and Nicole is a geologist at an oil company. Congratulations also to Mailan Pham and Evan Reiser, who were married at Hans Fahden Vineyards in Calistoga, Calif., in June. Stephanie Chan was a bridesmaid, and Jaclyn Ho and Grace Ha ’06 were honored guests at the joyous celebration. The newlyweds had a romantic honeymoon in Paris and reside in San Francisco. Kelly Stecker works at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in breast oncology, researching the effects of exercise on cancer survivors. She shared beers with Sam Kennedy in Marblehead, regularly runs into Lindsay Baker, who’s often gliding by on her roller blades on Beacon Hill, and spent time with Alison Wheeler this summer. Sarah Chang moved to Boston to start an MS/ MPH degree program at Tufts’ Friedman School

Holding the Andover banner with Rachelle Brignol ’04 at her June wedding in New York were classmates Margaret Wheeler and Johanna Marmolejos.

of Nutrition Science and Policy. Ben Hoerner joined the Massachusetts attorney general’s criminal bureau and attended Dave Wilkinson’s beach party with Brendan McManus, Andrew Geraghty, and Dave’s wife, Whitney Kelly Wilkinson ’04. Katie Purcell, who started running just last spring, competed in a few obstacle-course races and participated in her first half marathon in October. She is also studying to take the GMAT and apply to MBA programs. Julianne Fitzpatrick practices law at a Boston firm specializing in product liability defense and commercial litigation. She recently caught up with Katie Nadworny in Harvard Square and Gina Crivelli in Philadelphia and had plans to see Lisa Cloonan, Katie Koh, and Caitriona McGovern in the fall. Sheena Hilton took a leave of absence from teaching chemistry at Andover to earn a master’s degree in food science and technology at Cornell and reports learning a lot that she can bring back to the classroom. Also at Andover, Erica Christensen started her second year coaching skating as a fall sport for students at every skill level. Christian Vareika began his second year of law school at BC and spent the summer working under Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the Senate Judiciary Committee in DC, where he hung out with Nate Scott and Jon Hillman. Mac King had dinner and a drink or two with Harry Goldstein, Steve Sherrill, Kyle Kucharski, and Billy Doyle. Lissette Duran graduated from Columbia Law School and joined the midtown Manhattan firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP as an associate. Laura Sciuto visited Chloé Hurley in New Orleans and dropped in on Matt Brennan and Alex Lebow while in town. She also started a new job with Ernst & Young consulting. Anthony Green, who reports that he’s “destroying body and soul living in New York City,” received national press for his tutoring business this summer and visited New

Orleans as well. Laylah Mohammed traveled to Nashville, Tenn., in September for the wedding of Emma Wischusen and to New Orleans in October to visit Matt Brennan. Laylah also saw Meta Weiss perform in Bryant Park in NYC and ran into Jesse Seegers at the beach in Rockaway, Queens. Meta started as the artist in residence in the school of music at the University of Puget Sound, where she teaches cello and chamber music and coordinates the outreach program. Nate Scott lives in DC with Jeff Sandman ’02, writes for For the Win and USA TODAY Sports, and cut a rug at Chas Gurry’s wedding in Boston. Natalie Ho moved to DC from New York and works as a brand manager for a finewine distributor in Baltimore. She’s recently hung out with Christiana Hollis, John Tincoff, Sarah Hong, Sarah Chang, Clarissa Deng, and Thameka Thompson. Emma Downs completed a PhD degree in chemistry at the University of Oregon and accepted a teaching position at Centre College in Danville, Ky., where she’s looking forward to getting to know a new part of the country after a very long drive. After their wedding in the spring, attended by Ruoxi Chen and Aviva Stahl, Chelsea Paige and husband Scott Cederbaum honeymooned in Charleston, S.C., and started planning an anniversary trip to England and France for spring 2015. Natalie Exner Dean lives in Gainesville, Fla., with her husband and works for the World Health Organization. Dan Hackney moved to Mountain View, Calif., to start working on Google AdWords, slept through his first earthquake “like a fire alarm in Stuart,” and dived into the local swing dance scene. Andy St. Louis and Natasha Midgley caught a Tokimonsta show in LA, where Natasha worked on a Dunkin’ Donuts holiday campaign and moved into a new place in Koreatown. Natasha also had dinner with Anthony Reyes. Kaitlin Alsofrom and Sims Witherspoon Andover | Winter 2015

111

stay connected... hiked through Malawi, camping on the Nyika Plateau and stopping on Likoma Island for a slice of paradise. Sims and Greg Feldmann started craft brewing for friends in San Francisco but are thinking about working toward a pop-up brewery. They’ve brewed a brown farmhouse ale, an English pale ale, and a Belgian wheat. On a visit to New England over the summer, Matt Brennan enjoyed dinner with Sarah Donelan, saw Chris Zegel and Meg Scarborough’s beautiful new digs in South Boston, and drove up the Maine coast to spend an afternoon drinking by the water with Nate Kellogg and Meg Coffin ’03. Matt’s a PhD degree candidate in U.S. history at Tulane, writes regular film and television criticism for Indiewire and Slant Magazine, and recently had his first piece for Deadspin published. Alex Lebow continues to work for New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu and serve on the board of the youth development organization he cofounded, Youth Run NOLA. Matt and Alex celebrated their fourth anniversary as roommates by eating dinner on the couch and watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. That’s everything. Much love, PA ’05! —Matt and Lebow

2006 Jeni Lee 18228 Mallard St. Woodland CA 95695 925-846-8300 jeni_lee@bluelink.andover.edu Paul Voorhees 345 West Berwicke Common, N.E. Atlanta GA 30342 404-402-4869 pauldvoorhees@gmail.com

Hello, Class of 2006! This past year held so much for our class— engagements and weddings, new jobs and promotions, and of course, many mini reunions of Andover alumni. On February 22, Paul Engelhardt and Carly Williams visited Andover for the AndoverExeter alumni hockey game. After the game, Paul proposed to Carly on the spot where they had their first kiss eight years before: halfway between Fuess and Stevens (their dorms senior year)! They were married on Aug. 16 on Martha’s Vineyard. The ceremony was at St. Elizabeth’s Church and the reception held in Carly’s parents’ backyard in Edgartown. Emma King and Catherine Castillo were both bridesmaids in the wedding. Emma traveled from Washington, D.C., where she recently started a new job lobbying for Ford Motor Company, and Catherine flew in from Manchester, U.K., where she is pursuing a PhD degree. Classmates traveled from far and wide to cheer on the newlyweds: Bree Polk-Bauman, Lindsay Dewhirst, and Caroline Pires from

112

Andover | Winter 2015

New York, Alina Chen from Hong Kong, Dan Bacon from San Francisco, and the also newly married Rajeev Saxena from Boston. After their honeymoon in the Canary Islands, Paul and Carly settled in Napa, Calif. Carly is the capital communications director for State Senator Joel Anderson. Paul recently started as a portfolio management officer for the commercial banking office of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in San Francisco. Maggie Reich married Neil Manus on June 7 in Houston. Many of Maggie’s Andover friends traveled from all over the world to celebrate with them—including Lindsay McLellan and Maggie’s Morton House roommates Elizabeth Ryznar, My Khanh Ngo, and Alice Campbell ’05. In July, John Badman married Alex Burlingame in front of an Andover-stocked crowd. Andres Bobadilla, Conor Sutherland, and Emerson Moore ’08 were John’s groomsmen, sporting the classic Andover tie (as did another groomsman, who attended Exeter!). John’s sister, Barbara ’03, was a bridesmaid. Other Andover attendees included James Kelly, James Watson, Chris Cahill, Colin Touhey, Eliot Fearey, Lindsey Baker ’05, Nick Smith Wang ’05, Foster Jebsen ’08, Chris Waskom ’08, and many others. In September, Merit Webster and Erin Lanzo attended Jackie Price’s wedding to Tim Birnbaum in Tulsa, Okla. Merit frequently runs into the couple in their neighborhood in NYC. Congratulations to all the 2014 newlyweds! Looking ahead to future weddings, Mike McMahon proposed to Yurie Sekigami on Martha’s Vineyard in July. Yurie is in her second year of medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin. After a year of long distance, Mike moved to Milwaukee and is now serving as branch manager of Zoom Technical Services, an engineering staffing company. Mike started at Zoom straight out of college, working at the firm’s Boston location. He now travels between Boston and Milwaukee for work. At school, Yurie serves as president of the Student Surgical Society and president of the local chapter of AMSA (American Medical Student Association). Congratulations on your engagement! Over the summer, Alison Holliday visited with many Andover friends: She and Gracia Angulo took days off together; Chris Sargent joined her for a family dinner; she and Katie Koh ’05 had a blast at Katie Faulkner’s bridal shower; and she and Parag Khandelwal are South End neighbors. Ali started her studies at Harvard Medical School, luckily close to so many Andover alumni. One other Andover alum, Rebecca MacRae ’09, is in her HMS class! Also in the Boston area, Ariana Wilkinson is in her third year of medical school at Boston University. She will spend this year rotating through different branches of medicine to see what she’d like to do for her residency at the end of her four years. At the moment, she is deciding between emergency medicine and ob/gyn but is trying to

