Andover magazine — Summer 2016

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A SONG FOR SOLIDARITY Harbingers of spring, Jessie Wallner

red and yellow tulips sprout from the grass in front of the Andover Inn.

In celebration of 20 years, Brace Center event highlights importance of gender studies

The Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center:

A Renewed Commitment to Empathy and Balance It was an emotional return to campus for former associate head of school Becky Sykes when the new Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center was dedicated May 6. The state-of-the-art facility supports student health, both mental and physical, and is a fitting reflection of the Strategic Plan’s emphasis on empathy and balance.

Inset: Barbara Landis Chase, 14th head of school, Becky Sykes, and John Palfrey, head of school Left: Peter Currie ’74, president of the Board of Trustees Below left: Sykes with sons Emerson ’01 (holding his son, Otis), Eliot ’97, and Emmett ’92 Right: Sykes and husband Elwin Sykes, faculty emeritus

Sykes, who left PA in 2013 to head the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation, wore numerous hats during her 40-year tenure at Andover, from college counselor to residential dean to dean of Community and Multicultural Development.

After opening remarks from Board President Peter Currie ’74 and Head of School John Palfrey, Sykes addressed the crowd assembled on the lawn outside the new facility. With characteristic graciousness, she thanked the many supporters who made the Sykes Wellness Center possible; she also teared up when noting that it was the first building on campus named for an African American woman.

“Today is proof,” she said, “that we continue to be the recipients of the grace of this community.

Even the naming of the wellness center is a privilege I know I will spend the rest of my life working to earn.”

Thirteen Years and Counting

A Story of Consecutive Giving

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ven as a youngster, Dorothy Voorhees ’04 had her sights on Andover. When she finally arrived on campus as an upper in 2002, Dorothy carried on a legacy started by her father, Steve ’72, and continued by her brother, Paul ’06.

Born and raised in Birmingham, Ala. (“I had my first snow-shoveling experience at Andover!”), Dorothy immediately felt welcomed into the Phillips Academy community, meeting people who would become lifelong friends. “While everyone at Andover is extremely gifted in one area or another, the school really is greater than the sum of its parts,” she says.

As an athlete, Dorothy competed fiercely in volleyball (having an undefeated season her senior year), captained the softball team, and cheered wildly as a Blue Key. In the classroom, she dove into AP French literature, reveling in Hale Sturges’s dynamic reenactments of works by playwrights Molière and Balzac. Carroll Perry’s economics class sparked her interest in learning more about poverty in the developing world, eventually prompting her to move to Senegal through the Peace Corps after college.

Dorothy’s 13 years of consecutive giving started with her senior gift. “Andover does a great job of demonstrating the value of your education, even when you’re still a student,” she says.

“Giving to Andover every year is my way of ensuring that the school continues to attract and retain ‘youth from every quarter.’ Many of my friends wouldn’t have been able to attend without the school’s need-blind admission policy. The economically diverse student body truly enriched my learning experience, and it’s an honor to help pass that opportunity on to others.”

Dorothy Voorhees ’04, a merchandise buyer for Target Corporation, lives in Minneapolis. She has been a PA alumni admission representative for three years.

Steve ’72, Paul ’06, and Dorothy ’04

To learn more about making an annual gift to Phillips Academy, please contact Stephen Rodriguez, director of annual giving, at 978-749-4312 or srodriguez@andover.edu.

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18 From the Archives: The Man Who Transformed the PA Campus

Nearly 100 years ago, Thomas Cochran III was the driving force behind the transformation of Andover’s campus.

DEPARTMENTS 3 Letters to the Editor

20 A Master Plan Takes Shape

6 From the Head of School

With an eye toward sustainability and creating physical connections on campus, Andover creates a new “path to the future.”

24 The 2016 Claude M. Fuess Award

Ai-Jen Poo ’92, founder of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, receives Andover’s highest honor in recognition of her advocacy on behalf of domestic caregivers.

7 Dateline Andover 13 The World Comes to Andover 14 On Course 16 Sports Talk 18 From the Archives 38 Philanthropy Highlights 40 Connection

26 A Fond Farewell

42 Andover Bookshelf

The 2016 class of retiring faculty members features six individuals whose impact reaches far beyond Andover Hill.

44 The Buzz 45 Class Notes

34 The Brace Center at 20

In 1996, PA undertook a groundbreaking initiative by creating the Brace Center for Gender Studies. Twenty years later, the center continues to provide crucial programming, research, and discussions about this important topic.

105 In Memoriam 108 Tales Out of School Close-Ups 67 Rocky Chin ’65

An Activist Ahead of His Time

97 Sarah Sherman ’04

Mission to Mars Dream Launched at PA

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FROM THE EDITOR SUMMER 2016 Volume 109 Number 3 PUBLISHER Tracy M. Sweet Director of Academy Communications EDITOR Allyson Irish Director of Editorial & Creative Services DESIGNER Ken Puleo Art Director MANAGING EDITOR & CLASS NOTES EDITOR Jane Dornbusch CLASS NOTES DESIGNER Sally Abugov CLASS NOTES COORDINATOR Laura MacHugh CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Alessandra Bianchi, Jill Clerkin, Seyi Fayanju ’01, John Gould, Victoria Harnish, Corrie Martin, Adam Roberts, Tracy Sweet PHOTOGRAPHERS Jill Clerkin, Keziban Barry ’02, Neil Evans, David Flash, John Hurley, Emma Kaufmann-LaDuc ’17, Mabel Lee P’04, Gil Talbot, Jessie Wallner, David White © 2016 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

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How can you measure the effectiveness of a teacher? Strong test scores? A waiting list for classes? Consistently receiving five stars on ratemyteachers.com?

Countless hours have been spent studying the topic of teacher assessments and there are many views. But I would argue that one of the most important criteria for measuring a teacher’s effectiveness is impact, both on students and on the institution at which they teach. Retiring PA English instructor Seth Bardo addressed this very topic in Cochran Chapel during this year’s Baccalaureate, reflecting on what he will take from Andover—and on what he will leave behind—after teaching for 35 years.

Teaching, said Bardo, is a profession that provides delayed gratification. “Most often, as teachers we learn about our impact on our students, if at all, in unexpected ways—some immediate, others years later.”

This year’s six retiring teachers certainly have had an immense impact on thousands of students and colleagues, as well as on the Academy itself. Beginning on page 26, we profile these remarkable individuals and share personal stories of gratitude from their former students. Alumni recall meeting with counselor Max Alovisetti at difficult times and cite their appreciation for his calm and positive manner. They remember Bardo’s quirky attire and difficult classes and Kathleen Dalton’s tenacious scholarship and compelling classroom discussions. Many stories came in extolling Marc Koolen’s humor, running prowess, and his love of birds. Chris Walter is celebrated for his deep knowledge and love of music, while Steve Carter had a hand in almost every teaching, athletic, and administrative function during his 36 years at Andover.

As you all know, Andover is very challenging. Add to that academic rigor the difficulties of living away from home and the dramatic swells of adolescence, and sometimes it can feel downright impossible. That is why the relationships formed with adults on campus are so critically important. Faculty here are teachers first, but as these stories show, they are so much more.

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Content Created with Alumni in Mind Andover has always been known for innovation—in its curriculum, its pedagogy, and in its graduates. That is why we are looking to you, our alumni, to help us identify the next chapter of Andover magazine.

In this spirit of innovation, we are looking to provide PA alums with the most exciting news and information about Andover, delivered in the best format.

And what better way to understand your wants and needs than to ask you?

Please take a few moments to access and fill out this survey, available at http://tinyurl.com/z7cxatn. The survey also will be e-mailed to alumni.

No need to take the survey twice; please use whichever format you are most comfortable with. The results of this survey will be used to guide our decisions as we seek to identify and deliver the best content. We look forward to your responses.

Cover: Alexa Rodriguez Pagano ’16 takes part in Andover’s Take Back the Night event. Read more on page 34. Photo by Gil Talbot

TO TH E E DITO R

To the editor: I read with interest the articles in each issue of the magazine and continue to be amazed by the activities and programs offered to the students and very impressed by the accomplishments and lives of the alumni.

—Nancy Donnelly Bliss ’54 Brunswick, Maine To the editor: I would like to congratulate you on the most enjoyable Andover magazine I have ever read [winter 2016 issue]. As a member of PA Class of ’72 I have certainly seen a lot of them, and this issue was by far the best.

Andrew Olson ’72 Las Vegas, Nev. To the editor: I thought your article on The Nest, a makerspace at PA [winter 2016 issue] was lacking in substance.

There was only a very shallow definition offered of what a “makerspace” actually is, little to nothing said about the technology involved, and no attempt to describe the process that presumably moves from statement of the problem to program design to gathering of resources to final product to distribution.

Can you identify the campus location of the item below?

The article was rather breathless in its assertions about “speed and simplicity,” “connected learning,” branding, the creation of a “vibrant, exciting, and creative environment,” creating a logo, something called “design thinking,” “inspirational words and phrases,” and “puttering around.” I hope that I am not being too harsh in calling this puffery.

—Judson Brown ’65 Northampton, Mass..

If you think you know, send your answer to:

To the editor: I’m getting more and more confused. Maybe it started back around 1950, when balsa models were rapidly phased out and replaced with plastic models that re-created every last detail. The magic of transforming delicate pieces of die-cut wood and paper into objects that, with some visual forgiveness, represented the awesome gadgets operated by big people was replaced by a different kind of magic—something that provided greater detail than anything that could be approximated with wood, paper, and glue but obscured the underlying physics of structure.

What is this 3-D printer [“Making Ideas Possible,” winter 2016 issue]? It’s all the rage. Someone transforms computer code into a physical—ah, I missed that boat way back when they told me that x equals the number of oranges, when clearly it doesn’t.

For the computer code to give the object the necessary strength to be functional, the person writing the code must be able to transform all the probable stresses into numerical values for the strength of the material, which used to involve judgments like “Probably don’t want to use that one; the grain isn’t straight, and the knot goes all the way through.” Too big a subject for 200 words.

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No winner of the winter 2016 Macro Mystery

Jill Clerkin

The only tiny note that caught my eye was the story on the musical Hairspray. I didn’t realize the Academy orchestra was no longer up to handling a big musical production and that three members of the student body sat in with a professional band. In “my day” (long, long ago), of course, things were different. Things do change!

It would have been nice to have been presented with examples of social, economic, or environmental issues students have determined can be effectively addressed with the technology at hand. It would have been instructive to learn how a project is actually taken from concept to application.

Macro Mystery

Jill Clerkin

I just returned from the Abbot campus, where I spent a wonderful day with classmates, other Abbot alums, and present PA students as we participated in the program honoring the 20th anniversary of the Brace Center for Gender Studies. Gender equality continues to be a much-discussed topic.

Therefore, I was struck by the lack of press for Emma Goldstein ’09 in the article “Running the City” [winter 2016 issue]. I felt that there could have been more written about her time at PA, her accomplishments, and her background, giving her the same attention her well-accomplished [male] schoolmates received.

We are told that “good ideas can move fast,” but we don’t hear much about what those “ideas” actually might be, other than swift. There is no theory offered and little said about actual content.

You may have encountered this osseous personage (rumored to have been pals with George, the resident ghost) in the old Isham Health Center. He or she is likely enjoying brighter days in the new Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center.

—Bob Sanderson ’60 Marion, Mass.

Letters to the Editor Policy Andover magazine welcomes letters of 200 words or fewer from members of the Andover community addressing topics that have been discussed in the magazine. Letters will be edited for clarity, length, and civility. Opinions expressed in the Letters to the Editor section do not necessarily represent the viewpoints of the editorial staff or of Phillips Academy.

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warm, sunny day and an expanse of green lawn drew three Andover students out to sit on the base of the Armillary Sphere this spring. “We had a seventh period free, and the weather was so nice, so we sat outside to do our English reading. We were reading Cannery Row

by John Steinbeck,“ says Molly Katarincic ’18, pictured at left with friends Thomas Glover ’18 and Olivia Brokaw ’18.

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From the Head of School

STANDING UP AND STANDING OUT FOR ALL I am certain that Donna Brace Ogilvie ’30 was with our community in spirit as a large group assembled at Samuel Phillips Hall April 21 to make a statement against relationship violence and sexual assault. Take Back The Night (TBTN), a nationwide movement to heighten awareness and empower survivors, has been observed for decades at colleges and universities, but this year was different. Guided by Drs. Flavia Vidal and Tasha Hawthorne, codirectors of the Brace Center for Gender Studies, Andover was the only secondary school to take part on this night.

Hundreds of students, faculty, and staff turned out for the event.

Led by candlelight, they marched from Sam Phil to the Abbot Circle. They read poetry and cited statistics that tell us there is still much work to be done to make our campuses and communities free from sexual violence. I could not be more proud of their efforts and of this event—one of many that stand out in the center’s rich history.

Consider the heady topics researched by Andover students under the banner of the Brace Center, and you understand why their presentations pack the room and often finish with a standing ovation: Abbot’s cultural and artistic influence on coeducation, reclaiming masculinity in ballet, a proposal for all-gender housing on campus, and gender fluidity in baroque opera. Some students have even had their work published.

When Mrs. Ogilvie made a generous gift to establish the center in 1996, she sought to honor the history of Abbot Academy in a forward-leaning way. Although she was already a tenacious advocate for girls on our campus and across the country, it was important to her that this new center welcome all and not serve exclusively as an enclave for girls and women. We applaud that prescient thinking today, especially as we consider the many complex issues facing schools, our states, and our nation. Debates surrounding gender identity, limitations of the gender binary, the importance of Title IX beyond sports, and the pressures of masculinity facing teenage boys are just a few examples.

TBTN is just one of the many initiatives—faculty research, student scholarship, and peer-school conferences are a few others—that demonstrate the serious and important work supported We lost Donna Brace Ogilvie last fall at the age of 105. As we by the Brace Center. Standing up and standing out is exactly what celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Brace Center this year, her the center has done for two decades. In its current iteration, it exlegacy shines brightly—across gender lines. pands on its original role as a campus hub for scholarly research on gender issues and brings the Equity and Inclusion mandate of our Strategic Plan to bear on all aspects of our students’ experience.

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Clockwise from lower left: Students packing groceries for The Future Isn’t Hungry; sorting and measuring trash at the Non Sibi Weekend waste audit; and helping prepare the Abbot Phillips Community Garden for spring planting

Photos by Neil Evans and Jessie Wallner

Non Sibi Weekend As part of another successful Non Sibi Weekend in April, hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and alumni took part in community outreach efforts on campus and around the globe.

“Non Sibi Weekend carves out time and space for our community to learn beyond the classroom and to see how our partners are tirelessly addressing community-identified needs every single day,” says Monique Cueto-Potts, director of the Office of Community Engagement. Although Non Sibi Weekend constitutes a very important annual event, community engagement, says Cueto-Potts, is truly a meaningful year-round effort for many at Andover.

Non Sibi 2016 Stats 1,400 number of participants 25 projects 9 states 3 continents 34 community partners 9 new community partners* *Binky Patrol, Community Giving Tree, Gaining Ground, Merrimack River Watershed Council, Salem Sound Coastwatch, Daily Table, The Future Isn’t Hungry, Hands on Hartford, and Rosie’s Place

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Faculty Honored

Jessie Wallner

At the winter meeting of the Board of Trustees, five faculty members were awarded instructorships and foundations. The recipients are, from left, Pat Davison, Jonathan French Foundation; Paul Murphy ’84, Class of 1915/ Garrigues Foundation; Megan Paulson, Frederic S. Allis Jr. Instructorship in History; Peter Merrill, Alfred Earnest Stearns Foundation; and Catherine Tousignant ’86, Cecil F.P. Bancroft Foundation. Congratulations to all!

Andover Hires New Outreach & Summer Session Director Beth Friedman joined PA May 9 as the new director of Outreach and Summer Session. With more than 15 years of experience in teaching, academic administration, and educational consulting, Friedman succeeds Fernando Alonso, who will become the Academy’s new dean of administration and finance, effective July 1.

“I am incredibly excited to work with a community of passionate, committed educators to leverage the resources of an institution like Andover for the creation of greater opportunities for all students,” says Friedman.

Friedman will oversee Phillips Academy’s five-week Summer Session, one of the nation’s top summer academic enrichment programs for students entering grades 8–12.

Summer Session, which welcomes both boarding and day students, is

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held on the PA campus for students from across the country and around the world. She also will manage Andover’s four distinct outreach programs: (MS)2, PALS, Andover Bread Loaf, and the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT).

Friedman most recently was senior project manager at SchoolWorks, an educational consulting company that has worked with clients such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the New York State Education Department. From 2004 to 2011, she worked at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester, Mass., first as a teacher and advisor and then as the Lower School principal. She also held the positions of assistant dean of admission and assistant dean of preparation and placement at The Steppingstone Foundation in Boston.

Friedman is on the board of the Bridge Boston Charter School and the Academics Committee of the KIPP Philadelphia Charter Schools. She has a BA degree with a dual major in English and psychology and a concentration in women’s and gender studies from Williams College, and an MEd degree in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University.

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Summertime, and the campus is busy Andover students—and many faculty—may be off pursuing other adventures, but campus does not sit idle during the summer months. Between Summer Session and the various outreach programs—IRT (the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers), PALS, (MS)2, and Andover Bread Loaf—Andover is alive with scholarship, inquiry, and fun.

meals served including: Turkey Burgers

384 lbs.

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673 beds in 35 dorms Required to accommodate summer students

840 lbs.

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Number of states represented

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Total number of summer students including Andover Bread Loaf, IRT, (MS)2, PALS, and Summer Session

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Summer at the Addison Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of the American Television Through July 31 Avant-garde art shaped the look and content of American television in its formative years, from the 1940s through the mid-1970s, and in turn, television introduced the public to the latest trends in art and design. Presenting more than 260 art objects and clips, Revolution of the Eye investigates how artists fascinated with this brash new medium and its technological possibilities contributed to network programs and design campaigns; appeared on television to promote modern art; and explored, critiqued, or absorbed the new medium in their work. This dialogue between high art and television is revealed through a selection of fine art and graphic designs by artists such as Saul Bass, Alexander Calder, Georgia O’Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Eero Saarinen, Ben Shahn, and Andy Warhol as well as ephemera, television memorabilia, and clips from significant television programs, including Batman, The Ed Sullivan Show, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, and The Twilight Zone.

Batman and Robin, 1966. Image provided by 20th Century Fox/The Kobal Collection at Art Resource, New York

Walls and Beams, Rooms and Dreams: Images of Home Through July 31 The words “house” and “home” carry powerful associations. While “house” refers to a physical structure meant for habitation and shelter, the meaning of “home” is infinitely varied, complex, and evocative. As containers for living, the forms that the house and the home take are as varied as the human desires they hold. The historic and contemporary paintings, prints, photographs, and drawings from the Addison’s collection presented in this exhibition give evidence of the multiple types of dwellings that humans have constructed for themselves, the many ways in which those spaces are inhabited, and the wide range of emotions and associations attached to them.

Sam Cady, Moved House Being Rebuilt, 1983, oil on canvas, museum purchase, 1987.39

Selections from the Permanent Collection Through July 31

FALL 2016

This exhibition presents some of the most well-known and loved paintings from the museum’s rich permanent collection. Works by artists such as Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Jackson Pollock, John Singer Sargent, Charles Sheeler, and John Sloan will be on view together in one gallery.

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Albert Bierstadt, The Coming Storm, 1869, oil on board, gift of Mrs. Leon Bascom

Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman This traveling exhibition, organized by the NewYork Historical Society, presents approximately 100 objects from the Nadelmans’ collection, along with several examples of Elie Nadelman’s “modern” sculpture.

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

FLOATING ON A SPRING BREEZE

Emma Kaufmann-LaDuc '17

Beauty, grace, color, and harmony filled Tang Theatre in late February, when the theatre and dance department, in collaboration with the music department, presented an evening of contemporary dance featuring members of the Andover Dance Group and the Academy Chamber Orchestra. The centerpiece of the show was the iconic Martha Graham/Aaron Copland ballet Appalachian Spring, reimagined by instructor and chair in theatre and dance Judith Wombwell.

Rounding out the program were Dreams of Terpsichore, choreographed

by Janice Cheon ’16 and set to music by Charles Stacy ’16; Equal and Opposite, choreographed by Wombwell; and Take 507, choreographed by instructor in theatre and dance Erin Strong.

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Racquet-Raising Exploits

Photos (clockwise from left): Athletic director Leon Modeste and Head of School John Palfrey; West Point cadet Alexi Bell ’13; Pentatonix beatboxer Kevin Olusola ’06; NECN meteorologist Matt Noyes ’96; and muppets Beaker and Bunsen (with help from their friend Brian Henson ’82)

Rarely has a racquet caused such a racket. At exactly 5:30 p.m. on February 15, Head of School John Palfrey raised his exalted blue squash racquet in Paresky Commons and announced Head of School Day. The annual surprise day off from classes is greeted with excitement by students and recalled with much affection by alumni. Take a look at the myriad sightings of the “traveling squash racquet” and relive the moment on Instagram or Twitter at #HOSD2016.

BRACE CENTER CELEBRATION On April 9, the Brace Center for Gender Studies celebrated its 20th anniversary with a day of special programming and performances (see related story on page 34). Abbot alumnae and other friends of the center came to campus to hear a Brace Student Fellow presentation by Erica Nork ’16, share Abbot oral histories, enjoy an Abbot tea, watch a Drama Lab production of plays written by Abbot students, and laud the forward-thinking center as a crucial space for gender research and discussion.

Jill Clerkin

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TH E WO R LD C O MES TO ANDOVER

Dr. Jane Goodall

World-Renowned Primatologist

Jessie Wallner

As she began her April 8 presentation in the full-to-capacity Cochran Chapel, Dr. Jane Goodall speculated, “This is the first time in this lovely chapel that you’ve heard a voice other than a human voice.” To the delight of the crowd, the eminent primatologist then let fly, mimicking the grunts and shrieks that constitute the greeting of a chimpanzee. The audience’s attention never wavered during the 90-minute talk as Goodall shared her personal history, her experiences studying chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park, and her urgent calls to action on behalf of the environment.

During her British wartime childhood, Goodall saved up her pocket money to buy an intriguing secondhand book: Tarzan of the Apes (written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, PA Class of 1894). “I fell passionately in love with this glorious lord of the jungle,” Goodall recounted, adding, “What did he do? He married the wrong Jane!” She went on, “This is when my dream began: I will grow up, I will go to Africa, I will live with wild animals, and I will write books about them.”

And though, she says, everyone laughed at the very notion, through pluck and determination she ultimately proved the doubters wrong.

The presentation was sponsored by Joe Tatelbaum ’78, who was on hand to introduce Goodall. Tatelbaum described his work with Goodall’s Roots & Shoots initiative in China and expressed the hope that Goodall’s visit would “inspire each of us to be our better selves.”

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Robert Pinsky

On March 31, danah boyd, noted social media scholar, researcher, and author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, visited campus to speak about the challenges facing young people as they navigate a networked world. She explored some of the major issues raised by social media, including privacy and online cruelty. Her visit also included a lunchtime conversation with students.

The Jewish Student Union kicked off Jewish Cultural Weekend January 29 by sponsoring a talk, titled “Jewish Imagination,” by acclaimed poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator Robert Pinsky. A professor in the English department at Boston University and former U.S. poet laureate, Pinsky is the author of 19 books, most of which are collections of his poetry.

Social Media Scholar

Stephen Prothero

Religious Studies Professor On February 5, Dr. Stephen Prothero, author, commentator, and professor of religion at Boston University, addressed the PA community in a talk called “Religious Literacy and Religious Diversity: How to Talk (and Think) about the ‘R’ Word in Public.”

Katarina Wong Artist

As part of World Interfaith Harmony Week, award-winning Cuban-Chinese-American artist Katarina Wong visited campus February 3 to present a talk called “Cuba, China, and the World Between.” The event was part of an interfaith awareness initiative sponsored by several organizations on campus.

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Roxane Gay Author

Editor, professor, blogger, and author Roxane Gay received wide acclaim for her 2014 debut novel, An Untamed State. In her work and her March 24 talk on campus, Gay discussed the multiplicity of identities and themes in pop culture.

Moustafa Bayoumi Author

The war on terror and the presidential election were among the topics addressed by Moustafa Bayoumi, author of This Muslim American Life, during his March 31 visit to PA. An English professor at Brooklyn College, Bayoumi is also author of the critically acclaimed How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America.

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here’s snow on the ground and the temperature hovers in the 20s, but the atmosphere inside Room 109 couldn’t be warmer this January afternoon. Sunshine streams through the windows lighting up the 25 elementary school students sitting snugly in a circle, clasping clipboards and, at alternating decibels, sharing their thoughts.

“I feel frozen and joyful.”

“I feel amazed.”

“I feel wind in my face.”

“I hear at night some grasshoppers and my baby sister sing a song.”

With each statement, a fluttering of congratulatory finger-snapping ricochets around the room—an act that makes the students smile, for the

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gesture feels more genuine and pleasingly illicit than standard applause.

Precisely 12 minutes earlier, as he does each week, Bernieri had given the young Lawrence students a writing The students in Room 109, who are prompt. Today’s was “In the wintercheerfully writing, sharing, and snaptime in Lawrence, I see ____ and I see ping, are second-graders at South ____. I hear ____ and I hear ____.

Lawrence East, where Andover stuI feel ____.” The PA students in the dents work each week as writing menroom knew this prompt was inspired tors with 150 children. The high school

by Walt Whitman, the “grandfather of students are part of English 501AB spoken poetry.” Just a few days prior, Writing and Teaching to Change the in Bulfinch Hall, they had completed World, a new senior elective taught by a similar writing exercise imitating Tang fellows Louis Bernieri, longtime Whitman’s style: PA English instructor and Andover Bread Loaf outreach program founder, “I hear the mad scratching of graphite and Monique Cueto-Potts, Office of on the thin-lined paper.”

Community Engagement (OCE) direc“I see the spare look of the farmer as he tor. Novel in format, the course is a hopes to keep his crops alive.” collaboration among PA’s Department of English, OCE, the Lawrence Public “I see banana pancakes in my near Schools, and other Lawrence commu- future.” nity organizations.

PA students and instructors worked with second-graders in a Lawrence classroom as part of Writing and Teaching to Change the World. From the top: Tim Ossowski ’16, Angela Dolan ’16, English instructor Lou Bernieri, and Katherine Wang ’17.

PA students have found Writing and Teaching to Change the World to be an exciting and challenging departure from their typical classes.

“On the first day of class, we participated in a writing workshop,” recalls Lily Augus ’16. “I’ve learned the importance of sharing work, of getting feedback from peers, and of embracing my raw written work, knowing that there is always room for improvement. Mr. Bernieri and Ms. Cueto-Potts have high expectations but without high pressure.”

The logistics of meeting weekly in Lawrence brings its own challenges such as bus transportation and photo releases for each youngster. However, the purpose of the course—to build an educational bridge between these two communities—far outweighs the difficulties and brings numerous benefits to kids in Lawrence and Andover alike.

PA students hone their writing skills, learn about educational theory and practice, and have the opportunity to share this knowledge—in an ageappropriate manner—with the secondgraders in Lawrence.

“There’s an educational and environmental divide in America now,” says Bernieri. “This course enables both the Phillips and Lawrence kids to see that deep down, they are not much different from one another.” Bernieri attributes his lifelong interest in urban education to growing up in an immigrant community in Brooklyn, N.Y. Similarly, CuetoPotts has focused her professional life on issues of educational equity and social justice. A former public school teacher in New York City and Lynn, Mass., she now relishes helping PA

students figure out the roles that community engagement and activism will play throughout their lives.

Veteran Lawrence second-grade teacher Kathleen Loughlin, who has collaborated on community writing programs with Bernieri for more than 25 years, says this class allows her students “to use their own ideas, to have a voice in their writing, and to not be afraid. The benefits carry over to their other work. They’re much more ready and confident,” she says.

“Getting PA students out of the Andover bubble is a win-win.

The Andover kids end up learning as much as the Lawrence students.”

—Lou Bernieri

PA English instructor and Andover Bread Loaf program founder

On this January afternoon, as if on cue, one of the second-graders illustrates the teacher’s point magnificently.

Dressed in a silver glittery T-shirt, navy skirt, and a bright lavender sweater cinched at her waist, 8-year-old Arianni boldly reads aloud her writing for the day. Her last line concludes: “I feel free to be unique.”  Alessandra Bianchi is a lifelong learner and writer based in Marblehead, Mass.

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SP ORTS TALK

“I learned how to believe in myself through the sport and Sorota’s coaching. He showed us that, with determination and dedication, we could succeed.”

—Steve Snyder ’56

Back On Track Legendary Sprinter Helps Fund New Facility

by Adam Roberts onstruction of Andover’s new 96,000-square-foot athletic facility, the Snyder Center, will begin this summer. But it was really 64 years ago that the true work began, with the record-setting track career of a fleet-footed ninth-grader who would eventually become varsity track captain.

A 1956 alumnus, Snyder recently made a leadership gift to fund the new athletic facility, which will open in 2017 and will stand as a fitting tribute to one of Andover’s most enduring sports legends.

“Steve Snyder is a legendary athlete here,” says current track and field coach Rebecca Hession. “The new 200-meter track inside the Snyder Center (see story on page 38) will present a fantastic opportunity for our athletes to train at the collegiate level. We can’t begin to express our gratitude for his vision and generosity.”

When Snyder joined the squad in 1952 as a junior, Andover already had enjoyed a rich history in track and field, which in 1878 became the school’s third major sport, joining football and baseball. Its debut featured two events: the one-mile run and the running high jump. By the time of Andover’s first interscholastic meet with Exeter on June 12, 1889, there were nine events. Andover prevailed 6–3, marking the beginning of the third major athletic rivalry with “the boys from New Hampshire.”

Andover was tapped to host the following year but lacked the facilities. The student body deplored the state of affairs: “Track and gymnastics are restricted for lack of a running track and an adequate gymnasium,” lamented The Phillipian. That fall, the school’s Football Committee reported a surplus of $454.57, which was put toward construction of a new track, estimated to cost $700.

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Boys’ Swimming & Diving: Won its sixth New England Championship in 10 seasons. Darren Ty ’16, Marcello Rossi ’16, Nick Isenhower ’18, and Christian Alberga ’17 set new pool and school records in the 200 freestyle relay. Jack Warden ’19 set a new junior record in the 100 butterfly.

Jacob Hudgins ’19 set a new junior record in the 100 breaststroke.

Alberga set a new upper record in the 50 freestyle.

Girls’ Basketball: Emma Kelley ’17 was named to All-Area “Super Team” by the Eagle-Tribune.

Wrestling: Won the team title at the 2016 USA Wrestling Massachusetts State Girls’ Folkstyle Wrestling Tournament.

Opposite page: Steve Snyder ’56 wins the 40-yard dash.

Above: Architectural renderings of the new squash courts.

Right: Steve Snyder ’56.

Nordic Skiing: Carmen Bango ’16 was league champion for the second year in a row and finished second overall at the NEPSAC Championships.

Boys’ Basketball: Danny Evans ’16 was named All-NEPSAC, and Sam Jefferson ’16 earned an honorable mention.

Girls’ Hockey: Charlotte Welch ’18 was named Division 1, Second Team All-NEPSAC.

The price tag ultimately reached $1,134.88, and construction took two years to complete.

In 1891, when Andover hosted Exeter in its brand-new facility, the boys in blue again emerged victorious 46–44, with a new scoring system awarding prizes to second- and third-place finishers.

The facility remained unchanged until fall 1919, when a new wooden track was laid out behind Borden Gymnasium. That same year, a 30-year run of record-breaking performances began under Coach Ray “Shep” Shepard. Another milestone occurred in November 1923, when Case Memorial Cage became available for indoor racing, allowing for the formation of the school’s first full-fledged winter track team. By the time of his retirement in 1949, Shep’s varsity teams had defeated Exeter 26 times.

Soon afterward, junior Snyder, who was described by The Phillipian in 1954 as “PA’s skinny sprintman,” and Coach Steve Sorota continued this success. Formerly Andover’s head football coach, Sorota had been assisting Shep in track and field since 1937. Under Sorota’s tutelage, Snyder would become an eight-letter varsity track star and join the ranks of the fastest sprinters in PA history, smashing the school’s 40-yard-dash record, which had stood for 32 years. Snyder’s record of 4.5 seconds still holds today.

ALUMNI HEADLINES Cory Schneider ’04 of the New Jersey Devils was named to the NHL All-Star Team. Schneider was also named to USA Team, which will compete in the World Cup of Hockey this fall.

Tom Palleschi ’12, playing basketball for Tufts, earned NABC and D3Hoops.com All-Region honors.

Giovanna Pickering ’13, playing basketball for Babson, earned D3Hoops All-Region honors. Pickering was also named to the NEWMAC AllConference First Team for the second year in a row.

Ryder Gamsey ’15, at Notre Dame, was named ACC Lacrosse Freshman of the Year.

“I learned how to believe in myself through the sport and Sorota’s coaching,” says Snyder.

“He showed us that, with determination and dedication, we could succeed.” 

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F R O M THE AR C HIV ES

A vision of beauty and orderliness

The man who transformed the landscape of Andover

by Victoria Harnish

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he triangular building with the limestone façade was considered the embodiment of American capitalism during the 1920s. Inside 23 Wall Street, home to financial giant J.P. Morgan, banker Thomas Cochran III, Class of 1890, spent countless hours planning for a renaissance 200 miles north at his beloved Phillips Academy.

Nearly 100 years ago, Cochran devised and carried out what would now be considered a wholesale campus master plan. In the span of 13 years, from 1923 to 1936, Cochran facilitated a transformation that included the demolition of four buildings, the relocation

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of seven, and the creation of several iconic Andover structures: George Washington Hall (1926), Samuel Phillips Hall (1928), Paul Revere House and the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library (1929), Commons (now called Paresky Commons) and the Andover Inn (1930), the Addison Gallery of American Art (1931), and Cochran Chapel (1932).

From his office at J.P. Morgan, often on weekends, Cochran penned many letters to PA headmaster and classmate Alfred Stearns during the 1920s and ’30s. Many of these letters included detailed descriptions of Andover

projects that Cochran was funding or wanted to fund. “Progress is always simple if we have saneness and courage,” wrote the self-assured Cochran to Stearns. “The main point is to have wise judgment. The putting it into effect is easy.”

Born to well-to-do parents, Cochran was a rising star at J.P. Morgan and enjoyed a comfortable life in the city until his life took a tragic turn. His wife died at age 42 after only four years of marriage, and their only child did not survive past her first night. Cochran never remarried, instead focusing his energies on his alma mater. Phillips

Academy became his child of sorts, and he donated $10 million to transform the campus into a precisely curated display of Colonial Revival architecture.

Though he had made financial contributions to Andover after graduation, Cochran became deeply engaged after his 1923 election to the Andover Board of Trustees. He initially focused on what he considered vital improvements to Andover—“books, music, art, scholarship, religion”—but eventually moved to building projects.

After each visit to Andover, Cochran wrote to Stearns about his campus vision, asking for a house to be moved or a new structure to be added. “We’re building here for a thousand years,” he once told PA treasurer and classmate Jim Sawyer.

Class of 1900, and designed by famed landscape architectural firm Olmsted Brothers. Cochran also was instrumental in building the Log Cabin and assisting with negotiations with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to widen Main Street and construct the Route 125 bypass, thus reducing traffic through campus.

While Cochran was the sole donor for certain projects, he aggressively reached out to alumni to help fund others, often scheduling appointments for Stearns to meet with top prospects and ensuring each project was endowed. “To me, as I ponder over it,

Nearly 100 years ago, Thomas Cochran III devised and carried out what would now be considered a wholesale campus master plan.

When Cochran had an idea, he moved on it quickly and decisively. Standing on the steps of Samuel Phillips Hall one morning in 1928, Cochran and renowned American architect Charles Platt reviewed their plans. Platt voiced concern that Tucker House was blocking the western view of the vista. “Very well,” responded Cochran, waving his hand imperiously. “We’ll have it moved it is a crying shame that a school with at once!”

148 years of history has made such Claude Fuess, at the time a PA instruc- little material progress,” he wrote to tor (and later headmaster), received Stearns in 1926. “I am convinced that notification the next day that his three- the only reason that this is so is because story residence would be placed on help has not been asked for in the right rollers and moved within the week— way and persistently enough.” at a cost of more than $20,000, which Although his focus on Andover seemed Cochran provided. “The impulsiveobsessive at times, Cochran had a ness with which Tom reached and broader goal: He wanted PA to be the announced his decisions was startling to more pedestrian souls,” wrote Fuess model for other secondary schools across the nation to improve their in his book Independent Schoolmaster. educational offerings and support their Cochran conceptualized the 150-acre faculty. For that reason, he wanted the bird sanctuary, which was named Academy’s sesquicentennial celebrain honor of his brother Moncrieff, tion to be newsworthy.

“Of course we must have the president,” he declared. “I’ll see to it that he comes.” It is said that Calvin Coolidge made one of the most rousing speeches of his career on the steps of Samuel Phillips Hall on May 18, 1928.

Cochran’s final building project was Cochran Chapel, named in memory of his parents and built in 1932. The interior, barrel-vaulted and colonnaded with carved oak paneling, suggests the late 17th-century English Baroque style of Christopher Wren, one of Great Britain’s most highly acclaimed architects.

Cochran began sliding into the grip of debilitating depression in the early 1930s and eventually was unable to return to PA. At the same time, his comrades’ involvement with PA waned: Stearns left Andover in 1933 and Platt died that same year. On October 29, 1936, Cochran succumbed to a heart attack.

Despite his personal challenges and sometimes overly tenacious temperament, Cochran succeeded in his goal of creating an orderly and beautiful campus that continues to this day to be enjoyed by students, faculty, staff, and countless visitors.

In a 1937 book honoring Cochran, Fuess wrote, “The towers and pillared porticoes on Andover Hill stand today as his memorial, and every Andover undergraduate for many years to come will profit because of his energizing, farseeing, unconquerable spirit.”  Victoria Harnish is an advancement communications professional currently serving as executive director of donor relations at UMass Lowell.

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Andover’s path to the future

The 2016 Campus Master Plan Recently approved by the Board of Trustees, the new Campus Master Plan (the first since 1996) honors the history of the school by affirming the landscape and organizational concepts introduced nearly 100 years ago by the Olmsted brothers and Charles Platt’s “Ideal Andover” vision and realized by Thomas Cochran III (see page 18). At the same time, A Path to the Future lays out a vision to support Andover’s 21st-century living and learning experience.

Guided by the firm Beyer Blinder Belle, Andover pursued a full-year process of discovery and conversations that included energetic engagement with students, staff, and faculty as the community imagined how the campus will evolve to meet future needs.

The resulting 15-year plan is based on five guiding principles that serve as a framework for decisionmaking about the near- and long-term physical development of the campus.

A comprehensive set of strategies touches on all aspects of campus life: • A sustainable and accessible campus footprint • Connections that integrate places and programs • Reinvigorating the architectural fabric of the community • A diversity of places for interaction and student-centered activity • A diversity of residential experiences throughout campus Highlighted as important themes are connections and sustainability. For example, parts of the plan call for adaptive reuse of existing buildings vs. new construction and resources focused on a sustainable campus footprint. The plan also emphasizes connections: to enhance programming, improve safety, more effectively integrate various far-flung areas of campus, and encourage walking and contact with nature.

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Enhance Phillips Academy's unique sense of place, guiding the evolution of its built and natural environments to support contemporary priorities while affirming the historic character of the campus.

For a copy of the Campus Master Plan, visit www.andover.edu/CMP

2345 Develop the campus footprint using sustainability as a core value for creating an environmentally responsible learning community.

Maximize the potential for campus spaces to enable openness to new pedagogies and programs that foster interaction, inclusion, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Strengthen a system of diverse residential neighborhoods that individually and collectively support a sense of community.

Encourage walking, accessibility, and improved connections to the outdoors that support learning and personal well-being.

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NETWORK OF STUDENT ACTIVITY HUBS In lieu of a single student center, the existing network of student activity hubs is strengthened and expanded.

CULTURAL CORRIDOR A corridor highlighting the arts and culture links existing destinations along Chapel Avenue with the Peabody Museum and a new music and dance building to the west.

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MORSE HALL RENOVATION Relocation of Community and Multicultural Development and student media to George Washington Hall opens up more space for the expanding mathematics, statistics, and computer science program.

OWHL + TANG INSTITUTE Oliver Wendell Holmes Library—the intellectual heart of campus—continues to evolve as a “learning commons” linked to the Tang Institute.

ATHLETIC FACILITIES RENEWAL AND EXPANSION A comprehensive upgrade includes a new field house/squash center, a new pool and gymnasium complex, and extensive renovations within Borden and Memorial gyms.

CIRCULATION AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS Redesign of Main and Salem streets turns these barriers into connectors. An expanded network of pedestrian pathways improves connections to campus destinations and nature.

FACULTY NEIGHBORHOODS A cycle of renewal provides energy-efficient faculty homes in neighborhoods within walking distance of the campus core.

NEW MUSIC AND DANCE BUILDING A new music and dance building provides a spacious, centrally located home for these vibrant programs.

UPDATED CLUSTERS: Abbot and Foxcroft Reaffirming a commitment to the cluster system, the plan envisions new dormitories for Abbot and Foxcroft clusters.

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Changing Policies, Changing Lives

Ai-jen Poo ’92 Receives Fuess Award for Advocacy Work Jessie Wallner

by Jane Dornbusch Head of School John Palfrey and Ai-jen Poo ’92

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i-jen Poo ’92’s advocacy on behalf of domestic workers has garnered her countless awards— including the 2016 Claude Moore Fuess Award, Andover’s highest honor. But she graduated from Andover with a very different career path in mind.

“She was going to be a potter,” recounts Seth Bardo, recently retired English instructor and an important mentor to Poo during her high school years.

Instead, moved by the vital but largely unrecognized contributions of the domestic workers and caregivers she had come to know, Poo plunged into the difficult and demanding work of advocating for their basic rights. She has dedicated her career to elevating domestic workers’ rights issues to the national level, helping to found the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), the country’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in America, most of whom are women.

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of families, caregivers, people with disabilities, and aging Americans working to transform the way we care in this country.

by race and class, or we can present a vision for the future of this country where everyone is part of the solution, and we take care of each other.”

When introducing Poo, Head of School John Palfrey noted that she is “truly the embodiment of non sibi.” Her work, he said, is proof that one person can make a difference in the lives of many.

Bardo, who had advocated for Poo to receive the Fuess Award, was thrilled to see his former student back on Poo visited Andover to accept the Fuess campus and says he saw hints of her Award at All-School Meeting April 27. future achievements while she was At once forceful and low key, Poo at Andover. Poo was one of the few described the stark contrast between students he trusted to watch over his the care her paternal grandfather own young children. “We could see received in a nursing home and the she was a great caretaker.” Today, he care, provided by a domestic worker, says, “To be in her presence is to be that allows her maternal grandmother aware of a larger spirit…. There is a to live comfortably at home at age 90. power that she possesses not unlike that of Martin Luther King Jr. talking We are at a critical moment in our approach to caregiving, she said, with an about nonviolence and altering thousands of lives.” aging baby-boom generation that will soon require the resources and support At Andover, says Bardo, Poo was a of a vast number of caregivers. At this very thoughtful student and a “terrific crucial crossroads, “We can be polarized listener,” but it was only later that she

The Claude Moore Fuess Award

Q First awarded in 1967, the Claude Moore Fuess Award was established at Phillips Academy to honor alumni who embody non sibi through distinguished contributions to public service. Named in honor of Claude Moore Fuess, Phillips Academy headmaster from 1933 to 1948, the award is the highest honor bestowed by the Academy.

really “came into her own being.” She spent a year at Washington University in St. Louis and then transferred to Columbia University, where she earned a degree in women’s and gender studies. At Columbia she began her involvement with social justice causes, working as a hotline volunteer at the New York Asian Women’s Center and becoming involved with the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV).

She cofounded Domestic Workers United in 2000, which in turn led to the formation of NDWA, placing Poo at the forefront of the struggle for domestic workers’ rights.

In 2012, Poo was named to Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World list and to Newsweek’s 150 Fearless Women list; the following year, she was designated a 2013 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. In 2014, Poo was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, cited by the foundation for her “compelling vision,” which is “transforming the landscape of working conditions and labor standards for domestic or private-household

workers” and “catalyzing a movement of respect and improved working conditions for millions of workers.”

“There is a particular brilliance to the spirit of non sibi.

More than ‘not for self,’ non sibi is about how the self is fundamentally interconnected and interdependent with others.”

—Ai-jen Poo ’92

Poo’s experiences at Andover, she says, “played a huge role” in her life choices.

“There is a particular brilliance to the spirit of non sibi. More than ‘not for self,’ non sibi is about how the self is fundamentally interconnected and interdependent with others.”

Asked what’s next for her, Poo says she expects to stay the course and continue to help improve the lives of domestic workers—though, she says, she might add one more pursuit to her busy schedule. “[I may] take up ceramics again, which was a passion of mine at Andover. I must have spent 15 hours per week sitting with Mrs. Bensley in the ceramics studio with my hands and clothes covered in clay. I’m thinking it’s time to get back to that.”  Visit www.andover.edu/fuessaward for a Fuess Award timeline.

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faculty. An exceptional group of educators, these men—and one woman—have many talents: Roosevelt scholar, birder, jazz aficionado, activist, counselor, administrator, veteran. What they share is a love of teaching, a love of scholarship, and a commitment to non sibi in action.

by Allyson Irish

For more information, visit www.andover.edu/retiringfaculty Photos by Dave White

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Max Charles Alovisetti Director of Counseling and Chair, Department of Psychology PA Start Date: 1986 On Meditation: Along with several colleagues, Alovisetti developed the first meditation program for Andover. While on sabbatical in Nepal, he studied at a Tibetan monastery.

Other PA Roles: Counselor, Instructor of Psychology, Wellness Educator Before PA: A special education and elementary school teacher; worked as a U.S. Army civilian child and adolescent psychologist in Frankfurt, Germany

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n December 2015, the beautiful new Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center opened in the center of campus, marking a new era in PA’s commitment to lifelong health and wellness. It was a bittersweet moment for Max Alovisetti, who spent his 30-year PA career counseling students in historic Graham House.

Walking through Graham House during his “official” retirement photo shoot, Alovisetti described how the quirky triangular building had been renovated and rearranged to accommodate the needs of staff and students through the years. Inside his office, the leather chair showed the results of his many counseling sessions, the armrests indented and worn down from use.

Reflecting on his years at Andover, Alovisetti recounted a very difficult time at PA following the tragic loss of a student on campus. Though the experience shook the community to its core, Alovisetti says Andover eventually was “able to weather this crisis and to emerge somewhat battered, but whole and able to go on with life and our tasks as part of this great school.”

This ability to help students address personal crises and move forward in a compassionate manner is what many appreciate most about Alovisetti. One alumna recalled that Alovisetti started a group her senior year comprising students who had lost immediate family members.

“I remember thinking, ‘How weird that Graham House has invited me for a meeting,’” she said. “But that group changed my life. I was in the throes of being angry and upset about the passing of my mother the prior spring and felt like no one could possibly empathize with me. Then there came this group. It gave us a space to feel safe and share, and it made us into a little bit of a family. I have the best memories of that group; it helped me more than anyone knows.”

While he has helped so many through the years, Alovisetti says that he is the one who is appreciative. “During the course of my career, I have been privileged to witness the courage and strength of our students. For that, I am deeply grateful.”

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Seth Burton Bardo English Instructor PA Start Date: 1981 Notable Attire: Cowboy boots Interests: Travel, politics, literature, jazz, history, and bicycling Retirement Plans: Bardo hopes to rent an apartment “somewhere between Boston and Andover” and to volunteer at a program like ScholarMatch, which helps students whose parents have not been to college navigate the application process. He also plans to listen to a lot of jazz— both live and recorded—read books, and spend time with his granddaughter, Greyson.

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clectic. Compassionate. Radical. Creative. Tough.

The list of descriptive words for English instructor Seth Bardo paints the portrait of a teacher many recall fondly as one who encouraged—and sometimes pushed—them to be their best selves.

Former students remembered their teacher’s warmth, compassion, and authenticity: calling a student to offer encouragement after a rough day; sharing his zeal for The New Yorker and homemade calzones; reaching out to a student whose father died during the year.

“Mr. Bardo was a fearlessly bold, inspired, and visionary teacher,” wrote Margot VBS Maltzahn ‘95. “In an ecosystem as intense and unyielding as [Andover’s], however, it was how radically human he was—and how humane—that truly set him apart.”

Bardo fondly recalls raising his children, Jesse ’03, Aaron ’04, and Hannah ’10, on campus with his wife, Sarah. Noting all the work she has done to support PA and her husband’s work, Bardo says of her, “She is a true community participant.” He also acknowledged dear colleagues Diane Moore, Jim Sheldon, Shirley Veenema, Elaine Crivelli, and Aya Murata, with whom he has created lifelong friendships.

Known for his challenging classes and energetic teaching style, Bardo taught English 100, as well as some of the first interdisciplinary courses at PA, including Rosebud and The Essential Gesture. But it was a course dedicated to the Vietnam War that many remember as a pivotal moment in their Andover education.

“My favorite class of all time was a class he taught, Literature from the Vietnam War,” says Ai-jen Poo ’92, labor organizer, founder of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and recipient of the 2016 Claude Moore Fuess Award (see page 24).

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When asked how he thought students would describe him, Bardo replied without hesitation: “As a hard-ass and whimsical.” Those traits certainly shine through in the numerous farewell and congratulatory notes sent in from alumni around the world, who acknowledged how meaningful their former instructor is to them.

“Mr. Bardo has been one of the shaping influences in my life. With his quick wit, keen intelligence, and kind heart, he made my time at Andover unforgettable,” wrote Hannah Beinecke ’12.

Kathleen Mary Dalton Instructor in History and Social Science PA Start Date: 1980 Notable Awards: 2015 McKeen Award with husband E. Anthony Rotundo PA Family: Husband E. Anthony Rotundo, faculty emeritus (instructor in history and social science); daughter Barbara ’00 and son Peter ’05 Retirement Plans: With funding from a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and a Roosevelt Institute grant, Dalton will continue to work on her next book, which focuses on the close friendship that Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt had with Caroline Drayton Phillips and William Phillips (a relative of the PA Phillips family) and William’s role as undersecretary of state and ambassador to Italy during World War II.

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n her 2004 book, Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life, history and social science instructor Kathleen Dalton reveals the stark contradictions in the character and viewpoints of the 26th president, a man continually in pursuit of self-improvement.

A Strenuous Life could just as easily have been the title for Dalton’s own biography and 36-year career at Andover, where she skillfully managed responsibilities as an instructor and house counselor, along with producing an impressive portfolio of writings that included two books on Roosevelt.

Through it all, former students say Dalton was unstinting in the kindness, inspiration, and mentorship she provided.

“I will always remember my American history experiences with Kathy Dalton... [Her ability] to contextualize events from the [distant] past in ways that were relevant to me and my high school classmates and to catalyze passionate discussion was remarkable,” wrote Andrew Frishman ’93. “Most of all I remember Kathy as someone who was kind and compassionate, while maintaining academic focus.”

Roosevelt, and gender issues, and serving in various outside positions, such as visiting associate professor in the history department at Boston University and consulting historian at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site.

For many, however, it was Dalton’s fundamental role in helping to address gender disparities at Andover that stands as her legacy. Dalton authored the school’s first study of the first decade of coeducation at Phillips Academy; A Portrait of a School served as a clarion call for the Academy to address gender issues on campus, and Dalton went on to serve in numerous related leadership roles as cofounder and advisor of the Women’s Forum, coadvisor to the Girls’ Leadership Project, and interim director and codirector of the Brace Center for Gender Studies (see story on page 34).

Sterlind S. Burke Jr. ’00, who took Dalton’s gender relations class, says, “It was so refreshing to be in a class where we could have conversations about topics that typically would not have been discussed in my previous educational environments. Kathy Dalton was, without a doubt, one of my favorite teachers during my time at Andover.”

While at Andover, Dalton continued her own education and scholarship, penning multiple articles on American history,

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Marc Dana Koolen Biology Instructor PA Start Date: 1974 Big Blue Coaching: Varsity Soccer Assistant, JV I Soccer Head Coach, Boys’ CrossCountry Assistant, Varsity Boys’ Basketball Coach, JV Boys’ Squash Coach, JV II Boys’ Lacrosse Coach Response to Bad Behavior in Dorms: “Negative!” or (in dire circumstances) “Extreme Negative!”

Student Nickname: Mr. “Cool”-in!

Retirement Plans: Koolen purchased a home in Rochester, N.H., on the Cocheco River, where he hopes to become involved in local running and conservation organizations.

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f Marc Koolen had not been a teacher, another career option might have been a professional birder, standup comedian, or runner. As it is, the longtime biology instructor merged all of these talents into a remarkable teaching career that had a positive impact on hundreds of students.

In pages of fond recollections, anecdotes, and praise, alumni recalled their former biology instructor as enthusiastic, cool (or “kool”!), and corny, many noting the sing-songy jingle that he created to help them remember the composition of the molecules in a membrane: “Two fatty acids and a GLYC-er-ol!”

After graduating from St. Lawrence University in 1972, Koolen served in the U.S. Army and arrived at Andover in September 1974. Some remember Koolen as a house counselor in Draper Cottage, Nathan Hale House, Adams Hall, Alumni House, Fuess House, and Tucker House. Others recall the enthusiastic, bearded, physically fit cross-country coach: “The sight of Mr. Koolen zipping past me—seemingly 100 years my senior, knee bandaged, mustache twitching in the breeze—encouraged me to press on,” says Jonathan Adler ’08.

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But what Koolen is perhaps best known for is his passion for birds and several bird-related projects at Andover.

With funding from Abbot grants, Koolen was able to refurbish the Greene-Smith Bird Collection in Gelb Science Center and the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, construct the bird blind off Highland Road, and—his favorite—build and install nest boxes on campus. Koolen was specifically hoping to lure back the Eastern bluebird, which had not been documented in Andover since the 1960s. Much to his surprise, the bluebirds did in fact use the nesting boxes and “on one historic day in May 1994, the eggs hatched—all five of them!” For five years, pairs of Eastern bluebirds continued to use the nesting boxes, an accomplishment Koolen calls “truly amazing and heartening for the bird lovers on campus.”

For an instructor who gave so much of himself to Andover, alumni say that his passion and his teachings live on.

“Every time I see a bluebird (or a Steller’s jay—more likely on the West Coast, where I live), I think of him,” wrote Jen Charat ’93.

Christopher Robert Hugh Walter Music Instructor PA Start Date: 1977 French instructor; 1982 music instructor In Recognition: The new Steinway & Sons grand piano in the Timken Room was dedicated to Walter and his years of service in January 2016.

PA Family: Son William ’03 and daughter Sophia ’01 Retirement Plans: Walter is moving to Rockport, Mass., and plans to become involved in the thriving music scene there.

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he year was 2013. Spain. Christopher Walter was leading a PA student trip, with a planned performance at a hospital in Grenada. Unlike the highly organized events Walter typically managed at Andover—up to 60 per year—this was a much simpler affair. The impact, however, was enormous.

“When we started singing in the front lobby, there was hardly anyone there at all, but within 10 minutes the place was jammed with more than 100 people: patients who had left their beds, nurses, and doctors,” says the longtime instructor in music. “I have never witnessed a more appreciative audience in my life. There was no doubting the power of music that day.”

Mr. Walter did was deeply felt. Every singer in the choirs he led, every student in the classes he taught, and every colleague with whom he interacted, student or faculty, knows exactly what I mean.”

During his PA career, Walter coached JV squash, taught French and German, and served as a house counselor and music instructor. He led numerous student music trips to Ireland, Spain, Prague, Budapest, and cities across the United States. He was chair of the music department, director of performance, and director of the Fidelio Society, the oldest music organization on Andover Hill.

Many have a similar feeling about Walter, whose impact on PA students has been substantive and long-lasting.

Walter recalled with delight a 2000 concert with worldfamous cellist Yo-Yo Ma in Cochran Chapel, during which Walter accompanied him on piano for one piece. “It was a musical memory that I will treasure for life,” he says.

“How can I even begin to relate the ways in which Mr. Walter was not only enriching but also central to my time at Andover?” asks Bryan McGuiggin ’15. “Perhaps [Mr. Walter’s] own words, originally used to describe a Schubert piano trio, fit the bill: ‘deeply felt.’ Everything that

Speaking for many alumni, Charmaine Chan ’89 said that Walter’s patience and dedication have been an inspiration.

“When I think of Andover now, a soundtrack of soul-moving music flows through my mind, and he is responsible for a large part of that repertoire.”

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Stephen D. Carter Andover Says Goodbye to a Visionary Leader

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ach weekday morning, Steve Carter has followed the same route on his way to work. Around 8:20 a.m., he leaves his home on School Street and walks south, up the hill. Crossing Main Street, he walks past Cochran Chapel, turns right, and passes through the Elson Courtyard.

Ascending the steps, he watches the morning sun light up the main campus: the iconic Samuel Phillips Hall on the left, the Great Lawn stretching to the right.

It’s a lovely view—one that Carter says he will miss. “I still enjoy my walk to the office each day. It never fails to remind me of how lucky I’ve been to spend most of my career at such a great place,” he says.

How do you summarize the work of a man who has served in nearly every key faculty and administrative post on campus?

During the course of his 36-year tenure at Andover, Carter has been an instructor, coach, house counselor with wife Adele, cluster dean, associate dean of studies, scheduling officer, PA parent, dean of students, dean of faculty, and—most recently—chief operating and financial officer. Carter has been able to see and shape the Academy from a unique vantage point, and those who know him best say he has done so in an amazingly humble, good-humored, and steady manner.

“He has a polymath brain and a big heart,” says former Head of School Barbara Landis Chase. “Steve knows the history, the people, the ins and outs of Andover, every financial policy, every investment, every corner of every classroom building and dorm.”

