Andover Magazine: Fall 2014

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Built on the notion of learning by doing‌

Learning in the World

Connected Learning

Innovation in Partnerships

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Photos by Vivian Liu ’15, Molly Magnell ’14, Jack McGovern ’15, and Therese Zemlin, instructor and chair of the art department

“Gratitude and Loyalty”

Abbot’s Alvarez ’67 Does Andover Proud South Africa & Arts

In addition to performing at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in Cape Town, the group engaged with various organizations, learned of the country’s rich history, and explored the concept of fusion in culture and the arts. Former associate head of school Becky Sykes hosted an event for the group at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, during which students from both schools enjoyed mingling and “Rhythms of Hope” was enthusiastically received.

To learn more about PA’s South Africa & Arts program, visit bit.ly/1uivKOc.

“Abbot Academy really was an Alma Mater—mother of my American soul! My teachers, particularly dear Ruth Stevenson, as well as Jean St. Pierre, were critical in helping me ‘cross over’ into my calling as a writer. As a young Dominican girl, I never imagined I could become a writer, no less in my second language, English.

“Over four decades later, after reconnecting with my former Abbot classmates, I would add that in addition to my excellent teachers, these young women were critical too—they taught me about a new kind of community, not based on familia or blood connections, but on friendship, shared intellectual interests, passionate conversation, and heartfelt connection.”

Alvarez, a noted essayist and poet as well, has written about her time at Abbot. This passage is from her poem titled “Abbot Academy”: “Ay Dios,” I begged, “help me survive this place.”

And for the first time in America, He listened: the next day for English class I was assigned to Miss Ruth Stevenson who closed the classroom door and said, “Ladies, let’s have ourselves a hell of a good time!”

And we did, reading Austen, Dickinson, Eliot, Woolf, until we understood we’d come to train—not tame—the wild girls into the women who would run the world.

—from The Woman I Kept to Myself

Alvarez has been a member of the Samuel Phillips & Sarah Abbot Society since 2008. What prompted her to remember the Academy in her planning?

“I want to provide these kinds of experiences and opportunities to other girls, particularly ones who Photographer?

Jocelyn Augustino (Courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts)

Twenty-seven students and four faculty members from the departments of art, theatre and dance, and music journeyed to South Africa this summer with their production of “Rhythms of Hope,” a multidisciplinary performance that examined the topics of identity, adversity, oppression, and hope.

On July 28, 2014, novelist Julia Alvarez ’67 received the National Medal of Arts, the country’s highest honor for artists and writers, from President Barack Obama. Alvarez has written 16 books for adults and children, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. She recently reflected on her three years at Abbot Academy:

might not otherwise be able to avail themselves of them,” said Alvarez. “Abbot is still a valuable part of the Andover root system. The main reason for me to remember PA is Abbot Academy—that’s where the seeds of my gratitude and loyalty lie. How can I not water that soil that helped me flourish?”

To learn more about how you can join the Samuel Phillips & Sarah Abbot Society, contact David Flash, director of Gift Planning, at 978-749-4297 or dflash@andover.edu.

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22 Connecting Our Strengths

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Introducing Phillips Academy’s new Strategic Plan

6 From the Head of School 7 Dateline Andover

26 Learning in the World

14 Connected Learning

Exploring the places around the globe where our students learn

16 Sports Talk 18 On Course

27 Niswarth in India

20 Philanthropy Highlights

Connecting, discovering, developing a worldview

46 From the Archives

34 France: A Journey Back in Time

48 Connection

Gaining new perspective on human history

54 Andover Bookshelf 56 Class Notes

42 Russia: In Her Own Words

127 In Memoriam

Maddie Murphy ’16 travels 4,139 miles from her comfort zone

130 Tales Out of School CLOSE-UPS 67 Kit Smith ’52

Still running after all these years

115 Sally Manikian ’00

Going to the dogs

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FROM THE EDITOR FALL 2014 Volume 108 Number 1 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 Dave Arnold ’67, Lou Bernieri, Audrey Doyle, Amy Morris, Maddie Murphy ’16, Caroline Nolan, Stephen Porter, Adam Roberts PHOTOGRAPHERS Jocelyn Augustino, Emily Braile, Jill Clerkin, Claire Glover ’16, John Hurley, Jamie Kaplowitz, Vivian Liu ’15, Molly Magnell ’14, Michael Malyszko, Jack McGovern ’15, Thaís Alves Mói, Aya Murata, Maddie Murphy ’16, Stephen Porter, Gil Talbot, Bethany Versoy, Therese Zemlin © 2014 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

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This year, for the first time ever, my family and I planted a garden. Back in the spring, my husband built a single raised bed, and my 6-year-old daughter and I planted seeds for carrots, lettuce, peas, and beans. Although lots of folks shared stories about their failed attempts to grow pumpkins, we also planted pumpkin seeds. And because my enthusiastic daughter eschewed the directions on the seed packs and (as always) did her own thing, I wasn’t surprised when more than a dozen pumpkin vines took over the garden and crept into the yard. Throughout the summer, we enjoyed munching on homegrown veggies, and we now have seven healthy pumpkins on the vine, four already a deep orange.

As you’ll see in the pages that follow, it’s been a fruitful year at PA, too.

All the sweat, inspiration, intellect, and vision that went into creating our Strategic Plan paid off in big ways (see page 22), and, on October 17, we officially launched the Andover Institute (see back cover). With the next issue (winter 2015), Andover magazine will begin a series of explorations of the three sets of priorities set forth in the Strategic Plan: creativity and innovation, equity and inclusion, and empathy and balance. It’s going to be an exciting year!

Another first? This year, members of the communications team traveled with two of PA’s Learning in the World programs to experience firsthand and share with you why and how these programs are such vital parts of our students’ education. Jill Clerkin traveled with Niswarth to India (see page 27), and Steve Porter traveled with Piette to France (see page 34). In addition, Maddie Murphy ’16 shares the blog she wrote while in Russia with the Russian Language program (see page 42).

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Cover: The hands of students participating in Andover’s Niswarth program in India were painted with henna by members of a rural community in Gujarat (see page 27).

Photo by Claire Glover ’16

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Dear Editor,

Dear Editor,

Kudos to John Kluge [’01] and Janine Ko [’14] for their efforts to provide the planet’s remaining 2.5 billion people with sanitary indoor toilets (see spring issue, page 44). The recent rape and murder in India of two teenage girls who had no alternative to visiting the fields after dark highlights unexpected consequences of this deficit.

As a former editor of the Andover Bulletin, I marvel at the attractiveness and overall excellence of each current issue. Here are two recollections of conversations between me and two of my female students at PA:

In 1969–71, when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal, outdoor defecation was the norm in the countryside and even urban areas. Public health consequences were predictable. We volunteers spent the first six months or more enduring a series of gastrointestinal upsets as we encountered new intestinal flora and viruses despite all precautions.

Monsoon onset was the worst time, when nine months’ accumulation of filth washed into unprotected water sources. This is when the student who cooked for me caught typhoid and barely survived.

Infants and toddlers also ran the same gauntlet and fared worse. According to U.N. statistics from that era, countrywide 17 percent were not surviving to age five, but it may have been substantially worse in my isolated hill district. For some 100,000 population, we had one health post manned by a practitioner with a two-year degree. I vividly remember my next-door neighbor losing her first child to an intestinal upset that an adult probably would have taken in stride. The older woman who maternally watched over me had two surviving children from four or five live births.

Lately in my online attempts to keep up with local news, I am delighted to read that my district now has toilets in 18 percent of its households and has committed to reaching 100 percent by 2017. Of all the wonders of technology that have arrived in the past decades or are yet to come, few can have more impact!

—David Mason ’64 Culver City, California

Before the merger with Abbot, the two schools shared what was called “coordinate education”— Abbot girls could enroll in some PA classes, boys in a few offered by Abbot. The brightest student in my upper-level English class section that first fall was an Abbot girl. A few weeks into the term she asked if we might meet after class. Here is a fairly accurate recollection of what we said:

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

“Hi, Nancy. What can I do for you?”

“Stop treating me like a girl.”

“What do you mean?”

“You call on me more often than the boys. You look surprised when I give a good answer. I want you to stop it.”

So I did.

After the merger, a good many students spent considerable time fraying their blue jeans in the knees and, occasionally, below the waist. A girl in one of my classes had perfected—in her view—the decorative skill of fraying to the point at which a bit of underwear peeked out. So I asked her to talk a bit in my study. Our conversation/monologue: “You know, we pride ourselves at not requiring formal attire—just look neat and clean. I have to tell you that I just do not find your blue jeans either neat or clean.”

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Stumped! No winners of the spring 2014 Macro Mystery!

She got up, gave me a look, and left my study.

For the next two weeks of classes, she wore a black cocktail dress, pearls, black stockings, and high heels.

Neither of us said a word about her clothing. The blue jeans were then back, with new holes but unfrayed below the belt.

Hiring Ted Sizer, who would be our headmaster only if coeducation occurred, and the liberating effects women faculty and students brought, changed PA from a gruff, navel-staring place to a school that Ted Sizer had in mind as he chose the title of his book on public schools, Places for Learning, Places for Joy, strike this old coot as the best things that happened.

—Meredith Price, Faculty Emeritus Gloucester, Massachusetts

ERRATA Spring 2014 On page 3, we accidentally moved Cooley House from Route 28 to Route 128. On page 9, we missed a t in Tamara Elliott Rogers ’70’s name, but we’ve got it right this time. On page 52, Lisa Joel was misidentified as being a member of the Class of 1988, and on page 77, we misidentified writer David Treadwell as being a member of the Class of 1959.

The enigmatic ceiling medallion pictured in the spring issue is located in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library’s Freeman Room.

Part of the library’s original 1929 structure, the room is named for Archibald Freeman, instructor in history from 1892 to 1937, first faculty chair of the athletics department in 1893, and a captain in the American Red Cross on the Balkan front during World War I.

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.

Jill Clerkin

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Indian students at a government-run elementary school near Ahmedabad, Gujarat, gather to hear Niswarth students and their peers from The Riverside School sing an original song—in Hindi—about Andover | Fall 2014 5 the importance of hand washing.

Dave White

From the Head of School As I enter my third year as head of school, I’ve come to cherish the many campus traditions that make Andover so incredibly special. They come fast and furious and

This is our community classroom. It is one of the essential places on campus where, together, we sow the seeds of admirable character.

We were welcomed by copresidents Rebecca Somer ’15 and David Gutierrez ’15, who set a beautiful tone for the year. My favorite line was Rebecca’s take on reflection: “Write

Finis Origine Pendet continue throughout the school year: spirited pep rallies and A-E Weekend (yes, I am now conditioned to put the “A” first), backyard events in the Phelps House garden, Faculty Convocation, Head of School Day, Non Sibi Weekend, candles at Baccalaureate, the diploma circle and longstemmed roses at Commencement.

Each September, I am reminded how special this classroom truly is. When the bells call us to All-School Meeting for the first time, it brings to mind all the promise of a new year ahead. We have much to look forward to this academic year: a new Strategic Plan, the newly launched Andover Institute, innovative programming for students and faculty, and a wellness center on the horizon.

Week to week, my favorite tradition is AllSchool Meeting, held in Cochran Chapel. It is a magical time, when we gather the entire But for 40 minutes on September 10, none community together and celebrate our of that was top of mind. Instead, I marveled founding values through guest speakers, at the tradition unfolding before me. performances, lectures, and much more.

I was moved by the sight of our interWhether it’s Hafsat Abiola ’92 sharing national students holding the flags of their her life’s work as an advocate for Nigerian home nations—a vibrant representation women, Chris Hughes ’02 challenging of youth from every quarter. I had the great us to seek fulfillment and achievement, privilege of leading the faculty procession NPR reporter Maria Hinojosa offering alongside two of our longest serving the keynote address on MLK Jr. Day, or colleagues. Congratulations Tom Cone Andover students sharing their Means (49 years) and Kathy Dalton (34 years)!

Essay Declamations or musical talents, we Seniors declared their leader-ship status are blessed to have such a glorious space in with deafening cheers, a funky new hand which to celebrate, reflect, debate, and learn. signal, and matching T-shirts.

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poetry in the middle of the Sanctuary— and use bug spray!” I was honored to get a glimpse into the lives of new students Tas Yusoontorn ’15 from Thailand and Malika Dia ’17 from Burkina Faso. Both were incredibly poised and gracious as they shared first impressions of Andover with the faculty and more than 1,100 new friends.

I am certain that the experience of the first All-School Meeting in Cochran Chapel each fall will always carry special meaning at Phillips Academy. Here’s to our invigorating September tradition.

Finis Origine Pendet.

John Palfrey

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New Alumni Trustees Elected

is the founder and principal of the Boston consultancy Advancement Advisers and a director of the Abbot Academy Association. Picott holds degrees from Trinity College and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She lives in Concord, Mass., with her husband and three stepchildren.

Peter T. Hetzler ’72 is a reconstructive surgeon specializing in the treatment of breast cancer, melanoma, and traumatic injuries. Prior to entering private practice in 1989, he studied at Stanford University and the University of Michigan and then completed his training in general surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and microsurgical reconstruction.

In the early 1990s, Hetzler volunteered as an Andover Alumni Admissions Representative, a role he still holds today. He joined the Alumni Council in 2002 and helped develop its mentoring program. As Alumni Council president from 2006 to 2009, he led a strategic planning process that refocused and revitalized the council. In 2012, he received Andover’s Distinguished Service Award. Hetzler

Michael Malyszko

At the Annual Meeting of the AndoverAbbot Alumni Association held during Reunion Weekend in June, two new alumni trustees were elected to twoyear terms, beginning July 1, 2014.

Allison E. Picott ’88 has been helping alumni engage with Andover and one another since 1992. Her record of service includes class secretary, class reunion chair, class agent, cochair of the Alumni Council Multicultural Committee and member of its Executive Committee, and copresident of the Andover-Abbot Alumni Association of New England.

In 1999, she became the youngest person ever to receive Andover’s Distinguished Service Award.

Before returning to Andover for a stint as a leadership gifts officer, Picott worked in law. She currently

lives in Rumson, N.J., with his wife and two children.

As mentioned in the spring 2014 Andover magazine, Abbot alumna Tamara Elliott Rogers ’70 became Andover’s newest charter member of the Board of Trustees, effective July 1.

—Audrey Doyle

2014 State of the Academy Range of topics emerges during live webcast

Bethany Versoy

“We are restless…in the best sense of the word,” said Head of School John Palfrey. “We have a strong place to begin, but are looking for those areas where Andover can continue to lead for the 21st century.” Palfrey and Peter Currie ’74 (far left), president of the Board of Trustees, shared the stage for the 2014 State of the Academy address during Reunion Weekend. The cohosts tag-teamed to answer 20-plus questions from the Cochran Chapel audience and those engaging on Twitter using the hashtag #askjpalfrey. The video, available at www.youtube.com/phillipsandover, has garnered nearly 1,400 views.

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Three to Receive Andover Alumni Award of Distinction

New IRT Board Chair Julia Lloyd Johannsen ’96 was named the new chair of the IRT Advisory Board in July. “We are delighted to have Julia working with us in this new capacity,” said IRT Executive Director Asabe Poloma. “As a PA alumna, former teacher, professional counselor, and self-described lifelong learner, Julia embodies IRT’s core values of educational excellence and public service. She has been a strong advocate for important issues of access, equity, and the need for greater diversity in America systems of education.”

On November 4, 2014, the Alumni Council will host a dinner to honor the recipients of the third annual Andover Alumni Award of Distinction (AAAD). Awards will officially be presented the following day at All-School Meeting.

Clemency Chase Coggins ’51

Susan Goodwillie Stedman ’59

Award-Winning International Journalist During his nearly 50-year career with the New York Times, John Darnton won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and was a two-time winner of the George Polk Award, of which he is now curator. In addition to his outstanding work as a journalist, Darnton is a best-selling author whose works include nonfiction, as well as fiction with scientific and historical narratives.

Art Historian, Maya Scholar, and Author Through numerous publications and lectures, Clemency Chase Coggins has researched and raised awareness about the illicit trade in antiquities and the importance of safeguarding cultural property. Coggins worked with congressional committees on the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act and was appointed

by President Reagan to the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee.

Civil Rights Advocate and Author As part of “Wednesdays in Mississippi,” Susan Goodwillie Stedman helped build bridges of understanding across racial and class lines between the North and South and within the southern community during the tumultuous 1964 Freedom Summer. She also served at the U.N., the Ford Foundation, and Refugees International, and led the Goodwillie Group, providing advisory services to USAID, the U.N., and various NGOs.

Gil Talbot

John T. Darnton ’60

The AAAD recognizes and honors alumni of Phillips Academy or Abbot Academy who have served with distinction in their fields of endeavor and whose accomplishments and contributions embody the values of their alma mater.

Alumni are invited to submit nominations for future consideration to the Office of Alumni Engagement at www.andover.edu/forms/aaawardofdistinction.

Sustainability in Brazil

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Thaís Alves Mói

Alyssa Augustin ’15 (left) and Jefferson Adorno, owner of Retiro Santo Antônio, a certified sustainable coffee farm in Espírito Santo do Pinhal, São Paulo, Brazil, work together to plant a tree.

To obtain certification of sustainability, Adorno needed to reforest much of his farm, especially areas near a stream, where cows from the former cattle ranch once drank. Stringent certification rules require a 30-meter forested buffer zone between water sources and coffee plants. Students and faculty on the inaugural Brazil: PLACES trip in August helped Adorno plant dozens of trees. To learn more about Brazil PLACES, visit bit.ly/1uivKOc.

Since joining the IRT Advisory Board in 2008, Johannsen has served on its Executive Committee and chaired both the IRT Advisory Board Recruitment Committee and the program’s 20th Anniversary Celebration Committee. She worked closely with IRT founder and longtime executive director Kelly Wise, former IRT board chair Steve Frank ’81, and Poloma.

“I look forward to helping Asabe continue to implement Kelly Wise’s vision of an educational landscape filled with excellent teachers who reflect the diversity of the students they teach,” said Johannsen.

Two new staff members also recently joined the IRT team. Isabel Geathers is senior associate director and Kate Slater is the program’s new coordinator for admissions.

Kathleen Dalton Featured in Ken Burns Epic

Secretary of Education Reaches Out to ABL Teacher

Kathleen Dalton, Andover’s History and Social Science Instructor on the Cecil F.P. Bancroft Teaching Foundation, was featured in Ken Burns’s seven-part documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, which premiered this fall on PBS. The series documents the lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor.

“She was terrific,” Burns said of working with Dalton. “She was insightful and so helpful in understanding the force of nature that was TR. Her scholarship and kindness to us have been invaluable.”

Dalton is a leading expert on the 26th president. The New York Review of Books declared her 2002 book Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life “by far the best one-volume biography of TR to date.”

Burns’s longtime collaborator, Geoffrey Ward, wrote the film, which also features journalists Evan Thomas ’69 and Jonathan Alter ’75.

“No one who writes about Theodore Roosevelt can do so without consulting Dalton’s careful, clear-eyed, sensitive portrait. No one understands TR better,” said Ward. “She’s an on-camera presence in The Roosevelts series, but, more important from my point of view, her book was never far from my desk when I was working on the script.

As a fellow Roosevelt enthusiast, I can’t wait for her next book on Franklin, Eleanor, and their friends.”

Dalton’s next book, still in development, will tell the story of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and their intimate friendship with Caroline Drayton and William Phillips.

On May 8, assistant track coach Rich Gorham ’86 bowed out of practice for 15 minutes to be part of an important Andover Bread Loaf (ABL) conference call. Or so he thought.

Lou Bernieri, ABL director, met Gorham for the call in a nearby parking lot. When the phone rang, Bernieri handed it directly to Gorham with a sheepish grin.

“Hi, Rich. This is Arne Duncan...”

Each year during Teacher Appreciation Week, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan calls a handful of exceptional teachers to thank them for their hard work—and the calls are always arranged as a surprise. Given Gorham’s dedication, many roles, and impressive accomplishments, it’s really no surprise at all that out of tens of thousands of teachers nationwide, he got a call.

Gorham, associate director of ABL for the past 13 years, has quietly been cobbling together local, national, and international networks of teachers and students to experience and further the program’s mission of inspiring and empowering young writers, developing and supporting teachers, engaging communities, and promoting literacy and educational revitalization.

Through Gorham’s and Bernieri’s efforts, ABL initiatives have enjoyed continual expansion, not only in Lawrence, Mass., the outreach program’s home base, but also in schools and communities as far away as Haiti and South Africa. A longtime Andover wrestling coach, Gorham also serves as chair of the English department of the Lawrence Public High School campus.

—Amy Morris

Gil Talbot

Two hundred twenty Strong For the first time in recent memory, faculty—new and returning—were photographed on the steps of Cochran Chapel just after the annual Faculty Convocation, held this year on September 2.

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Bright Line of Defense

Neil Evans

A simple but innovative new safety feature installed in June will help protect Andover hockey players from head and spinal cord injuries. Forty inches wide and bright “safety orange,” the Look-Up Line acts as a warning track, alerting skaters that they’re close to the boards. Andover’s line is the second in the nation to be installed.

As part of his foundation’s national effort to prevent hockey injuries, former Boston Bulldogs Junior A hockey player Thomas Smith cofounded the Look-Up Line; J. Tucker Mullin ’08, a former PA hockey player, is a contributing founder. Mullin’s commitment to helping his friend and the spinal injury community is a result of witnessing Smith crash into the boards two separate times—both times suffering major spinal injuries.

“Since Andover installed the line, USA Hockey and the NCAA have taken notice and are recommending similar safety features in rinks across the country,” says Ben Ruggles, director of rink operations. “There’s great demand for this. We created a how-to video, and it already has over 25,000 views.” (See justcureparalysis.org/look-up-line/) —Adam Roberts

A UNIQUE GIFT

Emily Braile

At the May 24 dedication of Peter Drench Park at Isham Field, former softball standout Rachel Bain ’98 presented softball coach Peter Drench with a distinctive trophy. The new ballpark name not only honors Drench’s success in growing the softball program during his 26 years as coach, but also recognizes his lead role in raising funds for major improvements to the complex.

The well-attended festivities included a campus barbecue, Blue Key entertainment, a drumline performance, tributes from Athletics Director Mike Kuta and Head of School John Palfrey, and an Exeter double header. Alumni, fans, and players also cheered PA’s 40th year of coeducation and the 40th anniversary of the advent of Title IX. Although Drench retired from his PA history teaching duties in June, he plans to continue coaching softball.

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Asian Arts Festival Turns 25

Aya Murata

Celebrated from mid-April to early May, the 25th Annual Asian Arts Festival included a film screening of Linsanity and talk with director Evan Jackson Leong; the Southeast Asian Fiesta, with performances by a Cambodian and Vietnamese dance troupe and a Filipino Rondalla, followed by a special buffet; and a presentation by Glee star Harry Shum Jr. Festivities culminated with a bazaar and a talent and fashion show in Kemper Auditorium.

Several guest visits, including Shum’s, were made possible by Abbot Academy Association grants.

Leaders and members of the Southeast Asian Club, shown here setting up their booth at the Asian Arts Bazaar, include ( from left) Bach Hoang ’15, Darren Ty ’16, Evelyn Liu ’15, Claire Jacobson ’15, Bianca Navarro-Bowman ’15, and Korrawee “June” Pruegsanusak ’14.

Palfrey Takes a Stand with squares of “campus wood” from trees that once stood near Bulfinch, the library, and Bartlet Hall.

Both desks, made of black walnut, were delivered on September 8.

Uninspired by the metal standing desks offered at most office furniture stores, administrative assistant Belinda Traub contacted master furniture maker Strother Purdy ’85, who, in 2012, crafted numerous tables for Bulfinch Hall (see spring 2013 Andover).

Purdy’s standing desk design is simple but elegant.

He also created a matching traditional desk—inlaid

“I’m deeply grateful to Strother for his exquisite craftsmanship and care,” said Palfrey. “These desks, using wood recovered from our own campus and crafted by one of our own, already feel like a part of the fabric of our history.”

Non Sibi and Youth from Every Quarter are carved into opposite ends of the sitting desk.

Photos by Gil Talbot

Tradition and innovation can even apply to furniture.

Head of School John Palfrey has wanted a standing desk for ages. Not only is it healthier to stand instead of sit, but a standing desk also suits his busy schedule; he can write quick notes or check his devices before heading out the door.

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Fall at the Addison Exterior Spaces, Interior Places September 2, 2014–January 4, 2015 Drawn from the Addison Gallery’s extensive permanent collection, the works in this presentation are grouped into two overarching themes: the exterior and the interior. The interpretation of these themes is literal in the first two galleries, where wonderful 19th- and 20th-century landscape vistas are complemented by equally engaging depictions of interior environments. In the remaining two galleries, the meaning of “interior” and “exterior” becomes more conceptual, as contemporary works that delineate a known reality are contrasted with images from the imaginations of the artists. These juxtapositions explore interesting connections among the rich visual resources of the Addison, eliciting new and unexpected ways of seeing and experiencing art.

Dwight Tryon and American Tonalism September 13, 2014–January 4, 2015 This exhibition brings together seven landscape paintings from the 1880s by the American artist Dwight Tryon (1849–1925) and sets them, alongside works from the Addison’s collection, within the context of Tonalism, an American artistic style of the period 1880–1915. Tonalist works are characterized by subtle gradations of tone within a limited color scale, projecting mood through veiled depictions of light and atmosphere. Dwight Tryon and American Tonalism, curated by independent scholar Keith Kauppila, contributes to the growing scholarly interest in American Tonalism and gives Tryon’s work of this period the closer look it deserves.

Guy Pène du Bois, Girl Tying Her Shoe, 1926, oil on panel, Addison Gallery of American Art, gift of Chester Dale

Generous support for this exhibition has been provided by the Bernard and Louise Palitz Exhibitions Fund.

Lorna Simpson September 20, 2014–January 4, 2015 One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson came to prominence in the mid-1980s through large-scale photographic and textual works that confronted and challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender, history, culture, and memory. Spanning more than 30 years of Simpson’s practice, this comprehensive retrospective traces the artist’s concerns and themes. The exhibition, curated by noted scholar Joan Simon, includes large-scale works incorporating image and text, large multipanel photographs printed on felt from the mid-1990s, a wide range of films and videos, and recent works including Chess, a three-channel video installation that makes its American debut at the Addison.

This exhibition has been co-organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis, and the Jeu de Paume, Paris, in association with the Haus der Kunst, Munich, and in collaboration with the Addison Gallery of American Art for this venue. Generous support for the Addison’s presentation of this exhibition has been provided by the Winton Family Exhibition Fund and the Mark Rudkin Fund.

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Dwight Tryon, After a Storm, New Bedford Harbor, 1887, oil on panel, courtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA

Lorna Simpson, Chess, 2013.

Courtesy of the artist; Salon 94, New York; and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels © Lorna Simpson

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

Admission by the Numbers Andover’s 237th Incoming Class With Phillips Academy’s need-blind admission policy* entering its seventh year, Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Jim Ventre ’79 announced in April the results of another successful admission season.

Ventre credited the hard work of faculty, staff, students, and alumni for the strong year, noting how the admission team extends “far beyond the walls of the Shuman Admission Center.”

3,049

completed applications from 50 states and 86 countries

boys (184) and girls (182) admitted from 33 states and 23 foreign countries

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a new record yield (percentage of those admitted who chose to attend Andover) a new record yield of underrepresented students of color

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In early summer, Eric Roland was named the Andover Institute’s inaugural Precourt Director of Partnerships. Funding for this endowed position was made possible thanks to a generous gift from Jay Precourt ’55 and Oscar Tang ’56.

In addition to working with Andover Institute Director Caroline Nolan, faculty, students, community members, and alumni to explore ways to accomplish the scaling of good ideas, Roland will collaborate with the directors of Andover’s four outreach programs—Andover Bread Loaf, the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers, PALS, and Mathematics and Science for Minority Students—to explore areas for future partnerships and network development.

“As the leader of the Institute track on Innovation in Partnerships, Eric also will explore new opportunities for creative forms of engagement with stakeholders from the education, business, nonprofit, and other sectors,” said Nolan.

Roland has a strong background in creating innovative learning opportunities for young people worldwide, in addition to experience in collaborating and partnering with diverse global audiences. He previously worked in Switzerland with the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders community.

—Jill Clerkin

number of Andover’s new Davis International Scholars who matriculated (from Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Japan, Kuwait, and Ukraine)

financial aid scholarships awarded to new students

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percentage of Andover students receiving full financial aid

*Andover is the only private secondary boarding school in the United States to have maintained a full need-blind admission policy since 2008. By fully meeting the demonstrated financial need of each student, the policy allows Andover to admit deserving students regardless of their families’ ability to pay tuition.

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Eric Roland Named Inaugural Precourt Director

Flags Held High Summer Session’s closing ceremony was held on August 2 in Cochran Chapel. More than 550 students from 28 states and 53 countries attended Summer Session 2014. Also boarding at the Academy and taking classes during the same five-week period were 110 students in the Mathematics and Science for Minority Students outreach program, better known as (MS)2. Approximately 40 seventh- and eighth-graders visited campus each day to participate in the PALS program, which offers year-round academic enrichment for middle school students from nearby Lawrence.

Pictured above are Temera Nahsonhoya from Arizona, Edmund VilchezHarmes from Aruba, and Alina Aslanova from Russia.

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C on n e cte d Lea rn i n g

Wade Zahares

“Connected learning” at Andover means that we focus on the interconnected learning experience of our students in a vibrant, diverse residential community. We encourage students to learn both from teachers in traditional classroom settings as well as from the many communities with which they engage, online and face-to-face—peers, mentors, sports teams, global communities, those involved in public service—and to draw meaningful connections between and among these experiences.

Crossing Cultures, Learning Language

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Spanish instructor Mark Cutler believes that learning to speak a language has as much to do with getting to know a culture and its people as it does with learning vocabulary words and proper verb conjugation. Based on this mutual conviction, Cutler and César Sánchez Beras, a Spanish teacher at Lawrence High School (LHS), developed a community-based course in which Phillips Academy and LHS students engage directly with the Spanish-speaking people of nearby Lawrence, Massachusetts. The course is designed, Cutler explains, “to foster a sense of place, democratic sensibilities, and mutual appreciation for one another.” In addition to LHS, project partners include the Lawrence History Center and Movement City Youth Network.

Throughout the five-month winter and spring term course, students filmed interviews in both Spanish and English with residents of Lawrence whose experiences and socioeconomic backgrounds differ greatly from one another. Interviewees included Lawrence Mayor Daniel Rivera, school employees, local artists, and city workers. On June 5, Andover and Lawrence community members gathered at El Taller café in Lawrence to watch the video interviews for the first time.

The project—Nosotros, el pueblo: Voces de la Ciudad de Inmigrantes (We, the People: Voices of the Immigrant City)—was emotional and empowering and formed lasting bonds. And it surely will achieve its goal of helping Lawrence recapture its narrative by having its people tell the city’s story instead of the news reports and high crime statistics that usually speak for it. Not an easy task, Cutler admits, but an important one for this once wealthy mill community.

While students added to their trove of vocabulary

Spanish instructor Mark Cutler ( front left) and students from PA and Lawrence High School gather following the 2014 premiere of Nosotros, el pueblo at El Taller café in Lawrence. Back row, from left: Ali Decker ’14, Jared Ravreby (Movement City), Travis Bouscaren ’14, Nolan Crawford ’15, and Naomi Simpson ’14. Third row: D-Shawn Caraballo (LHS ’14), Esha Bansal ’15, Alec Kingston ’14, James Heaney ’14, Klodian Beqiri ’14, Bernadette Norman ’14, Sophia Landay ’14, Julia Kim ’14, and Sarah Boylan ’09 (PA teaching fellow in chemistry). Second row: Isabella Haegg ’16 and Rebecca Federman ’14. Front row: Cutler, Graydon Tope ’14, and Farris Peale ’14. words and improved their verb conjugation skills, they gained much more than that in Spanish 511. Isabella Haegg ’16, who had wanted to take Cutler’s class ever since she read the Course of Study during her application process, says, “I learned about the power of education and the doors it can open for someone.

My naive notion that hard work will lead to success was also dispelled when we talked to Edmond, an extremely talented artist who couldn’t afford an education and was living in a homeless shelter.”

Klodian Beqiri ’14 had an equally enlightening experience. “Other Spanish classes expose students to different cultures from Spanish-speaking

countries through literature, which is important,” he says, “but this class took this idea to a whole new level. It brought us into the middle of the Hispanic culture that defines Lawrence.”

That the power of “going into the middle of Hispanic culture” is readily apparent to Cutler’s students inspires him to continue to create Spanish classes and perhaps other courses or projects that go far beyond the traditional. “These students have explored one another’s cultures,” he says, “and broken down stereotypes.”

Read more at nosotroselpueblo.wordpress.com.

—Kristin Bair O’Keeffe

Artifacts Do the Teaching

—Paige Roberts Director, Archives and Special Collections

History instructor and Geographer-at-Large Emma Frey ( far left) leads a session using the Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection.

Photos by Jamie Kaplowitz

Sliding fingers along bones, interpreting images, deciphering antique maps, and exploring school history, eight PA faculty members participated in a twoday interdisciplinary workshop on Teaching with Objects in June. Organized and led by educators from the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Addison Gallery of American Art, Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection, and Phillips Academy Archives and Special Collections, the workshop exemplified how Andover’s nascent Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs) collaborative can work with faculty to share collections, create space for experiential dialogue, and serve as catalysts for partnerships on and beyond campus.

Faculty from six departments—art, biology, English, history, mathematics, and Spanish—explored how the rich resources held by the museums, map collection, and archives can support the curriculum across subject areas and discussed potential for interdisciplinary courses and connections. Buffalo bones, paintings, photography, antique books, Academy records, and historical maps provided a variety of thematic entry points, and faculty discussed overlaps of skills and objectives that might provide opportunities to “let students’ imaginations have a little more room” and “let the artifacts do the teaching,” as one participant explained.

In addition to opportunities to work with objects from the collections, sessions at each institution included a tour of each collection’s storage area and digital databases. Sample lessons demonstrated the ways in which object-based teaching and learning enhances skills of observation and gathering of visual evidence to build analysis, while rich discussion examined how studying material culture and integrating images and objects into course syllabi can build students’ sustained attention, critical thinking, and visual literacy skills.

The workshop concluded with energetic and thoughtful conversation about the challenges and opportunities for thematic and methodological connections in curriculum planning. Workshop organizers and participants are eager to plan follow-up meetings, and organizers hope to offer the workshop again in 2015.

Peabody Museum educator Lindsay Randall shows workshop participants how to “read” bison bones to better understand the Mandan people of North Dakota who used them.

ABL Goes the Distance Andover Bread Loaf (ABL) has a 27-year history of supporting “virtual exchanges”—collaborative projects between teachers, students, and classes who work together over the Internet using a variety of digital technology, including Skype and e-mail.

Virtual exchanges focus on literature, creative expression, and serious political and human rights issues, including health and education.

Students connect with each other on personal levels about everything from sports to music, learning about each other’s culture, beliefs, politics, and history. Teachers and mentors use virtual exchanges, a powerful form of professional education, to connect as they plan, analyze, assess,

and reflect on teaching and learning in and outside of school. Authentic dialogue emerges as conversations and inquiries evolve and young people use written language and images to communicate across differences.

Virtual exchanges increase teachers’ and students’ empathy for other cultures and perspectives, develop their willingness to engage constructively with peers of diverse backgrounds, and provide them with opportunities to be heard and respected.

Currently ABL alumni are engaged in virtual exchanges that cross ethnic, cultural, religious, class, and national boundaries. High school students in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, are working on an exchange with high school students

in New Orleans about the deep and long-standing historical connections between the two cities. Teachers in Karachi, Pakistan, and San Salvador, El Salvador, are sharing their ideas about teaching and learning in their respective countries. High school students in Andover are paired with middle school students in Harlem, New York, in an exchange that celebrates “Amazing People and Places” in their respective communities.

ABL’s most celebrated exchange, one that received a grant from the Spencer Foundation, was a three-year collaboration called “The Language Acquisition Project.” The LAP included third-graders from Lawrence, Massachusetts, high school students

from Tombstone, Arizona, college students from Johannesburg, South Africa, and a university professor from London who teaches during the summer at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English.

“We, as teachers, have the responsibility to transform the world from our classes and beyond,” said Jennifer Coreas, a teacher in La Libertad, El Salvador, who is participating in the El Salvador-Pakistan exchange. “We need our classes to be motivating. I don’t think we are that different from the Pakistani teachers.… Our contexts seem very similar. We have the same goals and objectives as teachers.”

—Lou Bernieri Director, Andover Bread Loaf

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S P O R TS TA LK

Andover Athletics Hall of

Honor

Recognized for their outstanding accomplishments in athletics and the exceptional ways their lives have reflected the values of Phillips and Abbot academies, nine alumni were inducted into the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor on June 14 in Kemper Auditorium.

Opening remarks at the seventh annual induction ceremony were provided by Eleanor Tydings Gollob ’86, cochair of the Athletics Committee of the Alumni Council. Various committee members introduced the inductees, who shared reminiscences about their time at PA. Head of School John Palfrey offered closing remarks.

The Andover Athletics Hall of Honor currently has 67 individual members, plus two full teams.

Nominations for 2015 are now being accepted at www.andover.edu/alumni/hallofhonor.

Bethany Versoy

The newest members of the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor include (back row, from left) Gil Bamford ’58, Doug Brown ’64, David Smoyer ’59, and Alan Schwartz ’48, and ( front row, from left) Henry Higdon ’94, Jeanne Ficociello ’96, and Dianne Hurley ’80. Merrilyn Eastham accepted the honor for her husband, the late J. Dana Eastham ’49, and Elizabeth Keuffel and Cathy Lamond accepted the honor for their father, the late Ken Keuffel ’42.

Gilbert R. Bamford ’58

Douglas W. Brown ’64

J. Dana Eastham ’49*

Lettering in football, basketball, and lacrosse his upper and senior years, Gil Bamford was captain of Andover’s varsity football team as a senior and was named to the Second Team All–New England Prep Team. In a game against Bowdoin College freshmen in fall 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. Bamford also was named to the Second Team All–New England Prep Team in lacrosse his senior year.

Bamford continued to play football and lacrosse at Harvard. After graduation, he enjoyed a long and successful career with Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.

Doug Brown played varsity hockey, varsity baseball, and junior varsity football at Andover and captained all three sports his senior year.

Upon graduating from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Brown was an orthopedic surgeon in the U.S. Navy and a team physician at the U.S. Naval Academy before returning to his native Maine, where he was team physician at Portland High School and an orthopedic consultant to Bowdoin College. In 1986, he became team physician for U.S. Soccer’s U16, U20, U23, Men’s Olympic, and Men’s National Teams, and, in 1993, he was named head team physician for the Women’s National Team.

Formerly president of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, Brown is chair of AOSSM’s Medical Publishing Group.

James Dana Eastham’s athletic accomplishments were on a wrestling mat; his four-year varsity career at Andover had a record of 35–1. He was undefeated his senior year, during which he was team captain. Eastham repeated as a wrestling captain at Brown University. He was elected to Brown’s Athletic Hall of Fame and was named one of Brown’s “100 Greatest Athletes of the Century.” As a serviceman he was an active wrestler on the Army All-American Wrestling Team, and he was a first alternate on the 1956 U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman Wrestling Team.

Off the mat, Eastham served as mayor of Marietta, Ga., for eight years, was president of Eastham Data Processing Company, and worked at Lockheed Martin in information services.

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Kenneth Keuffel began his football career at Andover and captained the undefeated Big Blue in 1941.

He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and then played for Princeton, kicking the game-winning field goal that secured Princeton’s 1946 victory over the University of Pennsylvania. After a brief but exciting NFL career with the Philadelphia Eagles and two years as freshman football coach at the University of Pennsylvania, Keuffel served as head football coach at The Lawrenceville School, compiling an impressive 151-89-8 record.

The author of several books on the singlewing offense and considered a master of the form, Keuffel coached football at Wabash College. He was inducted into the Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1999.

Henry G. Higdon III ’94

Alan G. Schwartz ’48

Henry Higdon played for three years on Andover’s boys’ varsity hockey team, was captain his senior year, and received the Sumner Smith Hockey Award; off the ice, he helped create a hockey basic strength and conditioning program. Higdon also captained the boys’ varsity lacrosse team his senior year and was named an All-American. His excellent grades and athletic ability earned him a spot on the Boston Globe’s All-Scholastic Hockey Team and, at Commencement, the Yale Bowl prize.

At Harvard, he played on the men’s varsity hockey team all four years.

Higdon played for one year in the East Coast Hockey League with the Hampton Roads Admirals. Currently, he is a partner in Tourmaline Partners LLC.

Alan Schwartz achieved much athletic success while at Andover. He earned six varsity letters, captained the 1948 tennis team, swam with the 1948 swim team (which was inducted into the 2008 Andover Athletics Hall of Honor), and was awarded the Yale Bowl at Commencement. He was a varsity swimmer and tennis player at Yale and captained the tennis team his senior year.

The founder of Tennis Corporation of America, Schwartz has served as chair, president, and CEO of the U.S. Tennis Association. In 2003, Tennis Industry named him Man of the Year. In 2009, he was honored by the Tennis Industry Hall of Fame, and in 2013, he was inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Hall of Fame.

Dianne P. Hurley ’80

David B. Smoyer ’59

Arriving at Andover in the wake of Title IX, Dianne Hurley joined the inaugural girls’ hockey club team in 1976. By her lower year, the team achieved varsity status, and by her senior year, it was undefeated. Hurley lettered in hockey, soccer, track and field, and lacrosse, and won the Press Club Award and the Sumner Smith Hockey Award her senior year. Hurley played hockey at Harvard, where she was cocaptain her senior year. She broke five scoring records—one of which would stand for 20 years—and helped lead the Crimson to its first two upset Beanpot victories in 1982 and 1983.

Hurley coaches and volunteers in community hockey and soccer and has had a career in management and finance.

The Smoyer family’s connection with Andover soccer started with David Smoyer’s time in the goal: He earned two letters in soccer and, in fall 1958, shut out four opponents. Smoyer’s athletics career continued at Dartmouth, where he was a standout athlete and was selected as All-American soccer goalie in fall 1962.

Smoyer served as assistant to the commissioner of the North American Soccer League, associate director of athletics at Yale, director of athletics at Swarthmore, and coach of Swarthmore’s first women’s soccer team.

Smoyer’s father, Stanley, donated Andover’s Smoyer Family Field in David’s honor and in memory of David’s brother Bill ’63, who was posthumously inducted into the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor in 2011.

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A varsity athlete in soccer, basketball, and lacrosse, Jeanne Ficociello received Andover’s Drake Soccer Award, captained her basketball team senior year, and was chosen by the New England Lacrosse Association for its selective team. In 1996, she was named Andover’s Athlete of the Year and received the Yale Bowl at Commencement. Ficociello’s love for and commitment to lacrosse continued at Harvard, where she started on the varsity team all four years and captained her senior squad. In 2000, she earned a spot on and was a cocaptain of the Women’s All-Time First Team All–Ivy League team.

Ficociello went on to earn degrees from U. Penn and Colorado State University, and currently is a specialist in small animal internal medicine.

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2014 New England Champions: Girls’ Water Polo Kaitlin Simpson ’14 selected NEPSAC Final Four All-Tournament MVP; Sasha Newton ’16 and Lauren Conte ’14 named to All-Tournament Team 2014 New England Class A Champions: Boys’ Tennis (2nd consec. title); also won Stan Smith Award for sportsmanship at Nationals New England Interscholastic Championship Gold Medalists: Boys’ Crew in the B1 race; silver medalists in B2 and B3 races. Also won overall 2014 NEIRA Boys’ Team Points Trophy (6th time in 8 years) Golf: Tied for first—Alexa Tsay ’17 at the Independent School Girls’ Golf Classic Baseball: Kenta Nomoto ’14 (PA’s Harrison Baseball Award recipient), Andy Hamel ’14, and John Festa ’15 named to All-Central New England Prep Team Softball: Ravenne Nasser ’15 and Victoria Bergeron ’16 named to First Team, Big East Prep Invitational All-Tournament Softball Team Field Hockey: Lexi Davidson ’17 selected to the U19 indoor national team Boys’ Lacrosse: Tim Bulens ’15 named Academic All-American (Bowdoin commit) Girls’ Lacrosse: Nekele McCall ’14 named All-American (2nd consec. year); Caroline Garrity ’15 and Nekele McCall ’14 (3rd consec. year) named NEPSAC All-Stars NESCAC Baseball Rookie of the Year: Tufts pitcher Tim Superko ’13 World Junior Ultimate Champions in Italy: U19 women’s national team, including Dartmouth’s Piper Curtis ’13 Named All-Ivy lacrosse: Brown’s Larken Kemp ’13 On Duke’s NCAA Championship lacrosse team: Luke Duprey ’10, Joe Kruy ’12, and Ben Scharf ’12

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ON C O U R SE

Summer Session Sleuths The Crime On November 13, 1842, two prominent and well-respected farmers were murdered at Smith Farm in Old Fields, Long Island, New York.

[Editor’s note: This is a true story. The house where the 19th-century murder occurred still stands at the intersection of Park Avenue and Little Plains Road in the town now known as Greenlawn.]

The Victims • Alexander and Rebecca Smith The Suspects • Henry Bawer, veteran farmhand • Anton Geisler, new farmhand • Mary Ann Abbot, household help • Francis Curran, peddler The Goal of CSI Andover Working together, students must figure out who committed this gruesome crime. They must use forensics skills developed throughout the course to evaluate crime scene evidence, analyze suspects, and, finally, draw conclusions.

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CSI Andover: Anatomy of a Crime A Summer Session course for rising eighth-graders Instructed by Rebecca Roy and teaching assistants Summer Washburn ’11 and Meghan Johnson During the five-week Summer Session course CSI Andover, 14 Lower School Institute students gathered in Gelb Science Center with instructor Rebecca Roy to solve a real-life murder mystery (see sidebar, left). The students, who hailed from as near as Andover and Lawrence, Massachusetts, and as far as Beijing and Tokyo, buzzed with excitement. Some were drawn to the course because they watch the popular TV show CSI. Others, like Jamille Taveras from Lawrence, signed up because they’re curious about criminal justice.

And Jaehyuk “Jason” Lim from Songdo City, Incheon, South Korea, says, “Forensic science drew my attention because this part of science includes the life or death of a person, which matters.”

Roy, who is in her fourth year as a Summer Session teacher, says the class generates such a high level of interest because it explores a field that’s not often in the public eye. “On the news, you see all the crimes that are committed,” she says, “but you don’t see how they’re solved. Here, students can get into the investigation aspect.” During the school year, Roy teaches forensics, chemistry, and, this year, engineering at Northeast Metro Tech in Wakefield, Massachusetts. She’s also certified to teach physics and math.

Opposite page: Iris Deng shows off her inked fingers after recording her prints in the class’s fingerprint database.

Students later identify “mystery prints” related to a mock crime scene.

Left: Teaching assistant Meghan Johnson (right) offers advice to Lynda Moran (left) and Tyler Cross as they make clay impressions of different crime scene paraphernalia, including keys, tools, shoes, and prints.

Each object provides an additional piece of the crime-solving puzzle.

In the first days of the course, students used primary source material to look closely at life in 19th-century rural America, study details of the crime scene, and become familiar with the suspects. They also received an evidence list from the State of New York Homicide Investigative Unit that included blood droplets, footprints, hair strands, glass shards, and fingerprints. Each week they toggled between the classroom and the lab, between learning about the science of analyzing evidence and actually doing analysis.

For example, when working on the hair module, they first learned about the morphological characteristics of hair, then moved into the lab to analyze their own hair under a microscope and, finally, the hair samples of both victims and suspects in the Old Fields murder investigation.

Right: Rebecca Roy helps Jennifer Lord (left) and Davina N’Orng properly apply ink to each fingertip; students are shocked at how difficult recording a simple fingerprint can be!

Students become familiar with different inks and powders, as well as cyanoacrylate, to identify prints on different surfaces throughout the lab.

by Kristin Bair O’Keeffe Roy was impressed with many aspects of her dedicated group, but she was especially impressed by their inexhaustible fascination. “We literally looked at hair for six hours,” she says, “but they never got bored.”

Each Wednesday, the class took a field trip. They checked out the “Body Worlds: Vital” exhibition at Faneuil Hall, took part in a Watson Adventures “whodunit murder mystery” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and visited Lizzie Borden’s house and a natural history museum in Fall River, Massachusetts. During their final week, they visited the Andover Police Department and the Nashua Street Jail in Boston. The students enjoyed all of their getaways, but the whodunit murder mystery was an especially big hit. “I liked working as a group and putting together our individual skills to compete and find the killer,” says Jenni Lord of Bolton, Massachusetts. Lynda Moran of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, agrees and adds that she also liked the fact that she “got to look at cool art and artifacts” while looking for clues.

Above: Tyler Cross, Iris Deng, Vida Wang, and Andrew Pedicino (background) research the properties of fingerprints by observing enlarged ink prints on inflated balloons. Is the print a loop, whorl, or arch?

Blood used throughout the course was a simulated product—nontoxic, safe, and nonbiological.

The student packet for the Murder at Old Fields Forensic Science Lab Activity was provided by Ward’s Natural Science Establishment and Bullfrog Communications, Inc.

Photos by Gil Talbot

As students inched closer to figuring out who murdered Alexander and Rebecca Smith, they kept copious notes and created final exhibition projects. The murderer? You’ll have to sign up for next year’s CSI Andover if you want to find out.

Left: Jennifer Lord and Jason Lim make shoe impressions. Later, Lord and Lim will pour plaster of Paris into the mold to cast the impression for further analysis of wear patterns and unique print characteristics.

Will the shoe tread match a footprint at the murder scene?

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P H I L ANT HR OP Y HI G HLI G HTS

Elson Courtyard Gleams Green

Photos by Neil Evans

Over the summer, the Elson Courtyard was transformed from a nondescript passthrough to a campus destination. The new area, complete with curved granite seating, can be used year-round as an outdoor classroom or performance space and can pleasantly accommodate overflow from events in the Underwood Room and Kemper Auditorium.

Generously funded by Louis G. Elson ’80, the renovations improved accessibility, maintained appealing views, and enhanced storm water management, all while carefully preserving the courtyard’s black maple tree.

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cubic yards of concrete poured to create the paved area

Endowment Ensures Phillipian’s Future “There is not a single class at Andover where I could learn team management, fiscal planning, customer service, writing technique, and time budgeting all at once. The newsroom truly is Andover’s greatest professional laboratory.”

—Stephen Moreland ’14 former Editor in Chief

Student journalism is alive and well at Andover, thanks in part to the many generous donors who contributed to the Phillipian Endowment Fund, which recently reached $650,000, surpassing its goal of $500,000. Since 1878, The Phillipian has provided students with an uncensored voice and countless real-world business and journalistic experiences.

Like many local and national news outlets, the weekly newspaper experienced financial difficulties following the 2008 economic downturn.

Although popular with students, alumni, and parents alike, the award-winning Phillipian has barely broken even in the past several years.

Income from the endowment primarily will be used to enhance The Phillipian’s online presence and also enable on- and off-campus learning, enrichment, and networking opportunities for staffers. Students will continue to be responsible for generating advertising revenue, managing the paper like a small business, and producing each weekly issue within an established budget.

—Adam Roberts

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GROUNDBREAKING

Neil Evans

Construction teams razed Merrill House in late summer to make way for the new Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center, marking the beginning of an exciting chapter for members of the Andover community.

“It’s been a busy few months,” says Project Manager John Galanis. “We drilled geothermal wells in August to heat and cool the building, began the foundation in September, and structural steel is slated for November. We should be up and running in early 2016.”

The 17,000-square-foot building will integrate and update Andover’s health services under one roof to better meet the Academy’s needs, which have outgrown the Isham Health Center.

On September 19, the groundbreaking of the Sykes Wellness Center was marked by a brief ceremony. It was followed by a community 5K fun run/walk, led by Head of School John Palfrey.

See phillipsacademy.smugmug.com for photos.

Michael Malyszko

Golf Endowment Campaign Completed “Golf, at its core, represents the same ideals as Andover— honor being the most important,” says Jana S. Paley ’81.

“This gift was the perfect way to show my appreciation for how both golf and Andover have shaped me.”

Phillips Academy is pleased to announce the completion of the Paley Fore Andover campaign, endowing the school’s golf program with the resources to grow and thrive. Named for lead donor

Paley and with additional support from a generous past parent, the campaign recently surpassed its $300,000 goal.

With the fund’s assistance, Andover’s expanded golf program can now provide daily access to the nearby Indian Ridge Country Club, purchase necessary equipment and uniforms, and offer special training and professional instruction for players and coaches.

“One of the biggest impacts of this gift is that we can now

support more kids on the team,” says co-head coach Brian Faulk ’00. “That’s the legacy of Jana’s kindness and generosity.”

Paley is a past winner of the Women’s Golf Association of Philadelphia’s Ellen Gowen Hood Shield Tournament.

To learn more about this initiative, please contact Gail Mansfield, director of major gifts and annual giving, at 978-749-4290 or gmansfield@andover.edu.

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Connecting Our Strengths The Andover Endeavor

It takes a village to craft a strategic plan—and it should.

Inclusion, creativity, and empathy—all priorities of Andover’s new Strategic Plan—also help to illustrate how this plan came about. Nearly 2,000 people contributed to the process, more than 750 ideas were generated, and through it all, community members listened to and learned from one another.

We relied on survey data specific to the Andover community as well as the latest research on student learning and cognitive development to inform our conversations and, ultimately, our goals. In addition to devouring books and articles, we welcomed guest speakers, including Harvard clinical psychologist Catherine SteinerAdair and connected-learning visionary Sal Khan.

We wrestled with difficult questions concerning our students’ diverse needs, our high-octane pace of life and oversubscribed schedules.

We reflected on our strengths and the ways in which Andover distinguishes itself among peer schools. We considered the skills and knowledge our students need to navigate an increasingly interconnected world.

Excited to lead Andover in new and inspiring ways, Head of School John Palfrey challenged faculty, staff, and students to think boldly, even audaciously. With fresh interpretation, how might Andover’s founding values inform our contemporary definition of excellence?

That very question led to a series of others more tactical and goal oriented: How might we set up a global center that supports experiential and interdisciplinary learning? How might we ease the pace of life without sacrificing our high standards?

Questions such as these—and hundreds more— led to a series of white papers on topics including interdisciplinary collaboration, the daily schedule, sustainability, learning and pedagogy, athletics, diploma requirements, college counseling, and advising.

On the pages that follow, you will find the plan’s core elements, as voted by the faculty in mid-September.

Following the Board of Trustees’ vote on September 26, to endorse the plan, October 3 marked the launch of implementation/working groups comprising faculty, staff, administrators, students, alumni, and parents. By “Connecting Our Strengths,” the community will meet the Strategic Plan’s stated goals and propel Phillips Academy for the next three to five years.

To interact with the plan and to view the entire publication, please visit SP2014.andover.edu.

—Tracy Sweet Director, Academy Communications

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ince its founding in Phillips Academy has evolved intentionally, broadening and deepening its commitment to impart knowledge and goodness to youth from every quarter. Visionary leadership has shaped this transformative work; generations of Phillips and Abbot faculty, staff, students, families, and trustees have propelled it. Their efforts have made possible our metamorphosis from two schools, segregated by gender and primarily for the privileged, into a single institution that is proudly coeducational, multicultural, and socioeconomically diverse.

We launch the 2014 Strategic Plan from a position of strength. Given the vast experiences and global roots of our student body, connection becomes at once more possible and more necessary. Our challenge— and opportunity—is to link our students meaningfully to each other, to their school, and to the world. Guided by the principle of financial sustainability, we will concentrate our resources over the next three to five years on the advancement of three sets of strategic priorities, each indispensable to and often intersecting with the others.

By promoting equity and inclusion we will move toward full realization of opportunity for young women and young men from a broad spectrum of backgrounds. Creativity and innovation in and out of the classroom will spark the intellectual curiosity of students with wide-ranging academic talents and life experiences.

We will weave lessons of empathy and balance throughout our program, teaching our students to acknowledge their obligations to others and the natural world, to respect diversity of thought, and to value health and reflection.

We focus this Strategic Plan on the quality and fullness of the Andover experience. We will ensure that each of our students appreciates the advantages of living and learning among peers with various perspectives. We will forge new understanding beyond the traditional boundaries of the Academy. We will recognize that non sibi calls for civic engagement, self-awareness, and prudent use of resources. We will define and model sustainable excellence born of curiosity and discernment.

Strategic Planning Task Force Trustees

Christopher Auguste ’76 Robert Campbell ’66, cochair Peter Currie ’74, president of the board, ex officio Louis Elson ’80 Corinne Field ’83 John Palfrey, head of school, ex officio Faculty

Catherine Carter, cochair, instructor in classics Stephanie Curci, instructor in English Jeffrey Domina, instructor in English Lisa Joel, senior associate dean of admission Christopher Jones, instructor in history and social science Administrators and Staff

Mike Barker, clerk, director of institutional research Patrick Farrell, dean of faculty Nancy Jeton, special assistant to the head of school, ex officio Rachel Skiffer, dean of policy and strategic planning Chand Sripad, chemistry lab and safety supervisor Tracy Sweet, director of academy communications

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Strategic Priorities Equity & Inclusion Marked in particular by the establishment of A Better Chance in 1963, coeducation in 1973, and need-blind admission in 2008, Andover’s evolving definition of youth from every quarter has led to increased access. We continue our progress toward full equity by enhancing our educational program and support systems to prepare our students for life at and beyond Andover. New content, emphasis, and technique will yield deeper understanding.

Goal: Nurture the academic and personal growth of all students as they navigate a complex, intentionally diverse learning community.

Initiatives: • Create and strengthen support structures so that all students may access the highest levels of our curriculum.

• Integrate our advising, house counseling, and college counseling programs.

• Embed intellectual inquiry related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation in our curriculum and other programming.

• Hire and retain diverse, highly qualified faculty, administrators, and staff committed to upholding our core values.

Creativity & Innovation Imaginative pedagogy has long distinguished Andover’s academic excellence. To maintain a vibrant and cooperative intellectual community, we must formally implement this pursuit across the curriculum. We affirm a commitment to pedagogical and curricular innovation in which the analog and the digital complement each other. We will use novel and tailored methods to explore a dynamic course of study that introduces different points of view, provides the foundation for rigorous critical analysis, and encourages thoughtful problem solving.

Goal: Implement new ideas in teaching and learning informed by the global dialogue on education.

Initiatives: • Launch the Andover Institute, a collaborative effort to test, assess, and share teaching methods and learning tools.

• Devote professional development to the exchange of effective pedagogical practices.

• Develop more experiential, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary courses.

• Support teachers in integrating appropriate technologies as part of their classroom practice.

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Empathy & Balance Andover’s founders charged the head of school with convincing students “of the several great duties they owe to… their neighbour, and themselves.” Self-awareness remains just as important today: Health, balance, and resilience are essential to a life of sustained and meaningful contribution.

But the outward-looking element of this historical imperative has become even more compelling thanks to a student body from around the country and the world. More neighbors with a greater variety of viewpoints await contemporary Andover students; we will teach them to consider their obligations to others and to embrace difference.

Goal: Prioritize mutual understanding and individual well-being as essential to a thriving community.

Initiatives: • Further incorporate social-emotional learning into our educational program.

• Open the Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center for health care and education.

• Create a comprehensive, multiyear health curriculum.

• Update the scope and philosophy of our athletic program.

Institutional Directives Our goals, ambitious in scope, depend on the implementation of logistical and institutional directives. More operational in nature, they must be considered and carried out with reference to each other: • Communicate our need-blind admission policy widely as a defining characteristic of Phillips Academy.

• Build a student-centered daily schedule and annual calendar.

• Develop a Campus Master Plan that encompasses renovation of our athletic facilities.

• Create a Climate Action Plan that advances sustainability on campus.

• Compose a succinct and current expression of the Academy’s mission and purpose.

• Perform regular assessments of equity and inclusion on campus, considering the interests of all students, staff, faculty, and administrators.

• Provide an opportunity for every student to study off campus and experience a different culture.

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In 2014, long-standing partnerships in China, Russia, India, and Peru were joined by new opportunities in France, Brazil, South Africa, and London. Each program explores a range of topics pertinent to its host country, while also offering a special focus such as language development, archaeology and history, service and education, environmental sustainability, or the arts.

In addition, many students engage in experiential learning much closer to Andover. We offer service-learning in South Carolina, collaborations with the city of Lawrence, Mass., and an exploration of native communities and archaeology in New Mexico. We soon will launch a program in the American South focused on civil rights.

In line with the priorities of the Strategic Plan [see story, page 22], we will continue to grow these programs by expanding our flagship and emerging efforts, incubating new ideas and models, and supporting faculty members as they develop and lead students in learning more about others and themselves. Importantly, we aspire to offer every Andover student the chance to experience a culture and environment other than their own during their high school years. These opportunities catalyze conversation and create an awareness that enriches our collective experience, while also equipping students with the skills, perspectives, and nimbleness essential to their future paths.

—Caroline Nolan Director, Andover Institute

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I invite you to take a closer look at the Niswarth, Piette, and Russian Language programs. The vivid descriptions and photos that follow bring to light the often-transformational quality of these time-intensive, multidisciplinary experiences. Thoughtful student reflection speaks to the invaluable—and serendipitous—learning that springs from encounters with new cultures and environments. While our Learning in the World programs expose students to a range of topics and issues, all tie back to the broader Andover curriculum and are designed to encourage students and faculty to seek a wider perspective in their engagement with our increasingly connected and globalized world.

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The Academy’s long commitment to offering our students off-campus learning experiences that extend and enrich their Andover education has led to an exciting array of faculty-led programs around the globe. Our Learning in the World initiatives, supported by the Andover Institute and a constellation of other departments across campus, invite students to engage with new people, perspectives, and cultures.

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“Like Mukesh Bhai said, our inner feelings and emotions connect us to each other, no matter how unique our outer circumstances may be. Our differences define what kind of people we are, but our similarities define us all as people.”

—Mihika Sridhar ’16

Connecting, Discovering, developing a worldview

Niswarth in India Story and photos by Jill Clerkin

Indian teenagers and Niswarth students chatted, danced, and sang at the Nanghars anganwadi in Kalol, Gujarat. At left from back are Maddie Logan, PEA ’15, Isa TejeraSindall ’15, and Rhaime Kim ’15.

Grounded in “The Danger of a Single Story” by Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, the parable “Blind Men and an Elephant,” writings about perspectives, service, and humility by Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Dr. Paul Farmer, and many open and honest discussions, Niswarth students and faculty mindfully prepared for their three weeks in India.

And while the country provides a compelling context, the Niswarth program is not just about India. It’s about discovery, listening, questioning, service, compassion, and connection. And much more.

“India is just one of many possible out-of-context environments where Niswarth’s holistic approach to learning and self-growth can be guided and nurtured without worry about judgment or grades,” explains Raj Mundra, PA biology instructor and Niswarth (Hindi for non sibi) founder and director. “Niswarth is a journey toward developing a worldview, an invitation to look beyond the obvious, an opportunity for self-reflection, a means of discerning human connections among dissimilar people, and a framework for considering issues back on campus and in home communities.”

In mid-June, 14 open-hearted, open-minded students (including four from Phillips Exeter Academy) took a flying leap into the unfamiliar, traveling physically—and emotionally—from the rapidly growing city of Ahmedabad to the disparate slums and high-rises of Mumbai to the dusty villages of rural Kalol.

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iswarth’s early days in Ahmedabad involved an exploration of spirituality (defined in part by Arzu Singh ’16 as “the openness of one’s heart” and by Caroline Hoskins ’15 as “the state of being one with your surroundings, the ability to find beauty in everything you encounter”), self and selflessness, truth, trust, and love. Students learned basic meditation techniques, participated in group reflections, and conversed with NGO leaders and citizen changemakers passionate about the health and welfare of their communities. “One of my biggest takeaways was meeting and interacting with people who actually live their values,” says Claire Glover ’16.

After observing conditions in Ahmedabad’s largest slum, English instructor Catherine Tousignant ’88 reminded the group that Niswarth does not set out to fix problems. “We are here,” she said, “to learn, explore, observe, listen, discuss, ask questions, reflect, feel, connect, understand, and grow.” A Niswarth veteran, Tousignant works with Mundra to help students be fully present and connect their observations.

“Small is beautiful. So many times we get caught up with visible impact, and, through this, we create desire, stress, and misery. But if we focus on the power of small—what we can do in this very moment—impact will naturally emerge if that’s what is needed in the world.”

—Jayesh Patel

At the Gandhi Ashram at Sabarmati, an ecosystem of people and organizations committed to the Mahatma’s values, students and faculty met with Jayesh Patel, founder of Manav Sadhna, one of Niswarth’s NGO partner organizations.

“Manav Sadhna’s motto is ‘Love all, serve all,’ ” says Singh. “They go into communities, talk to the people, determine what the people need most, and do everything they can to help build and provide what is needed—all with humility and deep love.”

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The Niswarth group particularly enjoyed their stay in the guest quarters at the Environmental Sanitation Institute (ESI), which tests and implements new sanitation technologies across India. “ESI’s beauty is in its simplicity and easy connection to nature,” says Maddie Logan, PEA ’15.

Bottom: Women working at ESI gather to chat and prepare vegetables for the evening meal.

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sa Tejera-Sindall ’15 recalls the group’s arrival at the Environmental Sanitation Institute (ESI): “As soon as we stepped off the bus, Suresh Bhai popped out of nowhere and embraced us all warmly, saying two simple words to a group of kids he had never met: ‘Welcome home.’ ” For several pivotal days, Niswarthians strolled ESI’s quiet grounds, savored delicious meals freshly prepared by a gracious staff, slept in simple quarters, and absorbed its omnipresent Gandhian wisdom.

It was at ESI that students and faculty met Mukesh Bhai, a longtime practitioner of silent meditation. His calm, accepting

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Far left: Students recorded their observations and reactions in journals each day, shared multiple blog pieces, and engaged in regular group discussions. Here, Cem Vardar ’15 and Mihika Sridhar ’16 (background) take a few minutes to write.