keep her options open. She lives in Allston with three other BU graduate students and loves it! On the musical front, Jeff Cutts, living in New Jersey since receiving his master’s degree in music, enjoys his church organist/choirmaster day job that also allows him to participate in professional singing and conducting in New York, Philadelphia, and, this year, all over the United States. Completely by chance, he ended up singing in a choir that performed an entire concert of works by another Andover alum, John Cavallaro ’80. Kevin Olusola, now living in Los Angeles, will soon be releasing some new songs of his own on his YouTube channel. Kevin and Edwin Kulubya, also in LA, have been meaning to grab dinner at a Korean BBQ restaurant while Kevin is still in LA! Soon, Kevin and the rest of Pentatonix will be traveling to various countries to promote their two new albums. They recently finished a tour in Europe, Korea, Japan, and Australia. Kevin has enjoyed seeing various Andover alumni along the way! This year, they will be embarking on a proper world tour. Pentatonix was signed to RCA Records in 2014. They released a new EP, their third, with RCA on Sept. 23 and a Christmas LP on Oct. 21. Tobey Duble, Jeff Bakkensen, Mike Galaburda, Alex King ’05, and Mike’s girlfriend, Annalise Sciliano, attended a Red SoxYankees game in September. Jamie Neuwirth now works on the Google for Education team, helping K–12 schools in the United States “go Google.” In September, Sarah Takvorian moved cross-country from Boston to San Francisco to join Salesforce.com. Luke Cahill was recently promoted to an agent role at the Agency for the Performing Arts (APA), so he books concerts for a wide variety of acts, such as Capital Cities, Judas Priest, Boston, and ZZ Ward. As part of the Nashville, Tenn., office, Luke’s main focus is on the country music department, which includes legendary acts such as Dolly Parton, Charlie Daniels, and Travis Tritt, among others. Emily Pollokoff and her husband, Elliott, bought a modest home and made their first major improvement—a compost box! A garden will follow in the coming year. Emily took some time off in late summer for her maternity leave for her second baby, who arrived in October. Emily’s daughter, Hazel, is up to her usual mischief and keeps Emily and Elliott busy! Andrea Coravos and Jeni Lee got together in San Francisco for an Escape from the Mysterious Room adventure. Andrea still works for KKR in the Bay Area, though she travels to Atlanta to work with her portfolio company, National Vision. Andrea and Becky Agostino ’07 went to Coachella together in 2014. While in New York visiting her sister, Jeni caught up with Justin Yi over dinner. Hope you are all doing well, and keep us updated!

www.andover.edu/intouch 2007 M. Conner Stoldt 94 Saddle Hill Road Hopkinton MA 01748-1102 508-954-9185 conner.stoldt@gmail.com Catherine L. Crooke 61 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 2C Brooklyn NY 11238-5916 917-375-5551 catherine.l.crooke@gmail.com

If it hasn’t happened already, the Class of 2007 is starting to grow up. Congratulations are in order for multiple classmates. Chris Li married his beautiful fiancée, Samantha, this fall in Plattsburgh, N.Y., in an event that had a nice Andover showing. Brooks Canaday reports he had an amazing time and caught up with fellow ’07 attendees Prateek Kumar, James Siddall, Susannah Poland, and Charles Francis (who was Chris’s best man). Brooks is enjoying life in Boston, where he frequently sees and hangs out with Eliot Wall and Sam Gould. Amy Fenstermacher recently became engaged and purchased a home, for a double down on the congratulations. Amy also caught up with Liz Finnegan ’06 and John Tincoff  ’05 this fall. Cece Yu married Justin Aschenbener in September, and a number of classmates attended. Nate Flagg was there and informs us that a rad time was had by all. Nate has been hard at work this past fall at Yale’s School of Art, where he is rooming with Jacqueline Hall ’08, who is attending the School of Architecture. Nate plans on seeing James Flynn, who is also at Yale. Komaki Foster is still living in Washington, D.C., and working on Capitol Hill. She often gets to see Ryan Ferguson and Sara Nickel around town. Komaki and Sara went to the Sept. 6 Andover alumni event in DC and had a great time watching the Nationals game, despite the loss to the Phillies. Katharine Matsumoto loves living out West and working in San Francisco, where she gets to see Michaella Chung all the time. The two often pal around the city and enjoy yummy San Francisco food. Katharine is spreading that non sibi by helping to launch a San Francisco chapter of the nonprofit DataKind. She would love any and all Bay Area Andover grads who are interested in getting involved to reach out. Miles Silverman is covering Southern California and wants people to know that if they come to California, they should visit him at UCLA. Miles is hard at work on a PhD degree at the California NanoSystems Institute. When he is not busy with school, Miles spends his free time climbing rocks in Malibu and watching the trees. Conner Stoldt took a wonderful trip to Argentina this fall and came back stuffed full of steak and delicious Malbec. He has been enjoying the South, but over Labor Day weekend he was back in Boston, where he caught up with Colleen Thurman.

Colleen is wrapping up her final year at Tufts’ veterinary school and is glad to be back at school after her summer spent interning in Boston. Danny Silk officially moved to New York this fall, after spending much of his time there over the past few years. Danny has already been connecting with fellow classmates, enjoying an outing to an East Village barbeque place with Sam Gould, Lou Tejada ’08, Alex Schwartz, and Molly Ozimek-Maier. Steve Blackman is alive and well. No, he hasn’t been avoiding you—Blackman has been spending the better part of his time living in Amish country and has had to adapt to social networking off the grid. He left Chicago and is working for a manufacturing startup, Gilson Boards, based in rural central Pennsylvania. After a really successful R&D/market evaluation last winter, the team spent the summer designing and building a new snowboard manufacturing facility in an old auto shop. They started producing the first snowboards of the season in September. Blackman is hitting the road again this winter in a 1978 Airstream trailer for a four-month cross-country demo tour. We are eagerly awaiting updates from the road. Catherine Crooke is acclimating to life back stateside after moving to New York. She spent a couple of days hanging out with Natalie Kaiser and her sister, Brittany ’05, in London at the end of the summer. Catherine also had a small PA reunion on the roof of Dominick DeJoy’s apartment over Labor Day weekend. Polly Sinclair was in town and came along, as did David Mauskop, Lola Dalrymple, Jack Dilday, and Tasha Keeney. Tasha started working for ARK Investment Management, an active ETF firm that invests in disruption in general platform technology; its funds start trading this fall. Tasha is a thematic analyst on the industrial innovation fund. Earlier in August, Emma Wood hosted Catherine, Henry Frankievich, Eliot Wall, Becky Greenberg, and Tasha Keeney for a weekend at Emma’s house in Connecticut.

2008 Mary B. Doyle 327 Noe St. San Francisco CA 94114 781-439-5209 (cell) mbdoyle@gmail.com Lydia Dallett 399 River Road Andover MA 01810 508-265-1005 (cell) Lydia.Dallett@gmail.com

With most of us now a couple years out of college, this past summer saw transitions out of first jobs, the start of grad school, transnational and international moves, and finally accruing enough PTO to travel for more than four days at a time. Ain’t adulthood grand?

Winning that last category: Nkem Oghedo, Hailee Minor, Carolyn Chica, Dacone Elliott, Arianna Van Sluytman, and Jara Crear went Euro-tripping in July, hitting seven countries and maintaining a Tumblr dubbed Baecation 08. Arbitrarily bumped to second place is Ben Schley’s second annual sailing trip off Long Island, N.Y., featuring Nick Anschuetz, Oliver Bloom, John Bukawyn, John Burke, Steve Bury, Zach Feldman, Foster Jebsen, Evan Hawk, Dave Holliday, Chad Hollis, Emerson Moore, Edwin Muniz, James Sawabini, Dan Silva, Jimmy Spang, and Chris Waskom. The trip included running up sand dunes, taking on Port Jefferson’s nightlife, and camping on what Schley claims was a private island. Sarah Cohan is spending five months working in Tel Aviv at a startup incubator focused on international development solutions. Kelly Lacob is in her second year working for the essential child medicines team at the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Uganda; usually a bit limited on her Andover encounters in East Africa, Kelly and her team hosted Dan LeClerc ’05 as an MBA intern this summer. Hanson Causbie is stationed in Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division, flying Apache helicopters. He should be coming home in June. Moving east: Jeff Lu and John Heroy work in the same office in Hong Kong. Rajit Malhotra is based in Mumbai with the Parthenon Group; he travels regularly to Kazakhstan and Hong Kong, conducting assessments of international schools. He spent the summer traveling to 12 countries and six continents, reviewing WISE Award finalists— schools recognized for outstanding dedication to fostering innovation in their communities. So cool! Joe Wilkin has gone global in his competitive archery career. Sponsored by Kittery Trading Post and Mathews, one of the biggest bow manufacturers, Joe’s crushing some seriously senior competition in Las Vegas, England, Morocco, and beyond. Blaine Johnson is getting her master’s degree in Shanghai; on a brief visit to North America, she got royally sunburned while vacationing in Canada with Lydia Dallett and saw Victoria Glynn in DC for drinks. Returning stateside, please find a list below of regular dinner dates that you should crash should you find yourself in... Boston: Jess Cole hosts a weekly potluck on Sundays, frequented by Jen Downing, Abby Colella, and Siobhan Alexander. Breet Achin is the GM of a restaurant in Kendall Square, Kika Tapas, so stop by when you’re next in Cambridge, Mass.! San Francisco: Some combination of Mary Doyle, Ben Schley, Will Hunckler, Hillary Baker, Tessa Pompa, Sara Ho, Chip Schroeder, and Lambros Theofanidis want to get drinks with you. Philly: Silke Cummings and Matt Emery found a spot serving lobster tamales and delicious cocktails, so get in on that. Andover | Winter 2015