Carter arrived at Andover as a math instructor in April 1980, three years after earning a master’s degree from Wesleyan University. Carter says his colleagues were supportive and stimulating from the very first day. Early on, he helped rewrite the precalculus curriculum and worked closely with math instructor George Best. Carter helped develop original problems and explanations for teaching materials, and eventually went on to coauthor two math textbooks.

Former students recall Carter as patient, warm, and funny. “I have very fond memories of being in Mr. Carter’s classroom.

Math was always one of my favorite subjects, and Mr. Carter brought it to life for me in a way that very few teachers before him could,” says Keeva McLeod ’97.

Others have similar stories of Carter’s generous nature.

Recalling his first year as head of school, John Palfrey says, “Steve was instrumental in my own Andover education. From the moment I arrived on campus, Steve generously offered historical context for the full sweep of the administrative and academic matters faced by a new head of school.”

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“He has a polymath brain and a big heart. Steve knows the history, the people, the ins and outs of Andover, every financial policy, every investment, every corner of every classroom building and dorm.”

—Barbara Landis Chase former Head of School

Board treasurer Amy Falls ’82 also is appreciative of Carter’s assistance through the years. In 2008, Falls was serving as PA’s first chief investment officer and helping the Academy manage tremendous market volatility due to the global financial crisis. Even during this difficult situation, Falls says Carter brought the right blend of seriousness and good humor.

“I will always remember him for his strength, reliability, keen intellect, and tremendous kindness,” she says.

Carter brought these same qualities to the teams he coached, which included hockey and lacrosse. But he is best known for his contributions as football coach from 1984 to 2015.

Carter, athletic director Leon Modeste, and English instructor Lou Bernieri formed a coaching triumvirate that would see two undefeated football seasons and impact thousands of players. “He kept on coaching, never stopped coaching,” said Modeste. “His heart was always with the football team, and I think that is one of the things that has connected him most to the students.”

Over the years, Modeste has appreciated Carter’s cerebral approach to football as well as his friendship and mentorship.

After Andover defeated Exeter this past fall, Modeste said the team was “on top of the world” but then quickly realized that it was Carter’s last season.

“That didn’t really hit us until recently. Now it’s really hitting us all. Steve’s a part of the fabric here,” says Modeste. “He’s just like this bell tower I’m looking at right now. I can’t imagine Andover without him.” 

Stephen Douglas Carter Chief Operating and Financial Officer PA Start Date: 1980 Key Projects Completed During Tenure: Renovations to Paresky Commons, Andover Inn, Addison Gallery of American Art, and Bulfinch Hall; construction of Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center Favorite Phrase: “Do your job.”

PA Parent: Stephen ’96 and Emily ’00 A Legacy Lives On: PA will name the Snyder Center’s upper lobby after Carter and create an endowed scholarship in his name.

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A Bold Initiative in Gender Studies The Brace Center at 20

by Corrie Martin This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Brace Center for Gender Studies. Founded with a generous gift from Donna Brace Ogilvie ’30 to honor the history of Abbot Academy, the Brace Center has been a catalyst for positive change at Andover, providing an important space for gender research and discussion.

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n a warm April night, hundreds of students and faculty line the steps of Samuel Phillips Hall, spilling out onto the pathway. Candles light their faces as they process through campus, across Route 28, and down School Street.

Along the way they chant: “Shatter the silence, stop the violence. Wherever we go, however we dress, no means no, and yes means yes.”

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Passing under Merrill Gate, they form a ring around the Sacred Circle, where they listen to poems and readings about sexual assault statistics. After a moment of silence, student vocalists begin singing U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Their voices—young and strong—rise over the campus and beyond.

The April 21 “Take Back the Night” event was designed to raise awareness about sexual, relationship, and domestic violence and was sponsored by the Brace Center for Gender Studies.

It was fitting for the ceremony to end at the Abbot campus, where, 20 years earlier, Abbot alumna Donna Brace Ogilvie ’30 helped develop and fund a center that would foster intellectual debate, analysis, and scholarship about gender issues such as these.

Addressing Gender Inequity When the Brace Center opened in September 1996, it was heralded as an idea whose time had come. Many at PA—including faculty, administrators, and students—had spent almost four years brainstorming, fundraising, and planning for the center.

Nearly 20 years earlier, a study of the first five years of coeducation identified a need for curriculum and administrative revisions related to gender equity. In the 1980s and early 1990s, PA addressed some of these deficiencies through hiring and promoting female faculty and staff, aiming for gender parity in admissions and strengthening sexual harassment policies. However, the more formidable task entailed confronting bias among faculty and students, and in the curriculum.

“The idea for the Brace Center evolved organically from within the school,” says former PA secretary of the Academy Patricia A. Edmonds, who worked closely with Ogilvie to renovate Abbot Hall and create the Brace Center.

Ogilvie was interested in funding a project that would honor both her father and her Abbot peers, and the idea for the Brace Center fit these two objectives. “We wanted to ensure the appreciation of Abbot Academy and also to lead the school in understanding and addressing how gender issues affect learning and the educational environment.” Luckily, Andover had

the right people at the right time, as well as the resolve to grow into the very best educational institution possible for all students and faculty.

“With the rich diversity of the student body, the integrity of the institution and its educational vision, and the incredible dedication of my colleagues to educational equity, I was confident that PA was the right place to launch a bold initiative in gender studies at the high school level,” says inaugural director Diane Moore.

It Started at Abbot One of the outcomes of the Brace Center’s work has been its role in helping to integrate the history of Abbot Academy into PA’s consciousness, culture, and identity.

In addition to the founding gift from Ogilvie, the Abbot Academy Association also provided a $100,000 seed grant, a sum that Abbot Academy Association president Susan Goodwillie Stedman ’59 recalls was “a big deal for the AAA at the time!”

Current & Past Directors • Tracy Ainsworth • Kathleen M. Dalton • Tasha M. Hawthorne • Diane Moore • E. Anthony Rotundo • Flavia M. Vidal

The Brace Center’s “Tri-Heritage Project,” which began in 1997, sought to collect, preserve, and celebrate Abbot Academy’s historical legacy as a pioneer in the education of girls. And in 1999, the center inaugurated the McKeen Award, which is named in honor of Abbot principal Philena McKeen (who served from 1859 to 1892) and given to individuals who have made significant contributions in shaping education for all genders at Andover.

fills up nearly an entire room in the archives.

Another student research project by Erica Nork ’16 looked at “Abbot’s Cultural and Artistic Influence on the Coeducational Phillips Academy.” She presented her paper during the April 9 daylong celebration of the Brace Center (see page 12), which included oral history interviews with Abbot alumnae and the production of five plays from the Abbot Courant literary magazine.

“I’ve been delighted by the work of the Brace Center,” says Stedman. “It has inspired and enabled students to study and bring the history of Abbot alive.”

Women’s Issues and Beyond While the idea for the Brace Center was born out of a desire to acknowledge the rich history of Abbot Academy, those involved with its creation wanted to The Brace Center also sponsors student ensure that its mission and impact had a far broader reach. research projects related to Abbot history. One such study by Brace “Ultimately, it was important to me Student Fellows Annika Neklason ’13 to have the center feel like it was and Rachel Murree ’14 eventually led something relevant to the entire school to the creation of the Abbot Archives and not a special enclave,” says Moore.

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Recent Brace Student Fellow presentations:

Erica Nork ’16 Fax Ardens: Abbot Academy’s Cultural and Artistic Influence on the Coeducational Phillips Academy

Karissa Kang ’17 A Proposal for All-Gender Housing at PA

Through the years, the Brace Center has identified itself as an academic center that welcomes all viewpoints.

“It was—and is—a place where we don’t enforce gender conformity,” says Kathleen Dalton, former PA instructor and Brace Center codirector. “We wanted students of all genders to feel welcome to realize their full potential and not be held back by stereotypes or prejudice.”

That goal originally entailed discussions about femininity and masculinity, and about ways that gender norms affect all students and their educational experiences. In recent years, the discussion has broadened to include topics related to the LGBTQ community as well as issues of gender identity and fluidity.

Some of these discussions have led to important changes at PA. A 1998 Brace Faculty Fellow presentation by Susan Perry on the merits of including gay and lesbian house counselors was part of a larger grassroots movement addressing homophobia and discrimination. Her influential presentation paved the way for a Board 36

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Graham Johns ’14 Breaking Negative Stereotypes of the Western Male Dancer: Reclaiming the Masculine Nature of Ballet as a Sport

“The Brace Center has been a catalyst for collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches to educating the campus about gender justice.”

—Tasha Hawthorne, Brace Center codirector of Trustees vote in 1999 to allow gay and lesbian domestic partners to serve as house counselors.

Along with other groups on campus, such as the Office of Community and Multicultural Development (CAMD), the Brace Center has led the charge to highlight sometimes-difficult emerging issues related to race, ethnicity, class, culture, and sexuality.

Taylor Clarke ’10 says her association with the Brace Center helped her develop a better comfort level with her own sexual identity. Clarke came out as queer while a student at PA and pursued a Brace Fellowship her

Isabel Bolo ’14 Examining Otherness: Women on the American Podium

senior year to study portrayals of gay and lesbian characters in film and TV. She says the Brace Center provided a safe place to discuss issues of sexual identity, ask questions, and offer different perspectives.

“We could get together with likeminded people and have conversations that weren’t driven by the curriculum, but by your friends,” says Clarke. “The Brace Center offered an academic perspective, with books and faculty members who encouraged us to push through first impressions and first assumptions. We learned there is always more to learn, always more perspectives.”

Scholarship at Its Core While providing important programming and a safe space for discussions, the center also has maintained a strong focus on gender scholarship for students and faculty.

The Brace Student Fellows program, started in 1997, selects up to six students annually to pursue a wide range of research projects under the mentorship of faculty members.

Mayze Teitler ’14 Princesses, Soldiers, and Prostitutes: Gender Stereotypes in Video Gaming

Cem Vardar ’15 Child Marriages in Turkey: A Cultural and Human Tragedy

Student Fellows then present their research to the campus during the school year (see examples above).

The Brace Faculty Fellows program likewise has encouraged faculty scholarship and the broad analysis of gender issues from many perspectives.

As one of the inaugural Faculty Fellows in 1996–1997, Shawn Fulford, instructor in math, looked at gendered differences in students’ levels of optimism and resilience. Her research led to suggested teaching and mentoring strategies to support both.

And in 1999, Ada Fan, instructor in English, conducted a 10-year attrition study of PA faculty analyzing why faculty of color, female faculty, and gay faculty left PA. The Future of Gender Studies Current codirectors Flavia Vidal and Tasha Hawthorne, both English instructors, recognize the importance and impact of the Brace Center throughout the years. They plan to continue this tradition by broadening the vision of the Brace Center as a place of academic scholarship that “informs

Alex Westfall ’15 “Fire the Girls!”: The Female Pioneers of Modern American Comedy

and prepares students to understand ‘how we got here’ and to engage with them in problem solving around issues of gender inequality that we face daily,” says Vidal.

“In this way, we hope to merge the scholarly tradition of the center with our students’ full experience on campus.”

Recent programming has included a presentation of SLUT: The Play with follow-up discussions on sexuality and sexual violence, a gender theory colloquium for seniors, and discussions about new definitions of masculinity.

Looking ahead, Hawthorne and Vidal are excited about continuing the good work that has been done at the center, especially as it relates to the Andover Strategic Plan. They are working to examine and relaunch the Faculty Fellows program, assist with the school’s first campus climate survey on gender-based violence and harassment, and develop a Learning in the World program in the Dominican Republic focused on women’s and girls’ empowerment. They also plan to establish an Abbot Speaker Series

Janice Cheon ’16 The Castrato Conundrum: Gender and Sexuality in Baroque Opera and Modern Performance

“We hope to merge the scholarly tradition of the center with our students’ full experience on campus.”

—Flavia Vidal Brace Center codirector with nominations from Abbot alumnae and host a women in economics conference.

“The Brace Center has long been a catalyst for collaboration and interdisciplinary approaches to educating the campus about gender justice,” says Hawthorne. “We look forward to making important contributions to PA’s efforts toward equity and inclusion.”  Corrie Martin is former director of the Women’s Resource Center at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., and is a PA faculty spouse.

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P H I LA N TH R O P Y H IGHLIGHTS

NYC Welcomes Thomas Cochran Society

Photos by Keziban Barry ’02

Andover hit all the right notes at New York’s Carnegie Hall in April, as Head of School John Palfrey and Board President Peter Currie ’74 hosted a celebration of the Thomas Cochran Society, which recognizes benefactors who have made fully funded gifts to Phillips Academy totaling $250,000 or more.

Featured guest Max Meyer ’08, who attended Andover on a full scholarship, spoke about his experience at PA and how philanthropy made it all possible. “Andover doesn’t just change lives,” he said. “It empowers you to change your own life.” Meyer recently launched Getmii, one of the year’s fastest-growing social apps that crowdsources services, goods, and answers. Also a talented jazz pianist, Meyer treated the crowd to a rendition of “Summertime,” accompanied by longtime PA music instructor Peter Cirelli on trombone.

Above inset: Mary Camp Hoch ’78 and her husband, James S. Hoch Above: Max Meyer ’08 and Peter Cirelli Left inset: Julia Lloyd Johannsen ’96 and her husband, Peter Johannsen Left: Thomas Keefe ’50 and his wife, Susan Keefe (on the ends), and Antony Herrey ’50 and his daughter, Dorothea Herrey ’85 (center)

(See story about Thomas Cochran III on page 18.)

Snyder Center Will Transform Athletics Thanks to generous leadership funding from former track star Steve Snyder ’56 (see story on page 16), Andover’s new athletic facility, the Snyder Center, will soon become a reality.

Overlooking Phelps Stadium, the Snyder Center will enhance student, athlete, and fan experiences, enhance opportunities to engage in life sports, and offer versatile new spaces for student-athletes, coaches, trainers, and community members. Highlights of the 96,000-square-foot facility include the following: • • • •

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• Convertible track infield with configurations for baseball, basketball, and tennis • All-weather practice space for field sports • Multipurpose areas for dance, fencing, and fitness programs • An outdoor plaza adjacent to glassenclosed lobby

The Snyder Center is a central component of PA’s Athletic Facilities Master Plan, which seeks support for the school’s full range of competitive and instructional fitness offerings.

To learn more about donor opportunities, contact Nicole Cherubini, director of development, at 978-749-4288 or ncherubini@andover.edu.

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Endowment Conference Hosted in Hong Kong our most important competitive advantages is the collective investment knowledge of Andover alumni throughout the world.”

Board President Emeritus Oscar Tang ’56 spoke at the outset, commenting on Andover’s historic ties to Asia dating back to the mid-19th century. Panelists and speakers included Board Treasurer Amy Falls ’82, P’19; Trustee Joe Bae ’90 of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.; Charles Chao, P’14, of SINA Corporation; Stephen King ’83 of Violet Hill Partners Limited; Eashwar Krishnan of Tybourne Capital Management; Jason Lee, P’18, and X.D. Yang ’83 of The Carlyle Group; Kathy Xu of Capital Today Group; and Yichen Zhang ’82, P’18, of CITIC Capital Holdings Ltd. While the overall sentiment was one of caution, attendees identified pockets of opportunity throughout global and Asian financial markets.

These included energy investments, venture capital, private equity in Asia, and emerging markets equities.

Head of School John Palfrey wrapped up the four-hour event by conveying his gratitude for the group’s commitment to guiding Andover’s endowment decisions.

Photos by Mabel Lee, P’04

Spotlighting the collective financial expertise of the Phillips Academy community, approximately 60 Andover alumni, parents, administrators, and students gathered in early March at the China Club Hong Kong for the Academy’s Future of the Endowment Conference.

This was the seventh such conference, which began more than a decade ago to leverage the intellectual capital of Andover’s alumni and parent community. In gathering financial experts from around the globe with a common purpose—to protect and grow the Academy’s endowment—Andover draws on the experience of a network that is unparalleled even at major universities.

Attendees at the conference, which was presented by Phillips Academy’s Board of Trustees and the Asia Council, represented some of Asia’s largest and most successful private equity firms, venture capital firms, hedge funds, and other financial and investment institutions.

“Achieving our investment goals allows the endowment to support the Andover community today and in the future,” said Chief Investment Officer Michael Reist. “One of

Clockwise from top left: Head of School John Palfrey, Oscar Tang ’56, Amy Falls ’82, P’19, Joe Bae ’90, and Chien Lee ’71 Claudia Chu ’17, Alice Rogers ’19, and Michelle Ng ’19 Soojin Min, P ’19, Cherry Chu, P’18, and Ching Ju Yeh, P’19 Jin Hyuk Park ’83, P’17, Kyungjoon Lee ’83, P’17, and Oscar Tang ’56

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C ON N E CTIO N

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Architects of the New Millennium

by Seyi Fayanju ’01 One morning during senior year, my class filled Tang Theatre to listen to an invited speaker, who talked to us about our roles as “architects of the new millennium.” We welcomed the required respite from our busy routines, but more than a few of us rolled our eyes as he and his trendy copresenter chatted away in language tailored to sound hip and cool to Generation Y.

Alumni Out of the Blue features true Abbot- or Andover-related stories about issues of class, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, geographic origin, and/ or (dis)ability. Please e-mail your 350-word story, a brief bio, and a high-resolution photo of yourself to alumnioutoftheblue@gmail.com.

What did the phrase “architects of the new millennium” even mean? With the hype about Y2K safely behind us, we figured that the transition from the 1990s to the 2000s would not impose further challenges on us. Sure, there was a lack of consensus over what to call the new decade, and we still fretted about “weighty” topics like college acceptances, but we lived in a country enriched by a stock market boom, with low unemployment and seemingly steady progress toward equality and harmony. Topics like the Cold War, apartheid, and civil disobedience were material for history class, not front-page news. We could remember the Oklahoma City and Olympic Park bombings, but terrorism still seemed like things that affected people anywhere but at Andover.

I felt confident that the free expression and friendly debate about topics that seemed so natural at PA would continue after high school. Growing up as one of the few African Americans in a predominantly white, Catholic, middle-class town in New Jersey, I found that Andover was the most diverse environment I had experienced since my preschool years in Newark. There was education without rancor as we discussed such topics as race and politics in the classroom or in Commons.

Now I realize that I was both lucky and naïve. I look back and see that, though my experience at Andover was very positive, there were occasional microaggressions—subtle but offensive actions and comments that unconsciously reinforced stereotypes. There was the classmate who, without

malice, told me he was surprised I spoke English so well (though my parents are immigrants, I was born in Ohio). Once, a storekeeper in downtown Andover asked me to leave his shop because my presence made him uncomfortable (I promptly left and never returned). More significantly, my classmates and I were sitting at the start of a new era in which we would be challenged by war, economic downturns, polarization, and questions about identity and rights in an America that had not truly come to grips with ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and class.

I can’t remember the finer points of that GW assembly, but in hindsight I feel that we were, and are, well equipped to serve as influential shapers of the evolution taking place within our borders and beyond. Phillips Academy was a safe environment for initiating this process of purposeful engagement, and I hope that I and other Andover alumni do our school justice by building something better, as modern “architects” of change.

Seyi Fayanju ’01 is a member of the Alumni Council’s Equity and Inclusion Committee.

The author in front of the Palace of Versailles, where he traveled in the summer of 2000 as part of a study-abroad program.

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Phillips Academy Alumni & Parent Events, Summer 2016 Los Angeles

July 9

Boston

Tampa Bay Rays vs. Red Sox

July 13

New York

Wicked with Carrie St. Louis ’08

Aug. 27

Water Mill, N.Y.

Reception with Head of School John Palfrey

Sept. 10 New York

Sixth Annual Todd A. Isaac Memorial Basketball Game and Reception

Sept. 14

Baltimore Orioles vs. Red Sox

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Watch your e-mail for fall events, including college kickoffs and evenings with Head of School John Palfrey!

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

New York City

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A N D O V E R BO O KS H ELF

African American Doctors of World War I

by W. Douglas Fisher ’55 and Joann H. Buckley McFarland & Company, Inc. During World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the U.S. Army to provide care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd divisions, the Army’s only black combat units. The astonishing and little-remembered lives of these heroic physicians are recounted here in rich, vivid detail by husband-and-wife team Fisher and Buckley; nearly every tale could supply ample material for a novelist or screenwriter.

Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art Edited by Stephen H. Blackwell ’83 and Kurt Johnson Yale University Press Many fans of Vladimir Nabokov’s literary works are aware that the renowned author was also an avid lepidopterist.

But this book takes it further, making a definitive case for Nabokov as a serious scientist who created more than 1,000 technical drawings of butterfly anatomy and put forth controversial hypotheses, lately confirmed by DNA testing. The new work reproduces 148 of Nabokov’s meticulous drawings, succeeding both as inquiry and as art.

The Big Fear

by Andrew Case ’90 Thomas and Mercer Veteran detective Ralph Mulino is over the hill at age 53. An old-school cop, he’s uncomfortable with the changes New York City has undergone in the past 30 years. Sure, the city is safer, and citizens no longer live in fear of muggings, car theft, and petty robbery. Instead, they’re subject to the Big Fear: Buildings might come crashing down, elevators could be filled with poison gas, bridges may collapse. Against this backdrop of post-9/11 New York, Mulino unwittingly shoots another officer, setting up a far-reaching inquiry that brings him into an uneasy partnership with Leonard Mitchell, the head of the agency charged with investigating police misconduct and corruption.

A satisfying thriller, with the form’s usual complement of twists and turns, Andrew Case’s first novel has been compared favorably to Serpico.

The author brings an unusual level of firsthand knowledge to the project, having served for a decade as an investigator, spokesman, and policy director at the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates allegations of misconduct against New York City police officers. Case is also an awardwinning playwright whose work has been produced by, among others, the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and the New Theatre in Miami.

The Big Fear has particular resonance at a time when police misconduct is very much in the news and under scrutiny.

Readers may come away convinced that such cases are rarely as simple as they appear.

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Dividing the Union

by Matthew W. Hall ’63 Southern Illinois University The Missouri Compromise, which regulated slavery and in so doing postponed the crisis that led to the Civil War, is familiar to even the most casual student of American history. Less well known is the role played by Jesse Burgess Thomas, the junior senator from Illinois who helped handle the delicate negotiations that led to the statute. This first in-depth biography of Thomas helps shed light on the larger issues surrounding the compromise.

Immunity

by Taylor Antrim ’92 Regan Arts A deadly virus has killed off 4 percent of the world’s population—but that’s not the biggest problem facing the characters in this dystopian thriller. The plague, seemingly contained but just barely so, has served to reveal the deep fault lines in a world where the underclass struggles to survive and the privileged squander precious resources. Sound familiar? It’s surely meant to, as Antrim spins a cautionary tale about an all-too-plausible future.

Wilderness to Wasteland

by David T. Hanson ’66 Taverner Press Photographer Hanson tips his hand in the title of this handsomely produced monograph of striking color photographs that document the despoiling—by industrialism, development, militarization, and the like—of the American landscape. As Joyce Carol Oates puts it in the book’s foreword, “How far we have come from the romanticized wilderness of the 19th century!” But despite their grim subject, Hanson’s images have a stark beauty all their own.

Beckett’s Words: The Promise of Happiness in a Time of Mourning

by David Kleinberg-Levin ’58 Bloomsbury This third volume in the author’s Redeeming Words series takes as its subject the plays, short stories, and novels of Samuel Beckett, the Irish avant-garde author. Beckett has rarely been seen as an avatar of happiness, but Kleinberg-Levin, in a highly original reading, contends that even in Beckett’s darkest works, “the light of...redemption, weak though it is, can occasionally be glimpsed” and that “Beckett never forgot the thought, the dream, of happiness.”

Life in a Black Community: Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902–1952

by Hannah Jopling ’60 Rowman & Littlefield Jopling’s fascinating book began life as her PhD dissertation. But it’s no dry, scholarly tome: Through the lens of five “encounters”—including a baseball game, a lawsuit, and a hanging— the author explores the proposition that Annapolis, a “border-state” town possessing both characteristics of the Jim Crow South and a black community that pushed for change, held a unique position in the struggle of black residents to gain full rights as citizens.

INADDITION Deities & Demons

by Charles J. Schneider ’80 Double Dragon Publishing Eros/Power

by William Torbert ’61 and Hilary Bradbury Integral Publishers —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.

From Silk to Silicon

by Jeffrey E. Garten ’64 HarperCollins Pondering globalization can resemble the parable of the blind men describing an elephant: Some will contend that expanding trade leads to more economic growth, greater choices, and lower prices, while others point to shrinking job opportunities, economic inequities, and international banking crises. No one person may be able to view all sides of the issue at once, but Jeffrey Garten, dean emeritus at the Yale School of Management, takes up the challenge in this ambitious new work. Rather than seeing globalization through the lens of, say, a particular industry or specific event, Garten tells the story by focusing on “10 extraordinary lives”—portraits of people whose contributions truly transformed the course of history or, in his words, “opened doors to a broad array of possibilities for progress” and “changed the prevailing paradigm of how society was organized.”

The result is a highly readable book that makes the sometimes abstract concepts behind globalization concrete and accessible by giving them a human face. To be sure, not all of these globalizers are wholly admirable. (But then, paradigm changers seldom are.) Garten begins with Genghis Khan and proceeds chronologically through an idiosyncratic group that includes Mayer Amschel Rothschild, John D. Rockefeller, Margaret Thatcher, and Deng Xiaoping. He concedes that “some left significant damage in their wake,” but their global—and globalizing—impact can hardly be denied. Garten’s farreaching take on the topic may make it possible for readers to see, as it were, the whole elephant.

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Documentarians Moira Demos ’91 and Laura Ricciardi received worldwide media attention for their Netflix crime documentary series, Making a Murderer. It tells the story of a man who spent nearly two decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, filed a lawsuit for damages, and was later convicted of murder. Demos and Ricciardi first heard about the series’ subject as graduate students at Columbia.

Two alums are among the 2016 class of Young Global Leaders as chosen by the World Economic Forum, which selects candidates who are “the most enterprising, innovative, socially minded, and exceptional leaders under the age of 40.” Among the 27 chosen from North America are U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton ’97 and Vanessa Kerry ’95, cofounder and chief executive officer of Seed Global Health.

Carrie St. Louis ’08 is starring as Glinda in Wicked on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre. The musical explores the early lives of the witches of Oz, Glinda and Elphaba.

A summa cum laude graduate of New York University, Zachary Fine ’11 was recently named a 2016 Rhodes Scholar. Last year, Fine founded NOLA Safe Police Watch, a New Orleans–based nonprofit focused on promoting safe practices for citizens filming encounters with the police. He intends to pursue a master of studies degree in the history of art and visual culture and a master of science degree in criminology and criminal justice at the University of Oxford.

Patrick Kinsel ’03 recently created a new app called Notarize that allows users to set up a video chat with a licensed notary public and have documents notarized remotely. A partner at the venture capital firm Polaris Partners, Kinsel also is one of the cofounders of Spindle, a search system that was acquired by Twitter in 2013.

Tristan Perich ’00 made it onto Rolling Stone magazine’s list of 20 Best Avant Albums of 2015, which compiles the year’s best in “noise, out-jazz, contemporary classical, ambient, drone, and more.” Perich’s album Parallels received praise for being “totally mesmerizing, hypnotic, and sparking.”

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker nominated attorney Eric Neyman ’86, a partner at McCarter & English in Boston, to the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the state’s second highest court. Neyman was unanimously confirmed for a judgeship. He previously served as deputy legal counsel to two former Massachusetts governors and as deputy general counsel to the Executive Office of Public Safety.

The Buzz features recent notable accomplishments by PA alums. Please send suggestions to andovermagazine@andover.edu.

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Sheila Barabad

Jessica Gonzalez ’91, a senior attorney at BP America, was featured in the article “Past is Prologue” in the March/ April 2016 edition of Hispanic Executive.

In the article, Gonzalez talks about how she took advantage of the educational opportunities in her life—beginning with Andover. After PA, she attended Princeton University and Stanford Law School, where she was copresident of the Environmental Law Society and managing editor of the Stanford Law Review.

www.andover.edu/intouch

CLASS NOTES

Marc Koolen • 1976

1935 ABBOT

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

1937 Kathleen Dalton • 1981

PHILLIPS

Max Alovisetti • 1989

Back in Time Christopher Walter • 1978

Photos of retiring faculty through the years. Read more on page 26.

[Editor’s note: The Academy has received word that longtime class secretary John Foskett passed away Jan. 29, 2016. Please see the In Memoriam section for his obituary. If any member of the Class of 1937 would like to take on the role of class secretary, please contact Laura MacHugh at 978-749-4289 or lmachugh@andover.edu.]

1938 ABBOT & PHILLIPS

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

1939 PHILLIPS

Joseph F. Anderson Meadow Ridge 100 Redding Road, Apt. 2118 Redding CT 06896 803-767-1667 (cell) 203-544-7089 (home) jfanders21@gmail.com

Seth Bardo • 1982

Steve Carter • 1985

Shortly after I submitted these notes to Andover, I had a call from Kate Hall. Sadly, she told me her husband, Danny Dannenbaum, died in late August 2015 in Belfast, Maine, close to the family’s longtime summer home in Stockton Springs. I knew Danny only slightly when we were in our early years at Andover. I remember he spent lots of time in the pool. At Yale, in addition to graduating cum laude, he was never defeated in backstroke.

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stay connected... a hero in WWII, when, as a second lieutenant, his ship was torpedoed and sinking fast. He ordered that all hatches be opened, thereby saving hundreds of lives. He survived an eight-hour ordeal hanging onto a makeshift raft. In telling me the story, he said his swimming prowess kept him alive.

Farewell to a great friend, whom I came to know well as I compiled these notes.

Mona Fletcher, widow of Herb Fletcher, called to say how much Herb and she enjoyed Andover magazine. As you will recall, Herb’s “rags to riches” career took him from holding a job as a movie theatre usher in Albany, N.Y., during the depths of the Depression, to being one of the leaders in the international distribution of motion pictures. Highly regarded in the industry, he was elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Mona told me that more than 40 family members gathered in Washington, D.C., for Herb’s memorial service.

“Old Reliable” Faelton Perkins, always accessible for this correspondent, is enjoying life with his wife, Pauline, in their townhouse in Ewing, N.J. They visited family in eastern New York for Christmas. Pauline enjoys yoga and her new classes in French. As we spoke, Faelton told me he has a pacemaker, not an unfamiliar device for many in our age bracket. Faelton is 95.

Win Bernhard, now 94, said all was well with him and wife Elizabeth. It’s difficult for the Bernhards to travel to their family summer home in the Adirondacks. The family has owned the house, located west of Ticonderoga, N.Y., for more than 100 years. Not being able to drive anymore makes for a big difference in summer travel to the mountains, Win notes. Win was a faculty member at UMass Amherst, and the Bernhards formerly spent the entire summer at their Adirondacks home.

John Leitch is enjoying life in Laconia, N.H., with his wife of three years, Charlotte. I’m sure you remember John’s courtship: Quite by accident, he met Charlotte with some of her friends on his way to dinner. John picked up the check! His hearing is faulty—join the crowd—and he uses a speakerphone, which is “beautiful,” he says. He grew up in Andover, and after an engineering career moved to Laconia. Between them, Charlotte and John have eight children, several grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

Their story is one for the books.

Attempts to reach Bill Kurtz, Jack Sullivan, and Harry Anderson were unfortunately unsuccessful.

As for the Andersons, we’re doing OK at our new home at Meadow Ridge, a life-care establishment in Redding, Conn. It’s quite different from owning your own home and driving your own car, but it’s quite elegant and, more important, safe, with no heavy lifting. You can reach me at 203-544-7089 or at jfanders21@gmail.com. It would be more than satisfying to hear from you.

And by the way, I turned 95 in March.

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Nadene Nichols Lane 125 Coolidge Ave., No. 610 Watertown MA 02472 617-924-1981

PHILLIPS Blake Flint The Pines of Sarasota 1501 N. Orange Ave., No. 1924 Sarasota FL 34236 941-365-0250 blake.flint@comcast.net

Look on page 56 of the fall 2015 issue and you will find a picture of our Brad Murphy attending our reunion, sitting among a bunch of youngsters from the Class of ’45. Thank you, Brad, for representing us once again.

Tracy Dickson and his wife, Pat, are living in New London, N.H. Pat has some health problems, and Tracy is her caregiver. They no longer travel.

Tracy goes to an occasional meeting. Happily, he has never fallen.

Bill Hart is still living alone in Duxbury, Mass.

He is happy to have his two sons and daughter visit him on a rotating basis.

Now for the sad news. Bob Snower died July 2, 2013. He will be remembered as having been at Andover for one year, during which he made a significant incursion into the brilliant ranks, with one term on the second honor roll and another on the credit list.

Benjamin Thomas McElroy died Aug. 16, 2015. Tom spent one year at Andover, where he played on the football team. After graduation, he went on to Yale University and was sports editor of the Yale Daily News. After his service in the Navy during WWII in the Pacific theater, he entered the University of Texas School of Law, and the rest of his life was filled with memorable achievements in the legal profession.

At one time, he was a legislative assistant to then Congressman Lloyd Bentsen and also represented Sen. Lyndon Johnson in court. Known as a trial attorney, Tom was highly respected and valued by judges and colleagues. A fellow lawyer once said, “He was in every sense of the word a lawyer’s lawyer.” Tom ran for governor of Texas in 1972 as a Republican, with the goal of creating a true two-party system in the state of Texas. He later became a strong supporter of and advocate for Gov. Bill Clements.

Jack Malo passed away Nov. 8, 2015. He was preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth, and his son, John Jr. Jack was a member of the graduating class of 1944 at Yale and served in the U.S. Navy during WWII. Jack will be remembered for his tennis prowess. He was on the varsity tennis team all four years at Andover. In his business career

he was longtime president of the Malo Feed Company, involved in grain merchandising and cattle feeding. Jack was also deeply involved with philanthropy in the Denver area.

Edward “Ted” Walen died Dec. 1, 2015. Ted will be remembered as an accomplished skier and manager of the ski team his last year at Andover.

World War II interrupted his stay at Princeton, but he wed his sweetheart, Barbara Gahm, before he was shipped overseas, where he was a lieutenant on an airbase in India servicing planes as they flew over “the Hump” to Asia. After Harvard Business School, Ted worked in the field of textiles until the late ’50s, when he started working in the chemical business. Ted worked for Exxon Mobil for 25 years.

Later, he concentrated on a second career as a grassroots advocate for Southbury Training School in Connecticut, where his youngest son, Jimmy, has lived for most of his life. Ted was a great sailor, sailing his boat Tigress up and down Long Island Sound, collecting his share of trophies and having a wonderful time. R.I.P. And now about myself: My address has changed to the Pines of Sarasota, as noted above.

I have moved there for therapy and assisted living and hope to continue this column for a couple more years.

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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

PHILLIPS Robert K. Reynolds 185 Southern Blvd.

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

In my winter notes I mentioned that, implementing my bucket list, I planned to take to the air again, since my commercial pilot’s license, issued in 1945, is still valid—even though I haven’t flown in 50 years. However, back in November a private pilot with more air time than I have was approaching Danbury airport for a landing when he inexplicably crashed into the Titicus Reservoir a couple of miles west in New York State. He and his wife were killed. I’m now changing my bucket list. Although I haven’t skied in 50 years, this seems to be a safer alternative. I’m open to other suggestions.

In December I received a phone call from Carolyn Quarles, widow of classmate Tom Quarles, who died recently. I had sent her a copy of a book of essays I had written about my life, including a year at Andover. She found it

www.andover.edu/intouch very interesting and thinks some of you may, too.

Copies are available (no charge), including one in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library.

There has been a paucity of news from classmates, so I must revert to commenting on the upcoming election. As usual, it’s difficult to sort fact from fiction in assessing the policies and platforms of Democrats and Republicans. However, in the years since the 1932 election, when FDR defeated Hoover, I have developed definitions of various political terms that will enable voters to better understand what’s happening and vote accordingly.

(1) Liberal: A person who knows everything that’s wrong with the world and expects someone else to pay for the repairs. (2) Conservative: A person who believes this is the best of all possible worlds, if only the liberals would stop screwing things up. (3) Politician: A person who pursues public positions for personal profit and power.

(4) Government: An organization that extracts money from its citizens and then gives it back to them after deducting a handling fee. (5) Truth: A concept much to be desired but often in short supply. Beware of any person or organization that claims to have a monopoly on it. (6) Special Interests: Evil persons or organizations, never identified, who seek favors from congressmen in return for contributions to the congressmen’s political campaigns. No to be confused with lobbyists, who also seek favors but must identify themselves. (7) Lobbyists: See Special Interests.

(8) Global Warming: A natural event that has been going on since the end of the ice age. If it continues at the present rate for the next 100 years, politicians will still be crying that the end of the world is near.

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

Lou Hudner’s portrait, which will be hung aboard the new destroyer named for him, the USS Thomas Hudner, was unveiled at Andover as part of the school’s commemoration of Veterans Day. A new book, Devotion, by Adam Makos, was released this past fall. It tells the story of the close relationship between Lou and Jesse Brown, his fellow pilot, whom he tried to rescue; Lou received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his efforts.

People magazine carried a story in early December about the surprise meeting between Lou and Jesse’s family. The article concludes, “For Hudner, the reunion was a reminder that ‘friendship is colorblind.’ ” It went on to quote Lou, “As much racial turmoil as there is today, it shouldn’t be this way. If you know somebody, if you’re a nice person, who cares what color you are? It didn’t seem to matter to me, and that was 60 years ago.”

Good to hear from Joe Houghteling’s widow, Judy, who, having sold her home in San Francisco and moved to a condominium, now has more time to travel. She writes, “Took a week on the Mississippi River from St. Paul to just north of St. Louis, and it was truly magnificent! I had heard about this great ‘Father of Waters’ all my life but never expected it to be so beautiful and interesting.”

An October article in the Wall Street Journal about the history of Hollywood homes told of the home that Kathryn Hepburn might have rented in 1930, which was bought by Boris Karloff in 1934, who later sold it in 1954 to Fred Jordan, onetime president of Raleigh Studios. I visited Fred in his beautiful home when he hosted a party for “Obie” Obermeyer ’42, who was to be married the next day. Unfortunately I had to leave early to catch the red-eye back to Dayton, Ohio. Fred sold the home in 2003.

Charlie Weiner called to be sure I knew of Dick Meryman’s passing. I had written about Dick in my column for the fall issue of Andover magazine, which Charlie probably hadn’t received, but it was great to hear from him (as it is to hear from any of you) and to know that someone out there is reading my notes. Charlie had special memories of Dick and their days at Amherst and had kept up with him over the years. He told me he still has a 22-foot powerboat, but his days of big boats and ocean travel have passed.

“Colombian Clan Holds Keys to Deal” read the headline on an Oct. 9 Wall Street Journal article discussing the possible merger of SABMiller and Anheuser-Busch InBev. The story indicated that Anheuser-Busch’s efforts to close the merger depended heavily on persuading the Santo Domingo family to agree to the merger, noting that the family, led by Alejandro Santo Domingo, is the second-largest shareholder in SABMiller, with a 14 percent stake. Alejandro is a grandson of our classmate Julio Mario Santo Domingo, who died in 2011. I’m sure Mario would be proud of the way in which his descendants continue to manage the family business.

Wendy and Jim Munro, who frequently depart on a world cruise at the beginning of the year, are staying home this year. Jim has plenty of health problems but keeps going. As he tells it, “My knees are pretty well shot: two canes, but I walk and drive and do stairs and anything I feel like doing, except it takes two to three times longer (five to six, maybe). I’m OK. I get steroid shots every six months or so and work with or without the pain four to six hours a day at construction projects here at home. I’m not blowing smoke. I work hard because I cannot vegetate or teleview or sit around.”

It is with great sadness that I report the death of Phil Drake’s wife, Susan, on Nov. 28, 2015. They had been married 66 years. Along with Phil, Sue hosted many of our Naples, Fla., gatherings, some in their own home. While croquet had become a passion of Sue’s in her later years, she had a love

for literature, was an avid reader, and enjoyed golf and tennis. Those who have been to the Naples reunions will remember Sue for her efforts in making each gathering a special event. We’ll miss you, Sue. Our class offers its condolences to Phil, his four daughters, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

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

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

As 2015 fades away like an old soldier and 2016 becomes the new normal, it’s good to know that our classmates are still active and newsworthy, particularly given that 72 years have gone by since our graduation from Phillips Academy.

Consider Sumner Milender, now going on 90 yet brave and optimistic enough to have gotten married recently. Actually, it’s not quite so sudden as that. He and his bride, the former Edie Michelson, had been living together as husband and wife for 14 years, but for several reasons, Sumner wrote, they decided it was “time to make it legal,” and so they officially tied the knot. That done, Sumner and Edie sold their home in Tucson, Ariz., and moved to a retirement community called North Hill, located in Needham, Mass. Sumner has gifted the assets of his company, Thinking in Music—a nonprofit that promotes music to enhance learning among young students—to Rider University, in Lawrenceville, N.J. “These three events,” Sumner wrote, “have set the path for the rest of my life—whatever years I have left.

So now, every day is a new, exciting experience to anticipate and enjoy.”

Speaking of age—or maybe agelessness— consider the unsinkable Wheelock Whitney.

His Christmas cards are like an annual travelogue, with photos from places such as Egypt (the pyramids as scene setters) and Havana (a vintage Chevy convertible nearby). This year’s card shows Wheelock and his glamorous wife, Kathleen, a former chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.

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Our often peripatetic classmate Pete Stevens appears to be staying put for a while in his retirement community in Beverly, Mass., where he reports being “enmeshed” in family affairs— including keeping up with his daughter Helen.

A Yale graduate with a nursing degree, Helen worked at a UN refugee camp in Thailand, where she met a fellow aid worker, from Turkey, whom she subsequently married. They now have two children, both now in college—one at Syracuse University, the other at Yale. Helen’s husband has been stationed in Baghdad with the UN’s refugee agency but was awaiting a new assignment, while Helen has rented a house in Beverly to be near her father and children.

Meanwhile, Pete’s niece, Ames Sheldon, recently wrote her first novel, titled Eleanor’s Wars, which captures the experiences of Nat, an awkward and naïve boy who enters Andover in the fall of 1942. Also at Andover is his older brother, Eddie—a self-assured upper whom Nat struggles to emulate. But it’s tough going. Nat is homesick and overwhelmed by his demanding courses, and although he joins a fraternity, he finds the initiation humiliating. But then he takes part in a school production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore and finally begins to acquire some of his big brother’s confidence.

Says Pete, “The story recalled for me my own adjustments to life at Andover in the mid-1940s and the very different life we all led during those war years.”

In a somewhat self-deprecating tone, Roger Strong sent a card in which he claimed, “There’s little news I can report from life in the slow lane. It takes me longer to do less.” It may take longer, but Roger says he still goes to work four days a week and finds time to squeeze in museums, shopping, movies, and doctor visits— and maybe an office party. He also lunches from time to time with old PA friends Whit Stevens and Dick Abrons. And on the seventh day he rested. Roger says he still goes out to Scottsdale, Ariz., for some time off every few weeks, “depending on the weather and grandchildren’s vacation schedules.” What slow lane is he talking about?

Dick Abrons, by the way, was featured in a new posting on Facebook, wherein he is identified as “author, playwright, vice chairman of the Henry Street Settlement and director of GrowNYC.” The FB photo shows Dick seated in front of what appears to be a blackboard, looking very much at ease with himself as the handsome man of distinction he is.

From his home in Massapequa, N.Y., on Long Island, Stan Dickey reports having recently received a phone call “out of the blue” from Otis Parker who, he said, “sounds great.” For cardio fitness Stan goes to a gym twice a week

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for a routine that includes 15 minutes on the machines, 10 minutes with weights, and 10 minutes of exercise. “Then,” he says, “home for a nap.”

Finally, Woody Stockwell reported that he and Mimi have sold their house in Denver and have moved to a new home in Boulder, Colo. (He refers to it as “the People’s Republic of Boulder,” though I’m not sure exactly what that means.) The move was a hassle but not enough to diminish Woody’s usual verve. “Life is good,” he says. Woody and Mimi remained busy in 2015: Apart from keeping up with grandchildren, they went to Vail, where they often skied back in the day but where they now bask in the pleasures of summer—minus the fly rods, hiking shoes, and mountain bikes of old.

And in September they took a Seabourn cruise up the East Coast, from Boston to Nova Scotia and down the St. Lawrence River to Prince Edward Island, the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec City, and Montreal. “Canada was a delight,” Woody said, as he signed off with a hopeful message: “Here’s looking to happiness for all in 2016.” Amen to that.

[Editor’s note: The Academy was saddened to learn that Wheelock Whitney passed away on May 20, 2016, after the submission of these notes. An obituary will run in a later edition of the magazine.]

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William M. Barnum 681 River Road Westport MA 02790 508-636-6025 wmbarnum@hotmail.com

Dear Classmates, A nice note from John Thorndike tells of attending the presentation of the Andover Alumni Award of Distinction to our classmate Marvin Minsky in Cochran Chapel last November. I am sorry to report that Marvin died Jan. 24, 2016. He was one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of artificial intelligence. You can read his New York Times obituary online at nyti. ms/1QxmNyD. [Editor’s note: Please see Marvin Minsky’s obituary in the In Memoriam section of this magazine.]

I called Herk Warren, who has given up tennis for bridge. Never thought it would happen.

Art Moher is a great source of class information and was kind enough to record the names of all classmates who attended the reunion last June.

It was a good turnout. Cy Chittick, Art Moher, John Thorndike, and I have all had the pleasure of meeting for lunch at a café in Westwood, Mass.

Please, if any of you have news about classmates, let me know so that I can include it in these meager class notes. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season, and I wish everyone a wonderful 2016.

With fondest regards, Bill Barnum

1946 70th REUNION June 10–12, 2016

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

PHILLIPS Cliff Crosby 45 Hedgerose Lane Bethlehem NH 03574 603-869-2582 603-991-4919 (cell) noelcliff@msn.com

I love the obituary page. In most cases it is a celebration of life stories rather than sad news.

You often learn things about your friends that you never knew. I found the following four life stories fascinating and hope you feel the same.

Born in NYC, Roger Neuhoff, who died Oct. 28, 2015, spent his childhood in Kings Point, N.Y., with his brother, John, from whom he was inseparable and whom he followed to both Andover and Amherst. We knew Roger as a hammer thrower, track star, and very popular classmate. We didn’t know that he was one of the earliest recruits of the CIA, where he was deployed behind enemy lines in North Korea, rescuing downed American pilots. With a keen intellect and boundless ambition, Roger had a meteoric career in media that began with a job as a salesman at WTOP-AM in Washington, D.C. With his wife, Louise, he began building Eastern Broadcasting with the acquisition of a radio station in Charlottesville, Va., in 1955. Before long, Eastern added another 11 markets and then was sold in what was then one of the largest transactions of its kind. Not satisfied to retire to Florida, Roger and Louise started Neuhoff Communications, which still operates in six Midwest markets. Roger was equally successful with his family and in his two communities, in Florida and Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. He also beat cancer, at least partly with his positive attitude and ability to use humor to rally those around him. He leaves 10 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and an Andover very grateful for his generosity.

Fred Thomas, who died Sept. 16, 2015, was also born in NYC but spent most of his life living abroad. We knew him as editor in chief of The Phillipian and another popular classmate.

We probably did not know he graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degree in Arabic and received a doctorate in social anthropology from the University of London. He and his wife, Xandra, served in the Peace Corps in Morocco and Somalia; he was also USAID administrator in Jordan and a UNDP rep in Saudi Arabia and

www.andover.edu/intouch Haiti. He wrote several books: Calcutta Poor, To the Mouths of the Ganges, and Jihad in the Sudan. He sang with the Berkeley chorus, played oboe, and painted scenes from his travels. He leaves two sons and four grandchildren in the San Francisco area.

Scott Paradise, who died Sept. 13, 2015, was the son of one of our favorite instructors at Andover.

After Yale and Episcopal Theological School, he too set out abroad for Sheffield Industrial Mission, in Sheffield, England, and a pioneering effort to bridge the gap between the church and the working man.

He came back to the U.S. to repeat the effort with the UAW in Detroit. He, wife Jeanne, and two sons moved back to New England to serve the scientists and engineers along Route 128. He became an activist in the ecological crisis and the gap between rich and poor, marched with Martin Luther King Jr., and was arrested for civil disobedience in nonviolent protests against the nuclear arms race and U.S. policies in Central America. In 1978 Scott became Episcopal chaplain at MIT. On retirement, his award read “Your untiring efforts to promote public conversation on wide-ranging, complicated issues has reflected your steadfast belief that we at MIT must understand how our work affects society.…Your wise and compassionate counsel has been invaluable.”

Jim Kurtz, who died Dec. 3, 2015, survived the transition from Grand Junction, Colo., and a challenging football experience to room with Don Lazo, Hal Upjohn, and Steve West at Yale. He then returned to his roots and built an employee-owned business empire spanning 13 lumberyards in Colorado and New Mexico on a foundation of tough lessons learned as a boy working for his dad. His son-in-law was quoted as saying, “He had to start with the most menial tasks and work his way up. His father always paid him less than other employees, which he resented, but it impressed on him the significance of every job in the yard and how important it was to acknowledge every employee’s contribution.”

Jim was an honorary life trustee of the Denver Zoo Foundation, where he used his extraordinary business and management skills for 37 years. He was a loving husband to his wife, Katharine, a great father to his four children, and an example to his three grandchildren.

We need all of you to come to our 70th Reunion June 10–12 and share your life stories.

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

I’m sad to report that Dorothy Lee Booth Witwer died in Key West, Fla., Sept. 21, 2015. Lee was the youngest, and indubitably the brightest, member

of our class. Before she even got to Abbot, she had won a statewide history award. After Abbot, Lee went to Smith, and, in 1951, before graduation, she married George Osborn Witwer of South Bend, Ind. They lived in Connecticut, New York, Indiana, and Key West, making Key West their second home in 1989. Rosemary “Momo” Jones and I visited her there several times in the early 2000s. Lee was known for her fine mind, sense of humor, serene spirituality, and devotion to her family. She was active in many charitable and community organizations. She leaves her husband, four children, 14 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

Helen Tasche North writes that after Abbot she earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar and spent two years at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. She recently retired after 28 years on the staff of the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vt., and at the same time moved from Lyme, N.H., to an apartment in Hanover, N.H. Like many of us, she fills her time with bridge, hiking, golf, tennis, cross-country skiing (she gave up downhill last year), and a reading group. She travels extensively: around the country, to see her four children and their families, and abroad. Her foreign travel has included Syria, Pakistan, and Vietnam. She enclosed a photograph of her large and handsome family at her birthday celebration.

Her granddaughter, Harper North ’16, is a senior at Andover. Harper is the daughter of Helen’s son John North, who graduated from PA in 1980.

My mother and I celebrated our respective birthdays (two days apart) at a big party in September 2015 at the Pierre Hotel in NYC. I turned 85, and my mother, 110 (!). The festivities were organized by my sister Shirley Young ’51 and Oscar Tang ’56. A highlight of the evening was Mummy dancing—in her high heels—with Oscar.

I fell on Helen North’s colorful and enjoyable letter like a parched wanderer in the desert. Please follow her example and send me some information about your life!

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

Paul McHugh’s byline appeared once again on a column in the Wall Street Journal. In the Jan. 10, 2016, issue, Paul commented on “the incident (that) involved a Yale professor…who was waylaid on campus by angry students. They were livid about a letter written by his wife, also a Yale teacher, who had suggested that the university’s recent admonishments about Halloween costumes, cultural appropriation, and racial insensitivity perhaps were unnecessary, since young adults are capable of deciding for themselves what to wear for Halloween and might even learn from being

‘a little bit obnoxious.’ ” Calling the incident an “ ‘emotional stampede’ by a group of sensitive young people living in a culture of suspicion who were provoked into believing that they had been gravely injured,” Paul goes on to conclude that this “culture of suspicion” at Yale and other universities “must be remedied for the academic pursuit of social diversity to succeed.” A link to the article can be found here: on.wsj.com/1RESrtA. Ronnie and Alan Schwartz were in Boston for a few days this past fall and put together a dinner attended by Nancy and Mike Hurwitz, Carole and Phil Aronson, and Maralyn and Bob Segal.

Alan has put a series of medical issues behind him, and he and Ronnie soldier along after the loss of a son this past year. Alan looks onward and outward.

Shelby Coates signed in, “Harry Flynn and George Rider ’51 may think I arrogated a bit too much from your latest. Yes, I was SOPA (Senior Officer Present Afloat) as to them, but not vis-à-vis some other officers on the ship and out in the fleet. A typical SOPA would have been COMDESRON 24 (Commander Destroyer Squadron 24) or CTG 95.1 (Commander Task Group 95.1) who was on an aircraft carrier bossing the escorting destroyers. But Harry and George, being ‘old salts,’ should be able to figure out the intended context.

“On December 18th I’m looking forward to zipping down via Amtrak to Manhattan to attend a Christmas party to be thrown by Lucy Adams, widow of my Yale classmate George Adams.

Andover Yalies who have shown up in the past at Lucy’s have included Richard Coulson and Lincoln Cornell. Always a great occasion.”

Dan Garland wrote in to cite the NYT frontpage editorial on weapon ownership and the inability of the United States to begin to act on gun control.

Latie and Roger McLean sent holiday greetings. They recounted summer travels with family in Europe and the activities and accomplishments of their grandchildren.

More holiday greetings came from Fran and Terry Buchanan, who offered a picture chronicle of a year of travel with family to Snowmass (Colo.), Tuscany, Washington U., Berkeley (Calif.), Hawaii, Yosemite, Calgary (Alberta), Glacier National Park, London, the Douro River in Portugal, Thanksgiving in Encinitas (Calif.), and Christmas in Sun Valley (Idaho). They even found time to work on a major benefit for children’s services in February. They may have retired from downhill skiing but remain active outside.

As for any less sensational lives, we’re still all here.

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

Some say there is a book in all lives. It’s true. Read on about the Dr. Carter Nance story.

Carter writes, “A year of nostalgia and of familial reflection for me. In February 2015 I flew to Manila to join the 70th anniversary celebration of the liberation of the three civilian internment camps established by the Japanese during their occupation of the Philippine Islands. My father had been incarcerated in two of the camps. He had had a medical practice in Shanghai, but in January 1941, the State Department had ruled that it could no longer guarantee the safety of women and children in Shanghai, and virtually all of the American families there heeded the warning. My mother, with my two sibs and me, returned to her hometown of New Orleans. My father arrived in Baguio, the old summer capital of the Philippines, in mid-1941 when it appeared that his family would not be able to rejoin him in Shanghai.

“Baguio was bombed the day after Pearl Harbor, and within a month my father was imprisoned. He played a major political and medical role in the operation of the first camp in Baguio and then later at a larger camp at Los Baños. Residents of the Los Baños camp suffered pretty serious starvation toward the end of the Japanese rule. The camp, 30 miles behind Japanese lines, was liberated in a spectacular operation involving paratroopers, Filipino guerillas, and amphibious troop carriers, which rescued some 2,100 civilian prisoners without loss of a single civilian life. (The story has recently been retold in a good book by Bruce Henderson: amzn.to/218wAMQ.) “As leader at one camp and as the director of medical services at both camps, my dad protected the health of his fellow internees under very difficult circumstances. For his services, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“My February trip was a great chance to meet surviving members of the camps, most of whom were children during the war. I also visited the campsites, from which all traces of the camps have gradually disappeared. And it was a bit nostalgic to return for the first time to the city of my birth, Manila.

“In June 2015 I flew with my brother Walter (PEA ’50) to Suzhou, China, at the invitation of Soochow University to witness the unveiling of a statue erected to honor my grandfather Walter B. Nance, who was a founder of the university and who served as its third president, in the 1920s. My grandfather, who became a Methodist missionary after his graduation from

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Vanderbilt, was the first president of a missionary university to give up his title as president to a Chinese native (he remained as ‘Western advisor’). He saw the university through the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–41), when the campus was relocated to Shanghai.

At the end of the war, he returned to Soochow University at the age of 78 to help the university restart, leaving China only after the end of the revolution in 1949.

“Recognition of the missionary roots of the university is an unusual step. The missionary movement has not been well regarded by the postChiang regime, but the university has become interested in its true roots and is celebrating its history.

“Our hosts could not have been more gracious.

We were given several banquets, a tour of the old campus, a tour of the new campus with its 50,000 students, and tours of the beautiful garden city of Suzhou. The unveiling took place in a garden next to my grandfather’s campus home, an appropriate place, since it houses the oldest archives of the university. During the ceremony, the archivist presented us with a manuscript written in my grandfather’s hand: an autobiographical fragment describing his life before he left for China. It is a remarkable document describing the childhood and adolescence of a boy growing up in post–Civil War Cornersville, Tenn. This, coming from my most respected relative, giving details I had never before known about, was a priceless gift for my brother and me.

“We had a chance to revisit Shanghai on our way home and were able to locate our old home, now occupied by 10 Chinese families. The neighborhood seemed little changed after 75 years—except for the absence of Caucasian faces, rickshaws, starving refugees, Sikh policemen, French street names, White Russian ladies of the night, and Chinese amahs (nannies).

“My life has resumed its old measured pace.

My wife and I have settled into a new townhouse in Chatham, N.J. We observe with pleasure the maturation of our four children and four grandchildren. I do a fair amount of reading (history) between eyeball injections to stave off macular degeneration. I play competitive bridge, and I still can routinely solve Monday through Thursday NYT crossword puzzles. All in all, a pretty satisfying retirement.” —Jim McLane

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

I’m bloody but unbowed. Six months in rehabs, plus brain surgery, was a real test of Abbot’s

training. I think I’m thinking straight, but if not, you’ll soon find out.

I hope other lives are more serene than mine.