Left: Fellow ESI guests create an intricate design with stones and flowers.

nature and principled approach to truth, morality, simple living, and serving others made a lasting impression on many students.

“More than any place, ESI impacted my spirit and sense of self, from learning about mind control from Mukesh Bhai to losing myself in the candles lit at the silent dinner,” says Jenny Wang ’16. “I found a peace that was wrapped in layers of worry and insecurity.”

“I think it’s a mixture of things— events, emotions, feelings of community and warmth—that clicked together to forge an environment that fosters growth and clarity here at ESI and during the Niswarth program as a whole.”

—Rhaime Kim ’15

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ate in their first week, Niswarth students teamed up for several days with 14 peers from The Riverside School, a progressive K–12 private school founded by education reformer and social entrepreneur Kiran Bir Sethi. Sethi also developed Design For Change (DFC), a four-step framework— Feel, Imagine, Do, Share—that empowers children to take action to reshape their world.

Following DFC’s rigorous methodology of understanding and responding to community needs, the 28 students divided into five teams to work at two government-run elementary schools serving children from low-income families. Through

At a government-funded elementary school on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Niswarth students John Gorton ’15 (top left), Kimberly Dawes, PEA ’15 (in pink), and Rhaime Kim ’15 (in white) and their Riverside School peers discuss what they learned from observations and interviews.

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Below: Kiran Sethi, founder of The Riverside School and Design For Change, meets with Raj Mundra and other Niswarth faculty.

Sethi is slated to visit Andover in early 2015.

observation and multiple interviews, the teams sought to identify areas that the school’s teachers and children wanted to improve.

“All is covered in the orange playground dust.

Except for the faces of the children. They run too fast…. Their faces glow with sweat and spread with smiles. We come in, with armpit stains and waterfall faces, and they welcome us.”

— Jenny Wang ’16

Above: Nick Madamidola, PEA ’16 (back left), and Jenny Wang ’16 (right foreground) work with Riverside School students to make the government school’s sparse library more colorful and inviting.

Right: Indian schoolchildren gather for an assembly to watch Niswarth and Riverside students perform their “Wash Your Hands” song in Hindi. They soon joined in the fun.

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Sethi offered post-project comments and encouragement. “Many of you saw the school’s filthy bathroom as one of the biggest problems to ‘fix,’ ” she said. “If you ask their opinions, most schoolchildren will say that the bathroom doesn’t bother them at all—it’s better than the one they have at home.” She thanked students for their hard work, reminding them that their challenge is about determining what issues affect the user—in this case, the children—not about what is important to them.

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n Mumbai, India’s most populous city, Niswarthians began to recognize essential connections between early childhood nutrition, access to health care, and preschool education while visiting Mumbai Mobile Creches (MMC), an NGO facility located on the construction site of a massive Marriott hotel.

“Tens of millions of Indian men and women are migrant laborers,” Vrushali Naik, MMC program coordinator, told the group. “Workers are recruited from their villages to do hard and dangerous labor for $3 to $10 a day. Many bring their families to live in shacks right where they work, often for several years.

Members of these marginalized communities have no voice, no rights.”

Naik estimates there are 50,000 children at Mumbai’s 3,000 construction sites. Through a network of makeshift structures throughout the city, MMC provides food, vaccinations and other health care, schooling, and safety for hundreds of children who otherwise would be left to fend for themselves.

“In Mumbai, we seemed to oscillate between the extremes of rich and poor,” said John Gorton ’15.

“Being thrown from one extreme to the other has made me feel uneasy in both.” Twenty million of India’s 1.2 billion people live in the west coast city.

commonalities with the nearly one million men, women, and children living and working there. After touring the 500-acre slum (the same size as Phillips Academy’s campus), Jenny Wang ’16 wrote, “I saw too much and not enough.”

at the Oberoi Hotel offices of The Parthenon Group, a global education consulting firm. Karan Khemka ’94, Parthenon partner and cohead of education practice, gave a candid overview of Mumbai, past, present, and future.

Backed by compelling data and The experience provoked thoughtglobal case studies, Khemka ful discussion among Niswarthians explained why he believes an about such questions as what is a expansion of tertiary education is good human life? What is a meanthe key to India’s development. ingful life?

That evening, students experienced a very different Mumbai

“Dharavi is a place where one couldn’t be sure whether chaos was the order or the order was chaos. But there was a sense of order, no question about it.”

—Cem Vardar ’15

From ground zero to a view from 30,000 feet Prior to visiting Dharavi, Mumbai’s—and Asia’s—largest slum, Mundra and Andy Housiaux, instructor in philosophy and religious studies and three-time Niswarth leader, enjoined students to seek Led through Dharavi by local guides, students and faculty wound through the bustling maze of dank, twisting alleys, tangled electrical wires, acrid smoke, and corrugated steel. They observed the arduous and often dangerous tasks performed by plastics recyclers, leather and textile workers, metal grinders, and pottery makers.

In passageways barely more than shoulder width, they caught glimpses of a community with few resources, but immense determination, resilience, and ingenuity.

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Above: Gokul Pura, an anganwadi supported by Setco Foundation, has two Hindu temples, a community well, and numerous cows and water buffalo. Villagers grow okra and mangos. Here, Kimberly Dawes, PEA ’15, plays catch with two preschoolers.

Center: Jonathan Regenold, PEA ’15 (at left), and Cem Vardar ’15 (center) demonstrate their expertise with building blocks.

Bottom: Childhood malnutrition has dropped from more than 80 percent to less than 10 percent in the past three years in Setco’s 12 adopted anganwadis, which serve about 1,100 children between the ages of 0 and 6 as well as hundreds of adolescent girls and pregnant and nursing mothers. Here, Caroline Hoskins ’15 befriends two siblings.

Setco Foundation, a Niswarth partner organization that focuses on health, nutrition, education, and the empowerment of women and children in rural areas, has “adopted” 12 of Kalol’s more than 20 anganwadis. Accompanied by foundation president Urja Shah (wife of Harshal Shah ’88) and Setco interpreters, Niswarth students observed varied preschool environments, teacher-student interactions, and the children’s activities and engagement. They initiated simple games with the wide-eyed preschoolers, and, with groups of older girls, they connected through interpreters, dancing, henna painting, and learning beadwork.

Niswarthians generated a great deal of curiosity in the various communities; Indians of all ages smiled and greeted them with “With two or three good meals a day, the kids would look healthier “Namaste!”—Hindi for welcome. During their final days in Kalol, and bigger and right for their age. But an answer isn’t a solution.”

Niswarth students and faculty shadowed Setco community health —Rhaime Kim ’15 workers as they visited local families. Discussions involved the needs of young mothers and their children and whether additional support would be helpful. From Isa Tejera-Sindall ’15’s blog post: “We enter a two-room home, with a kitchen/living room and a bedroom, and [the girl] gestures for us to sit on her bed in the corner.

A baby goat peaks its head from under my feet and then shuffles off, irritated at our intrusion. I silently apologize.

“One of the preschool teachers who works with Setco has come along with us to ask questions. Urja [Shah] quietly translates in English. I gather the basic facts: the girl is 22, married at 17, her children are 4 and 1. Her older son attends the anganwadi from eight to two every day, while she stays at home with the baby and does household chores. Her husband works with machines. She likes to sew. Her name is Sunita.

“We are joined by an assortment of curious onlookers: two of the children’s aunts, 16 and 17 respectively, a mother-in-law with a long grey braid and smiling wrinkles, a 6-year-old with muddy feet and cheeks, and the grumpy goat who has somehow come back to forgive me. The baby boldly tries to grab at the goat’s ear to get my attention, and the old lady pulls his hand away, scolding him. She makes eye contact with me, apologetic. I smile back understandingly.

“Our goal, as Urja [Shah] explained, is to make their lives a little bit easier, to share information, to give advice, to share a little bit of love.

We are not here as intruders, but as fellow humans.”

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ear the end of the three weeks, several students wondered aloud how they should respond to the inevitable, “What did you learn in India?”

“Start with ‘It’s complicated,’ ” suggested Mundra, “then demonstrate your learning through your actions.”

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Below: A rare group photo opportunity at the Gateway of India in south Mumbai. Front row, from left: PEA Dean of Studies Laura Marshall, Isa Tejera-Sindall ’15, Caroline Hoskins ’15, Jenny Wang ’16, Mihika Sridhar ’16, Kimberly Dawes, PEA ’15, and Arzu Singh ’16. Back row: Andover Institute Director Caroline Nolan, Niswarth Director Raj Mundra, Thea Rossman ’15, Rhaime Kim ’15, Cem Vardar ’15, Jonathan Regenold, PEA ’15, John Gorton ’15, Maddie Logan, PEA ’15, Niswarth and Andover faculty member Andy Housiaux, Nick Madamidola, PEA ’16, and Claire Glover ’16.

Upon returning to Andover, Niswarth faculty help students identify opportunities to integrate their new global views of education, development, and community, encouraging these young changemakers to deepen their moral introspection through coursework and service.

This year, the group will organize a Design For Change conference at PA in February 2015, with special guest Kiran Sethi.

Right: Raj Mundra and (at left) Setco Foundation Codirector Salma Safree discuss India’s anganwadi system.

Below: Schoolchildren gather near the Niswarth students’ bus to offer an enthusiastic send-off.

“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

At a Niswarth gathering in midSeptember, students discussed their intent to practice Niswarthian habits at school—small acts of kindness every day, empathy as a primary lens for understanding the needs of the community, and frequent reflection and meditation to manage their busy lives.

The transformation they seek does not always come easily. But the words of Jayesh Patel echo in their hearts: “Develop relationships, not resultsoriented projects. Work to understand people, and we will deepen our understanding of who we are and what our relationships mean. We will start to see that we are all interconnected, our journeys are intertwined.”

For complete 2014 blog posts and more about Niswarth, visit www.niswarth.org.

Jill Clerkin, who spent eight days in India with Niswarth students and faculty, is a senior writer and editor in Andover’s Office of Communication.

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“The fact that I could walk over to a grave and see the name, hometown, and date of birth and death gave each of those soldiers a personal story that I’ll now always keep in mind when talking about World War II.” —James Taylor ’16

A Journey Back in Time Students in the Piette Program travel to France to gain new perspective on human history Story and photos by Stephen Porter The Atlantic Ocean stretched out before us under a steel gray sky, the surf roiled by a stiff, chilly breeze.

The tide was on its way out, and the exposed beach looked both peaceful and lonely. Even eerily haunted.

On another day, in another place, it is a scene anyone would enjoy for its stark beauty. But on this day, in this place, where the spirits of the dead still float in the wind, the emotion that surfaces is an almost unbearable sorrow.

This is Omaha Beach. Just 70 years ago—during the D-Day invasion in June 1944—more than 9,000 young men, many barely out of high school, died on this sand and in this water in the name of freedom.

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sea full of ships disgorging troops by the thousands, all racing toward the cliffs against a relentless barrage of German machine gun fire.

It was a day of almost unimaginable courage and horror. A day that changed the course of history.

A book will provide the facts. But to stand on the site where it occurred, feel the wind in your face, taste the salt air on your lips, and wander through the endless field of white crosses that honor the fallen is to be transported back in time. To be moved in a way that simply cannot happen in a classroom.

“I was aware that 50 million people were casualties of World War II. However, being able to encounter a piece of that history by looking at the burial sites made it all the more

powerful,” wrote James Taylor ’16 in a blog post shortly after visiting Normandy. “The fact that I could walk over to a grave and see the name, hometown, and date of birth and death gave each of those soldiers a personal story that I’ll now always keep in mind when talking about World War II.” Taylor was among the nine students and four faculty members—inaugural participants in the Piette Program—who shared this powerful visit to the beaches of Normandy in June. During their 17-day trip, the group would share dozens of special moments, many of which will be remembered for a lifetime: ▶ The dazzle of a first-time visit to the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles, with their grand

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paintings, sculptures, gilded rooms, and royal jewels ▶ The beauty of the lush gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny, where the light plays magically with the water lilies, just as it does in Monet’s paintings ▶ The echo of one’s footsteps in the cold darkness of a prehistoric cave, followed by the first glimpse in a flickering light of a cave bear nest dug into the cave’s floor more than 27,000 years ago For Camille Price ’15, the visit to Rouffignac Cave—the first of four prehistoric caves the Piette group eventually would enter—was one of her most memorable moments. The geological features of the cave itself, she wrote in a blog post, reminded her of a scene from Harry Potter during which Harry and his two comrades “zip through cavernous caves with mind-blowing rock formations and dripping stalactites.”

But that exciting first impression, she wrote, quickly gave way to even more powerful experiences. “As we traveled deeper, we began to see traces of human life—finger markings on the ceiling, some faint outlines of woolly mammoths. Soon it seemed every cavern held some drawing—woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, bison, and horses were depicted in incredible detail. In the farthest cavern, the entire ceiling was covered in drawings, which the people of the Upper Paleolithic era would have painted lying on their backs.”

Above: The Piette trip started in Paris, where students visited important historical and cultural landmarks such as the Palace of Versailles.

Left: Sharanjit Gil ’16 wanders among the tombstones in the American cemetery near Omaha Beach in Normandy.

Below: The Grotte de Font de Gaume was one of four prehistoric caves the Piette travelers visited in the Dordogne region of France.

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findings at sites like Peyre Blanque suggest they lived far more sophisticated lives than previously believed.

students during their visit to his excavation site. “The Magdalenian is a culture that existed almost unchanged for about 7,000 years. It is the only It is becoming increasingly clear that society in the history of humanity that these early people, the Magdalenians, lasted that long. They did not just live who lived 12,000–19,000 years ago, in caves. The challenge we face is to try were not some intellectually inferior and put things together from different version of ourselves. Just like us, they sites and animate these people across were Homo sapiens—but faced with the landscape. We have to try to follow the challenge of figuring out everything them step by step in order to underfrom scratch. stand how that society functioned.”

“The Stone Age society was a very The sophistication of early man was complex society,” archaeologist emphasized again and again as the Dr. Sébastien Lacombe told the group traveled through the parts of southern France that served as such an important cradle for prehistoric civilizations. Even before arriving at Lacombe’s dig site, the Piette group had already visited four prehistoric caves, three prehistory museums, and the remains of a 12th-century castle— Commarque—that sits upon a rock cliff that once served as home to a community of cave-dwelling troglodytes.

“We saw cave drawings and artifacts that very few people get to see,” said Dr. Claire Gallou, the PA French instructor who planned and organized the trip. “The people who hosted us were so gracious and so giving. They also were very impressed by all the things we were doing and seeing in such a short time. It was like taking a mini master class in prehistoric archaeology.”

Top: Reindeer, along with bison and woolly mammoths, were among the game hunted by the prehistoric people of southern France, and were featured subjects of many cave drawings.

This exhibit was one of many at the Musée National de Préhistoire in Les Eyzies.

Left: Jacob Boudreau ’16 and Camille Price ’15 dig for prehistoric artifacts at Peyre Blanque.

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iving students those kinds of experiences is exactly what Gallou hoped to accomplish when plans for the trip first started percolating almost four years ago following a strange visit to PA’s Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology by a representative from France’s Musée d’Archéologie Nationale (MAN).

“One day out of the blue this gentleman from the MAN visited the Peabody and asked to see their collections. At the time, his purpose wasn’t clear, in part because of the language barrier,” Gallou explains. “Then later, the museum got a letter from the MAN, and Malinda Blustain, who was the director of the Peabody at the time, brought it to me for translation.”

Gallou turned the translation effort into a classroom project, and together she and her students discovered the MAN was asking the Peabody to repatriate three prehistoric Piette pebbles that the Peabody had had in its possession since the early 1920s (see sidebar, “The Piette Pebbles”).

After the exchange of several more letters, which Gallou’s French class helped write and translate, Gallou and Blustain flew to France in summer 2011 to present two of the three pebbles to the MAN. (The third pebble could not be found.) Located just outside Paris in a beautiful, medieval royal castle in the village of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the MAN is home to many of France’s most precious prehistoric artifacts.

“They were so excited to receive the pebbles,” says Gallou. “The whole experience was so wonderful that we decided we ought to do something to maintain this connection with the museum, maybe create some kind of joint educational experience.”

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The Piette Pebbles The day after arriving in Paris, the Piette travelers made their way to the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale (MAN) in the small suburb of SaintGermain-en-Laye. Three years earlier, Dr. Claire Gallou and former Peabody Museum director Malinda Blustain had visited the MAN to repatriate two Piette pebbles that had been in the Peabody’s collection since the 1920s. This time Gallou and her group celebrated the launch of the Piette Program and took a complete tour of the museum’s enormous collection of prehistoric artifacts.

The group also brought a special gift—the missing third Piette pebble that had since been located in the Peabody’s collection.

Piette pebbles are named for archaeologist Edouard Piette, who first discovered the stones in the 1890s in the Mas d’Azil cave in southern France. In total, Piette collected about 200 individual stones; another 1,200 or so were found by other archaeologists.

Each of the flat river stones is decorated with dots, lines, and other geometric forms that were painted using red ochre. More than 10,000 years old, the stones are believed to be the earliest known form of symbolic communication used by man. But exactly what the symbols mean remains a mystery.

Top: Ryan Wheeler, director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, holds the Piette pebble that he carried with him to France for repatriation to the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale (MAN).

Bottom: Officials at the MAN gratefully accept the repatriated pebble, which will be displayed in the museum’s Piette Room along with the thousands of other prehistoric artifacts discovered by 19th-century archaeologist Edouard Piette.

In a Piette blog post, Peabody director Dr. Ryan Wheeler wrote: “Piette thought of the cave as an early school…where teachers used the pebbles to pass on knowledge of a now long-extinct symbol system. Others have noticed that the number nine is rarely represented, suggesting that a base nine system of computation was being used. Still others are using game theory to Piette students were invited to visit. The hope is that decode the pebbles.” bringing the pebbles together for study in a central location will one day help researchers uncover the secret The pebbles repatriated by the Peabody will join the of this prehistoric communication system. When that collection of several hundred other Piette pebbles currently housed in the locked and temperature-controlled happens, who knows what other secrets of prehistoric life will be revealed?

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Peyre Blanque: Uncovering the Truth The well-trod horse path that leads to the Peyre Blanque open-air archaeological site in southern France runs along a ridge overlooking two valleys nestled in the foothills of the Pyrenees. At one time the path was used by Roman legions as they marched across their European empire. But new evidence shows that thousands of years prior, the path also served as an important travel route for hunter-gathers of the Middle Magdalenian era.

Though the path is now wooded, 16,000 years ago the hillside was clear of trees, providing a perfect vantage point for scanning the valleys for reindeer, woolly mammoths, horses, and bison. It is here, on one of the high points of the path, that Dr. Sébastien Lacombe and his wife, Dr. Kathleen Sterling, professors of anthropology at Binghamton University, have set up shop.

Traditionally, archaeologists in southern France have looked for prehistoric artifacts in caves, because cave sites are plentiful and the artifacts were relatively easy to find. This led to the common misconception that Stone Age people lived their whole lives in caves. In 1993, renowned archaeologist Margaret Conkey became convinced this was not the case, and she began conducting a survey of the “spaces between the caves.”

“I remember my colleagues saying she will find nothing,” recalls Lacombe, a young student at the time. “They thought she was crazy.”

In fact, Conkey’s survey uncovered more than 6,000 Paleolithic artifacts buried in the plowed fields of the valley. That success eventually led Conkey and her new partner, Lacombe, to the discovery of the ridgeline excavation site that they have been working diligently for the past several years.

The site appears to be a habitation site, from which hundreds of stone, flint, ivory, and antler artifacts already have been extracted. Lacombe and his team also are slowly uncovering an organized collection of rocks—possibly the floor or roof of a hut, or maybe even a burial site of some sort. More digging, it is hoped, will provide the answer.

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of the different artifacts reveal where certain activities, such as tool making, probably occurred.

Cataloging the location of each artifact provides the context needed to make conjectures about how these prehistoric people lived their daily lives.

“If I want to study your life, it does not make sense for me to focus only on your bedroom or your kitchen,” Lacombe explains.

“Doing that would show me only a tiny portion of who you are. It is the same here. We have to look at everything and consider it all together, including what is being found in other sites, like the painted caves.”

Top: Dr. Lacombe shares with Andover’s Ryan Wheeler and Claire Gallou his theories about what these stones might reveal about how prehistoric societies functioned.

Opposite page: Prehistory and medieval history come together in dramatic fashion at the site of Commarque Castle, which sits upon a cliff that once served as home to cave-dwelling troglodytes.

Bottom: Camille Price ’15 proudly shows off the first artifact she unearthed at the Peyre Blanque excavation site.

One interesting revelation is that much of the flint being found on the site originated at locations up to 250 kilometers away. “What that tells us,” says Lacombe, “is that either these people were moving across this really wide landscape or they had a lot of contact with people from other areas.”

Either way, findings like these are making it clear that our traditional notions about what the life of a “caveman” was like are in need of a significant upgrade.

—Claire Gallou

Soon after that visit, Blustain retired from the Peabody, but Gallou doggedly pursued the idea that eventually became the Piette Program.

“Initially the thought was that we would bring PA students to visit the MAN,” explains Gallou, “but then we started adding other elements to the trip—history, art, and French culture—to make it more of an interdisciplinary experience.”

It was during her exploration of possible activities for the students that she became acquainted with Lacombe. He and his wife, Dr. Kathleen Sterling, and renowned archaeologist Margaret Conkey were working the Peyre Blanque openair excavation site, which already was proving to be rich with artifacts from the late Pleistocene Epoch— approximately 15,000 years ago.

She accepted Lacombe’s invitation to visit the site and quickly realized

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“Our goal was to make 30,000 years of human history tangible to the students. On that score, the trip exceeded all my expectations.”

that student participation in an active dig could be a cornerstone of the program. “Sébastien was very happy to accommodate us, so I was thrilled at the educational opportunity this presented,” said Gallou.

d’Orsay, and Giverny provided opportunities for students to study French art and culture. A swing through Normandy launched discussions about D-Day and World War II. In the Loire Valley, the group explored royal palaces of the After a couple more years spent Renaissance as well as the chateau refining plans and acquiring fundwhere Leonardo DaVinci spent the ing, Gallou, with assistance from last three years of his life. A four-day history instructor Dr. Nile Blunt stay in the preserved medieval town and new Peabody director Dr. Ryan of Sarlat, including a day trip to the Wheeler, put forth a trip itinerary castle of Commarque, offered the that centered on a theme of “going chance to study 10th- to 14th-cenback in time.” tury French and European history.

The idea, she explains, was to peel The deep dive into prehistory constiback the layers of French history a tuted the final portion of the trip. little at a time by starting the trip in “Right from the start, we wanted modern-day Paris and ending it by this trip to be about more than just digging for Paleolithic artifacts with France,” said Gallou. “Exposing Lacombe and his team in Ariège at the students to French culture and the foot of the Pyrenees.

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of humanity. Our goal was to make 30,000 years of human history tangible to the students. On that score, the trip exceeded all my expectations.”

ularly posted thoughts about their experiences on a shared blog (pietteblog.andover.edu).

Connecting Students prepared for the trip by attend- with Our Past ing several workshops, including one acob Boudreau ’16 had never travled by Lacombe, who visited Andover eled overseas, nor had he had a parin May to share information about the ticularly strong interest in history, excavation site at which they would archaeology, or foreign languages. But soon be working (see sidebar, “Peyre for him, the trip proved an exciting way Blanque: Uncovering the Truth”). to become more familiar with these Prior to the trip, students selected topics through hands-on experiences. project topics for reports they will present at a post-trip gathering in October. He especially enjoyed seeing the Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long Topics range from a comparison of foods from different regions of France embroidery stitched circa 1074 a.d. to a comparison of the different palaces It tells the story—in about 50 distinct scenes—of William the Conqueror’s and chateaux of French royalty. conquest of Britain in 1066. At the time During the trip, students gathered it was created, the tapestry was a means frequently for discussions and also reg- of conveying William’s accomplishment to a largely illiterate population.

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“[Imagine] what each place would have been like when it was at its best. Just trying to picture who the different people were in the different places and how they would relate to me today makes me feel more grounded in history.”

—Indiana Sobol ’17

“When we got into the room with the tapestry, it was amazing,” Boudreau

wrote. “The tapestry is huge, and none of the pictures I saw beforehand hinted at how large it actually is…. Being in the presence of such an old, important piece of art was a unique experience.”

For Sharanjit Gil ’16, one of the more moving moments of the trip was walking through Normandy’s preserved underground bunker that served as staff headquarters of Nazi General Erich Von Richter. “The dark, tubular, and subterranean hallway sent shivers up my spine,” she wrote. “I walked through with my arms crossed, swiftly moving toward the exit. On the last wall of the long hallway were projected images of Anne Frank and excerpts from her famous diary. Her placement at the end of the hallway was quite poignant as the plotting that occurred in this dark hallway contributed to the end of her life. At the same time, moving toward her felt hopeful…like moving from darkness toward hope and resolution, two things that there should be more of in this world.”

The various medieval palaces, castles, and chateaux we visited brought the Middle Ages to life for all of us, including Indiana Sobol ’17, who said she liked to imagine “what each place would have been like when it was at its best. Just trying to picture who the different people were in the different places and how they would relate to me today makes me feel more grounded in history.”

Sobol found herself pondering the grandeur of the royal buildings and the vast amount of wealth that medieval

In addition to touring the many treasures at the Louvre, the Piette group learned about the fascinating history of the building itself, which originated as a 12th-century fortress before undergoing dramatic expansions while serving as a home to the kings of France in the 16th to 18th centuries.

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Below: The Château d’Amboise, located on the River Loire, served as a summer home for a number of royal families, including King Henry II and his wife, Catherine de Medici.

Right: The view from a balcony at Commarque Castle Bottom right: Water lilies in the gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny

monarchs accumulated. “It seemed like no matter what they already had, they just had to keep building.

I guess I knew on some level that that’s how they lived, but it was crazy to see the degree to which they would go, even when the people around them were starving.

There was such a distance between the people who had all the money and the people who had nothing.”

the life of a Paleolithic family living in the valley of Ariège. The only way you can really do that is to physically go to those places where history was made and engage with them using all your senses.

“It was so gratifying to see how much the students got out of the experience. My goal as a program director was to give the students a sense of the depth of history and to have them connect with that history on a very personal level. I wanted them to be able to understand what life was like for people at different points in time—whether it was the life of a commoner in the 16th century or

While Gallou clearly deserves a lot of credit for the success of the trip, she is quick to deflect any praise toward the people in France who hosted the students and served as their guides and mentors.

“I think the trip also gave the students a sense of how easy it is for human societies to repeat the mistakes of the past. That’s a valuable lesson to learn, and hopefully one For Gallou, who had spent four that will make our Piette students years bringing this project to frui- more informed citizens and more tion, the completion of the trip felt enlightened leaders as they grow like a dream come true. into adulthood.”

“It’s all about the people,” she wrote in her own blog post. “What made this adventure so special was the people who welcomed, cared for, guided, and taught us. I was blown away by how eager each

scientist, archaeologist, guide, host, historian, and administrator was to spend time with us and share with us passions, knowledge, lessons, and values, without prompting. I did not expect this much enthusiasm from this many extraordinary people.”

Gallou is already looking forward to returning to France next year to build on those relationships, firm up the program’s foundation for the future, and, of course, share the adventure with a new group of students.

Stephen Porter, who journeyed with the Piette travelers to France, is Andover’s director of public information and Web publishing.

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Russia: In Her Own Words Story and photos by Maddie Murphy ’16 By her own admission, Maddie Murphy ’16 was hesitant to participate in PA’s annual language immersion program in Russia. “In fact,” Maddie says, “I was pushed to go on this trip by my parents.

This was completely out of my comfort zone.”

When, in late May, Maddie began to meet weekly with fellow student travelers and Russian instructors Vic Svec and Kassie Archambault ’06 to talk about what it would be like when they arrived in Russia, she remembers that her feelings of dread and nervousness started to mix with a bit of excitement. “Looking back,” she says, “most of what I was feeling was fear of the unknown, and I was most afraid when we first arrived in Petrozavodsk and the bus stopped at four locations in the city, dropping everyone off with their new host families.

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house look like? Will my host family like me? Do I know enough Russian to survive?”

The first week, she admits, felt like it would never end. She was dealing with culture shock, being away from home, and getting used to her new family. “By the second week,” she says, “I had settled in. The rest of that week, as well as the third week, flew by.

Halfway through the second week, I realized I was having a great time and was so glad my parents had given me the opportunity to go on this trip.”

On June 13, a dozen PA students, along with Svec and Archambault, flew to Russia via Iceland and Finland; the group returned to the United States on July 5. Following are excerpts from the blog Maddie wrote while in Russia. To read more, visit mcmurphy422.wordpress.com.

—Kristin Bair O’Keeffe

June 15 | Petrozavodsk My host mother is away visiting her family right now, so her daughter came to pick me up instead.

Her name is Anne, and she is 29 years old. She is learning how to speak English, so sometimes we speak English to each other, sometimes Russian.

The apartment that she lives in has a bedroom for her, a small living room for me, one room with a shower, sink and laundry machines, one room with a toilet, and a kitchen. By the time we got home to the apartment, it was about 5 a.m., so she made me some breakfast. I had the equivalent of cereal with milk, some chai, and some hardboiled eggs. We chatted for a while, talked about where I was from in the U.S., and what Andover, the town and the school, was like. By then, it was just about 7 a.m., which was 11 p.m. Boston time, so I started to get really tired. I decided I would close my eyes for a bit, and then when I woke up, it was 2 p.m. in Russia!

Inside, Mr. Svec split us up into four groups, and each group got their own teacher. I love my teacher! She is so sweet and understanding, and is also a very good teacher so far! Today in class, we learned the names of lots of different kinds of foods, such as fruits, vegetables, dairy, meats, etc. As an exercise, we had to come up with a list of things that we would buy if we were hosting a party. Then, she said we were going to the supermarket! IN THE MIDDLE OF CLASS! We walked a few blocks to the store, then once we got inside, she told us to find things that we would buy if we were going to host a party. We walked around the supermarket, picking things off the shelves and putting them in our baskets. When finished, we showed her all of our items and named each product as we went. But we didn’t buy any of it! We put it all back and returned to the school. By then, class was over for the day, but she told us our homework, which was to finish a page in our workbook, and also to take a picture of and write down everything that was in our fridge in Russian.

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school in less than 20 minutes, so we fast-walked to Красная, 30, the address of our school. The rest of our classmates were already there, and everyone was so happy to see each other!

June 16 | Petrozavodsk At about 1:30 p.m., I met one of my friends at one of the bus stops just outside my house and we rode the bus together into the center of the city, FOR THE FIRST TIME!! We missed our initial stop, so we had to backtrack a little, but that only took about 10 minutes before we reached the mall. I was SO hungry, so we went up to the 3rd floor of the mall where all of the food is, and I ordered food by myself for the first time! “Можно одна сырная пицца?” (“Can I have one piece of cheese pizza?”) I gobbled it down, and then we realized that we needed to be at the

Maddie’s selfie: “After school, two of my friends and I went to get dinner where I had my first blini! When I ordered, I said, “Можно, блин с шоколадом и бананами, спасибо?” (Can I have a blini with chocolate and bananas, please?)” [June 17 | Petrozavodsk] Andover | Fall 2014

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Now that my host mother is home, I can feel my Russian getting MUCH better and more automatic. By having to really communicate with someone in another language, it causes me to constantly think about what I am going to say and how I am going to say it. In our Russian classes at Andover, there is always the option to stop, and just switch to English. Here, no one would understand you if you did that! This trip is very much full immersion, in the way that we are always surrounded by Russian people, Russian things, Russian words.

We met a few of our Andover friends and our two Russian friends outside the mall, because we were going to one of our Russian friend’s grandparents’ house. When we arrived at their house, her grandmother welcomed us all with huge hugs. Their house was beautiful and very big, compared to what we’ve seen. We all took our shoes off and put our stuff down, and then we were told to wash our hands because they had made all of this food for us, which was so wonderful and unexpected that we couldn’t contain our happiness!

I am really enjoying this trip, because for one of the first times in my life, I am not in a familiar place. Growing up on the Andover campus, I know my way around and nothing seems uncomfortable to me. Here, I like the fact that there is the chance we might be lost at times, or that I can walk somewhere and never have seen a certain building or landmark before, or that I can look around and recognize absolutely no one. The fact that, almost every night, we are trying a new place for dinner, fascinates me, because I am not just eating at Commons!

Don’t get me wrong, I love living at PA, but every once in a while, you need to leave the Andover Bubble.

We all tried Квас (Kvas), one of the most famous Russian drinks. It tasted like fizzy wine, but with no alcohol. I loved the cookies that were on the table, as well as the творог (cottage cheese–like) cake. There was also croissant-like bread and this salad made up of peas, potatoes, and, I think, ham. Afterwards, blini and chai were served.

There was also варёная сгущёнка (condensed milk) that was very good with blini.

June 26 | Petrozavodsk At this point, I’ve very much accepted the fact that I cannot understand everything that is going on around me. In the beginning, it was frustrating, because before you get here, you think that you are going to know SO much and be able to speak Russian SO well, and then you actually get here, and more than 50% of what is being said just goes right over your head. It’s ok though.

Being in Russia is a bit of an acquired taste...kind of like the boiled tongue I tried last night. Яблоко и апельсин (apple and orange), an apple pie–like dish made

by Maddie’s host mother

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A whittler on Кижи (Kizhi), an island in Lake Onega

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At the theater, Ms. A gave us a summary of the ballet so we would sort of be able to understand what was going on. The theater was gorgeous. The room was huge with four floors and a magnificent chandelier hung above the audience (but across from us because we were sitting in the nosebleeds). Once it was about to start, we all took our seats. We were seeing Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina)! It was a beautiful performance. All of the

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dancers were incredibly talented, and all of their muscles were massive! I really enjoyed the performance, although parts of it were very hard to understand.

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Peterhof Palace was absolutely gorgeous. There were fountains and water everywhere, and all of it was run by gravity, no electricity at all. We walked around outside, and then saw the inside of some of the houses where Peter the Great held parties.

July 3 | St. Petersburg We drove for about 6 hours, and then arrived in St. Petersburg at about noon. We unloaded our bags and checked into our hostel called Pestel Inn. Then we got on a bus that would take us to Peterhof Palace, about an hour-long drive. I was able to catch some of the fun facts from our tour guide: • There are only about 45 sunny days a year in St. Petersburg, which is why there are so many bright and colorful buildings because the city is usually very dark and depressing.

• About 5.2 million people live in St. Petersburg alone, and about 2 million of those people ride the metro every day!

• When passing one of Putin’s vacation homes, our tour guide mentioned that Putin owns about 26 homes. Can you even imagine having that many houses?!

• When you buy a mansion, you might only pay 1р (1 ruble = 3¢) for it, but they are usually in very bad shape, so the spending comes when you have to renovate it a lot.

We walked to the Church of the Resurrection, a church that was absolutely beautiful. When we walked in, the ceilings were all so high that our tour guide joked that it was made for giants.

Then we went to the very famous Hermitage Museum, which was AMAZING. The whole museum is five buildings and each building is 3-4 stories high. We walked through each room pretty fast, because we wanted to be able to see as much as we could, which was only about 1% of the whole museum!

I can’t believe our Russian adventure is already over! I am SO excited to go home and see everyone and tell them about this once in a lifetime experience, but I am also very sad to be leaving everyone on this trip, as well as Russia in general.

Words can’t describe how much this trip has changed me and the way I will see things from now on. Thank you to everyone who was on this trip, because it wouldn’t have been the same without each and every one of you.

Maddie Murphy ’16 is in her third year of studying Russian.

The three-week Russian Language program provides an opportunity for students to practice and advance their Russian language skills while learning firsthand about the Russian people. Students travel to Petrozavodsk (northeast of St. Petersburg), where they live with local host families while taking four hours of language instruction per day. There is ample opportunity to explore the local area, which includes the Kizhi museum on an island in Lake Onega. Prior to departing Russia, the group spends a couple of days in St. Petersburg taking in some of the countless treasures there.

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F r o m t h e Archi v es

Father… may I go?

ith no official records, most Phillips and Abbot academy Civil War heroes remain unknown

logistical demands wrought by a war more savage and unceasing than anyone had predicted. Deaths and casualties— the mutilations and disfigurements were unprecedented both in kind and scope—were too numerous to report, and no centralized infrastructure existed to count them, report them, treat the

by Amy Morris living, or bury the dead. Add to this Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University confusion enrollment and conscription president and Civil War historian, and lists muddled by substitutes and dodgers. According to Faust, this “unresolvfilmmaker Ric Burns discussed their documentary, This Republic of Suffering: ability” continues to hamper our full comprehension of the war today.

Death and the American Civil War, before a large audience in Cochran Thanks to records kept by Civil War Chapel on April 15. Phillips Academy veteran Samuel Raymond, much is and the Andover Historical Society known about the town of Andover’s hosted the event to commemorate role in the conflict, including the the 150th anniversary of the Battle identities of the local boys who fought. of Spotsylvania, in which the town of Much of what we know about the supAndover suffered its largest casualties, portive and ceremonial roles that Phillips 24 wounded and 15 dead—a staggerboys and Abbot girls played for the ing loss for a town of just 4,800 people. town while attending school comes The film, based on Faust’s book of the same title, describes how Americans struggled to meet the spiritual and 46

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from his work The Record of Andover During the Rebellion.

Unfortunately, there is no official record of Phillips and Abbot alumni who served. An estimated 600 Phillips and Abbot academy students and alumni served for the North alone.

As for the Confederacy, one alumnus wrote, “every one of those boys was home as soon as the first gun was fired to fight for the South.”

Scattered among documents, books, and digitized sources are many tales… …of classmates reuniting on battlefields, one in which two Andover chums meet again as Union captor and Confederate prisoner: “The Sergeant marched him in and was dismissed, the door closed, and we just hugged each other”; …of one Sunday morning when South Carolina’s Palmetto flag greeted the Above: Members of the Class of 1864. Their class motto: Non Nobis, Sed Patriæ (Not For Ourselves, But For Our Country). The class unsuccessfully petitioned the Massachusetts governor in 1864 to form a PA military company of 100-days’ men. Half of the classes of 1865 and 1866 signed the petition, too.

mostly Northern student body from atop the Seminary Chapel’s lightning rod, the instigator “risking his life for the first time in the cause he may have finally given it to”; …of boys eschewing beds for dormitory floors to “endure hardness as good soldiers”;

high turnover of students, the war “constantly drawing men to the army.”

Elated to the point of frenzy by the governor’s call, boys passed around a petition requesting the signature of any student willing to serve. The entire senior class signed the petition; so, too, did 40 more from the classes of 1865 and 1866—nearly half the student body in total. An appointed committee of six brought the petition to Boston.

…of Christian revivals spurred by classmates’ deaths, with nightly prayer meetings where “boys who have been ranked among the most hardened in The town paper reported on the mobithe Academy, are now gathered into the lization on July 23, noting that the 80 kingdom”; signatories “would make a fine spirited company.” …of girls gathering in Miss McKeen’s room after the fall of Fort Sumter, their A letter from William Hoyt Colgate, “blood run cold by predictions of war”; Class of 1865, to his father captures the feverishness. Days earlier, he had written …of a slave, forced to fight for the home requesting money for the followConfederacy, who escaped across ing year’s textbooks. So imagine James enemy lines and eventually enrolled as Colgate’s reaction to what followed: a PA student, paying his way “by doing janitor work at the Academy and the “You will doubtless be a little surprised Gymnasium”; to receive a letter from me upon the subject which I am now about to write. …and of the student body of 1864, For some time past there has been which unsuccessfully petitioned considerable excitement about military Massachusetts Governor John A. affairs in the school. Now a company Andrew to raise a PA company in has been raised and offered to the response to his July 6, 1864, call for Governor and he has accepted it upon 5,000 100-days’ men. the condition that we get our parents’ On Commencement eve, Wayne Parker, consent, a great many of the boys have Class of 1864, later recalled that PA already obtained this.... May I go? boys were “beginning to feel the great[C]ould you not send a dispatch as it ness of our position as free, American is necessary to know right away.” and united.” His classmate, William Alas, Governor Andrew refused the Weaver Heaton, later remembered the group’s entreaty. According to committee

member Heaton, most boys failed to get their parents’ say-so anyway. However, Colgate, perhaps smarting from his parents’ refusal, told his father that “the Governor thinks he can find no place for us on account of the quota of 100-days’ men having reached its maximum.”

Whatever the reason, for scores of PA boys that summer, their hopes to fight were dashed, surely to the relief of their parents. (Among the 38 who graduated in 1864, 25 went on to Yale, and five to Amherst. At least two enlisted.)

Our limited knowledge of who served in the Civil War from Phillips and Abbot academies is typical for boarding schools and consistent with Faust’s notion of unresolvability. Many who left PA to fight did so for their home state.

Many had graduated and had left either college or their post-collegiate lives, never to reconnect with PA or Abbot.

By scouring old issues of the Andover Bulletin and the few letters that reside in Andover’s Archives from alumni who served, we can learn the identities of some. Perhaps the 1863 conflagration that destroyed PA’s “Main Building,” the Stone Academy, contained records that would have been useful. We know the names of the generals and Medal of Honor recipients who attended Andover. And, given the proliferation of digitized documents now online, compiling a record of all of Andover’s heroes might someday be possible.

A sketch by a seminarian depicts Seminary Row, as seen from Main Street, on Election night, Tuesday, November 6, 1860. As the country awaited the election results that would spark a civil war, students treated town and campus to a dramatic 2 1/2 hour light show, arranging 1,600 burning candles in the windows of Bartlet and Phillips (now Foxcroft) halls to blaze the phrases “VERITAS VINCIT” and “LINCOLN & HAMLIN.” Andover | Fall 2014

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Reunion 2014 Well over 1,000 alums returned to campus in June to reconnect with old friends, dine in Paresky Commons, share memories, and catch up on all that has happened since graduation. This year many headed back into the classroom for “Adventures in Astronomy” with physics instructor and PA observatory director Caroline Odden, “The Andover Institute” with Institute director Caroline Nolan, and a personal tour of campus art with artist Chas Fagan ’84.

Members of the 50th Reunion class even tried their hand at graffiti art with Artist-in-Residence Chris “Daze” Ellis.

Thankfully, rain held off for the annual Alumni Parade. Other reunion highlights included the viewing of the Abbot Academy oral history film The Girls of Abbot: A Memoir by Charlie Stuart ’62 and an interactive State of the Academy presentation by Head of School John Palfrey and Board President Peter Currie ’74.

Above: Eric Kanter, Kiara Brereton, Anna Burgess, Marvin Blugh, Liz Brown, Matt Gorski, Max Abitbol, and Mike McDonagh, all Class of 2009

Photos by Gil Talbot and Bethany Versoy

Above: Wendy Matthews and Jerf Friedenberg, Class of 1974 Left: Randy Perry and Sharyn Lie, Class of 1994

Above: Jisung Park, Alex Dent, Pat Callahan, and Wing-Kit Chu, all Class of 2004 Above right: Francie Nolde ’54 and Hugh Fortmiller Jr. ’52 Right: Alison Nourse-Miller, Marilyn Dow, Carol Nimick, Stephanie Ross, Barbara Allen, and Katrina Wollenberg, all Class of 1969

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Below left: Danny Janis and Amy Appleton, Class of 1979 Below right: Laurie Nash ’84 with her father, Paul Nash ’49 Right: Physics instructor and PA observatory director Caroline Odden leads an alumni tour of the facility.

Below: Marianna Baer, Marlene Laro, Kate Donchi, and Anshula Kedar, all Class of 1989

Above: Dick Hatton, Amie McMurray Mead, Fred Greene, Pete Stevens, Nancy Emerson Viele, Stan Dickey, Angus Deming, and Al Allenby, all Class of 1944

Below: Charles Fagan III ’54, Charles Fagan IV ’84, and William Woo ’84, with William's wife, Ruby, daughters, Melanie and Elizabeth, and son, Everett

Above: Doc Downing ’64, Jeff Wright ’64 and wife Betty Wells, Ken Gass ’64 and wife Francie, and Jack Noon ’64

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Principal Gathering On July 11, more than 25 Abbot Academy alumnae gathered in Davis Hall in McKeen Hall to welcome Don Gordon ’52 back to campus. It was a moving reunion, as Gordon, Abbot principal from 1968 to 1973, hadn’t seen most of the graduates since 1973, when Abbot’s final class graduated and Gordon left the Andover area for new adventures. All shared stories over lunch; watched The Girls of Abbot: A Memoir, the new Abbot Academy oral history film

by Charlie Stuart ’62; and reminisced about taking gym class and gathering for “town hall” meetings in Davis Hall many years before.

Gordon was delighted to be back on the Abbot campus with the

girls—now women—who attended the beloved school. “Be assured of my immense gratitude,” he said, “overwhelmingly for Abbot and its alumnae.”

Don Gordon ’52 (center) pictured with ( from left) Jane Christie ’58, Amanda Cobb ’73, Jenifer McLean Cooke ’73, Dianne DeLucia ’73, Kim Grecoe Sherwood ’73, Lucinda Hannon ’63, Nancy Sullivan ’63, Leslie Hendrix ’73, Faith Howland, Elizabeth Coward Miller ’73, Marilyn Dow ’69, Debra Heifetz Stein ’73, Elizabeth Padjen ’72, and Barbara Corwin Timken ’66

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instructor, director of the PA Observatory, and a mentor teacher for Caltech’s NITARP* program.

Andover students are making the most of a unique opportunity to work with professional astronomers and primary data from current astronomical experiments, thanks to a special relationship cultivated with the California Institute of Technology by Caroline Odden, physics

This past summer, Odden and four Andover students joined several other teacher-student groups in Pasadena, Calif. With the help of Dr. Varoujan Gorjian, Odden’s group analyzed data collected by the Spitzer Space Telescope to identify sources exhibiting extreme infrared excess—typically young stars, active galactic nuclei, and interacting galaxies. However, the group identified several sources with such extreme characteristics that they may not fit into these traditional categories. Analysis will continue throughout the fall, and the PA group will present results at the American Astronomical Society meeting in January 2015.

Odden and her students rounded out the week by attending a reception hosted by the Southern California Alumni Association.

The students (see photo) were called upon to describe a variety of on-campus projects, including the discovery of new variable stars, spectroscopy, and exoplanet analysis. They also shared their excitement about a new imaging device, generously funded by the Abbot Academy Association, that is expected to come online early this fall.

Alumni scientists attending the event encouraged current and incoming students to cherish their memories of “first light” scientific inspiration and to appreciate the value of their basic science expertise in addressing earthly problems and opportunities. *NASA/IPAC (National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Infrared Processing and Analysis Center) Teacher Archive Research Program

Pictured at Caltech’s faculty club at the SCAA reception are Johnson Lightfoote ’69 and Sayuri Hanna ’88 (seated) and, from left, Laurent Joli-Coeur ’15, Emily Zhu ’15, Sarp Orgul ’16, Isabel Taylor ’15, and physics instructor Caroline Odden. New Andover parents, incoming students, and recent graduates attending the event enjoyed learning about teaching and high-level research being conducted in astronomy at the Academy.

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Having a Blast at the Abbot Bazaar In the spirit of the 40th anniversary of coeducation at Andover, the Coed@40 Committee came up with the idea of moving PA’s annual Spring Carnival to the Abbot campus and reviving the Abbot Bazaar. The result: a modern-day Abbot Bazaar extravaganza, with live music and all!

Top left: Julia Jackson ’15 and Qiqi Ren ’15

Like alumnae memories of Abbot Bazaars of yesteryear, May 31 was a beautiful sunny day. Dozens of Abbot alums joined hundreds of PA students and faculty and staff children for lively and colorful activities and entertainment, including bouncy houses, balloon races, trampolines, spin art, baked goods, and, near the end, a concert by American Idol star Casey McQuillen ’11.

Above: Molly Magnell ’14 sports a new look.

The bazaar, which will become an annual event, was made possible by generous gifts from Abbot alumnae and the Coed@40 Committee.

Below center: Shani Williams ’15

Left: Julia Zell ’15 and faculty child Sydney Murphy Below left: Peter Bensen ’14 and Marjorie Kozloff ’14 Below: Gus Lopez ’17 (right) and friend take competition seriously.

Photos by John Hurley

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Labor organizer Ai-Jen Poo ’92 was named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow for her work transforming working conditions and labor standards for domestic and private-household workers…

Tennis enthusiast Dick Phelps ’46 and daughter Ann Jacobs have attained the number-one ranking in the 80-and-over age group of the USTA father-daughter championships…

Spence MacCallum ’50 has been nominated by the Chihuahua state legislature for the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor Mexico bestows on a foreigner, for his role in discovering renowned ceramic artist Juan Quezada in a remote village back in 1976…

Andy Frankenberger ’91 recently competed in poker tournaments in Paris, Montreal, the Bahamas, Los Angeles, and San Jose, and this summer traveled to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker…

Shirlie Dowd ’97 and a team of optometrists traveled from New Hampshire to the Philippines as part of post-typhoon emergency

Matt Wilder ’97 advanced to the Denver finals of American Ninja Warrior, but was knocked out of competition trying to complete the infamous Doorknob Arch…

medical relief efforts, providing consults and eyeglasses to more than 8,000 patients in just two weeks…

Earlier this year, Mike Corkery ’93 made the jump from his longtime post at the Wall Street Journal to the New York Times, where he reports on the nation’s “too big to fail” banks…

Winslow Turner Porter III ’00 won this year’s transmedia award at the Tribeca Film Festival as the producer of Clouds, an interactive documentary about the emerging field of creative code made for the virtual reality machine Oculus Rift…

David Duckenfield ’84 has been appointed deputy assistant secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, leading their public liaison and domestic outreach efforts as well as intergovernmental functions and the U.S. Diplomacy Center…

Renowned attorney Marsha V. Kazarosian ’74 was elected president of the Massachusetts Bar Association…

J.C. MacMillan ’03 made world headlines this past spring when he threw out the first pitch for the San Diego Padres dressed as a baby T. rex, his role in the “Walking with Dinosaurs” arena tour…

Philosophy professor Tamar Gendler ’83 was named the inaugural dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University…

Veteran screen actor Randall Batinkoff ’86 made his directorial debut this summer with 37: A Final Promise, about a troubled rocker torn between love and a promise…

Architect and preservationist Charlie Platt ’50 was honored in May with the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Preservation Leadership Award…

Paula Young Lee ’82 won gold in the 2014 Society of American Travel Writers Foundation 30th Annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition for her book Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat…

Caroline Lind ’02 is ranked second among all female rowers in the world after leading the U.S. team to a first-place finish at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam…

In April, Stephen Blackwell ’83’s book The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov’s Art and the Worlds of Science received the 2013 award for “Best Scholarly Contribution in the Area of Nabokov Studies” from the Nabokov Online Journal…

Harvard Business School graduate and Marine veteran Seth Moulton ’97 became the first Massachusetts Democrat in 22 years to oust a sitting congressman from his own party…

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

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New York Pentagon

Phillips Academy Alumni Events, October 2014–February 2015 National & International Events

Ithaca

Mumbai

Oct. 29

Chicago

With IRT Executive Director Asabe Poloma

Nov. 12

Boston

Strategic Plan Rollout: An Evening with John Palfrey

Nov. 17

Denver

Strategic Plan Rollout: An Evening with John Palfrey

Nov. 18

Southern Calif.

Strategic Plan Rollout: An Evening with John Palfrey

Nov. 19

Palo Alto, Calif.

Strategic Plan Rollout: An Evening with John Palfrey

Nov. 20

Turkey

With Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Jim Ventre ’79

Nov. 20

San Francisco

Strategic Plan Rollout: An Evening with John Palfrey

Nov. 22 Switzerland

With Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Jim Ventre ’79 and Chris Finn ’75

Dec. 4

New York

Strategic Plan Rollout: An Evening with John Palfrey

Jan. 13

Washington, D.C.

Strategic Plan Rollout: An Evening with John Palfrey

Feb. 5

Fort Meyers, Fla.

With Secretary of the Academy Thom Lockerby

Feb. 6

Vero Beach, Fla.

With Secretary of the Academy Thom Lockerby

Campus Events

Wyoming

Oct. 24

Family Weekend Begins

Nov. 4

Andover Alumni Award of Distinction Presentation

Nov. 6

Veterans Day Dinner & Program with Gen. Barry McCaffrey ’60

Nov. 7

Alumni Council Weekend Begins

Nov. 8

Homecoming Weekend | Andover-Exeter Fall Athletic Contests

Jan. 17

Alumni Coed Basketball Game | Alumni Coed Hockey Game & Free Skate

Feb. 28

Andover-Exeter Winter Athletic Contests

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

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The Fracking King

by James Browning ’87 New Harvest Scrabble, fracking, and boarding school make for a combustible combination in Browning’s satirical first novel. Narrator and Scrabble prodigy Winston Crwth is on his third high school in as many years when he turns up at the slightly sinister Hale School—a place where oil and gas money funds scholarships and tap water has a disconcerting tendency to burst into flames. Hijinks ensue, albeit of the darkest variety.

An Ocean Garden

by Josie Iselin ’80 Abrams If you think of seaweed strictly as the prolific flora clogging the beach at low tide or the stuff that holds sushi together, Iselin’s newest book will have you seeing seaweed in a new light. As in her previous works on beach stones, seashells, and more, photographer Iselin finds extraordinary beauty in the ordinary minutiae of nature. With its vivid colors and graceful forms on display, seaweed has never looked so lovely.

How to Read Impressionism

by James H. Rubin ’61 Abrams

Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists

by Hillary L. Chute ’94 The University of Chicago Press In the past 20 years or so, we’ve entered a golden age of comics. Don’t confuse this with the period sometimes called the Golden Age of Comic Books, which ran from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. And by all means, don’t confuse today’s comics with those of yesteryear. Artists specializing in this medium are producing some of the most sophisticated, engaging, insightful works around, and a field of legitimate scholarship has grown up around them—one as fraught and lively as the inner workings of any university lit-crit or semiotics department. Hillary Chute, an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago, is at the heart of this academic world. Through in-depth interviews with a dozen of the field’s most prominent practitioners, including Art Spiegelman, Lynda Barry, Daniel Clowes, and Alison Bechdel, Chute brings fresh insight into this emerging art form.

Just what are modern comics? The works are often called “graphic novels,” though some artists take issue with the term (“Just a bid for respectability,” says Spiegelman). Scott McCloud, one of Chute’s interviewees, offered a useful definition in his 1993 Understanding Comics: “Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the reader.” This definition, writes Chute, “set the terms of the debate” about comics. That debate is ongoing, and Outside the Box is a must-read for anyone interested in either the theory or the practice of contemporary comics.

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This eye-opening book fulfills its title promise: Readers will come away with a greatly enhanced understanding of the art movement that burst on the scene in the 1800s. Organized by topic, such as “Family and Friends” and “Industry and Technology,” the book dissects hundreds of paintings, placing them in context socially, culturally, and artistically; the cumulative effect is of a well-designed college course taught by a genial and knowledgeable professor.

Brahms Among Friends

by Paul Berry ’96 Oxford University Press Our understanding of the history of 19th-century music, argues the author, has been dominated by occurrences in the public sphere; the influence of more intimate contexts and personal friendship has been correspondingly neglected.

Berry attempts to correct that oversight in this detailed, scholarly study of musical patterns among Johannes Brahms’s close friends. The book delves deep into the composer’s allusive musical borrowing, revealing anew the intent behind the technique.

The Price of Silence

by William D. Cohan ’77 Scribner The Duke lacrosse scandal of 2006— wherein members of the university’s lacrosse team were accused of rape—still has the power to touch nerves, as evinced by the responses that greeted Cohan’s exhaustively researched volume on the topic. The book calls to account the incident’s broader context: the perquisites of privilege and jock culture. Though the charges against the players were ultimately dropped, the debate over the larger implications continues.

The Boarding School Survival Guide

by Justin Ross Muchnick ’16 Peterson’s Rich in anecdote, firsthand perspective, and practical details, this book will ease the way for any student considering (or enrolled in) boarding school. Author Muchnick, a current PA upper, has tapped peers from numerous schools to contribute chapters on topics ranging from admissions to roommates to food to finals. The breadth of the contributors’ experiences creates an accurate, useful guide to surviving and thriving at a residential school.

INADDITION Absolute Music: The History of an Idea

by Mark Evan Bonds ’71 Oxford University Press Combat and Other Shenanigans: Tales of the Absurd from a Deployment in Iraq

by Piers Platt ’98 Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Narratives of Sorrow and Dignity: Japanese Women, Pregnancy Loss, and Modern Rituals of Grieving

by Bardwell L. Smith ’43 Oxford University Press My CIA: Memories of a Secret Career

by Christopher David Costanzo ’59 CreateSpace

—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.

Where Does It Hurt?

by Jonathan Bush ’87 Portfolio Disruption is all the rage in business circles; here, author Jonathan Bush applies the concept to health care. The cofounder and CEO of Athenahealth, a provider of online practice management and electronic medical record services, Bush brings an entrepreneur’s approach to the thorny issue of health care reform. He calls for hospitals and doctors to be subject to the same market forces that govern other businesses, positing that this approach ultimately will bring us “the health care we need and deserve.”

The author’s vision was formed in part by two galvanizing experiences: working as an ambulance driver in New Orleans and as an army medic. Both brought into focus the wastefulness and inefficiencies that plague the health care system as a whole.

The solution? “Run [the health care industry] like a real business.… Health care could learn a lot from Starbucks, Amazon, and Disney,” Bush writes. Americans might balk at the notion of shopping for health care the way they do for lattes, but, argues Bush, that’s precisely the adjustment in attitude that’s needed. This new consumer mindset must in turn be enabled by more health entrepreneurship, more investment in information technologies, and, yes, more disruption. Bush makes a convincing case that such changes, though perhaps painful in the short run, could ultimately help fix our ailing health care system.

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Atop Smith Hall in May 1865, Abbot Academy students celebrate the capture of Jefferson Davis.

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1. Samuel Storrow, Class of 1860 2. Stanford Emerson Chaille, Class of 1847 3. Charles P. Mattocks, Class of 1858 4. Charles Caldwell, Class of 1860 5. Abbie Jane Chandler, Class of 1856 6. John Milton Bancroft, Class of 1857 7. Augustine Sackett, Class of 1859 8. William Henry Chase, Class of 1812 9. William Francis Bartlett, Class of 1854 10. Cornelius Ladd Kitchell, Class of 1858 11. Claude Gibson, Class of 1854 12. Sarah Low, Class of 1846 13. Charles Cleveland Dodge, Class of 1857

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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

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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., 2118 Redding CT 06896 803-767-1667 jfanders@truvista.net

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A recent message from Andover brought the unwelcome news that Ralph Smith had died. I tried to reach Ralph a couple of months ago but was told by his wife that he was very sick and in a special home. Ralph was, in a word, “elegant.” He was that way when a junior in Williams Hall and in later life as a 90-year-old. He was loyal to his many friends and always enthusiastic about Andover. He also had a keen sense of humor. In 1942, I went to the Harvard-Yale game and Ralph suggested I stay Andover | Fall 2014

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

I’ve received no return mail or calls. Please send me your news at the address above.

Here are my three months of trips I made last winter and spring. First, a trip to London with youngest daughter, and then on to Dubai to visit other daughter. On to Islamabad, Pakistan, to visit granddaughter plus her three children. Return to Dubai, on to London, and back to Boston. Very rewarding and fun.

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Manny Cadenas ’40 and Dan Hall ’39 chat in Cochran Chapel before Saturday’s Celebration of Reunion.

with him in his dorm room. The next morning I awoke to a very solemn voice loudly intoning a song from Wagner. It was not pleasant to hear upon waking after a long night. Ralph told me he always played that music when hungover. “It makes me aware someone feels worse than me,” he said. Our deep sympathy to his widow, Lilian, and all of Ralph’s family. I always enjoy my phone visits with Don Quarles, and today was no exception. Don, with that mild manner, answered the phone, and when I asked him what was new, he deferred to Dorie, his wife. She said Don was too modest. She then recounted a major achievement. When the Russians launched the Sputnik satellite, Don—then at IBM—was asked by the defense department to put together a team of scientists to track the satellite. He led a group from IBM, and they were very successful. Don, as reported here in class notes, majored in mathematics and earned a PhD degree at New York University. You can be sure Don has no trouble balancing the family checkbook. [Editor’s note: The Academy has received word that Don Quarles passed away on June 7, 2014, after the submission of these notes.]

Next on the phone was Win Bernhard, also a classmate with a sterling record, in this case as a historian whose principal interest lies in early American history. After graduating from Harvard, he joined the Ninth Air Force, where he served as a meteorologist. In 1945, he helped restore a weather service in Germany. Discharged from the Air Force, he earned a PhD degree at Columbia and began a lifetime of teaching at the University of Massachusetts. He concentrated on the American Revolution and the Federalist

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period. He has written several books and articles, and, fluent in German, he translated into English a German book about New York in 1880. Now living in Amherst, Mass., with his wife, Mary Elizabeth, Win continues his scholarship while following the successes of his grandchildren. He is particularly proud of one grandchild, a student at St. Lawrence who recently became a national champion in an intercollegiate competition. It’s a treat to talk with soft-spoken, erudite Win Bernhard.

Had a brief talk with Harry Anderson, surely one of the most scholarly and creative of our classmates. Harry lives in a retirement center in Mystic, Conn., which, given his interest in anything seaborne, is an ideal location. He is working on a project centering on Pierre Merle, of the Stroganoff Foundation. The Stroganoffs carry with them an interesting story. Harry’s always into something interesting.

In late October, my wife, Molly, and I moved from our home in Camden, S.C., to a very fine life-care community, Meadow Ridge, in Redding, Conn. To go there was a quick decision, because we were tottering a bit and life wasn’t much fun.

Meadow Ridge provides beautiful suites with independent living. We have a young lady from Africa on hand to see that we don’t fall down—a nice bonus—and the meals are terrific. Also, our son and daughter are close by. We are selling our houses in Camden and Dorset, Vt. So it’s Meadow Ridge for the duration.

I like my job as class secretary, but it’s still sad to make a call and find another of our classmates missing. Age is cruel. [Editor’s note: See the Class of ’4 4 notes for mention of Daniel Hall, who attended Reunion Weekend in June.]

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

Some random notes: • 55 classmates are still living • 27 have telephone numbers listed on my roster • 14 have e-mail addresses I estimate about half of you are living independently. If you haven’t heard from me in the past three years, your telephone listing is not on my roster. It would be helpful if you would call me or send me an e-mail with your current phone number.

So far, I am one of the lucky ones still able to live independently. Here are some thoughts: Use a walker around the house instead of a cane—preferably a four-wheel walker. You will be surprised how much more mobile you feel. Always use a cane or a walker when you go out. Sign up for a balance training class, if available in your area.

Now for some news. Arthur Louis Eno reports from Westford, Mass., that he and his wife, Ann, are in good health. They have been married 56 years!

They pretty much stay at home and watch a lot of TV. Their youngest son, a playwright, has another new show on Broadway.

Mac McLaughry in Hanover, N.H., lost his wife, Annie, since we last talked. Mac now spends a lot of time in his library or bird-watching. He has a large family—18 grandchildren, and they are scattered from the East Coast to the West Coast.

Jack Malo is living independently in Denver, despite some problems with neuropathy and rotator cuffs. He had rotator cuff surgery a couple of years ago, after a nasty fall playing tennis. Jack gets around quite handily with a walker or a cane.

He says he spends time doling out money to his grandchildren.

Thankfully, as of this writing, May 2, there are no obits.

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[Editor’s note: William Cochran is stepping 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.]

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

As I write these notes, it is graduation time.

No, not for us, not for our children, but for our grandchildren.

Mary Bertucio Arnold, our doctor classmate, a professor of medicine at Brown University’s medical school, traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the graduation of her grandson from St. Albans School. The ceremony took place at the Washington National Cathedral, a superb setting for graduation ceremonies. I jumped on that news because all three of my sons graduated from St. Albans. They “sailed” into college without a whimper because they had been privy to such superb teachers. (Not that we did not have the same at Abbot.) When you get this issue of Andover, the magazine of Phillips Academy, all those graduates will have already started their college careers or be immersed in orientation.

The downside of being a class secretary is reporting the loss of a classmate. News came to me that Ann Zeitung Hale has died. For me, such news always brings to mind the words of John Donne: “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

Please send your news for future issues of Andover—by e-mail, snail mail, telephone, or any of the above. We all are curious at heart.

Best to everyone, Ann

PHILLIPS Robert K. Reynolds 185 Southern Blvd.

Danbury CT 06810 203-743- 0174 rreynolds06@snet.net

There has been little feedback from any of our classmates, which makes writing class notes very difficult and means that these notes are mostly

about me. I reached 90 back in March and was the recipient of a birthday roast arranged by my daughters. More than 50 relatives and friends attended, and it was a complete surprise. And a barrel of fun! For those of you approaching 90, you might throw out a few subtle hints to your family that a surprise party would be welcome.

Back in April, I got an e-mail from my brother, Phil Reynolds ’45, about a group making a documentary film about the WPA’s Federal Art Project during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The group wanted to interview someone who had lived through that era—a person who would have to be bright and articulate, presentable on-screen, at least 90 years old with sharp memories, and able to speak well on camera. After a brief interview, I made the cut. The photography was scheduled for June 9 in Portland, Maine. Stand by for the results in the winter class notes. (Fall notes must be submitted by May 31, so it’s impossible to include activities that take place after that date.)

Jake Shepley wrote a nice letter. He is living quietly in St. Louis with his second wife, Terry. He agrees with me that not much happens at our age.

His memory is still good, and he recalls back in ’42 eating at the off-campus diner known as Doc’s, where he was introduced to English muffins, a delicacy he enjoys to this day. At my request, Jake commented on the state of the union. “We are in need of a big change, and the sooner the better,” he said. Amen, Jake.

Jane Thomas Trumbo, daughter of Frank Thomas, e-mailed me that Frank is in the late stages of dementia. Happily, he has enjoyed watching his 10 grandchildren grow into adulthood. He is the proud great-grandfather of five little boys and two little girls.

