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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

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

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

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

If I were getting paid to be class secretary, I would feel honor-bound to pass my paycheck along to Bob Young. In addition to inspiring me to write to all of you last summer, he also has written to classmates whose addresses he could find.

During a long talk with Bob in the fall, he told me about how he and his hometown friend Jim Leonard came to Andover together. If I remember the story correctly, Jim’s mother wouldn’t let them room together at Andover so that they could get to know new people. Then she did the same thing when they both went to Princeton. My wife thought that was a good idea for Andover, but maybe a little extreme at Princeton.

Both Bob and I heard from Jim Lee of Newport Beach, CA. Jim has been a widower for about 45 years, but has the company of some of his seven children, 16 grandchildren, and 16 greatgrandchildren who live nearby.

John Rogge also wrote in early autumn. He and Betsy, his wife of 73 years, divide their time between their home in Brigantine, NJ, and a nearby assistedliving facility. That sounds like a nice arrangement to me. John still walks a mile a day, participates in exercise classes, and keeps his mind active by staying current on the news and handling his own stock account.

No news from the Abbot Class of 1938, but I can always hope.

Nort Wheeler and his wife, Mary, remain at their home in historic Mystic, CT. In reminiscing, Nort recalled turning up the volume on his phonograph so that it would be heard all over the quadrangle before Paul Revere Hall, when one of the masters came running out and put a stop to it. Nort and Mary were looking forward to Christmas with five children and four great-grandchildren.

Don Forsyth, living in Webster, NY, is no longer playing golf. He spends his time playing duplicate bridge and watching television. He’s happy to have two sons in town, but all his grandchildren have left due to their jobs. Don reports that he still has an unhappy tendency to fall.

The sad news: John Klein, whose passing was noted in prior class notes, was deeply mourned at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where he was professor emeritus of mathematics and computer science.

A scholar, mentor, and dedicated member of the faculty, John was chair of the mathematics and computer science department for more than a decade, and also served as an honors advisor. In 1965, he directed a National Science Foundation–funded project to bring to campus an IBM 1130 computer that served both academic and administrative purposes. He was a member of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. Upon his retirement, the John S. Klein Prize was established in his honor. The prize is awarded to a graduating senior who has demonstrated excellence in computer science.

1938 Dana Lynch ’68 P.O. Box 370539 Montara, CA 94037-0539 650-728-8238 Dana.h.lynch@gmail.com

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Jim Caulkins died Dec. 12, 2015. Jim will be remembered as the affable editor in chief of Pot Pourri, the president of Circle A, and manager of the football team. After serving as a lieutenant in the Navy in the Pacific theater during WWII, he went to Harvard Business School. For about 15 years, he tried a variety of jobs he didn’t like. In his words, he “bootstrapped a small machinery manufacturer” and had a “ball” ever since. In his retirement, Jim worked at promoting entrepreneurship, the willingness to take on some known high risk to attain a worthwhile goal.

Arthur Horwitz died Aug. 1, 2016. Art served in the Air Force in WWII, and returned to Scranton, PA, to take over the presidency of Samter’s Department Store, purveyor of fine men’s and women’s clothing.

He became deeply involved in civic affairs. He chaired the United Way, the United Jewish Appeal, and the Boys & Girls Club. Art retired to Sarasota, FL, in 1988 and returned to Pennsylvania six years ago.

Art is survived by Barbara, his wife of 66 years, and an extended family including 13 great-grandchildren, probably a class record!

Robert “Bob” McLaughry died Sept. 7, 2016, in Hanover, NH. Following Dartmouth, Bob had an exemplary service career. He became a Marine pilot.

He flew 42 combat missions in the southwest Pacific, and then was recalled to fly many more in the Korean Conflict. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Gold Star for heroism. After his service, Bob worked for eight years in the oil industry and then returned to Hanover and his beloved Dartmouth. He established his real estate business, and over the years was president of the local and state real estate boards.

He served 10 years as town selectman and in various other positions of public service.

1942 75th REUNION

June 9–11, 2017

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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

The election is over (at last). We can all get back to work, and hopefully not have to worry about where the country is going. Presumably it is in good hands.

I grew up in the ’30s, when FDR was president, and

despite dire predictions from many, the country survived and prospered.

In June, we will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of our graduation. There are about 40 of us left, and I hope you’re all well enough to attend. Hang in there!

After reading a recent account of a female student sneaking into the kitchen for food, John Corse emailed me his memory of similar events at Andover. He and Bruce Throckmorton used to sneak out of the dorm at night and go down to KOA House, where they had a cache of food and drinks. They weren’t hungry, but enjoyed the thrill of flouting regulations.

Two of our classmates died recently. Bill Stiles, who lived in Marblehead, MA, died Sept. 12. He was predeceased by his wife, Nancy, and leaves four daughters and six grandchildren. Sam Fuller died Nov. 9 in Suffield, CT. He was predeceased by his wife, Jane, and leaves four children, eight grandchildren, and three great­grandchildren.

1943 PHILLIPS

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

Phil Drake hosted the Naples ’43 Reunion Luncheon on February 23, 2017. At the time of this writing, we were looking forward to seeing Dave Ammen who indicated he would be there.

Capt. Thomas J. “Lou” Hudner received the Andover Alumni Award of Distinction Nov. 2.

He is the oldest surviving recipient of the Medal of Honor, one of seven awarded in the Korean War and the only one awarded to a Naval Aviator during that conflict. An Arleigh Burke–class destroyer currently under construction will be named USS Thomas Hudner. Congratulations, Lou, from all of us in the Class of 1943. We’re proud to have you as a friend and classmate.

It was good to hear from Bill Eastham. He’s still skiing at age 90, and he won a bronze medal in his age group last year at Vail, where he has been skiing since they opened the resort. A $450 investment in ski boots to replace his 10-year-old stiff ones indicates he’ll continue to ski and compete. Besides his enthusiasm for skiing, Bill also makes an annual cross-country trip by car each summer. He further told me he’s a Green Bay Packers season-ticket holder and had purchased three sets of tickets to cover all eventualities in the upcoming playoffs. It all sounds pretty incredible, Bill. Keep it up!

Bard Smith, long associated with Carleton College, wrote telling me about the school’s 150th anniversary. “Founded in 1866, the school was named for William Carleton, who gave a huge sum of $25,000 in 1865. Carleton went on to rank

among the top liberal arts colleges in the country.

I arrived on the scene in 1960, after finishing my doctoral work at Yale, [and] taught for 35 years in Asian studies and religion, retiring in 1995. For five of those years (1967–1972), I was dean of the college (academic dean) and served under two presidents.” Bard and his wife, Charlotte, continue to live and enjoy life close to the Carleton campus.

Thinking ahead, Bard continued, “Has there been any thought given to our next class reunion on the Andover campus? If my math is right, our 75th would be coming up soon, sometime in 2018.

Because we all move a little bit slower these days, if there is to be a 75th, it might be good to ‘start moving.’” Great thought, Bard—are there any volunteers from among our classmates who would like to head up our 75th?

Jim Munro, after back and eye surgery, was back home in early September. He wrote, “I had my 14th tooth implant completed last week. In my book, the nineties are business as usual, and a day at a time.

I’m hoping to grow old and, someday, pack it in. I’ll be headed to Canada in a few days for my delayed summer vacation.”

Responding to a note I sent with a copy of a piece he had written for the Mirror in 1942, Tom Sarnoff showed he hasn’t lost his touch. “I do remember way, way back when I was having tea in the afternoon with Will (Shakespeare, that is), and he told me about a new play he was writing called ‘Othello.’ He couldn’t seem to find a suitable name for his villain. We then talked about aging, and I said, ‘I Am Growing Older.’ Will jumped up and said, ‘That’s it,’ and that’s how we settled on the name Iago.”

Here’s a report on a recent find in my garage, but for perspective, you have to first think back to our upper year when, in fall 1941, the football team, captained by Ken Keuffel ’42, beat Exeter. Ken and Bob “Tex” Furse ’42 both played important roles in the victory that day. Now, back to my garage.

Tucked in a program from a Nov. 22, 1947, YaleHarvard program was the New York Times sports page from the following day. The banner headline read: “YALE BEATS HARVARD 31-21, PRINCETON TRIUMPHS OVER DARTMOUTH 14-12.” Heading the left-hand column on the front page was “FURSE AN ELI STAR,” and in the right-hand column was “KICKS SAVE TIGERS, KEUFFEL BOOTS TWO POINTS.” Steve Sorota must have been very proud.

The story about the Yale-Harvard game also reported 70,000 fans filled the Yale Bowl. Those were the days!

As is too often the case now, we conclude these notes with the sad news that Ted Peck passed away Dec. 28, 2016, at his home in Easton, MD. Following Andover, Ted’s studies at MIT were interrupted by his military service as an Army Air Force Navigator. Following the war, he graduated from UPenn’s Wharton School in 1949. His business career began when he joined Owens Corning Fiberglass at its headquarters in

Toledo, OH, where he rose to be a group vice president, board member, and executive vice president. Ted later joined the Ryland Group, headquartered in Columbia, MD, where he became CEO. He later headed Ryland until he retired in 1990. Ted is remembered for his many contributions to organizations including the Columbia Association, the Columbia Foundation, and Howard Community College. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Philosophy in Public Service degree from the University of Maryland. At that time, William Kirwan, chancellor emeritus of the University System of Maryland, said, “Ted was an inspiration because of his generosity of spirit and his desire to make the world a better place.” Ted is survived by his wife of 67 years, Delphine, one son, and three daughters. Our class extends its sympathy to Ted’s family and friends.

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

It seems the Field of Dreams still exists, especially for Mort Dunn, our esteemed class poet and lifelong baseball fan. Last October, along with sons Jeffrey and Andy and daughters-in-law Betsy and Karen, Mort flew down to Louisville, KY, to help his daughter Dianne celebrate her 65th birthday.

It was a great family occasion, with a special treat in store for Mort: a visit to the city’s landmark Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, at the entrance to which stands a 120-foot-high replica baseball bat. The factory produces major league bats by the cartload, just as it has since 1884. Savoring great moments in baseball history, visitors get to gaze in awe at what the museum considers its crown jewels: the bat wielded by Babe Ruth with notches designating his home runs in 1927, the bat with which Joe DiMaggio set his 56-game hitting streak in 1941, and the bat used by Hank Aaron when he hit his 700th home run in 1973. Baseball heaven designed for Mort, our classmate who once starred on third base at both Andover and Harvard. A footnote of interest: Mort’s son Jeffrey, an honors graduate of Harvard and Harvard Business School, serves as president and CEO of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization that produces the beloved Sesame Street TV show, home of Big Bird.

In a charming online Christmas card of his own design, Woody Stockwell wrote in his usual breezy style about what he and Mimi have been up to since leaving Denver in 2015 to retire in Boulder, CO. He speaks somewhat ruefully of downsizing—their Christmas tree this past year Andover | Summer 2017

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stay connected... was a potted plant, he said—but they are still very much out and about. In early 2016, he and Mimi were “thankfully” able to take a trip to Huatulco, Mexico, enabling them to exchange Colorado’s winter weather for warmth and ocean views. “Our trips to Mexico during the past 20 years,” Woody wrote, “have given us a chance to discover its long history, ancient artifacts, and vast landscapes.”

If all goes well, they plan to return in 2017. Woody and Mimi also took a meandering trip by car and Amtrak to the San Francisco Bay Area, enjoying the scenery in northern California and getting together with various family members. In Orinda, a community just east of Berkeley that Forbes ranks as the second-friendliest town in America, they visited with their great-grandsons Charlie and Henry Andersson, “both growing rapidly in a new century that could be even more challenging than the one we’ve been fortunate to have lived through.”

From Massapequa, NY, Stan Dickey reports that he and Gloria are both in passably good shape, notwithstanding a painful fall she suffered months ago plus his weekly cardio rehab. “All reasonably well here, all things considered,” he wrote. “Few complaints.” Still on a positive note, Stan says he enjoys long walks at Jones Beach almost daily. You have to believe.

On Dec. 6, 2016, I was among at least 100 fellow Andover graduates who attended a talk by Head of School John Palfrey in New York, at a sleek and elegant auditorium at Lincoln Center called the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse. The subject was “Excellence: Andover’s Inspired Pursuit,” and I’m sure there were few among those present who doubted that the school has already attained extraordinary excellence, and then some. I have to confess that when John Palfrey had concluded his presentation, I somehow felt moved to rise and ask him for the microphone. He seemed just a bit uncertain whether that was a good idea.

Nevertheless, he gave me the floor and I spoke for a few minutes about Andover, the importance of loyalty and identity, and even something about the Marine Corps. I’m not sure everyone knew what to make of it, but I guess no harm was done. At least I had shown the flag for PA ’44. Maybe it was that second French 75 I’d ordered at the bar.

Here’s wishing us all good health and good cheer in our nation’s new era. Keep in touch.

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

1946 ABBOT

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

Fred Will wrote from Iowa: “Just read the most recent Andover magazine. Was touched by nostalgia when I found my class and the names [Bill] Currier and [Giles] Constable. Have you addresses for them? Would like to join the next reunion.” If there are others who are touched by nostalgia, call or email me.

Our leader, Dick Phelps, received a new hip just before Christmas. He claims it will improve his fastball. Come see for yourself at the Andover alumni baseball game this spring. Congratulations to Dick, Danny Anderson, and others who worked on our fund drive for achieving the highest participation rate of any class.

One other solution to the hip problem we all face comes from Pete Harrison: “Here’s the scoop.

Last Aug. felt a little discomfort in right hip—went to a local orthopedic Dr. for x-ray and opinion—he showed me a little arthritis in the joint and said perhaps a replacement. I mentally put it off, but the discomfort became worse and I scheduled a second opinion from another orthopedic guy.

Between these appointments, quite a bit of time had elapsed and [my hip] had become quite painful. The second-opinion Dr. said there was not enough arthritis in that joint to cause the amount of pain. The cause must be something else. But, in the meantime, [the doctor] proposed cortisone injection in the joint to see if it helped. There was NO help. I went back to a chiropractor who has produced good results in the past. His prognosis, after a careful examination, was a ‘strain in the right piriformis muscle’ (if you google that, [you] will see that it is a muscle in the center of the glute).

Since then, have had many of his manipulation and electrical stimulation treatments along with leg and knee exercises. The results have been terrific and I feel that I am around the corner from returning to tennis and paddle tennis, and then golf in the warmer weather. There’s the story, which verifies [that you should] always get a second opinion.

Happy New Year, and very best wishes, Peter.”

Harry Gruner left us in December. I would like to remember him for a tennis match our senior year.

“Bugs Banta taught geometry to Mike Winton and me. He was also the tennis coach. Andover was tied with Exeter four matches to four. Mike and I had lost to two bozos in singles, and they were up on us 5-0, first set. Banta told Mike he would pass us, if we pulled it out. We won 7-5, 6-2, for the team victory.

Bugs passed Mike and me with 60s.”

Mike Suisman’47 passed away last October. I will let his class secretary give the details of his life, but I remember Mike as a fellow sixth man in basketball, and as our baseball manager. He was a young man of great integrity and great spirit, and he was a great friend. Rest in peace, Mike.

1948 ABBOT

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

I telephoned Sally Hughes Carr today to catch up with her. She lives with her husband in an assistedliving facility, The Hearth at Tuxis Pond, in Madison, CT. Michael, the youngest of their five children, lives nearby and they see him frequently.

Felicia “Chica” Tavares Angulo says she is happy she moved to the Washington area to be close to her son Pei and his family. This summer all of them went on a cruise to the Baltics, spending some extra days there. We congratulated ourselves on our relative good health and commiserated with each other on our common minor ailments, such as dry eyes and gimpy knees!

April 2017 will be the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day, which has developed into Non Sibi Weekend. It has become an important alumni event meant to highlight Andover’s year-round commitment to community service. Service is something we at Abbot were committed to long before the merger. Remember white dinners and dressing dolls at Christmas? I remember going to a settlement house in Boston as a senior-mid to entertain the children there. If any of you would like to write about your own acts of non sibi, past or present, we will publish your letter in a future class notes.

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

We have lost two more notables recently: Lyle Hall and Burt Lee. The notice of their passing happened coincidentally with an appeal by a PA class secretary to all class secretaries to call attention to classmates who have led a non sibi life. We submit Hall and Lee. The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Andover eNews paid tribute to Burton J. Lee; it is clear that Burt was a remarkable man and that he led a remarkable life. For anyone who has missed the formal announcements, an obituary may be found at http://nyti.ms/2kTYUpH. Dick Tichnor adds a few words that perhaps best capture the essence of the man.

“I met Burt our junior year, both assigned to Rockwell Hall. Looking back, out of 44 of us, 22 made it. Lower-middler year was on to Cheever House to constantly harass our housemaster, ‘Deke’ Di Clemente. The summer of 1946 Burt, his father, a guide also named Burt, and I did a two-and-a-halfweek Allagash River trip. Burt, Burt, and Dick. After Andover, four of us roomed together at Yale: Shew Hagerty, Pete Connick, Burt, and myself. Burt went on to graduate from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

“Over the years, we would see each other at weddings and memorial services. I talked with Burt a few weeks before he died. We reminisced about Andover, Yale, and the Allagash. He also told about the time at an Andover reunion when he introduced then-president Bush to Deke. Deke responded, ‘When you could have picked anyone for the job, why the hell did you pick this guy?’

“Burt’s life exemplified non sibi, always caring for others. He was a good man. I’ll miss him.”

Lyle Hall was no less in stature. Born in Ridgway, PA, Lyle came to Andover as a junior and matriculated to Yale. He spent three years at Yale before enlisting in the Marine Corps and serving in Korea. Upon completion of his tour, he enrolled at Boston University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree. Lyle was a leader in the family manufacturing business until being called to the ministry. He received a Master of Divinity degree from Episcopal Divinity School, where he later served as a trustee and chairman of the board. He was ordained an Episcopal priest in 1978 and served congregations at St. Dunstan’s Church in Dover, All Saints in Brookline, and St. John’s Bowdoin in Boston. Soon after his retirement in 2000, the Halls moved to a farm in South Woodstock, VT, where they enjoyed living with a herd of black sheep, llamas, and alpacas, and hosting their many children and grandchildren on any occasion.

Lyle was a lifetime trustee and former chair of the

Stackpole-Hall Foundation. He lived his life and prioritized his philanthropy with the conviction he taught his children: “From those to whom much is given, much is expected.” He leaves his wife, Lisbeth Jordan Hall, two sons, three daughters, and 13 grandchildren, a baker’s dozen.

Bill Miner remarks, “I was extremely fortunate to room with Lyle for two years at Andover and for three years at Yale. He was always cheerful, always generous, a wonderful roommate. Singing brought us together.” Bill observed that Lyle was affable and ventured that anyone who ever met Lyle would concur.

Finally, we are indebted to Bob Brenner for notice of the passing of Ed Biederman. Bix may have played on a lesser stage, but he left his mark on family, friends, and associates. Edwin W. Biederman of State College, PA, died March 22, 2016, in Pittsburgh. Following his four years at Andover, he graduated from Cornell in 1952 and then spent until 1954 in Korea as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Following military service, Bix enrolled at Penn State and earned a PhD in geology in 1957. He was employed by Cities Service [now known as CITGO] and was a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

He was recognized as one of the top 10 petroleum engineers in the U.S. He was predeceased by his wife, Margaret Jane White, in 2012, and he left two sons and two daughters, 10 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

We received comment from Al Bress, Bob Diefenbach, Pete Flemming, Dan Garland, Roger Hunt, Chuck Maslin, Charlie Treuhold, Alan Schwartz, and Edie Tucker on our losses.

A card came in from Fran and Terry Buchanan with holiday greetings, and it should be a lesson to the rest of us. In 2016, they had been to the Chinese Gardens, Spokane, WA; Ashford Castle and Blarney Castle, Ireland; Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia; a grandson’s graduation from Berkley; Tavern on the Green, NYC; the Grand Canyon; Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, MI; San Francisco with family; Angkor Wat, Cambodia; and Sun Valley, ID. Terry remarked, “We are healthy and thankful we enjoy an abundant life despite the sadness in many parts of the world. We are praying for sanity and wisdom in America in the coming days.”

John Steadman noted that the Class of 1946 and the Class of 1947 had met or were planning to meet for the Class of ’47’s 70th Reunion, and wanted to know whether we, too, would gather on the Hill.

The answer to all who may be interested is yes, God willin’ and the creek don’t rise.

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

When visiting with our classmate, the lobsterman (and retired OB-GYN doc) Ben Potter, conversation got around to meaningful things our classmates do in the golden years. High on the list were traveling to exotic destinations, futzing around with the grandchildren, and playing golf.

He took me to a hidden spot on his property, which he referred to as “the apiary.” Did you think he was raising pet apes? No, bees. Latin for bee: apis. He oversees 150,000 of these buzzing and squirming insects busily making honey and beeswax. As he tells me, the delicious product is bottled and delivered with red ribbons at Christmastime. So far, he has stayed away from making candles or furniture polish from the combs. According to Ben, a honeybee colony is a magical matriarchal mystery, which is great fun to work with and to watch develop. Each of the 50,000 female worker bees in each hive flies 3 miles a day to fetch pollen and nectar for the colony. The foraging bees pollinate our flowers and gardens and provide food for the queen bee as well as the few hundred lazy male drone bees and thousands of developing offspring growing from the 1,200 eggs the single queen bee lays each day. An octogenarian friend, a master beekeeper, leads him through the occasional thickets of raising honeybees. He separates the honey from the comb, and we trade my Maine lobsters harvested from my lobster traps. I noticed one thing about which I hesitated to ask, fearing it might be out of order. I am told that honeybees do not sting. That pesky yellow buzzer that helicopters around your patio picnic is a wasp. Why, then, do the beekeepers wrap and screen themselves with impenetrable outfits when around these supposedly harmless bees? It’s just another of life’s unsolved mysteries.

In my previous request for news, I mentioned that, although Woody Allen was uncertain about an afterlife, he planned to take a change of underwear to be on the safe side. Edward Packard responded with another quote from Woody: “It would be nice to go to heaven when I die, but I’d rather go back to my apartment.”

From Mac Beatty: “Teedie and I broke down and sold our home of 45 years and moved into a condo in downtown Portland, OR. It was less traumatic than we expected, except for digging through the years of stuff accumulated over time.

It’s amazing what one keeps but never uses.”

Ware Adams is now “semi-retired and managing to stay alive in vibrant Chicago.” Contact him for some interesting under-the-radar websites. In his crystal ball, he sees similarities to late 1929. After a Andover | Summer 2017

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Bruce Bates reports that after 58 years at the same desk, he stepped down from a rewarding career with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. He stays actively involved with the George Eastman Museum and Rochester General Hospital.

Elizabeth Leete, widow of the estimable Harmon Leete, sent his intriguing obituary from the Hartford Courant, part of which I would like to share. His specialty, among other things, was April Fools’ Day pranks. He once posted a notice on the elevators in the building where he worked on the 22nd floor with the other execs that the elevators would be out of service for 10 days, that the officers and top guys would be helicoptered to the roof, and that the others who did not want to walk up the 22 flights should take vacation time. The Hartford Courant printed the full obit in its March 28, 2012, edition.

Our Harmon was a top lawyer, world traveler, tough oarsman, published poet and humorist, expert Scotch connoisseur, brilliant sailing tactician, and custodian of a summer place called “Yawl Come.” He was the kind of man Andover is proud to produce.

Last June we lost Quint Anderson. A tribute to our first class president will appear in the next issue.

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Nora Johnson 1234 Abrams Road Dallas, TX 75214 214-370-9460 noraj31@gmail.com

I find myself, of all places, in a residence in Dallas, near my son and his family. How different the South is! Crazy weather, kind people, and a flat, dry landscape I’m not used to. For a New Yorker, the quiet is strange and almost creepy. The politics weren’t as bad as you might expect, this being a reasonably sophisticated city, but as my son says, the country is bright red. We can only hope he (the president, not my son) won’t do something terrible.

No letters, no doubt because nobody knows where I am. Now you do. I hope to hear from you.

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

I’ll start on an upbeat note with this message from Jerry Schauffler in California: “We’re thriving out here in the Wild West, traveling the world whenever we find a good opportunity and loving grandparenthood when not.” Jerry, who headed a successful real estate development company for years, has been enjoying responsibilities in the not-for-profit sector.

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www.andover.edu/intouch He wrote, “I can’t describe adequately how much pure satisfaction I derive from serving—pushing 30 years now—as a trustee of the Pacific Legal Foundation. Nine wins straight before the Supremes (four in the last two years) fighting for your (and my) constitutional rights—a record unmatched by any other public interest law firm.”

Jerry chaired the foundation’s board back in 1995 and 1996, and in recent years has been chairing its nominating committee. The Pacific Legal Foundation is a donor-supported watchdog organization with roughly two dozen staff attorneys, dedicated to protecting property rights and individual rights (particularly those of “little guys”) from overzealous government regulators. “We’re now the single most effective firm of our type in the country with a practice reaching into every state and before every major appellate court,” Jerry added.

Jerry also has been enthusiastically involved over the years, regionally and nationally, with the Outward Bound program.

A few days before Christmas, Tony Herrey and Will Watson finally made it to the Kennedy Library overlooking Boston Harbor to see the Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars exhibition, which would close Dec. 31.

“We were virtually the sole visitors during the couple of hours we were there,” Tony wrote. “It is an impressive collection of outstanding photographs, Hemingway memorabilia, many copies of letters, manuscripts, and voluminous fascinating information.

“Among many fascinating tidbits I learned from the show was that Hemingway always chose his book and short-story titles only after he had completed the final text and that he devoted long and intense efforts to choosing the final title. A Farewell to Arms, for example, was his choice only after considering and making lists of over 100 possibilities, often scouring literature and poetry for ideas and consulting with literary friends and critics for their suggestions.”

Will as an historian has researched and written about Hemingway and his experience as a correspondent in the Spanish Civil War. Recently, Will has edited and been seeking a publisher for the log in which Hemingway documented his and others’ big-game fishing experiences on his boat off Bimini in the summer of 1936.

Late last summer, Tony visited Bill King and his partner, Jayne Palmer, in Bath, ME, and toured the Bath Iron Works shipyards where the futuristic Zumwalt-class destroyer was being constructed. Bill and Jayne showed him Bath’s busy downtown Main Street, which they have done much to help revitalize.

Bill and Jayne have been active at the state level for years in efforts to revive downtown economic development in several Maine communities under the aegis of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Main Street program. Last May, they attended the annual National Main Street conference in Milwaukee.

“Jayne and I,” Bill reported, “have also renewed our commitment to downtown revitalization by becoming busier with the Maine Downtown Center,” which coordinates Main Street activities in the state. “With new management I have become a major sponsor, which allows us more input and more respect for our older advice. Such a move has proven to be very stimulating to the old brain cells and good for the knees,” Bill added.

During his Bath visit, Tony wrote, “Bill took me to his remarkably beautiful country house in Woolwich, perched on a lovely spot overlooking the majestic Kennebec River, surrounded by fields and woods invisible to the world. A rare serenity pervades this peaceful place.

“In the house and various barns,” Tony related, “Bill displayed some of his projects, like a 1940s Cadillac convertible he has lovingly restored, an ancient Dodge of the Model T era he has turned into a currently roadworthy vehicle, several boats of historical significance he has brought into pristine seaworthy condition, and various ancient gravestones he has rescued from a family graveyard in order to restore.”

Tony was particularly intrigued with the large collection of German woodworking tools that Bill had saved from the Decker piano factory in NYC, which had been founded and owned by family members of his deceased wife, Susan.

“It was perhaps more difficult to wind it down than to start it,” Charlie Flather said of the investment company he shuttered last May after running it for three decades. “So, now I am retired and have resigned from all charitable boards, but remain on the advisory boards of three investment firms.”

Taking advantage of more free time for travel, Charlie took a cruise in December to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, Elephant Island, and Antarctica—the frigid polar world explored by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton.

Charlie sent a photo of himself standing beside Shackleton’s rough-hewn gravestone in Grytviken, South Georgia. The landscape looked bleak, and Charlie looked more than ready for a mug of hot tea.

Andy Hall wrote that he and his wife, Felicia, had sold their home in Spain after 44 years and were renovating a small apartment nearby to “maintain a toehold” in Europe. By the end of this spring, Andy added, the Halls were hoping to relocate to a condominium in Sarasota “to establish residence in...yes, Florida!”

Jim Malcolm wrote that his and Beverly’s two Scotties, Brodie and Alleetta, were “thrilled” that I had mentioned them by name in a recent edition of my class notes that reported that the Malcolms (with their Scotties) had just opened their Bear Island cottage on Lake Winnipesaukee for the summer season.

Come to think of it, if any other classmates have cherished dogs or other pets they believe should be “mentioned in dispatches,” please let me know!

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Anne Bissell Gates 11684 N. Mineral Park Way Oro Valley, AZ 85737 520-664-7245 annieb@tedgates.com

Happy New Year, ladies of our Abbot Class of 1951!

You may be reading these notes in the summer, but I’m writing them on the first day of 2017. I hope your year has been interesting and fun, and that you are in reasonably good health and content.

I received a Christmas note from Lois Lovejoy Johnson, who has been living in Sarasota, FL. She and Barbara Gibson Roth-Donaldson made it to our 65th Reunion last June. While there, Lois suffered a bad fall on campus and wound up in the hospital. To top that, for Halloween she had emergency open-heart surgery. I don’t know how she found time for such a procedure, as she’s been involved in about 20 different activities! She insists she’s now well on the road to recovery, having completed home health care and about to start cardio rehab. Her son, Peter, and her daughter, Ann, came at different times to help out after she came home from the hospital. You may know that Ann is an Episcopal priest in Torrington, CT, and has adopted two children from Ethiopia: Azelach and Elniaz.

Several years ago, Lois endured a seven-hour brain surgery to repair a berry aneurysm in her right cerebral artery. Twenty years later her husband was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma, had surgery, chemo, and immunotherapy, and survived almost the magic five years before it recurred and he passed away. A month later, her mother died. Lois’s faith and strength eventually pulled her through. She gave a sermon in her church sometime later, and I quote a few powerful paragraphs: “Healing takes time and is different for each of us. Some wounds are very deep; memories are painful and stuffed into our bellies. Hearts close up, feelings shut down, and we become robots and not living, breathing, happy human beings. God wants our healing—physical, mental, emotional, and most of all, spiritual. Look into your own lives and see what God wants and asks of you, and then go BE it! We are, after all, human beings, not human doings. My new mantra...it is saving my sanity: ‘It is what it is; it was what it was; it will be what it will be.’”

A brief New Year’s morning update from Barbara Gibson Roth-Donaldson: “We just returned last night from my son’s wedding in NJ. He is blissfully happy now, and both families are, too.”

News from Ann Taylor Van Rosevelt in Ann Arbor, MI: She hasn’t been back to Abbot since our 30th Reunion. “Since then I have achieved three MAs, three children, and two

grandsons. At the moment I’m working on my third cancer as well. This one is ‘being watched.’ It’s been a minor theme in my life,” she claims.

Ann’s youngest daughter is a painter and dancer in San Francisco; her older daughter, Anna Marika—also known as Mieke—is a potter and a gardener and lives with Ann, to their mutual enjoyment! Her son is a lawyer in North Carolina.

A grandson, 15, has won a gold medal in Latin; her other grandson is into wildlife: his (granted) Christmas request was to officially adopt a red panda!

Using her master’s degrees in classical languages, museum procedures, and classical archaeology, Ann was an adjunct research scientist (now emeritus) with the University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology for over 30 years, working on and organizing materials relating to a 1925–1935 archaeological dig in Egypt. In the summers, she went on other Mediterranean digs traveling through North Africa and Carthage. Although “retired,” she now volunteers as a docent.

At her 30th Reunion, Ann was attending the dinner in the Abbot dining room. Each table of alumnae was assigned a “new girl.” One woman turned to their new girl and asked, “How do you feel, being an Abbot girl?” This youngster sat up tall and stated: “I am proud to be an Andover woman!” It seems that no longer is it important to have an Abbot identification in our young women’s education.

I am excited to be able to reconnect with you Abbot gals—my years at Abbot were a delight, and so many of you were close friends. But I miss you all, and I’ll bet all our classmates would be happy to hear about the goings-on in your lives over the years. As Laura MacHugh, our contact at Andover, says in her Class Notes Guidelines: “There is nothing more deflating to alumni than opening Andover magazine, turning to where class notes should be, and finding one’s class year missing.”

Do write! —Anne

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

April marks the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day, a global weekend of service involving outreach, planning, and organizing service projects around the world.

The Class of 1951 is no slouch in exemplifying the non sibi spirit. On July 3, 2015, Kenly Webster, Billy Lee, and Ed Nef met for lunch in DC to discuss their pursuits! A lot resulted!

Kenly’s (Princeton) Project 55, encouraging civic engagement and leadership training, is currently functioning independently as Princeton

AlumniCorps with 26 years of matching 1,500+ seniors with employment in not-for-profits for one year, including a mentoring program. Liz Duffy, Bill Duffy’s daughter, served as board chair, heading the leadership team.

Ed (Harvard) discussed The Ed Nef Foundation after his award-winning films on Vietnam and Mongolia. This part of their discussion sparked the framework of planning for our 65th!

Billy (Yale) has been promoting the ideas of friendship, home stays, and cultural exchange through an “International Institute on Friendshipology.” His name appears on the “List of Notable Andover Alumni!” They have had an impact from Hong Kong to Vietnam, Cambodia, San Francisco, DC, New Jersey, and beyond.

Billy emailed me with the results. Talks with Dick Kapelson, Bob Doran, Ozzie Ayscue, Bill Duffy, John Cobb, Don Falvey ’52, and Doc Castle about the ideas discussed at the luncheon led to our 65th program. “Keep it simple, feature time spent together and individual participation, and do something noteworthy and lasting as a class.”

Ed’s idea and his production of the film, Ozzie’s filmed afternoon gathering, and a project hatched when Ed and his film crew were roaming the campus from the Addison to Phelps Stadium, putting together footage that would become the documentary that will be gifted to Andover from ’51, were keys to the success of our 65th.

A stop at the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library introduced Ed to The Nest. PA’s new makerspace, The Nest is a place where Andover students can explore their ideas and is stocked with a laser cutter, 3D printers, sewing machines, and other gear for design and manufacturing. Ed began working with Mike Barker, the director. Students were already working to create 3D-printed prosthetics for children. A footless, impoverished Mongolian girl will be the beneficiary of our project.

Recent articles in Harvard Magazine, Smithsonian, MIT Technology Review, and the Wall Street Journal have covered the 3D printing process and its use in medical programs to produce human kidneys and livers. Ed found it fascinating that Andover kids had already been working for over a year on an advanced-technology prosthetic foot.

Doc Castle, Ed, and Bob Doran spearheaded the establishment of a “Nest Egg” to help finance the prosthetic foot for our new Mongolian friend. The fund currently exceeds $60,000.

Norm Allenby sent a great photo taken aboard a well-decked-out sailboat. His son Robert ’83 is at the helm ably assisted by grandchildren Elizabeth and Leighton. No great sailing craft is complete without lovely ladies in the cockpit! Gracing the area are Norm’s wife, Robin, port side, and the flower girl in their wedding, Julia, to starboard.

Andover Summer Session!

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stay connected... scholarship after passing the French Baccalauréate very early. He returned to Paris and became a nuclear physicist at one of the Grandes Écoles and then at MIT, beginning a lifelong love affair with America. He served for 30 years as Andover’s representative in France, interiewing dozens of candidates for admission. Tom writes: “I am privileged to have been his close friend all these years. We met regularly in many countries. He visited me in most of my foreign-service posts and in Washington. I enjoyed his hospitality in Japan when he was the French nuclear attaché for the Far East. He called a year ago and told me that he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. I asked if he would start chemo. His reply was that he and his wife, Jaqueline, were leaving in a few days for Laos and Cambodia. They traveled frequently. Even after his diagnosis, he lived a full life until the last two weeks. Tom states that since they moved to Vienna 15 years ago, they had many chances to meet. Pat leaves behind Jaqueline, four children, including a daughter they adopted in Vietnam during the War, two stepchildren, and many grandchildren.

Knowing Pat enriched my life.”

Steve Yamamoto writes, “Sad to hear about Patrick’s death. He was the attaché when we returned in 1970. We had lunch and corresponded for some time after he left the post.”

Ozzie Ayscue adds that he grew up with Tom Dove in Monroe, NC. Tom and his wife, Marge, both retired from lifelong careers in the U.S. Foreign Service and are living in Vienna.

Angus Deming ’44, class secretary, received the Silver Star for his actions in Korea on June 2, 1951. I had the great honor of writing the article in The Blue Guidon, The Newsletter of Andover and the Military, and getting to know him: http://bit.ly/2l4TRly. The Riders had a great holiday and the run-up to it. Grandson Graham was singled out for his stint as manager of Valley High’s playoff football team in a wonderful article in the New London paper and postseason award ceremony. He attended Andover Summer Session, got great grades, and carried the American flag in the final parade. Six hundred kids attended. Grandson Bradley set a freshman record in lacrosse: 51 goals and 30 assists. He made the honor roll. Granddaughter Victoria, in 8th grade, received high honors and already has been recognized by two lacrosse powerhouses. Last but not least, Duncan received high honors, is a great lacrosse player, and just completed the Holiday Hockey tournament, in which he was a runner-up, scoring eight goals and seven assists—his first year on the ice! Dorothy and I are holding up. Daughter Jennifer ’86 is thriving, as are son Graham and daughter-in-law Paulette.

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

PHILLIPS Alan Messer 7302 Eleanor Circle Sarasota, FL 34243 941-388-8767 alan.messer@supersenior.info

Geoff Brittin writes of his recent move with spouse Jirapa from Tennessee to Gig Harbor, WA (on Puget Sound, with a splendid view of Mount Rainier). Geoff recalls living in Seattle in the (quiet) ’40s, but now has traffic that is the second worst in the country and otherwise comparable to the San Francisco Bay Area. Their son is a radiologist in nearby Tacoma, and his son’s wife is an assistant professor of chemistry at UW in Seattle.

No grandchildren yet (but hopeful). Geoff wrote descriptively about the beauty and variety of their property and the nearby state park. They’ve made friendships while hiking—including with a plastic surgeon who turns out to be a PA alum, Justin Piasecki ’92.

Geoff practices clarinet, piccolo trumpet, and flugelhorn “almost every day” and follows classical-music broadcasts on KING from Seattle.

He noted that Lloyd Farrar would have loved a Swedish trombone concerto recently performed by the Bremerton Symphony Orchestra, and that he misses Mike Bromberg, one of his roommates in Tower House with Harris Faigel and Glen Bridges in 1948–49.

Class President Ed Selig reports than he, Hubie Fortmiller, and Joe Wennik continue to work on plans for our 65th Reunion June 9–11.

It will be our last reunion as a class, as we’ll be integrated into the Old Guard thereafter. Ed goes on to say that “other parts of my time are devoted to presenting seminars on literature…continuing with classical piano lessons, and working out to maintain physical fitness despite the compromises of aging.”

Hubie copy-edited a book last year about the influential “Harkness method” of teaching at Exeter (students seated in an oval, discussing ideas with minimal teacher intervention). He reckons they engaged an Andover guy to take the blame for any meddling.

Dave Hill reports that his wife died last May, just four days after their 50th anniversary. Gisele’s brain

cancer had reemerged after a 12-year remission.

Condolences to Dave and their two supportive children. Sounds as though he’s doing fine: “Life has its bumps, but I am very grateful for my many blessings.”

Denny Donegan and his wife recently moved from their 30-year Georgia home to a nearby condo—a welcome reduction in housekeeping for Roxana. Denny’s given up a 43-year hobby of refereeing amateur hockey to concentrate on shooting his age on the golf course. He hopes to attend our 65th.

Joe Falcone leads a peripatetic life, as he’s visited many countries (Europe: 21, Southeast Asia: 10, South America: 7) and lived for five years in Japan.

Since 1993, he’s been fleeing the cold Pennsylvania weather for sunshine and warmth. This year it’s “another long visit” in Medellín, Colombia, from whence he writes from Internet cafés using one of his multiple email aliases. Back in October, Joe, encouraged by our reunion coordinator, traveled by public bus to attend the Jefferson-Hamilton debate staged in Lower Manhattan. It turns out the 1790s were just as fraught as our present national circumstances. Joe’s door prize was a welcome copy of Head of School John Palfrey’s Biblio Tech.

Geri I have done some traveling, too: an Alaska cruise at the end of August, and Thanksgiving in Toledo with our daughter and her family. Then, in early December, I spent three days each visiting sons in Grass Valley, CA, and Sedona, AZ (my Geoff).

Peter McIntyre corresponded last spring with alumni staff wondering whether they might resurrect some form of bulletin board similar to one previously available for sharing photos and text (in greater length than possible in class notes). Peter asks that we and they “gauge interest among classmates” for a trial of an experimental replacement. Any interest?

We just received news of Ed Hurley’s passing on Jan. 2, 2017, in NYC’s Mount Sinai Hospital after a brief illness. Ed graduated from Harvard in 1956, earned a law degree from Boston College Law School in 1963, and served in the U.S. Navy. Little was provided about his career aside from volunteer service as a tour guide on the USS Intrepid. Ed is survived by his wife, Christina, of West Hartford, CT, three children, and seven grandchildren.

Bulletin board interest or not, please send me notes about your activities and life events.

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

This April marks the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day, and in response to an invitation from the Non

Sibi Committee of the Andover Alumni Council asking classmates to share their experiences in community and learning services, I was delighted to hear from Dee Bethell Wroth and Julie Gaines Phalen.

Dee wrote, “I served on the Sharon [VT] Planning Commission for 10 years and am in my fourth year as a reading mentor at the Sharon elementary school,” noting that, although her address is South Royalton, VT, Sharon is her hometown. Julie wrote, “For the past 10 years I have been an active volunteer in the Manatee County, FL, GAL (Guardian ad Litem) program. We advocate for children from birth to age 18 who have come into the judicial system through no fault of their own. Their mother and father each have a lawyer representing them, so we act as the child’s representative along with our GAL lawyer. We follow the child wherever he/she may be placed once they have been removed from their family situation. This may take a year, often more, but always we are to act ‘in the best interests of the child.’ This organization is nationwide, sometimes called CASA.” Julie adds, “All is well in the sunny South. Always glad to be here in the winter months and in Vermont in the summer.

NO COMPLAINTS!” Natalie Starr, whose three children are raising a combined total of 11 children (one of whom is spending her high school junior year in Chile, and, according to her grandfather, “her Spanish is so fast, he needs a seat belt”), writes that she and her partner, Gayle, “have been together 27+ years and going strong. We moved into a [retirement community] four years ago and are very happy and involved here. We’ve made some very good friends with whom we have even traveled: this year around the British Isles, last year in Provence, and the year before in Albania. I turned 81 this year, and Gayle is practicing saying she’s 80 though it doesn’t happen until next September. We’re doing well, though we agree this getting-old nonsense is not for sissies.”

Cornelia Nyce Kittredge sent a note on Dec. 31, which, she said, “seems like a fitting time to look back on the previous year, especially this New Year’s Eve when one gets the feeling that the upcoming year will be very different. One of the nicest things was the few days spent at the end of last summer with Abbot friends at the ocean’s edge in Kennebunkport. Pam [Bushnell Ellis] had rented a charming vintage cottage on a tidal inlet that she shared with Anne [Oliver Jackson] and husband Dick, and Betsy [Hitzrot Evans] and husband Dick [and your secretary]. I was included in their ramblings, and as I had lived in the area for 40 years, and it was fun to show them some of the local spots.

But the best thing was reminiscing with classmates about those long-ago days. Betsy’s memory is incredible! Time after time she said ‘remember when’ and went on to describe some long-forgotten escapade or occasion, like the ski trip to Intervale, to jog our memories.” As I mentioned in the winter notes, our visit to Corny’s home in Arundel was a wonderful treat.

I had a note from Eva Stern Breckenridge not long after I’d returned from what has become my annual fungi foray in Italy; it was in response to my offer to send a copy of my cross-section of a morel paired beside an 18th-century Scotsman’s coiffure.

Eva is a connoisseur of mushrooms in the wild, and she and her husband, Alan, are travelers. She wrote that they “both love going to Italy but for various reasons have been kept at home. Not a bad place to be.” With regard to the morel, she said, “I’ve only found morels once. My specialties are chanterelles or others, but this was not a great year for mushrooms. The first weeks of July were good, but not much after that. It is fun to go in the woods to look for mushrooms, as you know!” She continued, “I am in touch with Connie [Weldon LeMaitre] and have seen Bunty [Benedict Ferguson] in Florida last winter. All is well here in Vermont. We are lucky to have our two daughters and families living close by and our son and family in Rye, NY. As Alan says, we are blessed.

I hope we can have some kind of reunion in the near future. All the best, Eva” I second that reunion, Eva! And I thank you all for all your news.

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

At the beginning of November, I received a fabulous early Christmas gift. It’s a CD titled The Music Never Ends and it features lyrics from The Great American Songbook performed by our own fantastic chanteuse, Susan Watson, and produced by her hubby, Nort Wright. It’s available on CD Baby, iTunes, and Amazon. I loved it.

On Dec. 4 I attended a book launch/party for a new book by Paul Hull’s wife, Pamela: Say Yes! Flying Solo After Sixty, which is now available in paperback on Amazon. The book is described as “neither guide nor manual but insightful stories and intimate recounting for taking one’s life to another level of adventure and pleasure in our later years.”

Turhan Tirana and his lovely wife, Denise Marcil, also attended.

Lauro Halstead recently published on Amazon a memoir titled An Unexpected Journey: A Physician’s Life in the Shadow of Polio. It is available in softcover from Amazon and as a digital version on Amazon Kindle.

John Snider reports: “When the Republican Party was unable to find a candidate to run for our local county commissioner, I volunteered. I’d served 10 years from 2002 to 2012. Had a good time, enjoyed it, and made a difference, so I said OK. With pretty good name recognition, I won with 60% of the vote in one of the few Michigan

counties that stayed Democratic. My wife and I enjoy reasonably good health, and our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Still love winter here, sunset over the big Lake Michigan, the only one totally bordered by the USA, and Muskegon Lake. Hope all is well with you.”

Billie and Fred Fenton, in their Christmas letter, described 2016 as a year of surprises, including, inter alia, moving from the Bay Area to southern California and the presidential election. No surprise was continuing good news about his and Billie’s three granddaughters. Fred also wrote: “I met John Palfrey for the first time when he spoke at the Skirball [Cultural] Center in Los Angeles Nov. 15. He is an impressive guy. John told stories of unique opportunities enjoyed

by Andover students. His speech received sustained applause.

“I was impressed by his answers in the Q&A that followed. He gave a recap of his address to the students the day after the surprise result of the presidential election. His words to them (and us) were wise and wonderful. What a great head of school—perhaps the best in a long line of distinguished predecessors.

“Jim Ventre ’79, dean of admission and financial aid, spoke on the success of the Need-Blind Admission Initiative, now celebrating 10 years of success in making Andover available to students regardless of their family’s ability to pay. This year 44 different states and 44 different countries are represented in the large, diversified student body.

“We were shown a new film giving campus reactions to the Need-Blind Admission Initiative. It contained wonderful shots of students sharing their positive feelings about the program.”

Joel Sharp forwarded biographical material originally prepared for the 55th reunion of the Class of 1960 at Stanford Law School. Highlights include that it was at Stanford Law that he met his wife-to-be, Winifred ’54. They each went on to distinguished legal careers, and both were honored at a luncheon by the Florida Bar for 50 years of dedication to the law. Along the way, Joel worked for the Atomic Energy Commission and Winnie worked for Covington & Burling in DC. Subsequently they moved to NYC while Joel obtained a master’s in tax law from NYU, and then to Orlando. Winnie, who graduated from Abbot, became a judge for the Florida District Court of Appeals in 1980 and served as such until her retirement. Also along the way, Joel served as class secretary for Stanford Law, ’60, for 20 years, and was a board member of Pan American Bank of Orlando, N.A., president of the Orlando County Bar, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Florida Bar. Since 2010, the Sharps have five new grandchildren, and Joel has had two serious hospitalizations. He sounded fine and is fully recovered.

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Dick Kain for inclusion in our projected class album: to kain@umn.edu if digital; or to Richard Kain, 1 Orlin Ave., S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55414 if hard copy, and include a S.A.S.E. if you want the original returned.