113

Virtual: Allie Parr, Maggie LeMaitre, and Victoria Glynn have maintained a regular group text since upper year. You’re probably not actually invited to join that, but it deserved a mention. Kelci Thomasco, living in St. Louis, recently got engaged! Megan Richards, Kathryn Quijano, Haley Bruns, Nicole Lee, and Madeleine O’Connor spent a dreamy summer weekend together in Plymouth, Mass. Veda Eswarappa and Sara Wallace are coleading a growth strategy project at the education nonprofit they work for in Boston. Abby Colella is in her second year at Harvard Law School and spent this past summer interning with the U.S. Department of Justice in DC. Ian Accomando is a newly minted assistant coach for the men’s lightweight crew team at Harvard. Also active in Boston, Murphy Temple and Jess Cole ran a half marathon there together in May. Molly Shoemaker ran her third half marathon on Staten Island, N.Y. She hangs out with Lucas McMahon in NYC, where they recently saw Carrie St. Louis starring in Rock of Ages on Broadway. Philip Meyer’s been riding bikes with Thomas Smyth while Thomas is in LA for work. Phil came to see Will Hunckler and me in San Francisco in August, a visit we turned into a weekend-long food tour of our Mission neighborhood. Indeed, in case you guys were unaware, the Bay Area is blossoming into an ’08 hub. Lambros Theofanidis recently made the wise move, and he and Ben Schley are living together in SF’s Russian Hill neighborhood. Christina Coravos moved to San Francisco in August. Hillary Baker, living a few blocks away from me near Dolores Park, saw Grace Gordon, Ellie Shepley, Kimbo Chang, Elizabeth Macmillan, and Sarah Pucillo while visiting NYC this summer. Murphy Temple recently started a PhD degree program in history at Stanford, joining Sebastian Caliri. John Heroy visited the pair before embarking on a programming boot camp in Hong Kong called Hack Reactor. Jen Downing visited Britney Van Valkenburg and Kristin Spiak here in September and went hiking through Marin. Caitlin Feeney started Cornell Law School in the fall and is still wrestling with the tradeoff of losing New York’s speedy Seamless food delivery but gaining Ithaca’s trees. Rachel Cohen ran into Lydia Dallett at the airport in Newark, N.J., in June. Nicole Duddy started NYU Stern’s MBA degree program this fall, joining the horde of  ’08ers in New York. Emerson Moore, Foster Jebsen, Chris Waskom, and Joey Mensah moved in together downtown. Andrew Clay is teaching eighth grade at a charter school in NYC’s Harlem. He caught up with Jacqueline Hall this summer before she headed off to Yale for architecture school. In closing: T minus three years until the 10th Reunion. Blue love —Mary

114

Andover | Winter 2015

2009 Alexander McHale 30 Waterside Plaza, Apt. 29J New York NY 10010 703-786-3330 arxmchale@gmail.com Deidra Willis 550 East Holly Ave., #39 Pitman NJ 08071 347-342-7447 willis.deidra@gmail.com

With this summer coming to a close, the Class of 2009 is continuing to keep in touch. Months after our Fifth Reunion, the question on our minds is still, Where is everyone and what are we all up to? Erica Harris and Ariana Remmel had the chance to do lots of fun tourist-oriented activities while Erica was living and working in Bangkok. Eamon Callison recently rowed at the Henley Royal Regatta with the Cambridge ’99 Rowing Club and completed a master’s degree in human evolutionary biology at the University of Cambridge. He is currently living in Boston while pursuing a PhD degree in human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Abi Pollokoff moved to Seattle at the end of the summer to begin working toward an MFA degree in poetry at the University of Washington. She and Qing Yi Yu enjoyed delicious food in August and saw some great views of the city from the top of the Space Needle. Stephanie Colello started medical school at Columbia University, to add to the many alumni living in NYC. Thor Shannon and Cora Lewis now live together in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. Sam Dodge is doing awesome work serving our country abroad as a gunnery officer aboard the USS Roosevelt (DDG-80). Sam reports that it’s a humbling honor being able to utilize his Arabic while fostering connections with foreign militaries and that he looks forward to being able to attend our 10th Reunion. Alexander McHale, Max Abitbol, and Marvin Blugh continue to enjoy their Mel’s Brew Crew privileges at Mel’s Burger Bar in NYC, near Columbia, and periodically go up there to enjoy specially curated craft brew presentations. Mel’s has become Taylor Hall’s satellite campus, as Jack Walker and Matt Gorski have also begun their Brew Crew cards. At the end of August, Tina Kit had a rooftop party at her apartment on the Lower East Side; Johnny Carmona, Michael Discenza, Malik Jenkins, Alicia Keyes, Moses Kim, David Luan, Deidra Willis, Larry Zhou, and Tony Zou were all in attendance. The group cheered on Moses and Tina in a push-up face-off and helped David ring in his birthday with song before barhopping through the neighborhood. Courtnie Crutchfield and Scott Dzialo went to the Fourth Annual Todd A. Isaac Memorial Basketball Game and Reception in NYC with other

alums and CAMD Dean Linda Carter Griffith in September. Big congratulations are in order for Sarah Smith, who got married at the start of September! Caroline Ann Gattuso, Jackie Wallace ’10, and Nicole Okai ’10 were bridesmaids at the lovely wedding. After running into one other on the street by chance and getting some delicious gelato, Vivian Wehner, Carl Jackson, Christian Anderson, and some friends went to the San Francisco Street Food Festival, marching up some SF hills and eating some hole-in-the-wall food. Any other Andover alums in the area should look out for them. In Washington, D.C., Alex McHale went to a Nationals game—an Andover event—with Sara Nickel ’07 and Komaki Foster ’07; there, he met Rob Bohorad ’90 and his family. Alex writes, “Even though the Nationals lost, we had a great time catching up. The go-go band outside of the stadium was incredible as well.” Jill Kozloff, Annie Glancy, Trey Meyer, and Brian Russell all got together to celebrate Eric Kanter’s birthday in Boston at the beginning of September. Without a doubt, the Class of 2009 continues to link up and do fun stuff in both domestic and international waters. Until next time…

2010 FIFTH REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Sascha Strand Metcalf Hall W205 Tufts University Medford MA 02155 316-371-9053 (cell) Sascha.Strand@Tufts.edu Courtney King 343 15th St. Santa Monica CA 90402 310-984-0882 (cell) courtney.king116@gmail.com Faiyad Ahmad 978-289-3584 (cell) faiyad_ahmad@brown.edu

Jennifer Miao was accepted early to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and began her first year of medical school in July. She graduated from Vanderbilt, double majoring in English and music (piano). The most memorable aspects of her four years there included building a clinic in Peru, playing the piano on a weekly basis for the elderly at an assisted living residence, volunteering as a medical intern in Latin America and Asia, working at Vanderbilt Medical Center’s emergency department, conducting a study on malnutrition and post operative complications in Guatemala, and examining biological pathways responsible for the

www.andover.edu/intouch proliferation of small cell lung cancer cell lines (a project she intends to continue in medical school). Mat Kelley just moved to Shanghai for a new job with a college admission mentoring company called Admissionado. “Shanghai is unreal,” says Mat, “though I’m missing friends back home.” He met up with Givens Parr ’12 in Beijing last month and is hoping to put together an alumni gathering in Beijing or Shanghai. After four years at Brown University, Kelvin Jackson moved to Cambridge, Mass., in the fall to work at Microsoft. J.P. Harrington now goes by Julia Harrington and is quite happy for the change. After spending the summer launching a sustainable food truck and working on an organic farm with her partner, she has moved to the Big Apple. She now lives in a beautiful apartment in Queens, N.Y., with Raya Stantcheva and is about to start work in financial services consulting at Oliver Wyman. She looks forward to being out of rural New Hampshire and near so many Andover and Dartmouth graduates. After graduating from Wake Forest, Caroline Gezon led a service trip in Thailand this summer and is moving to DC to work with Deloitte’s federal consulting practice. She saw Whitney Ford and Charlie Walters in San Francisco on a road trip this summer. She also saw Nathalie Sun in Chicago, who moved there to do market research for Nielsen. Michael Ma moved into an apartment in NYC and started work at Blackstone’s hedge fund solutions group. He’s also working on a startup and building a hedge fund strategy with Krishnan Chandra and Zach Esakof  ’11. “Staying busy!” he writes. Daniel McMurtrie is living in Washington, D.C., running a startup hedge fund, Tyro Partners LLC, and a real estate business, Tyro Real Estate LLC. He says he “would love to connect with any alumni in the area.” In July, Emily Hutcheson-Tipton celebrated her daughter Alice’s first birthday, and this past September, she planned to marry Alice’s father, Forrest. She and her family now live south of Denver. She is very happily a stay-at-home mom right now. Rei Konolige went down to DC this fall to do external relations for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan think tank. “So excited!” she writes. Zahra Bhaiwala just moved back to Boston from NYC to start a two-year master’s degree program at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she is specializing in health economics. She spent the summer working in Geneva, Switzerland, for the World Health Organization, where she was an intern in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative unit, doing lab surveillance data analysis for Nigeria and Pakistan as well as political security analysis for Iraq and Pakistan. She says she’s excited to be back in the Boston area and hopes to reconnect with any Andover people who might also be around. Julie Xie graduated from Penn and moved back