I’m saddened to report the death of Richard L. Webb, back in January. He attended Yale for a brief period in 1942, after which he served three years in the Army Air Force. He graduated from Boston University and became a CPA, vice president and treasurer of Terry Corporation, and a registered investment advisor. He was a member of the vestry of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Venice, Fla. He is survived by his two daughters, Nancy Cirincione and Laurie Webb, and his son, Richard Jr. He was predeceased by his wife, Dawn. Our condolences to his family.

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Richard L. Ordeman 619 Oakwood Ave. Dayton OH 45419 937-299-9652 mbo510@aol.com

Our thanks to Mary and Dick Harshman, who again hosted our Naples, Fla., class luncheon on Feb. 26, and especially to Dick, who personally prepared a delicious lunch of soup and

sandwiches. Those on hand besides Dick included Phil Drake, Bill Chipman, Arthur Sherrill, Dave Thurber, Skip Ordeman, and Artie Moher ’45, who enlivened the gathering with his stories of baseball at Andover and Yale. Phil Drake was down for the winter but planned to return to Connecticut in mid-April. Dave Thurber said he’d be going in for a routine checkup on his pacemaker soon, but he shows no ill effects from the heart attack he suffered driving to Florida two years ago.

It was exciting to hear Dave tell of the high-speed ride to the ER in Fort Myers. Shows we’re getting old when a classmate’s tale of a near-death heart attack is probably the most interesting story we’ll hear all day!

Art Sherrill, who drove down from Fort Myers, has a niece at the Air Force Academy; she tells him 35 percent of those attending are women. There was discussion of Andover’s recently announced plans for a new infirmary to replace the Isham.

Arthur recalled the time he and one other student were the only patients in the infirmary on a Saturday night. They snuck out and went to the movies.

As they were leaving the show, they bumped into Dr. Gallagher, who, Art said, gave them a funny look. But they never heard anything about it.

Wasn’t Dr. Gallagher a great guy!

Dick Baird, who lives year-round in Naples, missed the event after miraculously surviving a recent automobile accident. The car was totaled, but Dick is OK. Bardwell Smith and Charlie Arnold’s widow, Maxine, had also planned to be with us but missed the event. Bard and his wife, Charlotte, were checking in for their flight on a frigid Minnesota morning and found their travel agent had failed to book them! With all their scheduling changes and delays, they had to give up going to Naples and went directly to visit their daughter on the East Coast. I caught up with Maxine Arnold by phone. She still winters in Naples, works several days a week at a local health clinic, and plays bridge, but no more golf.

In mid-May she headed back to her life-care home in Essex, Conn. I was sorry to learn from her that Charlie’s daughter and one of his three sons died of cancer within three years of Charlie’s passing.

Bob Traylor continues to enjoy life in the Needham, Mass., assisted living facility to which he and his wife, Bunny, moved 13 years ago. Sadly, Bunny died three years ago. Bob says he swims and works out three or four times a week and plays a lot of bridge, something he remembers doing at Andover. Summer finds him at his second home in New Hampshire, on Lake Winnipesaukee. His children are geographically spread “everywhere but here,” Bob says.

Is there anyone in our class who has more energy than Jim Munro? To illustrate, here’s Jim’s report from Xingang during a stop on a fourmonth cruise he and his wife, Wendy, took earlier this year: “Wendy and I were up at 3 a.m., breakfast at 4:30 a.m., and in line at 6 a.m. to get off the ship to get through Chinese customs and immigration by 7 a.m. so we could get to a railroad station in Andover | Fall 2014

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Spanning six and a half decades of alumni, Dick Hatton ’44 and Krystle Manuel-Countee ’09 share a moment at reunion.

Tianjin by 8 a.m. for a bullet train to Beijing. Off we go—nary a vibration!—and the speed comes up on the car’s forward wall. I wasn’t expecting much, and that’s what I got. At one point, 291 kph was registered. The train was not a maglev special like in Shanghai, where it goes 430 kph. That’s what I call humming along. At less than 200 miles per hour, we were in Beijing by 9 a.m., time for breakfast, and we had coffee at Starbucks.” And so go many of Jim’s reports from the cruise.

Nice to hear from Eason Cross, who retired about a year and a half ago. At the time, he said he couldn’t run an architect’s office anymore: “Too demanding on an old body.” He and his wife, Diana, moved into the Greenspring retirement community in Springfield, Va. He’s publishing a book about architecture, Form Follows...Fantasy, which should be out in the fall. Eason says he’s also developing an interest in pottery.

The Ordemans celebrated 50 years in our home in Dayton, Ohio, last September. After working for Mead Paper in NYC for 13 years, I was promoted, which brought us to Dayton in 1963. It’s been a wonderful place to raise our family. Four of our five children are still in the area. They all lend a hand when we need help—otherwise, we probably couldn’t continue to live in this old house. Having our children nearby also allows for some wonderful family gatherings, as was the case on Easter, when Martha served dinner for 30 family members and friends. We feel very lucky and blessed.

A final thought: In a recent column, George Will told a story that contained a thoughtful message. It related an incident in which Vin Scully, famed Los Angeles Dodgers announcer, asked the trainer about an injured player. The trainer replied, “He’s listed day to day,” to which Scully replied, “Aren’t we all!”

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1944 ABBOT Emily McMurray Mead P.O. Box 292 Etna NH 03750 603-643-3741 Emily_mead@valley.net

Nancy Emerson Viele and Emily McMurray Mead represented the Class of 1944 at our 70th Reunion, carrying the banner down the aisle and leading the 10 members of the Andover class.

It was a glorious day, and I’m looking forward to the 75th.

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

It seemed a long way to go for lunch and a chance to hang out with some old guys in their 80s. But for those making the trek to Andover over trafficclogged highways from New York (Boston-area dwellers being considerably less challenged), it was well worth the hassle and fatigue of getting there.

For this was nothing less than our 70th Reunion— a major chronological landmark for the Class of 1944. Only a handful of our classmates—10 in all, including your correspondent—showed up for the roll call on Sat., June 14, the main event of Phillips Academy’s 2014 Reunion Weekend.

These were the “few good men” of ’4 4 who made

it: Dick Abrons, Al Allenby, Angus Deming, Stan Dickey, Fred Greene, Dick Hatton, Sumner Milender, Pete Stevens, Whit Stevens, and Roger Strong. Five came from Massachusetts addresses, the other five from NYC and Long Island.

As always, the school offered a vast menu of things for alumni of all ages to see and do—from walking tours of the campus and visits to the Addison Gallery, the Peabody Museum, and the Gelb Science Center to back-to-the-classroom fun, rowing on the Merrimack, and coed alumni soccer.

Pete Stevens, our class leader, wisely planned our participation around the theory that less is more.

“Many of our classmates will prefer to come only for Saturday, and return to their own homes and beds either in the late afternoon or after [Paresky] Commons dinner,” he wrote in a newsletter back in March. A few actually did leave before dinner.

Canes were observed in the hands of at least a couple of our classmates, and here and there a hearing aid was spotted. But all things considered, we of ’4 4 looked pretty good. We were happy to see one another again—in one or two cases for the first time since graduation—and to catch up with one another at our magnificent old school, even if only for a few hours. This was a mellow occasion.

The high point of the morning was the traditional Alumni Parade across the campus, from the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library to Cochran Chapel, with bagpipers making bagpipe sounds all the way. The chance to show off in front of alumni, faculty, and friends was irresistible. Fred Greene and I carried our class banner, holding it high for all to see and admire—some, perhaps, in astonishment at our durability. Well, we wanted them to know that we of ’44 are still alive and kicking, thank you very much. An appreciative audience lined the route, applauding and cheering as we (somewhat cautiously) strode by.

In Cochran Chapel we took seats in the very first row, a special honor, for what was officially the annual meeting of the Alumni Council in a reunion celebration. It was there that we first encountered and came to admire a member of the Old Guard, Daniel Hall ’39, who caucused with us. A Marine Corps veteran of World War II, Dan proved to be a great guy in fine fettle. One of the more remarkable moments in the Cochran Chapel program was a piano interlude by Bryan A. McGuiggin ’15, who played a lengthy Brahms rhapsody entirely from memory. As I recall, a riff of boogie-woogie was considered a virtuoso performance in our day. Clearly, the school has set the bar higher since then. Head of School John Palfrey spoke with passion about Andover and its mission. “I love my job,” he declared—and who could doubt him? He mentioned, almost with wonder in his voice, that he is only the 15th head of school in Andover’s 236 years of existence—a remarkable testimony to the school’s solidity and the depth and strength of its core values. “We are on a great course,” he declared, noting that some 3,000 students from 85 countries applied for admission this past year; 300 were accepted. Andover, he

www.andover.edu/intouch told us, “has become a global magnet.”

At the conclusion of the ceremonies, military veterans among the alumni stepped up on the stage to be “pinned” with specially designed lapel pins, bearing Andover’s familiar beehive logo, in recognition of their wartime service—a muchappreciated gesture by a school that goes out of its way to honor its own. Later, in the afternoon, members of the Class of ’4 4 gathered in the small chapel in the basement of Cochran Chapel for a memorial service, led by Al Allenby, in remembrance of classmates who had died since our 2009 reunion.

Our classmate William Y. “Bill” Boyd II, a longtime resident of Panama (and a successful businessman and novelist), was unable to attend our one-day reunion. He had something to celebrate nonetheless: On June 6, the anniversary of D-Day, in a ceremony at the residence of the French ambassador to Panama and flanked by the U.S. and French ambassadors, Bill was awarded the French Légion d’honneur in recognition of his services in action during World War II. In 1944–45, as an 18-year-old GI and infantry replacement, Bill served in the front lines in Alsace, France, during the last stages of the Battle of the Bulge— only a few months after taking his final exams at Phillips Academy.

What’s it like to return to Andover 70 years later? If you found the school overwhelming when you arrived as a teenager back in the 1940s, you can still find it a bit overwhelming even now. The school seems so big, so rich, so beautiful. You need a map of the campus to reorient yourself. You’re reminded that its alumni include past presidents of the United States. And there is simply so much: a high-profile art gallery, a museum of archaeology, a bird sanctuary, a science center crowned by a celestial observatory, and much, much more.

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, the school will replace the venerable Isham Infirmary with a thoroughly modern “wellness center.” The gleaming kitchen in Paresky Commons offers everything for the hungry Andover student of today, from gluten-free granola at breakfast to pizza from a state-of-the-art oven for snack or dinner. The school even has a small cemetery, tucked away behind and to the left of Samuel Phillips Hall. You can understand why John Palfrey likens his job as head of school to that of a CEO running a sizable corporation. It all sinks in as we unite at reunion time: the memories, the lifelong friendships, the undiminished greatness of this hallowed school, so steeped in American history. Andover has it all— and it still has a hold on us all.

I’ll give the last words to Mort Dunn, our class poet laureate, who was unable to attend the reunion but sent in this charming verse instead: It has been said over again, / The sword’s less potent than the pen, / When Stevens wrote, “You’ll be at home. / Why not send to me a poem?/ But if you use the US mail, / There’s insufficient time, you’ll fail. / So use the e-mail, I command.”

Pete sent a list—the “Loyal Eight,” / Who will attend on the June date, / And, if perchance the

The Class of ’44 made a strong showing at reunion. Seated, from left, are Whit Stevens, Al Allenby, Roger Strong, Dick Hatton, Pete Stevens, and Sumner Milender. Standing, from left, are Fred Greene, Angus Deming, Emily McMurray Mead, Nancy Emerson Viele, and Stan Dickey.

number’s nine, / That is OK, ’cause “nine” can rhyme. / And if perchance the number’s 10, / That is OK: “The Loyal Men.” From checking on my five-year list, / This is the first reunion I have missed. / But my best to every one of you, / Who “made” my days of Royal Blue.

And hopefully in years to come, / You’ll see again J. Morton Dunn. / And to our Pete, kudos galore, / You’ve kept alive our ’44.

Amen.

1945 PHILLIPS William M. Barnum 89 Angell St. Providence RI 02906 401- 861- 6083 wmbarnum@hotmail.com

It is with deep sadness that I have to report the passing of Larry Ward.

Please send along what’s going on in the lives of ’45s. I’m desperate to send along to the school some class notes that will be of interest to each of you. I can only report that Henry “Herk” Warren, whom I was going to give credit for winning all the tennis tournaments in Delray Beach, Fla., has given up tennis, as has his wife, Sheila. Peter Lagemann fares well, and I see him from time to time. Wife Kit and I are enjoying Providence. I paint oil paintings, and Kit does gold-leaf trays. We planned a trip to Europe this summer, taking us to Paris, where a grandson lives, and to Lake Maggiore, in Italy, and Prague. This morning, I spoke with Jack Moffly,

who has created quite a media empire, from which he is now somewhat retired. I wish I had more to report. Do try to help me do a better job for PA ’45.

God bless you, Bill Barnum

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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

Art Asbury, after a long and successful stint as class agent, has retired. Andover and, of course, our class are greatly appreciative of Art’s dedication to promoting financial contributions to the Academy from our classmates. Cliff Crosby has agreed to take over from Art. (It is assumed that Cliff will continue to run the baseball league he initiated up in New Hampshire.) Jack Lynch reports that leg problems have kept him from hunting pheasants on his property. Jack has a physical therapist to help him out. Jack said he has been in touch with Frank Jones, who recently went to California to visit his Andover | Fall 2014

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Charlie Smith’s widow, Rosie, was seen by some PA faculty emeriti visiting friends at Edgewood, a retirement community in North Andover.

(Just a social visit.) Dick Phelps reports that he had dinner with Frank Harrington in Florida in February and says Frank was in reasonably good health. They were pleased to discuss last year’s great Red Sox World Series victory. Dick also mentioned seeing John Macomber in Florida, where John was visiting friends. John said he had met Pete Harrison at a family reunion of sorts. He said Pete was in great shape and they had a wonderful time together.

Dick Phelps gave me a rundown of a trip he and his wife, Sally, took recently. He refers to the trip as “the American presidents trip,” in that they visited three presidential libraries in five days. First, they went to the George W. Bush ’64 site, in Dallas, Texas, on the SMU campus. Then they were invited to the 25th reunion of the George H.W. Bush ’42 presidency at his presidential library in College Station, Texas, a three-day event. Then they flew to Little Rock, Ark., to see the Clinton presidential library. Dick has now completed one of his projects: seeing all 13 presidential libraries.

He concluded the trip in Memphis, Tenn., with a visit to the Civil Rights Museum. One last note: Dick and his daughter, Ann Jacobs, have attained the number-one ranking in the father-daughter national tennis championships in the 80-and-over age group.

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

I had a nice talk with Jane Lewis Gleason. She is doing really well. She still winters on Marco Island, Fla., and summers at Kezar Lake, Maine.

Virginia “Ginny” Eason Weinmann sent the following: “Helen Hoehn Holloway’s husband, Federal Court of Appeals Judge William J. Holloway Jr., died April 25, 2014, at their home in Oklahoma City after a brief illness.” On behalf of the class, I send condolences to the whole family.

Nancy Donnelly Bliss ’54 wrote about a weekend she spent at Andover celebrating 40 years of coeducation (it hardly seems possible!). “Abbot alumnae came together to share experiences about our time at Abbot. Our comments were recorded and will be incorporated into the Abbot Academy archives. Alumni and students met for a session titled ‘Women, Leadership, and Mentoring.’ I left campus with a great feeling about our school.” In May, the Abbot Bazaar was held in the Circle. As you can see, every effort is being made to keep the memory of Abbot alive. As long as alumnae

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PHILLIPS Bob Lasley 1958 Cherryvale Court Toms River NJ 08755 732-948-1126 ralasley@comcast.net

Once again, I’ve heard virtually nothing from you—so, a further word on that subject. I suspect (really, I know full well) that almost all of you read this mag with some interest, wanting to know who among us has been honored or indicted, but you’re positive that nothing you’ve done could be of any interest to anyone. So herewith: a plea. The lists I have do not have a whole lot of phone numbers or e-mail addresses, and that’s fixable. Please send me your preferred phone or e-mail at the above e-mail address, or call me at 732-948-1126. I will never ask you for donations, but I will ask you for information on your comings and goings. ’Nuff said.

My first contact was Bill Wood, who reports moving from Bradenton to Dunedin, Fla., to be closer to family; he’s still enjoying life and is in good health. Next was Dave Adams, who is moving to a nearby one-story place, as two-story abodes are not worth it. Then, a bad connection with Bob Tucker in Bermuda revealed only that he’d had a hip replaced but still traveled to the States to visit his three daughters.

Then I reached Bob Silver, who has practiced eye-doctoring in NYC for decades but finally retired from performing surgery at age 77 and from practicing entirely some five years later, which permits more time for the opera and travels to France and Germany to keep up with old friends.

Next on the list is Ed Ottenheimer in San Diego, who, believe it or not, is still in practice, if only part time, with a shift from pediatrician to hospitalist, which I can testify is a badly needed new approach. He is exercising regularly “to keep up” and has lived in the same house for 51 years (is that a class record?).

The telephone finally got through to Skip Mott, who reports a long career with Dow Chemical followed by grad school at age 56, earning a master’s degree in zoology, which led to extensive work in nature conservancies and writing a naturalist newsletter—too active to be called retirement.

The next guy to answer his phone was Sandy McIntosh, who spends summers on Cape Cod and winters on Marco Island, Fla. His youngest son is scheduled for the altar very soon. He also reported on a great Yale ’51 mini reunion in New York, with some 50 attendees.

Next contact was Neil Chapin, reporting good health; he’s still playing ice hockey and running more than five miles per day. I think that’s a tad better than good health.

The final contact was Steve Bogan, who is

essentially a full-time grandfather to some 11 grandkids and is heavily into golf, with an official handicap and activities in the Connecticut State Seniors Golf Association. Steve’s career was essentially in electrical engineering, and with partners, he was involved in designing vibrationtesting equipment for customers in Europe, which required travel to Copenhagen, among other cities.

In his copious free time, he followed an interest in opera and—oh, yes—managed to acquire a commercial pilot’s license, which ended up with him in the cockpit of a regional line called New England Airlines (a part-time gig).

And the bell continually tolls. The Boston Herald reports the death last February of Joel Kozol. Joel had a long career in the law, in addition to achieving national championships in squash. Our condolences to his family. [Editor’s note: Please see the In Memoriam section for Joel Kozol’s obituary.]

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

Jane Kenah Dewey and I spent a delightful few days in Andover this past April as self-appointed volunteers in the PA archives, helping to identify photos and other artifacts from our era at Abbot.

Janie writes, “We did do a bit of that, but mostly we were given an education on the state of the school archives, which struck us as badly in need of upgrading. Our tour guide, archivist Paige Roberts, indicated her enthusiastic interest in Abbot’s history and will welcome any photographs and other memorabilia from your Abbot years.”

M.K. Lackey Stowell is busy and active, plays bridge and golf, and walks daily. Her husband, Sam, to whom she had been happily married for 59 years, died in 2012. She says she has “gotten used to being alone” and spends half the year in Greenwich, Conn., and the other half in Vero Beach, Fla. She has five children, 14 athletic grandchildren, and one great-grandchild, with another on the way.

Having sold her New York apartment, Judy Erdmann Makrianes is living happily ever after in a cottage with her partner, Alec, in Essex Meadows, a senior residence in Essex, Conn. She has discovered, she says, that “there is life after New York.” She had feared leaving the city, with all its attractions, but has discovered a lively community of interesting people and a full series of events, from concerts and art shows to discussions of world affairs.

Jane Woolverton Wrench ’49 reports that Ann Sarolea Bartholomew recently died in San Francisco. The following account of her life was written by Ann’s daughters: “Ann grew up in New Canaan, Conn., and studied at Sarah Lawrence.

She married Alick Bartholomew in 1955 and

www.andover.edu/intouch raised three children in NYC and Boston before settling in England in 1972. Ann worked as a children’s librarian at London’s Children’s Book Centre and later trained as an art therapist and was employed in a hospital and psychiatric clinic.

Always creative, she engaged in drawing, painting, spinning, weaving, and calligraphy. For most of her life, she belonged to a spiritual group that follows the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff. She moved to San Francisco in 2010 to be near her daughters Sara and Katie and their families. Ann was very proud of her seven grandchildren.”

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

It was good to return home to Andover in the spring to find that the snow had melted, but it was better to reflect on the three months just gone by spent in Florida and contemplate the cold and snow we had avoided. In addition, our Sarasota, Fla., quarters allowed us to connect with Ruth and Bob Diefenbach in Fort Myers. Starting with the view from their living room overlooking the bay, we were treated to a tour of their adopted city.

How fortunate the city is to have this non sibi pair as citizens. Dief had seen Anne and Dick Kimball in recent weeks and said they seem to be enjoying life fully. Bill Miner tells me that the Kimballs will summer again this year on the Maine coast.

Joan and John Monsky drove to Sarasota from Jacksonville, Fla., and Nancy and Mike Hurwitz came from Naples, Fla., for a three-day reunion.

There was plenty of time for organ recitals, but anyone who can handle the bratwurst served on our sightseeing boat in the Keys must have the innards of the young. John has not slowed down much in his business career. He and Joan shuttle back and forth to New York. In the city, he has his work, and he and Joan have their grandchildren, the arts, and the latest virus to bring back to Jacksonville. Mike says he is happier playing only nine holes and from the advanced tees, but he is out there regularly. Mike reports that Barbara and Dick Rubin are well.

Our main stringer, George Rider ’51, commented in his blog on the recent weekend activity at Andover to honor Lt. Cmdr. Erik Kristensen ’91, a U.S. Navy SEAL killed in action in the War on Terror. As a core member of the committee to organize the weekend, George attended with some of his family. He was pleased to find Harry Flynn there with his son Harry ’75. The younger Harry presented his father with a lapel pin created to honor PA alumni who served in the military.

George and Harry were roommates aboard the USS Preston (DD-795) in 1955. It was Harry’s first visit to Andover since 1948.

Hoisting the parade banner for the Class of ’49 are Hank Wood and Ted Torrance.

Ted Hudson sent a note in which he included a copy of Flash, the “Offi-shul Publication for Discriminating Buckaroosters of the Boulder River of the Absaroka Range of the Gallatin National Forest.” Ted has been a Buckarooster contributor of cartoons since 1948 and added an article for this issue.

At dinner with Carole and Phil Aronson I learned that Ronnie and Alan Schwartz planned to be in Andover during the 2014 Reunion Weekend on official business. The occasion was the induction of the seventh group of athletes to the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor. Alan was one of nine individuals honored for accomplishments in athletics and for continuing to lead lives that embody the values of Phillips Academy and Abbot Academy.

Latie and Roger McLean drove to North Andover from Falmouth, Maine, in the spring. My wife, Maralyn, and I joined them, and together we continued on to New Canaan, Conn. The season was more advanced there, with more flowers and greening, and were it not for the fact that we made the trip to attend the funeral of Dick White, it would have been a pleasant ride. We stayed over the night before so we could be sure to make a timely arrival at the memorial service in the morning. The morning air was sweet and crisp. The churchyard filled quickly. Inside, the feeling was upbeat, considering the weightiness of the day.

There were some familiar faces from Yale, but it was clear that this was a wide-ranging group from Dick’s life. The sanctuary overflowed. A flowering magnolia looked in from outside. Family, friends, and clergy described a warm man dedicated to a range of family, church, business, and community

interests. They recognized his deep bass voice and laugh that brought everything he was involved in down to earth. It was observed that “Dick loved life and welcomed everyone to his life.” The service was done to perfection. Dick would have had it no other way. I could see him sitting quietly, observing with a wry smile on his face and a wonderful hat on his head. A reunion will never be the same.

Sadly, in addition to Dick’s death, we report the passing of Thomas Minot Dudley and Donald Francis Lynch. [Editor’s note: Please see the In Memoriam section for Donald Lynch’s and Dick White’s obituaries. Please see the In Memoriam section of the spring 2014 issue for Thomas Dudley’s obituary.]

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

Give me some men who are stout-hearted men. ...Well, it seems we were. Bruce Wallace uncovered an astounding clipping in the basement.

It dealt with an important event about which I had no recollection whatsoever. A newspaper headline circa the late ’40s reads, “Phillips Academy Students Raise $14,648.” The accompanying photograph shows nine guys looking at a poster. None of them are identifiable, since the shot was taken from behind. They are looking at a large poster done in rebus (icons in place of key words). The Andover | Fall 2014

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The text reads, “The sum...in cash and pledges for a new World War Memorial gymnasium has already been raised by the 725 students themselves without aid from their parents or from professional fundraisers. Under the leadership of Quintus Anderson, the entire student body was organized into a group of teams that will work actively for the drive throughout the country during the Christmas holidays toward the goal of $1,000,000.” If anyone has any recollection of this fascinating bit of PA ’49 lore, please send it to me.

Milman “Bud” Linn reports that he and wife Lynn missed the reunion because of a conflict with a marvelous cruise from “Southampton via the Red Sea and Suez Canal through the ‘pirate corridor,’ ” he writes. “Fortunately, the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea were like millponds. They made the Mediterranean look turbulent. Actually, I like some motion, but we didn’t experience any ground swells until leaving Lisbon. After we got the mail read, bills paid, and laundry done, it was graduation season, and the grandkids requested the pleasure of our company at their ‘big days.’ Something had to give, so the reunion had to be sacrificed.”

I also didn’t make the reunion. My wife and I had just returned from a long cruise from Singapore. This week, we leave on our annual safari to Hilton Head, S.C., with all 20 of our immediate family. Never a dull moment. On the literary front, if you haven’t read David Picker’s Musts, Maybes, and Nevers, you are missing a very good read. One review reads, “An entertaining and insightful book about the business and funny side of the movie industry. One problem: I couldn’t put it down.” You can get it on Amazon or at your bookstore.

A recent issue of the Montclair [N.J.] Times carried a long lead article and four-column picture with the headline “Time To Take a Step Back.” The subject was a review of the astonishing 43-season record of the coach of the Montclair Cobras football club. Record: 406 victories, 178 losses, 22 ties.

The occasion for the article: Coach Howard Finney’s retirement. Howard was known as a Bear Bryant type of coach. One anecdote has it that he was once hospitalized in mid-season after an angioplasty. Howard had a good solution. He called the plays from his hospital bed by a phone hook-up.

Ed Packard keeps changing his first name; probably some kind of witness protection program.

But, in addition to being one of our distinguished authors, he writes wonderful comments usable in this column. A pressing engagement prevented him from participating in the reunion: grandson Oliver was graduating from kindergarten. Ed recalls that Stu Ingersoll’s dad, asked to write Ed a letter of recommendation, inquired whether he was a leader. Ed replied, after some soul searching, “No, but I’m not a follower.” His main activities in Durango, Colo., are walking, swimming, and publishing a blog on his website, edwardpackard.com.

Like many of us, he and wife Sara are suffering from hearing loss. To combat this, they are installing a digital piano. Don’t ask me why. Ask him.

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From our anchorman in the mean streets of Sarasota, Fla. Jerry Wexler reviews the reunion.

“We had 20 guys return—about 10 percent of our original class. The weather on Friday was terrible— cold and rainy—but Saturday was lovely for the parade and lunch and then John Palfrey’s remarks.

As you can guess, our Class of 1949 was fairly near the front of the parade— just a few members from 1944 and a few in the Old Guard ahead of us. It was terrific to see classmates from so long ago, and I remembered every one of them. There were a few canes and walking sticks, but I think our class members looked quite well. Certainly well below our ages, or does everyone say that? As usual, Andover did a wonderful job with the 1,600 alumni there for the weekend. The dinners and lunches were in the Smith Center, attached to the Cage, and they were handled very well. It was quite a shock to see the old original Borden Gym—it looked so small, but then, we were smaller back then, also. Ellen, Jim Messing’s widow, has been our friend since college, so she drove up for Saturday afternoon to see Andover once again. It was nice to have her there, as the school meant so much to Jim. John Palfrey and his new, younger team seem ready to take on the future. I hope they do as well as the previous administrations did in maintaining and growing a wonderful institution. Dana Eastham was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Honor posthumously to join you [Jim McLane] and other members of our class.

I’m very glad I went, but I must tell you that it will probably be my last one. I’ve got good memories, and they will just have to last.”

Wilder Baker sent the following information about the passing of his close friend Fred McDougal: “Fred, Neil Flanagin, and I lived together all four years at Yale, with Bob Broussard joining us our freshman year and Jim Messing our last one. I stayed in touch with all of them post graduation, although Bob of course died in a plane crash while in the Navy, a year or so after OCS. Fred had a brilliant career in textbook publishing, founding McDougal Littell, which was highly successful and which he sold to Houghton Mifflin many years ago. (I noted that one of my granddaughters still uses an ML textbook, so the line is still in use.) He was also a major collector of modern art and established two foundations for Chicago students and teachers when he sold his firm. Fred was married twice: first to Gudrun, with whom he had two sons, and, for the greater part of his life, to Nancy, who had worked with him and who also survives him. Our classmates who went to Yale will also recall his jamming on the piano at a few of our reunions there. There was a celebration of Fred’s life on June 14 at Chicago Symphony Center, where he served on the board. I attended that instead of the Andover reunion, much to my deep regret.”

[Editor’s note: The Academy has received word that Alan Lazarus passed away on March 13, 2014. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.]

1950 ABBOT Nora Johnson 1619 Third Ave., Apt. 13G New York NY 10128 212-289-2097 noraj31@gmail.com

Sometimes—for whatever reasons—not a single classmate is inclined to toss off a few words for class notes. I cannot read your minds! But you’ll get something—and here’s my substitute for your voices.

Travel advice for geezers: Always get a wheelchair at airports. The service is free, so a generous tip—say, $20—is appropriate for someone who’s saving your life. And oh, they are. You’ll never find your plane on foot at Heathrow or Charles de Gaulle at our age—you’ll still be wandering, lost, the next day.

And speaking of Charles de Gaulle, beware getting lost while in the wheelchair. Even the wheelchair-pushers, ordinarily as sharp as sherpas, become confused there, and then they are disparu, leaving you somewhere till another, smarter pusher comes along. Pusher Number Two will probably also get lost and leave you somewhere else, etc.

Ordinarily, pushers will manage all the tedious details: They will hand your ticket and passport to the right people, zip you to the head of security lines, and rip off the required clothes and put them back on again. They will stop at the ladies’ room, the newspaper stall, or the coffee shop, and, if you are particularly crippled, buy your latte for you.

Then they will leave you at your gate and disappear. Be prepared! Look helpless. Play the pathetic card. Good Samaritans will appear and transport you to your plane seat. Voilà!

There are, of course, unexpected surprises.

That’s travel! A couple of years ago, a Delta pusher dropped me on the ground. I landed unharmed on my tush and was hauled to my feet by a small circle of horrified Delta employees. I spent 15 minutes consoling them and barely made the plane. Two weeks later, I received an apologetic letter from Delta with a check for $100—a way to keep me from suing for vast sums, a lawyer friend said.

What Americans call pushing, and wheeling, and plodding, and scootering, the British call mobility. In London, I rented a walker from a company called Direct Mobility—because I didn’t want to be in mortal agony or pitch over into the street. There’s still the underfoot problem: cobblestones, gravel, or stone slabs that don’t quite meet. Here, you need a spouse/loving child/faithful friend or Delta employee. Underfoot, London isn’t bad, the U.S. is mostly OK, but Italy? Steep streets, stones, stairs, adorable little bridges, more stairs—don’t even try. Love it from a distance. And don’t go near Greece.

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Members of the Abbot Class of ’51 who met this past winter in Sarasota, Fla., to catch up over lunch are, from left, Dorothy Colburn Rice, Barbara Gibson Roth-Donaldson, Lois Ann Lovejoy Johnson, and Sally Mason Crowell. Faculty Emerita Pat Edmonds, far right, also joined them.

to stay home on the couch, you can ship your husband somewhere. Really—I’ve done it. If I got George, who’d had a stroke and couldn’t walk, into a taxi, he would be whisked to LaGuardia, loaded

by American Airlines into a wheelchair, and carried by three pretty flight attendants (his favorite part) to his seat on the plane. At Raleigh-Durham he was delivered into the hands of his friends—and when his visit was over, the whole thing happened in reverse.

Though there are ramps and lifts everywhere, certain areas of mobility are closed to me forever.

Stairs are killers. I can’t do gravel, such as the paths in London’s lovely parks. Beaches are out—I can’t walk on sand, nor can I swim or walk in even four inches of water. I’ve been a swimmer all my life; now I cling to the edge.

But I’m absolutely fine sitting in a chair with my feet up.

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

Tony Herrey, who is chairing our 65th Reunion next June 12–14, proved himself an adept multitasker this spring as he toggled his attention between reunion consultations and business pursuits—the latter including an intricate real estate transaction.

While Tony was vigorously working his way through a long list of reunion issues, Phil Brooks was focusing on the music. As this year’s Memorial Day deadline for class notes arrived, three of our classmate musicians had already enthusiastically

stepped forward: Phil himself, who plays bass, John Lincoln, master of keyboards, and clarinetist Dudley Shepard. “I’m pretty excited. ... Bring it on!”

Dud wrote.

“So we have a jazz group for our 65th!” Linc chimed in from his assisted living home in Montpelier, Vt. “I play for the residents here daily,” Linc added. “It’s cool, as my repertoire and their struttin’ days are sensationally similar. I entertain myself by playing ‘I Thought About You,’ ‘Polka Dots and Moonbeams,’ ‘I’m Old-Fashioned,’ and the like in the keys of four and five sharps. A good drill!”

Skip Schaum reported his project management team in Iraq was working with the Iraqi Ministry of Youth and Sport to wrap up phase one of the Basra Sports City project after the grand opening and inaugural soccer match last March, which he said drew more than 40,000 people. Phase two was to include additional athletic venues, a 500-room hotel, and additional infrastructure including power facilities and water and sewage treatment.

Meanwhile, Skip himself was at work on planning and financing for several new projects, one in Iraq and others in Saudi Arabia and Brazil.

Charlie Platt wrote that he was amending his work schedule: “Doing architecture and painting with one day less at the office and one day more at the studio.” One of his architecture projects, a slim, modern apartment building proposed for a Manhattan historic district site, faced potential pushback from preservation purists. Meanwhile, Charlie himself was honored in May with the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Preservation Leadership Award.

Tom Keefe reported that he had recently completed a three-year presidency of his Hawaii homeowners’ association and had taken on a similar role in Houston, while remaining on the boards of the McDonald Observatory in West Texas and two

Todd Bates ’74 and father Bruce Bates ’49 were both back on campus for reunion.

companies in which he had a financial stake. On a lighter note, Tom said he has become a regular participant in the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (“The whole thing is a hoot!”) and is enjoying his 10th year studying Italian via Rice University’s continuing education program: “Love the language, love the country. Am considering spending a month in Florence next spring for four weeks of half-day lessons.”

Dick Suisman, having recovered at last from his “dance with a pickup truck” in the middle of a Washington thoroughfare two years ago, resumed leadership of his Washington-area advocacy group, Our Nation’s Capital (ONC), as it marked its 10th anniversary. George Beatty has been the group’s treasurer. ONC’s first priority: creating a regional infrastructure bank that would take part in financing public-works projects.

Tony Herrey found time during a Montreal business trip this spring to take classmate Marc Besso to dinner. “Neither Marc nor I could recall any contact at Andover,” Tony said, “but we hit it off immediately, remembering classmates, teachers, events, and multiple experiences increasingly as the evening wore on.” Marc graduated in 1949 after three years with us, thanks to credits he’d earned in Paris before coming to PA, but has chosen to belong in our class.

Tony visited John Lincoln in Montpelier, Vt., en route home, and he was impressed by Linc’s display of books, photos, and lots of family memorabilia on walls, shelves, dressers, and windowsills in his small apartment, among them a picture of his great-grandfather Frederick Lincoln, who had twice been Boston’s mayor. “A veritable museum,” Tony marveled.

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Buenos Aires to frigid Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. It was a first-time experience for them.

Alex Pausley reported that he and his wife, Barb, were “still cogent, flexible, and in good spirits, and still traveling—last to Venice, Italy, next to Lima, Peru.” Like other classmates we’ve heard from, they were looking forward to our 65th Reunion next June.

Spence MacCallum has been nominated by the Chihuahua state legislature for the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor Mexico bestows on a foreigner. Spence’s nomination recognizes his role in discovering ceramic artist Juan Quezada in a remote Chihuahua village back in 1976, becoming Quezada’s mentor, and guiding his rise from obscurity to international art-world prominence.

As Quezada’s reputation grew, he shared his knowledge and know-how with others, and his village of Mata Ortiz became one of Mexico’s major art pottery centers.

I must share more sad news. John Sherry died Oct. 30, 2013; Dudley Autio died Dec. 6, 2013; and Michael Gerney died March 7, 2014.

[Editor’s note: Please see the In Memoriam section for their obituaries.]

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

Lois Ann Lovejoy Johnson sent in the following news: The Sarasota Florida ladies got together for lunch and were joined by Pat Edmonds, former secretary of the Academy at Andover and former faculty member at Abbot and PA. Pat’s remarks: “Wonderful to have a Sarasota luncheon with four lovely Abbot women of the Class of 1951. We talked of Abbot then and now—an exciting look at the past and future.” Dorothy “Dino” Rice reports that she and husband David spend summers in Vermont on their retired farm (with lawyer daughter Rebecca and her 14 horses and 10 goats down the road). They winter in Longboat Key, Fla., where Dino sings sea chanteys, plays recorders, teaches tai chi, and sings in a church choir.

Barbara Gibson Roth-Donaldson and her husband, Frank, have been in Sarasota almost six years and have never regretted the move. Barbara is employed at a big Episcopal church in Siesta Key and sings tenor in a large chorus that travels and makes recordings. She sent this report: “[Sons] Allen, a civil engineer in Philadelphia, and Doug, in Richmond, Va., a banker with BB&T, visited with their wives; they are both happy, healthy, and busy.

Daughter Margot and her husband are shepherding their four children through their growing-up.

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fjords, Boston organists’ convention, and an organ tour of Belgium this summer. So life is good, and Frank and I are blessed with good health. We wish the same for you!”

Sally Mason Crowell writes, “[Husband] Howard and I have had a busy year, particularly because we downsized to a CCRC, the Glenridge on Palmer Ranch in Sarasota, Fla. This is the place Howard helped start 10 years ago! We are very pleased with our decision and are enjoying our new digs. In October 2013, we took a three-week driving trip north, including one way on the auto train, visiting family and friends along the way.

Our oldest grandson, Cameron, graduated in May from the Naval Academy and headed to Pensacola.

[Grandson] Andrew moves on to high school at Culver Military Academy and is excited about that. We spent Christmas in Indiana with our son, David, and his family, and then in February, we had a week in Telluride, Colo., where Howard could get his ski fix with daughter Judy and her husband, Paul.”

Lois Ann Lovejoy Johnson continues to enjoy Sarasota’s many music offerings: opera, symphony, small ensembles, and choir. She stays active in church ministries and playing bridge and mah-jongg, and has been hooked on genealogy research. Big trip in spring was Athens and a cruise to Greek Islands. She says, “My family was all here after Christmas to celebrate my birthday—what a great time we had! Fifty flamingoes graced the front lawn, and folks brought 217 pounds of food for the local food bank! I don’t need any more stuff! I’ll join my daughter, Ann, and her two children (Muse, 6, and Azalech, 8) at Ethiopian Heritage and Culture Camp in Virginia again this summer, a wonderful experience with folks from across the country who also have Ethiopianborn children. Ann is now priest-in-charge at an Episcopal church in Connecticut, closer to my son, Peter, his wife, Liz, and their children, Ella, 14, and Nicholas, 12, and it’s been a good move. We’re all together at Thanksgiving each year. Peter’s built a fabulous home in Wayland, Mass., that fits us all.

They’re on a pond close to Boston and have a great school system!”

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

With two large events pending, news of further depletion in our ranks, and winter finally in our wake, spring’s late arrival promises brighter days ahead.

Dick Ullman passed away on March 11, 2014.

He was a distinguished scholar of international affairs at Princeton University for 40-plus years, serving as David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Relations. He served two presidents,

instructing both Democrats and Republicans.

He began his career at Harvard. While on sabbatical from Princeton, he was George Eastman Visiting Professor at Oxford University, where he had received his D. Phil. degree as a Rhodes Scholar. He served on the editorial board of the New York Times and, as director of studies at the Council of Foreign Relations, a leader of Foreign Policy magazine. Dick is survived by wife Gail, two children, two stepchildren, and six grandchildren. A memorial service was held on June 8 at Alexander Hall at Princeton.

Harry Berkowitz passed away March 15, 2014.

After a heroic three-month stay at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital battling cancer, he succumbed while recovering from surgery. Tributes have been received from John Scheiwe, Locke Rush, Dirck Born, Billy Lee, Doc Castle, Dick Kapelson, Bill Duffy, Bob Doran, Joan Ward Lasley, Everett Anderson, Steve Yamamoto, and Tony Quainton. Harry’s wife, Mary Jane (Mimi), passed away in 2007. His life was made complete by his cherished relationship with Donna Dean. Harry is survived by Donna; his children, Ann Berkowitz, Peter Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz, and David Young; and his brother William ’54.

On April 9, my wife, Dorothy, and I attended the memorial service for Harry at St. Luke’s Parish, Darien, Conn., with classmates John Cobb, Roger Gilbert, Gordon Douglas, and Kenly Webster. [Editor’s note: Please see Harry Berkowitz’s obituary in the In Memoriam section of the spring 2014 issue.]

John Scheiwe forwarded “Reminiscences,” an account of hijinks and adventure with roommate Hugh Friedmann that nearly landed them in debtors’ lockup, against the backdrop of a bon voyage party. Full account along with all comments about Harry will appear in my blog, at www.redriderfi.wordpress.com.

John Cobb moved from Tuxedo Park, N.Y., to Newburgh, N.Y. He and wife Verna are anything but retired. Their law practice is booming. Also, John will open five restaurants close by.

Pete deCordova reminisces about returning to campus for our Andover graduation. He was a stalwart lacrosse player at Duke, teaming with 1954 All-American defenseman Everett Anderson.

Duke was ACC champion that year. Yale tied Duke 8-8 on a hot, windy day with dust swirling.

I picked up a ground ball and headed over the midfield line. Everett decked me. Falling with my back to their goal, I fired the ball over my shoulder at their goal. A wind gust raised the dust. The ball rolled in! My first goal ever; made the bruise on my rump worth it.

Peter is living in Savannah, Ga. He spends most waking hours on six available golf courses.

Formerly, he was a pilot and frequently ran into Smith Davis and Dick Vance. He worked at Scott Paper for 10 years, then was a GM dealer in Norwich, N.Y. His wife operated a jewelry store on Long Beach Island, N.J. Peter spends time in Rockport, Maine, and Newport, R.I. He is a

partner in three fudge stores (The Fudgery) and invites all to come by.

Everett Anderson sends his regards and comments that, after 63 years, his picture appeared in Andover magazine (winter 2014 edition, page 3)— in a photo of Andover’s 1949 football team, along with, among others, Lloyd Cutting, Harry Berkowitz, Bob Behan, Norman Allenby, Bill Duffy, George Rider, Tom Pettus, Ozzie Ayscue, Hal Higgins, Bill Cooke, Al Dibbins, Bob Doran, Bob Kimball, Doug Graham, Tim Anderson, and Robert Cuthbertson.

Everett fondly remembers John Bronk using five rolls of four-inch tape on Harry Berkowitz’s knee before every practice. Ev is still working at Duke University as a professor of urology.

Billy Lee had lunch in March with Robin and Norm Allenby at Yank Sing in San Francisco, Frank Yatsu’s all-time favorite restaurant.

Our daughter, Jenny Rider ’86, married William McKeever in Essex, Conn., in June—a joyous day for the Riders.

In April, Andover celebrated the life of Lt. Cmdr.

Erik Kristensen ’91, U.S. Navy SEAL, an alumnus killed in action in the War on Terror. In 2005, Erik died at the age of 33, selflessly leading a rescue effort to extract a four-man SEAL team that had been ambushed attempting to take out a Taliban war chief, high in the Hindu Kush. Operation Red Wing’s rescue helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, killing all 16 men aboard. Three of the four SEALs on the ground also died. The fourth lived and wrote the book Lone Survivor, the subject of an acclaimed film of the same title.

Dorothy, Jenny, and I were privileged to attend Andover’s extraordinary tribute to Erik. From dinner with members of Andover and the Military committee, Andover staff, and high-ranking visiting military officers, including Erik’s fellow Navy SEALs, until the fond departure at the Andover Inn with Erik’s parents and godmother, the emotionally charged 48 hours topped any 48 hours of my life. Unforgettable! Riveting! Poignant! Sobering!

Inspiring! I invite you to read my account of the event at www.redriderfi.wordpress.com.

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

A letter arrived from Harriett Brown DeLong this past winter. Harriett’s son and daughter-in-law work with animals and live with an assortment of rescued animals. Harriett wrote, “I had been resigned to granddogs, -cats, -tortoises, -snakes, etc.

You can imagine my delight, in December, when grandson David DeLong was born.” Baby David arrived on the 12th anniversary of the death of

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fter running 25 miles of the 2013 Boston Marathon—past the screaming coeds at Wellesley College, up Heartbreak Hill, and downhill toward the finish—Kit Smith ’52 stopped. He wasn’t tired. He was confused. And then very, very angry.

“I was near the Citgo sign when the runners started piling up in front of me. I thought, what’s this? Get out of the way! Then someone said, ‘The race has been canceled. Two bombs went off at the finish line.’”

Meanwhile, his wife, Margie, who had watched Kit run past Boston College, was on the subway headed to meet him at the finish line. “I was kind of dozing on the T, when I awoke to words like ‘body parts, bombs.’ It was like, what? What?

What? Here?”

Later that afternoon, the Smiths got a call from a Honolulu TV station. “We need to interview Kit,” said the reporter, “because we’ve been getting all these phone calls asking, ‘Is Kit Smith OK?’ ” A Hawaii native who worked for nearly 25 years as financial editor of the Honolulu Advertiser, Kit is pretty well known on Oahu.

While physically fine, Kit was emotionally shaken but, true to character, resolved to run Boston again in 2014. Upon their return this past April, the Smiths were deeply moved by the many tributes to the survivors and victims of 2013’s senseless bombings and, at the tender age of 79, Kit completed his eighth running of the Boston Marathon in 4:45:06.

Andover did little for Kit’s future avocation; a one-year senior, he logged exactly zero miles with the track team. “I went out for JV football,” he says, “but missed one practice because of band rehearsal and got cut.”

It wasn’t until 1978, when Kit was 44, that one of Margie’s close friends completed a marathon and inspired him to take up running. He ran the Honolulu Marathon that year in 4:20 and was soon cajoling his wife to run too.

The 1997 Anchorage Marathon was the first and last marathon Margie ever ran. “It was a fundraiser for leukemia and lymphoma. One of our three daughters, Patty, had died Kit and Margie Smith at the 2014 Boston Marathon from a very rare kind of lymphoma in 1981. I ran the first half and then walked the second half—my knees were not happy,” she laughs. Kit finished third in his age group, and, Margie says, “caught the bug.”

Ever humble and doggedly determined, he has run at least one marathon (and up to three) every year since, including the “big five”—London, Berlin, Boston, Chicago, and New York. He credits a good portion of his success to Margie’s cheerful, unfailing support. The couple, still smitten, met at Stanford and have been married for 55 years.

“I’ve been very, very lucky over the years,” Kit says with a chuckle. “I have sturdy legs, and I just don’t get injured.” Next up for Team Smith is the Honolulu Marathon in December. A new marathon in Tokyo is on the calendar for 2016. There’s an oval 26.2 sticker on his bathroom mirror for daily inspiration. “I don’t see my bumper,” says Kit, “but I look at the mirror whenever I shave.”

The Smiths were interviewed at the Andover Inn over breakfast with Diane Glynn, associate director of annual giving and one of Kit’s biggest fans.

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Harriett’s husband, David DeLong, an especially significant time for her and her family.

Harriett’s main activities are art-related. She is archiving and exhibiting 50 years of David’s work, which consists of drawings, paintings, etchings, and watercolors. She also makes cards and papiermâché sculptures for commission or donation.

She exhibited some of her late husband’s work in Savannah, Ga., and was cocurator of a show at the Albin Polasek museum in Winter Park, Fla., called Life in the Fast Lane. The show captured David’s love of motorcycles and the sport of motorcycle racing. Four of David’s etchings were shown here in Portland, Ore. Sadly, I did not get to see the etchings, as I did not know they were in Portland.

Included in Harriett’s letter was also a photo of her papier-mâché sculptures. They are delightful, and I wish all of you could see them.

Harriett also traveled 40,000 miles in her red truck, visiting family in Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina, during summer 2013. A busy lady, and our hats go off to her.

Please keep the news coming, classmates.

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

Irv Milheim of Montana, having resurrected his tuba skills, is playing in several ensembles, including the Flathead Valley Community Band and the Glacier Symphony. In June, he traveled to France to play in a band with members from across the U.S. at the 70th anniversary commemoration of the Normandy D-Day landings.

Dean Gitter and wife Lynn are moving to a home north of Taos, N.M. Quite a move for an Easterner!

Pete O’Hara and wife Pat have become Florida residents. They’re living in Dunedin, on the Gulf Coast north of Clearwater.

Dave Hill reports that after several health episodes he continues to work as a financial professional for AXA Advisors, as a result of wife Gisele’s TLC and, he says, “the skills of my medical team.” Dave does construction work at Habitat for Humanity two Saturdays each month. Dave and Gisele will soon celebrate their 48th anniversary with a rail trip through Switzerland.

I well remember a tall, gangly prep from the South whose charm made him a favorite in 1948—Warren “Hutch” Hutchins. Hutch now lives in NYC, after a long career in international finance with Citibank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. His career took him to many wonderful and interesting spots around the globe. He retired from BoAML in 2009 but stayed on as a consultant for four years.

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Ball in NYC, held in May at the Hotel Pierre. Hutch (who never was north of North Carolina before attending Andover) is a director of the Russian Nobility Association in America. Henry is also a director of the Glimmerglass Festival in Coopers­ town, N.Y. Hutch’s connection with European nobility also includes 35 years as president of the Royal Music Foundation, Inc., a charity affiliated with the Royal College of Music in London, of which Prince Charles is president. Hutch’s Citibank career had him meeting several heads of state, including Marshal Tito and Ferdinand Marcos. Who’da thunk it?

Denny Donegan, living in Dalton, Ga., interviews PA applicants from Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Arkansas. He has conducted a number of interviews on Skype and finds it a fine way to connect with prospective students. He reports that two recent applicants were born in Ho Chi Minh City.

Dick Sagebiel and I communicate fairly frequently by e-mail. He and wife Daisy are Bay Area residents, and Dick still goes in to San Francisco for weekly conferences at the melanoma clinic and still is involved in research. His writings in the field are prolific. Dick and Daisy have been married for 53 years. Dick reports that Daisy is “Swiss and skis much better than I do (did).” They travel extensively and take many trail hikes in Tuscany, Switzerland, and California. They were headed to the Galapagos at this writing.

Fritz Seil tells of his close relationship with Frank Yatsu ’51. They were best men at each other’s weddings. Frank passed away in 2012. He had invited Fritz to join him in the neurology department of Oregon Health & Science University.

Fritz remained there when Frank went on to the University of Texas.

Ed Selig has enjoyed presenting seminars in moral philosophy sponsored by Brandeis University. He also claims to be making slow progress toward playing Chopin nocturnes “in a not altogether disgraceful manner.”

Paul Jameson and wife JoAnna continue to enjoy life in Concord, Mass., walking and bicycling around town. Paul occasionally runs into Duane “Dusty” Johnstone and William “Wick” Doggett.

Paul is studying general relativity and has organized a “humanist discussion group” in Concord.

I am saddened to report the passing of U.S. Air Force Colonel (Ret.) Frederick R. Dent on Jan. 1 of this year. Fred went to West Point after Andover.

He obtained an MS degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas, and in 1963 he was assigned to Elgin Air Force Base, developing and testing weapons systems. He went on to aerospace research pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base and remained there as an academic and flight instructor. In 1969, he went to Vietnam as a flight commander. He had over 350 combat hours. After Vietnam, he earned an MBA degree from Auburn University and was assigned to the Pentagon. He eventually logged more than 3,587 hours in 36 different aircraft. He was awarded the Distinguished

Flying Cross, Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Air Medal with 12 oak leaf clusters, and Air Force Commendation Medal.

Following his Air Force career, Fred established a waterfront oyster bar in Florida. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Marion, two children, and two grandchildren.

I’m still spending most of my time at The Sea Ranch on the Sonoma, Calif., coast, watching the pelicans, egrets, seals, whales, deer, and quail go by.

My wife, Lisa, is still in active practice in environmental law at the old Morristown, N.J., firm and commutes to The Sea Ranch. We plan on celebrating my 80th in Provence in the fall. If your travel plans include Northern California, I’d love a visit.

As ever. —Mike

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It was wonderful to hear from so many of you in response to news of the Abbot Bazaar reprise last May. Julie Gaines Phalen said she wished she were “not so far away—I would love to walk on the Abbot Circle.” She planned to leave Sarasota, Fla., in late June to spend the summer in Vermont.

While in Florida, she and husband Clif saw Anne Oliver Jackson, who wrote of having also visited Pam Bushnell Ellis in Sanibel, Fla. Later, Anne caught up with Polly Jackson Townsend and husband Jerry, and Betsy Hitzrot Evans and husband Dick, at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., for a tour and a long lunch.

There is more on the peregrinations of Sally Swayne Jennings, following her move to a new home last winter. Speaking of the bazaar, she wrote “Wouldn’t it be fun? But alas, it can’t happen for me. [My husband and I] are just back from two months in California after having moved into our nice little cottage in mid-February. Off again [in early June] to either Sacramento for the high school rowing nationals (if the graduating grandson/crew captain’s boat qualifies) or Seattle for his graduation.” She sends her best to everyone, as does Elaine Audi Macken, who was hosting a party for the departing music director of her church on the day of the bazaar. Not entirely absent from all things reminiscent of Abbot, she said, “I did watch the Andover-Exeter football game online as my granddaughter is just now finishing her prep year at Exeter.” (Elaine’s emphasis.)

Nancy Bailey Riegel would have loved to attend but was going to a family wedding. Libby Hollister Zimmerman wrote, “Sorry not to be able to participate, but I’m a long way away. Just got back from a birding trip to Scotland—a bit chilly

www.andover.edu/intouch and damp, as is often the case there. But we did see some nice birds, and I had a chance to visit my niece, who lives near London. This weekend I’m joining a trip to see lichens in central Wisconsin.”

After that come the bird migrations; Libby’s calendar is packed.

I received a wonderful letter from Barbara Schroedel Lewis. With a doctorate in health promotion/disease prevention, Barbara became director of health education at Colorado’s TriCounty Health Department and subsequently a faculty member in the department of family medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. There, for 15 years until her retirement, she taught residents and did both qualitative and quantitative research. Barbara, who lives in Phoenix. with her partner, Lowell, wrote, “In addition to raising a family (three children), I found time to take ballet classes for 10 years.

Then, when Lowell and I moved to the country 25 years ago, I was able to get back to riding—a little jumping, a little dressage, and many canters.

I also resumed birding and became an ardent rock gardener, and Lowell hybridized iris. He and I also explored numerous remote rock art sites over a period of some 30 years. My love of horses has translated into learning dog agility and occasionally trialing my two border collies.”

Marty Schneider Unger sent her very best to all, and although she has rather indistinct memories of the bazaar, she remembers coming to our 50th Reunion with her granddaughter, now married; Marty and her husband, Roger, were planning to visit her in Des Moines, Iowa.

Connie Weldon LeMaitre and I planned to meet at the bazaar, where once upon a time there stood a wishing well, and it was said that Spring and Laughter were sold at no extra cost.

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

As I write this, it’s the middle of May, and in New York I’m looking forward to the highlight of the spring, a visit from Roger Donald, who is coming to celebrate the marriage of his daughter.

I caught Joe Mesics just about to go out for a short (by his standards) bike ride. His son, Chip, is teaching Japanese, and Joe has six grandchildren.

Fred Fenton wrote, “My wife, Billie, and I were in Southern California to visit family and celebrate her 80th birthday. We are both in reasonably good health and will celebrate our 60th wedding anniversary this September. A national day of protest against the deportation of nearly two million people during Obama’s presidency—1,000 families ripped apart every day, and our undocumented sisters and brothers given kangaroo trials at the border—is planned for April 5. That happens to

be my 79th birthday. I will celebrate by participating in one of the demonstrations here in the Bay Area. One of the most encouraging and inspiring things I know of today is Andover. The Class of ’53 can be proud of all that our school has become and the promise of an even greater contribution in the years ahead.”

The program for the March 8 and 9 concerts of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra included a performance of Carson Parks’s “Somethin’ Stupid.”

Neal McCorvie reports that in his retirement in Vero Beach, Fla., he is playing golf and writing his memoirs. I had a lovely conversation with Neal and his wife, Barbara. They have three children and two grandchildren. If I am reading my handwriting correctly, their granddaughter recently attended PA Summer Session.

Phil Mitchell, having retired some years back, is living in Smyrna, Ga., and pursuing his interests in art, architecture, and Civil War sites. He has three children, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren!

Bruce LeFavour has retired from his career as a Napa Valley chef, after having owned three restaurants in the area. However, he does all the cooking at home. Lucky wife! Speaking of luck, Bruce’s wife, Faith, whom he met through their respective careers, works as a food and wine photographer. They enjoy travel, in recent years to Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Bruce has two daughters and two grandchildren, residing in Idaho and New Jersey.

The May 5 New York Times reported on the long-overdue retrospective on “a father of Minimalism and one of the greatest living American sculptors,” our own Carl Andre. The exhibition is being presented by the Dia Art Foundation, at its outpost in Beacon, N.Y. The Times article stated that Carl was “as quick-witted and dryly caustic as he was said to be in his youth, when he was known as a kind of philosopher-scourge of SoHo.” Dave Norris reports that he has cut back substantially on his counseling practice but retains several clients and his congregation.

Frank Moore is enjoying retirement, traveling et ux to South Africa, London, and the Rhine. Frank and wife Nancy also enjoy the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada. Frank has two daughters and two sons spread among Michigan, Ohio, and Massachusetts. This fall, a grandson will enter PA—the fourth generation of the family (including three of Frank and Nancy’s children) to do so.

In memoriam: I believe I failed to report the June 16, 2013, death of Larry Heppes, who was survived by his wife, four children, and eight grandchildren. Our belated condolences to the family.

Stay well, and keep those cards, letters, and e-mails coming.

[Editor’s note: The Academy has received word that Walter Alexander passed away on June 20, 2014. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.]

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

I am happy to report that 11 Abbot ’54 classmates had a grand time celebrating our 60th Reunion.

We all found it hard to believe that 60 years had gone by since we were students at Abbot, as we still think of ourselves as “girls.” Paula Prial Folkman, Betsy Hilgenberg Heminway and her friend Charles Brockunier ’57, Edie Williamson Kean and husband Ham, Sandy Liberty, Sue Larter Lingeman, Maris Oamer Noble, Francie Nolde and husband Hugh Fortmiller ’52, Pat Skillin Pelton, Peggy Moore Roll and husband Jack, Sylvia Thayer and husband Philip Zaeder, and I were in attendance for most of the events. We had many opportunities to visit and to reminisce about our time at Abbot and to share about our lives now.

We laughed and had a few tears during the course of the weekend and always felt very happy to be together. The guys in our group were good sports, adding a sense of humor as they trooped around with us to various events in rain and shine.

The Abbot Dinner Friday evening in Davis Hall and the Abbot Tea in the School Room in Abbot Hall were beautifully set up, with many colorful flowering plants on the tables and delicious food served. After the dinner Friday, we had the privilege of viewing the film The Girls of Abbot: A Memoir by filmmaker Charlie Stuart ’62. The film was produced as part of the Coed@40 celebration, and Abbot alums, including Winnie Johnson Sharp, were interviewed for it during the 2013 Reunion Weekend. We were so excited to see that Winnie was a part of this extraordinary, poignant film about life at Abbot over the years, including the turbulent time of the late ’60s and early ’70s before the merger. (Winnie and husband Joel were unable to attend reunion as they were traveling in Botswana and Namibia with many family members, including sister Margi Johnson-Gaddis.)

Besides the interviews, there were wonderful photos from the archives to augment the story.

We viewed the film again Saturday, when we heard Charlie Stuart speak about his experience in making the film. Soon the film will be available for more to view.

On Saturday morning, Peggy and Jack Roll and I attended the Non Sibi Donor Breakfast in Paresky Commons. Our class was recognized for our gift to the Brace Center for Gender Studies: a contribution of more than $16,000, triple our goal and with 54 percent participation. Thanks to all for your generosity and support. The director, Tracy Ainsworth, is most appreciative of our interest and gift. We assured her that we would remain involved in their programs. We also expect to be involved in building up the Abbot archives, as we Andover | Fall 2014

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stay connected... plan to donate some of our Abbot “treasures.”

Paige Roberts, the PA archivist, is doing a terrific job of compiling any donated material. We had a visit with her as she joined our class for the lunch on Saturday.

The rain stopped in time to gather for the parade, a highlight for our reunions. It is special to have the bagpipes, and hearing that distinctive sound always brings tears to my eyes as I remember the bagpipers who led the procession for Abbot graduations. We were able to carry the 1954 banner and led our class and PA ’54 down the walk. Many of us wore our Abbot ’54 blue ribbons, and all enjoyed hearing the cheers as we marched by.

Along with having Winnie represented in the Abbot film, two children of classmates were featured in an art exhibit as part of Coed@40 titled “What Artists Study.” We had the joy of seeing pottery created by Thayer Zaeder ’83, son of Sylvia Thayer, and interesting art creations by Rachel Bacon ’84, daughter of Edie Kean.

Our reunion celebration concluded with a dinner Saturday evening at Palmers Restaurant & Tavern in Andover. It was an interesting experience, as we ended up in a room, divided only by a thin curtain, where a 60th surprise birthday party—including live “music” provided by bongo drums—was taking place. For some reason, the management scheduled that party along with ours, even after the careful planning and communication by Paula, who had booked the dinner in January. At first, we were a bit undone by all the noise, but we rallied and had many laughs and some conversation with those nearby. The food and service were fine, and we were definitely uplifted by the gorgeous flowering plants arranged on the table, gifts for us from Sue. Special thanks to Paula and Sue for their efforts. Since the bongo drums and party were still in full swing, we gathered outside for our farewells. Paula presented me with a beautiful “vintage” Abbot scarf that had belonged to Sheila Prial Jacobstein ’56, Paula’s sister.

Graduations, anniversaries, and family gatherings kept some classmates—including Holly Dunn Bodman, Jane Munro Barrett, Molly Young Sauereisen, Joan Wheeler Kaufman, and Linda Jones Matthews—away from the reunion. Holly was preparing for a concert tour in Ireland with the Berkshire Choral Festival. Molly mentioned that she has retired after 28 years as an alumni representative for PA. She writes, “I have enjoyed all the young students I interviewed and am continually amazed at the talent and brilliance of the students of today.” Molly and husband Ferd took their 20th bike trip this past spring when they traveled to Holland. Molly continues singing in her church choir.

Diane Cookman Stallworth was sorry to miss the reunion. However, she sends her best wishes and writes, “I do miss all of you and hope everyone celebrates another biggie with gusto. Would love to see the beautiful campus again.” Diane is well and continues to keep active. Sally Jones Easter

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is well and continues to live in Princeton, N.J., with husband George. They have traveled to faraway countries but now stay closer to home, enjoying family, church, and volunteer activities. Francie Nolde received recognition as an Unsung Heroine of Massachusetts for her steadfast work as chair of the town of Boxborough’s Energy Committee. Francie shared this news to honor all unsung heroines among Abbot women and among women in general.

I’m sorry to report that Ann Norwood passed away on June 9, 2014. Please feel free to send me your memories of Ann, to share in the next issue.

Thanks to so many classmates who stay in touch and have supported my efforts as class secretary. Know that we thought of all of you over the Reunion Weekend and are already thinking about a gathering in Boston later in the year. Love, Nancy

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

The real highlight since our last class notes was the 60th Reunion, for which Hugh MacMillan was the organizing force; he did a masterful job. Of the 200 living members of our class, 43 came back for reunion June 13–15, and there were myriad opportunities to revisit and rekindle many pleasant memories and relationships over the three-day weekend. We know that several of you had last-minute unavoidable commitments you could not break and hence were unable to join us, and we truly missed you.

On Friday afternoon, one of our classmates (Bob Feldman) and one of our adopted members (beloved Dutch Wolff) performed in the Aces, the Andover alumni jazz band. Due to the extreme driving conditions on Friday, [wife] Liz and I could not get there from Connecticut in time to enjoy the concert, but from all accounts it was fabulous.

Bob came with his wife, Julia, and daughter Hannah, driving all the way from Oregon. He then drove to Portland, Maine, to spend a few days with Natalya and Ken MacWilliams. According to Ken, Bob then drove to Kennedy Airport in New York and deposited Julia and Hannah for a flight to Europe and turned around and drove back to Oregon. I am exhausted writing this.

Bob arranged a tour of the Addison Gallery late Friday afternoon, to see the acquisitions funded to date by our class—the only class, thanks to Bob, to have a “class fund for acquisitions.”

On Friday evening at the all-classes dinner in the Cage and adjacent former Sumner Smith Rink, we had an opportunity to visit with one another and rekindle past friendships and enjoy camaraderie.

At our table with Hugh and his wife, Tish, and Bill Agee ’55 sat Dick Lux, teacher and wrestling coach

in our time. He regaled us with tales of faculty meetings and manifestations of the “pecking order.”

The weather cooperated on Saturday morning, and we marched, class by class, to Cochran Chapel, where we learned some wonderful things about Andover today (did we ever doubt it?).

Saturday afternoon, Head of School John Palfrey gave a presentation on the State of the Academy, and he and panelists answered questions submitted from the audience—very lively and stimulating.