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

As I write these notes in late December, I am grateful for the many calls, cards, and emails received from classmates during the holidays. We are doing well, enjoying family, friends, and being able to stay active with perhaps more time for resting. As we continue to age, some find getting around more difficult and some are caring for ailing spouses.

Panna de Cholnoky Grady sends cheery notes from France and always sends her best to everyone. Marti Belknap and husband Bill came East last fall to visit family and friends. Marti attends yoga, dance, and music classes as well as keeping active with some volunteer work. Audrey Davis Trowbridge’s granddaughter was married last fall.

Valjeanne Brodeur-Paxton planned to travel to the U.S. in January to visit family and hopefully make a trip to New Hampshire for a visit with Maris Oamer Noble. Speaking of New Hampshire, Edie Williamson Kean hopes to move to the Portsmouth area from NYC. Jackie Wei Mintz had a wonderful trip to China last fall. Jackie continues to paint and to be active in the retirement community where she lives. It was good to hear from Pat Bennett McCarthy who keeps busy with family and activities at her church, including baking cookies for various events.

In honor of celebrating the 10th year of Non Sibi Day, class secretaries were asked to share examples of the non sibi spirit within their classes. As I compiled the list of the many “not for self ” activities of classmates, it became clear to me that Abbot ’54 is an amazing group of women who have given of their time, talents, and passion over many decades.

Individuals have volunteered as a hospital chaplain, as a Stephen Minister, and in a ministry to the homebound, and have led a neighborhood support network. We knit for the prayer shawl ministry as well as infant hats for at-risk newborns.

One classmate was part of a group that started a hotline mainly for drug issues in her hometown.

We deliver Meals on Wheels and serve in the local food pantry. We read to preschool children and teach English as a second language. One classmate just finished teaching an adult education class on Beethoven. We have been docents at

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www.andover.edu/intouch art galleries. Many have served on boards for local hospitals, a local senior center, the Hospice Association of America, the Red Cross, and condo and retirement associations. A classmate serves as associate managing editor for her retirement community newsletter.

Environmental issues have always been an interest to many of us. We have volunteered at local land trusts, and served on a town energy committee and a water conservation committee. A classmate volunteered many hours to plan and direct innercity gardens. Another passion for members of the class of Abbot ’54 has been women’s rights and the education of young girls at home and abroad.

We have served PA as class secretary, annual fund secretary, Abbot Academy Association member, representative for interviewing prospective students, and, most recently, serving on the newly formed Abbot@Andover Committee.

I am sure this list does not do justice to the many hours given to help those less fortunate than ourselves. However, I believe the list gives many examples of the non sibi spirit. After hearing of this project, Peggy Moore Roll wrote that is was good the school was recognizing the volunteer work that so many of us do. Peggy also wrote, “After the disappointing election, we need more than ever to care for people around us and make contributions to our communities and our world.” Peggy, I agree 100 percent. I am honored to be part of a class and school that show the non sibi spirit in their daily lives as well as on special occasions. Cheers and thank you, 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

Very little to report for this Issue of Andover magazine, but thankfully, no additions to the necrology have been reported to me.

I have to apologize for an oversight in the last class notes when reporting on the lovely memorial service at the Brick Presbyterian Church in NYC for Dutch Wolff. Accompanying Bob Semple was his son, Kirk, who came all the way back from a special assignment for the NY Times in Mexico just to be at the service. Kirk had a very special relationship with Dutch and, from his words to us at the service, we heard how close they were and what Dutch meant to him.

The director of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, Michael Barker, advises there is a web page that provides a list of books purchased through the Louis J. “Skip” Elsas II, M.D. ’54 Fund: http://bit.ly/2lDKNqH. The members of the committee that made this happen are

Bob Feldman, George Shapiro, and Park Weaver, and we thank them for their service to the memory of Skip Elsas, to our class, and to Andover.

While on the subject of Bob Feldman, Park Weaver wrote recently on the 1954 VCR to remind us of the critical acclaim for Bob’s Concinnitas project (the art of the mathematical equation) and that, after touring many museums and prominent galleries where it has received critical acclaim, it is being shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC Jan. 31–May 31. Bob will be there Feb. 23 as the two curators of the exhibition discuss it. As Park describes it, “Bob contacted 10 world-famous scientists and mathematicians and asked them to select the mathematical expression most meaningful to them and to personally create an image of it. Each did so. Then a New York fine-art print maker created a version of that equation accompanied by text from the mathematician-creator. The project’s curator was Professor Daniel Rockmore from Dartmouth.

Bob called the project Concinnitas—that being the Latin term used by Renaissance scholar, artist, and architect Leon Battista Alberti—to connote the beauty found in the confluence of perfect uses of number, position, and outline.”

Park notes that there was a review of the Concinnitas project in Scientific American and that Bob, a nonscientist, “is likely the member of our class most recently mentioned in Scientific American.”

Thank you, Park, for bringing this to our attention. The exhibition opened at the Yale University Art Gallery; it has toured the country and many classmates may have seen it.

If you want to contact Bob, his email address is parasol@nyct.net.

As other class secretaries may note in their columns in this issue, prompted by a letter from Marisa Connors Hoyt ’99 and William Seeley ’84, Class Secretary Committee cochairs, this April will be the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day (non sibi being the motto for Andover), which has morphed into a global Non Sibi Weekend with outreach service projects around the world.

The spirit of non sibi might manifest itself in service for starting a nonprofit to benefit an outreach cause, for coaching a children’s soccer team, for maintaining statistics for a high school football team, as did our classmate, Paul Keaney, for holding a blood drive, or for working at a soup kitchen. For our age group, there are physical limitations, of course, but I am certain many of us are engaged in non sibi activities.

Please let Andover know of your non sibi service and activities by emailing kantista@andover.edu.

Please be sure to send me your news of any dimension. Even though we are 80, we have much hustle left in our bones.

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

I regret to report that even the usual very welcome end-of-year correspondent has let me down. In fact, the Christmas mailbag was pretty empty altogether—are people no longer sending annual greetings? It’s the first week of January as I write this, and incoming mail has been minimal. (Of course, I can hardly complain, since I am only now starting to send our annual letter!)

Fortunately, Sue Appleton Jowett and I have had some email correspondence about walking, which we both agree is a very good thing to do at our advancing age. In good weather, she walks regularly in her quiet rural neighbourhood—so regularly, in fact, that the local drivers wave to her, flash their lights, or honk in greeting. In bad weather, Sue walks in big-box stores, which open early and are happy to have people tromping up and down their aisles. She comments that these stores have become as much a part of “her neighborhood” as the one in which she lives! Apart from the physical exercise that walking affords, Sue points out that it provides an opportunity to think through any annoyances life might bring. Good point!

I might add that in the two Canadian cities in which Frank and I have lived (Ottawa and Toronto), I have done much more walking in the bigger city.

This just proves that cars are bad for us, since I used to drive locally in Ottawa rather than walk because parking was easy!

I apologize that this column is rather a noncolumn—but it will be even worse next time if nobody writes to me! Happy New Year (although it won’t be “new” by the time you see this in print).

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

Well, along comes the year when we of 1955 boldly stride with varying degrees of mobility into our ninth decade, so I was determined to take a deep breath and file this entry at a time as unfreighted with portent as possible. So why NOT New Year’s Eve? Of the philosophizing in this quarter’s mailbag, perhaps Herb Woodward put it best: “I remember my mother in her later years once saying in response to some new happening (I believe it was a

mall coming to our small town) that she didn’t plan on using it because she was happy without it. At the time, I thought that was backward thinking, but now I realize what she was really saying was that she had a life she understood and was comfortable with, and change––even if it could make things better––wasn’t something she wanted to take on.

“I feel somewhat the same way at this point in my life, continuing to work in a standard Silicon Valley workaday world of 60–70-hour work weeks in part to continue my lifestyle, but more importantly to continue doing what I enjoy and know how to do.

“As it becomes more difficult to do this because of my age, I am working even harder to continue this lifestyle. I am the old horse that is a bit slower and cannot quite carry the same load, but can be counted on to get the job done right. And if you take that away from me and just put me out to pasture, I will just get fat, get lazy, and die.”

Syd Morgan celebrated his 80th on Thanksgiving and, despite the occasional “Beam me up, Scotty” moment he says he and Linda still try to brighten their corner of western North Carolina.

While wandering southern Colorado a few years ago, I found myself in Antonito and discovered the rail yard for the narrow gauge Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. Not as renowned as the Durango & Silverton Railroad, the C&T serves this scenic area and is governed by a tristate commission.

Little did I then suspect that I would be spending an entertaining day recently with New Mexico Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Commissioner Dick Cowles.

In Los Angeles for Thanksgiving Weekend with his partner, Ann Hunter, Dick was visiting his daughter, who teaches architecture at USC, and showed this 50-year Angelino a couple of amazing secret attractions about 5 miles from 1039 1/2.

Improbably, the Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Museum of Jurassic Technology are nextdoor neighbors in Culver City. The former is hard to describe; the latter, merely impossible. I recommend one let Google do the job. And for esoteric tourist attractions, consult your local railroad commissioner.

The witching hour approaches; a new year is almost here. Happiness and prosperity to all in the class. My only recommendation for 2017 is to set aside Aug. 21 for a total solar eclipse, which will sweep from Oregon to South Carolina. I saw my first one July 20, 1963, in Bar Harbor, ME. It was the most memorable theatrical experience of my life, so I will be in Golconda, IL, for maximum totality and duration.

So much for my portent-free notes... —Y

1956 ABBOT

Anne Woolverton Oswald 7862 East Greythorn Drive Superstition Mountain, AZ 85118 480-374-4281 317-502-0339 (cell) Woolvie56@gmail.com Judy McCormack 1442 West St. Wrentham, MA 02093 508-384-5996 judymack3@verizon.net

Can you believe it is 2017? I hope you all had a great holiday season and a merry Christmas. I (Anne Woolverton Oswald) was looking for news from the cards I received, but pickings were slim.

Jane Tatman Walker and husband Frank took two granddaughters to Moab, UT, to visit the National Parks. The Walkers were headed to Sarasota, FL, for their winter retreat.

Eleanor Rulon-Miller York was sorry to miss Reunion due to the wedding that weekend of her third granddaughter. She also celebrated the birth of her third great-granddaughter in September, who was named Eleanor. How great is that!

Bob and I are well in Arizona. Golf and pickleball keep me running along with myriad activities.

Life is good.

Susan Wickham Maire called to report that she and John again will winter in Savannah, GA. Thank you, Judy Warren McCormack, for writing the last batch of class notes and sharing the “scribe” duties going forward. Please send your future news to either or both of us.

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. 200 Body’s Neck Road Chester, MD 21619 prhjr@rockbridge.net 443-249-1237

[Editor’s note: Class secretaries for 1956 learned of the passing of classmate Jim Lorenz after the class notes deadline. More information will be provided in the next issue.]

You may ask, “What are we classmates doing in our recent ascendancies?” Well, take Tom Bagnoli, for one. He has spent his time “learning Italian, which has required multiple trips to Italy, teaching 4th-graders their multiplication tables (I apparently Andover | Summer 2017

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stay connected... have never gotten over Bugsy Banta’s sarcastic jibe, ‘Judas Priest, Bagnoli, even rabbits can multiply!’), and other activities that befit a man of a certain age: grandkids, book clubs, history club discussions, tennis, biking, gardening, etc.”

Toss in 52 years of marriage to Ann, plus three kids. Then add the heroic. In 1972, at age 34, Tom moved his family into new territory, his present, adopted hometown of St. Paul, MN. To that city he brought his gastroenterologist skills to become the only such practitioner there. “Over a period of 20 years, I was able to build a practice consisting of six other gastroenterologists. In the ’90s, I helped to merge our group with two other GI groups to form a GI practice that served the whole metropolitan area and now includes 75 MDs. After serving as president of the organization, I retired in 2003.”

Wow! Talk about pioneering!

Tom reports that he was sorry to have missed our 60th Reunion. He also wistfully notes that the aging process brings with it certain diminutions of address. He discloses that a decade or two ago, he was known as “DOCTOR BAGNOLI,” which title morphed into “Mr. Bagnoli.” Then it became “Tom.” And finally, “Number 4.” But the highest accolade of all is that, to his Andover schoolmates, he is still known affectionately as “Bags.”

Ernie Latham, no slouch in the action department, launched his latest book last December in Bucharest, Romania, his adopted second home.

Titled What Strange Fate and subtitled J. Breckinridge Bayne: An American Doctor on the Romanian Front, 1916–1919, the bilingual biography was published

by Vremea Press. According to Ernie, Bayne attended Andover solely in his upper-middle year, Class of 1900, and “went to Romania as a military surgeon volunteer in the fall of 1916, the year Romania entered the First World War. He served through the German occupation, went into the countryside, and ministered to the pestridden peasants.” Here’s a link to a full description, including a magnificent “head shot” of Ernie: vimeo.com/192789682. The video’s first half is in Romanian, the second is in English.

The blurb on Ernie’s bio reads, “Ernest H. Latham, Jr., American historian and diplomat.

Cultural attaché in Romania (1983–1987).

Author of Timeless and Transitory: 20th Century Relations Between Romania and the English Speaking World (Vremea Press, 2012), In Caesar’s Household (Vremea Press, 2013), and numerous articles and reviews about Romania. Fulbright Professor in Romania (2000– 2002). PhD from the University of Bucharest (1987). He lectures on Romania and Moldova at the Foreign Service Institute (U.S. Department of State).” Impressive.

In a case of fortuitous serendipity on the very same day, Ioana, Ernie’s wife and Romanianborn poet, launched her latest book, a photoessay in verse about megalomaniac dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu’s monstrous “People’s Palace” in Bucharest.

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www.andover.edu/intouch As of September 2015, William Ellington and his wife, Victoria, have been alive and well in their new digs in Brussels. There they enjoy continental savoir-faire features such as mussels, weekly tutored French lessons in their home, and frequent travel to European cities only a few hours away. The latter includes a monthly visit to London to check on their house and check in with friends. However, these are but marginal activities compared to their main commitment, the creation of a businessscience print publication and website, MedNous, whose tagline is “Critical insights into the business of medical innovation in Europe.” As a team, William and Victoria regularly start their workday by consuming, before breakfast, the contents of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. Then, it’s on to a full workday. See www.MedNous.com.

Julian Herrey weighed in with this warm summary of, and reflection upon, his post-reunion meanderings of last June. “…My 4,000-mile roughing adventure via campsites up the East Coast, the Maritimes, and Quebec, just short of Labrador, was another extreme, almost a youthful survival test. The magnificent scenery, however, was pervaded with a peaceful harmony and successfully uneventful. Back home in Germany, those weeks in America made me realize that there is much there that people here fail to recognize and appreciate.

This has been particularly important for me in the perspective of current developments in the U.S. Contrary to local opinion here in Europe, I was with a lot of inspiring and thoughtful people there, well able to contribute to maintaining a great country.”

In last fall’s class notes, we noted that 10 classmates who had registered for our 60th Reunion had canceled suddenly the week before.

Nick Andrus was one of them. It turns out that he and his wife are intermittent caregivers to their 44-year-old daughter, who has been battling leukemia for four years and who visits Washington, DC, for treatment. Her schedule is not easily knowable very far in advance. Nick also reports that he is still active with a local chapter of SPEBSQSA (Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America), whose average age is slightly north of 80. They limit their engagements pretty much to the afternoon hours.

Concerning the present state of the universe and invoking the teachings of Mssrs. Cochran, Forbush, Gibson, Grew, Humphries, Symonds, and Whitney, classmate Frank Converse laments, “Où sont-ils les bons mots d’autrefois?” Continuing, he says, “My hope persists for a silver lining…that classmates all have some cheer, as I do, in family, friends, and mortgages paid!...that despite current events we are smiling through under our roof…and in ’17 may that be true for all of ’56.” In a gesture to our school, he adds, “Thank you, PA, for developing in me the character of the insatiably eclectic reader.” —The Other Phil (Bowers)

1957 60th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 ABBOT Anne Boswell 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 316 Hanover, NH 03755 603-643-5043 aboswell@valley.net Louisa Lehmann Birch 18 Rivermead Road Peterborough, NH 03458 603-499-6120 louisalbirch@gmail.com

As we prepare for our 60th Reunion, we’re hearing from many classmates. Reunion Weekend, June 9–11, will be here soon, and it will be a very special time for us to gather, get reacquainted with one another, and reflect on our years at Abbot so long ago. We’re planning for an interesting and engaging reunion, and we hope many of you will be with us.

Lucinda Sulzbacher Cutler, with her beautiful singing voice, continues to enjoy performing. Her special interest is cabaret singing, which involves acting as well. She finds these fun performances are popular for parties as well as fundraisers.

Recently, Lulu had a fall and suffered a concussion.

She’s trying to rest and obey the doctor’s orders.

A hard thing to do! In the fall, she met with Jody Bradley Bush and Andover’s Diane Glynn and they discussed our upcoming 60th Reunion.

Jacqueline Goodspeed moved from the East Coast to Arizona 20 years ago because of debilitating arthritis. The warm, dry climate of the Southwest enabled her to recover completely and resume her active life. She spends many happy hours riding her two horses and enjoying the climate in the winter. In the summer, when the Arizona heat is unbearable, Jackie and her husband head for northern California and cooler weather. Dinah Hallowell Barlow writes that she is “spending lots of tumbling, galloping times with my grandsons Lucas (4) and Eli (2). Always a boy’s world for me. Cambridge continues to be a smorgasbord of fun and culture. I started tutoring immigrants in English at Cambridge Public Library in the Literacy Project, which is ultra-absorbing. I get a chance to act out words!” Dinah visited the Canary Islands and Madrid last winter, and is going to Amsterdam and then to London and Stratford on Avon to see Shakespeare plays this spring.

Lynne McLaughlin Moughty writes that she’s slowing down, but it sure doesn’t sound like it!

She plays tennis and runs on an indoor track at Brewster Academy. She says: “It’s fun to watch the students heading to class, and then look across Lake Winnipesaukee to the mountains (Psalm 121—Sunday Dinner at Abbot…I will lift my eyes to the hills). Lynne continues to sing in her church

choir and thanks Abbot for her love of chapel and music. She’s visited her son Ken and his wife in Brainerd, MN, and had Thanksgiving in Syracuse, NY, with her daughter Beth and her family. In February 2016 she and her family (20 in all) had a trip to Anna Maria Island, and they’re going for an encore in 2017. Lynne, you’re sure not slowing down!

Our best news is that Barbara Leech Jacquette has been found! We knew Bitsy had been sick, but we were unable to contact her until, to our great delight, the resourceful information services department at PA managed to track her down. She’s living at Noble Horizons, a retirement community in Salisbury, CT. In spite of many battles with cancer and heart disease and numerous surgeries, Bitsy marches on and retains her optimistic outlook on life and her marvelous sense of humor. Bitsy, you’re a terrific role model for us all. Bitsy’s Abbot roommate, Susan Rairdon Allen, writes that she’s delighted to reconnect with Bitsy. Sue wrote that she had a trip East to Woods Hole, MA, last September.

Miriam Ganem Reeder, Elizabeth Horan Edgerly, and Louisa Lehmann Birch met in October at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. They discussed Abbot’s upcoming 60th Reunion and send their hopes that many of us will be at Andover June 9–11 to help celebrate.

Libby spoke of her life in Providence, RI, and her joy at having her daughter Hannah living with her. Libby is doing research and writing a book about Alice Paul, who successfully led the effort allowing women to vote. Alice Paul then went on to propose the Equal Rights Amendment. A small group of her followers, including Libby’s grandmother, continued working on this effort.

Libby comments, “This all leads nicely into Abbot’s continuing studies of gender issues, where the U.S. is now, and the diversity issues now being researched at Andover. Very important!”

We look forward to seeing you at our 60th Reunion in June!

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: PA57.online

The nation’s capital is abuzz with excitement as I’m writing this. With the inauguration of our first orange-haired president just 10 days away, reviewing stands have been erected across the street from

the White House, hotels and limos are sold out, and lobbyists and lawyers are vying for new clients with lavish parties. The prospect of change always turns on this capital, of course, but this year, unlike eight years ago for Barack Obama, the joyful frenzy is tinged with trepidation. Rarely in our lifetimes has the course of events at home and abroad seemed more uncertain and perilous.

For Ron Campbell, the political polarization in this country is dangerous enough that it should be the subject of a group discussion during our reunion. “I can understand the reluctance to infuse a happy celebration with such issues,” he writes. “However, rather than bury our collective heads in the sand on such matters, the issues are far too serious for us not to try to apply our unique educational blessings to have a serious and respectful dialogue on such subjects.” Ron suffered what he called a mini stroke in November.

Fortunately, he was left with no aftereffects. He’s taking aggressive steps to avoid a more serious repeat and expects to be on campus in June for the reunion.

To Bob Darnton the scene abroad looks equally ominous. Now that he’s retired from Harvard, Bob has had time to get around and spent much of the past year in the air or in foreign airports. He returned to Cambridge for the holidays feeling pessimistic. “My travels took me to places that are falling apart. I was in São Paolo the day of Dilma Rousseff ’s impeachment. Before the coup in Turkey, we spent many days hearing horror stories from colleagues in Istanbul. Their first comment about their country was ‘Fascism 101.’ In Mexico, my friends ground their teeth in anger at the disappeared 43 students (on an earlier trip, I was there the day of the ‘disappearance’) and at the violence that permeates everyday life. Various trips to Europe—Italy, France, Germany, Sweden— left me with the feeling that the EU is unraveling.

Friends there have lost the sense of hope and energy that promised so much years ago, when Europe was knitting itself together. The gloomiest reports came from Britain.” Bob takes heart from the continuing success of the Digital Public Library of America, which he helped found. “The DPLA now has 14 million items from research libraries available free of charge to readers all over the world—except North Korea, which refuses to sign in.”

Instead of lamenting the condition of the country, Phil Olsson writes cheerfully, “I decided to have brain surgery.” Last spring, Phil underwent a deep-brain stimulation procedure to ease the tremors of Parkinson’s. It was successful. Afterward, he got himself a snappy, 27-speed recumbent bicycle and now can be spotted whizzing around Sanibel Island, FL, where he and Diane have taken up residence in the winter months.

The getting-away-from-it-all prize goes to Elon Gilbert. Elon and his wife, Susie, spent the early part of the political season at a yoga retreat

in Maui, where Susie’s daughter, Erin lives. In the spring, Elon flew off to teach at an agricultural and veterinary college in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. While there, he was contacted about an assignment to manage a USAID agricultural project in Malawi. He finally came home in October, having missed not only the dreariness of the general election campaign, but, as Susie ruefully points out in their Christmas letter, “virtually the entire garden season in Montana,” their home. No sooner was his suitcase unpacked and the laundry dry than Elon began planning his next escape, a February– March jaunt to India to visit friends in New Dehli and Udaipur.

For some time, Bill Dial has found purpose and satisfaction in working with the Alternatives to Violence Project, a program to promote conflict resolution in prisons. In December, Bill held his seventh workshop at the Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution, near Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. “It was rewarding to hear several inmates tell me that a situation was about to blow up when the leaders of the contending groups recognized each other from my earlier workshops and, using skills learned there, quickly resolved the dispute without violence,” Bill writes.

“Never dreamed I would be into something like this in 1957.”

In November, Kay and Leo Ullman were honored by the village of Port Washington, outside NYC, for their contributions to the community.

The festive gala brought back memories. The locale for the fiesta had once been a school. Leo and Kay met there in the 7th grade, and the rest, as the saying goes, is history.

In retirement, Gil Wright has turned himself into a yachtsman. From Jacksonville, FL, the once-lawyer writes: “I have helped found a youth and adult ‘small skiff ’ sailing club on our harbor near the intra-coastal. This adventure has included several regattas. The events are always enjoyable, even when I say we finished third or fifth and the like and am then required to respond to ‘How many boats in your division, Gil?’ You know the answer.”

John McConnell, another sailor, writes in his Christmas letter that he still takes part in “a few regattas” and, on land, stays busy with the American Legion and his condo board. Joan and Alan Reische are off to Cuba on a people-topeople trip, where they’ll spend several nights with local families; their son was just named director of communications at Williams College. For those of you who still keep track of appointments on paper, Eric Myrvaagnes has just the thing: a hand-printed 2017 calendar with his photographs.

It’s available on his website, http://myrvaagnes. com/contactme.php, along with a new book of spectacular black-and-white photographs.

Our ad hoc, unelected, self-appointed reunion committee animated by Arkie Koehl has been busy planning a fine weekend, June 9–11. Look forward to seeing you there. —G Andover | Summer 2017

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1958 ABBOT Parry Ellice Adam 33 Pleasant Run Road Flemington, NJ 08822-7109 908-782-3754 peaba@comcast.net

Sandra Castle Hull recalls a fond memory of Ingrid. While living in Draper, she and Ingrid decided to ride the dumbwaiter down to the kitchen, where they were met by Mr. Bonde. As “discipline,” he gave them cookies and sent them back up with the promise not to repeat the venture again! Sandra also is the guardian of Ingrid’s scrapbook of our Abbot days, which she’ll bring to our 60th Reunion. Sandra does off-campus interviews for Andover, noting remarkable candidates. She is still executive director of Main Street Wooster (OH) after 30 years.

Mary Steketee MacDonald is still hitting the trails, starting with XC skiing in Maine last winter.

In the spring, she visited her sister-in-law in Oregon for two weeks. Her notable achievement was earning her patch for hiking 100 miles on the North Country National Scenic Trail during 2016, the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. Her route included MI, WI, MN, ND, OH, PA, and NY.

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

Einar Westerlund recounts another anecdote about Bill Hamilton. “Back in the day (especially our freshman year at Yale), a popular routinebreaker was the ‘mixer,’ a sort of tea-dance-type occasion to bring together members of the then-all-men’s and all-women’s college bastions for social interaction. Bill was along for one of these events, as I recall, when we bused our way to Northampton. As the story goes, when one of the young ladies with whom Bill connected initiated her ‘mixer-conversation-starter’ routine, she asked ‘Well, what brings you all the way here to Smith for this occasion?’ Bill, without skipping a beat, dropped his direct poker-faced single-word response: ‘Glands!’”

Another luminary of our class, Klaus Kertess, died Oct. 8, 2016. Klaus was a highly regarded curator, successful art dealer, and prolific writer. He is survived by his husband, artist Billy Sullivan.

After Andover, Klaus studied art history at Yale, graduating in 1962. He studied briefly in Germany in Bonn and Cologne; while in Cologne he worked at an auction house, his first introduction to the art

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www.andover.edu/intouch business. Klaus’s father, Ferdinand, was a Germanborn chemist, and Klaus was fluent in German.

Klaus returned to Yale and earned a master’s degree in art history in 1964.

He then joined the advertising agency Interpublic, where he hoped to be an art advisor.

Your class secretary, who also started out in advertising, was amused by Klaus’s recollections.

Virtually everyone who went into advertising that this writer ever met admitted they didn’t know what they wanted to do. Klaus said he read the New York Times, went to a health club, and spent his afternoons going to galleries. In retrospect, he felt he had been given a very generous scholarship.

Klaus opened Bykert Gallery in 1966 with Yale classmate Jeff Byers, the company name being a combination of their last names. Bykert was a hot gallery, working with artists such as Brice Marden, David Novros, Barry Le Va, Alan Saret, Chuck Close, Bill Bollinger, and Dorothea Rockburne, along with many others. In some cases, Bykert’s employees became famous too. Artist Lynda Benglis and art dealer Mary Boone, a former student of Ms. Benglis’s at Hunter College, both worked as assistants at Bykert.

After he left the gallery in 1975, Klaus became the curator at the Parrish Art Museum in the Hamptons from 1983 to 1989 and the adjunct curator of drawing at the Whitney. He also curated the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Other accomplishments include receiving the 2009 Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from the Smithsonian.

His collected written works were published as Seen, Written: Selected Essays (2011), and South Brooklyn Casket Company (1997), which contained his short stories. Klaus is survived by a son, Sam Sullivan, and two siblings; a brother, Hans; and a sister, Barbara Kertess. [Editor’s note: Please see page 102 for an obituary for Mr. Kertess.]

I’m also sad to report that Frank P. Morse III died Sept. 18, 2016, following an illness of several months. He was stricken by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a particularly aggressive and fatal neurological disorder.

Frank entered Andover as a junior, with the large contingent from Swampscott, MA. Bill Stiles writes, “There were five of us from Swampscott in our class—Frank, Tom Welch, Mal Salter, and I were four-year students, and Jeff Eiseman came lower year. Before Andover, four of us had attended Swampscott public schools, in the same grade, at the same grammar school and at the same junior high. Mal attended a private day school and not the public school system.”

Frank was on the varsity lacrosse, skiing, and football teams. He sang with the 8 ’n 1. His senior year he was a proctor in Williams Hall.

After Andover, Frank graduated from Williams College (1962) and McGill University School of Medicine (1966).

Frank entered the U.S. Navy in 1968 and served as a surgeon at the Naval Support Activity Station Hospital in Da Nang, Vietnam. A good friend of mine from Princeton, Dr. David Butsch, knew Frank at Da Nang and described him as an excellent surgeon. Following the completion of his military service and urologic training in 1972, Frank practiced at North Shore Medical Center, retiring in 2005. He served as chief of surgery from 1992 until his retirement.

He was a Commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA. From his youth to his middle years he was an avid sailor, and later in life he was very active in motorboat cruising. As a hobby, he was talented as a woodworker. Frank skied all his adult life right up until the time he took sick, with many ski trips to Colorado. And he skied New Hampshire and Vermont regularly.

A true New Englander, he liked winter, snow, and the mountains. And he enjoyed flyfishing. Frank attended a Vietnam reunion at the Lake Mansfield Trout Club in Stowe, VT, organized by Dr. Butsch.

And Frank was more than eager to display his fishing skills.

Frank is survived by his wife, Beverley, of Swampscott, and his two children: Dr. Christopher R. Morse and his wife, Andrea, of Marblehead, and Amy Morse Rogers ’89 and her husband, Scott, of Vail, CO. Al Griggs and I are both members of the aforementioned Lake Mansfield Trout Club. Mark your virtual calendars, because our 60th Reunion is coming up next year, June 8–10, 2018. The week before, Al and I will entertain fisherfolk and just plain admirers of Vermont mountains at the Trout Club in Stowe. That will be followed by some challenging golf on a selection of New England’s finer golf courses (I promise), leading to the weekend on Andover Hill.

Al mentioned that he had just returned from a trip to Vietnam and Cambodia, visiting Hanoi, Da Nang, and Saigon. Al had spent 13 eventful months in Vietnam during the War.

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

I write today against a background of drip, drip, drip, as I try to keep my pipes from freezing on a bitter cold January day in Louisville. I’m pleased that so many of you answered my call for bits, pieces, and tidbits of news. Each came with a small token of affection for me—a real reward.

Diane Gerros had an up-and-down year. “My husband and I had a great trip to Tanzania for a wonderful two-week safari, which was remarkable.

Also checked out exotic Zanzibar. Ended the year with knee replacement surgery—still rehabbing.

Looking forward to 2017! Best to us all.”

Judy Agor Aydelott has written a book, Sport of a Lifetime: Enduring Personal Stories from Tennis, about senior tennis players, their backstories, how they got into tennis, and what keeps them playing.

“Several of the interviewees are World War II veterans, one a CIA spy with tennis as his cover, top U.S. and world players, and some total unknowns who live to play the game. …I’ve gotten some excellent endorsements: Ivan Lendl, Nancy Richey, Renée Richards, Tim Mayotte, and Steve Flink.” It is coming out in May and available on Amazon.

Connie Laurence Brinckerhoff writes from Dartmouth that she received an award from Andover. Like Susie Goodwillie Stedman last year, Connie was invited back in 2016 for the Andover Alumni Award of Distinction. “The school is truly an amazing place, and having the opportunity to meet and teach some of the students was an uplifting experience. During my time at Abbot, I had little knowledge of Andover and have not felt really in touch with the campus. This visit changed that. Impressive.”

Frances “Eve” Hooper Dalmolen’s Christmas letter from Mary “Toby” Kuhns Tomlin, her Abbot roommate, brought news that Mary’s beloved husband, Joe, passed away in 2015. Mary’s sons, Chris and Daniel, and grandchildren live nearby, which has helped. Mary’s address is 12682 Footman Lane, Poway, CA 92064.

Eve took a month’s vacation in Bhutan, Nepal, and India immediately after the Massachusetts presidential primary. “Loved Bhutan. Nepal has yet to rebuild from the earthquake. India—interesting but would not recommend.”

Eve serves as historian for the ChathamHarwich Newcomers Club and membership chair for Nauset Newcomers. She is also Chatham Democratic Town Committee chair. This means that for most of the fall, Eve was on call to oversee staffing headquarters, filling in whenever a substitute was needed. After cleaning out the headquarters in November, she flew to northern California to celebrate St. Nicholas with family.

Then it was “home long enough to do laundry and repack” for a trip to watch Samantha, 8, play ice hockey. Two days later she flew to London for the Christmas holiday.

Deborah Hayes Gillette, whose email handle is “deborissima” (think Deborah to the Max), makes ordinary housework seem full of panache. “I, too, spend my waking hours trying to organize my life, clear up, sort out, toss, and sweep under the rug, but somehow it doesn’t get done. Being the queen of clutter, that’s somehow satisfying, too. Same old bouncing around between France and Italy with the occasional hop across the Atlantic to my beloved New England East Coast…I am still healthy and am able to take these appalling times with a sort of smile at the ridiculousness of it all.”

Alice Iams Kittredge lives in Panama but with one foot in Cincinnati. “My poor children are despairing of my ever extracting myself from Panama. I had a lo-ball offer on my house (but not the farm) and the ugly wake-up call was in my face.

So I slipped back into nirvana and held my price, because the truth is, I don’t want to leave Panama.

If somebody came along and bought both the farm and the house at decent prices I really would have to cave and make the Big Move.”

Elsie Kellogg Morse wrote: “Thanks for helping us keep up with each other! Along with your universal admission of the eternal ‘bills, laundry, dishes, and piles of paper,’ daily life remains interesting, fulfilling, and fun in Providence, RI, and Maine. By way of punctuation, however, we also enjoy the occasional big trip. This January we’re heading off to the Impenetrable Forest of Uganda to track and observe mountain gorillas and chimpanzees. Stay tuned!”

Gale Barton Hartch sends “All best wishes for Abbot classmates,” and adds: “Tom still works fulltime in his law practice and I man the home front.

We see our grandchildren often, as we drive them to school twice a week and watch athletic practices and games. We are about to fly down to KY to visit our oldest son, Todd, and his family for five days.

Highlights of 2016 include both 75th birthdays and a 50th wedding anniversary.”

And last but not least, our snowbird, Joan Synnott Ardrey, has taken flight to Florida.

“Jim and I are soldiering on, and the boys and their families are well. We head off to our Florida house tomorrow, for the winter, and I must say I am looking forward to sunny days and palm trees after six months in CT. It’s great here until after the holidays, at which time the dark and cold, gray skies and leafless trees start to get to me!”

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

Thank you all for your kind notes about the yearof-tracking-all-our-birthdays! Here are a few. From Larry Chapin: “I found myself looking forward to receiving your birthday missives and especially learning—again—about my classmates. Talk about diversity! The manner in which our group evolved, succeeded, tried, and sometimes failed was another testament to the process that brought us together initially.” From Jim Marks: “Thanks for rekindling some of the many relationships and memories from our PA days. Mine were only two years in duration, but the impact they had on me has lasted a lifetime. I was so naïve at the time that I didn’t realize just how significant my experience

was.” From John Matton: “Thanks for some wonderful memories.”

From Sam Abbott: Thanks so much for your yearlong labor of love to bring the class before each of its (living) members. I particularly enjoyed the before-and-after photos and the updates. I was sobered, of course, by the number of us who have died or are out of touch. Mainly I was reminded of the saying ‘Youth is a wonderful time. Too bad it is wasted on the young.’ I say that because I was chagrined to discover how many worthy lads I had not bothered to get to know while at Andover had turned out to lead exciting and accomplished lives. I was very narrow in my judgments of who was worthwhile and interesting (I suspect others were, too). I eliminated people who wore glasses, day students, people who weren’t athletic, people who were athletic, people who studied too much (grinds), people who didn’t study at all, people whose name ended in a vowel—oh, the list goes on and on! None of this was conscious—that’s the sinister nature of adolescent prejudice. You don’t analyze, you just react. So I ended up the year with a serious sense of opportunity lost.”

And from Bill Bell: “Sincere thanks for your undertaking. From where I sit, it inspired a fun birthday phone call to former PA roommate Keith Barbour, a birthday email exchange with former college roommate Drayton Heard, and a lengthy exchange of emails and mailing of photos and writings to Maynard Toll’s son Ian, with regard to the latter’s historical series on the U.S. Navy in WWII. My father was an Air Combat Intelligence Officer on the USS Essex (a carrier), and Ian has found his diary of great value, promising that portions of it will appear in the volume that he is currently completing. In Ian’s opinion, ‘The ACI officers knew better than anyone what was really going on,’ and it is immensely rewarding to my sister and me to have my father’s writings accorded a small place in history. More important has been the spirit that your project has engendered.

Jim Hayman and I had lunch together recently and traded PA memories (as well as current medical hints). A more ‘spiritual’ example is Dwight “Pepper” Stuessy and me (we became good friends at Yale and thereafter), on a canoe trip in Voyageurs National Park in September 2015, alone at an isolated lakefront campsite, thousands of visible stars in the sky, singing ‘We’re Graduating in the Morning’ from our 1959 class play. We have been reminded of how little we knew then, how much we learned in those years, and how much we now, as Sam Abbott intoned in his benediction at our 2009 reunion, need to be gentle in our judgments of one another. I’m sure the Reverend William Sloane Coffin said the same thing from the same pulpit 52 years earlier, but for some of us, it took awhile to sink in.”

And thanks, of course, to Charlie Kivowitz, who wrote every birthday: “Happy Birthday to xxx”! He never missed any of you!

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Needless to say, it was great fun for me as well, but it would not have been possible without all your encouragement and help throughout the year.

Totally unexpectedly, it inspired me to look into my own family’s history. It was, to say the least, eyeopening! My grandmother, an immigrant, born in 1872, married her first husband, another immigrant, and had five children, three of whom survived, the last of whom was born six months before he died.

Two years later, with a 2-, 6-, and 8-year-old in tow, she married my grandfather, also an immigrant, five months before her sixth child, my uncle, was born.

And that’s just the beginning. A cousin said to me, “My sister and I, brought up [as] strict Catholics, have had six husbands.” Many of my cousins and their children (my grandmother ended up having 13 children, 11 surviving to adulthood) followed my grandparents’ tradition, and among the five or six generations since, there is a totally representative number of happy marriages, divorces, single-parent families, gay and transgender children, unexpected deaths, adoptions—in short, what America is, and what I expect you will find if you, and I urge you to, look back into your genealogical history. It’s a hoot!

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Greetings! Work, friendship, families, travel, and health appear to be our priorities going into 2017!

We lost our classmate, Marcia Saliba Newcomb, in February 2011. Marcia and I were at Pike School together in Andover; she was always so helpful with any of our Abbot alumnae duties.

Cyndy Smith Bailes writes that she has a new position as finance director for her local Habitat for Humanity organization. Family, competitive bridge, six cats, and travel occupy her time!

Jane English sent us via email news of her three websites, www.eheart.com, www.cesareanvoices. com, and www.theceremonycards.com.

Lynne Furneaux Clark writes that Dave is “not doing well.”

Hannah Jopling writes that she is “teaching Race and Ethnicity at Fordham, also organizing adjuncts on campus to demand better work conditions.” Hannah recently enjoyed visits with Phyllis Ross Schless, Aida Sharabati Shawwaf, and Mary Feldblum. Mary, she states, “is the executive director of the largest and most diverse coalition in the history of New Mexico, The Health Security for New Mexicans Campaign.” Their website is www.nmhealthsecurity.org.

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www.andover.edu/intouch her husband are enjoying their 12th “exchange” this fall in New Zealand, four with cars! Her meaningful reading is the book When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi. “It is one of the most powerful books I have read in a long while.”

Mary-Candace Mize has finished writing her historic novel, The Flypaper Witch—now in need of a publisher! (Lexa, you are looking to publish!)

Charlotte Palmer Moreno greets us with “best wishes to you all; keep happy and safe!”

Sarah von der Heyde Richards reports: “After 40 years as a primary care pediatrician working with the poor, immigrants, and refugees, I retired! I do miss the people, my patients, their families, and my colleagues. I have been traveling this year to Australia/New Zealand, the Canadian Rockies, and Kenya/Tanzania. I welcomed my ninth grandchild on Valentine’s Day—being a grandmother is wonderful!”

Phyllis Ross Schless adds to her previous comments regarding the merger of Abbot onto the Andover campus in 1973. From the meeting of the Brace Center for Gender Studies, which Phyllis and I attended in April 2016 on the Abbot campus, Phyllis adds, “During and after the merger: the arts are the arena where the initial coordination of the schools occurred, where the union of the schools is especially effective, and where Abbot has a strong and lasting legacy at Andover.”

Aida Sharabati Shawwaf tells us, “Most of my time is spent working to support two foundations which are very close to my heart. One is the U.S.based public charity Friends of Kayany, which supports schools for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon.” Their website is friendsofkayany.org.

Maggie Elsemore Sipple writes, “Both our children are now working in international schools.

Matthew is beginning his first year as director of the International School of Riga; Alice and her husband have taken new jobs outside Cairo, Egypt, at the American International School.”

Kathy Stevens is reading Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande. “We have been reflecting on how fortunate we are to have choices about how and where we live during our seventies and eighties.

Otherwise, like everyone else we are downsizing our possessions, doting on our grandchildren, and reconnecting with neglected old friends.” Kathy and I had a great visit in Andover in June after I was finished with my interview project at the SHED Children’s Campus on our former Abbot campus.

Dorothy Tod has had a tough bout of Lyme disease; however, through antibiotics and “magnets,” she has conquered the ill effects. She, too, is involved with the downsizing prospect of possessions. Family and community are positives for her!

Cally Sherman Williams writes, “Our oldest granddaughter graduated from a Dallas suburb high school.” Cally is all set for the next reunion: “Where shall we go?”

Joyce Matteis Wilson writes that the three roommates are still in touch. Joyce met Andie Valkenburgh Smith on Cape Cod for a bowl of clam chowder, and also met Annie Kales Howson in San Francisco for a Giants game.

Annie continues to travel extensively. “Jeff and I have traveled many times with Overseas Adventure Travel…we especially enjoyed the southern Africa trip with the Capetown extension; Patagonia, including the boat trip to Cape Horn; and Turkey (Turquoise Coast).”

News here from me on Mount Desert Island, ME, continues positively: house and property “on the market,” family doing well in Arizona and California, health “stable.” My favorite read recently was Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived, by Laurence Shames and Peter Barton.

I thank each of you for your contributions to our class news! —Ginny

PHILLIPS Mike Burlingame 111 North Sixth St., Apt. 301 Springfield, IL 62701 217-206-7364 (work) 217-299-9306 (cell) mburl50@gmail.com

I regret to report the death of Jonathan Pierpont Atkinson, cousin of Ned Leavitt. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and an MBA from UC Berkeley, Jonathan worked at Head Start in DC and for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.

Dick Masland has semiretired, giving up the directorship of a lab at Harvard’s Program in Neuroscience and reverting to the lowly status of what he calls “a plain-vanilla professor at Harvard Medical School.” He remains in contact with the lab, which is headed by a student of his with whom he started a special line of research. He spends about two-thirds of his time in Boston and the rest in a super-quiet village on the Chesapeake (in Frenchtown, MD), which he describes as “a good place to get away from the lifelong hubbub, enjoy the falling off of the pressure, write a few words, and take a nap.”

The Maslands rejoiced at the recent arrival of their first grandchild, John Richard Hohman Masland, whom Dick calls “a charming baby, much more affable than his grandfather.”

In the fall, Dick saw Solange Brown ’85 (daughter of Bill Brown) and reports that “she seems to be prospering” and “has a very cool new project—too technical for civilians but a good and innovative idea.”

Dick is writing more than just a few words, encouraged by Gerry Shea, whose remarkable life story was the subject of a recent French TV special.

Having aired last October and running about half an hour, it can be accessed at www.france5.fr/ emissions/l-oeil-et-la-main.

In last summer’s edition of this magazine, you may have seen a letter by Bob Sanderson about out-of-touch old-timers. Bob thinks that “the Class of ’60 may have been uniquely transitional. Many of us, including myself, are still trying to figure out who packed our suitcases.”

Larry Gillis encounters Charlie Griffin now and then at a grocery store in Portsmouth, NH. Larry summers in the Granite State to escape the heat of Florida. He reports, “Griff was quite active in local politics and was a thoughtful, informed, and well-spoken commentator. He was also a distinguished member of the legal community.”

Awhile back, Larry also bumped into Dick Filion in New Market, NH. On Martha’s Vineyard last fall, Nick Danforth and his partner, Robin Jones, got together with Jeremy Wood and his wife, Catherine. The Woods later attended the New York opening of a show of works by Jerry’s artist son Jonas. Laird Smith and Carl Friedberg also attended that event.

In December, when Lois and I visited Chicago for an opera binge, we had the good fortune to lunch with Wally Winter and Ellen Ewing, who gamely trekked into the city from their home in the exurbs. Like other residents of the Windy City area, they reveled in the World Series victory of the Cubs, though Wally acknowledges that he’s always been a White Sox fan. He says it “really was amazing to see how this splendid team, put together by the brilliant Yalie Theo Epstein and coached by the Zen master Joe Maddon, finally prevailed and levitated Chicagoans in a paroxysm of collective exuberance that I have never seen before (even when the White Sox won the World Series in four games in 2005).” Wally, now retired from his lawyering career, has become the chief administrator of a cemetery in upstate New York, a part-time duty he finds challenging.

He regularly gets away to visit his children and grandchildren on the East Coast.

When asked what he’s been up to since 1960, Andy Teuber, our class philosopher, provided what amounts to the bio that should have appeared in our 50th Reunion book. He’s led an unusually rich, full life, straddling the worlds of academe and show biz. He’s long been on the faculty at Brandeis, where he teaches and writes about a wide variety of topics, including the internationalization of human rights, issues of social inequality, risk analysis, the nature and limits of democratic forms of deliberation, civic participation and renewal, cosmopolitanism, and the relation of U.S. Constitutional Law to international covenants, understandings, and agreements as well as the relation of decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court to the opinions of international courts and tribunals.

Andy publishes widely, not only in scholarly journals, but also in the London Review of Books, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe. He’s contributed to two books, American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy (Ed. George Plimpton)

and Risk (Ed. Edward J. Burger), and written many articles on philosophy, politics, and law, among them “Justifying Risk,” “The Relevant Reasons for Distributing Health Care,” “Simone Weil: Equality as Compassion,” “Kant’s Respect for Persons,” and “A Defense of Pluralism and Equality.”

Andy has been a member and fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has won teaching awards at Brandeis.

In addition to these glittering academic credentials, he has earned kudos as an actor (which you may recall he did at PA). After a year as an undergraduate at Oxford, he was cast as Mephistopheles in the Oxford University Dramatic Society’s production of Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, opposite Richard Burton as Faustus and Elizabeth Taylor as Helen of Troy; he repeated that role in the movie version of the play. Subsequently he guest-starred on a number of TV series, among them I Spy and The Big Valley. He also played the title role in the PBS telecast of “Jesus: A Passion Play for Americans.”

In 1987 Andy founded the new Poets’ Theater and served as its artistic director for several years, working with such eminent bards as Seamus Heaney, Joseph Brodsky, Derek Walcott, and Allen Ginsberg. In 1992 he founded the Cambridge Theater Company, serving as its artistic director until 1998. In both companies he worked with such stars as Claire Bloom, Stockard Channing, Lindsay Crouse, and Blythe Danner.

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Judy Draper Cottrell writes: “We are not too old for activism! I am roused from my contented torpor (though my daily dog walks are sacrosanct!) and am firing off letters to my congressmen (yes, all male, but good) and starting to attend city council meetings. At times, it is hard for me to also be a better listener to others of different views, so I’m trying to be better at that, too. Our times require it, don’t you think? All in all, my arthritic self is doing well, family is great, and I do count my manifold blessings daily. PS: My brother is very active with Exeter, and I’ve had fun referring him to things PA is doing so right!” Good PR, Judy! PA thanks you!