Love to all, Nora

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

With a class-notes deadline arriving soon after New Year’s Day, several of our classmates shared news and updates on their recent activities.

John Hanna reported he was still practicing real-estate-development law full time at his threelawyer firm in the heart of Silicon Valley. “Right now we have some exciting new projects we are working on,” John wrote, “including two new highrise mixed-use projects in San Jose and the new Golden State Warriors complex being developed in San Francisco.”

Aside from professional pursuits, John added, “Last year, I had to hang up my mask, fins, weight belt, snorkel, and abalone iron after 50 years of free-diving for abalone off the Northern California coast—on orders from my cardiologist, after he installed a pacemaker. The good news is that I have trained my granddaughter, Ally, and she got her first ‘ab’ last summer off the Mendocino coast at a depth of about 15 feet.

“Other things I have given up,” John continued, “include tennis, skiing, mountain climbing, and auto racing. For the first time in 30 years I am without a Ferrari, having sold my last one in 2015.” On the other hand, he has learned to play the bagpipes.

John was looking forward to the continuing recovery of his eldest daughter, Kristine, who fractured her skull and almost died while skiing on a black diamond run near Reno, Nev., in January 2015.

Busy as ever, Skip Schaum has turned his attention to project management ventures in Asia and South America: working with the Sri Lankan government on the Rama Setu bridge project linking Sri Lanka with India, providing technical and project management services to a Singaporean general contractor converting Malaysia’s television broadcasting system from analog to digital, and developing lithium carbonate mining and production facilities in Bolivia and Peru.

Intrigued with the history of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Jerry Schauffler and John Beard, with their wives, Barbie and Molly, enjoyed a riverboat voyage up the Columbia River to the Snake last October. The University of Montana historian who guided their trip, Harry Fritz, gave the group an awe-inspiring account of how the 19th-century explorers met and overcame formidable challenges.

Shortly before Christmas, Phil Brooks and his

www.andover.edu/intouch wife, Claire, took a riverboat cruise with a different itinerary—up the Rhine from Amsterdam to Basel, Switzerland, with a date to meet Burkhard Strack and his wife, Trudi, when the boat docked for the day in Speyer, Germany. “We hosted them on board for lunch,” Phil wrote, “then they served as our private guides for a tour of the famous Romanesque Speyer Cathedral. Burkhard moves a little slower but is his same ebullient self.”

Bill King and his wife, Jayne Palmer, in Bath, Maine, enjoyed a visit from Pim Epler and his wife, Eleanor, in early September, and later visited Bob Burgess in Cotuit, Mass., on Cape Cod. Also in September, Bill and Jayne traveled with a friend by bus from Maine to NYC, where they spent two days making the rounds on a “hop-on, hop-off ” double-decker tour bus, stayed three nights in a Times Square hotel, and took in a Broadway show—a revival of An American in Paris. Bill wrote, “It was the first time either of us had been to the big city to stay for many years—like 40. It was wonderful and a great trip.”

Ken McDonald reported that he and his wife, Chandley, were “busy and well” and that Chandley had declared that, after 32 years, she was going to retire from the U.S. Department of State in April.

“As for me,” Ken wrote, “having turned 84 the day before yesterday [December 30], I have a declining number of institutions to retire from. I still attend the luncheon-speaker meetings of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs and the Tertulians of McLean. I’m moderately active in my Alexandria parish, Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill, which has a connection with the Virginia Theological Seminary, from whose board of trustees I retired some time ago.” Ken reviews books for the Journal of Military History and occasionally gives lectures.

“As an emeritus professor at George Washington University,” he added, “I still have library privileges and, more importantly, reserved parking on campus.”

Will Watson reported finishing the manuscript of his book Hemingway’s Bimini Log: Big-Game Fishing in the Summer of 1936. While waiting for Patrick Hemingway, Ernest’s second son, to write his preface or prologue, Will was gathering photographs, charts, drawings, lists, some Hemingway correspondence, and other materials for the book.

Dick Bell wrote he has left the board of the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority, which is responsible for water supplies in that part of the state, but still heads the Watershed Fund, its charitable foundation. Dick and his wife, Annie, who’s well recovered from a bad fall last spring, spent Christmas as usual at their weekend cottage in Sharon, in the wilds of northwest Connecticut. “I didn’t go fishing on Christmas Day,” Dick said, “but I did on Dec. 26 and 27. On both days, I took a gorgeous brookie from the pools behind my house! And released them!”

Chuck Gordon wrote that he was entering his 20th year of retirement still healthy enough

to follow his “four Gs” prescription: golfing, gardening, geography (travel), and keeping up with grandchildren (of whom the Gordons have five).

Chuck said he was sorry to miss our 65th Reunion last June but has managed to keep in touch with quite a few classmates.

Marv Steinberg and his wife, Delores, also missed our 65th Reunion last June, in order to attend a grandson’s high-altitude (10,000 feet) wedding in Telluride, Colo. The Steinbergs, who have 12 grandchildren plus a great-grandchild, were planning a trip to France and England in April to celebrate their 60th anniversary. “I am no longer seeing patients but remain active academically in the orthopaedic department at Penn, teaching, editing, and doing research,” Marv added.

On a sad note, our classmate Don Mulvey died New Year’s Eve after a short illness. [Editor’s note: Please see Don Mulvey’s obituary in the In Memoriam section.]

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[Editor’s note: Connie Hall DeNault has stepped down as class secretary for the Abbot Class of 1951.

The Academy thanks her for her service. If any member of the class is interested in taking over as class secretary, please contact Laura MacHugh at 978-749-4289 or lmachugh@andover.edu.]

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

Jan. 6, 2016—so far, so good! You can count the snowflakes that have fallen so far. I’ll probably jinx it. This time last year we were well on our way to a tough, snow-filled season. Today is also the one-year anniversary of my book launch. The year has brought lots of readings, reviews, and welcome comments.

I received a note from Halsey Sandford’s widow, Barbara, informing me that, sadly, he had passed on, on Aug. 29, 2015, from complications of Alzheimer’s. Barbara added that although he spent only a year at Andover, he enjoyed being there and valued the experience and the friendships that he made. Halsey graduated from Yale in 1955. We were both in the NROTC there. He was stationed in the Mediterranean aboard a fleet tanker. Our destroyer fueled from Halsey’s ship in late 1956.

Following his Navy duty, Halsey received an MBA degree from Harvard and helped run the family business, WKYW, a local radio station. In 1965, he joined Hilliard Lyons of Louisville, Ky., where

he served as senior vice president and corporate director. After 27 years at Hilliard, Halsey joined Res-Care, a provider of services to persons with special needs, fulfilling his passion for improving the lives of others. He is survived by Barbara, daughter Janet Brown, son Neal Sandford, and four grandchildren.

On a lighter note, do you remember the old saying “Out of sight, out of mind”?

Tony Thompson, our classmate for one memorable year and class secretary for Stanford 1955, calls ’em like he sees ’em. In a past column he rattled off a list of Stanford classmates who attended PA and were no longer with us. Bob Barton, very much alive, took umbrage at his name appearing on the list of the departed. Bob’s note correcting the error was duly noted. As your class secretary, I share Tony’s angst at the dearth of news coming from many classmates, which leads to the occasional oversight or error. I am printing a note I recently received from Packy Maxwell, whose name appeared on the same Stanford list as Bob Barton’s: “Greetings, George. I’m still here on earth, along with Bob Barton. I don’t blame Tony Thompson— rather, it’s my failure to communicate. I am a ‘happy camper’ here in the Sierras, just north of Yosemite.

It’s raining, thank God, after four dry years and two major forest fires to the north and south of us. [Wife] Nancy and I are preparing to celebrate our three grandsons’ graduations this spring from colleges in Texas, Oregon, and California. I am holding brain cancer at bay with the great staff at Stanford Medical Center. We are going on a cruise next month—a respite for us both. My regards to all my classmates, and particularly Tony Thompson, who is a great [Stanford] class secretary, and congratulations to you on your very successful book.” Fair winds and following seas, Packy!

On Nov. 11, 2015, Adm. Charles S. “Steve” Abbot ’62, USN (Ret.), delivered an insightful and memorable keynote address at the sixth annual Veterans Day dinner held in Paresky Commons, attended by an SRO crowd of students, faculty, administrators, and veterans. Adm. Abbot served from 1966 to 2000. He commanded the Sixth Fleet from 1996 to 1968, Carrier Group Eight, and the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) and completed his naval career as deputy commander-in- chief, U.S. European Command. He later served as deputy homeland security advisor to George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. He is currently president of the Navy–Marine Corps Relief Society, a private, nonprofit organization assisting sailors, marines, and their families.

A heartwarming highlight of the evening occurred when Medal of Honor recipient Capt. Thomas Hudner ’43, attending with members of his extended family, was joined by members of the family of Jesse Brown, Lt. Hudner’s onetime wingman and the U.S. Navy’s first African-American pilot. On Dec. 4, 1950, during the Korean War, Ensign Brown was shot down in enemy territory in the battle of Chosin Reservoir. Lt. Hudner pancaked his Corsair in an unsuccessful attempt to Andover | Summer 2016

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A group of alumni from the Class of 1954, along with friends and family, convened for a December lunch in New York City. From left are Sarah Lentz (friend of Dave Knight ), Dave Mackenzie , Kent McKamy , Charlotte and Steve Pendleton , Dave Knight , and Hannah Mangold and her father, Bob Feldman .

save his wingman and friend. For his heroic action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Harry S. Truman.

Capt. Hudner was taken completely by surprise later in the program when a beautiful portrait of him in dress blues by famed artist Charles Fagan ’84 was unveiled. Tears were evident when Hudner greeted the Browns and viewed his portrait.

The keel of the Arleigh Burke–class destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) was authenticated during a ceremony at the Bath Iron Works shipyard last Nov. 16. I am so fortunate to be a part of memorializing the contributions of Andover’s veterans. What great examples of non sibi for us all!

Too early to tell about spring, too soon to gloat over the absence of snow, but wife Dorothy and I are content to wait for the inevitable storms to come, cozy with cat Marybeth and the glow of Christmas memories and the hectic holiday season.

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

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[We received this note from Lisa Bromberg, wife of longtime class secretary Mike Bromberg: “I am sad to report that Mike passed away April 30, after a valiant fight. He was a hero to the end. He always said that cowards die many times before their deaths but the brave die but once. He was truly

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one of the brave. I was blessed to be with him up to the end. Andover always held a very special place in his heart, and the friends he met there became his family.”

The Academy is grateful for Mike’s service. If any member of the class is interested in taking over as class secretary, please contact Laura MacHugh at 978-749-4289 or lmachugh@andover.edu.]

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

I was so pleased to hear from so many of you.

Pam Bushnell Ellis says that being 80, going on 81, is a wonderful time! She writes, “I walk my dog in my nightgown (if modest) or my bathrobe; I feel free to do exactly as I wish. I attempt to be a better person to those I interact with, and I am delighted when asked if someone can help me!” Pam lives on Sanibel Island, in Florida, and heads north to visit family during the summer months.

Janet Bowden Wilson writes that she and her husband still enjoy Savannah, Ga. She says, “I don’t have much to report, since we haven’t been out of Savannah in a couple of years, except to Charleston, S.C., in June for the Spoleto Festival. That is always a treat, because Charleston is different in its own way and it has very fine restaurants. We pretty much eat our way through the city between concerts. Our two children are well and both living in Brooklyn, N.Y.” Nat Starr and her partner, Gayle, continue to explore the world away from home (a retirement

village near Baltimore). They visited Albania in 2014 and Provence, France, last fall, and the two intend to keep on adventuring.

Dee Bethell Wroth writes, “As a sporadic contributor to the Abbot Courant (which probably no longer exists), I am pleased and proud that four of my children have become professional writers at a far higher level than I ever achieved. Sarah Zobel is a freelance writer and editor whose work can be found on her website and often appears in Andover magazine; she was recently hired as senior medical writer for the mobile app AskMD. Katharine Wroth is a writer and editor for Grist, an online environmental publication. John Zobel is completing a biography of early aviator Eugene Ely; Dave Zobel is one of two writers for the NPR program Says You and has just written a book on the science of The Big Bang Theory (that would be the sitcom, not the real thing).” Then there is son Tom Calder, “a wine broker living in Paris, and Libby Zobel, a graduate of the BU School of Social Work, [who] has been working at that profession in Boston for over 20 years.” Dee, who has had a distinguished career as a steel band drummer, is now a member of an African drumming group.

Beverly Berkey Sipes writes, “My life in Tulsa, Okla., is happy with family, friends, good health, and activities. Three of my children are in Tulsa with their families; a son lives in Denver and a daughter in Brooklyn, N.Y. In November they had a surprise 80th birthday dinner party for me, which was very enjoyable. The table decorations reflected interests of mine over the years, such as gardening, children’s books, owl collection, painting, teaching, college sorority, and grandchildren. I continue to usher at the performing arts center, garden, attend Bible scripture class, read for two book clubs, and do aerobics. My greatest pleasure is helping with my three youngest grandsons, ages 7, 10, and 12.”

In a phone chat with Betsy Hitzrot Evans, I learned that she and husband Dick traveled via buses and boats through Scandinavia last summer with a group that included Anne Oliver Jackson and her husband, Dick.

Audrey Taylor MacLean writes, “We had a very quiet holiday, but all the family gathered here in October for my big birthday. It was the first time in eons that all the children and grandchildren had come here to Houston. I was thrilled. The young ones and parents stayed through Halloween. It was such fun to have them all together.”

Bunty Benedict Ferguson and her husband are happily ensconced in their Florida home, after a replacement of her right knee in September.

She says, “I’m planning on getting back to tennis and am already playing golf. Had a great summer, which included a family reunion as a premature celebration of my 80th (eek) birthday and a weeklong trip to the Dordogne valley of France.

That was wonderful—I had no idea there was so much to see there.”

Ellen Smith, also recovering from a knee operation, flew to Nevis Island before Christmas,

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Fred Fenton and Ray Oliver, both Class of ’53, lunched together in February at the UC Faculty Club in Berkeley, Calif. The two hadn’t see each other since graduating from PA 63 years ago.

joining a party of 12 to celebrate her brother’s 80th birthday. Not that long ago, Ellen was zip-lining over a forest canopy, which inspires me to say to Ellen and to every one of us as we round the corner into the next decade: You go, girl!

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

Pete Capra sounded hale, hearty, and happy when I called to thank him for sending the following: “Just this past July, I made a journey, with my 20-year-old grandson, back to a ranch I worked on 62 years ago. I was one of several college kids stacking hay the old-fashioned way (not baled, as they do now). The ranch has not changed much; the bunkhouses, kitchen, barns, and corrals are very much as they were then. The same family owns and runs the ranch. However, the one-eyed foreman is long gone! The hospitality for us Easterners was very generous, and my grandson joined a couple of younger family kids fence-mending. I bunked in one of the bunkhouses; my grandson was in the main house, where he could play the piano!

“The ranch is in Nevada, and you get to it off the interstate by driving on a dirt road for miles. As a city kid, when I arrived decades ago the summer was an eye-opener to the vastness of our country and the beauty and loneliness that envelop you out there; that is why I longed to see it once again and share this feeling with a younger generation. We did not see the modern watering systems as you do elsewhere in the West; here, you still have to work largely with what you have had for generations, though one concession is the use of an aircraft to survey the land.

“This return to my younger years was as memorable as my previous stay, and I hope it has

Several women from the Abbot Class of 1954 met for a mini reunion in October 2015 at the Winchester, Mass., home of classmate Peggy Moore Roll. Front, from left, are Peggy, Francie Nolde, Sue Larter Lingeman, Sylvia Thayer, Sandy Liberty, Jane Munro Barrett, and Paula Prial Folkman. Back row: Maris Oamer Noble, Nancy Donnelly Bliss, and Pat Skillin Pelton.

made a positive impression on my grandson as to the vastness and diversity of our great country.”

Charlie Brodhead sent a Christmas card in which he expressed his appreciation for Andover magazine’s review of his novel The Quebec Affair (published under his pen name, Robert Penbrooke) in a previous issue. He also updated me on his three daughters and his son.

Fred Fenton also took advantage of Christmas to send me a copy of his annual Christmas letter.

He writes, “Those who are lucky enough to be grandparents can imagine our pleasure in having three delightful granddaughters. Perry, the oldest, is in her second year at San Francisco State. She is a top student and was chosen for a role in Chekhov’s The Seagull. Sophia and Stella are in primary school in Durango, Colo. We are excited about the girls and their parents coming to spend Christmas with us. Son David is an experienced tech writer. His brother, James, was promoted from reporter to business editor for the Daily News in Farmington, N.M.” In December, I finally got to the Mnuchin Gallery’s exhibition of about a dozen of Carl Andre’s sculptures. Coincidentally, the exhibition also included several works by Frank Stella ’54.

Don Shapiro mailed the following: “Arlene and I moved to a life care community (actually a 12-story high-rise on the Gulf of Mexico) here in Naples, Fla., a year ago, and we love it. No kids or grandkids nearby, but we have Florida weather and our many friends here in Naples.

“We just arrived today from our home in the Berkshires, where we live from mid-May to mid-October.” He also indicated that Margot and George Bixby were making a similar move.

Further inquiry yielded the following from George: “Good morning, Bill. Land line: 781-875-3121. Cell: 978-302-1110. E-mail: ghbixby@gmail.com.

“Wife Margot and I have been very busy getting settled at Linden Ponds in Hingham Mass., a continuing-care retirement community. The

decision to move came suddenly this summer, after Margot’s spine surgery in May 2015. If she hadn’t had the surgery, there was a good chance she would have been in a wheelchair the rest of her life; it was becoming more and more difficult for her to walk without assistance and go up and down stairs. It was time to downsize and move to a life care facility. Margot’s recovery will take more than a year, and she is on a cane and a rollator. We will miss Andover greatly, having lived there for 46 years and being involved so deeply with the town, Christ Church, PA, and Lawrence, where we have been so active with Habitat for Humanity and now Esperanza Academy, a middle school for girls; serving as treasurer and finance chair there takes up a good amount of my time. Margot’s sister moved to Linden Ponds a month before us, and we both have sons named Andy living in Hingham.

So far, we like our new digs very much. We feel fortunate to have such a wonderful place to spend our remaining years.”

Evan Geilich reports he has now completed five novels, all available on Amazon. He and wife Grace spend six months of the year in Palm Beach, Fla., and six months in Concord, Mass. Not too shabby!

The indestructible Dutch Wolff is resting comfortably at home after a week in hospital and some rehab time.

Jack Bigelow sent the following: “Retired after 37 years teaching upper-school math at the Park School of Baltimore in 2000. Lost my wife to cancer same day. Did substitute work at Park for another four years, remarried, and moved to Palm Coast, Fla., in 2004. Did some sub work and tutoring and joined a community theatre here. Currently have stepdaughter, husband, and three girls living with us. Caring for another stepdaughter’s kids when she or her husband is working. Yes, staying busy!”

I wish you all a healthy, happy, and prosperous 2016!

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

On Oct. 16, 2015, Francie Nolde, Sylvia Thayer, Sandy Liberty, Jane Munro Barrett, Paula Prial Folkman, Maris Oamer Noble, Sue Larter Lingeman, Patti Skillin Pelton, and I gathered at Peggy Moore Roll’s home in Winchester, Mass. We enjoyed a delicious lunch, and, as always, conversation flowed nonstop and covered a variety of topics, including family news, present activities, travel plans, and news of other classmates.

We also had a very interesting and meaningful discussion after lunch, generated by four articles that Maris had sent to us ahead of time. Their titles were “Why I Hope to Die at 75,” “The Joy of Old Age,” “This Old Man,” and “Medicine, Hope, and Managing Death,” all published in the past year and a half. Maris received the articles when she attended a series of talks on aging. Our sharing was honest, poignant, helpful, and sprinkled with humor and gratitude that those present were healthy, still able to drive, living independently, and continuing to contribute to society as well as enjoying time for ourselves and family. In the course of our conversations, the book Being Mortal

by Atul Gawande was mentioned several times— not an easy read, though highly recommended.

Thanks, Maris, for your efforts in preparing us for such a worthwhile time of sharing.

Jackie Wei Mintz took a “fascinating” trip to Mongolia, and this past December, her work was in a two-person art show in Towson, Md. Debbie Huckins is doing well after a hip replacement and planned to spend two weeks this winter in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, with husband Morgan. Joan Wheeler Kaufman and Paula belong to the Crescendo Club in Boston and attend several musical performances a year given by very talented young people who attend local schools like the New England Conservatory.

Peggy hosted her book group last fall and invited Paula to attend, as the group was discussing Dr. Folkman’s War by Robert Cooke. The book tells the story of Paula’s late husband, Dr. Judah Folkman, and his cancer research. It was written before Judah’s death, so the author was able to interview him and to have use of his notes.

In early December, Peggy attended the Brace Student Fellow Presentation on “A Proposal for All-Gender Housing at PA” by Karissa Kang ’17. Peggy reported that Karissa was very knowledgeable and an interesting speaker. Our class continues to support the efforts of the Brace Center for Gender Studies, and we hoped to have a group attend a presentation commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Brace Center in April.

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In addition to supporting the Brace Center, many classmates are in the process of contributing our memorabilia to the Abbot Archives Project.

I encourage continued support of this very worthwhile effort in working to preserve the history and legacy of Abbot Academy.

Speaking of Abbot’s history, one of our faculty members died in December 2015, at the age of 96. Miss Adele Bockstedt taught French from 1949 to 1954 and kept in touch with me in recent years; she spoke fondly of her memories of our class. [Editor’s note: Please see Adele Bockstedt’s obituary in the In Memorium section.] Also on a historical note, many classmates enjoyed seeing the pictures on the Andover website of the replacement of the restored dome on Abbot Hall. The photos were great, especially the aerial views on a very clear day on campus. Most of us confessed to never having been up to the observatory during our time at school.

I close with a line from Martha Belknap’s poem, “Pray For Peace,” written several years ago.

“When you’re watching children run, laughing freely in the sun, pray for peace.” —Nancy

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

Again, there is very little “news” passing over my transom as your class secretary. Perhaps we are not obsessed with ourselves, or we are so busy in retirement that we do not have time to jot a few notes about the passing months and our interactions with classmates, or the 2016 “presidential candidates show” has consumed us. For those of us who follow Ken MacWilliams’s VCR, we do get a lot of news about classmates’ activities there.

Steve Wilson continues to write his blog, LetsFixthisCountry.org. Categories covered include, but are not limited to, healthcare, foreign policy, war, politics, education, law, and policy. It makes for provocative reading, and there is the option to sign up for alerts to new material, which come about every 10 days.

Ken MacWilliams brought to our attention Bob Feldman’s Concinnitas Project collection of prints based on mathematical expressions executed by famous mathematicians, physicists, and a Turing Award–winning computer scientist, the subject of a feature in the January 2016 issue of Scientific American. The collection of aquatint prints of “beautiful mathematical expressions” is published by Bob’s Parasol Press, LTD, of Portland, Ore., and executed by printers Harlan & Weaver, Inc., of NYC. They are at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in NYC. Not too far from that gallery is the Frank Stella retrospective at the Whitney Museum of

American Art. Included are his irregular polygons, which elicit in the observer the artistic effects of geometry.

Kent McKamy arranged a class luncheon at the Bryant Park Grille on Dec. 19, 2015, attended

by Dave Mackenzie, Bob Feldman, Bob’s daughter Hannah Mangold, Dave Knight and his friend Sarah Lentz, Steve Pendleton and his wife, Charlotte, and Kent. Classmates who could not make it: Bob Semple, who had commitments that kept him busy at the New York Times and sent his regrets; Dick Carlson, who was busy with his business in Connecticut and also sent his regrets; and, sadly, your secretary, who was also busy with business in Connecticut. Our honorary classmate, Dutch Wolff, found it too hard to get down to Bryant Park, and he was missed. Kent has been arranging these get-togethers at the Bryant Park Grill for many years, with wives, friends, and family always invited, and we thank him for keeping them going for us New York– area classmates.

Bob Semple is in his 51st year at the New York Times, editing the editorial page and also writing for it, mainly on environmental and energy-related issues. Who could forget his 996 Pulitzer Prize– winning editorials on environmental issues and, in particular, the one about a proposed mine to have been built on the edge of Yellowstone? He looks forward to his 14th presidential election at the Times. He is 61 years from his chairmanship at The Phillipian, and recently he cochaired a successful effort to raise an endowment for it, since it cannot make it on its own these days. He writes, “I play tennis once a week, depending on my partner to track down the overheads and drop shots, work out at the Yale Club when I can, and always—I mean always—hold on to the rail.”

Finally I had a nice note from our beloved Dutch Wolff. He lives in the same “castle family tower” co-op apartment on the fourth floor of the building where he has lived for close to 60 years.

He had a bout of rehab before Christmas for an infection in his leg, which was badly injured in a freak accident he suffered a number of years ago, but he says he is getting along pretty well in spite of his 91 years, a knee that is “as bad as it gets” (to quote one of his surgeons), and having to climb four flights of stairs to get in and out of his “castle.”

He loves to hear from his old Andover students, friends for so many years; his phone number is 212-LE5-2886. (Bob Semple advises the “LE” is for “Lehigh,” the exchange Dutch had when he moved to NYC in the late 1950s.)

Please be sure to send me your news.

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Nancy Eastham Iacobucci 17 Wilgar Road Etobicoke ON M8X 1J3 Canada 416-231-1670 nyakblue@gmail.com

The calendar flipped over to 2016 too quickly for me. How about you? The first change actually came about in late 2015, when Andover told me that I needed a different e-mail address for the magazine, since BlueLink was no longer going to be in service. Therefore, please note my new e-mail address, which is dedicated to the magazine and the piles of mail I am going to receive from all of you. (Please note that I have retained the “blue”— Abbot blue, of course.)

Since I do not want to end this column with bad news, I shall start with it. You may remember from the 2015 reunion report that Kathy Stirling Dow had attended the Abbot tea with her younger son.

She wrote me in December to say that her older son had died, most unfortunately, on Aug. 17, 2015, of stomach cancer. Kathy has had much more than her share of sad happenings in the past little while, and I’m sure you join me in sending our sympathy to her.

Another piece of unhappy news is that our classmate Marcia Cooper Lee died Oct. 3, 2015, after a brief illness. (I sent an e-mail to the 18 classmates whose addresses I have, but this news may be new for the rest of you.) After Abbot she went to Bradford College and then Katharine Gibbs School (aka “Katie Gibbs,” which provided excellent training for women wanting to work in business). She then did work in business for many years, as a sales associate at Macy’s. She had twin sons, who live in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and two grandsons, who also live in Colorado.

Unfortunately, I have no further details.

My super Christmas correspondent, Christine Maynard, has come through again!

Unfortunately, for the few of us who attended our 60th Reunion, she had already gone to her cottage in New Hampshire before the reunion, so we missed seeing her or even talking on the telephone with her. I expect she was motivated to get away from her Andover house as soon as possible, since many spring storms in Andover had left her with a lot of repairs: four ceilings needed repainting and a further ceiling had to be replaced—enough to make anyone want to leave town! Fortunately, there was no damage to her New Hampshire cottage, and her summer there was delightful. When she wrote, she was about to do her annual Christmas decorating, this time with Annalee dolls. Evidently, when she unpacked them she discovered she had so many that she picked out just some from each category and repacked the rest! (Being unfamiliar with Annalee dolls, I

Googled them—and I wish I had seen her house decorated with these very cute characters!)

My other loyal reporter, Dee Fleming King, sent an e-mail in October describing a “spectacular” fall trip to Alaska. She evidently took the last cruise ship of the season, since she wanted to watch the wildlife preparing for the long winter, and she was definitely not disappointed! Some of her favorite sights were watching two young grizzly brothers “out foraging by themselves for the first winter without mom,” Dall sheep “running about in the snow,” osprey guarding their nests, and whales frolicking, but the highlight was holding an 8-day-old sled dog in her arms! She also had a ride on a training sled pulled by 10 enthusiastic dogs and commented that since she has loved training Labradors most of her life, she felt at home in that milieu and wondered whether there might be a “second chance” for her as a “musher”! Altogether, she found the trip enlightening, as well as “full of humor and fun.” She added, “How about being out on a dark, rainy night in a covered wagon (pulled by two horses who did not want to be there) in bear territory, with a guide who was afraid of the dark?”

Dee was looking forward to her next trip, over Thanksgiving, when she and her family were heading to New Orleans to visit the WWII museum there. She described the trip as a “test to see if the grandsons are ready for a June trip to Normandy.” My guess is that they will have been, so stay tuned to hear about it in the magazine!

I ended my last column with the following: “As I end this report, I am wondering whether anyone reads this column. If you do, please send me a quick e-mail saying that you do. If I don’t hear from anyone, I shall assume nobody reads the column, and I shall stop writing!” Since I now realize that you will have received that threat after I write this, I am repeating it. You have been warned!

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

Greg Miller passed away at his home in Harlan, Iowa, on April 20, 2015, and was laid to rest at Crawford Heights Memory Gardens in Denison.

After Andover and one year at Yale University, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in Heidelberg, Germany, as a member of the 33rd Army Band. In 1960, he married Ann-Marie Andersson of Halmstad, Sweden. Following discharge, he earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, with high honors.

The Millers moved to Seattle, where, in 1968, Greg completed a PhD degree in inorganic chemistry at the University of Washington.

After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California, he joined Marquette Cement Manufacturing Company in Chicago, where he worked as a research chemist. Living in Lake Zurich, Ill., he served the Portland Cement Association in Skokie as senior research chemist and process development manager. An early arrival on the front lines of environmental protection, he was tasked with the control of gaseous pollutants.

In 1978, the family moved to Scandinavia, where he worked for FLSmidth & Co. in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1981, he returned to the United States, working first as process operations director, then as director of research, for Ideal Cement. Greg held many positions in the cement industry. He was acclaimed for his development of new uses for waste fuels and substitute raw materials.

During his career, he authored many awardwinning technical and scientific papers for the cement industry. He earned an international reputation for his presentations at worldwide cement industry conferences, as well as for his problem-solving consulting services for cement manufacturers on six continents. He taught technical courses at a number of cement plants as well as at the Colorado School of Mines and was a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Testing and Materials, and the Air & Waste Management Association.

In 2003, he retired from Cement Technology Laboratories in Skokie. He and his second wife, Janet, whom he met in a divorce recovery class, moved to Colorado, where he established a consulting business, Cement Etc., Inc., from which he retired in 2013.

He researched, wrote, and taught adult Sunday School courses, sang in church choirs, and played his alto saxophone, clarinet, jazz piano, and ukulele at worship services, annual gatherings of the 33rd Army Band, and many social gatherings and family reunions. He sang with the Denver Lutheran Chorale and the Denver Mountaineers, a barbershop chorus. He is survived by Janet, two daughters, three grandsons, and eight step-grandchildren.

Steve Kaye, who says he retired from farming “because the bulls and the boars got too big and I no longer wanted to tangle with them,” is still tangling with reporters and advertisers as editor of the Millbrook (New York) Independent. He reports he was hoping to sell the paper “to a successor who wanted to work 45 hours a week gratis and have a ball funding the thing. No takers.”

Steve says he’s never been happier than at this stage of life. He and wife Belinda visited Poland last August for a music festival and then met friends in Italy for a tour of the wine country.

Julie and Mark Gordon enjoyed Paris in April 2015 and an immersive nature outing to the Galapagos Islands last November. Most of us travel long distances north and south to maintain a comfortable climatic environment. When things get too toasty for Mark and Julie in Tucson, Ariz., they take a much shorter route––a vertical Andover | Summer 2016

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Dil Cannon was recently the coverboy for the magazine Orthopedics Today, which reported on his extensive research into training methods for orthopedic residents. With advances in medical technology and changes in the health care system, the way residents are being trained has shifted from a traditional master-apprentice model to one of proficiency-based progression training and simulation.

Dil, who has spent many years at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, noted, “In 2013, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education stated that every orthopedic training institution must incorporate some form of surgical skills training in their curricula, whether it is something as straightforward as a cadaver lab, or low-fidelity simulation such as a knot-tying board, or—as technology improves and costs come down—high-fidelity simulation.

Using a surgical simulator to train residents can help them to reach a predetermined level of high proficiency and allow them to go into the OR and fine-tune their skills starting from a higher level.

The result could be fewer surgical errors.”

A previously published study by Dil and his colleagues showed that residents who underwent knee arthroscopy training on a simulator to a predetermined proficiency level performed significantly better according to a procedural checklist, compared with residents who continued institution-specific orthopedic education training.

A copy of African American Doctors of World War I, coauthored by Doug Fisher and Joann Buckley, arrived just before Christmas. I haven’t quite finished reading it yet but am finding this scrupulously researched compendium of 104 short biographies of these pioneering volunteers inspiring and eye-opening. Students of early-20thcentury military history, politics, medicine, and/ or civil rights, take notice.

Marilyn and David Haartz have pretty much run out of new ports of call and so have resorted to venues most often chosen for the purpose of hiding one’s money and identity. Reunion Island, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Seychelles, and Malta were on the itinerary this year. And hanging out in the western Indian Ocean presented our class globe-trotters with their first “pirate drill.” What is the proper reply to “Argh”? …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

Our 60th Reunion is June 10–12. Please take time to join your classmates at what should be a great event.

I heard from Eleanor Rulon-Miller York.

She will miss reunion but has a good excuse. Her granddaughter is getting married. Also, another great-grandbaby was due in March.

Ellen Welles Linn reports on a new hip. She is back to Pilates and walking several times a week.

Ellen and husband Gene were expecting their first grandchild in January.

Husband Bob and I spent Christmas week with daughter Anne in Virginia Beach, Va. It was 79 degrees the day after Christmas, so we were able to take a long walk on their gorgeous beach. Weather changed the next day.

This past winter found us in Arizona, where it was cold and wet, thanks to El Niño. Hope to see more news forthcoming. Let me hear from you, please. And try to get to the reunion!

Hugs, 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 prhjr@rockbridge.net

Our 60th Reunion is only days away, and if the results are proportional to the energy being invested by the planning committee, it will be a ringing success. As these notes are being written, six months out, there are 18 PA and Abbot classmates hard at work on every aspect of the event, determined to make it the equal of our fabulous 50th. There is no detail too small for this group. Take the Reunion Catering Committee, for example: Planning at a distance didn’t work, so they met at Paresky Commons to sample and select Saturday night’s bill of fare. And bring your dancing shoes, because there will be a band to serenade us as we dance away the evening under a paper moon. And by special arrangement, the ghost of Lester Lanin will appear at midnight to

sing “Goodnight Ladies.” That is just one part of a weekend overflowing with social, educational, and fine dining activities. And don’t forget: Generous classmates have covered the cost of all campus events. The current record for a 60th Reunion is 59 PA and Abbot returnees. We had 135 at our 50th, so we ought to be able to add a new attendance record to our already crowded trophy case.

Making my telephone rounds, I hear repeatedly that memories of the 50th are a powerful motivating factor in deciding to return. There is a feeling that our class is exceptionally cohesive and that we really know how to throw a party. The 50th was Frank Killilea’s first reunion, and he enjoyed it so much he is planning to make it back again.

In talking about his experience at Andover, Frank remembers that being a day student kept him from fully feeling a part of the class zeitgeist, a lingering feeling of isolation that was erased at the 50th. The key frustration for all the day students was not being allowed to board and really join student life.

Frank recalls, “We were relegated to a room in the basement of the library, but even that was difficult because Joe Pellegrino smoked us all out.” And they couldn’t do much about it, because Joe was the day student proctor. I remember a similar conversation with Joe five years ago. In spite of playing baseball and soccer, being in student congress, and forming many durable friendships, not being allowed to board took something away from Joe’s experience.

Andy Leaf was also a day student, but he managed to get into Paul Revere as a senior— just how, he didn’t say. He, too, remembers the isolation of the library basement and Joe’s nonstop smoking. Andy is “practically retired” from consulting work in organizational development.

He is also “open-minded” on coming back for the 60th. Orrin Hein is hoping to reroute a planned extended stay at his home in Paris in order to attend. Skip Klemm reports that muscular dystrophy has finally put him in a wheelchair, and though he says he is doing “quite well,” he isn’t sure about the reunion. He says, “I’d love to come back again to the school that changed my life, and it’s still on my calendar, but I’m not sure I can do it. Someone would have to push me around.” I assured him there would no shortage of friends to see to his needs.

We have two notes from Europe. Victoria and Bill Ellington are coming from their new home in Belgium. Anticipating the fallout from England’s 2017 referendum on quitting the EU, they decided to leave London. “No matter the outcome, Brussels is the place to be,” writes Bill. From Vienna, Bill Kieffer sent his regrets and “best regards to all our class members” in a handwritten note—no computer for Bill. Along with fond recollections of our Berlin trip, he reported his continuing immersion in the Vienna music scene: “I am still singing in the choir of the Russian Orthodox Church and play trombone (jazz and swing) and the flute (classical).” He is

www.andover.edu/intouch also in the Vindobona Old Stars jazz band; look him up on YouTube. In between gigs, Bill managed a trip to Cuba with a Williams College travel study group, “thereby setting foot on Cuban soil for the first time since my family left the island in 1947.”

Whew!

Too often we find out belatedly about the loss of a classmate. Jan van Amerongen died in fall 2014 at his home in Amelia Island, Fla. Jan and wife Pat retired in 1998 and moved to Florida so they could enjoy year-round tennis, golf, and life on the oceanfront. Jan was captain of the Penn tennis team, and he and Pat played serious competitive doubles tennis. “But most of all,” Pat said, noting Jan’s dry humor, “he loved the ocean and spent hours staring out over the Atlantic. When people asked him what he was looking for, he would say he was waiting to see two waves exactly alike.”

Bob Berlind died just before Christmas. Bob was an extraordinary artist, art historian, and writer. Take a Google tour to see his art and read about his many awards and museum commissions.

One critic described Bob’s art as “rooted in landscape, reflecting a scholar’s knowledge of the history of art.” Another said, “He painted with the gestures of a tai chi practitioner, gradually exposing all dimensions of space and time.” Phil Bowers and Jeremy Nahum attended Bob’s funeral in NYC. Jeremy spoke at the service. He described Bob as his “friend of longest standing, who helped get me through the four worst years of my life, my years at Andover. His playfulness, mischievousness, and affection for all were models in how to live and let live.” Jeremy had the chance to spend time with Bob just before he died. He said, “He never felt bitter, never bemoaned his fate, and remained interested in others to the very end.”

Sixty years out and our memories and friendships are still powerful, still defining us.

Come back to the reunion and rekindle the fire.

—Phil Hirsh

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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

I (Lulu Cutler) was treated on Jan. 8 to a special day in New Haven, Conn., enjoying a wonderful lunchtime visit with Jody Bradley Bush (our hostess), Dinah Hallowell Barlow, and Mimi Ganem Reeder at the Union League Café. The three of them had visited the latest exhibition at the Yale

University Art Gallery. Our two-hour lunch passed as if we were sitting in a cozy dorm room having a fun chat (lots of it).

Jody, Dinah, and Penny Holbrook had an adventurous cruise Downeast on a 62-foot catamaran owned by Jody’s son Jonathan Bush ’87’s company, athenahealth. In June, I (Lulu) had a special family reunion in Bermuda hosted by my son Alec and his wife, Laura, who live there. It is such a gift to be with my three sons and their families; I have seven grandchildren, ages 13 to 18. James IV is a freshman at Holy Cross and in NROTC like his dad, Jim, was. Anna is in a postgrad year at Exeter and will attend the U.S. Naval Academy like her dad, Alec, did. All the grandchildren are active and happy and love being together. I planned to attend an AA-PA luncheon in Vero Beach, Fla., where I recently spent two months.

Louisa Lehmann Birch added the following news: “In November, Lulu and I attended a show of Elizabeth Enders’s paintings called Come In, at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London and Real Art Ways in Hartford, both in Connecticut. Of her paintings, Elizabeth writes, ‘So I paint—abstracting rivers, oceans, mountains, fields, language—using lines, marks, glyphs to open the doors of the subconscious.’

“The program began at the Lyman Allyn, where we observed an exhibition of Elizabeth’s works. The breadth of her paintings shown here was great. Included were many watercolors on paper, all abstract but many clearly of the sea, and others of land and sky. There were oil paintings on linen, some with her famous markings and others with her familiar repeated words. Referring to these, Elizabeth writes, ‘Mark making is about filling in the blanks, making something complete.

It’s about making sense of things.’

“Also included were a variety of handsome botanicals, mostly in watercolor. An art professor from Connecticut College went about the gallery with us, discussing Elizabeth’s paintings.

“A delicious luncheon was served in the handsome library of the art museum. From here we went to Real Art Ways in Hartford. Lulu drove me, and we had a wonderful time catching up!

“The two settings—the handsome classical museum and the renovated industrial building— couldn’t have been more different. Seeing Elizabeth’s paintings in these two settings gave them more breadth and meaning. Many small watercolors and markings were here, as were penand-ink drawings of botanicals and underwater creatures. More of the lovely watercolors of the sea were included. The show was dominated by several large oil paintings on linen, the central one of the sea seen best from a distance. Summer Days, with the sun shining on the shimmering water and the calm blue sky, gave a feeling of peace.

“My drive from my home in New Hampshire was a long one. Elizabeth and husband Anthony kindly invited me to spend the night with them in their handsome home with a spectacular river

view. How fortunate I was to see even more of Elizabeth’s large oil canvases and to enjoy their delightful company in such a beautiful setting. This visit was indeed the highlight of my fall.”

Please send news. Love to all. —Lulu and Anne

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 my scribal colleague, Stephen Trivers, notes, “Thanksgiving and Christmas are big holidays, bringing families from one end of the USA to another,” and many of us are breathing a big “Oof!” now that they’re over. In Triv’s case, he and his wife, Irene, spent Thanksgiving in Portland, Ore., with their two daughters, their daughters’ spouses, and three grandchildren. A highlight for Triv was attending the Oregon-OSU game with his sons-inlaw. “The game was close, but it was very cold and I was frozen,” Triv reports. Three weeks later, Triv greeted the whole gang at the Kalamazoo, Mich., airport. Everybody managed to squeeze into Triv’s guest rooms. He says, “We had several activities for the granddaughters, ages 8, 9, and 10, like swimming in the indoor pool in our community center and ice skating. All of us had a great time. Irene and I fell asleep as soon as they left. When we woke up, it was 12 hours later.”

Similarly, John Finney had an epic Christmas, complete with nieces and nephews and their children, a brother and sister-in-law, a cousin, her son, and the son’s lady friend from London.

“We now have a fourth-generation PA student,” John reports. “My father was ’22, my brother ’49, myself ’57, nephew Jay Finney ’75, and now Jay’s son Quint is Class of ’18.” John is active as a board member of two community not-for-profits and as an elder of his Presbyterian church.

Diane and Phil Olsson spent the holidays ensconced in their house on Sanibel Island, in Florida, now their principal residence.

Overnighting there before Thanksgiving, wife Barbara and I found Phil well recovered from his orthopedic misadventures. Earlier, in Washington, D.C., Phil threw an SRO book party for his daughter Karen, author of a novel called All the Houses. At the same time, Results, a film by Karen’s husband, was singled out by the New York Times as one of three gems that should, but probably would not, be nominated for an Oscar, prompting Phil to observe, “I didn’t realize that Oscar nominations were so much like the Republican Party, where Andover | Summer 2016

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While in Florida, Barbara and I also shared a long and chatty dinner with Nancy and Gil Wright. After years of lawyering in Massachusetts, they moved to Jacksonville and now wax eloquent about the genteel Southern traditions of their new home. I wish I could say the same about Washington.

In November, John Austin produced another of his opera extravaganzas. Tom Terry was there and provided this report: “John, at his impresario best, rounded up a semiprofessional orchestra of around 50, including Jim Cook on trombone and John playing bass, plus a group of fine soloists and a chorus of around 40, including me and my wife, Lee, Jim Stewart, and Brian Pendleton. We performed Oberon, a three-act opera by Carl Maria von Weber. This opera is sillier than most—so silly, in fact, that the Met hasn’t performed it since 1921. But it’s got great music, and we all had a great time hanging out with each other.”

Tom then goes on to add, “I’ve been musing about the way we individually have the possibility to create value for others. I started thinking about this at Austin’s opera, realizing what a lot of time and effort he has put in nurturing his passion for sharing musical activities with others. As a result, hundreds of us who have connections to John have benefitted and added value to our lives because of him. My wife and I started a Renaissance a cappella vocal group some 40 years ago, and I was reminded by some nice thank-you notes over Christmas that we, too, have created value for others, through something that started out as our own passion for Renaissance music.”

Now that he’s retired, Bob Darnton has begun to accept invitations that, because of his demanding schedule, previously got an automatic “no.” Bob writes, “The only condition I attach is that my host pay for my wife’s fare as well as mine. So we have been traveling: Dublin, Oslo, Frankfurt, Vicenza, Modena, Lugano, and Buenos Aires, and we are currently packing for Amsterdam, Paris, and Uppsala. When I return to Cambridge to do the laundry, I try to take off a few days to make progress on the next book.”

For the past two years, John Hansman, as president of his homeowners’ association, has sought to have his community in Rockville, Md., added to the National Register of Historic Places. So far, the process has been slow. An urban planner, John spent most of his career working for Maryland’s Montgomery County government. He’s also done pastoral work at his Unitarian church.

Jim Blackmon, our class rocket scientist, reports he has discovered irrefutable proof of global warming: “We now have armadillos in northern Alabama,” he writes from Huntsville.

Their armor can puncture a tire, he warns, adding, “The folklore about possums—that, contrary to popular belief, possums are not born dead

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along the side of the road—can now be changed to ‘armadillos.’ ” Karl Milde, our lawyer-inventor, has turned his talents to gun safety. Over the holidays, he was awarded two patents, bringing his total of gun-control patents to six. All involve the use of a smartphone to frustrate unauthorized users.

In his class letter, Bill Sterling vents his frustration with the current state of affairs in the land and suggests a cure: Go local. So he’s immersing himself in efforts to improve the Anderson Valley (Calif.) school system, a rural enterprise that is, he writes, “underpaid, short on resources, and challenged to find young teachers willing to stay.”

It’s time to start thinking about our (yikes!)

60th Reunion. Arkie Koehl has formed what he calls a motley crew of Bill Cox, Grabo Keator, Al Blanchard, Jim Blackmon, Bill Sterling, Tom Terry, Triv, and yours truly to plan a suitable program. The dates are June 9–11, 2017. A great summer to all. —G

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

Seems as if we’ve all “just settled in for a long winter’s nap”! No news for now. We’ll look forward to the exodus from hibernation.

That’s it for this session. Thanks so much.

—Parry

PHILLIPS Dermod O. Sullivan Carlton House, Apt. 3-L 35 North Chatsworth Ave. Larchmont NY 10538 315-750-0385 or 914-834-6816 dermod58@gmail.com

I caught up with good friend Don Richardson, retired and living on Long Island, N.Y. Don has a good-news health story. In early 2011, he had back surgery, which was a failure. Infections set in and were not diagnosed, even after three follow-up appointments, and he became crippled in a bent-over fashion. Don went on his own doctor search, interviewing numerous New York hospitals that he rejected because they were either not accepting insurance or prohibitively expensive.

He finally settled on an orthopedic surgeon from NYU Langone Medical Center, which specializes in spinal deformity. In April 2013, reconstructive surgery was performed on Don’s back. We are happy to report that the operation was a complete success: Don is no longer bent over and is walking

naturally upright. Attentive readers of this column will remember that Don is an avid sailor and had been commodore of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club on Long Island. He is now able to resume his competitive sailing, performing all the strenuous activities of that sport.

Sam Friedman founded AFCO Realty in 1971 to provide commercial real estate services to the business community. AFCO has become a major factor in Atlanta real estate. Although I caught Sam at home, he is still active in the business, doing deals and closing transactions when he is not at his second home on St. Simons Island, on the coast near Sea Island, Ga. Sam has contributed much to the Atlanta community, and one of his proudest accomplishments is creating the PATH Foundation, serving on the board for more than 20 years. His title is founding chairman of the board.

The PATH Foundation has raised more than $50 million to construct open pathways around Atlanta and has built more than 200 miles of such paths since its creation. Sam was inspired to start the PATH Foundation by his years as a jogger, recognizing the beneficial effect open greenways have on quality of life. Sam is also chairman of the board of the Atlanta Kiwanis.

Sam recently took his grandchildren to France, visiting the Normandy memorials. All lovers of freedom and liberty should make this tour.

Afterward, he self-published a book about the trip.

Two years ago, I took my two boys (plus my youngest’s intended) to Austria and Germany and did an old-fashioned leather-bound album, including photos, museum entrance tickets, beer coasters (of course!), and other ephemera. This summer I’m taking the two boys trout fishing in Montana and plan to do a similar album.

Bill Stiles passed on the sad news that Charlie Kellogg passed away Sept. 21, 2015.

Charlie went to PA for two years and then transferred to Holderness School in N.H. to graduate. From the start, Charlie was an ardent skier, and it seems apparent that he decided to go to Holderness to be closer to that first love, skiing. He then went to Williams, where he was a classmate of Frank Morse and the late John Reid.

He was captain of the ski team and the crosscountry team. He also served as graduate president of the class. After Williams, he earned a business degree at the Tuck School at Dartmouth. Bill Stiles writes, “Charlie was at our PA 50th Reunion for part of it; the other part of the weekend he was at Holderness. I talked to Charlie at length during the Addison tour, a very enjoyable conversation.”

Frank Morse effectively represented the class at Charlie’s memorial service in Manchester, Mass.

Charlie was a singular character, and, although I remember him, I was unaware of his transfer to Holderness and completely unaware of his accomplishments. He served in the Army from 1963 to 1965 in Alaska with the modern winter biathlon team, where he obtained two years of intense training and the experience of international

www.andover.edu/intouch competition. That enabled him to gain the top American finish at the 1964 world military competition in Sweden. He also had time to hunt and fish in Alaska on the government’s nickel. After the Army, Charlie started a 30-year career with IBM. He became the biathlon national champion in 1965 and raced in the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, Switzerland. Imagine that! An Olympic contestant from the Class of 1958! IBM frequently resettled Charlie’s family: to Shelburne, Vt., to Hong Kong, and to Rochester, N.Y. I remember hearing that IBM stands for “I’ve Been Moved,” and Charlie was a prime example. Following his career with IBM, Charlie became a consultant for Global Partners in Cambridge, Mass., where he continued exercising his skills in international business marketing. Charlie and his wife, Gillian, settled in Manchester, Mass., close to family and not far from his favorite ski trails in Jackson, N.H. Charlie’s passion for racing had kept him on the U.S. ski team through 1972 and earned him a gold in 1998 at the World Masters XC Ski Championships.

His zeal for cross-country skiing, biathlon, and running also led him to support many young racers. He served 15 years on the U.S. biathlon board and as a board member of the Jackson Ski Touring Foundation. His delight in trail building, formed during his five years as an Appalachian Mountain Club “hut man,” was recently reprised in his leadership work with the Manchester Essex Conservation Trust, where he served as president.

He is survived by his wife, Gillian Shaw Kellogg, his children, and their spouses.

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

Susie Goodwillie Stedman sent me her beautifully written Twelfth Night 2016 letter for me to share with you. Here are some highlights.

“My heart aches for our broken planet, but I am struck by grace all around me—blessings far beyond my share—including friends, like you, whom I cherish and who sustain me. My travels to Iceland and Israel, with nearer destinations in between, enriched my understanding of real life on this lovely blue marble.

“When not a grateful guest in so many beautiful places, I am an Airbnb host, having achieved ‘super host’ status after 11 of 12 sets of guests this past summer each gave me a five-star rating! Hot dog. Though I go steady with the washer-dryer in season, I enjoy the worldly company and appreciate the income.

“Having joined a memoir writing group, I intend, finally, to try to make something of the two-and-a-half years of conversations with mom

that I recorded at the end of her life. I will celebrate chairing my last meeting of the Abbot Academy Association at Andover in May with gratitude— for the marvelous experience it has been and for my liberty!

“I smile at the many morning walks, midday meals, afternoon teas, and lovely evenings with friends that seem increasingly to make up the warp and woof of my days. I’ll not imagine leaving this place of peace and glory. In the run-up to 75, I feel ridiculously well. I hope you do, too, and that you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and joy in your heart.”

Sue Calnan Bates’s biggest news is her newest granddaughter, Avlin Josephine, born in January.

“She is the first child of our younger son and his wife. So now we have five granddaughters, and the oldest will be off to college in the fall. I still run agility with the youngest of our three goldens. Still role-play for medical students at UVa, and Ben still is a docent at Montpelier.”

Missy Iams Kittredge will head back to Panama to avoid the cold weather in Ohio. In the meantime, she writes, “One of the things that amuse me up here in rural Ohio: squirrels love apple peelings, carrot tips, and squash and pumpkin scrapings that I toss out on top of the septic tank in the backyard instead of dumping in the compost. And then I get to watch the squirrels while I’m working on the computer. Doesn’t take much to keep me happy at 74.”

Ann Travers Butler and Sandra Moulton Burridge are stirring up interest in remembering our years at Abbot. Ann challenges us to remember all the kooky things we did as students. Here is what she wrote: “As I woke up on the first of this month it actually entered my head that I should say ‘rabbit rabbit’ before I spoke another word. If I didn’t say ‘rabbit rabbit’ at that moment I would have to walk downstairs backwards and then say it.

This little oddity I learned more than 55 years ago at Abbot and remembering it all these years later is even more of an oddity. It might be fun to see how many other little peculiarities our classmates remember. How about looking for the seal on the back of your dinner plate? If it was an Indian head (blue, I think) you were going to get a letter; if not, then no letter. Or Tiffin and Fortnightlys?

Or Gargoyles (yeah!) and Griffins? You can either chalk this up to insanity or run with it, dear class scribe.”

From Oxford, U.K., Sandra Moulton Burridge adds, “I am very much interested in the Abbot Archives project, even though so far I haven’t managed to get my stuff together to send in. I do intend to do it. But the urge to go and spend some time in the attic rummaging in boxes that have crossed the Atlantic several times has yet to come upon me forcefully enough. It is more fun to go to London to play with my new grandchild, age 10 months.”

The history and memories of Abbot are being eroded with time. The Class of 1973, Abbot’s final class, aware of the importance of preserving our

history, conceived the Abbot Archives Project.

Our school archives have many official documents but lack the full student voice—the snippets of personal recollection that give richness and context to those records. If you want to submit photographs, scrapbooks, letters, journals, and other items, contact Paige Roberts, director of archives and special collections, at 978-749-4069 or by e-mail at abbotarchives@andover.edu.

Let’s do it!

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

There are more than 1,000 World Heritage Sites across the globe, and more than 250 World Heritage Cities. Pompeii, for example, is a World Heritage Site; Naples and Rome are World Heritage Cities. In the United States, there are about 20 WHS—including Yosemite, Taos Pueblo, the Great Smokey Mountains, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park—but until a few months ago, there was not a single U.S. city on the WHC list. Italy has 28, France 12, Russia seven, Spain 18, and Mexico 11. That changed as a result of several years of intense effort by Susan and John Smith, among other Philadelphians. Philadelphia is now the U.S.’s first WHC. Sites are named to the list for their beauty and historical significance. Cities are named because of what they stand for: Philadelphia was chosen because of the influence that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution have had on governments and people all over the world in the past 200-plus years. John, as board chair of the Global Philadelphia Association, worked for years on this project. He traveled, he cajoled, he lectured, he charmed, and, best of all, he succeeded. Huge congratulations to him and, of course, Susan, without whom he would be just some guy named John Smith.

Scott Thompson, who, along with John Howland, was born Jan. 1, 1942, celebrated with fireworks in Manila and at his “beach” house on a volcanic lake south of the city. Despite back pains, he continues to thrive.

Kirby Jones reports, “I still go to Cuba once or twice a year. Going at end of March with my one client, which is about all I want to handle these days. All OK in semiretirement in Arizona.” Kirby’s decades-long relationship with Cuba and the Castros has given him an extraordinary perspective on a fascinating aspect of history, which is now continuing to evolve.

Steve Foss, whose wife Pat died in 2009, married Leslie Lascheid about a year ago. They live in Naples, Fla., and are good friends with Tom Kukk, who lives just down the street.

Dave Harris continues his remarkable reinvention in Florida. He writes, “I’m acting in Andover | Summer 2016

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Memphis, which won the Tony for best musical in 2010. Spent New Year’s Eve volunteering for First Night St. Petersburg, an arts and music event in its 23rd year.”

And speaking of reinvention, Jim Hayman’s career as thriller writer keeps getting better. He writes, “My latest, The Girl in the Glass, after two stops at No. 14, hit No. 6 on the New York Times e-book bestseller list for Jan. 10, sharing honors with the likes of Patterson, Grisham, Baldacci, and Michael Crichton.”

John Doherty has basically reinvented himself physically, writing, “I had a knee replaced back in October 2015, and with an artificial shoulder, hip, and knee I am now loaded with titanium, vanadium, and cobalt. Query: Who gets all that when I croak? No doubt the class legal beagles will be able to answer that.” He also underwent three months of radiation for prostate cancer. Despite all that, he’s remarkably cheery and energetic!

Peter Moock continues to work part time: with Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the World Bank, on a National Education Action Plan for the Solomon Islands, and chairing the international outreach committee of the alumni council of Columbia University Teachers College.

Wife Joyce is equally busy—consulting, writing, and traveling to Africa four times last year.

Charlie Kivowitz is “still a working stiff ” and plans to “continue practicing medicine among the Beverly Hillbillies.”

Doug Jenner reported that while we in the East were going through an extraordinarily mild beginning of winter, he was experiencing “an actual winter here in Colorado—snowy and very cold.

Great for cross-country skiing, which is my best low-impact enjoyable exercise!” He saw fellow Coloradan Pepper Stuessy a few months ago. “He’s doing great and traveling extensively,” says Doug.