Late Saturday afternoon, George Shapiro led the dedication ceremony for the tree and bench named in Skip Elsas’s honor, in front of the Gelb Science Center. Dave Knight, Bill Dove, and Skip’s son, Jake ’85, also spoke about Skip’s accomplishments, deep friendships, and loyalty to class members and family. The “8 minus 1” sang a special tribute to Skip (who had been a member of 8 ’n 1), some sitting on the bench and some standing behind. Skip’s wife, Nancy, was there with Jake. We thank Bob Feldman and Park Weaver for joining with Dave and George to drive this initiative to remember Skip—and Ken MacWilliams, also, through his tireless efforts on the class VCR (Virtual Continuing Reunion) to draw attention to this initiative. Interestingly, I learned that George, Skip, and Bill Martin, our “Atlanta three,” all attended military school in Atlanta before coming to Andover...into Col. John Kemper’s hands.

Saturday evening we had a lovely dinner in Paresky Commons, and the 8 minus 1 again performed, this time with five songs. Its current members are Jon Foote, Spike Bragg, Dick Starratt, Barron Kidd, Hayes Clement, Tom Cushing, and Jerry Donovan (filling in Skip’s spot). Hugh passed out a written greeting from our American history teacher, Val Wilkie, who is living on the West Coast. Our year 1953–54 was his first year at Andover; he filled in for Dr. Darling (who left for a project in Washington, D.C., three days before classes began). He was also our varsity baseball coach, along with Ted Harrison. There was more delightful visiting as we lingered on well into the evening.

On Sunday, after a nice brunch in Paresky Commons, we adjourned to newly renovated Bulfinch Hall, where Rev. Dave Glendinning led us in a memorial service for all of our deceased classmates. Warm remembrances for each deceased classmate were shared by one or more of those in attendance, and we are deeply thankful to Dave for leading us in such a lovely and meaningful service.

Space limitations keep me from listing all 43 classmates who were there. Hugh and I have a list and would be glad to send it on to anyone who asks for it and has not already received it via Ken MacWilliams’s class VCR or Hugh’s master-list e-mail distributions (machugh@gmail.com). Ken has circulated on the VCR a great many reunion pictures he and other attendees took. If you are not on the VCR and wish to be on it, please send your e-mail address to macwilliams@earthlink.com.

I leave you with a line from Charles Dickens’s

www.andover.edu/intouch

Gathering by the Circle for their Class of ’54 Abbot reunion are, from left, Nancy Donnelly Bliss, Pat Skillin Pelton, Peggy Moore Roll, Sandy Liberty, Edie Williamson Kean, Maris Oamer Noble, Sylvia Thayer, Paula Prial Folkman, and Francie Nolde.

A Christmas Carol (Dave had read us lines from Marley’s ghost at the memorial service, and when he asked the source, only Ellen Starratt, Dick’s wife, knew it): “Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.” Andover certainly gave us such a great opportunity!

Erratum: In the winter 2014 issue of Andover magazine, I noted that Bill Blunt was “not seeking a conventional publisher” for his novel, A Dangerous Marriage. This was a typo on my part, as he was and is now seeking a publisher, and any suggestions to him would be most welcome. His e-mail address is wblunt@verizon.net.

Also, 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. He is at hsage@cox.net.

1955 ABBOT Nancy Eastham Iacobucci 17 Wilgar Road Etobicoke ON M8X 1J3 Canada 416-231-1670 n.iacobucci@bluelink.andover.edu

Thanks to Sue Appleton Jowett for sending some welcome updates. “I do the traditional senior occupations of volunteering, crafting, cooking, and seeing my offspring and their families,” she

wrote. But these generalities do not tell the whole tale! For volunteering, she works at the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program in Brunswick, Maine, sorting boxes of food sent by local markets (items past their best-before date but still perfectly good), inspecting fresh fruits and vegetables to ensure they are not spoiled or soft, dividing large quantities of frozen meat and cheese into smaller portions, and cooking. All of that is a very busy and important volunteer job!

Sue did not elaborate on her crafting, but I expect the cooking (besides what she does at the center) includes much seafood brought in by her and her husband, Doug. Doug has noncommercial lobster traps that, in a good year, can catch as many as 100 lobsters. He also digs clams and gathers oysters, and Sue picks mussels off the rocks in front of their house. Doug also takes out fishing charters and no doubt brings home catch from those expeditions. They also expect to add to the larder with a bird-hunting trip planned for fall. Sue worked at L.L.Bean for several years, and as part of her training she went to their “shooting school.” She claims to be very rusty and not up to Dee Fleming King’s hunting exploits, but hopes to have some practice with clay pigeons before the trip. She did mention an unusual triumph from more than 25 years ago: She shot a duck, used its feathers to tie a fly, and then caught a salmon with the fly!

Regarding offspring, she reported that one daughter and her husband have quit their jobs, sold their California home, contents, and car, and are traveling the world until they tire of it (imagine!). They have a small import business, and

while they are away, Sue is the “shipping manager” for that business.

I must mention another aspect of Sue’s activities: She sent me an e-mail today at 4:08 a.m., after which she was off to start her day with exercises and then a four-mile walk, if the weather cooperated. I am more than impressed!

Our enthusiastic traveler Dee Fleming King enjoyed two other interesting trips in 2013, following her Cuba adventure. In the fall, she went to Africa, “just to view animals,” which she did “in great splendor in Tanzania,” camping in the Serengeti. She renewed an interest in elephants and gained a new interest in cheetahs; she also learned a few words of Swahili. The group’s guide described Mount Kilimanjaro as a “shy mountain” that honored them by peeking through the clouds— “Magnificent!” said Dee. Then, in December, she went with a friend on a Christmas market cruise on the Danube and spent a few days afterward, including Christmas, in Vienna. She described the cruise as “like being in a fairytale,” with breathtaking landscapes of ice and snow-covered trees, and commented that the Germans and Austrians certainly know how to celebrate the holidays! Dee also reported that in January she had been elected first reader at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Corpus Christi, Texas—congratulations!

Finally, occasionally I am given classmate news that should not go in the magazine but that you might want to know. Since the school has sent me very few e-mail addresses, I would really appreciate it if you would send me yours (along with news!). I will not divulge e-mails without your consent, and I will not inundate you with mail. Thank you!

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

Bardyl Tirana was appointed judge of the Grand View-on-Hudson Village Court and has subsequently been elected to a four-year term ending April 2018. He and wife Anne have made the first reservations for our reunion next year.

Russ Shaver has put the finishing touches on his memoir, and the former Rand Corporation think tanker (tank thinker?) has moved to Shell Point, a retirement community near Fort Meyers, Fla. He’s been seen on the Shell Point driving range and says the adjacent course is the next challenge.

The non sibi banner flies high over the work of Bob Nordhaus and his brother Bill ’59, in their efforts on behalf of climate-change awareness and activism. Their story was featured in an article by Coral Davenport in the May 11 issue of the New York Times, and she has graciously given me permission to quote her work.

Bob is a Washington energy attorney who was an energy advisor to President Jimmy Carter and general counsel at the Department of Energy under President Bill Clinton. Bill is a Yale economist described as a leading contender for the Nobel Prize. They approach the problem from their respective vantages and may deliver the one-two punch to move U.S. energy policy in a new direction.

Bill, who conceived the carbon tax in the late 1970s, has developed “an economic model that puts a price tag on the effects of climate change, like more droughts, flooding, and crop failures and stronger hurricanes. He calls it the Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy model, or DICE.” The gambling allusion is far from accidental.

DICE models indicate that one ton of carbon pollution might inflict $20 to $30 in economic damage, a considerable figure given that the global economy emits about 36 billion tons of carbon per year. Although DICE has had a profound effect on climate policy, it has met with stiff opposition from conservative groups, most particularly the Heritage Foundation, which called it “flawed beyond use for policy making” and hardly justifying “trillions of dollars of government policies and burdensome regulations.”

But it seems that back in 1970, as a staff lawyer in the House legislative counsel’s office, Bob was tasked with expanding regulation of substances from the known pollutants, such as mercury and smog, to as-yet-unknown hazards of the future.

“Bob wrote the provision—it became Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act—at a time when carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, was not considered harmful. It was not until 2009 that the Environmental Protection Agency defined carbon

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dioxide as a harmful pollutant because of its contribution to global warming. Thus it falls into the category of an unknown ‘pollutant of the future.’

Section 111(d), after languishing in obscurity for decades, is now the legal rationale for the Obama Administration’s plan to regulate carbon emissions without a law passed by Congress,” notes the Times article.

Section 111(d) has rarely been used and was referred to by David Doniger, a Natural Resources Defense Council lawyer, as “the 40-year-old virgin.” The new regulation faces an uphill battle, but the EPA will justify it with an analysis showing that the economic benefits of the climate-change rule would outweigh the costs. And the core element of that analysis is Bill’s DICE model.

Oh, brothers!...Y.

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

Another year has rolled around. It seems like many years since we all were at Abbot!

Big news: Eleanor “Boat” Rulon-Miller York has a great-grandson. Congratulations!

Patricia “Patti” Pearce Brodersen’s husband, Lou, wrote, “We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary on Feb. 1 at Stoneybrook at Heritage Harbour in Bradenton, Fla. We came to Florida in 1996 after Patti retired from a 30-year career in the medical and public-relations fields and I from working as a sports journalist for 33 years. Patti worked with the humane societies in Broward and Manatee counties, took up golf, and is the proud holder of two hole in ones. Besides golf and our golden retriever, Beau, and Siamese rescue-cat sisters, Toots and Trix, we enjoy seeing our two sons and their families: Jeff, wife Susan, and children Will and Molly live in Glastonbury, Conn.; Rob, wife Tina, and children Zack and Taylor are in Palm Harbor, Fla. We really enjoy reading about former roommates and friends.”

Margaret “Peggy” Oliver Hedeman posts, “My calendar is full, my life is full, and I don’t know where the time goes. What could be better?

Technology is still a challenge but I’m trying.

“I am healthy and have all my original body parts—lucky me. My Fitbit, which keeps track of my daily steps, keeps me moving, and I have taken up pickleball as a fun new sport.

“I think of each and every one of you and wish you the very best of everything.”

Susan “Susie” Wickham Maire writes, “Last year was certainly an interesting and exciting year, and one that gave our family plenty of opportunities to experience God’s grace. We believe, by that

grace, we were primed and in good health to enjoy what has come our way in 2014. “[Grandson] Josh Trees entered his second year of employment with an Illinois engineering firm. [Granddaughter] Savannah Trees, a junior at DePauw, was point guard on their national-titlewinning women’s basketball team. “[Stepson] Matt Maire enjoyed his first full year of employment with Supra, a company that makes software for realtors, and his family settled into their new home in Austin, Texas, where their daughters Noelle and Lauren are promising thespians and son Grant is big in flag football.

“The 14th year of our migratory lifestyle— spending half the year in Savannah, Ga., where we enjoy the richness of great relationships and Southern culture, and the other half in the good old Big Ten–loving, what-you-see-is-what-you-get Midwest—suits us just fine.”

And Elizabeth “Betsy” Parker Powell writes: “[Husband] Dave whittled away at his woodworking tool inventions, resulting in a U.S. patent for crowning and dressing plates, plus a universal sharpening jig with a patent pending.

See www.planeperfect.com for the sharp details.

We discovered Portugal in 2012 with Dave’s Princeton ’54 classmates and explored Berlin with Andover ’56 classmates in 2013. I played Auntie Mame in 2013 to grandson Alex, then 9, with a trip to Italy. And we continue to enjoy family and friends at Berry Haven on Nantucket.”

Husband Bob and I continue to take pleasure from Arizona living. Summer is a challenge, with the hot weather, but we travel to cooler locales.

And this calendar year we have had visits from each of our three daughters and two of our sons-in-law.

Amy’s husband was unable to get away from running the city of Vancouver, B.C. He was missed, but we reveled in having all our girls share our Southwest experience.

I would love to hear more from more of you.

—Woolvie

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 443-249-1237 prhjr@rockbridge.net

In the previous issue of our class notes, the Other Phil told of the Schwartzburg-to-Tesla-to-Tarlov connection. As prologue to the Berlin mini reunion in May 2013, Toby Schwartzburg bought a Tesla Model S. In Berlin, Toby extolled its virtues to Ed Tarlov and Ed’s wife, Suzanne. As epilogue, the Tarlovs bought one, picked it up in California,

www.andover.edu/intouch and drove it 7,000 miles, meandering across the country from December to early March. The trip gave new meaning to “miles per hour”—the number of miles of battery charge you can get per hour of charging. The fastest chargers run at 225 mph; the slowest, at 5 mph. Ed’s “tank” holds 270 miles.

Says early-adopter Tarlov, “A cross-country trip is not for the fainthearted at this point in history.”

You can reach Ed to hear more about the trip at Edward.C.Tarlov@Lahey.org.

Andover music teacher of the mid-1950s and good friend Dutch Wolff suffered a broken leg, requiring surgery, in February 2012. A young man leapt from a tall sculpture on Sixth Avenue in NYC and landed on passerby Wolff. I discovered the news when I ran into Dutch in Manhattan at an Andover music department classical music performance. His address is RayAWolff@aol.com.

Sterling “Doc” Bennett weighs in with fiction-writing news of his “triptych.” Steeped in early 1900s Mexican history, two volumes can now be found at Amazon.com and parts of the third, well under way, can be found at www.sterlingbennett.com. The epigraph to this last reads, “How do you start a novel? Well, you write a chapter and then wait for the explanations, i.e., the rest of the novel, to catch up with you.”

My collaborator, Phil Hirsh, and his wife, Susan, have left Phil’s boyhood home in Lexington, Va., in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and settled into new digs in Chester, Md., located on the state’s Eastern Shore. Never one to be charged with lack of enthusiasm, Phil says, “My new workshop is up and running! I have torn down and rebuilt every machine, and now I am in production mode. For years I said, ‘One day I’ll have a real workshop.’ And now it’s a reality. Gotta run, new project awaits!”

A man of few words, Alan McLean proffered but one quote, “Still alive.” He suggested that a head count of living ’56 alumni would be of interest.

So here goes a guesstimate. Our class database contains 250 entries, of whom about 215 graduated and about 35 did not. (The database includes those who arrived and left without graduating.) From the pool of 250, there are 58 known deaths, leaving 192. The question remains, “How many of those 192 have passed on without our finding out?” My best guesstimate is between 5 and 15 (or roughly 5 percent). That nets it out at 175 to 185 alive and 65 to 75 gone, or roughly 60 percent alive. By the way, back in 2006, 101 classmates attended our 50th Reunion. Since then we have lost 23, from a pool of more than 200.

Mollie and Gar Lasater have taken up a new career—local political supporter of their son Ed Lasater’s bid for a vacated seat on the City Council of Fort Worth, Texas. In a May 10 contest among six candidates for the District 9 seat, young Lasater qualified for a runoff election, which he lost on June 21. Before the election, the excitement was palpable in the senior Lasaters’ voices as they discovered added passion in their lives.

Professor of English literature Gib Robinson of San Francisco, in an extended conversation,

emphasized his good luck in good health. A longtime practitioner of Zen (he stays in contact with fellow devotee Si Hoadley of Port Townsend, Wash.), Gib walks for two hours, three times per week, in the Marin Headlands. He uses Nordic walking poles, a habit I have adapted to the streets of New York after seeing classmate Julian Herrey use them extensively during the Berlin mini reunion. Married at age 50, Gib at age 58 sired a daughter, whom he is sending off to college this fall.

Bill Perrin, Bill Towler, and Larry Bacon independently and also proudly inform us of their continuing good health. Perrin and his wife, Marilyn, are still entertaining hospital patients with their ukulele-accordion combination. Towler and his wife, Mary Anna, still circulate their weekly newspaper, City, from downtown Rochester, N.Y. And Bacon still guides a coterie of friends through the labyrinthine world of investing.

In the past four years, Dave Banta has taken up painting classes to assuage his frustration when his golf game “goes south.” Also in good health, he and his wife, Tina, are weaning themselves from their nearly lifelong home in Tenafly, N.J., and spending increasingly more time at their quarters in Vero Beach, Fla. From Berkeley, Calif., Jim Lorenz writes that, other than undergoing eight surgeries since August 2011, he is “pretty much fine.” He says that they don’t call him “Bionic Man” at his local hospital for nothing. Keep on truckin’, Jim. Remember to go to www.PA56Berlin.word press.com to share in the delights of the Berlin mini reunion. If you would like to share news with our classmates, contact either of the two Phils. If you would like to receive our infrequent but newsworthy e-mails, send your e-mail address to either of the Phils. We promise not to abuse the privilege.

—The Other Phil (Bowers)

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

Anne Luquer Boswell detoured to Libby Horan Edgerly’s garden in Providence, R.I. All of her plants are native to Rhode Island, and the earlyflowering trees and flowers are flourishing.

Happy 75th birthday, dear Abbot Class of 1957.

Anne and I have received no news for this issue, but since most of us have reached this milestone, it would be fun for our next issue to hear how you

celebrated and how 75 feels for you. Please be in touch with either one of us. We have no news if we don’t receive any. Best wishes, love, and good health to you all. —Lulu

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

As I write this at the end of May, many of us are still recovering from the cold, snowy, and interminable 2013–14 winter. “When it got down into the 30s in late October and early November, I remember thinking how cold it was. By January and February, anything above zero was considered a blessing,” Ben Field writes from Minneapolis. By March, Ben and wife Becky had fled Minnesota for the sun of St. Barts.

Chico Valldejuly took perverse delight in the discomfort of shivering classmates. Now that he’s retired—convinced as he was by wife Magda to spend more time with their 12 grandkids and four dogs—he urges us all to come to Puerto Rico, where winter temps range from 64 to 78 degrees.

He writes, “Feel free to visit us any time. There’s plenty of space in the air-conditioned kennel.”

Similarly, Arkie Koehl writes, “I will refrain from discussing my ‘winter’ in Oahu, lest the class rise up with pitchforks and torches.” Arkie continues as a volunteer lobbyist for MADD. He’d like to stop, but finding the right person has proved frustrating. “Although a young mother would be a more effective voice against drinking and driving, the job defaults to a retired person who can spend weekdays making the rounds of elected officials.

Any classmates experienced in such a succession dilemma? Share your solution, please!”

Dick Guthrie has been agonizing over when to quit polishing his Army recollections. “My memoir is close to being as good as I can make it, and I’m about to close it,” he writes. “And this time I finally mean it.” With the book behind him, Dick, wife Cynthia, and nine children and grandchildren planned to jet to France, visiting the Loire Valley and its chateaux, then traveling on to Paris for the Quatorze Juillet parade.

Also headed to France was Bob Darnton. He wrote, “My wife, Susan, and I have spent the year celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary. A trip to a farmhouse in southern France with our three children and seven grandchildren will be the high point of the festivities. I stay busy teaching, writing, and dashing from pillar to post as the university Andover | Fall 2014

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While making material available as open access, we are creating many outreach programs. ...We are especially committed to helping community colleges, which now teach about 13 million students. I hope that the digital future can be shaped in a way that will benefit the general public.”

Since retiring in 2005 after 35 years of college teaching, Eric Myrvaagnes has directed his energies to music, travel, hiking, and photography. He’s had several exhibits in the Boston area, where he still makes his home. Classmates can browse his work at www.myrvaagnes.com. “My mother, 102 years old and still in good spirits, is my inspiration,” Eric writes. “Significant loss of hearing hasn’t kept me from playing the flute. Red-green colorblindness hasn’t slowed down my photography. Mild kidney disease and arthritis, plus being overweight, have slowed down my hiking pace, but not by much. Life is good!”

Dan Adams, an Evansville, Ind., city councilman as well as a heart surgeon, helped design an $80 million medical center for his town. The facility will educate 2,000 students and guarantee medical personnel for the region for generations. From Chicago, Andy Block reports that he attended a Yale ’61 mini reunion in Santa Fe, N.M., along with Jim Stewart, Brian Pendleton, Bill Dial, and their spouses and significant others.

Andy adds, with justifiable pride, that his oldest son, who has spent his legal career serving troubled youth, was appointed to be Virginia’s director of juvenile justice.

Fred Shuman, our hedge-fund guy, had an impressive chat with John Palfrey at an endowment confab in New York. The event was not without peril for Fred, however. He writes, “Andover has new magnetic name tags, a huge no-no for us pacemaker people. At the next meeting, they had a personal tag for me. So I’m still alive.”

In his letter, Bill Sterling, now fully recovered from the brain surgery he underwent in January, sings the joys of coastal California spring. “The golden hills show a considerable amount of green, for the meadows and fields are still flush with the benefits of the seasonal rain, and new growth still shows shades of lighter green on the tips of the Douglas firs and other evergreens.” An even greater thrill, however, was his son’s wedding in May. It was held outdoors, near Lake Tahoe, in the midst of a snowstorm. “We assembled in whatever snow-repellent garments were available, including blankets. ... The goose pimples on the bare arms of the bride and her bridesmaids were the size of grapefruit, and my grandson, who served as ring bearer, was shivering visibly. ... Both bride and groom, and many of the wedding party, are actors. I asked my son what Plan B was. He replied

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without any apparent worry, ‘The show will go on.’

And it did.” As usual, you’ll find the full text of Bill’s epistle on the class website. Best to all. —G

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

Susan Tidd Augenthaler and husband Warren have joined the sport of downsizing. Their new address is 3341 Lake Point Blvd., Sarasota FL 34231. Phone is 941-993-1263. In the moving process, Susie found a yellow piggy bank given to her by the third-floor Abbey girls (Shirley Slater Crosman, Liz Artz Beim, Mary Ann Savage Habib, Jenny New Forbes, Bitsy Leech Jacquette ’57, Nora Colby Salaway, Kitty Taggard Buckley, and Jane Christie), probably on her 15th birthday and probably after “lights.” The yellow treasure even contained original cash. Great story!

Mary Steketee MacDonald’s happy news is that spring finally arrived in New York!

Husband Sandy and I recently visited daughter Aubrey’s family in Duxbury, Mass., which included a play date with Nuff and June Withington. How handy that Plymouth is right next door.

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

Recently, I listed Class of 1958 book authors. And I solicited unrecognized authors in the class to step forward. David Kleinberg-Levin has published nine books on his own, an additional one coauthored with an Italian philosopher (published in Italian), and four edited collections of original essays. Recent books are Gestures of Ethical Life (2005) and two published volumes of a planned trilogy about language in literature.

David is a dedicated patron of Lincoln Center, the performing arts complex in NYC, attending six or seven operas per season; he also has subscriptions to the New York City Ballet, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He often sees John Rockwell, another habitué of Lincoln Center.

Likewise, David Finkle responded to my request to hear from classmates not yet honored for their publishing. His short-story collection, People Tell Me Things, is available through Amazon.com, as are individual stories called “All Those Boys,” “How I Confronted My

Abandonment Issues,” and “The Constant Lover.”

David plans to write a novel this year.

It’s always a treat to hear from author Phil Makanna; the photography in his “Ghosts” calendars continues to amaze me, as he manages each year to get ever-more-stunning shots of WWI and WWII airplanes.

Sixty-plus photographs by Phil were shown at the Whitney Biennial in New York from April 10 to 14, 2014. They were presented in conjunction with composer Robert Ashley’s new opera, Crash, performed posthumously after Ashley’s death at 83 on March 3. Phil’s photographs, shown overhead on three large screens, were part of the evening. They featured trees, clouds, and boats—no airplanes. In a complimentary review in the New York Times, the photos were described as “vast, beautiful landscapes,” exactly as Ashley’s program notes directed. Phil and his son planned to be in New York for rehearsals and the premiere of Crash. He was hoping to see Marshall Cloyd there, and perhaps John Rockwell.

I received a note from Bess Mann, wife of Art Mann. She enjoys reading the class notes; it’s encouraging to hear that the magazine reaches a “secondary” audience, as they say in the magazine business. I’ll remind any wives who stumble across this column that secondary does not mean inferior; remember, we went to what was called a “secondary” school. At the last reunion, the Manns didn’t make it to the farewell breakfast, because Art wasn’t feeling well. Turns out he had an infected gall bladder, which was eventually removed during major surgery. He apparently is doing well following.

I’m saddened that the class has three obituaries to report. On Feb. 20, after a long struggle with colon and liver cancer, Richard Haelig Hendrickson died in the home where he grew up, on Lumber Lane in Bridgehampton, N.Y. Richard is survived by wife, Janet, three daughters, and his 100-year-old father, local historian and farmer Richard G. Hendrickson.

Richard joined us upper year and made the second honor roll twice, but withdrew senior year because of illness. He enrolled at Suffolk Community College, in New York, and ultimately graduated from Columbia University in 1968, earning Phi Beta Kappa.

He moved back to Bridgehampton and a few years later opened a bicycle repair business, the Bikeman, on the family farm. He continued fixing bicycles and teaching kids bike repair for 30 years.

With public radio or opera music playing nonstop, his shop offered a safe and educational place for locals to spend their free time. He was also a keen motorcyclist and an avid follower of the car racing circuit.

Bruce Kaplan, with a home in Bridgehampton, kept up with Richard, and I regret not knowing this interesting classmate better.

Al Griggs brought me the sad news that Tom Gildehaus suddenly passed away on March 31. I remember Tom’s electric play on the

www.andover.edu/intouch football field and his rugged blond handsomeness.

Tom graduated from Yale and with distinction from the Harvard Business School. He joined Deere & Co. in 1981 as an EVP. In 1992, he became president and CEO of UNR Industries Inc. in Chicago for five years, before becoming chairman and CEO of Northwestern Steel and Wire Co. in Sterling, Ill. Tom was a trustee and patron of the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, even serving as interim director briefly, successfully raising significant donations for the museum.

Al said that he was with Tom weeks before his death, and he looked in the pink of health. But he developed a case of pneumonia; an autoimmune reaction set in, and he was never able to recover.

I received a note from Phil Makanna that Pat Gorman has died of lymphoma. I have not been able to reach Pat’s wife, Janet, so I have no other information. [Editor’s note: Please see Pat Gorman’s obituary in the In Memoriam section.]

On a more pleasant note, Bob Palmer recently hosted a guys’ weekend at his winter home on Sanibel Island, Fla. In attendance were Blitz Fox, Tom Cutler, John Murphy, Reggie Barnes, and Gil Bamford.

Gil Bamford gets the “Class of 1958 Andover Family of the Year” award. Gil’s brother, Jim, was Class of ’62. Gil’s son Mark ’81 has a son, Zack, who graduated this year. Gil’s late sister Edith Bamford Welch was married to Bernard Welch ’42 and had two sons graduate (Charlie ’84 and Peter ’88); now a grandson, Kyle ’18, is entering as a junior this fall. Another sister of Gil’s, Susan Bamford Sullivan (deceased), had one son attend Andover, Michael Sullivan ’94.

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

Joan Synnott Ardrey recently wrote that she was hoping for news about our 55th Reunion in June, but alas, I could not attend, and those who did have not sent any news. I understand that more than 20 PA 1959 men turned out, and four Abbot 1959 women attended. That is all I know.

Jane Thompson Mudd asks us to urge every woman over 40 to start annual mammograms.

Her 43-year-old daughter has been diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer. Jane was in the Colorado mountains for the summer. She writes, “This is my 12th year running a chamber music festival with the primary musicians from Carnegie Hall. I hosted the first soiree last week, which was a sellout and more. Long live classical music.”

Deborah Hayes Gillette writes in sympathy for my recent home renovations: “Accchhh, renovations. It’s the never-ending story I, too,

Jay Nelson and Chris Costanzo lead the Class of ’59 in the Alumni Parade.

am trying to survive. You will understand that between a vain effort to herd workmen (which is worse than trying to herd cats) and mustering the patience to have it all be over and done with, any nooz from me is nothing short of deadly boring.

However, it will be nice to carry dishes from my kitchen to my living room without having to do so with an umbrella, and just maybe, once the debris is removed, I will find the lemon verbena, the lovage, the plumbago, and the dahlias long since buried underneath. Thassit for now, folks. Have a glorious summer.”

Life is good for Sue Calnan Bates, who writes: “Ben and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary on June 6. Also, our youngest son got married on April 12, and it was a beautiful wedding. We plan to celebrate our anniversary over time and geography. Two dinners so far, a breakfast planned for Cape Cod in July, and a family trip to Charleston, S.C., in October. I am sorry I missed the reunion. I was in Maine with a friend.”

Nona Hanes Porter writes that she and her husband, Roger Skoyles, have been living in Connecticut most of the year (“deaccessioning” things sent over from England) but are longing to return to New Hampshire as soon as possible. They go to England to visit Roger’s mother quite often, and there are numerous other trips, usually in connection with Roger’s philately and birding. Both Roger and Nona are happy and healthy. She writes, “Looking forward to seeing everyone at the next reunion. We both loved reading of the illustrious Nat in the magazine.”

Eve Dalmolen, formerly known as Frances Hooper, sends a little family history: “Much of the month of May, I was traveling in Indonesia—more specifically, Java, Bali, and Komodo Island. Many have asked: Why Indonesia? It is not a popular tourist destination for U.S. citizens. My mother-inlaw, the daughter of a Dutch colonial officer, was born, raised, and married in Indonesia. She and her husband, Hen, who was also Dutch, moved back to the Netherlands in the 1930s, just in time to start a

family and ‘greet’ Hitler. Hen was in the resistance movement throughout World War II. The family immigrated to the U.S. in 1952. Given this background, Southeast Asia became one of my late husband’s areas of professional expertise. In 1990, Al received a Fulbright-Hays summer study abroad fellowship for Indonesia. Upon his return, he declared that this should be our number-one travel destination when we retire. When I finally found the right trip to Indonesia as a widow, I jumped at the opportunity. Seeing places I had heard about from Oma, such as Borobudur, was a thrill.

I relived some of the experiences my husband had related about the making of batik and wayang puppets. Both the Komodo dragons and places we snorkeled were amazing. It took four days, including two consecutive overnight flights, to get home and more than a week to recover. Now it is back to the simple life: biking, kayaking, and getting a float for the annual July 4 parade.”

And, from me, I am hoping to retire next June and am working very hard to make it happen.

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

Orzo. Wow! If you haven’t had orzo lately, you haven’t lived...or at least, you didn’t come to the reunion. Those of you who were there will smile; those of you who weren’t will have to ask one of us who was. Suffice it to say that it was good, which was a lucky thing, since we had a certain amount of it.

The reunion was great. The prize (an extra helping of orzo) for coming the greatest distance was shared by Tom Stirling, Ned Grew, and Tim Standish. Tom came from Honolulu, which is about as far away from Helsinki (Ned’s home) as Andover | Fall 2014

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Hank Higdon ’59 and wife Erika ran into Pat and George Edmonds, faculty emeriti, on their way to dinner.

Tom Cushing, Jon Foote, and Peter Behn, all Class of ’54, chat while marching with their classmates in the Alumni Parade.

you can get and still stay in the Northern Hemisphere. And Tim came from 55 years away. Tim has been teaching computer science for decades—first at Carnegie Mellon and Harvard, and since 1974 at UC Irvine. There are still a couple of us who have never come to a reunion, so Tim’s record can still be broken—think June 2019—and there may still be a bit of orzo to sample.

Folks looked remarkably good. Dave Smoyer and Hank Higdon were there to participate in the annual Athletics Hall of Honor ceremony. Dave was particularly proud of how short his acceptance speech was, and Hank was there because his and Erica’s son, Henry III ’94, was being honored.

(Hank himself is already in the Hall.) Both Dave and Hank looked like they could just stroll out to the soccer or football field and pick up where they left off 55 years ago. Amazing! Equally amazing is Jay Nelson, who is still playing squash at the highest level and was recently elected to the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame. He regularly wins competitions in age categories way younger than ours.

But, as I said, everyone looked good. Jim Bishop, of course, looked great; he’s planning to stay with Brooks Brothers at least till the company’s bicentennial year, 2018. I very proudly showed him my BB blazer. He looked at the buttons, then the label, and said, “Oh, yeah—they sell this version in the discount stores.” Damn! He nailed me!

Bob Myers and his wife, Emily, live near Exeter, N.H., keep a sharp eye on things there and reported that there are no threats whatsoever— physical, intellectual, or spiritual—coming from that direction.

We had a wonderful presentation (not because it was brief, but it was) by Chris Costanzo and Jim Hayman, who read from their recent books (after the orzo course), which was really delightful.

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his years as a covert agent with the CIA, it kept us delightfully awake! Both Chris’s wife, Margaret, and Jim’s wife, Jeanne, were there as well.

It’s always a treat to see Bill Bell. He’s always up to something, and this time it was checking out the library exhibit of books written by ’59ers. (So that’s what’s in the library!) If you guessed that, as a class, we’d written more than six dozen books, you’d be right—and if you speculated that the most prolific of us is Ted White, with seven, you’d be right again.

No time for orzo for Ted. He is a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and his books focus largely on the Supreme Court, from John Marshall to Warren Burger.

The Butler boys were there too! Bill Butler had convinced Tim, his old roommate, to come, and Bill came along as well. And John Butler and his wife, Chris, were there, just itching to get up to Maine and start the summer’s sailing season. “I think they put the boat in the water today,” John said.

Also looking forward to the summer on the water was Lea Pendleton—his craft runs on gasoline, not wind, but he enjoys exploring the vast Maine coastline as much as anyone. Lea’s Marblehead neighbor, Kitty Sides Flather ’59, was there, and both were hoping that the fire at the Eastern Yacht Club the night before hadn’t done too much damage.

Quinn Rosefsky (without Susan) and John Doherty (without Denise) put in cameo appearances on Friday night. They each had events to attend on Saturday, so no orzo for them—but it was good of them to drop in.

It was positively wonderful to see, talk with, and drop in on conversation with Sully Sullivan and his wife, Ellen, and Al Killilea and his wife, Mary Ann. They were having much too good a time talking about a book that Al and Mary Ann were editing, whose working title is Befriending Death: How Do You Find Meaning in Life? It’s a compilation of onepage answers to that question—think about it, and you may still be able to get your one-pager to them.

Another book by Al, who teaches at the University of Rhode Island, is The Politics of Being Mortal.

Artie Rogers and his wife, Barbara, came to reunion, and they both look wonderful—life in Florida and Maine is suiting them very well.

Speaking of Maine, Susie Stedman ’59, newly elected president of the Abbot Academy Association, will receive an Andover Alumni Award of Distinction on Nov. 5; Lee Webb, elected to the board of the Abbot Academy Association, is closer and closer to completion of a PhD thesis at the University of Maine.

Paul Neshamkin, and his wife, Ruth— just a year out from running Columbia’s 50th reunion—are considering a ’60s-style manual on how to run a reunion, which is bound to be both great and banned in all college bookstores by the administrations.

Ann Stack ’59 came in from Indianapolis, where she’s still very active in all things artistic. Jim Williams is still in Denver, where he’s been for more than 30 years; like Lee Webb, he enrolled in a PhD program late in life (the University of Colorado’s School of Public Affairs).

Start making plans: Our 60th is just around the corner, and I’m told that aged orzo is truly scrumptious!

[Editor’s note: The Academy has received word that Laurence Stucki passed away on March 25, 2009. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.]

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

Husband Dave and I just returned from a glorious two weeks in Oregon visiting grandsons and their parents. Aidan is 12 years old and 6 feet 4 inches tall; he plays basketball and is a straight-A student.

Brendan is very artistic; his nickname is “Mini” and he moves at high speed in all directions.

Corky Auxier Perez just had surgery for lung cancer and was declared clean, no chemo. She has returned home to help her husband care for their seven rescue dogs, four cats (two are feral), one opossum, and their bird and squirrel sanctuary.

www.andover.edu/intouch Hannah Jopling reports that she is permanently in NYC, where she joined Barbara Lewis, Brenda Walker Swords, Andie Valkenburgh Smith, and Aida Sharabati Shawwaf for a nice lunch near the High Line. She enjoyed seeing Wendy Bolton Rowland for a delicious breakfast and wandering around SoHo. Lissa Dexter writes that she will be in Lake Placid, N.Y., for a while, so if anyone is in that vicinity, drop in. She is invited to visit me in Manchester, Vt.—not too far.

Ruth Crocker reports, “Wonderful 50th Smith reunion but all were disappointed with the withdrawal of Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, as the commencement speaker. However, Ruth Simmons, a past Smith president, ably took her place.”

Gillian Kohler hasn’t moved to her new house yet. Work is still being done there. She does have a new puppy that her daughter brought from Santa Cruz, Calif., where her son Dave lives. One of his interests is raising farm collies.

Susan Lothrop Koster writes, “Last autumn, I hurriedly left a yoga class for a medical appointment close to UNH. It was a beautiful autumn day, and as I never go anywhere without my camera, I decided to visit my alma mater and take some photos. Very comfortably, I wandered around the entire campus, noting a few changes (not many), taking photos, reading posted bulletins, and thinking. Truly feeling I had never left, I suddenly realized how I must appear: old lady, funny clothes, taking pictures...the same kind of person I used to laugh about. I can imagine that some members of this year’s graduating class will do the same 50 years from now. The thought is quite humbling.

If I were ever to choose a mantra, it would be ‘Happy, Healthy, Thankful.’ ” Anne Howson sends best wishes to all.

Once again, thanks so much to all who wrote.

Hope you had a great summer.

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

Our 55th Reunion takes place next June 12–14.

Mark your calendars and plan to attend!

Speaking of reunions, at the 50th of Princeton’s class of 1964 I had a chance to catch up with Nick Kip and his wife, Aggie, who serves as the nutrition counselor at PA. Nick continues to look much younger than most of our classmates and still plans to retire next year after four decades of teaching Latin and Greek, coaching wrestling, acting as dorm master, etc., etc., at PA. I had the pleasure of chatting with Peter Brownrigg, who lives with his wife, Elaine, in Vienna, Va. In 2011, Peter retired from EDS/ Hewlett-Packard and now volunteers at the

National Museum of Natural History in nearby Washington, D.C. Bill Sherman (our esteemed class agent), Mike Scharf, and I had a nice, long visit. Bill, who is retired from his San Francisco law practice, was accompanied by his daughter Sarah ’04 (Prince­ ton ’08), who works at the Jet Propulsion Lab. Mike, now partially retired from his career in the metals industry, was joined by his son William ’04, a lawyer practicing in St. Louis. Mike generously supports many worthy causes, including Prince­ ton’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions.

Allen Ward reports from his Brown reunion: “I was very happy to see Al Daniels, who is doing well and is working for a branch of Oracle out of Boston. As for me, after seeing that 20 percent of my male classmates are dead...I feel blessed and am enjoying immensely still being able to live a physically, emotionally, and intellectually satisfying life in relative comfort and security.” Last year saw the release of the sixth edition of Allen’s textbook, A History of the Roman People, and the fifth anniversary of his marriage to Carol.

Several classmates gathered in New Haven to celebrate their 50th Yale reunion. Wally Winter reports, “I had a great time at our 50th: stimulating panels (including a lively discussion between our two [Yale] classmate senators, Lieberman and Ashcroft), lectures by Yale academic stars, great food and drink, and fascinating interactions with some classmates whom I never knew as an undergraduate, including a guy who had served in the Peace Corps a few hundred miles from me in northeast Brazil in the late ’60s. Ward Wickwire, Tony Lee, Nick Danforth, Gerry Shea, Tom Trowbridge, and Sheldon Leader were all planners or participants. I was honored to be asked to read at the memorial service for 150 of our departed classmates the commencement prayer that [William Sloane] Coffin ’42 had prepared and delivered to our class 50 years ago.”

Speaking of Yalies, Jeremy Wood wed Catherine A. Thompson on June 14 at one of the bride’s family homes in Chilmark, Mass. Jeremy’s children (Alexis, Jonas, and Augusta) accompanied him down the aisle, and his two granddaughters were the flower girls. PA classmates in attendance included Laird Smith and wife Toni, Susan and

Abbot Alumnae: Help Us Complete the Picture

The Abbot Archives Project

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he newly formed Abbot Archives Project evolved from the realization that the history and memories of Abbot Academy are eroding with time. Current students are both curious and enthusiastic to learn more about the Abbot Academy education and experience, but good information can be hard to find. The current Abbot archives—part of PA’s Archives and Special Collections—house many official documents but lack the full student voice, the snippets of personal recollection that give richness and context to those records.

All Abbot alumnae, as well as faculty and those PA alumni who experienced Abbot, can help its preservation by contributing original materials—including written and oral histories—to augment the Abbot archives.

We seek to collect original materials that document all aspects of Abbot, especially student life (e.g., dorms, clubs, dances, etc.), as well as academics and athletics.

Items may include photographs, scrapbooks, letters, journals, printed works, audio and video, and other items.

Paige Roberts, director of Archives and Special Collections, is happy to talk with you about the donation process. She can be reached at 978-749-4069 or by e-mailing abbotarchives@andover.edu.

The Abbot Archives Project is the first project launched by the Abbot Initiative— a new endeavor conceived by Abbot alumnae to keep Abbot’s memories, spirit, and values alive at Phillips Academy. Watch for additional information about this project and how you can help in future mailings and announcements.

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Frank MacMurray, Jim Sprague, and John Marks, all Class of ’61, met at a dinner held in Washington, D.C., in May to honor John and his wife, Susan Collin Marks.

The Markses are stepping down from their leadership roles in Search for Common Ground, the peace-building organization founded by John.

Charlie Bradford, and Nick Danforth and his partner, Robin Jones. (The Andover toasts were mercifully tame.) The newlyweds plan to reside in both Weston, Mass., and Chilmark.

Wally spoke with Dick Bourne not long ago, and found him “still chipper,” despite health problems. [Editor’s note: After the submission of these notes, the Academy learned that Dick Bourne passed away on July 12, 2014.].”

Speaking of our 55th, Wally declines to spearhead the effort to organize that event but does have some suggestions for those who are willing to help plan it. He thought we might want to invite two eminent physician classmates—John Bissell and Dick Masland—to discuss advances in neuroscience.

Last March, Masland, a professor of ophthalmology and neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, received the fifth annual Jay Pepose ’75 Award in Vision Sciences from Brandeis University. Dr. Pepose, founder and medical director of the Pepose Vision Institute in St. Louis, noted, “Masland’s...work on ganglion cells may translate into a better understanding and treatment of glaucoma and inherited retinal disorders.” Dick has been the recipient of other awards, including the Alcon Foundation’s Research Award in 2012 and the Proctor Medal from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in 2010.

Dick’s lab was the first to reveal the retina as a multiple parallel system made up of more than 60 cell types, which are organized into more than a dozen parallel informational channels. The lab is working to characterize the array of retinal ganglion cells in the hope of gaining a better understanding of how the higher visual centers work.

Wally shares my belief that we would benefit from a presentation by our two distinguished memoirists: Gerry Shea (Song Without Words: Discovering My Deafness Halfway Through Life) and John Darnton (Almost a Family: A Memoir).

Wally also thinks that we might want to “adapt something our Yale 50th organizers did with some success: namely, have 12 to 15 classmates make

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six- or seven-minute presentations (with or without slides) about their passions. We heard a classmate play an Irish flute and others rhapsodize about everything from the implications of the latest findings about the nature of the universe to the spiritual dimension of bow hunting.”

So let’s get cracking on our 55th. We need volunteers to help get organized. Let me know if you’re willing and able. Remember, as Allen Ward indicates in his report from Brown, we may not have many more opportunities to get together.

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

Lee Pakstis has good news. “Great excitement in our house,” she says, “as my daughter, Sarah ’96, is marrying Bryan Murphy ’97 this fall, and I am so enjoying the special experience of a daughter getting married. They are a terrific couple. Also, as the administrator of a residential care program for nuns in Ipswich, Mass., I have a great deal of satisfaction in having implemented a memory-care program for them. So, a lot going on at home and at work. I like these challenges.”

Susie Fox Reepmeyer writes, “After 40 years in Michigan, returning to live in a small town in mid-New Hampshire has enabled me to once again appreciate the unique beauty of New England’s seasons and the subtle transitions from one to the next.

Stone walls and winding country roads also make me smile. Current favorite activities include six grandchildren ages 7 and under, practicing Pilates, book discussions, an online course on justice, and plans for a Maine windjammer cruise.”

Jane Paffard Nichols spends lots of time with daughters and grandchildren in Seattle. She has

completed training to be on the Room Circus team of clowns, which goes into Seattle Children’s Hospital, where her daughters, Lila and Ana, both work. “I like to think that as clowns we are saving souls,” she says. “So at 70, I have still managed to avoid maturity. And retirement.”

From Glastonbury, Conn., Sherry Lowe reports, “I still divide my time between Glastonbury and Nantucket, Mass. For those who don’t remember, I grew up on the island. I’m loving introducing my four young grandsons to Nantucket. My two sons try to get their families here as often as possible. I’m still quilting, knitting, and rug hooking with some golf and mah-jongg thrown in.

Life is good.”

And life is good here in Portland, Maine, too. I have a new puppy, eight weeks old as I write this— a beautiful yellow Lab, smart, adorable, and (sometimes) a little hellion. No respect for my favorite slippers, rugs, newspapers, trailing houseplants, or chair legs (“But Mom, I’m just cutting my teeth!”).

The good news is that when I walk her, she brings a smile to people’s faces and stops them in their tracks, so I’m meeting people I might otherwise never have met.

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

Tom Pollock sent me news of Bob Trivers, from the Chronicle of Higher Education: “Rutgers University has suspended the noted evolutionary theorist Robert Trivers from teaching (with pay) and, according to Mr. Trivers, has begun proceedings that could lead to his being suspended without pay.

Mr. Trivers had been teaching Introduction to Social Evolution and Human Aggression but was replaced, after one week, by other instructors, according to the student newspaper.”

According to NJ.com, “Trivers said he was told

by Department of Anthropology officials to teach the class over his objections that he knew nothing about the subject. In his first lecture last month, Trivers told students he would do his best to learn the subject with the students and teach the class with the help of a guest lecturer.”

Later, I heard directly from Bob. On his website, he says, you can see “an incredible story about how Rutgers is choosing to treat me— ‘incredible,’ except that this is New Jersey.” Take that, Chris Christie. Bob’s website can be found at roberttrivers.com.

After Bob visited Tom and wife Helen in California, Tom wrote me, describing an incident involving Bob from our PA years. “Recall that periodically a student was allowed to give the talk at daily chapel,” wrote Tom. “So, here’s the story: Trivers is selected—volunteers, in fact. Rev. Baldwin always vets the speech the day before. He

www.andover.edu/intouch sits alone in the cavernous, empty chapel, Trivers at the podium. Trivers’s first two minutes are a reading of the statement from the catalog (which Baldwin wrote) about how wonderful daily chapel is at Andover. Then, Trivers rips that piece limb from limb—its logic, its morality, its integrity.

About six sentences in, Baldwin stands up and says, ‘You will not read that tomorrow! Give it to me.’

“This leads to a nighttime public debate at The Phillipian between Trivers and Baldwin, mediated

by John Kemper. Alas, to no avail. Word of the censorship sweeps through the class. Next day, Fred Pease steps to the podium to start the substitute talk. Half the Class of 1961 breaks into coughing and throat clearing. Baldwin leaps out of his chair behind the altar, bounds two or three steps at a time down to the chapel floor. ‘Silence! Any of you who don’t want to be here, leave now!’

“Then Baldwin shouts to the cut-checkers in the choir loft, ‘And don’t mark anyone who leaves as absent.’ Within a few days, a cadre of classmates marches up the center aisle at chapel with a large makeshift cross on which is nailed, bloody hands and all, an image of Trivers, speech in shirt pocket.

The Phillipian prints the speech the next day.

“Bob is still an iconoclast. He was out in California working on a chapter of his next book, a collection of autobiographical vignettes. The chapter: ‘Hanging with Huey,’ about his long, close friendship with Huey Newton, the Black Panther and godfather of one of Bob’s daughters. Another chapter relates his defeat of a knife attacker in Jamaica (remember, Bob was a varsity boxer at Andover).

When it’s published, it should be a great read.”

Tom Evslin’s latest startup has been in the news.

From the Fox Business website: “Vermont startup NG Advantage is looking to get more customers hooked on natural gas. The company, founded in 2011, has raised $8 million in equity and $17 million in debt financing to create an innovative natural-gas trucking system for customers in the Northeast. “ ‘What we do is really very simple, but it’s a business that didn’t exist in the United States until we started it,’ says NG Advantage CEO Tom Evslin. NG Advantage takes pipeline natural gas, compresses it, and then carries it by special carbonfiber-cylinder trucks to factories, hospitals, and schools not near the pipelines.”

After 32 years, John Marks is stepping down from his brilliant enterprise, Search for Common Ground. John’s wife, Susan Collin Marks, who is also moving on, had this to say: “We celebrate John, who...had the courage to follow his vision, the conviction to act boldly, and the innovative spirit to transform his longing for a kinder and better world into the concrete reality of Search for Common Ground. He is a profoundly wonderful man and a brilliant social entrepreneur, and for 20 years I have been blessed to work for Search with John as my partner.”

Jim Rubin writes, “[Wife] Liliane and I have returned from eight months in Alsace [France], our base during my sabbatical. I lectured in Taiwan

In June, several members of the Class of ’62 who meet regularly for golf and conversation got together at the Tedesco Country Club in Marblehead, Mass. Attendees, from left, were Jay Westcott, Marty Shulkin, Dick Leger, Charlie Stuart, Brent Mohr, Jonathan Sox, Mike Moonves, and George Andrews.

and Hong Kong. Had a terrific lunch with Gage McAfee on the roof of a spectacular building overlooking Hong Kong and its harbor. After more than 50 years, Gage has not changed a bit, and his enthusiasm for Andover (and for life) is undiminished. We also traveled to Russia and spent a lot of time in London, where my daughter, Delphine ’95, has settled with her Scottish husband and our grandson; she is expecting our granddaughter. Our son, Henry ’91, now has a 10-month-old daughter.

He may get married soon. Finally, I had my 12th book come out: How to Read Impressionism: Ways of Looking. It’s the kind of book anyone at any knowledge level can read. I am now getting ready for the spring semester and more projects than ever. Retirement is not yet on my agenda.”

I’m always happy to throw a plug your way, guys. Let me know.

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

In February 2014, my husband and I (Kathrin Krakauer) had a delicious dinner and wonderful evening with Karen Grant McWhorter and her husband, Jack, at their beauti-

fully restored home in Hancock, N.H. It was a great start to the renewal of our longtime friendship.

With support from some of our classmates, Frederica Muller Aalto has received funding and initiated family-planning training for community health workers in rural Afghanistan. In turn, these workers will train local traditional pharmacists and midwives, etc. This is powerful and cutting-edge social change. In addition, Frederica has initiated training midwives to treat postpartum hemorrhage. Congratulations, Frederica, and thank you for your important work.

I received the following news in early 2014 (abbreviated in some cases due to word count restraint).

Sally Allen Mandel writes, “Our son, Ben, lives in Idaho with his family, including our two grandchildren. He’s a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, working mainly with breast cancer patients.

Daughter Sarah lives four blocks away from us in New York with her husband and our 8-month-old granddaughter Sophie. She has upended my life, in a delicious way. [My] latest novel, number seven, called Take Me Back, is on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. About three generations of a family, it gave me a chance to dig more deeply into my own past.

Best recommendation: it’s short.” (KK note: My personal opinion is that, although it is short in page length, Sally’s latest book has great depth in love and character development—and is a very good read. After suffering a very serious brain injury, our Sally is back!)

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Stephanie, got married in September 2013 to longtime beau Gregory Ely. It was a beautiful wedding by the sea in New Hampshire. Abbot friends Abby von der Heyde Summersgill and Sarah von der Heyde Richards ’60 were there. Greek touches came from the stefana [wedding wreaths] used in the service written by Stephanie and officiated by her brother, Alexander, and in the Greek dancing led by Stephanie’s aunt. Stephanie, a water engineer, now works for the Stockholm Environment Institute, an international environmental think tank. She and Gregory live nearby in Cambridge, Mass. Our son Alexander and his wife, Zoe, welcomed our second grandson, Benjamin Charles, in October 2013.”

Susan Mallory Dunn reports, “I continue to be hooked on live theatre in every aspect. This year, husband Jeff and I have fallen for the plays of August Wilson, the Pulitzer and Tony winner who wrote the Century Cycle of 10 plays—one for each decade of the 20th century—about the black experience in America. We are trying to bring this cycle to Oakland, Calif.; I guess this is my non sibi thing kicking in. Helping to produce and sponsor issuesbased local theatre is where my heart is right now.

I’ve never been a fundraiser, but Abbot taught me that I can be pretty much whatever I set my energies to. So cross fingers that I can raise some money for this. It’s a good cause. Also, a miracle, I’ve taken up photography! And it’s bringing out another side of me that is new. Grandkids keep me running around. I have a reputation to preserve for them, 70 or not! Rolling down grassy slopes with them, chasing them through the woods, and baking lots of cupcakes and trying not to eat them.”

From Lynne Moriarty Langlois: “My husband, Andy, retired in September. We hope to spend more time in New Hampshire and with our grandchildren, Drew, 4, and Ziva, 1.”

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

As I write this in early May, our unofficial 52nd reunion is only four months away and our block of rooms is shrinking. It will start after lunch on Monday, Sept. 8, and break up after breakfast on Thursday, Sept. 11. It will be held at Chalet View Lodge in the High Sierras, 45 minutes away from the Reno airport. We already have paid-in reservations from Jack Fabiano, Kim and Dan Jenkins, Marjorie and Steve Abbot, Margel and Steve Kaufman, Artemis and Mike Davey, Vic Obninsky, Jeanie and Hal Byrd, Lura and Bill Schubach, Caroline and Nick Knueppel, Diana and Jeff Hill, Laura and Claus Emmer, Sam Caldwell, Pamela and Tony King, Becky and Lee Gilbert, Judy and Chris Armstrong, Tom Israel, Judy and Dick Dennis,

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Linda and Bob Lux, and Sue and Al Reiter.

Al Blum says, “I do have some news for your next submission of class notes. [Wife] Karen and I have been invited by Andover to be cochairs of the Grandparents Society, beginning July 1 of this year.

The Grandparents Society seeks to engage grandparents of current students and of alumni in the life of PA and the experience their grandchildren are having. It pairs with the parents’ organization as another valuable point of heightened visibility and support for the school. Our selection for this role is a bit unusual. We do not have biological children of our own, but we have been for many years a host family for international students who come to the U.S. to go to college. One of our international ‘sons,’ who came here from Ukraine to attend Dartmouth and returned to his home country to work and raise his family, has a daughter who entered Andover in 2012 as a lower. Her name is Anastasiya Prokhorenko ’15. Andover graciously recognized Karen’s and my special relationship with Anastasiya and her family by officially including a grandparent designation along with my class year; I am now ’62, GP ’15. We, in turn, are delighted to honor Anastasiya and her family by adding this new volunteer involvement to the others at PA that have been so rewarding for us through the years.”

Charlie Stuart says, “Andover has hired me to make several films for them: One on Oscar Tang ’56, when he retired as head of the Board of Trustees; one on Capt. Thomas Hudner ’43, who was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor during the Korean War and honored last year by having a new destroyer named after him; and now, one about Abbot Academy. What an eye-opener to interview two dozen Abbot grads, starting with the Class of 1930 and going through the Class of 1973.

“It was during my research into the film about Abbot that I opened up a folder called ‘Abbot Mixer 1962’ in the school’s archives and discovered a classic shot of our band, The Satans: me on the drums on the far left, Dwight Stephens ’63 on sax, Carl Jacobs on bass, Andy Goodwin and Al Gordon on guitar, Marty Wishnatsky on sax, and Carl Corey, the ‘Rocket from Woonsocket,’ on piano and vocals. [Editor’s note: This photo appeared on page 80 of the spring 2014 issue of Andover magazine.]

“I continue to make documentaries, two for PBS recently—one on the continuing war against PTSD in some of our veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and another about the Egyptian national football team trying to get to the World Cup in the middle of the violence and turmoil in that country. (They didn’t make it.)”

Bill Mann says wife Sis and he “are avid readers of your notes (she also likes to read the notes of our kids’ class [William Mann ’88 and Elizabeth Fischer ’88]).

“I retired at the end of 2013, much to the shock of my firm, who probably figured they would find me dead at my desk sometime in the far future. A paralegal that I have worked with for nine years came up to me and said, ‘You’re not coming back,

are you?’ I told her that she was very intuitive and wondered if the fact that I sold my office furniture had anything to do with her conclusion.

“Sis and I are planning a lengthy fall trip across the country, and the timing of it is in the same September/October period as the reunion. We love California—I had already planned to visit Lake Tahoe, one of our favorite spots on this earth.

Depending on the timing, we would bend our schedule to try and make it. We are bringing golf clubs and fly-fishing equipment and plan to use both along the way.”

I am delighted to say that our class number has held steady since our 50th Reunion. This alone is cause to celebrate at our 52nd reunion. Our PA classmates e-mail group now has more than 70 members. Contact me to sign up; there will never be a request for money.

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

I suspect that our 50th Reunion and all the preparations that led up to it are all very much on many people’s minds. I wrote to Ann MacCready Northup seeking her reaction to my previous column, which included background information about the artistic endeavors of our classmates as shown during our 50th Reunion. Ann wrote, “It was a delight to read the stories of our classmates’ journeys to art. Thank you so much for that. Those stories made the column so rich and personal, while acknowledging some people who never send in news for the column and had gone to considerable effort and expense to include their art in the exhibit. There are so many choices of topics to write about after the reunion. I am very grateful that you chose the artists. I, too, wish the exhibition had been better attended.”

She continues about her family, “Daughter Tracy is still in Innsbruck, Austria, though she comes to the States a few times a year for conferences. Son Peter is in San Francisco but the first of the year will be moving to Vienna, Austria, with his girlfriend, who just accepted a genetics research post there.

They are looking for a programming position for him. So, alas, neither is nearby, but at least they’re in the same country. Cycling? In March I attended a cycling week in Florida and then stayed longer to escape the cold. In early June, I planned to treat myself to a cycling fixed-base trip in a medieval town in Provence. Tracy will be here at a conference and reunion. Fortunately, I will see her before I go but not sure I will make the Abbot Bazaar. I hope we can make another opportunity to visit.”

In anticipation of the bazaar, though she was not able to attend, Danica Miller Eskind sent around

www.andover.edu/intouch some wonderful photos she’d taken of the event when we were at Abbot. Lucinda Hannon sent a letter around to several classmates encouraging them to attend and commented, “For some of you, this may be too impossibly far to come on fairly short notice, but perhaps you’d like to contribute your memories. ... I’m looking forward to attending and hope we have a good number of classmates there.”

In my world, I am overjoyed to have been made a grandmother twice, in August 2013 and again in February. Though both families live locally, I am so busy with my work as an occupational therapist that I don’t get to see the little ones as often as I would like, but they amaze me each time. Thank heavens for generous school vacations! Along these lines, Iris Vardavoulis Beckwith writes, “My visit with [daughter] Amanda and family was wonderful. The grands kept me very busy, as you can imagine, and we all even got to do a few touristy things: Monet’s house and gardens in Giverny and the newly opened Paris zoo, as well as three days in Provence—a divine medieval city.” It would be fun to hear about other classmates’ adventures as grandmothers—or, of course, any adventures at all!

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

My plaintive e-mail has borne fruit (though, I might suggest, less than I know to be hanging out there, and less than we all would enjoy consuming).

Please do keep me in mind by e-mail or mail at the addresses above.

Since our reunion, Ken Kusterer has written a novel, Peace and Love and Mexico, set in the 1960s. The protagonist is a 17-year-old Catholic girls’ school graduate and experienced nonviolent activist. As he wrote to inform me of this, the book was “being looked at by six agents and editors, en route to the mythical 30 who say no before the 31st maybe says yes.” He has also started a second, contemporary novel, with a female retired Child Protective Services agent as protagonist and with a focus on polleros [human smugglers] preying on illegal immigrants. And he notes that in 2017 he and wife Faith will reach their 50th wedding anniversary. If memory serves (and mine is no longer the servant it was when young), Ken and Faith left New Haven for Mexico shortly after their 1967 wedding, stopping to see me in Kansas City en route. During the immediately preceding years at Yale, Ken had developed a number of strong convictions—about the war, social justice, Catholicism (and the Catholic Worker Movement)—had met and fallen in love with Faith, and had decided to put his convictions into practice before completing his undergraduate degree. Knowing the man and

his life, I am certain those experiences will inform a literary voice worth hearing.

Bob Cory sent a short e-mail that hit a personal nerve on the subject of gay rights. He wrote, “Just got done with an e-mail dialogue with the folks at MassEquality about gays in the Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade. Unfortunately, I can’t march in the parade as a gay veteran. It just shocks me that now that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and DOMA are history, these folks in Boston can’t be part of the 21st century. It somehow doesn’t surprise me that the guy running the parade is named Wacko (his choice).”

The ongoing tension in Boston over gay marchers in the St. Patrick’s Day parade is, as Bob points out, an annual civic embarrassment.

Dick Clapp and wife Paula will have celebrated the wedding of daughter Nikki by the time this is published. Nikki and husband will remain in NYC for the foreseeable future. Dick says he and Paula “are enjoying semiretirement and working on climate change issues. That should give us plenty to do.”

One of the true pleasures of this underpaid (and often underutilized) office has been the reconnection with Will Nettleship (once the other Kane in our class), whose lovely tribute to Jeremy Heist remains one of my favorite contributions to this column. His most recent e-mail provides valuable insights into his work and into ongoing connections with our Abbot ’63 sisters. He wrote, “It seems to me that the life of an artist does resemble a duck on a pond: above the surface nothing is happening, under the surface, paddling like hell!

I have been working for several years on a series of heads. My wife, Lois, calls them the Stranger Series, since I don’t know the people, but they are portraits of people I have observed. These have been the occasion for exploring not only form but also color. I plan to put a few on my website, which until now has had only public projects. When I get these added to the site, others can see what has been preoccupying me in recent times.” Will reports that Lois has been doing her scholarly work, one daughter is working in LA, and the other (Anna Nettleship ’07) is in the Army, where she has received foreign language training. On the AA sisters front, he writes, “Through the reunions, I have gotten to know Marie Fox Young ’63, an artist living in the Los Angeles area. It was pleasant for Lois and me to have dinner with her and her husband recently. I recommend her lively paintings.”

From Harry Schwethelm comes the news that his older son, Eric, married fellow FBI special agent Katherine Cook on Nov. 4, 2013, in Cancun, Mexico. Harry says, “Eric’s ‘destination wedding’ gave me the chance to have breakfast with John Hayes, who offered interesting perspectives on a broad range of topics including, of course, the Costa Maya. I make a habit of contacting classmates when geography allows—including those, like John, whom I didn’t know well at Andover. I find that this is always rewarding and would urge others to do the same.”

Finally, from Don Way: “I am in Israel as a tourist and write from the Sea of Galilee, which the Israelis call Kinneret. From Jerusalem to the Dead Sea (yes, you really do float) and Masada to the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights, along the borders with Syria and Lebanon (oh, and driving along the border with Jordan to get there), the trip has been a real eye-opener. I summarize my impressions in two words: it’s complicated. I also note that every Israeli with whom I have had an opportunity to chat, including even retired Army (IDF) officers, expressed support for a two-state solution.”

For those others who kindly responded to my e-mail, stay tuned.

[Editor’s note: See the Class of ’6 6’s notes for a mention of Jack Morrison.]

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

[Editor’s note: Following this issue, Joan Whipple Trimble steps down from her role as class secretary. The Academy is very grateful for her service. Allis Brooks Hanley is the new class secretary for Abbot Class of ’64. Please send news and updates to her using the contact information above.]

I think all of us who attended our 50th Reunion had a great time connecting with classmates, partaking of the cuisine on the Abbot campus, and enjoying the AA/PA activities. Those who attended were Joanne Schwiebert Birge, Jacqueline Meyers Eby, Allis Brooks Hanley, Melinda Bateman Hawes, Lee Clark Hoehn, Jo-Anwyl Foster Keefe, Diana Kiarsis Mayer, Dale Thomson Milne, Patricia Morrill, Mary Travers Munger, Linda Perkin, Kristina Jones Prager, Nancy Poynter Sandberg, Susan Stafford, Joan Whipple Trimble, Gwyneth Walker, Molly Webster, Joan Harney Wiles and Amy Shlossberg Wolfram. Diana Kiarsis Mayer suggested that, after being back at Abbot, we might share memories of Abbot days.

Allis Brooks Hanley comments, “While we were at Abbot, very few of us had friendships with men from PA. I enjoyed working with the men on the reunion committee. I also observed more realistic relationships between men and women in classes that were formed after the merger. Although there were advantages to an all-girl school, the merger brought about experiences that prepare students for the social aspects of college as well as the academic ones.”

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As reunion got under way, a group of alums and spouses reunited in GW. From left are Annick Mansfield with husband Doug Mansfield ’64, Bob Marshall ’64, Maria Little with husband Buck Little ’64, and Terry Trimble ’64 with wife Joan Whipple Trimble ’64. (The Trimbles met at their 25th Reunion!)

one another, even though 50 years had passed in the interim!

“Our time on the Abbot campus (during the Abbot Tea in the former chapel) certainly brought back physical memories of school days. The old buildings were drab back in the ’60s. Now, they were filled with our animated conversations, our lives, and our energy. I was glad to be part of this transformation.”

Kit Jones Prager adds, “I agree with Gwyneth’s assessment about the comfort level with our former classmates. What a pleasure to become reacquainted with those of you who attended reunion.

“Of special note were Gwyneth’s musical compositions for the memorial service, which were splendid and touching.

“As for Abbot’s physical plant, we noticed the stage was gone in McKeen Hall, where we spent Saturday evening being entertained. The stage is now a solid wall, with a second floor office space overlooking the main room.

“The chapel in Abbot Hall is now called the School Room. Gone are the elevated risers and the pulpit. We met here for the Abbot Tea, which provided a setting away from the PA guys where we could talk. We saw an interesting video about the history of Abbot leading up to the merger with Andover. There were various pictures in it of our classmates. The dining room at Draper no longer exists—too bad, since it was a lovely room. With the conversion of that building into faculty housing, the dining room was no longer necessary. The Circle is pretty much as it was.

“The apple orchard (which inspired a poem I wrote that earned an A in English) and tennis backboard (Gwyneth noted this, as she spent a lot of time practicing her expert shots there) behind French House (now called Bertha Bailey House, as PA had a French House) are gone. The house is also now faculty housing.

“Our class tree—a red-leafed Japanese maple— has thrived. In front of Abbot Hall, the tree is

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almost as tall as the building. This tree was my introduction to Japanese maples, which I have continued to love such that I have planted four around my house.”