I am not too old for activism either. I have never been a strident “activist” but really felt the need to participate in the Women’s March in Hartford, CT (a bit of a misnomer, in that it wasn’t just for women). It was very exciting to stand in solidarity

for diversity and the protection of our human rights.

I think today we need these kinds of rallies to create the changes we want from the grassroots level up.

I am also still working on a children’s book about a timid boy who has been bullied and finds inspiration from his blind cat, in the end realizing that life’s biggest challenges can be life-changing gifts. Being a student at Abbot was one of those for me.

Susie Fox Reepmeyer reports that she enjoyed a three-week hiking tour in New Zealand in January.

“Great exercise, gorgeous scenery, and it was summer!” By the time you read these notes, winter will be behind us and we will be enjoying summer.

Have fun!

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

The recently prolific Tony Vanderwarker tells me that his fourth book was published in November.

Titled I’m Not from the South But I Got Down Here As Fast As I Could, it is the story of going from a hotshot, big-city adman to the solitary life of an author living on a farm in rural Virginia. Tony explains, “After a 20-year career in the ad biz, we took a flier and moved the family from Chicago’s Gold Coast to a small farm in the Virginia sticks. Diving into a world of rednecks, Jeffersonia, country music, and shoofly pie proved to be a hoot and the best thing that could have happened to us. We reveled in the history, beauty, and incredible people of the South and their hysterical stories, and although we’d been confirmed northerners, we never looked back.”

You might also want to look into Bob Trivers’ latest book, Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist. Bob sent me a link to a YouTube video in which someone trolled him for repeating, “OK, fine,” in a lecture in Croatia. What an interesting career he is having!

From Tom Evslin: “I’ve just retired again (third time) as CEO of the most recent company I founded. Staying on as chairman. Have sworn a mighty oath never to start another company and should have much more time to travel.” Right.

After attending the Andover-Exeter football game (we won, of course), I emailed to the class a picture of some of the current student body in the stands. It sure looked different from our day. Dave Hannon caught the tenor of our old-geezer reactions: “The picture is striking to me because of the number of girls. A welcome change. Memories—I played the clarinet in the band. I enjoyed going to games.

But I don’t love the cold. Of course, the association of football with concussions has made me less excited about football itself. But it is good to see the school spirit.”

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www.andover.edu/intouch they called on the different governments to secure funding (successfully), and by night they traveled by sleeper between cities. The mind boggles at the idea of fitting the almost 7-foot John into a sleeper berth.

“John shared that he had spent three weeks in a coma with a brain bleed, as compared to my three days. For those of you who have never had the opportunity, it is a trip, and I got to see two original movies.” That’s Leslie.

At that memorable dinner, Craig Whitney reports that attendees received “encouragement to use our ‘Andover French’ by Liliane. We steered mostly but not completely away from politics, and Les, I remember, contributed the strikingly original and provocative thesis comment that modern technology (smartphones, Facebook, the Internet generally, and Twitter) is changing the way we think. I concur wholeheartedly—Twitter threatens to make birdbrains of us all. That’s #birdbrain61, right?”

Classmates: Would you grab a piece of modern technology, please, and let me hear from you?

1962 Jim Rubin, Bill Drayton, and Dave Kirk chimed in along the same lines. And two words from Cy Hornsby expressed so much: “If only. …”

More on the Hannon family, from Dave: “While our grandchildren (4 and 2) will visit us for Christmas, we will visit them in Santiago, Chile, in January. Jake and Kelly teach math in an international school there. Our older son, Drew, finished a doctorate in American studies at Yale this year and is teaching at Johnson & Wales in RI. Sarah is working on a doctorate in education at Harvard.

We are still in Cambridge and enjoying it greatly.

My wife, Fay, is very active as an artist.”

Liliane and Jim Rubin invited classmates John Marks, Dennis Cross, Craig Whitney, and Leslie Stroh and wives for dinner at their home in NYC. “We stayed with John and Susan in Amsterdam last May while I was at an art history conference there,” wrote Jim. “I love Amsterdam, and so I go there at least once a year. We spent six months in Alsace, which will be our new schedule.

Delphine [Rubin McNeill ’95] lives in London with our two future Andover grandchildren. If they simply keep up with their British school peers, they’ll be well prepared. The Brits push them way beyond anything American elementary and middle schools, including privates, ever dreamed.”

Leslie Stroh sent along a picture of that dinner gathering, and some comments. “Liliane Rubin was a good sport and fabulous cook of a classic French dinner who looks after a well-fed Jim,” said Leslie. “John Marks shared with us how Search for Common Ground was founded. After he and Susan Collins Marks were married, they took a 10-day train trip between the capitals of Europe. By day

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PHILLIPS M. Charles Bakst 1 Wayland Ave., Unit 112N Providence, RI 02906 401-465-2781 mcbakst@gmail.com

All the way from Thailand comes this update from John Garver, whom I hadn’t heard from in decades, and it certainly is interesting: “After Yale, I graduated from Fordham Law School in 1970. I first worked as an associate at Shearman & Sterling, then worked for the Goelet family office in New York City as a legal and financial advisor, and then moved on with an attorney friend of mine creating long-term placement insurance trusts. After a messy divorce, at 62 I took early Social Security and moved to Bangkok, the City of Angels in the Land of Smiles, where I have been a happy camper for the past 10 years, having the opportunity to travel extensively throughout SE Asia from Cambodia to Vietnam and being able to meet and appreciate extraordinary people of many different cultures and beliefs.”

Lee Gilbert also gets around. “With eight children and 17 grands stretched between California and England, Becky and I fly ourselves around visiting the kids, testing the old adage concerning guests after three days starting to smell like fish. …I still find takeoffs breathtakingly magic, especially from the pilot’s seat.’’

Life is also busy for Andy Levy and family.

Consider this dispatch regarding his very talented spouse, Tovah Feldshuh: “My wife continues to enjoy acting, even though they killed her off in (AMC’s) The Walking Dead. She is now the overbearing mother (a real stretch for her, believe me) in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on the CW, and she continues to do cabaret, special events, and, a few times a year, her Broadway show, Golda’s Balcony.”

Andy is senior counsel in the New York office of global law firm DLA Piper. But he also has time to invest in some real estate projects, advise a wealth management company, raise funds for several businesses, and travel, including two longish 2016 trips to China. He also caught up in DC with Bill McKee—an old story of sorts. How old? Well, they’ve known each other since first grade and roomed for two years in law school.

Meanwhile, Charlie Stuart was finishing up a documentary about mental health—specifically, PTS, schizophrenia, and suicide—to air next fall on PBS. Title: Out of the Darkness. Coupled with the broadcast, says Charlie, “is an outreach campaign involving more than 350 partners who will help change the culture in this country surrounding mental wellness.” He is raising money to see the project through. Check out timetotalkaboutmentalhealth.com.

By the way, if you visualize the Charlie we knew in school or even later as a hockey player, delete that image. He says he gave up years ago after reporting to work at Boston’s WGBH-TV one morning with a huge bandage and a black-and-blue face from a game the night before. “It was,” he says, “time to move on.”

It’s always good to know when to move on, but that doesn’t mean we need to shed our memories.

I mentioned in an email to the class last fall that, almost subconsciously, a 10th-grade interest in chess—notably Tuesday night Chess Club meetings in Cooley House—had welled up and propelled me to buy a ticket to November’s World Chess Championship in NYC. This rang a bell for Clay Sundermeyer, who recalls playing rec room and dormitory bridge with Chuck Freeman, Dick Penley, and others.

“When I went home for vacation, I played my first bridge tournament in 1961 unencumbered by any real knowledge of what I was doing! I met my wife, Nada, at a bridge tournament in St. Louis. With 10 years off here, 15 years off there, we still play today.”

Jon Baron, UPenn psychology professor, remembers: “I got the flu and was in the infirmary.

There was a radio tuned to a jazz station. In my feverish state, I discovered Miles Davis.

“Once, in the music building, Mr. Schneider was in the classroom admiring his new stereo speakers and playing a record of someone singing. He was pacing back and forth with excitement. ‘What a voice!’ he said. That was Joan Baez.

“I loved to wander the stacks in the library. The psychology and philosophy books fed an interest that became my career.”

In my mind’s eye, Rick Barry is sitting near me and devouring the Dallas newspaper as we wait for an assembly to start in GW. I wouldn’t have predicted what would become a major interest for him in retirement, but then too, neither would he.

“I have almost inexplicably developed an interest in the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs,” Rick reports in reference to the creator of Tarzan and other famous characters. “I had always looked down my nose at Burroughs until six years ago when, for complex reasons, I read his book A Princess of Mars.

It was stunningly imaginative and fun, and since then I’ve read most of his 70 or so novels.”

While we’re on the subject of memories, many of us will recall watching the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates and the long election night that followed.

Vic Peppard notes another historic event we took in on TV: the U.S. Olympic hockey team’s incredible victory over the USSR at Squaw Valley.

Folks nowadays might be more likely to think of the triumph in the 1980 Olympics, but Vic, who is now a Russian professor at the University of South Florida, says, “For me, the first Miracle on Ice took place in 1960.”

And he’s right.

Our 55th Reunion is June 9–11. We were honored to attend PA and we can honor the school—and one another—by coming together on this grand occasion. As anyone who has been to a reunion can attest, they’re interesting—and fun.

I join with Class President Dan Jenkins in saying: Be there!

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Our thanks to Ann MacCready Northup, who is on the Alumni Council and attended a meeting in Andover related to the council this past November. This April will be the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day. As we all know, non sibi is the motto of Phillips Academy, and in the past 10 years Non Sibi Day has developed into an important alumni event called Non Sibi Weekend. This global weekend of service involves a collective effort of outreach, planning, and organizing service projects around the world. It is meant to symbolize Andover’s year-round commitment

to community service and service learning. In addition to Non Sibi Weekend, the committee and the school are deeply committed to serving as a catalyst for year-round expressions of the non sibi spirit. Non Sibi 365 is designed to include all Andover alumni service, from starting a nonprofit to coaching a soccer team to holding a book drive or working at a soup kitchen. That means many, many alumni meet the criteria without knowing it.

I have participated in some Non Sibi Days (along with Cindy Sorensen) and attest to the terrific nature of this program. It is thrilling to think that all over the globe, we Abbot and Phillips Academy folks are participating in such a great venture at the (relatively) same time!

In my request for updates from Abbot classmates, Cindy Sorensen wrote the following: “As you might expect, I’ve continued to enjoy many activities and expand my horizons with greyhounds and their people. Retirement from teaching has given me the freedom to delve into kennel chores at Greyhound Friends in Hopkinton, MA, and to help with adoptions and an educational outreach program about the history of the greyhound. Going to the dogs has also taken me to annual events in Gettysburg, PA, and Dewey Beach, DE.” Thanks for all your great work, Cindy! As always, it’s great to hear about what classmates are doing, so please keep me posted.

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

If my columns had titles, the preceding two perhaps would have been titled “Memories from an Empty Email Box” and “Remembering Denny” (and yes, I know Calvin Trillin has rights to the latter, and I believe his book by that title is one of the finest I have ever read). The title for this column would have to be “Class of 1963 Book Fair.” Remarkably, books by four classmates were published in 2016.

Ken Kusterer has released Touch under the pen name Casey Costra. It is available on Amazon as an e-book and in paperback. From a short summary sent by Ken: “Domestic violence almost kills Rosa and does kill Tony’s police wife.

Their responses touch off an abused-women’s movement in Little Italy and beyond. Neither can heal without touch, yet their paths to recovery leave them untouched and alone.” And from the related website caseycostra.com, Ken offers this on the process leading up to the book: “Writing Touch I talked with people who knew marriages and relationships gone terribly wrong. I learned how some women lived past such calamities. Well, some women and one man named Tony. I learned how

they recovered, how some of them went on to help others recover, and how a few of them helped to eliminate the calamities so fewer would ever have to recover. I think it’s a hopeful book. The calamities are as bad as we thought. Worse. But some women are making them easier to move past, and others fight to make them fewer.”

Why Casey Costra? Ken explains he was looking for a gender-ambiguous pen name to respond to a concern that women might not read a book on this subject written by a man. “I’ve used ‘Casey’ since I was 17 and printed myself fake IDs after-hours in the print places I worked. Back then it was Casey Kaye from my initials, KCK. And in the 50 years since, Casey has become a unisex name.” Touch actually is Ken’s third completed novel, but it’s the first one available in “prime time” (Ken’s words).

Bill Hartman has self-published The Link.

It, too, is available on Amazon, in Kindle form.

Bill wrote the book in the mid-’80s, and let it age (“like fine wine”—Bill’s words) until publishing it last summer. At my request, Bill offered the following description: “The Link is a novel about finance, political intrigue, and PR battles with an independent financial consultant saving the world.

But economic turmoil, Soviet agents of influence, the specter of political disruptions, and advancing prospects for major corporations remain while the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) may still have a role to play. The Link is also a love story; however, lacking the collaborative efforts of Tangled Wives, I left sex-scene details to readers’ imaginations.

And, The Link provides time travel. Those who grew up in the pre-Internet world will be reminded of life in an earlier era while events depicted in the book lend perspective on today—akin to reading Orwell’s 1984 in 1984. When asked if The Link is autobiographical—for the record I will neither confirm nor deny that I met Gorbachev…” In Kindle form, Bill’s book is very modestly priced.

Jon Turk has released his most recent book, Crocodiles and Ice: A Journey into Deep Wild. Jon’s description: “Crocodiles and Ice is a scientist/ adventurer’s journey into a Consciousness Revolution based on a deep, reciprocal communication with the Earth. This book highlights my National Geographic award-winning polar expedition circumnavigating Ellesmere Island, but also shares wisdoms from our Stone Age ancestors, the poets of the ’60s, a wolf that lingers, a Siberian shaman, a Chinese bicycle nomad, a lonely Tlingit warrior lying down to die in a storm, and the landscapes themselves. Because beyond the wondrous and seductive opulence of our oilsoaked, Internet-crazed, consumer-oriented society, there lies a glorious and sustainable lifestyle that is based on Deep Wild as a foundation of solace, sanity, compassion, and hope.” You can purchase the book online or in bookstores.

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My effort, titled “Schooldays: Longing and Heartbreak on the Road to Adulthood (With Rock ’n Roll Accompaniment),” is a 127-page essay in chapter form, “printed” and bound by the Staples photocopying department at great personal expense, and distributed selectively. The topic: how our generation sought and (sometimes) achieved permanent monogamous relationships.

The vehicle: discussion of the eight relationships I had during my student years (1963–1971), which did not so end (my one and only spouse appears principally in the epilogue, where she achieves permanent pride of place). The grist: letters (don’t ask your grandchildren what those are) from the eight subjects that somehow never hit trash or shredder. The music: lyrics that inspired and informed our lives during those years. And the journey: from Ozzie and Harriet to the turbulence of the ’60s and on to the different marital destinations and associated work and lives many of us found. Reviews, including from six of the eight subjects with whom I have remained friends, are generally positive. (My wife hasn’t read it, and is searching relevant state laws with the keywords “relationship trolling” and “divorce.”)

With significant trepidation, I will supply a copy to any of you who ask, for a simple price: an accompanying email providing personal and publishable information so that future columns will be less dependent on classmates’ untimely deaths and my flagging imagination.

At our 50th Reunion, a highlight was the Writers Gathering, inspired and arranged by Mr. Wiley and attended by our most distinguished writer, Tracy Kidder. Whatever was in the punch seems to have been infectious. To Louis, to Tracy, to Ken, Bill, and Jon, and to all of you who have published, keep at it. ’Tis a legacy.

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

Thanks to those who submitted information about their participation in non sibi acts.

Mary Travers Munger noted that her church serves weekday lunches to all who are hungry for food or companionship. She has helped organize a group of volunteers who bring their sewing machines and mending kits to the lunchroom once a week to do mending for these folks. They sew on buttons, stitch seams, fix zippers, hem hems, and do all manner of mending. Their patrons can save a favorite piece of clothing or know that something they buy at the resale store can be made to fit.

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www.andover.edu/intouch Even though Carol Barker Guilford retired from teaching several years ago, she continues to be involved at the local middle school where she taught. She raised money and had food drives in the surrounding neighborhoods to fund a food bank within the school. They send home bags of food each weekend with about 20 students who receive breakfast and lunch for free during the week. It is fun for her to see the students come in at the end of the week to pick up their bags. They are always excited to see what is in the bag. She also volunteers on the overnight helpline twice a month for the local pregnancy center, talking to women who find themselves in the midst of an unplanned pregnancy. They do not offer or refer for abortion, but do offer information and counseling.

Many women just need someone to talk to as they make decisions regarding themselves and their unborn babies.

Allis Brooks Hanley is chairing a project in her Women’s Guild at church to make “Bags of Love” for the local Child Advocacy Center. The women make duffel bags to hold quilts made by the Tellico Village Quilters, and age-appropriate toys, books, and games for abused children.

Pat Morrill’s husband of 22 years, Ed Riegelhaupt, died Nov. 26, a day after his 82nd birthday. He had brain lymphoma and was being treated successfully with chemotherapy, but then developed an infection that couldn’t be diagnosed or treated.

Pat writes: “We had a lovely memorial service and reception at the Harvard Club, where we had spent many happy hours. While he was becoming weaker over the last year, we did manage to have a wonderful Christmas in 2015 in Denver with his daughter and family, several visits to our log cabin in western Mass., and a trip to Paris and the Loire Valley in April/May.” Gretchen Overbagh Lord has news from Minnesota: She sold her townhouse and moved to a one-level condo. The size was right, and she felt the time was right to make the move before the three levels in her townhouse got any harder to climb. She sold the townhouse in five days and then had to get serious about getting rid of 18 years’ worth of “stuff ” and moving. She found lots to donate, sell, or give to friends. She moved in Dec. 9 and had all boxes at least opened before Christmas.

It did mean she did not make 23 kinds of cookies this year (none, in fact).

Lucy Bingham has an announcement of her second novel published by Keith Publications.

As a child, she loved cliffhanger books, which her mother read aloud to the children. Every night, she would lie in bed and wonder what was going to happen next. Thus was born a storyteller, and SHE is just such a book. Look for it on Amazon.com under her name, Lucretia Bingham.

Nancy Poynter Sandberg writes: “It was wonderful to have Joan Harney Wiles visit NH this fall. We toured the Durham Historic

Association Museum, where I’m curator—a work in progress. Joan’s son Christopher is in medical school and my grandson is at Tufts [University] School of Engineering.”

Joan Harney Wiles contributed: “It’s been a challenging six months since John died, but I have been busy with getting organized and taking some short trips to visit several longtime friends. Our son, Christopher, comes home for weekends when he can, and that has been wonderful.”

Kit Jones Prager continued her quest to visit presidential libraries last year. She and her husband, Allan, went to Springfield, IL (Lincoln), Abilene, KS (Ike), and Independence, MO (Truman). They also stopped at Westminster College, because that’s where Winston Churchill made his famous “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946.

Later, they also worked in a visit to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, MI, as well as an architectural tour of downtown Chicago from a boat with a docent.

I have new addresses for Paige Bossi Barlow in Toronto, New South Wales, Australia, and for Gretchen Overbagh Lord. Please contact me if you would like their addresses.

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

Five classmates recount their year-round non sibi acts in recognition of the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day (now Non Sibi Weekend). See goo.gl/ MgbuPN for pictures and news about the 10th anniversary celebration of the Merrymeeting Arts Center created in honor of Bryce Muir.

John McCullough has been involved with nonprofits throughout his adult life. Most notable was his more than 15 years of service on the board of Generations Incorporated (www. generationsinc.org). “I cycled off in 2015 when I retired, but remain involved with the Finance Committee. Generations Incorporated recruits older adults in the Boston area to work with children in grades K–3 who are reading below grade level. An adult taking the time to work with them is a big positive for a disadvantaged child’s learning progress.”

On the same theme, James “Jim” Moody wrote: “Ann and I have been volunteering in a kindergarten classroom in the Rochester City School District for the past five years. The district faces severe challenges—the highest poverty rate in NY, with a 20 percent homeless rate among the students in our school. I don’t think the effect I have on these children is measurable, but I feel spending some time each Thursday morning with a grown-up who is gentle, supportive, and friendly

is a balance, albeit small, against the large negative challenges these children face. I get a great deal out of my experiences and look forward to seeing my friends each Thursday morning.”

Charles “Charlie” Durfee volunteers “…one day a week during the school year in the boat shop at the Maine Maritime Museum (Bath, ME, great place to visit), where a group of 15 seventh-graders are doing woodworking projects and then building a pair of 12’ skiffs. It’s a very lively bunch and tons of fun! And, for me, it’s a bit of back-to-the-future, as I began my woodworking career 40-odd years ago, doing boatbuilding, before evolving into furniture making.”

Logan “L.E.” Sawyer, a former Cochran Chapel deacon and now a deacon and lay minister in his Midland, TX, church, wrote, “I’m involved in several non sibi efforts through the church. On Thursdays I lead a church service at the regional youth detention center. Wednesdays, I am the leader of a divorce recovery program that we started several years ago. Having suffered through divorce when our kids were younger, we understand the pain and loneliness of those attending…We also minister to the kids of those adults… [see DivorceCare.org].”

James “Jim” Torbert reported on his thwarted effort to become a public servant. “At the urging of many friends, one being the sitting state senator from our district, I ran for the Maine House Legislature against a three-term incumbent...I lost about 55-45, better than I had expected. I knocked on thousands of doors, talked personally to over 1,000 voters, and had over 100 volunteers…on a shoestring budget. What an experience! The truism is that you must run twice to win once, and I guess I’ll do it again...The silver lining is that Theta and I are taking off on an around-the-continent trip with our camper. We may have seen many of you by the time this is published.”

William D. Sherman ’60 sent news of Alan “A.C.” Johnston’s retirement fete in Palo Alto, CA, in November to celebrate his 40+ years of service with Morrison & Foerster, an international law firm based in San Francisco. “His singular achievements have included being the founder or managing partner of myriad MoFo offices around the world. His lovely wife, Kathy, has been his steady companion all these years as he worked to fashion MoFo into the prestigious firm it is. It will surprise no one that he held the title of ‘preppiest’ partner at MoFo for 40 years.”

From Randolph “Randy” Hobler: “While in the Peace Corps in Libya (same time as Robert “Bob” Marshall), I wrote in my diary, on Feb. 23, 1969, ‘Tom Seligson’s picture (?) on cover of Time.’ I read this last week because I’m keying up all my diary entries as part of [my] research for a book on my experiences in the Peace Corps.

“Naturally, I googled the cover, emailed it to Tom, and he emailed back: ‘That was me, all right, representing student unrest as a problem facing our incoming president. The picture of me was

Stay in Touch!

Visit our “one-stop web page” that consolidates all the various ways of connecting with Andover friends and classmates at www.andover.edu/ intouch, you can link to Alumni Directory, Andover’s Facebook page, Notable Alumni, and lots more.

Of course, you can still update your records in the traditional ways: ● Visit

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

● Email ● Call

alumni-records@andover.edu

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● Send

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taken at Columbia, but I never saw it until the day it appeared on Time. My fellow teachers at P.S. 180 were not exactly thrilled to see that a radical was among them.’

“Erstwhile scribe Marshall may have reported Tom’s appearance at the time, but since then, of course, another of our classmates has been on the cover of Time 29 times.

“I’ve attached Tom’s cover and the most flattering of George’s [George W. Bush] covers, ‘Person of the Year’ [goo.gl/MgbuPN] no other class has had two members on the Time cover who were both in the same rock ‘n’ roll band (Tom as a singer, George as a screamer in the Torqués).”

Speaking of our class commander in chief, after spotting pictures from our ’64 Pot Pourri in the Boston Globe, Donald “Don” Grinberg wrote Chien Chung “Didi” Pei, “Thought you might be amused—I think you took the photos of W.” View [goo.gl/MgbuPN] for pictures of George from our Pot Pourri featured in the Globe article, “Celebrity yearbook photos: Before they were famous.”

Franklin “Frank” Holland wished us a Happy New Year, then offered a 50th Reunion bio three years late [goo.gl/MgbuPN], summed up thusly: “Holland says all OK in Maine. Family fine. Kids growed up pretty good. Still working [telecommuting], but no complaints—yet.”

Henry “Terry” Trimble and wife Joan ’64

traveled to Australia, via Hawaii and New Zealand, to visit their daughter Tucker, who is studying in Brisbane. Terry is CEO of an investment firm. He and Joan enjoy being in Florida, South Carolina, and Maine.

Five classmates died in 2016. To the 231 members of PA ’64 surviving since the preceding issue, keep it up!

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

You will be reading this in warmer weather, but as I sit down to write, I am looking at snow and ice and waiting for a thaw. I have some bits and pieces of news for this issue.

Allison “Sunny” Morrill and her husband, Cliff Rugg, celebrated their 38th anniversary in Mérida, Mexico. Lee Mock Ryan has been adjusting to life in Naples, FL, where she moved last year after selling her longtime home in Virginia. Lee and I have had several opportunities to get together, Andover | Summer 2017

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stay connected... as I live in Naples off and on from November to April. She has been attending sessions to become a volunteer at the Naples Botanical Garden, an amazing tropical garden and community resource.

This past summer Lee toured the western U.S. with friends and also spent time with her daughter in Colorado on the same trip. I am expecting to host some Abbot buddies at the end of February for a short mini reunion. Among them will be my Abbot roommate, Janet Barker. Janet will also visit her sister, Barbara ’67, who moved to Fort Lauderdale, FL, a couple of years ago. Janet is preparing to teach some painting classes at her studio in Pacifica, CA, while also juggling a job and overseeing care for her mother.

Sometimes while writing class notes, I have to edit out parts of emails due to the 800-word limitation. I really enjoyed this part of a note I received last summer from Barbara Sykes: “I really feel I’ve been going through a long transition (years!), and am now just beginning to shift direction. I feel like a big boat that has had quite a time to mesh the gears, or turn the wheels, or whatever the mechanical reference is…to halt the forward motions of this enormous metal craft that is me and (changing shape now) set sail…set sail in a new direction. Hopefully leaving a great deal of baggage behind!” I think we all can relate to this image of trying to change direction in our lives, especially since most of us will be celebrating our 70th birthday this year and the gears are moving a little more slowly now.

Liz Eder McCulloch is continuing to sing with the Voices Rising Community Chorus in Gainesville, FL. She notes that this spring they will be focusing on folk songs and spirituals. Many of us remember Liz singing folk songs while playing her guitar at Abbot, over 50 years ago.

My husband and I were traveling in the Burgundy region of France this past fall when several Abbot memories jumped to life. We went to visit “Alesia” in Alise-Sainte-Reine, allegedly the site where Julius Caesar fought Vercingetorix in the last major battle of the Gallic Wars. They have quite an interesting tourist attraction there describing the battle in full (although another town is vying for the honor of being the official site). Now, anyone who took second-year Latin remembers wading through our text of Caesar’s The Gallic Wars (my copy of which I still have, a testament to someone who has not moved in 45 years). As I toured the building, I kept hearing the echo of Mrs. DeGrave (who adored Caesar and was known to us students as Mrs. Dee) saying, “Caesar was a man!” I don’t think they ever told us about the part where Caesar sent the defeated Vercingetorix to Rome, paraded him around as a prisoner, and eventually had him beheaded.

Not wanting to end on that note, let me add that I would be happy to pass the responsibility of writing class notes on to any class member who is interested. Email me!

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www.andover.edu/intouch PHILLIPS Ely “Terry” Kahn 243 West 60th St., Apt. 7D New York, NY 10023 917-575-1514 ejkahn3@gmail.com

The new year has begun here in Manhattan, and my wife, Lesley Silvester, and I have just returned from a two-week trip to South Africa and Botswana—my first on that continent—which exceeded every expectation we had. I posted some pictures on Facebook (I’m no Pete Vanderwarker, Tom Hafkenschiel, or Phil Young, so any expectations in that regard should be kept extremely low), which, if you have interest, can be found by searching there for “Ely ‘Terry’ Kahn.”

Shortly before I left the country, Doug Pirnie and I took the opportunity to hear John Palfrey speak at an alumni reception at Lincoln Center.

Head of School Palfrey spoke on the topic of “excellence” and made the point that the principle of selflessness—non sibi—served as the inspiration and driver for Andover’s pursuit of that goal. He surprisingly (to me) emphasized the quality and achievement of our school’s athletes.

“I have never once received a call from another headmaster regarding any unsportsmanlike behavior,” he noted, adding, “I’m told that’s very unusual.” And he highlighted the need-blind approach to admission, and its positive impact on achieving our other goal of attracting “youth from every quarter.” His thoughts were still resonating with me when I received an email sent to all class secretaries asking us to focus on non sibi in this issue’s class notes.

As you may remember, I previously used that focus, describing the work that Alex Sanger has been doing—and continues to do—supporting women’s sexual and reproductive health care worldwide. But it made sense to return to the theme. And there is no shortage of classmates to write about. For example, Chuck Vinick serves on the board of The Whale Sanctuary Project, whose mission is to establish a model seaside sanctuary.

Steve Seeche chairs Mediators Beyond Borders, a global initiative in alternative dispute resolution.

Scott McLanahan, for the past eight years, has led neurosurgical missions to a children’s hospital in Santo Domingo. Kit Meade leads recovery meetings for inmates at a jail near his Loveland, OH, home. And there are many, many others.

I decided to check in with Dan Warren. Dan, as many of you know or read in the 50th Reunion Class Book, began his career arc with a teaching stint in Harlem, then studied at the Episcopal Divinity School, and eventually a life in the priesthood. Speaking with him on the phone—he was at home in Brunswick, ME, and preparing for a trip to New York (where we’d miss each other, due to my safari plans)—it was clear he made little to no connection between his decision to

devote himself to church and congregation, and our Andover experience. “I really don’t have a deep affection for Andover as an institution the way it was run at that time,” he said. “I have deep affection for five or six classmates—Jon Mills, Kevin Rafferty, Ted McLean, Joe Magruder, and the late Derek Huntington—who I’ve fished with here.

But Andover for me was a pressure cooker, a boot camp. I had a better time at Yale.”

Dan resisted the notion that his life had been built around the principle of selflessness, although he continues to serve a congregation in Auburn, ME, on a part-time basis. “I don’t think I’m particularly non sibi,” he explained. “I’m not driven by mission.” He pointed out that he’d tried journalism (the North Adams [MA] Transcript) and architecture (“I was terrible”), before discovering— while working as an architect—that he “really liked” attending the Christ Church on the Green in Cambridge. “I’d never been where people really talked to each other,” he remembered. Harvard Divinity School felt like the right next step.

Upon graduation, Dan was offered a position at Exeter. He decided instead to “get out of the cocoon of the Northeast,” a journey that began in Ohio and continued in NYC, Providence, RI, and, perhaps finally, Maine. Two years ago, he’d written he’d been looking for “a community” these past decades; now he’s concluded that “I don’t know about this community business. It’s kind of a buzzword, vague.” Instead, he paints, in a basement studio to which he’s added a skylight. “I go down there, and try to give birth. I guess I’m looking for a community of painters, but that’s hard to find,” Dan explained.

Besides painting, Dan sings in the Brunswick Community Gospel Choir (“a physically inspiring, whole-body experience”), participates in folk dancing, and enjoys time with wife Meg, sons Tim and Seth, and grandson Ash. He’s still, he noted, “a pastor of a little church.” “I’m pretty good at it,” he reflected. “But I need to move to the step where I’m not paid to do this. I guess one hangs on until one gets it. That’s the way it’s been for me with singing, dancing, and painting, too. It’s a metaphor for life.”

Life events continue for the rest of us as well.

Thanks to Ed Samp and Doug Pirnie, I’ve been kept up to date on several of you. Roger Murray and Kit Meade have new grandchildren. Stu McLean was in New York for the holidays (sorry I missed you) and Phil Young was in Costa Rica. Gordon Phillips is “busily engaged in assisting the financially stricken and abandoned to rescue their retirements.” You can reach out to him at www.GPSolutions.consulting (no “.com” needed). Gordon adds, “It’s a dirty job that cannot be left to financial planners.”

Finally, Gerry Cameron—who remarried 10 years ago after his first wife’s untimely passing in 2004—has left the chilly Northeast (and his 42 years as a banker and search firm partner) for Charleston, SC. He reports that “the climate is delightful, the food is delicious, and the people

are very welcoming.” He and wife Vicky have six children and 10 grandchildren between them, “with number 11 on the way.” Roger, Kit, and the rest of us are playing catch-up.

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

With the notes due to be published in the spring, writing them just after the new year seems like an odd juxtaposition, with daily bombardments of rapidly escalating events and issues. However, a recent read on “super-aging” provides another context. Our fast-receding 50th Reunion celebrated the vibrancy and experiences embedded in the aging process—perhaps not always meeting the standard of “super-aging,” but as a catalyst for aligned dialogue.

Our 50th included Abbot@Andover Day as a hallmark of Abbot’s rich—and yes, even enduring—legacy at Andover. With the Abbot alumnae engagement initiative’s (AAEI) 2015 establishment at the school, the now-rebranded AAEI as “Abbot@Andover” moves into a new and dynamic phase as an ad hoc committee of the Alumni Council. The Andover and the Military ad hoc committee serves as a model of substance.

Solidified by previous partnerships, the Brace Center and director Flavia Vidal, the Archives and archivist Paige Roberts, and the Sykes Center and director Amy Patel bring energy and student connectivity to discussions about Abbot@ Andover collaborations. All ideas, feedback, and participation are welcome.

Outside of the Abbot@Andover committee, other Abbot ties consist of the Abbot Academy Association and funding opportunities such as the Jean St. Pierre Scholarship Fund. Belatedly, here is the link to “Miss” St. Pierre’s August 2016 obituary: www.andover.edu/about/newsroom/pages/ jeanstpierre.aspx.

In November, Andover celebrated Miss St. Pierre’s contributions and profound community impact in a heartfelt and touching tribute at Cochran Chapel. For many of us fortunate enough to be her students, she exemplified the gold standard. The scholarship fund honors Miss St. Pierre by supporting students from her hometown of Lowell and from New England, a component of Andover’s critical need-blind policy.

In another Abbot-centric plug, Dream House,

by Catherine Armsden ’73, sister of our very own Beverley Armsden Daniel, provides a delightful read: www.catherinearmsden.com/dreamhouse.

Although the concept of non sibi serves as an Andover hallmark, it also represents a core Abbot value. Following is an email from Marisa Connors Hoyt ’99 and William Seeley ’84, class secretary committee cochairs of the Andover Alumni Council: “This April will be the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day. As we all know, non sibi is the motto of Phillips Academy, and in the past 10 years it has developed into an important alumni event called Non Sibi Weekend. This global weekend of service involves a collective effort of outreach, planning, and organizing service projects around the world.

“This decade-long [event] is meant to symbolize Andover’s year-round commitment to community service and service learning. In addition to Non Sibi Weekend, the committee and the school are deeply committed to serving as a catalyst for year-round expressions of the non sibi spirit. Non Sibi 365 is designed to include all Andover alumni service from starting a nonprofit to coaching a soccer team to holding a book drive or working at a soup kitchen. That means many, many alumni meet the criteria without knowing it…We would love for either you or your classmates to write about your own non sibi work and/or the work of classmates to publish in the notes.” To echo Marisa and William, share the stories!

Best wishes to you all for the upcoming year.

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

Gentlemen, last fall I circulated a survey about winter vacations, a follow-up to a survey on summer vacations that I had previously sent around.

Scott Perry was the first responder: 1. Do you have a special place that you and your family like to travel to on Christmas vacations or other winter vacations? “My wife, Christine, and I rarely spend much time in any winter location. We live in summer or near summer year-round as we spend from May to September in Europe (Spain and London) and from October to April in the Southern Hemisphere (Argentina and Uruguay).

For many years now we have spent Christmas on our farm in Uruguay, where it is quite hot at that time of year.”

2. What sports, games, or activities do you like to engage in during these Christmas or winter vacations/idylls? “I haven’t done any winter sports for at least 40 years. I play golf badly (29.3 handicap!!!!) and cycle quite a bit (raced on road bikes in Sweden and Germany and crossed the Andes Mountains four times on mountain bikes), but my principal sporting activity is unquestionably sailing. Most recently, I race my classic 1947 sloop

in the Mediterranean classic circuit and spend an inordinate amount of time working for World Sailing (www.sailing.org, formerly called the International Sailing Federation), of which I have been a volunteer for 20+ years, most recently as a vice president and the technical delegate for sailing at the Olympics last summer in Rio.” 3. When you were a kid, was there a particular place that you and your family traveled to in order to spend Christmas vacation or other periods of vacation in the winter? “I spent all my childhood winters in Uruguay, where I was born. During the Southern Hemisphere winters (June–September), we were in school, so there was little chance to vacation. During your Northern Hemisphere winters (December–March), we would always go to a beach resort in Uruguay (Punta del Este), where I still go, but now with my daughters, son-in-law, and grandchildren (things rarely change).”

4. Do you have any favorite memories of that period? “Body surfing and partying for endless hours and otherwise getting into trouble with my parents, who decided when I was 15 that I had to mend my ways, so they sent me off to boarding school at Andover.”

5. Do you have access to a fireplace in the winter, and do you sit in front of a blazing fire on winter nights? “Yes and Yes.” Last November Lee Eddy hosted a PA ’66 golf outing in Birmingham, AL, and the following stalwarts strutted their stuff on various links over four days: Charley Sawyer, Skip Freeman, Andy Scott, Denny Tottenham, John Hilley, and Topper Lynn. Andy Scott filed this report: “First, the quality of camaraderie far exceeded the quality of the golf. What we have managed to retain in terms of intellect and professional experience, we have lost, or indeed, never had in terms of golf capabilities.

Second, if I were to appoint someone to plan and execute an event, I would look no further than Denny Tottenham. Denny arranged our entire trip, [and] found us a very comfortable four-bedroom house within about 200 yards of the Oxmoor pro shop. We played the Hills course, the Valley course, and the par three course there. No one broke 80, but everyone broke 100. Lee Eddy drove down from Illinois so he could transport all his Cubs memorabilia, which I am sure the airlines might have refused to carry. He kept us constantly aware of game starting times, and engineered our meal activities so they would not interfere with any World Series games. Some of us even stayed up late enough to see the Cubs’ final victory. John Hilley gave us extraordinary insight into the maelstrom that is Washington politics. Indeed, given his background in economics, he was able to reassure us, somewhat convincingly, that the world is not in imminent danger of collapsing because of out-ofcontrol budget deficits. Charley Sawyer, the only arguably credible golfer of the group, has retired from practicing architecture on behalf of paying clients and has designed a renovation project in Andover | Summer 2017

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Nantucket, MA. He shared the ‘before’ and ‘after’ with us, and his home is spectacular. He was also kind enough to share some golf tips with me, which had immediate effect. Topper managed to avoid trips to Germany, Dubai, Singapore, and several other places that need jet blast deflectors and/ or engine run-up facilities, to join us. There was great enthusiasm for future outings for as many as would like to attend and subject their golf games to merciless ridicule.”

Charley added, “The trip would not have been the same without Chef Eddy. He commandeered the shopping list and the Weber, and turned every dinner into a therapy session to erase the painful memory of Leete meat. A typical Eddy meal: pork roast, sausage, steak, and spare ribs. With chicken as the vegetable. This was not a list of choices. We ate it all, because it was delicious and felt kind of balanced. And because Lee understands that aged golf trippers need to do at least one thing we can never tell our wives about.”

John Erskine reports, “I reported in the 50th Reunion Book on my status with respect to wives and offspring. Regarding grandchildren, I report as follows—three of my five children have provided six grandchildren to date. Apparently, this total is still a work in progress. Another couple of additional grandchild units are possible, although I have been informed that no additions are in the works at this time.”

Robin Hogen writes, “As you may have seen on Facebook, I decided to volunteer as a ski instructor for disabled skiers at the The Bart J. Ruggiere Adaptive Sports Center in Vermont. It’s a great program to help people with disabilities experience the joy of skiing. That will keep me busy most weekends this winter.”

Adios, amigos. Keep writing and emailing.

1967 50th REUNION June 8–11, 2017

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Anstiss Bowser Agnew 36 Wallacks Drive #5 Stamford, CT 06902 203-912-5264 a.elizabeth.b@gmail.com Catherine Hoover Petros 25119 U.S. Hwy. 40 Golden, CO 80401 303-885-4814 chpetros@msn.com

As our 50th Reunion approaches in June of this year, outreach by the reunion committee and other recruits has been initiated and has reached a fever pitch. So many of us are looking forward with great anticipation to circling back to the Abbot

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www.andover.edu/intouch and Andover campuses to celebrate this milestone together. We are still planning events for the weekend, so feel free to contact Anstiss Bowser Agnew and Catherine Hoover Petros with ideas or input.

Warren Osborne Collins has been busy selling and packing up her farm homestead in Kinderhook, NY, to move to Falmouth, on Cape Cod. When it came down to it, organic farming was just getting too exhausting. Laurian Cannon Coburn continues to fly for United and has been busy with her Florida parents, now in their 90s.

She’s living in VA and uses our own Mary Jane “Mitsy” Major as her internist. Mitsy still works long days, runs every day at 4 a.m., practices Buddhism, and spends long weekends with her wonderful husband, Tom, on the DE Shore. Sally Cobb Dale is busy taking care of her grandkids and also lives on the Cape. She feels so lucky to have her daughter and her family right there.

Nancy Howe Erdmann is living part-time in Exeter, NH, dividing her time between two houses and dealing with all those issues we confront as another year goes by. Speaking of which, Anstiss Bowser Agnew FINALLY retired Dec. 30 after a half-century of social work in NYC. She continues to have a private psych practice in NYC. Her son, Chris, surfs, snowboards, writes comedy, and tutors. Daughter Lizzie cofounded moderncitizen. com, a San Francisco clothing company for young professional women. Anstiss spoke with Priscilla “Prilly” Hammond Hall who sends her love to everyone. Anstiss caught up with Hannah Whitney in Bozeman, MT, where she grooms dogs while generally enjoying the outdoor life. We’re hoping she can make it back to reunion!

Ann McKeever Hatch may be able to make it, to help lead the special Abbot tour of the Addison.

Theda Braddock will be a panelist at the reunion lecture on the environment taking place at Abbot June 9 at 9 a.m. Theda is a distinguished professor at Truman and her credentials are outstanding.

Louisa “Weezie” Huntington and Linda Sullivan met Anstiss in NYC in November for a day of gab, museums, and lunch. Weezie recently returned from her second life-altering photography trip to Iceland. I believe Theda is using one of Weezie’s photos as the cover of her new book. Jane von der Heyde Lindley celebrates a new grandson.

Barbara Barker related that she has had a good year with travel and medicine. Pamela Jones reported: “The years I spent at Abbot were very transformational, and yet I wasn’t even aware of it at the time. It became apparent after I arrived at college, what with a new coed environment, the protests, the War, the Beatles, and a new, emerging culture. I look forward to comparing notes with my peers about the impact Abbot has had and to seeing classmate Susan Gallagher. For these reasons, I’m very drawn to the 50th Reunion.”

From Diana Bonnifield Hill: “My mother, the last of our parents and the Greatest Generation,

passed away at 87, signaling a turning point in my life. Life is short; time to live it. After some grand international travel, we’re staying home to add an elevator to our house. My husband, Mike, is selling real estate and I’m volunteering as president of Soroptimist International of La Jolla, CA, which is dedicated to helping women and girls succeed.

Our hope is that someday our Earth’s environment will stabilize, and peace will be the norm. As I write, Margery Goldman is preparing for the Women’s March on Washington. She and Catherine Hoover Petros have second homes in East Vail, CO, minutes apart, so come out and visit!”

Linda Sullivan spent the holidays in Maine this year and most enjoyed her time with her grandnephews, who are 5 and 2. In closing, we are all indebted to Linda for the endless hours she spent gathering the photos and bios of so many of us for the reunion yearbook. Her perseverance, tenacity, and dedication were extraordinary! We send our thanks and appreciation to her. The book should be published by the time you read this, and it will contain 60 amazing stories and pictures of our classmates a half-century after graduation. Those who did not send a story for the book (18 of you!) can still get in touch with Linda (sullivanlf06@aol.com) and she can create an addendum.

PHILLIPS Joseph P. Kahn 28 Gallison Ave. Marblehead, MA 01945 781-639-2668 617-515-7553 (cell) josephpkahn@gmail.com

As I type this in the early days of 2017, our 50th Reunion Yearbook (which you may already have) is in final production. I trust you’ll enjoy leafing through it leading up to our June 8–11 reunion.

Collecting classmate essays was not always easy. A number of you seemingly (a) never received the original sign-up package or (b) ignored it and/ or tossed it away unread. We did our best to give you another shot. But we also wish more of you had participated.

Anyway, thanks again to Paul De Angelis and Steve Gardner for assisting. With apologies for any omissions on my part, here are the nearly 100 who answered the call: Anthony Alofsin, David Anderson, Chris Apitz, David Arnold, John Bassett, Jeff Beardsley, Bruce Berlow, Franklin Bigelow, Ray Bird, Farlow Blakeslee, Bill Bostian, Michael Bradley, Steve D. Brown, Steve G. Brown, Bart Brush, Fletcher Chamberlin, Bob Cohan, Charles Collier, Andy Cunningham, Dan Cunningham, Church Davis, Paul De Angelis, Stephen Dembski, John Doran, Charlie Dyer,

Michael Earle, Hap Ellis, Ford Fraker, Steven Francesco, Keith Funston, James Gadsden, Tom Gadsden, Steven Gardner, William Garner, Carvel Glenn, Mark Haley, Alexander Harris, Charles Harrison, John Hanley, Paul Hertz, James Hurley, Mark Hausberg, David Huntington, Donald Jamieson, Barry Johnson, Joe Kahn, Peter Keller, Steve Kellogg, Harvey Kelsey, Mel Kendrick, Lawrence Ketch, and James Koch.

Also, Jamie Lee, Rod Lewis, Charlie Lucas, Paul Matthews, Dean Maytag, Bruce MacNelly, Steve McCarthy, Jeff Melamed, Luis Menocal, Walt Mintkeski, Joe Moore, Sidney Morris, Dave Nierenberg, Tom Parry, Arthur Perkins, Jack Quarrier, Derek Rainey, Philip Reed, Tom Rees, Bruce Reider, Van Remsen, Bill Robinson, Denny Roth, Jonathan Salk, Edward Samuels, Wade Saunders, John Sears, John Shea, Tom Sinclair, Rob Smith, Sandy Stott, Richard Squires, John Swartz, Steve Townend, Robert Tuttle, Jonathan Vincent, Rob Waters, Richard Weinberg, Lock Whitney, Daniel Williams, John “Buz” Williams, Bill Williamson, Chuck Woodbury, Charles Wright, Sam Zimmern, and Craig Zimmers.

Some takeaways: Based on what you wrote, PA ’67’s most effective recruiting tool may well have been the 1962 Time magazine cover story featuring Headmaster John Mason Kemper. (I have a copy personally inscribed to me by Charlie Collier, a gift bestowed at our 40th Reunion.) Some of us had fathers or brothers with Andover connections, so we had at least a vague idea of what the school was like.

However, many might never have even heard of PA were it not for that Time piece. Whatever one thought of Kemper at the time, his august cover portrait launched a thousand applicants.

Memories of JFK’s murder and how we heard about it 54 years ago remain vivid. (I was studying in the library when shockwaves rippled through the main reading room.) Makes me wonder how many early-2000s-era students will invoke 9/11/2001 in their 50th Reunion essays.

Our class’s not-so-secret college admissions weapon? Bob Hulburd, who could apparently get anyone into an Ivy League college. (No disrespect, guys!) Imagine any single PA administrator having that much juice these days. You can’t, and there isn’t one.

Senior year’s American History course burns brightly in our collective memory. So do Dudley Fitts, Hart Leavitt, Wayne Frederick, Jack Richards, Tom Lyons, Gren Benedict, Josh Miner, Kelly Wise, Guy Hughes, George Edmunds, George Best, John Hawes, James Grew, George Sandborn ’24, Len James, Simeon Hyde ’37, Cornelius Banta, Fred Peterson ’34, Diz Bensley ’43, Robert Lloyd, Charles Packard, Harper Follansbee, Sherm Drake, Bob Leete, and Steve Sorota. Not that anyone asked, but I’d toss in

Fred Stott, James Adriance ’28, Fritz Allis ’31, and Meredith Price, too.