Be well, and thanks for all the notes about the birthdays! Enjoy them all.

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Virginia P. Agar 41 Dix Point Road Bernard ME 04612 207-266-1705 virginiaagar@gmail.com

Great appreciation and commendations to Lynne Furneaux Clark and spouse Dave for their class notes contributions through the years; best of luck to them as they navigate Dave’s serious health issues. Congratulations on the celebration of their 51st wedding anniversary!

Sadly, we have lost two classmates, Anna Dudley Egan and Janet Dennison Frake. Condolences to their families and loved ones.

A successful mini reunion, our 55th, was held in Santa Fe, N.M., in October 2015, with 14 “Abbot Rabbits” in attendance.

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Hannah Jopling reports, “We had such fun; we decided we should meet more often. I suggested we go on a river cruise. Kathy Stevens has offered to help, and I welcome suggestions.”

Charlotte Palmer Moreno writes, “It’s great to be in touch again with such wonderful women.”

Dorothy Tod writes, “I am sorry to be missing you all in New Mexico; I have just returned from a kayak expedition on the Dalmatian Coast—great paddling and lots of excellent seafood!”

On another note, Hannah Jopling has written Life in a Black Community: Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902–1952. Her e-mail address is hjopling@gmail.com, if any of you wish to order her book; she recommends finding it at your local library. All congratulations, Hannah!

Meg Wilkins Noel writes that she and her husband celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in France: “A wonderful trip, full of history lessons about the wars between England and France in the medieval times and WWII.” Cally Sherman Williams writes that she and her husband, Frank, have taken four of the five grandchildren on the spring break trip of their choice when they turned 10; the Big Island, in Hawaii, was one expedition. Cally and Frank had a three-week trip to Uzbekistan just before the reunion in N.M. Cally also says she is able to spend many days in her pottery studio, still discovering new glazes and shapes.

Lexa Crane’s new e-mail address is capebeyond@gmail.com. She writes that her grandson “went off to Auburn University this fall to try the architecture major and granddaughter is a sophomore in high school, runs a mean crosscountry, and plays volleyball.” Lexa still has the dream of publishing but is not there yet.

Jill Kohler writes, “After 39 years in my Barrington, Ill., village house, I moved to a house on Timber Lake, about 15 miles north of the old house. My new address is 470 East Lake Shore Drive, Barrington IL 60016-1470. Home phone is 847-865-0945; cell phone is 847-224-7187. Just had my second cataract removed—everything looks so different!”

Anne Kales Howson has sent us a recent family photo with her spouse, Jeff, children, and their spouses and children, including newest grandson, Cooper Howson. She missed the reunion because of a monthlong trip to Spain, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, China, Tibet, Laos, Myanmar, and Jordan.

Lindsay Knowlton’s e-mail address, for any clarification needed, is lknowvt@myfairpoint.net.

I am planning to move from Mount Desert Island, Maine, to the Phoenix area, where I will be closer to family. Hopefully, the marketing of a small saltwater farm on the Atlantic Coast won’t be too difficult a process!

All the best to each of you; I look forward to more news coming in for our next column!

—Ginny

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

Larry Gillis continues teaching legal studies courses online for the University of Maryland University College, mostly from poolside in Fort Myers, Fla. He also teaches a writing course in Florida Gulf Coast University’s Renaissance Academy. He and wife Marcia pass their summers on the seacoast of New Hampshire.

Also summering in New Hampshire is Toby Tompkins, who reports that he spends the rest of the year quietly in NYC, where he says he is “still living happily with wife Patsy (née Hobbs), after 44 years.” (Is this a record for our class? If any of you have celebrated more than 44 anniversaries, let me know!) “No kids, by mutual consent, but we’re on our third pair of Siamese cats. I don’t act anymore, having abandoned that career for a surefire way to make big bucks: writing. Mostly fiction, but I have yet to attract a publisher, perhaps because my stuff is hard to pigeonhole. But for a number of years, I’ve been a monthly contributor to a quirky little publication on the West Coast called Black Lamb, which uses only essays, book reviews, and bits of memoir—no poetry or fiction. The contributors are just as quirky, ranging from a woman who runs a funeral home to a guy who used to coach basketball in Italy, another guy who’s slightly to the right of Donald Trump, our far saner classmate John Daniel, and other writers of various bents, all of them good at putting words together.”

Speaking of John Daniel, in a recent blog post, he offered a reflection on the power of memory that has special relevance for those of us recalling our days on Andover Hill. John had written an essay about his father, who died when he was only 2. He says, “I told of the many fine things I had learned about my father, from friends and family members who knew him well. I also mentioned that he was occasionally beset by lengthy stretches of melancholy, which my mother called his ‘Welsh moods.’

“I made the mistake of sending a tear sheet of the article to my older brother, who knew our father well, because my brother was 15 when our father died. So well does my brother remember our father that he wrote back and corrected me. Apparently, our father was not moody, but was always cheerful.

“My mistake was not that I got my facts wrong.

My mistake was to send this essay to my brother.

What was I thinking? I should have suspected that he would be disturbed to read that his hero might occasionally have been gloomy.

“The lesson I learned from this mistake: Choose your audience. And remember, happily, that memory is a creative, inaccurate record. If you have siblings and you write about your parents, chances are your memories will not match theirs. No two siblings remember the same parents.

www.andover.edu/intouch “In the same vein, don’t go to a high school or college reunion expecting to share memories with people who were once your closest friends. Chances are they will remember the moments quite differently, or not at all. Expect them to tell tales about you, with events that never happened, you think.”

Ted Martin has several children—five, to be exact, and they have provided him and his wife with 11 grandchildren, among them twins born last September. He also has several enthusiasms, including Shakespeare, Churchill, and grand opera.

He says he enjoys “playing leadership roles (like president) on boards of organizations that are concerned with those subjects.” A man after my own heart, he adds that “Lincoln, too, is an enthusiasm of mine. I am giving each of my children at Christmas a little book of his speeches. I reread his second inaugural almost every year and sob over the beauty of the words and the feelings behind them. My wife and I are catching up on trips abroad after all those stay-at-home years with the kids.”

Last October, Allen Ward became president of the Classical Association of Connecticut and reports that in that capacity he is busy “trying to organize events and programs that will bring together both secondary-school and college/ university classics faculty in order to strengthen classics programs throughout the state. I also am continuing to be the coordinator of the New England Ancient History Colloquium, which meets twice a year at a different college or university each semester. Otherwise, wife Carol and I are trying to keep the path between our respective condos during the winter and waiting to break ground for our new duplex in the spring. In the meantime, Jeremy Wood keeps me intellectually stimulated with his greatly appreciated e-mails containing all sorts of interesting news items, links to essays, and quotations of the wise and famous.”

I continue teaching each spring semester in the Holy Land (aka Springfield, Ill.), while spending most of the year in Connecticut. I still do some scholarship but at a reduced pace. (I keep reminding myself that I’m not 73 anymore!) I have prepared a scholarly edition of Henry Villard’s many newspaper dispatches from Springfield between November 1860 and February 1861, constituting the most intense daily press coverage of Lincoln on record. I have promised a photographer friend to provide the text for his book on Lincoln’s years in New Salem.

With another friend I plan to edit the numerous writings of a minister who, in the late 19th century, interviewed people who knew Lincoln during his Indiana years. The Southern Illinois University Press has inveigled me into contributing another volume to its Concise Lincoln Library series, this one on Lincoln’s emotional life. (My earlier volume in the series was Lincoln and the Civil War.) Meanwhile, a fellow Lincolnian has agreed to help me condense the Green Monster (aka Abraham Lincoln: A Life) into a manageable single volume of about 500 pages.

All this keeps me out of trouble, insofar as possible.

Please let me know what you’re up to these days!

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

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

Hope you have made plans to attend our 55th Reunion June 10–12. Our fundraising volunteers, Clint Kendrick and Bob Diemar, have news: Since we are 65-plus years young, all documented bequest intentions we might make for PA will count at full face value toward our reunion totals.

For example, if you have a $20K bequest for the school, our class total will include this $20K. Questions on this? Contact Connie Pawelczak at cpawelczak@andover.edu. Please consider making a five-year pledge. The total amount of the pledge will also be included in our reunion totals and allow the Academy to forecast and budget effectively for the future. Questions on this? Contact Diane Glynn at dglynn@andover.edu.

A while ago I sent a PA video and a message to our class and got some replies. Bunky Carter wrote, “I am at this moment in the Singapore airport lounge, on my way to teach at a 28-day yoga teachers’ training in Bali! Quite different from the business startup I have been involved in during much of this last year.”

Ray Keeney wrote, “It was great to see the high degree of enthusiasm displayed in the video. I very much enjoyed seeing our children go through Andover and can only imagine what it must be like to have a grandchild there. Maybe someday.”

Said Pierre Latour, “Thanks for sending along the short film. Especially liked the opening exercises, which contrasted sharply with our day, when we filed silently into the chapel under the baleful gazes of Kemper, Gray Baldwin, and Benedict. It looks like a much happier, more entertaining place.”

Jack Schmedeman wrote, “Happily enjoying my hometown of Little Rock, Ark. Consulting on major and innovative minerals project in Florida. My Colorado School of Mines education continues to pay off.”

Rick Rhoads said, “As cochair of the Faith in Action Commission of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica (Calif.), I helped organize three marches on Venice Beach to protest three killings that happened in Venice in

the course of a few months.”

Bill Torbert and I had an exchange about Scotty Royce, to be continued in June. He kept up with the Royces for many years.

A number of classmates, including Floyd Hoffman, Jobe Stevens, Mike Mayers, Dave Hannon, and Mike Bragg, correctly identified Dan Mahoney as the jackknifing diver, in an archived picture shot by Frank O’Brien. I have to add that Andy Graham and Bernie Boone got votes as the diver.

Diver Dan himself writes, “Ahh, summer school during the summer of 1957. I learned to hambone that summer. Unfortunately, I did not learn much that might have prepared me to deal with the English department during my four years at Andover. I had a grossly deficient elementary school exposure to English grammar, but, alas, basic grammar was not a part of the summer school English curriculum. I suppose grammar was a remedial bridge too far. Roots of words? Check.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Check. The Virginian?

Check. Daily diary? Check. Basic sentence structure and punctuation? Surely, you are not completely illiterate—are you?” Dan says he can still hambone. We will check him out in June.

Are you keeping up with Bob Trivers? Bob is a world-class scientist whose work and life are celebrated. Having profited from reading his book about fools, I look forward to reading his latest work, a scientific memoir called Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist, available on Amazon. Wild Life is also the title of a documentary about Bob that comes out this spring. I watched the excellent trailer at https:// vimeo.com/147424887.

Did you think John Marks would be idle when he stepped down as president of Search for Common Ground after 32 years? Hardly. He writes, “I wanted to continue working full time—and to avoid being bored. We are moving to Amsterdam, where we are living at the junction of two canals. I am working to produce European versions of The Team, a dramatic TV series that promotes peaceful coexistence across ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic lines. To date, I have served as executive producer on 327 episodes of this series in 19 different countries. I am also spending a great deal of time carrying out unofficial projects aimed at improving relations between the U.S. and Iran. My colleagues and I believe we played a role in making possible the recent nuclear agreement with Iran. I am definitely staying busy, and wife Susan and I are definitely enjoying ourselves.”

Jim Payne reports that “Jerry Keller has been skippering a sailboat up and down the Pacific Coast and in the Caribbean. He’s asked if I wanted to go on board, but it’s not really my thing! I’m now in Carmel Valley, Calif., outside Monterey, and he’s visited a few times.”

At Thanksgiving, Leslie Stroh sent us, via the class listserv, a poem beginning “Fear is leaving love behind the barbed wire of the future / Round, flat circular, nailed with a trinity of nails / Not a Andover | Summer 2016

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September brought a group of Abbot ’63 alumnae together in Camden, Maine, for a mini reunion.

Front, from left: Ann Harris Furgerson, Iris Vardavoulis Beckwith, and Muriel DeStaffany Karr.

Middle row: Cynthia Kimball, Danica Miller Eskind, Ann MacCready Northup, Suzanne Burton, and Anita Schenck Zednik. Back row: Anita Miller White, Lucinda Hannon, Morley Marshall Knoll, Helen Watson Collison, Betsy Cadbury, Cindy Sorensen, Tish Upton Brown, Marie Fox Young, and Susan Archer Vollmer.

dream but a daily nightly manic mind clinging / To remembered love for the hug of another.” Always happy to hear from creative minds.

As we age, we do not necessarily become less active, as Duncan Bremer reminds me: “I am enjoying having five of seven grandchildren within 25 minutes’ drive; working at overcoming codependence, which has greatly diminished my marriage; searching for elk out every morning from my back deck (I have a cow tag); participating in two small, intense, Christian men’s groups; working out enough to keep me skiing and mountain biking; praying for my sister-in-law with cancer, my sister recovering from alcoholism, and my youngest grandson, born at 1 lb., 13 oz.; investing in my son’s businesses; mostly enjoying my legal work in real estate, estate planning, and business startups; and reading the Bible, mysteries, and political science. I fondly remember music at Andover, especially in the Chapel: Haydn’s ‘The Heavens are Telling’ to Dr. Banta’s powerful Bach on the organ to Dave Austin’s solo cello.”

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

In fall 2015 we had a wonderful weekend visit with Caroline Thomas and her husband, Robert Benes. Curiously, Caroline and I spent much time talking about our mothers and came to realize that, even at age 71, their impact on our daily lives remains significant.

It is early January now, and the lake in front of my house is not yet completely frozen. I fear climate change is clearly evident in Vermont.

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roads, entertaining wild bird comings and goings at the feeders, and piles of books to keep me occupied beside the fire.

Please send news to keep us all up to date with your lives.

Also, a reminder that the Abbot Archives Project is still looking for pieces of history from our time at school. They have little information from our class.

If you are cleaning out for a move or just a good sweep, be aware that your kids have no interest in your old stuff, but the Archives would love to have it. Contact Paige Roberts at 978-749-4069 or abbotarchives@andover.edu for details.

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

[Editor’s note: The Academy was saddened to learn that Vic Obninsky passed away March 16, 2016, after the submission of these notes. We are grateful for his long service as class secretary. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.]

My duties as your scribe have doubled with our annual reunions, and I have not spent much time randomly seeking conversations with old friends and classmates. This picks up with Christmas cards, but, sadly, fewer people are sending them these days, relying instead on the computer system of sending a picture without much verbiage. One person who is still writing beautiful Christmas cards is Priscilla Grew, Ed Grew’s wife. I had the privilege of spending some time chatting with her at our 50th Reunion. Priscilla has just retired as the director of the University of Nebraska State Museum, after serving for a number of years as vice chancellor for research at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Ed has received a number of lifetime awards as a geologist. I have been

fascinated to follow his career and travels to places where I will never go, such as Antarctica, the Altai Mountains, and many other remote places. Last year Ed received a medal from the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. This was followed up by a special issue of The Canadian Mineralogist magazine, dedicated to Ed’s career and featuring on its cover the recently discovered mineral edgrewite, named in his honor. The Grews have been married for 40 years, with Eddie based at the University of Maine at Orono and Priscilla mainly at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. I have been frightened of long-distance relationships, but perhaps I should take a second look.

My random finger hit the Southern California button on the dial and George Budd was on the other end of the line. The last time I had heard from or about George he was establishing the Disneyland operation in Paris. In any event, George returned to the United States around the year 2000 and moved to California. His parents lived in Florida, but he convinced them to move to the Golden State; Mr. Budd lived more than 100 years and Mrs. Budd well into her 90s. George has pretty much occupied himself with private investments and is glued to his computer. He did visit Bill Chickering briefly in Cambodia last spring and was able to have dinner with Chick, wife Benedicte, and their two children. He also raved about the beauties of Angkor Wat temples. Once again, this is something I would have loved to see.

The strong rumor is that Bill has moved back to New York City. I hope that we can get together sometime, because Bill is one of the fellows with whom I kept in contact over the years.

I almost forgot to mention that Nick Knueppel and wife Caroline spent Dec. 29 with us, drinking, eating, and watching California beat Air Force in the Armed Forces bowl. Believe it or not, this was a big deal for all of us.

Too often my articles close with reporting the passing of one of our classmates. I am sad to say that Tim Beck has joined our other brothers in repose.

I did not know Tim well, but he seemed a quiet, pleasant person, and I remember that he lettered in track. It is too bad that the day students were not more integrated into the class of boarding students.

This would be hard to do when you have a running home life locally.

I want to get this article in to our faithful editors at the alumni office, because I am once again late.

Before I leave you and begin to think about the coming baseball season, I want to suggest again that you send me an e-mail and get daily blurbs from your classmates. They are often very interesting.

You can communicate with folks with the press of a button as well. The other suggestion is that you plan to attend our mini reunions, which occur in between our official PA reunions. They are unbelievably low-key and lots of fun. The next one will probably be over Veterans Day weekend somewhere near Andover, with a trip to the school to watch the Andover-Exeter game, where we hopefully will eat red meat.

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Greetings to all! Sharon Seeche Rich writes of the delight she and husband Howard are having as they treasure times with their grandchildren. She says, “We didn’t even go out to Tanglewood this summer. Life has a different kind of music now, and little ones get big so fast that we are holding on to every second.”

In mid-September a good number of us gathered in Owls Head, Maine, for a magnificent mini reunion organized with great skill by Iris Vardavoulis Beckwith. Her brother, Ion Vardavoulis, provided good company and help when needed. Not only was the weather great, we all also rejoiced in the chance to spend time with one another. Our gathering began with a beach dinner that included a collective birthday celebration, as well as a repeat of the flash-mob dance that debuted at our 50th Reunion. The next day we enjoyed a tour of the Farnsworth Art Museum and its Wyeth Center, followed by a drive to Camden. We all enjoyed a stop at the Vesper Hill Children’s Chapel and garden, which is lovely beyond what can be described here. The following day featured a fantastic tour of the Cellardoor Winery, with pairings of wine and tapas after the tour. Early the next day, we boarded a ferry for Monhegan Island, where some of us hiked across the island, trekking along Whitehead Cliff. We all appreciated the consistently beautiful flowers grown everywhere, along with delicious cuisine.

Ann MacCready Northup and Cindy Sorensen preferred to go out on the water independently.

Ann writes, “Cindy and I went out on a ketch out of Rockland. We walked to the dock. So convenient and a lovely two hours on the water.”

Without listing all the reunion participants here, I’ll include updates from some of the attendees.

Susan Archer Vollmer has had a store related to cooking for a number of years, but the store is to close in June 2016. Suzanne Burton summarized her time after college as follows: “I worked for 27 years [at National Geographic], first for the art editor and then as the sole interior designer. After that I became office manager at a dental office, where I met so many fascinating people from all walks of life. That’s the joy of Washington: foreign-service members, ambassadors, NPR reporters, etc. I retired after 18 years there. Now I’m enjoying painting watercolors and have exhibited in several shows. I’ve reconnected with some of my old friends from the Geographic and had time to visit museums and galleries and spend more time up in Boston and Maine with my sister and brother-inlaw. The best part is not having a schedule, so I feel

I have much more freedom. I love my new life!”

Muriel DeStaffany Karr writes, “[Husband] Ron and I spent a week in Rome and then celebrated my 70th birthday in Yorkshire, England, where my ancestry research suggests my mother’s Holmes lineage goes back to the time of the Norman Conquest in the tiny town of Paull Holme!” Muriel belongs to a poetry group.

Marie Fox Young enjoys painting, using acrylics.

Lucinda Hannon continues with a task she has been working on for two years, that of settling her brother’s estate. Ann MacCready Northup writes, “I work for a company that places international high school students in U.S. high schools and with host families. The students I place attend Hopkinton High School and Groton-Dunstable Regional High School, both in Massachusetts. I contact the students and their host parents at least monthly throughout the school year to ensure that they have a successful experience.”

Both Morley Marshall Knoll and Anita Schenck Zednik enjoy traveling with family. Anita wrote me from Belgium, where she went after the mini reunion to visit her son.

Cindy Sorensen continues with sailing and her greyhound rescue work. Tish Upton Brown met Iris Vardavoulis Beckwith in Paris late this past fall, sharing the experience of being grandmothers.

Muriel DeStaffany Karr, our class poet, wrote four poems that we treasure. In response to requests to include in this column some of the poetry written during our Maine gathering, Muriel chose one poem which is presented here in prose from Rising, Falling on Monhegan Island, Maine: “If we start and end this way—rising sculpted from, and falling back into the muck—primeval compost, let us live this interval alive—soaring, mud between our toes reminding us of whence we came—blessèd earth.

A prickly fog descends so quickly—dense. Still the artist stands at the shore, attempting to capture on canvas the what-it-is she sees at low tide, the sea quietly lapping, gulls on the watch.” Thank you, Muriel!

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

As the sands run down (ever so hopefully, those sands) on my 15 years of loyal if undistinguished service as your class secretary, I am again reduced to beginning these notes in the first person. As I write, I am still outside the class necrology, still married, still unemployed, a new grandfather (of Celine, born to son Chris ’99 and daughter-in-law Pascale), proud father to three active wage-earners, and planning to vote for Trudeau in the upcoming election for national leader. And if that sentence doesn’t encourage you to flood my e-mail and snail-mail boxes, shame on you.

The limited news begins with Bill Hartman.

He writes, “A summer highlight was getting a ‘four wheeler’ (ATV) with power steering, winch, and cart for our Maine camp. It augments my aging muscles by pulling logs out of the woods, lifting docks from the lake, and hauling rocks to protect the shoreline. More important, it makes me feel 55 years younger!”

Bill continues, “Part of my newfound youth has been spent catching up with classmates. I had a delightful visit with Bruce Cleverly and his charming wife, Caroline, at their summer home in Harwich Port, Mass., where wine and lobster rolls were superb. A dinner in Boston with Linda and Ty Shen was a treat—the two retained their high spirits notwithstanding more than six months in temporary quarters as repairs were made to their condo, which suffered water damage last winter.

In Freeport, Fred Palmer fulfills both Maine’s slogan, ‘The Way Life Should Be,’ and non sibi; he and his wife, Pat, are devoted to supporting education and giving to the most needy in their community. When passing through Austin, Texas, Harry Schwethelm met me for lunch; he spent time last summer traveling through Italy and Sicily in preparation for an upcoming trip to Ecuador and Peru.”

And finally, in conjunction with his class agent role, Bill concludes, “A September visit to Andover was exhilarating and inspiring! Go to Andover.edu and check out the Tang Institute, the Sykes Wellness Center, the makerspace, and more ... including the section of the site labeled ‘donate.’ ” In early November, Tracy Kidder was honored, along with three other Andover and Abbot graduates, with an Andover Alumni Award of Distinction. Dick Clapp and I attended the dinner for the awardees held the evening before the awards were presented, and we were privileged to sit at Tracy’s table. Each recipient speaks briefly during the dinner, and Tracy’s comments were built around the death by suicide of one of our classmates, an Asian boy who was targeted with snideness and ridicule when, in his isolation, he was noticed at all. Tracy ruminated on what role each of us, he included, had played in that death some half century ago. His comments brought back with perfect clarity the aspects of our adolescence at PA that were cruel, even brutal.

Afterward, while Tracy was being interviewed by two young Phillipian staffers, I had him sign several copies of his books for my KIPP Academy Lynn teacher colleagues. One of the Andover students asked: “Were you two friends at Andover?” “Not really,” I answered. “Tracy was a much cooler person than I was.” “Or trying to be cool,” I heard softly from my left.

Whatever Tracy was “trying to be” as a kid, he certainly has been a remarkable gift to his generation. Among Schoolchildren is but one of several classics from his pen. Four superb KIPP teachers now proudly possess a signed copy.

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Alumni from the Class of ’65, some accompanied by spouses, met for dinner at the Andover Inn in November. Front, from left, are Ellen Huntington Slade ’65, Tunket Spaulding ’65, Melanie Davis ’65, Penny Carnevale (widow of Mark Carnevale ’65), Toney Hopkins ’65, and Anne McDermott ’65.

Back, from left, are Head of School John Palfrey, Paul Henry ’65, John Samp ’65, Tim Mahoney ’65, Wendy Kellett, Eddie Samp ’65, Bud Kellett ’65, Andy Higgins (spouse of Anne McDermott), Steve Seeche ’65, Don Shepard ’65, Lowell Turnbull ’65, Mike Hudner ’65, Lesley Silvester (spouse of Terry Kahn), Tom Doherty ’65, and Terry Kahn ’65.

(Calif.) for me, three KIPP Lynn seniors, and their AP English teacher, as part of a Steinbeck-inspired trip to Monterey and Salinas. Todd is retired from his position as president/CEO of the Community Foundation for Monterey County. Joining an organization with few assets and no endowment in 1981, Todd left it in 2010 with over $130 million in assets and a strong staff. It was neat to see Monterey from the Luederses’ perspectives, and they remain committed to the community in retirement. Theirs is a life well earned, in a glorious part of the nation.

And, if you see a common theme in my life, connecting KIPP Lynn and Andover, it continues.

In September, I brought two KIPP female juniors to hear my friend and Andover student Claire Glover ’16 present her CAMD Scholar paper, “Journeys Home: Echoes of Heritage,” to an audience of more than 100 in Kemper Auditorium.

Claire’s paper tracks European-American immigrants from arrival through assimilation to rediscovery of their roots. Then, some three weeks later, along with two teachers, I brought 28 KIPP Lynn middle-schoolers to meet and hear a talk by Abbot alumna Julia Alvarez ’67, author of In the Time of the Butterflies; Alvarez was on campus to receive an Andover Alumni Award of Distinction. As an outgrowth of the two events, I put together a group of 13 Lynn students in grades 8 through 12 and four faculty members for a three-evening discussion in January on how Americans, and especially Americans of color, balance Americanization and assimilation with maintenance of ties to our roots. The students come from a wide range of backgrounds (Haitian, Dominican, African, European, Asian, Guatemalan, African American, Jordanian, Salvadoran) and

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religions (Christian, Muslim, Buddhist). The goal is to create a paper of ideas to share both internally and externally. KIPP Lynn and Andover: Two schools educating youth from every quarter. I am lucky to have ties to both.

Hope you are all well. Hope you will all share, in writing, your secrets for staying so.

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Once again Abbot ’64 classmates have come through with news!

Joan Harney Wiles and husband John ’64 spent a wonderful Christmas at home with their son, Christopher, who visited from osteopathic medical school. John and Christopher had a good time discussing medicine and comparing the medical field now to what it was like when John was in medical school.

Linda Pattberg Meixner is still enjoying working. She just had a fundraising event featuring a prerelease screening of In the Heart of the Sea (Ron Howard’s film about the real Moby Dick story), so she is recovering from all the stress and fun that kind of thing brings. She learned more about whaling than she ever thought possible!

I suggested a trip to Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Conn., to learn even more about whaling. Linda

wrote that the holidays with her kids and grandkids were great, and she’s now back in DC for the winter and the start of the silly season: elections.

Gwyneth Walker wrote that Christopher Walter, the fine PA music faculty member (conductor of Fidelio Chorus and an excellent pianist as well), will be retiring in May 2016, after 40 years of outstanding service to the Andover musical community. Gwyneth has composed a new choral work to honor Chris, a friend and colleague. She hopes to return to campus for the “farewell concert” in May. Carol Barker Guilford and her husband, Gary, traveled to Boston, Maine, and New Hampshire last October. They had a wonderful time visiting the historic sites in Boston, the Maine coast, and the White Mountains, including Mount Washington.

The highlights of their trip were visits with Joan Whipple Trimble in Maine and Dale Thomson Milne in New Hampshire. After 50 years, they still had a lot to talk about and a lot in common.

Mary Travers Munger writes that she and husband Craig are officially “snowbirds,” or hibernis avis, as a friend said. They welcome all fellow flocking Northerners. She tried to leave her home in “dying shape,” but she states “those of you that remember me from Abbot know that was not possible.”

Laura Stevenson’s book Liar from Vermont is out, and one chapter is on the “Bradford School for Girls”—Abbot by another name. Not complimentary—but OK. If you missed this public radio story about Laura, you can listen to it here: bit.ly/1Ll0jjU. Laura has finished her mystery novel and is looking for a home for it while starting a new one.

Gretchen Overbagh Lord is busy in retirement but isn’t traveling. Her bowling team came in first and she was given the trophy for “No. 1 Baking Bowler,” as she supplies homemade treats each week. Her bowling is not great, but her team can use her high handicap! She hopes to get back to the East Coast this year as her family is all there and not many are keen on going to Minnesota to visit (especially between October and May!).

Pat Morrill’s husband, Ed Riegelhaupt, is recovering from a rare form of Legionnaires’ disease and the side effects of the powerful antibiotics. It has been a challenging time for them, especially since it took the doctors months to figure out why he was so ill. Fortunately, the antibiotics got rid of the infection, but they affected his walking. Hopefully time and PT will help. Pat and Ed are planning to go to Paris in the spring.

On previous trips they’ve rented apartments in the Latin Quarter near the Place Maubert, which makes them feel like Parisians.

Susie Localio sends a note to all grandmothers!

She recommends the novel The Penderwicks (and the three sequels that follow) by Jeanne Birdsall.

She says they’re great for girls in fourth through eighth grades—old-fashioned and lovely. Susie putters on, with some lovely hiking with views of Mount Rainier. She feels keenly that her hiking

www.andover.edu/intouch days are not infinite, so she vows to get out more while she can still heft a pack!

Kit Jones Prager and her husband, Allan, traveled to Texas for family events and enjoyed seeing three presidential libraries in pursuit of their goal of visiting all the presidential libraries. They took a springtime trip to Japan and connected with old friends at Allan’s 50th reunion at Stanford.

Husband Dan and I enjoyed visiting with our son and his family (including our 4-yearold grandson) in Anchorage, Alaska. Not much sightseeing, but we enjoyed being with all of them for the holiday!

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

Dan Cooper, who reported viewing Mike Cathcart’s retirement role leading this year’s Rose Parade (see the fall 2015 edition of these notes), added, “All’s well here in San Antonio. I’m adjusting to ‘semiretirement’ and wondering how others are liking this stage of our lives.” Have you shared what is giving meaning to your life as you reach 70? Whether couched in terms of being retired or not, if you have not yet shared your story, please send it my way.

In this edition, Jack Garrity and David Walker provide us all with examples on the value of uncovering our Andover archive treasures and sharing them. Look for their pictorial contributions, and those of others, at the online link 1drv.ms/24YSpDk. Thanks to my Oberlin College roommate, David Walker, we are reminded how young we once were, seeing David, Conway “Doc” Downing, Francis “Fran” Crowley, Tim Booth, and Fred Fay in an old photo from Park House (with housemaster’s son Jim Munro) in our lower year, contrasted with an image of David and wife Celia from last year. David wrote, “I am semiretired [as chair of the Columbia U. geology department] in that I no longer have to teach classes … [and] as of next summer I’ll be fully retired, but expect to keep busy in the lab.”

Jack Garrity wrote, “My wife, Kristi, and I visited Kiyoshi Kondo, his wife, Michiko, their three children, and their grandchildren for a wonderful lunch overlooking Osaka Castle this past October. Kristi and I traveled around Japan by train for six weeks and had a wonderful time visiting about 18 places throughout the country. It is a trip that I strongly recommend.” Jack and Kristi are kept busy managing the extensive art estate of Jack’s former wife, multitalented PhilippineAmerican contemporary painter Pacita Abad, who died in 2004.

Jack also shared part of his collection of priceless 1963 Stearns House artifacts: a photo

taken by Kiyoshi of Bob Chessman, John Bemis, Ron Mitchell (now deceased), and Jack playing cards and a Christmas card signed by his Stearns housemates, some of whom are now deceased.

Jack said of this card, “I have been keeping this as a treasure in my bookshelf for 53 years.”

Doc Downing e-mailed, “I am attaching a recent photo taken last October, when Chayapat ‘Boom Boom’ Kambhu ’97, son of our deceased classmate Tirachai ‘Chai’ Kambhu, was in DC for a friend’s wedding, with a new bride of his own. I’ve known Boom Boom since his PA days and his younger years, but he had not met Chai’s roommate from Taylor Hall, Vijay Shah. Chai and I were roommates at Harvard as well.”

Randy Hobler was rightfully proud to announce, “On Dec. 9, 2015, I held the latest reading of my award-winning musical, The Spirit of River City [see previously mentioned link for copy of invitation]. It went over really well. Chien Chung ‘Didi’ Pei attended, as did Jay Heard and Craig Bonda and his wife, Mary.

I called the reading ‘Tigers Tackle Broadway,’ because I spent two years searching out Princeton grads in theatre, and, in the final production on the stage and behind the scenes, we had 15 Tigers involved, ranging from the classes of 1960 through 2015, with a cast of 21 and an orchestra of seven.”

Part of the PA ’64 April 2015 China trip contingent gathered in December in Tucson, Ariz., to join fellow travelers Steve Spare and partner Sue Taylor, Steve’s family, and many other friends from around the country in celebrating Steve’s 70th birthday. Attendees included Ken Gass and wife Francie, Logan “L.E.” Sawyer and wife Carolyn, and Midland, Texas, friends Earl and Lynn Freeman. We were thrilled to be joined by Peter Schandorff, the organizer of our China adventure, making his first trip outside St. Louis in more than a year, following his first (of five) operations related to spinal fusion. Steve’s PA and Henley Regatta crewmate Peter Gerard and wife Melinda also attended. Peter G. broadly toasted the birthday boy’s derrière, with which he was forced to stay in sync as they rowed. A lively, awardwinning girls’ high school barbershop group, the Treblemakers, came all the way from Phoenix to entertain us!

On campus, our “townie” classmates always seemed to blend in, yet this report provided by Abbot alum Jackie Eby ’64 points to a strong bond among townies across both campuses, perhaps from feeling different—cool now, but not back then. “John Axelrod asked me to send you this photo taken at the Addison in the first week of January 2016. We had a regathering of the seven of us who shared a table at our Friday night 50th Reunion dinner. Pictured with Addison Director Judith Dolkart in the front middle are John Axelrod, Jackie Eby, Jo Keefe ’64, Tony Sapienza, Lee Hoehn ’64, Andy Crane, Sam Allis, and two curators, Allison Kemmerer and Kelley Tialiou [the young-looking ones]. After Judith and the curator of the Daze exhibition, Susan

Faxon, gave us a tour of the current exhibition and an enthusiastic and enticing talk on the new exhibition being installed for a Jan. 23, 2016, opening, we had dinner at the Andover Inn.” Ever helpful, Dick Howe announced, “I’ll be retiring from Andover on Jan. 8, 2016. Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to help from this end before then, or after then, for that matter.”

Bob Marshall reported running into John “Jay” Heard, camera around his neck, crossing New York’s Park Avenue. Jay reported similarly running into Randy Hobler in New York the week before. Bob added, “What a small place the Big Apple must be! Back in Santa Barbara, Calif., a week later, I attended a luncheon reception cohosted by Richard ‘Dick’ Wolf for PA Head of School John Palfrey, who was making a West Coast swing with his new book, BiblioTech. Dick was feeling good about the reviews of his latest TV show, Chicago Med, but not so good about his torn Achilles tendon.” It would appear that Bob has become bicoastal in his retirement.

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Nearly four months have passed since I wrote my first class notes submission, and an event that took place in early November still holds the fondest ’65 memory: SampFest, or as the more modest duo of John Samp and Ed Samp might put it, “The PA ’65 Annual Fall Dinner 2015.” (Wait, now that I think of it, that’s how Doug Pirnie put it. And he wasn’t even there.) Those of you who have seen my irregularly produced, e-mailed class notes updates first read about the get-together in early December.

If you did open that note instead of immediately directing it to your spam folder, you may recall that we had 11 classmates show up in the private dining room of the Andover Inn, augmented by five Abbot ’65 alumnae, three spouses/partners, and Penny Carnevale, Mark Carnevale’s widow, who—as far as many of us are concerned—is an honorary ’65er herself.

Although I won’t go into the detail that I covered in the update (let me know if you’d like me to resend it), I will note that the classmates in attendance were Paul Henry, John Samp, Tim Mahoney, Eddie Samp, Bud Kellett (with Andover | Summer 2016

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I also need to correct an update note from the dinner. Paul Henry is not exploring a venture opportunity focused on tech-enhanced concrete.

Rather, as he corrected me in an e-mail, the “initial focus is on asphalt (but, if successful, the technology may have applications in concrete and elsewhere).” If this intrigues you, please reach out to Paul.

With the first NYC snowfall of the season scheduled for this evening, as I write, my thoughts turn of course to...farming. Not that I’m on the verge of planting tomatoes, but I have recently come to realize that three of us—Lou Rorimer, Mike Madison, and Rob Arras—are full-timers.

(Well, Arras is a coffee grower in Costa Rica, and his spread may in fact be a plantation, but it’s a lot closer to what Rorimer and Madison are doing than to developing 21st-century road surfacing. But I’m a New Yorker. What do I know? And I digress.)

Lou, based in Shaker Heights, Ohio, was recently featured in Andover magazine. If you just saw the hard-copy version, you missed him. His comments—under the headline “Keeping the Family Farm Alive”—appear only in the online version. Lou, whose first act was a law career, makes the point that nonfarmers like myself tend to romanticize the experience (of farming, not law).

“People say,” he told the magazine, “ ‘It must be wonderful to be outdoors and in the countryside.’

It’s not like that. You’re scrambling to keep it afloat, and it’s challenging. It does provide balance, but not in the way you’d expect.” He also notes that the upside is rewarding: “I’m doing something for my community, producing good, healthy food, and people love it.”

Mike Madison shares the passion at his Winters, Calif., “diversified” farm (he hand-picked 38,000 pounds of olives this past fall and made more than 800 gallons of olive oil). In an article he penned for Edible East Bay, he discusses “the beginning farmer’s plight,” which he describes as the barriers—economic, psychological, strategic, and imaginative—to acquiring and sustaining farmland.

“We are entering a new era,” Mike writes, “and we need new social and economic institutions that give young farmers access to land. At the same time, we need to educate would-be farmers as to the realities of their situation—historic agrarian philosophies are no longer valid, and will have to be reimagined.”

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agree. Mike’s article is on the publication’s website, if you want to check it out.

Over the holidays, I had a chance to spend a little time with Doug Pirnie and Jack McLean, who began with us and finished with ’66 (I’m pretty sure he sees himself as a ’65er). Jack, whose memoir, Loon, is a must-read, is writing and teaching in the New York area. Doug, retired from sports megaagency IMG (where he more or less invented the professional bull-riding circuit), has got a couple of second acts going. He’s a docent at the American Museum of Natural History and a consultant with the Taproot Foundation, which pairs retired executives with nonprofit organizations looking for pro bono professional expertise and guidance.

Through Taproot, Doug has engaged with the Special Olympics of New York City, helping lead a rebranding effort there.

Lots more to share, including tidbits collected

by Eddie Samp from your responses to his birthday greetings. I will pull together those in the next e-mailed class notes update, which you will see long before this arrives in your mailbox.

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the fragility of life. The Richmond [Va.] TimesDispatch of Nov. 8, 2015, included the following obituary, anchored by a poignant photo of Ayer Chamberlin: “In the early hours of Nov. 3, 2015, Ayer Chamberlin passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by those who loved her. She is survived by her son, Chad Gambill; her siblings, Sally, Andy, and Bob Chamberlin; and Bob’s wife, Jeanne, and two children, Jonathan and Sarah Chamberlin. Following her career as a child-life specialist at Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital in Richmond, Ayer followed her dream and became a Hanover master gardener, eventually teaching and mentoring her fellow gardeners. She refined her passion for gardening by taking classes at J. Sargeant Reynolds [Community College], where she ‘adopted’ the horticultural program. She nurtured the greenhouse plants and volunteered her skills to coordinate the Gardenfest plant production for several years. ... We are grateful for the love and sensitivity bestowed upon us by Ayer’s many friends and neighbors, who provided limitless support during Ayer’s illness.” To read the full obituary, go to bit.ly/1WjxepH. On that note, our 50th Reunion embodies the richness of life experiences since we marched into an uncertain future on a bright June day in 1966.

50th REUNION June 9–12, 2016

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Greetings from a shape-shifting New Hampshire January, with kayaking on our high mountain lake and torrential rains spurring a river flood.

These class notes are slated to arrive shortly before our 50th Reunion. With thanks to our intrepid committee, months of communiqués have provided a stream of information. Even at the last minute, please feel free to come, participate, enjoy—or just reflect and relax.

Ruth Sisson Weiner, Beth Humstone, Marcia Watson Goldberg, Peigi Donaghy Huseby, Bethe Moulton, Pinky Rock Noll, Lucy Thomson, Barbara Corwin Timken, and I have coalesced as a lively and articulate committee, with a collective responsibility for the initiation of Friday’s Abbot@Andover Day. Committee members also work with PA ’66 and the Andover partnership to ensure a cohesive yet Abbot-centric 50th celebration. Join the Abbot ’66 Facebook group and check out phillipsacademy66.com. A cordial December meeting with PA ’66 leadership served as a reminder of adolescent years spent on adjoining campuses, in different but still overlapping worlds.

As we celebrate the upcoming reunion, another profound loss to the class represents

Gentlemen, in the end, after weeks of brinksmanship and more than a few “This will be the last times,” a robust 115 of our guys answered the “last call” and submitted their 50-year narratives. I have had the privilege of reading these stories prior to their publication in our 50th Reunion yearbook, and I’m pleased to present you with some excerpts, which will whet your appetite to hear the full stories when we gather at Andover June 9–12.

Kelly Stelle writes, “My life since Andover has been a life in science, plus languages, travel, and a few romances. At Harvard, I majored in history and science. I then spent a year running the cosmic ray laboratory at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station for the Bartol Research Foundation (then of Swarthmore, Penn., before it moved to the University of Delaware). After a year of preparation and a year on the ice, I returned to the books and in due course got a PhD in 1977 from Brandeis— working on the implications of quantum corrections to general relativity.

“Thus began my life as a theoretical physicist.

First three years as a postdoc in London: King’s College, then Imperial College. Then a year at CERN and a half-year at the École Normale in Paris, at which time I won a five-year fellowship to return to London at Imperial College. I’ve been here at Imperial ever since. Rose through the

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

Rocky Chin ’65 levels, and have been a professor of physics here since 1995.”

Sandy Colby writes, “In 1992, following a banking crisis, the opportunity arose to buy the trust department of a bank in Chestnut Hill, Mass., that had been closed by the comptroller of the currency. Together with a few partners, I bought the business, grew it eightfold, and sold it 10 years later to the Bank of New York. That, of course, put me right back where I did not want to be—in a large bureaucracy. So, following a three-year ‘earn out’ and one-year noncompete, I walked out the door one Friday night at age 58 and started all over again as one of the owners of Ipswich Investment Management Co. in my hometown of Ipswich, Mass. This has been the most enjoyable period of my 43-year business career. No suit and tie, no twohour commute, and nothing to stand in the way of my favorite activity—working with my clients, some of whom I have had for 30-plus years. ... I look forward to never fully retiring.”

Arthur Field writes, “I went to the University of Chicago for a master’s degree and to the University of Michigan for a PhD. In 1989 I joined the history department at Indiana University, where I remained until my ‘early’ retirement in 2014. At Chicago I moved into early modern European history, and I have specialized since in the Italian Renaissance. In my last years at Indiana I also taught undergraduate seminars on Marxism, which included an attempt to convince the students that the left was at one time serious. My honors have included a Prix de Rome at the American Academy in Rome, a fellowship at I Tatti in Florence (the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, a Fulbright fellowship, and two ACLS fellowships. My accomplishments in life are major manuscript discoveries in the Italian Renaissance.

I found new works by Leonardo Bruni, Francesco Filelfo, Cristoforo Landino, Marsilio Ficino, and others.”

Robin Hogen writes, “My career has included chairing the art department at the Nichols School in Buffalo [N.Y.], directing public relations for a professional soccer team in Hartford [Conn.], heading the corporate philanthropy departments at United Technologies and Merck, running public and investor relations for a biotech startup in Cambridge [Mass.], leading the crisis management team at Purdue Pharma (makers of OxyContin), serving as director of strategic communications for Yale, and leading a 35-person communications team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest health philanthropy in the U.S. If there is a ‘red thread’ that connects all of these wonderful jobs, it is bridging the worlds of purpose (non sibi) with profit. Lucky me.”

Rick Stewart writes, “After becoming sports editor at the [Lawrence] Eagle-Tribune, I moved on to the Boston Herald American and served as Sunday sports editor there before moving on to the Hartford Courant for 20 years and finally to the Standard-Examiner in Ogden, Utah. I’ve

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ocky Chin ’65 grew up in a college town in the heart of Appalachia—a setting where he was keenly aware of being “different.” On a family road trip through the Deep South in the late 1950s, he recalls, gas stations prominently displayed “Whites Only” signs on their bathrooms.

“The attendants couldn’t figure out our family! We didn’t identify as either white or black; we weren’t given a choice. To these attendants, we were never ‘American.’ ” Chin, born on the Fourth of July in Washington, D.C., was taken aback by the experience.

Phillips Academy was also a culture shock for Chin. “I had to grow up very fast. There was just a handful of minorities in the entire school, and I was a minority among minorities,” he explains.

It wasn’t until he attended graduate school at Yale, earning a masters’ degree in urban planning, that Chin met and bonded with other Asian American student leaders and activists, eventually becoming an activist himself. Increasingly drawn to a career as a “change agent,” Chin was propelled toward law school.

“I was fortunate to have been able to both be an activist and pursue a legal career in civil rights,” he says. At the New York City Commission on Human Rights, Chin was one of several attorneys involved in a major case that ultimately allowed women into large private clubs in New York City, and he helped organize New York’s first Asian Pacific American conference at city Amy Wolf, New York Community Trust hall. Later, at the N.Y. State Division of Human Rights, Chin served as language services coordinator and was involved with an ambitious project that required translating critical documents into nine major languages and developing language services policies and protocols.

“I’m proud that we were pioneers in establishing best practices regarding the needs of limited-English immigrants,” he says.

Chin retired last year; he remains a member of AARP’s New York State Executive Council and continues to be involved in two organizations he helped found: the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni and the Asian American Bar Association of New York.

He has also become a dedicated New Yorker, at home in a neighborhood that couldn’t be farther from Appalachia. “I love living on the Lower East Side. It has been the home for many activists for social justice and defenders of American values. So much history on these streets.”

Andover in the early ’60s wasn’t always an easy place for minority students. “But when I reflect on my time at Andover,” says Chin, “I try to balance some of my angst during those years with the positive things I experienced. It was [at PA] that I learned to think for myself and better understand my own personal values.”

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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

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covered the Celtics, the Patriots, the Red Sox, March Madness, the Frozen Four, the America’s Cup, and the 1978 Kentucky Derby, and even shared dinner with Howard Cosell at the Fenway Park press facilities. I don’t remember what he ate, but he was actually very warm and friendly. I’ve run along Storrow Drive with Jim Fixx, tried out for Major League Baseball, tried out for the New England Tea Men of the old North American Soccer League, and interviewed Arnold Schwarzenegger when he brought Pumping Iron to the Exeter Street Theatre for its Boston premiere. Forty years in print journalism was always fun, even when I found myself later doing more supervising and editing than reporting and writing.”

Joe Schepps writes, “My last great literary work was cowriting The Ship with Bill Newhall and Chris Moore. After college, I moved to Santa Fe, where, over the decades, I built adobe homes, pioneered with solar energy, built and operated inns and hotels, and enjoyed all the beauty and outdoors of New Mexico. And made a new family of friends. And, to give the non sibi tradition its due, I was involved with creating Santa Fe’s performing arts center and served the United Way, Santa Fe Opera, and other civic endeavors. I made my life in Santa Fe, and much of it will always be there. I am fortunate to own and operate the Inn on the Alameda.”

Adios, amigos. Keep writing and e-mailing.

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Anstiss Bowser Agnew 46 Goodwives River Road 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

Twenty-three classmates gathered at the Craigville Retreat Center on Cape Cod in October. We seem to be busier than ever, have incredible energy, and could definitely be described as young at heart.

We took time to remember our loved and admired classmate, Claire Moore Dickerson, who died peacefully after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. She was an esteemed professor, a fine lawyer, a great athlete, and a devoted mother.

Julia Alvarez, tenured professor at Middlebury College, is a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts. Julia arranged a visit by Ruth Stevenson, Abbot English lit teacher, who talked with us

about her tenure at Abbot and subsequent educational positions.

Sarah Beale Gaffin is currently a senior director of leadership giving and the Wheeler Society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Diana Bonnifield Hill has retired from her fashion consulting business and lives in La Jolla, Calif., with husband Mike. They were next off on a trip to the Serengeti.

Anstiss Bowser Agnew retired as executive director of Forestdale, an agency that provides services for foster children and their families.

She still serves as senior advisor for special projects and maintains her therapeutic practice in NYC. Rhonda Carrington Jamison and her husband retired, selling their insurance agency.

She is caring for her mother, who lives with them, and is enjoying her gardening. Sara Delano is volunteering for the community music school and Winchester A Better Chance (ABC), finding summer programs for students in the program.

Charlotte “Lotte” Elmenhorst-Volz, retired child therapist, traveled the farthest, coming from her home in Merzhaussen, Germany.

She and husband Dieter are enjoying time to travel. Dorsey Green continues her practice as a psychologist seeing couples and individuals in Seattle. She now has four grandsons—and their parents—living in Seattle. She couldn’t join us, due to the birth of number four.

Judy Hannegan Sherman provides guidance, job coaching, and help with housing for clients with mental challenges. Catherine Hoover Petros continues as chair of the advisory board of the Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Colorado. She and husband Ray took a hiking trip in Tuscany and then went to Slovenia to sightsee and connect with many Petros relatives.

Candace Howes is a professor of economics and chair of the department of gender and women’s studies at Connecticut College.

Priscilla Howes Harris retired from her role as a tax manager at Trinity Health. Recently, she and her husband visited Steve Brown ’67 and his wife in Tucson, Ariz.

Louisa “Weezie” Huntington, chief reunion organizer, and husband Paul are enjoying their new retirement home. Weezie took a photography trip to Michigan and is looking forward to another in Iceland.

Pamela Jones Hahn and her husband lived and worked in Asia for more than 20 years, returning to the U.S. in 2013. She is mostly retired, and they planned a winter trip to Yellowstone National Park. Warren Osborne Collins and husband, Lenny, live in Kinderhook, N.Y., on their working farm, raising chickens and organic fruits and vegetables, and spend time at their home on Cape Cod. Lenny was kind enough to host several husbands during our “retreat.”

Nancy Porosky Harris-Frohlich has retired from her position as head of school at the Advent School. She is currently involved in Leaps of

www.andover.edu/intouch Imagination—an in-school art and literature program that promotes social justice.

Susan “Abby” Shapiro continues working as a therapist. Recently she and her husband moved to Auburn, Ala. Juliet Schneller VanEenwyk retired from the Washington State Department of Health, where she worked as the state epidemiologist. Travel with her husband last year included Croatia and Italy, with 2016 plans for Kauai and Japan. Susan Smith Hager founded Tango Tile, which showcases a collaboration among tile artisans and tile vendors, offering original tile designs for residential and commercial applications.

Linda Sullivan served as our co-organizer and transportation coordinator. She owns a transcription company and 18 months ago moved it to East Rutherford, N.J., where she lives. Jane von der Heyde Lindley, a retired M&A attorney, has been traveling in France and spending time with grandchildren Jack and Charlotte.

Joyce “Joy” Wannop Bruce continues to sing with the Lions Gate Chorus. She shared her adventures planning and attending two weddings for her daughter—one in Vancouver, B.C., and one in the U.K.! Cathy Welch Strauss works for a transport company. Recently she had a wonderful trip to France with her sisters. Roxanna “Roxy” Wolfe is continuing as a psychologist in her private practice. One focus is the psychology and treatment of trauma.

Hannah Whitney spoke to Anstiss and reported that she and brother Steve both live in Montana. Hannah has a dog-grooming company and also does rescue work. She loves her lifestyle and friends. We’re trying to get her East for our 50th!

PHILLIPS Joseph P. Kahn 28 Gallison Ave. Marblehead MA 01945 781-639-2668 617-515-7553 (cell) josephpkahn@gmail.com

Dan Cunningham ended his 19-year run as a PA trustee last summer. Dan, who was honored for his extraordinary service during a campus ceremony in November, played a vital role in shaping today’s Andover, from championing a need-blind admission policy to helping recruit and hire John Palfrey as head of school. I recently asked him how and why he decided to undertake this level of involvement in school affairs. It was during our 25th Reunion year, Dan told me, when his class fundraising efforts sparked a discussion of how he might do even more for Andover. The rest, as they say, is history. Dan’s new title is trustee emeritus, although he swears he’s done with attending board meetings. My guess is they will miss him dearly.

On a December trip to Tucson, Ariz., Dan

met up with classmates David Van Wyck and Stephen G. Brown. While hiking in the mountains with Dave one day, Dan discovered the two shared a similar “How did you find Andover?” story. In both cases, a family member had read the Time cover story on PA headmaster John Kemper and urged the boy to apply. (Anyone else out there with the same story, more or less?) Boarding the way-back bus on another fine Tucson day, Dan and Steve B. drove south to the Sahuarita ranch where Steve grew up and which Dan had not visited since 1966.

“Hasn’t really changed much,” said Steve when I subsequently reached him by phone in Tucson, where he and his wife built a house two years ago.

He meant the ranch, of course. (We all look exactly the same as we did 50 years ago.) Now retired from a long career in human services, Steve divides his time between the Southwest and Cape Cod, travels the globe as an environmental consultant (his daughter and grandkids live in Australia), works as a substitute schoolteacher, and writes books.

His latest is titled Concealed, a coming-of-age novel about two teenagers on the run in the Sonoran Desert (visit www.concealedthebook.com for more info).

Walt Mintkeski’s annual holiday missive summarized a busy 2015 for Walt and family, a year that included (1) a 20th anniversary celebration for his beloved Johnson Creek (Ore.) Watershed Council, (2) attending a groundbreaking for a project that will help restore a local salmonspawning marine estuary (“I felt fulfilled and hopeful explaining to my grandchildren how this project was going to help ensure that they would have salmon to enjoy when they grow up,” Walt wrote), (3) traveling to the Citizens’ Climate Lobby Conference in DC to advocate on behalf of a national carbon fee and dividend, (4) sailing trips to Mexico, British Columbia, and the Caribbean with Derick Gates, and (5) volunteer work for the Nature Conservancy and Oregon League of Conservation Voters.

Idle question: In one capacity or another, how many classmates are seriously involved in environmental/climate change issues? (Lower your hand, David Arnold; I’ve already got you counted.) Could be fodder for an interesting panel discussion at our next reunion, no?

James Platz has won inclusion in the prestigious FAA Airmen Certification Database, though that hardly does justice to his longtime love affair with aviation. Now retired from the banking business in Auburn, Maine, and working for Platz Associates, a family-owned architecture and engineering firm, Jim is a founding board member and vice chairman of Patient AirLift Services, a network of volunteer pilots who fly needy patients—at no cost—to hospitals and medical facilities throughout the Northeast. “I am continually amazed by the courage, determination, faith, and positive attitudes that our patients show in the face of challenging situations,” Jim said in a recent interview. He has done volunteer work

for a number of other nonprofits as well. Good on you, Jim. From Richard Weinberg: “The Rising Storm is brewing once again, and we need help from PA ’67. An independent California filmmaker will start shooting a documentary this summer on the origins of the Rising Storm at Andover, and our history since. He seeks any Rising Storm photos, articles, posters, etc., that may be in the hands of our classmates—especially any sound recordings or home movies they may have made of our live performances at PA.” If you have any, alert me, and I’ll put you in touch with Rich, who goes on to write, “Anyone possessing a copy of our album Calm Before in good condition should proceed directly to eBay. A sealed copy recently changed hands between vinyl collectors for $6,000!”

My regular North Shore golf and tennis partner Steve Gardner spent the winter of 2016 in Vail, Colo., helping out with an adaptive ski program.

(Very jealous of you, Dr. Steve.) Speaking of skiing, I enticed the aforementioned Mr. Arnold to accompany me to a PA alumni and parents ski outing at Waterville Valley (N.H.) this past January.

Dave and I may have been the oldest alums on hand, but we can still get down the mountain pretty well for a couple of old guys. We both hope to lure more classmates to next year’s PA ski outing.

See you there, or somewhere.

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

We requested your “two holiday best moments,” but most were challenged to pick just two.

Nan Roberts began the conversation by describing her holiday lunch with Debbie Webster in Albuquerque, N.M. She and Debbie were intent on finding Joanne Sapienza Evangelista, and Debbie did find her! Let’s pester Joanne to fill in her missing decades for the next class notes.

Debbie visited New England to see family over the holidays. She noted that it was much warmer there than in New Mexico, and there was no snow! I am writing these notes Jan. 12, and there is still only limited snow in most of New England. As for those of us in California, after four years of drought, we are having one of the best snow years I can remember in the Sierras. Come on out!

Kathy Wies Dietz wrote that her daughter Martha and her husband had their second girl, named Rose Leland Loring, in December.

Congratulations, Kathy! I will just have to quote Juliana Crane’s best moments because she described them so tenderly: “Helping my son and daughter-in-law, after the little ones finally went to sleep, get ready for Christmas morning—just the three of us coordinating surprise; seeing my Andover | Summer 2016

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stay connected... other son and his girlfriend, who live in Thailand, celebrating Christmas Day with us via Skype, and then watching the 3-year-old granddaughter jump in front of the Skype camera and say, ‘You do remember I love you, right?’ ” Jackie McGinty sent photos of herself with her daughter, Jessie (thanks, nice photos!), and described her holiday staycation best moments this way: attending a Celtic Woman concert in Charleston, S.C., before Christmas with her daughter, and enjoying Christmas dinner with her daughter at BLU restaurant in Folly Beach, S.C. Susan Barton wrote about the response from her 21-month-old grandniece about where her Papi was: “A ‘who knows’ shrug of arms and shoulders.”