Mary Travers Munger writes, “Kit, I think the video is called The Girls of Abbot. I hope it will be available on the website soon. I think it was made to celebrate 40 years of coeducation. I have all those memories of Abbot, too. I think our bond and comfort with each other is due to all those shared experiences.”

Lucy Bingham recounted that she was sorry to miss the reunion. Her life is enmeshed in family and finishing her novel, The Talcott House. She watches her 2-1/2-year-old granddaughter, Anna Walker Ellis, two or three days a week, and as much as she cherishes every moment, she is totally exhausted at the end of the day. She recounted a favorite memory of Abbot: “A bunch of us decided to go for a spring midnight stroll. We took the screen out of a window, preparing to drop down into the bushes below. Though I was scared silly, I boasted I would go first. My legs were dangling when—just like in the movies—a huge headlamp lit up the scene of the crime. The infirmary was just next door, and the nurses had heard us and had a floodlight waiting for just such an escape attempt.

I somersaulted back into the room behind.

Needless to say, instead of a midnight stroll, I was grounded for three weeks. Did anyone else get grounded too?”

Nancy Poynter Sandberg writes, “What a pleasure to be with you all after 50 years, following the stresses of our teenage years at Abbot. I loved hearing about what’s happening with you and your children today. I was impressed by your satisfaction with your lives. Meeting the several husbands who accompanied you to the reunion was another fascinating window on your lives. Though I knew only a very few people at PA in 1964, it was such fun to catch up with them again. It’s comforting to realize that the connections we made so long ago

in class, Fidelio, at a mixer, or on the athletic fields were remade at the 50th.”

Pat Morrill writes, “It was great fun reminiscing with fellow classmates at our 50th Reunion. The Andover campus was gorgeous, but the Abbot campus evoked the memories. Dinner in McKeen Hall brought back memories of senior prom, compulsory Saturday night lectures, and dreaded piano recitals. Lunch and tea in Abbot Hall brought back memories of morning chapel and the special assembly announcing Kennedy’s assassination. The wings of Draper have come down, so no chance to revisit the dorm rooms or the dining hall, alas!”

Amy Shlossberg Wolfram writes, “[Husband] Mike and I truly enjoyed seeing the Abbot returnees and attending the numerous events at the reunion. It was a lovely weekend indeed. It was great to see classmates and a bit disorienting and dismaying to see the changes on the Abbot campus.”

An Abbot alumna from the Class of ’67 sent me news that Suzanne Woodward McGuffey died in February 2014. The school did not know she had passed away at the time of the memorial service for our deceased classmates.

I am retiring as class secretary, and Allis Brooks Hanley will be taking over. —Joan “Whippie” Whipple Trimble

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

[Editor’s note: Following this issue, Bob Marshall steps down from his role as class secretary. The Academy is very grateful for his service. Ken Gass is the new class secretary for the PA Class of ’64.

Please send news and updates to him using the contact information above.]

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Tony Sapienza and Charlie Durfee, both Class of ’64, enjoy the Alumni Parade.

The euphoria of camaraderie lingers as I recall 72 hours spent with more than 100 classmates on a beautiful campus that seemingly hasn’t changed in 50 years. The events and meals were highlights, but it was the feeling that I’d known these people forever that made the weekend so comfortable and so special.

We gathered Thursday first for a behind-thescenes tour of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology—who even knew that existed? In the late afternoon we paraded down from our Morse Hall headquarters via the Andover Inn to the Abbot campus—who knew that existed?—for drinks, dinner, and a special guest appearance by Dick Wolf. After A.C. Johnston’s introduction, Dick regaled us with stories of G. Grenville Benedict and Law & Order, funny, poignant, and wise.

Friday morning, Jack Garrity moderated a panel on China with Peter Schandorff, Larry Darby, Didi Pei, and Linda Perkin ’64. We then moved to the Addison, where John Axelrod, Associate Director and Curator Susan Faxon, and artist-in-residence Chris “Daze” Ellis introduced us to New York street art of the 1980s.

Friday lunch was the first of three meals in a spacious tent where Evans Hall used to be, safely out of the rain. Doug Cowan hosted the menonly “Circle” he’s led every five years, while wife Posie gave the spouses the chance to get to know one another better. Before and during dinner we all “tagged” a mural that Daze had painted for us called Quite the Class. In reaction to the disastrous clambake we’d experienced 25 years before, Tony Sapienza’s dinner committee engaged a top Boston caterer, who delivered a delicious buffet with split lobster tails and claws and other treats.

The evening’s highlight, though, was a rare reunion appearance by the Clappers, summoned to accompany Bill Semple’s rousing clarinet solo.

The Academy offered several unusual and stimulating classes Friday afternoon and Saturday morning that we could partake of or not.

Enjoying a lobster dinner at their reunion are, from left, Andy Crane, Sam Allis, John Axelrod, Jackie Meyers Eby, Lee Clark Hoehn, Tony Sapienza, and Jo-Anwyl Foster Keefe, all Class of ’64.

Gloriously, the sun came out for the Alumni Parade to the all-reunion meeting at the Chapel, where we heard the impressive results of Paul Gallagher’s fundraising crew. The only time I felt old all weekend was when the other classes stood to let us depart the building first.

We assembled on the Addison steps for a series of class photos, with Cyd Israel, apparently someone’s wife, scolding us like fifth graders through Dewey Fulton’s megaphone.

Dick Brodhead was scheduled to speak after lunch, but bad weather had stranded him in North Carolina. Fortunately, NPR’s Nina Totenberg, David Reines’s wife of 14 years, could fly up from Washington, so we were able to pepper her with questions about the Supreme Court. The late Bryce Muir’s wife, Peggy, was also with us, and she gave tours of Bryce’s sculptures, which she and Jim Torbert had lovingly displayed in the Gelb Gallery in GW. A small contingent of Doug Brown’s hockey and baseball teammates then attended Doug’s induction into the Athletics Hall of Honor.

Saturday night’s dinner dance in Paresky Commons, Upper Left, was a sold-out smash, well organized by Tom Seligson. The world premiere of Randy Hobler’s video montage of every single classmate, with solo appearances by Bob Leier, Fran Crowley, Peter Pfeifle, and Doc Downing, inter alia, brought us all together one last time. The younger members of the class then hit the dance floor to songs from our senior year, including a stirring duet of “Sukiyaki” by Kiyoshi Kondo and yours truly.

Sunday we wound down with a lovely memorial service orchestrated by John Eichleay. Sandy Greene offered a heartfelt homily, Gwyneth Walker ’64 graced us with two beautiful music compositions, and we honored our 29 mates (and five from Abbot) who have gone on before.

As full as the weekend schedule was, there was time for each of us to make our private connections

with one another and the place. For myself, I ran into Doug Mansfield going through the cemetery, Jim Lockhart pondering the Winslow Homers in the Addison, and Jay Heard relaxing in the reading room of the OWHL. Randy Hobler found Tory Peterson and Tony Bryant admiring the graffiti inside the fluorescent light hoods in the OWHL room where alumni authors’ works were displayed (and where George Bush’s presidential papers overwhelmed the rest of our contributions). And for Bill Semple, “The most profound moment was walking down to Will Hall, only to see the concrete remnants of the front stairs and a plaque providing more history of the place than I ever knew.”

Fifty years on, still quite the class!

Ken Gass has generously agreed to take over the duties of class secretary as we run up to our 55th. Please keep the spirit of our reunion alive by bombarding him with whatever news occurs to you in the months and years to come. You can reach Ken using the contact information above. — Bob Marshall

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

Sarah Watson DeCew and I planned to meet at Janet Barker’s in Pacifica, Calif., in late July. We planned to attend together the opening of an art show of Janet’s work in San Francisco. In spring, Janet was in the process of moving. She adds, “I also now have a part-time job as a picture framer, which I love.” As we planned this adventure, I learned that Sarah completed a springtime Andover | Fall 2014

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Gathered at the Andover Inn in February to celebrate the retirement of PA history instructor Chris Gurry ’66 (third from right) were Jack Turco, Rich Delaney, Warren Baker, Ray Healey, Andy Scott, Charley Sawyer, Skip Freeman, and Charlie Samson, all Class of ’66.

cross-country trek. In her words, “Daughter Amy and I packed up her NYC apartment into a 16-foot Penske rental and drove from Queens, N.Y., to San Mateo, Calif. The pack-up and drive across the U.S. (3,303 miles on the truck) was quite an experience. ... Some mother-daughter bonding... and a few more grey hairs!”

Barbara Sykes spoke candidly of her disengagement from her Abbot years. As we get ready for our 50th Reunion, I think her words will speak to some of you in a similar situation, especially those who have not had much contact with classmates or Abbot/Andover in a long time. Barbara writes, “I only began to reconnect through the e-mail conversations that appeared in planning our 45th Reunion in 2010. Cindy Buxton, my roommate of our senior mid and senior years, who was really my sole confidante that last year, disappeared from view (or at least from my view). I think the only contacts I had with Abbot before the 2009–2010 e-mails were a letter from Becky Reynolds Zielinski when I was living in Boston in my 20s and a visit with my first roommate, Anne Higgins McDermott, four summers ago when we walked the beach in Dennis, Mass. We had gotten in touch because of the reunion, which I was determined to go to, but I was so shy about going that I only managed to show up for Sunday breakfast and a stroll through Abbot with Melanie Fales Davis, Tunket Spaulding, and Kathy Abler Harvey, the only classmates who were still there.

“I can’t remember if I have ever given you any information over the many years you have been doing this newsletter, Karen. Because you asked for comments, I dug out our Andover winter magazine and read your notes about Ellen [Huntington Slade]’s talk given at the Brace Center for Gender Studies on the Abbot campus. I have so few memories of the four years I spent at Abbot (which I always personalized as due to my own lack of something). This could be the result of an

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environment that didn’t support our growth as people or how to connect as people. We learned how to be polite, how to walk around the Abbot Circle, how to dress for church...not much to go on in dealing with life. I was so unready for going out into the ‘real world’ after Abbot that, in some very important ways, I don’t think I ever made a healthy transition. I think now that, maybe had I formed closer relationships with my classmates, I could have survived that so important step but, lacking a platform at Abbot (counselors/mental health professionals, as Ellen would say) to deal with anxiety, and without some kind of network of friends, I just ‘went underground.’ Actually, it was more like going underwater! I am still handicapped from the lack of skills never learned then...at their most appropriate time. I think the ones who made it have friendships, formed then, that survive today and can laugh about this strange four years that put some of us on ice, and in psychic places still hard to reach.”

Introspection is never easy, nor, for many of us (including myself), are social situations.

Nonetheless, I urge you to circle our reunion dates, June 12–14, 2015, on your calendar and to attend.

Ellen will be presenting her full talk. There will be opportunities to discuss these issues, to laugh, and to grow together.

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

D’oh! Dick Cromie and I will not be road tripping from Nevada to the 50th Reunion in his vintage Mustang, which has no A/C, no radio, and very low mileage. I told Dick I’m willing to sing, and we could always turn those little butterfly windows

inside out for some fresh air. But cooler heads prevailed. Those heads were not ours. We’ll be traveling by more conventional means. Right now, we’re thinkin’ hot air balloon.

Pete Vanderwarker showed photos of Boston’s Big Dig at the Addison. Unlike the dig, Pete’s show was on time and under budget. Pete and his wife caught up with Doug Woodlock, Bud Kellett, and their spouses for a Christmas service in Boston. Pete sez there was no one in the balcony taking attendance.

Mark Carnevale and SWMBO (ask him) wound their way through California’s wine country with daughter Cassie and son-in-law Max. Now that the kids are gone, Carl Herrmann can smoke a stogie in bed as he ponders his new career working with high-net-worth Coloradans (I only half qualify) as a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley.

Carl has learned Swedish, the language of my forebears from the old country. Carl, please never order lutefisk (a Scandinavian “delicacy”: codfish marinated in lye). My grandparents cooked it up by the metric ton.

A guy I thought had gone missing, Yank Yankopolus, has resurfaced. Yank lunched with the new head of school in (of course) Naples (either Italy or Florida...Yank didn’t specify). If the body holds out, Yank plans a cross-country bike ride. Look out the window—he might be in your driveway!

Like Yank and many other ’65ers, Kit Meade is an avid cyclist. Unlike many other ’65ers (or so I hope), Kit spends countless hours behind the bars in the local slammer. (Unlike his pals in the stony lonesome, as a volunteer he gets to go home at night.) He also sings in the choir and putters around with semiheavy earth-moving equipment. Anything to spruce up that backyard. After a post-college stretch in the Peace Corps, Tracy Licklider and his wife have spent the past 40 or so years in Cambridge, Mass., with their two children.

www.andover.edu/intouch Tracy is a computer whiz, now specializing in software rescue. Our Maine man Mac McCabe is a self-described “sustainable business consultant.”

Speaking of sustaining, Mac has sustained his snow-white beard for 40 trips around the sun, and he also is back to his PA weight, without resorting to the Commons diet of seasonal roadkill and the always-popular vegetable medley. Through the wonders of LinkedIn, we find that for the past six years Colin Mathews has been (and remains) the gallery manager at Creighton Block Gallery in Big Sky, Mont.

OK, guys, I want a show of hands: How many of you have ever worked on a high flux neutron generator? That’s what I thought. Well, our own semiretired Jay James is doing that, in (drum roll, please) Berkeley, Calif. Not sure what the HFNG will do, but I think it’s kinda like the time machine in Back to the Future. Ask Jay in 2015. Jay had lots of other news about family, travel, and the like, but the flux thingamabob really captured your scribe’s attention. So did Bob Horvitz, who checked in (sorry!) from Prague, where he and two colleagues are working on a communication system for first responders. Bob’s message included an apparently legitimate concern that he could vanish in a puff of smoke, which would make his appearance at PA in 2015 somewhat difficult to discern. Bob, is that you going up the chimney?

Cap Potter is happy to be back in McLean, Va., close to daughter Blake, her hubby, and their (at this writing) 2-year-old son. Cap finds that memories of the Andover experience that we took for granted seem to improve with age. Just like our classmates, and a good wine. Farther north, Tom Russell made it through a predictably cold Minneapolis winter and has thawed out sufficiently to figure he’ll be with us in June. Somewhere in-between geographically, Dick O’Shaughnessy works full time at Ohio State, has one child at home, three out the door, and five grandkids.

Whew! Out here in flyover country, Jim Grew feasted on the best powder Steamboat Springs has had in my 44 years of living in Colorado. We locals are calling it “The Endless Winter.”

Every class should have an in-house astronomer/cosmologist/tennis player/world traveler (Kenya, Cuba, Miami), and ours is Vaho Rebasso, who keeps in touch with Greg Richards. Also well traveled is Tony Gibson. Tony and wife Kathy visited son Brooke and family in London, cruised the Rhine River (Basel to Amsterdam), and toured Ireland. Ditto, Morrison Bonpasse (Italy, Sicily, and Maine). Virginian Tom Garner formed a nonprofit (www.midlomines.org) that tells the story of early commercial coal mining in America, but his favorite stories are those he reads at bedtime to his granddaughter. Retiree Mickey Jako plays tennis regularly with a group called the Geezers. Most of us can relate.

I’ve used up my allotted words, so I close with a reminder that our 50th Reunion is right around the corner. You can come by car, bus, skateboard, food truck, hang glider, bicycle, neutron generator,

spaceship, helicopter, on foot, or on horseback, or you can join Dick Cromie and me in the hot air balloon. Doesn’t matter how. Just be there.

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 a nomadic spring. Thanks to classmates for reaching out by e-mail and snail mail.

Debby Little Hertz checked in from Hillsboro, Ore., after a delightful visit with Louise Shimmel, executive director at the Cascades Raptor Center in Eugene (www.eRaptors.org). Debby wrote, “The center is a lovely sanctuary where injured raptors are treated and released if possible. Those that can’t be released are looked after in large aviaries, so it was possible to see live birds such as eagles up close. Really an amazing experience.”

Debby also reports that she feels “like the new 56,” thanks to a rigorous workout routine. As we all gain “senior citizen” status, thanks, Debby, for providing tips: a recumbent bike alternating with weight machines.

Congratulations to Ida “Pinky” Rock Noll of Springfield, Ill., and to husband Jon Noll ’66, for continuing accomplishments in historic preservation. In spring, Pinky sent the following e-mail: “Hi, Blake! Hope all is well with you. I often think of you, and in my imagination, you are always in a plane! You are the only person I know who commutes to Pakistan! Anyway, I wanted to update AA and PA on news on our front that has occurred in the past 10 days. On April 11, 2014, I was honored to receive the Richard Nickel Award from AIA Illinois. The article from our local paper is here: http://bit.ly/1qNXpZo. Then, on May 5, 2014, [husband] Jon and I received Springfield’s Preservationist Award of the Year, from the Historic Sites Commission of Springfield and Mayor Michael Houston: http://bit.ly/1vRzxlp. It was a total surprise, and we are so flattered and honored. If any classmates are interested, they can go to our website, www.lincolndepot.org, and see all kinds of history, photographs, etc.

“We’re hoping our application for the National Register of Historic Places for the Lincoln Depot goes well, and we can report on that in the near future!

“The rest of our lives is also good. The kids are happily on their own and all are doing very well.

Jon is staying out of trouble and continues to work at the law practice and also on his book. I am still working at the law office but slowly extricating myself so that I can ride my horse more, and

garden, and play with the grandkids, and... and... there is so much to do besides work!”

On the Phillips Academy front, the Abbot legacy remains integral to the Abbot Academy Association and to initiatives such as the Girls’ Leadership Project. On certain occasions, the PA softball team even sports jerseys emblazoned with “Abbot,” which also, in a sense, is an homage to Miss Shirley Ritchie, who recently turned 90.

In April, a number of Abbot alumnae participated in lively dialogues with PA girls, ably coordinated by Debby Burdett Murphy ’86, director of alumni engagement. Having just returned from (yes, Pinky) Pakistan and extensive leadership training with Pakistani educators and students— predominantly female—I found the Andover event presented a stark contrast. By odd coincidence, during an Islamabad meeting, a senior official representing the government of Pakistan spoke spontaneously, movingly, and at length about meeting “Senior Bush,” ’42.

So, from a very small and shrinking world, sending all best to the other senior citizens in the class!

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

Perhaps the most scintillating part of the e-mail exchange leading up to that great weekend last February when we celebrated the retirement from the PA history department of our distinguished classmate Chris Gurry was when Chris Wilbur had the inspiration to post an electronic link to the lead front page story of The Phillipian from March 9, 1966. It described our man Gurry’s heroics in the annual Andover-Exeter hockey game, with the immortal headline “Gurry’s 4 Goals Rout Red Hockey as Exeter Goaltender Blocks 43.”

Jack Turco quickly responded, “Chris, thanks for providing the proof that these amazing feats really happened; some of us tend to embellish previous mortal acts.”

Before we review these immortal acts and the celebration we enjoyed on the weekend of Feb. 22 to 24, let us revisit a bit of history. The year that our Class of ’6 6 entered PA as juniors (1962–63), we had the great pleasure of watching the heroics of a notable senior, a gent named Jack Morrison ’63, who was captain of the hockey team and one of the most exceptional skaters this correspondent has ever watched. Morrison had the capacity to grab the puck behind his own cage and power up ice, barreling down the rink with a propulsive, eminently shifty skating style that invited comparisons with Boston Bruin great Bobby Orr. In March 1963, Morrison’s varsity hockey team beat Exeter 6–4, and Jack had the three-goal hat trick. That feat established a benchmark for Andover | Fall 2014

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Yes, Chris excelled on the ice, and on the golf course, but the reason we gathered this past February was to celebrate his distinguished academic career, his years as a fine PA history teacher, and his tenure as chairman of the history department— carrying on a tradition of instruction that had been established by a previous history department chairman (and varsity hockey coach), Ted Harrison.

Chris has served Andover as a veteran housemaster and highly successful varsity hockey coach, but it was mostly his talent and virtues as a history teacher that established his reputation at our fair school. Amid the profusion of good wishes that poured in from our classmates were accounts by those who, over the years, had encountered Chris’s former students; such students were universal in their praise for him as an instructor and a mentor.

Bryan Miller, for one, wrote to say that he had met numerous former Andover students over the years in Indonesia and that, whenever he asked about their favorite teachers at PA, almost inevitably they would mention that one special history teacher, Mr. Gurry. This correspondent had the privilege of sitting in on a history class with Mr. Gurry, and I can attest that he not only had a wide-ranging command of his subject, American history, he also, like the best Andover teachers we experienced over the years (Tom Lyons, Dudley Fitts, and Dr. Alston Hurd Chase, to name a few), had the personal charisma and intellectual conviction to convey his subject memorably and dramatically to young minds. His students not only learned American history, they learned the value of American history and what it can teach us about life.

First stop for our classmates on that Saturday was the coed alumni hockey game, in which a hockey line representing PA ’66 took to the ice, with Rich Delaney at center, Eric Best at right wing, and Ray Healey at left wing. Rich displayed his usual stick-handling wizardry, and Eric impressed the crowd (including his son, Will, and daughter Isabel) with his dashing thrusts at the goal, which climaxed with a spectacular near-miss on a Delaney shot and rebound. In the stands were Warren Baker and Skip Freeman, both hors de combat because of injuries, and Mr. Gurry, who was waiting to coach the girls’ varsity hockey team against Exeter.

Later that afternoon, after Chris’s girls’ team had handily beaten the Exies, we all convened at a special event at the Andover Inn, where a packed house enjoyed cocktails and the formal celebration of Chris’s retirement and heard from the several folks who had assembled to sing his praises, including Head of School John Palfrey. Jack Turco spoke some kind words, as did Rich Delaney and Skip Freeman. Mr. Palfrey said some very kind words about Chris’s multiple contributions to our school over the years, and then there was a witty yet heartfelt exchange between these two gentlemen. Chris’s hockey jersey was formally retired, to a standing ovation, and then, as the crowd continued to

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celebrate and drink further toasts, an alert photographer shot some photos. Present for these shots in front of a handy mantelpiece were the following classmates: Jack Turco, Rich Delaney, Warren Baker, Ray Healey, Andy Scott, Charley Sawyer, Chris Gurry, Skip Freeman, and Charlie Samson.

When these festivities had wound down, this core group of classmates proceeded to commandeer a long table in the dining hall of the Andover Inn. Joining us at this table were Chris’s wife, Sara, and Jack’s wife, Mary, and this convivial crew continued to celebrate, feast, and drink toasts to our honoree long into the night. A grand time was had by all.

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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

Louisa “Weezie” Huntington writes, “We closed on our new place in an over-55 community and are looking forward to its active lifestyle. Travel plans this summer: three weddings and a 10-day trip to France. I’m also starting the process to become a certified rug-hooking instructor: one week of classes every summer for four years, with assignments of four or five projects that must be finished and ‘defended’ the following summer.”

Elizabeth Bonan writes, “[Son] Pierre is turning 40! I’m going with 12 friends on a cruise in Alaska for my 65th. Everything is great.”

Diana Bonnifield Hill reports, “Our 35-yearold son is marrying the love of his life in Sacramento, Calif., and is finally settling into his dream career as an elementary school teacher. It makes my motherly heart proud. [Husband] Mike and I are working on our bucket list; well, at least it’s a list.”

Jane von der Heyde Lindley wrote, “Big news is that [husband] David is retiring May 31. I’m not sure how having him around during the day is going to work out!”

Priscilla Howes Harris says she is still working as an accountant. Laurian Cannon Coburn is still flying internationally when she chooses. Dorsey Green continues to work as a therapist and is coleading two-day “Hold Me Tight” couples’ workshops. Her second son and his wife are moving to Seattle soon. She is thrilled to have both sons and their families close by.

Bob and Joyce “Joy” Wannop Bruce’s daughter, Meaghan, is now engaged and heading off on a

Westsail 34 across the Pacific Ocean to French Polynesia. Son Richard is “acing” his classes at Quest University while still enjoying family time with his wife and two children. Bob and Joy are completing the second item on their bucket list, a cruise from Athens to Istanbul (the first: staying in an over-water bungalow and touring French Polynesia). The saying “life after kids” changed to “life after elderly parents”—difficult as it is to lose one’s parents, at some point it can be a blessing.

Nancy Howe Erdman says, “Youngest daughter, Sara, just received a PhD degree in English lit/ creative writing from Binghamton Univ.; she would love to publish her novel and teach at a prep school or college. Middle daughter was married in September and is expecting a baby girl. We now have three grandsons by our oldest daughter, Amy. Sadly, since June ’13 I’ve lost both parents but know that they are happier in a better place. Grandkids will fill the void, hopefully!”

Roxanna “Roxy” Wolfe writes, “Since [sons] Bart and Dan found fabulous women, [husband] Jeff and I are having a lot of fun. We met at Shelter Island, N.Y., for Bart and Shannon’s wedding in July. Classmates talk about retirement— Mary Jane “Misty” Major told me I could cut back—but I’m busier than ever with endlessly fascinating work.”

Holly Washburn Matisis reports, “I’m currently a school psychologist in a public elementary school and hope to retire next year. I have a son who’s studying psychology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a son who plays for the Israeli national rugby team, and a daughter who does event planning for the development/fundraising office of Perkins School for the Blind and lives in Boston.

Anstiss Bowser Agnew sold her Darien, Conn., home and is moving to a loft in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, N.Y. She continues to run her childwelfare nonprofit in Queens, N.Y. Catherine Hoover Petros and husband Ray met Anstiss and her friend Michael Zeman in Florida for a long weekend in March. All enjoyed great food, bird-watching, and long beach walks.

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

The Andover school website posted a terrific profile of Charles Woodbury, professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. It contains a description of a device Chuck patented that’s used in a process known as pulsed ultra filtration. Besides teaching, he conducts research in macromolecular binding. For those who did not study biology at PA quite as seriously as he clearly did, I’ll add a few personal details from the piece.

“Andover was pretty intimidating for a country boy, plus I thought it was weak there were no girls,”

www.andover.edu/intouch recalled Chuck, who came to PA as an upper from a small town in eastern Washington. “Otherwise, it was a pretty good place for a science nerd whose proudest achievement had been earning a Boy Scout badge in chemistry.” He’s also involved with several charitable organizations, among them the National Association for Down Syndrome, is a martial arts practitioner (he was judo club president our senior year), and spends “too darn much time” restoring an old Victorian house. His worldly advice, well worth heeding, is: “Buy the professional-quality tools. They’re worth it.”

From Paris, Wade Saunders writes, “Next year will be my sixth and last year teaching sculpture for the Ville de Paris. Five of my sculptures were included in the annual invitational group show at the American Academy of Arts and Letters this spring, which was a very nice surprise. My studio practice advances slowly and I worry that, as a sculptor, I’m working in a domain that is ‘no longer supported,’ like certain digital operating systems.

But I keep on keeping on since I don’t see an acceptable alternative. I’ll likely remain in France for the duration, since my wife’s family is here, my working situation would be hard to re-create in the U.S., and, after 24 years, Paris feels more like home than NYC. I mostly get around on a bike, so the traffic isn’t a problem.”

And this arrived from Bill Robinson: “I am living in Zurich, Switzerland. Wife Nancy and I moved here three years ago for her job. She is an HR executive. I have retired. We enjoy Europe, Switzerland especially. I would be glad to reconnect with any classmates in the area or anyone passing through.”

Catching up: Retired U.S. Army Col. Walton H. Walker II traveled to South Korea last year for ceremonies honoring his late grandfather and namesake, Gen. Walton H. Walker, who commanded the Eighth Army during the early stages of the Korean War. Accompanied by his brother, retired Lt. Col. Sam S. Walker III ’71, Buck, who lives in Fayetteville, N.C., said in an Army news account that the ceremony was “overwhelming,” given that South Koreans consider his grandfather “somewhat of a savior” for his wartime heroics. Meanwhile, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ford Fraker is currently serving as president of the Middle East Policy Council, having left his job as senior adviser with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Based in Washington, D.C., the council is a nonprofit organization focused on political, economic, security, and cultural issues affecting U.S. interests in the Middle East.

As I type this, my daughter Emma ’14 is five days away from her PA commencement, 47 years to the day since we graduated. High on my list of fatherly emotions is gratitude toward the teachers, advisers, classmates, and others (including you, Dan Cunningham) who helped make her Andover experience so incredibly rewarding. And among my fondest wishes is that, half a century from now, she, too, considers herself a loyal and active alum.

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

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

[Editor’s note: Following this issue, Annette Davis Esteves steps down from her role as class secretary.

The Academy is very grateful for her service. Karen Seaward is the new class secretary for the Abbot Class of 1968. Please send news and updates to her using the contact information above.]

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

Ten long years of aging and enlightenment have passed since Bruce Hughes wrote this seminal look back at PA on April 16, 2004. For your enjoyment and remembrance, Part I: “Ave, fellow ‘bairdopotami!’

“The Ides of April having passed and ‘that which is Caesar’s’ having been rendered, I prostrate myself in random tribute before the gods of the Hill.

“The ‘Great End and Real Business of Living’ appears thus in the Constitution of Phillips Academy, being the object that the founding fathers hoped ‘more especially to learn [sic] them.’ Query whether such awkward phrasing may evince the contribution of that northern [Exeter] rube, John Phillips, rather than his indisputably more accomplished, patriotic, and cosmopolitan nephew, Samuel Phillips, who subsequently served as first lieutenant governor under the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.

“John Phillips’s diabolical experiment in rustic education—PEA—spawned [Boston real estate developer] Don Chiofaro, who departed the infested swamps of the Squamscott River for the comparatively more salubrious banks of the then-polluted Charles in 1964. Despised by such tranquil faculty souls as the late Ted Harrison ’38 because of a legendary brawl/riot that he ignited at the A-E hockey game several months prior to our matriculation, Chiofaro headed to the [Harvard] stadium in Allston, where he earned a football captaincy, All-Ivy recognition, and John’s Hall of Fame selection. He may have been a PG in the Everett-to-‘Meatville’ pipeline Andover | Fall 2014

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

The Class of ’69 had a slightly different spin on the parade. From left, Rebecca and Steve Madsen ’69 and Bill Schink ’69.

that has been resurrected in recent years. (Gentle readers will recall that the PEA-brains had 11 starting football ringers to our four, our first fall; their tradition continues undiminished.) Anyway, Gordo’s recognition of Chiofaro probably provided a welcome relief from all the bad press that he garners in the Boston newspapers these days.

Could Cabey Warren be remembering a visit by Chiofaro as an H-frosh hockey player, apart from his football commitments?

“All pilgrims should take in the somewhat contemporary photo of Cabe and Dan Warren ’65 inside the front door of the Harrison Rink. Dan was destined to be a man of the cloth, but when was Cabey ever so cherubic? Then again, in those halcyon beginnings we all basked in the light of the trinity of Todd Everett ’65, Dan, and Peter Evans’s brother, Randy ’65. “ ‘. ..older than that now.’

“The late Jake Bronk and Helen Bronk Akerstrom are memorialized in their namesake wing of the gymnasium. Helen, after long service in the Office of Academy Resources, remains as vivacious and gracious as ever and is a welcome fixture at significant events. Jake, who was also preserved in character for posterity in the audio-visual presentation of PA’s bicentennial, rounded out his last years convinced that the girls were tougher than the boys.

“Al Coulthard, rock and graduate of Lynn English, returned to his roots after retirement and passed on a few years back, possibly in that accursed state north of the Massachusetts border.

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product of the ‘Golden Era’ in a tough city, then the ‘Shoe Capital’ of the country, but I doubt that any student unjustifiably had anything but a smile and good humor from him.

“My memory recalls the 5.5 total/3-in-onecategory cut system, which has been confirmed

by The Blue Book. I shall have to dig out an even more esoteric publication, that being the Abbot Rule Book. It’s sequestered somewhere with my Selective Stickball Registration Card, which, as many will recall, was ‘guaranteed’ to be satisfactory identification to buy in New York. Never having been posted, I did run afoul of the law the night that Havlicek stole the ball—and the series—in Philly. When Russell hit the wire with five seconds remaining, I blew up and threw a chair against the wall, awakening the dorm and exposing my clandestine, contraband transistor radio. In my angst, I carried on quite a bit, but the proctor figured that, as I had earned the demerits, I, and the rest of Andover Cottage, might as well listen to the end of the game. The march of history continued unabated when Havlicek worked his magic, but I had few companions with whom to celebrate.

Thitherto unrecognized, one denizen of A.C. had not been ‘awakened.’ When the leprechaun smiled yet again on the Celts, there was a sudden ‘explosion’ on the other side of the dorm, and everyone piled out of my room to see if a show comparable to mine would ensue. Apparently, a kid from the Camden area of Jersey also had squirreled away a verboten transistor radio, unknown to any other miscreant. The kid: Bruce Hearey. Whether his ‘show’ was as good as mine, I don’t recall, but I also don’t remember him having to rake leaves with me.”

Next time: Part II.

Well, another reunion gone by and, boy, did we have fun! If any of us has changed, it’s only been for the better! To quote Sandra Waugh Winans: “I still saw the twinkle in everyone’s eyes.”

So much to tell, but there’s a word limit, so forgive the edits I may have had to make. You’ll hear from many of the ladies as you read below, but here are attendees who did not write in but spent the weekend enjoying fun memories: Sara Gray Stockwell, Mary Ketcham Lambea, Alison Nourse-Miller, Marilyn Dow, Linda Lacouture Vliet, and Mary Stewart Owczarek.

I hope I didn’t forget anyone!

Barbara Allen’s husband retired after 28 years of teaching at Colby College, and she’s left her fund­ raising job. She’s determined to put their house in order, then figure out her next calling. Daughter Julia is 22, living and working in Massachusetts.

Son Eliot, 21, did his regular summer gig at Pine Island Camp, in Belgrade, Maine, before moving to Portland, Ore., to Lewis and Clark College.

Carol Nimick followed the reunion with a 10-day bike trip from DC to Pittsburgh, arriving in time for her father’s 90th birthday and a family reunion. She spent the prereunion week on Maine’s gorgeous Monhegan Island with a Sierra Club service trip, maintaining trails and removing invasive plants.

Lindsay Whitcomb said, “The reunion was a lot of fun. Learning about efforts to keep Abbot’s spirit, history, and importance an integral part of Andover and catching up with old friends was so nice. I retired from the March of Dimes, and adjusting to a slower pace has been a joy. I devote a lot of time to my garden and will start my other creative juices flowing again soon at the local art center. Volunteer work at the library will probably come next. ... I think this is the first time my life is really all mine.”

Gali Hagel spent five weeks this spring with friends in Provence. It was her third trip in as many years, and she feels quite at home there. She was able to celebrate the publication of Collaborative Innovation in Drug Discovery, a compendium of pieces on how private and public collaboration can accelerate getting drugs to patients. Gali contributed a chapter on an innovative research model, and publication was a needed boost, as she’s been working on a memoir—a far more difficult project. She has also given talks on the ethical implications of the latest advances in interspecies communication. She adds, “One of the advantages of semi­retirement is the freedom to pursue all our interests! And to be able to attend

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Several members of the Abbot Class of ’69 met outside Draper Hall. Seated, from left, are Gali Hagel, Madelon Curtis Harper, Alison Nourse-Miller, Barbara Allen, Jessie Leuenberger Butler, Linda Lacouture Vliet, Sandra Waugh Winans, Katrina Moulton Wollenberg, Sara Gray Stockwell, and Carol Nimick. Standing, from left, are Marilyn Dow, Mary Ketcham Lambea, Mary Schiavoni, Mary Stewart Owczarek, and Lindsay Whitcomb.

our 45th Reunion, which was lovely and so special in the old and new connections we made.”

A highlight of the weekend was watching a slideshow by Stephanie Ross comprising almost six dozen Polaroid photos that she took over her four years at Abbot. She encourages everyone to search for Abbot memorabilia to donate to the Abbot archives. Stephanie says, “If we don’t do it soon, we won’t be alive to do so. There are only three Abbot classes behind us to provide material. Our class is the only one that experienced both the old Abbot with Mrs. Crane in our prep year and the semicoed Abbot with Don Gordon in our senior year.

We were the ‘bridge class.’ ” Jessie Leuenberger Butler provided her steel-trap memory about all Abbot goings-on, too. It was a superb job!

Another of our early classmates from prep year, Maureen O’Hagan Steed, resurfaced! Here is some of what she had to say: “I only went to Abbot during prep year, so I’ve felt shy about communicating, since I wasn’t sure I was a ‘real’ member of the Class of ’69. Margaret Gay Lavender encouraged me, so here I am. ... I found a copy of the 1969 Circle yearbook online. I was surprised at how familiar so many names and faces were that I haven’t seen in almost 50 years. I was at Abbot while my mother had a sabbatical year at Harvard, and then I returned to Palo Alto, Calif., to finish high school. Looking back, I really appreciate the excellent education I received during my year at Abbot.”

Margie Sater Lord, not in attendance, writes, “If anyone has contact information for classmates who were with us for part of the time, it would be fun to be able to reach them. Maybe anyone who has that information could circulate it. I can think of several people I’d love to see again. We live in Clinton, Conn. I retired from my last job coordinating programs to bring urban and suburban kids together. I worked through public schools

in Middlesex and New London counties. I also trained teachers and paraprofessionals. Now I am working on cleaning out those years of clutter, singing with a local choral group, helping to keep a local art center on its feet, and having fun with family. We have four grandchildren, so it’s almost like teaching again! Please call if you’re headed for southern Connecticut!”

Katrina Moulton Wollenberg writes, “Attending the reunion is a wonderful way to both step back in time and yet be very present. Any initial nervousness evaporates instantly as one is surrounded by warmth and kindness. Stephanie’s video reminded us of ski trips, endless days spent in curlers, dances with boys’ schools, events on the Circle, and more. ... Next reunion, I need to attend a class or two. Everyone who ventured into a classroom emerged enthusiastic and excited.

“I’m still here in Dallas, where I am convinced I can create an English garden in spite of high temperatures. This year will mean travel, as I am freer since selling my business. This August, my son Andrew and his wife will meet me in Maui. Son Blake, his wife, and their two girls will transport me to a Disney cruise next winter. In between are trips to Memphis, Boston, and Oklahoma to see family. At home means time for swim aerobics, golf, and volunteering.”

Wendy Ewald and Jennifer Cecere couldn’t make it but had a mini reunion in NYC. Jennifer’s sculpture, Double Doily, is going to Newport Beach, Calif., for a two-year outdoor exhibition. The opening was Sept. 13, 2014. More information is here: http://bit.ly/1pMe7E1.

Mary Schiavoni, our wonderful reunion chair, announces her online Chewy Q baby store, www.ChewyQ.com, featuring baby teethers made in Maine. Mary says, “Thank you to everyone who participated in our reunion this year! It was super to see everyone and rekindle memories of our days

at Abbot. Thanks also to many who couldn’t attend but have participated in the e-mail thread of news and memories!”

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

Well, that Steve Madsen–Dan Dickson band can really rock. They had everyone dancing and sweating on Saturday night at our reunion. It was one of the weekend’s many high points. Steve may be a recently retired NYC lawyer, but the guy has not slowed down.

Organizer Larry Uhl, joined ably by Steve and

by Mary Schiavoni ’69, put together a first-class event, and if you weren’t there, you should make plans for 2019. Bill Jones, Tad Brockie, Bob Weil, and Digger Donahue were among the missing, but they wrote from various parts of the globe to send their regrets. David Ensor, just back from Ukraine on a Voice of America trip, managed a long Skype visit with the Foreign Service Institute’s Alex van Oss and Jeremy Bluhm—who again won the longest-traveled attendee, since his address is Sydney, Australia.

Those who were there included the great consultant Fred Adair, banker Bill Schink of Greensboro, N.C., and city planner Jim Farnam from New Haven. Jim was accompanied by building contractor Jon Hooker, who took time to examine the foundation of my 1778 home in Newburyport, Mass., and found it wanting. Repairs will undoubtedly be costly to the Academy’s Samuel Phillips & Sarah Abbot Society, which was otherwise due to receive the residuals of my estate, estimated at $319.

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Also on the New Haven van was Cam Henning, one of those who did not graduate but still found it in his heart to join in. Cam attributes much of his current wisdom and humor to having roomed for a couple of years with Mr. Bluhm.

For those who love politics, here is some great news. Entrepreneur Rick Stewart is running for the open U.S. Senate seat in Iowa, as an Independent. He has a very serious shot at this, and has already begun his campaign, visiting every county and newspaper in the state and holding regular pancake breakfasts. Check out http://rickstewart.com. Another of our classmates, former Massachusetts congressman Jim Shannon, has just retired as head of the National Fire Protection Association. When not at home just down the street from PA in Reading, Mass., Jim and his wife, Silvia, a professor of French history at St. Anselm College, will be able to spend more time at their New Hampshire home, as well as their co-op in Manhattan. As a parting gesture, the NFPA named one of its campus buildings after Jim. I am happy to report that Nate Cartmell is still very tall and somehow knows more about more things than just about anyone I’ve ever met. Is there anyone else who could tell me the historic roots of various New England towns and their connections to Old England? He is still working as a corporate lawyer in San Francisco.

Lock Miller came from the great Northwest.

He has sold his company and is enjoying the good life. John Hosken is renovating his home in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and proudly reports that he is doing his own plumbing. Knowing John’s mechanical skills, there can be no doubt he is in full compliance with our state plumbing code. His friend John Malick arrived with wife Susan from Emeryville, Calif., where his architecture business is thriving. He even has a new coffee-table book showcasing his remarkable residential and commercial projects, as well as a private school whose buildings he is designing.

Down from the Green Mountains of Vermont, Mark Snelling and Charlie Kittredge arrived bearing good wishes and great smiles. Charlie has “officially” retired as the head of Crane & Co., the paper company, though he still has a major hand in the operation of the business, which prints the currencies for more than 100 nations. Unfortunately, Charlie was unable to provide reunioners with the redesigned $100 Benjies that his company prints for the U.S. Treasury. Steve Harper and his wife Madelon Curtis Harper ’69 were in from the Left Coast and looked very happy to be at reunion together. Rob Reynolds and his wife, Kristine, came up from their home in Woods Hole, Mass., where they operate a program that takes school kids out into Massachusetts waters to study the great wonders of our sea life. Rob looked, if I may say, radiant with enthusiasm for life. Our former football and lacrosse captain obviously succeeded in leading a full and worthwhile life.

Peter Gallett of Brooklyn told about his role as a surrogate parent for a couple of German kids

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who spend time with him in N.Y. He is enjoying all the blessings and challenges of helping to raise two teenagers. It obviously suits him well.

Sid Stern of Greensboro, N.C., was there with his young niece, Honey, who was a pleasure to meet.

Attorney Hubert Crouch made an appearance, though regrettably I didn’t get to talk to him much about the work he did on his novel. Let’s hope there is more forthcoming. Chuck McDermott popped in, looking happy and healthy. He has a regular following for his music performances here in Massachusetts. Science teacher Howie Murphy also came by. I think that Luke Pfeifle was present, though I didn’t catch up with him. The weekend zipped by, and I’m sure that there were others in attendance whom I missed.

The overall atmosphere felt like a family reunion—people open with one another and looking relaxed as we approach another stage of our lives.

I was reminded of the wonderful quality of our classmates the weekend following the reunion, when I traveled to Northeast Harbor, Maine, for a memorial event in honor of our late classmate Rob Gardner. Rob passed away last October of a stroke that began while on a golf course in Pennsylvania. Rob’s memorial was arranged by his wonderful siblings and brought together 130 people from all over the country. It was remarkable; people stayed the entire weekend, and it was moving to hear such heartfelt tributes to the golf pro who is being inducted posthumously into the Maine Golf Hall of Fame. Turns out that Rob was a mentor to numerous people over four decades, and he helped put the Northeast Harbor Golf Club on solid footing. Among other things, Rob was responsible for expanding the course from 15 to 18 holes and was instrumental in creating many other significant improvements at one of the most venerable clubs in the nation.

Forty-fifth reunions are notorious for low attendance. But our weekend had a quality that made it very special. People are already talking about 2019 and our 50th. Let’s hope that if you weren’t in Andover this June, you will be with us five years from now. See you then.

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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

First of all, hearty congratulations to Tamara Elliott Rogers. Tamara was recently appointed as

a charter trustee at Andover. She began her term this fall. Andover is so lucky to have Tamara as a trustee. She has spent her professional career in higher education and brings so much wisdom and experience to her new role as an Andover trustee.

Good luck, Tamara. We look forward to hearing more from you as your first term as a trustee gets under way.

It was wonderful to hear from Elise Straus­ ­Bowers. She writes, “You may be wondering, ‘What’s up with Elise Straus-Bowers these days— these decades?’ ” Here is what she has to report.

On 10 acres of forest in Woolwich, Maine, she and her husband continue, as they have for 36 years, heating-fuel harvest. That’s chain-sawing, splitting with a 15-pound maul, and transporting largely by hand—at the house designed, engineered, and constructed by them. In Portsmouth, N.H., she has the great fortune and joy to live intermittently in the 60-year-old modern house of her parents’ design, and of her entire childhood, on an acre of beautiful tidal-water land. Their 35-yearold daughter and her wonderful college-mate partner live in Seattle, their seven-year marriage now finally recognized in their state! And their 33-year-old daughter returned East from Seattle six years ago and lives in the Straus family “cabin” in the New Hampshire mountains. Elise has two pairs of “grandchildren”—coincidentally both 7 and 8—a pair each in their Woolwich and Portsmouth neighborhoods. She also has the pleasure of friendship with Cathy Stone, who has lived in Portsmouth the past couple of decades or so, and she has occasionally seen Gay Armsden (her family in Kittery Point, Maine, are longtime Straus friends) when Gay has been on the mainland from Hawaii and on the “right coast.” Elise would also like to show off her three ongoing endeavors: physical prowess (for example, three sets of 10 chin-ups without mechanical assist); her Red Cross 22-gallon pin; and her seven-year mostly solo study of the Icelandic language. Like so many of us, she was very sorry to hear the news of Abby Hale’s death. She enjoys reading your news, especially from Suzy Gun Hasenson from her diplomatic post in Israel. Thank you, Elise, for all this wonderful news, and I hope you inspire others to share similar updates.

Nan Quick has published her fifth and final chapter about the gardens and estates of Kent, England. She provided the following link for her most recent travel article: http://bit.ly/1qEKAyT. Gay Luster Sawabini is helping Charlie Finch ’70 sell his home, a charming country retreat in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., with an easy commute to NYC. Sandy Urie has joined three new boards: Stanford Management Company, the investment management company responsible for Stanford’s endowment; Social Finance, an organization that is leading in the movement to establish the social impact bond industry in the U.S.; and the board of overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

I was fortunate to spend a week in St. Barts this winter and Aspen/Snowmass in the spring.

www.andover.edu/intouch Otherwise, it’s been grinding out the work in the law firm. Thanks to those classmates who submitted news; Sandy and I appreciate your contributions! —Penny Snelling Sullivan

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

Thanks to Bill Roth, we have some real news. He begins with this query: “Who is Tim D. Smith?”

Bill proceeds, “That is the correct question linked to the Jeopardy answer, ‘Responsible for naming the residential building, Andover House, on D.C.’s Thomas Circle.’ ” (See www. andoverhousedc.com.) Bill adds that the answer is under the Jeopardy category of “Highfalutin Building Names.”

Bill explains: “Tim spent the bulk of his career in real estate development in Washington and has now moved on to work with the Metro [DC’s transit authority], where he coordinates with private developers to turn some of Metro’s underutilized real estate into revenue-generating properties.

“An inter-Commonwealth commuter, with homes in both Alexandria and Richmond, Va., Tim is married to Mary Ellen, an officer of WorldStrides, a company that organizes school trips to national and international landmarks. Son Tyler is an Atlanta-based consultant working in the field of digitizing medical records, and Tyler’s younger sister, Sarah Elizabeth, is on the brink of becoming Dr. Smith, upon graduation from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine.

“He might be a terror at the negotiating table, but in a phone call with an old classmate, Tim was a relaxed and genial presence, who said his adult life was not without plenty of recreational sport, reading (mostly biographies of historical figures, with a minor in Andover nonfiction writers like Evan Thomas ’69 and Michael Beschloss ’73), and eclectic musical taste, running from Handel to Sinatra.

“Come to think of it, he seems to live the life of a Southern gentleman, except that he had a pretty tough and risky job throughout it all.”

Bill reported that he thought Tim might have been persuaded to return for our 45th Reunion— “brandishing a receipt for his contribution to the Phillipian endowment drive.”

David Cohen recalled his Phillipian work fondly. And in an e-mail, he mentioned another opportunity he and others had to reconnect with Andover circa 1970. Writing about the April 8

event in NYC held in honor of K. Kelly Wise, he said, “I found that evening in NYC both moving and inspiring, and had the pleasure of seeing there not only K. Kelly Wise, but our classmates Tony Carroll, Jon Michals, and Jim Steinberg, as well as Hugh Kelleher ’69 and others. The only, inevitable problem was too little time to catch up with all the people I would have liked to talk with!”

This past spring churned up memories for many of another sort, thanks to the “Kemper and the Unkempt” article in the magazine. Rich Samp called it a “fascinating inside account of efforts to control hair length among PA students in 1969–1970.”

Many classmates piled onto Rich’s e-mail, creating a tangled, uncombed string of reflections. In the spirit of the long-gone Match Game, see if you can link the name with the comment.

The names: Rich Samp (Washington, D.C.), Alex Donner (NYC), David Short (Montague, Mass.), Fred Peters (NYC), Jim Quinby (Sausalito, Calif.), Mark Kelly (NYC), and Chuck Willand (Reading, Mass.).

The comments: One: “I guess I was generally aware that there was some faculty concern about excessive hair length. But in keeping with my general cluelessness at the time, I was totally unaware of the extent of the concern and the official committees set up to deal with the issue.”

Two: “Peace marchers? I thought Mr. Marine was upset with the quality and quantity involving a commercial transaction with a Nathan Hale House resident. I would definitely trace the hair to the Beatles. Except, of course, that everyone liked the Beatles. There were those who loved the Beatles but did not [have] long hair. Did anyone know anyone with long hair who wasn’t getting high?”

Three: “No, but I knew plenty with short hair who were. [Imagine smiling emoticon.]”

Four: “I think now I may have a little more insight as to why I was not ‘invited to return’ for senior year. Not that my locks were any longer than any one else’s, but Jack Richards and I did have a couple of blowouts about my attitude... and then there was the girl I brought into Commons for a couple of meals while she was snowed in at the Andover Inn after the Winter Weekend.”

Five: “As I recall, I began to grow my sideburns back as soon as the dean made me cut them off at the beginning of the year. My short hair did not, however, rescue me from my probation for ‘attitude.’ Glad those years are far behind us!”

Six: “Bob McNitt’s famous question to Mr. Kemper in the assembly about a relaxed dress code: ‘Sir, you say we can wear jeans that are white or green or tan, but I don’t understand why, if the school’s color is blue, we cannot wear blue jeans.’ ” Seven: “I am also glad the ‘hairy story’ has provoked some commentary. It prompted me to go back to our yearbook and to remember the last time I was in Andover, Mass.”

Rich reminded readers about the following Pot Pourri ditty; however, there’s no room in this

issue for the rest. It will appear in the next installment! “Freddie Peters without his socks / Freddie Peters the school he mocks? / Freddie Peters, girl in his room / Freddie Peters won’t you please learn soon.”

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Sara Ingram Apt. 12D 500A E. 87th St. 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

It seems like it is all grandchildren, all the time for our class just now!

Shelby Salmon Hodgkins writes that she and her husband just added a fourth grandchild to their growing brood. The new baby, Rosie, joins cousins Eloise, Ada, and Ethan. And it doesn’t end there! Another grandchild was due in August, making five grandchildren under the age of 3.

Sarah Gay Stackhouse wrote as she was running out the door to drive to Jackson, Miss., to visit daughter Sally and Sally’s husband, Chad. They had just had a little boy, Sarah’s first grandchild, that evening. As you can imagine, Sarah was beyond excited.

Under the heading of “they show up on their schedule, not yours,” Margaret Haskell Moss’s granddaughter Adelyn arrived three weeks early, with a full head of dark brown hair.

And it doesn’t stop there! Sue Dampier KingIrwin’s name is also on the list of happy classmates who are grandparents. Her second grandchild, Kyle Thomas Dunn, was born in February 2014, and the entire extended family is very happy.

Although Kyle lives 700 miles away, Sue visited him three times in his first two months, a feat made easier by her four-day workweeks.

Elise Kenyon Reade Sturgeon, Emily Schroeder Reade’s first grandchild, arrived in the world in March of this year. Emmy and her husband, Charlie, are loving every minute of it.

Younger daughter Lissy and her husband moved back to the East Coast from Houston last fall, and Emmy is thrilled that they are in Providence, R.I. Emmy celebrated her “big” birthday with a trip to Paris and a river cruise on the Rhône through Burgundy and Provence. Très jolie! To top it off, Emmy and Charlie took a trip to San Francisco to watch the America’s Cup races on the bay for their 35th anniversary. Emmy sends an open invitation to classmates to come visit Panama when she and Charlie are there in the winter. She promises tours of the canal, tropical gardens, and a cloud forest, Andover | Fall 2014

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How did Judy Fletcher Woodbury and her husband, Doug, battle the cruel winter of 2014?

They wisely spent 10 days in Grenada at the end of January. She and Doug are talking about retiring to a condo in Portland, Maine, and then continuing the theme of wintering somewhere warm like Tuscany. Sigh.

Road trip! After the Palm Springs, Calif., wedding of the daughter of Lucy Pope and Mark Worgaftik, the bride’s parents embarked on a Southwest adventure. Joining the caravan were Dave and Carol Kennedy McCarthy, and Abby Johnson and her partner, Mark. The gang experienced a Jeep ride into the red rock formations surrounding Sedona, Ariz., views of the Grand Canyon, and loads of kitsch on Route 66. The group finished the trip by touring volcanoes, gondolas, and musical fountains—Las Vegas, of course.

Finally, we are privileged to close our notes with a lovely tribute to our former teacher Sue Hosmer, who is recently deceased. I am sure Laura Schultz Archer speaks for all who knew Sue in the poem, titled “The Lane,” she wrote in Sue’s memory: “Age-old questions and simple truths marked the turning point of our souls. / We gladly accepted your invitation to the Divine Dance! / Ever pointing beyond yourself, you gently heralded the Reality Within. / Thank You, Dear Friend, we’ll meet again on the Lane of Love we entered all those years ago.”

Thank you, Laura, for expressing what we would all love to communicate to a dear friend and teacher from long ago who helped form the best part of ourselves.

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

I had the pleasure of being up at Andover for graduation in early June. Watching the final ritual of the diplomas passed hand to hand, with the seniors arrayed in a huge circle on the Great Lawn, I remembered this as an odd moment of disconnect rather than glorious unity (or personal recognition) at our commencement. John Kemper had not been well, so there was little unifying presence coming from the school head. Dial forward a few decades, and this ceremony, under John Palfrey’s guidance, showed a wonderful touch and sense of connection.

Since ’71, new highlights in this ceremony have been introduced—call-and-response chants led

by Blue Keys, for instance—which help draw the circle together. And on this particular day, a haka was spontaneously prompted and performed by the football team in their graduation robes. You may know the haka as the Maori war cry or a dance

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made famous by the New Zealand rugby team the All Blacks. This version was led by senior Matt Ilalio ’14, who brought this galvanizing chant to PA, tapping into his own Polynesian roots and experiences growing up with family in Hawaii and Alaska. It was quite a spectacle (check out the football version online). And the class was engaged.

Then there was a capping moment created by John Palfrey. He asked the entire class to stop and take time to reflect and look around—this was the last moment when everyone in the class would all be together. Nicely done.

I got a great note from Chris Gardella in California. A lifelong sailor, Chris sent pix of his boat—a beautiful 51-foot Hinckley Sou’wester Yawl, with him at the helm. He’s keeping the boat at the Channel Islands Yacht Club in Oxnard and extends an invitation to PA classmates to search him out if they’re looking to cruise the Channel Islands. July is harvest season in the tablegrape business, so in spring, he was unwinding in advance of the busy season. Chris’s daughter Katerina is doing well in school: playing water polo, swimming competitively, and thinking about medical school.

I joined Kelly Wise’s retirement event in NYC in April, where John Gillespie and Dave Winton were key participants and helped represent the class. Throughout his 47 years of inspired teaching at PA—he also served as dean of faculty, then as founder and executive director of the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT)—Kelly has been an amazing contributor to the life of PA. Following cocktails, roasts, and toasts, Dave and John ended up having dinner with Kelly, Phil Zaeder, and others. This gave Kelly the opportunity to leaf through the 100-page book that John and Dave had put together for the honoree, including photos and reminiscences from 65 former students and colleagues.

I caught up with Nils Finne in the midst of a European trip. Nils and his wife, Liv, both with elderly relatives in Norway, had just spent four days visiting their daughter, Annika, in Vienna, Austria. Annika is working this summer as a painting conservation intern at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, in the midst of pursuing a graduate degree in art conservation at NYU. Back in Seattle, Nils continues doing beautiful design work— creating houses, custom lighting, and unique custom-fabricated furniture.

Jamey French relayed photos of a trip to Scotland in May. He took a hiking trip along the Rob Roy Way with old Edinburgh roommates— a combo 60th birthday and 40th reunion event.

Jamey mentioned seeing Linc Smith and his wife, Anne, recently. Linc, a research entomologist working for the USDA, is headed to Montpellier, France, to work at a USDA facility there, after a decade at a similar lab in Berkeley, Calif. Linc’s focus is on invasive plants.

These journeys take me to another set of journeys that Harris Todd is making. Harris recently underwent quintuple bypass surgery, and after

only two weeks found himself back in the hospital, where two additional stents were put in. Though previously in good shape by many measures, Harris describes his current state as an inheritance from his mother’s side: His sister, mother, and aunt all faced extreme heart issues. His recovery process—which Harris managed to joke about—has been variously estimated as lasting anywhere from four to six weeks to a year.

As if this were not sufficient excitement, Harris has recently discovered the whereabouts of his daughter, Savanna, who was kidnapped at 10 months by Harris’s former wife after she lost a custody battle. It’s a long and incredibly tortuous story—unfolding over nearly 20 years—but suffice it to say that Harris’s daughter never knew of his existence, as she was raised with a fabricated second identity. They are now in communication.

But the story is further complicated by the fact that the mother is subject to extradition to the U.S. Our thoughts go out to Harris and to his daughter.

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

Since 2014 is the year that most of us are marking our 60th birthdays, with the new year barely a month old, Amy Broaddus MacNelly, Brett Cook, Nancy Pinks Bennett, Elly Mish, and I dodged blizzards to celebrate, with lobster and champagne, the start of our seventh decade. I am happy to report that your Abbot sisters literally sang for their suppers, serenading Sam Butler ’72 (our host), Jonathan Atwood ’72 (lobsters), Charles Hirschler ’72 (champagne magnum), and all others who contributed to the feast with the traditional Abbot appreciation: “Whatever may happen, whate’er times may bring, remember that Abbot, remember that we, your loyal friends will be.” Then, just for good measure, we sang “The Goodnight Round.”

The next day, while Brett hit the gym (here I am hoping that Miss Ritchie is not reading these notes, because it might cause a fainting fit), I had lunch with Liz Padjen. Liz has handed over her brainchild, the magazine Architecture Boston, in order to pursue other writing projects.

Other brainchildren have been handed over, and some of them are graduating. Amy’s daughter, Abby, graduated from Yale this spring, and Brett’s daughter, Julia, graduated from Scripps. Both girls are bound for glory, and we look forward to hearing about their next steps. Still more are well on the way: Ginger Chapman’s younger daughter, Nora, is a rising senior at Wesleyan, interested in dance and psychology, and her elder daughter,

www.andover.edu/intouch Micha, is about to start a post-baccalaureate pre-med program at Bryn Mawr. Brenda Friend Brandt’s son will finish Emerson in the fall, and Lauranne Dayton Oliveau wrote that her big news was “finally getting rid of our children.” Her elder daughter is at Savannah College of Art and Design, and the younger is at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (where perhaps she will run into Maud Lavin).

But, old as we are, it isn’t yet all about the next generation. Brenda is producing a pilot for a drama series with Fox Television Studios called Gramercy Park, with British director Mike Newell and actors Felicity Jones and Gabriel Byrne. Brenda is hoping the project will take her to England for shooting later this year.

Ginger is the new director of sustainability at Yale. She has been working with the university on sustainable and green initiatives for many years, from “green” laboratory renovations at the medical school to serving on the committee that spurred Yale’s university-wide focus on sustainability, which led to the creation of the office she now directs.

Lauranne and her husband have celebrated their “empty nest” by embarking on third careers—teaching school.

Joan Blaxter wrote to say she had a great birthday with her daughter, Emma, and a surprise visit from her sister. Joanie is still working in a natural foods store in Ojai, Calif., and writing a weekly newsletter. Her recent focus, she says, has been on the “importance of soil-based carbon for reversing climate change.” I am not sure whether she and Sarah Richardson Bearden (who lives in Marin, Calif.) have gotten together yet, but they have many interests in common. Sarah, as an herbalist and natural medicine practitioner, keeps those of us on Facebook supplied with recipes and remedies. Sarah spent some time in May visiting her daughter, Holly Amanda, and son-in-law, who are teaching in Korea.

I know the few I have mentioned aren’t the only ones not quite ready to roll over yet. Send me your news!

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

Twenty members of the Class of ’72 gathered at Sam Butler’s house in New Hampshire in February to celebrate a joint (not so much of that, these days) 60th birthday. Sam sent the following account of the festivities: “Walter Maroney cohosted, and Jon Atwood, henceforth known as the Lobster King, supplied seafood. Wine and spirits flowed freely, though not so much as the talk.

Bill Boak, Charles Hirschler, Arnon Mishkin, and Dick Green (with wife Elaine) made the trip

up from New York, and Andy Russem came down from Maine. The prize for traveled-the-farthest-toget-here was claimed by Julia Gibert ’72, who came all the way from England. Julia was also runner-up in the category of whose specific birthday we might actually be celebrating. Jocko MacNelly, up from Philadelphia with wife Amy Broaddus MacNelly ’72, grabbed that prize, his official natal anniversary being the next day. The locals supplied most of the food: Brett Cook ’72 produced excellent brownies; Frank Cregg, a delicious lamb stew; Nancy Bennett ’72 and Elly Mish ’72, a fantastic antipasto; and Jon Hulbert, bread and wine. Mat MacIver brought only himself, but, really, who could possibly want more than that from him? (Unlike Tony Leggett, from whom more will always be asked.) A great party. Not quite as spectacular as Doug Hinman’s 60th last June, but then, Doug did not bring his drum kit or band mates with him to this bash. Instead, we were regaled with a fine selection of Abbot school songs sung with great spirit at the close of the evening by Amy, Brett, Elly, Julia, and Nancy.”

Big thanks to Sam and Walter for escorting us gently but firmly into our seventh decade. If you missed the fun, Marc de Piolenc has invited us all to his 60th, coming up in November—in Iligan City, in the Philippines. Marc reports that the weather that time of year is cool and rainy, but perhaps Iligan City’s nickname, the City of Majestic Waterfalls, along with nearby volcanoes, hot springs, and mountains, could entice some of us to stretch the big party across both continents and months.

Checking in from Austin, Texas, Richard Darner sends his thanks to Sam Butler for helping daughter Kirsten land an internship at Penguin Books, which eventually led to a position in the Penguin copy department. Richard further reports that he met up with David Schwartz in Manhattan for a cup of coffee in May 2013 while in town for Kirsten’s NYU graduation. Says Richard, “I had no earthly idea that he was (comparatively speaking) so damn young! Must be the boy genius thing.”

Speaking of David, he attended an event honoring retired PA English instructor Kelly Wise in NYC this past spring and sent the following account: “Kelly was being honored for his work both as an English teacher and as the founder of the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers. Bill Boak and Rick Berry were there from our class, as well as some people I knew from other classes, including David Winton ’71 and John Gillespie ’71, who presented a wonderful tribute book to Kelly. There must have been 60 or 70 people in attendance.

A genuinely good vibe. There were a number of moving tributes by former students and a retired faculty member. PA alum Drew Guff ’79 read a letter to Kelly purportedly from Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which had the group in stitches. I also met John Palfrey for the first time; he was quite impressive (even though he attended the wrong school in his youth). All in all, it was a warm, lovely tribute to one of Andover’s greatest teachers.”

Tony Hewett reports, “Andover has been very good to me during these past 40 years. As a result of knowing Jeb Bush ’71 and being a proctor for Marvin Bush ’75, after law school I worked on the political campaign for the first President Bush ’42 and spent four years in the Reagan administration in Washington and Boston. I’m going on three decades at the law firm of Davis, Malm & D’Agostine in Boston. I have been active in the PA Alumni Association, serving a tour of duty as president of the New England regional association, and have also been an alumni admission rep for the past 15 years. I am grateful that my two daughters both attended— Marilyn ’11, now at UVa, and Andrea ’13, now at George Washington.”

Thanks, folks. Keep those cards and e-mails coming!

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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

I am putting pen to paper while waiting to catch my “red-eye” flight back to NYC from Las Vegas. I spent a few days there with Vicki Elicker Joh, who was my very first roommate at Abbot. It was in 1970 in French House that we both fell in love with Rod Stewart (we wore out our Gasoline Alley album!).

And seeing him in concert was on our mutual bucket lists. The trip to Vegas fulfilled that dream, and he was fabulous!

In addition to Rod, there was shopping, drinking, Pilates, and lots of quality time together. We were perfectly matched bunkies in 1970 and still are.

After Vegas, Vicki was headed to San Francisco to attend a 10-day Royal School of Needlework class.

She has been studying with the crème de la crème of embroidery for about 10 years and is almost ready to teach it herself. Vicki is chief compliance officer at Mercator Asset Management, an investment firm in Boca Raton, Fla. She and her husband, Erik, divide their time between Florida and Binghamton, N.Y. The weekend prior to visiting Sin City, I was in Andover for Alumni Council weekend.

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It is insightful, uplifting, honest, and very positive about the quality of our lovely school down the hill. Lori Goodman Seegers, Connee Petty Young, Kris Tomlinson, Susan Urie Donahue, and Carmen Vinales Cunningham were all interviewed at the reunion last year and are stars in the movie. This film is not to be missed and should be shown at our 45th.