Our class graduated future teachers, doctors, and lawyers by the bushelful. But no Bushes. (Unless you count Hap Ellis.)

It likewise produced many talented singers and musicians, former and current. Might they play and/or vocalize together sometime during Reunion Weekend? That would be awesome.

The late Norman Cross pops up, Zelig-like, in several narratives, a fitting tribute to a wonderful classmate gone much too soon.

All our children and grandchildren are goodlooking and above-average. Of course.

Last October I attended my Harvard 45th reunion, where I ran into PA classmates Ford Fraker, Joe Cavanagh, Steve McCarthy, and Rob Smith.

One highlight was a panel discussion on climate change and political activism hosted by David Arnold. Our own reunion committee is recruiting Dave to host a similar discussion—joined, we hope, by PA and Abbot alumni long involved with environmental and conservation work—when we convene in June. Should be interesting, if not slightly unsettling. Won’t you plan to join us on the Hill? That, too, would be awesome.

Sadly, late news of the deaths of two classmates has reached me. Ira Leinwand passed away in Philadelphia last January. A Yale graduate, Ira worked in building design and construction for years and was an avid outdoorsman. His survivors include his two children, Sarah and Greg. Also lost in December 2015 was Ibrahim Abdil Mu’id Ramey (nee Clayton Ramey). A longtime peace activist, Ibrahim most recently served as director of civil and human rights at the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation in New York. Our deepest condolences go to their loved ones, friends, and colleagues.

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Karen Seaward 1071 Thompson St. Carson City, NV 89703 klseaward@att.net

We wrote on the theme of non sibi for our class notes, suggested by Marisa Connors Hoyt ’99, class secretary committee cochair, Andover Alumni Council. These notes coincide with the 10th anniversary of Andover’s Non Sibi Day. Cary Cleaver wrote that she finally sorted through her mom’s legacy and boxed-up jewelry, collectibles, old brass, glass, and artwork. Upon returning from dropping off the last box at a thrift shop, she was pulled over for speeding. The officer gave her a warning, and when she apologized for being too preoccupied with happy feelings to notice the speed limit, he said, “See, sometimes good things do happen to good people.”

Sharon Hughes Fiyalka is involved in animal rescue. “This includes trapping feral cats on Fire Island [NY] so that they can be spayed/neutered and then released back into their colonies. That effort has been extremely successful in bringing the population down. In addition, we supported Bernie Sanders, which I also consider giving back even though we ended up with Donald Trump.”

Daisy Schnepel wrote: “Ever since I was lucky enough to overcome breast cancer in 1989, I have been very aware that I was saved for a reason and that I should give back in thanks for such a blessing. I continue to put in countless volunteer hours for my neighborhood organization. This year, at the suggestion of a new board member, the Neighborhood Association put up its first holiday tree with stars that can be marked with hopes for the neighborhood and the world.”

Debbie Webster’s non sibi evolved out of teaching mid-school where her students participated in PeacePal. This organization connects U.S. students with students in foreign countries who write to one another several times a year. The concept is to promote world peace through multicultural personal relationships. After retiring from teaching, she began volunteering with this organization at her local high school, mentoring an after-school club under the auspices of UNESCO. Non sibi for Cher Lewis is daily; she has taken an Italian Neapolitan tradition, where you buy a coffee for the person behind you in line, and she has extended this to daily interactions. “Sometimes it’s a smile and a compliment for the teenager who you know feels like an outcast, or a helping hand for the couple down the road who can’t keep up with the landscaping.” She watches for small things to remedy: “a hat for the man at the station, tucking a bit of money into a neighbor’s mailbox who is experiencing hard times.”

Toby Dondis Farman works in a local food bank as often as “real” work permits. “As a fortunate 24-year survivor, I participated in an annual ‘Mother’s Day tea’ for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and was able to raise significant dollars for research and help for current cancer patients.” In the fall, she walked a half-marathon to benefit the Jimmy Fund.

For Nan Roberts, the focus is the hunger of local children on the weekends and during the summer. “Mike and I work with a local group to try to mitigate this horrifying situation. I read to firstgraders in a Title I school and mentor at-risk young women at the local high schools.” She wrote the application for a juried art show to achieve their nonprofit status, and worked to ensure enough votes for a tax to provide 10 years of pollution mitigation in a huge nearby lagoon.

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Anne Moses Bennett writes: “These past years have been difficult ones for just about everyone in Greece, and my non sibi work has largely revolved around these troubles. Shocked to discover the number of families living in poverty in Naoussa, the village where we have a home on the island of Paros, I have been collecting anything useful—clothes, food, bedding, and other necessities—and engaging friends to do the same. The local priest distributes items where they are most needed and even cooks for those who have no way to do so for themselves.

On another front, the crushing refugee problem in Greece has only added to the misery. Again, collecting everything imaginable to make their lives more bearable has been a focus for those in Greece.

The spirit of non sibi has few more powerful examples than these.”

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

Andrew “Dito” Staley writes, “It is with some sadness and great gratitude that I announced my retirement from the ministry of the Nadder Valley.

My last service will be on Candlemas, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2017. Donelle and I are extremely grateful for the warm welcome, friendship, and fellowship given us by the people of Nadder Valley over the past eight years.”

Jay Drake prays at the Big Green Altar: “Hey guys, I haven’t checked in for a while, but it is very nice to read all of your kind words and to know that you are all sharing in the excitement. Seeing (son) Oliver, live at Fenway, give up Big Papi’s Mickey Mantle–tying home run one week and then striking him out the next week in Baltimore (on television) was completely surreal. He has had a long journey to the Majors, but he seems to have settled in quite nicely. I am anxiously rooting for the Orioles to make the wild card game with him on the post-season roster (they did). Duncan Andrews was at the game when Papi hit that home run, and we had a great time catching up. Thanks for letting me know that you are all enjoying the ride along with Celeste and me.”

Dana Lynch, living the good life out in Montara, CA, so enjoyed Rex Armstrong’s brief story about life as a truck driver that he queried: “Do I get to tell a truck-driving story, too? Maybe if you need filler for the next magazine? I’m always trying to get people

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www.andover.edu/intouch to write enough for the PA Class of 1938, but your problem may be the opposite.

“About seven years ago, I got an email asking for two volunteers to help drive a $100M spacecraft from the West to the East Coast. I called home to see what my wife thought of the idea, and, since she wasn’t home, I went ahead and volunteered.

The idea was to leave early one morning and drive straight through with one 10-hour layover in Amarillo. We had professionals driving the truck carrying the spacecraft, and the rest of us were split between two SUVs—one in front of the truck to scout out problems and the second to follow behind the truck to watch for things falling off. The front SUV was full of 30-something engineers.

Everyone in ours was over 50 (engineers, a NASA cop with a gun to defend the spacecraft, myself, and our astronaut), plus a 30-year-old kid riding shotgun with his laptop reading telemetry from the spacecraft. The young kid wouldn’t sleep, so we sent him up to the front SUV to let him get a rest. When he came back later he said we were a lot more fun than the guys up front. Various mishaps along the way don’t bear mentioning. I haven’t been able to remember the last four hours of the trip as we approached the launch site—and I was driving. The spacecraft launched well and did a nice job orbiting the moon and collecting some kind of data.”

The aforementioned Duncan Andrews knows more than one Drake. His eagle eye spotted this obit for a beloved housemaster from some of our pasts: “Haven’t seen any official announcement from PA, but this showed up in yesterday’s Boston Globe. At 94 years, he certainly lived a full life.

Interesting to read about his WWII Navy career in Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the Korean War, as well as ‘Band Officer’ at the surrender of Japan on the Missouri. Didn’t know he played any instruments or was musical and didn’t know he was a Mayflower descendant. I don’t remember any of his kids. Were they around in Will Hall our junior year?”

The Globe obit: “DRAKE, Capt. Sherman F. USNR (Ret.) Sherman F. Drake, WWII veteran and USNR Captain retired; 34-year faculty member of Phillips Academy Andover passed Sept. 21, 2016, at the age of 94. A native of Braintree and a retired resident of Centerville, Cape Cod, Mr. Drake was a descendant of Elder Brewster and 15 other Mayflower passengers. Mr. Drake graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, in June of 1944 and was assigned as an Engineering Officer aboard the newly commissioned battleship USS MISSOURI. Ensign Drake served the next two and half years at sea during WWII, which included the Iwo Jima and Okinawa engagements, followed by a special appointment as Band Officer for the World War II Surrender Ceremony of Sept. 2, 1945. After duty on Guam during the Korean War and subsequent assignment to the faculty of the Naval Academy, Mr. Drake left active Navy service in 1953 to accept a position in the Mathematics Department at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. He

earned a master’s degree from Boston University in 1958. Father of a daughter and three sons, he retired to Centerville in 1987.”

Let us review some of Sherm’s comments in the Will Hall Notes of September 1964: “Frode Jensen complains that he has lost his wallet with $11 in it. Advised him to put a notice in The Bulletin. Jimmy Hall has asked to be known as Gil. Okay by me.

“Proctor (Skip) Freeman ’66 reports Sean Konecky has a generally messy room but not gruesome, while Howard Whitehead (a future judge —Ed.) has clothing articles adrift on the floor and unemptied wastebaskets—this is also a problem with Bob Selander, Cliff Wright, Henry Hart, John Hawkins, Gordon Baird, and Tom Jackson.”

He goes on to write: “Made a surprise inspection at 10 a.m. Richie Proctor again had clothing articles adrift on a dirty floor.

Chips Outerbridge and Robert Anderson had two very full wastebaskets worthy of a conversation with the boys. Ned Albright and Kit Rawson were given a hard room inspection as these two boys seem to be ‘pushing’ or ‘trying’ the house authority to see how far we will go. Their floor was found very dirty. Finally, George Wolf was found selling cola during study hall to the other boys. We shut his little business down—he was making 5 cents profit on every Coke!”

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Sheila Donald Millington 5271 West Boniwood Turn Clinton, MD 20735 smilling192112@yahoo.com 301-868-1631

I am happy to bring news from our class. Looking forward to hearing from many of you in the future.

Katrina Moulton Wollenberg writes: “Hope this finds you well and enjoying the holidays without too much struggle. I look forward to a visit from my oldest son and his wife to complete the festivities. As they are so fun to be with, our times together will be filled with Dallas sightseeing, dinners out, meals cooked together, and laughter.

I send heartfelt wishes to my classmates for a sparkling holiday. For Thanksgiving, our entire family journeyed back to the Concord area to see my mother, who no longer is able to travel.

We spent a breakfast telling her some special way she had impacted each of our lives. Mine had to do with the time I was suspended from Abbot for smoking. I was suspended and not expelled because I turned myself in, as we were on the honor code. I [was sitting] outside the auditorium, waiting on the steps for my mother to cart me off for my two-week ‘vacation,’ when I

heard Mrs. Tucker tell the rest of the school what I had done. I felt humiliated and also worried about the upcoming punishment my mom would dole out. My mother stated, ‘I will not add to your punishment. Humiliation is one of life’s hardest punishments.’ I respected my mother for always recognizing that life’s lessons are far more impactful than ones imposed by parents. I grew up with this amazing life coach. As for non sibi activities, I serve on the Development Committee for my church, Cathedral of Hope, in Dallas. I have been in charge of building the Endowment Fund.”

Gali Hagel reports: “I spent the fall of 2015 in Lourmarin, a beautiful medieval village in Provence.

I have been going each year in the spring to visit friends, and this time went for an extended period to get an idea what it would be like to really live there.

Rented a tiny apartment, spent many happy hours in cafés, made new friends, and even went olive picking. But Paris turned out to be my best time in France—guess I’m a city girl at heart. As for non sibi activities, I’m on the board of Pets in Need, a wonderful no-kill shelter here, and have just gotten involved with the Nonhuman Rights Project. Also on the Steering Committee of FiReFilms, which supports documentary filmmakers and curates and promotes important documentaries like Rattling the Cage and Racing Extinction. If anyone is interested in starting a sanctuary for dogs, cats, and assorted others, please get in touch!”

Carol Kinzler writes: “My big news is that I retired from the Environmental Defense Fund after 15 happy years. My husband and I are celebrating by spending a couple of months in Europe. Our son and [his] family joined us for Thanksgiving week in London and Paris, and our daughter and [her] family will join us in Madrid for Christmas. Then back to New Hampshire.”

Lindsay Whitcomb says: “My news is good. I had another surgery for removal of a brain tumor that turned out to have no active cancer cells. I have started Opdivo/Nivolumab again and trust that it will continue to keep the cancer at bay. We will have a joyous Christmas and wish the same to all of you and yours.”

Madelon Curtis Harper writes: “My husband, Stephen ’69, and I moved to downtown San Jose, CA, right before Christmas. As you all know, moving is a nightmare, and I am surrounded still by boxes and disorganization! He was commuting four hours a day to his work locations in the Bay Area, so this will alleviate his traffic stress considerably! I do a reverse commute (much easier) back to lovely Santa Cruz almost every day to teach my ballet classes!

Earlier in the fall, I did a principle role in the new Hugh Laurie series, Chance, which was filmed in San Francisco. You can binge-watch the first season on Hulu. You can see me in Episode 7 as Ruth Morrison. It’s a great show, and should be watched from the beginning episode; otherwise, the plot(s) are very confusing! We are planning to go over New Year’s to Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, which we love.”

Jennifer Cecere announces, “My sculpture, Double Doily, is on view at Greenstreets PS1 November 2016–2017. Here’s the link: https://www.nycgovparks.org/art/art572.”

I (Sheila Donald Millington) have retired from Kaiser Permanente and plan to remain in the Maryland area. I am currently spending a lot of time in Cleveland, helping to care for my mother. As for non sibi activities, I have been and continue to volunteer for the Girl Scouts of America.

Thanks for your submissions!

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

If you haven’t checked into the class Facebook page, “Andover 1969,” you should. There’s a lot of interesting stuff there.

One of the most interesting postings came from Peter Hawkins who coincidentally ran into Bill Jones at one of the local breakfast joints in Darien, CT. Peter found a photo of the full contingent of Will Hall juniors in fall 1965.

Talk about a blast from the past: Tom McAvity, Johnny Johnson, Eric Louie, Eric Chofnas, John Truelove, Tad Brockie, Pat Mahoney, Blake Crawford, Tony Romano, Hank Pfeifle, Luke Pfeifle, the aforementioned Bill Jones—and a couple of dozen more. It’s an exceptional photo, full of life and personalities. What may be even more amazing than the fact that Peter had the photo is that Charley Donovan followed up with a copy of the mimeographed list of Will Hall ’65 residents.

Some night, after a couple of drinks, you should try to match the faces to Charley’s list. Joe McGhee (also in the photo) points out that from the perspective of our Class of 1969, this would be the equivalent of our having looked back, as juniors, at a photo of the Class of 1919. Gentlemen, seems time is passing.

A note of thanks to Jeremy Bluhm, who created the Facebook page, and maintains it. Jeremy recently visited the States from his home in Sydney.

He spent some time in Los Gatos, CA, with his pal Beau Watson, and then ventured east to spend a few days with me here in Newburyport. The page that Jeremy administers is in many ways far better than these class notes. You get to hear directly from fellow classmates, and follow conversations in more detail and in their uncensored presentation.

In particular, check out Nat Winship’s social commentary, sometimes offered in verse.

Speaking of uncensored, consider the case of a recent client of one of our class’s well-known lawyers, Tom Mesereau. Tom has been hired to defend the 2015 Playboy Playmate of the Year.

This is the young lady who posted a demeaning

Snapchat photo of an older woman in a gym locker room. Tom is a strong advocate of freedom of speech. Maybe at our next reunion, in two years, we can have a debate between Tom and representatives from our class’s AARP Caucus.

Aforementioned attorney Charley Donovan sometimes runs into attorney Nate Cartmell: They both work in the same downtown SF office building. He encourages visits from old friends. “I have a big house I bought recently with lots of room for classmates and beautiful views of the Bay.” Let’s take Charley up on his offer!

Can I resist commenting on the results of the recent presidential election? No. Whether we were traditional Andover Republicans or devoted Democrats, there is perhaps a sense that the nation did not produce…ahem…an optimal outcome.

Peter Olney and his wife, Christina Perez, flew to New England from SF, and worked for the Clinton campaign in Salem, NH. I spent a couple of days up in Portsmouth, going door to door. Whoever your future candidates may be, I highly recommend this. You get a good walk and you meet some interesting folks.

Out where the whole drama began, in Iowa, Rick Stewart did not win his race for county sheriff—but he got some fascinating publicity by running TV campaign ads in DC. Rick, looking very much like a sheriff, with a strong jaw and focused eyes, appeared on TV charging elected federal officials with complicating the nation’s drug problems. Check out Rick’s YouTube video.

From Siberia, a bit north of the Manchurian border, New Year’s greetings arrived from Yale writing instructor Fred Strebeigh—showing him skating happily on the world’s greatest ice pond, Lake Baikal—“400 miles long, a mile deep, 25 million years old, and still growing.” There was a similar picture, taken on a much smaller New England pond back in the day: Fred as a boy on skates. I bet that older photo was taken

by Fred’s mom, a woman I remember as a person of particular sincerity and kindness.

Catching on the radio Harry Nilsson singing “Everybody’s Talkin’,” 1969, featured in Midnight Cowboy...the song is a favorite of David Ensor’s.

When we left our Abbot-Stevens dorm senior year, he sold me his reel-to-reel tape recorder. It was a superb device, until the Nilsson tapes and others, including the Beatles and the Byrds, played over and over, became stretched. To extend the nonsequitor: Nilsson had been named by John Lennon as his favorite American musician; that Abbott-Stevens Hall where we lived many years later was the very one where my niece Lauren Kelleher ’07 resided.

Lauren recently graduated from Georgetown Law, and will be headed for a federal clerkship in Detroit.

On a musical note: Check out “Highway 61 Revisited” radio program that runs Saturday mornings and Sunday evenings on WUMB out of Boston if you love music of the ’60s and ’70s.

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stay connected... not live in Ohio, as some unreliable class secretary recently reported. He resides happily in Ann Arbor, MI. I’m hoping I’ll see him here in New England again soon.

Jamie Kaplan up in Portland, ME: We will have to make plans to get together. As I recall, Jamie is somewhat “retired” from his law practice, and has gotten into serious home renovation work. Jamie stays in touch with many old friends, including John Clark and Dave Sedgwick. Somewhere along the line, I saw a great photo of Jamie and his lovely family at a son’s wedding.

I have purchased a home on Peaks Island, a 20-minute ferry from the Portland waterfront where Jamie had his office. Hoping to spend future summers there. Like so many others who have completed their working careers, I will be retiring later this year. Work’s been great, with some pleasant jaunts to Alaska, Hawaii, New Orleans, and other fine places this year. But I want more time to read novels, maybe take piano lessons, and, I hope, roam around Peaks Island with Jamie and other old friends.

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Tobi Solomon Gold 25 SE 23rd Ave. Cape Coral, FL 33990 239-940-2396 myyogagirl77@gmail.com

Hi All, Thank you for sending in your news! I love hearing from you! Whenever this reaches you, I hope you take a few minutes for yourself to breathe and just take in all that nature has to offer! I was co-secretary with Adelle Nicholson until a short time ago. She has decided to step out of the role and I decided to step further in! I am now your sole Class Secretary.

Lexi Freeman emailed to say: “I am still teaching at Georgetown Law and directing its SJD (doctorate in law) program, and I love the job. Retirement is on the distant horizon, although I would love to live in a warmer climate in the winter—your picture looks enticing! Both daughters took a leave from college this year and are exploring various options for next year. Taking after yours truly. Ahem. Other than that, I’m reeling from the election, and plotting my escape from Washington during inauguration weekend. The only downside of not retiring is enduring what I hope will be only four years of living in this city during this administration. As you can see, my politics haven’t changed a bit. :)” This from Sandy Urie: “My first grandchild, Alice Caldwell Kerr, was born Sept. 6, 2016, to my daughter Katie and her husband, Terry. This coincided nicely with my sabbatical, and I rented an apartment in NYC right around the corner

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www.andover.edu/intouch from my daughter’s home during the month of September. It was wonderful to spend every day with adorable Alice in the first month of her life, and the fun has continued through the fall as I have had lots of opportunities to visit.

“My sabbatical ended Dec. 12, and I will return to Cambridge Associates as chairman emeritus, having transferred the chairman and CEO role to one of my colleagues in July. During sabbatical, Frank (Herron ’70) and I traveled—hiking in the Alps, Iceland, California wine country—and spent time with family. When I return to work, I will focus on client outreach and impact-investing. No plans to retire yet.

“Frank and I had a really nice visit with Virginia Knapp Cargill in Nantucket, MA, this past summer. She looks great and is doing well.”

Sandy also forwarded this brief yet fascinating news from Nancy Quick, stating, “She does wonderful travel writing. ‘All—My newest article has just been published. Here’s the URL: https:// nanquick.com/2016/12/30/two-modernmannerist-homes-gardens-in-italy-tomaso-buzzisla-scarzuola-niki-de-saint-phalles-tarot-garden/.

‘Two Modern Mannerist Homes & Gardens in Italy: Tomaso Buzzi’s LA SCARZUOLA, & Niki de Saint Phalle’s TAROT GARDEN.’ ” Virginia Knapp Cargill writes: “My big news of the year is that my son, Bill, was married Oct. 29 in Newport, RI, to longtime love, Bianca Molta.

They met in high school and dated for nine years!

Am attaching a family pic for your viewing pleasure.

“Spent most of 2016 deciding to become a Renaissance woman. I named the year ‘Can’t to Can’ and took cooking lessons, singing lessons, and one dancing lesson and traveled up a storm. I also got on Weight Watchers and dropped a bunch of weight. I am now a big WW fan! But…while I can now carry a tune and cook up some dinnerparty food, I won’t be doing a lot of either. I found that ‘can’ doesn’t necessarily mean you like it any better than you did before!

“Last but not least, I continue to do consulting and am now an interim president for a digital media company in Louisville, KY, where I work one week a month and work the rest of the time from home in CT. Fingers crossed I am still there when the Kentucky Derby rolls around!”

It was so nice talking with Katie Durham and picturing her in Bedford, MA, such a beautiful exurb of Boston. Here is her summary of our conversation!

“I’m coming up to 28 years as an environmental paralegal at a large Boston law firm, where I have been treated well and been challenged, and where my coworkers are family. I’m in no hurry to retire.

Tending to two kitties and a large perennial garden, and fishing while kayaking, are my favorite ways to unwind. This winter, after a long hiatus, I will be playing the piano again.

Having done end-of-life care for my husband, parents, and some beloved cats, and watching how

they suffered, taking charge of my own health became a priority. I am thrilled and relieved that I am heading into my senior years in good shape. I am really very content with where I am in my life.

“On New Year’s Eve, Adelle Nicholson breezed through my area and we had a three-hour late lunch in Fort Myers, FL! It was wonderful to just talk. She had just come from the Tampa Bay area, where she managed to visit The Cat Sanctuary, the Salvador Dalí Museum, and a WWII ship museum in 2½ days!”

Keep in touch! —Tobi Solomon Gold

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

Rob Robinson checked in during the fall. He wanted to get in touch with Our Man in the Baja, Len Stewart. And he was curious about the activities of Guy Dempsey. He also gave a verbal drive-by of his life since 1970.

After Trinity College he did not pass Go; he went right to UNC-Chapel Hill to get an MBA. Shortly after graduating in 1976, he married “a beautiful girl from Briarcliffe College.” (Just between us, he did not include her name. Don’t tell her.) He and Kiki celebrated 40 YEARS of marriage last October, or 10 times a basic stint at Andover.

Rob and Kiki have two sons. James, the older, is married and lives in Eugene, OR. Chris is in Grosse Pointe, MI. He and Kourtney had a daughter, Olivia, who, by the time you read this, is probably about to celebrate her second birthday. “She is the love of our lives,” Rob wrote.

Rob began working for the National Bank of Detroit right after business school. (Did he work in the historic building known as The Qube?) Rob stuck with NBD through its many incarnations—First Chicago NBD/Bank One/ JPMorgan Chase—for more than 39 years. For 20 of those years he was a commercial lender. The next 19 years he worked in wealth management as a trust officer.

He tried to retire in 2016, but he found that the notion had a light grip on his arm. He has since joined some former colleagues who opened a family office in Grosse Pointe. His commute is now all of two blocks.

Rob intends to join us for the 50th (gasp!)

Reunion. His last reuning year was the 15th. “It’s high time I returned,” he noted. We agree!

Alex Donner continues to work hard (and creatively). He and his eight-piece band did a “Downton Abbey–type wedding in Ireland in May” for 28 guests at a boutique hotel that embodied the best of Irish Georgian architecture.

He covers quite a range in social octaves with his orchestra. In September, he played at the Beverly Hills Hilton for American Humane’s Hero Dog award ceremony (won by a French mastiff rescued from a shelter in Bakersfield, CA), and in December the orchestra entertained at the Holiday Gala Dinner Dance at the Beach Club for the International Society of Palm Beach. (By the way, the winning dog was named “Hooch.”)

For those of you who don’t live in Beverly Hills or Palm Beach or Manhattan, you can catch a snippet of Alex’s effort to include more Top 40 hits into the repertoire. Pull over to the curb, go to YouTube, and search for “Alex Donner orchestra live 2016.” Uptown Funk!

He’s been doing this for quite a while. He recalled that someone named Donald J. Trump (whose name is not boldfaced in these columns) was a client of his old law firm when Alex was doing “divorces during the week as a lawyer and weddings on the weekend with the band.”

Chuck Willand writes that he got a delightful surprise at the end of 2016 when he found out that a former PA softball player from the Class of 1983 made a donation in Chuck’s name.

That got him waxing eloquent about his eight-year stint on the faculty and his time on the softball sidelines as coach. (Who knew those years of intramural softball at Brown would come in handy?) He loved the experience, especially after the program began attracting more and better players. Eventually, his teams won back-to-back year-end tournament championships. The star pitcher at the time was the one who made the donation. “What a hoot. And what an honor!”

Chuck wrote.

He also mentioned that he is now (as many of us are or will be this year) a “card-carrying member of the Medicare Club of America.” We’ll need that coverage if we try to do a fifth anniversary of our 60th birthday party in Manhattan this fall.

Last and probably least, we pass on something that might have been submitted by mistake. We think it was Bill Roth. It has his lame sentence structure and tortuous syntax. We tried to reach him. Epic. Fail. Assuming it did not come from a Russian hacker we run it in full. We hope it is not the dreaded “fake news.” (Not new. We did it in our class notes in the 1970s. We moved on. So sad!)

Apparently this is someone’s attempt to recapture some youth while absent-mindedly hitting “Send.”

Does finis origine pendet apply? You decide: “As we age, we look backward to identify acts in our youth which brought pleasure or meaning to our lives and sometimes seek to re-create those experiences with our aged bodies, but perhaps wiser minds and, hopefully, a more fully developed

character. So, it was, that last October, I went with 14 strangers to a lovely suburban home in an attempt to re-create the day in the winter of 1970 when I went with two PA colleagues—and, no, you couldn’t possibly figure out who they were; unusual compatriots for me then—to ingest LSD, synthesized and distributed (for free) by a PA alumnus, approximately five years older than we were.

“This time around, a ‘shaman’ who abstained from the substances for the evening was our leader for the ‘journey’; I have no doubt of her shamanistic bona fides, but she actually earned the money for the lovely home by starting an office-cleaning company. The substances offered in the 2016 episode were said to be natural hallucinogens, names of which were proffered, but since the words meant nothing to me, I had no idea what they were. And, to tell you the truth, I was hoping to overcome that ‘lack of knowledge is not a defense’ principle that apparently permeates criminal law in America. We all lay down on mats in the shaman’s basement, New Age music echoed through the sound system, and she approached each of the participants with a specially designed concoction for each of us. …”

To be continued!

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Deborah Huntington 621 East 19th Street Brooklyn, NY 11230 718-859-1515 Deborah.Huntington@gmail.com

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

Forty years ago on Inauguration Day, with Jimmy Carter soon to be sworn in, Pierce Rafferty, Stewart Crone, and Kevin Rafferty ’65 planned to meet on 9th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in DC. The idea was to arrive early enough to watch the parade, then convene at the National Archives to discuss a film project.

In what became a five-year roller-coaster ride, the project evolved, from the original intent—a history of U.S. propaganda—to a purely archival black comedy about life under the cloud of imagined nuclear war. Though Stewart moved on to other projects before the film was completed, Pierce’s obsession with the subject and appreciation of the ironies of American pop culture helped drive the film to the finish line.

When it was released in 1982, Atomic Cafe won

glowing reviews and achieved a kind of cult status.

This past year the film was chosen by the National Film Preservation Board for inclusion in the National Film Registry—one of 25 films selected for preservation in the Library of Congress. As Pierce mentioned to me recently, being listed in the company of Hitchcock’s The Birds and Kazan’s East of Eden feels pretty good.

Rick Prelinger, who from early days was a collector and cultural archivist in his own right, became the director of research on Pierce’s next film, Heavy Petting. Simultaneously, he began to acquire his own collection of industrial films (Prelinger Associates) in parallel to Pierce’s Petrified Films. In the mid-1980s, I visited their side-by-side offices in the Meat District on 14th Street. Outside, steer carcasses were hanging from hooks; inside, it was floor-to-ceiling film cans.

Flash-forward 30 years, and Rick has built a wonderfully accomplished life as an archivist, writer, filmmaker, and educator. His collection of 60,000 ephemeral films has been acquired by the Library of Congress. He has produced and directed several purely archival films, created a library in SF with his wife, Megan, and writes and speaks frequently on the future of archives. On top of this, he is the board president of the Internet Archives, the organization with the modest goal of saving for posterity a complete chronological record of the Internet.

I had a great time this past week catching up with Ted Mook. After years of playing cello in NYC, Ted managed to “escape with my life” and now lives in an old church with “great acoustics” in Wood River Junction, RI. He teaches “cello, ensemble, basic musicianship, and techniques of new music and improvisation” at the University of Rhode Island. This spring he’s headed to SF for a world premiere of a piece based on the James Baldwin “Nothing Personal” essay. In the meantime, he’s working on a Beethoven cycle with a colleague at URI, and “still playing lots of cranky new music.”

Ted stays in touch with Tripp Royce, who is an architect in Portland, OR. With Tripp’s encouragement, Ted is thinking about PA for the younger of his two daughters. Stay tuned.

Scott Page wrote recently from CA about Samuel Morse, Class of 1805. “We all knew that Samuel Morse went to PA, but few were aware that he was one of America’s most important early painters, or that he brought Daguerre’s photographic process to NYC just months after its release in Paris (1839). At its peak, around 3 million daguerreotype portraits were made per annum in the USA alone.”

Scott has been doing stunning work with 3D laser scanning. When I asked him about what turned him on to this mode of image making, he responded, “For anyone who has spent any time in a darkroom, watching an image come to life in the developer tray is a magical experience. …

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Observing a complex 3D space emerge on a 4K computer screen, stitched from numerous scan positions, captures a bit of what darkroom magic was all about. It lacks the murky, acrid atmosphere of chemical photo processing, but creating a point cloud is a demanding, nail-biting experience all the same—there is wonder here.”

It’s been about six years since I started writing these notes, and during that span, Coach Bill Belichick and New England Patriots Research Director Ernie Adams have played in the AFC Divisional Championship every year. Together they have won five Super Bowl rings. When I asked Ernie recently about breaking down game films while at Andover, he reminded me that Evan Bonds was a key member of that core group of football nerds. Even before Belichick arrived on campus as a PG, Ernie and Evan were making special trips to scout college intramural games, and endlessly diagramming plays.

I caught up via email with Evan. While at Duke, he traded the notion of becoming a football coach for another passion: music. As Evan writes, “I’ve been teaching music history at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1992. I was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, in 2015–16, and am now continuing the research I began there in Vienna, where I’ll be until July 2017. My book Absolute Music: The History of an Idea was published in 2014 by Oxford University Press.”

Paul Sternberg wrote in from Vanderbilt, where he’s a nationally recognized leader in ophthalmic education and research, is a highly respected retina specialist, and currently serves as chairman of the Vanderbilt Eye Institute at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He reports, “The pivotal moments occurred when I was around 10. …My father (an ophthalmologist) would perform surgery on Friday afternoons…

When we would arrive at the hospital, my mother would send me in. …On several occasions, I would come up to him while he was standing in the hospital lobby in conversation with various distinguished-looking white-coated physicians.

My father would introduce me to them and, whether they were a urologist or an orthopedic surgeon, they all said the same thing: ‘If I were to do it over again, I would be an eye doctor like your dad.’ Those comments have reverberated with me ever since.”

Paul admits to finding some of his greatest satisfaction these days mentoring faculty and trainees.

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www.andover.edu/intouch 1972 45th REUNION June 9–11, 2017

ABBOT Julia Gibert Uplands Cottage Canada Lane Faringdon Oxforshire SN7 8AR United Kingdom juliagibert@gmail.com

When you stroll up your garden path to find this magazine stuffed in your mailbox, or it lands snuggly on your doormat inside, the season will, even in northernmost climes, be spring. I look forward to that time—when the trials of winter and the year gone by will have receded a little, and the future, perhaps, seems more hopeful than it does to me today.

I am writing at the very beginning of 2017, when most of us are hunkering down against the wind, the rain, the snow, and the extraordinarily divided country—world—that we now seem to be inhabiting. When the times feel as uncertain as they do now to me, I retreat to the simple duty to look after my family and my neighbors.

Happily, in the days of the Internet, one’s family can easily be kept close, and one’s neighbors can be thousands of miles away. I will always be grateful for my Abbot family and the Andover community, and now more than ever seek to hold you near.

For the next four years I shall aim to focus on the quotidian, and let come what may.

That New Year’s resolution notwithstanding, it seems a good time to tell you that in early summer 2017, Hong Kong University Press will publish a book that Maud Lavin co-edited, Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Culture in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. You might have to google “cosplay,” but I assure you that it is appropriately subversive. Sadly, Maud won’t be joining us for the reunion in June to elaborate.

Also not coming in June is Jessica Straus, pleading the excellent excuse that she has been invited to do an art installation in Normandy and will be busy in France preparing for it while we are revelling in Andover.

Ginger Chapman may be persuadable, though she is preternaturally busy these days. Ginger writes, “Our work is cut out for us…as we put together the new Sustainability Plan 2025 for Yale. Lots of work to accomplish our goals, and all the more challenging given the pall of the new administration in DC (‘climate change is a hoax’).”

Micha, her older daughter, is in her second year at Weill Cornell Medical College and studying hard for board exams. Nora, the younger, is about to start work with the Stephen Petronio Dance Company.

I’m hoping we will see Sandy Reynolds-Wasco in 2017. Sandy was the set designer for the multiple-award-winning film La La Land, with her husband, David, the production designer.

Facebook leads me to believe that Pamela Caverly Gunn has recently been alarmingly near to the controls of an aircraft; maybe we can convince her to fly in for the reunion!

I very much hope as many of you as possible will come June 9–11.

Meanwhile, I expect to see Nora Kyger, Missy Baird, Brett Cook, and Amy Broaddus MacNelly, along with lots of AA ’73 and PA ’72 and ’73, in the cold of Washington in a few weeks’ time. Sue Lilienthal will be marching in London and Ginger in New York with both her daughters.

I am guessing that Laurie Camosy Pearsall and Joan Lichtman will be marching somewhere.

If Abbot taught us anything, it taught us that women’s rights are human rights.

Peace and love, Julia

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

I’ve lost count. Was this Atwood Party v.3 or 4?

No matter. The tribe (or at least those available) gathered yet again for some autumn fun on Cape Cod. Jim Johnson was there, and sent the following account: “Nearly 20 classmates converged on East Sandwich, MA, the weekend of Oct. 21, for yet another magical escape weekend. Squire Jon Atwood—dubbed ‘the most interesting man in the world’ by Doug Bigwood— was again the perfect host and called in favors from his lobsterman buddy to make sure we had our fill. Nancy Bennett ’72 superbly choreographed the weekend’s festivities and displayed her usual charm and humor. Aside from the traditional shenanigans, this year’s gathering included a tour of the Colonial-era Benjamin Nye Homestead and we learned that one of Benjamin Nye’s descendants had built Jon’s house. Javier Baz was able to combine a brief but welcome guest appearance with a weekend visit with his son at PA. Bill Logan and Tony Hewett both had offspring competing in the Head of the Charles Regatta that weekend, but managed to make it down for part of the festivities. As is the case whenever our classmates get together, the weekend featured stimulating conversation: careers, kids, kids’ careers, tips for successful marriages and divorces, tales of divorces gone awry, business deals, post-business pursuits of dreams, the lingering effects of Abbot/PA mixers, Faulkner, ’50s TV shows, Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan, the upcoming election and the

potential post-election fallout, and, repeatedly, how young and active we all remain. How much getting together like this makes us appreciate the connection and bond that have remained strong for 45 years. And how we all need to make sure to be at our 45th! Others in attendance were Matt MacIver, Bob Palladino, Sam Butler, and Richard Darner, along with PA ’73 gents Glenn Ball ’73 and David Harsch ’73, and Abbot ladies Elly Mish ’72, Sue Lilienthal ’72, Brett Cook ’72 (with husband Richard), Elizabeth Miller ’73, Judith Webster ’73, and the aforementioned choreographer, Nancy B.” Thanks, Jim, for this report. Full turnout at the next reunion—I second that emotion!

Bijan Amini had hoped to make it to the Cape for the extravaganza, but had to skip due to work commitments. Bijan reports seeing Bill Boak and wife Mary Wang at a holiday gathering in New York. He also saw Steve Hoch at another event.

Bijan, Louis Tenenbaum, and Doug Richardson are heading for the ski slopes together in March, a tradition now spanning four decades. They are hoping that John Rieger can join them this year.

Speaking of Bill and Mary, I was with them on Election Night—a very bonding experience, to say the least. We kept the TV tuned to Fox News for much of the evening, hoping to get a few words of wisdom from Fox News Decision Desk Head Arnon Mishkin. Arnon made a few cameos that night, but had a busier time the next day when the Fox talking heads turned to him for answers on how the polls had erred so much on the final result.

Fair and balanced? Always when Arnon’s on the air.

Better visual, too.

See you at the 45th in June.

continued to change lives by going up the Hill. In November, I sat in the outdoor classroom dedicated to Jean’s stellar influence. I have heard from Anne Spader Byerly and Aina “Phoebe” Allen about the effect of Jean’s kind words, even after we graduated. I also am thinking of Don Gordon ’52, who took the challenge of coeducation in stride, while protecting the rich history of our school.

The Abbot@Andover Committee of the Alumni Council is planning amazing projects, some in conjunction with the Brace Center and, possibly, with the Abbot Archives. If you have a donation for the Archives, print materials are particularly valuable; they can be digitized and can be shared more easily. Speaking of which, Leslie Hendrix received the Distinguished Service Award for her work on the Abbot Archives project. This was awarded during Alumni Council Weekend in November, with Susan Urie Donahue, Jane Cashin Demers, and myself (Noreen Markley) in attendance.

It is the 10th year of Non Sibi Day. Please consider hosting a project in your community.

I have sorted canned food and fresh produce at a food bank, painted a porch on a Habitat for Humanity house, volunteered at a fund raiser, and met some wonderful people, from both Abbot Academy and Phillips Academy, as well as prospective students. If you plan to host a project, register it on the PA website, thus allowing others to volunteer with you.

When you read this, it will be a year before we have another opportunity to join together at reunion. Plan to be there in June 2018. Meanwhile, write to one of us with your news!

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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

As I start the new year in Michigan, I am thinking about the mentors we lost in the past year: Shirley Ritchie, whose nephew wrote about how Shirley considered us “her girls” and Jean St. Pierre, who

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

Public service announcement: The Facebook group “Andover/Abbot Class of 1973” is an excellent place to learn of and discuss (if in desultory fashion) news and issues coming from PA. You have my personal guarantee that joining will not diminish your mental acuity. I received a few emails this quarter! Fancy that.

Kevin Burke ’72 forwarded me news of his brother, Chip Burke, who some may know spent 24 years as the team physician for the Pittsburgh Penguins (he is now a member of the team’s Hall of Fame). Aside from those duties, since 1997 Chip has been deeply involved in “coaching education,” that is, teaching USA Hockey coaches about athlete safety and injury avoidance/prevention. An orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine and a leading expert on concussion research, Chip has been USA Hockey’s mid-American

district associate coach-in-chief since 2003. He has served on the organization’s Safety and Protective Equipment Committee for the past 15 years and helps organize and run Level 1–3 coaching clinics in western Pennsylvania. Sounds like a guy who’s not ready to retire! Thanks, Kevin—and congratulations, Chip!

Brooks Bloomfield visited P.A. roommate and engineer Lawson Fisher in Portola Valley, and Peter McCandless, who is working in photography and documentary film in San Francisco, before continuing his own puppet photography travels in the Northwest for a fantasy book he is writing. Brooks still ski instructs and substitute teaches in Park City, Utah.

Carter Mears crashed the Facebook group page and gets the award this quarter for the longestlost of our classmates. Carter writes: “I have been here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest for the past quarter-century. I live in Auburn, WA, midway between Tacoma and Seattle. I have been in the travel industry for 32 years, and working at Expedia for 14. I am a senior analyst, which means I help to translate old-school travel technology and tools to our geeky techno-millennials. They, in turn, teach me how to write code, which I still don’t understand. It is like translating Biblical Hebrew into Ferengi, and then back into Chinese, but they love me! I met my husband on Christmas Eve 1996 at St. Mark’s Cathedral (both of us being genetic Episcopalians), but we just got married at our house in August, now that we can do so legally.”

Thanks for the news, Carter! Jonathan Meath ’74 tipped me off that Carter was a member of the MEA Club—“Mead, Meath & Mears.” That means something to you thespians, it seems.

Michael Husson is watching the Facebook page. He sent me a message online: “My daughter is now married, working and living in Paris, while my son will soon relocate to Victoria, Canada, where he will be joining the faculty of geoscience at the University. I’m still working at Penn in Philadelphia, which ironically will be about halfway between my two children’s future domiciles.”

Bill Robinson’s latest missive: “I’m about to start my final semester teaching physics at North Carolina State University. I turn 62 Jan. 15, and our department has had and will continue to have large budget cuts, so it is time to retire. I have been struggling with COPD and arthritis, and that also mandates the change. I will be going back on SSI after my checks stop, which will probably solidify my place once again as the most penurious of our class. With the health difficulty, I have not been able to write music since spring of ’16, and may be retired from that, too. I will relocate in mid-May to the little town of Cleveland, NC, population 800, in western Rowan County, where I will be able to rent a couple of rooms from an old friend.

If anyone is passing through the area, please give me a holler. I will try and make the reunion in ’18.”

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Guy Nordenson ’73

Building a Home for History

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uring his long and successful career as a structural engineer, writer, and educator, Guy Nordenson ’73 has observed that all truly outstanding buildings carefully intertwine various disciplines, such as art, literature, philosophy, and engineering.

That is certainly the case with his most recent project.

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With its dramatic bronze-colored exterior representing a woodentiered West African corona, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) is more than the nation’s first museum dedicated to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture: it is a stunning work of architecture and engineering.

Nordenson attended the September 2016 opening ceremony for the museum, which included cabinet members, members of Congress, former presidents, civil rights leaders, and President Barack Obama, who delivered remarks. One of the two lead structural engineers chosen for the project, Nordenson said it was a career highlight.

“Working on this project was a great privilege and responsibility,” says Nordenson. “It will always mean a great deal to me.”

Nordenson has also been part of other historically significant projects. His portfolio includes work on the Museum of Modern Art and he played a significant role in the safe deconstruction of the World Trade Center following 9/11. But the NMAAHC building was special in a variety of ways.

His team at Guy Nordenson and Associates carefully guided the design and construction of the five-story superstructure. Many facets of the design are symbolic. For example, the edifice is supported by four structural cores, a metaphor, explains Nordenson, for the four pillars of the museum’s mission: to provide a place to explore and revel in African American history; to show how all Dominique Nabokov Americans’ stories, histories, and culture are shaped by global influences; to explore what it means to be an American and share how American values are reflected in African American history; and to serve as a place to preserve this important piece of American history.

that John is the former director of the Nixon Library, but many don’t know that for some time he has been the vicar for St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA. Well, in early December, John was elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. He will be ordained in July at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in LA. Craig Reynolds’ journey in the distilling business continues to expand with the release of yet another premium, aged tequila, the new Dos Volcanes Añejo. Get some.

Casey Sheahan keeps posting pictures of him and his wife and friends fishing, skiing, and whitewater rafting. All the fish are, like, 3 feet long.

I think they’re Photoshopped and he’s stuck in a corner office somewhere yelling at subordinates.

Dave Swanson, John McDonald (and wife Melissa), Elizabeth Roscoe Morin ’76, and I attended the wedding of Dave Donahue’s eldest daughter, Cally, in Boston. A glorious time was had by all. Dave and Sue have moved to Mansfield, MA, after 30 years in their Walpole manse. No more pool-cleaning!

That is all, my friends. June 2018 is careening toward us! Please feel free to use my email address and send me some news.

1974 Jack Gray 80 Central Park West, Apt. 20F New York, NY 10023-5215 212-496-1594 ray0x@hotmail.com

As I write this, just before Christmas, Jonathan Meath is taking his recurring role as Santa Claus to an entirely new level. He is

When he was at Phillips Academy—and smitten with literature— Nordenson had a different career path in mind. He recalls learning to lead seminars in Kelly Wise’s Novel & Drama course, an experience that was both “challenging and invigorating, and gave me the confidence, in time, to teach,” he says.

Nordenson attended MIT, his father’s alma mater, and then applied to Yale’s comparative literature graduate program and Berkeley’s structural engineering program. Turned down by Yale, he went off to California engineering. Fate? Perhaps. It was a decision that would shape his future and, to some extent, some of the most historically important buildings in America —Elizabeth O’Brien

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appearing in Coca-Cola’s TV and print advertising (including three massive variants in Times Square). Jonathan has taken his preparation for the part beyond his uncanny physical incarnation, saying, “Santa is really the only cultural icon we have who’s male, does not carry a gun, and is all about peace, joy, giving, and caring for other people. That’s part of the magic for me, especially in a culture where we’ve become so commercialized and hooked into manufactured icons. Santa is much more organic, integral, connected to the past, and therefore connected to the future.” Well said!

Betsy Evans Hunt has been running around the country, putting together a major exhibition of the work of photographer Todd Webb at the Museum of the City of New York. The exhibition will be up by the time you read this. Betsy represents Webb’s estate and has been working tirelessly to raise the profile of this post-war artist’s images and put them in the context of his times and the work of his wellknown friends and peers, such as Harry Callahan and Robert Frank. Her travels took her to the Bay Area (where she and your correspondent hung out circa ’79 to ’83 when both of us moved in the art photography circles of the day) and enjoyed dinner (twice!) with Scott Coates and his wife, Dru. Scott continues his busy architectural practice and, like many of us, greatly enjoys his children’s fully fledged progress.

Ann Hoover Maddox has moved west (again).

After more than 20 years in Maryland, where she raised three children, Ann moved to Marin County.

It took months of planning, packing, and pruning no-longer-useful stuff, but Ann, her Great Dane, and her wild turtle drove just ahead of the moving van and are settling into their new home in Fairfax, CA. She is “so excited to be back in the Bay Area and welcomes visitors!” En route she spoke with her friend Charlie Nadler who lives with his wife, Louise, in Marion, MA. They mostly discussed kids—Charlie’s have launched to various cities along the Eastern Seaboard and are “thriving.”

Steve Miller continues to work full time at Singapore Management University. His wife Pat does advocacy work with an NGO that focuses on helping migrant workers in Singapore. Both their kids were until recently also there, but their eldest is now engaged in graduate work at UC Berkeley.

As usual Steve is eloquent and absolutely honest in this summary of his state of mind: “Somehow, always immersed in whatever sandbox I am plopped into. Since stepping down from the deanship (when I had two full time jobs: the dean’s job and also the vice provost of research job) by some coincidence the research effort and portfolio has somehow expanded. So that one full time job is more than I seem to have time for— even though now it is full time.

“Anyway—this year of 2016 was the year we all turned 60. That was a time of awakening. This next decade phase, if we are here to see it—from

60 to 80—is very different than the last 20 years.

“We know we are at that stage of aging where—well, how to say—we approach those limits of finiteness. The roads ahead are not roads of endless possibilities; we have already travelled those roads, and whatever those possibilities were they have already happened, at least for the most part, if not entirely.