Susan insisted that she is not old just yet: “Getting home at 3:36 a.m. after attending the entirety of a New Year’s Eve gala.” Susan also included a “best defies-logic moment: Last night, with below-zero wind chills, when less than nine days ago I spent Christmas Eve shopping in flip-flops.”

Anne Moses Bennett wrote this about her Christmas 2015 memories: “Making the long car/ship journey from Greece to Switzerland via Italy, spending time with friends on the way; arriving just in time to set up the tree and shop for Christmas dinner; spending New Year’s Eve with dear friends and realizing that ‘family’ includes all those we love.”

Betsy Handy McCormack spent Christmas with her children, their spouses, and her four granddaughters. A highlight “was Christmas dinner. Caroline, 5, said the blessing. She showed us how to hold our hands as she stood on a chair.

Not to be outdone by her older sister, Jane (who just turned 3) stood on the chair, put her hand over her heart, and in loud voice said the Pledge of Allegiance perfectly, then bowed her head and got down. Kids are great!”

Christmas Day for Diane Russell included Star Wars, then dinner at a funky French restaurant with an Elvis-impersonator chef. This was the “first get-together of my BF, my daughter and daughter’s BF, and his daughter and daughter’s fiancé.

Weddings in the future (not mine).” As for my best moments, while the warmth of family and friends is very special to me, my strongest memories of this past holiday are: a superb cross-country-skiing day out the door of our cabin, when the trees were heavy with snow and my kick-wax was perfect; and my first day of downhill skiing when, at the top of the lift, I looked around to see the magnificent vista of the Sierras covered with snow and other downhill skiers with huge grins just like mine.

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

Classmate Stuart McAfee passed away in May 2015 in Chapel Hill, N.C., after a brief illness.

Stuart was born in NYC and matriculated from PA to Harvard where he played rugby and sang with the Harvard Krokodiloes, then studied medicine in Bologna, Italy. That training came in handy in the bank business at Central Carolina Bank and Sun Trust Mortgage for decades. Stuart retired in 2005. He will be missed dearly by all who had the fortune to cross his path.

Part of the continuing quest to resurrect the past as we cling helplessly to our vanishing youthful memories, a snippet from housemaster Sherm Drake’s handwritten daily dorm records: “On Saturday, April 24 [1965], about 3 p.m., a group of girls from Rogers Hall, accompanied by their visiting dads, came to Will Hall to see Skip Jensen, Rip Cohen, and others. While engaged in some activity or other in the ballroom (downstairs), it seems that one of the girls made it known that she would like a ‘souvenir’ of Will Hall (who wouldn’t?). Cohen, Jensen, or Sean Konecky—I’m not sure which—spied a pair of huge shoes lying under the Ping-Pong table and gave one of the shoes to the girls. (She must have been thrilled, because you know what they say about guys with big feet.)

“On Monday, Gary Meller complained that he had no shoes to wear to class because one of them had been given to Rogers Hall. I tried to find an extra pair among my own supply, then the proctors’ supply, etc., but to no avail, as Gary’s requirements are too large. Meller was given permission to wear his slippers to class. On Tuesday, Sean Konecky reported than I would not, after all, have to write a letter to Mrs. Ramsey, headmistress at Rogers Hall. Instead, the girls had been telephoned and the shoe was to be returned by mail. As of 9 a.m. Friday, April 30, it is unclear whether or not Meller is still wearing slippers on campus.

“Also noted that day, Vin Crowley, Russ Hall, John Kelsey, and George Wolf were caught playing Frisbee in the ballroom. They were warned to cease the activity in that location. Later that afternoon, when I returned, there they were again, playing Frisbee in the ballroom. I shall give Crowley, Wolf, and Hall demerits. They should have known better, anyway. Additionally, two boys, Dick Spalding and Cliff Wright, were attacked without provocation by town boys on School Street. Neither was hurt badly. Both were punched. Evidently there have been other similar incidences lately, involving upperclassmen.

Perhaps the campus police should be alerted. I will tell Bill Bennett.”

Meanwhile, back in 2015, Oliver Drake—son of Jay Drake—was headed for the major leagues.

The Gardner, Mass., native, 28, was recalled by the Orioles and told to report to Miami, where they played the Marlins on Saturday night. Oliver had pitched in parts of eight seasons in the minors after Baltimore picked him in the 43rd round of the 2008 draft. He got the call in Norfolk, Va., where he was the closer for the Orioles’ Triple A team in the International League, managed by former Red Sox first-base coach Ron Johnson. Oliver had done so well for the Tides that a promotion to the major leagues seemed inevitable, but nothing is certain in baseball.

“The way he had been pitching, we’d been hoping for this,” said Jay, “and it was very, very good news.” Jay immediately starting looking for flights to Miami and found a morning one out of Logan Airport, landing in West Palm Beach. He was joined by son Elliott, Oliver’s older brother.

Oliver’s mother, Celeste, couldn’t make the trip because Memorial Day weekend is about the busiest one of the year at the True Value hardware store she runs in Gardner.

From Michael Quinlan, the founder and CEO of Transparent Language, Inc., a language learning software company: “Something you might find interesting: My TEDx talk on our 7000 Languages Project just went up. In it I talk about how we support language surge for DoD. I explain that the capability we invent for that purpose also happens to be perfect for supporting endangered and less common languages, and so we have started this 7000 Languages Project. Since we offer the 7000 technology for free and it just keeps getting better and better, that part is fine. The key now is for people and organizations around the world that care about languages to become aware and participate, so feel free to share.” Watch Quinlan’s TEDx talk on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ SZbNyp1jeGo. Finally, Bruce Hearey sent in this little tidbit about another star attorney, Tom Mesereau ’69, Michael Jackson’s lawyer: “As the president of the Cleveland Bar Association, I get to invite a speaker for our annual law day celebration at the historic City Club of Cleveland, citadel of free speech for 114 years. The speech was broadcast out over an extensive NPR network. Tom, celebrated trial lawyer, came in from LA on May 1 at my invite to deliver the law day speech. He was great, speaking about his significant pro bono activities, access to justice, and the wide-ranging avenues of legal careers for lawyers. He was a big hit. The night before, Tom and I had dinner with my younger brother, Clem Hearey ’72, and reminisced about our days at PA.” We only wish Sherm Drake had been there to write it all down.

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Sheila Donald Millington 5271 West Boniwood Turn Clinton MD 20735 smilling192112@yahoo.com 301-868-1631

I am happy to report news from our class. Looking forward to hearing from many of you in the future.

Katrina Moulton Wollenberg reports, “I have enjoyed visits from all my family members, although not all at once. My sons and families were in town the middle of December; my sister, nieces, and mother arrived in time for Christmas.

Naturally, I had to try hundreds of new recipes, which involved the nieces in very festive cooking classes. An occasional tornado even meant a night of leftovers, following 30 minutes of huddling in the pantry with four adults, two children, and two dogs.

While we were safe, I was sad to learn that several friends suffered severe damage to their homes. As the calendar turned to 2016, I used a few days to rest and relax. Gosh, it feels good to catch up on sleep. I must now turn my attention to a large 60th birthday celebration I am hosting for my partner, Michelle, in Oklahoma City. Party planning from a distance has its challenges, but attention to detail is keeping me focused. I continue to feel so grateful for good health, a happy family, and great friendships.”

Margaret Lavender wrote, “This will be a year of big transitions for my husband, John, and me.

We will be leaving the Chicago area with mixed feelings, after 30-plus years there, and relocating to Naples, Fla., for the winter and Westport, Mass., for the summer. We were both born and raised in New England and have returned during all the summers of our lives, so this is our longtime dream, though we hate to leave so many good Midwestern friends.

We hope to reconnect with our many East Coast friends and maintain our Midwest friendships by relocating to two desirable vacation areas. We have been madly sorting, tossing, sorting, and tossing for six months now and have more to do before putting what’s left into storage for most of 2016. I am looking forward to seeing my Abbot friends more often!”

Congratulations to Jennifer Cecere, who received a Building the Circle Award for her project for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, a culmination of two years’ work. The Little Italy–University Circle Station, which opened Aug. 11, 2015, and features Jennifer’s work, is the first new station for the transit authority in 55 years.

Madelon Curtis Harper reports: “Husband Stephen [Harper ’69] and I had a nice Christmas season, and we spent New Year’s weekend at the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa in Ojai, Calif. We love it there, with its fabulous, relaxing spa treatments and quietness. We are going down again for Valentine’s Day weekend. We realize there are so many wonderful places to visit right here in California,

where we live, that we should take advantage of them before we ever move away! Plus, we don’t have to get on planes and deal with all the hassle. I am teaching ballet, choreographing, taking Pilates classes, and acting. By the time these notes are out, maybe some of you will have seen Caged No More, the film that I am in. It was released Jan. 22.”

My daughter and I spent a fabulous vacation in the San Francisco area after Christmas, visiting my son, who recently moved there. He’s an information technology guru, and that’s the place to be. He loves being in the city and being able to walk to dining, entertainment, and shopping. I am more of a suburbanite, used to driving everywhere.

For all of you who are into Facebook and other social media, perhaps you can get in contact with classmates I have found on Facebook and/or who are part of the Abbot 1969 public group: Joan Faro, Sara Gray Stockwell, Linda Lacouture Vliet, Helene Jenkins Kovach, Mary Ketcham Lambea, Elisabeth Miller Blackwood, Jena Treneer Miller, Sandra Waugh Winans, Carol Nimick, Lindsay Whitcomb, Gali Hagel, Jennifer Van Anda, Barbara Allen, Carolyn Cain Ware, Stephanie Ross, Mary Stewart Owczarek, Dale Dingledine, Jessie Butler, Susan Gurganus Drackett, Wendy Ewald, and Mary Schiavoni. If you are on Facebook but provided news, your name was not repeated here. Here’s an invitation to join the Abbot Class of 1969 Facebook Group!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday.

However, by the time you read this, that holiday will be a distant memory and you’ll be looking forward to summer. Let me be the first to say, “Have a great summer!” Thanks for your submissions.

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

Ben Gruber wrote from his new digs in Denver, where he has retired. Ben had a long career in IT. Says Ben, “Thank you, Steve Harper, for getting me through our BASIC programming course.”

Ben offered a bold idea: “What if we used our class gift to benefit Greater Lawrence instead of PA? There are so many ways a generous gift from the Class of ’69 could help the community: selfsustaining college scholarships; a recreation center; improvements for the school system or medical and veterans’ facilities—the list goes on.”

I’m very interested in what our classmates think of Ben’s proposal. To me, it sounds great—and in keeping with the spirit of our class. Bill Schink, our class agent, must be consulted! A recent letter from Bill spoke about our 50th Reunion in 2019—and he is encouraging us all to help support the school.

Perhaps, as in politics, there may be compromise:

Some for PA, some for Lawrence.

The last time I saw Ben, he was riding his bike along Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass. It was 1987 or so. He was headed to work somewhere around MIT. I was on a coffee break on a construction job. I was sitting with some of my Plumbers Local 12 buddies on the edge of the concrete slab one or two stories up, and Ben came by, and we recognized each other. Just one of those things you remember.

Another chance encounter: running into Jim Volker not long ago—quite by chance, at a business office on the North Shore. Jim is a semiretired lawyer, and he told me that he and his wife, Marcia, were planning a trip to California in January. He asked about his old day student buddy, Pete Olney. Later, Pete and Jim were able to get together in San Francisco, where Pete and his wife, Christina, live. They sent along a great photo—complete with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. (Check out our class Facebook page, where webmaster J. Bluhm plans to post the photo.) Pete says, “What a pleasure to see Jim and meet his wife, Marcia. We are a little grayer and heavier, but we kinda picked up where we left off in ’69.” Seems to be one of the things that happen when members of our class have these mini reunions: Doesn’t matter much what the years in between have amounted to. Friends remain friends.

I’m sure that Pete and Jim must have at least mentioned politics—Pete being of the leftish persuasion and Jim distinctly on the other side of the aisle. What many in our class may not know is that Pete, who was my roommate at the time, dropped out of Harvard to become an elevator operator. He worked at Boston City Hospital and later completed his degree at UMass Boston while being a union organizer at BCH. Pete is posting a series of articles online at the Stansbury Forum.

One incident concerns the night he was running the hospital elevator and a guy came in on a gurney.

They had trouble getting him through the door, because he had a crowbar through his skull. Check out bit.ly/1RjEELt. While on a business trip to LA, I spent a couple of days in lovely San Marino with my long-ago roommate Larry Uhl and his wife, Valerie Casey.

We had a great day at the Huntington Library. If you ever get to LA, the Huntington is a must-see.

The Japanese gardens alone are worth the trip.

Speaking of California and politics: You—yes, you—will have a chance to cast a vote of greater significance (not) than any Super Tuesday primary.

I’m speaking of this year’s slate for PA alumni trustee. On the ballot is Nate Cartmell. If there’s one guy who is devoted to PA, it is Nate. We’ll be giving him our support.

Interesting piece in the NYT about the “Bill Gates effect” on book sales. Gates blogs about books he appreciates—and he rated Evan Thomas’s Being Nixon as one of the best books of 2015. Congrats, Evan!

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Crosby’s daughter Maddie ’16 is graduating from PA in the spring and heading to Barnard. Crosby was going down to New Haven, where he would be seeing old friends, including Fred Strebeigh, who continues teaching at Yale.

I am sorry to report that Lock Miller passed away this past fall. Lock had been an Outward Bound instructor and later a very successful businessman, as owner of West Coast retail chain Marmot Mountain Works. He was loyal, wry, and insightful, and he always made sure to come back to the Hill and enjoy our reunions. He was quite the hiker and outdoorsman, interests he probably developed through Search & Rescue at PA. If you look online, you will find some wonderful tributes.

Here’s an excerpt from one: “Lock was key in my life. I never would have met my husband if he had not rescued our company financially in the late ’80s. This changed my life forever.” May each of us accomplish something as worthy. A detailed story about Lock appears at bit.ly/1pJPBtD. Ben Gruber and others in our class are clearly enjoying retirement—and others of us intend to join them afore long. If you decide to head to one of the sunny states, here’s a real estate alert: Dave Marshman is a top realtor in lovely Venice, Fla. Send an e-mail to davidmarshman1@verizon.net.

Stay in touch.

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Adelle Nicholson 851 Three Islands Blvd., No. 118 Hallandale Beach FL 33009 954-456-4312 adeil@aol.com Tobi Solomon Gold 130 SW 31st Terrace Cape Coral FL 33914 239-940-2396 myyogagirl77@gmail.com

Adelle Nicholson and Tobi Solomon Gold here!

We greet our Abbot classmates and hope that 2016 is finding you well. We have joined forces and will be sharing the responsibilities of class secretary. We are both looking forward to speaking and—if we’re very lucky—seeing you in the near future.

Tobi says, “I was delighted to talk with my firstyear roommate, Pauline Cerf Alexander!” Pauline lives in a small town near Morristown, N.J. She is the manager of admissions and graduate services for Seeing Eye, Inc., an organization that breeds, raises, and trains dogs to assist the blind. After 23 years of service, she plans to retire in about a year

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and a half. Her son Will graduated from Milton Academy and Bowdoin College and works for Education First Educational Tours in Cambridge, Mass. Pauline’s daughter, Lizzie, lives in New York and is a school counselor at a small school for special needs children. Pauline has two sons, Edward and John, in San Diego. John is married, with an 18-month-old daughter named Elsie, and Pauline visits them often. She is very enthusiastic about our big reunion in 2020 and hopes to attend.

Debbie Prudden Lathrop is a psychotherapist and has her own practice; she specializes in working with adults and teenagers who are gifted and creative. Her husband is retiring this year and will keep busy consulting. Debbie was delighted to share that her son, David, got married last spring and that the newlyweds are doing well.

Lisa Contarino divides her time among Rome, Cambridge, Mass., and Santa Fe, N.M. For the past three years, Lisa has been working with the Italian government on an annual Italian film festival that, this year, will be held in June in Santa Fe. Her son, Luca, is 13 and plays basketball and soccer.

Adelle says, “I had a wonderful conversation with Sue Cleveland Jacobson, who lives in Texas with her husband, Jake. They resided in Houston for 25 years, and, since 2008, they’ve called San Antonio home. They have two children, Missy and Billy, and nine grandchildren ages 9 and younger!

Sue and Jake have a vacation home in Bella Vista, Ark., where they live during golf season. Jake calls the town a ‘university campus for grownups,’ except that one can drink legally and one has time and money to do what one wishes. Not only does Sue play a lot of golf, she is also the self-proclaimed Google website guru for Bella Vista golf groups— she has helped all of them launch websites and continues to help by maintaining them. Sue is happy to visit with anyone who is passing through San Antonio or Bella Vista.

“Last fall, Tobi, Janet Cohen Miller, and I met at the beautiful Hudson at Waterway East Restaurant on the Intracoastal Waterway in Delray Beach, Fla., and enjoyed a meal together. Seeing one another was fun, and we felt so comfortable, as if no time had passed since our Abbot days. During our conversation, we discovered that we have all kinds of connections. Janet and her late husband, Philip, lived on their sailboat in Fort Myers for a year, during which time they visited with friends in Matlacha, Fla. There is now a wellness center there, where Tobi is now a yoga instructor! Janet and I discovered that she went to elementary school in her hometown of Lawrence, Mass., with a boy whom I dated for a brief time while I was at Abbot and who figures prominently in my life because he introduced me to Led Zeppelin! Janet is newly retired and busier than ever. She is an avid cyclist, gardener, and reader, and she likes taking on home improvement projects. She is an active member of bicycle and book clubs. She also enjoys spending time with her two sons and their friends.

“Until next time, dear classmates, Tobi and I wish you a wonderful summer!”

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

This one is a little different. Bear with us.

It wasn’t the dawn of a new year that got Chuck Willand thinking. Rather, it was a letter he received from one of his former Andover students near the end of 2015—nearly 40 years after she was in his biology classroom. Her note got him thinking, and we thought it worthy of ink, paper, and pixels. What Chuck wrote follows, after some minor nipping and tucking.

“Most of you know I joined the PA faculty as a teaching fellow in the biology department in the fall of 1976 (having received a life-changing tip at our Fifth Reunion, by the way, from Don Rollings, who had spent his first year after Princeton as a teaching fellow at Andover).

“I continued teaching at PA for seven more years, forging new and expanded relationships with teachers such as Messrs. Richards, Lux, McClement, Penner, Sturges, Sides, and Wennik.

At the same time, slowly and less apparently, I worked with dozens of classroom students, athletes, and dormitory charges. To some, I taught subject matter; several, I counseled or consoled; many, I coached to higher levels in swimming or softball; and, yes, a few, I busted.

“For these reasons, at our Class of ’70 reunions, I actively seek out my former students from the co-reuning classes of 1980 and 1985, while keeping a close watch, too, for my few remaining faculty colleagues.

“I tell you this because as the years go by, I— and you—receive notices periodically that our teachers and mentors have passed on. Whenever possible, I make my next contribution to PA in memory of that former teacher or faculty peer, and without fail, I have received heartfelt and personal thanks from the families in beautiful, handwritten letters. Nancy Sizer, Audrey Hoitsma, Helen (Mrs. Skip) Eccles, Karen Sturges, and Jean McKee are among those who have sent very moving notes to me.

“A few weeks ago, just before Christmas, I received a letter from the Academy telling me that a former student had made a gift to the PA Parent Fund in my honor (happily, not in my memory). I was stunned at this news, but I finally understood why those widowed spouses had written me. I thought about all those nice letters, so I immediately thanked the current donor, now in her mid-50s, with a handwritten note of my own.

Then, in a two-page follow-up letter, that same

www.andover.edu/intouch student shared a series of point-by-point examples of how I, as a green, 24-year-old teaching fellow, had made a difference in the PA life of a bright but uncertain 15-year-old from a blue-collar town in central British Columbia—even though she never took any more biology at Phillips after her lower year or played on any of my sports teams or dated boys in my dorms.

“In this class note, I’ve used personal examples to illustrate a point. But this message is not about gifts I’ve given to the school or letters of thanks I’ve received, so I offer you this: The next time you are moved to send PA a check, I hope you will consider naming and honoring a PA figure with your gift—a teacher, a coach, a faculty spouse, an administrator, a work-duty supervisor, a classmate, living or deceased. Your gift to the Academy and your recognition of an individual who in some way helped you ‘learn the great end and real business of living’ will truly make someone’s day.”

It may seem coincidental, but in the wake of Chuck’s well-reasoned suggestion regarding donations, we heard from class agent Andy Wexler. It looks like he is planning a retirement from Kaiser sometime in the next two years. With that in mind, after what he calls “many years of Southern California’s sun-drenched lifestyle,” he and wife Geri have bought a house on Cape Cod. That might put them in a closer orbit to their two daughters, Becca ’02 and Sarah. Andy says that retirement will not end his work in the developing world, and Geri will keep up her work in pediatric clinical psychology.

In the meantime, Andy wrote in early January, he was headed to Madagascar to operate on children in the spring. He was hoping he could find some time “checking out lemurs” on that island.

And he offered fair warning to the class: “I do expect to survive the jungle and be back to fulfill my duties as your agent, encouraging you all to cough up the cash for Andover.”

Speaking of retirement, Charles van der Horst has done it. The longtime professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina Medical School and widely known AIDS researcher turned 64 as 2016 bawled its way into our lives.

If he dares to ask, like Ye Olde Beatles, “Will you still need me?” at this age, the answer appears to be a resounding “Yes—more than ever.” On his birthday, he thanked many people on his Facebook page. One paragraph hints at the incredible breadth and depth of Charlie’s recent selfless work.

Recent projects: helping village health workers with Last Mile Health in Liberia; writing grants for demonstration projects on adolescent HIV prevention in Brazil, South Africa, and Thailand; volunteering with Urban Ministries in North Carolina. He wrote that 2016 will bring “a year of protesting (I rejoined NAACP N.C. yesterday), volunteering in the free clinic, and swimming like a fiend.” He quickly made the plunge on the third goal. He celebrated his January birthday by competing in a one-mile swimming race in San Francisco Bay. (Brrrr. Fifty degrees, maybe?)

And, finally, Peter Williams filed papers in the fall to make another run for state attorney for the six-county judicial circuit that includes Tallahassee, Fla., and part of the Panhandle. Peter is running as a Republican. He has enjoyed occasional breakfasts with Romerio Perkins, who—with the help of wife Sharon—has recovered well from his surgery last year.

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

Caitlin Owen Hunter marked her 21st year of creating and selling farmstead goat cheese in Appleton, Maine.

Anne Rappaport’s youngest child is engaged to be married to a wonderful young woman in September 2016. Anne’s middle child dances joyously and competitively, and the oldest lives with her husband and Anne’s delightful 9-year-old grandchild in the Midwest.

Sue King-Irwin and her husband, Hank, had a very busy 2015 Christmas season. All four daughters and four grandchildren visited from four states. Sue and Hank also had an abundance of friends, extended family, and both ex-spouses in and out through the holidays. Sue says it was “fun, exciting, crazy, exhausting, and filled with drama!

We feel very blessed with the wonderful people in our lives and wouldn’t want it any other way.”

Beatriz McConnie Zapater shared her thoughts and journey toward retirement in a way that we think will resonate with all of us. No matter what we are doing, we need to think and plan for the future. Beatriz recently retired from 40 years of teaching and creating schools and programs for “really marginalized, off-track young people.”

Beatriz writes that she left “without another job waiting for me, without a real plan—simply acting with the courage to leave, the courage to lead.”

Beatriz had a transition plan for the final school she worked in and a lot of support in taking the leap to retirement. After she left, Beatriz took a short trip to Finland and Paris to decompress. Now she is doing some education consulting, painting (not walls), cooking, playing her guitar, and dreaming about the ideal retirement scheme with her wife.

We will stay tuned to see whether Beatriz pursues consulting to redesign the high school of the future

for Boston. Or will she make a change and pursue a career as a chef ? Both sound pretty exciting for a “retired” person!

Emmy Schroeder Reade’s granddaughter, Abigail MacLaren Law, was born in August 2015.

Emmy’s daughter Lissy and her husband, Cam, live in Greenwich, Conn., and love being new parents.

Eldest daughter Amanda and her husband live in Newport, R.I., with granddaughter Elise, who is almost 3. Sadly, May 2015 brought a diagnosis of cancer for Emmy’s husband, and though he went through a lot, he is thankfully in remission. We wish him good health for 2016! Emmy has kept herself busy by “running the family chemicaldistribution business, being a grammie called ‘Emsy,’ and more recently training a new shih tzu puppy! The cycle of life brings it all!”

These days, Tawwaba Samia Bloch’s life is centered on her spiritual life and path. Over the past 10 years, she has served a universal Sufi teacher, assisting him on one completed book, with another in process. Tawwaba and the Sufi teacher offer retreats together, and she is increasingly involved in teaching and spiritual guidance and counseling. She helps manage a small residential community, plus she has a little house in Berkeley, Calif., that serves as a private refuge. Don’t think it’s all about sitting still for Tawwaba, though! She has a “sweet, simple, funky camper van named Wanda. I drive it to retreats and then take time on my return in the gloriousness of this land, from the red rocks and formations of the Southwest to the wild, free rivers and forest and coastline of the Pacific Northwest. In Wanda I wander in wonder and I return to my true hippie girl roots!”

Sara Ingram traveled to Amsterdam in October 2015 and had a great time walking all over the city, seeing museums, canals, and other sights.

She ate lots of great food and was thrilled to have a room overlooking a canal. Astonishingly, she never saw one of the Amsterdam “brown cafés.” She made up for it with Dutch chocolate.

Lynn Comley Frueh’s daughter is applying to colleges. Lynn had several encounters of the Abbot kind in 2015. While touring Reed College in Oregon, their guide was an Andover grad, and another student on the tour was a senior at PA, working on the Abbot Archives project.

Recently, at a psychology conference in LA, Lynn reports, “A group of us introduced ourselves in a small breakout session, and a woman said, ‘I knew a Lynn Comley at Abbot years ago.’ It was Holly Tytell Culver! Really great to see her again and reminisce.”

Please attend our 45th Reunion June 10–12, 2016, so we can catch up in person!

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

The 45th Reunion is fast approaching, June 10–12.

Though this is not the mega-event 50th, we’re hoping for a good turnout. Affirmative responses are rolling in, with a few holdouts who are claiming other obligations.

Grover Burthey just sent me a photo of his first grandchild, with this note: “Luke Burthey is here—9 lb. 11 oz., 22 inches! Going to put him on Ernie [Adams] and [Bill] Belichick’s radar...a big boy! And good-looking, too.” I joined Stewart Crone and Pierce Rafferty for lunch in Mystic, Conn., recently—the second installment in what will ideally be a rolling series. Plenty of catching up to do, from the film class with Steve Marx to Danny Cahn and other classmates to Pierce and Stewart’s time spent together during the making of Atomic Cafe.

Ran into Jeb Bush recently at the Yale Club.

Pure coincidence. He was emerging from a fundraising event, brimming with campaign energy. Even though we hadn’t seen each other since PA, he stopped for a minute to talk. His entourage, which might have been staff (or a couple secret service agents), stood by impatiently.

Tonight, as the returns come in from Iowa, it’s looking increasingly clear that his path to the White House is being eclipsed. Maybe he’ll have time to join us come June.

John Gillespie shared his current plans: “Shifting focus this year to a new book and a magazine for teaching financial literacy to 8- to 14-year-olds.” He also mentioned that he and wife Susan were planning on a June Alaska cruise (reminding me of the David Foster Wallace piece, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”). It may start after the reunion, so he might make it. On another front, I knew that John in his earlier career did innovative financings of stadiums, like Camden Yards and the Staples Center, but I didn’t know that he was once No. 49 on The Sporting News annual list of the “100 Most Powerful People in Sports” (beating Michael Jordan).

Speaking of sports, I followed up on a prompt from Mark Bamford ’81 recently about the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor and started an online conversation about the best athletes from our class and the nominees who are up for consideration. Phil Hooper, Sam Walker, and Jeff Rosen had already been nominated. The question under consideration was who in our class merited inclusion in the Hall, and could we supply sufficient background info for full decision making? The debate flowed for several days.

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guidelines, caught us up. Bill Belichick is already in, as are Medal of Honor recipient Tom Hudner ’43, George H.W. Bush ’42, Ted Harrison ’38, and Paul Kalkstein ’61, among others. Soon, lots of new or long-forgotten information was flooding in.

Little did I know that the lacrosse team in our senior year was not just New England champions but also had several high school All-Americans (Hooper, Frisbie, and Seero).

Phillipian cosports editor Matthew Rueter lobbied for Frisbie, Tim Neville, and Steve Sherrill. Sherrill, who allowed that he was an “OK honorable mention,” in turn advanced Dick Cashin and Milt Holt. Cashin, according to Steve, was “the best athlete at Harvard ’75, was on two Olympic crews, and has twice been his age group’s world champion on the ergometer.”

Tim Gay, Lawry Bump, and Stan Livingston supported Holt, supplying stories of Holt as quarterback in his famous white shoes delivering repeatedly in the clutch. As Tim put it, “If my faulty memory serves me correctly, he was also offered a signing bonus to forgo Harvard and to pitch for the Pittsburgh Pirates.”

Greg Zorthian, who was Phillipian assistant sports editor, put forward Jeff Rosen, who, he mentioned, was undefeated in wrestling over two years and in one year “pinned every opponent.”

Jeff responded with straightforward modesty and shared his story since PA: “Thanks for thinking of me. My story is easy. Yale. Varsity wrestling for two years, junior year in Israel, where I met my wife (Rebecca). We married my first week in law school @ Iowa, still married to this day, with four terrific daughters. I’ve been trying lawsuits (which to me is just like wrestling) in Kansas City for 38 years. I remember our team like it was yesterday. What a great group of guys!”

Sam Walker was likewise unassuming, writing, “I am honored to be included, but bow out of the process.” As he explained, he broke his arm a few days before football started senior year “and never played a down.” In addition, he played lacrosse with a second injury in the spring. It was the cohorts on his line in lacrosse that he credited: Peter Bensley and Kurt Kuchta.

Pete Sachs, Sandy McAdam, Doug Buxton, Bill Cahill, and Evan Livada all joined the fun.

Evan contended that Holt was the “greatest athlete of our class” but then pitched a change-up, proposing Ernie Adams. “If we want a lock nomination it should be Ernie, as he is clearly the brains behind the greatest dynasty in NFL history and one of the nicest guys in the class. He is finally getting the national recognition he deserves.”

Michael Carlisle replied, “I’m pretty sure Ernie would decline—he prefers to stay behind the scenes—but Evan, you’re absolutely correct, and Bill [Belichick] and Robert Kraft would be the first to agree!!”

Unfortunately, this year Ernie and Bill Belichick ended the football season one game shy of the Super Bowl. Maybe they, too, will join us in June.

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

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

It’s not easy being green, but Rus Perry is doing his part for a sustainable future, and he’s getting some well-deserved recognition for his efforts. Rus was named a 2015 LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Fellow by Green Business Certification Inc. Rus heads up the corporate sustainability efforts of SmithGroupJJR, one of the largest architectural and engineering firms in the U.S. SmithGroup had this to say about Rus and his award: “Perry is widely recognized as one of the most collaborative, knowledgeable, and dedicated experts in the sustainable design industry. He is among the industry’s top professionals who advocate moving beyond designing buildings that do less harm and consume fewer resources to designing buildings that are truly regenerative.

Under Perry’s leadership, SmithGroupJJR became one of the first firms to sign on to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2030 Commitment, a mandate that the building industry achieve net zero energy for every building designed by the year 2030.” Noble work, Rus. Yet another fine example of ’72 non sibi.

Bob Pfeiffer’s partner, Larry Parks, died in October at their home in Pendleton, Ore., at age 73. Larry had been in declining health for several years. Bob and Larry lived together in Atlanta before moving to their new home in eastern Oregon a few years ago. They enjoyed traveling around the Pacific Northwest visiting family, as well as keeping up with Bob’s PA ’72 pals. I always enjoyed a much-too-brief visit with Bob and Larry at the Tumbleweed Music Festival in Richland, Wash., every September. They faithfully made the one-hour trek from Pendleton to catch my set and chat for a few minutes. Larry accompanied Bob to our reunion in 2002 and regaled all with his Southern charm and sweet humor—one of the friendliest fellows I’ve ever met. Bob wrote, “Larry made friends wherever he went, and we will all miss him. Those of us who believe can take comfort in knowing that, after a long life, he is now in a better place than we are.” Our condolences to Bob on his loss.

www.andover.edu/intouch I had a nice visit with Doug Westberg in his hometown of Vancouver, Wash., when I was there to play a benefit concert for the Clark County Democrats. Doug joined me on stage and performed one of his clever original songs—a fitting venue for our first meeting in 38 years. As 14-year-olds at PA, we bonded over Democratic politics in Will Hall in the fall of 1968, along with Jim Mayock, bravely doing intellectual battle with our GOP adversaries, Dan Burd and Bill Pruden.

Doug and I used to take great pleasure in altering Nixon-Agnew bumper stickers. This being a family publication, I can’t tell you what they said when we were finished. Actually, truth be told, I can’t even remember. I do remember that the alterations required much fine motor dexterity in the days before Photoshop.

I saw Bill Boak and wife Mary Wang in November at their happy home in Manhattan.

They are empty nesters now, but Mabel the yellow Lab provides good company. Bill and Mary have moved, but just across the street. They’re still on 72nd Street—a testament to Bill’s fierce loyalty to his high school class.

By the time these notes appear in print, it will almost be time for Cape Cod party chez Jon Atwood, version 3.0. Be sure the PA Alumni Office has your current e-mail address so that Jon and the other organizers can give you the details for what has now become an annual September extravaganza.

And don’t forget reunion 2017—just around the corner. See you there!

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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 160 W. 62nd St., Apt. 10B New York NY 10023 917-796-1594 mbmg55@gmail.com

In NYC, on a Friday night in October 2015, a party hosted by Sara Nelson ’74 began a weekend of celebrating turning 60. Thirty or more women from the classes of ’73 and ’74 congregated. Guests from the class of ’74 included Jeanne Nahill Kempthorne, Lissy Abraham, Priscilla Martel, Sara Wedeman, Margaret Downs, and Elizabeth Halsey

Yoakum. Sara proved to be an accomplished hostess. (Look at the Abbot Rabbits group on Facebook for photos of the weekend.)

Judith Webster made a quick appearance on Friday and then ran to parents’ weekend at Trinity.

Weaving through the crowd at the functions were May Irwin, Marcia McCabe, Mindy Feldman, Ginny Carter, and Josie Martin. Later on Friday night, a group headed to a jazz club in Columbus Circle, led by Jane Cashin Demers.

On Saturday morning, Dianne DeLucia, Kim Grecoe Sherwood, and Barbara Contarino Tomkins took a tour of NYC, which Mimi Kessler and Jane Pugh Perrett had done on Friday morning. Jane loved every minute of the weekend! At the home of Richard Cashin ’71, Jane Cashin Demers hosted a gourmet lunch.

Lots of friends made their first appearance here: Betsy Fauver Stueber, Cecilia Blewer, Lucinda Leach, and Natalie Ziegler.

Mimi Kessler reported on her recent conversations and visits with Abbot Principal Don Gordon ’52. Don lent his “memory book,” a gift from our class that was compiled and given to him in 1973.

Anne Spader Byerly wore an Abbot softball shirt—one produced as part of a project funded by the Abbot Academy Association a few years ago for that year’s softball team. The shirt is Abbot blue, with a large “Abbot” in script on the front and a smaller “Phillips Academy.” Reunion shirt idea?

Yes! Betsy Fauver Stueber had previously suggested that we submit poems. Debra Heifetz Stein wrote a song, set to the tune of “Camelot.” It was a great crowd pleaser. Other contributors: Betsy, Leslie Monsky, Vicki Wood DeBoest, Amanda Cobb, Molly Prescott Porter, Elizabeth Kent, and me (Noreen Markley).

Loraine Washburn sent a book full of prompts, in order to record our reflections. Near the end, Anne Weisman Hogeland led the group in a huge thank-you to Jane for the event.

Next event: Saturday dinner hosted by Lori Goodman Seegers and Marcia McCabe, at Lori’s lovely home. Several PA guys were invited. Knowing that there would be lively conversation, beautiful women, great food, and loud laughter, they said “Yes!” Among the PA friends were these ’73ers: Phil Bauman, Glenn Ball, John Bishop, David Downs, Bill Drake, Peter Fernberger, Will Hart, Cap Lesesne, Scott Mead, and Henry Mueller. There were also some friends from ’74: Jack Gray, Julian Hatton, Bob Trehy, and Kent Vogel.

I found my hometown friend Ann Hoover Maddox ’74. Julie Horowitz was videoed talking to Josie Martin. Christina Landry, who is Floridabased, and Vicki Wood DeBoest, who spends her winters in Florida, escaping the chill of Chicago, talked with Susan Urie Donahue, whose children are now in NYC. Dinner was capped by the desserts: a cake for our collective 60th birthday and “heavenly goo”! Lori and Marcia knew us well.

Sunday morning arrived. Bets Kent and Ellen Hoitsma headed down to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. A few ladies met for brunch at the Harvard Club, in order to capture a few more minutes.

A sincere thank-you to the hostesses: Sara, Jane, Marcia, and Lori. Thanks, also, to the planners, Mimi Kessler and Jane Cashin Demers, who never gave up on the idea of a big birthday party.

In other news: Kathleen Reardon Murphy wrote she was planning to be in Italy, instead of NYC. Her husband’s book was chosen to be part of a world tour that spans three years. Kathleen lives in Illinois and trades in municipal bonds.

Charlotte Mason has been received the Marketing EDGE Outstanding Educator Award.

She is a professor of marketing (and department head) at the University of Georgia.

A last word: Your three class secretaries have urged you to join Facebook. You can see photos and videos of the NYC events, and other items.

Contact Mimi Kessler or Connee Petty Young to join the group. To illustrate its power: I was in Arizona for a wedding. A strangely colorful vehicle pulled into the parking lot. The vehicle reminded me of a FB photo from Catherine Armsden, regarding her sister’s trip around the West and its national parks. I walked up and said, “I am a friend of Catherine Armsden. Are you, too?” The reply was, “No. I am her sister.” I got to spend some time with Beverley Armsden Daniel ’66 and her architect husband, Warren. Beverly was headed back to San Francisco for the launch of Catherine’s book, Dream House. (Buy the book. It is wonderful!)

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

Public service announcement: Facebook is for grown-ups now—so many grown-ups that the kids have abandoned it. It is now populated with indie authors, pet lovers, and high school reunioners like us. Look for Andover/Abbot Class of 1973 and join the group!

Scarce news this quarter, most of it from the above Facebook page. Word is there was quite a 60th birthday party in Manhattan, but they didn’t post any news about it or otherwise inform the recording secretary. I hear through the grapevine (via Bill Drake) that it was a fine time.

For those who live in a black box, Craig Reynolds is in the tequila business. Craig and his partners have launched, as a labor of love, a small-batch agave spirit called Dos Volcanes, and it is positively sublime. All sales proceeds go to Project Amigo, a scholarship fund benefitting the poorest children of Colima, Mexico (the site of the farm that produces the blue agave). So get yourselves a few bottles!

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The product was launched in inimitable Reynolds style, including a party at the home of Will Schutte, the fallout from which was an animated discussion about tequila’s medicinal qualities and the absence (or not) of a hangover after consuming it. Dos Volcanes also made it to Lawson Fisher’s home, where he, wife Christine, and Dave Swanson (America’s house guest) gave it a thorough blessing (picture not fit for publication). Reynolds and I embarked on something of a joint marketing mission, tequila and crime fiction. Picture on Facebook page.

Don Lazo expressed his own dismay at the lack of party news and reported that Ted Wood celebrated his 60th in Boulder, Colo., wearing a gorilla suit. Way to go, Ted. Jim Hackett made a road trip up to Andover to have lunch with Carroll and Elaine Bailey. Carroll’s sight is pretty much gone and Elaine is coping with cancer, but they are still full of vigor and absolutely love to spend time with their old charges, so anyone in the area is encouraged to ring them up for a visit. They are at the Atria Marland Place facility, which is by the old Converse shoe factory.

Brooks Bloomfield sent a nice e-mail, which as far as I can tell was designed to practice up on his computer skills, as he used phrases like “cut and paste” and “attachment” in regard to news he was going to send but never did. Good ol’ Brooks.

Perhaps the news Brooks failed to mention was the same supplied by Sandy Wood, who spent September hiking and golfing around Park City, Utah. Brooks joined him for some hiking and eating.

Just got an e-mail from Scott Mead. He wanted me to know that he loves Half Irish (my third novel) and that his twin daughters, Emma ’18 and Isabelle ’18, are ensconced in Paul Revere.

The school must have really cleaned the place up after David Donahue, Steve Rooney, Walter Bukawyn, Swanson, John McDonald, Hackett, John von Schlegell ’72, and Dolan got done.

Remember the telephone call from Majjid Ahmed, calling from Dubai? He called me again, just to say hi. From Dubai. His daughter is now in NYC, and our government has granted him a visa, so everyone in the greater New York area, stay on your toes.

Please feel free to use my e-mail address above and send me some news. I cannot report what I do not hear.

1974 Jack Gray 80 Central Park West, Apt. 20F New York NY 10023-5215 212-496-1594 ray0x@hotmail.com

Marcia McCabe and Lori Goodman Seegers (both Class of ’73) hosted a fabulous party at Lori’s swank Manhattan apartment last fall. The

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occasion was a celebration of Abbot ’73 women as they approached a big birthday; this party was one of several events that weekend. Several members of our class were invited too, even some who never attended Abbot Academy. Lori was perfectly clear: “If I’m going to throw a party, I want men to be there as well as women!” Your correspondent was joined by Kent Vogel and Bob Trehy, both looking debonair as usual.

Elizabeth Yoakum came north from Florida and enjoyed a classic Manhattan prepared by Lori’s son and daughter, pitching in behind the bar; Ann Hoover Maddox, visiting from Baltimore, joined her. Sara Grosvenor was there from Washington, D.C., and set up a laptop showing newly scanned images originally taken for our yearbook. Margaret Downs came south from the Upper East Side. Sara Nelson hosted a brunch that weekend—for Abbot alums only, thank you—that was well attended and great fun.

That’s all I have this time. Obviously, I need more news!

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

I’m happy to report that the New Year brought lots of news from the great Class of ’75, including from some who wrote in for the first time!

John Lenz and Bill Wong were on hand last fall for the ceremony at the University of Michigan Medical School when classmate Sagar Parikh was named the first Greden Professor of Depression and Clinical Neuroscience. John, a professor of classics at Drew University, sent a great photo of the three of them, as well as a vivid memory of Dick King telling him all about Latin during their first few months of life in Will Hall.

On a dark and stormy mid-November night in Brooklyn, a small group of intrepid classmates from the tristate area assembled at Bar LunÀtico, bassist Arthur Kell’s hip, tin-roofed brownstone hangout in Bedford-Stuyvesant, for cocktails, Italian small plates, and live music. The rapt PA crowd included Michael Boldt, Geoff Richards, Mike Galvin, Joe Albert, Roger Strong, Lawrence Kemp, and me (Pete Wyman), as

well as Ellen Greenfield Lewis ’76 and Brooklyn resident Janie Barnett, whose torch song solo enlivened the evening.

Leaving “startup hours” behind him by taking a new job at Dassault Systèmes (working on the next generation of their SolidWorks software), Eben Gay is thrilled about “having nights and weekends to build a baidarka (Aleutian kayak).”

From down in Texas, Kurt Schwarz, a litigator with Jackson Walker LLP, writes with the impressive news that he was recently appointed

by Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to the federal Advisory Committee on Family Residential Centers—the facilities where women and children are housed while they await decisions on their claims for asylum. Kurt, who is also board president of the ACLU of Texas, says, “Since most of the committee’s meetings will be in DC, I’m hoping to find time to check out Gary Lee ’74’s Peruvian restaurant there.”

Not only is Vicki Christian back on stage (at Duke University, in a student-directed production of Hamlet), she is also in the midst of creating the new Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy.

Four years ago, Holly Sutton moved to “the middle of nowhere,” her term for Albuquerque, N.M., where she loves living and is currently developing “a crazy property that includes a fantastic guest house…with an open invitation to pretty much anyone.” Rick Cotten apparently helped Holly get the financing for the property, which includes olive trees that, Holly explains excitedly, “just produced 1.5 gallons of olive oil in first pressing since our trees were planted, five years ago!” Holly’s son, Zander, is in LA and last year created a TV show, Casual, that was nominated for a Golden Globe.

How great to hear from Marianne Daniels Guarino, who says, quite aptly, “I guess 40 years after graduation is ‘better late than never’ to write!”

Marianne was passionate about lacrosse and field hockey at Andover and sends a shout-out to her PA teammates. Living in Tennessee (just outside Nashville) with her husband of 33 years, one of her sons, and two dogs, Marianne teaches kindergarten at Rocketship United. She also has two sons living in New Hampshire and a married daughter in Nashville with two little girls. Marianne, a teacher for many years while living in Derry, N.H., received both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree at Wheelock College and a post-master’s degree at Lesley University. All four of Marianne’s children went to Pinkerton Academy, and about that chapter she writes, “I especially loved watching lacrosse, field hockey, football, and track and going to the games against our old rival, Phillips Exeter!”

“I am currently revolutionizing the personal growth (positive psychology) community in the greater Boston region,” explains Dennis Pratt.

He has been busy creating an umbrella group that today has 1,600 members and about 150 practitioners offering more than 200 events a year—parties, practice groups, and workshops.

“Ann and I have both retired, and we’re four

www.andover.edu/intouch weeks into a five-month trip to Hawaii, Australia, and New Zealand,” Rod Rolett reported from the road. Rod’s son, who works for Twitter-owned MoPub, got married last year, and his daughter is working on an MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Rod plans to join the boards of two former clients (nonprofit senior living communities) and work with the Student Conservation Association.

Living with his wife, Els, on the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg, Va., Andy Craig writes, “I’m semiretired, spending my time fixing up old boats and working on my latest passion: paragliding. I am now a P3-rated pilot. Just got back from 11 days of incredible flying in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.” I say next reunion we have Andy paraglide off the Bell Tower and down to Cochran Chapel.

Having completed a PhD degree two years ago, Larry Coben is now spending substantial time in Peru and Guatemala running his foundation, the Sustainable Preservation Initiative, as well as conducting archaeological excavations near Lima.

Larry reports, “The foundation is growing rapidly, creating incentives for people to preserve their cultural heritage.”

If you’re ever in the Finger Lakes region of New York, Sarah Davis wants you to visit her on the small farm she’s building with her partner and two daughters in Ithaca. Clearly enjoying her new adventure, Sarah reports, “Our first group of livestock are three hilarious goats. I never realized how entertaining goats are!”

Mark Grange worked for many years in the energy-engineering field in NYC and the DC area.

Since 2007, Mark has been running a real estate investing business out of Phoenix, where he lives with his wife and two children. Mark gushed with pride regarding his experience with the PA crosscountry team: “I would surely nominate the PA distance-running team of ’73–’74, with coaches Steve Marx and Doug Hardin (both often ran 10 miles with us!), for the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor.”

Nancy Rose Blais is busy working as a guardian ad litem in several courts and managing the private supervised visitation center in Dover, N.H., that she co-owns. Both of her sons got married last summer, and her daughter is at UVM finishing a BSN degree program.

Lastly, I’m excited to have two of my three sons living and working (as of last summer) just blocks away from me in NYC: Pete Jr. at Debevoise & Plimpton and John at Ernst & Young. Third son, Hank, is in SF working for a startup called Piazza.

Roger, Mari, and I greatly appreciate your updates. Please communicate next with Roger, who is our scribe for the next set of ’75 notes.

Many thanks. —Pete Wyman

1976 40th REUNION June 10–12, 2016 Ruben Alvero 137 Sessions St. Providence RI 02906 303-358-8739 ralvero@wihri.org Lisa Barlow 530 9th St. Brooklyn NY 11215-4206 lisabnyc@gmail.com

I begin this round of notes with the sad news that Doug Lilley died in his sleep last October. Doug came to Andover from Southeast Asia, where he grew up, and continued on to Middlebury and then NYU for an MBA degree. Work took him to California, New York, and, most recently, Washington, D.C., where he served as the business manager at Capital City Public Charter School and as a pro bono financial advisor to the Douglas A. Campbell Foundation, which supports hands-on projects in the developing world, particularly Southeast Asia.

An avid Ultimate Frisbee player, Doug loved to read and travel the world. He was a devoted Washington Redskins fan and loved music, particularly that of the Grateful Dead. He is remembered for his gentle manner and his wonderful, dry sense of humor.

In thinking about classmates who are no longer with us, there are a number who shone so brightly at Andover that it is hard to believe they are long gone. Francesca Woodman, who died in 1981, is someone whose light has blazed even brighter with time. “Her appeal [as an artist] has grown rather than waned,” says Corey Keller, a curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in a recent piece in the Guardian about Francesca and her photographic legacy. The story points to Andover as the place where “she began to explore some of the ideas that would appear in her later work (such as the strikingly grown-up series of photographs in a cemetery in Boulder, in which she appears naked among the headstones).” Francesca’s work is exhibited in museums throughout the world.

New York Times readers stretch their minds and rethink common assumptions every time they read one of Tanya Luhrmann’s excellent opinion columns. Tanya’s work as an anthropology professor looks at the way people experience God and the supernatural, often through the lens of psychiatric illness. She writes: “I have really loved being a contributing op-ed columnist, and I continue to write more scientific pieces, including something recent in the British Journal of Psychiatry, as well as books, these days about the ways people experience invisible others. I continue to teach at Stanford, which I love. And I just got an enormous grant (for an anthropologist, that is) to

explore whether the way people think about their minds affects the way they experience God in five different parts of the world. I plan to surface for air in about three years.” Tanya adds, “Hugs to all of my classmates! I think of those days often and wish you all well.”

Mike Gibbs-Harris touched base with Ruben Alvero a few months ago to congratulate him on his move to Brown University and relocation to the East Coast. A New Zealand resident, Mike writes: “This year my wife (Molli) and younger daughter (Gaenor) became Kiwi citizens in a very nice ceremony in Government House in Wellington. Gaenor moved to NZ when she was 1 1/2 and has British and Australian citizenship (through me) and U.S. citizenship through Molli. She grew up as a Kiwi and felt it appropriate to officially become one.

“The governor-general, Lieutenant-General Sir Jerry Mateparae, presided over the ceremony.

Sir Jerry was previously chief of the Defence Force in NZ and then became director of the Government Communications Security Bureau (i.e., chief spy) before becoming governorgeneral. After the swearing-in ceremony, the approximately 30 new citizens mingled for a formal photo. Sir Jerry approached Gaenor and asked her whether she was going to stop now that she had four citizenships. It is a bit of a worry when your country’s ex-chief spy knows who your daughter is!”

Jim Horowitz shares news of his beautiful grandson, Hugo, who was born in August to son James ’98 and Katie Horowitz. Jim writes, “Not much to say other than that he is adorable and apparently likes art, because he came down to visit for Miami’s version of Art Basel. I’m still living a quiet life in Miami Beach. Lately, I began investing in young companies. Tim Draper wouldn’t give me a job. So I decided to do it on my own. (Smiley-face emoji.) I had a very enjoyable dinner in NYC with Gilbert Sewall, former history instructor at Andover. He now writes for several publications, including the New Criterion. It’s been fun reconnecting with ’76ers and others in nearby classes on Facebook. Had some lively exchanges with Phil DiPietro and George Chadwick there. And I see Labeeb Abboud not frequently enough when I get to NYC. He has a beautiful daughter, Sofia.”

Tim Dempsey paints a bucolic picture of his new life outside Andover, balancing an appreciation of nature with a love of technology.

He writes, “I have at long last (after 30 years) moved away from Andover—now living the life of the riverain alongside the tidal Lamprey River in glorious Newmarket, N.H. Merely an hour from Boston, we are surrounded by great beauty— ancient trees, unquarried granite boulders, owls, woodpeckers, finches, herons, and history. And in a converted outbuilding, we have one extremely high-tech home office, supporting our work as marketing and strategy consultants. Ah, the power of high-speed Internet and video conferencing!

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“I see our classmate Michael Krumpe often— his brother Andrew and wife Carla Contarino (both ’77) live in nearby Lee, N.H., and Michael is in town often to visit with their father, classics instructor emeritus Carl Krumpe. Carl lives in the same neighborhood as Wendy Richards, and those visits always make for belly laughs and great fun. I have also stayed in touch with Laura Richards ’74 and Jon Meath ’74, who are in the region. Beyond that, it’s social media that keeps me up to date. If you haven’t been ‘friends’ with Jenny Peck, she posts beautiful photos from her native Vermont almost every day. Highly recommended!”

I have to add my own smiley-face emoji and virtual fist bump to Facebook for keeping many of us in touch throughout the year. While my children assure me that there are many cooler social media sites (you can find me on Instagram as lisabnyc), Andover can proudly assert that the original paper Facebook we all remember, along with Exeter’s student directory, served as inspiration for at least the name of Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet behemoth.

Beyond the virtues of virtual bonding, let’s not forget the joys of real-world interaction. Mark your calendars for June 10–12 and our (gulp!)

40th Reunion. It promises to be a truly great weekend packed with picnics, parties, and most thrillingly, the chance to see one another in person.

—Lisa Barlow

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

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

Connie Barrett Dawson shares that in June 2015 her son got married to his high school honey, that one of her daughters graduated from Colgate last spring and is working in NYC, that another moved to LA and is really enjoying it after a life of New England winters, and that her youngest daughter is finishing her junior year at Nobles, playing lots of hockey and getting ready for the college admission process. Connie jokes that she, like many of us, thought life was supposed to slow down. I wonder where she got that idea?

Nobuhisa Ishizuka writes, “It’s hard to believe

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we’re only a couple of years away from our 40th Reunion! My journey across 30 years of legal practice over two continents started in Fuess South senior year. It was there in my room one sunny afternoon where it all came together: My love of English classes with Jon Stableford ’63 and indifferent results in everything math and science, coupled with my growing interest in Japanese studies, led to the inevitable conclusion that my future lay in a legal career somehow involving Japan and the U.S. It has been an eventful 37-plus years putting the pieces together, and quite a rewarding journey. And I owe it all to PA.” Nobu, I think your heart and dedication had at least a little something to do with your successful journey!

Jonathan Justice reports that he’s still living in New Castle, Del., and is a professor at the University of Delaware’s School of Public Policy and Administration. He says, “Perks of the job include an annual study trip to Seoul with my own graduate students, along with colleagues and their students from other schools of public affairs. For a former city kid who now lives in a small town, it’s a welcome fix of urban life, in addition to being a great academic program. I also get to visit regularly with George Mostoller in Philadelphia. I’m still glum because my standard poodle, Daisy, died in the fall.” Jonathan, that’s a tough one for any of us who have lost a pet, so we wish you well.

Mark Resnick lives in Boston, where he is a litigator. He was a partner at a large firm and then opened his own practice. He has four boys, and says, “My oldest is 24 and lives in Boston.

Another goes to college in Canada, and I have two in high school.” He acknowledges only sporadic attendance at reunions, but I am hopeful that he and many of you will revisit that and give them all another chance.

Michael Cannell says, “My daughter, Cricket, now 13, has confidently told me that she’s going to Andover, then Harvard, then moving to London.

So we’ll be touring the campus in the coming months. I’m finishing a book, my third, tentatively titled Incendiary, for St. Martin’s Press. The book is narrative nonfiction about the first case of criminal profiling. I had a long, fascinating lunch with [former history instructor] Gil Sewall last fall, and Jeff Strong and I had lunch in December with both our fathers in attendance—both of them going strong in their 80s. Thankfully, Jeff and I didn’t pay for lunch.”

Robert Clark writes, “I recently celebrated my 25th anniversary with my partner, Wayne Anderson. I have been designing large-scale charity events in NYC, a few weddings, and landscaping in the summer at Point O’ Woods, on Fire Island, where we see Mike Cannell and his talented wife, Elizabeth. We live in a flower-filled apartment with our two cocker spaniels: Desi and his new puppy companion, Ethel.” That all sounds lovely!

John Margolis has been in LA for about two years now, after 20 years of having his own architectural practice in Beverly Farms, Mass. He loves working for a larger firm full of vibrant young

people and currently is involved in four large residential projects in Montecito, Agoura Hills, Hermosa Beach—and Weston, Mass.!

John’s been busy: He joined the board of overseers at the fabulous Craft & Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, joined a book group, and continues to work with the Southern California chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, after five years as president of the New England chapter. John attended a PA event hosted by Brian Henson ’82 at his studios in Hollywood and says, “Palfrey’s clear thinking and visionary leadership bring Andover’s potential to new highs! He is so impressive as a person and as a mentor!”

Pam Carter writes, “When I arrived at PA, I already had a high school diploma from my small school in Montreal. (I hadn’t had grade 12 and wasn’t ready for college, so I deferred for a year.)

I was told I could take any courses and receive a certificate, or take music and art and American history and get a PA diploma. So, Stacy Schiff and I were American history classmates with Wayne Frederick as our teacher. I’d never had a minute of American history before in my life. It was the hardest course I’d ever taken. Mr. Frederick asked me, and only me, questions the entire second class—after we’d had our first reading assignment—even though I stopped being able to answer them two-thirds of the way through the class. Maybe sooner. Meanwhile, Stacy seemed to float through it—predicting the content of tests with great accuracy, for example—and I was still attempting to finish the reading. So, I always look forward to Stacy’s newest book to appreciate her historian mavenhood all over again.” (Stacy’s most recent book is The Witches.)