While on campus, I had a fun walk down memory lane with Tom Beaton ’73 as we recalled all the wonderful bands that played at PA between ’70 and ’73: Cat Stevens, J. Geils Band, Taj Mahal, Poco, Livingston Taylor, and the New York Rock Ensemble. Were we lucky or what? Tom is an energized, charismatic Alumni Council president, and, like former prez Sue Urie Donahue, has done ’73 proud!

In April, Peter Beck ’73 came to NYC for business and to celebrate his birthday. Although he has been MIA from all things Andover, I did a little arm-twisting over a nice bottle of wine, and I’m certain he will come to our next reunion. He is chairman of The Beck Group, an international design and construction firm based in Dallas.

Cathy von Klemperer Utzschneider is the author of a new book, Mastering Running, which is aimed at runners over the age of 35 wanting to improve their times, in anything from the mile to the marathon. She is a professor of competitive performance at Boston College and a champion runner herself. She has won eight national titles and is a frequent speaker about performance

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and goal achievement. You can Google Cathy to find upcoming talks about her sport.

Since most of us were born in 1955, 2015 will be the year we turn 60. Sad but true! Sue Donahue suggested that we plan a weekend in NYC in the fall of 2015 to celebrate this milestone together. Her sister Sandy Urie 70’s Abbot class did it and had 25 in their party posse! They enjoyed a Broadway show and some nice meals and had a ball. I think it is an inspired idea, and we’d like to start planning it, so please e-mail me at mbmg55@gmail.com if you might be interested. In the meantime, enjoy the fall.

—Marcia McCabe

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

Tom Sommerfield gave me a fine report of the Manhattan tribute to K. Kelly Wise, which is here repeated: “Kelly drew folks from DC up to Maine and from the different aspects of his life and PA career: Novel and Drama (which apparently became known as ‘Grovel and Trauma’ later on—never seemed that painful to me), dean of students I think, the IRT, photographer and Globe reviewer, dad, cluster head, street basketballer, golfing partner. Four or five people from each of the major stages of his PA career honored/roasted him. The ’73 folks there were Lori Goodman Seegers, Leslie Monsky, and Tim McChristian.

Lori and Leslie were the girls in our N&D class— pretty gutsy, in hindsight. One of the guys in our N&D class was Ken Ehrlich. He couldn’t make it down, but I grabbed dinner with him a couple weeks later. Kelly had a major effect on both our lives (survival?) at PA. Some folks know that I spent a few weeks at the end of senior year holed up in Kelly’s attic, where he kept me so I didn’t do anything dumber than I’d done before and get booted. Ken had a few roughly similar memories, as I think a number of us have.”

I think Tom’s tribute is perfect, especially the last line.

I went up to campus in April for the outstanding event honoring Lt. Cmdr. Erik Kristensen ’91, in which Tom Beaton played an immense part. I’m certain the glowing details of that event have been featured elsewhere. [Editor’s note: See Classes of ’51, ’88, and ’91.] Ray Stecker and his wife, Candy, also attended. Special to me, though, was seeing Harrison Flynn ’75 for the first time since I left Smith House in 1973.

Dave Swanson, resident of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, is now a regular at The Next Page Café on “Therapy Thursday,” a weekly blues jam down the road in Weymouth, Mass. I know because I see him there every week.

That is all. Please feel free to send me some news, or I’ll have to make stuff up.

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

This time, getting to Andover was more difficult than usual—traffic, work, family emergencies. Some stalwarts like Sara Knowles, John MacWilliams, and Rob Miller had to cancel. But as we arrived in ones and twos at GW to check in, that dual magic of the place and the people took hold. Both were the same, but different. As we near the end of our 50s, with kids mostly grown and careers established, we’re in late middle age (hard as that is to write). The campus, of course, looked mostly as it did when we left it 40 years ago, but change was afoot again, as it had been when we graduated with another new head of school.

Walking to GW, I noticed a car stopping suddenly and almost pulling up on the sidewalk.

Out popped Laura Richards! Big hugs and working last-minute details were mandatory— after months of conference calls with Laura and Jonathan Meath, the party was on. At GW there was Chris Doherty, and look, Harriet Richards too! Gordon Billheimer and Barbara Goyer Rose! There’s Andy Peterson, down from New Hampshire, looking dapper as ever.

At our headquarter dorms (Bishop and Adams), we got it started. I preemptively reminded Mark Harman of the importance of hydration. Jeff McAnallen wore a Colorado flag/marijuana leaf T-shirt. Todd Bates dove in.

Art Hogan’s wife, Anna, bravely agreed to stay in the dorm that weekend. She needn’t have worried, except about those inadequate sheets. Speaking of Bishop, my room was next door to the one my son had in 2010 and down the hall from Bob Driscoll’s. Kevin Connolly arrived with Bob Trehy (now a married man). So did Sara Nelson, also recently married. Cindy and Mark Efinger returned to see us and the place where they made a big mark. Steve Gleason returned to stir things up.

The next morning, John Pawlowski took part in the early alumni row. Later we all assembled to parade, splendid in our 2014 class uniform. Jim Truslow wore his AA/PA T-shirt with style. Steve Pinchuk stood proudly with his family. Roland Schulz looked sharp in madras. David Pease towered over the rest of us (of course). Robert Milam, a geologist from Texas, was back for the first time.

Peggy Bliss and Nancy Lindquist Mize (another back for first time) grinned wildly on meeting again. Will Noel chatted with Steve Ho, our fearless class agent. Faith Barnes, Cate Sprague Gilbane, Jen Kittredge Dubost, Katie Keesling Newland, and Diane Aigler Cook gathered in a tight clutch of happy affection. Joe Malone was there, as was George Ireland. Nick Scheu caught

www.andover.edu/intouch up with Grant Donovan, in from Salt Lake City.

Pat Marasco greeted Robin Eason Panico. Rick Kern! Steve Johnson! Kevin Retelle!

Next stop was the chapel for a Celebration of Reunion. Margaret Downs, looking as elegant as ever, was there with husband Henry Zachary.

Scott McIsaac and Mike Meyer listened carefully.

Rolf Bertsch, professional pianist and conductor, was impressed enough with Bryan McGuiggin ’15’s rendition of Brahms to seek out and engage the young man.

A few minutes later, Peter Kroon and his daughter Jennifer ’13 beamed together at lunch at the Cage. Julian Hatton and wife Alison Berry, both artists, roamed, laughing and mingling.

Dave Zelon organized a group photo of ’74 football players, including Steve Miller, Bill Lewis, Don McNicol, and Karl Harig. They made an interesting assembly. Steve is a university dean in Singapore. Bill works on Wall Street. Don is a doctor, Karl a banker, and Dave a movie producer in Hollywood. All these careers require extraordinary effort, like football. Unlike that photo, the picture of the cast of Harvey, who traveled to the UK on tour back in the day, included women: Ruth West, Wendy Matthews, and Cathy Chapman ’75, who has been advanced one grade by now. Steve Trott, now a surgeon but still a resident of Bermuda, and Bruce Bacon, now teaching math at PA, were there, too, as they all remembered our friend and their cast mate, Peter Kapetan.

That afternoon there was a screening of a short documentary about Abbot Academy (soon to be posted on PA’s website), including Abbot’s acquisition by PA. Katy Gass Walker and Marsha Kazarosian spoke on a panel following the film about the experience of attending both schools in transition. The consensus was that any lingering tension felt in September had dissipated by June.

After months of groggy breakfasts, collaborative/ competitive endeavors, stress, laughter, and sometimes even that thing called love, almost everyone involved realized that we were better together, an insight we were in the process of proving once again.

Meanwhile, over at the Andover Inn, Lissy Abraham, along with Len Moher and his wife, Margaret, joined a full crew of bon vivants and were given a wine lesson by prominent Connecticut restaurateur and chef Charlie van Over, husband of Priscilla Martel, a serious foodie and cookbook author in her own right.

Next up: We went to McKeen Hall for drinks and dinner. Peter Hawkes of Portland, Maine, laughed with Charlie Nadler. Tom Mitchell, Keith Kloza, and Greg Winn caught up. Howard Lee and his wife made an entrance, as did David Hilder and his. New York lawyer Bob Treuhold spoke with New York banker Tom Boyle.

We assembled in the glorious soft light of the fading sunset at Abbot Circle as Tony Armour and Sara Grosvenor snapped our group photo.

As we headed in to dinner, we found our way to tables where, as usual, the cliques of our youth

Football players from the Class of ’74 were in fine form at reunion. From left are Steve Miller, Bob Driscoll, Bill Lewis, Jeff McAnallen, Don McNicol, Karl Harig, Chris Doherty, Joe Malone, and Dave Zelon.

Cast members from the PA production of Harvey who traveled to England still have star quality.

From left are Cathy Chapman ’75, Bruce Bacon ’74, Ruth West ’74, Steve Trott ’74, and Wendy Matthews ’74.

dissolved into friendships new and (at 40 years since graduation) not so new.

After dinner, Trigger Cook, our class president (for life, as he noted), introduced Dana Delany, who read the names of those who did not live to attend this reunion. Among those with us in spirit for the first time in 40 years was, as Dana put it, “our dear friend” Nina Rutenburg Gray, as well as Wendy and Jack Richards, who touched all our lives in one way or another. This correspondent was once again not fired.

Betsy Evans Hunt presented a custom skateboard to Peter Currie, a man who carries a lot of water at Andover and one who had repeatedly stood and delivered over that day to the full PA

community. Calm, logical, and generous even to hostile questions, Peter personified leadership. The Academy is in safe hands.

Jonathan, the hardest-working man in the reunion business, whom many of us barely saw as he scrambled to work out this detail and that snafu, enjoined us to dance. After a crowdsourced piano improvisation played by Bill Cunliffe, we climbed the hill from Abbot Circle to the old gym, where we joined PA ’69 and their house band. En route, Ted Maynard was pleased to point out the glass box that had been his room at Flagg House.

Inevitably, we found our way back to Bishop.

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The next morning at brunch at Paresky Commons we lingered, reluctant to break the spell.

Jon Drake and his wife stopped in on their way home from a family wedding. Nancy Peterson’s son, Sam, charmed his elders. John Friedenberg regaled Katy Van Dyke with his slow-burn wit.

Betsy Gootrad savored the last few moments as we packed up and headed out.

Steve Lubanko, a man who literally cheated death and now is determined to carpe every diem available, had a simple reason for coming to this reunion: the friendships that were and are the best thing about PA. Mason Wilkinson acted on this sentiment when, after gallantly helping Laura with a flat tire Sunday morning, he found brass polish to shine up the neglected panel honoring Dickie at what was her spot at GW. That’s what friends do.

1975 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

The first thing you know (not “old Jed’s a millionaire” from “The Ballad of Jed Clampett,” the theme song from the famous TV show The Beverly Hillbillies) is that those of us born in 1957 have turned (or will turn) 57 this year (nice symmetry).

In about eight months, the Class of 1975 will have the chance to show that we are not “over the hill” when we return to the Hill to celebrate our eighth Andover reunion (do the math!). Wry financier Geoff Richards proclaims that age-related topics, including low T, ED, and AARP, will be verboten when we convene next June to relive pleasant memories and create new ones! Discussion topics that he approves: superfoods, driverless cars, and LIBOR rates! Geoff, currently enjoying a sabbatical after 33 years of analyzing global capital markets, was espied in Burlington, Vt., in late May for the graduation of son Christopher from the University of Vermont. Also on the commencement circuit were Dick King and

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Mari Wellin King, who were “ushering [daughter] Claire through graduation from Hamilton College [in Clinton, N.Y.], achieving careful balance between embarrassing ourselves without embarrassing Claire too much.”

Many classmates marked the 35th anniversary of their graduation from college earlier in the year. While in New Haven over the Memorial Day weekend for the obligatory singing of “Bright College Years” (the song’s last line: “For God, for Country, and for Yale”), I chatted with Donna Cameron; she has opened her own law firm in Medfield, Mass., and also serves the equestrian community as owner of the state-of-the-art dressage training facility Cutler Farm Dressage.

I also spoke to Nan Bond, who continues to practice maternal-fetal medicine in Greenwich, Conn. Although I did not see him personally, also in the Elm City was Thomas Briggs from Fort Worth, Texas. Among the nonattendees was Stephen Bache, who e-mailed that he was preoccupied with a pending move to Portland, Ore., from the Los Angeles area. Earlier in May, he chaired the organizing committee for the second annual Jewel City Fun & Fitness Ride in Glendale, Calif., and biked a 45-mile loop for charity.

Phil Hueber, executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Western New Hampshire in Keene, N.H., reunited at Princeton with several Andover classmates, including Matt Finnie—but not Lisa MacFarlane, who was reportedly in Chile with her daughter, who studied there for a semester. In May, Phil bowled in his organization’s Bowl for Kids’ Sake fundraiser.

Last year, George Letsou moved back to Houston to join the DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is a professor of cardiovascular surgery. “I do adult cardiac and lung surgery, heart and lung transplantation, and mechanical cardiac assist,” he notes.

Eben Gay has been “working hard on a cuneiform translation computer program. This has the potential to enable anyone with a cell phone to read the 500,000-plus cuneiform records stashed in collections around the world and to access 3,000 years of history.” In early June, Eben’s son got married at the family home in Southborough, Mass.

Ian Baker, admitting that he has been “remiss in providing class notes [news],” reports that he remains based in Asia, where he writes books and leads travel seminars in Tibet and Bhutan. According to his company’s website (www.rarejourneys.com), “Rare Journeys offers a multi-dimensional approach to exploration, adventure, and discovery, encompassing educational travel seminars, publications, and films.”

Ian’s 2006 book The Heart of the World: A Journey to Tibet’s Lost Paradise, a memoir of his journeys into the unexplored heart of the Earth’s deepest gorge, culminates in his team’s discovery of a fabled waterfall held by Tibetans to be the gateway to a mystical paradise (the origin of the myth of Shangri-La); the book is being considered for

adaptation into a Hollywood movie.

In San Francisco, Lewis Butler and his wife, Catherine Armsden ’73, “have two kids out of college and employed and have filled in with two dogs at home.” The architecture firm his wife founded now has more than 25 employees and recently completed a second LEED Platinum house—the highest energy and environmental design rating a building can achieve. Lewis writes, “California tends to encourage pioneering environmental work, and we are happy to do our part. I will be at our reunion, for the first time in 30 years, so I’m pretty excited about that.”

Victoria Christian says she started her third company last Christmas and plans to retire from full-time work at Duke sometime after 2020. Son Max is happily employed as an emergency veterinarian in Boone, N.C., and daughter Daphne is serving her three-year residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C. Arthur Kell, working on his fifth CD of original music, remains busy gigging and composing for film and performance-art projects and looks forward to a European tour in spring 2015. Arthur was interviewed for an upcoming documentary about our late classmate Thomas Chapin, created by Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo. In January, a major benefit concert was held in New York City “with a who’s who of New York City musicians who worked with Thomas,” says Arthur. Additional information about Night Bird Song: The Thomas Chapin Story and a seven-minute trailer for the film can be found at www.thomaschapinfilm.com.

Please send Mari news for the next column. We hope to catch up with many of you at Andover next June! —Roger

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

As I put the finishing touches on these notes, it is spring, and we seem to be finally coming out of what has been a long and fearsome winter. Here in Colorado, the South Platte River Basin snowpack is at 230 percent of median, which should ease the drought.

While last winter’s weather may have kept many of us grounded, it does not appear to have kept Henry Wigglesworth from pounding the pavement. In January, on his 56th birthday, at a track event in New York, Henry ran a 4:57 mile, which is officially the second-fastest mile run this year in

www.andover.edu/intouch the United States by anyone in his/our 55-to-59 age bracket. And this comes only nine months after he tore his Achilles and had to have it surgically reattached. The news comes to us not from Henry but from Al Cantor (Henry is much too humble).

Henry doesn’t limit his exercise to traditional running, though. He is just as likely to be found competitively bounding up the Empire State Building. Although I am sure he has sprinted up the 102 floors more recently, I do have intelligence that in February 2012 he blasted up the Empire State’s stairs, coming in 22nd out of a field of 500 international runners. It’s fair to say that Henry remains exceptionally athletic on behalf of many of us and, if bottled and distributed, his fitness would keep more than one person in good health.

Also completing great feats of strength and endurance, Naomi Rush Olson finished a master’s of social work degree in May. Ever thoughtful, Naomi was kind enough to share her progress on our class’s Facebook page, and we were all happy when she completed her graduate work. Congratulations to Naomi as she moves in a new direction.

Also transitioning professionally, Thorn Smith writes that, after a 23-year hiatus, he will be rejoining the Navy’s Office of the General Counsel at the Pentagon. He will be stationed at the Washington Navy Yard. Thorn has dedicated his life and career to public service, in particular to the Navy, and we wish him well in his new role. Thorn doesn’t know it yet, but I am going to bet him on this year’s Army-Navy game; loser does push-ups. Navy has won every game since 2002, so it might not be a smart move on my part. I’m guessing Army is due for a win.

We have many talented individuals in our class, and very often the apple falls near the tree.

Peter St. Louis is justifiably proud of his daughter, Carrie ’08. Carrie performed extensively while at PA (including performing the lead role in Violet, which won a New England Theatre Conference Moss Hart Award for Best Production in all categories). After playing Sherrie for a little over a year in the Las Vegas production of Rock of Ages, Carrie is now performing the same role on Broadway.

Impressed by her Las Vegas performance, the band Foreigner invited Carrie to sing with them in concert. She has also had steady gigs singing the national anthem at Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, and Los Angeles Lakers games. For more information go to http://bit.ly/1l5v3ai.

Cam Douglas touched base from Pennsylvania. He writes, “It’s been many years since I’ve reconnected with Andover, but memories of my time there have been on my mind lately. As I exercise on the treadmill at my local gym (‘running’ isn’t the right term—‘plodding’ is more accurate), I’ve been remembering my days on the cross-country team with Bob Burnham, Henry Wigglesworth, and many others, and a grin comes across my face. I’m sure folks on the adjacent machines are leery of this odd guy trudging along, staring at the wall, not listening to music, but just smiling. ... I’m doing very well. I work at Merck, where

I’ve spent 26 years in the infectious disease drug discovery group. I’ve had the chance to participate in some amazing programs that have delivered new drugs to treat a range of infections (everything from fungal disease to HIV). I live in southeastern Pennsylvania with my wife of 28 years, Becki, and I have one daughter, who is a junior at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. I hope to attend one of our upcoming reunions, and I enjoy seeing pictures of old friends and reading your news of our classmates.”

Speaking of upcoming reunions, number 40 (yikes!) is not too far off, and it’s not too early to start blocking out the time in our all-too-busy schedules. I hope to see Cam, Henry, Naomi, Thorn, and as many of you as possible then, if not sooner. In the meantime, I continue to implore you to beat the bushes for class members who may not have been heard from in some time. Best wishes.

—Ruben

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

In the previous edition of class notes, I hastily added the sad news that our classmate John Meehan had passed away and asked for reminiscences from classmates to pay tribute more fully to his memory. Gerry Harrington, Harry Jewett, Ned Manning, Doug DeSimone, Preston Wright, Tim Cain, and Ed Toole, along with Lee Apgar ’78, John Lyons ’78, and Maeve Hill ’78, sent along thoughts on John’s passing—all kind words and greatly appreciated. Jay Hoey’s letter was so compelling and complete that I include it in its entirety here.

Jay wrote, “I knew John for 40 years, as an ‘opponent’ when we played against each other in Rhode Island hockey, as a teammate and roommate from our days together as Andover PGs and Yale undergrads, and as a lifelong friend. John ran cross country, played hockey and baseball at Andover, and lettered in hockey all four years at Yale. After college, John played hockey in a town called Puigcerda, in the mountains of Spain, for three years, along with Yale classmate Dan Brugman, taking a team that was in last place when they arrived to first place by the time he left. John continued to play hockey in Rhode Island throughout his life. He and Danny Brugman even put together a pond hockey team of a few of us Yalies (we played under the Spanish flag in order to get in) up in Canada a few years ago.

“John majored in architecture at Yale and used that knowledge in his general contracting business, Meehan Builders, which he founded and grew after returning from Spain. He designed and built countless dream homes over the years in southern New England.

“John’s personality was best described as positive, compassionate, serious when required but fun-loving as well, which I’m sure had something to do with his picking up the nickname ‘Rocko’ early on—it stuck. He was a great family man, husband, and father, and a true friend. He made a point to stay in touch with so many people he met in so many different walks of life.

“John married his wife, Mary Lou, back in 1992. She is a fellow Rhode Islander, from Cranston. They have twin daughters, Madison and McKenzie, who both attend Boston College and play Division I soccer; I guess they inherited John’s athletic ability. The family settled in John’s hometown of Gloucester, R.I., in a house John built. John and Mary Lou became the ultimate soccer parents, following the girls throughout the country. I visited with them a couple of years ago when BC came west to play Stanford. John and Mary Lou recently returned from the Cayman Islands, where they watched one of the girls play for the U.S. national team. We may be seeing a Meehan in the Olympics in a few years!

“John was humble. He gave of himself. He cared deeply and supported those around him. He was fiercely loyal to family and friends. You could count on him—always. To be cliché: He was the salt of the earth.

“Early last fall—September, I suppose—I gave John a call to have a look at an old house in Jamestown, R.I., we were considering buying.

Coincidentally, John was working on a project right around the corner. After getting the thumbsup on the house from the ‘pro,’ we went ahead and purchased the home and set to work with John to remodel, refurbish, and create a place for all the old crowd to get together ‘again and often.’ We continued to meet throughout the fall and early winter. I remember being impressed and feeling safe [knowing] this project was in John’s hands.

“My wife and I met John at the house on Monday, Feb. 3, of this year, a sunny but cold New England day. We spent a few hours going through things and said our goodbyes with plans to meet in a few weeks. John had been looking thinner the past couple of years—something he just dismissed as ‘eating right and staying in shape.’

He didn’t look or seem much different on that Monday.

“Today, John’s brother and partner, Brian, continues on with our house. Brian said that John didn’t get to work the Tuesday after we met and checked himself into the hospital on Wednesday.

The doctors said he had pneumonia and would have to be admitted for a few days to take care of it. John called Brian into the hospital Thursday morning so they could ‘work on a few things.’

Brian said John didn’t look good. He passed away later that evening.

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Drew Guff and Ed Hill helped represent the Class of ’79 in the Alumni Parade.

others with his issues—I don’t know. We’ll miss him sorely.”

Please stay in touch, hug your loved ones every day, enjoy life fully, and plan to attend our 40th Reunion in 2017. I will be there, and I hope you will, too. Be well. —Buck

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

Jonathan Lee recertified on his medical boards, an arduous task. He reports, “Last year’s reunion was fine, seeing Peter Bennett, Greg Soghikian, Sue Prochniak Helms et al., all the way to the wee hours when only Rich See, Warren Patterson, and I remained under the tent, listening to Rich Ward go off on Middle Eastern politics! Good thing nary a drop remained in all those beer and wine bottles.

Meanwhile, I continue to work four jobs in the hopes of getting a startup medical practice going.

My daughter, Stephanie, recently graduated from the University of Miami.”

Ben Batchelder is “tiring of the risk-averse gatekeepers of life, so I’m publishing two travelogues with a small imprint (my own) named Earthdog Press.” Check out Ben’s awesome work about a trip around the U.S. borders and a journey into Brazil’s past and culture at earthdogpress.com. Ben says he

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“leads a bi-hemispheric life, as a mountain man in the hills of Minas Gerais, Brazil, who comes down to the sea at Miami Beach, Fla.” Georges St. Laurent divides his time between academic research in disease genomics and a new startup called SeqLL, dedicated to singlemolecule DNA sequencing. He works late nights in his new lab outside of Boston and occasionally visits the Amazon region to discover interesting research samples.

Joe Tatelbaum and wife Grace continue their travels, says Joe, “having most recently visited South Africa and Japan. Shanghai continues to grow around us, as does the pollution. Our son is off to Babson College in the fall. We have marked the calendar and expect him to start supporting us in the fall of 2018.”

Ron Ryan, Jeff Strong’s former roommate in scenic Stearns West, is still living in Tennessee.

Ron’s own consulting firm works with middlemarket companies on “profitability and sales yield improvement. I am also working on a book—isn’t everyone?” Ron’s daughters are figuring out college choice (elder) and going to ski-racing school in Vermont (younger, who won U16 nationals in dual slalom last year). Youngest child, Roland, stars at football and baseball; he’s a high school freshman with size 14 feet who packs 175 pounds on a 6-foot frame.

Ted Gagliano is interested in knowing how he may best contribute to the Andover community. Jeff Strong recently attended a book launch party for the newest release and fourth consecutive New York Times bestseller by Bill Cohan ’77.

The Price of Silence revisits the Duke lacrosse scandal and its aftermath and is a fantastic read if you’re interested in the evolution of higher education, big-time sports, small-city politics, and incredible reportage. PA was well represented at the party by Mike Cannell, a couple of Buttricks (Mary Buttrick Burnham and John Buttrick ’75), and former history instructor Gil Sewall, who is currently fighting the “dumbing down” of history textbooks as director of the American Textbook Council.

Peter Frisch reports, “Stepson number one continues to work toward a PhD degree in physics with a concentration in photovoltaic systems, stepson number two enjoys working and living in South Boston, a really hopping place for recent college graduates, stepson number three graduates from Connecticut College on May 18, and daughter number one heads to Tabor Academy next fall. My wife continues to look for ways to let her creativity and generosity out, and I continue to sail competitively as often as possible in and around Marblehead and Boston Harbor. I particularly enjoy sailing as a sighted guide in the SailBlind program of the Carroll Center for the Blind.”

Greg Soghikian remembers our 10th Reunion, when many in our class were starting families, and reflects he started a bit later. “Now my kids are looking at colleges, and in two years the house will be much quieter. When I started my first ‘real’ job

after residency and fellowship training 21 years ago, I thought I’d retire between age 53 and 55.

Ha! Certainly not with three kids in college until I will be (choke) almost 60! So I have a new plan.

The past three years, partly because of a divorce and partly just to have more time with my kids, I have been trying to work a little less, with the thought I’d kick it back into higher gear again once the kids weren’t around all the time. But now that I have seen a few of my contemporaries get ill or pass away early, I am starting to think that I may want to take some of that time to enjoy life even more. One thing on my bucket list is to see what I can do with my surgical skills in an area of the world that doesn’t have an orthopedic surgeon on every block.”

Jamie Wolf (your correspondent) completed her 16-week healthy aging contest by losing 12.5 pounds, 20 inches, and 3.4 of her percent body fat and at 54 is now sharing her newfound energy, health, and path to longevity with all who are interested in sleeping better, overcoming stress, and feeling more alive. “Having never been an athlete in my youth, this has been a pretty fun turn of events—I’m not going back to what I was, I’m going forward to something better than I’ve ever been! Seriously, with so much compromised health all around us, I am on a mission to promote strong immune systems, so we can head into the next several decades as positive examples for those following us!”

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

Dear friends: Nearly 50 classmates convened for our 35th Reunion in mid-June, and I am told by the authorities that we were a large and spirited group for this cohort. Below are mostly reflections from those who came, in their own words. If you have not read a good book lately or attended an English class (especially one on Faulkner), do not skip over Professor Pedraza’s musings.

Jamie Marks writes, “Two classmates spurred on my partner, Mark’s, and my soccer-loving 12-year-old son, Peter. Jorge Pedraza brought his cleats, because he read in a group e-mail that

www.andover.edu/intouch Peter was looking forward to the alumni soccer game. Meanwhile, Brad Holmes made sure Peter knew about the Netherlands’ uncanny goal that day against Spain. Two more classmates, Amy Appleton and Carol Davies Whitaker, bonded for life with our daughter, Ann, also 12, starting with parading together behind the bagpipers. I saw our classmates doing that Andover thing—discovering what genuinely interests people and then encouraging the bejeezus out of them (phrase from Paul Monette ’63)—and I fell in love with everybody all over again.”

Bill Miles writes, “The reunion was a delight— loved the cocktails at Addison and chatting with my senior roommate Jim Pawlowski, with whom I rowed crew, Rick Bradt, Rick Wolk, and all the others I was lucky enough to catch up with. The event had a very happy vibe, and I was thrilled to see many taking unexpected paths. Stevie Lake and Amy Appleton were effervescent!”

Forty Conklin says, “I had the best time rowing with you [Rick Moseley] and [daughter] Janet ’17.

I realize that very few of us show up at 7:30, but the experience of melding the old with the new generation was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me.

It was great.”

Rick Wolk reports, “It was great to spend time catching up with folks—and to jog a few times across campus and around the Sanctuary. What really resonates with me still is how much love, laughter, caring, and kindness was with us that weekend. I’m so glad that I made the trip back to Andover from Alaska. Long, but well worth it!”

Sali Gear wrote from Montana, where she was teaching a riding clinic, “Great seeing everybody on Friday night. Way too much fun! Got back to Virginia in time (not sure how and not in great shape!) to attend my youngest son’s high school graduation.”

Susan Jenkins Warren writes, “My husband and daughter were at a lax tournament and unable to attend. I was there with my 10-year-old, Jack. He got bored with all of the memory-lane chatter at lunch and left the building. ... We left earlier than planned in search of ice cream! It was so fun seeing everyone. My daughter, Natalie Joy Warren, will enter PA as a member of the Class of ’18. If there are any classmates who also have entering juniors, I would love to hear from them.”

Sophia Sayigh reports, “I’m very glad I went to the reunion, as it sort of placed me in my life. A poem might work best, but I’m no poet—all I’ve got is the title: ‘Pentimento.’ I’m sure I’m sounding corny, but there was something very rich and sweet about reconnecting with classmates at this point in life and being able to look back and see the girls and boys within still there, yet layered with life experiences since. Amy nailed it when she pointed out that nothing compares with being in each other’s physical presence and knowing the laughs, gestures, expressions. Very worth staying in touch. Anyone passing through, I’m in Arlington, Mass.—stop by!”

Carol Davies Whitaker says, “Can’t possibly

Preparing to march are Stephanie Lake ’79, Amy Appleton ’79, Jamie Marks ’79’s twins, Ann and Peter, and Susan Jenkins Warren ’79 with son Jack.

articulate profoundly enough how much fun it was to see everyone. Won’t try. Just thanks to everyone who showed up to renew our friendships and create new memories. Hope to see all of you and more of you at our 40th!”

Brad Holmes writes, “Catherine Tice is a timeless charm, Jamie Marks’s kids are the bomb, Ed Hill is aging like fine wine while enthusing of his human connections, and we all seem to relish knowing each other better now as we are versus as we were. That’s cool.”

Stevie Lake writes, “The Class of ’79 seems to get kinder with each reunion, and funnier, which is amazing, because this was always a ribald group.

My favorite time was hanging with Carol Davies Whitaker, Jill Kwass, Rick Wolk, Drew Guff, Rebecca Pease, Amy Appleton, Dan North, Ed Hill, and Kaaren Shalom in Taylor House Saturday night.”

Rebecca Pease reports, “Thirty-five years seemed so small an interval, somehow, last weekend. I wish that we all had a bit more time for reacquainting and meeting the next generation.

I had a splendid time on West Quad on Saturday afternoon, once the sun had finally joined me and Stevie Lake in a quiet catching up, with ample opportunity to bellow at Class of ’09 to ‘Get th’ hell off mah lawn!’ They were having such a great time, it seemed wrong not to act like jerks. They totally got it. It was a wonderful weekend.”

Adrienne Yost Hart says, “I had a terrific time all around. From the parade to dinner with Becca Pease, Kaaren Shalom, Didi Schweitzer Dean, and Charlie Dean, which was full of interesting conversation. I felt like a real adult having cocktails at the Addison. That’s a bit scary. Every time I am in that space I am amazed by the collection we had in our midst.”

Jorge Pedraza writes, “Timeless? What is timeless for me is that my daughters—Fiona, 6, and Emma, 4—now know, and will always know, who ‘the girl with wet hair’ is. (I suppose the fair question is, do you, fair reader, know?), and this is thanks to Amy Appleton, who literally took them in hand as we crossed that same ‘allee’ that JP Morgan’s childless lieutenant Thomas Cochran built, in conscious honor, I feel fairly sure, of Le Vau, Le Nôtre, and Le Brun, directly over what had been the ancient core of the Phillips Academy campus, deftly but also somewhat brutally, as all strong historical moments are, removing buildings and stories (in all senses of the word) to create the magic and wonder and, yes, the majesty of structured open spaces that we, ebullient and sensationalist 15-, 16-, 17-, and 18-year-olds that we were and still find ourselves to be, again, returning, even at 4 in the morning in the common room at Taylor (I was not there, Catherine T. told me) traversed as we went from one end to the other in search of Bob Lloyd’s designings or Bulfinchian Andover | Fall 2014

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Save the Date Reunion for class years ending in 0 and 5 will be held June 12–14, 2015.

We look forward to seeing you on campus for fun, friendship, and festivities!

1980 Jane Shattuck Mayer 80jshattuck@bluelink.andover.edu 781- 710-7532

[Editor’s note: Kate Thomes is stepping down from her role as class secretary; the Academy thanks her for her service. Jane Shattuck Mayer will be taking over Kate’s class secretary duties and would love to share the job with any interested classmates. Please contact Laura MacHugh at lmachugh@andover.edu or 978-749-4289 for more information about this important role.]

1981 parsings or, well, many things are best left unsaid at this point, or perhaps whacked stick to soft and—this is important—yellow tennis ball over the impossibly smooth, green expanse with the armillary turtles standing guard like third base coaches, yes, Amy, extending the Andover village to me, to my children, to many of us this weekend and so many weekends before and surely to come.

Yes, that is timeless and exemplary and, well, thank you, Amy, thank you, Rick, thanks to everybody who came, it was wonderful to connect with you, with old friends in old ways, old friends in new ways, new friends in old and new ways, and, truth be told, with myself in old and, amazingly, new ways. Timely, timeful, timeless.”

And, best for last, Amy Appleton writes, “How wonderful to meet under (eventually) Andover blue skies! Our classmates’ smiles I have seen in pictures, on Facebook, or in holiday cards, but the laughter and the voices of our cohorts gathered together brought back so many happy memories of our shared time at Andover. One of the sweetest things about reunions is that they take on a life of their own. As a class, we were together only a few years, but as a reunion group, we have gotten to know each other over decades. I hope those who may have shied from reunions in the past will attend in the future, not only to rediscover old friends, but to meet new ones as well.”

Lastly, Amy and I regret that we did not reach more people and that there are so many who do not come back and whom we do not see. So Amy started a “secret group” on Facebook for our class (ideal for anyone with privacy concerns). You can be invited/added by Amy or me or any other classmate in the group with whom you are Facebook friends. More than 50 people have joined the group already, and there are great pictures.

We have high hopes this will be the way for us to connect with the classmates we didn’t (and may never) see in the formal reunion setting. Make the effort and take the chance to reconnect with some of your old PA classmates. Heed Rick Wolk: “Long [or hard, or scary, or weird, or whatever], but well worth it!” —Rick

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

It’s been a long time since the Phillipian board of the Class of 1981 last put down our pens and X-Actos and turned off the lights in the Phillipian offices, deep in the bowels of Evans Hall. For many of us, our tenure at The Phillipian was a seminal part of our lives, opening our eyes to the power of teamwork, organization, and creative problem solving. If you think about it, we teenagers were given a rare gift, entrusted with the power and responsibility of the press—and with minimal adult oversight coming from our friend and mentor, Tom Lyons.

In this time of great uncertainty over the future of newspapers, Andover looked to past Phillipian boards to create a small endowment to help ensure that this great paper stays on sound financial footing indefinitely. The Phillipian class of ’81 took a leadership role, inspired by our co-editorsin-chief David Parker and Vivian Toy, rallying 100 percent of the ’81 Phillipian board—yes, all 26 of us, tracked down in the far corners of this earth—to contribute toward the Phillipian Endowment Fund in the name of our trusted advisor, Tom Lyons. We’re calling it the Tom Lyons Phillipian Challenge.

Together we raised a generous and appropriate $81,000, which will be applied to the Phillipian Endowment Fund if each of the latest 10 classes of Phillipian boards gets to 85 percent participation. And we’ll encourage other boards from the Lyons era to join us in applying funds to our Tom Lyons Phillipian Challenge and to try to match our participation percentage.

Here at class notes headquarters, we are more about camaraderie and less about fundraising, but this was a chance to come together to honor

someone special and remember how significant and pivotal our shared Phillipian experience was for all of us.

Another note from the desks of Stefanie Scheer Young and Warren Jones: We appreciate Amanda Tepper writing in and ask that you please consider sharing in this space some of the news that is regularly communicated via social media. That way, our classmates with sensitive jobs and security clearances or aversions to online aliases can stay in the loop. We know you’re out there doing cool and even important stuff, so let us know about it!

Amanda writes, “I’ve finally taken the plunge into entrepreneurship, and so far it’s much more enjoyable than my prior work in large-corporate-land. Chestnut Advisory Group provides comprehensive investor-relations programs for all types of asset managers, including hedge funds and private equity firms. It’s a new service for the industry, all spelled out on our website: www.chestnutadvisory.com. On the personal side, our oldest daughter is off to study engineering at college this fall, leaving me and my husband with more time to see our youngest daughter play sophomore high school volleyball!” —W&S

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

Class, as most of us were born in 1964, we have had to grapple with a daunting milestone this year—the big 5-0! How did this happen so fast?

Have we really already lapped the sun 50 times, traveling more than 29 billion miles each (2 x 3.14 x 93 million miles x 50)? But we must not be surprised by this feat (our 29 billion miles, not my managing to remember the formula for the circumference of a circle!). Haven’t we always been a class of accomplishment? Indeed, born in ’64, coming of age in ’82, we Dragons, according to the Chinese, are rivaled by none. Did Andover’s Class of ’83 manage to get a faculty car into the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library in the middle of term? No, I think not; that would be ’82.

Was ’80 the class that organized and provided

www.andover.edu/intouch refreshments for needy students on those many Saturdays at Avis Swamp? No, that again was us, ’82. Did ’81 fire up school spirit and set the tone by beating Exeter on the gridiron? Oops, no—they lost and left it for ’82 to buckle down and restore school honor. So I say fifty, schmifty; it’s nothing for us (at least that’s what I keep telling myself), and we will continue to marshal on as we have all these years!

Yes, years were on my mind as I sat down to pen this note. I had just received an invite to a 50th birthday party for Celia Imrey. Sadly, I was unable to attend the festivities, but I figured a birthday call to our youthful friend was in order. It was great to hear Celia’s voice and get life’s lowdown.

Celia has recently merged her architecture firm, Imrey Studios, with RAFT Architects and is now a principal there. She was particularly excited about the breaking of ground for the new Edgartown [Mass.] Public Library, which she designed. She has two teenage sons living with her in Manhattan.

It sounds like her boys, despite Mom’s protests, demonstrate the same questionable taste in programming as the Quillen household, with regular viewings of Walking Dead and Game of Thrones— nothing quite like a good beheading or zombie evisceration before bedtime!

Since I was missing Celia’s party, we agreed to grab a few other local alums and go out for a separate evening. Hilary Jewett, John Barton, and Bayard Chapin ’81 signed on. I had suggested that we start our evening at the Russian baths on 10th Street. Barton, not one to turn down a cleansing sweat, particularly if promised a beating with oak leaves, expressed enthusiasm. Celia said she’d think about it. Hilary was dead set against it, claiming that the last time she’d consented to a sauna with Andover alums, en route to our 25th Reunion, she was “ogled” by certain classmates.

(Was that a bad thing? Personally, I would count myself lucky to receive anything resembling an ogling these days, but that’s just me.) Hilary did update me on her professional and family life. She, too, has a couple of kids, girl and boy, at school in Manhattan. She just finished editing a book, The Humanities and Public Life, which has received strong early reviews.

Certain informed circles know that nobody can perform an ogle better than Robert Tuller. And all this talk of it inspired my next call to him. Rob lives with his wife and two sons in San Francisco.

His lads, 9 and 11, are still at that wonderful stage where Dad is cooler than almost anything, including zombies. Rob is doing the occasional triathlon and sometimes even more aggressive endurance challenges, like a 100-mile run across the Continental Divide. Rob insists that these activities aren’t an effort to compensate for anything. Still, I offered that a few sessions with a shrink might be a more practical approach to purging the demons that drive a man to such extremes. But Rob will have none of this and has incorporated his passion into a career—coaching his CrossFit clients to deal with chronic pain through vigorous physical

training. Rob also keeps close ties with Andover and serves on the Alumni Council, typically returning to campus twice a year.

I recently received another birthday invite.

This time it was for Christopher Dean and his father (another Andover man, Andrew Dean ’57) jointly celebrating 125 years. I checked in with “Dean Tunes” to find him happily unemployed in San Francisco, after having successfully done a number of Silicon Valley stints. He confessed that he will probably get involved in another company soon but in the meantime is content watching his three kids grow (two girls and a boy, ages 10 to 13), planting vegetables at his weekend place in Sonoma County, and enjoying the local wine tastings. (I think it best if we not picture the film Sideways here.) Well served, CD! Uh-oh, it appears we are out of space. They are very stingy, with a firm 900-word limit, at the magazine. I cannot depart, though, without saying to Fannie Iselin Minot how glad I am to learn that your daughter is likely to matriculate at Tulane this fall. It’s a great school in a great town, and let’s hope it will offer us an opportunity to overlap while visiting our kids and, naturally, laissez les bon temps rouler!

Well, bye for now, class, and happy 50 to all! — Parker Quillen

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

Wow! So many of you responded to my plea for news that I’ve had to hone my editing skills in short order. I hope it’s not just out of pity for a first-timer and that you’ll all keep in touch with news during my tenure as class secretary. I volunteered for the position, despite the formidable challenge of following in the oversized footsteps of Susannah Hill and Blaise Zerega, both to give something back and to keep in touch with classmates I rarely see more than once a half-decade. And it has been fabulous not only connecting over e-mail, but also talking with many of you—like Amy Kellogg from London, still the intrepid senior foreign-affairs correspondent for Fox News and recently returned from covering unrest in Ukraine, and Adam Wise, who is celebrating his 20th anniversary at Boston University and who was thrilled to celebrate the Andover career of his father, Kelly Wise, in New York City in April.

We as a class just can’t seem to get enough of Andover. Many of our classmates are now ending their time as Andover parents, among them Angela Lorenz, Jason Bernhard (whose daughter Adele ’14 captained the girls’ varsity squash team), and Frederick “Fritz” Reichenbach. But some, like Peter Cleveland, are just beginning their

tenure, and others, like Jonna Gaberman, Amy Pullen, Patrick Wilson, Tammy Snyder Murphy, and Karen Humphries Sallick, have one or more teens haunting the GW halls. Meanwhile, Abraham “Nick” Morse and his wife, Loren, will consider themselves successful parents, says Nick, if they can keep their two boys “out of (a) the ER and (b) jail for the foreseeable future.”

Answering the call from the PA art department, Angela Lorenz helped organize an alumni art show celebrating 40 years of coeducation at Andover. The show opened on April 5 with works

by Chris Fitch and Thayer Zaeder, among others.

Chris is going on his 12th year as a single dad to his daughter, Lyla, and Warren Zanes is raising two sons on his own. Warren reports that he’s working on an eight-part PBS series on the history of recorded music and is finishing a new solo recording. “The last one was the break-up record, this one is the love songs,” he says.

Warren is also in the home stretch of his biography of Tom Petty. Our class is prolific.

Holly Peterson has just written her second novel, The Idea of Him, which she describes as a “fast-paced work of social satire...also jam-packed with sex and romance.” By its second week on the shelves, it had gone into a second printing and been translated into six languages. Sheri Caplan’s Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street’s History won the 2014 Axiom Business Book Award Bronze Medal in the Women/Minorities category. Writing from Mississippi and pining for good Chinese takeout, New Yorker Bill Storey reports that his “new book about the First World War is shorter than most of the other centennial books, so comes highly recommended.” Congratulations to each of you! And good luck to Jeffrey Stafford, who e-mails from New York that he is also working on a number of book projects.

Another prolific writer, Richard Murphy, returned recently to his Andover roots, shadowing John Palfrey around campus, conducting interviews, and preparing a profile of our head of school for a fall issue of Town & Country. Rich writes that he “even joined Palfrey in a practice with the girls’ varsity soccer team, which was a humbling experience for me.” Know the feeling.

Sam Avrett, who is apparently living at GPS 41.875983, -75.018602 if anyone wants to look him up, is working at the Fremont Center (www.

TheFremontCenter.org), an HIV/AIDS advocacy consulting partnership, and looking for ideas about how and where to celebrate his 50th birthday. Yikes! Tammy Snyder Murphy, back in New Jersey after four years in Berlin, stays in touch with many classmates, including Laura Culbert Knowles-Cutler, Quincey Tompkins Imhoff, Andrea Feldman Falcione, Alison Beaumont Hahn, Corinne “Cori” Field, Cynthia Lamontagne, John Floyd, and Josh Steiner. I can report, having bumped into Josh on a flight out to Deer Valley, Utah, that he is happy in his new position at Bloomberg. But, sadly, I have nothing to relate about the others. Tammy, an Andover Andover | Fall 2014

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Fred Masoudi e-mails from Denver that he is a professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus. Amy Pullen, an intellectual-property licensing attorney working for ARM Ltd., lives in Lexington, Mass., with her husband, Nathaniel McIntosh ’82, and their daughter, Lydia, and son, Ethan ’15. She says it was “great to catch up” with Christine Kubacki Atherton on a trip to the nation’s capital.

Congratulations to John Harpole, who is celebrating 10 years of marriage to Gabi Starr; Gabi has become friendly with Tamar Szabo Gendler through their similar scholarly interests. John credits Liz McHenry with setting him up with his wife.

He often sees Liz and Wallace “Macky” Alston in New York and recently hosted Henry Dorn and his “brilliant and beautiful daughter Julia.”

From Washington, D.C., Donald Marron is thrilled to share the news that he and wife Esther have adopted a baby boy, Charlie, who “is a joy, full of life and possibility.” Donald is part of the leadership team of the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.

Finally, if you were in Martha’s Vineyard this August, you may have caught Catherine “Cathy” Hicks at the annual fair. She was planning on being there with her 3-year-old daughter, Grace, who’s starting nursery school this fall.

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

Dear all, I and best faithful reunion date ever, Pauline Lim, heartily enjoyed our 30th Reunion!

This time I made the bold move of spending twice as much time on campus as in previous years and ended up learning just how many more of our classmates are working for some branch or other of U.S. intelligence than I might have had I only come for Saturday night dinner. Go Blue!

Claudia Kraut Rimerman was in attendance,

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along with husband Howard Rimerman. She loved seeing everyone, especially Hee-Jung Shin Moon (with whom I shared some fond memories of Sarah Jane Cohen Grossbard), Daisy Smith, and Mischa Frusztajer. Claudia shared her new hobby: On business travel, look up classmates in that city and have a mini reunion! Betsy Biern, having felt this latest to be a first true homecoming and having enjoyed as much spending time with old friends as getting to know new, is looking forward to seeing where we are in the next five.

As of this writing, she is in the SF Bay Area with husband Ted Booth, reporting from a post-reunion wine tasting with Stephen Jones. At the reunion, Stephen especially enjoyed (and I was sad to miss) Chas Fagan’s Addison tour: painting, sculpture, and tales of working intimately, as he does, with public personalities.

Joel Post loved seeing so many of our classmates this reunion weekend. He hoists his thanks high to Rob Kellan, Chris Gildehaus (who is doing for PA coaching now what might have made me love sports then—hats off to you, Chris), and others for making sure that 30 years later, we still end every night in a celebratory manner.

Phoebe Brown writes how much fun it was to see folks she hadn’t seen for years. One highlight, among many, was the terrific time she had catching up with Janine DiTullio and hearing about all of her impressive comedy-writing projects. As a bonus, Phoebe and her daughter Lily got to stay in Janine’s old room in Johnson, which, apparently, is quite fancy these days.

Personally, I especially enjoyed catching up with Mery Caplan Wright, Caroline Ren Jackson, Tim Cahill, Mike Cahill, Nick Bienstock, Laurie Nash (we all, but especially Bill Seeley and I, owe you one—Laurie, you know what I mean), Nina LeSueur, Annie Emmick, Jen Tessier Antonucci, Ben Schlosser, Kent Lucas, Dave Duckenfield, and Courtney Keppelman, just to name a few—although, sad to say, I couldn’t keep up with the best, all up till dawn Friday and Saturday nights both!

Nancie Pageau deserves special thanks and recognition for coming halfway around the world to our reunion. It was great to see you, Nancie!

Sadly, little more than a haggard wave was caught from Paul Murphy, as it was not only his own 30th but his fifth reunion cycle of students!

Neither was there enough time with Torrance York or Stephanie Hunt.

Regrets were received from Abby Shuman, Lisa Foster, Alix Goodwin Olavarria, Scott Crabtree, Milisa Galazzi, Sarah Bullock, Christopher Lynch, Auny Abegglen, Christine Kim, and Susan Deeds.

Also missed were (at least) Al Griffin, Paul Vrana, Jason Bochinski, Miry Park, Kacy Cuddy, John Chaisson, Andrew Podolsky, Ashley Wilson, Rachel Simpson, and John Caulkins, to name just a very, very few. Hope to see you (all) at the 35th!

Your friend in all things fun, Adam

1985 Chris McCarthy 8 Wilkie Terrace #09-05 228031 Singapore +65 9864 7918 chrismccarthy@gmail.com

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

As Blanche DuBois famously noted in A Streetcar Named Desire, “Sometimes—there’s God— so quickly!”

I found that out when this class notes deadline snuck (sneaked?) up on me, amid a crazy week of work deadlines and Little League games. So I took to the Class of 1986 Facebook page—are you a member?—sent out a panicked plea for zany stories, then sat back and watched the news start rolling in. (I ran into Kelly McCann on the golf course the same day!) And the depth and breadth of truly thoughtful activities being conducted by our friends gives me pause, and I am honored to share it.

In May, Nicole Grieco Butterfield and Kim Guzowski copresented a workshop for teachers called “Shakespeare in 2D, 3D & HD” at the NYAIS (New York Association of Independent Schools) Teaching with Technology conference. Nicole and Kim have been collaborating on teaching Shakespeare at the Whitby School and the Hackley School for eight years, off and on.

This workshop introduced other teachers to using theatre production, design, fabrication, and green screen techniques in the academic classroom to improve student understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare’s work.

Kim just cofounded a company with several theatre designers, stage technicians, artisans, and educators (including Nicole) who are creating programs that teach students how to use their academic and artistic knowledge as a tool to build, make, and create. The company is called Technical Artisans Collective (TAC). To find out more, go to tacollective.org. If you are in the New York metropolitan area and wish to get involved with TAC or be on the mailing list for upcoming workshops for kids and teens, please contact

www.andover.edu/intouch Kim at kimguzowski@tacollective.org.

Kim and Jenny Pettit Van West have been visiting back and forth the past few years between Maine and New York. Jenny herself reports to us, with hyperlinks: “I live in Portland, Maine, with my husband, Jeff, and sons, Charlie and Baxter.

I’ve been working professionally as a singer and songwriter for three years and am preparing to release a debut solo album in late fall 2014.

[Kim says she had the great pleasure of hearing Jenny play last summer up in Maine—what a treat!] More info: www.reverbnation.com/ jennyvanwestmusic or www.facebook.com/ jennyvanwestmusic. Greetings to everyone!”

David Sullivan reports that he has some more of the lambs that he raises: “Shetlands are a heritage breed—mostly bred for their wool, which can have 13 color varieties. Small and rugged and very picturesque.” I was hoping to get to see these in person when I visited Massachusetts in June.

And even though we are all “getting on up there,” the human babies are still arriving as well: Kendall Price and his wife are expecting baby number three in June, and Christine Balling reports that “John Claflin and his wife, Camille, just had a son. The boy’s name is Max (Maxim Addison Claflin). All are healthy and happy, per John.”

My erstwhile co-class secretary Kim Doggett Formisano (Kim, come back!) reports, “I got a chance to meet up with Istvan Szent-Miklosy at Park School, where I work, to discuss his ‘Bright Fingers’ design, http://kck.st/1jwRuQc. Very cool! It was terrific to see him. He is still sporting his long ponytail. Also, my daughter will be heading to Andover in the fall, Class of 2017!

On the revisit day, I ran into Lee Westerfield, whose daughter was making a decision about attending Andover in the fall (not sure what she decided). At a different school revisit day, I ran into Phoebe Conant. It was a lot of fun catching up with her! Secondary school revisits seemed to be a great way to connect with old friends! Hope everyone is well.”

Liz Collins reports that she is “making art and lots of new and wild things for interiors in NYC.” You can easily go online and check out the magnificent designs of our award-winning artist and craftswoman.

And in addition to all that is interesting and lively, we continue to mark the occasions that are poignant: Jenny Rider was scheduled to be married June 14, and we look forward to a wonderful update with pictures in a later issue. Dave Eckman writes, “In June, my family and I are headed to Israel, where my son Ben will read from the Torah atop Mt. Masada and meet with Soccer For Peace counselors in Tel Aviv.”

And sometimes there is just the zany and eccentric, which I called for in my Facebook shoutout. “You want zany and eccentric?” Peter Anton asked rhetorically. “Along with doing lots of community theatre (and my kids joining me for most of the shows), I’ve picked up the hobby of

‘flow arts’ or ‘fire spinning.’ I spin a fire staff, breathe fire, and am an active member of the local fire arts community around Boston and the Northeast.”

Wow! Would you come to DC for a command performance? As always, I’d love to see any of you in our nation’s capital.

Much love and xxx, Caroline

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

Although Ferris Bueller would never be called responsible, dependable he was. And though I have yet to be picked up in a vintage Ferrari by any of these notes contributors, thanks is justly due to them for being dependable as well. Without notes info there are no notes, so thanks for sending things my way. And now, on with the show (oh, if the FBDO theme is lost on you, you are not getting my e-mails).

Ferris: Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Christina Smith-Gajadhar writes, “Nothing new—same three kids I’ve had for the past several years, though we are looking to downsize to two if the oldest and some university come to a mutual agreement next year.”

Cameron: The 1961 Ferrari 250GT California.

Less than a hundred were made. My father spent three years restoring this car. It is his love, it is his passion.

Ferris: It is his fault he didn’t lock the garage.

Tom Powers writes, “I drank too much at a charity auction and bought a safari in South Africa.

It turned out to be one of the best things we’ve ever done as a family (the vacation, not the drinking). I taught my 5-year-old son how to snorkel. We saw giraffes, rhinos, hippos, lions, cheetahs, etc. Zebras were everywhere—we had one living outside our tent and named him Zed. Cameron: I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I’m going to take a stand. I’m going to defend it.

Right or wrong, I’m going to defend it.

Hyalker Amaral says, “Regards from Portland, Ore.! I flew here to run another half marathon while, funnily enough, Chap Munger is staying at my place in Chicago. He had come recently to interview for a job and started Thursday. Casa Amaral is open for business! On my end, this race will be my 41st half, and I have added three full marathons in that same time. My brother, [Hydalker Amaral] has now run three halfs and will run three more this year!”

Ferris: Hey, Cameron. You realize if we played by the rules right now we’d be in gym?

Jody Hillegas Lewis reports, “My husband, three girls, and I have moved back to Santa Barbara,

Calif. So far, highlights include our disco hot tub and a SWAT raid topped off with a 2-½ hour standoff at a house across the street. (Not making this stuff up, btw!) So there’s that. Oh, and here’s something else: I got all dressed up and headed to fancy Montecito for my first ever Andover alum cocktail party. I knew no one there, but my nonAndover husband did—turns out he’d made out with one of the Andover reps while they were both in college! Not sure if that counts as something interesting, but I got a huge kick out of watching their eyes bug out as she greeted us at the door.”

Garage Attendant: You guys got nothing to worry about, I’m a professional.

Cameron: A professional what?

Kempton “Kim” Dunn writes, “Living in San Francisco with my wife, Meredith, and our three children: daughter Taylor, 10, son Davis, 8, and daughter Chase, 6. Working as a technology banker with Morgan Stanley but would stop working in a heartbeat if I could just keep coaching the kids in soccer and lacrosse and manage to scrape together the mortgage and private-school tuition.

Spending a lot of time up in Sonoma at a 1,600acre ranch co-owned with 19 other SF families, including Bo Lasater ’86. At some point hoping to bring the crew back to a reunion and give the kids a taste of the experience.”

Shermerite: Save Ferris?

Jeannie: Excuse me?

Shermerite: Well, a group of us are collecting money to buy Ferris Bueller a new kidney. They run about 50 g’s, so if you wouldn’t mind helping out...

Greg Shufro says, “Life is great. Work is interesting. The boys are in the middle of baseball and soccer seasons, so [wife] Jen and I spend our weekends ferrying kids and sports equipment to fields throughout Westchester, New York, and Long Island. I keep pretty busy outside of work, too, working with a few different organizations, including a new public policy institute called Roosevelt House. Pretty amazing place—housed in the brownstone where FDR and Eleanor raised their family before moving to the White House. If any of my classmates ever wants to attend events there, just shoot me an e-mail.”

So, a couple of weeks ago, I was down in Houston on business, and I end up at a work dinner.

This guy sits down across from me and tells me he is from Boston. I tell him I went to Andover and he says, “Me, too.” It ends up being Andrew Kunian ’89, David Kunian’s brother. Nice to be in touch with David again, too.

Last night I attended the launch for John Bush’s book, Where Does It Hurt? Alger Boyer, Oliver Ryan, Tony Gellert, and Michael Peterson made sure Andover was well represented. I am in touch with both my Andover roommates: Torrence Boone, who works at Google, and David Hayward, who has been at Apple since forever!

Ferris: You’re still here? It’s over. Go home. Go.

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Happy to be back on campus are, from left, Bob Gibbons, Edward Jasaitis, Caleb Jacobson-Sive, David Satterthwaite, Ted Helprin, and Pablo Mozo, all Class of ’89.

Saturday’s lunch was moved indoors, but rain didn’t dampen the spirits of Ali Fort, Alex Friedman, and Sarah Rafferty, all Class of ’89.

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

First, a big thank-you to all who sent in notes for my first turn as class secretary. It seems that some of those notes had also been submitted to Matt Lavin, so your news may have already been featured in the spring edition of the magazine.

As for the rest, here goes: Alarik Myrin, Nick Rosenkranz, and Cricket Crutcher Mikheev had a mini Novel and Drama reunion at Bar Centrale following the

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It’s throwback Saturday as Joel Post and Claudia Kraut Rimerman, both Class of ’84, tie-dye T-shirts in front of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library.

latest NYC celebration of Kelly Wise’s career. They fondly recalled the Brothers Karamazov, Lord Jim, and the rest of their “grovel and trauma” cohort.

In March of this year, Allison Picott and her husband ran into Dave Reinfeld and his wife at a Celtics game. Allison reports that Dave lives with his family in Charlestown, Mass., and is the CEO of Mint Energy in Burlington, Mass. Dave has stayed in touch with Graham “Gib” Black, who lives out in Washington state with his family. Last summer, Gibby came East with his daughter and had a mini reunion with Dave and his daughter.

Eileen Kim writes that she is busy raising her son, Levi, 5, who loves building things out of boxes and paper and singing Beatles songs. She is still working at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., where she works half time as a clinician seeing patients and half time as an administrator helping her organization provide better care for its patients with diabetes. Although those two activities take up most of her time, she does see a few Andover folks on a regular basis. She reports that Nils Gilman ’89 lives in San Francisco and got a dream job at UC Berkeley recently. Maia Bazjanac lives about a mile from Eileen’s house. Maia has a son, Corwin, and is still running her own business doing dental hygiene for cats and dogs. Last year, Caroline Goodson Parker had a second daughter. Caroline lives on an idyllic island outside of Vancouver, B.C., called Bowen Island, and sees Elee Kraljee Gardiner on occasion.

Tyke Higdon O’Brien reports that, though they didn’t know each other at Andover, she and Ann Gagnon Millington are now literally next

door neighbors in Milton, Mass. She jokes that she couldn’t understand why her house was covered in TP and shaving cream!

After hosting Andy Mercy and Alex Tyneberg over the holidays, Britt Lewis had the great pleasure of finally getting together with Ramsay Turnbull, who also lives in Chile (though in Santiago—more than 600 miles north of Britt, who is on the island of Chiloé), and Virginia Blue, whose daughter is spending time there.

Christina Erickson reports that she and her husband, Sel Cakir, are in their 13th year in Santa Monica, Calif. They have two boys—Benjamin, 14, and Kenan, 8—and celebrated their 15th anniversary last summer with a party in Istanbul, Turkey, where they wed in 1998. She often sees newlywed Rani Ali-Ahmad and also Alma Beck, who serves as a sort of fairy godmother to her boys. Christina’s family also had some visits with Anne Gagnon Millington and her husband, Pete, and their boys. Christina has stayed connected with Andover and now has a new reason to spend time there: Her son Ben joined the Class of 2018 this September.

Peter Welch and Lisa Lopardo Welch also took on the new role of PA parents when their son Kyle began his junior year at Andover this fall.

Rob Patrick wrote in to report on an amazing Andover event he was honored to participate in, an evening to honor non sibi role model Erik Kristensen ’91, Naval Academy ’95. I’ll let Rob describe it: “Erik was killed in Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan in 2005. [The film] Lone Survivor is a chronicle of that event. We began

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Ben Schlosser ’84 meets Santiago and Diego Duckenfield, as dad David Duckenfield ’84 looks on.

Old friends reunite during the CAMD open house at reunion. Front, from left, are Aya Murata, associate director of college counseling; Noelina Nakiguli ’09; Mary Jane Lewis, CAMD administrative assistant; Kent Strong ’09; and Angel Stanislaus ’89. Back, from left, are Elisa Istueta ’89; Erica Sills Gaines ’89; Nathalie Monecke ’09; Gre Rossi ’09; Mathilde Gracia ’09; and Susanne Torabi, international student coordinator.

with a remembrance at Memorial Place, outside the gym, then had standing room only for dinner in Upper Left at [Paresky] Commons, and then watched Lone Survivor in a chapel full of students, faculty, and local citizens. Some of Erik’s SEAL teammates were there to answer questions after the film. It was unprecedented. In attendance were, among others, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Edward and Suzanne Kristensen (Erik’s parents); Capt.

Tom Hudner ’43, Medal of Honor winner from the Korean War; and Erik’s crew team from the Naval Academy. ... The overwhelming support from the Andover community was beyond words.

It was one of the most moving events I have ever attended.”

As for me, I live with my husband of 16 years and our three sons, ages 12, 10, and 5, just outside of Boston, in West Medford, Mass. After practicing corporate law for eight years, I left big law in 2012 and am now the chief compliance officer for a global private equity firm. Though I love seeing everyone’s activities on Facebook, nothing beats getting together in person. Luckily, Pete and Lisa hosted my clan as well as Suzanne Dumas Miller and her family last summer for a barbecue. I was able to catch up with Lucia Murphy Jaccaci last fall in Shanghai, where she lives with her husband, Tony Jaccaci ’87, and their three boys.

I also had the great pleasure of spending time with Bob Le Roy and his lovely wife, Sarah, over the holidays.

Finally, Doug D’Agata would like us all to know that he, his wife, and his children remain awesome.

—Heather

1989 Laura Bauschard 2918 Octavia St. San Francisco CA 94123 415-806-2412 (cell) LBauschard@hotmail.com Curtis Eames 978-994-9015 curtiseames111@gmail.com Gina Hoods 400 Chaney Road, Apt. 1024 Smyrna TN 37167 423- 892-7140 404- 667- 4939 ghoods@yahoo.com

[Editor’s note: Following this issue, Emily Muldoon Kathan and Christian Parker step down from their role as class secretaries.

The Academy is very grateful for their service.

Laura Bauschard and Curtis Eames join Gina Hoods as class secretaries for the Class of ’89. Please send news and updates to them using the contact information above.]

OK, ’89ers. Here’s the reunion roundup. I’m pleased to say that nearly a quarter of the class was on campus this year, not to mention the many spouses and kids who came along for the ride.

I’ve noticed over the years that there are certain reunion stalwarts who can be counted on to show up (hello, women of Frost House), but it was also

great to see more than a handful of folks who were attending a reunion for the first time. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am consistently amazed at how easy it is to pick up with Andover folks, even those I didn’t actually know all that well or haven’t seen in a quarter century.

Wandering into the Cage for the first big reunion dinner on the Friday night is always a little nerve-wracking, I’ll confess, though I suppose more out of anticipation than fear. Happily, as I bellied up to the bar, I was greeted by James Tilghman, who is still living in central Florida with his family and was looking forward to some time on his home turf of Martha’s Vineyard over the summer. Zel Saccani is also living down south— way south, just south of the U.S. border outside Brownsville, Texas. He runs a legal translation business. Angel Stanislaus, who caught up with Emily Muldoon Kathan, has a great new gig in IT for the Department of Veterans Affairs in DC. Quite a time to be starting work there! Emily is scheming with Sherry Martin Murphy to get their women’s hockey teams to play each other next year. Sherry is in DC as well and enjoying a new job with the State Department after many years in academia.

I was hoping for a bigger turnout among my compadres who went to Novosibirsk during our senior year, but regardless it was great as always to see Marlene Laro, who has been successfully piloting a very new kind of law firm in DC, and Jennifer Stableford, who is a vascular surgeon at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx and lives in Manhattan with her family. Jen and Elisa Istueta, who works in children’s and youth services for Andover | Fall 2014

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Curtis Eames is heading out to LA after acting and teaching high school English and theatre for quite a while in Massachusetts. Look for him as a mobster in the upcoming movie about Whitey Bulger (with Johnny Depp), Black Mass. Also, more or less in LA (she’s officially still bicoastal) is Sarah Rafferty, whose acting career is thriving with her leading role on USA Network’s Suits.