“So here we are: we are the older ones when we go to wedding functions or other public gatherings. We are not the 40-somethings, the 30-somethings, or the 20-somethings, still figuring out what the future could be and might hold. I am thinking of what I want to do with my next 5 or so years of work. Fortunately, I have a wonderful opportunity of just staying put right here in Singapore. …. There could be other possibilities as well, but they would have to be something that fit very well, especially well, or there is no point to leave what I have. Though I do have a sense that I am “treading water” somewhat, waiting for that next calling - some type of next special adventure.

But it is not there yet, and who knows, it could be right in front of me where I am or it could be elsewhere.”

A few days ago your correspondent, along with Margaret Downs and her husband, Henry Zachary, were honored to be guests of Alison Berry and Julian Hatton on the occasion of Julian’s 60th birthday. Fueled by magnums of Julian’s brother Fritz’s extraordinary Napa Valley wines and Alison’s equally accomplished cooking, the boisterous, happy gathering engaged with the kinds of big questions about the nature of the artistic enterprise Julian and Alison have devoted their careers to, just as Steve reflected on his next step in furthering the pursuit of scholarship.

Surrounded by Julian’s and Alison’s work in the studio, where I had seen their efforts unfold over decades, I reflected on Steve’s paired use of “finiteness” and the implicit freedom in the word “adventure.” Betsy had used the word “freedom” in describing her life now: her daughters, now adults, making their own way, and her responsibility now to her work and her loved ones. Ann seized the opportunity to return to Northern California, where she started her career right out of college and where her children were born. Many of us have experienced what finite means, including the meaning of the word as Steve used it in respecting the loss of our own loved ones: parents, siblings, friends, spouses, and children. Maybe the secret for the next two decades is to embrace that freedom— as and when we find it—to create joy and meaning.

I am certain this group is among those with whom we will be sharing and celebrating.

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

It doesn’t seem like we’re getting any older, but a bunch of news floated in recently from grandparents!

Yogi Pappas sent excited word that he recently had the good fortune to join other classmates as a proud member of the Grandparents Club. Yogi’s granddaughter arrived on Oct. 29, and she and family are all doing really well.

Also joining the ranks of newly minted grandparents is Stephen Bache, whose daughter Kathryn gave birth to Theodore Christopher Lotz last July. Stephen now lives in Portland, OR. A couple of days after Thanksgiving Brad Geier called out of the blue, informed me that he was 15 minutes away in Rowayton, CT, and invited my wife, Alice, and me to a wonderful lunch with a crew of his at a great place on the water that is very close to the new house of his newly married daughter Ashley and son-in-law Patrick Kennedy.

Brad is also a proud grandfather—two so far and at least one more on the way. His son Will is getting married in Aspen this July.

Writing from Bermuda and pointing out excitedly that it’s the site of the America’s Cup Finals this summer, Hal Masters reported that he just celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary and that the first of his three children is getting married this year. Hal is off to Japan in January with two of his children to see a touring David Bowie exhibition, which he had also seen in London; Chicago; Toronto; Paris; Berlin; Amsterdam; Bologna, Italy; and Melbourne, Australia. Hal, who clearly has more FF miles than the average bear, explained, “You may recall that I was a big fan of Bowie (RIP) even back in ’72, when I was indoctrinated with his music upon arrival at Andover.”

On the couch watching the Patriots and recovering from a recent hip replacement, John Florence shared memories of a great day at PA on the occasion of last year’s Andover-Exeter game. John reports he was in the good company of Dan Dilorati, Brian Burke, Felecia Elias, Andover | Summer 2017

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Kurt Silverman, Betsie Redman Bramhall, Charlie Clark, Jay Finney, and Joannie Bozek at a chili-and-brew tailgate on the quad near our reunion spot, all organized by the incomparable Phil Hueber. After watching the home team put up a great “W” and taking a minute to admire the new track facility and athletics building, the group marched over to the Andover Inn, where they ran across the likes of Bert Garry and Lisa MacFarlane. Incidentally, as Geoff Richards pointed out to me, this win over Exeter brings our winning scorecard to 72-54-10 over the 136-year history of the rivalry. Not too shabby!

Explaining why she has not, until now, ever submitted news to trusty ’75 scribes Roger Strong, Mari Wellin King, or me, Peggy Stern writes, “It’s not because of anything other than not getting around to it—my two years at Andover were some of my favorite years of school...I met some of the most wonderful people in my life there!” Peggy just launched a project about dyslexia, which is very near and dear to her and which, she says, “I am sure I am not alone in having dealt with in our class, since statistically it is believed one in five people have some kind of learning disability.” Dyslexiaville. com, 10 years in the making, now lives on YouTube.

Peggy notes that Janie Barnett composed the theme song and did an incredible job working with the cast of 7- to 12-year-olds. Further reflecting on Andover’s impact, Peggy, who was last at Andover for Ted Sizer’s memorial, writes that the former headmaster “was a big influence on me...both on campus and after I graduated, as he helped get my first documentary out into the world.”

Archaeologist extraordinaire Larry Coben, who spent all of November excavating a monumental palace in the Cañete Valley in Peru, explained: “We were looking to solve the mystery of who was in the valley before the arrival of the Incas. While the architecture was not Inca, almost all the ceramics and other material we found were. So, mystery still unsolved—will head back again next year to try to solve it.” Larry has a TED Talk about “running the Sustainable Preservation Initiative, which builds futures and saves pasts by providing sustainable economic opportunities to the poor communities where archaeological sites are located.”

Back on U.S. soil (Georgetown, by DC) now after a 22-year stint in London, Phil Fletcher explained, “A three-year assignment with my law firm got extended quite a few times!” Phil also reported the recent passing of a very proud and passionate Andover alum, his father, Herbert ’39.

“He wanted one of his kids to go to Andover, which might explain my first name. He even submitted an ‘application’ to PA within a week of my birth.”

Much to the chagrin of their grandfather, Phil’s three kids attended boarding school in Oxford, England; they are now spread across NYC, Georgetown, and Durham, NC (Duke).

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www.andover.edu/intouch CA, for the holidays with his wife, Laura, and four kids, and enjoyed a reunion on New Year’s Day with “old friend” and environmental lawyer Bill Wong. Bill has “worked hard to clean the air of California, vigorously pursuing polluters on behalf of the South Coast Air Quality Management District.” Sagar is also in touch with John Lenz, a professor at Drew University.

A solid crew of ’75ers, including Mike Boldt, Roger Strong, Judy and Phil Hueber, and Geoff Richards, (plus some ’76s) gathered on Dec. 14 for a very special evening at Arthur Kell’s Bar LunÀtico in Brooklyn, to honor Thomas Chapin’s incredible music, performed by Spirits Rebellious and led by Arthur himself! Geoff gushed, “The music was amazing, and you could easily hear Chape’s unique sound, rhythm, and texture. Even Ted Chapin ’68, cofounder of Spirits Rebellious, Tom’s original Brazilian jazz band, was on hand for the wonderful tribute to his brother and our beloved and talented classmate.”

Also last December, Peter Van Raalte and my Will Hall/Pease House roommate Tony Pucillo found time for some laughs and a great lunch at Sushiden in NYC. Peter and Tony are doing really well and working together as coheads of Corinthian Capital, now based near Grand Central Station.

Sincere thanks to all of you who took a minute to write. If your news, due to space constraints, didn’t make it into this column, Roger will include it in the next issue.

Meanwhile, Happy Birthday—belated and in advance—to all with a magic 60 this year!

—Peter Wyman

1976 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

A nice thing about NYC is that so many of our classmates live here, or pass through on a regular basis.

Patrice Le Melle, Heather White, Chris Auguste, and Geoff Richards ’75 were at the recent Andover in New York event cohosted

by Chris. Serendipitously, the party was held at Lincoln Center, where Liza Parker Migliorelli is COO and acting head for the past year.

Watching Liza in action was to see all of her strengths as a charming 15-year-old with innate people skills come to fruition, as she walked through Lincoln Center making conversation with

every employee, from the security guards to fellow leaders in the organization. I sheepishly admit to slipping out of the event for 30 minutes and following Liza to the balcony in another part of that vast complex, where Diana Ross was on stage singing the very songs Liza and I blasted out the windows of Hall House all those years ago.

At Lincoln Center a week earlier, Peggy Dolgenos, Heather White, and I were fortunate to see Heather’s husband, Freddie Bryant, play a jazz set with fellow luminary guitarists. His new album is called Monk Restrung.

I was sorry to miss another jazz-inspired evening honoring Tom Chapin ’75 at Bar LunÀtico in Brooklyn, where enough PA spirit assembled that the school banner made its way into a group photo.

Bob Merrill and the bar’s owner, Arthur Kell ’75, re-created a few tunes from Spirits Rebellious, the band Tom put together to feature his Brazilianinfluenced compositions. Patrice and Heather were there from our class. Phil Hueber ’75 described the event as an amazing evening “where you could easily hear Chape’s unique sound, rhythm, and texture.”

Ellen Greenfield Lewis graciously hosted a small group of PA women in her home on two occasions. It was fascinating talking with Sue Chira about her new job at the New York Times. She is now a senior correspondent and editor reporting on gender issues. “That means women, men, and issues of gender identity—we’re defining it as broadly as possible,” she says. I urge you to look up some of Sue’s latest articles, as she has the ability to make us think about issues of enormous consequence in a new way.

Peggy Dolgenos summed up the topics discussed at our second gathering: climate change, civil rights, voting rights, gay rights, women’s rights, the Supreme Court, and immigration. Thanks to Ellen and a few bottles of wine for a passionate and cerebral evening where it felt good to “keep ideas flowing.”

Karin Genis is finishing her degree in couples counseling after many years as a lawyer. Betsy Senior, who I love running into at the New York Print Fair, is branching out in Mexico City. Heather White is in the home stretch with her movie, Who Pays the Price? And Kayce Freed Jennings continues to change lives as cofounder and senior producer of Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls’ education and empowerment in the developing world. Kayce is a vice chair of the Board of Win, which serves the needs of women in NYC. She is on the advisory boards of the School of Leadership in Afghanistan (SOLA) and the Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center in Long Island.

Chris Auguste continues to help Andover as cochair of the New York Regional Leadership team and as a member of the Andover Alumni Award of Distinction Committee.

He also volunteers as a director at Goddard

Riverside Community Center, and at Youthbridge-NY which provides diversity training and leadership skills to NYC high school students.

“Barky” Penick writes to let everyone know he and Jennifer have moved to Georgetown in DC. He “would love to see anyone from our class who comes through our nation’s capital.”

Perry Flanagan has also moved. “Last March we fell in love with a home offering beautiful lake and Smoky Mountain views, so when Dave retired we sold our condo in Michigan and moved 550 miles south to Tellico Village in eastern Tennessee.”

Perry’s three kids are thriving, and she graciously invites us to visit and enjoy the natural beauty of her new home.

It was great to hear from Bill Catlin, who just celebrated 35 years with Minnesota Public Radio, where he is a senior news editor. He pays tribute to Chris Mullen as the inspiration for his career.

Chris “had a music show on WPAA and used to play bluegrass and western swing. In Rockwell senior year, his room was across the hall from mine and he’d play his records with the door open. I fell in love with that music. So I wanted to become the next Chris Mullen. At Oberlin I immediately joined the student radio station and played all the same songs Chris did. When I graduated I wanted to stay in radio, and here I am. Can you say one-trick pony?

“On another front, Al Cantor and I will be getting together in April after he gives a speech here. Al gave me my tour of PA when I visited as a prospective student 42 years ago, and he was on the other end of the line when I got the call letting me know I’d been accepted. This is how he suggested I recall him to my wife, in case she’d forgotten since his last visit: ‘You know, the guy who looks like Brad Pitt, has been an ambassador to France, and always brings us a crystal candy dish as a hostess gift. You remember, dear, right?’”

Bill also is on the board of a youth-focused jazz performance nonprofit called PipJazz Foundation, which is dedicated to giving young players “real-life” experiences on stage.

As I mention Bill’s, Kayce’s, and Chris’s volunteer efforts here, it seems like the right time to acknowledge the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day and the extraordinary ways in which so many of us reflect the spirit of the PA motto, “not for self.”

I write these notes during the waning days of the Obama administration, when it seems impossible to go through the day without thinking about and discussing the changes ahead. I know from Facebook postings and our talks as friends that a number of us hold dissimilar, and sometimes polar-opposite, political views. But I think one thing most of us share is a willingness to engage in activities that help those who are vulnerable and need our help.

So, with our school motto in mind, let’s keep focusing our energies in good directions.

Ruben Avlero and I send our very best to all of you.

1977 40th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 Buck Burnaman 222 Nod Hill Road Wilton, CT 06897 203-834-9776 bburnaman@msn.com

Your faithful scribe underwent his third hip replacement surgery in a two-year period on Dec. 12, and while I obviously have lived to tell of it, this edition of class notes will suffer, as I am suffering a bit as I write.

Those of you who underexcelled in Mr. Cone’s biology class (all of us excelled, some just a bit less than others) may ask, “How does he manage to have THREE hips?” Other classmates who know me well may suspect that repetitive head trauma incurred on PA’s athletic fields has led me to overguesstimate the number of orthopedic surgeries I’ve undertaken in adult life (seven, I think). My roommates from Bishop Hall and Churchill House (Hi Andy McCarthy, Fritz Thompson, and Bob Benner!) will know that counting was not one of my strong suits, while embellishment was arguably my forte. Yes, a curiosity to be sure, and hopefully the two or three of you who’ve read this far will be curious enough to plan to attend the 40th Reunion June 9-11, 2017.

At the reunion, I will explain how I had three hip replacements; Bill Yun, Gerry Harrington, and Marty Koffman will explain why they have no gray hair; Ed Frechette and Ellen Carley Frechette will explain how they remain ageless and married; John Nordell and Benjy Swett will explain how they remain cool, artistically talented, and approachable at the same time; and hopefully Pete Pezzelli and Bill Cohan can discuss the similarities between children’s book themes and activities uncovered through Wall Street investigative journalism (“magical thinking” would be one, I believe).

OK. You’re all on notice. I hope and expect to see many of you at the reunion. Free hugs! Be well, stay in touch. —Buck

1978 Jamie Clauss Wolf 514 Ribaut Road Beaufort, SC 29902 843-694-7443 JamieClaussWolf@gmail.com

An addendum to a previous note: Elizabeth Carlson’s book, North Carolina String Music Masters: Old-Time and Bluegrass Legends, was released last spring and I failed to include her

maiden name. Please know that it is our very own Liz Anspach Carlson who is the author!

Ben Batchelder wrote from Brazil: “A challenging year: my mother fell and required 5 operations to survive. At the same time, I’m busy with my 3rd book (about a world trip for a year on $10 a day) and visited Peru and Guatemala on mission trips, which were hugely gratifying.” Ben’s first two books, Borderlands USA and To Belém and Back, can be found on Amazon, and information on Ben can be found on his Amazon author page.

Non Sibi Day is April 22, 2017, and this year marks its 10th anniversary. As we all know, non sibi is the PA motto, and in the past 10 years the day has developed into an important alumni event called Non Sibi Weekend. This global weekend of service involves a collective effort of outreach, planning, and organizing service projects around the world.

Non Sibi Weekend is meant to symbolize Andover’s year-round commitment to community service and service learning. In addition to Non Sibi Weekend, the Non Sibi Committee and the school are deeply committed to serving as a catalyst for year-round expressions of the non sibi spirit. Non Sibi 365 is designed to include all forms of Andover alumni community service, from starting a nonprofit to coaching a soccer team to holding a book drive or working at a soup kitchen. That means many, many alumni meet the criteria without knowing it. The Alumni Events Calendar lists projects that have already been confirmed. For future reference, please read more on our new Alumni Council website http:// andoveralumnicouncil.org/, and contact Karleigh Antista at kantista@andover.edu. By the time you read these class notes, Non Sibi Weekend will have passed so be sure to contact me and let me know what you did or participated in so that we can keep the spirit going by sharing stores of all the ways you have made an impact, large or small. They all count!

I have the honor, through my specialty gym, Second Wind Therapy & Wellness, of hosting a non sibi event in April. As April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month, I will host a fundraiser for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research to further their research and find better treatments for this degenerative neurological disease that is striking more and more people at a younger and younger age, robbing them of many quality years of life.

Did you know Alumni Council members meet twice per year on campus (typically in May and November)? Our purpose is to maintain contact between alumni and selected areas of school life and to serve to support the Academy in various endeavors involving alumni. Each member is appointed to a fouryear term. If you would like to read more about the mission of the Alumni Council, please visit http://andoveralumnicouncil.org/mission.

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Jim Demetroulakos, MD, (Jim and Lee both represent the Athletics Committee), and Chris Leggett, MD (representing the Non Sibi Committee). Jim was incredibly kind and sat with me for part of the Andover-Exeter game, my first in close to four decades. Team sports are not my forte, and he patiently explained much of what was going on while I enthusiastically cheered but not always at the right time!

Finally, nominations remain open for additional class secretaries for the Class of 1978. Ideally we’d love to have two or three people who love reaching out to our network. Please let me know if it’s your time to step up—just three deadlines a year.

Very manageable!

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

As you read this, spring is in the air, that magical time when, at PA, jackets came off and hormones came on; speakers pointing out the quad windows broadcast samples from Europe ’72, Waiting for Columbus, and Marley Live. Rebirth. New hope.

New love.

In contrast to the emergence of this rejuvenated life, as I write this I’m looking out into the bleak, stark, but peaceful Vermont winter, back east for the holidays visiting my family, now with a family of my own. In a blink, our daughter, Alyce, is already a sophomore in high school and our son, Michael, is a freshman at Tulane (where Josh Kaufman and his wife, Vicki, graciously hosted our arrival). Christmas has just passed, this year coinciding with Hanukkah, and seeing the childlike joy on my kids’ young-adult faces, the words “It is better to give than to receive” were never more true. It’s that spirit that ties us back to where we are now…spring, when, in April, Andover will celebrate its 10th annual Non Sibi Day. Those of us who have gone through the college application process with our kids know community service ranks right up there with grades, test scores, and playing a sport or a musical instrument. Many of us have built careers working for not-for-profit, charitable, and public service organizations, and in this set of notes, we’re going to celebrate a handful

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www.andover.edu/intouch of you who shared your various involvements. In all cases, this is not about the person; it’s about issues and organizations we feel passionate about.

John McCorvie’s firm has been partners at Social Venture Partners (SVP) Boulder County, in Colorado. SVP pursues a model of philanthropy that leverages all of the partner’s time, expertise, and money to help build and support local nonprofits.

Roger Kass, while continuing his work as a lawyer and a producer in film and TV, is also on the board of the Atlantic Theatre Company and the Newport Festivals Foundation, the latter which produces the Newport Folk Festival. He’s got one daughter at Wesleyan, another at Andover, and a son in the fourth grade in NYC. The addictive draw of the non sibi spirit has inspired a friend to give Alexandra Purdy Williams a tote bag that reads “Stop Me Before I Volunteer Again.” It didn’t quite work. She has rewritten bylaws, as well as volunteered as an EMT and ambulance driver for the past eight years. The volunteer job of which she is fondest, however, was supporting mothers and babies through the La Leche League. Liz Sargent Corcoran is still living in Charlottesville, VA, practicing historical landscape architecture with the U.S. National Park Service. Her two children are in college, and her volunteer efforts are mainly with nonprofits that deal with environmental education and historic preservation activism, including board positions with the Highlands Biological Foundation, Ivy Creek Foundation, Rockfish Valley Foundation, and City of Charlottesville Historic Resources Committee, as well as being the state representative for the Historic American Landscapes Survey program (sounds like Liz could use one of Alexandra’s tote bags). Liz, Sarah Blain, and Laura Boylan recently had their own mini reunion and would love to hear from Tony Hoskins, who was also part of their winter term in Mexico.

Jenny Melville is also in the world of land conservation—as a project manager covering the state of Maine for the Trust for Public Land, as well as serving as chair of the Northern Forest Center. As part of my summer pilgrimage back east, Jenny and her husband, Alex, hosted a sweltering Cape Cod evening that included the alwayslovely Rachel Cartmell, Susan Palermo, and Paula Elias Ross.

Gretchen Van Dusen is living in the Northwest with her husband, Richard. She is teaching at the Evergreen State College, trying to find hope in the world as well as explore sustainable design with her students. She recently had a drink with John Andrews and his wife; both she and John have kids with Macalester College in common.

She planned to see Beth Garrity-Rokous over the past holidays (hopefully that happened) and also just coincidentally ran into Janet Milkman at the Logan luggage terminal. The picture they sent me proved that neither has aged much beyond high school.

Sarah Moore and husband have also joined the ranks of empty nesters (ENs), splitting their time between San Francisco and Napa, CA. For the past five years, Sarah has been director of brand strategy at Mission Minded, a branding firm that works exclusively with nonprofits. She is also on the executive board of Mentis, Napa Valley’s mental health services agency, which provides support to Napa residents regardless of their age, immigration status, or ability to pay.

Margaret Briggs, also an EN but with no grandchildren yet in sight, is volunteering two days a week at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She’s helping the nursing staff care for preemies.

Ilene Markell checks in from Memphis, where, after graduating college, she played bass in various bands, here and abroad. While not birdwatching or playing duplicate bridge with her husband, Ben, Ilene volunteers with Memphis Library Friends, spending part of her time sorting through donated books and then redistributing them to Memphisarea organizations such as the VA, the Juvenile Court, and local schools. She also identifies the more valuable of the donated books and sells them online to raise money to help sustain the library and its services.

Sean Wolfort sent in a beautiful picture of himself and his kids in Phoenix, where he’s living and practicing medicine. In addition to the healing he provides at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, he feeds the needy at St. Mary’s and helps out at Child Crisis Arizona.

For the past seven years, Forty Conklin has been a trustee for a summer camp called Mowglis, where boys can unplug from technology, laugh, learn, and play on the beautiful lakes, mountains, and rivers of Hebron, NH, and eat freshly prepared meals of organic and farm-raised food. Sounds like a nice recipe for us all.

And a very special mention to Charlie Dean, who was awarded Andover’s prestigious Distinguished Service Award. His wife, Marina, and Jim Ventre attended the special luncheon to honor him and five other recipients.

Finally, here’s to all of you who contribute your knowledge, resources, and time to making your communities and the world a more positive and loving place. Happy Non Sibi Day! Be in touch, Doug

1980 Jane Shattuck mtwjshattuck@gmail.com 781-710-7532 Amy Davidsen 451 West End Ave., Apt. 14E New York, NY 10024 917-545-9617 amydavidsen@gmail.com

As global powers shift around the world in unexpected ways, it is comforting to hear from classmates to keep us connected and care for one another and the broader community. Thank you for sharing!

Jane Shattuck was fortunate to be able to attend two events on campus. The first was the launch of the Mind Body Wellness Series in the new Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center. The event was open to the entire PA community and was very well-attended. The second event was a panel discussion moderated by Head of School John Palfrey to celebrate the newly revised edition of Born Digital, a book he cowrote with Urs Gasser.

The student panel included students from several neighboring high schools and offered a wide perspective on their use of technology in school and in life.

Jane also attended the upper-year violin recital of Rich Goldberg’s son, Alex ’18, who is an amazing musician. Jane shared: “Last year’s recital was remarkable, but this year was breathtaking.

Watching this young artist play, seeing how the music moves his body and spirit, is a soulful experience. I don’t know what his post-PA plans are, but if he goes into music performance, his will be a career to watch!” Jane also enjoyed reconnecting with Rich and his wife, Marina, and was pleasantly surprised to have the chance to reconnect with Michael Batsimm, who is an accountant living with his family in Andover. Chris Witt, his wife, Sabrina, and one of their two PA students were also in attendance. Chris’s daughter started PA last fall; his son is a lower. Chris works as general manager at Tektronix, which requires him to travel most of each month, but he has been able to move his home base to Andover, making it easier for him to be among family and have his children follow in his day-student footsteps.

Jane also enjoyed an alumni cocktail hour at the Andover Inn with Kathleen LeMaitre, Kevin Murphy, and Dan Hajjar after Andover’s big win over Exeter in November.

Mike Lee shared the great accomplishment that he has finished with Andover tuition bills now that his son, Jeff ’16, graduated following the lead of daughter, Jessica ’13. Mike is a pediatrician and manages an electronic patient-record platform in greater Boston. He is somehow able to manage his time so that he can enjoy the freedom to travel

and spend time with friends and his wife, Laurie.

Some of the friends Mike stays in touch with are Bob Feinberg and Jon Dee, and through Andover events he has seen Steve Kane, Jon Talcott, and Kathleen LeMaitre. When in San Francisco, Mike has had dinner with Murrey Nelson and Nathalie Valette, and has found time to catch up with Hyun Park. Lastly, Mike also has the good fortune to run into Harry Bartlett on occasion.

Other class news came from the middle of the ocean via Robin Aiello. Robin had been living in Australia, running her own environmental consulting business, but is now working full-time as an expedition leader, ecotourism specialist, and marine biologist for two companies: Silversea Cruises, a luxury cruise line with an expedition ship called the Silver Explorer; and a land-based expedition company that runs nature-, dive-, and snorkel-focused expeditions to exotic and remote areas of the world.

Robin explained: “So, I spend about nine to 10 months of the year at sea, driving zodiac boats, guiding hikes, lecturing, etc. In a year I will usually spend about three months in Antarctica, a couple months in the High Arctic, and the rest of the time in tropical locations like the Philippines, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Palau...I am so privileged to be able to get thousands of people every year excited about the natural environment! I am also doing marine ecology/‘save the reef ’ consulting at some exclusive resorts in the Maldives, including Cheval Blanc.”

Classmates can find articles on Robin’s fascinating work in the Maldives in Epicure magazine and The Billionaire Magazine.

In September, Allyn Burrows was named artistic director at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. One of the company’s founders stated in the announcement: “As we approach the Company’s 40th season, we could not be more pleased with Allyn’s selection. He has extensive experience as an actor and a director and in leading an organization. His knowledge of Shakespeare is deep. Many of us have collaborated with him in the past and found his work inspiring. He brings new energy and we all look forward to working with him.”

As Chris Rokous, who posted the news on our class FB page, suggested, how about a “mini-reunion in the Berkshires next summer”?

Amy Davidsen spends time in the Berkshires, so she will happily join, as will Jane. Perhaps Tod Randolph will also be in a show and we can make it a Class Arts Weekend!

Just after Thanksgiving, our own Rev. T McKinley announced on FB: “I have just published my second book, Reclaiming My Spirit: Beyond the God of Shame. This work continues the journey I began in Boy in the Ivy by examining how traditional religions and our own images of God can actually promote disconnection, rage, and selfloathing. In it, I provide practices and techniques for working through these toxic images of God into

a healthier, more mature spirituality.” His book is available on Amazon.com.

Ian Bond had “a very Andover few weeks” just before Christmas—apart from fun catching up with Claire Gilliatt Wade in DC, Ian enjoyed dinner in London with Duncan L. MacFarlane, Aimee Thorpe MacFarlane, and their daughter, also a PA grad.

And lastly, in December, Nick Shufro was sworn in as assistant administrator, Risk Management, at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in DC. This is an exciting and critical job to help make our communities safer through “reducing loss of life and property; enabling individuals to recover more rapidly from floods and other disasters; and lessening the financial impact on the Treasury, States, Tribes and communities.”

Nick will also oversee the nation’s flood maps, so those of you living on the coast know who to call if you have questions about rising sea levels.

Congratulations, Nick.

We look forward to hearing more news from near or far.

All the best, Amy and Jane

1981 Sean Rynne 7 Pierrepont Road Winchester, MA 01890 617-331-7720 seanmrynne@gmail.com Jodie McAfee 1 Hanson Place, Apt. 13C Brooklyn, NY 11243 303-916-4203 jodiemcafee@gmail.com

I want to start by thanking Jodie McAfee for stepping up to join me as class secretary. I had a chance to reconnect with Jodie and his wife, Paige, at our reunion last June. After living in London, Jodie recently relocated to New York.

Most of my contacts to report on have a distinctly local flavor. Last summer I spent two separate afternoons meeting up with two classmates, both from Chelmsford, MA. Jay Donahue is now living in Osterville, MA, on Cape Cod. We met in New Seabury and went for a very long walk with my dog. Jay recently lost his canine companion, Kenya, and is making due visiting with his friends’ dogs. Jay often posted online photos of Kenya playing on the beaches of Cape Cod. If you have ever been to Cape Cod in January, you know why I think Jay will be looking for a new pup soon.

In August, Evan London reached out while visiting his 106-year-old grandmother in Cambridge, MA. While Evan officially graduated in ’82, he always stresses that his heart is with ’81.

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As a parent of a third-year upper at PA, I have had plenty of opportunities to return to campus.

During Family Weekend in October, Andover scheduled several presentations and workshops to introduce parents to the college application process. Over the two days, my wife Jenny Moore Rynne ’82 and I spent at least four hours meeting and listening to representatives from college placement, and sitting in on mock application reviews that were hosted by college admission officers. It was quite an improvement over the process in 1981. Fortunately, we were rewarded with a parents’ gathering in Paresky Commons.

There were several familiar faces, including Audrey Keithe Moreland ’82 and John Moreland ’18, Lou Kantaros ’80, and Sue Jenkins Warren ’79.

The night ended with an invitation to the Andover Inn for dinner with Lisa and Bruce Raphael and Denise and Jim Ringer.

Bruce is living in Andover and working in Boston.

Bruce’s son is an upper and a strong defender on the soccer team. Jim is living in Dallas and has two of his three sons at PA: Holden ’17 is a senior and captain of the cross-country team, and Ben ’18 is an upper.

Andover-Exeter Weekend, as always, saw a campus filled with classmates. At one point, I was standing on the Hill overlooking the girls’ varsity soccer game, flanked by Mary Cataudella, Cristina R. Suarez, Debbi Neyman Silverman, and Lee Anne Snedeker. All are back living in the area, although Debbi has moved to Westborough, MA. Mary’s daughter is a junior on the soccer team, and Christina’s daughter is graduating this spring.

Meanwhile, in New York…

I, Jodie McAfee, relocated to New York (Brooklyn, to be precise) with my wife, Paige, almost three years ago, after four and a half years in London. It is the first time I’ve lived in a city that is home to many of our classmates and hosts multiple PA events throughout the year. While old news, my first such event, roughly a month into our relocation, was a cocktail party in honor of Kelly Wise. Having taken his Novel & Drama (or Grovel & Trauma, as I was reminded at reunion) course during all three trimesters our senior year, I felt compelled to attend just so that I could remind Mr. Wise that he once accused me of plagiarizing

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More recently, and post-reunion, several of us Brooklynites (and as you know from the post-reunion notes, we represent a small army) and Carolyn Foley Laing (a Long Islander) got together in Fort Greene so that we could get Carolyn and Vivian Toy (slackers that no-showed to reunion) up to speed Re: all reunion gossip. The group included Joe Sutherland, and we covered the good (how easy it seemed to be to fall back into casual conversation with old friends) and the bad (the fact that Joe still manages to fit into high school T-shirts…bastard).

In October, a number of NYC ’81ers were in attendance at a PA-sponsored “Hamilton vs.

Jefferson” debate held at Trinity Church, with Head of School John Palfrey playing the role of Hamilton and Vic Henningsen ’69 playing the role of Jefferson. Classmates in attendance included Bill Kummel, Michael Marrus, Stefanie Scheer Young, and Andrew Young, as well as Carolyn Foley Laing.

In early December, a number of us attended another NYC event that featured a presentation from Mr. Palfrey titled “Excellence: Andover’s Inspired Pursuit,” which focused on the aegis and success of Andover’s need-blind admission policy.

It was a terrific reminder of one of the many things that make Andover special. And it was another opportunity to connect with Andrew Young, Stef Scheer Young, Carolyn Foley Laing, and Bill Kummel.

Finally, and most recently, a number of ’81ers shared holiday cocktails at the Soho home of John Burgess and his wife, Betsy. Those lifting a glass (or six) included Katie Leede, Tom Efinger (another Brooklynite), Bill Ullman (and his wife, Tracy), and, of course, Mr. Kummel. I’m happy to report that the Ullmans will be joining the Brooklyn contingent in the near future.

On that note, I’m working with the Alumni Office to coordinate some Brooklyn-centric events in 2017. Possibilities include indoor shuffleboard at the Royal Palms, as well as a Brooklyn Cyclones game this summer. Paige and I have been to a couple of Cyclones games, and it is full-on Bull Durham. Oh…and yes…Manhattanites are invited.

For those of you who don’t live on the East Coast and consequently don’t have many opportunities to run into me and/or Sean, please feel free to send us an update for inclusion in future notes. And if you are ever in either the Boston or NYC area, please let us know. We’d love to catch up.

1982 35th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 Graham Anthony 2502 Waterville Drive Champaign, IL 61822 434-989-5800 grahamanthony@earthlink.net Chandri Navarro 604 Tivoli Passage Alexandria, VA 22314 chandri.navarro@hoganlovells.com Yalda T. Uhls 616 Via De La Paz Pacific Palisades, CA 90272 yaldatuhls@gmail.com

Reunion is coming. We hope you will join us!

Kudos are due to my fellow scribes, Chandri Navarro and Yalda Tehranian-Uhls, who are participating in the Reunion Planning Committee along with former reunion cochair David Duquette, Maria Elias-Williams, John Ketterer, and others. Everyone, it seems, has a slightly different focus for what will make for a great event. For John, it is beer: He is working with another classmate to secure some from his favorite microbrewery for our reunion.

Regarding not-so-micro breweries, Nico Freccia’s 21st Amendment Brewery now has distribution in 25 states. He and his wife, Dana, have two daughters. Fortunately for Nico, Dana is a trauma surgeon, which just might come in handy with that much beer around.

Nico writes: “Someone said that entrepreneurship is an art form—as much an act of self-expression as writing a novel or acting in a play. Considering I was a theatre nerd at Andover and went on to be a theatre major at Northwestern, this insight hit home. As we grow, we have a whole new host of challenges to face and it truly is an art managing, anticipating, interpreting all that comes along. While there has been a lot of consolidation, we are still independent and still growing. We finished building our new production brewery last year and spent 2016 getting staffed and running at capacity. Interest in craft beer continues to spread and everything is about innovation and variety.

This is really the fun part. With our new brewery and tasting room, we are able to do things we couldn’t before, including barrel aging. And we are excited about adding a small distillery next year.

At the end of the day, I’m just grateful to be a part of this golden age of beer.”

Nico, we look forward to sharing in this (hopefully slightly sudsy and lightly carbonated) golden age with you!

Robert Tuller was back on campus with his son last fall to attend the Andover and the Military

dinner. Thanks to Robert for his military service, as well as to Jim Donnelly and Alex Cochran, who deserve our thanks for the decades they have spent protecting our freedom.

Amy Falls has been volunteering her time to help shepherd the Andover endowment, in which she and the Andover team have done exceptionally well—which perhaps is why Harvard’s endowment recently attempted to lure her away from Rockefeller University, where, according to the Wall Street Journal, she also has delivered above-market returns.

Amy notes: “I get to spend lots of time at Andover, watching our amazing Head of School, John Palfrey, work his magic, and visiting with my daughter, who is Class of 2019, and classmates of daughters of Tristin Batchelder Mannion and Hadley Soutter Arnold. I also have two younger daughters living in Long Island. Looking forward to reconnecting with more ’82 classmates in a few months!”

Maria Elias-Williams is an attorney in private practice in South Carolina and serves as legal counsel to U.S. Masters Swimming (the 70,000-member national organization). Her sister informs us that Maria continues to be a highly ranked national swimmer. In a recent picture of Maria and her kids, it was hard to tell mom from kids. We hope that, during reunion, Maria shares with us the secret to youth—other than scores of laps in the pool!

Brooks Elder channels Henry David Thoreau as he writes, “This time of year my obsession is bird hunting. It never ceases to amaze me how these meager fluffs of feathers can dominate such a disproportionate sum of my time and effort.

Consider four trips to New Hampshire’s Great North Woods in the span of seven weeks…24 hours of combined drive time, countless hours of packing and prepping, and endless slogs through un-trailed terrain for scarce reward (surely one would starve as a subsistence bird hunter!). We go as a family in August, and despite the globe-trotting inspirations of my itinerant wife, this trip stands out as an annual highlight. Hunting has offered me a worthy alternative to my earlier obsession in life with climbing. It brings about much less anxiety, [is] a lot safer to do alone, offers the bond of teamwork with a dog, and [is] easier on an aging body. It’s a godsend to have the time to dedicate to seeming frivolity, but when the highlights happen they feel anything but frivolous.”

Former class secretary extraordinaire Paul Hochman is also enjoying nature and has happily relocated to ski country out West. He and his wife, Carrie, have a barn populated with a friend’s livestock, which Paul notes is fun for his kids. The best part from Paul’s perspective: He only has to bring the animals a bucket of water on occasion, as the animals are thankfully not his!

John Ketterer shared the following: He has cofounded a firm called Nxtact, which curates

broadcast-quality video resumes (with the help of his Emmy Award–winning cofounder) for C-suite executives as well as undergraduate and graduate school students. John believes video will kill the parchment star and the paper resume will become a thing of the past. Nantucket appears to be attracting classmates: John saw George LeMaitre there this past summer, as well as Scott Corry who lives there full time. David Duquette swung by as well. John said, “David is doing environmentally great things whilst I am happy to host any and all who like bluefish pate—come visit.”

Faith Hawkins writes: “I landed in the Midwest, as much a surprise to me as to anyone. My wife and I decided some years ago that we needed a change from Atlanta, and moved to Bloomington [IN] in 2007, and really enjoy it. Good people [and] an outstanding music and arts scene makes it a good fit for us.

“I am now associate vice president for Research Development and Strategic Initiatives at Indiana University, working with faculty and other leaders to expand IU’s research footprint. I get to learn a lot—it’s a little bit like being an undergrad, in that I get a lot of introductions to interesting and complex subjects. This basically means that on any given day I can carry on a fairly knowledgeable conversation about neurodegenerative diseases, cyber security, environmental humanities, and federal regulations that make research both more ethical and more challenging—but there’s little likelihood that I’ll be able to hold my own for any length of time with anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the topic!”

Faith, your scribe joins you in that level of understanding!

Thanks to all who contributed to these notes!

—Graham Anthony

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

Happy New Year, all!

Before getting to everyone’s news, I want to pass along information on a very special event at Andover this April: the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day. Focused on service, this important alumni event involves a collective effort of outreach, planning, and organizing service projects around the world. If anyone is interested in learning more, I hope you will email Karleigh Antista at kantista@ andover.edu.

I don’t know whether it was the election or something in the water, but many of you seem to be moving or traveling this year. Abraham “Nick” Morse, for instance, up and took his

family to Guangzhou (Canton), China, this past August. Nick has wanted to relive his 1986 six-month stint there and share his experiences with his family. For the next two years, he will be the chief of urogynecology at Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center. “I’m continuously grateful to my family for their courage and spirit of adventure,” he says. And visitors are always welcome.

Angela Shen-Hsieh left her position at IBM Watson this past fall and is off to Barcelona to run a machine learning product incubator for Telefónica. Her husband, Mark, will be traveling to and fro; Angela invites anyone (reading this) to look her up. She also reports having connected with Lisa Sammataro and John Kim, who live in New Jersey with their three daughters. Angela and Lisa had gone to school together since the tender age of 6, and now their children (Angela’s Milo and Lisa’s Lindsay) are both freshmen at NYU. Struan Robertson left the U.S. earlier this year—first for London, but after Brexit hit, he made his way to Sydney, Australia, “the best city we have ever lived in.” Macky Alston is back in New York, after spending a sabbatical year in Costa Rica with his husband and two daughters. He is at Auburn, a leadership development center for the “prophets of our time” (as I’ve noted in the past, the center was designed by Harry Elson). Since his return, Macky has been thrilled to be able to spend time with John Harpole, Chris Thompson, Karen Humphries Sallick, and Lisa Page, as well as Abby Shuman ’84, Kay Gayner ’82, Stefanie Scheer Young ’81, and Anja-Britt Hanson ’84.

Though she hasn’t actually moved anywhere, Nathalie Lecullier Bacchet writes from exotic Antibes that she is teaching English as a foreign language. And while Jennifer Cray didn’t actually move, she writes that her daughter Tessa ’18 is in Andover’s School Year Abroad program, spending her upper year in Spain. Jennifer and her family spent the holidays with her. Every July she returns to campus for the IRT program to teach personal finance to teachers. This year she headed up to Deering, NH, as well, to visit Stephen Pimpare and his husband on their farm, where “everything we ate grew within a few yards of the kitchen table.”

Stephen wrote to describe his place, after noting that he recently moved there after 30 years in New York. His town boasts fewer than 2,000 residents, and he lives in a sprawling 1794 farmhouse. He and his husband have a dog, cats, goats, chickens, turkeys, and pigs; they will soon be adding cows. Stephen teaches political science and social work at UNH, and his latest book, a history of poverty and homelessness in American film, will be out soon. He also welcomes any and all visitors to his farm. Our class hospitality is unsurpassed!

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Staying put are classmates Susannah Hill and Rufus Jones. Susannah lives happily with her husband, Philip Pattarelli, and son Andrew, in Menlo Park, CA. She is the director of a local foundation. Rufus invites one and all to come hear him perform weekly in Jersey City, NJ: “Rufus Jones, Soul and Blues Guitarist, every Wednesday, 8–11 p.m., Light Horse Tavern, 199 Washing St., Jersey City, NJ.” No cover.

Eric Banta writes that he is enjoying his 20th year as in-house counsel at Voya Financial, which used to be called ING. He spent many of those years in Colorado, but he is now in his sixth year in Atlanta, specializing in derivatives and managing the legal team supporting Voya’s fixed income investment teams. After Christmas, Eric took his daughter Sophie on a two-week exchange trip to Thailand, along with 30 to 40 other high school students.

From Marin, CA, Ravi Mohan writes that he, his wife, Christy, and his two children, Maxwell (11) and Campbell (8), are very happy living in the town of Larkspur surrounded by redwoods. The son of one of his close friends attends Andover, and he enjoys hearing about the school through Cameron’s eyes.

Another West Coaster, Thomas Lee, is director of the Vision Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where he focuses on curing childhood blindness. He is also developing an open-access online training platform for pediatric health care professionals in the developing world using telemedicine. He keeps in touch with classmates Andrea Feldman Falcione, John J-H Kim, and Donald Kim, and John’s daughter Alex ’17, just spent a couple of weeks at his hospital shadowing the heart surgeons.

I thought I would end by briefly noting that I live in NYC with my wife, Jenn, and four children, Jason (18), Rebecca (15), Maya (8), and Maier (5). This fall has been inundated with college applications for Jason, boarding school visits for Rebecca, and the elementary school process for Maier. Jason is committed to joining the Navy when he graduates from college. My wife and I have completely renovated our home in Carmel, NY—a “cabin” in the woods at a place called Gipsy Trail. We would be delighted to host anyone who would like a few days in the middle of nature (and lots of sports)!

That’s it for now. Wishing everyone a healthy 2017!

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www.andover.edu/intouch 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

Happy winter, everyone. It seems we’ve hit a lull in our news cycle. Until we get some hard, breaking news, I hope these little tidbits will be enough to tide everyone over.

Let’s start with long-overdue thanks to Bill Seeley, Phoebe Brown, Susan O’Brien Lyons, and Dave Duckenfield for their work with the Alumni Council. Bill reports that he saw Susan, Phoebe, Matt Littell ’85, and Graham Anthony ’82 on campus in November. They were back on the Hill for the fall Alumni Council meeting, which happened to coincide with an Andover-Exeter game this year (a close, hard-fought win for the home team!). The usual suspects participated in typical shenanigans after-hours at the Andover Inn bar, albeit more than a bit moderated for the new century. Alumni Council members meet twice per year on campus (typically in May and November), maintain contact between alumni and selected areas of school life, and support the Academy in various endeavors involving alumni. Each member is appointed to a four-year term.

Pat McCormick ’83 dropped in on Bill for the night recently. Pat was in Maine fighting the good fight for high-speed bandwidth for island communities Downeast on the Maine coast.

This is a service vital to keeping small, isolated communities viable over the long term. Bill also saw Eric Cohen ’83 in Seattle in November. He is thriving and may have turned a number over 50.

In news from all things baked, Eric took Bill on an early-morning bagel tour of Seattle. Who knew the bagels in Washington could be better than in Maine? (But never a patch on a Montreal bagel— just sayin’.)

Adam tells me Paul Vrana is alive and well with a 17-year-old daughter at Andover. Is it me, or does it feels like there are quite a number of our classmates’ kids at the school now?

The last little morsels I have to pass on are that Craig Kaufman ’85 has some very interesting things to say about meditation, and that Derrick Queen is

taking singing lessons. His best rehearsals, according to him, are done while walking up Fifth Avenue on Sunday evenings.

I hope you are all enjoying a happy New Year.

—Alexandra

1985 Pamela Paresky P.O. Box 8878 Aspen, CO 81612 pamela@ayearofkindness.com

One of the courses Peter Stark teaches is Intro to Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMs), and he reflects: “While I like lecturing, I far more enjoy the lab sections—the students’ joy is so obvious as they learn some pretty basic fabrication skills and techniques, and witness theory’s parity with reality.

Today, I tricked one of them and gave her a couple of (111) wafers instead of the typical (100) wafers and told her to cleave it. When she thought she was screwing up and was almost crying with frustration, I asked her to explain to the class how she got several atomically perfect equilateral triangles while everyone else was getting perfect rectangles. When she finally realized the answer, the tears of frustration changed to tears of joy. Anyway, that’s one of the really beautiful things of my day. Teaching is so very rewarding sometimes.” Peter adds that the mini reunions have been a welcome part of his year.

In September, several of us gathered at the Andover Inn to celebrate the 11th anniversary of Megan Carroll’s 39th birthday. In addition to Megan and Peter, celebrants included Ted McEnroe, Rebecca Derderian Daniels, Liz DeLucia, Strother Purdy, Seth Brooks, Alex May, and me (Pamela Paresky). In November, the Alumni Council met. Our class representatives are Rhys Dekle, John Kole, Matthew Littell, and Alison Smith Lord. Carter Vincent, Seth, and I were able to catch up with some of them, and with Jenny Rider ’86, Christine Balling ’86, Lee Westerfield ’86, and Caroline Ren ’84. Liz DeLucia hosted an Andover-Exeter pregame party at her house, where we celebrated with Nancy Colbert Puff, Steph Sanchez, Dave Duckenfield ’84, and Ellen LeMaitre ’86. At the game, we ran into Bayne Findlay. (Andover won, by the way.)

My son (11th grade) and I recently had dinner with Chris Smith, his wife, and their son, Max, (11th grade) in Palo Alto, CA. Chris, the director of quality assurance for Moog CSA Engineering, and his wife, Cris, have been together since freshman year at Brown! Their daughter, Miranda, studies math at the University of Washington, and Max spends his nonschool time creating video games.

John Caron writes that he recently finished his 11th year as a volunteer at St. Joseph’s Parish, and the Harvard Bookstore posted his books, Intimate Ghosts of the Haunted Sheafe Street Inn and Pray Day, online.

Cindy Taylor writes that she finished all of her

treatments for breast cancer this past year. Despite complications with reconstruction and undergoing a second surgery, she is teaching and coaching at Lawrenceville. She lives with her husband and two children (9 and 12), who keep her busy. “Still not on Facebook,” she writes.

Ben Schwall, who is easiest to reach on Facebook, writes that a particular piece of artwork by the husband of Yun Lee ’86 “…struck me and I made a comment about it [on Facebook]. A few weeks later it arrives at my door as a gift. How cool!

How non sibi! Could have been sold, easily…But it was packaged up and sent off to me with a note… such an act of kindness…” Ben also mentioned “Yantao Jia sending my father flowers on his 90th birthday” and “Pete Kleinman who drove eight hours on two separate weekends to help me with a project a few months ago…” (Those of you on our class Facebook page know about “the Kleinshwantz incident” in which Ben referred to Pete by that nickname in a quote for our previous class notes.

I got an email from Jane, the Andover class notes editor, saying that a cursory name-check resulted in her being directed to German porn sites. She has since left her position for one at Babson, but she assures me we were not to blame. “The ‘Kleinschwantz incident’ actually gave us all a good laugh here,” she told me.)