to Boston to start a job at the Boston Globe. She says she’d “love to meet up with other ’10ers in the area!” Juliana Reider hung out with Natalie Cheng at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this past July, and she’s moving to Japan to teach English in 2015. Ric Best reports that he’s “holding down the Andover-in-Philadelphia contingent, and everything is great.” Sophie Fourteau planned to move to London at the end of September to work in market research. She reports that she “was lucky enough to attend the World Cup in Brazil with Caitlin Aylward and see a lot of Andover alums around NYC this summer: Whitney Ford, Katherine Sherrill, Alex Farrell, Will Lindsey, Charles Shoener, Juliet Liu, and Maggie Law.” Sara Bakrow just graduated from UVa and has been working at Nestlé Waters North America. She’s hoping to move down to DC in the near future. Chelsea Quezergue had an internship at the New York District Attorney’s Office from September through December. She was a translating intern in the Spanish department, where her duties included translating legal documents and statements bidirectionally from English to Spanish, proofreading translations for accuracy, and assisting with screening and summarizing Spanish audio recordings, in written or oral form. After graduation, Hannah Bardo taught English (“Fittingly, in the classroom of Mr. Bardo!”) during PA’s Summer Session. Hannah writes, “Now, the only thing keeping me stateside is the Bay Area.” She followed in Hillary Baker ’08’s footsteps and joined the New Sector Alliance as a RISE Fellow, helping to strengthen the social sector through an enduring commitment to service and effective capacity building. She’s a resident with ScholarMatch, an organization founded by Dave Eggers to make college possible for underserved youth by providing students with comprehensive support. She looks forward to meeting up with Andover alums on the West Coast. Annie Pates is living and working in Boston and says she would love to meet up with alums in the area. Andrew Townson writes that he “moved to LA and was bitten by a mutant spider. He is currently trying to understand his newfound powers and the great responsibility that comes with them.” Rob Stevens just moved down to Atlanta to start work. He spent last summer WWOOFing (working on an organic farm) in Spain and hiking in Yosemite, “among a lot of other things”. He recently got to see Alexis Dawkins in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Ellie DiBerardino ’09 in San Francisco. Duncan Crystal is currently working in Washington, D.C., as a research analyst at CEB. He and Peter Yang recorded an all-original a capella album this spring with their college group, the Octopodes, which they hoped to release this fall—“thoroughly continuing our Yorkie legacy,” says Duncan. Juliet Liu graduated from Yale University in May and is now living in LA. Along with Charles Shoener, she is working full time on the culture magazine she founded in college, Out of Order. She’s

excited to be producing films and working with artists in LA and is especially happy to have fellow Andover classmates on the West Coast.

2011 Christopher Batchelder 4 Raymond St. Manchester-by-the-Sea MA 01944 batch@unc.edu Oriekose Idah 8 Sycamore Lane Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 oidah0608@gmail.com Kevin Song 1 Windy Hill Road Green Brook NJ 08812 kevin@andover11.com Edith Young 470 Park Ave., Apt. 2D New York NY 10022 edithwyoung@gmail.com

As most members of the Class of 2011 head into their senior year of college, we caught up with a few classmates and heard about the specifics of their summers. Jared Curtis worked for an international urban design firm in Boston this summer. He also had a chance to meet up with Kevin Carey and Melissa Ferrari ’10. Over the summer, Haley Scott worked as a field coordinator on Seth Moulton ’97’s successful primary election campaign for U.S. Congress. She took last semester off from Brown to work on Moulton’s general election campaign. Diego Mendia and Oriekose Idah interned at Google together. Natasha Vaz and Jess Holley spent a weekend together in NYC. In August, Yerin Pak went to Caitlin Kingston’s house in Vermont with Grace Hoyt, Malcolm Mason Rodriguez, Mimi Tanski, and Sam Lessard. Yerin wrote, “It was definitely one of the highlights of my summer!” Edith Young and Isabel Elson ’12 worked as summer interns at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the first months of the Jeff Koons retrospective. Camilla Brandfield-Harvey spent the summer interning at the Cooking Channel in New York, where she built diverse Web content for show pages and recipe galleries and wrote weekly blog posts. Highlights included visiting the set of Chopped and learning to make profiteroles from the Food Network’s executive chef! Julian Danziger and Edith Young met up with fellow Andover classmates working in NYC for the summer, including Camilla BrandfieldHarvey, Elizabeth Watson, Georgia Pelletier, Ben Podell, Alec Abitbol, Katie Hess, Ashley Hess, and Kendall MacRae. Edith and Julian look forward to doing it again at the Monarch Rooftop next summer! Andover | Winter 2015

115

stay connected.. . 2012 Kennedy Edmonds kennedyedmonds@gmail.com Miranda Haymon 197 Clare Ave. Boston MA 02136 617-308-6252 mirandahaymon@gmail.com Lauren Howard P.O. Box 1352 Lexington VA 24450 860-682-4641 (cell) howardl16@mail.wlu.edu Sydney Keen 520 Franklin St. Reading MA 01867 781-640-3037 sydneykeen93@gmail.com Ryan Ramos 700 Commonwealth Ave., Box 3232 Boston MA 02215 917-841-0294 ryan.alexander.ramos@gmail.com

This year marks the start of the Class of 2012’s third year as alumni of Andover and has served as a testament to our passion and success as representatives of our alma mater. While many of us have been busy at our respective colleges and universities, we also took the summer months by storm as interns, volunteers, athletes, artists, and students in an impressive number of fields. It was great hearing from those who submitted updates, beginning with Kathleen Smolak, who worked as a peer mentor for the summer. Kathleen was also able to take a relaxing trip to Oklahoma after running a Newburyport, Mass., half marathon in June. Congratulations, Kathleen! Similarly choosing to spend his summer mentoring, Terrence Arjoon ran a portfolioediting workshop for young writers at nonprofit writing center 826 Valencia in San Francisco, living with Alexander “Alex” Schneider for the first month of their summer breaks. Terrence ambitiously spent his spare time working on and self-publishing his first book of poetry! He also had the chance to catch up with Charles “Charlie” Pecora before spending the last bits of summer in NYC. Terrence returned to Bard College for his second year in September. Charlie spent his time off from the University of Miami this summer as an engineering intern at a tech startup in Silicon Valley called Qolsys. In addition to meeting up with Terrence and Alex, Charlie was visited by another one of our classmates, Ryan Ramos. Cameron Hastings, while on a road trip,

116

Andover | Winter 2015

stopped in Charleston, S.C., to visit Benjamin “Ben” Manuel. The two reminisced about Andover and their time living in Stearns. After Cameron’s visit, Ben went to see Alex Schneider, another member of the Stearns family, in San Francisco. Margot “Maggie” Shoemaker had dinner in Manhattan with Brianna Barros, Eliana Kwartler, Tafarii McKenzie, Leonore “Nora” Princiotti, and Katherine “Katie” Hebb. Starting in the fall of 2014, Maggie will begin a two-year-long stay in Germany. She is in a dual-degree program with Elon University, where she has spent the past two academic years, and ESB Business School at Reutlingen University in Germany, studying international business. Once in Germany, Maggie planned to begin looking for an internship for her second semester there, a requirement of the program. Katie Hebb spent the summer back home in NYC, working as an intern with the Clinton Foundation. Also in New York for the summer, Tafarii worked as an intern with a technology nonprofit, Coalition for Queens. The group aims to develop Long Island City into a contributor to the tech world on par with Silicon Valley. Tafarii will be in Budapest, Hungary, for the fall semester, continuing to pursue a degree in computer science. Also with plans to spend time abroad during his third year at college, Daniel “Danny” Gottfried will travel to Russia in the spring of 2015. Over this past summer, however, Danny stayed in Medford, Mass., teaching international students English at Tufts; in the fall, he resumed his own work at Tufts toward a degree in international relations. Nicholas “Nick” Camarda has been enjoying an internship with Foundation Medicine and his time at Duke, after switching his major to biophysics. Also studying at Duke, Shannon Adams is double majoring in history and global health. Over the summer, Shannon received a DukeEngage grant funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Shannon used her funds to travel to Durban, South Africa, on the Eastern Cape. While living there for two months with a host family, Shannon worked at a children’s home called Isiaiah 54. There, she assisted the home with orphaned, abused, abandoned, and HIV positive children. Shannon spent the fall semester in Florence, Italy, taking classes toward her history major. Ryan Canavan is one of our many fellow  ’12ers who called Washington, D.C., home for the summer. While suffering through a summer biology course together, Ryan and Anastasia “Annie” Tillman were summer RAs at Georgetown University. Ryan hosted Hannah Finnie ’11 and Kate Taylor-Mighty ’11 for dinner. Ryan also enjoyed some Chinese takeout (which surely couldn’t compete with Golden Chopstick from our days at Andover) with friends from four consecutive Andover classes: Gabbi Fisher ’13, Apsara Iyer, Jenny Zhou ’11, Rachel Zappala ’10, and Annie Li ’10. Apsara spent this past summer researching in Cusco, Peru, and interning at the