Like many American TV shows these days, hers shoots in Toronto. No doubt while there she’ll have more opportunity to hang out with Pablo Mozo, whose DJing days may be behind him but who is plotting with his sister to “bring Cuban cuisine to Toronto.” I had a good chance to chat with Sarah, Pablo, our beloved theatre teacher Kevin Heelan, who stopped by the party on Saturday, and Shellee Hendricks, who recently relocated from Barcelona to Brooklyn with her family. She took up a post at the Berkeley Carroll School teaching American studies and doing college counseling. She, Orin Herskowitz, and I live within blocks of one another, but of course, being that it’s New York, we rarely see one another. I am told by Marlene that writer Marianna Baer is also a Park Sloper, though somehow I haven’t spotted her in the ’hood; I did see her across the crowded tent with the aforementioned Frost House posse, also including Kate Archibald Donchi and Christina Weaver Vest.

Among the first-time reunion-goers whom I caught up with were Charmaine Chan, who is practicing medicine in Philadelphia, Emmeline Kim, and Julie Aronovitz Blencowe. Didn’t get too much quality time with these three, but it was great to see them. They haven’t aged. Other reunion newbies whom I managed to catch included Leila Finucane, Jonathan Clough, and Sasha Gray Rakovshik. Sasha spent the past 21 years living in Moscow and raising a family.

She has now relocated everybody to Oxford, UK, where she is working in psychotherapy.

Heather Garretson Bragdon and Curtis Bragdon were back and forth from their home in Dover, Mass., all weekend, juggling their kids’ various schedules with their own. At the class picture, I had a brief moment to say hello to West Coasters Andrea Newell and Alexandra Tibbetts and somehow managed a hello and a hug but nothing more with Cristin Chafe Rose before she disappeared.

I will say, I was impressed with the turnout of former day students and “fac brats.” Other than myself, Jen Stableford, Jonathan Clough, Pablo, and Emily, I counted Andrew Shea, Brendan McGrail, Donald Keamy, Heather Pomeroy Kelley, Joseph Lyons, Carl McCarthy, and Karyn Rimas among the crowd.

George Webb, Sanjiv Desai, and Anshula Kedar were undoubtedly the life of the party and, I would venture to say, probably talked to a wider cross section of the group than anyone else.

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George was kind of doing double duty for his sister Emily Webb Doskow, who recently had twins and uncharacteristically couldn’t make it. Good reason, though. Congratulations, Emily! Sean Gottlieb and I got to compare notes on dispensable popular culture. Suzanne Pinto is still thriving at HBO and living with her family in Boston.

Cadir Lee is still very tall and is taking some time off as he ponders his next venture from his perch in Los Gatos, Calif. Rob Kinney was up from Austin, Texas, by way of Block Island with his wife, Michelle, and children Ingrid and John Michael. I caught up with Rob and his family outside the Borden Gym while everyone else was congregating at the head of school’s house for drinks, because we’d been sent to the wrong place.

Kit Nichols was also sent in the wrong direction, so we collected her by the gym. She’s gotten married and had two children in the years since the 20th. Kate Spencer Doak and Sam Doak thought they were going to have to cancel their plans to come to reunion, thanks to their twins’ baseball schedule, but that game was canceled and they were able to join the party. They’re still happily working at Choate, where Sam just became a dean.

I also had brief moments to say hello to reunion stalwarts Tyler Merson, Serena Fong, David Satterthwaite, Malcolm Palmer, Henry Gourdeau, Ted Helprin, Flossie Crisp, Keith Flaherty, Peter Reiss, and Jay Jamison.

A few contributions from non-reunion-goers: Gabe Wardell wrote with some exciting news.

He’s been appointed director of group sales at the brand-new National Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta. He’s also making an effort to reclaim the lost art of hand-written letters, so send him your snail mail addresses.

Charly Kemp wrote in that he was sorry to miss the reunion and is eager to catch up with local or visiting PA folks in LA, where he has been living for the past 10 years with his family.

Of course, there were many others in attendance. I tried to mention everyone either Emily or I spoke with. Forgive me if you were overlooked— a natural consequence of a strong turnout!

As for me, I’ve stepped down from my long-held post at the Atlantic Theater Company to pursue more freelance directing work and to continue as chair of the MFA program in theatre at Columbia.

In the spirit of stepping down, I am pleased to announce that you have two new class secretaries to fill Emily’s and my shoes. Effective immediately, class organizer, fundraiser, rabble-rouser, and professional recruiter Laura Bauschard will join actor/teacher/gadfly Curtis Eames in helping Gina Hoods keep tabs on you all. I know I speak for Emily as well when I say how much I’ve enjoyed working on these notes. It’s time to pass the baton, though, and I’m thrilled that Laura and Curtis agreed so readily to grab it. All the best to everyone.

—Christian Parker

1990 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

The countdown to our 25th Reunion has begun, and I (Tom Seeley) could not be more excited. A quarter century later, I am more than ever in awe of Andover, amazed that I was able to attend, and honored be a part of all of your lives.

I do hope all of you share in Regina’s and my unbridled enthusiasm and have already saved the date (June 12–14, 2015, for those keeping score at home). As you read this, a group of us are laying plans for a great weekend on the greatest campus in the world, catching up with old friends and revisiting our former haunts. Plus, Eric Older thinks he has an in to provide Peace Pops for our class tree rededication.

I am truly thrilled to have heard from so many this quarter. Melissa Fannon Rush announced her new venture, teaching computer skills at the Walpole (Mass.) Recreation Department. Melissa recently launched a blog/website, Tech Savvy Coach (techsavvycoach.wordpress.com). She teaches primarily adults and senior citizens looking to learn computer skills, including mastering Facebook, navigating the Web, and using an iPad or tablet.

John Achenbach checked in from LA, where he has lived for the past year. He is working in wealth management and specializes in killing time while surrounded by thousands of vehicles moving at a snail’s pace. The open road from LA to Boston for reunion will be a welcome change.

Where in the world is Karen Choe-Fichte?

After many adventures far afield, we’re thrilled to hear that she and family are stateside again. Karen relocated to Washington, D.C., where she will be working in the Office of Canadian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State’s headquarters. Now they are just a quick Acela trip and short bus ride from our 25th! Karen’s previous posts included stints in Baghdad, Iraq; Sydney, Australia; and Kabul, Afghanistan.

Developing and taste-testing new ice cream flavors is a difficult job, but someone has to do it.

That someone, in the world of the Class of 1990, is Rob Bohorad. Rob continues to keep busy with his daughter’s soccer and lacrosse schedules.

Somewhere in between, he finds time to keep up with his Yuengling’s Ice Cream venture. The ice cream hit stores in February, and at this writing, eight retailers and several independent stores in

www.andover.edu/intouch eight states were carrying it. Most importantly, it’s in Wegmans, the single greatest reason to live in central New York State.

It has been quite the year for Carrie Ann Quinn! Carrie Ann married Grayson Powell in October. In January, she was awarded a Joseph P. Healey Research Grant and sabbatical to Sydney, Australia, where she toured as actor and cowriter with her new play, Possessions. The play is based on the illustrious 17th-century Mancini sisters, who grew up in the French court then shocked society by leaving their aristocratic husbands, suing for divorce and return of dowry, and going “on the run,” traveling alone throughout Europe. Carrie Ann is also happy to announce that she received tenure and promotion to associate professor of theatre arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she heads the acting and directing areas.

Walker Teele and his wife recently moved from Durham, N.C., to Dallas, where he is working for BBDO and leading the AT&T account. They love the Tex-Mex food and are hoping to connect with other PA alums in the Big D. Look Walker up if you are in the area or know others who will be!

Also moving cross-country are Jenifer Foss Smyth and her family. The Smyths planned to channel their inner Griswold and make a road trip out of it. Here’s hoping no Marty Moose statues are injured in the making of that family memory!

Back East, Jared Jackson attended the Erik Kristensen ’91 memorial event on campus, where he caught up with Shafika Khayatt ’91 and Mike Day ’91. Shafika is working at Dartmouth College, and Mike is running for Massachusetts state representative. A short time ago I reported on Jared’s Pan-Mass Challenge bike team, which he started with a friend to raise funds for cancer research. He now has 31 riders and his fundraising is approaching $400,000. We are so proud of this exceptional example of non sibi.

Speaking of non sibi, Anna Ivey cofounded the nonprofit Service to School, which provides free application help and mentoring to veterans applying to college and graduate school. Check it out at service2school.org!

Exciting news from campus: Erin McCloskey was named associate director of academic technology in March. In the newly created role, Erin works with teachers to incorporate technology into the curriculum. Check out the full article about her new position in The Phillipian: http:// bit.ly/1piX1j4. She has enjoyed catching up with old friends and getting to know campus from a new perspective. Her office is in the art building just up the stairs from Kemper. Visitors are always welcome!

That’s all for now. Have we mentioned to save the date for our 25th Reunion, June 12–14, 2015?

—Tom & Regina

Rejji Hayes ’93, Uche Osuji ’91, Andreas Buchanan ’90, and Mike Schulte ’93 spent a July weekend golfing in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

1991 Hilary 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

Classmates continue to work and travel around the United States and around the globe, and I thank you for sharing some of your adventures!

Erin Eggert Brenner is grateful for all the French she took at Andover since moving to Versailles, France, in December 2013 with her husband, Jamey, and sons Christopher, 7, and Drew, 3. Erin is the program manager for a large product development program in GE Healthcare’s women’s health business. She plans to stay in France for about three years and has invited anyone traveling through Paris to “faire une visite!”

As chief correspondent for AP in Turkey, Desmond Butler has been very busy, interviewing Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew prior to his meeting with Pope Francis and covering the tragic coal-mine fire in May. In April, Desmond wrote an investigative piece on ZunZuneo, breaking the news that this “Cuban Twitter” was secretly created in Costa Rica by the United States government, with the alleged goal of creating political unrest and undermining Cuba’s communist government.

Congratulations to Jamie Schriebl, who married Zoe Settle at the Loeb Boathouse in NYC in February and then enjoyed a two-week honeymoon in the mountains of Austria. The couple lives in NYC. Also living in New York, Andy Frankenberger has been spending much of his time on the road for poker tournaments in destinations including Paris, Montreal, the Bahamas, Los Angeles, and San Jose, California. When we last e-mailed, Andy was getting ready to go to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, running from May through July. I don’t want to jinx anything, but I am ready to watch him at the final table! Last October, Andy cohosted Poker Night on Wall Street on Bloomberg TV, the first poker tournament to be aired on a financial news network. You can find the broadcast on television and online. Off the felt, Andy keeps up with the cutthroat fantasy baseball competition that he, Logan Sawyer, and Eric Kessler began while still at Andover. Almost 25 years later, Andy claims to have an early lead this season and is thankful that technology has made it much easier for them all to stay updated on the stats and standings.

Senia Maymin has graced our television screens as the expert coach on PBS’s critically acclaimed show This Emotional Life, which tells stories of people working to achieve happiness.

Senia earned a PhD degree in organizational behavior from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is an executive coach and consultant in the Bay Area. She is the founder of the website PositivePsychologyNews.com and coauthor of Profit from the Positive: Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your Business. This book has been the number-one title on the Amazon self-help list as well as a top seller on Kindle. It also Andover | Fall 2014

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In LA, Blair Lawson is the head of merchandising and product development for the groundbreaking company Beautycounter. Founded a couple years ago, Beautycounter pledges to use no toxins or chemicals linked to cancer in its skin-care and beauty products. The company’s very cool and informative website includes a “never list” of ingredients to avoid; you can print it out and take it with you to make shopping safer.

Mike Day announced that he is running for Massachusetts state representative in the 31st Middlesex district. Mike started his own law firm, Torres, Scammon & Day LLP, a couple years ago after spending 10 years as a trial attorney and then serving as a special assistant district attorney in Middlesex County. He is active in the Bar Association’s civil rights and civil liberties committee as well as the nonprofit organization Parents Helping Parents. Mike lives with his wife, Megan, and sons, Conor, Ryan, and Finnegan, in Stoneham, Mass.

Finally, to commence Andover’s annual Non Sibi Weekend this year, an evening to honor Lt. Cmdr. Erik Kristensen was held on campus on April 25. A Navy SEAL, Erik lost his life on June 18, 2005, while flying with a rescue team during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan. The evening began with a moment of silence at Memorial Place, recognizing the sacrifices of Andover veterans who have given their lives for our country; speakers at Cochran Chapel included Head of School John Palfrey, Commander Rob Patrick, Rear Admiral (Ret.) Edward and Suzanne Kristensen (Erik’s parents), and several SEALs. Letters from Presidents George H.W. Bush ’42 and George W. Bush ’6 4 commended Erik’s heroism and selflessness. The evening concluded with a screening of the movie Lone Survivor, which vividly tells the story of the mission and the people involved.

That is all for now. Please keep us posted on your work, travel, family, and any other news that is fit to print! —Hilary

1992 Allen Soong 1810 Burnell Drive Los Angeles CA 90065 allen.soong@bluelink.andover.edu

Forty.

It’s weird to think of that as our age, to think that it was more than 22 years ago that we left the Hill.

The cognitive dissonance I’m sure a lot of us feel is in large part because we are all still seeking new challenges, with the same enthusiasm and determination we had as fresh-faced high school students.

Jess Matias Wright, in fact, has decided she is not done with school.

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begin doctoral studies at the University of Texas, seeking a PhD degree in advertising. Alex Lippard just graduated from the Swedish Institute with a degree in massage therapy and planned to sit for the licensing examination in August. Maki Hsieh continues to pursue her music career after leaving the corporate world and had performance dates booked all summer through Labor Day; her days in power suits are but a distant memory.

Robert Feldstein is now in Seattle working for first-term mayor Ed Murray. The Seattle Times describes Robert’s recruiting experience: “In December, Robert Feldstein was winding up a job with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg when he got a call from Seattle mayor-elect Ed Murray. Would Feldstein launch an office of policy and innovation for Seattle, and could Murray include his name in a news conference to announce his new staff ? In three hours? Feldstein said, ‘Yes, but I still work for a different mayor, so let me check.’ ” Robert’s charge is to help Murray apply the Bloomberg model for tackling urban challenges: gather hard data, bring stakeholders together to question conventional wisdom, and seek solutions not yet tried. He’s still searching Seattle for a decent deli in the meantime, with Mark Jones as his occasional field guide.

Molly Wagman briefly returned to the Western Hemisphere from Singapore to celebrate her 40th, spending two weeks in Belize with friends and family, including your former class correspondent, Daphne Matalene. Along the way she changed planes in Houston, where she spotted Jennifer Lewis Hershman and her husband, Rich Hershman, who were also traveling through. In January, Jenn and Rich welcomed baby girl Rose Elizabeth, who joins siblings Aurora, 5, and Reid, 3. Jenn and her DC-based brood will be back in Andover next June and will visit Linnea Basu and her husband, Prashanth Saka, who live in Brookline, Mass. Jenn also writes that she is an enforcement attorney at the Federal Communications Commission, where her most recent actions have involved penalizing broadcasters for misusing the distinctive tones of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) for promotional rather than public-safety purposes in film trailers. “It’s a great job for a popculture junkie,” Jenn writes. “Some of my most recent cases... were featured in several mainstream publications and media blogs.”

Last edition of these notes, I mentioned Nicole Quinlan and her quest to finish the Boston Marathon with the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team. It was a tough road, including months of early-morning runs in the bitterly cold and dark embrace of the polar vortex, but not only did Nicole vanquish Heartbreak Hill this past April, she also raised $15,600 for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. For Nicole, this was more than just a personal challenge; it was a tribute to her friend Dianne, who had defeated cancer in her 30s but later succumbed, just shy of her 40th birthday, to complications from the chemotherapy that

had saved her. Struggling with the grief of losing her friend, Nicole resolved on her 40th to run the Boston Marathon in honor of Dianne and to raise money for and awareness of research into more targeted, less toxic therapies. Jen Daily, Ellie Miller, and Jenny Elkus were with Nicole to kick off her fundraising campaign at Nicole’s 40th birthday bash, the theme of which was “Wigging Out.” On race day, each of Nicole’s 26 miles was sponsored in honor of someone claimed by or fighting cancer, and those honorees inspired Nicole to press on through to the finish, which she crossed holding aloft a card with Dianne’s name. Nicole writes, “[It] was truly an amazing day.... It is hard to put into words the energy of the city that day.... I know that Boston always has the best spectators, but even folks who were running their fifth, 10th, [or] 20th Boston all agreed that it was a day like no other.”

Nicole encourages anyone else thinking about doing something similar to stop thinking and start doing: “Barring major injuries, anyone can run a marathon....It just takes putting in the training time and slogging in the miles.... Speed really isn’t the issue, just putting the time in months in advance to get yourself across the finish line on race day.”

Carry on, ’92!

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

Greetings and happy summer 2014. This is the one you’ll never forget.

We have a bunch of new members in the FB class group that Mark Jaklovsky started a few years back. Keep ’em coming. If you’re on the list and you know classmates who haven’t joined, please send them a quick invite.

Let’s start close to home with one of your faithful class secretaries. Susannah Smoot Campbell and her husband, Neil, are thrilled to announce they’re expecting their second child in September.

We couldn’t be happier for them.

Andrew Frishman writes with a lot of big news.

He finally defended and earned a PhD degree in education leadership, a big enough deal that no fewer than three Harvard grad schools were involved. Andy now works with an outfit called Big Picture Learning and focuses on secondary education reform. He writes that he had the chance

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Joining the Alumni Parade were members of the Class of ’94, along with several of their children. Classmates, from left, are Tricia Marshburn Davis, Gillian Rickmeier Schmitz, Sara Cooper Berkson, Jessica M. Dubin, Wonbo Woo, Putney Cloos, Kate Silva, Megan Wheeler, Christina Lauricella Klineman, Bronwyn Murray, Matt McGirt, and Dave Callum.

to visit Scott Kostojohn earlier this year in Seattle.

According to Andy, “Scott and his wife, Vasantha, and their super-cute kids, Alex and Peter, are doing great and live not far from the Space Needle.”

Amy Carr has moved to Nashville, Tenn., and reports that it’s a great place to be. She has one of the more unusual jobs of anyone in our class: designing concert lighting. As of April, she was directing lights on a tour for country artist Phil Vassar.

Early this year, Mike Corkery made the jump from his longtime post at the Wall Street Journal to the New York Times, where he reports on the nation’s “too big to fail” banks. He and his wife live in Brooklyn, N.Y., where they chase after Julia, 5, and Thomas, 3.

After a nearly 10-year hiatus, Alison Wheeler Kennedy is back on the ice, playing in an adult hockey league and “loving it,” she reports. Both her daughters, Peyton and Lauren, also play hockey, to Alison’s delight.

Zeke Farrow is still writing screenplays in LA. The documentary he cowrote and coproduced, Best Kept Secret, is still winning major awards and doing well on all the VOD platforms.

Ted Gesing spent some time on the slopes this past February with Amanda Adams, Alissa Fishbane, Lucie Boyce Flather ’91, Jenny Elkus ’92, and Anna Ivey ’90. It was shockingly good snow that impressed some jaded East Coast skiers.

Asher Richelli continues balancing high-power lawyering and great theatre. On the interesting side of that equation, he serves as executive director of Page 73 Productions. Ted Gesing had the chance

to see and savor the group’s staging of one-woman show Grounded back in January.

Lilli Lewis is living in Hammond, La., and making music of all kinds, including performing with an indie rock band named The Shiz. She’s working on a cantata called “Pyramids,” dedicated to the memory of Andover’s late, great music instructor William Thomas.

And while on the subject of faculty, retired PA teachers Bob and Susan Lloyd send their regards to the entire class. They now live in Vermont, where Sue serves as a guardian ad litem and is contending with Parkinson’s disease. Bob is involved with planning commissions and wildlife preservation.

He encourages our class to get in touch.

Anya Yankelevich lives in Denver with her 15-year-old son. She works as a parent educator. Sanghoon “Sean” Lee lives and works in Cyprus at an international video game company.

He has one young daughter. Dan O’Keefe ran this year’s Boston Marathon and raised more than $30,000 for the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge in the process.

And we have lots of beautiful babies to report.

Among the new parents are Samantha Appleton and Hardy Stecker. Hardy writes that the paths of the next generation are already crossing. “[Husband] Kyle and I welcomed our son, Otis Ware Page, in December 2013. Otis has already had some good hangs with Sam Appleton and daughter Bea as well as fellow Brooklynite Steph Johnes.”

Willett Bird and Carole Reid Bird live in Hong Kong and just welcomed their third child, Quinlan, into the world in April. Quinlan joins big

brother Atticus and big sister Teagan. The family planned to spend three weeks in Rhode Island this past July.

And several other proud trifectas: Chris White and his wife, Rachel, had their third son in May. Maria Burnett had her third child, son Sebastian, in April. And Stacie Ringleb writes with news of son Abraham, born in April, who joins his older sisters Trudy and Penny.

One correction to the winter class notes: It was Allyson Clarke Hugley, not Alison Crawford, who wrote about Kim Valentine Washington.

Our apologies.

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

For this reunion I took the commuter rail up to Andover alone, forgetting yet again what an uphill slog it is from the train station. But autopilot settled in, as I knew immediately how to reach registration in GW. Once I made it to the Cage, in time for the end of dinner, the first person I met was Christian Bateson. A rare contributor to the class notes and even rarer reunion attendee (this was his first), Chris became a frequent collaborator on much of what would transpire.

I moved slowly through our class at dinner.

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years. Fellow lawyer-musician Mark Sabath was only a few meters away with his wife, Kay. Now that they’re proud parents of twins, Mark and Kay have moved four blocks in Washington, D.C., renting a home. Mark still plays weddings and other engagements, but his band has retired a bit from playing regular gigs in public settings. Amanda Moger Rettig, yet another lawyer classmate, made her goodbyes rather early on, but considering she had a newborn (Eve) in tow, it felt like a valid excuse.

Spotted out of the corner of my eye, or only briefly greeted, were Heidi Cline Wall, Danielle Sadler Makrauer, Steve Hosmer, and Rich Enos, who was on crutches.

Once we moved to Borden, the music drowned out a lot of the chatter. Nonetheless, Bronwyn Murray talked to me about how she fosters (that is, rescues) dogs and brings them to Washington, D.C. Adam Gurry made the trip up from Brookline, Mass., where he lives with his toddler and wife. In discussing the legacy of Stowe House with Adam, he informed me that Jen Karlen Elliott now not only teaches at PA but is also the cluster dean of Abbot. I moved from Adam to talk to Leah Henderson and Enola Williams, both late registrants. Leah’s working on two novels at once, but Wonbo Woo’s reminding me of a certain bit of authorial lack of clarity from a decade-old class notes installment pulled me away from them. I asked Wonbo what he is up to, but he refused to say more than that he’s “chilling in NYC.” Dan Ingster and Berk Nelson kept the festivities going strong with their other halves, but as the evening wound down, it became clear that their post-Borden plans were related to watching the end of the Stanley Cup finals.

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where they were playing catch with their children.

Henry flew in from London to be inducted into the Athletics Hall of Honor. John and Kevin told me they, along with Matt McGirt, are basically neighbors in Charlotte, N.C., living literally only a mile from one another.

Then it was time for the parade. Before we marched, I talked briefly with parts of the Russian contingent of our class, namely Eden Doniger, who was waiting with her husband, Itai, and Emily Kalkstein Carville, who was with her husband, Gregg, who calmly chided us for subtracting 1944 from 2014 and getting 50. I marched alongside Matt Ferraguto and family, but caught up with Bill Wood, who told me about his adventures in medicine. To my right marched Alexander Hancock, with whom I talked briefly and whom I overheard describing his work in commercial real estate.

The parade led to Cochran Chapel, where I helped David Callum and wife Caroline lift their stroller, carrying daughter Sophia, up the steps. Inside, the talks, notably from our head of school but also with my old teacher Vinnie Monaco in the chapel lobby, reminded me why PA remains such a special place. I tried to get our whole class to sit together for a photo, and though Tricia Marshburn Davis and others were game, it didn’t ultimately work out. Part of the problem was that many classmates, including Darren Hopkins (whom I’d later help connect with Megan Wheeler), Beth Crowley, and Jess Dubin, were taking care of their little ones outside.

In that number was also Bharath Nath, who came up with wife Kara and precocious daughters Pia and Asha. Asha was excited that both my name and her mother’s featured the letter R. Bharath is in Brookline, Mass., and working on becoming a transplant surgeon.

At lunch in the Cage, one of Hannah Sharpless

Graff ’s sons (Tex or Theo) instantly recognized the shirt on my back as being a Brazilian soccer shirt.

I stood behind Ivan Barry waiting for my veggie burgers, admiring his Blue Key T-shirt that indicated its datedness by a reference to a Mike Myers skit from Saturday Night Live. Gillian Schmitz came up to me during lunch to thank me for my work as secretary. Near the condiments, I let a moment with Liz Twitchell go by too quickly, and Nat Zilkha told me that most of his musical production is with his young children, who are learning the guitar. I was sad to learn that living in London hadn’t made Lila Musser Preston fluent in Lithuanian yet, but her Polish is improving.

One or the other, I guess. On my way out, Randy Perry introduced me to his family, which led to his daughter’s putting an Andover sticker on my back, and I briefly talked with Ryan Spring, who was behind a baby carriage.

In front of Paresky Commons after lunch, I ran into Kate Silva, Christina Lauricella Klineman, and Putney Cloos, and we lamented how the weather had sort of chilled our afternoon plans. It was time for decisive action, so Dimitri Chalvatsiotis, who now lives in New York with a young child who moves at 100 mph, drove me into town to acquire supplies for an impromptu picnic on the steps near Foxcroft. We watched Nicole Terry Jones walk by, chatted briefly with Liz DuBois, and were eventually ambushed (in a good way!) by Linda Fan, leading a Frost House mini reunion. Pete Radocchia walked by as well, and we spent awhile discussing our experiences learning Chinese at PA. On the steps, I did a bit of academic shop talk with Erin Lentz, who is moving to UT Austin, and we returned to similar themes later along with Swagata Chakrabarti.

It was soon time to change for dinner, though, and, with Bronwyn and Emily Lin, we decided on a quick stroll through the Sanctuary, making use of the paper cups PA provided in our dorm rooms. Emily came from San Francisco, where she works in public housing, to disrupt (my word) the reunion. At dinner, Laurence Jollon introduced me to his fiancée. I talked briefly with Lindsey Shaw Bardsley, who was tending to her newborn, Saskia, and Hillary Chute, who received tenure from my now-former department at the University of Chicago. Yes, reader, while I was on the steps by Foxcroft, my name was being read at convocation in Chicago. My PA 20th Reunion was more important than getting my diploma. Andover, take note.

Academic chatter continued with Megan Smith, who came up from her tenure-track position at Yale, where she does a lot of community outreach in her psychiatric work. I briefly spoke with Ben Haddon, Dan Galaburda, and Woody Sankar before we understood we would be on our own for organizing a class photo. We managed to get everyone together under fabulous golden-hour light, and I’m visible on the far side, just behind Ed Chen and Emily Liao Chen as well as Kitty Greene.

Sadly, I’m blocking Alex Orbon’s face.

After a pleasant dinner and an unsuccessful

www.andover.edu/intouch attempt to climb into the Gelb observatory, our class became nomadic; a central core ended up dancing with the ’09ers. Here, Christine Yu let me know that our class may be awful at math, but we know important things like Taylor Swift’s age.

Similarly, I teased Sharyn Lie for never contributing to the notes. “My life isn’t an open book!” she responded, and we left it at that. Soon, it was time to return to Stimson (en route, Emily and I tried to get better vantage points for viewing the nearly full moon), and one of my final memories of the evening is of sitting beside John Gruener, who had worn our graduation T-shirt earlier in the day.

I still feel like I designed that shirt...

Sunday morning, the remaining crew divvied up the leftover drinks and food, with Jess Lunt getting the bulk of the goodies to bring back to New York. Tim Moore offered to drive me all the way back to New Bedford, Mass., where we ate burritos before splitting up. On the way south, I was lucky to meet Tim’s wife and child in Wakefield, Mass.

And that’s about it. I know I didn’t get to everyone, and I’m sorry. Even so, I’m at our word limit!

Until next time!

1995 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

There are opening lines, and then there are opening lines. No pressure, kids, but Benjamin Cathcart’s submission began: “Howdy! Earthquakes and sunshine; winter never showed up this year—good for filming!” (That’s pretty profound.

Take it in slowly.)

When not composing modified haikus for his appreciative class secretaries, Ben is working on “a big-time commercial every week or so” and “hoping to make everyone’s commercial breaks that much more exciting.” He also misses everyone from our class—which, given how often we hear that line from you guys, suggests we’ll be having one hell of a reunion next year.

Victoria Chen Tucker has been living in Shanghai for the past six years, which, she writes, has had two unexpected consequences: first, that her kids (Avery, Maya, and Jackson) “have far surpassed [her] Mandarin abilities,” and second, that they’re “all United Airlines MileagePlus Premier members from all the flying back and forth, which we find very amusing.” Last year, she joined Conchius, a firm that runs leadership development workshops and coaching for multinationals in China; July will find her back in the U.S. for a

reunion with Brenna Haysom, Abby Davis Lord, and Alexis Curreri Madison.

A “happy and healthy” Rafael Kalichstein writes that when not working, he and his husband are already talking about PA for their daughter— who is now in third grade. On the work front, FORM, Rafi’s design practice, has been building “a spectacular and unique events space in Sonoma” that includes a kitchen staffed by a celebrity chef.

Anyone thinking of throwing a party in California?

Give him a ring!

Meredith Crume Sterling has jumped to Dallas after 15 years in NYC to become VP of corporate communications and public relations for Neiman Marcus. In the meantime, her husband is “working on selling a travel-adventure-cooking TV show and creating a French fry empire” and her children Veva and Murphy are “loving all things Texas.” Any Dallas-based PA alums out there?

Mimi would love to be in touch.

Yup Lee wrote that he regularly attends alumni events in Seoul, Korea, and saw John Lee and his family in May. The rest of his message we’ll relay in his own words, because it’s simply that awesome.

He writes, “I got married in 2011 to a beautiful woman, winner of the Miss Korea pageant in 2007. ... We just had our first kid in March. So far so good, as she looks exactly like her mother.” If anyone is heading to Korea, he’d love to say hello.

Great news on the job front for Thomas Chapman Wing, who landed a tenure-track assistant professorship at the College of Staten Island this spring. What does that mean? Well, for starters, that he’s moving to New York—and, he says, that he’s battling a “heaping helping of survivor’s guilt” as most of his friends in academia are “still struggling to catch their big break.” Congratulations, Chapman—both for your success and for the grace with which you wear it.

Melissa Weste Gaydon has been living on the central coast of New South Wales, Australia, for the past 15 years and recently expanded her cupcake business, Kiss My Cupcake, from a weekend market stall into two full storefront bakeries. Lately she’s been working six days a week, starting at 5 a.m.—in addition to keeping an eye on her four “gorgeous girls,” the eldest of whom just started high school. “Feeling a tad old now,” she wrote, and we have to admit that as we read her news we suddenly felt a bit rickety ourselves—a kid in high school?!

Frank Georges is “still struggling in the PhD trenches” but is “going to finish no matter how long it takes.” In the meantime, he’s teaching econometrics at Northeastern, and, having fully recovered from a scare with Lyme disease last year, he’s “now resumed running road races.”

When not diving in Grand Cayman or hitting up Jazz Fest in NOLA, Monica Duda is living in Seattle and, after many years in NYC and LA, loving the change. Work-wise, she’s in-house counsel at Microsoft—and having a ball.

Finally, Gibby Greenway sent us a note he requested be printed in its entirety—or not at

all. So here it is, despite this month’s savage word limit of 900: “I’ve resigned as head agent of our class, as the school has transitioned into a more programmed and analytically driven approach to alumni relations and fundraising. Colin Bradley will take over as our sole class agent. My sincere thanks go to the many of you who have contributed (at any level) and helped raise the bar for our class over the past decade. We’ve drastically improved our class participation levels and total dollar amount, but there is certainly room for improvement. I’m sorry that the past reunions and communications have not been what I wanted them to be, but they will change moving forward.

Please help Colin, our class, and the school by increasing participation, which, on even the smallest gift level, is most valuable! It’s also very important to me personally that we all recognize the key role that Andover plays in our lives and that we continue to actively support future students. Please get in touch if you’re ever in Venice, California! See you at the 20th!”

Here’s to your happiness and health, friends.

Onward and upward!

1996 John Swansburg 349 Adelphi St., Apt. 2 Brooklyn NY 11238 john.swansburg@aya.yale.edu

Do you know the parable of the speckled ax? In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin tells the story of a man who wants his entire ax to shine with the brightness of its sharpened edge. The local smith agrees to do the work, on the condition that the man turns the grinding stone. It’s difficult work, and the man soon reconsiders his whim. Keep turning, says the smith. But the man has had his fill of the grindstone. “I think I like a speckled ax best,” he replies, and takes his tool home.

Franklin offers the story by way of explaining his own struggle with a difficult project, namely his effort to achieve moral perfection through the practice of 13 virtues. When the going got tough, “something that pretended to be Reason” suggested to him that maybe this whole moral perfection thing was a bit much. After all, “a perfect Character might be attended with the Inconvenience of being envied and hated,” he writes; it might be perceived as “a kind of Foppery in Morals.” In other words, a speckled ax is best.

Or is it? At first glance, Franklin seems to be counseling against such lofty enterprises, but the real lesson is that it is far too easy to convince yourself to abandon good work when that work proves challenging. It is not reason, but “something that pretended to be Reason,” that lures Franklin from his project—he’s describing what we’d today call rationalization. In the end, Franklin reports that he “never arrived at the Perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining,” but neither did he give up his Andover | Fall 2014

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But I don’t need to tell you that. A wider variety of endeavors would be hard to imagine, but what unifies your diverse pursuits is the diligence and perseverance with which you’ve undertaken them.

To wit: Kenny Weiner was scheduled to finish his Air Force Fellowship this summer and planned to start working at U.S. Transportation Command in July, as a staff officer. Kenny and his wife, Hannah Brooks Weiner ’97, adopted a daughter, Cora, last November, and she is getting along swimmingly with her big brother, Evan. Also up in the air: Kenny reports that Rush Taylor lives in Hawaii and flies C-17s for the Air Force. Last year, Rush and his wife, Brandee, had a daughter, Piper.

Jill Reinherz is “learning to juggle the demands of working full-time with my private-practice radiology group in Framingham and Natick, Mass., while also raising two little girls! Fun!” Jill and husband Hal welcomed their second daughter, Rory, in January. Olaia Naveiras Torres-Quiroga just got a job as an assistant professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland.

Her daughter, Elsa Chapman Naveiras, was born in January as well.

Also excelling in academia is Paul Berry, who writes, “Four years ago I moved back to the East Coast from my first academic job, in North Texas, to teach music history and analysis at the Yale School of Music. With me in Hamden, Conn., are my wife, Holly, a nurse practitioner—we met as grad students at Yale—and our sons, Quinby, nearly 6, and Benjamin, 18 months. Thanks to their infinite patience with a distracted husband and father, my first book, Brahms Among Friends, will be out in July. It’s dedicated to friends past and present, and, though I’m too often out of touch these days, I count many at Andover, in our class and in others, among that number.” Bravo, Paul!

This spring, Jeanne Ficociello was inducted into the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor. Jeanne excelled on the lacrosse field and basketball court, but I recall being particularly wowed by her command of the soccer pitch. Indeed, in fall 1995, when it came time to select a number for Blaine Austin to iron onto my WQN cluster soccer jersey-T, I selected Jeanne’s number, 29— an homage to the dynamic play that has rightly earned her a place in the Hall.

Steph Tipping Withers just had a daughter.

Her name is Caroline, “but we are calling her Cricket,” says Steph; Cricket joins siblings Jack and Millie. Steph lives in San Francisco and sends word that Julie Gwozdz Redfern is now in the Bay Area too, and just had a daughter of her own, Charlotte.

Another new mom is Rachel Levy, who offers this pithy sketch: “I had a baby! His name is Silas Wolf Zablocki. He is 9 weeks old and has very big eyes.”

Finally, a typically inspiring update from John Buffalo Mailer, whose acting career continues to flourish. Writes John, “I’ve had a pretty good

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year on the acting front. Got to play a lead role in Matthew Barney’s new piece called River of Fundament, which premiered in February at BAM [the Brooklyn Academy of Music] and is now touring the world for the next two years. I also got to play an FBI agent in a movie called Friends and Romans.

It’s essentially a mobbed-up Shakespeare in Love, and I had the rare pleasure of getting to shake down Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts from The Sopranos) in one of the scenes. He is one tough dude!”

As Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar, “Leave the dagger, take the cannoli.”

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In January, Shirlie Dowd and a team of other optometrists traveled from New Hampshire to the Philippines as part of the post-typhoon emergency medical relief effort, providing consults and eyeglasses to more than 8,000 patients in just two weeks. She initially operated in the ruins of a Tacloban hospital and then went out to work in field clinics in the towns of Tanauan and Besay.

Shirlie found working under these challenging conditions and the resilience of the local population inspirational.

Victoria Salinas was abroad in Chile visiting her father, who had recently repatriated to his home country, when she ran into fellow Chilean alum Gonzalo Briceño, who was also meeting his father in the airport. Vickie continued on to hike and kayak through Patagonia with her husband. Once back in the States, Gonzo saw Julian Dimery and Nick Fettman in Malibu, Calif., where Nick is an ear, nose, and throat doctor.

We finally got a line on Georgie Greville Jasper, who is in New York at the production company she started with her partners (including her husband, Geremy) in 2008. Together they create long- and short-format film content in conjunction with their West Coast counterpart, Milk. Georgie and Geremy have a screenplay in development and hope to start shooting later this year. The creative couple also collaborated on their first son, Syd, who arrived in August 2013.

Kel O’Neill has been producing a film series of his own for the past four years with his wife and codirector, Eline. Their focus is on the Dutch colonial legacy and the structural, financial, and cultural platforms created in the 17th century by the Dutch East and West India companies. Through a series of

profiles, narratives, and journalistic investigations, they examine the evolution and manifestations of these ties between Old World Europe and the farther reaches of the globe. Kel and Eline worked largely without any additional technical crew, and the production values across such a broad, multidisciplinary project are staggering. Empire has been supported by governmental and private foundations and distributed through major outlets, to critical acclaim. Segments can be viewed online at empireproject.eu/. Kel and Eline now reside in LA, where their daughter, Isadora, was just born.

Rebecca Sides Capellan’s presence in the on-screen world was felt and seen by many of us, as the talent she manages as a publicist at the ID agency has achieved enormous success so far this year. We attribute the Oscars, Golden Globes, and other statues they collected to Becca, who is their architect of fleeting moments and designer of lasting impressions. Many of us caught glimpses of her on television and in the papers as her hands deftly wrangled rogue couture and guided nervous starlets calmly into the spotlight.

Marc Hustvedt and wife Carly are excited to announce the birth of their son, Maverick, this past January. The baby boy is the joy of their home life in Manhattan Beach, Calif., and Marc quips that if they had known it was going to be this easy, they would have started years ago. Elizabeth Hedstrom Henlin also shared news of an addition to her household in May, when Ava Grace arrived, to the delight of older sister Madeline. Not to be outdone, Maggie Dickson, husband Eric, and son Graham welcomed baby girl Mary Margaret in March.

The family has moved to Westchester, N.Y., and Maggie looks forward to seeing other classmates in the area. Erin Keaney Noonan tells us that Dave Weiner and his wife, Sloane, welcomed twins (Avery and Lucas) in November. Congratulations, too, to Paul Pennelli and his wife, Taylor, on the birth of their baby girl, Brit, in February.

Dia Draper has made great changes in her approaches to work and life, leaving LA and the world of corporate litigation to found businesses in coaching and yoga (Illumination Coaching and Nomad Yoga) in Denver. Her evolution continues with her newest venture, Workplace Evolved, which brings yoga, mindfulness, and leadership programs to job sites. In addition, Dia writes a wonderfully heartfelt blog about her own happiness, relationships, and personal development. It resonates tenderly for those of us who know her as a classmate.

Mary Barensfeld has started a San Francisco– based architecture firm under her own name. She was recently commissioned to design a slopeside garden and patio in the Berkeley Hills for a Japanese-style mid-century townhouse. Drawing on her own time in Kyoto and her affinity for broad structural forms, Mary used cascading trapezoidal ramps to descend the steep embankment from a terrace to a deck and reflection pool. The stirring effect of Japanese maple and lemon thyme, vibrant over the palette of concrete, white granite, and

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Parading with the Class of ’99 were Ryan Fillipon ’99, Alan Lue ’99 and fiancée Sara Parker, Carrie English ’99, Mike McGowan ’99, Emily Johnson (Nick Johnson’s wife), Collis Klarberg ’99 (holding the flag), Nick Johnson ’99, Faran Krentcil ’99, Sara Smith ’99, Amy Teleron Findley ’99, Dan Chen ’99, John Myers ’99, Joisan Decker ’99 (holding the flag), Michael Foss ’99, Lee Lin ’99, Jeff Lau (Ingrid’s Hammond’s fiancé), and Ingrid Hammond ’99.

cedar planks, can be seen in the April issue of Dwell.

We continue to be fascinated by the achievements, enterprises, and expressions of our classmates and to delight in catching up on the details of your lives. Drop us a line, if only to get in touch.

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Hi, folks. This time around, the column is short and sweet—just like the list of new babies to report.

And, boy, are they cute, too. This past December, Lindsey Heller Lohwater welcomed her second daughter, Blake Caroline, who joins big sister (and pint-sized babysitter) Peyton. Charles Finch is known for his literary babies, but he and his wife, Emily, welcomed a real-life little girl, Annabel Popp Finch, in May. Vanessa Ho also joined the ranks of motherhood this past spring, welcoming baby girl Adrienne Leigh. And Clare Ferraro Johnson welcomed baby girl Grace Lillian, who has proved to be the perfect match for big brother Max. At least in this edition, girls rule the world.

In marriage news, Krista Wepsic wed Daniel McLaughlin, and Shaina Bronstein wed Ian Hensel. Amelia Lukas stood as a bridesmaid for Shaina, and both looked absolutely resplendent. In other, wedding-career news, Jillian Mitchell

photographed a wedding (of an Andover bride, no less) that was featured in Martha Stewart Weddings. When I heard the news, I—like every other warm-blooded Martha fanatic out there—gasped and shrieked and may or may not have jumped up and down like a lunatic. This is the grande dame of wedding magazines, folks, and Jill is deservedly front and center.

I mentioned this briefly last time around, but I think further reporting is necessary because it falls into both the “career” and “changing the world” categories. Max Ventilla is making a huge splash in the education sector with his startup, AltSchool, which is the talk of the town in venture-capital circles, having closed a mega-big-time (that’s the official term) financing this spring. AltSchool reimagines primary education by offering personalized learning experiences enabled by technology. We have another entrepreneur in Anna Larson, who, after a long run at Apple, is off to the races with her startup, Hale Health. At Hale, Anna is rethinking healthcare, specifically how primary care visits, for both diagnosis and treatment, can be handled remotely. Both Max and Anna are disrupting sectors and processes that, in many ways, haven’t changed in 100 years.

Like, wow.

Also in the startup world, I recently caught up with Nnamdi Okike, who is raising his own seedstage venture-capital fund to finance startups. After sitting with Nnamdi for 30 minutes, I wanted to shout from the rooftops about the cool work he is doing. His approach marries the best of traditional

financial due diligence and analysis with the engaging world of early-stage tech companies.

Plus, he has an eye for great products and companies. Though his work has just begun, I can’t wait to see what’s next.

As for me, I have a major life update to report.

As of September... wait for it... I have off-street parking! That’s right, friends, read it and weep. In the world of urban living, I’ve officially made it.

That’s all I’ve got for you but for one final request: Keep in touch. I love hearing from you, and it makes me feel less weird about stalking your Facebook page. Until next time!

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[Editor’s note: Marisa Connors Hoyt has stepped down from her role as class secretary.

The Academy is very grateful for her service.

Kirsten Riemer is the new class secretary for the Class of ’99. Please send news and updates to her using the contact information above.]

It’s hard to believe that our 15th Reunion has come and gone. It was wonderful to see so many members of the Class of 1999 back at Andover for the weekend. For those of you who were unable to make it, you were missed, but let’s hope you will be able to make it to our 20th! We are certainly a busy Andover | Fall 2014

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In nuptial news, Liza Trafton married Joel Ndreu last December in a small ceremony that took place in NYC and was attended by their families. Liza and Joel celebrated their marriage at a reception in July in Little Compton, R.I., at which Andover was surely well represented.

Emily Tompkins married Michael Karlin in June in upstate New York. Tysie Sawyer married Ben Webber in June on Cape Cod. Rachel Burnes Kinsolving and Melita Sawyer ’97 were bridesmaids. Other Andover alums in attendance included Dan Moger, Fred Flather, Liza Trafton, and Anna Larson ’98. Kris Hedges married Caroline Nacey, with classmates J.P. Chisholm and Barrett Hamilton in attendance.

T.J. Durkin had what Nathaniel Fowler called an “epic” bachelor party in Charleston, S.C., in May. Attendees of said debauchery included Nathaniel, Teddy Dunn, Fletcher Boyle, and Matt Kalin.

T.J. married Sarah Sisk this summer.

In baby news, Morgan Madera Baroni and her husband, Roland, welcomed Isabella Caitlin Baroni in June. Morgan reports that motherhood and all of its perks (read: sleepless nights) are going well. Matt Kalin and his wife, Rachel, were awaiting the arrival of their second child this summer. At reunion, Matt was unsure of the baby’s gender, but stay tuned for that information in our next set of notes. Also expecting their second child are Connell Cloyd and his wife, Yuki. Their daughter, Yume, attended our reunion and is absolutely adorable! The newest Cloyd is due in December. Pete Salisbury and his wife, Adele, were also expecting a baby, in August. They made the move west and are now living in LA. Fellow West Coaster Ben Goldhirsh and his wife, Claire, also welcomed their second child earlier this year.

A highlight of Reunion Weekend was a talk given by Miru Kim outlining her incredible artwork and world travels. Miru educated us on the process that she goes through to capture her stunning images. One of my favorite images is a shot of Miru atop the Williamsburg Bridge from her series titled Naked City. It is fascinating and awe-inspiring, as are all of her works. Miru currently lives in the desert of Jordan but spent some time Stateside this summer. For those of you who have not had the opportunity to see her work, I encourage you to check out her website, www.mirukim.com.

John Bourne wrote that he regrets not being able to attend our reunion. Instead, he was at the U.S. Open in Pinehurst, N.C., starting a new phase in his career. Having recently left Scholastic, where he was director of digital strategy, John, along with a friend from Yale, started an e-commerce brand in June, called Holderness & Bourne. They make better-fitting classically styled golf apparel right here in the USA. In these early days, John is counting on word-of-mouth from friends and fellow alums to spread the word (www.hbgolf.com). So, if

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you’re a golfer, or shop for a golfer, check out John’s new venture.

Lindsay Hoopes is also running her own business. After leaving the district attorney’s office in San Francisco, she took over her family’s winery, Hoopes Vineyard, in Yountville, Calif. She welcomes everyone to come visit the Napa Valley and try the wines (www.hoopesvineyard.com).

Michael Foss has been quite busy, too. He graduated from Columbia’s master’s degree program in real estate development in 2012 and joined his partner, Peter, in San Francisco. Together, they took on some amazing world travels, including climbing Kilimanjaro, transiting the Northwest Passage, and spending some time in Asia, before moving back to NYC last year.

Sara Smith reports that she expected to finish a master’s degree program in nursing at Penn in August. Then, after she (fingers crossed) passes the boards this fall, she will officially be a nurse practitioner. She planned to spend most of August in southern India working with a medical university and a private nonprofit health organization to complete her secondary concentration in global health.

Liza Darnell is living in Dallas and working as senior manager for digital marketing across Frito-Lay’s portfolio of brands. On a whim, she auditioned for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and appeared on the show at the end of last year. Liza reports that the whole process was a total blast, and she thinks that everyone should be on a game show. After her TV appearance, she apparently couldn’t get enough of the spotlight, so she’s picked up a side gig performing improv at Dallas Comedy House and is sure stardom is just around the corner. If you’re in Dallas, please look her up!

Collis Klarberg is still living in NYC and recently took a job with The Carlyle Group, which he is enjoying. After living in Dartmouth, Mass., Chace Wessling and her husband are moving to Suffield, Conn. Chace will be looking for work as an attorney and welcomes suggestions from anyone who may be able to help. I recently ran into Brett Farson, who is doing well. Brett and his wife live in Stamford, Conn., with their daughter, who turns 2 this fall.

Last but not least, I’d like to thank Marisa Connors Hoyt for her 10 years writing our class notes. Marisa did a great job keeping us all connected and informed, and I hope that I will be able to do the same. Please keep the updates coming.

Best wishes to everyone!

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[Editor’s note: In the spring issue of the magazine, the caption under a photo of Christina Chaplin’s

wedding inadvertently misidentified a friend of Christina’s as the groom. We regret the error and apologize for any resultant confusion.]

The earlier part of 2014 was special for Rohan Kothare. In March, he took Natalie Myers, his girlfriend of three years, from their current city of Austin, Texas, to Boston, where they visited with Mark Ottariano and Mark’s wife, Katie. It was Natalie’s first trip to Massachusetts, so, says Rohan, “Of course, we took the obligatory trip to Andover, where I proceeded to show her all the fun spots on campus where I spent my high school life: GW, Taylor, Nathan Hale, [Paresky] Commons... all the fun places. Apparently Olivia Wilde ’02 and Jason Sudeikis missed us by a week!” Now, get this.

Rohan spills: “The big news is that I proposed to Natalie in front of the George Washington statue [in Boston] as the sun set and the New England winter evening proceeded to set in—in March, mind you (it was 20 degrees that night). It was a great feeling knowing that not only was I about to get to spend the rest of my life with Natalie but I will also always have a reason to return to one of my favorite cities. Wedding will probably be in summer of 2015!” Congratulations, Rohan and Natalie! And see you in October at Austin City Limits Music Festival.

On June 7, I reveled with Alicia Wagner Larsen, Christine Choi, Laura Lo, and Tenley Oldak Mueller at the wedding of Katie Casey and Gavin Mueller (no relation to Tenley’s hubby, Adam Mueller). KTKC’s brother, Sean Casey ’96, was also in attendance at the celebration at Westminster Hall (where Edgar Allan Poe found his rest) in Baltimore, Charm City manifest. The couple met in Chicago, where, says Katie, their “love unfurled like an R. Kelly metaphor.” Mm-hmm.

After gallivanting through the Greek isles for their honeymoon, the newlyweds are back and happily nesting in Washington, D.C., where Katie works in international development and Gavin continues to pursue a PhD degree in cultural studies.

Winslow Turner Porter III won this year’s transmedia award at the Tribeca Film Festival as the producer of Clouds, an interactive documentary about the emerging field of creative code made for the Oculus Rift (virtual reality machine, for those of you who don’t know). This was a nice follow-up to the doc’s premier at Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier 2014. As the creative technologist at the experiential agency MKG, Winslow also helped create the Social Soul, an interactive installation for Delta Airlines at TED 2014 in Vancouver, B.C.—a seemingly infinite visualization of the social media landscape. He is also working on the first Web-based projection mapping software, called Maparapa, which was released this summer.

On fairly the opposite end of the spectrum is Sally Manikian, who completed her first 100-mile dog sled race this past winter and hopes to finish a 250-mile race this upcoming winter. Sally’s racing activities constitute material voluminous and fascinating enough to be the subject of a CloseUp feature, found on the facing page. This past

Sally Manikian ’00 spring, Sally also led a group of PA students in the Outdoor Pursuits program (formerly Search & Rescue) through a two-day Leave No Trace trainer course. She says, “It’s the first of many, we hope, and we are planning another one in the fall. It was neat to connect with PA kids (and faculty!) again.”

And now, since no one else weighed in, I guess I must talk liberally about myself. This spring, I was offered a job that bailed me out of oblivion as a comptroller. To celebrate, I spent about 10 years of accrued frequent-flier mileage and three weeks of time traveling through Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Thai islands. Missed Flight 370 of Malaysian Airlines by exactly one week, then traveled the same route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing to walk the Great Wall in Mutianyu. Condolences to those affected by the lost flight.

On St. Patrick’s Day, the day after arriving back in the U.S. and having stayed awake for 40 hours in an attempt to outsmart jetlag, I began my present job in the business and membership affairs (strategic services) department of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

I’ve also started writing on the side and dancing with a traditional Tahitian group. On June 21, I completed my first bona fide marathon swim with the 15.2-mile Stage 4 of the 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim. I’m happy to say I’m happy.

Fin. Happy holidays, and please write.

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The “update of the quarter” goes to Julia O’Hern, who got her boat captain’s license this spring and is driving a research vessel in the Gulf. Caitlin Henningsen spent the summer in Missouri working on an exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum. In the fall, she begins a

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ally Manikian brings a can-do spirit to most endeavors, but even she has her limits. “Right now,” says the Shelburne, N.H., resident, “I don’t want more than 22 dogs.”

Manikian has a good reason for owning 22 Alaskan huskies. It’s not just that she’s a dog lover (although she is).

Manikian, who works as backcountry resource conservation manager for the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), is a competitive dogsled racer.

Like the races in which she competes, Manikian’s path from PA student to dogsled racer was full of twists and turns. Her interest in the outdoors first came into focus at Andover. “The Search & Rescue program [now called Outdoor Pursuits] sent me down that path,” says Manikian. She found she loved spending time in the woods, exploring the natural world. “But,” says Manikian, “I didn’t consider the idea of a career in the outdoors.” At Trinity College in Dublin, she studied history and political theory; afterward, she entered a master’s degree program and seemed headed for a career in policy. But by the time she was finished with grad school, her mother had been diagnosed with ALS, and Manikian’s priorities shifted. She moved to New Hampshire, her home state, taking a job with the AMC. She was able to assist with her mother’s care, and being in the wilderness provided solace at a difficult time.

Her job was seasonal, though, and she needed something to fill in the gaps.

In 2007, she saw a help-wanted ad seeking dogsled tour guides. Before you could say “mush,” Manikian was hired. She loved the work; above all, she says, her relationship with the dogs just clicked. “I immediately respected them as coworkers,” she says. Touring soon evolved into a passion for racing. She did her first race, a 30-mile “sprint,” in 2012, and she was hooked. Now, she’s training for distances of up to 250 miles—an escalation in ambition a friend likened to “going from running a lemonade stand to running Microsoft.”

Racing is risky. Last season, Manikian entered a 100-mile race that could qualify her for the 250-mile Can-Am Crown run a month or so later. Her team veered off the trail and tumbled down a 10-foot incline, landing her in a tangle of dogs and sled, but she somehow managed to earn a qualifying time. Then, in her first attempt at the 250, she didn’t finish—an outcome she attributes to a lack of training for that distance. But it was a learning experience, and, undaunted, she’ll attempt both a 100mile race and the Can-Am 250 in February.

A 250-mile race takes about two days to complete; during that time, the dogs get regular rests, but the human mushers do not. Only the fierce succeed, and racing, says Manikian, has brought out a competitive side she didn’t know she possessed. “That was a huge surprise,” she says. But, she adds, “My competitiveness is not about winning. It’s about doing the best you know you’re capable of, given the situation, the weather, and the dogs.”

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James H. Shin ’01 married Janet Lee in January at the Parker Hotel in Palm Springs, Calif., with many PA friends in attendance. From left are Danforth Sullivan ’02, Anthony Bitz ’02, Jeremy Hersch ’99, Morgan Swett Hersch ’00, the groom and bride, Eric Sherman ’98, Carter Bacon III ’01, Nakul Patel ’01, Jim Cunningham ’01, and Mark Kawakami ’01.

doctoral fellowship at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in Florence, Italy.

Marion Read is moving to the Bay Area to start at Weil, Gotshal’s Silicon Valley office.

Marion hosted Sarah Kline, Rachel Weiner, and Ella Hoffman in Wilmington, Del., at the end of May and showed them the many small wonders of Delaware.

Katie Schellenberg started an educational consulting and tutoring company in LA specializing in helping students with special needs navigate the school system. After almost six years at Calvin Klein Collection, Emily Thornton is starting a new job as knitwear designer for EDUN, a global fashion brand founded by Bono and Ali Hewson to promote trade in Africa by sourcing production throughout the continent. Talk about the non sibi spirit!

Chris Callahan received a scholarship from MIT to attend its global startup workshop in Marrakech, Morocco. On a recent trip to NYC, he caught up with John Kluge about social entrepreneurship and saw Joe Maliekel and his son, Gil. Also in NYC, Ife Babatunde lives in Brooklyn and works for Ogilvy & Mather.

Claire Constantine Larson started at NYU’s College of Nursing this spring, leaving law work behind. She’s excited for the career change and is busy being a mom to 21-month-old Penelope.

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Katy Nassberg has been working at VDC Research as an analyst and was a keynote speaker at a conference in Stockholm this spring. Amy Kalas Buser owns Wholesome Harmonies, where she provides music-therapy services to children and teens with special needs in Miami. Amy and her husband were expecting their first baby at the end of June!

Erin Winkler is loving her job at Google on the newly formed leadership research team. She gave me the insiders’ tour of the Mountain View campus when I came to town in March.

Ira Renfrew started at iRobot, working on new product concepts for our robotic future. He is based in Boston and recently saw Rutherford Hubbard, back from Southeast Asia for a New England visit.

Ashley Foster married Joseph Sellers on May 3 in Boston. Other ’01 attendees included Tina Valverde, Katie Schellenberg, and Eric Feeny. Greg Sherman married Anne Martin in Maine in September 2013. Also up in Maine were Jessica Olans Hausman and Desiraé Simmons, attending Elisabeth Sacco’s bachelorette party in May in anticipation of Lis’s wedding in June!

Nate Beck married Sarah Colosimo over St. Patrick’s Day weekend in New Orleans. A strong Andover showing included Rachel Weiner, Sarah Kline, Paige Austin, Amita Singh, Smita Singh,

Susie Dickson, Gavin McGrath, Will Siguler, Martin Fox, Elliot Beck ’05, and me.

Gavin spends time with Greg Kimball and Kate Bartlett Kimball, coordinating playdates between his two children, Caroline and Charlie, and Kate and Greg’s daughter, Cora, who is now 1. Gavin is traveling the globe consulting for a client and has been to Dubai, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Zurich, Vancouver, Toronto, and London in the past nine months. Greg’s startup, Nifti, continues to thrive.

Ted Jutras and wife Erica welcomed their baby girl, Lyla J, born in March. Diana Mahler Spalding just had her second baby, Asher Patrick, and Andy Marchesseault and wife Analieses welcomed their first child, Johann Hunter Marchesseault, in May. Jess Watson and husband Zach welcomed their baby girl, Rosemary Iapalucci Smith, in February. Harris Ackerman and wife Marra welcomed their baby boy, Logan Jerome, in May, exactly eight years to the day after Marra and Harris got engaged!

Camille Conley Kerr and husband Nate were expecting a baby in September. In June, Camille changed jobs; she’s working as the director of fieldbuilding at the Democracy at Work Institute.

Meredith Hudson Johnston and sister Marissa Hudson ’04 ran the Boston Marathon for the Mass General Hospital team and are so thankful for all the Andover support toward their fundraising efforts. Vanessa Nickerson is in Denver and working as a deputy state public defender for the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender. She just finished her first half-marathon and is training for the Denver Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon in October.

Thibault Raoult married Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes on the summer solstice. In other news, Thibault’s band, Historic Sunsets, recently played a show with Lawson Feltman in Athens, Ga., Thibault and Gabrielle’s new hometown. Lawson is living in Atlanta, where he was touring with his band, Trucks, Herring, Feltman & Graham. He’s now focusing on solo performance, looking to start a new band, and getting ready to do an album of his songs, aiming to be done at the end of the year. Ramesh Donthamsetty was in attendance at one of THF&G’s shows.

Raquel Leonard Moreno participated in a career panel sponsored by CAMD. Back home, she’s buying her first house in Philadelphia with husband Orlando.

Tim Daniels has been holding down the Big Blue hangouts, frequently seeing Scott Ward, Scott Darci, Gino Rotondi, Luke LeSaffre, and Ethan Liebermann ’00. Tim was also excited to attend Isaac Taylor’s wedding in August.

John Pearson had lunch with ’01 Stearns alums Adam Sklar, Eric Newman, and Ramesh Donthamsetty to discuss the upcoming Andover tennis outing and various market trends.

Keep rocking, ’01!

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Happy fall, Class of 2002! Thank you to everyone who submitted notes. It was fantastic to hear from you. We cannot have notes without your updates, so thank you for sharing.

Lots of news coming from abroad this time.

Sam Struzzi wrote from Australia, where he is loving life with his wife, Anna, and their bulldog, Bruno, and working as a travel agent. He sends lots of love, koala bear hugs, and kangaroo kisses.

Jordan Harris celebrated his 30th birthday by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with his father.

Belated happy birthday, Jordan! Actually, I am sure that many of you have hit this milestone or are preparing to do so in the near future, so please share your celebration plans and news of how you commemorated the big 3-0.

Katherine Cascio wrote in from Ecuador, where she was serving as a staff advisor on a service trip with the University of Kentucky. She will start her dissertation this summer and begin conducting interviews with former sex workers to learn what influenced their entry into prostitution.

John Byung-Jin Kang landed a job with the Paris Opera and will be moving from Copenhagen, Denmark, to join the orchestra in the fall. While in Copenhagen, he got a visit from Eric Liu and his wife. Sandra Leung is still living in Hong Kong, where she works as an investment banker and was looking forward to being a groomswoman for Jan Hsi Lui in September. Diana Dosik married Matt Schwab in Puerto Rico in February, and her guests included Erin McGirt Chantry, Kate Elliott, and Emily Robbins. Diana also reported that she recently attended a Phillipian board reunion hosted by Chris Hughes, with Ben Beinecke, Annie Lowrey, Kate Elliott, Pat Linnemann, and Katherine Chu all in attendance.

Not quite abroad but equally cool is Anchorage, Alaska, where John Simeone works as an independent consultant for international trade, investment, development, and conservation projects between countries in the Pacific Rim. He moved to Alaska with his fiancée, Erica, after completing graduate school at the University of Washington. I was personally quite pleased to hear from John, as it means I’m not the only one living outside of the 48 contiguous!

Many soon-to-be graduate school graduates are in our midst. Kate Planitzer will graduate with a master’s degree in food systems from NYU. She is currently managing operations and maker development for Mouth.com, an e-retailer based in the

Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn. Ben Merrill will graduate from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies with a master’s degree in international economics and international relations. Kwadwo Acheampong will graduate with an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has committed to a position as investment associate with Prudential Fixed Income in Newark, N.J. Sean Mansfield is currently attending Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and recently accepted a new position in Chicago as vice president of business development at GE Capital.

Wedding bells will be ringing for many classmates. Sarah Newhall got engaged in February and is living in Washington, D.C., where she works as an executive vice president and managing director at Blue State Digital. Britta Schell got engaged to Jonathan Stasiak. They live in San Francisco with their puppy, Elsa, and Britta runs her own market research and brand strategy business.

Brooks Teevan got engaged to Matt Abts and is currently working toward an MFA degree at the University of Minnesota.

Some of our fellow classmates are experiencing the joys of sleepless nights and changing diapers.

Alan Katz and his wife, Sheryl, welcomed their first son, Gabriel Zeev Katz, in March. The Katz family lives in Miami, where Alan owns a cosmetics export business. Chris Burnett, who is a pastor at a church in Birmingham, Ala., is a parent times two! He, his wife, and their 2-year-old son, Baron, welcomed baby Noel in January. Brit Holten, husband Ally, and daughter Sophie welcomed baby Eva in March. Eliza Roberts and her husband, Arie, are smitten with their baby daughter, Zoe, who was born in December 2013. They are living in Minneapolis where Eliza works for the Forest Stewardship Council, an environmental nonprofit, and plays lots of squash in her spare time. Congratulations to all of the newest initiates to parenthood!

Laurel Ingraham Aquadro and her husband, Brian, are fleeing NYC to start their own brewery in Massachusetts. Prior to settling down, they will travel for five months, visting Europe and Hawaii. James Sonne also recently left New York and is working as assistant general counsel at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in Washington, D.C. Still in New York are housemates Lindsay Talbot and Becca Lewis, who share a townhouse in Fort Greene. Lindsay is a writer and senior editor at Condé Nast Traveler and Becca is the communications manager at the Neue Galerie. Bali Kumar is also in New York and works at Proskauer Rose, where he focuses on executive compensation and benefits law.

Zach Robbins was recently hired as senior vice president of concessions management for the Big Apple Circus.

If anyone is ever on the Big Island of Hawaii (ahem, Laurel Ingraham Aquadro!), let me know. I would love to catch up and play tour guide. Aloha!

—Lauren

2003 Will Heidrich wheidrich@gmail.com

There have been many milestones to celebrate for the Class of 2003. To kick things off, two of our classmates, Nick Franchot and Alexa Raducanu, wed in May! They join a growing list of classmate couples, including Phil Caruso and Kait Ainsworth Caruso as well as Lirra Schiebler and David Hill. Nick’s Andover and Stanford Graduate School of Business classmate Michael Ruderman was among the many PA alums in attendance.

Another couple, Sam Beattie and Julie Taylor, also tied the knot in May, in Mystic, Conn. They moved west last year, pushing the number of our classmates in the Bay Area to more than 35.

Danny Dumond recently became engaged to her boyfriend, Caleb Ward. The two plan to exchange vows this fall at the Log Cabin in the bird sanctuary on PA’s campus! While planning the wedding, Danny has stayed busy as a senior research engineer and a seventh grade technology and engineering teacher at McCall Middle School in Winchester, Mass.

Lirra Schiebler wrote from Boston, where she keeps in touch with many of our classmates. She recently celebrated Claire Reyner’s wedding along with several classmates: Mari Ono Zilles, Aneesa Sayall, Molly Hauptman, and Meryl Mims, as well as Charles Reyner ’01. Lirra and Mari also caught up with Christina and Rashid Galadanci this spring; the quartet did karaoke in Chinatown in early May. Lirra sees longtime pal Bob Yamartino in Boston; Bob recently moved to Boston after completing a JD degree. Lirra’s fiancé and fellow classmate, David Hill, begins his second year of medical school in Grenada this summer.