For the past 15 years, Charlie Bowers (who wrote in my 1984 yearbook, “It’s been tough putting up with you in English class sometimes”) has been a volunteer magistrate for a juvenile diversion program in a Cleveland suburb. About the program, he writes: “It serves children who have been charged with their first criminal offenses and are ready to take responsibility for their actions. We try to emphasize consequences for actions, empathy for others, and making good decisions. Upon successful completion of the program, the juvenile has no record of delinquency.” He continues: “The part of the program that surprised me, and continues to be my greatest challenge, is how complicated school delinquency cases tend to be. I found that when a child isn’t able to do something as basic as get to school, it is a symptom of a breakdown of the family structure. The parents have either lost control and are desperate for help, or don’t see the importance of the issue. On those occasions when we are able to turn it around, it is tremendously rewarding.”

Charlie’s daughter, Lucy is a sophomore in college and a musical theatre major, and his son, Jack, is in seventh grade. He remarks, “these kids work a lot harder than I remember working at an early age.” (I think all of us with children feel the same way.)

Meanwhile, in media news, Roy Price is the head of Amazon Studios, Tony Optican is head of programming for Media General, and Jim Thompson is at NBC Olympics. Susanna Harwood Rubin writes about all things yoga for the Huffington Post, and in 2016 she published her book, Yoga 365: Daily Wisdom for Life, On and Off the Mat. The year 2016 also saw a new book

by prolific author Susan Conley, whose books continue to garner accolades. Artist Kiki Thompson lives in Verbier, Switzerland, and from Facebook, it appears as though Cliff Bernstein may see her at a Swiss ski resort this winter. In case anyone is planning a ski trip to Aspen, this year, you might see Susan Soule Blizzard, Heidi Salin Godomsky ’87 (who just moved here), Marcella Larsen ’84, Katie McBride ’84, Kate’s brother, John McBride ’83, Anne Rickenbaugh ’83, and Katrina Korfmacher who has family there.

I’m still coaching executives and heads of schools, consulting for schools and businesses, writing for Psychology Today, and giving talks about happiness, leadership, bullying, kindness, viewpoint diversity, and how to have conversations with people who disagree with us. Let me know whether you’ll be out my way, and please send news.

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Thirty years out and I’m still amazed every time it happens: You run into somebody you knew at PA, and even if you haven’t seen them in years or weren’t all that close to them back in the day, there’s this instant moment of recognition and identification— no matter how our lives have diverged in all the time since, we’re still on the same team after all. And you’re filled with that rush of pride and “us-ness” that time and change cannot dim.

It’s not universal, of course: I’ve written elsewhere about the awkward feeling I’ve had when I’ve run into someone from PA and confessed all kinds of intimate and meaningful recollections that the classmate either does not remember or has chosen to forget.

But I still stand by the possibility of the Transcendent Moment.

I felt the greatest rush of this emotion recently when I read “our” Susan Glasser’s stunning postelection essay in Politico magazine, “Covering Politics in a ‘Post-Truth’ America.” Its subhead reads: “Journalism has never been better, thanks to these last few decades of disruption. So why does it seem to matter so little?” (See www.politico.com/ magazine/story/2016/12 journalism-post-truthtrump-2016- election-politics-susan-glasser-214523.)

This is an essay that has some of the personal

poignance and heft of, say, an essay like Joan Didion’s “Goodbye to All That”—which is what actually turned up in my Google search when I was trying to reread it for this column. Susan reflects on the current state of journalism, but also relates how journalism was done in our younger years, and how it has changed—and also how she is going to get a break from it, as she is heading off to become a foreign correspondent again in Jerusalem, where her husband, Peter Baker, is the bureau chief for the New York Times.

I expect and hope that Susan’s essay will find its way into the collections anthologizing whatever crazy historical era it is that we are in. It’s a landmark for the ages.

Now, you would think that social media—by its very omnipresence and 24–7 nature—would serve to undercut experiences of the Transcendent Moment: No longer do I receive the occasional phone call from an Andover classmate from Chennai, or from a payphone in Montana, crackling with static. Everybody is just always there, all the time.

Except when they’re not. Or when they’re gone, and they come back. It is ironically through the everpresent medium of social media that I find I have more and more serendipitous and meaningful connections. Like one time that my prom date, Tad Beck’s husband, Grant Wahlquist, and I commiserated about depressed mothers on Facebook.

This year, in fact, I’ve had a number of classmates come back into prominence in my life via social media, and having them amid my quotidian doings has been meaningful: I’ve been having a good time checking in on the exploits of Nicole Gray ’85 and children from her home in Montclair, NJ. And even though we were never super-close back in the day, I’ve found a shared emotional affinity with Rosalie Woolshlager, with whom I’ve traded fondness for Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds,” among all kinds of other subjects. Rosalie reports, in turn, that Rob McQuilkin’s “political posts have kept me sane”—frankly, I’m thinking Rob ought to follow in Hella Winston’s investigative reporting footsteps, in addition to his literary agency work.

But for 2017, let’s all make the vow that these social media connections culminate in actual human presence, too: Salt Lake City-based lawyer Rosalie reports that she “would love to ski or bike or hike with any classmates who find themselves in SLC.” I just had my annual visit, for example, with John Domesick. He reports recently seeing Jenny Rider and Carter Vincent, and even having an unexpected NYC meetup with Jake Lynch, in town from Hong Kong.

I/Thou. Thou/I. Now, more than ever.

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OK, so, as you read this, we are close to our 30th Reunion. That’s pretty darn amazing, seeing that most PA folks that I have the pleasure of seeing on a regular or, unfortunately, not-so-regular basis tend to still behave like its 1987 and a cassette player is playing “Livin’ on a Prayer” (Bon Jovi), “(I Just) Died in Your Arms” (Cutting Crew), “With or Without You” (U2), or something from Winterland Arena, March 18, 1967 (either you know who this is or you don’t) in the background.

Know that the first three songs were chart-toppers right around the time we graduated. And if that does not leave you with a touch of gray, I don’t know what will...

Anyway, whatever music you were listening to back then, I am sure the Reunion Planning Committee will have some of it “spinning” on an iPad. Of course, in advance, send all music requests to your terrific RPC, which comprises Tony Gellert (anthonygellert@yahoo.com), Woody Taft (woodytaft1@gmail.com), Janet Clarkson Davis (janet@clarksondavis.com), Cindy Greene (cindygreene@hotmail.com), Chap Munger (chap_munger@yahoo.com), Tricia Paik (triciapaik@gmail.com), Stanley Tarr (Tarr@BlankRome.com), and Rebecca Tversky (rtversky@gmail.com).

Or just email them and say hi!

OK, enough of the reunion plug for now, and on to the news, which, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day, is a short compilation of some of the non sibi things all of us are up to these days. Thanks to each of you for sharing your efforts with me so that I could pass them on to the class for inspiration!

Despite moving to Texas, Kristin duBay Horton reports helping to start a nonprofit grocery store in a food desert in Bridgeport, CT. The store is focused on combining jobs training for folks leaving prison or substance abuse treatment, violence prevention for kids who have lost a sibling to violence, small-business development for cottage-industry providers making healthy, local food, and healthy food provision and community development. Quite inspiring! Kristin let me know she would love to work with more PA folks on the project, so if you are interested in being part of this innovative effort, please contact Kristin (kristindubayhorton@yahoo.com).

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www.andover.edu/intouch everywhere, Dale Mohammed encouraged spreading the non sibi spirit by sponsoring some artists this past holiday season. A great idea! Dale herself was just about to exhibit for sale a piece of work at the Art Students League of New York.

Since that event will be long over by the time you read this, perhaps you should instead check in on Liz Kinder’s and Jason Pechinski’s websites if you have the time. They will make you smile, I promise: www.lizkinder.com and www.jasonpechinski.com.

If reading is more your bag, then Ken Krongard’s non sibi–related suggestion of a book called Doing Good Better, by William MacAskill, is a great one. The book puts forth the case for practicing “effective altruism.”

Since I just bought it for reading over the holidays, I’ll leave it at that and let you explore it directly.

We can talk about it at reunion!

Christina Smith Gajadhar sent word our way from Arlington, VA, and it was full of lovely non sibi–related activities. From distributing food from the area food pantry to overseeing the efforts of the International Club and the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) in the Arlington Public Schools to donating winter clothes to refugee families from Syria, Christina sure is rocking the non sibi spirit.

Farther north, in Maine, Leslie Perry Lagerquist is non sibi’ing it by volunteer-coaching her 10-year-old daughter’s lacrosse and travel basketball teams. Now, I have a 10-year-old daughter, too, as well as a strong interest in positive coaching, so I know coaching youth sports is a much bigger deal than folks give it due. Indeed, I think back to PA and have some incredibly fond and meaningful memories of great coaches of life and of what really matters: Pete Washburn, Ed Quattlebaum, Loring Kinder (now Strudwick), Chuck Willand, Tom Oden, Paul Murphy, Mike Kuta, and Blaine Austin, too!

Thanks to all of you!

Speaking of Coach Strudwick, just a few months ago the world reminded me how small it can be when a good friend from college started working at the Potomac Law Group. PLG is a new, innovative law firm and, not surprisingly, has a few PA folks in the mix. One of them is our classmate Rachel Waimon, and the other is her sister, Marlene Laro ’89. In the ensuing email exchange with Rachel, I learned that her daughter just started as a freshman at Lake Forest Academy, where Dr. John Strudwick is head of school and Loring is teaching math and coaching Davis Priest (daughter of Sarah Davis ’89) in swimming.

In other related Chicago area PA/school news, Rachel also told me about a head of school a few miles away. In Rachel’s words: “Without exaggeration, everyone we know who has a child at Lake Forest Country Day School goes on and on about the head of school and how inspirational and all-around terrific he is. I really have never seen anything like it—it’s like a following.” Yes, no

surprise, that’s our Bob Whelan everyone is talking about! To which I say, I agree!

Taking us over to the coast and down to North Carolina, Elizabeth McPhillips Stringer relayed stories of her family’s time in Zambia, where she and her husband helped the Zambian government roll out services to improve the care of women and children and to treat and prevent HIV. Now based in Chapel Hill, NC, Elizabeth continues to travel to Zambia regularly and recently embarked on a project to construct a new women’s hospital where providers can be trained to take care of women throughout the country.

On other “big, important fight fronts,” Mike Peterson is working hard to, on a nonpartisan basis, address America’s national debt problem and improve health care efficiency. As Mike so aptly said, “Banging my head against the wall to get Congress to be responsible sure feels non sibi to me!” Keep fighting, Mike!

Finally, in closing out all of this great non sibi– related news, let’s give a round of applause to Stefan Cushman, who is proudly representing our class on the Alumni Council as a member of the Non Sibi Committee.

And now, a round of applause to you for checking out ways to get more involved and spread the non sibi spirit. Here is the link to learn more: http://tinyurl. com/NonSibi. Check it out, and see you at reunion!

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

Thanks to updates from many of you, there’s no need for me to meet my word count with a lengthy intro. Let’s get right to the news. Leading off are Tom Rodgers and Doug D’Agata, who were back on campus this fall as members of Andover’s Alumni Council. Tom attended his first Andover-Exeter

games in almost 30 years and admits he wasn’t mentally prepared to hear his friends’ kids’ names broadcast over the loudspeaker (“Milkowski makes the tackle…”). Also attending Andover-Exeter Weekend were Peter Welch and Lisa Lopardo Welch, who were in the new and unenviable position of having to cheer for both sides. Their son Kyle ’18 is a junior at PA, while their son Ryan is a freshman at Exeter.

Both Tom and Doug extolled the creations from Sarah Ludington’s distillery, which served as the unofficial sponsor of the weekend. (Tom recommends the single malt.) Tom has also been supporting Andover food and beverage on the West Coast. He stopped by Andy Mercy’s new restaurant in San Francisco, called Dabba, and reports that the jerk chicken bowl was sweet.

Miranda Staveley Sparks, who has been living in Atlanta for more than two decades, has raised three SEC daughters there. Her oldest, who graduated from USC last June, babysits for Matt Lavin’s kids in between working for Sen. Lindsey Graham. Her middle daughter is currently enrolled at UGA, while her youngest has committed to Alabama for next fall. Even with an empty nest ahead, Miranda should keep quite busy with her photography business. She photographed more than 100 families/newborns/kids last year.

Keil Decker wrote in to say that he is director of Digital Wealth Solutions marketing for BlackRock, based in Princeton, NJ, and has been with the firm for more than six years. Over the summer, he caught up with Head of School John Palfrey and Joe Bae ’90 at Joe’s alumni event in Water Mill, NY. He also keeps in touch with former PA history teacher and cycling coach Derek Williams, and they shared sadness and reminiscences about our wonderful friend and former PA teacher and cycling coach Henry Wilmer ’63, who passed away recently. Finally, he spent a weekend last year with former PA cycling teammate Chris Peck in Ithaca, NY, for a Cornell Cycling Team reunion.

Jana-Pilar Gabarro also responded to my request for news. She shared the wonderful news of marrying her longtime girlfriend in a beautiful, small ceremony in her parents’ backyard on the Cape. They live in Reading, MA, with pets inside and conservation land outside, which makes them very happy. Jana works for a company she loves, Ethos Veterinary Health, managing educational programs for veterinarians and veterinary technicians.

The “living the good life” award for these notes goes to Denton Chase. He moved to Half Moon Bay, CA, in 2004 to be near the ocean and Silicon Valley. He’s happily married to his forever girlfriend, Catie Chase, and has three kids, Quinn (16), Ruby (14), and Macy (12). As he tells it, “Half Moon Bay is best known for pumpkins and big waves.

The local surf break at Mavericks, just three miles from my house, has among the largest surfable

waves in the world, rivaling those anywhere in Hawaii or Australia. On the biggest days the waves can be greater than 50 feet, and people fly in from around the world to compete here. I decided to merge my love for the ocean with paddleboarding, surfing, and a touch of a midlife crisis. There are only a handful of us who surf Mavericks with paddleboards, but I am the only one that rides my bike from my house.” Denton is in frequent touch with Rob Patrick, who moved from the DC area to Whidbey Island, WA, this summer. Rob has taken command as commodore of Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 10, in charge of the West Coast Maritime Patrol Squadrons with P3 Orions and P8 Poseidons. He expects to be there for a couple of years, so if anyone is in the Seattle area, please give him a holler.

Still living in DC is fellow class secretary Terri Diane Stroud, who visited the new National Museum of African American History and Culture this past October with Evette Maranda Clarke, Darryl Cohen ’92, Naomi Cromwell, Aisha Jorge Massengill, Elisa Istueta ’89, Sheldon Royal ’89 (and his beautiful wife/her buddy, Danielle), and Angel Stanislaus ’89. She writes, “We saw, laughed, cried, and learned a lot. Everyone should put this museum on their to-do list.” She explored a different culture in December when she traveled on a People-to-People exchange to post-Fidel Cuba to explore Cuban art, history, and culture.

She visited several cities there, including Havana, Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, Cayo Santa María, Caibarién, and Remedios. Before leaving for Cuba, she joined Heather Dunbar Lucas to watch Heather’s daughter, Devin, perform in Children of Eden at her friendly neighborhood theater.

Andover Athletics Hall of Honor member Aisha Jorge Massengill will be taking her talents to Under Armour as senior counsel after the first of the year. Her three boys are pretty excited about the gear that may be headed their way.

More on the new-job front, Andrew Astley writes that after exactly 20 years working at State Street Global Advisors in Boston, he’s taken a new role with T. Rowe Price in Baltimore, starting in late January. One of the first people he called was Henry Smyth, head of school at Gilman, to get the lay of the land and to check on schools for his youngest daughter. Andrew is looking to connect with other PA alums in the Baltimore area.

Allison Picott has had the pleasure of seeing several classmates over the past few months on and off Andover Hill, including Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Corey Rateau, and Tim Alperen at Elee’s poetry reading. John Kline had a wonderful lunch with Allison, where he heard the sad news about Janice Neri’s passing. For those who would like to read more about Janice, please see www. idahostatesman.com/entertainment/arts-culture/ arts-blog/article108959582.html.

Through a mutual friend, James Brodbelt Harris met his wife, Eleanor, more than five years

ago, and they married in June at the Columbus Museum of Art. They made a Central Ohio weekend of it for family and friends. Eleanor and James were so pleased that Cricket Crutcher Mikheev and her husband, Artem Mikheev, could join the fun.

Finally, I had the great pleasure of catching up with Suzanne Dumas Miller and Kristin Wallace Livezey over dinner in Boston this past fall. I look forward to seeing you all at our 30th Reunion in 2018. As Doug and I agreed, it’s better to be old than dead. —Heather

1989 Curtis Eames 857-800-5759 curtiseames111@gmail.com Mike Hearle 2 Acorn Street Boston, MA 02108 917-603-7044 MHearle@cloughcapital.com Gina Hoods 400 Chaney Road, Apt. 1024 Smyrna, TN 37167 615-686-7025 ghoods@yahoo.com

This was penned just coming into the New Year, and I imagine many of you, like myself, enjoyed (and endured) the many “stranger things” of 2016.

Hopefully you’ve slid safely into 2017 and mustered full health, strength, and charisma points. …

As a finis to his origine, Ben Shin moved into his childhood home in Greenwich, CT, to start a new job in Stamford making guitars. In November, he saw Eric Zinterhofer, Orin Herskowitz, and Roberto Garcia and reports that “all are unscathed postelection (save Rick Yanes’ Facebook account).”

Heather Garretson Bragdon is thrilled to join the alumni Non Sibi Committee and its ambitious community service challenge—check the website for deets! Jeff Ferris caught up with Evan Stone in NYC and occasionally sees Richard Leonard.

Jeff also attended John James’ wedding to a lovely professional opera singer.

James McLain and wife Val visited Hollis Fuller Morris and her husband, Matthew (they live on the same quad, er, street in Bronxville, NY!). Kent Strong and Elisa Istueta attended the mid-December Af-Lat-Am dinner in Harlem.

The Inconceivable Life of Quinn, Marianna Baer’s second YA novel, is hot off the press. Marianna also edits for Girl Friday Productions, cofounded

by Christina Henry de Tessan. Sam Royal saw Andrew Kunian in December (loved the “Sheldon or Sam?” FB post, Skundi K!). Sheldon Royal and Elisa Istueta attended Angel Stanislaus’s birthday celebration in DC. Andover | Summer 2017

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In Saratoga, CA, Cadir Lee continues to help people save and sell energy with his startup, OhmConnect. In SF, Ethan Ayer and wife Jennifer had a son, Robert, last March: “He has the T***p hair ‘swirl’ but no tweeting yet.” Also in SF, Paul Howe and Alexandra Tibbetts went to see Roddy Scheer ’88’s band, Eclective, debut. Still in La La Land are Charly Kemp and family. He’s still the mountain bike–racing maniac and invites anyone to join him for a ride! Ted Helprin reports from the land of freezing fog: “Portland has the feel of a last redoubt, so anyone considering a move to Canada should consider Portland. Better Beer!”

After 22 years at Wellington Management Company in Boston, Anujeet Sareen recently joined a smaller investment firm in Philadelphia: Brandywine Global. He and his wife now live in Wayne, PA. Josh Bienfang and family live in Bethesda, MD. A scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Josh helps develop better tools for measuring and using light, recently working on a loophole-free Bell test to confirm some long-held but objectionable aspects of quantum mechanics (newsworthy in the physics world, too!). He gets tips on fishing gear (and life, the universe, and everything) from Jake Appleton, who recently settled in town. Their two clans spent an afternoon with David Satterthwaite off the Maine coast this past summer. Josh’s kids were the only ones brave enough to swim in the frigid waters.

David Jaye and wife Hanna are settled in Atlanta and welcome anyone for a visit.

Emily Kathan’s son battled it out with Dave Carnes’ son during a championship peewee hockey game at the Arlington (MA) Hockey Club’s annual Christmas Tournament. Jake Garmey’s son was waiting at the rink to play in the next game. Laura Hsieh and family were in town from Chicago as well. Laura visited Andover, where her parents still reside, and managed the coveted Harrison’s visit. She teaches in Winnetka, IL, at North Shore Country Day School.

Molly Keller and family ushered in the New Year in Colombia. She continues to run the board of The Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association and oversees fundraising and programming for its camp for disadvantaged children from Chicago and Milwaukee.

Eric Gregg and Tyler Merson, the latter who has nearly cornered the custom carpentry market in northern New Jersey and Manhattan, met up with their boys at the Andover-Exeter game this year to witness Andover help Exeter maintain its perfect 2016 losing record. They also bumped into Gina Hoods and the ever-affable Ed Jasaitis while perusing PA swag. Ed was there with his two children (both attending PA). The Harrison’s run was also a high point, of course.

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www.andover.edu/intouch Paris, and has five children. Tarek Azar and his family are now living in DC. He works in IT and just launched a startup called District Energy focused on residential and commercial green energy solutions.

He was happy to see John Eagleton last fall.

Peter Juhas and family moved to Dublin in August, where he is CFO of an aircraft leasing company. His kids play rugby and have made many friends, but are not big fans of the new school uniform: coat, sweater, and tie, starting at age 6. Of course, he told them it builds character.

Peter would love to meet up with anyone passing through Dublin for a pint of Guinness! In London, Jennifer Smith will become the first woman superintendent minister at Wesley’s Chapel, built in 1778 for John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement. She listens to the Vermont Public Radio podcast of former PA English teacher Peter Gilbert ’72. Jessica Sherwood is now an associate professor (social sciences) at Johnson & Wales.

On sabbatical, Jessica Livingston and her family have left California’s Silicon Valley for Gloucestershire, England. They are enjoying a (slightly) less hectic life filled with many walking trails, sheep, and much more rain than they’re used to. Kristin Damour Ryan launched a real estate advisory and development services company in Seattle. Kristin also saw Alex Tibbetts before she and her family moved to SF, had tea with Janet Buttenwieser, and was, amazingly, recognized by the ubiquitous Mike Megalli in a coffee shop one day.

Robert Kinney’s son John Michael ’20 finished a successful first trimester at PA and is loving it.

Rob enjoys being able to come up and reconnect with friends in the area, like Mike Hearle, whose son Henry ’20 is also attending PA as a Rockwell junior. Mike is very active, serving on the Alumni Council. Poor Henry Gourdeau feels old, as his wife, Deb Chase, has some classmates’ offspring in her English 100 class (“Mike Hearle’s son Henry, James Tilghman’s daughter Emma ’20, maybe more”). I’m feelin’ it some, too, Henry—one of my former English students is a new teacher at Prospect Hill Academy in Cambridge, MA, where I teach.

I also portrayed 12+ characters in the play The 39 Steps in April (think Hitchcock meets Monty Python). Find me in Beantown for some nonvirtual connecting!

Phew! Please keep the updates flowin’ and yer ’89 showin’! —Curtis

1990 Thomas W. Seeley 1572 Heifer Road Skaneateles, NY 13152 315-263-0052 (cell) 315-685-3416 (work) twseeley@gmail.com

Adam Butler and Bater Pelletreau ’91 and kids are in their third and final year in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho. They’ve been enjoying exploring southern Africa. Adam has been learning bass guitar and producing music in his spare time around his duties as a regional IT specialist for the U.S. Department of State.

After many years living and practicing law in the DC area, Roberta Ritvo has caught the Rocky Mountain fever. Bert reports she will be moving to the Centennial State this year and settling in the Denver area.

Wonderful report from Helen Sarakinos about their family’s whirlwind 2016. Helen and family spent six months in New Zealand on sabbatical with her husband, 10-year-old son, and 7-year-old daughter, where Hel learned (painfully slowly) to surf. Upon returning to their Wisconsin home, Helen quit her job as the lobbyist and policy director at a statewide water NGO to work fulltime on the Clinton campaign in Wisconsin. After the election, Helen formally accepted a job as executive director of an organization dedicated to creating resilient local food systems in Wisconsin.

The incredible year of adventure, change, and hard work left Helen with much hope heading into 2017, and ready for new adventures!

South of the border comes news that Karen Choe-Fichte and her husband recently arrived in Mexico City for a three-year tour at the U.S. Embassy, where Karen will lead the economic section. Hard to believe that Karen and her husband are approaching 20 years in the Foreign Service!

Closer to (my) home, Catherine Bryant Crocker completed the NYC Marathon for a good cause. Cat and a friend raised money for Memorial Sloane Kettering. All good things must come to an end, they say; Cat says she’ll stick to half-marathons from this point forward.

Nina Mills decided to home-school her children this winter…on a boat. In the Caribbean!

Nina and family bid adieu to the New England winter shortly before Christmas and set sail from Florida to the Bahamas, leaving their boat in The Abacos for a brief return home before embarking again in February for six weeks of sailing and homeschooling at sea.

This past year was a gutting year for Allison Kornet, quite literally. Alison experienced two gut renovations, one involving their family’s kitchen and the other involving one of her kidneys, which is now working to help keep her husband’s

body operating. Both went pretty well and, at least as of this writing, made them not super-inclined to move.

Back on campus in November, at our home away from home, it was excellent to watch the current-generation Big Blue exert its dominance over Exeter in what I hope will be the first of many Class of 1990 Andover-Exeter tailgates. So great to catch up with Caitlin Callahan Gallaudet overlooking the soccer pitch. After watching as our younger gridiron brethren devoured the red meat from the North, Kristin Hansen, Jessica Herbster, Jared Jackson, Stacy Metcalf, Kebba Tolbert, and I gathered for dinner at the Andover Inn to savor victory once more.

Of course, win or lose, we still go back to Andover…

Love and happy spring to all, Tom

1991 Roxane Williams 2732 Goodwin Ave. Redwood City, CA 94061 roxandover@gmail.com

Do you remember being awakened early to shovel snow during our years at PA, something I hear students don’t have to do anymore? My ankle boots were shorter than our first big snowfall! Nowadays, I’m writing these class notes while wearing shorts and sitting at my patio table here in NorCal. Life remains beautiful here in the Bay Area.

Tiffany Chanel Corley kicks off this edition of class notes with a shout-out from NYC Af-Lat-Am, formed to support the upcoming 50th anniversary of Af-Lat-Am in 2018. NYC Af-Lat-Am also serves as a bridge between NYC alumni and current students, and fosters initiatives that contribute to students’ development. Reach out to Tiffany for more info!

Taimur Hadi shares that 2016 was a tough year, as he lost his father. Taimur and his brothers have pledged to continue their father’s work to improve education in Pakistan. Taimur traveled to Panama and saw Frank Kardonski and Eli Mizrachi, then hopped to DC, where he caught up with Richard Arnholt. Rich is a partner in a law firm and joined Taimur for a coveted view of the Washington Nationals from the owner’s box. Taimur writes: “Over the summer, I joined Andy Frankenberger, Eric Kessler, Frank Kardonski, and Logan Sawyer in Vegas to celebrate Andy’s last days before marriage. I couldn’t make his wedding in Napa (I’m told it was beautiful). I got to see a movie premier in Tribeca this fall with Uche Osuji and his lovely wife, and dine at one of the best Japanese restaurants in Hong Kong with Ben Cha. Hence, overall I’ve had a hard year but am grateful for my Andover friends who I’ve been blessed to

stay connected to even from Dubai. I am looking forward to 2017.”

Jessica Gonzalez’s contribution to these notes is “It’s freezing in Chicago. And 2016 can’t end any earlier. Otherwise, got nothing.” But then, Amy O’Neal Nylen reminded Jess that “we got to have a nice hot drink together in the lobby of the Springhill Suites in Bellingham last month!”

Millicent King Channell checked in, sharing that she is curriculum dean at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine in NJ. She lives in Philly with her 10-year-old son. Also in Philly, Ted Latham remains at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance, where he was appointed the coordinator of the DMA in Music Performance. His wife, Cara, and he recently sang concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra and enjoy performing in the area. Their daughter Elizabeth ’16 graduated from Andover last year, and their daughter Marie ’18 is loving her time at Andover as well.

Rajen Parekh recently moved to Highland Park, NJ, with his girlfriend, Tara, their dog, Shiva, and their cat, Pig. He recently collaborated with Rob Kaplowitz on a song about the 2016 election titled “The Cliff,” which may be released in early 2017. Raj is now a partner with BrainStore.com, an international network of entrepreneurs supporting individuals, companies, organizations, and countries in developing good ideas.

Sandeep Mammen made the mistake of writing, “I’m boring. I have no exciting news to report. I’ll give you the literary freedom to make something up so I seem more interesting.” So here’s the tall tale: Amid a storied career as a pediatric dentist in Texas, Deep decided to take a sabbatical and circumnavigate the country, but early on in his travels, he got stuck in Nevada after happening upon Burning Man. He’s still there, actually, so this humble scribe is going to join him there this year (her fifth year in the Black Rock Desert), seeking his help in building a very large sculpture. Deep, you can weld, right?

That’s all she wrote, my friends. Obviously, I need your news, or else you’ll end up like Deep: the stuff of legend. Keep us all up to date by visiting our class page on Facebook or by emailing me anytime.

And if you’re living in or visiting the Bay Area, look me up for sure! I actually will be seeking help in building that large sculpture for presentation in the Black Rock Desert around Labor Day, so if you’ve ever been curious about large-scale art construction, I’d be happy to share my hobby with you. —Roxane

1992 25th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 Allen Soong 1810 Burnell Drive Los Angeles, CA 90065 asoong@post.harvard.edu

Appropriately for our reunion year, it was quite the gathering on the Hill for the Andover-Exeter contests this past November. Chas Parsons, Lea Parsons, Sherri Shafman, Hilary Potkewitz, Tracey Mullings Reed, Nicole Quinlan, Christy Wood, Todd Lubin, Aimée Lubin, Stephanie Oesch, and Aditi Joshi were all on hand to witness Big Blue football prevail over that other school by a score of 16-7. Afterward it was on to the Andover Inn to celebrate. Come June, that crowd is going to be a lot bigger. Right, folks?

The Andover-Exeter games were preceded by Alumni Council Weekend, at which Soiya Gecaga, Margie Block Stineman, Susie Tong Parikh, Tracey Mullings Reed, and Jenny Elkus represented the Class of ’92. The Alumni Council meets twice a year to help maintain close ties between alums and the school through joint initiatives involving the school and the larger alumni body.

Soiya was also in town to become the second member of our class to join the august list of recipients of the Andover Alumni Award of Distinction. First presented in 2012, the annual award honors members of the alumni body for making “significant positive impact on their communities, society, or the world.” Soiya’s award this year follows Hafsat Abiola’s recognition in 2013. Soiya was honored for her work as the founder and executive director of “We the Change” Foundation, an organization that inspires people to “be the change” they want to see in the world. The foundation’s key area of focus is the development and creation of a center of excellence to provide education and care to children in the underserved communities of Soiya’s native Kenya.

After Andover, Soiya earned a BA in modern history from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, then began a legal career in London as a solicitor specializing in charity and corporate law. She later moved on to work for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Nyumbani (an orphanage for children with HIV/ AIDS in Kenya), and Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying Destitutes in Calcutta. Soiya’s family history is inextricably linked with that of the Kenyan nation: Her grandfather was Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya after independence, and her grandmother became an MP in the Kenyan Legislative Assembly in 1958. Soiya herself was inspired to return to her homeland after deadly ethnic violence and civil unrest erupted in the wake Andover | Summer 2017

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If you still haven’t made your travel plans by the time you’re reading this, it’s not too late to book a flight or a train or plan your road trip back to Andover for our 25th Reunion—although you may have to bunk with one or more of your classmates! For late/real-time updates and photos before, during, and after reunion (and to maybe find a Reunion Weekend roomie), check out the class Facebook page under “Phillips Academy Andover Class of 1992” and follow #92is25. Contact Jenny Elkus, Sherri Shafman, Pristine Johannessen, Darryl Cohen, or Daphne Matalene for an invite to the Facebook page if you’re not already linked to it. Please also make sure the school has all your latest contact info, particularly your email address.

See y’all in June!

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

Greetings, classmates! As I write these notes, I am visiting family in NC for the holidays. I hope yours were merry, bright, and absent of political conflict as well.

Speaking of politics, Jon Adams wrote in to clarify that while he did run for president last year, and while he did take fifth place in Missouri (just seven votes behind Gov. O’Malley), he also had ended his campaign prior to the MO vote just as O’Malley had. Jon is particularly proud of his showing, considering that he spent no money to campaign. Since the race, Jon has “been relaxing, traveling, and working on a patent to end heart disease.”

Also formulating an original work is Satie Gossett. Satie’s short film, Forgiveness, has been making the festival rounds (Malibu Film Festival award) and earning rave reviews from the Huffington Post (“thought provoking”). In the work, a young African American boy learns the history of slavery in his classroom, and enters an essay contest held by the U.S. president in which he proposes the president apologize for slavery. Satie, who is the CEO of Goose Egg Entertainment,

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www.andover.edu/intouch screened the film in DC for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual conference.

Matt Macarah wrote in from his new home of Texas, where he is in the process of finishing his military career. As you may recall, Matt worked in education as a middle school and high school teacher before opening a charter high school in LA, where he was the executive director for eight years. He “decided to join the Army before [he] got too old and [he] did not want to see [his] students doing all the hard work overseas.” He has been an Army Airborne Infantry Sergeant for the past five years, transferring most recently from Alaska to El Paso. While Matt loved the mountains of Alaska, his wife “did not take her jacket off for four years,” and as she is delighted by their new warmer clime, so is he. They intend to set down roots in El Paso, where Matt is restarting his career in education.

If you’re local, please reach out!

Heather Brown Lewis moved to Reading, MA, with her husband and two kids. Heather is around the corner from Sandy Diodati Slager, who shared her new email address: sandrajslager@ gmail.com. Sandy is living in Waltham, MA, with her wife and 20-month-old twin daughters. She is the COO of a small ed tech company called MindEdge Learning. Sandy’s nephew just started as a junior at Andover, and she’s really enjoyed seeing the process start for him.

Jim Eckels and I geeked out over our mutual love of comic books recently. While Jim’s day job is in TV, he puts on a mask and cape after hours; Jim just published his first indie comic, “Vamp,” which is about a fixer type who works for vampires at a Las Vegas casino. To #supportyourlocalartist, go to Vampcomic.com and buy a copy. I did!

Jim sees Ken Brisbois, his wife, and two kids out in LA pretty often. Jim describes Ken’s 2-yearold, Boden, as “tons of hair and aggressive energy.”

Jim also shared that Nick Kendrick just got engaged and lives in Venice, CA. Dave Jackson and I caught up via a miserable Skype connection about a month ago. Dave and his family have been living in Germany while Dave opens new markets for Amazon. In between extensive travels, Dave helps with soccer games and teaches his two kids how to ski.

Jen Charat wrote to share that Dan Smith and his wife, Lindsey, welcomed twin boys in December. She also shared kudos for Liz Roberts, CEO of Valley Venture Mentors. VVM was cited by President Obama for promoting inclusive entrepreneurship among early-stage investors. Jamie Wolkenbreit saw Fred Terry, Hilary Williams, and Chris Hawley at a show in November. A mini PA-Colorado reunion. The next one may involve skis.

Marc Baker celebrated the bar and bat mitzvahs of two of his children last year. Todd Lehner and David Bernstein joined for the celebrations. He also traveled to Israel in June with 25 members of the faculty and staff of Gann Academy, of which

Marc is head of school. This was the school’s firstever faculty travel experience of its kind.

Nina Steiger wrote that she is still living in London, and that she started a new job a few months ago at the Royal National Theatre. She juggles her new job with her 4-year-old, Zachary.

She made a fortuitous connection with Omar Khan ’94 recently; Omar’s little boy is in the same kindergarten as Nina’s.

John MacNeil celebrated daughter Zelda’s first birthday this past week. John works for the Council of the District of Columbia and has gotten together with Leif Dormsjo, director of the District Department of Transportation. John also is trying to meet up with Nick Wadhams and Zoe Alsop, who just moved to DC from China with their three kids.

Mary Louise Eagleton Meaney also just moved—from Lebanon to Geneva, after 18 years in Africa, South America, and the Middle East. She now is head of strategic planning for UNICEF’s Private Sector Fundraising and Partnerships Division. Mary Louise has two kids and is enjoying the skiing in Switzerland.

Mark Jaklovsky wrote about the Alumni Communications Committee, on which he serves with Angela Cheng Matsuzawa and Phil Akel.

The ACC works to improve collaboration and communication within the Alumni Council, as well as help the council communicate more effectively with alumni. Our major accomplishments in the past two years included assessments, evaluations, and the actual work that led to the adoption of a collaboration platform for the council, called Teamwork, and the development of the council’s new website, www.andoveralumnicouncil.org.

Anyone interested is welcome to contact Mark to learn more.

Mohammed Syed wrote from Coral Gables, FL, where he lives with his wife and two daughters (6 and 3). He is a product VP at Autobytel, building marketing products for automotive dealers.

He regularly travels to Guatemala, LA, Tampa, FL, and Boston for work, so reach out if you’re in one of those areas. Mohammed went skiing with Deepak Sharma and Pratap Penumalli ’96 (brother of Vikram Penumalli). He had dinner and a night out with Mike Tung on South Beach in March. Pratap and Mohammed popped into NYC for a surprise birthday party for Deepak in April, and he also had brunch with Mazy Dar (separately). He wrapped up his visits with dinner with Mark Jaklovsky in the Boston area in August.

And finally, a note from Hilary Koob-Sassen, who will act as the officiant: “Brave Lions in Love! It is my great pleasure to announce that Ted Gesing is to marry his beloved Erika Lubliner” this January in New York. Erika is a child psychologist in one of the city’s foster agencies. Ted has promised a recap for our next notes!

Yours in service, Susannah Campbell

1994 Moacir P. de Sá Pereira 244 Greene St. New York, NY 10003 312-792-8828 moacir@gmail.com

It’s so wonderful to paste all the raw messages I got from my classmates into a document and see that I’ve already hit the word limit for class notes.

Hence, less about me, and let’s start this up.

First, though, I do have to note that I met up with Nicole Friedlander right before Election Day in downtown New York. She regaled me with tales of her Brooklyn life, her three children, and her husband. We giggled the evening away reminiscing about the past before she hurried to her wedding anniversary dinner.

Brian Kaczynski wrote from Kraków, Poland, where he founded a music synthesizer company, Sonicsmith, in early 2016. By the time you read this, he will have presented two of his creations at the immense NAMM music fair in Anaheim, CA. Both synths are based on “a new frequencytracking chip I invented” that lets musicians use their own instruments (including voice) as a pitch source to drive an analog synthesizer. I watched the videos on YouTube and immediately saw lots of applications for the kit. He is putting into practice something I have wanted to be able to do (drive a synth with an instrument that doesn’t have MIDI) for a very, very long time.

Occasional musician Timothy Newton wrote from the Bay Area, where he has been living since 2015 with his wife, Rory, and young son, Charles Bradford. He draws maps on a computer all day for PG&E and is also having his novel shopped around various publishers back in New York. Tim met up with India Leval and her family recently in San Francisco and hopes to do so more often.

In a cross-country move in the other direction, Merry Rose has left LA behind to return to Massachusetts after 14 years. She’s still a writer in advertising, but she’s having fun teaching her husband how to deal with winter. She added that she’s sick of 2016.

Frustration with this year seemed to be a common theme, in fact. A distressing amount of uncertainty remains in the air as I read submissions, type these words, and think about the future. Marta S. Rivera Monclova noted that, to the good, she recently celebrated one year of working at Cloudera as a technical editor.

To the bad, regarding this year, she assigned basically everything else. Jessie Clyde wrote with apprehension about what the future brings for someone like her, who works as a sex and reproductive rights activist. As she wrote, “I have been finding solace in things like attending the NYC Gay Men’s Choir holiday concert last night, and my progressive public school PTA meetings

that talk about things like social and racial justice in schools.”

John Gruener Krentzman had been celebrating a pretty good 2016 for the most part: He moved to Boston (just off the Forest Hills station on the Orange Line) right on the New Year, converted to Judaism and got married in May, and changed his name in September. In the meantime, he has been working as an IT consultant for a Bostonbased managed service provider that focuses on nonprofits. His wife is a major gifts officer at Combined Jewish Philanthropies. But even all these positive moves come with his fretting over what 2017 may hold.

June 2017 will, at least, provide Leah Henderson with a special moment, as her first middle grade (ages 8–12) novel, One Shadow on the Wall, will be released by Simon & Schuster/ Atheneum. She encourages teachers and librarians to contact her for more information.

Emily Kalkstein Carville wrote in with a big update. She had a second child, Julian, who joins big sister Eleanor. Taking advantage of L.L.Bean’s maternity leave, Emily packed up the family (including husband Gregg) and shipped off to New Zealand “for a trip of a lifetime, since we yankees don’t tend to take extended holidays while working.”

She toured the South Island in a camper and visited friends on the North Island. California served as a stopover on the way there and back, giving her an opportunity to see friends and family on the West Coast. Over the summer, Kristie Pfeifle Medak paid a visit and the two classmates talked shop (Kristie works for Nike). Emily met up with Abbie Suberman Chen and her two kids, Maddie and Atlas, in Rangeley, Maine, in August. Emily included news that Julian slept in a drawer on the trip. Back in May, Emily was down in Brooklyn for the America’s Cup trials and met with Mary Myers Hardgrove, her husband, Mike, and son, Jack. Finally, Emily took her family, including father Paul Kalkstein ’61, mother Marnie Kalkstein, and brother Bart Kalkstein ’88, to the Andover-Exeter football game at Andover. PA won, and Emily’s niece, Suzanne Kalkstein ’19, a lower, interviewed Coach Modeste.

She ran into Jen Karlen Elliott, Dan Galaburda, Laurie Galaburda Harris, Adam Galaburda ’92, Abby Harris ’96, Eric Guthrie ’93, and Adam Cail ’93. Aaron Flanagan was also at the game, to which he took his son. He was full of praise for the new stadium, but reviews from his son were less stellar, as he fell asleep on dad, only to be awakened by the drum line. Aaron added that he “ate pizza and drank beer” to celebrate his 40th birthday.

A few classmates sent in shorter messages, so I’ll close with them. First, Madeline Stark wondered whether “5 moves in 18 months after a 28-month stint with the State Department in Kabul” counted as newsworthy. The answer is clearly yes, and I hope to give further news in a later installment. Adalisse Rivera Rodriguez wrote to announce the birth of her daughter, Estelle Grace,

in August. She joins her big sister, Sienna Rose.

Jess Rocha Stryhalaleck met up with her crosscountry teammate May Pini in October to run the Chicago Marathon. David Callum decided to go back to grad school (as hinted in the previous notes), taking medicinal chemistry 20 years after last taking organic chemistry. Both of his daughters seem to be doing well. Finally, Rachel Rivkind met up with Swagata Chakrabarti in the fall, but there was some uncertainty on Facebook over who would give me more details, so I leave that, also, tantalizingly in the air.

With that, here we are, just at the word limit.

Brilliant! Please join our Facebook group (http:// tinyurl.com/pa94fb) and keep the stories coming.

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

We begin with “baby news” from Jay Mok, who, with his wife, Mina, welcomed their second daughter, Maisy, in October, “making for a more busy and happy holiday season!” Kevin Kwong also became the father of a little girl, Alisa, in July.

He made it back to Andover for Alumni Council Weekend and caught up with David Brown and Leah Bradford. Kevin says he has launched the Andover Club of Hong Kong, which held its first big event in December. The event was well-attended and included a “surprise visit” by faculty members Peter Warsaw and Ada Fan. Alexander Hawkins also had a second daughter, Hayden Elizabeth, in September, and is now with his family in Nashville as an assistant professor in surgery at Vanderbilt University. Victoria Chen Tucker and family recently relocated to Tiburon, CA, “after an adventure-filled eight years as expats in Shanghai.” She writes that the kids are settling in nicely, although the whole family is adjusting to “reverse culture shock.” Victoria is now a professional development manager for the San Francisco office of McKinsey. She recently caught up in NYC with Brenna Haysom, who, Victoria writes, “is doing it all, with her hangover drug startup Blowfish, and mothering her three young Andover | Summer 2017

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Tiffany Thomas Turner is “enjoying our first Christmas as a family of four and our last Christmas in Alabama.” She writes that they are moving to Denver next year to grow her PR business, and her husband’s career as a “healthy soul” private chef. Tom Barros-Wing got married at the Grand Canyon in October. He and his new wife have bought a Dutch Colonial house—“our first, and hopefully only”—in Belle Mead, NJ, near Princeton. Tom says that for the first time since he left for Andover, he watches TV. Karl Hutter and wife Jen are “fully occupied” raising “two crazy little ladies and running two crazy companies.”

Laurie Coffey spent a week this past fall in Cancun, “trying to make up for all those missed spring-break trips because of crew,” and will have moved to Naples, Italy by January for a two-year Navy stint.

Chris Barraza started a new job at a law firm in lower Manhattan, relocating from DC. “The fam,” writes Chris, “has moved from the mean streets of Chevy Chase to the mean streets of Greenwich.”

Liz Campbell Kelly has started a landscape gardening firm called Hudson Garden Studio LLC and is “excited to kick off a DIY garden kit project to bring ecologically sustainable and wildlife-friendly plants to the Northeast.” Her son Eli began kindergarten this year, and Liz has been volunteering as a “garden parent,” bringing his class outside into the garden once a week for some ecology-oriented and creative-minded outdoor education. Liz has also started to work with two teams of sixth-graders, creating a master plan for the school that reimagines the entire campus as an outdoor classroom. Liz says her team will be looking at the recent Andover master plan for inspiration. “It feels great,” she writes, “to be digging into the local community and contributing to the local public school. Non sibi remains a guiding principle!”

Margot van Bers Streeter worked as the geopolitical and economics advisor to Gen. Lord Richards, the former Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom, until the day Margot’s daughter was born—then took two years off to be with her. But “this seems like a pretty all-handson-deck sort of period,” writes Margot, so she has decided to head back to work in security in the New Year. It “feels strange,” she says, “but I want to leave her a safer world than the one we’ve got now, and I’m willing to throw my efforts behind getting us there. Putting my time where my mouth is, as it were—as are a lot of you. Non sibi, y’all.”

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Tricia Taitt ’96 recent state legislation. “For over a year now,” writes Seb, “we have been traveling from village to village, holding forums and hearings where hundreds of people, young and old and long-practiced in the town meeting tradition, debate the enduring human issues of democracy, equity, history, and opportunity. It has been difficult to stay neutral as chair, but it has been equally rewarding to help foster this authentic public debate.” Vanessa Kerry is running Seed Global Health, which collaborates with the Peace Corps to provide medical support in resource-limited countries. Vanessa writes that the organization is now in five countries including Swaziland, which has the world’s highest HIV rate, and Liberia, to help rebuild after the Ebola outbreak there. She also has a son and a daughter now, and still does clinical work at Massachusetts General Hospital. Vanessa sometimes runs via work into Loyce LaShawndra Pace, executive director at the nonprofit Global Health Council. Vanessa also sees Caitlin Fawcett and John Fawcett, who have three boys, Morgan Nickerson, who has three girls, Stefanie Santangelo, Delphine Rubin McNeill, and Abby Harris ’96.

As for me, Erik Campano, I am also in the field of global health, helping out at Emergency, a Milan-based NGO that provides nonpartisan medical assistance in war and post-war zones around the world, as well as to migrants crossing the Mediterranean into Italy. As always, I am delighted to see PA people, so drop me a line if you are passing through Milan and have a little time to spare.

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

1997 20th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 Jack Quinlan 514 S. Clementine St. Oceanside, CA 92054 760-415-9054 illegalparietal@gmail.com Kelly Quinn 3512 NE 23rd Ave., Apt. 1 Portland, OR 97212 919-949-0736 illegalparietal@gmail.com

Happy spring, everyone! As you’re reading this, Andover is celebrating its 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day. To honor this, several of you shared stories

of how you live and embody non sibi’s true meaning.

We kick off this set of notes with a few of those.

Outside of his real estate development business, Michael Brown spends a great portion of his time helping people with substance abuse issues get sober. He’s also had the good fortune to help start and serve on the board of Ocean Healing Group, which provides free adaptive surfing adventures in Costa Rica to paraplegic children and their families.

Faye Golden expanded her office and recently became executive director of A Dove’s Love, Inc., a nonprofit 501-c3 devoted to health care and health care education. Faye delivers health care to the uninsured, underinsured, and underserved by forming ministry partnerships with various churches in the community and obtaining donations from likeminded philanthropists. More updates from Faye in a little bit. …

Carrie Leiser-Williams joined the movement at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in North Dakota to help protect the water and protest the development of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Also doing her best to protest radical change was Maggie Dickson, who participated in the efforts to preserve what was left of North Carolina’s democracy in late 2016.