Jamie Wolf attended orientation in the fall as a new member of the Alumni Council, and while up north had a great dinner with Rob Blanks and his wife, Carolyn, at their home near Boston, along with Greg Soghikian and his companion, Heather. Greg and Heather made the drive after a day of watching college games at Bowdoin and Colby, where Greg’s twins are freshmen. When not working on news updates for Andover magazine or tasks for the Class Secretaries’ Committee Jamie is opening a new business. Second Wind is a specialty wellness center in Port Royal, S.C., offering therapies to address movement disorders, weight and toxicity, and stress and anxiety, focusing on helping people with Parkinson’s, MS, those recovering from accidents or stroke, wounded warriors, and those with PTSD. Finally, a big thank-you to our class agents: Lee Apgar, Anna Schneider Durham, Shelly Guyer, Nobuhisa Ishizuka, John Kukral, Jeffrey Reuben (head agent), and Peter Warren.

—Jamie Clauss Wolf

www.andover.edu/intouch 1979 Amy Appleton 2201 Hall Place N.W. Washington DC 20007-2217 202-338-3807 Applta9@aol.com Rick Moseley Philadelphia PA 19118 215-275-5107 rdmoseley@gmail.com Doug Segal 1028 Kagawa St. Pacific Palisades CA 90272 310-617-9988 dougsegal@earthlink.net

You return home from a long day and casually flip through the daily mail and its typical contents of bills and junk. Credit card offers, another AARP solicitation, and then you see it: Andover magazine!

Your heart races as you eagerly thumb through to find the ’79 notes (ominously creeping closer to the front of the publication). And then, like a punch in the gut, there’s nothing there! Fine. You suck up the disappointment and let it go, maybe check the surrounding years for familiar names before placing the magazine in the company of the Pottery Barn and Sharper Image catalogues. You return to your life, and the months quickly pass until again, the next issue arrives. Surely, there must be something this time. You give yourself permission to feel that excitement again, risking paper cuts as you speed toward ’79, and then… “Are you kidding me? Again? What the—!” For this torturous emotional roller coaster, I sincerely apologize, on behalf of my fellow secretaries and myself. The unpredictable nature of life sometimes interferes, and commitments such as these unfortunately become casualties.

I (Doug Segal) might as well start with news of some of my own PA encounters. As son Michael prepared to enter his first year of college, our family road-tripped to visit some schools, ending up in New Orleans, where we had a great stay with Josh Kaufman. Josh, a doctor, is remarried, with two kids from wife Vicki’s first marriage and two girls of his own, who are off in college. Continuing the adventures, wife Susan and I were invited to visit friends in England for Thanksgiving and planned to spend a few days in Paris beforehand. A week before our scheduled visit, the attacks happened. After much debate, we kept our trip in place, and while in Paris enjoyed an afternoon with Sallie Doyle Boulet-Gercourt ’80; the photo posting on Facebook prompted some enthusiastic “Likes,” including one from the lovely Jane Moncreiff. Jane is a chief investment officer in Boston; she and husband Josh have two kids off at college. Jane and I have yet to see each other— entirely my fault, as Susan and I managed to get to Boston for a day over the Christmas holidays,

stopping to have lunch with Susan Palermo, who lives in North Andover and balances daughter Josie and a busy work life (the nature of which I can never get exactly straight). From there, we had dinner with Rachel Cartmell, who recently relocated with husband Tim and daughter Lucia to Lexington, Mass. Rachel is now director of communications at Harvard Kennedy School.

Though we exchanged messages, I didn’t get to see Paula Elias Ross, out in Northampton, Mass.

Jennifer Melville and husband Alex spent some time with us last fall after dropping their son, Caleb, off at UCLA, a far cry from Maine, where Jenny works in land conservation and preservation.

In news from around the globe, Rachael Horovitz sends love from New York, where she is still producing movies but considers Ed Hill’s Facebook postings the best entertainment around. Beth DiRusso Grenauer lives in New Canaan, Conn., and is figuring out the next chapter of her life, after spending several years working as a litigator in London. Her daughter, Madison, is inquiring about an Andover education, but, like many of us, Beth has a hard time imagining being away from her child. (Steve Chernow and Sylvia Platt, if you’re reading this, Beth would love to hear from you.) Forty Conklin continues to row, row, row his boat and sing in his glee club, and last Christmas he and his wife, Sandra, headed to upstate New York to visit Jorge Pedraza. Forty is one of many classmates who currently have kids at Andover. Roger Kass, who’s in NYC, has a daughter who is currently a PA junior. (Tim Finn, Roger is requesting to know your whereabouts.)

Geri Pope Bidwell has twins, Brooke ’17 and Alex ’17, who are in their upper year, and a graduate, Lucy ’09, who was recently featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine for her series of virtual reality films. Geri can always be counted on as the glue for ’79ers, advocating for classmates such as author-artist Kris Timken and her recent book, The New Explorers. And in other book news, Bruce MacWilliams ’77 attended a party Geri hosted for Head of School John Palfrey, celebrating his new book. Bruce is branching out from commercial directing and into features with his screenplay, Trombone. Geri also reports that Cindy Farrelly Gesner ’80’s son Finn was recently accepted to UCLA. (Betsy Campbell, Nancy McCormack Liva, and Tory Read, Geri—and I—would love to hear from you.)

Janet Milkman sounds like she’s got things figured out, having recently quit her job, sold her house, and moved to Cape Cod, where she is busy paddleboarding and making Dark ‘n’ Stormys. Other movers include Bill Schultz, who is relocating for the 14th time, now headed from Atlanta to Toronto to run the Coca-Cola bottling facility there. After 25 years, Dan Ryan recently moved his family and software company from Laredo, Texas, to San Antonio and is enjoying the change and closer proximity to his son.

Doug Sun was urgently summoned to Chad, hastily relocated from New York back to Africa

to serve as the economic/commercial officer at the U.S. Embassy there.

Augustus Schoen-Rene has been serving as technical director for the Smith Opera House in upstate New York and caring for his ailing mother.

Carol Whitaker attended a reunion of Frost House residents, including Molly Fields Walls and many ’78ers. David Hartzell reports of a PG reunion at a Patriots-Eagles game last December.

In attendance were Steve Collins, Eric Jordahl, and Steve MacDonald. David, now a PA parent, frequently returns to Andover, often seeing other classmates such as Forty, John Francis, Sue Warren, and, of course, Jim Ventre, who heads up the admission office. And rounding out the reunions, Scott Drescher reports of the blowout SYA (School Year Abroad) 50th anniversary celebration, with many friends and classmates in attendance. Scott’s in Dallas with wife Patty; they have a daughter who just turned 30. But it’s Paul Whittall who gets special mention, as his 30-year-old daughter just gave birth to a baby boy.

Congratulations, grandpa!

If you’re not getting e-mails from us, that means we don’t have your current e-mail address, so please contact the Office of Alumni Engagement and update your records. Trust me, there are many out there who would love to know what you’re up to. And we’d never have to face a blank ’79 page again. —d

1980 Jane Shattuck Mayer mtwjshattuck@gmail.com 781-710-7532 Amy Davidsen 451 West End Ave., Apt. 14E New York NY 10024 917-545-9617 amydavidsen@gmail.com

Greetings to all! I am writing on behalf of our trusty head class secretary, Jane Shattuck Mayer, who received news from several classmates. We would love to hear from more of you, especially any four-year seniors, because this September marks 40 years since that major life-changing moment, the start of our junior year.

Just a few quick memories from me: I recall that my first week of school was a bit of an adjustment as a boarder. Under the watchful eye of Mr. and Mrs. Eccles, I lived in Tucker House in West Quad South, where I inadvertently caused a few headaches regarding curfew. A lower in Adams South had assured me that it was fine to play cards in his room late into the night, but I quickly figured out my error in judgment when I returned to Tucker House to find the door locked—and had to ring the bell for a puzzled Mrs. Eccles to let me in! Other memories of the first week include walking through the quad with Paige Crowley.

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I wore a yellow T-shirt with a black-and-white photo of Al Pacino from the movie Dog Day Afternoon, and she was far ahead of the fashion trend in Calvin Klein. Last, a senior decided to give me the nickname “Frampton” because my hair was reminiscent of the cover of Frampton Comes Alive. We all remember Paige’s gorgeous locks—no nickname was needed. What are some of your early memories?

Chuck Schneider answered Jane’s request for news, writing, “I attended the summer reunion, which was certainly a highlight! Other things include the release of my fiction sequel to A Portrait in Time, titled The Vale of Years; the imminent rerelease of two of my early novellas in a hardback, paperback, and digitally available anthology (Deities and Demons, containing second edition rewrites of Cytherea and With Tower and Turrets, Crowned); continued patient care in my oncology practice at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center in Newark, Del.; got remarried in February 2015 to the love of my life after ‘dating’ her for five years.” Upon hearing that our class has yet another author, I immediately searched Amazon for more information on Chuck’s work and found glowing reader reviews. The 35th Reunion was Chuck’s first, and we hope that he will make attendance at all future reunions a new tradition!

Rich Goldberg’s son, Alex ’18, put together and performed a lower-year violin recital last fall, which Jane was honored to attend. She thinks that Alex is an amazing talent, and she encourages all of us to keep an eye on the PA music scene to take advantage of other opportunities to hear him play.

Dan Hajjar and Jane continue to get together for coffee and a campus walk when Dan’s in town visiting family. He made it back for both Thanksgiving and Christmas in 2015 after several years celebrating away and has enjoyed getting reacquainted with campus. Dan loves teaching high school math at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia and keeps busy playing bass with two local rock bands. Classic rock rules! If you want a night out in the greater Philly area, contact Dan to see if he’s playing.

Susan Getgood travels a lot for work and has been brushing up on her Icelandic language skills in preparation for a pleasure trip to see the Northern Lights. Sue, please be sure to send us a first-person account (and photos) so that those of us who can’t travel can enjoy the spectacle vicariously.

And, as a public service announcement, I wanted to let you know that if you have a bluelink. andover.edu e-mail address, PA is ending this service. No news yet on what will replace it, but be sure to make any changes necessary so that you do not lose contacts or information you want to keep!

Please do drop us a note with an update on what is happening in your life. Eddie Garden?

Harry Bartlett? —Amy Davidsen

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1981 35th REUNION June 10–12, 2016 Warren Jones Houston Texas 281-450-6457 wcjonesllc@gmail.com Stefanie Scheer Young New York NY 917-287-6111 stefanie.scheer@gmail.com

We are saddened to report that we lost our beloved classmate Chris Arnold on Oct. 30, 2015. Chris was our class poet and pianist. His wit and zeal were an inspiration to us all, and this is a truly great loss to many. We are collecting his poems and songs, so please send along any you have to your class secretaries, as his family hopes to put together a book of his writing.

Chris’s brother, Rome Arnold ’73, wrote this obituary, which appeared in the New York Times.

“Christopher Colver Arnold, age 52, beloved brother, devoted uncle, and friend to many, died Friday, Oct. 30, in Southampton, N.Y. He was born and spent his early years in Chicago, where he attended the Latin School; later, he moved East and graduated from Phillips Academy Andover. After spending a year at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, he earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Chris was an accomplished writer, composer, lyricist, event producer, photojournalist, art gallerist, and collector. He dazzled with his knowledge—quoting Caesar in Latin, Homer in Greek, or Shakespeare in rhyme—and was the life of the party with his musicality, often playing the piano and singing his own parodies of Cole Porter tunes. Chris worked in public relations for many years with his close friend Ted Kruckel at Ted, Inc. He coproduced events for clients including Van Cleef & Arpels, Christian Dior, InStyle, and Vanity Fair. Throughout his life, Chris loved photography. A decades-long friendship with legendary photographer Bert Stern steered him to the art world, where he became associated with the Keszler Gallery in Southampton, a venue recognized for its local support of the artist Banksy, as documented in an HBO special. Chris was inspired by new artists and the challenge of unusual installations at Art Miami and Art Hamptons, including transporting the wall of a building adorned with a piece by Banksy. ‘Moncle Chris’ will be missed by his nieces and nephews and their friends, who loved his magic tricks, Marco Polo in the pool, piano playing, and card games. His family and all who knew him mourn the loss of a kind and sensitive man whose sense of style, mischievous wit, and generous spirit brightened every room he entered. Chris is survived by his brothers Rome and Greg, their

wives Lisa and Mona, and Rome IV. Contributions in his memory may be made to the Southampton Hospital Foundation. Plans for a life celebration/ memorial event will be announced at a later date.”

We would like to honor Chris and the other classmates we have lost at our upcoming 35th Reunion, June 10–12. Please contact your class secretaries if you would like to be involved in this planning. Best —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

The rapid countdown to the deadline for the submission of these notes brings to mind, as short deadlines always do for me, Scott Corry, immortalized in our yearbook mid-struggle with the long-past deadline of his History 35 paper (and currently holding regular visiting hours on Nantucket). Ultimately embracing the task, as Scott did then, I’m grateful to several classmates and to Facebook for help in collecting a few stories.

I found honors given (and due) to Yalda Tehranian Uhls in a very complimentary profile of her work in the field of parenting and media and her recent book on the subject, Media Moms and Digital Dads: A Fact-Not-Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age. The Deseret News, of Salt Lake City, says, “Her even-handed approach and position as a voice of reason rather than alarm make Uhls an asset to any parent who has ever worried about the hours spent in front of a screen.”

Given my own struggle to keep my kids from spending too much time with their various devices, I’m grateful for Yalda’s efforts and reassuring findings. Yalda’s work, both as a research scientist for UCLA and a family and media advocate for nonprofit Common Sense Media, is described as focused on the intersection of technology and child development. I’ve found Common Sense Media to be an extremely useful tool and recommend it to any of our classmates still parenting (or perhaps grandparenting?) younger children.

Yalda found support from others in the Andover community. She received book blurbs from Lisa Henson, P’16, and Willow Bay ’81, and was pleased to see Lisa, Andrea Feldman Falcione ’83, and Devin Zimmerman at her book signing.

Paula Lee wrote Yalda’s first book review, and Chandri Navarro hosted her when she was in DC. Another team effort from our class can be found in the creation of the Restwise System, created

www.andover.edu/intouch by classmates Matthew Weatherley-White, Jeff Hunt, and Mike Sokolov. Restwise helps athletes train smarter by understanding recovery from their workouts. Matthew and Jeff, both endurance athletes who have competed on the world stage, were inspired to develop the system by their own experience overtraining—Jeff as a cyclist at the Olympic Training Center and Matthew as a rower at Dartmouth. Together they approached Mike, who, with 12 software patents to his name and the common sense to stop training before becoming overtrained, seemed to have all sorts of relevant expertise. MIT’s website lists Mike as using “computers to promulgate new forms of communication and expression.” I assume, given the MIT imprimatur, this is something more sophisticated than emoticon design.

Your scribe would have paid big money to be at the table when Matthew and Jeff pitched Mike on joining in. I imagine something like this: Jeff and Matthew: Dude, we want you to help us design a system to help athletes understand recovery.

Mike: Oh, yes, I’ll get right on that. Did I tell you I have been working to help folks see?

A threat to make Mike relive History 35 may have done the trick. I recall his suffering through that with Scott Corry. Whatever it took, Restwise has since been used by such athletes as the All Blacks rugby team (the New Zealand national team), sailing legend Ben Ainslie, and marathoner Ryan Hall, on their way to winning scores of Olympic and world championship medals and NCAA titles.

Perhaps they can sign up Robert Tuller.

Robert’s accomplishments in 100-mile ultra– marathons, completing 25 to date, have been mentioned in previous class notes and would seem to indicate a need for software that signals when a rest might indeed be wise. Classmates interested in following Robert’s athletic and culinary adventures should seek his Coach Robert Tuller Facebook page, where they will find him no less interesting than we remember.

Other classmates’ athletic endeavors are spotted from time to time among their Facebook posts. I reached out to Ellen Nordberg, noticing a great frequency of spectacular backdrops in her photos.

She reports that she bikes to raise money for college scholarships, skis, and hikes, but “no more than anyone else around here.” Since “here” is, in this case, Boulder, Colo., perhaps she too might be a candidate for Restwise. Ellen is a freelance writer, focusing on “health and fitness, parenting stuff, and humor.” She also performs in story slams (precise definition pending) and is coproducing the Listen to Your Mother show in Boulder. The show “celebrates motherhood and is staged in 41 cities across the country each year around Mother’s Day.” Ellen has had fun hosting many visits from Amy Starensier Lee and Liz MacDonell—happy, I’m sure, for the opportunity to ski. She reports, though, that despite her efforts she can’t seem to talk Mary Ogden out of Vermont to join them.

Among our skiing classmates, Parker Quillen,

sommelier de la neige, has evidently become a fan of the snow in Japan. He has journeyed there a few times to enjoy the powder and provide the rest of us with some spectacular ski photos. I skied with Parker years ago and plan one day to join him in Japan, intent on, among other things, encouraging him to inflict his a cappella interpretation of “Me and Bobby McGee” on the locals. I imagine filming a version of Rashomon in which, instead of offering conflicting interpretations of events, the unwilling listeners are uniform in their reviews and requests that I remove him.

Back to Scott Corry. In correspondence with him a few months ago, he and I agreed that, unlike the athletes mentioned above, we’re both in better shape now than we were during college. In our case, the secret to the accomplishment is the low bar set for comparison. Perhaps Restwise can build this fundamental insight into human physiology into their software? —John Barton

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

Artists and writers! I’ve noted in past columns how many of our classmates are published authors and recognized artists of all sorts, among them Angela Lorenz, Chris Fitch, Holly Peterson, Sheri Caplan, Richard Murphy, Bill Storey, Jeffrey Stafford, and many others. Well, Chris’s work was included in a show of internationally acclaimed “automatists” at Heron Arts in San Francisco this April. And Angela’s mosaics of bikini-clad athletes, titled Victorious Secret and based on originals in Piazza Armerina, Sicily, are on display in the Education Commons at the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field.

Jason Bernhard writes that Warren Zanes’s new book, Petty: The Biography, is a fabulous read, and the reviews are terrific. (Warren, Jason’s looking for a signed copy.) Stephen Blackwell also has a new book coming out in the first quarter of 2016. It’s a collection of anatomical butterfly drawings by Vladimir Nabokov called Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art. While teaching Russian literature at the University of Tennessee, Steve also finds time for photography, rowing, biking, and hiking.

Architect Harry Elson has designed a Center for Multifaith Education and Engagement for New York’s Auburn Seminary. As part of the project, Harry conceived the Macky Alston Media Lab, in honor of the founding of Auburn Media by Wallace “Macky” Alston, 15 years ago. Harry describes the lab as a “state-of-the-art flex studio designed to equip leaders of faith and moral courage to frame and win today’s critical values debates in the media.”

Paul Chutich got to meet Robert De Niro, Zac

Ephron, and Aubrey Plaza, stars of the movie Dirty Grandpa, which came out in early 2016. Apparently they filmed a few scenes at Paul’s restaurant in Atlanta. Look for a fictitious place called “Sweet Peaches Café.”

From Hong Kong, Jin Park, a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and leader of the firm’s Korea practice, writes that he goes back to Andover quite a bit to see his daughter, who is an upper. Jin also has a 6-year-old daughter, and invites any of us who pass through Hong Kong or Korea to give him a shout. From nearby Taiwan, David Chen reports that he and his family of four are enjoying life on the island. He is general manager of the Taiwan life insurance business for BNPP Paribas Cardif and invites any classmates who pass through Taiwan to look him up.

My predecessor and friend Susannah Hill tells me that she is the director of the Menlo Park– Atherton Education Foundation. Her husband, Pat, serves as a radiologist at O’Connor Hospital in San Jose, Calif. Susannah seems to be getting quite involved in community service these days, because her son Andrew, a seventh-grader, enjoys such service and makes her accompany him.

In other kid news, Jeffrey Rossman and Corinne Field’s daughter, Thea ’15, is now at Stanford. Nat Worley and Sarah Rosenfield Worley’s daughter Nina graduated from the College of the Holy Cross and is now teaching eighth-grade English at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Malden, Mass. The Worleys are now empty nesters and conclude that their work here is done. And so it is time to renew old friendships; they have recently reconnected with Derek Johnson, Joshua Hubbard, and Carolyn McGowan, among others.

Vivian Bache Quam’s oldest, Justin, is working on a PhD degree in German at Georgetown University. Daughter Cassandra works at a middle school in St. Paul, Minn., and Seth is a junior at Syracuse University. All of them are, like Vivian, involved in music. Vivian, an oboist from her Andover days, still plays in two community orchestras near Chicago, while her sons both sing.

Justin, a former Whiffenpoof at Yale, performs with the Capital Hearings and the 18th Street Singers, both around DC. Charlie Neff, Eagle Scout, is on his way to the College of William & Mary. Charlie is Doug Neff’s son. Doug’s daughter made the varsity soccer team as a high school freshman but also now has a learner’s permit and, to her dad’s dismay, seems to enjoy driving fast. (I know the feeling: My son, Jason, is now 17, with a full driver’s license, and can cite the top speed and acceleration of every Porsche, Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, and McLaren ever made.) After completing some classes at UVa in cybersecurity management, Doug changed jobs and is now chief information officer at MicroStrategy, Inc. In other big life changes, John Byrnes writes that after nearly two decades in Los Angeles working in digital media, he and his wife sold their Andover | Summer 2016

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What would this year’s class notes for the Class of 1983 be without the reminders that we are all turning or have turned 50? Frederick “Fritz” Reichenbach would like to thank David “Max” Williamson for inviting him and his son to join his celebration, sailing in Maine on the Lewis R. French, an 1870s schooner operating with its original equipment. Sounds like some of the sailing work reminded Fritz of crew practice (is that good or bad?), but he felt that he earned the wood-stovecooked meals and local libations.

Andrea Feldman Falcione celebrated her 50th birthday in England and France this past October, together with Quincey Tompkins Imhoff and Laura Culbert Knowles-Cutler. This news came from Tammy Snyder Murphy, who has been seeing a lot of John Kim and Karen Humphries Sallick; their three girls are best friends at Andover.

Tammy has also just joined the board of visitors at UVa. Well, that’s it for now. It was great to hear from so many of you. Please keep it up!

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

Hi, folks! Winter has finally arrived in Maine.

We have some snow, and the temperature is dipping to some unfathomable negative number on the Celsius scale tonight. Even the bottoms of my skis are cold. Thanks to everyone who took time to drop us a line with news. I was particularly happy to see the reckless abandon and creativity with which we collectively address the simple matter of out-of-office replies. Maybe it’s because we are the last generation to be raised predigitally.

A couple of you were kind enough to remind me that we have reached a milestone: We are turning or have already turned 50 this year—making us just as old as the Super Bowl (in case you get forgetful). I’m sure it’s the new something.

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Mike Bayer writes that he used the benchmark as an opportunity to climb the technical route up Kilimanjaro (apparently his birthday lasted 12 days: nine up and three down). Of the highest mountain in each of the 50 states, he has now summited 46. Last fall he managed Utah. He’s planning Montana for 2016. Lest you think he’s not too busy, he also writes that he has changed jobs and is now general counsel at Miramax. I guess I hope he’s saved Delaware (451 feet), DC (410 feet), and Florida (345 feet) for the last three!

Ho Nam writes that he had a chance to catch up with classmates Willie Woo and Jim Chung in Washington, D.C., at the first gala for CKA (Council of Korean Americans) a couple of months ago—old Facebook news, but breaking news for class notes! Willie made the flight from Boston and Ho flew in from San Francisco.

KT Vahan is just back from trekking through the Panamanian jungle with her mother. She writes, “Amazing birds, sloths, orchids and more. The birds were so spectacular! Plus, we were there when an enormous hawk-and-vulture migration was going on—millions (no exaggeration) of birds flying south for the winter.”

Duncan Robinson—recently remarried— ran into Ben Schlosser, Caroline Ren Jackson, Kathy Baxter, Claudia Kraut Rimerman, and Paul Murphy on campus this fall.

Duncan was dropping off his daughter, who started at PA in September. Duncan also saw Joel Post recently for a delightful holiday repast.

Courtnay Smith Perevalova is back stateside chasing her son’s alpine racing exploits across northern New England. Beverly Tillery has switched jobs. As of this past October, she is the executive director at the NYC AntiViolence Project.

Robert Townsend says of middle age that he has decided to own it! During the holiday season, Robert wrote, “After 19 years at Bayer, I left the company in May and joined Cerus Corp. (in the blood safety space) in order to be part of a more nimble and dynamic company environment (Bayer was just about to go through yet another big reorg, so I decided to bail before that happened).

Still located in Berlin and loving it. Have been in Germany for 13 years now. Over the summer, I was fortunate to be able to catch up with Laurie Nash, who was in Berlin on business. Some people (I guess especially men) get Porsches when they go through a midlife crisis. Others get multiple girlfriends. I could not afford the Porsche and am happily married, so instead I ran the Berlin Marathon on my 50th birthday. Currently, we are at my in-laws’ in Alicante, Spain, and my 4-year-old daughter is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Three Kings, who arrive tonight bearing presents.”

Claudia Kraut Rimerman waxed poetic about my brother-in-arms Adam Simha: “My 15-yearold son and 12-year-old daughter were held in rapt attention as Adam showed my family around his workshop and explained how he pursued his passion for design to arrive at what my kids

think must be the coolest career ever! They may not be wrong.” News is that Adam has moved from designing knives to wrestling them. Claudia also mentioned that she saw Scott Crabtree speak about his work with his company Happy Brain Science at Andover recently. My other partner in crime, Alex Gillespie, is, as always, secretly plotting to replace the maple leaf on Toronto’s road sweaters with a life-sized decal of Lanny McDonald’s moustache (in low relief).

Jim Reische’s reply to my recent call for news was that, although he was out of the office and would not be checking e-mail, we should call him if we had any immediate needs. Jim did get back to me.

After years among the rolling cornfields of Iowa, he and wife Aimee are packing up the prairie schooner and riding the trade winds back East from Grinnell for a new job as vice president of communications at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md. I suppose his sage words about dynamic systems and the social fabric will now come to us in Greek as thickly veiled metaphors for the sea!

They’ll miss the occasional Iowa pork product and the ritual corn dance but not the Alberta clipper they’ll be riding all the way home! (It’s a wind, not a semi-pro hockey team affiliated with the Oilers, Alex.)

Sarah Bullock and I caught up by e-mail a couple of weeks ago. Last I saw her, Sarah dropped by my office at Bates nearly unannounced (from a coast away). She and her son were back East on a college tour and (if I recall correctly) visiting family in Bangor, Maine. It was the nicest surprise of the spring! In news on the home front, we have moved to Bath, Maine. I’ve been moonlighting at Yale and Bates this year but have officially moved my academic offices to the University of New Hampshire. The move to the coast came with quite a surprise. There was a cool photo in the local paper recently. One of the new destroyers they are building down the road at the Bath Iron Works was making its way down the Kennebec to the sea on its inaugural voyage. As my eye lingered on the misfit scale of the ship in the picture, I noticed a familiar name in the photo credits: Paul Kalkstein ’61. I guess he was having coffee and caught it drifting by from points unknown!

—Bill Seeley

1985 Pamela Paresky P.O. Box 8878 Aspen CO 81612 pamela@ayearofkindness.com

Before going on to the rest of our class notes, I begin with sad news. Though it will have been several months by the time this is published, many of our classmates may not know that in February, Peter Stark’s daughter unexpectedly passed away. Our heartfelt condolences go out to Peter and his family.

www.andover.edu/intouch These class notes were written and submitted before February, so please pardon the clumsy segue into regular news updates. Remember, please write me at Pamela@aYearof Kindness.com. Speaking of writing (sorry about the awkward transition), Susan Conley is cofounder of the Telling Room (www.tellingroom.org), a creative writing lab that won a White House award for exceptional programming for refugee and immigrant story writing programs. “My third book, Stop Here, This Is the Place, is out,” she reports. “It traces a year in the life of family, with photography and stories about the thing we call parenting.” Susan lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband and two boys, and she raves, “Summer in Maine means I get Sara Woolf and Paige Cox sightings!”

Other classmates courageously marched into enemy territory for Andover-Exeter Weekend in New Hampshire last November. Among them were Alex Tuller, Michelle Franciose, and Stephanie Sanchez, who proudly displayed her “Defect to Andover” button (which must be a collector’s item) while deep in red country.

Ben Schwall had a visit from Doug Stiffler, “He was on a 100-day sabbatical in Japan and spent a few of those days playing hooky in Taiwan with us.” Ben continues, “I had not really seen him since our Harbin days in 1984. Hope to connect with him again soon in Pennsylvania (or perhaps at some place with homemade cider and a wood shop in Connecticut?).” Sadly, Ben missed out.

Strother Purdy writes, “Doug Stiffler, wife Jingxia, and their two preposterously talented and bright boys, Dylan and Ethan, spent the night at our place on their way to Andover, right before New Year’s Eve. We drank sake, hunted deer, and discussed how the world is divided between those who love and those who hate Hello Kitty.”

In January, Dana-Farber fundraiser extraordinaire Liz DeLucia, Marcella Larsen ’84, and I had a quick dinner as Liz prepared to visit Liz Somers Urdang. In NYC, Tajlei Levis and Sarah Heard regaled Alyson Yashar and me with stories of their NYC dance-club antics as college freshmen. Alyson, who was on call for two hospitals, entertained us with real-life medical horror stories/comedy.

Tajlei quips, “As a former NYC lawyer who grew up in Vermont, I often felt that I was living the Green Acres classic sitcom.” A perfect background, as it turns out. Tajlei, who spends time in Manchester, Vt., writing and producing history-inspired interactive musical mysteries and creative events at the Wilburton Inn (which her family has owned for 28 years), was commissioned to adapt Green Acres for a Broadway-bound musical (both book and lyrics). A reading is expected in NYC soon, and a touring production is planned for next year.

In September, the ’85 Facebook flock gathered for a mini reunion on the patio of the Andover Inn, and I had the great pleasure of being part of what turned out to be a fairly raucous evening, complete with chocolate martinis (discovered in 2014 by Alice Stubbs). Troublemakers

(and regulars) included Megan Carroll, Carter Vincent, Rebecca Derderian Daniels, Strother Purdy, Liz DeLucia, Peter Stark, Hal Gillam, Maureen O’Brien, and Ted McEnroe.

Encouraging our decadence were legendary English instructors Tom McGraw (now retired and scouting for a house on the Cape near Jean St. Pierre) and Greg Wilkin (now “Dr. Wilkin,” having completed a PhD degree sometime after our era).

Mini reunions at the Inn happen regularly now, and apparently Jeff Kip has also been known to attend. About a recent gathering, Rebecca noted, “There was most definite admiration for John Palfrey. Anyone visiting campus should stop by his office, Bulfinch, and the new [Rebecca M. Sykes] Wellness Center to see Strother’s amazing work.”

Strother recalls, “Liz [DeLucia] and I traded tales from our time at PA, good and bad, remarking how powerfully the experiences still resonate.

Carter noted how impressed he was with the Palfrey-Currie dynamics and his excitement for the Academy’s future. But mostly we had a good time, got to know one another better, and drank and ate responsibly. All are welcome at future events, even other classes.”

Peter remembers the evening a little differently, writing, “At first there was some bitching about the decor and the slow and spotty service. But then I recommended immediate proletarian revolution and Carter tempered the moment with a Fabian solution, leaving Becca to suggest capitalism could be salvaged, until Ted made a bid for a second round of drinks before Liz and Megan suggested the Blairite ‘Third Way.’ But nobody remembered what it was, exactly, so instead, we talked about our children, the weather, and the excellent job that Exie Palfrey is apparently doing. In other words, I can’t remember what anyone said, so I hope that a complete fabrication is helpful.”

Ted diplomatically suggested that I “tell everyone that all seems fine atop Andover Hill—as I see it from about 100 yards away.” (Carter, for reasons that can’t be printed, declined to comment. “Alumni Council,” he writes, “was the highlight of my year.”)

Megan urges, “Join us! If anyone plans to be in the Boston area, please check our class Facebook page for our monthly or bimonthly get-together at the Andover Inn on the chance that it might coincide with your visit. You can also e-mail Megan Carroll at mec@carrollassoc.com. We have a nice group of regulars and welcome classmates from far away and other PA alums, too.”

Rebecca adds, “I love that 30 years after graduating we look forward to seeing one another, enjoy one another’s company, and are still learning about the uniqueness of each of our experiences at Andover. I hope more of our classmates will drop by these little proletariat revolutions to catch up on their lives and learn from their perspectives. If you feel that the drive is too long, a few of us have surfable couches to share. These evenings have been a great way to reconnect!”

In my own news, I now write for Psychology Today (PsychologyTodayBlog.com). I would love your

suggestions for article topics! (The blog is called “Happiness and the Pursuit of Leadership,” so I have a lot of latitude.) And please e-mail me with news, notes, or memories, or just to connect.

(Write “Class Notes” in the subject line.)

If you’re ever in Aspen, let me know! Otherwise, see you at the Inn.

1986 30th REUNION June 10–12, 2016 Kathleen Campbell DiPaolo 2516 Vista Drive Newport Beach CA 92663 949-689-3314 (cell) 949-209-2043 (fax) Kathleen@kathleendipaolodesigns.com Caroline Langston Jarboe 3124 63rd Ave. Cheverly MD 20785 301-322-4241 (home) 301-379-6572 (cell) caroline_jarboe@yahoo.com

Hi, class! I’m here to get you fired up to go to our 30th Reunion, June 10–12. It’s a little crazy, since I am only 30 years old. Ha! David Eckman is in charge of what should be a very fun weekend.

Ariel Hubbard will be there. She ended her 2015 with a ton of newness. Ariel writes, “I became a single mom, closed my businesses in California, moved to the Seattle area, started new businesses, and moved to a new home! My 6-year-old, Reese, started a new school. Hoping to find PA alumni in Seattle to connect!”

Tom Takoudes took a family trip to MontTremblant, Quebec, where, he says, “We were able to ski every day but also got in some crosscountry skiing, dogsledding, and extreme tubing, and just enjoyed the beautiful village.” I want to try dogsledding! That and extreme tubing are up my alley. Tom and his wife, Lisa, also took their kids, who are 13, 11, and 9, to Italy for almost two weeks in August, visiting relatives on the Adriatic coast before touring Rome, Florence, and Venice.

What a great experience!

I (Kathleen DiPaolo) love traveling with my kids, too. I most recently went to India, Morocco, and Spain with my gang. My husband works in India more than 50 percent of the time, so we may be sending you “new address” cards from New Delhi, India. Stay tuned.

Brian Vaughan mentioned that Eric Neyman was recently nominated and confirmed as a judge for the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Congrats!

That is huge. Here’s a link to his former law firm, with more information: bit.ly/1TrhUsM. Jon Kukk’s daughter has really enjoyed being a junior at Andover. Jon said he has seen many of our classmates with their children at parent events.

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We have another class author, Hannah Nordhaus, who wrote American Ghost: A Family’s Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest, following her book The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America. How exciting to have such talented classmates!

Well, that’s all, folks! Don’t forget to come to the reunion. I can’t wait to catch up with you!

XO —Kath Campbell DiPaolo

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

From atomic sit-ups to the demise of the dartthrowing chimp to weekend trips to China, there’s lots to report, so let’s get going.

First off, in honor of Stanley Tarr and family visiting Boston, a few folks got together and kicked off the first day of 2016 in casual style. Reports from that party are of Stan and Lauren having raised perhaps the most polite boys ever (can you imagine a 12-year-old offering to take out the trash?), Dan Medwed and Sharissa having yours truly step in and opine on Class IV laser policy issues, Paul Marston and family perfecting the art of treetop drone retrieval, and John Greco and family discussing the Brownian-motion nature of Pee-Wee hockey. Toasts were raised to Annie Gatewood, Cindy Greene, Jonny Bush, Ruth Webb, Matt Bellows ’86, Christian Ehrbar ’86, Newt Davis ’86, Jon Bernstein ’86, and Travis Metz, who were out of town at the time and could not attend.

Speaking of Travis, in November, he, Steve Hopkins, and I traveled over to China for the weekend (yes, weekend), and not just because the flights were cheaper than those to Montana (they were). We went to celebrate the opening of one of the top new museums in Asia, the Mu Xin Art Museum in Wuzhen. Designed by our own Hiroshi Okamoto, with some hard work and critical bench design from Steve, it was amazing (http://tinyurl.com/HiroshiMuseum).

On other artistic fronts, Josh Coleman is a cast member at one of the nation’s premier classical repertory theatre companies, A Noise Within (http://tinyurl.com/JoshPA). Josh is too kind and humble to toot that horn, so just blame me on that front. What he did write in about was the recent birth of a daughter. Congrats to Josh and his wife!

More congratulations are in order: April Peters

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is also a new mom. I received a lovely e-mail from April that read: “It was a busy 2015 for me. I finished school in May and was ordained a rabbi.

In September, I gave birth to a sweet baby girl.

My wife, Emily, and I are thrilled. We are living in Manhattan, and I changed my last name to Davis so that the three of us would match. I get to see Janet Choi frequently, and I had dinner with Janet, Aimee Vincent Jamison, and Jay Jamison ’89 when they were in town this summer.”

Also on the new-parent front, Caroline Cannon and Whit Spaulding ’85 doubled down with twins in 2015. I was lucky enough to see all four of them tromping around in style and with smiles at Annie and Bob Gatewood’s annual pig roast party.

Sue Graham Johnston reported moving to London to take on the role of managing director of British Oxygen Company, running the business in the U.K., Ireland, and Africa. A big change from high tech, for sure—and a big change from her role as the “damsel in distress” in the famous Batkid Make-a-Wish event in SF about two years ago. This wonderful event was organized by her husband, E.J., who starred as Batman. Check out a picture of Sue and E.J. here: http://tinyurl.com/ BatKidPA. And, if your fashion sense says you just must have Sue’s cool green Joker gag, check out her Instructables site, http://tinyurl.com/ BatKidPA2. Sue looks forward to connecting with folks in London.

Like her sister, Liz Graham is also on the move.

Liz reported that she had the surreal experience of moving her daughter, Miriam Feldman ’18, into her old dorm, Stimson. And on a less surreal front, Liz recently moved herself into a new role heading global sales and service for Wayfair.com. Her husband, Brad, is in his 16th season broadcasting New England Revolution soccer.

Jonny Bush takes us farther into Europe with a trip to Berlin. In true Bush style, he rallied the troops and connected with Jonathan Lutes and Todd Fletcher for a night of revelry. Apparently Lutes and Fletcher have been living there for quite some time—within a block of each other—but did not know it. Jonny fixed that. Berlin might never be the same.

Jay Ulfelder brings us back to North America.

Jay reported in that his younger son, August, has become obsessed with cyclo-cross. Recently, August won the Maryland and mid-Atlantic under14 regional championships, and he is headed to nationals. Good luck, August! On other fronts, Jay shut down his famous Dart-Throwing Chimp blog, freeing him up for listening to older son Parker’s digital music. Jay writes, “If anyone’s in the business and wants to offer advice or insight to an aspiring professional, Parker would be grateful to hear from them.”

Erica Hollern Kelly and husband Jeremy celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in 2015.

Out in California, they are responsible for founding the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation (www. myotonic.org), which grew out of Erica’s personal connection to this disease. Erica reports that

foundation-supported researchers have drugs in trial and in the pipeline that may offer a cure to her two boys (both in high school) as well as herself.

As Erica wrote to me in an e-mail: “We have a lot of hope—which goes a long way! And we couldn’t appreciate each day more than we do. Carpe diem, everyone.” To see a smiling picture of Erica and learn more about the MDF, go here: http://tinyurl. com/EricaPA. Robin Koster-Carlyon e-mailed from Down Under. Robin sent me a beautifully written e-mail with lots of info that she summed up as “know your farmer, know how your food is being grown, save the planet, and be healthier for it!!” Check out Robin’s smiling face and incredible farm at http:// tinyurl.com/RobinPA. Kirstin Hoefer wrote in to report taking a short break from working hard to make the world a better place. For many years, Kirstin has been a real power player in renewable energy (pun intended).

From Sungevity to Clean Power Finance, we can all thank Kirstin for helping put more solar on roofs in America! During her break, Kirstin saw Jenny Ogilvie and reports that Jenny has two adorable boys, ages 3 and 5, whom she adopted from Ethiopia. On the same trip, Kirstin saw Tyke Higdon O’Brien ’88 and husband Jamie O’Brien.

And of course, no matter how it ends up, I am ever thankful to Kirstin’s husband, Robert, for the help he provided since Kirstin’s e-mail to me months ago. More on that story as it develops, so stay tuned.

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 2221 46th St. NW Washington DC 20007 202-365-8593 mattlavindc@yahoo.com Heather Ross Zuzenak 12 Ginn Road Winchester MA 01890 781-874-1747 hrzuzenak@yahoo.com

Greetings, ’88ers! Here’s the scoop.

My comrade in football fandom (“Go, Giants!”), Keil Decker, writes that he is the director and head of national accounts marketing at BlackRock.

He lives in Princeton, N.J., with his wife, Nora, who works for Deloitte, and his three children,

www.andover.edu/intouch Phoebe, 7, Catherine, 5, and Winnie, 2. He plays squash with the kids and still cycles. Speaking of cycling, he shares that his former PA cycling coach, Derek Williams ’65, is doing well in retirement, and that former teammate Chris Peck just moved to Cupertino, Calif., to work as an engineer for Apple.

Guenter Meyer writes, “I just dropped my daughter, Darcy ’18, back off at Andover today. I’m happy to report that she is enjoying her first year there, and I’m definitely enjoying the Andover experience the second time around as a parent— but this time I get to listen to the concerts, and it’s great to see that some of my favorite music teachers are still teaching and conducting (Vinny Monaco and Chris Walter). It’s also been fun bumping into other classmate-parents at various events (Bart Kalkstein, Pete Welch, and Matt Milkowski so far; I’m sure there are a few more). Cool thing is, my daughter and I will be on the same reunion cycle!”

One of my Bronx homies (and former Stimson West roomie), Evette Maranda Clarke, was ordained as a minister at her church this past fall. Another of my Bronx homies, Aisha Jorge Massengill (who also attended elementary and junior high school with Evette), was in attendance at the ceremony.

David Richeson, Peter Reese, Eza Gadson, and Ivar Bazzy attended a Foxcroft reunion at the home of Bob Gibbons ’89 in November. Also there were Ed Jasaitis, James McLain, and Ted Helprin, ’89ers all, and Rett Wallace ’87. David says that a good time was had by all, and that no one ended up in jail, but I will definitely check public records to confirm.

This past September, I hung out with Naomi Cromwell, Hodgson Eckel, Bruce Hamilton, Sandra Morales, and other members of the PA family at the Fifth Annual Todd A. Isaac Memorial Basketball Game and Reception in New York. It was a pleasure to see my old JV basketball coach, Tom McGraw, coach the Blue Team to victory. (Or did the White Team win? I really don’t remember. We were all having way too much fun to keep score.) Full disclosure: I was a manager for Coach McGraw, not a player. Still, I recall at least one occasion where my finesse at the freethrow line saved the guys from having to run extra suicides. Guys: You’re welcome.

Alesia Wilburn Wall writes that she sees June Eguro Burkhart quite a bit socially in Chicago, and that they commiserate over the Northwestern football team. Alesia volunteers with children with disabilities, and she has performed in a couple of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas with the Savoyaires, the first U.S. company known to have produced the entire G & S 14-operetta cycle.

Otherwise, Alesia is enjoying family life with her two daughters, one of whom is a teen now, and her husband, Derek, as much as his busy schedule as a trauma surgeon allows.

Paula Hornbostel caught up with her college roommate, Christina Weaver Vest ’89, in the Boston area over Halloween, a real treat. Back in

New York, Paula discovered that the wares from Sarah Ludington’s Van Brunt Stillhouse distillery make wonderful holiday gifts, and it was fun seeing her not so long ago!

Finally, Jim Dand wrote to say that he was recently elected supreme emperor of the galaxy and was selected to compete for Romania’s rhythmic gymnastics team in the next Olympics, to which I replied: “Duh! We already knew that!”

Well, that’s all, folks! Until next time. —Terri

1989 Laura Bauschard 2918 Octavia St. San Francisco CA 94123 415-806-2412 (cell) lbauschard@gmail.com Curtis Eames 978-994-9015 curtiseames111@gmail.com Gina Hoods 400 Chaney Road, Apt. 1024 Smyrna TN 37167 423-892-7140 404-667-4939 ghoods@yahoo.com

Greetings! There is much to report, so here we go.

From Walpole, Mass., Anujeet Sareen reports, “Life is good and full!” He and his wife truly have a “full house,” with four boys and four girls, ages 5 to 22. Anujeet works for Wellington Management.

Rachel Keyser has practiced veterinary medicine in Wolfeboro, N.H., for almost 19 years. She hopes to purchase a practice this year and also reconnect with her old roommate, Kim Markert Bowden.

Henry Gourdeau reports that his 2½-yearold has committed early to UNC for lacrosse.

David Carnes loves being back at PA more often, now that his oldest daughter, Sasha ’19, is a student.

Curtis Bragdon’s daughter Margaret ’18 is a lower, rooming in WQN with Kate Archibald Donchi’s daughter Emma ’18. He recently hung out with Ed Jasaitis and other ’89 parents at Family Weekend. Curtis works at Darktrace, and he can help prevent you from being hacked. His wife, Heather Garretson Bragdon, has become more involved with her family’s cranberry farm.

Andy Shea had a weekday stroll and lunch with Keith Flaherty and Alex Walley in Boston this past November. Jennifer Carr-Smith ran into Dave Frechette and his family at an Andover food-drive event in Stamford, Conn. Jen’s new job as president of Peapod, an online grocer, takes her to Chicago, where she dined with Laura Hsieh.

Laura is teaching at a private school and keeping busy with her two boys.

Carl McCarthy, a lawyer in NYC, cofounded Techie Youth, a nonprofit that provides coding classes to young adults coming out of foster care. George Webb IV is contemplating trading

his corporate position for entrepreneurship, building a vegan family-buffet restaurant and entertainment complex. He reports that his sister, Emily C. Webb Doskow, together with her husband and twins, picked up and moved from NYC to LA. Seth White (aka Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP) is a Dominican priest who has been living and teaching for the past eight years in DC at the Dominican House of Studies, where he is the director of the Thomistic Institute. The Vatican recently appointed him to be a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Bob Gibbons hosted a Foxcroft reunion in November at his house in New Canaan, Conn. James McLain joined from Westchester, Ted Helprin came from Portland, Ore., but Ed Jasaitis flew in from an Amsterdam business trip for the historic get-together.

Unfortunately, Alex Friedman was unable to be there. Ben Shin attended an early September reunion in Park Slope, Brooklyn, organized

by Orin Herskowitz. Roberto Garcia, Chase Madar, Shellee Hendricks, Andy Case ’90, Jon Luongo, Marianna Baer, Robin Hessman ’90, and Sean Sullivan were in attendance. Ben also sees Troy Selvaratnam and Ricardo Lima on occasion.

Andrew Kunian lives in Houston, where he is converting northern China and southern Chile from coal to gas power. Gina Hoods visited Atlanta and met up with David Jaye and his family. She also visited with Elisa Istueta and her family in NYC and saw Kent Strong at Head of School John Palfrey’s talk at the Ford Foundation.

Gina caught up with Hollis Fuller Morris and Christian Parker, and saw Justin Jefferies in Australia. Gabe Wardell binge-watched Twilight Zone episodes over New Year’s Day and, along with Alex Friedman, experienced the uncanny feeling that he was back in Rockwell, staying up all night watching The Twilight Zone in my room.

Gabe recently became director of development at Fugees Academy, a school in Clarkston, Ga., that is dedicated to helping child survivors of war rebuild their lives through education and soccer.

Charlie “Scrimp” Kemp reports that he and his family still enjoy LA and that he still works in insurance. We hope to meet on the East Coast in the near future.

Libby Palomeque continues to pursue competitive figure skating in Oakland, Calif., recently winning four gold medals and a silver at the ISI Adult Figure Skating Championships.

Fiona Brandon reports from San Francisco that she and her husband, Dietmar, welcomed their daughter, Flora Celestina, into the world in July 2015, just a month after the birth of Caleb Jacobson-Sive’s daughter, Louisa Valentine.

Fiona and family visited with Caleb and his family over the holidays. Fiona is still in contact with Mike Megalli, who recently left Microsoft to start indie.biz.

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Many alumni and friends turned out to congratulate Instructor in History and Social Science Kathleen Dalton and Faculty Emeritus Tony Rotundo when the couple received the McKeen Award on the Abbot campus in November. Front, from left: are Andrew Case ’90, Troy Selvaratnam ’89 with wife Mary Skinner, and Barbara Dalton Rotundo ’00. Back row: Dan Ankeles ’00, John Michael DiResta ’00, Oliver Schwaner-Albright ’90, Robin Hessman ’90, Tom Doherty (Barbara’s fiancé), and Robin’s husband, Lorin Wertheimer.

Las Vegas, traveled 200,000 miles this year, speaking to audiences around the world on philosophy, economics, creativity, leadership, and modernity. Sarah Gray Rakovshik is into her third year at the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, where she helps run postgraduate psychotherapist training programs for the University of Oxford and continues to work as a researcher and therapist.

She and her family spend part of the summer on Martha’s Vineyard, so let her know if you’ll be on the island!

In Japan, Betsy Wiedenmayer Rogers and her clan are preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and request that you don’t wait until the last minute to show up on her couch for that or the Rugby World Cup in 2019. Come visit sooner!

Although she misses living close to high school friends, she loves life in Japan.

Costas Anastassiadis is spearheading the business development effort at Innora, an engineering consultancy outside Athens that produces robotic prototypes. He also manages a vacation rental business on the island of Kea. After 18 years working in New York, Peter L. Juhas started a new job in Ireland in September. Wife Katie and their three boys will be joining him there next summer.

John Eagleton retreated to a château in northern France with his wife and five children to write screenplays and children’s books.

Mirabelle Kirkland, who lives within walking distance of Versailles, is head writer for a TV comedy series and produces (and sometimes appears in) a Web series called Mr. Piji. She also reports that Jon Luongo was selected for the Child Life Council’s Leadership Academy program for his work helping children through difficult and painful procedures.

From Arambol, Goa, in India, Anshula Kedar writes, “This place is the most amazing nexus of music and love. I’m going to London, pretty much stone cold for the summer. Don’t know anything

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about it but got my tix already so am going. So please, if you are there, find me!”

As I write this in my home office, eerily similar to my room in Rockwell, I am in a twilight zone of acting and working with my education company, Quantum Prep. It’s been many years, but I feel that, at any moment, Mr. Lorenço is going to step in and bust up our Twilight Zone marathon party.

—Curtis Eames

1990 Thomas W. Seeley 1572 Heifer Road Skaneateles NY 13152 315-263-0052 (cell) 315-685-3416 (work) twseeley@gmail.com

Hard to believe it has been nearly a year since so many of us met on the beautiful grounds of our alma mater. As I write with snow falling outside the window, it still feels as if only moments have passed. I am hopeful many of us have managed to keep our resolutions to be in closer touch and spend more time together.

Wonderful to ring in the New Year with members of our Andover family! Had a fantastic visit with Susan Marcus and Carl Smit and their families at the Marcus family home in Queechee, Vt. My road trip continued through Maine, where I was able to visit briefly with Molly McGrath and meet her amazing family.

Andy Case’s debut novel, The Big Fear, was released on April 1. Andy reports positive reviews are already pouring in: Publishers Weekly’s starred review called it a “standout among Serpico-type crime thrillers.” In more literary news, word has it that a second novel by Sonya Chung is scheduled for release later this year.

Though he hasn’t formally opened an account (as far as we know), a Joe Bae sighting was

reported recently on Facebook! Joe accompanied his wife, Janice Y.K. Lee, as she toured the country promoting her new novel, The Expatriates.

Yvette Lee recently accepted a post as executive director of the Skystone Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed to oversee the Roden Crater, a monumental art installation by light artist James Turell in the Northern Arizona desert.

Prior to accepting this post, Yvette worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Foundation, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the American Federation of Arts in NYC. Great to catch up with Julia Cumes, who sadly could not make it to reunion because she was planning a photography workshop scheduled for February and July 2016 at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Uganda. A photographer based on Cape Cod, Julia’s work has been published in National Geographic and in newspapers all over the world. In the past, she has also coordinated photo workshops for children in Rwanda. You can check out her work on her blog, Apertures and Anecdotes.

If you haven’t watched Mr. Robot yet, what are you waiting for? So amazing to see our very own Alexandra Shapiro among the stars at the Golden Globe parties celebrating Mr. Robot’s victory as Best Television Series: Drama. Alex is executive vice president of marketing and digital at USA Network. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.

In NYC, Michelle Pae is revolutionizing restaurant ratings. Michelle helped launch Renzell, a new app designed to provide holistic rankings of 54 elite New York restaurants. Watch out, Michelin and Zagat!

That’s all I have for now. Miss you and love you all. Who’s up for crashing reunion this June?

1991 25th REUNION June 10–12, 2016 Hilary Lerner Gershman 6124 SW 104th St. Miami FL 33156 305-467-6581 hilarygershman@yahoo.com

Greetings, fellow ’91ers! As hard as it is to believe, five years have come and gone in the blink of an eye, and our 25th Reunion is around the corner!

Indeed, by the time you are actually reading this update, you might be revving it up in the Sanctuary or on your third trip to Harrison’s for another “large heavy, radish and onion.”

As we have been for the past half-decade, the great Class of 1991 is busy. Lex Carroll got the party started in May by marrying Emma Reid in Boston. Congratulations, Lex! I think a year should just be enough time to get Emma mentally prepared for the 25th. Sasha Alcott had

www.andover.edu/intouch a memorable summer on tour with her band, When Particles Collide. She got to hang out with Josh Russo at “one of the best dive bars in Huntsville, Alabama”; it is unclear if he came to see the concert or is just a regular. In addition to leading the life of a rock star, Sasha continues to teach at Exeter alongside Shane Cooper LaPointe, Christina Breen ’89, and Jeanette Saraidaridis Lovett ’03. Sasha is also pleased to report that Andover women are slowly but surely taking over, and total domination is on track to be achieved by the 50th Reunion. I will take that under advisement and plan accordingly.

Victoria Farley Hostin was in the audience at one of Sasha’s shows in Denver. Vicky reports that when she is not enjoying the abundance of natural pleasures Denver offers, she is hard at work opening charter schools. Looking to put her master’s degree in visual arts to use, Vicky has also recently jumped into the burgeoning weltanschauung art scene of central Colorado. She is using cutouts from cat-food labels, comic books, and Bass Pro Shops catalogs to create collages of political events and Biblical scenes on the sides of empty fish tanks. She describes her work as “Andy Warhol, Don DeLillo, and Alanis Morrisette taking a road trip in the family truckster down the Route 66 of history.” Although she pretty much left me behind at “art,” it sounds impressive!

After two and a half terrific years reporting for the AP in Istanbul, Desmond Butler is transitioning back to Washington to work on the international investigations desk. Josh Tulgan is in Moscow, where he is busy negotiating economic and political crises in Russia and dealing with the greater drama of raising a 6-month-old dachshund. He was recently in LA, where he had a fun dinner with Mara Raphael. Separately, Mara also caught up with Blair Lawson, Steve Matloff, and Ben Stout. After 10 years of writing jokes for the comedian Craig Ferguson, Ben has become a producer and editor for The Late Late Show with James Corden. When he is not doing that, he is chasing his two daughters, ages 2 and 6. Ben also reports that his wife, Masha, connected with Matt Reid and his wife, Nena, in San Francisco.

Great stuff!

Back on the East Coast, Josh Tulgan, Sasha Kipka, Max Hoover, Win Burke, Jamie Schriebl, Christoph Cushman, Tyler Newton, and Nat Furman all caught up for dinner. Sasha recently became a father. Congratulations!

Max reports that his three children—Enrico, 11, Valentina, 9, and Felix, 9—are keeping him and his wife, Tatiana, very busy. Nat did not give me an update on his family but insists that his hair is still all natural and encouraged me to give “until it hurts so good” in honor of the big reunion. Tyler recently got a big promotion and is now heading the business services division of his firm. “BSD,” as he is known internally, keeps busy “being very hands-on with the biggest and hardest assignments, which can be quite hairy.”

Sounds exciting! Across the river, in Brooklyn,

When Josh Tulgan ’91 visited from Moscow, numerous classmates gathered to mark the occasion in New York City. Front, from left: Jamie Schriebl, Josh, and Tyler Newton. Back row: Win Burke, Max Hoover, Sasha Kipka, Nat Furman, and Christoph Cushman.

Lucie Flather is having a good time. She recently connected with Uche Osuji, Tiffany Corley, and Andy Frankenberger, who are all doing well.

This past September, after three years of research and design, Mike Meiners opened Hackstudio, a 16,000-square-foot facility in Evanston, Ill., dedicated to helping kids do “anything they set their minds to.” The response from the community has been enthusiastic, and enrollment has exceeded his expectations.

Hackstudio is now serving 82 kids, ages 8 to 18, with a pilot program for adults coming this winter.

Mike spends what little free time he has longing for a simpler era, when his biggest worry was returning to his room to find John McGrath taking another nap on his orange couch.

Unfortunately, this update concludes my time as coclass secretary. It has been a great team effort, and I very much appreciate all of you who kept the news coming. I have had a wonderful time keeping in touch and look forward to reconnecting in person in June! Warm regards. —Matt Fleming

1992 Allen Soong 1810 Burnell Drive Los Angeles CA 90065 asoong@post.harvard.edu

This edition of the notes comes to you from 30,000 feet as the holiday break ends way too soon and I half-heartedly return to the grind in the New Year on an early-morning transcontinental flight. One of the things I love about my job is that the scenery is constantly changing, but on this morning I want nothing more than to still be back at home with my wife and three girls.

Speaking of domestic bliss, Mara Terlizzi Ziegler, her husband, Justin Ziegler, and 3-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, recently

returned to the Boston area and settled into a new home in Medfield, Mass.; a few short months later they welcomed their second child, Luke Michael.

Mara writes: “We are thrilled to be home and closer to family. Elizabeth is a great and enthusiastic big sister.”