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. Miranda Haymon spent the summer in Germany, later returning home to Boston before starting her third year at Wesleyan University in the fall. At school, she served as stage manager for In the Heights, a Tony Award–winning musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda that ran from Nov. 12 to 16. Sydney Keen worked as an intern at Boston Children’s Hospital, doing research with a cardiologist as part of the transplant research program. Sydney is in the midst of her second year at Fordham University as a pre-med English major. Miranda and I were really excited to have seen so many more submissions for class notes for this issue of the magazine, and we look forward to reviving 2012’s participation. As always, please reach out to us with any updates you would like to have included in our class notes! Love always, ’12. —Sydney

2013 MJ Engel 414-477-5563 mjengel8@gmail.com Connor Fraser 9 Scotland Drive Andover MA 01810 978-857-4443 cfraser142@gmail.com Chiamaka Okorie 347-981-0429 okoriesc@ymail.com

We began the new academic year stronger and one year wiser, but it is clear that many of us in the Class of  ’13 have missed one another. Christian Langalis lived in Oyster Bay, N.Y., this summer, working for a sailing team called Oakcliff Racing. On a seven-day trip completely offshore with the team, he raced to Bermuda and back. As he enjoyed the stars, he missed his pal Ross Burnaman and their astronomy class together. Although Julia Kichorowsky and Lucy Frey are spending their college years apart at Yale University and Wheaton College, respectively, their “long-distance relationship is thriving.” Lydia Godo-Solo, David Jordan, Rashana Shabazz, Andrea “Dre” Vargas, Babatunde “Tunde” Bello, Diondra Peck, Christopher Amendano, and Jonathan Thompkins had a reunion in NYC at the beginning of August. They went to a “very eccentric” Indian restaurant and walked around Union Square. Some of them accompanied Andrea Vargas to the Bronx to visit her relatives! Lydia Godo-Solo also met up with Diondra Peck and spent a day with Kai Kornegay ’14, enjoying good food, shopping, and Central Park. Rounding out the weekend, Lydia and Diondra caught up with Shireen Aziz and stayed with her.

www.andover.edu/intouch Kana Rolett had a great time visiting Fred Lee in Korea. They enjoyed exploring Korea and eating lots of delicious food! Jing Qu and Nicole Ng lived together in Georgetown, in DC, this summer. They got to spend time with Gabbi Fisher and happened to run into Demetri Papageorgiou. They reunited with their freshman year prefect, Kate TaylorMighty ’11, and later saw Meaghan Haugh and Emily Carrolo on Cape Cod, where they visited Four Seas Ice Cream. Finally, Jing, Emily, and Connor Fraser took a little trip to see Samuel Phillips Hall. Sam Koffman hosted Theodore Agbi, Rashana Shabazz, Matthew Abrahamsen, and Chiamaka Okorie this June at his home in New Jersey. After a long year being scattered around the continent, they were happy to see old friends, watch movies, and enjoy great conversation. Anjali Krishnamachar loved being able to spend time with Emily Hoyt, Piper Curtis, and Cam Morose this summer as they hung out in and around Boston. On a family vacation to Alaska, she was very surprised to run into Patrick Rielly, one of PA’s English instructors, in Seward. It goes to show that Andover is everywhere! A few of the class also took on amazing projects, internships, and service this past summer. Under a science, technology, and research fellowship for freshmen, Theodore Agbi worked in the cell biology department of the Yale School of Medicine. He also explored New Haven, Hamden, and Milford, Conn., over the summer. Jimmy Hunter got a taste of the political life as an intern for the Barry Finegold campaign for Massachusetts state treasurer. He had the chance to be a whip, counting and recording district votes, and assist as a runner. He also had all-access passes during the convention and networked parties on Mr. Finegold’s behalf. Maggie Brown returned to India this summer for her second year leading a basketball camp. She said it “gets better and better every time,” and it has inspired her new studies of human rights and urban economics at Trinity College. Emily Hoyt spent the summer working for a bioengineering lab at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Charlestown Navy Yard. She worked on developing a capture-and-release technology capable of targeting specific biological materials. She says the people she worked with were “amazing,” and they even watched the World Cup and predicted winners together! Mark Meyer had a phenomenal return from his gap year in Germany. He spent some time out West with friends, cycling the long mountain trails of the Black Hills and the Rockies and enjoying the beauty of Colorado. In June, he guided rafting trips on the Yellowstone River and claims the real perk was his beautiful tan. Finally, he spent quality time with the rest of the Meyers, but he misses his PA family as well. Walter Chacón worked as a site director and volunteer for a great organization called Let’s Get

Ready. The organization offers free SAT and college preparation to underserved high school students. Walter was also able to continue his squash rivalry with Greg Cameron. Finally, Sid Palaniappan took a step into the financial world while working for Takeda Pharmaceuticals. He made “stacks” and learned a lot about stock options. We wish you another great year and wonderful experiences!

2014 Djavaneh Bierwirth 3456 Sansom St. Philadelphia PA 19104 978-933-1910 djavaneh@wharton.upenn.edu Kai Kornegay 3900 Walnut St., MB132 Philadelphia PA 19104 609-670-6658 kaikornegay@gmail.com Cat Haseman 5400 Fielding Manor Drive Evansville IN 47715 812-204-9113 cchaseman@gmail.com

Taylor Chin and Jay Tucker interned for Seth Moulton ’97’s congressional campaign in the Sixth District in Massachusetts. Alex Anderlik went on a four-week Quaker Youth Pilgrimage to Peru and Bolivia. Esther Cohen directed five shows with the 13th Street Repertory Company in NYC. She also got to put her dog-loving skills to good use as a pet sitter for an adorable Morkie. Robert Rush interned with J.P. Morgan in the due diligence department. Poonam Kamdar visited Katherine Krabek in Beijing. Claire Carroll, Janine Ko, Lily Rockefeller, and Tyler Tsay ’15 started a literary journal, Blueshift. Meghana Jayam and Elana King-Nakaoka met in Salzburg, Austria, where Elana is doing a gap year. Caroline Chen met Charlee Van Eijk, Elaine Chao, and Djavaneh Bierwirth in Amsterdam. Benjamin Yi, David Cho, Malina Simard-Halm, David Cao, Meghana, and Djavaneh spent two weeks at Caroline’s house in San Diego. Katherine Vega interned at the office of advancement and alumni affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago and participated in a preorientation program at UChicago, focusing on social justice in inner-city neighborhoods. Katie Williams, Thomi Pamplin, Harshita Gaba, Laura Bucklin, and Kai Kornegay stayed with Emma Kahn at her home in Marblehead, Mass. Molly Magnell, Harry Wright, Emilia Figliomeni, Jack Elliott-Higgins, Amo Manuel, Harvey Wu, Junius Williams, Abriana Mayer, Emily Ewing, Sophie Landay, Adam Brody, and

Rebecca Cheng traveled to South Africa to present the multidisciplinary work Rhythms of Hope, created with PA’s dance, music, and art departments. Janine Ko and Dan Wang started a blog together covering race and gender, which can be found at www.twoangryazns.wordpress.com. Doris Nyamwaya worked as a teacher’s aide at Kaleidoscope, a children’s day camp. She also traveled to Nashville, Tenn., to spend time with Mikaela Rabb. Mikaela spent a month traveling through Germany as an exchange student on a scholarship sponsored by American teachers of German and the German government’s pedagogical exchange service (Pädagogischer Austauschdienst). Caroline Sambuco spent her summer at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute studying classical singing. Graham Johns was part of Boston Ballet’s Summer Dance Program and is continuing to work and train with the Boston Ballet this year during his gap year. James Robertson invited Luke Stidham, Jake Marrus, Grant Bitler, Jay Tucker, Drake Danner, Alec Tolentino, Andrew Yang, and Matt Schwolsky to his home in Jamaica, where they spent time on the beach, went to a reggae music festival, and had an unreal weekend. Kasey Hartung taught classes and coached basketball in India with Crossover Basketball and Scholars Academy. Upon her return, she taught English classes for PA’s PALS program with Mr. Wilkin. When not writing her future best-selling autobiography or making lip-synching videos, Stephanie Huang went to a model AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation conference and an NGO conference. She also learned how to code and played lots of tennis. Jack Elliott-Higgins, Alec D’Alelio, Andrew O’Brien, Makenzie Schwartz, and Jonathan Arone drove to the Osheaga Music and Arts Festival in Montreal, where they rented McGill dorm rooms for three nights. That’s all, folks! Keep us informed of any adventures and happenings!