Maggie caught up with Shirley Mills, who happened to be in NC for a quick work trip, and Hillary Seith, who, after receiving an MBA, has been working at Vanguard. Maggie reported that everyone is doing fabulously well and looking forward to seeing more people at reunion.

Rasaan Ogilvie gathered June Arrington, Natalie Grizzle, Margaret Doles, and Tamika Guishard in New York for an Andover brunch at his Bronx apartment last fall, during which he reports many mimosas were consumed and many PA memories were shared.

Circling back to Faye…in addition to all of the amazing things she’s doing for work, her son completed his first semester of college in December and her daughter is midway through her second year as a visual arts major in a local magnet program.

Faye keeps in close touch with Matt Magrone, Krystle Dunwell Leigh, Jerry Bramwell ’96, Nashira Washington Layade, DeMarco Quindell Williams ’96, Pam Smith ’96, Kyra Williams ’96, and a slew of other Andover alumni via phone and Facebook. And while she wouldn’t spill the beans, she let us know someone in this group (not herself) is about to get married.

Nashira Washington Layade started a new job in July 2016, as chief information security officer, and, in the words of Rihanna, all she does is “work, work, work, work, work.” But all kidding aside, Nashira said life is very good.

We received a wonderfully lengthy update from Kel O’Neill just as he was about to head out on new adventures for the year. Kel spent 2015–2016 working as the senior fellow at The Economist’s Media Lab, where he steered the magazine’s immersive media strategy, wrote and produced their first virtual reality (VR) pieces, and helped launch The Economist’s VR

app. Kel also serves as the VR and immersive filmmaking mentor for the U.S. Department of State/ Film Independent program Global Media Makers, which brings midcareer Middle Eastern filmmakers to the U.S. to study American-style production methods. Which brings us to Kel’s new adventures for 2017. First, Hulu is licensing The Ark, the VR piece Kel and partner, Eline Jongsma, premiered at Tribeca last April. It will launch in 2017 as part of Hulu’s first venture into VR content. Second, Kel headed to Taiwan in early January as a 2017 Eisenhower Fellow. During the fellowship, Kel met with policymakers, artists, and corporate leaders responsible for the country’s VR boom.

For those of you who kept on top of world economics during Brexit and the 2016 presidential election, you likely saw or heard Megan Greene providing valuable insight on several news and economic talk shows.

In quick updates, we hear Eddie Rodriguez is living in the Netherlands with his family and that Mozhan Navabi Marnò continues to find success on NBC’s The Blacklist.

Fall 2016’s Andover-Exeter match brought out a few members of the Class of ’97.

Jack Quinlan; Luis Angel Gonzalez and wife Lauren; David Constantine and wife Molly, who introduced their son, Oliver, to the weekend’s traditions; and Todd Boling and wife Keena all caught up with one another.

After working for six years as a Muslim chaplain, first at Dartmouth and later at Brown, Dave Coolidge is now teaching an undergraduate course at NYU on contemporary Islamic law and ethics.

Rob McNary is living in LA with his wife and three kids. Rob plans to attend reunion in June and is excited to bring his eldest, a fourth-grader,

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Taking a Chance: Business School to Broadway and Back

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or Tricia Taitt ’96, Andover was a place where she could take a chance. Whether it was playing on the girls’ JV3 lacrosse team, singing her first solo with the Cantata Choir, or studying abroad in Spain, Taitt, a first-generation Trinidadian-American from Brooklyn, felt comfortable feeding her curiosity here “Andover let me know it was OK to take the road less traveled,” says Taitt. “I was able to take chances doing things I’d never done before.”

Richard Werner

Taitt excelled in math, specifically BC calculus with instructor Paul Murphy, and when it came time to apply to colleges she focused on those with strong finance programs. She landed in the Wharton undergraduate business program at the University of Pennsylvania. While there, she sought to balance her finance classes by joining the African Rhythm dance company.

“It reconnected me to what I loved,” says Taitt. “I had these very cerebral and intellectual classes and then I was able to balance that with body movement and dance.”

After UPenn, she moved back to New York and took a job at Merrill Lynch.

Dancing fell by the wayside until she decided to pursue an MBA degree at Duke. It was there, in North Carolina, that she reignited her passion for dance after meeting Chuck Davis, a pillar of the African and modern dance community worldwide. Taitt was offered a position at Citigroup postgraduation, but deferred for a year to dance with Davis and his ensemble.

Taitt saw that many of the dancers had a hard time managing their finances and often took on additional jobs to make ends meet. A few years later, while dancing professionally in New York and touring with the Broadway musical, FELA!, she noticed the same thing. This time, she decided to do something and began providing financial consulting to dancers, other creatives, and performing arts organizations.

“I thought, ‘Wow, I can really make a business out of this!’” Taitt says.

Taitt’s company was launched in 2014 in New York City and caters to a growing base of clients including wellness providers, graphic designers, cleaning companies, and others. She describes her company, The Art of Money Matters, as providing “outsourced accounting and financial consulting for growth-oriented small- to mid-sized businesses.

“To me, numbers tell a story. I work with clients who don’t necessarily have a financial background, to help bring them along and reveal the story behind their numbers.”

Taitt credits Andover with encouraging her to stretch beyond the comfortable or predictable. “Andover allows you to explore your interests,” she says. “I could have been a dancer or worked in finance, but instead I combined both to realize a whole new opportunity and direction in my life.”

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On the wedding front, James Chu married Quentin Hart in summer 2016 in an intimate wedding in DC. We also heard Wilmot Kidd wed wife Ana in 2016 as well. Congratulations to you both!

Sara Dietschi Lowy and her family—husband Stephan Lowy, son Elian, and daughter Emilia— spent the holidays in Bali, where they met up with Pandu Sjahrir, his wife, Ratna Kartadjoemena, and their daughter, Thalia. Sara and her family moved to Singapore five years ago, where she works for a small Danish pharmaceutical company in their business integration/development department and is responsible for Asia (excluding China). Pandu and his family now live in Jakarta, Indonesia.

It wouldn’t be an update without a few baby announcements! Todd Pugatch and wife Cara Biddlecom welcomed daughter Lena in late August 2016. David Constantine and wife Molly introduced son Oliver to the world in September.

Brian Chernoff’s wife, Stephanie, gave birth to daughter Mira last November. Meghan Doherty and husband Roger Buttles welcomed not one, but two, healthy and adorable girls, Oona Gayl and Ione Cassandra Buttles, in December.

Whew, that’s a wrap! We hope everyone is well and we look forward to seeing you at the 20th Reunion in June. Until then, take care.

1998 Zoe Niarchos Anetakis zbniarchos@yahoo.com

We are going to get to it in a flash this time around.

Short and sweet. We’ve got tons of babies to report, so we’ll start with those little folks. And by start, I mean most of the update is about our progeny.

If that’s not your thing yet or ever, I’ll catch you next time.

First, some firsts: Gillian Goldberg and husband Jason Tower welcomed their firstborn, a son, Brett, in September. Sarah Shannon and husband Brent Howard welcomed son Tyler in February of last year. The Howards live in NYC, where Sarah has been for 15 years (!). She works in commercial real estate. Shaina Bronstein and her husband, Ian, welcomed son Emerson Max in September. The Hansels have put down roots in Portland, OR, where Shaina works for an international organic seed company. She gets to see (the recently engaged) Amelia Lukas regularly and also spends time with Ceci Toro ’99. Another side note: Amelia was one of Shaina’s bridesmaids—did I ever tell you that? Well, now you know.

Speaking of Portland residents and new moms, Annie Lux Radecki and husband Ryan welcomed Lydia Forbes to their brood in December. The Radeckis moved to Portland from Houston a

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www.andover.edu/intouch few years back. Annie works for a national real estate and consulting firm and is loving being back to the abundant landscape and moderate climate of Portland (sorry not sorry, Houston).

We have four other little ladies to add to the mix.

Amse Hammershaimb Heck and husband John welcomed Caroline Margot last November.

Amse and John live in Alexandria, VA, where John is a colonel in the Air Force and where their elder daughter, E.V., is loving her role as big sister.

Vanessa Ho and husband “Tiff ” welcomed their second daughter, Keller, last fall, Mike Harvey and Yeechin Harvey welcomed their second (but first girl) baby, Sarah, in July. Jessica Bulen Wire welcomed her second baby girl, Emmy, last February. Moving right along, Liberty Howell and husband Joe welcomed two boys to their Brooklyn homestead last spring. Oliver and Lion join big brother August in what is now an unfair match versus their sleep-deprived parents. Liberty, Joe, and the boys escape New York for Maine whenever they can, where they get to catch up with Samar Jamali and Alison Banks Hark, who live in Portland.

Alison and husband Ezra welcomed their second, a baby girl named Willa, last fall. Allison reminded me that Salma Gaya Khan also welcomed a second child last fall, a lovely son named Zayn who she dressed as an elephant for Halloween and thereafter made the Internet explode. I think that’s it for babies this time—12 and counting!

Let’s move on to parties. Dan Burkons and Josh Beiler had a party of two at the recent World Series win for the Cubbies. Lifelong fans of what was historically a cursed sports city, they felt this was, of course, a very big deal. Dan works in real estate in Chicago, and through a few weird coincidences—and, let’s be honest, Rockwell South dorm connections—ended up selling buildings owned by Kurt Spring’s company out of Boston and Pete Rumbold’s (former) company out of New York. Jackie Bliss and husband Ned Caron wed last fall in Vermont in what was a fantastically fun extravaganza with Alison Banks Hark, Samar Jamali, Bethany Pappalardo Childs, and Liberty Howell in attendance. Speaking of weddings, Dave Robles married Molly Eileen Bee this past November. As it turns out, Dave has also become an accomplished runner and has managed to run seven half-marathons (seven!).

Another reunion extravaganza: Gillian Goldberg, Kate Colbath, Diana Bergren Fink, Grace Woods-Puckett, Charlotte Lucy Kent, Leah Basche, and Alexandra Mulvey reunited in Salt Lake City for some family-friendly fun. Another family-friendly reunion happened at the Boston Children’s Museum, where Mark Tompkins, Ned Yetten, and Arianne Sunyin Tang got together with their families to celebrate Mike and Yeechin Harvey’s son’s fourth birthday. Littleknown fact: The Harveys now live in a house formerly owned by Andover that is basically on campus! I wouldn’t categorize this as a party, per se,

but all the same, over the holidays, Lindsey Heller Lohwater and I caught up at a local children’s museum with our kids, Peyton and Blake (hers) and Teddy (mine). It was super-fun, and by superfun I mean that next time we will be doing wine and manicures sans children (who are lovely, but that is not the point, #amiright?).

We’ll finish with career news, brought to us by my newly coined Ambassador of Good Gossip and overall Saving Grace, Nnamdi Okike. Nate Kirk started a new investment firm, Everside Capital Management, in New York that is focused on middle-market companies. Dario Collado is now director of strategic development at the Hispanic Heritage Foundation. Nnamdi attended the Hispanic Heritage Awards, which Dario spearheaded, as Dario’s guest this past fall, where awardees included Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor and HUD Secretary Julián Castro. No big deal, Dario.

Lastly, I got word from two Providence, RI, residents that are now my neighbors! Matt O’Brien moved to Providence a year ago from Oakland, CA. He works for the Associated Press. Ian Barnard has been in Lil’ Rhody forever, and I was reminded that he lives in Providence because I saw his mug as a contributor to the local magazine. Ian continues to dazzle in photography across New England. That’s it! Nine hundred words and out.

1999 Marisa Connors Hoyt marisahoyt2@gmail.com Kirsten Riemer 72 Connecticut Ave. Greenwich, CT 06830 kirstenriemer@gmail.com

We are more than 15 years removed from our daily life on Andover’s campus, and it’s amazing to see how our interactions continue to make it feel like our time there was just yesterday. Whether through Facebook, emails, organized Andover events, or face-to-face, we are all happy to see one another and celebrate the bonds we shared on campus.

It’s no coincidence that this April marks the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day, a time for alumni to come together to celebrate and share in Andover’s motto of “not for self.” I know many classmates have continued to embody non sibi long after we graduated. If you have a story you’d like to share or elaborate on, please send me a message. Or if you’ve participated in a non sibi event in your hometown and would like to share your experience, please email me.

Now on to the news. Over Thanksgiving weekend, Nick McInnis and his son, Charlie, spent a day at the Boston Children’s Museum with Chris Kane and his daughter, Celine. It was the first time Charlie and Celine had the chance to hang

together, and Nick said it was every bit as cool as he hoped. He and Pete Salisbury also had an awesome trip to London together to attend the wedding of a mutual friend.

Max Sung and Lisa Hsu welcomed their second son, Ogden, last September. Ogden’s older brother, Paxton, is delighted to have a sibling at last. Max reports recent Bay Area sightings of other Andover alums and their kids, including Yuko Chitani, Eric Kim, and Shalu Umapathy.

Paul Penta and Marlena Montanez Penta also welcomed a son, Pasquale Ash Penta, last September, while Kam Lasater and his wife, Karen, welcomed Marshall Maurice Lasater in December.

All are reportedly happy and healthy and adjusting to family life.

After moving back to the Boston area last fall, Charles Wang was recently promoted to associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.

Jen Bickford Birch and her husband, Duncan, are jumping on the baby train and are expecting their first child, a girl, due in March. They live in Brooklyn and occasionally meet up with Liza Trafton Ndreu for dinner and to catch up.

I was lucky enough to catch up with fellow ’99er Sam Shih during Alumni Council Weekend in Andover last May. While Sam and I are the only current Class of ’99 members on the council, there are many from surrounding classes. I encourage you all to find out more and get involved if you are interested. It’s a great way to keep non sibi in your life.

I hope all is well. Please email me at marisahoyt2@gmail.com with updates!

2000 Jia H. Jung 550 11th St., No. 4R Brooklyn, NY 11215 917-589-5423 (cell) jiajung@alum.berkeley.edu

Note: The following was written without the aid of drugs, alcohol, or any equivalent stimulation.

Anyway, it’s not that shocking.

Oh, hello. Being the solitary class secretary with very few updates coming my way lately, except by forceful plunging of our class, means I find myself somewhat at liberty to sum up our diverse collective experiences based upon my own momentary opinions and emotions, sprinkling in the sporadic perspectives provided by those who have been so kind as to keep in touch with me or our class.

Not to get political, but to get the political stuff over with, the close of 2016 was quite the long day’s journey into night in my point of view. But hey, nothing can be lost in four or even eight years that can’t be regained and surpassed, and so our country marches on to whatever fate awaits it through 2020.

Brighter points in the year included our classmate John Michael DiResta’s marriage to Michael Holtzman on Aug. 13 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. Andoverites present for the occasion included Kathy Dalton, faculty emeritus; Tony Rotundo, faculty emeritus; Barbara Rotundo, Dan Ankeles, Mike Sullivan ’94, and Ryan Coughlan ’02. JM reminisced, “We danced the night away until 2 a.m. (Drs. Dalton and Rotundo can seriously cut a rug), and honeymooned on the Amalfi Coast.” Sounds like you all did it right!

After moving to Texas sight unseen when her husband, Gavin Muller, accepted a position as visiting assistant professor of Emerging Media and Communications at UT Dallas, the lovely Katie Casey announced: “Gavin and I welcomed Finn Thomas Casey into the world on Nov. 29 [2016].” About her new hometown, she had this to say: “For a state I’d never been to before, it is a pleasant surprise. It helps that Dallas is a liberal city and growing exponentially—bringing in lots of highly educated and ambitious young people.

Also, the access to amazing Mexican food is really delightful after seven years of Central American food masquerading as Mexican in DC.” Word.

Mexican food in NYC is generally awful as well, so you got my mind veering to points south and west with that one, KTKC. Back to politics—and I ask you this earnestly, and at the slight risk that someone will complain that I am airing views that are improper to this arena (but I have all this space!): When did progressive thinking, “liberal/leftist/socialist” values (all conflated, and in relation to what center, by the way?), and seeing both the inherent and long-term values to ensure the well-being of all Americans and those seeking refuge and opportunity here… become equated with being economically incompetent and whining while expecting handouts? Who fed us this narrative, and why did we swallow these imprisoning distinctions that are causing both parties to implode?

To me, this isn’t even about party lines or identity politics, but about how sweeping ideals, values, and assumptions have become oddly bundled into packages, none of which seems particularly appealing. It’s about how media suddenly leans either one way or the other, causing inflated perceptions of confidence or mistrust among the masses that unfairly affect outcomes of…everything. It’s about how individuals seem to have lost the constitution to question what they are consuming, or to challenge themselves to have uncomfortably incisive but mutually respectful conversations on the way toward making important deliberations based on more considerations than what few things are shouted most loudly and frequently into their ears.

Why are we bundling the living daylights out of ourselves in the same manner that the cable and Internet companies treat us? Ponder that—if even one person writes back in a huff to tell me to keep

my gross political thoughts to myself, I’ll be quite pleased to be the recipient of the action.

Onward to the recollection of the honorable ideals by which we were shaped while at Big Blue: The Non Sibi Committee of the Andover Alumni Council would like to remind us that this April will mark the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day. In case we forgot, non sibi is Latin for “not for self.” While non sibi is encouraged and enforced daily for those on campus, the rest of us live however we live, but the least we can do is do something for the alumni event known as Non Sibi Weekend. This weekend is a time that resounds worldwide, and it’s a concerted “effort of outreach, planning, and organizing service projects around the world.” For this version of class notes, Andover had challenged us to do more than the usual weekend thing and contribute to Non Sibi 365, a collection of our stories sharing the year-round community service we already do as a lifestyle rather than an occasion.

This collection was meant to be printed here to coincide with Non Sibi Weekend, but at the moment of writing—the 11th hour of Dec. 21, the longest night of the year and a full day past the deadline for these notes—I know from experience that I’d only get content if I pilfered it from your social media pages, and I haven’t popped the seal on that impropriety yet. … How about you folks write in to tell Andover what you do for someone other than yourself or your own family or your own circle of society? I think it’d actually be kind of great, not late, to have our stories arrive the issue after Non Sibi Weekend has passed, to further underscore the fact that the non sibi spirit is indeed not limited to any time of year.

Yes, let us be fashionable about this. Please write and share the good that you do, and have been doing. Or how about our parents: What do your Class of 2000 kids do for their local or global communities? I figure I might be better off plying you, since we ourselves can be kind of a mum crew.

Peace, JHJ

2001 Ramesh Donthamsetty rdonthamsetty@gmail.com Jennifer (Zicherman) Kelleher P.O. Box 762 Byfield, MA 01922 978-273-8557 jenniferakelleher@gmail.com

Happy 2017, everyone! We hope everyone is enjoying the spring!

Wedding updates: Carly Rockstroh married Art Mitchell in early November last year in Chevy Chase, MD, while John Kluge married Christine Mahoney in June. Several classmates attended John’s wedding, including Tyson Reist, Ross Perlin, J.P. Chisholm ’99, Anna Lewis ’00, and Faran Krentcil ’99. John has had an eventful 2016, as he Andover | Summer 2017

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Baby updates: Elizabeth Edmonds and her husband, Alan, welcomed Leonard Edmonds Rosinus to their family in August last year at 8 lbs., 7 oz., to join big sister, Mary.

Moving: Jessica Watson will be moving to Portland, Maine, with her husband, Zach, and two children, Rosemary and Baxter, this July. Zach is joining an internal medicine practice that will allow him to continue teaching, while Jess will be starting her career as a vitreoretinal surgeon.

Rosemary and Baxter will enjoy being in the same town as two of their grandparents. They are sad to leave the Midwest, but excited to put down roots in New England!

Kelsey Peterson and her wife bought a house in Maynard, MA. They travel to Andover weekly and are coaching a Girls Who Code club at the town library.

Careers and other cool stuff: Zalika Guillory and her husband, Jake, nine months after starting the negotiation process, purchased their favorite craft beer bar in San Juan, Puerto Rico: La Taberna Lúpulo, located in the heart of Old San Juan. She welcomes everyone to come visit! They took over as owners only nine days before the birth of their daughter, Eleanor Gloria Liman, who was born at home in a pool on Nov. 30. She could not be happier or busier!

Diana Mahler Spalding is now the birth editor for Motherly (www.mother.ly), for which she will be writing articles, designing programs, and collaborating on development projects, while Julie Papanek made partner at her health care venture capital firm, Canaan Partners, in Menlo Park, CA; it has been a busy year for her, as she also was engaged in September to Adam Grant.

Jenn Zicherman Kelleher passed her postresidency boards and is now a BCPS (boardcertified pharmacotherapy specialist). She is an adjunct professor at the School of Pharmacy of both the University of New England and MCPHS, where she teaches veterinary pharmacy and veterinary compounding.

As for me, I enjoyed seeing Misty Muscatel Davis at her birthday party in midtown Manhattan in December, with Paige Austin, Rachel Weiner, Sarah Kline, and Greg Sherman, while Alex Finerman and I attended the Andover-Exeter New York event in Tribeca in early November. In total, we had five folks attend the Andover Alumni Council meeting in November during the Andover-Exeter events on campus (Merri Hudson Johnston, Seyi Fayanju, Rachel Weiner, Kevin Sinclair, and our Alumni Council president, Misty).

Keep those updates coming, ’01, and best wishes for the summer!

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www.andover.edu/intouch 2002 15th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 Lauren Nickerson P.O. Box 711477 Mountain View, HI 96771 Lauren9@gmail.com

Aloha, Class of ’02! As I write this, it’s December 2016 and the holidays are just around the corner.

By the time you read this, however, it will be spring!

April 2017 marks the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day. Per Class Secretary Committee Cochair Marisa Connors Hoyt ’99, “As we all know, non sibi is the motto of Phillips Academy, and in the past 10 years it has developed into an important alumni event called Non Sibi Weekend. This global weekend of service involves a collective effort of outreach, planning, and organizing service projects around the world.” Use this as an opportunity to give back to your community through service—perhaps even connect with a few classmates to do good around the globe. Andover has great resources for existing non sibi projects, so feel free to get on board with an existing project or create your own.

Also in 2017 is our 15th Rreunion! I hope many of you plan to travel to campus in June to reconnect and socialize with classmates. The Reunion Planning Committee has been working hard to plan some fantastic events.

Without further ado, here are your updates.

Thank you, as always, to those of you who contributed.

In August, Lillian Kingery married longtime love, Andrew Malek. The happy pair married at a family home overlooking Tillamook Head in Gearhart, OR. The Andover alums in attendance included the bride’s father, John Kingery ’75, the bride’s brother, Scout Kingery ’04, Chris McDonald, and Gardner Gould ’03, as well as several other alums.

In October 2016, Freddie Martignetti joined the venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners.

His work is focused on early-stage investments in disruptive commerce and enterprise software.

Congratulations are also in order, as Freddie became engaged to Yulia Kolesova. Yulia has braved the cold to watch Andover beat Exeter for the past four years in a row!

Also in October, Erin McGirt Chantry and husband Matt welcomed their son, William Michael Chantry. The Chantrys’ older daughter, Elizabeth, loves her role as big sis! Erin works for the city of Charlotte (NC) as a principal urban planner to help build the Urban Design Studio, and reports that she couldn’t be happier.

Congratulations on the newest addition, Erin!

More baby news in October, as Sasha Parr Corken gave birth to daughter Théa

Elsie Corken on Oct. 15. When Sasha wrote, little Théa was only 6 weeks old and already sleeping six hours at night! Congratulations, Sasha!

In November, another Andover baby was born. Rachel Sobelson Tash and husband welcomed their second son, Solomon Duke Tash, on Nov. 3. Little Solomon was privy to his first Andover-Exeter games when he was less than 2 weeks old! Congratulations on baby Solomon!

Rachel and family also attended the wedding of Kate Planitzer Harper, where Rachel’s older son, Charlie, was the (reluctant) ring bearer! They all had a great time reconnecting with classmates at Kate’s NYC wedding.

Erik Lepke spent a year in France and Singapore getting an MBA at INSEAD. Greg Booth visited Erik in the summer and they took a trip to Croatia for some cliff jumping!

And now, for another installment of “Where in the World is Pablo Durana?’’ He wrote to note that he filmed with FLOTUS Michelle Obama in Liberia promoting her girls’ education initiative, Let Girls Learn. According to Pablo, “She’s amazing!’’

He spent six weeks filming the first unsupported expedition across the Alaska Range via paraglider; it just premiered at the Banff Mountain Film Festival!

He also filmed a kite skiing and kayaking expedition across the Greenland icecap. Pablo has been filming in a lot of frigidly cold places. It was a lovely −35°F in Greenland! I think it’s time for another visit to sunny Hawaii, Pablo.

Happy 2017, everyone! Until next time, Go Big Blue. —Lauren

2003 Will Heidrich wheidrich@gmail.com

It’s been another good calendar year for our class.

We’re inching closer to our 15th Reunion in 2018, and we’re still finding good reasons to see one another in the meantime.

Nyssa Liebermann got engaged this past fall!

She is living in LA and looks forward to having longtime friends Meg Coffin, Lucy Keating, and Danielle Vardaro with her on her big day.

Ali Rosen Gourvitch and her husband, Daniel, live in NYC, with their 1-year-old son, Guy. She credits our classmate, Michael Ruderman, with bringing him his first Andover gear, so Guy is already representing us well. Ali also hosts a show, “Potluck Video,” which covers food and drinks in NYC. If you haven’t seen it already, check it out at potluckvideo.com!

Chana Sacks wrote from Boston, where she’s an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, and spending most of her time researching pharmacoepidemiology and economics and writing about gun violence prevention. Chana’s younger brother, who was born during our senior year at Andover, began as a

ninth-grader at Andover this past fall. It has all come full circle! Evan Panich is also in Boston, where he recently became partner at his law firm and got married in 2016.

Yuki Watanabe reported from greater Chicago, where he has been living the past few years. After working as an expat for a Japanese company, he recently joined a startup that won a Social Impact Award at Plug and Play.

In October, I attended my college roommate Andy Hattemer’s wedding in Princeton, NJ. Andy and his wife, Stephanie, met at Georgetown and now live in Jersey City. I also caught up with our fellow former JV football teammate Hank Hattemer ’02, his wife, Andrea, and their young son, George.

Nick Barber and Shaun Blugh represented our class on campus during Leaders’ Weekend in early November. Nick also completed the Gran Fondo Hincapie in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina this past fall to raise money for JDRF, which funds type 1 diabetes research. He keeps up with longtime buddy Spencer Bush-Brown and spent Labor Day Weekend in Cape Cod with Nick Franchot and Alexa Franchot.

Soojin Park visited the West Coast from Hong Kong this past September. She met with a few of our classmates while in the States, including longtime pal Phoebe Rockwood. While in San Francisco, Soojin also participated in a Non Sibi Day beach cleanup along the Pacific Ocean, where she and I were cleanup mates. Janis Rice and Jina Corneau organized a Cluster Munch at Jina’s apartment in SF this past December. Complete with Paresky Commons trays, an Andover sign, and plenty of food, they fed Alexa, Phoebe, Erik Trautman, Michael Ruderman, Matt London, Sebastian Benthall, Brian Karfunkel, and me (Will Heidrich).

Head of School John Palfrey and Jim Ventre ’79 visited SF this past fall, and took a photo with the 2003 alumni in attendance (because there were so many of us). Among our classmates were James Chou, Justin Ko, Katie Dlesk, and recent SF resident Etzerson Philitas. Nick Ksiazek is moving to SF in 2017 after business school. In the meantime, he’s studying in Australia from January through March, so if you are Down Under, look him up!

I still keep up with Tom Dimopoulos and, Matt Lindsay who both live in my neighborhood; Margaret Ramsey, whom I credit with recently teaching me to swim a full lap; and Tom Oliphant, with whom I watched the Cubs win the World Series at a local bar in November.

That’s it from here. Stay safe, and stay in touch!

2004 Ali Schouten 1806 Lucretia Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90026 617-584-5373 AlisonSchouten@gmail.com

Greetings from Jess Chermayeff’s beautiful Brooklyn apartment! I’m enjoying some time in New York and Boston before the holidays and reminding myself why cold weather is awful. I also got to attend Jess’s company holiday party. Show of Force is a documentary production company where Jess is involved in many exciting upcoming projects, and I can report firsthand that they have excellent taste in passed appetizers. Later today I’m heading over to another part of Brooklyn that is inaccessible to this part of Brooklyn by train (New York is fun!), to stay with Ellen Knuti and celebrate her birthday in Gowanus. I had to google “what is Gowanus,” but given the agenda of super-fun activities she’s set up, I’m sure Gowanus is the best. I also have plans to see Olivia Oran Beaton and Alanna Hughes.

Throw in the fact that I caught up with Jenny Byer Elgin (who is throwing herself into grassroots activism in Michigan on top of raising two young sons) on the phone while packing, and this is a purely Andover trip! Alanna is working on a project with City Year through Deloitte Consulting, continuing to exemplify the non sibi spirit. She lives in Cambridge, MA. Also serving her community is Leah Russell, whose video business, Wheel to Sea, makes YouTube videos for nonprofits and ethical businesses. The business might yet float, if she stops donating services; over-enthusiasm about her clients’ work has proven problematic!

Further afield, Ian Hafkenschiel lives life as a “digital nomad” in Costa Rica. He surfs almost every day, when he’s not learning about ecobuilding with bamboo and making apps and websites. Jason French saw him in September, and they visited some of the old haunts from senior Spring Break near Jacó. Lolita Munos Taub lives in Madrid with her husband, where she is studying for an MBA at the IE Business School. She spent the summer speaking and writing about enterprise artificial intelligence and women in tech, and got the chance to meet one of her role models, Ginni Rometty, chair, president, and CEO of IBM. Jacqueline Bovaird wed on Oct. 22, 2016.

Jessica Birecki Osborn and the newly engaged Jen Graham attended the wedding in Palm Springs, CA. Jacqueline has wonderful things to say about Jen’s fiancé, Alex, and Jessica’s son, Taft.

Also enjoying motherhood is Ashley Whitehead Luskey, who has a daughter, Harper Jane, and Carolyn Tower Venuti, whose daughter’s name is Quinn. This past fall, Jen attended the Alumni Council Weekend meeting as our class representative.

April Warren married Justin Mills in Kansas

City, MO with a number of Andover alumni present. Alicia Widge ’02 performed the ceremony; Alyssa Warren ’08, Mimi Hanley, and Malika Felix were among those in the wedding party; and Hilary Papantonio, Jenn Feeny, Amy Lippe, Rich Besen, and Stephen Russell all came to celebrate amid KC BBQ food and flash tats. April still works for Abt Associates managing a program that supports early-stage enterprises with health solutions for the poor. They are launching in India, and hopefully in Senegal in 2017, so April expects she will be working abroad in 2017.

Susannah Gund is now Susannah Bien-Gund after wedding her partner, Cedric, in September at a summer camp in the Berkshires, in Massachusetts.

Mrs. Maqubela officiated the ceremony, and Saidi Chen and Laurie Ignacio and her wife, Laura Kaneko, were in the wedding party; the latter two read from bell hooks’ All About Love during the ceremony, as Cedric and Susannah did at their wedding.

After helping Eric Greitens earn an upset victory in Missouri’s gubernatorial election, Will Scharf will now serve as Greitens’ policy director.

Livy Coe continues working toward an MBA at MIT Sloan and has switched from active duty to the Navy Reserve. Also in the Boston area, Jisung Park is finishing up his final year in the PhD program in economics at Harvard. He is engaged to Youngji Kim. The couple regularly sees Patrick Callahan and Taylor Yates.

On the other side of the country, Laura “Lily” Kelly continues her work at La Clínica, which specializes in multicultural and multilingual care for low-income patients. She lives with Dan Adamsky ’06 and their two gigantic cats.

Jenny Wong Sharp is loving life in San Francisco, where her husband, Nathan, works for Instagram and Jenny is developing a 400-unit condo project.

This past fall she and Nathan hosted Olivia Oran Beaton and her husband, Greg, and Emma Sussex and her boyfriend—and now fiancé!—Geoff. Ellen Knuti introduced Emma and Geoff while they were living in New York, and was thrilled to learn of their engagement on her birthday.

Darren DeFreeuw left Houston (and the Astros) to work for Columbia Records, switching from sports analytics to music analytics. He’s settling in Brooklyn and pumped to hang out with the Andover crew there. Jeffrey Peña is enjoying life in New York, and recently caught up with a number of alums at a PA event in NY celebrating 10 years of need-blind admission, including Alex Dent, who is in construction management; they “geeked out” about architecture. Jeffrey also attended a holiday party at the National Arts Club thrown by Adelaide Polk-Bauman, where he saw Eunice Kim, who is working at the city’s attorneys’ office, and Clem Wood, who is married and finishing a PhD in Classics at Princeton. O’Shea Galan and Jeffrey frequently hang out in Chelsea and cycle along Hudson River Andover | Summer 2017

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Park when the weather is nice. Between all this, Jeffrey has still found time to work in residential architecture and pursue art and writing projects, and to plan a New Year’s holiday in Switzerland with friends including Laura Lisowski and Kelly Stecker ’05.

I won’t be venturing quite as far (or anywhere nearly as glamorous!) for the holidays, returning to LA to host my brother, nephew, and sister-in-law for Christmas and Hanukkah, then heading out to Palm Springs to ring in 2017 with girlfriends and board games. Given my competitive nature when it comes to Scattergories, I expect I will go into the New Year with zero friends.

2005 Ian Schmertzler Ian.Schmertzler.Andover@gmail.com

This was a season of important events in the history of ’05: Sam Lederfine Paskal married David Yeatman and moved to southern Maryland to start working as an occupational therapist. Any ’05ers living in the Baltimore/DC area are asked to give her a ping.

Jill Ozzie and her husband, Pat Kinsel ’03, welcomed their second son, Oscar, into the world on Aug. 7. Their other son, Edward, made it through his first semester of a pre-pre-K toddler program.

Chelsea Paige Cederbaum and her husband, Scott, welcomed Amelia Paige Cederbaum into the world on Oct. 17.

Marc Asch visited London, where he met Sims Witherspoon and Beau Freker and, together, “caused a ruckus in a French restaurant.”

Beau’s baby girl, Eliza, continued to light up Facebook, most recently displaying a great suspicion of toy Christmas elves. Sims spent Thanksgiving with Will Riordan, Mary Burris Riordan, and Kat Dix. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, I finished a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech, leaving Kojo DeGraft-Hanson as the only known ’05er still on Tech’s campus. Farther to the south, at the University of Florida, Natalie Exner Dean finished teaching her first college class, Intro to Biostatistics, and carried out Zika research.

That is all the news that reached my ears. Please give me a ping at ian.schmertzler.andover@gmail. com if you have anything to report!

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www.andover.edu/intouch 2006 Jeni Lee 18228 Mallard St. Woodland, CA 95695 925-846-8300 Jeni.lee519@gmail.com Owen Remeika Oremeika@gmail.com 617-794-7898 Justin J. Yi 124 Allen St., Apt. 3A New York, NY 10002 978-886-3307 justinyi@gmail.com

Hello, 2006!

Since I (Jeni Lee) moved to Boston at the beginning of 2016, I have absolutely loved reconnecting with fellow alums in the area. This has encouraged me to be more active in volunteering through the AAR network and Alumni Council.

If you’re not already involved with AAR, the Andover Alumni Representative network that helps interview applicants off-campus, I suggest you do so! It’s a wonderful way to be involved from afar—ping me for details.

On election night, Andrea Coravos organized a wonderful tapas dinner connecting Andover and Harvard Business School women. It was a lovely dinner and a great way to reconnect!

Shortly afterward, I caught up with Jennifer Wang at the Tip Tap Room on Beacon Hill (is it clear that they serve steak tips and beers on tap?). Jen is a patent attorney at Wolf Greenfield, specializing in medical devices. I was very excited to pick her brain about medtech investing, and also got some great (nonedible) tips about surviving the Boston winter.

Speaking of the Boston winter, Mia Kanak, Katherine Adams, and I braved the long line outside the dingy (but delicious) Boston Chinatown favorite, Gourmet Dumpling House.

Mia is a second-year pediatric resident at Boston Children’s Hospital. She shared an amazing story: “I was taking care of a patient who is a huge fan of Kevin Olusola. He kindly sent the patient a personalized video message, which brought a lot of happiness to a tough hospital stay.” Over dumplings, Mia noted that her patient watches this video multiple times daily! Thanks, Kevin!

Kevin sends his regrets that he missed our 10th Reunion, as he was touring in Europe with Pentatonix. He did send a very sweet video message greeting to the class during reunion. He enjoyed seeing many Andover people around the world (perks of an international tour!), including Jasmin Baek, Steve Kim, Priscilla I’Anson, Wesley Mui, and Vincent Siu. Pentatonix just released their third studio Christmas album,

recently announced to be certified platinum! Their Christmas special on NBC also pulled in 12 million viewers. A huge congrats to Kevin and Pentatonix.

Personally, Kevin purchased a townhome in LA, putting down roots. He has yet to decorate (risks of international travel), but will be spending more time in LA this year, writing personal music and doing more songwriting.

John Lippe moved to Kansas City, MO with girlfriend Rachael after graduating from HBS—he began running his first DaVita dialysis center in December! John and Rachael encourage visitors.

Jeff Zhou connects with Justin Lee in LA once every few months, including at a Rams/ Falcons football game. As some of you may recall, Jeff pitched his startup, Fig Loans, during our startup showcase at our 10th Reunion. He met their lead investor at reunion—he graduated from PA in 1981—and his niece was the roommate of Mai Kristofferson ’09 (Jeff ’s girlfriend). Small world!

Jeff splits his time between LA and NYC, where Justin Yi will never hang out with him. With only two blocks between them, hopefully Jeff and Justin can connect soon. Jeff also visited Bob Divers ’07 and Graham Miao ’09 in Shanghai in December.

Tobey Duble was able to leave NYC for a few days last fall to visit Luke Cahill and all the Cahills (including Justin Cahill ’04) in Nashville.

Emily Pollokoff continues her usual multitasking life of work, kids, and garden. She’s added a few garden beds, including a mini meadow that will hopefully come up rainbows in the spring.

There are also rumors of a mini pumpkin patch!

Greg Hsu is now in his seventh year in Charlottesville, VA, working as a pastor with college students at UVa. He notes that keeping pace with the undergrads keeps him young in the inexorable slide toward 30 (we’re all feeling it!). Due to an exciting opportunity opening up in his ministry organization, he may be in Cambridge, MA, starting next summer. Stay tuned!

Rachel Isaacs returned from an amazing trip to Antarctica—her sixth continent (!)—which was the most beautiful, otherworldly place she’s ever been. Her goal is to complete all seven continents

by October 2017—next up is Africa! She invites other ’06ers to join her as well.

Jane Henningsen will be moving to Chicago this summer to pursue an MBA at Northwestern.

While she is very excited, she’s mourning the fact that she and Alex Wolf will no longer live in the same city. She will be working through an NYC/Brooklyn bucket list until she moves, and invites Andover grads to join her. Jane recently also attended Emma King’s wedding in DC, along with Paul Engelhardt and Carlisle Engelhardt. Congratulations, Jane, on your upcoming adventure!

This past June, Lindsay McLellan Borden married Vincent Borden in Boston. The pair met at UVA while Vincent was in law school and Lindsay was in medical school. Friends Kira Gendlerman,

Nandini Vijayakumar, and Kassie Archambault also attended, as did cousins Robin McLellan Woodworth ’93 and Sam McLellan ’95. The happy couple currently lives in Roanoke, VA, where she is doing her residency in OB-GYN and Vincent works as an attorney. She notes that it was so wonderful to have the four (Kassie, Kira, Nandini, and Lindsay) together again! Kassie works at Andover, is a house counselor, and is taking the wrestling team by storm. Kira just started business school at Yale, and Nandini is a family medicine resident in NYC. Martha Durant Rossi married Michael Rossi in Poughkeepsie, NY, last September.

Kate Connors was a bridesmaid. Also in attendance were Laura Ferraro, Alison Occhiuti, and Molly Ozimek-Maier ’07.

Kat Chen married Michael Nicholson in a beautiful Veteran’s Day Weekend wedding in Syracuse, NY. Anna Ho, Christine Sargent, Lauren Bissell, Alison Holliday, and I attended the nuptials. Kat moved back to Syracuse at the end of the summer from NYC. Ishani Vellod Reddy visited New York before the New Year to reconnect with some Andover ’06ers. She regrets missing our 10th Reunion, but since she delivered her son literally days after, we’ll forgive her. Though she mentioned that she could have attended if she wanted to deliver at Isham...glad she skipped that!

As usual, it was so great to hear from all of you.

Keep seeing one another, and we look forward to the next round of notes!

Much love, Jeni (and Justin and Owen)

2007 10th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 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

Henry Frankievich moved back to New York to start a new job after three years living in Boston. Since moving, he caught up with Becky Greenberg and Tasha Keeney for an experiential play in Brooklyn, which they all found to be bizarre; the trio also enjoyed dinner with Dominick DeJoy, Evan Moore, and Emma Wood when Emma was in town over the holidays.

Henry also saw Eliot Wall, John Gwin, and

Parag Khandelwal ’06 to celebrate John’s recent engagement. John met his fiancée at McKinsey doing consultancy work. She is from Australia, but moved to the U.S. to go to college and is now in her second year of medical school (she went back to school after working for a few years). We have a few other engagements to announce…

Steve Loeffler got engaged over the summer and will be getting married in October in Florida.

Alexa Reid just got engaged to Colin Smith.

They can’t wait to see everyone at reunion!

Komaki Foster got engaged in November and also recently welcomed Eddie Kang to London. Eddie is now part of the Andover crew there with Komaki, Alisha Varma Mulhall, and Devon Zimmerling. Olivia Pei is still living in San Francisco doing the tech thing. Olivia also joined a rock band recently, and whenever they decide to perform, everyone is invited. Over the past few months, she’s made time to see Laura Minasian (in Copenhagen!), Marina Warsaw-Fan, Sarah Guo, Cece Yu, and Colleen Thurman.

Cece attended Colleen’s wedding this past fall along with Clara Wilder, Conner Stoldt, Gina Kim, Maura Mulroy, Michaella Chung, and maid of honor Katharine Matsumoto.

Claire Voegele will graduate from law school in May. She clerked at a firm in Boston last summer and had the chance to see Liz McDonough and Jill Kozloff ’09. She also visited NYC in October to see one of the last performances of Carrie St. Louis ’08 as Glinda in Wicked. Carrie treated her to the ultimate backstage tour. Claire caught up afterward with Akosua Oforiwaa-Ayim, Becky Greenberg, Dacone Elliott ’08, and Hailee Minor ’08. Emily Kennedy successfully defended her dissertation on industry implementation of biomimicry last March. She will graduate with a doctorate from the University of Akron in May and then sleep for two months. Catherine Crooke is surviving her 1L year at Yale Law School, and will be in DC for the summer working in UNHCR’s Caribbean Protection Unit. Now that he has retired from professional Ultimate, Ben Feng has settled into a role as the youth and gender equity coordinator of the DC Breeze. In November, he coached two different youth girls’ Ultimate teams; they had an 11–1 combined record against college teams! Steve Farquhar now lives in Philadelphia.

He enjoyed being in Ryan Ferguson’s wedding last July, along with Ben Landy, Steve Stapczynski, and Matt Villanueva—it took place at the Log Cabin in Cochran Sanctuary.

Stacey Middlebrook Spurr went to DC several times in 2016 to visit Dawson Joyce-Mendive, and also spent several weekends with Carolyn Pollard.

They all got the chance to catch up with Sarah Dewey and Liv Coffey a couple of times.

Molly Ozimek-Maier saw Kayla Lawson and Joy Joung for a wine night at Karen Schoenherr’s house. She also met for brunch with Sam Gould in Cambridge, MA. Molly is really enjoying

helping to coordinate our upcoming 10th Reunion over conference calls with Kayla, Pete Dignard, Alexa Reid, John Gwin, Anna Klenkar, and Cece Yu.

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

Happy spring, everyone! We have just a few updates this time around, beginning with wedding bells and ending with a call to service in honor of Non Sibi Day’s 10th anniversary.

Major congratulations are in order for Jorden Zanazzi, who married longtime girlfriend and fellow, Hoya Anne Kjeldgaard, last August.

The couple met while at Georgetown and returned to campus to tie the knot. In attendance were Mike Palermo, Sebastian Caliri, Lucian Neville, James Rockas, Dave Koppel, Josh Infantine, and Conor McKinnon. Today, Jorden and Anne live in Boston, where Jorden is an associate at the law firm Jones Day. Adam Giansiracusa is also living in Boston, where he is finishing his first year at Harvard Business School. “There’s a wonderful ’08 contingent here (Joey Mensah, Veda Eswarappa, James Sawabini, Kie Watanabe, and Nkem Oghedo),” reports Adam, “so we all get to see each other and hang out occasionally as well, which is great!” On the other side of the country, Alyssa Warren is continuing her work for a network of charter schools where she manages social emotional learning, school culture, and enrichment programs that serve low-income communities in the Bay Area.

Since ’08ers can’t trip without running into one another, it’s no surprise that Alyssa bumped into Silké Cummings at a Non Sibi event held at the San Francisco Center for the Book last year. The volunteers prepared for an annual festival and got to do some letter pressing, which, according to Alyssa, is how one makes “hipster cards,” whatever those are. Alyssa also randomly ran into Jane Shin during a visit to DC, where her network was opening a new school. (See? We’re everywhere.)

Joe Wilkin continues to compete on the national and international stages in the world of competitive compound archery. Joe is getting so good that he recently took on and defeated Katniss Everdeen, who was promptly eaten by wolves.

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Finally, as this issue is dedicated to Non Sibi Day and the spirit of service year-round, I asked Osei Wilks to describe his experience volunteering with the Crisis Text Line, a national, 24-7 crisisintervention hotline that provides emergency counseling via text. Since its founding in 2013, the Crisis Text Line has exchanged more than 26 million messages with people in crisis, the majority of whom are under age 25. Osei has been a crisis counselor since November and wrote me this description after his first month on the job (lightly edited for grammar): “My first night on the Crisis Text Line, after 1.5 months of training, was on Election Day, where the [CTL] veterans said there was an enormous spike in suicide attempts in the LGBT community and generally around the country. The conversations vary from sexual assault and abusive relationships to kids talking about stress in college, but the ultimate goal of the CTL is to take people from a hot state to a cold one, and to work on a long-term care plan (that the person in crisis comes up with).

The key is empathy: The entire focus is shutting off your ego and learning to reflect someone else, but additionally inspiring them to know that they’re loved, appreciated, and capable of getting better with time.

“Two weeks after the service launched, they were receiving text messages from every single zip code in America, which is indicative of the strong demand for a service like this. It’s a great community, great people, and you can do it from your couch, but it means the world to the people that you’re helping.”

If you’re interested in becoming a crisis counselor, visit www.crisistextline.org.

Much love, Lydia

2009 Alexander McHale 101 NE 53rd St., Apt. 2714 Oklahoma City, OK 73105 703-786-3330 pa09classnotes@gmail.com Deidra Willis 2815 Rohret Road, Apt. 201 Iowa City, IA 52246 347-342-7447 pa09classnotes@gmail.com

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www.andover.edu/intouch A-E home games for ’09. Coincidentally, it was the fall meeting for the Alumni Council, where Deidra Willis, Krystle Manuel-Countee, William Thompson-Butler, and Andrew Pohly represented our class well in various committees.

Shout-out to the others in ’09 who have served and made us such a well-represented class! Alumni Council members meet twice per year on campus, maintain contact between alumni and selected areas of school life, and serve to support the Academy in various endeavors involving alumni.

Each member is appointed to a four-year term, and if you haven’t been involved yet, this is the perfect time to join!

At the games that Saturday, ’09 kicked it up a notch as more classmates arrived including Alexander McHale, Sarah Sheu, Johnny Carmona, Andrew Ang, Arun Saigal, Morgan Healey, B.J. Garry ’10, Tom Hamel ’10, and Annie Pates ’10. There was cheering and chanting (mostly on my part) while the group caught up with one another, explored the new Bulfinch/other campus changes, and lavished in some drinks during Happy Hour at the Andover Inn. Later that night a few went back to Boston and tore up the club (#LitWeekend).