Brittney Bailey wrote from Washington, D.C., where she is now an appointee for the Obama administration, advising the foreign-aid arm of the U.S. government on development innovation. Her work has kept her in touch with classmates David Beyer and Kanyi Maqubela. Bonnie Oliva ’00 updated Brittney’s team last month on a mobile credit-scoring project in India. Outside of her professional life, Brittney has stayed close with Ali Rosen Gourvitch, Matt Kane, and Emily O’Brien with regular trips north to New York.

Brittney also reprised a high school role in The Vagina Monologues in DC, with Itiah Thomas, Chloe Lewis ’02, and Malik Lewis ’02 in attendance.

Ali earned a notable distinction earlier this year when Forbes named her one of its “30 Under 30” in the food category. She joined another classmate on the list; Forbes also honored Dan Koh in the media category, for his work at the Huffington Post.

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In July, a few friends from the Class of ’03 met for a bonfire at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. From left are Nick Franchot, Alexa Raducanu Franchot, Viraj Navkal, Will Heidrich, David Beyer, Janis Scanlon, and Tara Anderson.

Tom Oliphant became engaged to his longtime girlfriend Dana LaMendola this spring. After Tom’s graduation from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, the couple moved back to San Francisco, where they met.

Michael Ruderman ran into David Banker and Tony Pucillo in San Francisco this spring.

David and Tony were en route to see classmate Kat Doyle and her husband, Marco. Michael also caught up with his former Phillipian colleagues Tara Gadgil and Evan Panich in early May at a conference in Boston.

Fellow San Francisco resident Matt Lindsay joined several of our classmates at the wedding of Evan McGarvey and Allegra Asplundh-Smith ’04 this spring. Among the many ’03 faithful were Matt, Shaun Blugh, Duncan Dwyer, and Evan Panich.

Matt recently spent a weekend in LA, where he caught up with longtime pal Lucy Keating. David Beyer has played host to many of our classmates at regular barbecues in San Francisco. Our most recent additions include Jeanne LeSaffre and Itiah Thomas.

I have also kept in touch with former Frisbee golfers Andy Hattemer, Phil Caruso, Chris Skipper, and Tom Dimopoulos. We played a few rounds of Frisbee golf during our 10th Reunion and may find an excuse for another sometime in the next year.

That’s it from here. Stay safe, and go Big Blue!

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

Jisung Park, Patrick Holkins, Bill Beregi, and Seth Stulgis, all Class of ’04, enjoy themselves at Friday night’s dinner at reunion.

joined the Washington Post as an op-ed columnist earlier this year. Fellow Phillipian editor alum Stephen Fee has established himself as a respected producer and correspondent at PBS NewsHour.

Formerly a Wall Street Journal London correspondent, Paul Sonne is now a Moscow correspondent for the WSJ. And after two years in India as a South Asia correspondent for Russian television network RT, Priya Sridhar has returned to the States, where she covers the Midwest for the AP’s domestic and international audiences.

Stephen has also tried his hand as a wedding officiant:He officiated Boo Littlefield’s wedding in Sweden this summer! A handful of classmates celebrated the wedding, including Paul, Kelly Sinclair, and Abbe Anderson.

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now lives. She attended her longtime pal Tami Fay’s wedding to Stephen Lightfoote in New York this past May. Kathryn’s former running mate, Katie Dlesk, started a master’s degree program this summer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. After several years in New Jersey, she is happy to return to the friendly confines of Red Sox Nation.

On the West Coast, J.C. MacMillan made world headlines this spring when he threw the first pitch for the San Diego Padres—only he did so as a baby T. rex, from the “Walking with Dinosaurs” tour. Look for “baby t. rex first pitch” on YouTube for the video.

I recently caught up with Janis Rice and Margaret Ramsey for brunch; Janis and her husband, Brandon, have settled in San Francisco.

[Editor’s note: Following this issue, Emma Sussex steps down from her role as class secretary.

The Academy is very grateful for her service.

Ali Schouten is the new class secretary for the Class of ’04. Please send news and updates to her using the contact information above.]

I should start by saying how wonderful it was to see a lot of you at reunion this year! I cannot believe it has been 10 years, but I am glad to see that some things haven’t changed. You are still the passionate and wonderful people that I remember sharing my high school years with (and it doesn’t hurt that you still know how to have a good time).

I got a chance to catch up with a lot of people over the weekend, and it sounds like exciting things are happening for the Class of ’04.

Clem Wood moved back to NYC and is commuting to Princeton several times a week while he works toward a PhD degree in classics there. As he begins his third year, he is beginning to think seriously about dissertation topics and is looking forward to teaching Princeton undergrads next spring. Clem spent the summer traveling around Greece to visit archaeological sites, museums, and

www.andover.edu/intouch historical monuments with the summer session of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Genevieve Desaulniers finished a master’s degree program in nursing last December in Atlanta. She is now a pediatric nurse practitioner working for WellStar Health System, the largest nonacademic hospital system in Georgia. Taylor Yates graduated from MIT Sloan this spring and is working at a Boston tech consultancy called Cartesian. He and his wife, Karen, are enjoying their time in Boston and always looking to connect with other Andover grads in the area. Alanna Hughes just finished her first year of business school at MIT Sloan. She has decided to enroll in a dual-degree program and will start taking classes at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (HKS) this fall to pursue an MPA concurrently with her MBA. She spent this summer in DC working as a summer associate with a Monitor Institute team as part of Deloitte Consulting’s new social impact service line.

Last April, Ashley Whitehead Luskey was in Boston to present her dissertation research at the Union Club of Boston as the 2014 recipient of the Governor John Andrew Civil War Writers’ Scholarship Award. She graduated from West Virginia University in August with a PhD degree in history, concentrating in 19th-century American history. She continues to work as a park ranger and historian at Richmond National Battlefield Park in Richmond, Va., where she led a lot of tours, talks, and guided battlefield walks as part of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War battlefields in Richmond. A couple of her presentations have even been featured on C-SPAN! In June, she spoke for the third time at the Civil War Institute conference at Gettysburg College, in Gettysburg, Penn.

Vineel Kankanala finished his internal medicine residency in June and moved to Chicago to start his GI fellowship at the University of Illinois Chicago. Dan Serna moved to Austin, Texas, last year for his job at MetLife Agricultural Investment.

He is enjoying the city and being closer to family.

He has been leading the firm’s farm and ranch real estate lending business in much of Texas and Oklahoma. Ian Hafkenschiel spent three weeks in Waikiki this summer, chaperoning high school grads on a Hawaii trip. After that, he returned to Santa Cruz, Calif., where he is web programming for a computer-controlled rooftop-farming startup called Cityblooms. Henry Andrew Watterson took a six-week sabbatical from his job as a designer for a tech company in San Francisco to road-trip across the country with his boyfriend in a VW camper van.

Ben Bloom married Ruth Shewmon last year.

The two graduated from the University of Chicago in June with PhD degrees in physics and moved to Portland, Ore. Sharon Shin married Austin Kang on May 3, 2014, on Oahu, and Di Wu was in attendance. After her honeymoon in Maui, Sharon returned home to Las Vegas and continues her job at Zappos.com. Meade Curtis got engaged to

Back on campus for their 10th Reunion were, from left, Bill Beregi ’04, Michelle Easton ’04, Ariel Gold ’04, Scott Marmer and Daria Axelrod Marmer ’04 (in back), Amanda Donaldson ’04, Marjorie Mocco ’04 (in back), Travis Green ’04, Zabecca Brinson ’04 (in back), Jamie Bologna ’04, Meg Sullivan ’04, Homan Lee ’04, Jisung Park ’04, Patrick Holkins ’04 (holding the flag), Wing-kit Chu ’04, Uzoma Iheagwara ’04, April Warren ’04 (in front), and Alanna Hughes ’04 (in back).

his girlfriend, Melissa, and the two planned to get married over Labor Day weekend.

Lexie Kuhn Peedin welcomed her second child, Finn, this April. He is doing well and enjoying time with big sister, Pippa. Jenny Byer Elgin and Abbe Anderson ’03 attended Amy O’Gorman’s wedding to Joe Block this spring.

Jenny is living in San Francisco and had a son, Milo, last year. Jenny met up with Ali Schouten and introduced her to Milo while Ali was in San Francisco this spring doing research for a new TV show on ABC Family, Young & Hungry, for which she is writing. Ali is still living in LA. She seems to be working crazy hours, but from what I gather, she is having the time of her life!

I saw Ali when I was in LA this spring for a cousins’ weekend. The two of us had an excellent day-date paddle-boating on Echo Park Lake, shopping in the Los Feliz neighborhood, and sharing grilled brioche slathered with raspberry jam at one of Ali’s favorite cafés. I am still in Brooklyn, seeing a lot of Andover friends like Jacqui Bovaird (who is moving to LA this fall), Olivia Oran, Jenny Wong, and Ellen Knuti and generally trying to take advantage of New York while it is still at my fingertips. This will be my last installment of the class notes, and I just want to thank everyone for being so good about keeping in touch and sharing your great news with me. I am in the midst of planning my great escape from the city and will keep you posted on where I end up. Anyhow, even if it isn’t in an official capacity, please don’t hesitate to drop me a line. I always love hearing from you. —Emma Sussex

2005 Matt Brennan matthew.s.brennan13@gmail.com Alex Lebow alexlebow@gmail.com

As always, it was great to hear from everyone who submitted to this edition of the class notes!

First, many congratulations to Natalie Exner Dean and Chelsea Paige, both of whom celebrated spring weddings! Chelsea, who married her fiancé, Scott, in Washington, D.C., on May 23, works as an analyst for the federal government.

Natalie married Ethan Dean on May 17 in Beverly, Mass., with Megan Scarborough as one of her bridesmaids and Chris Zegel in attendance.

Natalie graduated from Harvard University with a PhD degree in biostatistics in May, moved to Gainesville, Fla., in June, and works part time as a consultant on HIV drug resistance surveillance in low- and middle-income countries for the World Health Organization. Natalie and Ethan bought a house with a pool and invite any ’05ers in the area to get in touch.

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to Washington, D.C., and Danny Lee started a residency in emergency medicine at Stanford University after graduating from medical school in Houston. After working with the wildlife research crew at Grand Teton National Park and spending a winter at Big Bend National Park in Texas, Sonia DeYoung began the field naturalist program at the University of Vermont. Dan Hackney graduated from Brown with a degree in computer science and moved to San Francisco in June to begin work at Google.

Dan LeClerc moved to Philadelphia and finished his first year at the Wharton School with classmates Alison Murphy, Jeff Zhou ’06, Lisa Donchak ’06, Jeehae Lee ’02, and Brian Cloonan ’01. He reports that Jane Herzeca and Catalina McCallum graduated in the spring, and Peter Belisle is set to begin in the fall. Dan spent the summer in Kampala, Uganda, with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and chatted with Kelly Lacob ’08 on his first day. Meta Weiss received two grants for dissertation research in Moscow, where she hung out with Paul Sonne ’03; she also won the Violoncello Foundation Listener’s Choice Award for an album recorded with Arianna WarsawFan ’04, toured extensively, and accepted a position teaching cello and chamber music at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash.

After living with Jon Weigel and hanging out frequently with Jon Hillman in Boston, Ned Henningsen moved to Farmington, Conn., in August to begin teaching English as a Penn teaching fellow at Miss Porter’s School.

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as a job coach for Jewish Community Services in Baltimore, moved to Boston to begin a master’s degree program in occupational therapy at Boston University. After completing law school at the University of Pennsylvania, Ben Hoerner also returned to Massachusetts, where he planned to study for the bar exam and work as an attorney for the Commonwealth.

Among those staying more or less in the same place, Emily Bargar is happily teaching math at Milton Academy and living with her partner in Dorchester, Mass., while Christian Vareika finished his first year of law school at Boston College and spent the summer working for the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. Kelly Stecker researches exercise and breast cancer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, celebrated Memorial Day weekend with Alison Wheeler, and ran into Katherine Ireland along the Charles River after bumping into Caitriona McGovern, now in her third year of medical school, outside of Whole Foods.

Krishna Gupta has seen many Andover alums lately, including Kelly, Katherine, Dina Burkitbayeva ’06, Sly Boumil, Beau Freker, Nick Smith Wang, Patrick Jiang, and Olivia Pei ’07.

Krishna is fundraising for Romulus Capital’s latest fund and remains on the lookout for great new tech/science-enabled companies that are dreaming big. Anthony Green saw Billy Doyle, Grant Yoshitsu, Alex King, and Mac King, and was recently featured on CNN for his SAT tutoring.

Jesse Seegers landed a nine-month curatorial residency at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and Luis Ortiz, who received a master’s degree from Juilliard in the spring, joined Juilliard as a staff pianist and performed at the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, where he also served as production manager.

Sims Witherspoon presented on data analytics at a tech conference in Tokyo before landing a new gig at Google, as associate product marketing manager on the brand marketing team. She took a beekeeping class and wants her own hive.

Emma Downs defended her PhD dissertation in chemistry at the University of Oregon, and Vic Miller, who recently visited Hawaii with girlfriend Katharine Matsumoto ’07, finished a PhD degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford.

Cassie Tognoni visited New Orleans with other math nerds and graced Alex Lebow with her presence; Alex and Matt Brennan enjoyed drinks in the French Quarter with Emy Gelb, who later sent them a delicious batch of cookies.

Alex continues to work for Mayor Mitch Landrieu and oversee the youth development organization he cofounded, Youth Run NOLA. Matt taught a seminar on Southern religion at Tulane (where he’s a PhD degree candidate in U.S. history), contributed to Indiewire, Medium, and New Orleans’ alternative weekly, and joined Slant Magazine as a television critic.

That’s all for now, folks! 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

Thomas Gebremedhin has been working at Vogue since June 2013. John Lippe is heading to Harvard Business School this fall, joining Dina Burkitbayeva, who is starting her second year.

Daniel Wagman is entering his second year at Columbia Business School and worked in New York over the summer.

Brendan de Brun is stationed at Moody AFB, near Valdosta, Ga., flying HC-130P Combat Kings with the 71st Rescue Squadron. His primary mission is Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR), which mainly consists of functions like airdrop, low-level flying, dropping paratroopers, and refueling helicopters.

Chris Sargent had fun seeing Ali Holliday and Katie Faulkner briefly over a freezing winter visit to Boston. After a summer break in the U.S., Chris is back in Jordan on a Fulbright student research grant, doing dissertation research, for the 2014–2015 academic year.

Emily Pollokoff is expecting her second child this October. Justin Yi and Emily Chappell went to Hong Kong Sevens, a rugby tournament, in March, where they saw Charlie Frentz and Vincent Siu at an Andover event and managed to take a selfie with John Palfrey. Justin and Emily also visited Gordon Murphy in London and ran into Kat Dix ’05 at a party.

Jeni Lee, Mia Kanak, and Andrea Coravos all went out together for crepes in San Francisco.

Becky Agostino ’07 and Andrea spent a weekend together at Coachella, and Sims Witherspoon ’05, Helen Chacon ’05, Mark Margiotta ’05, and Andrea all watched the Super Bowl together.

Katherine Adams, Katie Faulkner, and Mia Kanak attended Karl Hirt’s wedding in Philadelphia in June. Karl married their Yale crew teammate Marypat Wixted. Jamie Neuwirth is now at Google, working with school districts around the U.S. to help get technology into the classroom.

Carly Williams and Paul Engelhardt got married on Aug. 16 on Martha’s Vineyard. Our congratulations to them, and we hope that everyone is doing well!

Cheers, Paul and Jeni

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

Congratulations are in order for Sarah Guo, who recently got engaged to Pat Grady, and Mike DeFelippo, who is also engaged. Bravo to the happy couples! Meanwhile, Nat Lavin is living in Washington, D.C., and laments he “still hasn’t gained any superpowers... and is not wealthy enough to go the Batman route.” On the plus side, he enjoyed a large Andover brunch with a number of ’06ers, plus Ryan Ferguson, Komaki Foster, Helal Syed, Amy Fenstermacher, and Thao Nguyen. Thao left for Beijing on her first tour as an American diplomat with the U.S. Embassy; she recently caught up with Henry Yin in Beijing and would love to hear from anyone else who’s living locally or passing through. Before departing, Thao managed to grab lunch with Mary Grinton, who graduated from law school and will start work in October as a tax attorney in the D.C. area. Mary recently saw Sara Nickel, who had just returned from a big trip to Australia—where, rumor has it, adventurers Polly Sinclair and Lola Dalrymple were also spotted (thanks for the postcard, Lola!).

Akosua Oforiwaa-Ayim started at Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge this September and kindly requests that anyone in the London/ Cambridge area get in touch. She also recently launched an online magazine covering African entertainment (www.mera-ki.com), which works to bridge the gap between African artists and audiences across the diaspora. Alex Clifford is working on an iPhone app called Entourage (www.goentourageapp.com) and is still trading options at the Chicago Board.

Emma Wood is headed to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; Evan Moore is starting an MFA program in creative writing at Columbia.

Lauren Jackson moved to Tempe, Ariz., to take a position on the college staff ministry team at Antioch Community Church. Ben Landy lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with Matt Villanueva and is now the home-page and opinion editor for msnbc.com.

Nate Flagg also lives in Brooklyn and works as an artist’s assistant, does art editorial projects at the magazine Guernica, and, with some friends, runs Mami Papi Gallery out of his apartment, staging exhibitions, performances, poetry readings, and film screenings. He is starting an MFA degree program in painting at Yale. Lily Mathison finished the first year of a PhD degree program

and spent the summer in Tel Aviv, Israel, studying mental health stigma in religious communities.

Since graduating from a master’s degree program in city planning at Penn, Izzy Cannell has moved to Seattle for a new job; she’d love to connect with anyone passing through the Northwest.

Chizorom Izeogu is working as an editorial assistant for an online travel review site called Gayot Publications. She spent Memorial Day weekend in San Francisco with Olivia Pei, Cece Yu, and Allen Cai. Arielle Filiberti finished her first year of medical school at UMass. Starting this fall, Becky Agostino will be on the leadership team of a high school in Harlem; she recently went to Coachella with Andrea Coravos ’06. Susannah Poland moved to southern Vermont, where she started a new job designing and leading international educational trips for Putney Student Travel and National Geographic Student Expeditions. Steve Blackman has quit working in Illinois politics; he now works for a startup snowboard manufacturer, Gilson Boards, based in central Pennsylvania. He spent the summer leading kids on backpacking trips in Maine.

Keep the updates coming, folks!

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

Hello, hello! Lots of news to share this quarter, so let’s jump in.

We couldn’t be more excited to announce the engagement of Alyssa Yamamoto and Killian Nolan, a dynamo pair who met while Alyssa was an undergrad at Harvard and Killian was a student at Harvard Law School. The two are currently living outside of San Francisco, where Killian is an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, but they expect to move back to the East Coast in the next few years. Alyssa, who’s working for the Burundian nonprofit Village Health Works, says she and Killian are planning an “urban chic” rooftop wedding in Manhattan sometime in 2015.

You can bet this class secretary will be on hand to make sure the cocktails are Carrie Bradshaw approved.

Jenn Hammond is not getting married on a Manhattan rooftop next year (as far as we know), but she is moving to San Diego to start an exciting new career as a technology consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She’s looking forward to catching up with college friends, learning how to

surf, and basking in California’s “perfect weather.”

Nicole Duddy is also making moves, relocating in May from Philadelphia to NYC to take a new job at her company, Towers Watson. Before leaving the City of Brotherly Love, Nicole got in some quality sister time watching the Kentucky Derby with Madeleine O’Connor.

She’s still singing to sold-out crowds in Las Vegas, but when Carrie St. Louis took the stage in Rock of Ages in New York this spring, she got a warm PA welcome. In the audience cheering her on were former Andover cast and crew mates Molly Shoemaker, Lucas McMahon, Abby Colella, James Flynn ’07, and Eli Grober ’09.

Molly, who works as an artistic assistant at Signature Theatre Company (recently the recipient of a regional theatre Tony Award), says watching Carrie sing on Broadway was “surreal.”

While “surreal” is not exactly the term he would use, Ben Schley also saw a bit of star power when he and Thomas Smyth met up in San Francisco at a fundraising dinner for Seth Moulton ’97, a former Marine who is challenging incumbent Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) for his congressional seat this fall. Other notable (though apolitical) meet-ups happened in New York when Katherine Chen and Chris Lim went on a winter hangout spree and spent time with Sophie Scolnik-Brower, Anna Tenzing, Bryce Frost, Miguel Tavarez, Obinna Igbokwe, Lizzy Chan, and Sarah Gordon.

In a brilliant strategic move that in no way suggests a conflict of interest, NYU Wagner grad student Mikaela Sanders took an administrative position at the NYU Stern School of Business, where she will be helping to provide tuition remission for graduate programs at, you guessed it, NYU Wagner. She didn’t go to Andover for nothing, that one. Joining the growing ranks of ’08ers in grad school, Stephanie Schuyler matriculated at Harvard Law School this fall.

Chris Lim is also going back to school, though by our reckoning it’s not clear he ever left. After teaching high school physics and chemistry in Richmond, Va., for two years, Chris is ditching the adolescents to join Yale University’s biological and biomedical sciences program, in the biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology track. Before diving into all that biology, Chris planned to lead his last trip as an Overland summer service counselor in Hawaii.

Switching time zones, big congratulations are in order for Kelicia Hollis, who received a Critical Language Enhancement Award along with a research Fulbright to study in China. She can’t wait to tap into the growing PA community in East Asia; that community will soon include world traveler and math teacher extraordinaire Kate Farrell, who is leaving the leafy confines of Kimball Union Academy to begin a two-year stint teaching in Singapore. Donations to the sendyour-class-secretary-to-Asia fund can be made by check or money order to my private bank account in Switzerland.

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Once the sun came out, reunion attendees including Louisa Chafee and Steph Greene, both ’09, were eager to soak up some rays.

The Class of ’09’s James Tsay, Lawrence Dai, Kevin Ofori, Edward Zhang, and Tiffany Li were all smiles at their first official reunion.

Ready to welcome the newcomers is Hong Kong–based McKinsey analyst Max Meyer, whose consulting gig appears to be a front for an underground tapas-smuggling ring.

He was reportedly sighted consuming vast quantities of the Spanish specialty in Paris with his brother and head pork runner Mark Meyer ’13 and again a few months later in Providence, R.I., with Alexander Heffner.

The situation is still developing.

She hasn’t been roped into their operations yet, but it may only be a matter of time: Alexa Rahman spent last winter trekking across the southern tip of Chile, a trip she highly recommends for the outdoorsy alumni among us. In other words, not Rachel Cohen, who, while a fierce indoor plant trimmer, says she is “definitely not” outdoorsy. She did, however, land a cool new job at Prudential, in the talent strategy department, and has been hanging out a lot with Kelly Fox, so we suppose it all evens out.

That’s it from the great Class of ’08! For more (uncensored) updates, be sure to join our Facebook group!

Very best, Lydia

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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

Dear Class of 2009: Wow. What a reunion. So lovely seeing all of your beautiful, shining faces.

I can’t count how many deep, wonderful, and heartfelt conversations I had with the lot of you. In particular, it was really heartwarming how many of you appreciated our service as class secretaries. I’m sure I speak for both of us when I say it’s an honor and privilege. Thank you all for being such an interesting class to write about three times a year.

I think it’s fitting, therefore, that this class notes

edition is a rather short one. Seeing one another in person was enough for most of us in terms of catching up, though I for one have planned several mini reunions after seeing you all in June (in fact, I went out to the Hamptons with my best friends from Taylor for July 4, as is tradition, but more on that later). I can only hope you all are doing the same.

Without further ado, here is what we have all been up to. Deidra Willis, Malik Jenkins, Tina Kit, and Sam Burwell road-tripped from NYC and had a fun drive up for reunion. The crew, sans Malik and plus me, ended up at a diner in Lawrence at four in the morning, thinking deep thoughts, during reunion... definitely a highlight for this writer.

Kenny Gould spent the past year in Manhattan as a sports writer. Next year, he’ll be moving to Berkeley, Calif., to learn more about permaculture.

He recently attended an Arctic Monkeys concert.

Eamon Callison rowed at the Henley Royal Regatta with the Cambridge ’99 Rowing Club. He is looking forward to finishing a master’s degree program in human evolutionary biology at the University of Cambridge, having just won blades in the May Bumps with Darwin College. Following Cambridge, he will be moving back to Boston to begin a PhD program in human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Congrats to Eamon!

Jean Fang will be living in Baton Rouge, La., until February 2015 to do zone engineering with her company’s Mississippi River pipeline plants.

She writes, “If anyone has any connections there, let me know, as I’m brand new to the Deep South!”

We wish her the best of luck!

Jessica Frey is working for the division of development and the Jimmy Fund at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, raising funds for cancer care and research. She lived with friends from Wellesley this past year but in August will be living with Megan Farquhar and Eliza Campbell (“So, pretty much an Andover reunion every day!”) in Washington Square in Brookline, Mass. She adds, “Come visit if you are in the area!”

Jessica spends most of her mornings rowing on the Charles River with a competitive masters’ women’s team at Community Rowing, Inc., and she often has dinner with Salena Casha, Tori Wilmarth, and Marianna Jordan, as they are all in the area.

Carolyn Calabrese is currently in a master’s degree program in speech-language pathology at Boston University, where, between coursework and clinical externships, she’s kept really busy.

This summer, she was a research assistant in an engineering lab (the Stepp Lab for sensorimotor rehabilitation engineering), where she is also completing her thesis on voice disorders.

As for me, I joined the summer guest program of the University Club, where I regularly grab dinner and play backgammon with Nicholas Grace ’10 and Frederick Grace ’10. I spent July 4 at Max Abitbol’s Southampton home, where

www.andover.edu/intouch the crew—Marvin Blugh, Alec Abitbol ’11, Ben Elder, Jack Walker, Malin Adams, and Matt Gorski—watched soccer, discussed Moby Dick, went swimming, took pictures by the beach, and had casual libations at a club. It truly was a weekend to remember and a great follow-up to reunion.

I hope you all enjoyed our time together as much as I did. As always, you each have a standing invitation to grab drinks with me in New York.

Until 10th Reunion, but preferably earlier!

P.S. All credit to Marvin Blugh on this one, but be on the lookout on Facebook and other social media for our new, private 2009 Instagram account! —Alex McHale

2010 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

Following graduation from Washington University in St. Louis, Andrew Khang planned to move to Shanghai in late July to join General Electric and work in the global operations finance program.

Henry Metro has gone back to school as a math and computer science double major.

He is enjoying living in Seattle and got a sweet internship coding for Facebook this summer. “All is well,” he says.

B.J. Garry graduated from William & Mary and is moving to Charlotte, N.C., to work for a “consumer acquisition marketing” company called Red Ventures. As he describes it, “A lot of what we do is figure out how to place those creepily accurate ads for stuff you just searched for on the Internet.” He’ll be traveling all over New England until late July.

Ziwe Fumudoh is wrapping up an exciting internship at the Onion. After graduating from Northwestern, she plans to pursue a career in comedy writing. She spent New Year’s with Colleen Flanagan, Alexis Dawkins, Tavie Abell, Emily Johnson, Peyton Wilson, and Jackie Wallace. At school, she spends time with Hannah Lee, who just had a “magnificent” art show.

Caroline Gezon led a community service trip to Thailand this summer and then moved to DC in the fall to work for Deloitte in federal consulting.

Zahra Bhaiwala graduated from Columbia and planned to work in Geneva at the World Health Organization for the summer, then start a master’s degree program in international health systems and economics at Harvard in the fall. She says she’s “really sad to leave NYC, but it will be good to be back in Boston and close to Andover again!”

Taylor Clarke graduated from Columbia, winning the 2014 Women’s and Gender Studies Award. She’s now working at CNN as a Digital Research Analyst, and says she’d “love to meet up with any Andover friends who move to the city after graduation!”

Sarah Jacobson graduated with a degree in human biology from Stanford and is staying on for a master’s degree in management science and engineering. This summer, she interned in SF. She hangs out with Rachel Coleman all the time and was visited this year by Sophia Jia and Lauren King. Also, her little sister (Claire Jacobson ’15) was just named Blue Key head at Andover, and Sarah is “incredibly proud!”

Sara Bakrow graduated from UVa and will be working for Nestlé Waters North America in Stamford, Conn. She was excited to do some traveling around the country before starting work.

James Poss attended his second consecutive United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) National Championships this spring, where he placed 25th overall in men’s freestyle skiing and earned academic all-American honors. After graduating from UCLA in June, he moved to NYC to do M&A investment banking at Guggenheim Partners.

Meredith Rahman graduated from Duke University with a BS degree in evolutionary anthropology and has begun a master’s degree program at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Anne Hunter graduated with a degree in philosophy from Smith College and is working in the development office at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. This summer she and her fiancé adopted two retired school horses, put an addition on their house, and planned their wedding!

Cerella Gonzalez graduated from Smith College with a degree in government. She interned for the Kennedy Center’s Washington National Opera this summer and then moved to Portland, Maine, in the fall; she’s applying to graduate school for vocal performance.

After graduating from RISD with a BFA degree in graphic design, Kelsey Lim moved to New York City. There, she will be working as a visual designer at Huge, a digital agency in Brooklyn. She’s looking forward to reconnecting with any other young alumni also living in the city next year!

Dylan Rhodes will go back to Stanford this year, continuing to study artificial intelligence for a master’s degree. He says, “If anyone is looking to move to San Francisco in the near future, get in touch.”

Matt Renner is finishing his second and final tattoo apprenticeship and will begin doing apprentice tattoos for free on friends and family to build his portfolio. If you’d like to be tattooed, please reach out to Matt at rennergraphics@gmail.com. He’s located in Greeley, Colo.

Emilie Kannekens spent a semester at the University of Melbourne in Australia and graduated from college in July. She’ll begin a research master’s degree in information law at the University of Amsterdam in September.

Francis Aw just graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in computational finance. He started a job at BNY Mellon in NYC. Jen Oesterling will have a busy victory lap (fifth year) at Michigan State University before she graduates, and will be applying to veterinary schools this fall. She completed her fourth season playing water polo for MSU, coming in second in the Big Ten Conference. This summer she was in San Diego, interning with the U.S. Navy’s Marine Mammal Program, where she’ll be training dolphins and sea lions that are used to locate underwater mines around the world on special Navy missions.

Ryan Marcelo graduated from Trinity College and moved down to Washington, D.C., where he will be working as an analyst for McChrystal Group, a consulting firm in Alexandria. He says that he’d “love to grab a drink and catch up with any PA friends who are living there or just passing through.”

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

At many colleges and universities, junior year is the time to study abroad and travel. For the Class of 2011, this past semester has brought together alumni from all over and has seen chance encounters all across the globe.

Over in Europe, Ashley Hess, Katie Hess, and Jesse Bielasiak met up a few times for drinks in Andover | Fall 2014

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In Germany, Emily Timm spent a semester in Vallendar, through a Washington University in St. Louis program. While traveling across Europe, she ran into Morgan Askew in Paris and Miranda Haymon ’12 in Berlin.

Class of 2011 alumni were particularly active in Italy. Marilyn Hewett studied abroad in Florence, but not before visiting Kristina Rex, who was in Parma. Elsewhere in Italy, Eleonora Petrulli studied in Ferrara. During her time there, she met up with Kristina in Bologna to catch up and have a typical Italian lunch, complete with tiramisu, with Eleonora’s family.

Eleonora had quite the story to tell about an excursion to Seville during Holy Week with Manuel Rubio: “While attending one of the many religious ceremonies, I noticed someone I knew in the crowd: it was Morgan [Askew]! I started screaming ‘Andover! Andover! Phillips Academy!’ to attract her attention. And it worked!”

Chioma Ngwudo spent the entire academic year abroad at the London School of Economics.

While there, Chioma explored Europe, immersed herself in the LSE community, and learned a bit of economics, of course! Chioma had the opportunity to make her first stage appearance in LSE’s African & Caribbean Society’s culture show, Ablaze. During the show, she enjoyed support from classmate Hana Kim. Afterward, Hana and Chioma danced the night away at the successful show’s after-party.

Elsewhere in the world, Kerry Lanzo has been trotting all across the globe. After spending five months studying in Brussels with the undersecretary of NATO, during which time she met up with Thurston Smalley in Paris, Kerry embarked on a new adventure traveling the Balkans to study the Yugoslav wars and, on impulse, went to Seoul, South Korea, to teach Model United Nations in her most rewarding Model UN experience yet.

Meanwhile, back in the States, Ken Tharp took a leave of absence last semester to work as an AmeriCorps youth crew leader in the Montana Conservation Corps. He spent the spring leading at-risk youth doing service work in the Montana wilderness. Oriekose “Orie” Idah and Sarah Jacobson ’10 reunited as resident staff members in a Stanford dorm and loved fostering a warm community among almost 90 freshmen.

Kristina Ballard ran the Nike Women’s Half Marathon in Washington, D.C., in April and then spent an amazing week visiting Kira Wyckoff ’12 at UC Santa Barbara. Kristina wrote to us while looking forward to watching Fred Shepard ’10 graduate from Amherst College this past May. After enduring one of the coldest winters in South Bend, Ind., history, with temperatures dipping near -20°F, Kevin Song, at the University of Notre Dame, spent the spring semester designing and developing a new website for the daily student newspaper, the Observer. He is looking forward to

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assuming his new role as assistant managing editor in the upcoming year but not eager for winter to roll around again.

Finally, defying all notions that Andover and Exeter students can’t be friends, Kevin, Eric Ouyang ’13, Gregory Hosono ’14, and Alex Jiang ’15, together with Exeter senior Brandon Wang, kicked off Sponsr.Us, a studentrun 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Through online fundraising and mentorship, they’ve enabled several student-run projects from across the nation to get off the ground. They’re excited to grow the program in the years to come.

Three years out of Andover, the Class of 2011 continues to find opportunities to stay connected, whether it be in the U.S. or across the globe. We wish everyone the best as we move into our junior or senior year in college and look forward to hearing all of the stories from everyone as we pass the halfway mark to our first class reunion!

Your class secretaries, Chris Batchelder, Orie Idah, Kevin Song, and Edith Young

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

Abigail Burman is continuing at Oxford, having lots of fun seeing Peter Larner and visiting with Janelle Lamb and Mia Dwyer. She always sees Tia Baheri in Washington, D.C., on breaks. While on break, Abigail also visited Miranda Haymon, who studied abroad in Berlin during her sopho-more spring semester and wrote, “I absolutely love this city. My host mother is great, my German is rapidly improving, and I’m seeing lots of plays.

I’ve tried at least 12 [insert pun about the Class of 2012 here] different kinds of bread, and wurst has become a staple food of my diet. There’s a lot of Andover in Berlin as well. Kate Mesrobian is also studying abroad here, so I see her all the time. I had brunch with Katy Svec ’10 and we talked about Drama Labs, and Emily Timm ’11 paid a visit to the city with her family.”

Ezequiel “Izzy” Davila will also be doing some traveling abroad this year. Izzy wrote, “During the summer I worked to put Boston Fashion Week on the map. I’m working with local, grassroots designers on pictures and video for their work.

Later in the summer, I’ll be traveling to Japan. I received a fellowship from Williams to photograph street fashion in Tokyo. I’ll be investigating the fashion culture there, wondering if it’s a form of resistance, appropriation, or a matter of outdoing one another. I’m super excited! In the fall, I’ll be studying in London at Westminster’s Art College (I’m a studio art major now).”

Julia Quinn attended the tennis match honoring Mark Adamsson ’11, catching up with William “Trey” Jennings and Myles O’Neil there as they rooted on the team against Taft. Julia worked at a hospital this summer in Nantucket; Lydia Azaret and Sarah Freedman were also on the island, waitressing. Julia hoped to visit Rachel “Sage” Hunt, who was living in Boston for the summer. Daniel Schultz is enjoying NYC and taking advantage of all the museums and concerts. He is majoring in Germanic languages and cultural studies at Columbia and working part time for Canvasback Music, an imprint of Atlantic Records, doing mainly A&R. And he’s enjoyed spending time with fellow alums Dennis Zhou and Stella Girkins ’11, cavorting around the city.

Haley Erskine saw Calvin Aubrey at a Tough Mudder in the Pocono Mountains, where the two were getting their “badass fitness” on. In other sporty news, Margot “Maggie” Shoemaker and her sister, Molly Shoemaker ’08, ran a halfmarathon in January at Walt Disney World.

Derrick Choi went to Coachella 2014 and met up with Tobi Coker at the campsite. Derrick wrote, “We hung out and reminisced about our longgone Andover days.”

Ben Manuel wrote in an e-mail, “I’m studying at Clemson University, enjoying running into Corbin Lee ’13 and Claudia Giles ’13 around campus. I reconnected with Zach Sturman in Charleston [S.C.] and had a blast reminiscing and enjoying the Charleston weather. I am working in Charleston for the summer at a solar company.” Matthew “Matt” Lloyd-Thomas has been spending most of his time at the Yale Daily News, where he frequently sees Julia Zorthian ’11, Sophie Gould ’11, and Rishabh Bhandari ’11. Matt also got to see Kian Ivey over winter break and for a weekend in March.

Tananya “Ray” Thamthieng also caught up and hung out with Madeleine McClintic, Seika Nagao, and Marhelich Santos at the University of Pennsylvania. They celebrated St. Patrick’s Day and

www.andover.edu/intouch ate a lot of food. Ray also celebrated Marhelich’s birthday with Angela Kim and Na Young Park at Columbia University. After her gap year, Katrina Fuller took a lab tech internship and is now finishing her first year at Mount Holyoke College. She is pre-med, plans to major in neuroscience, and reports running into her former Andover biology teacher, Geoffrey Tanner, who was a visiting professor at Mount Holyoke. That’s all for now, 2012! Stay classy.

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

Many members of the Class of 2013 enjoyed their second semester of college and ended their freshman year on a successful note! Arianna Chang has been studying business at NYU and pursuing theatre. She was just named the new executive director and copresident of NYU Tisch’s Shakespeare in the Square, a club that performs Shakespeare’s works in Washington Square Park as they were meant to be performed—“under the sun and in front of a loud, standing, possibly distracted audience,” according to the group’s mission statement. She had a blast hanging out with Andries Feder and Julius Ross and eating lots of things with dairy over spring break.

Lydia Kaprelian was severely missed. This summer, Arianna worked in NYC, and she planned to spend many a day with Susannah Hyde and Julius Ross.

Anna Stacy’s work was published in the May issue of AnthroJournal, and she planned to conduct research at the California Institute of Technology during the summer. Sirus Han will also be working at Caltech, with the Barton Group, and studying DNA-mediated charge transport and its role in base excision repair. Mimi Leggett has been working hard at Oberlin College as the assistant artistic director for a group that plans large-scale multimedia events. This semester, she filmed and edited a 5.5-hour-long video art piece, and she is currently curating an art gallery focusing on women and trans individuals. She spent the summer in NYC taking an architecture course at the Pratt Institute and staging pop-up cinemas in subway stations.

Kristin Mendez frequently took the train from New Haven to New York and visited Jing Qu at

Morgan Askew, Manuel Rubio, and Eleonora Petrulli, all Class of ’11, met up in Seville, Spain, in the spring.

Columbia University. Jing Qu enjoyed visiting Rachel Andresen and Rachel Wittenberg in Chicago over spring break. Kristin, Jing, and Jessica Lee had a blast at Yale’s Spring Fling concert in April! Anjali Krishnamachar visited Claudia Shin ’12 at Yale during her spring break, and the two had a great time catching up. This summer, Anjali planned to do research at MIT and hoped to spend lots of time with Emily Hoyt and Piper Curtis, who were also in the Boston area.

It takes two to tango, and during their time off last spring, Hemang Kaul and partner in crime Pearson Goodman learned Spanish dancing, using instructional YouTube videos. In May, Kristin visited Samuel Green in Southampton, N.Y., and they enjoyed the sun, beach, and redlining this past year’s issues of The Phillipian. Connor Fraser flew cross-country to visit Emily Carrolo at Stanford University in May. Emily enjoyed showing Connor around Palo Alto, and they had a great time soaking up the California sun at the beach! Also at Stanford, Gabriele Fisher and Jay Reader had a blast working as partners in their psychology class.

Gabriele said she was “so psyched” to visit Jing Qu and Nicole Ng in Washington, D.C., this summer,

where she planned to work at the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group that applies computer science to the government and election transparency. Fatoumata Diarra spent the summer as an undergraduate research intern at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, studying hematology and the role of platelets in thrombosis development.

Several classmates spent their gap years on interesting projects and/or in exciting locales.

Matthew Abrahamsen finished his gap year working for the National Security Language Initiative for Youth program in Kazan, Russia, and is now attending Claremont McKenna College.

Cara Daly traveled in Ireland from January to April during her gap year. She lived with her greatuncle, took classes at Trinity College, Dublin, and joined the Clontarf Field Hockey Club. She enjoyed spending time with her extended family and traveling throughout Ireland, as well as to Berlin, London, and Paris. She worked at the Whole Foods Market in Lynnfield, Mass., this summer and trained for field hockey at Trinity College in Connecticut, where she recently started as a freshman. Mark Meyer lived in Andover | Fall 2014

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Baesweiler, Germany, for the year and worked at the Heilig-Geist Gymnasium. He is now studying economics at the University of Chicago. Finally, David Crane spent the spring biking a whopping 12,000 kilometers from Sudan to South Africa on the Tour D’Afrique to raise money for his project Biking for Nature. The money he raised was donated to Conservation International’s work preserving the world’s ecosystems. He also took some time to dive with great white sharks at Seal Island, South Africa, in May! David started his freshman year at Princeton in September.

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

[Editor’s note: Class of 2014, please send your updates to your new class secretaries, listed above.]

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

On the Andover-blue morning of May 15, John Palfrey welcomed 34 faculty emeriti and spouses to Phelps House for the annual Emeriti Luncheon.

After enjoying many years of hospitality from Phebe and Josh Miner and from Becky and Elwin Sykes, who hosted this spring event in, respectively, the Miner home on School Street and Davison House on campus, we all were delighted to be hosted by John in the head of school’s house.

Phebe has told George Edmonds that she believes Marge and Ted Harrison started the Emeriti Luncheon in 1984, when Ted was retiring, and then passed the event to Phebe and Josh the next year, when Josh retired.

John Palfrey, on his own as host since his wife, Catherine Carter, teaches in Cambridge, greeted everyone at the door. After lunch, he assembled us all in the Green Room for a welcoming speech,

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followed by a Q& A, which focused mostly on the recent campus issue concerning diversity and John’s response in The Phillipian.

Among the first to arrive were the stalwarts from Middletown Springs, Vt., Sue and Bob Lloyd. Sue reported to Pat Edmonds her new career in “current history”—volunteering to record the minutes for local organizations like the town council and, more recently, the town conservation commission.

Bob loves singing in the 10-person, five-part group he and Sue started in 1997, covering everything from 16th- and 17th-century music to “Stardust.”

Not far behind, with big smiles, from Greensboro, Vt., came Cilla Bonney-Smith and Nat Smith. Cilla has been working her garden and was looking forward to the wedding season, when she designs flower arrangements. Nat began conversing with his former math colleague Doug Crabtree about Nat’s golf game and other weighty matters.

As you may remember from our previous report, the Vermonters are really rocking (and not in chairs). Vic Henningsen ’69 has an ideal, stentorian voice for his periodic turns on Vermont Public Radio as a commentator on issues of interest, for example, Brown v. Board of Education. Susan McCaslin, from Vic’s and her new hometown of Thetford Center, is continuing her longtime social-service interest as a council member of the Vermont Women’s Fund, supporting the needs of women and girls to establish and strengthen various kinds of well-being.

Emeriti travelers included Don and Betsy Abbott, who had enthusiastic reports about their winter trip to Guatemala, especially about the birding and the women’s woven handcrafts. In March, Don and Ursula Bade made a 4,000-mile car excursion throughout the South, to Florida and back. Alice and Steve Tung, during a spring trip in Hong Kong, found the prices high but the extremely efficient and extensive subway system a real bargain. Organists Carolyn and John Skelton were anticipating attending the 50th Haarlem Organ Festival in the Netherlands, followed by time in the Dordogne and Paris. Although Mark and Natalie Schorr ’62 love their new home in Watertown, Mass., with its neighborhood amenities and proximity to Boston, they have traveled twice to Denmark to visit Natalie’s family and to Hawaii for vacation.

We were delighted to see both Wendy Richards, down from Exeter, N.H., and Peter Capra ’53, up from South Glastonbury, Conn., enjoying their many conversations with old friends.

Penny Joel feels very fortunate to be able to spend precious time with her three nearby granddaughters. She also looks forward to summers at her place in the Thousand Islands and to her visitors there. Describing the challenges of having a house built on a difficult but beautiful 10 acres of land in Plainfield, in western Massachusetts, Steve Wicks emphasized his pleasure now in commuting for his studio work back and forth from

Holt Road. Meredith Price really has been keeping his mind active, having recently taken nine courses at Merrimack College and taught courses on Beacon Hill in Boston.

Waterford, Maine, is a most intellectual town, claim Sally Holm and Kerry Johnson.

After all, they live in a house formerly owned by Artemus Ward, in the town where Ralph Waldo Emerson’s three sisters lived—one of whom, Sally believes, is responsible for Emerson’s idea of transcendentalism.

Continuing to battle his liver cancer, Hale Sturges said he still feels fine and is out and about, even walking over to Fenway Park for an occasional Red Sox game.

Sylvia Thayer ’54 left her temporarily sick husband, Philip Zaeder, home while attending the luncheon. They have departed their winter home in Portsmouth, N.H., and moved out to their farm in nearby Milton, N.H. Hearty congratulations go to Susan Stott for winning the Fred Stott Advocate Award in recognition of her many years of leadership as the volunteer executive director of the Andover Community Trust, creating affordable housing for low-income families here in the town. Also to Eleanor Lyons for completing the Walk for Hunger for the 33rd time!

Gail Boyajian has combined regaining her architect’s license, painting in oils, and riding her horse. In Boston, Laura Allis Richardson thrives in her studio and welcomes visitors to her website, laurarichardsonart.com, to view her abstract paintings.

One of the last to leave, Aloysius “Lolo” Hobausz emphasized the importance of quality in the elements of everyday living and his longing for its improvement.

Welcome to all of this year’s retiring faculty members, now new emeriti: Don Barry, Roxie Barry, Peter Drench, Chris Gurry ’66, Maggie Jackson, Doug Kuhlmann, and Tony Rotundo.

Please note above our new address in North Andover, where we have moved to the Edgewood Retirement Community.

We are generally aware that a significant number of emeriti are still teaching, and we would like to devote our next column to as many of them as possible. So, ongoing teachers: Please let us know who you are and what and where you are teaching.

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i n m e mo r i am FACULTY SPOUSE Lillian Z. Pease Brunswick, Maine; April 12, 2014 Lillian Zachrisson Pease died peacefully at age 84.

Born in Boston, she was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College in 1951. She began postgraduate work at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and, while doing fieldwork at the East Harlem Protestant Parish, she met Frederic A. Pease Jr., whom she married in 1953.

The couple moved to New Hampshire when Fred was called to minister to congregational churches in Jaffrey Center and New Ipswich. In 1958, they settled in Andover, Mass. During the ensuing 18 years that Fred served as Phillips Academy’s associate school minister, Lillian raised their four children and was actively involved with the League of Women Voters and other community organizations. After earning an MA degree from Simmons College School of Social Work, Lillian served as director of Fidelity House in Lawrence, Mass., from 1973 until 1990, when she and Fred retired to Dresden, Maine. She was a fabulous cook, avid gardener, formidable Scrabble player, and enthusiastic singer and choir member.

Lillian is survived by her husband; children Ted ’73, David ’74, Ruth ’76, and Rebecca ’79; and seven grandchildren.

—The Pease Family

ABBOT AND PHILLIPS 1933 Katherine McDonald Walnut Creek, Calif.; Jan. 26, 2011 1936 Richard W. Burnett Oneonta, N.Y.; June 30, 2014

1939 Cornelius B. Kennedy Charlottesville, Va.; June 7, 2014

Donald A. Quarles Jr. Eastham, Mass.; June 7, 2014 Ralph S. Smith Bethesda, Md.; March 7, 2014 1940 Thomas S. Barrows Salem, Mass.; Jan. 25, 2014

Charlotte Downey Boutin Sacramento, Calif.; March 21, 2014 John H. Cuthbertson Naples, Fla.; May 25, 2014 1941 Arnold I. Shapiro Towson, Md.; March 5, 2014 1942 Ann Zeitung Hale Lakeland, Fla.; April 10, 2012

Sarah Zimmermann Minard Pittsburgh, Pa.; Feb. 12, 2014 Robert T. Stevens Jr. Helena, Mont.; May 17, 2014 John R. Treadwell Aiken, S.C.; Feb. 16, 2014 Richard L. Webb Venice, Fla.; Jan. 25, 2014 1943 Cornelia McMurray Brooks Charlottesville, Va.; March 13, 2014

Mary Beckman Huidekoper South Dartmouth, Mass.; May 19, 2014 William F. Pabst Jr. Port Ludlow, Wash.; May 28, 2014

1937 James A. Marsh Marblehead, Mass.; May 9, 2014

1944 William F. Abbott Jr. Westport, Conn.; March 18, 2014

Mary Emily Pettengill Smith-Petersen Hot Springs, Va.; Aug. 25, 2010

Stearns R. Ellis San Francisco, Calif.; Nov. 19, 2013

Gerhard G. Thiem Los Altos, Calif.; Dec. 31, 2013

William T. Rich III Edgewater, N.J.; May 12, 2014

1938 Richard England Washington, D.C.; April 1, 2013

1945 Miriam Dearborn Dunn Concord, N.H.; April 12, 2012

Jean Tilton Melby Port St. Lucie, Fla.; Jan. 27, 2014

L. Myrton Gaines Jr. Baltimore, Md.; June 26, 2013

Irving W. Pettengill Naples, Fla.; May 24, 2013

Jessamine Patton Haff Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.; March 15, 2014

Bradford Wright Waban, Mass.; June 19, 2014

Mario Lazo Newport Beach, Calif.; Aug. 23, 2013

Joan Mitchell Norton South Portland, Maine; March 25, 2011 Edward N. Thompson Swansea, Mass.; Oct. 24, 2013 Lawrence W. Ward Kennebunk, Maine; June 1, 2014 1946 William G. Baddeley Charlottesville, Va.; Nov. 4, 2013 1947 Alan S. Calnan Brussels, Belgium; Jan. 19, 2014

William A. Hickey Jr. Hanover, N.H.; April 28, 2014 Joel A. Kozol Melvin Village, N.H.; Feb. 12, 2014 Esteemed Boston attorney and community leader Joel Kozol passed away at age 83. His many A-list clients included Muhammad Ali, Buzz Aldrin, Bill Parcells, Billy Sullivan, the New England Patriots, and Joseph P. Kennedy. In 1997, Mr. Kozol was listed as one of Boston magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in Boston.”

An academic whiz, he graduated magna cum laude from both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he served as editor of the Harvard Law Review and was awarded the Sears Prize. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed (1954–1955 term) and, from 1955 to 1957, served as a first lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General Corps of the U.S. Army, where he honed his skills as a trial lawyer.

Mr. Kozol entered private practice with the 100-year-old Boston law firm Friedman & Atherton, where he remained for his entire professional life, a span of more than 50 years. He rose to become partner, managing partner, and senior partner. His practice included wide-ranging business and litigation matters, and he represented clients in both the business and sporting worlds.

Mr. Kozol was acknowledged by his peers and in law periodicals as one of the country’s leading attorneys.

He served as a trustee and director of many charitable and civic organizations, including the Museum of Science in Boston, Noble and Greenough School, The Winsor School, Massachusetts Bar Foundation, Jewish Memorial Hospital, Temple Israel of Boston, Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston, and Brookline Citizens’ Committee. He was also an avid squash player, winning the state hardball doubles championship 10 times and the 2001 national doubles senior championship.

He leaves his wife, Stephany; children Matthew, David, and Andrea; a brother, Lee ’50; and eight grandchildren, including Eliana Kozol ’18.

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1948 Donald F. Lynch Fairbanks, Alaska; Jan. 30, 2014

1949 Anne Miskell Forand Birmingham, Mich.; June 29, 2014

After graduating from Yale in 1952, Donald Lynch undertook a special postgraduate program of geography and Russian studies. His work attracted attention, and Don ended up doing what he described as “strange and wonderful things” in Finland. He attended the University of Helsinki before returning stateside to work as a professor of geography at Dartmouth.

Academia was not Don’s only area of interest.

In 1963, he moved to Washington, D.C., to join Research Analysis Corporation, where he was part of a team that projected future events, particularly in Russia and South America. Three years later, after earning a PhD degree from Yale, he became an operations research engineer at Teledyne-Ryan Aeronautical Corporation and was instrumental in the creation of the early drone program.

In 1970, he took advantage of a tenured teaching opportunity in Alaska, and the state became his home for the rest of his life. Don is survived by Dorothy Cruse, his partner of 33 years; three children; and two siblings.

—Robert Segal ’48

Alan J. Lazarus Lexington, Mass.; March 13, 2014

Paul H. Miller Meriden, Conn.; May 30, 2014 James I. Stockwell Brighton, Mass.; July 14, 2014 Richard B. White New Canaan, Conn.; April 27, 2014 Dick White graduated in 1952 from Yale, where he was business manager of the Yale Daily News.

Armed with a degree in English and psychology, he spent the next three years on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps.

In 1955, he joined the advertising agency BBDO, where he rose to executive vice president, board member, and chair of the executive committee. Dick retired from BBDO in 1984 and joined Spencer Stuart, a global executive search firm, where he became a director and senior partner. He retired in 1998.

Along with serving as a board member of the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, Dick held key positions in many New Canaan organizations and was a member of the Session of the town’s First Presbyterian Church.

Dick is survived by Mary, his wife of 52 years; three daughters, Katherine Marsland ’82, Anne Collard, and Leslie Siek; and six grandchildren. His son, Richard, predeceased him.

—Robert Segal ’48

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Alan Lazarus died at his home in Lexington, Mass., of complications of Lewy body disease and with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

Alan spent his senior year at Andover, where he developed a love for learning, especially science.

He earned a BS degree at MIT in 1953 and a PhD degree in high-energy physics at Stanford University in 1958. For more than 50 years, he was a senior research scientist at MIT’s Center for Space Research (now the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research), where he helped develop instruments for studying the solar wind. Those instruments were used on more than 20 spacecraft missions, including aboard the Voyager 1, launched in 1977, which this past fall became the first manmade object to travel beyond our solar system.

He was also an award-winning senior lecturer in MIT’s physics department, where he shared his delight in science with scores of undergraduate and graduate students. More details about his life and work may be viewed at alanlazarus.wordpress.com.

Alan is survived by his wife of 43 years, Marianne; daughter Julia; sister Louise DeVries; and three nieces and a nephew and their six children.

—The Lazarus Family

Alfred L. McDougal III Chicago, Ill.; May 23, 2014 Daniel H. Silver Somerville, Mass.; May 28, 2013 1950 Dudley A. Autio Charleston, S.C.; Dec. 6, 2013 Dudley Autio graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and from the University of Vienna in Austria, where he earned his MD degree, in 1969.

He practiced individual adult psychotherapy in Charleston, S.C., for several decades, at one point heading the staff of the local psychiatric hospital.

Dudley enjoyed life with his family, while finding time for boating activities, fishing, and shrimping.

He died at 81.

Dudley is survived by his wife, Fanny; children Eric and Karen; and three grandsons.

—Eric Wentworth ’50

Michael B. Gerney New York, N.Y.; March 7, 2014 Michael Gerney attended Princeton and then graduated from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He worked for many years with his father and brother negotiating contracts on behalf of U.S. steel companies Koppers and Blaw-Knox to develop steel production operations in Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Michael, who spoke six languages, lived in Lausanne for most of

his adult life. He enjoyed playing golf as a member of the Golf Club de Lausanne, where he later was employed as the club’s director for roughly a decade.

Michael died at 81 of complications from heart disease. He is survived by his niece, Nina Kilroy, and nephew, Arkadi Gerney.

—Eric Wentworth ’50 John E.H. Sherry Staunton, Va.; Oct. 30, 2013 John Sherry, a second-generation law professor at Cornell University, taught there for 25 years before retiring in 1997. His father, John H. Sherry, taught at Cornell for 43 years.

John developed and taught the Business and Hospitality Law course at Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration as well as international law courses at Cornell Law School. He also revised and expanded his father’s standard textbook, The Law of Innkeepers: For Hotels, Motels, Restaurants, and Clubs.

John earned a BA degree at Yale and a JD degree at Columbia, where he was a law school classmate of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He later earned an LLM degree in law school administration at New York University.

He traveled extensively throughout his academic career, including for sabbaticals in China and Israel.

He is survived by his sons, John II and Douglas; a daughter, Suzanne; and five grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife and the mother of his three children, Louise, and his second wife, Eleanor.

—Eric Wentworth ’50

1953 Walter Alexander Geneva, Ill.; June 20, 2014 Walter Alexander died peacefully at home surrounded by his family. A 1957 graduate of Yale University, Walter served two years in the military before beginning a long career with the family lumber business, Alexander Lumber Company. He learned the business from the ground up, working summers in the yards and serving as manager and district manager before becoming the company’s president in 1966, a position he held until his death.

Walter served on numerous boards, including those of the Wausau Paper Corporation; Masonite Corporation, which was founded by his family; and the Andover Development Board (1985–2004).

He was a member of Andover’s undefeated 1952 football team, which was inducted into the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor in 2009.

Walter is survived by his beloved wife of 55 years, Karen; four children, Blair, Eliza, Watt ’84, and Martha ’89; three brothers, John ’55, Tom ’58, and Duncan ’64; 11 grandchildren, including Nathaniel Johnson ’16; and several cousins, including George Alexander ’58. He was predeceased by his father, John Alexander, Class of 1919.

Gifts in Walter’s memory may be made to the Walter Alexander Fund, established in 1995 to support the care of trees on the Phillips Academy campus.

—The Alexander Family

Carol Burton Biggs Covina, Calif.; Jan. 27, 2014 1954 Ann M. Norwood New Smyrna Beach, Fla.; June 9, 2014

Colin L. Johnson Chicago, Ill.; March 21, 2014 1957 Robert N. Bohorad Orwigsburg, Pa.; June 12, 2014

George H. Breed Jackson, Wyo.; June 4, 2014 George Herbert Breed passed away in peace and comfort with loved ones at his side. The cause of death was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was 75.

George was born in Boston to Leaverne and William Breed ’25 and raised in Marblehead, Mass.

He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1961 and earned an MBA degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1965.

He worked for Hewlett-Packard Medical for much of his long career and was proud to have created the company’s first European field organization.

Along with traveling and speaking French and German, George enjoyed reading the New York Times cover to cover, playing tennis at Longwood Cricket Club, and skiing in the Northeast and out West. He spent his last 12 years enjoying life among the mountains of Jackson Hole. George is survived by three daughters, Heather Breed O’Neil, Elizabeth Breed Allen, and Amanda Breed McSweeney; six grandchildren; and his brother, William ’48.

—The Breed Family

1958 Patrick Henry Gorman III San Francisco, Calif.; May 9, 2014 Ailing since his appearance at our 55th Reunion last year, Pat Gorman died of lymphoma in San Francisco, his longtime home.

Regarded by many at PA as an eccentric intellectual, Pat was also a spirited athlete who played varsity football, hockey, and lacrosse, overcoming a serious injury incurred during his lower middle year in which he nearly severed his foot. A long recuperation forced him to leave his original Class of ’57 and join the Class of ’58.

Pat attended Dartmouth but left and earned a BA degree several years later at The College of Wooster, which was near where he was living in Ohio. Over the years he compiled a long résumé of jobs: ranch hand, stevedore, truck driver, welder, and dozens more. A few years ago, he designed and eventually obtained a U.S. patent for a system of prefabricated floating airport runway sections, which he hoped would be purchased by coastal cities short on available land.

In the 1960s, Pat survived a truck accident that left him with a metal plate in his head, but soon after

he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, for which he took medication for the rest of his life.

Pat leaves behind his wife, Janet Petersen Gorman; a son, Atarbes; and three sisters.

—Mac Gordon ’58

Richard H. Hendrickson Bridgehampton, N.Y.; Feb. 20, 2014 Julian E. Minard Chantilly, Va.; June 24, 2014

1960 Richard W. Bourne Pylesville, Md.; July 12, 2014 1962 George F. Peters Lansing, Mich.; July 8, 2014 1964 John M. Dunne-Brady Silver City, N.M.; March 26, 2014

Norman H. Munn Mexico; Feb. 3, 2014

David R. Knapton Philadelphia, Pa.; March 25, 2014

1959 Susan Wholey Field North Tewksbury, Mass.; March 14, 2014

Suzanne Woodward McGuffey North Yarmouth, Maine; March 5, 2014

Laurence V. Stucki Alexandria, Va.; March 25, 2009 Laurence “Larry” Stucki attended Harvard and received an AB degree in 1963. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Navy, completing an MS degree in operations research and analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., in 1975.

A decorated naval aviator, he flew P-3C Orion (antisubmarine) aircraft during the Vietnam War and then went on to a 26-year career in the Navy, retiring in 1989 with the rank of captain. He spent most of his career in systems management, and during the 1980s served on the staff of the Naval Air Systems Command in Washington, D.C. After retiring from the Navy, he became a senior systems engineer at RBC, Inc., an information and engineering management company in Virginia, and also worked as a scientific and technical analyst for the Institute of Defense Analyses, focusing on national security issues.

He is survived by his wife of 13 years, Evelyn; his former wife, Janice, to whom he was married for 31 years, and their two daughters, Laurel and Koren; four siblings, including Mishell ’58; and three grandchildren.

—Janice Stucki, Koren Stucki, and Laurel Stucki Blair

1965 Ann Bradshaw Barrows Stonington, Maine; June 30, 2014 1968 Robert T. Pratt St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada; July 26, 2013 1980 Abigail Jones Feder Oyster Bay, N.Y.; June 23, 2014 1984 Michael C. Mula Westwood, Mass.; April 7, 2014 1989 Di Fei David Liu Riverside, Calif.; July 5, 2007

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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.

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The Great End and Real Business of Living

by Dave Arnold ’67 Long ago we had been proctors in the now-demolished Williams Hall, but the impetus that brought us together last February was neither nostalgia nor reunion. It was Wendy Richards, testament that a housemother could hold a gentle place in our hearts a half-century later.

Wendy and her late husband, Jack, had been the house parents in a rambling, white clapboard firetrap of a dormitory. Will Hall was the Pluto of the PA solar system. Scores of incoming freshmen got assigned there annually, no doubt wondering upon arrival what they had done wrong.

Bill Bostian, Fletcher Chamberlin, Steve Kellogg, and I, all Class of 1967, were supposedly the senior mentors. But it did not take long to realize that Wendy was the pro, warmth and honesty her tools, a kitchen table the student confessional for freshmen and proctors alike.

Jack died last October. A few months later, we proctors, some of us out of touch since graduation, decided it was time to cross the country and descend on Wendy’s retirement home in Exeter, New Hampshire.

She met us in her driveway. There was a brief exchange of greetings, and then one of us asked, “So how are you, Wendy?”

“I feel like a half,” she replied. Jack’s death had left big holes.

Still piercingly honest, soft-spoken, laconic, she in a blink had turned our visit into a homecoming. And we had not yet reached the front door.

It was not what Wendy counseled that sticks. It was how normal she made us feel as we tried to navigate a bygone school culture that rigidly insisted our “noble purpose” was “the great end and real business of living,” whatever that meant. In 1967, I didn’t even know how to relate to a girl.

Then (1967) and now (2014): Fletcher Chamberlin, Bill Bostian, Steve Kellogg, and Dave Arnold, all Class of 1967

Case in point: Early on the Friday before Prom Weekend—a truly frightening social challenge that left me determined to look suave—I liberally had applied something called Man Tan. A few hours later in French class, an incredulous Tony Burdick turned in his chair to exclaim—in English—“Arnold! You’re turning orange!”

It took days to dare share the gaffe with Wendy at her kitchen table, but I knew I would be safe. Her response was something like, “You’re OK. Insecurity is OK. Next time read the label.”

Such were the initial stories in the Richards’ sun-drenched living room, and then Wendy insisted we stay for lunch. Our walk to the community dining room was more a meander, the conversation sprinkled with the kind of silences that accompany time-tested friendships.

Lunch lasted more than an hour. The talk was not about accomplishments, but mistakes, lessons learned, grief, and ways we still might make the world a little better. There was much eye contact and no interruptions.

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The amble back to the car was even slower. No one wanted this to end. Call it love? Call it a noble purpose toward the great end and real business of living.

I finally get it.

“Gratitude and Loyalty”

Abbot’s Alvarez ’67 Does Andover Proud On July 28, 2014, novelist Julia Alvarez ’67 received the National Medal of Arts, the country’s highest honor for artists and writers, from President Barack Obama. Alvarez has written 16 books for adults and children, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. She recently reflected on her three years at Abbot Academy: Jocelyn Augustino (Courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts)

“Abbot Academy really was an Alma Mater—mother of my American soul! My teachers, particularly dear Ruth Stevenson, as well as Jean St. Pierre, were critical in helping me ‘cross over’ into my calling as a writer. As a young Dominican girl, I never imagined I could become a writer, no less in my second language, English.

“Over four decades later, after reconnecting with my former Abbot classmates, I would add that in addition to my excellent teachers, these young women were critical too—they taught me about a new kind of community, not based on familia or blood connections, but on friendship, shared intellectual interests, passionate conversation, and heartfelt connection.”

Alvarez, a noted essayist and poet as well, has written about her time at Abbot. This passage is from her poem titled “Abbot Academy”: Alvarez has been a member of the Samuel Phillips & Sarah Abbot Society since 2008. What prompted her to remember the Academy in her planning?

“I want to provide these kinds of experiences and opportunities to other girls, particularly ones who might not otherwise be able to avail themselves of them,” said Alvarez. “Abbot is still a valuable part of the Andover root system. The main reason for me to remember PA is Abbot Academy—that’s where the seeds of my gratitude and loyalty lie. How can I not water that soil that helped me flourish?”

To learn more about how you can join the Samuel Phillips & Sarah Abbot Society, contact David Flash, director of Gift Planning, at 978-749-4297 or dflash@andover.edu.

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