FACULTY EMERITI Pat and George Edmonds 28 Samuel Way North Andover MA 01845 978-655-4598 gandped@comcast.net

We were delighted to have such a lively response to our e-mail with Chaucer’s words—“And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche”— from so many emeriti and to be able to report the interesting variety of ways teachers have continued teaching. Midge Brecher writes that for at least five years she has been teaching dance in Keene, N.H., to people with Parkinson’s disease. She is also starting a new group in Brattleboro, Vt., for those with Parkinson’s and other aging issues. Andover | Winter 2015

117

Crossword answer key for page 49

L A T L I N N R A B I B I Y T U G P O O N S D E L A C A L V I T R A

V I S I N W I G A G I A N Y

GO S C R V A E R V E RGO E C O U R B E A N T

B E L L T L D U O D I E S N T E

Andover | Winter 2015

Methuen [Mass.] High School. For the past three years, he has been in steady demand as a volunteer at the Community Day Charter School in Lawrence, going four days a week to tutor students in arithmetic, creative problem solving, and paying attention. In addition to some outside tutoring in math, he spent much time editing problems the PA math department has been creating for an online calculus course for Khan Academy. Clearly the leaders in both time committed and distance traveled are Everett and Mary Gendler. Everett writes, “Within half a year of ending our regular work commitments, Mary and I became involved with the Tibetan exile community in India, helping the followers of the Dalai Lama develop a community education program on strategic nonviolent struggle. Almost annually over these 19 years, we’ve spent from two weeks to two months in India offering workshops, lectures, and seminars on this topic to students, monks, nuns, and government leaders. We are still offering these workshops, now with the assistance of the staff and director of the Active Nonviolence Educational Center (ANEC), a Tibetan nongovernmental agency that we helped establish. Currently we are helping the education department of the Tibetan government in exile develop study units on strategic nonviolence as part of the curriculum for every student in grades nine to 12. Following some teacher training seminars this coming year, we may try once again to declare ourselves emeriti, this time with perhaps less commuting!” Another major educational effort that should be mentioned here has been Kelly Wise’s work with the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers, which he founded in 1990 and then continued to lead in his retirement. Kudos to everyone for all you have been doing! And thanks for your prompt reports! The quote of the quarter comes from John McMurray: “The Golden Age is for real, if you are willing to pan for the gold.” [Editor’s note: The Academy received word that Robert “Robin” Crawford passed away on Oct. 22, 2014. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.]

M S I U U N COMMON S OWE R S G E T T OD N E S S H A M A P L E I R D L E D P L A T T V Y I X H O D C U S H A L V A R E Z S E A R S E Y F T U D I C K I E M U S S S H O N N E R

118

Don reports, “is the family literacy coordinator for the Waltham Public Schools. She coordinates the Waltham Family School, a program that combines preschool and adult literacy classes to help children and parents from immigrant families with limited resources and education learn English and prepare to succeed in school.” Another not-yet-retiree, Carl Bewig, reports, “[For three years] I shifted my locus of operation to Hong Kong, where I had ‘residencies’ and consultations at three high schools: St. Paul’s Co-educational College, Chinese International School, and ISF Academy. I have also been a keynote speaker for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth program in Hong Kong and worked with private clients there.” Carl returned to college counseling at Andover in September 2013 to fill in until December 2014, as PA conducts a search for new permanent staff. Also back at PA is Doug Kuhlmann, who has two sections of precalculus for the fall 2014 term. He hopes the time there will help him decide if he wants to teach part time in retirement. No problem there for John Gould. He writes, “I do one or two half-term courses a year at Bennington College. The course is called Through Syntax to Style, and it is (gasp!) a grammar course that focuses on how to write better. Kids keep signing up for it!” (On the side, he recently published a Kindle novel called Carlton Sortwell, and it’s about Little League baseball.) From South Strafford, Vt., Cindy and Jon Stableford ’63 send word that they are volunteering at Dartmouth’s lifelong learning institute. Jon writes, “I teach literature classes in the fall and spring quarters, and Cindy runs classes for iPod users. Guess whose classes are reliably full? I think it must be the long reading assignments.” From West Chester, Pa., Neil Cullen reports, “Betsey and I have been teaching occasionally at the University of Delaware’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Wilmington, Del. We taught a poetry course titled Peace of Wild Things, reading selected poems of Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry. I also assist in a drawing course, and Betsey taught a poetry course on Stephen Dunn and Rita Dove.” Back home in Biarritz, France, Suzy Koerckel has been volunteering for 10 years, helping students with homework and teaching adults English and immigrants French. From St. Helena Island, S.C., Becky McCann writes, “For three years, Hal has been a mentor at our local St. Helena Elementary School. He has worked with both fourth- and second-grade levels. This coming year, he might try doing something different, perhaps working with the high school students on study/learning skills.” Currently keeping busy with work such as being a court interpreter for two courts in Beaufort, Becky also offered a beginning Spanish course for adults and is thinking of teaching a Spanish conversation class. Dave Penner took over three AP calculus classes for a teacher on maternity leave from

P E N T A T ON L Y L E S S K W I L D E M O P R H E T I C H R N T O B E N J AM I N

From Maine, John McMurray reports that he has been teaching people of all ages at Sunrise Senior College (U. of Maine) in Machias and at Schoodic Arts for All in Winter Harbor. He writes, “I also enjoy working with local young children in my studio in Addison as well as helping with community art projects in other towns.” Also from Maine, Paul Kalkstein ’61 writes, “Following in the large footsteps of Bill Brown ’34, I have been teaching at Midcoast Senior College. Although most of my courses have been literature courses, I have taught one online course and am presently starting a course on old-time radio.” When Tom Lyons and Joe Wennik ’52 retired to Newburyport, Mass., about 14 years ago, they helped to start the “Lyceum” program for the town’s adult education organization. Joe’s courses have concentrated on German literature in translation, such as works by Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and the Brothers Grimm. Another popular adult education program is Beacon Hill Seminars, which started in Boston in 2000, when Betsy Peterson became a member of the founding board of directors and helped to recruit a succession of Andover emeriti to bolster the teaching staff. Hale Sturges was also a board member and taught many French literature topics, seven entirely in French. [Editor’s note: The Academy received word that Hale Sturges passed away on Oct. 14, 2014. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.] Other teachers and subjects in the Beacon Hill Seminars include Philip Zaeder, on a variety of English literature courses; Francesca Piana, on Spanish literature, such as Don Quixote and Federico García Lorca’s plays; Ed Quattlebaum ’60, on the Bill of Rights, Constitution, and Tea Party and on nuclear history; Ruth Quattlebaum, on contemporary art and shock of the new (she is also a tour guide at the Institute of Contemporary Art); and Meredith Price, on John Updike’s Harry Angstrom tetralogy. Meredith has also taught English for several years in Lawrence at two independent middle schools, Esperanza Academy for girls and Bellesini Academy for boys. Nancy Sizer writes, “I am coaching new teachers through the Teacher Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and worked at Tufts in the same capacity for the three years before that. It is very satisfying work because it is flexible and one-on-one.” And she anticipates teaching a course soon for the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, where she has been taking courses. Don McNemar writes, “I am teaching full time in the global studies department at Bentley University, the international business university in Waltham [Mass.]. My courses this fall include international relations, international organizations, and the United Nations.” In the spring, Don was awarded a prize as the faculty’s “outstanding advisor/mentor.” Britta McNemar,

in memoriam FACULTY EMERITI

Camden, Maine, but moved to the West Coast in 2007 to be near his family. One of his greatest contributions, said his daughter, Elizabeth ’87, was the daily mentorship he provided as a grandfather to her son, Kai. His wife, partner, and helpmate, Katie, passed away in 2003. In addition to daughter Elizabeth and her son, he is survived by a son, Jonathan ’85. Donations in Mr. Crawford’s memory may be made to the Children’s Book Fund of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, c/o Phillips Academy.

Robert L. Crawford Portland, Ore.; Oct. 22, 2014

Former Phillips Academy history instructor Robert “Robin” Crawford died after a brief battle with leukemia. He was 76. Mr. Crawford’s 34-year teaching career at Andover—indeed, his entire life—was multifaceted. When he joined the faculty in 1971, he was hired as dean and director of admission for Summer Session and as an instructor in history and social science in PA’s regular session. When he joined Marion Finbury as codirector of the College Counseling Office during the merger in 1973 (he later became director), they set to work “building almost everything from scratch,” recalled Ms. Finbury 30 years later. A house counselor in four student residences, he also served as faculty advisor to the Philomathean Society, the oldest secondary school debate union in the United States. “Robin breathed new life into the society,” wrote English instructor emeritus Meredith Price in Mr. Crawford’s Andover Bulletin retirement piece. “Interest grew. An annual Andover Invitational Tournament, attended by students from 14 schools, was born.” In 2001, he was awarded the Class of 1946 Teaching Chair. He served as honorary associate at the Parish of the Good Shepherd in Waban, Mass. After earning a BA degree at Northwestern University, he was commissioned in the U.S. Navy as a supply officer on a destroyer from 1960 to 1963. He enrolled in the General Theological Seminary in New York, earning a degree in theology in 1966. He was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church and for the next three years served as assistant chaplain and teacher of the Bible and theology at St. George’s School in Newport, R.I. In yet another turn in his life, he enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania and earned an MA degree in history in 1971 prior to being hired at Andover. “There is history, and there is history with Crawford,” remarked colleague Vic Henningsen ’69 upon Mr. Crawford’s retirement in 2003, adding, “Few teachers challenge students as fiercely and effectively. Few teachers inspire such enthusiasm, such loyalty.” After retirement, Mr. Crawford settled in