In Providence, RI, Jennifer Morgan and Guy Puymartin are now roommates. In October, the two went to Tory Seman’s engagement party at her family’s house in Andover. Congrats, Tory! In November, Jennifer also met up with Sindhu Chitturi in NYC, Aiko Krishna in Connecticut, and Zoe Bogus in DC—a whole month of awesome traveling to ’09 reunions!

Around Thanksgiving, Carolyn Han and Olivia Mackasey both happened to be in Marrakesh at the same time—what are the chances! They had a fun lunch with their other halves on a lovely souk rooftop and took great pictures. At just about the same time in NYC, Deidra Willis and Tina Kit caught up over every millennial’s favorite meal—brunch.

At the beginning of December, Kyle Ofori met up with Johnny Carmona and Andrew Ang in Boston close to the end of Kyle’s first semester at the Kennedy School, where he and Nick Serna ’10 are classmates.

And in more life news, Kenny Gould launched Hop Culture, an online magazine for craft beer drinkers. Congrats on the launch, Kenny! Be sure to check it out at www.hopculture.com.

Also in December, Alex McHale attended the wedding of Frederick Grace ’10 in Palm Beach, FL, which had many other Andover friends in attendance, including Hannah Kauffman, Gustavo Tavares, Becca Bendetson, Lillian Reape, Andrew Fraser ’10, Sam Poliquin ’10, Khalid McCaskill ’10, and of course, Frederick’s brother Nicholas Grace ’10.

The squadron put their Ryley Room dance skills to use, and welcomed Frederick’s new wife, Catherine,

into the Andover family while enjoying some much-needed respite from the winter weather.

Later that month, Deidra Willis and Malik Jenkins joined a host of other Andover NYC Af-Lat-Am alums at the tasty SpaHa Soul for “An Evening with LaShawn Springer,” the newest director of CAMD. There was good food, great company, holiday cheer, endless reminiscing, and meaningful conversations about the current state of Andover and how Af-Lat-Am alums play an important role. Mark your calendars for the upcoming celebration of Af-Lat-Am’s 50th anniversary in 2018—it is sure to be a great time for all those who can get back to campus.

Along with the spirit of giving from the holidays, this April is the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day! As I’m sure you all remember, non sibi is PA’s motto, and in the past few years it has developed into an important alumni event named Non Sibi Weekend.

This weekend of service involves a collective effort of outreach, planning, and organizing service projects around the world.

Kyle Ofori and his fiancée participated in a Non Sibi Day back in the summer, where they met a recent Andover alum who was at the University of Michigan, as well as the parents of another alum from 2011. The Non Sibi event in Detroit involved sorting food onto pallets in a warehouse at Gleaners Community Food Bank.

Also in true non sibi fashion, Declan Cummings has been heavily involved with Korean American Sharing Movement, a registered nonprofit that runs leadership programs for high-potential, ambitious North Korean defectors attending universities in Seoul. As a member of their board, Declan helps the organization work with agencies in DC to run a three-week leadership program for 15 defectors every summer. The group also coordinates alumni programs for our 50+ alumni throughout the year in Seoul. They recognize that a change in the North Korean regime will mark not only the end of many serious problems, but also the beginning of multigenerational challenges that will affect the global community. To learn more, check out their website at www.kasm.org and Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ kasmbuildsleaders.

As always, it’s a pleasure to hear all of your updates. Please continue to submit them to Alex and me at pa09classnotes@gmail.com.

With Big Blue Pride, Deidra

2010 Courtney King 343 15th St. Santa Monica, CA 90402 310-984-0882 (cell) courtney.king116@gmail.com Will Lindsey 27 Commerce St., Apt. 1A New York, NY 10014 919-308-9866 will.lindsey23@gmail.com Andrew Townson 978-886-8191 andrew.townson@gmail.com

In July, Jennifer Schaffer-Goddard married Jonathan Goddard at Temple Church in London, with Tiffany Li ’09 as her maid of honor. Andrew Mitchell ’11 and Lucy Arnold were also in attendance. In October, Jenn began a PhD program at Cambridge University, where her research, based in the English faculty, will look at artificial intelligence and human desire. Congrats, Jenn!

This July will see another ’10 wedding when Kyleigh Keating marries her fiancé, Anthony Russ, whom she met in college. And of course, Katie Riley will be her maid of honor. Kyleigh has been busy teaching fifth-grade math and science in Boston and now does fundraising for Noble and Greenough.

Duncan Crystal has been busy coaching middle school wrestling in Alexandria, VA, for the past few years and is looking forward to his third season. He had a terrific mini Andover reunion with Dayo Adewole, Taryn Ferguson, Turner Shaw ’11, Kate Bulger ’11, and Sheya Jabouin ’11.

Courtney King will be graduating from Columbia University in May with a degree in sociology. She’s been working on an ethnography about gender norms in kids’ sports groups for her thesis. She is excited to begin an internship at an executive search firm in January. Courtney was happy to eat sushi with Andrew Townson in NYC this past fall at the newly opened Sugarfish NYC. Andrew spent the summer backpacking solo across Europe and walked nearly 800 miles.

He now lives in Baltimore, where he’s opening a ramen shop with a college friend. If anyone comes through Charm City, he’d love to have you in the shop.

Ziwe Fumudoh has been making the rounds in the NYC stand-up circuit. When she’s not hosting monthly shows, she can be seen in her new Web series, “Baited,” on Lorne Michaels’ comedy website, aboveaverage.com.

Will Lindsey is also in New York, working in the Alternative Investments Group at Goldman Sachs. He frequently sees Alex Gray, Paul Bloemsma, and Sebastian Becker.

Benjamin Prawdzik will be attending

Stanford University in the fall to pursue an MBA. He was recently in San Francisco for Lucy Arnold’s Christmas party. Conor McAuliffe, Greg Hanafin, and Anne Hunter were also toasting the holidays along with Chase Ebert ’09, Mary Strong ’09, Hugh Edmundson ’08, and Tiffany Li ’09.

Sarah Jacobson is also living in and loving SF. She’s working for a health care startup, and recently made a trip to the East Coast where she had a blast seeing Ramya Prathuri and Sophia Jia. Lauren King also made a trip to the Bay Area over the summer, and they accidently hiked a snowcovered mountain in July. Whoops.

Back on the Eastern Seaboard, Rob Stevens moved to DC in January to work at Accion’s Venture Lab, an impact investing fund focused on financial inclusion. This past Thanksgiving, he and Josh Feng dressed up like Pilgrims to play in an Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Alabama.

Caroline Gezon is also in DC leading Deloitte’s pro bono work with Days for Girls International, a global nonprofit that works to provide menstrual hygiene products and education to women around the world. She’s continued to work in the global public health and vaccination space with USAID, the CDC, and the Global Vaccine Alliance.

Marta Misiulaityte has been carrying the non sibi torch in Berlin, where she’s coordinating a research project that interviews asylum seekers in Germany in order to amplify their voices. She’s also helping to teach a Syrian man German—while learning Arabic herself!

Jessica Moreno is in Germany as well. She’s at the University of Mannheim, in her second year of their master’s degree program in economics.

This past fall she studied abroad in a small city outside Brussels.

Stephen Xenakis is working for Brookfield Asset Management in Shanghai. He and several other Andover students had a Christmas gathering hosted by Alice Chan ’97; Deborah Mei ’83 had offered up her office for interviews in January.

Alanna Waldman is pursuing a master’s degree in marine biology at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, where she’s studying coral reef restoration assessment and monitoring. She makes frequent trips back to the Bahamas, where she used to work, and will be there in May to help assist with a new program she helped start with the University of Southern California. She traveled back to campus last April to see Dr. Jane Goodall speak, and says it was lovely to be on campus and see familiar faces, such as her swim coach, Paul Murphy ’84.

Julian Chernyk spent New Year’s surfing in Puerto Rico with Spencer Macquarrie, Bennett Carroccio, and his brother Oliver Chernyk ’15.

After starting her academic career as a biomedical engineer at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science,

Tristin Moone decided to commit to a career in southwest archaeology to be closer to home.

She has been hard at work at a cultural resource management company based in Farmington, NM, as an archaeological technician. She works directly with the Navajo (Diné) Nation, and her company was recently awarded Business of the Year at the 2016 Navajo Nation Economic Summit. She has been a Peabody Advisory Committee member as an Andover alumna and Native American. She still plays softball when she has time.

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

2012 5th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 Miranda Haymon 197 Clare Ave. Boston, MA 02136 617-308-6252 mirandahaymon@gmail.com Lauren Howard P.O. Box 1352 Lexington, VA 24450 860-682-4641 (cell) howardl16@mail.wlu.edu Sydney Keen 520 Franklin St. Reading, MA 01867 781-640-3037 sydneykeen93@gmail.com

Hey, ’12ers! We’re back again with more updates from our class. So many of us have awesome new jobs and have moved to new cities—so impressive!

Can’t believe it’s been five years since we gathered on the Great Lawn for Commencement!

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Miranda and Mary Samson had a longawaited conversation over sangria and tapas, Sophia Lloyd-Thomas ’14 came over for dinner, Hannah Finnie ’11 spotted her walking down the street while Hannah was taking the bus in the other direction, and she ran into Abigail Burman having dinner with friends! Suffice it to say, DC is loaded with Andover alumni. If you are in the District, let Miranda know and she can snag you some tickets to see a play!

Kelsey Jamieson is in Beijing this year with the inaugural class of Schwarzman Scholars, a new fellowship aimed at training global leaders. She is studying Chinese and environmental policy at Tsinghua University, and travels throughout Asia with all her time off. If any Andover people pass through Beijing, she would be happy to show them around!

Margaret Curtis graduated from Wesleyan (with Katie Benvenuti, Chris Nanda, Noah Le Gros, and more!), and is now living in NYC and working at a media startup called NationSwell. Amina Gomez is also living in NYC and would love to connect with any other Andover classmates there!

Sydney Keen recently defended her thesis on Jane Austen, culminating her penultimate semester at Fordham University while interning with Oxford University Press. Sydney met up with Stephanie “Steph” Colello ’09 in NYC while Steph was visiting from Cooperstown, NY. We would love to hear more updates from the Class of 2012, so please reach out to any of the class secretaries with what’s going on in your lives!

We are really looking forward to our first Andover reunion in a few short months—see you all there!

Love always, Sydney

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

Arianna Chang saw Cara Daly at a finance interview in NYC! All those nights of studying econ and writing 20-page papers paid off. They got coffee after and had an absolute blast talking about Paul Revere and what they had been up to in the past year. Lydia Kaprelian took Arianna out for her 21st birthday and they got drinks at the top of Rockefeller Center! In the aftermath

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www.andover.edu/intouch of the presidential election, Rory Ziomek organized a safe space on the Tufts campus for students to come and have an open dialogue.

Christiana Nguyen saw Christian Langalis when he was at Cornell from Colgate for a sailing competition. During fall break, she stayed with Unwana Abasi along with Lydia Godo-Solo and Fatoumata Diarra at Harvard. She reunited with William “Zach” Merchant and his fellow rowers at Tufts and then headed back to Andover with Zach for a Phillipian event.

Several members from the Class of 2013 had dinner, including Christiana, Unwana, Lydia, Zach, Caroline Gutierrez, Samuel Green, Connie Cheng, Julius Ross, Will Bloxham, and Peter Solazzo at Border Cafe in the square.

M.J. Engel visited Unwana at Harvard and had a great time going to her residential college’s casino night. M.J. then went to campus to see teachers and meet with MOSAIC, Andover’s affinity group for students of mixed heritage.

Anna Stacy has been doing lots of acting!

She was in Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Coriolanus, Hamlet, a 24-Hour Play Festival, a Shakespeare Scene Festival, and her first film! Lucy Frey and Julia Kichorowsky keep in touch with a strong Snapchat streak. Ross Bendetson spent the fall primarily in the library unfortunately, as he was buried in work for Tufts Financial Group.

However, he did manage to fit in a road trip to Niagara Falls in October. He drove past Hamilton College on the way to pick up Seamus O’Neill, and then headed north to the Falls where they spent a weekend at the Giacamo Hotel.

Jing Qu took the semester off from school to intern at the White House. Kevin Newhall and Quinn Daly attended the fall Alumni Council Weekend on campus. Kevin discussed non sibi while Quinn met about athletics.

Charlotte Doran has been doing research at Vanderbilt on the heart physiology of the malaria vector mosquito, which she has really been enjoying. She is also in her second year of captaining Vanderbilt’s women’s Ultimate team, which has been incredibly rewarding! Charlotte got a nice visit from Rev. Gardner and her wife, Beth, when they came down to Nashville for their wedding anniversary, and she still keeps up with her PA roomie Amanda Chatupron-Lacayo, mainly through Snapchats about how much finals kicked our butts. She is sad to be in her final semester in Music City, but excited to start a new chapter in her life! Angela Batuure and M.J. Engel continued to live together for another semester at Columbia University. They dressed up as Pikachu for Halloween. They thought they would be able to make it on to the infamous Ivy League snap story, but ultimately they were unsuccessful.

2014 Djavaneh Bierwirth 3456 Sansom St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 978-933-1910 djavaneh@wharton.upenn.edu djavaneh@googlemail.com 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

The Class of 2014 has been very busy this past semester; many spent semesters abroad in countries ranging from England and Australia to Chile and even Cuba, while some returned to their home countries to begin their military service or face the aftermath of years of warfare. Many have been engaged in research, one even competed in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and one got engaged!

Kun Woo “Alex” Kim, Armaan Singh, and Junius Williams had the pleasure of spending time together in London, where Alex attends university and Armaan and Junius are studying abroad. Armaan also spent some time catching up with Michael Camarda, J.S. Dackiw, and Lily Zildjian. Everyone had a blast seeing one another. Funnily enough, Armaan and James Judelson were even living on the same floor of their apartment complex in London.

Before leaving for London, Junius attended Iman Masmoudi’s engagement celebration in September in Maryland with Farris Peale, Jordan Boudreau, Thomi Pamplin, Ashlie Rockwood, and Andrea Yepez. While in London, Junius had the opportunity to meet up with Dr. Blunt. He also had the pleasure of spending Thanksgiving break with Clark Perkins’ family in Madrid. Junius will continue to study abroad in the spring, relocating to Oman to study Arabic. Henry Manning spent this semester studying in Chile, examining the Chilean political system and the country’s history and conducting research on new political actors trying to break into the coalition-dominated political sphere. Before leaving for Chile, he had the chance to meet up a couple of times with his roommate Ian Whittall and their hallmates from Andover over the summer, and even went on a road trip around the Southwest with Miguel Wise.

Next semester, Henry is headed back to DC to start a research internship with COHA, a Latin America–focused think tank. He is pretty excited for his work!

This semester, while participating in the Penn in

Washington program, Caroline Sambuco got the opportunity to witness the presidential elections firsthand from the Capital, while also interning at the Brookings Institution in governance studies, working specifically in the Center for Effective Public Management.

Andrew Vallejos, Makenzie Schwartz, Sindi Krasta, John Henry Fitzgerald, and Benny Ogando met up with Meera Tawil, who is living in Syria for the first time since graduation.

Joseph Nam and David Yoon send their regards as they also returned to their home country, South Korea, to complete their military services starting in January. Before leaving, David had the chance to catch up with Lucas Png ’13 at Cornell, and also ran into David Cao at the Hack Duke hackathon. David Cao, meanwhile, had spent part of his semester recovering from the permanent state of food coma induced by the all-you-can-eat Google Mountain View cafeteria he frequented over the summer, but is now enjoying spending quality time with his new roommate Ben Yang ’15. The two also ran into Andrew Zheng ’15, Jackie Kim, Esther Cohen, Elaine Chao, and Meghana Jayam at the Andover Young Alumni Dinner in Philadelphia. They shared stories of their summers; Elaine recounted stories from her trips to Israel and Italy and Meghana mentioned she’d had the chance to catch up with Hirsh Chitkara while they were both interning in New York over the summer. Hirsh also saw Maria Amorosso in New York, while Maria was visiting with Alex Houle-Dupont ’15 at Columbia University over fall break. Maria also met up with Jerry Li, Chris Lai, Zainab Aina, Efua Peterson, and Adella Pierre while she was in New York. After seeing Waitress on Broadway with Casey Durant and Adèle Bernhard, Esther felt all the more inspired to pursue her theatre work back at UPenn, where she directed a feminist play called Dry Land this semester, with help from Sydney Adams, who worked as the graphic designer for the show.

Over at NU, Joey Salvo is serving as president of NU’s science and engineering residential college and doing neuro research looking at dopamine transporters and receptors in mouse cerebellum, and has recently started making some very cool art using the brain imaging he has done as part of his research!

At Johns Hopkins, Harry Cohen recently became captain of the Quidditch team and is now VP of the Magic Club—both involvements that have led him to consider further studies at Hogwarts. Harry also recently caught up with Claire Carroll.

Over in LA, Tim Wynter returned to USC from Rio in late August, after competing as a swimmer for Jamaica in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games and spending time hanging out with fellow Jamaican Usain Bolt in the Olympic Village. In early September, Tim, Caroline Chen, Vanessa Shrestha, and Djavaneh Bierwirth got together over brunch at Caroline’s house in LA,

sharing stories and celebrating Tim’s performance in Rio with homemade chocolate chip pancakes. The LA residents have upheld the brunch tradition, and Tim has continued to make Vanessa the occasional delicious stack of pancakes with bacon, even making a batch just last weekend. On the subject of food, in January, Vanessa and Meera Bhan will be having a dope reunion in LA with much exploration and much eating! Also, Caroline Chen, Emily Fang ’13, and Katherine Krabek spent Thanksgiving at Caroline’s house in San Diego, where they blissfully enjoyed copious amounts of turkey and avoided studying for their finals. They also braved the Black Friday lines together at midnight. Back in LA, Caroline also attended an Andover alumni event with Vanessa, Tim, Sean Burkitt, Jessica Schmitt ’16, Mackenzie Bradford ’15, and Elijah Jackson ’15, where they were able to catch up with Mr. Palfrey over unlimited sushi and an open bar. According to Caroline, the event was great.

Stephanie Huang also ran into Mr. Palfrey, when she attended “Andover’s Inspired Pursuit with John Palfrey and Jim Ventre [’79]” in San Francisco the week before Thanksgiving. While she was one of the youngest in attendance, she cherished the chance to meet and share stories with fellow Andover alumni.

She also looks forward to being back on the East Coast this summer along with Danielle Liu, as they both recently accepted summer internship positions in New York. The two will have cause to celebrate, as Danielle set an Ivy League record for swimming this semester in the 800 freestyle relay.

Thank you for your submissions this time around. We look forward to hearing what exciting things everyone has to share for the next issue!

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We take this edition to honor our classmate Gina Soutendijk. Below, some of her closest friends reflect on her impact on all of our lives.

“I still remember the first thing Gina said to

me during orientation: ‘So, what do you think about My Little Pony?’ Gina had an incredible ability to make even the most mundane moments memorable and extraordinary. I’m filled with numerous memories of us dancing and belting out Taylor Swift as we walked toward downtown to get caramel macchiatos, watching crappy horror movies, and sitting in Paul Revere talking about anything and everything, her disco ball sending light spinning onto the various Star Wars posters plastered on her walls. I am so much richer from the happy memories and incredible friendship that Gina gifted me. I will never forget that she always wore her socks inside out because she hated the way the seam felt on her toes. I will never forget her smile, her laugh, and her passion, no matter what obstacles got in her way. Gina was the first person to show me what loyalty, love, and compassion looked like in a best friend. I will forever remember her as my best friend, and love her as my sister.”

—Kaylee Llewellyn “Kindness always radiated from Gina. The two of us became women side-by-side through a sea of memories too numerous to count. I was constantly in awe of her bubbliness, her sharp sense of humor, and her overflowing generosity. Not only could she deliver the perfect joke to cheer me up; she was never afraid to rightly put me in my place: ‘Nothing matters,’ she would say, ‘put it all in perspective.’ I am forever grateful for the love she has shown me, and will cherish every extraordinary moment we shared. All the love in the world to you, G.” —Alex Westfall “One day you texted me, ‘What does a teenage pigeon look like?’ I came upon this message a couple of days ago as I reread all of our texts. I laughed at this because I realized it was a quintessential ‘Gina’ comment: completely without context, earth-shatteringly original, yet objectively obvious. I understand now: one tends to see either baby pigeons OR grown adults. You astutely pointed out that there is no ‘in-between’ or adolescent stage. But at some level, we could be compared to those fleeting ‘in-between’ pigeons.

As we sat late at night in the rafters of Tang a few days before graduation, we spoke of transitioning to adulthood, how adolescence is myth. Like teenage pigeons about to become adults, we sat on the precipice of those rafters and on the precipice of a more complex and less-forgiving world. Gina, I will always think of the time I spent with you at the end of our senior year: the wind that swept across the path in front of Gelb, our muffled footsteps, and the quiet moments between our words. In her poem ‘For an Album,’ Adrienne Rich concludes, ‘Our story is of moments when even slow motion moved too fast for the shutter of the camera: words that blew our lives apart…our story is how still we stood, how fast.’ I’ll miss you, Gina.”

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Sweet dreams, my angel, I’ll carry you in my heart forever.” —Julianne Xenakis ’16 “Gina, I keep going back to our first night at McGill. My parents had just left and I felt untethered and alone. Curled up on my bed, I heard a knock at my door. You stood there with your arms crossed and your eyes warm, searching for mine. You took one look at my face, rolled your eyes, grabbed my wrist, and dragged me to dinner, where we proceeded to gorge ourselves on pasta. By the end of the night, I was in your bed watching a movie, and it felt like I had known you and this place forever. I was stuck to you like glue. You took care of me and, when you finally let me, I took care of you. You were quick and sarcastic and deeply empowering. You radiated humor, beauty, intelligence, and girl power.

When my relationship ended that first semester, you gave me Polaroid film to fill up my wall with new memories, and your favorite book in the world, Jurassic Park, because ‘it doesn’t have romance or heartbreak or anything other than guts and dinosaurs.’ You had read the copy so many times the cover had fallen off. I have the copy beside my bed now and I hear your edgy, amused voice in my head when I read it. Gina, you were and will always be a home away from home to me. The people missing you most in your absence will protect each other now, because that’s all you ever wanted—to keep people close and loved. I’ll be missing you for the rest of my life. Sorry this is so emotional, but give me this one without teasing me too much up there, all right? Love you.” —Liana Brooks

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This spring, Andover is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Non Sibi Day. Of course, community service and helping others is a year-round engagement. In December, Christina Schoeller and Carolyn Zhao returned home from their first service projects with AmeriCorps NCCC. For six weeks, Carolyn built beaver dam analogs, planted native saplings, and performed controlled burns at Malheur National Forest in Oregon. Christina was stationed in Ozawkie, KS, where she constructed campsites at Perry State Park. In January, Christina and her team began their second project at the Step Up charter school in Mesa, AZ, where they will be for three months before moving on to a final three-month project. We encourage all members of our class to think and do acts of non sibi, big or small, as we wrap up our first year away from Andover’s campus.

Congratulations to Dylan Norris, Nick Faulkner, and the other freshmen rowers at Brown for breaking the world record for a 24-hour, 10-person, U19 erg marathon. Dylan and Nick are excited to race against Andover alums like Gabe Blanchard this season.

Also in the world of sports, Alex Dziadosz had a successful fall season with the Carnegie Mellon soccer team, reaching the second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament. He says Andover has prepared him well for a busy schedule in Pittsburgh, and cannot wait for Noah Halloran to join him next year. In Massachusetts, Fiona Yonkman and Tiffany Tien, a new coxswain, trained over the winter together with the Williams College rowing team.

Brooke Keene FaceTimed with Ashley Scott, who is participating in an exciting bridge year program in Dakar, Senegal. In October, Ashley moved in with a local Senegalese family and began working at a women’s community radio station, Manooré FM Radio (www.manoorefm.org). She’ll be back in the States this June.

Music maestro Charles Stacy is scoring his first feature film, currently titled Blind Spot. From

London, he is traveling to Sofia, Bulgaria, for a film scoring workshop. Diego Chavez is the principal bass for the Boston College Symphony Orchestra, and also freshman representative for the Organization of Latin American Affairs (OLAA).

Alex-Maree Roberts joined the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, the school’s oldest black organization. Mofopefoluwa Olarinmoye has also joined the Princeton University Gospel Ensemble (PUGE) and cannot believe how much fun she has just singing with her friends.

Catch Sloane Sambuco and Jenny Huang in CodeGirl, a Netflix documentary about the Technovation Challenge. Sloane has also become the marketing chair for her all-girls a cappella group, The Subtleties, at Dartmouth.

Brittany Amano received the Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award in August, recognizing Jewish teen leadership, and attended the retirement dinner last fall for former Duke University President Richard Brodhead ’64. She debated the ethics of migration and citizenship with Tyler Lian in their public policy class. She will be traveling to Lithuania and Poland for her Jewish studies class in May. Meanwhile, Tora Liu is finishing his postgraduate year at Northfield Mount Hermon. He enjoys the different perspective that NMH gives him, and it makes him appreciate some parts of Andover even more. James Flynn has been in contact with Orlando Figus.

A lot of Andover reunions happened over Thanksgiving break: Theo Pérez visited Alex Cao at NYU. In a “highly uncanny turn of events,” he ran into both Cam Mesinger and Sayer Devlin there as well. He then visited Krishna Canning at Columbia, where they played music together: “In an entirely predictable turn of events, Krishna was still significantly better.” Theo occasionally meets up with Joe Lee, whose school is but a few short minutes away from his. Regrettably, they have slept through more of their planned encounters than they have attended.

Also in the Big Apple, Sara Kowdley grabbed lunch with Tyler Lian before spending Thanksgiving with Alexa Rae Rodriguez Pagano and her family. Tyler also met up with Claire Tao on the Lower East Side that evening.

Israel Montiel stopped by to visit Angie Lara, where he got the chance to meet her extended family over dinner. (They liked him!) The next morning, the two of them went Black Friday shopping, and finished the day baking cookies and truffles.

In New Jersey, Joel Pena had an entire reunion of his own: He hosted Jenny Huang, Lauren Luo, Jonathan Jow, Michael Shen, Terrence Xiao, Richard Ira, Jo Pandji, Alex Cao, and Tevis Vitale at his home. They all went to visit Ian Tan as well.

Pranav Tadikonda is happy to report that he and Nico Ciccia, Dylan Norris, Nick Faulkner, Marcello Rossi, Carson Wardell, and Peter Hahn

have been staying in touch with Snapchat’s “groups” feature. In addition, Pranav, Nico, Dylan, Nick, and Peter came together for a night of rousing festivities over Thanksgiving break and “reminisced about the good old Andover days” while eating warm cookies and drinking milk by a crackling fire.

Abroad, Kieto Mahaniah and Claire Glover spent the holiday with Kieto’s grandparents in Hannover, Germany. Over 12 hours, the two prepared an enormous Thanksgiving feast for 12, with leftovers for three days. In Hannover, Kieto rock-climbs and plays Ultimate Frisbee with the city’s team, the Funatics. In addition to visiting Claire in Salzburg, Austria, he has traveled to Zürich, Paris, Prague, and Kraków, Poland.

It was really great seeing everyone during Andover-Exeter Weekend. To those outside the Andover community, it must have been difficult to understand why many of us returned to Andover in mid-November for just a high school football game.

But Andover will always be a special place for us, and the people a special community, even as we go our separate ways. Reach out to one another. Stay in touch. Wishing everyone a good end-of-semester and a happy summer ahead!

FACULTY EMERITI [Editor’s Note: Thanks to Pat and George Edmonds who have served as faculty emeriti class secretaries since 2013. This is their last column. If there are any faculty emeriti who would like to take on the role of secretary, please contact Laura MacHugh at 978-749-4289 or lmachugh@andover.edu.]

Memories.

One night when Dick Lux was going upstairs in Taylor Hall, he smelled smoke, walked in a room, and found it full of cigarette smoke and several uppers. “I told them they were on smoking pro and went on my way. Many years later at a discipline committee meeting, we were talking about student rights and justice. As an example of not making a federal case out of a simple infraction, Paul Kalkstein ’61 told the above story, and I then remembered he was one of those in the room. After the meeting, he told me that I had missed one guy hiding in the closet.”

An all-time record for a bust? Don Barry thinks maybe so. In infamous Taylor Hall in the early ’80s at 2:30 a.m. while Roxy was nursing her youngest child, she heard girls going up the fire escape and woke Don. He writes, “On the third floor I stumbled into a party of about 13 students celebrating the impending departure of one of my dorm kids to Washington for the spring term intern program. One girl dove under a bed but stopped halfway. Several kids appeared to be asleep. I had them all down to the kitchen, took their names, and called their house counselors so that they’d be greeted by an angry adult.” Later Don found that a girl already under the bed had

been caught returning to her dorm. And six years later at reunion, a boy Don had met running down the stairs confessed he was the guilty party who had waited for 10 minutes as told and then disappeared. Don’s parting comment, “Despite the demands, Roxy and I loved living in a dorm, and we most certainly miss our students and the wonderful PA community.”

Doug Kuhlmann writes, “In the fall of 1985 my mother came from St. Louis to have an eye treatment available only at Mass Eye & Ear, only to discover that she had a fast-growing lung tumor. After many emotional ups and downs, she ultimately survived and had her eye treated successfully. All of this took place around final exam time at PA. I was beside myself trying to stay on top of classes and visit my mother daily in Boston.

I returned to the math department to pick up two sets of calculus finals only to discover that Dick Lux and George Best had already graded them for me.

I was very grateful—still am.”

George Dix queries, “How many people remember faculty meetings held in Morse Hall with armchairs with built-in ash trays and Bob Maynard ostentatiously paging through the New York Times? Oh, the era!”

One spring John McMurray went to Susan Stott’s office to get permission for his independent project student, a licensed hot-air balloonist, to fly his self-constructed balloon from the Great Lawn. Insurance covered a balloon with a basket, but not with a go-cart the student had designed to travel with his packed-up balloon. After John’s pleading, Susan writes, “I relented, with the understanding only his student could go up, and only 10 feet.” Later, out on the lawn with Susan holding the tether, she relented again and permitted John to accompany the student. At that moment, Peter Ramsey came by and called out, “Hey, Susan.

Are we insured?”

Admitting that he has always been obsessed with being on time, Elwin Sykes recalls his feeling when he was late for his first new-faculty meeting in Kemper, “exacerbated,” as he says “by going to the wrong location and then panting toward Kemper. Two equally new colleagues were waiting for me in the breezeway (one, a teaching fellow in English, the other, a new science teacher), and they entered the meeting late with me. Tears well up as I think of these two. The teaching fellow became a professor at MIT; the science teacher left Phillips after two years—irony.”

Time for two stories in basement rooms weird.

Becky McCann’s classroom in Sam Phil had a fire escape ladder inside the room leading to a window and out. One day she “summarily dismissed the clearly unprepared class.” Sitting anguished at her desk, she noticed Phil Zaeder, a guest student in that class, “opening the window like Superman, descending the fire escape steps, coming to sit down beside me, and lending his sympathetic support. It meant a lot to me.”

In Bulfinch, Carole Braverman’s classroom was “an oddly constructed room that had a mysterious door that led nowhere, just a small enclosed space about a foot in depth. We were discussing Poe’s short story The Cask of Amontillado, the revenge story about luring an old enemy to a wine cellar and then bricking him up alive.” After discussion of fear, revenge, the appeal of horror, and then some readings from the text, “in the middle of one girl’s reading—the section where the victim gets bricked up—the ‘absent’ student of the day burst out the tiny space and shouted, ‘No, no, don’t do it!’ ” “From Adams Hall,” Meredith Price writes, “we moved to Stearns West, whose location next to the Andover Inn where secret service members might live, was key to John Kennedy’s living in my dorm. On arrival day our daughter Amy Price McCord ’83 spied Jackie and John coming down the pathway. I popped out of my chair and headed to the door, bumping into a bookcase en route.

There they were! And here I was, with a bump rising on my forehead. The lady she was appeared not to notice. I can say only wonderful things about Jackie as a boarding school parent. She wrote me fairly regularly, curious to know how her son was doing. And, yes, her voice was breathless.”

Maggie Jackson recalls that in March 1985, she was an almost-new faculty member of a year and a half and also a brand-new mother at age 38. She writes feelingly about the thrill of a new daughter, but also, in those days of no maternity leave, about the many stresses and obstacles to being able to savor this wonderful new relationship—job demands in taking over a department and hiring staff, preparing for another house move, financial issues, and sleep deprivation.

But then, Maggie writes, “The late Elaine Adam surprised me at home with fresh-squeezed orange juice and cannolis, and Leslie Ballard came one evening with freshly made food and ‘a sweater for the mother.’ They helped me pause and refocus on the joy of parenthood—and to appreciate the special friendship of women! I can still taste that orange juice.”

Concluding, Pat Edmonds remembers, “Thensenior Terry Robinson ’79 from Houston offered to cook dinner for his dorm mates, George and me, in Thompson House. Together Terry and I went shopping for the ingredients. Then Terry went to work and cooked up a most memorable southern fried chicken dinner, complete with grits and greens.”

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1. PA alums traveled across the pond to join Jennifer SchafferGoddard ’10 at her London wedding. Surrounding the bride are (from left) maid of honor Tiffany Li ’09, groom Jonathan Goddard, Lucy Arnold ’10, and Andrew Mitchell ’11.

2. Katherine Krabek ’14, Caroline Chen ’14, and Emily Fang ’13 enjoyed some time at the beach while spending Thanksgiving break together at Caroline’s home in San Diego.

3. It was all hands on deck when Norm Allenby ’51 and crew spent the day at sea. From left are niece Julia Evans (Summer Session 2011), grandchildren Leighton and Elizabeth, son Robert Allenby ’83, and Norm’s wife, Robin.

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4. Smiles abounded at Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus, OH, this past June, when Caroline “Cricket” Crutcher Mikheev ’88, P’20, celebrated with James Brodbelt Harris ’88 and wife Eleanor at the Harris’s wedding reception.

5. Lucy Lippard ’54, Leslie Hendrix ’73, and Nancy Donnelly Bliss ’54 met for lunch in Georgetown, ME, to share stories that will be added to the history compiled in the Abbot Archives Project.

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6. PA friends helped celebrate Uche Osuji ’91’s marriage to Maggie Mund in July 2016. From left are Rejji Hayes ’93, Melinda Page ’91, Lex Carroll ’91, the bride, Tigger Hitchcock ’91, the groom, Alison Parnell ’91, and Jonathan Tower ’92 and his wife, Sari.

7. Last August, at Littlefield in Brooklyn, NY, John Michael DiResta ’00 wed Michael Holtzman (fifth and fourth from left).

Faculty Emerita Kathy Dalton, Barbara Rotundo ’00, Faculty Emeritus Tony Rotundo, Dan Ankeles ’00, Mike Sullivan ’94, and Ryan Coughlan ’02 all celebrated with the happy couple.

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9. Iman Masmoudi ’14’s engagement celebration this past September wouldn’t have been complete without Class of 2014 friends by her side. From left are Jordan Boudreau, Farris Peale, Andrea Yepez, bride-to-be Iman Masmoudi, Ashlie Rockwood, Thomi Pamplin, and Junius Williams.

10. Last September, Martha Durant ’06 (center) married Michael Rossi in Poughkeepsie, NY. PA alumnae Molly OzimekMaier ’07, Kate Connors ’06, Alison Occhiuti ’06, and Laura Ferraro ’06 were all in attendance..

11. In June 2016, Lindsay McLellan ’06 married Vincent Borden in Boston (third and fourth from left). PA alums (from left) Sam McLellan ’95, Robin McLellan Woodworth ’93, Nandini Vijayakumar ’06, Kira Gendlerman ’06, and Kassie Archambault ’06 joined the celebration.

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14. Jackie Bliss ’98 (center) got married last November in Manchester, VT. Joining the bride, from left, are classmates Liberty Howell, Alison Banks Hark, Bethany Pappalardo Childs, and Samar Jamali.

15. Last fall, Class of 2009 alums Olivia Mackasey and Carolyn Han happened across each other in a marketplace in Marrakesh, Morocco, and caught up over a rooftop lunch.

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18. Members of the Class of 2009 cheered on Big Blue during last fall’s Andover-Exeter Weekend. From left are Deidra Willis, Alex McHale, Sarah Sheu, Krystle Manuel-Countee, Arun Saigal, and Morgan Healey.

19. Class of ’97 friends Pandu Sjahrir and Sara Dietschi Lowy enjoyed family vacations together in Bali. From left are Pandu’s wife, Ratna; their daughter, Thalia; Pandu; Sara’s husband, Stephan; their son, Elian; Sara; and their daughter, Emilia.

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ABBOT AND PHILLIPS

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Fremont, MI; Nov. 19, 2016 1936 Charles R. Conant

Hanson, MA; March 11, 2015 1937 Angus N. Gordon Jr.

Hamden, CT; Nov. 21, 2016 Carl B. Jacobs Sr.

Peterborough, NH; Feb. 20, 2017 1940

A prominent modernist architect in the Washington, D.C., area for more than 60 years, Cross was named a fellow in the American Institute of Architects and won several national design awards. His architectural legacy comprises elegantly functional public buildings, dramatic custom homes, and residential communities designed around their natural settings. As a member of Charles M. Goodman’s firm, Cross was one of the lead designers of the mid-century modernist community of Hollin Hills in Hybla Valley, VA, which was designated a national historic district in 2013.

Cross was active in Democratic politics, serving as a delegate and volunteering at the polls into his late 80s. He is survived by his four children (Ben, Rebecca, Amy, and Susan ’85) and five grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife of 64 years, Diana Linnea Johnson Cross.

—The Cross Family Charles E. Peck

H. James Caulkins

New Vernon, NJ; Dec. 12, 2015 Alfred H. Heckel

Bay Shore, NY; June 23, 2015 Donald H. Voss

Easton, MD; Dec. 28, 2016 1944 Charles B. Barlow

New Milford, CT; Dec. 18, 2016

Vienna, VA; Aug. 12, 2016 1941

am sure it is with considerable satisfaction that Bill sees his early concerns translated into today’s high priority major campus renewal program.

His patience and perseverance sustained us in our long struggle to find a fitting use for the great gift of the Abbot campus.”

After graduating from Andover, Boeschenstein became a lieutenant in the Army Air Force in World War II. He earned a BS degree from Yale University in 1950 and then joined Owens Corning Fiberglass Corporation, which was founded in 1938 by his father, Harold Boeschenstein. The younger Boeschenstein began as an executive trainee and retired in 1990 as chief executive officer and board chair.

Boeschenstein served in multiple leadership roles for the city of Toledo and was appointed

by Gov. George Voinovich to head a 15-member commission studying Ohio’s economy and tax structure. He supported Kids Unlimited, an after-school and summer mentoring program for inner city children, and helped start the Historic South Initiative, a neighborhood revitalization program.

Boeschenstein is survived by his sons, William Jr. ’73, Michael, Peter, and Stephen; 10 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. He was predeceased by his wife of 63 years, Molly.

Jean is survived by her children, Pamela Lowe, Andrew, and Thomas; seven grandchildren; a great-grandson; her sister, Susan Mulvey Rattray; and several nephews and nieces—all of whom will miss her caring and grand spirit.

—The Friedmann/Mulvey Families

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West Palm Beach, FL; Jan. 11, 2017 Eugene Dines Jr.

La Jolla, CA; March 30, 2013 Richard M. Evans

Orleans, VT; Dec. 23, 2009 Samuel S. Fuller

Suffield, CT; Nov. 9, 2016 Thomas Leavitt Jr.

Needham, MA; Nov. 9, 2010 1943 Eason Cross Jr.

Springfield, VA; Jan. 28, 2016 After graduating from Andover, Eason Cross Jr. studied at Harvard College, then at the Harvard Graduate School of Design under Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. During WWII, Cross served as a quartermaster on a destroyer escort.

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Princeton, NJ; July 25, 2016

Trustee Emeritus William W. Boeschenstein died from an apparent heart attack while playing golf with friends in Florida. He was 91.

Alumni trustee from 1969 to 1971 and charter trustee from 1971 to 1990, Boeschenstein served Phillips Academy for decades in numerous ways, including as a member of the Alumni Council, Andover Development Board, and Committee for the Abbot Campus. He had leadership roles in Andover’s Bicentennial Campaign and the Campaign for the Addison Gallery of American Art and was chair of the National Alumni Committee for the Andover Program.

“Bill was one of the very first to start worrying about the [physical plant] maintenance we were deferring because of other more pressing needs,” said Board President David M. Underwood ’54 in a 1990 Andover Bulletin story about Boeschenstein’s retirement from the board. “I

Jean Mulvey Friedmann was still riding her bicycle, swimming, and attending town and university events just days before her final illness, which was brief. A loyal Abbot Academy alum, she attended many class reunions, including her 70th in June 2015.

An Andover, MA, native, Jean graduated from Wellesley College in 1949 and worked for Macmillan Publishers. In 1956, she married John Friedmann; they raised their family in New York City, Hastings on Hudson, NY, and Houston, TX, before retiring to Princeton, NJ, in 1984. Jean was a freelance book reviewer for the Houston Chronicle, Best Sellers, and other publications and continued reviewing, editing, and writing throughout her life. She was an officer of local Wellesley College alumnae clubs and volunteered for the Princeton Public Library and literacy programs.

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George F. Bernardin died from a sudden illness.

After graduating from Princeton in 1955 and Harvard Law School in 1960, George joined Goodwin, Procter, and Hoar in Boston and then joined Norton Company (now Saint-Gobain), where he worked first as a lawyer and later as director of corporate purchasing and transportation. He retired in 1991 and ran a private practice in Worcester, MA. George and his wife, Barbara, traveled extensively to places such as Antarctica, Jordan, Russia, and South Africa; he and his family enjoyed summers at Rye Beach in New Hampshire.

Active in his community, George held leadership positions with All Saints Church in Worcester, the Worcester Art Museum, and the George F. Bernardin Oxford House, a residential facility for at-risk teenage boys. He also worked to preserve and protect open spaces.

George is survived by his wife, children John and Susan, and five grandchildren.

—George S.K. Rider ’51

Peter H. Koehler

Robert E. Kipka

Mary Owl Melquist died from complications from amyloidosis. Her children were at her side.

Mary and her sister grew up on Indian reservations in Wisconsin, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Idaho. Their father, Frel Owl, was an Eastern Band Cherokee and one of the first Indians to work as a superintendent for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Urged by her parents to seek an education off the reservation, Mary attended Abbot Academy and later graduated from the University of Idaho. In 1958, she married Dean Melquist and the couple moved to Colorado, where Mary taught high school. After earning an RN degree, she became a recovery room nurse and did medical mission work in Mexico.

Fusing her Native American heritage with life off the reservation, Mary lived gracefully in two worlds. Her true passion was music: as a choir director, versatile accompanist, and head of music for her church, she had a special way of encouraging others to use their talents.

Mary is survived by her son, Ben; her daughter, Tiana; and her sister, Frela Beck.

—The Melquist Family

M. Earl Heard Jr.

Boca Raton, FL; Jan. 1, 2015 Charles E. Phillips

Rindge, NH; Oct. 17, 2016 1946 Arnold J. Cohen

Dedham, MA; Sept. 1, 2016 O. Harry Gruner

Verona, PA; Dec. 9, 2016 Frank L. Harrington Jr.

Maynard, MA; Feb. 4, 2017 1947 Charles H. Hood

Hillsboro, OR; Nov. 24, 2015 Michael Suisman

William C. Wood

Dunedin, FL; Dec. 19, 2016 1948 William J. Breed

Hanover, NH; Dec. 4, 2016 Lyle G. Hall Jr.

Windham, NH; Sept. 26, 2016 Burton J. Lee III

Vero Beach, FL; Nov. 25, 2016 1949 William H. Fleming

Port Saint Lucie, FL; May 4, 2016 David A. Gregory

Green Valley, AZ; May 18, 2015 John Spencer

Wainscott, NY; Dec. 30, 2016 1950 John C. Pratt

Fort Collins, CO; Jan. 2, 2017

West Boylston, MA; Feb. 18, 2017

Peterborough, NH; Jan. 28, 2017 Robert Kipka, 83, died unexpectedly at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, NH. Bob was born and raised in Cleveland. After graduating from Andover, he attended Yale University and later served for two years in the U.S. Army as first lieutenant in an artillery unit stationed in Germany. He worked for the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. in Cleveland before moving to Gloversville, NY, in 1962. There, he met and married Rovena K. Scribner; the couple had three sons. In 1970, Bob moved to Peterborough, NH, where he built a successful real estate business and was active in his community and church. His kindness and good humor will be long remembered by his community, friends, and family.

Bob is survived by his sons, Campbell, Colin, and Alexander ’91; and six grandchildren.

—The Kipka Family Patrick G. Nollet

La Celle Saint-Cloud, France; Aug. 21, 2016

Bellingham, WA; Oct. 31, 2016

1954 John A. Bloom

Auburndale, MA; Nov. 2, 2016 Duane F. Bruce

Tallinn, Estonia; Dec. 9, 2016 John C. Platt III

Great Falls, VA; Jan. 4, 2017 Richard B. Smith

Encinitas, CA; Jan. 10, 2017 1955 Karen O. Smith

Cheyenne, WY; Oct. 1, 2016 1956 James D. Lorenz Jr.

Berkeley, CA; Jan. 19, 2017

1952 Lloyd D. Brace Jr.

Waldoboro, ME; Aug. 21, 2014 Edmund M. Hurley

New York, NY; Jan. 2, 2017 Craig MacKown

Round Hill, VA; Oct. 2, 2016

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New York, NY; Oct. 8, 2016 Curator, writer, and gallerist Klaus D. Kertess died at home in Manhattan. Born in New York in 1940, Klaus grew up in Westchester County.

He earned BA (1962) and MA (1964) degrees in art history at Yale, interrupted by studies in Bonn and Cologne. In 1966, Klaus and Jeff Byers founded the legendary Bykert Gallery in New York City, which quickly earned a reputation for discovering artists who became cornerstones of contemporary art, including Brice Marden, Barry Le Va, Ralph Humphrey, Chuck Close, Joe Zucker, David Novros, Alan Saret, Dorothea Rockburne, Paul Sharits, Michael Snow, and many others.

Klaus left Bykert in 1975 to focus on creative writing. He joined the Parrish Art Museum in 1983 as curator. Following his appointment as adjunct curator of drawings at the Whitney Museum, he organized its 1995 biennial. Klaus also curated important exhibitions for the Drawing Center in New York, Menil Collection in Houston, Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, and Reina Sofia in Madrid. A selection of his essays entitled Seen, Written was published in 2011 by Gregory R. Miller & Co. Devoted to Phillips Academy, Klaus curated John O’Reilly: Assemblies of Magic at the Addison Gallery of American Art in 2002. He also donated works from his personal collection to the Addison.

Klaus is survived by his husband, Billy Sullivan, and their son, Sam Sullivan. He also is survived by his siblings, Hans Kertess and Barbara Kertess.

A memorial fund for contemporary art acquisition has been set up in Klaus’s name at the Addison Gallery of American Art. Please send checks marked “Kertess” to the Addison Gallery of American Art, 180 Main Street, Andover MA 01810-4161, or call 978-749-4027.

1960 Cornelia P. Perez

Vero Beach, FL; May 15, 2016 1961 Michael W. Rosati

Covent Station, NJ; April 9, 2016

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Philadelphia, PA; Jan. 31, 2017 Ira Jay Leinwand died unexpectedly due to complications from cardiovascular disease. He was 67.

Ira grew up in Manhasset, NY. After graduating from Andover, he earned a BA degree from Yale in 1971 and an MA degree from the University of California Berkeley in 1977. He enjoyed his PA years, especially time spent with classmates Bruce Reider and Dave Anderson.

Ira worked in building design and construction, which included homes and civic structures in California, Connecticut, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. He is best re­-membered for his friendship, his sense of humor, his love of the mountains—hiking, skiing, viewing wildlife and natural landscapes—and above all, his devotion to his daughter, Sarah, and son, Greg. He was happiest when exploring the National Parks with his children on their annual trips.

Ira is survived by his children; two sisters, Carole Leinwand and Lisa Leinwand Richmon; and former wife Nancy Westneat Leinwand.

—The Leinwand Family Ibrahim A. Ramey

Washington, DC; Dec. 11, 2015

In Memoriam Protocol Please notify Alumni Records at alumni-records@ andover.edu about an alumnus/a death.

Andover welcomes obituaries written by family members or classmates. Submissions should be no longer than 150 words and will be edited.

Please email questions or submissions to Jill Clerkin at jclerkin@andover.edu or call 978-749-4295.