I’m relieved to report my oldest has also been great, despite being joined by not one but two “interlopers.” We pitched her impending big-sister status as a “promotion,” which mostly worked.

There was that one time, before the twins were born, that our then 3 1/2-year-old informed us that she had “looked up the reviews on the Internet and all the new babies are bad,” so we should abandon this whole idea of having more. Happily, she feels much different now.

Anyway, looking to drag my mind back to work mode this morning, I started perusing the book selections at the airport terminal newsstand before boarding and was totally underwhelmed until I came across Josh Davis’s Two Awesome Hours: Harness Your Best Time, Get Your Most Important Work Done. You may recall I wrote about Josh’s book this time last year in advance of its summer publication by HarperCollins, and since then it’s been translated into eight languages and is officially an international bestseller! Great reviews have appeared in the Financial Times, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Forbes, Business Insider, Fortune, Reader’s Digest, the Globe and Mail, and the Guardian, among many others, as well as in many prominent blogs. Josh has been interviewed on close to 30 radio broadcasts and podcasts and has done several speaking events (which would have included my company’s off-site retreat this past October if not for a last-minute schedule change by my managing partner). If you haven’t already, pick up a copy and do yourself—and your New Year’s resolution to be more productive—a favor. From the jacket: “Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, Josh Davis, director of research at the NeuroLeadership Institute, explains clearly that our brains and Andover | Summer 2016

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Another author from our class also enjoyed success in 2015: Taylor Antrim’s Immunity was released last May to great reviews by the New York Times and others. Taylor’s second novel is a fastpaced dystopian thriller set in a present-day New York City in the grip of a pandemic and a police state that has arisen in response. Unlike most doomsday-outbreak stories, Immunity imagines an incurable virus that wipes out some areas but not others, which turns out to be a fertile context in which to explore the gulf between haves and havenots. Scarcity takes on several new dimensions in a world hobbled but not exactly decimated, à la The Walking Dead, and the advantages of wealth reach more sinister heights, or depths, depending on your perspective or station. In researching the novel, Taylor dove into a crash course in the science of epidemics with the help of several prominent infectious-disease experts, who helped him conceptualize his fictional virus so that it would be chillingly plausible. In a piece he penned for the Guardian about his writing process, Taylor wryly noted that “someone who hasn’t taken a science class since [upper year] shouldn’t lightly embark on a biothriller.” When he’s not scaring the bejeezus out of himself and his readers, Taylor is a Brooklyn dad and senior editor at Vogue; his short stories have been featured in Best American Short Stories, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other literary publications.

Noy Thrupkaew is a freelance journalist who has made it her mission to shine a light on human trafficking, and not just the kind the media tends to focus on. In a TED Talk from last year, available at www.ted.com, Noy makes the distressing observation that forced prostitution, as shameful and deplorable as it is, represents only 22 percent of human trafficking, whereas forced labor, at 68 percent of the total, is three times more prevalent.

Exploited labor is found everywhere, on fishing boats and construction sites, in fruit orchards and sweatshops, even car washes. It finds its way into the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and many of the products we buy. Noy hopes that greater awareness of how “we have unwittingly but willingly allowed ourselves to profit from and benefit from” a broken system will eventually lead to fundamental change.

The election cycle isn’t the only countdown to track in 2016. By the time this goes to press, our 25th Reunion will be one short year away!

Mark your calendars, start making travel plans, and get a jump on all the catching up by watching this space—and the class Facebook page!

Reach out to Jenny Elkus, Sherri Shafman, Pristine Johannessen, Darryl Cohen, or Daphne Matalene for an invite.

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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

As I write these notes, I sit in my parents’ dining room, listening to my children, nieces, and nephews sing carols (off-key) in the family room. It has been a boisterous holiday. Many thanks to those of you who responded to my requests to “Help a Smoot this holiday season” by sending news!

Karina Wagle Benfield wrote that she married Rick Benfield in November 2015 on the beach in Punta Mita, Mexico. The wedding was a small ceremony with family and close friends, including Alissa Fishbane. The couple zipped off for an amazing honeymoon in New Zealand and Bora Bora. Earlier in the year, Karina had traveled to Boston, where she caught up with Michelle Cho over lunch and went back to visit Andover. Karina works in LA as a corporate attorney.

On Facebook, Mark Jaklovsky posted an awesome video of the Andover Community Chorus singing the “Hallelujah” chorus from Handel’s Messiah in Cochran Chapel. If you look closely, you can just see Mark graciously offer his tenor to the swell of voices.

Ramona Gittens Morgan and her lovely young family are enjoying living in Brooklyn, which, she jests, is teeming with Andover hipsters.

Nick Thompson and Chris White are rumored to be nearby. (Chris was recently spotted as a talking head on Bloomberg Television.) Ramona confirmed the presence of Samantha Appleton, who wrote to say she looked forward to getting her daughter, Beatrice, together with Ramona’s girls, Eve and Tabitha.

Beth Canterbury is happily living in Natick, Mass., with her husband, Tap, and kids, Sam and Isla. She teaches voice at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, where she is also faculty advisor and coach to an a cappella group, Mixed Nuts. She saw Arian Giantris Clements, with her husband, Matt, and girls, Olive and Sophie, over the summer.

Matt and Arian recently moved from Portland to Brunswick, Maine.

Marc Baker celebrated his oldest son’s bar mitzvah in October 2015; David Bernstein flew in from Russia to attend. One week later, Marc was celebrated by Gann Academy for his 10 years of leadership as head of school. “It was an awesome night!” he reports.

Brandon Schwartz called with news of his growing family. Daughter Alex just turned 2 and is looking forward to being a big sister come this June. Brandon is retired from the practice of law.

He lives in San Francisco and has a new career as a real estate entrepreneur. He is learning how to mind his own business (pun intended) while leaving time for coparenting. If any classmates in the Bay Area would be interested in playdates with their kiddos, please contact him.

Ted Sterling wrote from Dancing Rabbit in Missouri, where he is “still kickin’ it ecovillagestyle.” He stepped down from the Dancing Rabbit Inc. nonprofit board this year after 10 years’ service and right on to the Dancing Rabbit Village Council. Ted made a significant foray into cheesemaking this year—primarily hard goat cheeses, though he also made plenty of feta and haloumi (“a Cypriot frying cheese, salty and heavenly”). Ted is pleased that his efforts have started to make a dent in Dancing Rabbit’s dairy importation needs. If anyone else would like to experience the homesteading lifestyle, Ted welcomes your visit.

Ted wrote with updates on a few classmates. He had a near miss with Johanna Cricenti in the DC area this past year. Johanna is spending some time in Malawi. He also received his annual card from Fred Terry, who is safe and sound in Denver.

Jessica Glasser Kaufman wrote to say she is in DC, producing news for the local ABC affiliate each weekday at 5 p.m. Her girls, Maya and Lillian, are 5 and 3.

Jessica shared that Kathryn Henderson lives in Bethesda, Md., where she works for the Gates Foundation. Kathryn was elected the captain of her golf league this past summer. Scott Hennessey is also in Bethesda, where he is likely celebrating the recent budget bill that included extended tax credits for solar power, which has been Scott’s focus for the past few months. Scott works for SolarCity. Kate Kennedy lives in Newton, Mass., with her delightful husband, Dave, and their two kids. She’s helping launch the library at a new elementary school. Jessica noted that Christine Bergren Orr is always the highlight of her Facebook feed. Christine’s adventures with her sons and her husband, James, seem to be never-ending. Christine still runs (and has made the cover of Runner’s World), her kids build Lego marvels, and her son John seems to be the life of any party.

Alexis Dittmer wrote to say that she is living in Jackson, Wyo., and accepting visitors. Alexis recently had the pleasure of bumping into Megan McGrath, who was visiting from NYC. Serendipity!

David Jackson moved with wife Kat and children Isabel and Ollie from Seattle to Munich to lead Amazon.de. In June 2015, Dave helped launch Amazon Mexico. That success opened up further international options to him. Before the move to Germany, Dave was able to take a few months off, traveling with his family to Canada, England,

www.andover.edu/intouch and Luxembourg. The family welcomes visitors and looks forward to exploring more of Kat’s native Europe.

Sofia Echegaray wrote that she’s moved to Boise, Idaho, where she is writing, making music, and testing software. Michael Schulte wrote that he’s doing well and living with his partner, Sarah, on the north side of Chicago. “Anyone planning to be in town, please look me up—we love entertaining and have a spare bedroom!” Mike said it took him less than two months to recuperate from last summer’s Grateful Dead shows. Mike has been working for the past couple of years in the fantasy sports industry.

Mike caught up with Dan Haarmann and Tushaar Agrawal last summer. They’re both doing well and have amazingly cute kids. Dan is in Menlo Park, Calif., with his wife and two kids. Tushaar is in Bethesda, Md., with his wife and three kids.

Mike also played some fun-filled, highly erratic golf with Rejji Hayes this summer. Rejji digs his new job and living in Michigan with his wife and two kids. Gus Quattlebaum was recently promoted to director of pro scouting with the Boston Red Sox. And Peter Kaiser recently welcomed his third child and is living in Chicago.

Ileana Lee wrote from Portland, Ore., where she lives with her husband and her son, Desmond.

The family went on a backpacking trip to eastern Oregon this past September, relying on two llamas to carry their kit.

Thanks again for your updates. Reach out with news! —Susannah Smoot Campbell

1994 Moacir P. de Sá Pereira 244 Greene St. New York NY 10003 312-792-8828 moacir@gmail.com

It is still the case that I am in New York City, and it is also still the case that our class is not as receptive to my cajoling as they seem to have been in the past. Our Facebook group still has many subscribers (http://tinyurl.com/pa94fb), but as I was looking over the e-mail list the other day, I noticed many bouncing e-mails and many unsubscribed users. I say this all the time, but PA gives me a lot of space in which to talk about your adventures, and it’s a shame for me to submit notes that are so comparatively lean.

Anyway, onward. In my own news, my first semester at NYU was great and useful.

It is wonderful to be back in the U.S., and it is especially wonderful to be young and fancy-free in downtown New York. I’m going to start a punk band.

During the fall, I had a long, long phone conversation with Greg Whitmore. The last place we saw each other was only a few miles from the NYU library (where I’m writing this), as we walked

up and down the still new and still tourist-light High Line. Greg has kept himself busy between work in the Pacific Northwest and engagements in Nigeria. He’s still trying to wrap his film about the sculptor Beverly Pepper, but he’s also trying to figure out how to meet—and purchase beverages for—the other 17 inhabitants of North America who don’t yet have Facebook accounts.

Ivan Barry wrote from California, where he still teaches history at the Cate School, near Santa Barbara. He spent an entire month during the summer in Turkey. He was in New York over the fall for his little sister Kezi ’02’s wedding. While in New York, he met up with Byron Chiungos, who also recently got married.

The entire Barry family, including recently retired PA fixtures Don and Roxy Barry, visited Ivan for Christmas. Donna Kaminski has finished her residency program in New Jersey and is moving on to a fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona, while continuing her medical missions in Malawi.

As a sign of how much the gaming industry has changed, Dan Ingster and his wife, Melissa, have been able to leave Las Vegas for Florida without his switching fields. Dan is now the VP of slot operations at the Seminole Hard Rock in Tampa.

Marta Rivera Monclova also has a new job, as an editor at Cloudera, Inc. Danielle Debrule completes this new job triptych, as she is now teaching children’s art classes through an outreach program run by the Newport Art Museum in Newport, R.I. She’s very happy with her new work, because, as she puts it, “Every day is art class!”

In the family section of the notes, former frequent contributor Peter Caperonis wrote to let me know that he is getting married.

Otherwise, things with him are more or less the same, as he continues to work in technology and telecommunications in Philadelphia, while also playing music here and there. Berk Nelson’s second daughter, Clover Malia, was born in December. Aaron Sharma wrote about his family (Ellie is 7, and Harrison and Emmett just turned 3). He’s still working in interventional radiology in upstate New York.

Merry Rose wrote in to insist that her life is “crushingly boring.” At the same time, she included this completely unboring bit of information that I’m reproducing verbatim: “So I’m in LA still.

Hating on the drought. Still working in advertising as a writer. And I’m now an unofficial expert in local travel. So anyplace within a few hours of LA, I can tell you where to eat, camp, hike, shop for used books, and stay in somebody’s cabin. I have no formal outlet for this expertise, just throwing it out there in case anyone needs any advice.” If you find yourself in Los Angeles, then, dear reader, consider asking Merry for travel advice. Similarly, Aaron Flanagan wrote to let me know that he’s had a “pretty uneventful” three months. But in lieu of travel advice, he quoted some lyrics from Public Enemy’s 1990 song, “Can’t Do Nuttin’ for Ya Man.” Finally, I attended my first PA alumni event in

New York in December, a holiday party in Chelsea.

If there were any classmates around, they slipped from view, but I did speak to Deb Blanchard ’90, older sister of Elliott Blanchard. She told me that Elliott was back in New York, living on the Upper East Side. Deb was accompanied by Liz Stites ’90, whose younger brother was a classmate of mine in grade school. Sadly, I didn’t get to talk to them much. I also had separate Rockwell North reminisces with Joaquin Escamille ’97 and Chris Pulling ’97. Much of the evening was spent discussing alumni service with Michael Fang ’95, who interviews for PA, though I also unexpectedly spent awhile talking to Ayaka Shinozaki ’13, who is studying physics at Columbia. One of the guests of honor at the party was Stephen Carter, in whose pre-calculus class I became a wizard at programming the TI-81 calculator; it was a pleasure to speak to him and to his wife, Adela, at length about their son, Steve ’96, who is teaching English at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.

1995 Erik Campano DeMartini-Spano via Saccardo 44 20134 Milano Italy +39 338 740 0452 campano@gmail.com Lon Haber 2645 South Bayshore Drive Miami FL 33133 323-620-1675 lon@lonhaber.com Margot van Bers Streeter +44 077 393 77700 margotstreeter@gmail.com

Laurie Coffey writes that she will be finishing her tour at the U.S. Naval Academy this summer and has been having a good time in Annapolis. She will be taking an assignment in Naples, Italy, with the Navy’s Sixth Fleet headquarters. “I look forward to being stationed overseas in/on something other than an aircraft carrier!” Laurie says. Her daughter, Brooke, is “lamenting” the lack of hockey rinks in southern Italy, so it “looks like it’s time to learn to play soccer.” Laurie has also joined PA’s Andover and the Military affinity group and attended the Veterans Day celebration on campus.

Tyler Currie says that he, Ismael Arjune, Andy Mahony, Leevert Holmes, Jose Saenz, and Joe McCannon recently met up in Gbenga Dawodu’s backyard in Harlem for a barbecue. Tyler writes that Joe has “gotten into artisanal doughnuts.” David Engel and his girlfriend, Jill Nathanson, welcomed their little boy, Braxton, into the world in November. David writes that he’s “toiling away at the entrepreneurship Andover | Summer 2016

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Lon Haber spent some of his winter holidays “tucked into the mountains of Tyrol.”

Vennette Ho Lee has been living in NYC with husband Dave, son Dylan, and daughter Kira.

“In a total ‘I never would have predicted this in 1995’ turn of events,” Vennette writes, “I am an investment banker focused primarily on mergers and acquisitions for the beauty space. A funny tidbit,” she adds, “is that I was actually named one of ‘Beauty’s 50 Most Powerful Women’ by WWD last year. It’s a fun job where I get to meet and help some amazing founders and entrepreneurs in a happy industry.”

Kate Humphrey has celebrated her engagement and is working as a psychiatric nurse in Maryland.

Rick Johanson and his wife are “elated to welcome Crew Robert Johanson into this big, wonderful world. If Andover is in his destiny,” Rick writes, Crew Robert will “graduate with the Class of 2033.”

Alexandra London-Thompson has become the director of dramatic arts at Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Conn., and also the director of children’s programs for the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. Her husband, Peter, is an actor, screenwriter, and director and has been working in the U.K. on two feature films. They live on the Miss Porter’s campus with their 4-year-old.

“It’s a wonderful community,” writes Alexandra, “and we are very happy.” Dede Orraca-Tetteh lives in Wellesley, Mass., has four children, and works as a healthcare consultant across the public and private sectors. She sometimes sees Alexis Curreri Madison, who, Dede says, resides in the neighboring town of Sherborn with her “three beautiful girls.” Dede also “spontaneously” ran into Vanessa Kerry at a playground recently. David Koller writes that he has been enjoying the first year of fatherhood and that he randomly ran into Michael Fang and family in NYC’s Central Park.

Delphine Rubin McNeill and her family were in Palm Beach for the holidays, and she writes that she saw Eric Ray and his wife, Juliet, there. Delphine says she is “enjoying life in London and is busy starting a line of women’s tops.”

Stuart Shapley is in Austin, Texas, working as a patent attorney. He is the proud parent of a 3-year-old girl. Margot Stiles has been spending most of her free time whitewater kayaking with her husband and friends. Margot will be helping coach the Peru office of Oceana, the international ocean conservation and advocacy nonprofit, as it develops its strategy to improve management of

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the largest fishery in the world. Margot reports that she is still also working with Oceana’s offices in Brazil, the Philippines, Canada, and Chile and, “in the meantime, baking lots of bread.” Phil Ciampa writes that he and his wife, Erin, have been looking forward to the arrival of their third daughter.

As for me, Erik Campano, I am working toward my doctorate in medicine at the University of Milan. If you are passing through the city, please do not hesitate to look me up! My apartment has a comfortable guest room, and I have learnt to cook risotto allo zafferano.

1996 20th REUNION June 10–12, 2016 John Swansburg 396 15th St. Brooklyn NY 11215 john.swansburg@aya.yale.edu

We’ll soon have occasion to catch up properly— in person, on a lawn, at our 20th Reunion. In the meantime, a lightning round of updates from near and far: Jenny Hoffman has moved to Vancouver, Canada, to take a position as a professor in the physics department at the University of British Columbia. In fall 2015, she returned to the USA Track & Field 24-Hour National Championship and defended her title, this time by running 138.4 miles in 24 hours. If you’re passing through British Columbia, she says, drop her a line. Bring your sneakers.

Alex Green is on a streak of catching up with old friends. He saw Jerry Bramwell in Chicago in September, David Black-Schaffer in NYC in October (David was in town from Sweden), and Lillian Kiang in Dublin (where she had traveled from Hong Kong) in January. Alex and Lillian were both attending the same aircraft finance conference, naturally. “All were doing well,” Alex reports of his sightings, “and all somehow looked about the same as I remembered from a couple of decades ago.” Alex lives in Manhattan with his wife and three children, ages 8, 7, and 5.

Julie Gwozdz Redfern checked in from San Francisco, where she works for Apple in its retail group. She welcomed a baby, Drew, in November; her daughter, Charlotte, turned 2 in December.

“Charlotte is an amusing chatterbox, and Drew is a cuddly, happy baby,” Julie writes.

Josh Mann got married this past summer to Caroline Pierce. The ceremony was held at Edith Wharton’s old estate, The Mount, in Lenox, Mass., and several carriages full of Andover ’96ers made the journey to the Berkshires to fête the happy couple. Let’s see if I can nail the full list: Steve Carter, Noah Peffer, Alex Burns, Ben Garcia, Chris Flygare, Charlotte Newhouse, Ting Poo, Hamilton Simons-Jones, Bret Asbury, Hannah Pfeifle Harlow, Jesse Kean,

and Mike Krupp were all there, and all in excellent form. Mike’s father officiated, and Mike himself, as is his wont, offered his best man’s toast in rhyme. I captured it on video, if anyone requires proof that Mike’s MC skills have only improved with age.

Charlotte’s very funny Comedy Central series, Idiotsitter, debuted in January. If you haven’t caught it yet, do so.

Megan McClellan adopted a daughter from Taiwan. “Ann is now 7,” Megan writes, “funny and smart and awesome beyond our wildest dreams.

She is rapidly gaining English fluency, and we’re working hard to keep up her native Mandarin Chinese. Ann has already used the laser cutter in the new makerspace at the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library and made collages with PA art students at the Addison in the shadow of Winslow Homer’s paintings. Her favorite colors are pink and purple, but she also loves blue and white.” Megan works at J.P. Morgan as a managing director in the bank’s asset management business. She also dedicates volunteer hours to the SPCA of Westchester (N.Y.) and to an economic development organization focused on a small village in Guatemala.

Minor Myers, Tricia Taitt, and Jane Biondi Munna all attended an event celebrating the Frank Stella ’54 retrospective at the Whitney Museum, a tribute to the artist’s astonishing career. Caitlin Henningsen ’01, a fellow at the Frick Collection, kindly and patiently walked your secretary through an interpretation of The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, from Stella’s influential series of black paintings.

Constantine Farmakidis welcomed his first child, George, in October and recently caught up with Justin Steil. Steve Yang works as a dermatologist in Baltimore and teaches at Johns Hopkins.

Quincy Evans is still living and working right outside Philadelphia. “Kids are growing fast (son Milo, 4, and daughter Kendall, 2 going on 20),” he says, “and I’m going gray even faster.” Quincy reconnected with Bret Asbury in Philadelphia. “It’s awesome to see Andover friends become amazing adults,” he writes. Very true. Eager to see all you amazing adults up close soon.

1997 Jack Quinlan 514 S. Clementine St. Oceanside CA 92054 760-415-9054 illegalparietal@gmail.com Kelly Quinn 2538 NW Thurman St., No. 205 Portland OR 97210 919-949-0736 illegalparietal@gmail.com

Hello everyone! Hope all of you have been enjoying the winter/spring months and that 2016 has been good to you so far.

www.andover.edu/intouch Several of you welcomed new additions to your lives over the past few months. Simone Thavaseelan and husband Brian greeted daughter Iris Leoni Donnenfeld in April 2015; she joins older brother Jake. Simone and Brian still enjoy living in Providence but head up to Andover quite a bit to visit family. Living in Denver, Steve Dise and wife Lauren announced the birth of their son, Anderson, in late December, narrowly escaping what Dise calls the “dreaded Christmasbirthday combo.”

Ali Aiello Lemaitre and Josh Lemaitre welcomed daughter Tilly this past September.

Ali says Tilly is already paying careful attention to the shenanigans of her older brother, Alfie, who is now 3. Ali is teaching perinatal yoga classes and hoping to add fertility yoga and nutrition to the list.

She’s channeling positive yogi power toward the presidential race to help keep haters out of office, while Josh is relying solidly on the power of the Jedi. When he wasn’t busy working at Thomson Reuters, Josh had multiple Star Wars viewings lined up this past December.

Lindsay Warner Ferrer and husband Eddie sent news of the November birth of Alejandro Ferrer. Lindsay describes him as a “spirited” little guy and was gracious enough to share a photo of him with us. Adorable. Marc Hustvedt and wife Carly also added to their brood. Joining older brother Maverick is Edie, born in early January.

Luis Angel Gonzalez recently moved back stateside last December after five years abroad— three in Europe and two in Asia. Luis and wife Lauren are happily tucked away in Newport, R.I., where he is the supervisor of maritime engineering and gas turbine specialty at the U.S. Navy’s Surface Warfare Officers School. Luis will continue working through his command-at-sea training pipeline before returning to the fleet in roughly two to four years. Visit him while you can, just like Mike Napolitano and Jess Judge Cox ’00 recently did.

Also on the move was Adam Tober, who moved back to Boston from Tokyo. Adam will be joining Skinner auctioneers as director of the fine musical instruments department.

Michelle Kalas recently moved to Lawton, Okla., where buffalo roam the wide-open spaces.

Michelle relocated for a position as a civilian legal assistance and claims attorney for the Army at Fort Sill. In addition to this, Michelle was commissioned as a JAG Reserve officer in the Army (her Army specialty is military law, and her job is somewhat like the TV show). All visitors are welcome!

Also welcoming folks to his offices, in DC and Salem, Mass., is Seth Moulton, who continues to work hard down on the Hill to help make a difference in local government. Seth announced his bid for reelection to Congress in early January, continuing to help pave the way for new leaders in government.

David Constantine married Molly Jennings in early September in Osterville, Mass. Helping

to celebrate were Tom Ryan, Pat Noonan, Erin Keaney Noonan, Leah Kalfas LaRose, Owen Tripp, Rob Holmes, Todd Pugatch, Paul Pennelli, Dave Weiner, Lara Constantine Craddock ’89, Tiffany Horne Noonan ’99, Claire Constantine Larson ’01, and Robert Constantine ’06.

We’re excited to announce that some fun and light-hearted jabbing on the social networks actually works! Answering our call for updates were Lisa Devellis Medard, Hillary Dresser Seith, and Elizabeth Adams.

Lisa Devellis Medard is currently enjoying a yearlong maternity leave from an engineering job in UK local government, following the birth of her daughter, Céleste Josephine Rose, this past August.

Lisa moved to coastal East Sussex (England) four years ago from California, and, despite it being billed as the sunniest place in England, she confirmed she officially misses the sun.

This is a big year for Hillary Dresser Seith.

She is celebrating her 10th anniversary with husband Gary Seith (congrats!). They live outside Philadelphia and have two children, 9-year-old Juliet and 6-year-old Alexander (Xander). Hillary just completed an MBA degree at Villanova University in December; she was on a five-year track, during which she earned a fellowship to work on a Villanova women’s initiative, worked as the business manager of a small business, and kept a flexible schedule while raising young kids. She will be starting a new job at Vanguard this summer as a member of their MBA Development Program.

Until then, she is thrilled to have the downtime to tackle some home improvement projects, take a couple of vacations, and visit family and friends, including Maggie Dickson and Julia Henderson, with whom she has remained close over the years.

Elizabeth Adams recently completed a PhD degree program in musical composition. In addition to this amazing feat, Elizabeth also organizes political education workshops through the School for Designing a Society and the Free University of NYC, which grew out of the education working group of Occupy. And in her spare time, Elizabeth helps elders coordinate eldercare and real estate. Impressive indeed.

We learned through the grapevine that Ian Klaus recently received a wonderful review of his 2014 book Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History). We encourage everyone to grab a copy (you can find it on Amazon), as Ian provides an insightful history of modern finance via the evolution of trust over various eras of time.

We were lucky enough to catch up with Shirley Mills and Jed Wartman this past fall during Alumni Council Weekend. Shirley crushes the finance world as a director, portfolio manager, and senior equity analyst on long-only and hedge fund strategies across market caps. Jed continues his work as senior associate dean of students and director of campus life up at Colby College, where

he and his family have been for the past few years.

Wishing all of you the best and looking forward to hearing your next round of updates soon.

—Kelly Quinn

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

Hello ’99ers! I hope this edition finds all of you well, having made it through the crazy El Niño winter! It appears that as a class we have been quite busy. Whether it’s been getting together to celebrate milestones, attaining professional accomplishments, or churning out candidates for the Class of 2033, we are an extremely busy group.

Let’s start with the babies! Adam MacDonald and his wife, Angelina, welcomed their daughter, Presley Harper MacDonald, last July. The MacDonalds live in Orange County, Calif., where Adam is a senior vice president of investments and principal at the Adams Financial Group of Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC. Angelina is a board-certified behavioral analyst, assisting families with specialneeds children in getting funding for behavioral therapy from insurance companies and regional centers. Alex MacCallum and her husband, Nick, welcomed a son, Theodore Hopper Fribourg, in August 2015. Alex was recently appointed to run video at the New York Times and is looking for great people to join the unit. If you, or anyone you know, might be interested, please reach out to her.

Marisa Connors Hoyt and her husband, Kyle, welcomed their third child, a daughter named Eliza, last September. Eliza joins big brother Connor and big sister Eve. Marisa says that life as a family of five is pretty crazy, but the Hoyts continue to enjoy life in Charleston, S.C. In November, Robert Ramsey and his wife, Tricia, welcomed the newest member of their family, Anna Ruth Ramsey, who joins older brother George. The Ramseys reside in Charlottesville, Va., and are very much enjoying living there. Jenny Seo and her husband, Anthony, welcomed a baby boy, Brennan, in December 2015. Jenny and family are currently living in Chicago, where Jenny is finishing up the last year of a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of Chicago.

The plan is to stick around Chicago after Jenny completes her program, at least for a couple of years. Congratulations to all the new parents and growing families!

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But the baby train doesn’t stop there! Expectant father Bill McGonigle wrote in, saying, “I had the opportunity to meet up with Barrett Hamilton the day after Thanksgiving. We both brought our wives to one of our old high school hangouts: Richardson’s Ice Cream over in Middleton, Mass.

While it was great to see Barrett again (I hadn’t seen him since my wedding), I was looking forward to springing some other news on the old dormmate.

Funny thing is, he was looking forward to springing some news on me, too. Long story short: We’re both expecting our first kids in June, with due dates about a week apart. In other fun news, Lindsay Hoopes moved in down the street from me here in DC. We ran into each other at the local cheese shop but sadly haven’t had a chance to catch up more.”

Barrett is living in Wyndham, N.H. He spent New Year’s Eve with Kris Hedges and Kris’s wife, Caroline, in New Hampshire, and also had the opportunity to catch up with J.P. Chisholm a few days before Christmas in NYC. Barrett also recently saw Lindsay Hoopes (who is quite the globe-trotter) at a trade show for his company’s distributor in Boston. Both Hoopes Vineyards and Barrett’s company’s portfolio are represented by Horizon Beverage in Massachusetts. Kristin Cook works for Horizon Beverage, and the trio were able to catch up at the show in the ballroom of the Seaport Hotel, the room where we started our senior prom.

Also in Boston I had the pleasure of attending Nathaniel Fowler’s beautiful wedding last fall at the Boston Public Library. The Class of ’99 was well represented. All the way from South Korea, Eugene Cho taunted wedding guests with the possibility of a reenactment of Psy’s “Gangnam Style.” Also in attendance were Colin Dinneen, Fletcher Boyle, Teddy Dunn, Matt Kalin, T.J. Durkin, Jim Ellis, Alex Mantel, and Lindsay Hoopes.

On the professional side of things, Rob Crawford wrote in to say, “A college friend and I started publishing a poetry journal called Prelude (preludemag.com), which has won a Pushcart Prize. The second issue is now available at Barnes & Noble. Other than that, I’m still working as an editor and book researcher in New York City, and I actually did some research work on Jon Meacham’s recent biography of George H.W. Bush ’42.”

I also heard from Kam Lasater, who reports, “I have ‘retired’ from the software company I founded, SeeClickFix. Instead of working full time, I’m now only on the board and live full time in Philadelphia.

The plan is to take 2016 as a sabbatical year and recharge for the next venture.”

Finally, Bill Lincoln and Piercarlo Valdesolo are both members of the faculty at Claremont McKenna College. Bill is an assistant professor of economics and Piercarlo is an assistant professor of psychology and the director of the college’s Moral Emotions and Trust Lab. The two see each other from time to time at faculty meetings.

That’s it for this go-round. Please keep the news coming! Have a great summer, and I look forward to hearing from all of you in the fall.

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Last November, Dan Ankeles, John Michael DiResta, and Barbara Rotundo converged on campus as Barbara’s parents, Kathleen Dalton and Tony Rotundo, received the 2015 McKeen Award, the Brace Center’s highest honors for work in gender issues (see photo, page 86). Dan said, “We had a great time and learned some crazy things about how campus used to be, which the powers that be might not let you publish. I’m only half joking.” He also tipped us off that John is getting married this summer. (At the time of writing, this had been neither confirmed nor denied by the alleged groom-to-be, so stay tuned.)

Over the holidays, I swung by the Park Street Pub in Andover to reunite with Jessie Smith (still living it up in Tampa, Fla.), Adam Schoene (on the verge of receiving a PhD degree from Cornell), and Aaron Litvin. We talked long and deep enough that I lost my voice. We also cackled, recalling the greatest (and only) campus voice-mail shenanigan ever (who remembers?). Hungry for conversation even after the local haunt had closed for the night, we proceeded to Aaron’s pad, where he cracked open a bottle of whiskey from his recent trip to Tokyo and gave us an exclusive preview of his documentary on Brazilian migrants living in Japan.

The topic of his undergraduate and graduate theses, the film was painstakingly constructed during a decade of working and living in Brazil and Japan.

Wouldn’t be surprised to see this up on the big screen soon.

Also over the holiday season, Mabel Ning Bernstein’s baby boy, Gen, turned 1! The Bernsteins moved to Jersey City, N.J., over the summer and continue to love living there.

Tristan Perich had a baby girl named Bronwyn (now 2 years old!) with wife Lesley Flanigan.

Tristan’s other shining moments have included composing a triple string quartet commissioned by the LA Philharmonic and releasing Parallels, recognized as one of Rolling Stone’s “20 Best Avant Albums of 2015.” Of course, Tristan didn’t tell me this himself—it’s public information for any art or music appreciator to find, so forgive me for doing some bragging for you, Tristan!

J.M. Imbrescia and his wife welcomed their baby boy, Massimo, last March, then—after 11 years of residence and eight years of marriage in Brooklyn—escaped from New York to Somerville, Mass., at the start of this year. Congratulations on all counts, J.M. The grand finale of these notes has been made possible by Sterlind S. Burke Jr., whose gracious consent to share his contribution verbatim makes a proper close to this edition. Till next time, my friends.

Sterlind’s story: “On June 11, 2014, I met someone who would have more of an impact on my life than I ever thought possible. She opened my eyes and made me realize how bad my health had gotten. I started to turn my life around at that point and began the process of looking for somewhere to have bariatric (weight loss) surgery.

As I was going through the required doctor’s appointments, I was discovering that my health was even worse than I knew. I needed to start making changes right away; I couldn’t wait for surgery. Between late June 2014 and Aug. 5, 2015, which was the day of my surgery, I lost 117 pounds.

I felt better than I had for at least five or six years.

“The gastric sleeve surgery went well. I did my three days in the hospital, and then I was gone.

I didn’t even need to take the pain medication that was provided for me. I went to my follow-up appointments later that week, and I was cleared to resume doing what I love, coaching football. The first day of practice was on Aug. 12, and I was really excited for it. I went to practice and made sure I followed the doctor’s orders. I was just happy to be interacting with the kids. That night, as I was getting out of bed, I felt a pop on the right side of my abdomen. I instantly felt intense pain, my body felt heavy, and I had trouble breathing. I walked down to my kitchen to take some pain medication, thinking that was what I needed. It took me five minutes to walk downstairs to the kitchen and 10 minutes for me to get back upstairs. I knew something was wrong, but I sat on my bed and contemplated just sleeping it off. The pain very quickly became too much to bear, and I called 911.

“Eventually, the doctors were able to figure out that a blood vessel near my colon had burst and I had massive internal bleeding. When I first reached the hospital, my blood pressure was 45 over 25.

The doctor performed emergency surgery; he later told my parents he removed a basketball-sized amount of blood from my abdomen. He also said that had I not called 911 when I did, I would have bled to death in two or three hours. I woke up in bed with a breathing tube down my throat. I spent a week in the hospital and was out of work for another three weeks.

“Knowing how close I was to death was the scariest experience of my life. I was so glad that I had already taken steps to change my life, since it is likely I would not have survived the emergency operation if I had not lost the initial weight. The time in the hospital was a time that I did a lot of thinking and praying. It was a life-changing event, to say the least. I am happy to say that I have lost 212 pounds since June 2014. I am now the lightest I have been since my junior year of college. I am looking forward to continuing my healthy journey and continuing to increase my workout intensity. I thank God every single day that He decided that I was not done on this earth. I am living every day to the fullest, and I will not waste this second chance that I have been given.”

www.andover.edu/intouch 2001 15th REUNION June 10–12, 2016 Misty Muscatel 203-569-9713 mistina.muscatel@gmail.com

Members of the Class of ’01 continue to rise through the ranks in their industries and bring beautiful new babies into the world. We are gearing up for our 15th Reunion this June and are pumped to get the gang back together!

Update of the quarter goes to Will Chan, who at this writing was volunteering for a few weeks in Lesvos, Greece, where many refugees arrive in boats from nearby Turkey and then await EU processing. He has found it inspiring to see how many ordinary people step in to fill gaps left by governments and NGOs. Carly Rockstroh was promoted to director at PwC earlier this year and is currently leading their account at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, among other public sector financial services clients. Carly moved up to Chevy Chase, Md., a year and a half ago and is having fun with her puppy, Sieger.

Debbie Linder is still rocking on the faculty at Tufts Veterinary School and has also recently become associate director of the Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction. Her current project involves bringing therapy animals to visit children with cancer at nearby UMass Medical Center. With this new project, she gets to see Mara Meyer Epstein and her daughter, Hannah, as Mara works at UMass.

Vanessa Nickerson is still living in Denver and had a glorious trip to Costa Rica over Christmas with her boyfriend, Jeff Forbes, along with her family. Vanessa also began a new position as a criminal law associate with Hernandez & Associates, P.C., a boutique criminal-defense and immigration law firm.

Helen Ho has been working for Vanguard in Malvern, Penn., for the past four years, since graduating from business school. She had a great, relaxing holiday hanging out with Meredith Chin.

Ashley Foster Sellers is finishing an MBA degree program this spring at Kellogg in Chicago and participated in an exchange program in Melbourne, Australia, for a bit this winter. She loved escaping the Chicago winter and enjoying the 80-degree weather every day.

Raquel Leonard Moreno is still doing well with husband Orlando in Philadelphia. They enjoyed a quiet holiday season and celebrated Hanukkah for the first time with local friends.

Just before the holidays, Nekia Durant came to visit Raquel for a day of vegging out and catching up. Stephanie Araujo also visited Raquel down in Philadelphia, and her visit coincided with the FringeArts festival, where they saw an artistic performance by the Leah Stein Dance Company.

This past November, Misty Muscatel ’01 married James Davis in Boston, with many Andover friends sharing in the celebration (all Class of ’01, except as noted). Front, from left: Alida Payson, Caitlin Henningsen, Ella Hoffman, Amita Singh, Marion Read (obscured), the bride and groom, Ruth Weiner ’66, Sarah Kline, Nicholas Ma, Paige Austin, Stefani Kovach ’02, and Nate Beck.

Back row: Greg Sherman, Danielle Vardaro, Rachel Weiner, Josh Aisenberg ’00, Tom Beaton ’73, Erin Winkler, and Smita Singh.

In Class of 2034 news, Susie Dickson and her husband, Jamie DeGraw, recently welcomed their first child, Dickson McEachern DeGraw. Dickson met his Andover aunties Marion Read and Erin Winkler, who also live in San Francisco, and looks forward to meeting the rest of the ’01 crew.

Marion has had an amazing time with her new son, Malcolm, including introducing him to Andover aunties Susie Dickson and Erin Winkler at home in San Francisco and the whole crew at my wedding in Boston. Marion returned to work at O’Melveny & Myers in January.

James Kenly and wife Kristen welcomed their second child, Andrew Robert Kenly, last August.

Scott Darci came to Denver over Halloween and James’s daughter dressed him up as a “big kittycat” for trick-or-treating! The Kenly family gets to see Greg Kimball and Kate Kimball regularly, now that they’ve moved to Boulder, Colo., and they see Steve Dise ’97 occasionally, as their kids are in the same play group. James also finished an MBA degree program at the University of Denver in August.

Gavin McGrath and wife Amanda are excited to become a family of five this June, as they anticipate the arrival of their third child.

In the Big Apple, Ife Babatunde is working for LinkedIn. I heard from Elka Gruenberg, who will graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) this spring with a master’s degree in global fashion management. The program has taken her to Paris, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. In New York, she has been working for French lingerie brand Simone Pérèle as their fit expert and also as Northeast account executive. While flying back from Hong Kong, Elka ran into Christine Lee in the airport; Christine was on her way to Myanmar.

Over on the West Coast, Kevin Sinclair, Brad Meacham, and I met up for dinner in LA over the winter. Liesl Beecher-Flad got married

to Antonio Sirabella, a delightful, kind, and handsome “Mainer,” at San Francisco City Hall the Thursday before Labor Day. Christine Lee and Shanna Bowie were in attendance at the small reception afterward, held at the Mill Valley, Calif., home of Liesl’s father, Ward Flad ’68. Liesl has been working at the Togus campus of the VA Maine Healthcare System as a licensed clinical psychologist in primary care, striving each day toward better integration between primary care and mental health. The newlyweds are living in Hallowell, Maine (aka “New Orleans on the Kennebec”), in a converted mill apartment. Liesl is very much looking forward to the 15th Reunion in June, especially since it’s now just a drive away and she doesn’t risk missing her flight!

In other nuptial news, I tied the knot with James Davis in November at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel with a serious Andover and ’01 crowd to share the special day. The weekend turned out to be beautiful, sunny, and brisk, with the foliage holding out for us, letting out-of-town guests enjoy their time in Boston. Joining in the festivities were Alida Payson, who traveled from Wales, Nate Beck, who traveled from Alaska, Marion Read and Erin Winkler, who came in from the West Coast, and Amita Singh and Smita Singh, who came in from Chicago, as well as East Coasters Paige Austin, Nicholas Ma, Greg Sherman, Ella Hoffman, Caitlin Henningsen, Josh Aisenberg ’00, Stef Kovach ’02, Tom Beaton ’73, and Ruth Weiner ’66. Rachel Weiner was by my side as a bridesmaid, and Sarah Kline read an amazing Big Blue blessing during the ceremony. We are so excited for this next chapter and were happy to have been surrounded by so much Andover love during our wedding. We followed up the fun with a safari honeymoon in Africa this February.

These are our last notes before our 15th Reunion! We are so ready!

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Andover friends turned out in force for the Nantucket wedding of Lirra Schiebler ’03 and Dave Hill ’03 in July. Front, from left: Mari Ono Zilles ’03, Claire Reyner ’03, the bride and groom, and Alyssa Hill ’06, Dave’s sister. Back row: Meryl Mims ’03, Sam Levenback ’04, Zach Cafritz ’03, Matt Longley ’03, Alessandra Colaianni ’03, Shaalini Ramanadhan ’03, Rashid Galadanci ’03, Aneesa Sayall ’03, Bob Yamartino ’03, and Nick Ingaciola ’03.

2002 Lauren Nickerson P.O. Box 711477 Mountain View HI 96771 Lauren9@gmail.com

Aloha, Class of ’02! Before we get started, here is a quick reality check for all of us: Recently, I had a conversation with my husband and remarked that our “10-year reunion” was next year. He quickly responded, “How old are you?’’ Oops. We are coming up on our 15th Reunion next year! As it turns out, I am not the only one with memory lapse. Sam Takvorian concluded his update e-mail with “Hope to see you at the 10-year.” Guys, we aren’t in our 20s anymore! Without further ado, here are the notes.

Caroline Van Zile had quite a busy 2015. In July, she finished working as a law clerk for Justice Anthony Kennedy. In September, she got engaged and followed it up with some world travel. She went to South Africa and Southeast Asia, where she met up with Paull Randt ’04. She is now living in DC again, working for a law firm. She got together with Nadeem Mazen, Chris Wegrzyn, and James Sonne to catch up and hear about Nadeem’s ventures in business and politics.

In September, Emily Reynolds launched a 24-hour online news service called The Spark (www.sparkthenews.com), based in Brockton, Mass. The site’s mission is to provide unbiased, hyperlocal news and return journalism to its purest form—no endorsements, no opinion, just the facts. Check it out!

Sam Takvorian, whom I look forward to seeing at our 15th Reunion, and his wife, Melina Marmarelis, were both matched into fellowships in hematology/oncology at Penn and look forward to their upcoming move from Boston to Philly.

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Stephen “Stevie” Brock moved to Detroit and started a songwriting and recording program for high school students. Stevie stays in touch with Wills Hapworth, who is “doing great things” with his Thought Into Action Entrepreneurship Institute at Colgate, and Dean Felch, a newly minted firefighter in New Orleans.

Niki Roberts got married Nov. 7 in Houston to Krisa Benskin. Ryan Coughlan played the role of flower man (which sounds amazing, and I really wish we had photo evidence). Nancy Glober and faculty member Carol Israel attended, as did Niki’s stepfather, David Whittemore ’78.

Katherine Cascio is currently working on a dissertation focused on improving mental health and trauma services for women trying to leave prostitution. She recently saw Kim Ramos and Dave Breen while home for winter break. Kim and Katherine enjoyed a lunch in downtown Andover at Bertucci’s.

Laura Miller, Amy Galvin, and Melanie Cyr joined Sasha Corken at her new home in Reading, Mass., for a Halloween celebration. Regarding the location of her new home, Sasha remarked that if she and her husband ever choose to have kids, “I guess they will be day students!”

Tony Bitz had an exciting 2015. He and his girlfriend quit their jobs in NYC and toured the United States in a counterclockwise road trip. Their travels took them to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and finally, our nation’s capital. Along the way, they saw Geoff O’Donoghue, Adam Arguelles, and Chloe Lewis. They also traveled to Hawaii and stayed with Diane Liu in Honolulu. Highlights

from their trip include camping in the Badlands and surfing in Maui. The entire trip was a “farewell to the U.S. tour,” as the happy couple will be moving to London next year.

Not to be outdone by his former cross-country and track teammate, Pablo Durana once again contributed to my favorite game, “Where in the World is Pablo Durana?” He spent a month filming a documentary inside an active volcano in Vanuatu. He spent another month in Afghanistan documenting women’s rights and filming the first female Afghan mountaineering team. He also filmed in Angola, where he explored new rock climbing regions and helped set up an offgrid solar program. Kudos to those of you who know where Vanuatu is. Full disclosure: I had to Google it.

During the holidays, husband Bobby and I joined Mari Ono Zilles ’03 and her husband, Kyle, for a delicious dinner where everyone upstaged me by doing “uni shooters.” Has anyone else tried this?

It was definitely not my cup of tea, or rather, cup of sea urchin gonads. If any of you are ever headed to the Big Island, drop me a line. You are more than welcome to buy your favorite class secretary a cup of Kona coffee or a pineapple martini. In return, I may even be willing to play tour guide!

Thank you to everyone who submitted notes.

It is always wonderful to hear from classmates far and wide. Remember, no update is too small or big; we take them all! Until next time, go Big Blue!

—Lauren

2003 Will Heidrich wheidrich@gmail.com

This past year was another productive one for the Class of 2003. To kick things off, several more classmates made vows in 2015. Lirra Schiebler married Dave Hill in Nantucket, Mass., in July with a host of close friends from Andover in attendance.

Among the group were Meryl Mims, Zach Cafritz, Alessandra Colaianni, Matt Longley, Shaalini Ramanadhan, Rashid Galadanci, Aneesa Sayall, Bob Yamartino, Nick Ingaciola, Mari Ono Zilles, and Claire Reyner.

Jeanne LeSaffre married longtime boyfriend Mitch St. Peter ’02 this past fall in San Francisco.

They celebrated with some of their best friends from Andover, including Kelly Sinclair, Alexa Franchot, Nick Franchot, and Anthony Pucillo, as well as many others from 2002 and 2001. Jeanne and Mitch now live in San Francisco, as do an evergrowing number of our classmates.

Ryan McChristian wrote from Tokyo, where he has been working for the state department for the past few years. He hosted classmate Itiah Thomas in Tokyo as she traveled the world this past fall. The two of them joined an Andover gathering with a number of alumni from other classes. Itiah has been on an eight-month trip

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Jeanne LeSaffre ’03 and Mitch St. Peter ’02 got married last October in San Francisco, surrounded by Andover friends. From left are Anthony Pucillo ’03, Pat Linnemann ’02, Nick Franchot ’03, Ben Beinecke ’02, Brandon Winston ’02, the bride and groom, Freddie Martignetti ’02, Luke LeSaffre ’01, Jonathan Judson ’02, Jonathan Adler ’02, Alexa Raducanu ’03, Drew Comins ’02, and Kelly Sinclair ’03.

through Asia and Europe, culminating in a move to Australia. She managed to see Sara Duvisac in Kerala, India, while visiting there. Nick Ksiazek also traveled the world this past fall. After finishing his latest stint with the Marines, he took some time off to vacation and travel before starting business school at the University of Virginia.

Nick’s former Will Hall neighbor Phil Caruso wrote from NYC, where he and Kaitlin Ainsworth Caruso have landed. After finishing joint degrees in law and business at the University of Chicago, Phil has returned to A.T. Kearney.

I heard from several other classmates in NYC as well: Stephen Fee, who is a publisher and correspondent for PBS; Andy Hattemer, who started a new job in growth at DigitalOcean; and Emily O’Brien, who visited Tara Gadgil and Matt Lindsay in San Francisco this fall.

Chana Sacks reported back from Boston, where she is now chief resident in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Chana has run into Alessandra Colaianni a number of times at MGH, where Alessandra is completing her surgical internship. Dan Koh also wrote from Boston, where he and Shaun Blugh both work in the mayor’s office and keep up with each other.

Lucy Keating lives in Los Angeles. Her young-adult novel, Dreamology, was published in April. Lucy has stayed close with longtime pals Alex Jamali, now living in the Bay Area, and Justine Wardrop and Sarah Carden Cookfair, both now living in New York. Evan McGarvey wrote from Austin, Texas, where he and his wife, Allegra Asplundh-Smith ’04, now live.

Head of School John Palfrey visited San Francisco last fall. There was an awesome turnout from our class, including Katie Dlesk, Janis Scanlon Rice, Jeanne St. Peter, Matt Lindsay, Michael Ruderman, Tom Oliphant, Alex Minasian, Alexa Franchot, Jina Corneau,

When Cotton Harrold ’04 got married in Jamaica in May, alums from several classes turned out. Front, from left: Katie Hunckler ’05, the groom, Hilary Baker ’08, Lindsay Baker ’05, and Justine Wardrop ’03. Back row: Biff Stulgis ’68, Harry Goldstein ’05, Seth Stulgis ’04, John Freker ’04, and Warren Baker ’66.

and Phoebe Rockwood. I spent New Year’s Eve in Northern California with a number of friends, including Tara Gadgil. Tara moved to San Francisco last summer after spending the past few years in Boston. On New Year’s Eve, I also caught up with Greysen Carlson, who called from New York, where he has been working on a political campaign. I’ve also managed to keep up with a couple of other classmates in the area, including Dave Beyer, Tom Dimopoulos, and Nick Franchot.

That’s it for 2015. Please continue to send your news for 2016.

2004 Ali Schouten 1806 Lucretia Ave. Los Angeles CA 90026 617-584-5373 AlisonSchouten@gmail.com

I’m typing up this batch of notes on the last day of 2015, and it’s been a very merry year for the Class of 2004. Cotton Harrold got married, and 10 Andover alumni, representing six classes, were in attendance, including best man Seth Stulgis.

Taylor Yates expected to become a father in March 2016. Alex Thorn proposed to Hannah Norton, and Laurie Ignacio got engaged to Laura Kaneko and will wed in Los Angeles this summer. Both Alex and Laurie celebrated with trips alongside former Andover classmates. Alex and Hannah went skiing with Seth Stulgis and his fiancée. Laurie and Laura enjoyed a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, with Shauni Deshmukh and her husband, Goss Nuzzo-Jones. After the vacation, Shauni returned to her exciting new job working for the U.S. Digital Service, which helps improve

technology in government. And congratulations to our class for going from lowest to highest participation in the A-E alumni giving challenge, which Whitney Kelly Wilkinson proudly brought to my attention. Whitney has an Exeter student in one of her classes and has, she says, “already informed him we cannot be friends.” Given Whitney’s friendly disposition, I’m sure even her so-called enemies enjoy her company.

Amy O’Gorman Block moved to Wisconsin with her husband and their son. Amy would love to see anyone in the area. When she’s not parenting or enjoying the fine beers and cheeses of Wisconsin, Amy enjoys volunteering and crafting.

Alanna Hughes finished school this spring after spending the holidays in Massachusetts with family and traveling to Brazil for vacation and to Uruguay for an MBA project. Kinnon McCall Foley lives in Charlestown, Mass., with her husband, Oliver, and works for the Lawrence Public Schools, where she occasionally collaborates with PA students and staff. Aaron L’Heureux is leaving his job at Amazon to “work in the land of cat .gifs, Imgur.”

He recommends traveling to Cambodia, where he recently enjoyed a vacation. Jacqueline Bovaird saw Hilary Papantonio and Ellen Knuti in New York and McKee Floyd when McKee last visited Los Angeles.

Ashley Whitehead Luskey finished up a busy first semester teaching public history at West Virginia University and growing her historical consulting business. She also served as both a contributor and guest editor for a special blog series on the Confederate flag controversy and monument debate run by the National Council on Public History. In addition to writing many articles, she is working on a book. Emily Weston is a proud mom—to a big, bouncing 63-foot sailing catamaran. She owns a charter boat company (Lyric Sails) that does sunset sails with live Andover | Summer 2016

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Over on the West Coast, Lily Kelly enjoyed some time off during the holidays in San Francisco, including attending a New Year’s Eve concert by the Decembrists with her husband, Dan Adamsky ’06. Sarah Wendell moved to San Francisco to work at the John Berggruen Gallery and has had lots of fun running into former Addison directors Jock Reynolds ’65 (now at Yale) and Adam Weinberg (now at the Whitney Museum of American Art). Additionally, Sarah regularly sees Adam Draper, who continues to enjoy fatherhood and running Boost VC. Lolita Munos Taub is a founding member and VP of sales for Glassbreakers, the only womenowned, women-led diversity and inclusion enterprise software startup in Silicon Valley. The goal is 50-50 male-female leadership boards across all businesses. On the personal front, Lolita celebrated two years of marriage and adopted a rescue dog named Choco. Jenny Wong Sharp will soon join the rest of us here in California.

She will move to Menlo Park when her husband, Nathan, begins a job with Facebook. And I’m enjoying the rare rainy season we’re having in LA, which is a great excuse to write or not write, depending on my mood. Over the holidays, I met my baby nephew, Clark, who is adorable and perfect and will never do anything wrong. Then I spent time with Olivia Oran Beaton in NYC and gazed longingly at the Instagram accounts of Emma Sussex and Ellen Knuti, who traveled in Japan with their boyfriends. Wishing everyone another great year!

2005 Ian Schmertzler Ian.Schmertzler.Andover@gmail.com

News of happenings in our class came from far and wide this season.

Meta Weiss reported in from Australia, where she recently took up the post of senior lecturer in cello at the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane. Meta plans to marry a fellow cellist, David Requiro, this July. Meta and David met when they were in, respectively, sixth and eighth grades but did not begin dating until college.

The two just released their first duo cello album, A Dué Celli, under the apt group name of the Weiss-Requiro Duo. Jesse Seegers wrote in from New York, where he is serving as an editor at Columbia University’s school of architecture, teaching graphic design at NYU, writing about art and architecture for magazines, and building inflatable architecture pavilions for parties in the city.

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Derrick Kuan, Uzoma Iheagwara, Bill Beregi, Anwell Lanfranco, and James Feigenbaum, all Class of ’04, celebrated together at Uzoma’s April 2015 wedding in Pittsburgh.

Laylah Mohammed’s wedding. While there, Matt bunked with Sarah Donelan and caught up with Meta Weiss, Emma Wischusen Blaser, and Chas Steinhardt. In October, Matt joined Indiewire’s Thompson on Hollywood blog as a full-time staff writer and TV critic. Matt had dinner with Chris Zegel and Meg Scarborough when he was in the Boston area for Christmas, and Jay Geary and his girlfriend, Tessa, dropped by Matt’s “New Year’s Eve rager” in New Orleans.

Patrick Jiang commenced a PhD degree program in Hong Kong in the fall. He and Stephanie Chan played squash together a few times this past January.

Carina Serreze reported in from a sailboat off the coast of Thailand. She is carrying on with an MBA/MPH program at UC Berkeley’s Haas School and would welcome any ’05ers who happen to be passing through.

Natasha Midgley rang in the New Year with Andy St. Louis and Anthony Reyes.

Kelly Stecker, Cara Ruccolo, John Tincoff, Henry Manice, Peter Accomando, James Boumil, Wes Howe, James Paolino, Elliot Feng, Chris Donais, and a few other members of our class got together in Boston this past fall.

Anthony Green wrote an article about his SAT prep company for news site Vox. He reports— in more colorful terms than those employed herein—that business is going extremely well. Ian Schmertzler and brother Ethan Schmertzler ’07 spent the last few weeks of the year launching a product line for their firm, Dispel.io.

In December, Nate Scott, Stephen Sherrill, Christian Vareika, Kyle Kucharski, Matt Brennan, Nate Kellogg, Meg Coffin ’03, Alex Lebow, Vic Miller, Katharine Matsumoto ’07, Steven Rolecek, and David Wilkinson attended Ben Hoerner’s wedding to Jessica Roberts in Kansas City, Mo. Following the wedding, the couple adopted another elderly bulldog, which they say bites far less than the one they brought to the 10th Reunion.

2006 10th REUNION June 10–12, 2016 Jeni Lee 18228 Mallard St. Woodland CA 95695 925-846-8300 Jeni.lee519@gmail.com Paul Voorhees 6200 2nd Ave., No. 210 Detroit MI 48202 404-402-4869 pauldvoorhees@gmail.com

It was great to connect with everyone recently, and we hope you’re all feverishly anticipating our upcoming 10th Reunion! We are in the process of planning a fabulous weekend, so we really hope you all can join us there. Don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions.

Emily Pollokoff’s two daughters, Hazel and Clara, are rapidly growing (as kids tend to!).

Hazel, the oldest, is well on her way to reading, and Clara is as curious as ever. In addition to raising her beautiful girls, Emily is very busy planning next year’s garden (more arugula and less kale), a homeschool co-op group, and a new business venture!

In summer 2015, Andrea Coravos completed Dev Bootcamp, which is a full-stack software engineering education program. She is interested in becoming a Web developer. Justin Yi visited with Andrea in the San Francisco Bay Area while she was at Dev Bootcamp. Mia Kanak and Jeni Lee caught up with Andrea for wine and cookies in December while Jeni was visiting Boston for job interviews post-graduation (she recently completed a PhD degree in biomedical engineering at UC Davis). Mia is in residency at Boston Children’s Hospital and Andrea is at Harvard Business School. Andrea also spends a

Sarah Sherman ’04 fair bit of time with Becky Agostino ’07. Jeni also caught up with Justin over the summer while he was in San Francisco for work. While in SF on tour, Kevin Olusola and Jeni grabbed hot pot in Chinatown.

Faaez Jafarey quit his job last year, traveled the world for most of 2015, and had a lot of fun!

He was able to see Julian Jacobson and Rajeev Saxena when he visited Seattle in October. Faaez is currently living in NYC and started his new job at RBC. Tobey Duble is teaching in NYC and spends time with the usual ’06ers in New York. She visited Gordon Murphy in London for a weekend, and she saw Sarah Linnemann over winter break when they caught up at the Lantern Brunch in Andover!

Dariana (Tanisha) Colon-Bibb and her NYC-based strategic communications company, Rebelle Agency, were profiled on Fox 5 News by anchor Ernie Anastos in November. The segment was about millennial entrepreneurship and the founding of her company. As her company expands, she hopes to connect and work with more Andover alumni.

Desmond Bonhomme-Isaiah launched publishing company moNPO International in January 2016. Desmond publishes under two pen names: Onray J. Acksoon (@onrayj) for poetry and Henri Isaiah for self-help and nonfiction.

Currently enrolled in a PhD degree program at St. John’s University, Desmond is a rapper, entrepreneur, author, and developer; he resides in St. Albans, Queens, N.Y. Jonathan Rivas married his college sweetheart, Melissa Blake, on June 6, 2015, at the Half Moon Resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica. A few fellow alums were in attendance: Randy Garcia was a great best man, and Todd Kwao-Vovo, Clinton Prospere, and Robert Constantine made the trip out as well. It was a small destination wedding, and Jonathan confirms that it was a wonderful time for everyone involved.

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hen Sarah Sherman ’04 was a junior at Andover, she made a list of life goals: compete in the Olympics, run a mile in under seven minutes, and build something that ends up on Mars. Exceptional dreams, all of them, and possibly not realistic for the average person—unless, like Sherman, you’re now a mechanical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Last year, Sherman was flight director for the launch of the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission (SMAP), an orbital observatory that monitors and measures moisture in the top level of the

earth’s soil. It provides global maps of soil moisture, ultimately collecting data for use in weather and climate studies. Sherman conducted the launch, deftly managing a variety of teams and getting SMAP into orbit.

“I was nervous,” she recalls, “but we had practiced so many times. It was a perfect launch.”

It was also the culmination of years of hard work and dedication. After a rigorous academic career—from PA to Princeton University, then on to USC—you might think Sherman would slow down or take a break. But Sherman, who just turned 30, fairly thrums with energy.

Sherman, whose father, Bill, graduated with the Class of 1960, grew up in the San Mateo, Calif., suburbs “tinkering” and playing with Legos; she learned how to fly a Cessna before she could drive. She’s fascinated by how things work, once helping rebuild a 1927 Model T truck engine for the fun of it. After falling in love with crew at Andover (her boat beat out Exeter to win the New England Interscholastic Rowing Association Championship while she was here), she was invited to try out for the U.S. Junior National Team as coxswain. She is also an accomplished triathlete.

“I remember when I was younger, I was singing in a kids’ opera and I had a conflicting crew race,” laughs Sherman. “I didn’t know which to choose, but my parents said, ‘That’s not a conflict. We’ll do both.’ It was always stressed upon me to do both.”

Now Sherman is on to her next challenge. She is working toward a Mars 2020 mission, as part of a team putting together a rover that will collect surface samples from the Red Planet.

“I’m designing the metal tubes that will get dropped on the planet’s surface to collect rock,” says Sherman. “The tubes are the size of a marker. They’ll remain on Mars for two decades and then be picked up and brought back for study. Just saying that reminds me that I have the coolest job. I get to work on things that will go to Mars!”

For now, Sherman focuses on her day-to-day tasks at the lab and spends time mentoring and tutoring young kids in math and science. And Sherman thinks she has honored her to-do list written as a teenager at PA. “It occurred to me recently,” she says, “that 14-year-old me would be so proud of me now.”

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On a picture-perfect September day, Jennifer Wang ’06 married Jonathan Hahn in Danvers, Mass. Front, from left: Becca Howe ’06, Felicity Bloom ’06, Kate Therkelsen ’06, Sarah Gershkon ’06, the bride and groom, and Brian Batas. Back row: Andrew Yoon ’06, Matt Kahn ’06, Frank King, and Michael Farthing.

Anastasia “Tess” Scott married Choate graduate Derek Davidson this past August in Kennebunkport, Maine. Haley Scott ’11 was her maid of honor, and Whitney Dublin, Jevan Jammal, and Dariana Colon-Bibb were bridesmaids. Sam Hall, Ben Weiner, and Julie Wadland also were in attendance.

Congratulations, Tess and Derek!

Mike McMahon and Yurie Sekigami got married this past September at Cochran Chapel at Andover and held their reception at the Lanam Club in Andover. Mike writes: “It was really special for us to be able to have the ceremony on the Andover campus and in the chapel where Yurie spent four years of her life singing in Fidelio and the choir. I also spent a good deal of time there, waiting outside the door for her practices to be over so I could walk her home at night. All of my family was able to join, and most of Yurie’s family made the long journey from Japan to be with us!”

Also joining the festivities were Danny Clark (Mike’s best man), Christa Vardaro (one of Yurie’s bridesmaids), Tony Christiano, Mike Monaco, Eunice Hong, Cornelia Wolcott, and Japanese instructor Teruyo Shimazu. Warm congratulations to Mike and Yurie!

Jen Wang got married Sept. 6, 2015, in Danvers, Mass., and celebrated with Kate Therkelsen, Becca Howe, Felicity Bloom, Sarah Gershkon, Andrew Yoon, and Matt Kahn. Kate was a bridesmaid. Andover photobooth pics were taken.

Jen writes, “It was wonderful to see everyone for a mini reunion!” Jen is a patent attorney working at Wolf Greenfield, an intellectual-property law firm in Boston.

Thank you to everyone who submitted notes for spring 2016. It’s always wonderful to connect.

Much love to you all! —Jeni and Paul

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

There was a big Andover turnout when Mac King ’05 married Katherine Carey over Labor Day Weekend in Jefferson, Maine. Front, from left: Nathan Scott ’05, Kyle Kucharski ’05, the groom, Abby King ’07, the bride, Nathan Kellogg ’05, Meg Coffin ’03, and Peter Wyman ’75. Middle row: Sam Kennedy ’05, Claire King ’10, Sarah Chang ’05, Cassie Tognoni ’05, Lee Rotenberg ’05, Mari King ’75, Dick King ’75, and JeanMarie Gossard ’05. Back row: Andrew Geraghty ’05, Billy Doyle ’05, Whitney Wilkinson ’04, David Wilkinson ’05, Jake Edwards ’06, Alex King ’05, Alex Lebow ’05, Christian Vareika ’05, Ben Hoerner ’05, Harry Goldstein ’05, and Bobby Spang ’05.

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First, let’s start off with a huge congratulations to the entire class. As a whole, 2007 had great participation in the Andover-Exeter Challenge, finishing in second place with 166 gifts! Well done, and let’s try to beat that number next year.

Another round of congratulations is in order for Sarah Guo and Billy Draper, who were named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List, in the venture capital category. Although there were three other alums who made the list, ours was the only class with multiple honorees.

www.andover.edu/intouch Molly Ozimek-Maier recently moved to Clifton, Va., with her daughter, C.J., and became a patient coordinator at a dental practice. This past November, she hung out with Marina Warsaw-Fan and Karen Schoenherr in Brooklyn. Emma Wood married a poet she met at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, from which she will graduate this spring. Katharine Matsumoto reunited with Colleen Thurman and Michaella Chung in San Francisco this past December for Katharine’s birthday. Colleen was out there also celebrating her recent engagement to her longtime boyfriend, Andy. A.J. Charles is still crushing it.

After dating for seven years, Trevor Sanders and Katie Morris got engaged this past October.

They bought a house in Medford, Mass., over the summer and took a brief break from fixing it up to spend most of January and February in Hong Kong (for work) and Japan (for fun).

Trevor is starting a master’s degree program in computer science, with the goal of being able to build more robots. Katie has been working in the same department as (and usually sitting next to) Veronika Kamenova at Liberty Mutual Insurance for the past four years—something she calls “one of the best, most unexpected perks of my job!”

Katie and Trevor also see lots of Andover friends in the Boston area, most frequently Addison Godine, Dave Curtis, Katy Ebbert, Kit Harris, Steph Marton, and Sam Gould.

Sam continues his march up the professional squash world rankings. Recently he competed in the Tournament of Champions in NYC, where he had quite the cheering session. In attendance were Alex Schwartz, Lou Tejada ’08, Zach Dixon ’08, Simon Keyes ’06, Will Walter ’03, and Sophia Walter ’01.

Andrew Faulkner will be moving back to Boston soon, as he begins attending Harvard Business School as a member of the Class of 2018. Giacomo Chiaro started his residency training in neurology in Switzerland as of February. It is a six-year program in which he will be able to move around to different hospitals in different Swiss cities.

Stacey Middlebrook is now Stacey Spurr after getting married in August at Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. She went on a honeymoon to French Polynesia and is pursuing a master’s degree in real estate development at MIT. In attendance at Stacey’s wedding was a good group of ’07ers, including Adrienne Sabety, Justin Waite, Andrew Faulkner, Sarah Dewey, Eliot Wall, Carolyn Pollard, Dawson Joyce-Mendive, Devon Zimmerling, Pia Heilmann, and Shay Paintal.

Steve Farquhar moved to Philadelphia from Las Vegas last fall. Steve is working for Tait Towers, building and engineering equipment for concerts, theatres, theme parks, and so on. He recently saw Ryan Ferguson when Ryan stopped in on his way back to DC from a holiday ski trip to New England.

He welcomes more visitors as he gets settled in to his new city.

Congratulations to Tess Scott ’06 (third from left), who got married last August in Kennebunkport, Maine. Classmates Jevan Jammal, Whitney Dublin, and Tanisha Colon-Bibb served as bridesmaids.

Mike McMahon and Yurie Sekigami, both Class of ’06, got married in Cochran Chapel this past September, with several classmates attending the ceremony. From left are Mike Monaco, Danny Clark, Tony Christiano, Eunice Hong, the groom and bride, PA instructor in Japanese Teruyo Shimazu, Cornelia Wolcott, and Christa Vardaro.

Ryan Ferguson proposed to his girlfriend, Aly, this past summer. They are getting married in Andover in July and will be having the reception outside the Log Cabin on campus. Ryan started a new job in August managing DC Inno, a media company that reports on startups and innovation in the DC area.

Last August, following one year in Boston and three years in San Francisco, Laura Minasian moved to Stockholm, where she continues her work in recruiting at McKinsey & Company.

Brooks Canaday is living in Denver and will soon start working toward a master’s degree in counseling psychology at Regis University.

Danny Silk is thriving in NYC, where he frequently catches up with alums. He met former

roommate Conner Stoldt for drinks over the holidays. Conner was passing through on his way to Thailand, where he island-hopped for a few weeks and rode a 3 ½-ton gentle giant named Ellie the Elephant.

In December, Claire Voegele went for seafood at Joe’s in Chicago with Sarah Gardner, who is in a pediatrics residency at Northwestern, and Stuart Anderson, who is working for the company with the best holiday-party headliners (Groupon). The three also met up for a drink with Alex Clifford, who is trading corn futures on the CME. Claire is in her second year of law school and will be clerking at the firm Nelson Mullins in Boston, where she is “so looking forward to reconnecting with the pool of ’07ers there.”

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When Stacey Middlebrook ’07 married Brian Spurr last August at Lake Winnipesaukee, in New Hampshire, Andover ’07 classmates turned out in force. From left are Adrienne Sabety, Justin Waite, Andrew Faulkner, Sarah Dewey, Carolyn Pollard, the bride and groom, Dawson Joyce-Mendive, Devon Zimmerling, Pia Heilmann, Eliot Wall, and Shay Paintal.

2008 Mary B. Doyle 327 Noe St. San Francisco CA 94114 781-439-5209 (cell) mbdoyle@gmail.com Lydia Dallett 10 Stuyvesant Oval, Apt. 10E New York NY 10009 Lydia.Dallett@gmail.com

2009 Alexander McHale 101 NE 53rd St., Apt. 2714 Oklahoma City OK 73105 703-786-3330 arxmchale@gmail.com Deidra Willis 2815 Rohret Road, Apt. 201 Iowa City IA 52246 347-342-7447 willis.deidra@gmail.com

Hey there, ’09! We’re glad to report that our class is continuing to embark on amazingly impressive, fun, crazy adventures. It seems nearly all classmates are moving or traveling around the world or exploring their passions.

Mathilde Gracia couldn’t get enough of London, so she decided to visit again! This time, the reunion with Nathalie Monecke and Greta Rossi happened over Mexican street food at Wahaca in the heart of Covent Garden. Fun fact of the evening: The Spanish waitress who served them was stunned by their Spanish skills and thought they were all native Spanish speakers. In

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December, Renata Sanchez de Lollano visited London to catch up with Nathalie and Greta. They enjoyed drinking a cuppa at Skylon on the South Bank while appreciating the view over the Thames and the Christmas pop-up shops.

Larry Zhou spent this past fall and winter moving from NYC to SF, where he finds himself constantly surrounded by Andover friends.

He lives with Brendon Sullivan ’07, who is also a coworker at Pandora. After Larry moved to the Sunset District, Olivia Pei ’07, Rob Constantine ’06, and Ben Kuller ’06 went to his housewarming. Annie McDonough and Pat Wolber ’11 are close neighbors.

Over the holidays, Deidra Willis visited NYC and had a great time with Menelik Washington and other Andover alums at the Prep for Prep alumni holiday party. The open bar, mini reunions, and great music had everyone turnt all night.

Georgina Norton attended a PA holiday event with Head of School John Palfrey in NYC in December and saw lshan Kapoor, Mike Discenza, Hanna Gully, Andrew Pohly, Max Abitbol, Thor Shannon, Eliza Dewey, Anna Burgess, Glenn Stowell, and Kiara Brereton.

Abby Levene and Jack Dickey made a joint appearance in the Dec. 14 issue of Sports Illustrated.

Abby appeared in “Faces in the Crowd,” a feature highlighting accomplished amateur athletes, in recognition of her winning the women’s national collegiate triathlon title. And Jack’s feature story on Adam Vinatieri appeared in the same issue.

As in years past, Larry Zhou spent New Year’s Eve on a mountain with a slew of Andover friends, including Jeff Zhou ’06, Mai Kristofferson, Eliot Wall ’07, Pia Heilmann ’07, Michael Discenza, Ishan Kapoor, and Charlie Dong. They spent an amazing seven days shredding Tahoe’s Heavenly Mountain Resort and attended the SnowGlobe Music Festival while there. With all the Christmas

snow, it was a great time chasing powder.

Julia MacNelly spent January 2016 in Serbia, filming a documentary about Middle Eastern refugees who are crossing through Eastern Europe.

She is partnering with local NGOs, filmmakers, and local volunteers. The working title for the film, Beyond the Headlines, reflects the goal to tell a personal and human story, one that presents a different side of the refugee crisis from the one found in the news. The film is being produced by the South Eastern European Film Festival in Los Angeles (seefilmla.org), where Julia worked in 2014, and will be premiered at the 11th annual festival this spring.

Your favorite class secretaries, Alex McHale and Deidra Willis, met over cocktails at Corkbuzz in NYC at the start of the New Year! They discussed heavy topics like racial identity and Kim Kardashian’s effect on Kanye West and swapped stories on what it’s like to live in the Midwest. It was as though no time had passed at all.

As always, we love keeping in touch with everyone and are already looking forward to stories for the next edition! We eagerly await hearing from you all at pa09classnotes@gmail.com.

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Chelsea Quezergue completed a six-month Spanish interpretation and translation internship program with the office of the district attorney of New York County in Manhattan. Currently she is a Peace Corps volunteer in Nicaragua, working as a TEFL teacher trainer at La Universidad Cristiana Autonóma de Nicaragua in Chinandega. She writes that she “had an awesome Thanksgiving Day luncheon with the U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua.”

Zahra Bhaiwala is finishing up a master’s degree program in health economics at the Harvard School of Public Health and lives in Central Square in Cambridge. She is graduating in May and says she’s “looking forward to getting into the job market full time and would love to meet up with any Andover alums living in the city, since she missed reunion and regrets it every day.”

Sophie Fourteau is working in London and recently became an Andover alumni interviewer, which, she reports, is “really fun.” She enjoyed meeting Charles Shoener in London in September and Whitney Ford in Paris for Thanksgiving. Sophie adds that she’s “missing all my Andover homies and had such a great time at the reunion.”

Duncan Crystal is coaching wrestling this winter for the Alexandria Junior Titans, a middle school program in northern Virginia. He says he’s also “super-excited” to have his former Pease House

www.andover.edu/intouch roommate Thomas Armstrong ’11 in Washington, D.C., “so we can relive the glory days.”

Stevie Xenakis is an analyst for Brookfield Logistics Properties in Shanghai. He reports: “Graham Miao ’09 has been great in helping me adjust to life here. We are both part of a philosophy group that calls itself ‘Shanghai Free Thinkers.’”

Juliana Reider traveled to Taiwan for Christmas vacation with Hannah McGrath ’11. They are both currently teaching English as a second language in Japan.

Will Lindsey is working for Goldman Sachs in New York City. He recently ran the NYC Marathon on behalf of Hope for the Warriors.

Emily Bliss’s second daughter, Annie Michelle, joined their family last June. Her first daughter, Alice, is 2 1/2 now and is “a wonderful big sister.”

Emily says, “We’ve all been thrilled to welcome Annie and love being a family of four! I am very happy being a stay-at-home mom!”

Michael Yoon moved to the San Francisco Bay Area almost a year ago to work for the Principal Financial Group, after completing the company’s training program in Baltimore. He says it “would be great to reconnect with anyone in the class located in the Bay Area as well.”

Dayo Adewole lives in Philadelphia and is in his second semester in the bioengineering PhD degree program at Penn. “So far, so good!” he reports.

Dayo recently found out Penn has a graduate Ultimate Frisbee team and says he’s “looking forward to dusting off the skills from senior spring cluster (once it warms up again).” He’ll be heading up to New York with Hector Kilgoe ’11 to celebrate Anthony White’s birthday.

Matt Renner finished his two-year unpaid tattoo apprenticeship in January but will take an indefinite hiatus from tattooing to pursue an opportunity in the food industry. He’s moving back to Rifle, Colo., where he’ll be running a food truck and more than six farmers’ market vendor booths during the summer season.

Mat Kelley is currently living in Shanghai. He reports that he, Blaine Johnson ’08, and Stephen Xenakis all met in Shanghai for an Andover dinner that some older alumni put together. Lindsay Hoopes ’99 brought wine from her family’s winery in California. Mat says, “We had a really fabulous dinner together. Awesome to find Andover friends when on this side of the world in China.”

Julie Xie recently left her job in journalism to learn UX design and is now looking for gigs in New York. She says she’s “looking forward to getting reacquainted with all the Andover alums in NYC!” Ziwe Fumudoh reports: “Ziwe is chill. She’s having fun chilling. Currently spends all her time working at Above Average and freelancing at the Onion and the Daily Dot.” Lily Shaffer graduated from Pitzer with degrees in environmental analysis and gender and feminist studies. She’s currently living in Boston, where she has launched a business as a birth and postpartum doula (www.lilyshaffer.com). She says, “I spend my days helping moms bring their babies into

the world and supporting families during the postpartum period—it’s amazing!” She’s applied to nurse-midwifery programs and hopes to begin a program in fall 2016. She’s also teaching yoga at the Breathing Room in Cambridge, rock climbing, dabbling in herbalism, and “generally loving being out of Southern California and back on the East Coast!”

Jenn Schaffer is pursuing an MPhil degree in criticism and culture at the University of Cambridge while continuing to write for Vice. This past autumn, she had lunch with Jake Romanow in New York and Tiffany Li ’09 in Chicago. Jenn says she’d “love to meet up with any ’10 alums who find themselves in London.”

Brenna Liponis is working as a senior associate consultant for Trinity Partners, a strategy life sciences consulting firm with offices in Boston, NYC, and SF. She recently moved to the NYC office in September and says she loves it.

Courtney King recently met Hannah Bardo and Emelyn Chew in San Francisco for a fourcourse tasting disaster. She was very happy to see them. Hannah was about to leave for a Fulbright in Rio de Janeiro; Courtney is finishing up school at Columbia University in NYC. There are so many ways to get involved with Andover post-graduation: You can be an admissions interviewer, a regional volunteer, a non sibi leader, an annual giving agent, or a class secretary, or serve on the alumni council. All of these are great ways to stay connected to the school and meet amazing alumni across generations.

Please contact Jen Hout, the liaison for young alumni engagement, at jhout@andover.edu for more information on how to get involved in any of these roles in a city near you!

Albert Magnell graduated from Oxford with a master’s degree in biochemistry. He is now back in the States, pursuing a PhD degree in biology at MIT. Oriekose “Orie” Idah ran into David Barry ’10 at Google. They caught up over lunch and reminisced. Orie loves being able to hang out with Diego Mendia on campus. The two have been chatting about rebuilding the Andover alumni network at Google.

Chioma Ngwudo founded Cee Cee’s Closet NYC with her sister, Uchenna. This brand celebrates the beauty of African prints through its vibrant collection of handmade handbags and accessories. Orie and Aniebiet Abasi have shown their support by rocking Cee Cee’s Closet handbags at fall events and on social media.

Chioma, Natasha Vaz, and Jessica Holley rendezvoused in Cambridge, Mass., to ring in the New Year and dance the night away.

A large cohort of the Class of 2011 met at the Black Rose Pub in Boston to connect. Zac Elder, Jakob Rohwer, Tom Weaver, Mari Walsh, Kelly Powers, Mike DiFronzo, Chris Cameron, Casey McQuillen, and Chioma Ngwudo shared a few drinks, stories, and laughs. They listened to a live Irish band and had a few pints of Guinness.

Thomas Kramer and Theresa Faller had a lovely wine and Peeta night at Tommy’s apartment.

They drank wine, watched The Hunger Games, and ate pita bread (in honor of Peeta Mellark). Clearly, the odds were ever in their favor.

We look forward to seeing what the rest of 2016 brings to the Class of 2011!

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FIFTH REUNION June 10–12, 2016 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

The last few months of 2015 were full of new adventures and Andover connections for the Class of 2011.

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Last summer and fall was an exciting time for everyone in our class, from those of us who have already launched ourselves into the “real world” to those who are looking for (and, we hope, not stressing over) ways to start that adventure.

Katrina Fuller spent the summer helping her grandfather, a lawyer for various native tribes in the U.S., run for Rosebud Sioux tribal president.

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The AAIP conference had more Native American physicians gathered in one place than I have ever seen, which inspired me to stay on my path toward becoming a neurosurgeon.” This past fall term, Katrina took a neurobiology course with Geoffrey Tanner, a former PA biology instructor (who taught her while at PA). This spring semester, she planned to “have the time of her life” studying for the MCAT. Good luck to her and all the ’12ers who are in the midst of medical, law, and other graduate school applications.

Minali Mohindra and Claudia Shin lived together last summer, studying and working in LA. They’re both excited to be staying in the LA area post-graduation. Also over the summer, James Lim had a reunion in NYC with Gabo Cordero Fuentes, Kian Ivey, Kastle Jones, Colby McBride, and Khalil Blassingame.

James is capping off his senior year at Harvard by serving as captain of the track & field team, training and competing with Allison Morrison.

We wish them the best of luck in their last college season! Will Poss doesn’t need our luck in his athletic season; he recently helped the Amherst College men’s soccer team win the DIII national championship. He described the experience as “pretty cool,” which seems like a huge understatement. Katie Ellinger headed down to New Haven, Conn., this fall to watch the Harvard-Yale game with Claudia Shin and Melissa Wattana.

Katie Benvenuti and Andrew Schlager have been avidly exploring foreign and local cuisines.

This past fall, Katie reports, they “took a dive into the world of cooking!” She goes on to say: “Together we have developed our skills and are starting to compile recipes. While we only share with friends and family right now, we hope to share our flavorful creations with the world!” I look forward to trying one of their dishes!

In the world of academics, Nicholas Camarda was the co-first author of a paper just published in the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing’s journal, about his research on uncharacterized gene variant enrichment in glial cancer subtypes. He said, “I was the only undergrad at the conference held in Hawaii in January, and I got to present a poster on my findings!”

Kelsey Jamieson and Collin Benedict explored the wonders of Paris together for the month of January. Collin was attending Paris Diderot University–Paris 7 for a yearlong exchange, and Kelsey did a mini internship at AirLiquide. At the end of the school year, Kelsey will be heading to Beijing to earn a master’s degree in public policy. Over her spring break last year, Supriya Jain also visited Paris and dined under the Eiffel Tower with

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This June, Danny Gottfried is moving to Moldova for 27 months to serve as a secondary education English teacher in the Peace Corps.

In this awesome experience, he’ll be using Russian, which he studied at PA, and learning Romanian. In his e-mail, Danny emphasized that he looks forward to making the trip back for our reunion in 2017!

As for your class secretaries, Miranda Haymon is looking forward to graduation and directing her own adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s SlaughterhouseFive, a novel she first read in English 300 with Mr. Bird. Lauren Howard is excited to return to the Northeast after graduation to teach in NYC for two years with Teach for America. Our Fifth Reunion is creeping closer each day, and all of the class secretaries are looking forward to seeing you there!

Yours in blue. —Miranda, Lauren, and Sydney

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Haonan Li visited Gabbi Fisher over Thanksgiving break, and they enjoyed a fun Thanksgiving dinner and much-needed reunion with Andries Feder and Catalina Feder ’15, followed by a fine game of mini golf at H Street Country Club in DC. Gabbi spent her fall quarter interning at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and realizing her passion for cybersecurity.

During fall break, Christiana Nguyen drove with Ian Sigal ’12 and Alex Smith ’12 from Cornell to Boston, where she stayed with her Andover roommates, Diondra Peck and Unwana Abasi, at Harvard. While there, she visited Lydia Godo-Solo, Samuel Green, Caroline Gutierrez, and Zach Merchant. Sam has stopped rowing for Harvard but says he “still lifts, though.” While traveling, Christiana was stranded in NYC and stayed with Jing Qu in her dorm at Columbia.

She also briefly saw M.J. Engel. Later in the fall, Christiana raced with Alex and Ben Hawley ’15 at the Princeton 3-Mile Chase, where she reunited with former crew teammates Franco D’Agostino, Amanda Chatupron-Lacayo, Cooper Hurley ’14, Jake Rauh ’14, Marc Sevastopoulo ’15, and her favorite coach, Dale Hurley. Before going home for break, she stayed with Erin Wong at Barnard and got the chance to catch up with

Nikita Singareddy and Charlie Walters ’10.

Devon Burger watched the Andover-Exeter football game with several Andover and Exeter alumni, including Justin Appleby. During winter break, Abby Chung, Alex Donovan, Emily Field, Gina Sawaya, Nalyn Yim, Rhea Lewis, Malynna Mam, and Devon met up to celebrate Alex’s 21st birthday and the New Year in New Hampshire. James Garth spent the fall quarter studying in Beijing. James Hunter and Emily McKinnon became classmates again, this time at the Stockholm School of Economics. They had a lot of fun reminiscing and making memories all over Stockholm. James taught English at a local school, spent too much time and money eating kanelbullar (cinnamon rolls), and traveled all over Europe, including to Finland, Norway, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Belgium, and Spain.

In Austria, James met up with Wayu Niederhauser, PA’s German teaching fellow from 2012 to 2013, at a pastry shop in Vienna.

Jing Qu is excited to intern at the Whitney Museum of American Art next semester.

Angela Batuure and M.J. bought matching Pikachu onesies as roommates at Columbia.

2014 Djavaneh Bierwirth 3456 Sansom St. Philadelphia PA 19104 978-933-1910 djavaneh@wharton.upenn.edu Kai Kornegay 3650 Spruce St., MB 960 Philadelphia PA 19104 609-670-6658 kaikornegay@gmail.com Cat Haseman 5400 Fielding Manor Drive Evansville IN 47715 812-204-9113 cchaseman@gmail.com

Since transferring to Tufts, Renee LaMarche has continued her ROTC education at MIT as part of the Paul Revere Battalion. Cat Haseman spent her fall semester in Arlington, Va., working at the Cedars, which is a short-term host home for international diplomats who are in DC for business. Cat, Sophia Lloyd-Thomas, and Alec Kingston cooked dinner and caught up at Alec’s Georgetown dorm.

Kai Kornegay directed her very first production, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, which had two sold-out shows! Just before her show, she visited Robert Rush and Natalie Kim at Harvard.

Doris Nyamwaya visited Mikaela Rabb for the Harvard-Yale game. Robert wowed audiences as Bobo in A Raisin in the Sun. Esther Cohen recently snagged an internship with Kerrigan-Lowdermilk,

www.andover.edu/intouch a musical theatre composing team, and she directed From Up Here this spring.

John Henry Fitzgerald and Amo Manuel watched Ant Man together, though the jury is still out on whether it was a good movie, because John Henry fell asleep halfway through it.

Luke Stidham, Rem Remmel, Clark Perkins, Marjorie Kozloff, Emma Mehlman, Allison Roth, Sierra Heneghan, Austin Gaiss, Jake Howell, and Scott Diekema rang in the New Year together in NYC! Matt Ilalio visited Brandon Michel at Penn during Army-Navy weekend. Armaan Singh visited Miguel Wise at his home over winter break, and the two of them then traveled to see Matthew Simon and Charlee Van Eijk at Harvey Mudd.

That’s all, folks! We can’t wait to see what the rest of 2016 has in store for us.

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One year out from Andover graduation, our classmates are engaged in their college and gapyear lives. Here is just a fraction of the news: Nolan Crawford brought the Yorkies spirit with him to Yale, where he now sings in another a cappella group, the Spizzwinks(?), and alongside Claire Carroll ’14 in the more traditional choral Glee Club. Another musical classmate, Arthur Doran, is preparing an album, which he describes as “sounding like R. Kelly or like Usher but with more jazz.” He planned to drop the album this May in one of two ways: either making just one copy and auctioning it off for millions—or putting it on SoundCloud.

John Gorton and Anoush Shehadeh run together frequently and can often be spotted jogging along I-95 in Westchester County, N.Y. This past Thanksgiving break, after a light 40-mile run, they reunited a portion of the 2014–2015 cross-country team—including current students Noah Belser ’16, Basil Alfaro ’18, and Sam Tobin ’18—for dinner.

Tim Salvadore attends Virginia Tech and loves his time there. He joined Kurtis Weber, Foster LeBoeuf, and Josh Murphy earlier

this year to attend a fundraiser touch football game and banquet put on by the Murphy family.

David Gutierrez currently works as a bilingual receptionist at Parenting Journey, a family-support nonprofit in Somerville, Mass. Antonia Leggett, Kory Stuer, and Diego Blandon are all well and stay in contact at Georgetown.

This winter, David Gaetano was joined by Katie Williams ’14 for a vacation in Sarasota, Fla. Back at Oberlin, David takes economics with Elijah Aladin, who occasionally visits Nya Hughes in New York. Just before the New Year, Andrew Zheng and Matt Osborn rode the bus together to mount the Peak, the highest point in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, Andrew hates heights. Addison Davenport joined the Northwestern University ski team and took full advantage of this winter’s snow in Wyoming and Colorado.

Frances Yackel, a student at NYU, is spending her first year studying abroad in Florence, Italy.

Frances describes Florence as a “tiny city,” which helps explains why she traveled so much her first semester, visiting London, Prague, and Zurich.

Evie Elson writes, “College has brought out the hidden a cappella in me, confusing my friends, who had always known me to ruthlessly break out in song in my room or in the shower, despite my overt pitchiness and inability to remember lyrics.” Evie has been able to share this newly acquired skill with many Andover classmates, including Frances Yackel, Charlie Jarvis, Ali Hill, Catalina Feder, Noah Hornik, Jordan Swett, and Katie Weaver, all of whom spent time together in NYC this winter.

Haille McKenzie undertook a rigorous year of art foundations at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her favorite class is Spatial Dynamics, a complicated way to say “3D art and sculpture.” She finds herself interested in feminist and racial issues, and in youth culture in the Internet age. Issraa Faiz shares similar interests and studied “Afrofuturism” through a variety of media as she wrote a paper on the relationship between technology and black life.

Her work will contribute to the panel she hopes to bring to her campus (Connecticut College) in the fall.

While most of us are now one year into college, our classmates who took gap years are also well into their adventures.

During the fall, Bianca Navarro Bowman stayed busy working at a preschool, interning at a startup multicultural art museum in Washington, D.C., and barista-ing part-time at Starbucks. She squeezed in time to meet up with Alejandra Uria, Katie Weaver, Austin Robichaud, and Kaylee Llewellyn in N.C. In January, Bianca set off to be an au pair in Spain.

Alex Westfall participated in an experimental art program in a tiny fishing town in Iceland. “It was a total dream,” she writes. “I climbed waterfalls, explored snowy peaks, jumped into icy fjords, and danced under the Northern Lights.” In the spring, Alex relocated to Napa, Calif., for a photography

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program. Alex’s senior year roommate, Tessa Peterson, was home in Colorado for a brief time after her semester in France, where she and Eden Livingston explored the winter terrain on snowshoes.

Miles Neumann is spending his gap year on three continents. He writes: “I started off the year working at a safari lodge in northern Kenya, digging ditches, thatching roofs, and chasing elephants! It was an amazing experience and a far cry from Andover.” Miles later wrangled pheasants while working at a shooting estate in Scotland.

In January, he and Nicolas Robertson took a road trip from Quito, Ecuador, to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Oli Chernyk, also traveling, spent a couple of months motorcycling and backpacking through Southeast Asia. After returning home, Oli got his bartending license and planned to head to Australia or New Zealand, “hoping to land a job bartending on the coast.”

Nurilys Cintron’s Semester at Sea trip took her from the U.K. to San Diego, with stops in 12 countries in the Mediterranean, West Africa, and the Caribbean. Last we checked in, Hanover Vale was a cook at the Wellesley, Mass., restaurant of Ming Tsai ’82. In January, she headed off to London for culinary school and to backpack around Europe.

Finally, a few words from our alumni class president, John Gorton: “Whether you’ve just finished your first year of college or are off exploring the world on a gap year, take a moment to remember that this time last year, we were all standing in a circle on the Great Lawn, diplomas in hand, ready to leave Andover and set off into Andover | Summer 2016

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stay connected... the next chapter of our lives. I still get butterflies whenever I think of the energy and excitement of that day.

“What I remember most from those final hours on campus was the sense of connection I felt to our class. I was (and am) really thankful to have had the opportunity to live and work with you all for the years we spent together on campus.

While we are all spending so much time these days thinking about the future, I want to remind us to think back on the time we spent on Andover Hill. Take some time to recall your most special memories, achievements, and relationships. Reach out to your PA friends; visit campus as often as you can; maybe even listen to the Andover Song on YouTube!

“I hope that you keep Andover in your heart as we push forward into our second year as alumni.

And bear in mind, only four more years till our five-year reunion!”

That’s all for now! Be sure to send us updates for next time!

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

Our theme for this issue—favorite websites— wound up eliciting quite a variety of ways for us retirees to stay active.

Pat Edmonds, by late Sunday afternoons, likes to go to Rex Parker (rexwordpuzzle.blogspot. com), not only to find the answers to the most obscure remaining parts of the New York Times Magazine crossword puzzles but also to enjoy Rex’s lively critiques. George Edmonds has found Google News Archive extremely useful to access his Pennsylvania hometown newspapers for his historical research.

Don Abbott likes brainpickings.org and writes that it is “written and maintained by Maria Popova, a writer and critic who believes that creativity taps into myriad mental resources.” He adds, “She calls her website her ‘subjective lens on what matters in the world and why.’ Its pieces, updated regularly and archived extensively, span all disciplines, often showing how they illuminate each other.” Don also values onbeing.org, an award-winning website hosted by broadcaster and author Krista Tippett, recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

Don says, “A public forum for civil conversation, it animates the critical, fundamental questions: What does it mean to be human and how do we want to live? Regular columnists and a daily blog invariably offer wise and imaginative perspectives on complex issues and contemporary events.”

Neil Cullen seconds Don’s good suggestions above and counts them among his favorite online resources.

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Understandably, Don can’t help recommending one more favorite website, one created by his wife, Betsy, “where she displays her quilt art and tells the story of how she discovered her creativity just as she was approaching ‘retirement.’” At www. betsyabbottquiltart.com, look especially for her quilts based on her insights on Monhegan Island, so appealing that we can report that two of her quilts were purchased by Jamie Wyeth.

From Susan Stott: “Here is one of my favorite websites, because it has a great map of my favorite place: bit.ly/20RO8OY.” We add that readers of all ages may recall active times in Andover climbing up Ward Reservation’s Holt Hill, the highest point in Essex County, checking out the Bog Trail built by former biology teacher John Kimball ’49, and hiking or skiing around the many other trails, where another former biology teacher, George Sanborn ’24, often led groups of students and faculty.

Dick Lux writes, “My most frequent sites are OverDrive.com, which lets me download books from the town library, and Khan Academy (khanacademy.org), to keep up with what is going on in math.” He’s also a fan, he writes, of FaceTime and Skype “to stay in touch with children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Needless to say, this pair commands the most log-on hours.

Besides, they send me so many links that I seldom go out on the Web searching things like YouTube, for example.”

One favorite activity for Meredith Price is playing Words with Friends on Facebook. He enjoys the way the game encourages players to try out every letter they wish, and the fact that it will accept words not in any dictionary.

Tom Hamilton reports on his favorite site, www.trailjournals.com: “This website has all you would ever want to know about hiking or walking long-distance trails in the U.S. or Europe. Each spring I like to vicariously rewalk the Appalachian Trail, the Coast to Coast Walk, and the Camino de Santiago by following a few of the posts on Trail Journals. It is good fun and not too hard on the knees!”

Maggie Jackson writes, “Roland and I also liked to read trailjournals.com as we were preparing for our walking part of the Camino in 2009. It really helped us to be prepared for the journey, and I will now do as Tom Hamilton suggests and walk some of these trails vicariously. Maybe New Zealand next! We still want to hike some others though, so we’ll check this website out for tips on good places to go.”

Elwin Sykes likes delanceyplace.com “for timely, aptly introduced excerpts from volumes usually historical, always engaging, and often very surprising angles on topics.”

Don and Roxy Barry’s daughter Kezi ’02 is a photographer based in NYC. They write: “We love her work, haunting and powerful. So her website is our favorite: www.kezibanbarry.com.”

“Here’s a favorite site!” exclaims another emeriti parent, John Gould. “My son Sam ’07,

whom most of you know, has embarked on an exciting windmill-tilt: following a dream of playing professional squash. He is keeping a blog, describing his travels to Tasmania, Australia, Malaysia, and most recently, the world championships in Seattle: www.408intheworld. wordpress.com.”

Peter Capra ’53’s suggestion is BBC News: “My ‘go to’ source for up-to-date news around the world. I have it as an app. Their programs include informative background on events and articles on life in general.”

Lydia Goetze likes A Year of Being Here (ayearofbeinghere.com) for its “daily mindfulness poem that makes me stop and quietly enjoy the day.” She adds, “It’s no longer published daily after Jan. 1, 2016, but archives continue to be available.

And, with Peter Capra, the BBC (along with the Economist) as my source of news. Also several local, county, and state sites that help me to be a more effective member of the board of selectmen in my town of Southwest Harbor, Maine.”

Carole Braverman explains: “I visit the sites already familiar to all of you, the newspapers and magazines of the world, access to which, from my desk here in the boonies of East California, is still accompanied by that sense of wonderment I felt when Paul Kalkstein ’61 helped me set up my first Internet connection in 1998—thank you, Paul, wherever you are. If anything, I’m in the midst of making an effort to limit my time in cyberspace, but who can resist a peek at these suggestions, especially Elwin’s Delancey Street, which, before it was a website, was the place my family went for the best pastrami?”

We suspect that many of us, like Carole, are trying to limit our time in cyberspace. However, we couldn’t resist the urge to try out this theme, feeling assured that emeriti would have fun being explorers among the suggestions here.

Belatedly, we have learned that Phyllis Powell passed away in Glen Falls, N.Y., on July 19, 2015.

Phyllis served the school as an instructor in Russian studies, dean of studies, and dean of Summer Session.

A last word: Remembering Marion Finbury, who passed away on Nov. 21, 2015, here at the Edgewood Retirement Community, we honor her as a faculty leader in college counseling at both Abbot and Phillips academies and also, continuing her lifelong love of music, as the chair of the music committee here at Edgewood, bringing a wide variety of performances to the community.

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Phyllis W. Powell Glen Falls, NY; July 19, 2015

1929 Eugene H. Lehman Jr. Pointeclaire, Quebec, Canada; Dec. 15, 2011

Henry B. Wilmer Jr. ’63 Lincoln, Vt.; Dec. 22, 2015

1932 Kenneth R. Langler Portland, Conn.; Nov. 15, 2015 1934 Elizabeth Flanders Cleveland Wellesley, Mass.; Nov. 14, 2015 1935 Cathleen Burns Elmer Alamo Heights, Texas; Dec. 11, 2013

Henry Wilmer, former instructor in French, passed away at his Vermont home following a two-year struggle with cancer. Wilmer served Andover from 1970 to 2007 in multiple roles, including dean of students, chair of the French department, director of the Language Learning Center, cluster dean, cycling coach, and head of Search & Rescue.

He is survived by his wife, Susie, and children Henry “Bo” Wilmer ’90 and Amie Creagh ’91. The family is planning a private commemoration this summer. Donations in Wilmer’s memory may be made to The David Spencer Hackett Prize, a summer Outward Bound experience awarded each year to an Andover upper; Doctors Without Borders; or Addison County Hospice.

FORMER FACULTY Adele D. Bockstedt Palm City, Fla.; Dec. 8, 2015 Known as a woman of intellect, adventure, and passion, Adele “Pat” Bockstedt, instructor in French at Abbot Academy from 1949 to 1954, died peacefully in the presence of loved ones. She was 96.

Bockstedt earned a bachelor’s degree at Mt. Holyoke College and a master’s degree at Columbia University. She studied extensively in France and traveled there many times throughout her life. For most of her professional career, Bockstedt served as chair of the Modern Language Department at The Winsor School in Boston. She published six French educational texts and served on many prestigious French language committees.

Bockstedt is survived by two nieces, three nephews, and numerous great-nieces and nephews.

1936 William A. Coffin Baltimore, Md.; Dec. 27, 2014 Elinor Robinson Goodwin Norway, Maine; Nov. 8, 2015 Lucy Hawkes Winship Hopkinton, N.H.; Jan. 15, 2016

1937 John D. Foskett Sanibel, Fla.; Jan. 29, 2016 Class secretary John Foskett, who built a small Florida company into Nichols-Homeshield, a national manufacturer of aluminum building products, died at 96.

“Andover made Dad who he was, and he remained true to the school his whole life,” said Foskett’s son Kenneth.

During his senior year at Yale, Foskett enlisted in the U.S. Army. He later transferred to the Army Air Corps, where he rose to the rank of major. Foskett served in the Pacific during WWII and facilitated the surrender of Japanese officers in 1945. He graduated from Yale in 1946.

Foskett distinguished himself for ethical leadership, common sense solutions to complex problems, and a business philosophy that prized personal relationships above expediency. He retired to Sanibel, Fla., and Camden, Maine, where he pursued passions for boating and tennis. He completed a Russian history class a few months before his death.

Predeceased by his wife, Maggie, in 2014, Foskett is survived by four children, five grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

—Ken Foskett

1938 Thomas D. Burns Boston, Mass.; Feb. 27, 2016

Sumner R. Kates Brookline, Mass.; Feb. 23, 2016 William W. Winternitz Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Oct. 10, 2015

1939 L. Daniel Dannenbaum Philadelphia, Pa.; Aug. 30, 2015 Susan Wallace Drake Greenwich, Conn.; Nov. 28, 2015 Dorothy Heidrich Lockhart Peoria, Ill.; Nov. 23, 2015

1940 Margit Hintz Lorenze New York, N.Y.; May 11, 2011 Mary Spaulding Powell Gloucester, Va.; Jan. 20, 2016 Edward D. Walen Hamden, Conn.; Dec. 1, 2015

1941 Barbara Young Benner Allentown, Pa.; Jan. 1, 2016 1942 John M. Raymond Jr. Falls Church, Va.; Feb. 11, 2016 1943 Eason Cross Jr. Alexandria, Va.; Jan. 28, 2016 George C. Lewis III Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.; Nov. 29, 2014

1944 Allen McB. Sperry Litchfield, Conn.; Dec. 23, 2015 William T. Woodrow Jr. Cincinnati, Ohio; Nov. 28, 2015

1945 Ann Walen Carter Warner, N.H.; April 11, 2015 Frederick A.J. Kingery Portland, Ore.; Feb. 13, 2016 Marvin L. Minsky Boston, Mass.; Jan. 24, 2016 Marvin Minsky, universally regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of artificial intelligence, died January 24 of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 88.

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distinction in their fields of endeavor. (Read more about Minsky in the winter 2016 issue of Andover magazine.)

After graduating from Andover, Minsky joined the U.S. Navy and, upon his return, earned a BA degree from Harvard and a PhD degree from Princeton, both in mathematics.

He built the SNARC (Stochastic Neural-Analog Reinforcement Computer), the first neural network simulator, in 1951, and in 1956, while a junior fellow at Harvard, he invented and built the first Confocal Scanning Microscope, an optical instrument with unprecedented resolution and image quality. He also designed and built some of the first mechanical hands with tactile sensors and one of the first LOGO “turtles”; both innovations influenced many subsequent robotics projects.

Minsky joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty at MIT in 1958; the following year, he cofounded the institution’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (now the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). In 1985, Minsky became a founding member of the MIT Media Lab, which became known for being far ahead of technology trends; he was named the lab’s Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences.

Along with his inventions, Minsky’s writing and theories also have shaped the field of artificial intelligence. His books include Perceptrons, Framework for Representing Knowledge, The Society of Mind, and The Emotion Machine.

Minsky’s numerous contributions to the fields of cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics earned him many prestigious awards, including the ACM Turing Award, MIT Killian Award, Japan Prize, IJCAI Research Excellence Award, Rank Prize, Robert Wood Prize for Optoelectronics, and Benjamin Franklin Medal.

Minsky is survived by his wife, Gloria Rudisch Minsky, and three children, Henry, Juliana, and Margaret Minsky.

1946 Stephen Y. Hord San Francisco, Calif.; May 9, 2015 James B. Kurtz Greenwood Village, Colo.; Dec. 17, 2015 Roger A. Neuhoff Edgartown, Mass.; Oct. 28, 2015 Robert P. Weis Dublin, N.H.; Feb. 8, 2016

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1947 James E. Boyce Wilmington, N.C.; March 28, 2015 Jon L. Mosle, Jr. Dallas, Texas; Jan. 21, 2015

1948 Robert B. Blackburn Everett, Pa.; Sept. 25, 2014 Kenneth K. White Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Feb. 4, 2016 Dorothy Lee Booth Witwer Key West, Fla.; Sept. 21, 2015

1949 Walter J. Kaiser New York, N.Y.; Jan. 5, 2016 John Muldowny Knoxville, Tenn.; Jan. 27, 2016

1950 Douglas Terry Coles Rochester, Minn.; March 6, 2016 Mary Jane Denzer White Plains, N.Y.; Dec. 16, 2015 Joy Sturgis Foster Boothbay, Maine; Oct. 29, 2015 Peter A. Goubert Merritt Island, Fla.; Jan. 29, 2016 Donald J. Mulvey Andover, Mass.; Dec. 31, 2015 Don Mulvey was a devoted lifelong citizen of the town of Andover, an active member of its Unitarian Universalist Congregation, and a volunteer in community organizations and at a local elementary school. He died in hospice care at age 83 following a short illness.

In 1992, the weekly Andover Townsman published excerpts from a boyhood diary Don had kept when he was 12. For the town’s 350th anniversary in 1996, he compiled an oral history, interviewing local citizens and transcribing their reminiscences into a booklet.

A varsity backstroke swimmer at Andover, Don was an All-American swimmer at Harvard College and later won medals in several national masters championships. He worked in product development for New England Life Insurance Company for 30 years and then worked part time for five years in the executive development program at Northeastern University’s school of management.

Don is survived by his wife, Nancy; children Steven and Kathryn ’84; and sisters Jean Friedmann ’45 and Susan Rattray.

—Eric Wentworth ’50

1951 E. Halsey Sandford Louisville, Ky.; Feb. 24, 2016 1952 James W. Dow Rochester, Mich.; July 13, 2015 1953 Berdine Groel New Vernon, N.J.; Jan. 31, 2016 1954 William J. Dean Greenwood, S.C.; June 23, 2015 1955 Richard N. Smith Piscataway, N.J.; Aug. 6, 2015 1956 John Beck Scranton, Penn.; Feb. 8, 2015 Robert E. Berlind Cochecton, N.Y.; Dec. 17, 2015 James E. Hinish Jr. Williamsburg, Va.; Jan. 5, 2016

1959 Sven E. Hsia New York, N.Y.; Feb. 13, 2016 Erik S. Lunde East Lansing, Mich.; Sept. 17, 2015

1960 Anna Dudley Egan Sewickley, Penn.; April 27, 2014 Janet Dennison Frake Arlington, Va.; Oct. 19, 2015 Howard R. Hardy Wolfeboro, N.H.; Jan. 28, 2016

1962 Timothy K. Beck El Cajon, Calif.; Aug. 30, 2015 Victor P. Obninsky Santa Rosa, Calif.; March 15, 2016 Vic Obninsky, class secretary since 1987 and an Alumni Council member in the mid-1990s, passed away suddenly.

“We’ve lost more than a scribe,” said classmate Bill Mann. “Vic truly loved Andover and cared deeply about us all.”

Obninsky received a BA degree in history from Columbia in 1966 and a JD degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 1969; he practiced law in Marin and Sonoma counties from 1970 until his death.

President of the Marin County Bar Association in

1990, Obninsky coached Little League and Babe Ruth baseball for 11 years and was a former Cub Scout and Boy Scout leader. He also was a faithful member of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Nobility Association in America, and the Association of Former Russian Naval Officers in San Francisco.

“Vic was a constant in our universe,” recalled Bill Chickering ’62. “Unchanging, unchanged by being dealt some bad cards, playing them with spirit and humor. A very sweet guy, from start to finish.”

“His unfailing energy and passion to hold our class together has been extraordinary,” said Tony King ’62. “It worked, and we will miss him greatly.”

1964 Francis J. Crowley Wakefield, R.I.; Jan. 30, 2016 David J. Dimlich Falls Church, Va.; Feb. 7, 2016

THE PA COMMUNITY MOURNS Jennie Cline—A former colleague and friend to many in the PA community, Jennie Cline died February 8, 2016, at her home in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Presented with a diagnosis of cancer three years ago, Jennie responded with uncommon grace, courage, and vitality as she continued to live a rich, active life focused on family, friends, and community.

A professional graphic designer and computer specialist, Jennie was also a talented artist. She generously shared her talents, time, and creativity with the Andover community during her more than 20 years on campus.

She is survived by her husband, Faculty Emeritus Andy Cline; children Heidi Wall ’94 and Kevin Cline ’97; and four grandchildren. A memorial celebration is planned for June 25 in Southwest Harbor.

Owen MacNutt Wellfleet, Mass.; Feb. 11, 2016

1966 Ayer Chamberlin Richmond, Va.; Nov. 3, 2015 Ronald L. Tan Santa Barbara, Calif.; March 16, 2015

1972 Richard E. Hall Paradise, Calif.; Nov. 29, 2015 Steven J. Sun Hong Kong; Jan. 3, 2016

1976 Douglas T. Lilley Phoenix, Ariz.; Oct. 14, 2015 1978 Georges C. St. Laurent III Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Sept. 26, 2015 1981 Christopher C. Arnold New York, N.Y.; Oct. 30, 2015 J. Kevin Footman East Stroudsburg, Penn.; Nov. 26, 2015

In Memoriam Protocol Please notify Alumni Records at alumni-records@ andover.edu about an alumna/us death.

Andover welcomes obituaries written by family members or classmates. Submissions should be no longer than 150 words and will be edited.

Please e-mail questions or submissions to Jill Clerkin at jclerkin@andover.edu or call 978-749-4295.

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My Future Address

by John Gould Yesterday I bought some real estate. Not much, really. Probably about a square foot, maybe two. By the square footage it was pretty pricey—$750. Yup. I bought a cemetery plot in the Garth.

For 26 years I taught English at PA. I came there in 1982, when Jane and I married, and we lived there until 2008, when I retired. Both of our sons were born, grew up, and went to high school there, and we all came to love the place deeply. After retirement we moved 25 miles away to Lynn, Mass., where Jane is a rector. But I left much of myself behind at Andover.

The Garth is part of a lovely old burial ground on campus. Harriet Beecher Stowe is buried there. Another resident is Dudley Fitts, a former teacher who translated the version of Sophocles’ Antigone that I used to teach. One warm October day, I trooped my class down to the cemetery, and groups of students performed scenes from Antigone on the Garth itself, 10 yards from Dudley’s grave.

The author in 1984, at work in a PA classroom (top), and today (right). Center, the area of the campus cemetery known as the Garth.

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I’ve been to several Garth funerals. One of my great friends, Craig Thorn, is buried there. An English instructor, Craig died of cancer when he was in his 40s—way, way too young. In summers, for lunch, I often went over to his apartment, and we sat outside eating charcuterie and drinking wine, talking about books and teaching.

Another dear friend and former colleague, Carmel Rodriguez-Walter, is there as well. She also was claimed too soon by cancer. Carmel fed our family grandly every Thanksgiving and often on Christmas and Easter as well, knowing that, with Jane away at services, our family needed her warmth and sustenance.

No one buys a burial site without thinking about its ultimate use. I’m 71 now, and I think I’ve got some more miles to go (before I sleep, as Robert Frost might add). But everyone knows where we all are going, sooner or later.

And even now, as I look back on it all, I know I’ve had a fine time here on earth, and I hope I’ve left the place a little better than when I came into it.

What I’m saying is that the purchase didn’t lower my spirits in the least. I hope that after I check in to the Garth—a long time after, I hope—Jane will come along to join me. In the meantime, Craig is there already, and maybe we can hang out and talk books. Carmel may have some flan waiting. And every five years each son will have an Andover reunion, and they’ll stop by for a visit.

John Gould retired from the PA English department in 2008. He lives, writes, and blogs in Lynn, Mass., and recently authored a novel, Educating Longfellow, set at a fictional New England boarding school. Read more at johnagould.com.

The Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center:

A Renewed Commitment to Empathy and Balance It was an emotional return to campus for former associate head of school Becky Sykes when the new Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center was dedicated May 6. The state-of-the-art facility supports student health, both mental and physical, and is a fitting reflection of the Strategic Plan’s emphasis on empathy and balance.

Inset: Barbara Landis Chase, 14th head of school, Becky Sykes, and John Palfrey, head of school Left: Peter Currie ’74, president of the Board of Trustees Below left: Sykes with sons Emerson ’01 (holding his son, Otis), Eliot ’97, and Emmett ’92 Right: Sykes and husband Elwin Sykes, faculty emeritus

Sykes, who left PA in 2013 to head the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation, wore numerous hats during her 40-year tenure at Andover, from college counselor to residential dean to dean of Community and Multicultural Development.

After opening remarks from Board President Peter Currie ’74 and Head of School John Palfrey, Sykes addressed the crowd assembled on the lawn outside the new facility. With characteristic graciousness, she thanked the many supporters who made the Sykes Wellness Center possible; she also teared up when noting that it was the first building on campus named for an African American woman.

“Today is proof,” she said, “that we continue to be the recipients of the grace of this community.

Even the naming of the wellness center is a privilege I know I will spend the rest of my life working to earn.”

Thirteen Years and Counting

A Story of Consecutive Giving

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ven as a youngster, Dorothy Voorhees ’04 had her sights on Andover. When she finally arrived on campus as an upper in 2002, Dorothy carried on a legacy started by her father, Steve ’72, and continued by her brother, Paul ’06.

Born and raised in Birmingham, Ala. (“I had my first snow-shoveling experience at Andover!”), Dorothy immediately felt welcomed into the Phillips Academy community, meeting people who would become lifelong friends. “While everyone at Andover is extremely gifted in one area or another, the school really is greater than the sum of its parts,” she says.

As an athlete, Dorothy competed fiercely in volleyball (having an undefeated season her senior year), captained the softball team, and cheered wildly as a Blue Key. In the classroom, she dove into AP French literature, reveling in Hale Sturges’s dynamic reenactments of works by playwrights Molière and Balzac. Carroll Perry’s economics class sparked her interest in learning more about poverty in the developing world, eventually prompting her to move to Senegal through the Peace Corps after college.

Dorothy’s 13 years of consecutive giving started with her senior gift. “Andover does a great job of demonstrating the value of your education, even when you’re still a student,” she says.

“Giving to Andover every year is my way of ensuring that the school continues to attract and retain ‘youth from every quarter.’ Many of my friends wouldn’t have been able to attend without the school’s need-blind admission policy. The economically diverse student body truly enriched my learning experience, and it’s an honor to help pass that opportunity on to others.”

Dorothy Voorhees ’04, a merchandise buyer for Target Corporation, lives in Minneapolis. She has been a PA alumni admission representative for three years.

Steve ’72, Paul ’06, and Dorothy ’04

To learn more about making an annual gift to Phillips Academy, please contact Stephen Rodriguez, director of annual giving, at 978-749-4312 or srodriguez@andover.edu.

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red and yellow tulips sprout from the grass in front of the Andover Inn.

In celebration of 20 years, Brace Center event highlights importance of gender studies