Hale Sturges II Boston, Mass.; Oct. 14, 2014

Hale Sturges’s vocation was laid out before him, even as a young child. The son of a Milton Academy French teacher, he grew up immersed in the French language and culture, eventually developing a lifelong devotion to France and teaching. He passed away after a 15-month struggle with appendiceal cancer. He was 75. After earning a BA degree from Harvard University in 1960, he began his career at Middlesex School as a French and Latin teacher, a hockey and baseball coach, and a dormitory master. He received a master’s degree from Middlebury College in 1965. Next came Andover, where he served as chair of both the French department and the Foreign Language Division and was a varsity baseball coach and house counselor for 22 years. He held the Beinecke Foundation Faculty Chair for 21 years and served as vice president and president of the Cum Laude Society. Under his leadership as language division chair, Andover’s groundbreaking Chinese program expanded and a student-exchange program was begun with the Harbin Institute of Technology. In the 1990s, he organized alumni and faculty trips to China, and the Headmaster’s Symposium on China, led by Mr. Sturges, was a resounding success. Together with his colleague Lynn Herbst, Mr. Sturges wrote three French textbooks, Une Fois Pour Toutes (with Linda Cregg ’67), Encore Une Fois, and Par Tout le Monde Francophone. He also wrote a sociological study, The People of Pleure: Portrait of a French Village. Mr. Sturges served as president of the board of the American Memorial Hospital, in Reims, France, and was its director from 1993 to 2014. He also was

a board member of Mother Caroline Academy in Dorchester, Mass., for two terms. In a testament to Mr. Sturges’s passion for teaching, a former student once said: “It would be impossible to fall asleep in his class. He leaps around the room, passionately shouting out the text or acting out a scene, fiercely scribbling on the board and pouring so much contagious enthusiasm and excitement into the discussion that you can’t help but hang on every word.” (See Tales Out of School, page 122.) After his retirement in 2004, he continued to teach and share his love of the French language and literature through Beacon Hill Seminars, where he also served as vice president of the board and a member of the curriculum committee. A volunteer teacher of English as a Second Language to recent immigrants, he also recorded audio books for struggling readers every week at the Learning Ally in Boston. He lovingly shared his passion for baseball and the Boston Red Sox with his grandchildren. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Karen; daughters Meg McDermott ’83 and Annie Gatewood ’87; five grandchildren; and a brother, Sheldon Sturges. Donations in Mr. Sturges’s memory may be made to the Hale Sturges Scholarship Fund, c/o Phillips Academy.

ABBOT AND PHILLIPS 1924 Roy E. Slagle Morristown, N.J.; June 12, 2009 1928 Jean Joyce Washington, D.C.; July 11, 2012 1935 Charles B. Swartwood Elmira, N.Y.; Nov. 21, 2013 1936 William A. MacIntyre Jr. Port Charlotte, Fla.; April 6, 2014 1938 Lloyd W. Peelle Penn Yan, N.Y.; July 31, 2014 1939 Carolyn Fisher Cadman Lakeville, Conn.; Aug. 27, 2014

Charles M. Donovan Pottstown, Pa.; Aug. 30, 2014 Charles Donovan had strong connections to Andover from birth. His father, former major league baseball player and manager Patrick Donovan, had coached Andover baseball since 1919. Charles’s graduation coincided with his father’s retirement from the Academy. Andover | Winter 2015

119

In the midst of World War II, Charles and his Dartmouth College class of 1943 graduated early— on December 7, 1942—to join the war effort. After earning his Naval Aviator wings in Florida, Charles became an instrument-training instructor at Naval Air Station Atlanta. There, he met Ruth Bragdon, who would become his wife of 65 years. After the war, Charles earned a master’s degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and became an instructor at The Hill School in Potts town. He later began a career in business and, for more than 40 years, was the principal of Charles Donovan Associates, which provided transportation and logistics consulting to companies across the country. Charles served on many corporate boards, including that of Pottstown Memorial Hospital; its boardroom is named in his honor. He loved to write and speak publicly and used his considerable skills to promote, advise, exhort, and encourage others. His articles and commentary were printed in Barron’s, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Predeceased by his wife, Charles is survived by his children, Michael Hall and Mary Donovan; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. —The Donovan Family [Editor’s note: A remembrance written by Mr. Donovan for Andover magazine’s fall 2011 World War II issue can be read at http://bit. ly/1yXWQg3.]

1940 Arthur L. Eno Jr. Westford, Mass.; Aug. 6, 2014 1941 David G. Carter New Haven, Conn.; Aug. 21, 2014

Charles W. Gardner Fairfield, Conn.; July 9, 2013 Harvey M. Kelsey Jr. Rye, N.Y.; July 30, 2014 “The fastest schoolboy” was the much-deserved superlative earned by Harvey Kelsey in the 1940s. As captain of Andover’s track team in 1941, he ran the 100-yard dash in a blazing 9.5 seconds—at a time when the world record was 9.4 seconds. That same day, he set a second school record, running the 220-yard dash in just 21.1 seconds (those two school records still stand today). Harvey placed first in the New England Interscholastic sprints later that season. In 2010, he was inducted into the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor. Harvey enrolled at Princeton in September 1941. College was interrupted by the war. Following basic training at Fort Bragg, he attended Artillery Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill and then was sent to Europe to join the 1st U.S. Infantry Division. During the war years he occasionally was able to run competitively. He won competitions in the Penn Relay Sprints, the IC4A, and at the mini Olympics in Bordeaux, France, where he

120

Andover | Winter 2015

was charged with coaching the U.S. Third Army track team. In 1947, he married Anne Talcott and, that same year, enrolled in Harvard Business School. He subsequently worked for James Talcott, Inc., in New York, rising to the position of company president. He went on to hold a partnership position at Johnson & Higgins, working as the firm’s CFO until retiring in 1985. Harvey served on the boards of the Miriam Osborn Home, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, and Burke Medical Research Institute, where a research library was dedicated in his honor after 25 years of service. Harvey loved all out-of-doors activities and instilled that love in his wife and kids. Predeceased by Anne, his wife of 61 years, he is survived by his children, Harvey ’67, Jim ’69, Peter ’71, Karen, and Peg; 14 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. —The Kelsey Family

1942 Richard M. Holsten Jr. Burr Ridge, Ill.; Sept. 20, 2014

Lane McGovern Winchester, Mass.; July 31, 2014 Rose Wind Stone Plymouth, Mass.; Sept. 16, 2014 Rose Wind Stone credited Abbot Academy’s demanding curriculum with instilling good study habits. She was song leader of the Griffins and enjoyed dance class and social events with the boys up the hill at Phillips Academy. As a social worker with the Whitman, Mass., school system for 16 years, she helped countless children and their families through difficult times. Predeceased by her husband, James Stone, and daughter Patricia, she is survived by daughter Ellen Goodman and sons William and Bradford; three grandchildren; and her sisters, Martha Finger and Gitty Wind Scheft ’40. —The Stone Family

1943 David F. Dorn Denver, Colo.; Sept. 25, 2014 1944 C. Wesley Kittleman Jr. McAllen, Texas; Aug. 31, 2014 1945 Joan Holdsworth Maxwell San Marco, Calif.; Oct. 22, 2014 1946 James W. Brydon Pittsboro, N.C.; Oct. 2, 2014

Donald M. Landis White Plains, N.Y.; Aug. 24, 2014 Ann Hellweg Warren Exeter, N.H.; Sept. 16, 2014

1948 Mary Farrar Bonotto Princeton, N.J.; Aug. 28, 2014

Ellen F. Dignan Danvers, Mass.; Oct. 3, 2014 Helen Taylor Dodd Middletown, N.Y.; Feb. 28, 2014 William H. Fenn Blue Hill, Maine; Aug. 21, 2014 William G. Freeman Jr. New Canaan, Conn.; July 26, 2014 Mose Smith III Little Rock, Ark.; Aug. 19, 2014 1949 Anne Mansfield Borah New York, N.Y. 1950 Richard Eder Boston, Mass.; Nov. 21, 2014 After graduating from Harvard, Dick Eder became a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. He wrote numerous stories about conflicts in Latin America and Europe and interviewed Fidel Castro in Havana in 1964. In the late 1970s, back in New York, Dick became a film critic for the Times and, from 1977 to 1979, the newspaper’s chief drama critic. He pulled no punches in his play reviews, resisted editorial pressures to soften them, and soon was sent back overseas to be Paris bureau chief. Dick left the New York Times in 1982 to write book reviews—incisive and often laced with striking imagery—for the Los Angeles Times. He was awarded a 1986 citation from the National Book Critics Circle for excellence in book reviewing and the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. In recent years, he reviewed books for the New York Times, New York Review of Books, and Boston Globe. Despite being stricken with polio at age 14 in Buenos Aires, Dick came to Andover for his upper and senior years. He was consistently a top scholar in his class and played a memorable Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1. According to Dick’s wife, Esther—an artist whom he had met in Argentina when he was 10— Dick died of pneumonia resulting from post-polio syndrome. He is also survived by seven children, including James ’87; eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and three siblings, including Elizabeth McCulloch ’65. —Eric Wentworth ’50

Thomas L. Finkelstein Sellersville, Pa.; Feb. 12, 2009 Guillermo E. Gonzalez Jr. San Juan, P.R.; Sept. 23, 2014 Guillermo “Billy” Gonzalez graduated from Prince ton, served in the U.S. Navy, and pursued an extensive career in the transportation field. Billy worked at Caribe Motors, the family business in Puerto Rico, following his father’s early death. He then joined James Ryder, founder of Ryder Transportation, to work for the major truckleasing enterprise. When based in New Orleans, Billy was responsible for upgrading and integrating numerous trucking and transportation companies that Ryder was acquiring throughout the South. He returned to Puerto Rico to build a Ryder fleet of more than 1,500 trucks and tractors on the island. After Ryder, Billy joined Leaseway Transportation to establish and expand its Puerto Rican operations and later undertook several other transportation ventures. Billy died of pneumonia after years of contending with melanoma and then Alzheimer’s. He is survived by his wife, Teresita; children Guillermo E. Gonzalez III, Maritere, Tomas, Miguel, and Margarita; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his sister Carlotita ’49. —Eric Wentworth ’50

Walter L. Jones Christ Church, New Zealand; Jan. 1, 2011 Robert C. Todd Jr. Fox Chapel, Pa.; Sept. 15, 2014 Bob Todd died of cardiac arrest just a few months after being diagnosed with acute leukemia. He was 82. After graduating from Yale, Bob served as an officer in the U.S. Navy and later graduated from Harvard Business School. He returned to Pittsburgh and worked for 28 years at what is known today as PNC Bank, departing in 1987 as senior vice president. He then became president of Merchants National Bank and later of Farmers National Bank, both in Kittanning, northeast of Pittsburgh. Bob served on the boards of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Chatham University for more than 20 years. He was chair of the board of Harmarville Rehabilitation Center and was a member of the governing bodies of several local organizations, including Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church. He is survived by Barbara, his wife of 56 years; daughters Lisa and Barrie; sons David and Jeffrey; and six grandchildren. —Eric Wentworth ’50

1953 Albert W. Pearsall III Spring, Texas; Aug. 13, 2014

1982 Walter R. Devine Berryville, Va.; Oct. 25, 2014

1954 George M. Beasley III Salem, Va.; July 25, 2014

1991 Joseph M. Kamenar McKees Rocks, Pa.; Sept. 4, 2014

1955 Peter G. Briggs Gloucester, Mass.; July 25, 2014

1992 Jonathan J. Fisher May 16, 2014

1956 John T. Cook III La Grange, Texas; Dec. 9, 2013 1957 Arnold T. Burke Concord, N.H.; Sept. 19, 2014 1963 Thomas A. Rill Lafayette, N.Y.; Aug. 16, 2013 1964 N. Barton Loomis Covington, La.; Oct. 26, 2014

MEMBER OF THE PA COMMUNITY Lisa C. DiLiegro—A resident of Lawrence, Mass., Lisa DiLiegro died unexpectedly on November 10, 2014. She was 47. Lisa began working for Phillips Academy in the comptroller’s office in 2001. Most recently, she assisted the information services team in the Office of Academy Resources.

“It comes as a terrible shock to know that Lisa has left us so suddenly,” wrote Head of School John Palfrey in an e-mail to faculty and staff. “She was one of PA’s most dedicated, upbeat, thoughtful, kind, and positive employees.” Lisa will be greatly missed by her PA colleagues and friends.

1965 Daniel J. Turbeville Ojai, Calif.; Sept. 13, 2013 1970 Richard B. Tweedy Jr. Boston, Mass.; Nov. 4, 2014 Richard Burr Tweedy Jr., known as “Burr,” died after a three-year battle with lung cancer. He was 62. Born on April 21, 1952, in Stamford, Conn., he was the son of the late Richard and Louise Tweedy. He attended Darien schools and Phillips Academy before graduating from Yale in 1974. He graduated from the Boston University School of Law in 1978 and worked for most of his career in Boston as a staff attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Before becoming a staff attorney, he clerked for Judge David Nelson, the first African American to be appointed a judge to the U.S. District Court for the district of Massachusetts. He also clerked for Judge Stephen Breyer, who went on to become an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Tweedy is survived by his brothers, David and Jim, and extended family. He was predeceased by his brother Jon ’75. —The Tweedy Family

In Memoriam Protocol Please notify Alumni Records at alumni-records@andover.edu about an alumna/us death. Andover welcomes obituaries written by family members or classmates. Submissions should be no longer than 150 words and will be edited. Please e-mail questions or submissions to Jill Clerkin at jclerkin@andover.edu or call 978-749-4295.

Andover | Winter 2015

121

Tales out of school

French Existentialism and the Theatre of the Absurd by Juliet S. Sorensen ’91 We weren’t walking like animals with horns. “Rappelez-vous, vous êtes des rhinocéros!” exhorted Mr. Sturges, swinging his own head ponderously back and forth in the approximation of a rhino’s. And so we moved, on all fours in a chilly classroom in Sam Phil, trying for all the world to embody the humans in Eugène Ionesco’s play who find themselves transformed into prehistoric animals. Back in our seats, having resumed our student forms, we had a new appreciation for Rhinocéros, a play about conformity and existentialism in the context of the absurd. Hale Sturges didn’t just teach French literature; he lived it. He sat on his desk; he paced around the room; he jumped up and down, his corduroy blazer flapping. He believed that the oral tradition was essential to understand literature, so we took turns reading Camus’ The Stranger aloud to better appreciate the alienation of the protagonist, Meursault.

Thanks in part to the tutelage of Hale Sturges, Juliet Sorensen ’91 (second from left) spoke in French with her American and Malian colleagues on a recent work-related trip to West Africa.

A class was not a monolith to Mr. Sturges. Rather, students were individuals whom he evaluated, coached, and supported in their pursuit of mastering French language and culture. On one occasion, we were tasked with independent research and an oral presentation on one aspect of the art history of France. Decades before PowerPoint, daunted by the prospect of an audiovisual presentation, I managed a few clumsy slides on the Impressionists. After class, Mr. Sturges gestured for me to stay behind. He told me gently that my presentation had been mediocre. He went on to say that he was taking the time to speak with me about it because he knew that I was capable

Mr. Sturges in action, 1985

of much more. I squirmed and fought back tears of embarrassment during his critique; I knew he was right. French has enhanced my life in ways I barely imagined in high school. I’ve studied and worked in France, Morocco, Benin, and Mali, the language opening doors that otherwise would be impenetrable by an American. I’ve always been grateful to Mr. Sturges for giving me the confidence and the desire to immerse myself in France’s language, literature, and culture. When I read the call for submissions to Tales Out of School asking for reflections on especially innovative teachers, I thought immediately of Mr. Sturges. I was stunned and saddened to learn that he had passed away just a few weeks before. But his legacy endures. Next year, my own children will have the opportunity to experience French language and culture firsthand when we live in Paris while I spend a month as a visiting scholar at Sciences Po. Thanks to Mr. Sturges, I can’t wait to play rhinoceros with them. Juliet Sorensen ’91 is a clinical associate professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law’s Center for International Human Rights, where she teaches international criminal law and health and human rights.

[Editor’s note: Hale Sturges passed away on October 14, 2014. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.] 122

Andover | Winter 2015

Creativity & Innovation This pillar of Andover’s strategic plan, Connecting Our Strengths: The Andover Endeavor, seeks to implement new ideas in teaching and learning informed by the global dialogue on education. By “Learning in the World,” Andover students engage as global citizens, consider their obligations to others, and embrace difference.

“Experiencing places in real life gives them an importance, relevance, and emotional relatability that is almost impossible to reach from looking at photographs or reading descriptions.”

PIETTE—France Students visit a variety of historical sites—including Omaha Beach and prehistoric caves—to gain new perspective on human history.

—Camille Price ’15

NISWARTH—India Students discern human connections among dissimilar people, learn how to serve with humility and compassion, and, with faculty guidance, develop a worldview.

“This is the first time that I’ve started to think that maybe it’s about doing something because you believe in the good of your actions— not in the promise and satisfaction of the results.” —Arzu Singh ’16

BASK in ASK—China With their Chinese peers, students engage in a multidisciplinary study of water quantity, quality, and use in China, the United States, and throughout the world.

“It’s really eye-opening to consider how insignificant humanity is in the universe, then consider how much life is in such a small amount of water.” —Alex Cao ’16

Your gift to the Andover Fund helps off-campus learning programs and other exciting initiatives continue to flourish!

Please make your 2014–2015 gift today. Online: giving.andover.edu By phone: 978-749-4247 By mail: Office of Academy Resources Phillips Academy 180 Main St. Andover MA 01810-4161

Thank you!

Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts 01810-4161

Periodicals postage paid at Andover MA and additional mailing offices

Households that receive more than one Andover magazine are encouraged to call 978-749-4267 to discontinue extra copies.

Fueling the Tang Institute A $5 million commitment from Board President Peter Currie ’74 will further propel the Tang Institute at Andover; the majority of his gift will endow the Institute’s leadership under the Currie Family Directorship. Currie joins Oscar Tang ’56, trustee emeritus and former board president, whose gift to endow the Institute was announced in October. Their generosity, combined with additional support, brings funding for the endeavor to more than $20 million. (See page 22 for more.)

A Hub for Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning