Andover Magazine: Winter 2017 Class Notes

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CLASS NOTES

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

My attempt last summer to get advice from the PA and Abbot classes of 1938 was not very fruitful.

However, I did get one very nice note from Rosa Fletcher Crocker, introducing herself to me. She has spent much of her life in Virginia and Maryland, raising three children with her “almost perfect” husband Michael P. Crocker, a Marine artillery officer and Baltimore trial lawyer. In recent years she has been living at the Fairhaven Retirement Community in Sykesville, MD, where she loves having visitors. She points out that “room and meals are provided when needed for visitors.”

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

Harry Anderson sent me a thoughtful note. He sounded like the Harry of olden days, not the 90-plus Harry living in a life-care community. He wasn’t joking when he encouraged me to join him for lunch at Mory’s in New Haven. Unfortunately, such expeditions are now behind me as I could never make it, even with a driverless car. However, his letter prompted an enjoyable conversation.

Harry told me his biography, The Strenuous Life of Harry Anderson, was available on Amazon. I checked it out and saw a large picture of Harry sporting a very serious moustache. It’s clear from the photo that, while strenuous, life has also been OK. We talked about our mutual friend the late Jack Castles, with whom Harry roomed as a seventh-grade camper and as a Columbia Law School student.

Faelton Perkins sounded upbeat despite being recently beset by the health woes so familiar to all of us. In Faelton’s case, it was a worn-out pacemaker,

which eventually was replaced by an experimental wireless unit in Philadelphia. He and wife Pauline live in Ewing, NJ, with family members close by. No one follows the fortunes of Andover more closely than Faelton.

Betty and Win Bernhard still reside in the house they designed and built in 1966, located in South Amherst, MA. As we talked, Win commented on the flower garden outside his kitchen window, still in full bloom with fall approaching. Not being able to drive prevents the Bernhards from attending the many events on the Amherst and UMass campuses they formerly enjoyed. Because of his esteemed reputation as a scholar of the 18th century, I asked Win to comment on America’s political situation.

He noted politics were also quite contentious in that earlier period, so our current strife is nothing new to public life.

I had a brief but most pleasant conversation with Charlie Kurtz, Bill Kurtz’s son in Denver. Bill is in good health and is a frequent visitor to the company office, to check on their lumber business.

Attempts to reach other members of our class were unsuccessful. Jack Sullivan, according to Faelton Perkins, now lives with a daughter in New Canaan, CT. He and John Leitch of Laconia, NH, were unavailable. Others whom I called had disconnected telephones, always an unwelcome sign.

It probably seems strange to continue these notes, given such a limited constituency. Yet I think it best to keep going and report on those of us who remain.

In the case of the Anderson family, nothing has changed. Molly and I live at Meadow Ridge, a lifecare community in Redding, CT. A son and daughter are nearby, which provides special friendship as we wind down wonderful lives. That’s it for now, except this final thought: Please drop me a line when you have a moment at jfanders21@gmail.com.

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

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

Bars Barian is still living in North Chatham, MA, along with his son, one of his daughters, and a big dog. Life is good for him; his daughter does the cooking, and he has plenty of company. He has another daughter in Seattle.

Brad Murphy, you will recall, attended our 75th Reunion. He reports that no one seemed to know much about the fact that it was his 75th, but someone scurried around and found a 1940 banner. They put him and his wife, Margaret, in a golf cart, found two young people to carry the banner, and lo and behold the Class of 1940, in the person of Brad Murphy, led the parade. While he is getting along OK, Brad has no plans to attend future reunions.

Now for the sad news.

Lew Averback died July 1, 2012, in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Lew will be remembered for his prowess at both basketball and baseball, playing on a ball club that had a most notable pitcher. Following service in the Army, Lew went on to Yale.

The inimitable Walter J. Curley died June 2, 2016, after a fall. Leaving Yale for the Marine Corps, he served as an infantry combat officer in the Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guam, and North China campaigns.

Following his return, he became a partner in the venture capital firm J.H. Whitney and Company.

Under the John Lindsay administration of NYC, Walter was commissioner of public events and chief of protocol. Walter served as ambassador to Ireland, appointed by President Gerald Ford. He also served as ambassador to France, appointed by President George H.W. Bush. He served as trustee and held directorships in many companies and received countless international awards and decorations. He authored four books. Walter emceed a number of our class gatherings and will be remembered for his droll sense of humor.

John “Jack” Klein died July 28, 2016, in St. Johns, FL. Jack and his wife, Nancy, enjoyed a number of wonderful years together in a retirement community near Jacksonville. For more than 20 years, they enjoyed the sunshine on the beach and attended plays and concerts in Jacksonville.

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ABBOT 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

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stay connected... bombarded with the usual political hoopla from both parties. With a little luck, the country will survive. In August, I spent a week in the hospital as a result of low sodium levels, and I survived. By the time you read these notes, we will have a new president, and I want to be around to find out who he or she is. I also want to be around for our 75th Reunion in June. There are about 45 of us left; let’s hope we are all well enough to attend.

Recently, I sent a copy of my memoirs, which includes comments on my time at Andover, to George Bush, hoping that he was well enough to read it. I received a nice thank-you letter from Barbara Bush indicating that he was, indeed, reading it. Copies are available for free, there being no sales.

Dudley Batchelor sent me a letter in July with comments on the election. Although he doesn’t favor either candidate, he leans toward Hillary, saying that at least she is “predictable.” As for Britain and Brexit, he believes the Brits made the right move. Dudley lives in St. Louis and regrets that he has no news of our classmates.

Sadly, I have to report the death of Bill Brown.

After graduating from Andover, Bill entered Harvard, enlisted in the Army, and attended Yale for pre-med studies. He graduated from Boston University School of Medicine and was board certified in general surgery. He served as a medical officer on four destroyers during the Korean War. He spent most of his career at Norwood (MA) Hospital, where he was chief of staff. He was predeceased by his wife of 59 years. He leaves four children and their families.

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

Phil Drake is again planning to organize an Andover ’43 Naples (FL) luncheon reunion in the latter part of February 2017. If you plan to be in the Naples area at that time, please be in touch with Phil or me. In April I received a nice note from Tom Sarnoff, who wrote, “I am still breathing, so I can’t complain. My wife, Jan, and I will be celebrating our 61st anniversary next month. We have three children and nine grandchildren (a little unbalanced, with seven girls and two boys), all of whom—luckily for us—live in or around the LA area, so we get to see them frequently. I guess that I was one of the babies in our class, as I won’t be reaching the magic number 90 until next February.

People often ask me if I’m retired, and my response is ‘No, I’m just tired.’ Actually I’m still working on a limited basis and am trying to get a new movie and a new TV series produced about Gumby, the little

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www.andover.edu/intouch green character that I helped to introduce at NBC 61 years ago and that I hope we all remember. It’s fun, but it’s not an easy assignment.”

Jim Munro writes, “This is my first winter at home in 16 years, and I can’t say I’ve missed the annual cruise.” No cruise, but a trip to the Mayo Clinic in August for a six-hour operation to repair what Jim referred to as “a wrinkle in my spine.” Jim is now home and singing the praises of the Mayo.

Happy birthday to Bard Smith’s wife, Charlotte, who celebrated her 90th in April.

Here in Dayton, Martha and I have enjoyed a good summer that included a new left hip for myself and finding several treasures while going over things that have accumulated in our 53 years in the same home. Twenty-five or 30 years ago, before we went away on a trip, I suggested Martha hide her jewelry, which she did. On our return, however, neither of us could remember where it was. The long-standing mystery was solved when some of the ladies in our family went through a closet filled with sewing fabric and found the box! We also had a stroke of luck in finding an anniversary card our children had given us in 1981 containing a $35 gift certificate from Siebenthaler’s, our local nursery.

The good folks there honored the certificate, and we went home with two perennials and a rose bush! You can be sure we will continue to go over our “inventory.”

On a more serious note, I’m sorry to report the loss of three of our classmates. As each name brings to mind memories of our times together, please join me in extending our sympathy to their families and friends.

Walter Cahners died April 11, 2016. A graduate of Harvard University, Wally served in the Navy during WWII and was recalled during the Korean War. Much of his business career was in the communications industry, including 50 years with Cahners Publishing Co., as well as consulting with publishers in the U.S. and Russia. He also served on a number of civic and business related boards including Magazine Publishers Association and Boston Children’s Hospital. In our 50th Reunion yearbook, Wally said tennis was one of his favorite activities, noting, “I play an annual doubles match with Don Budge as my partner and won a pro-am tournament in Las Vegas a few years back with Billie Jean King as my partner (against Roscoe Tanner).”

Wally was one of the strongest supporters of our class and among five classmates who attended our 70th Reunion as part of the Old Guard. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Sue, two daughters, and four grandchildren.

Kenneth Davis Jr. died May 17, 2016. He earned a BS degree in mechanical engineering at MIT and served on the USS Montgomery in WWII. Later, he obtained an MBA degree from Stanford University and began a 20-year career with IBM, where he rose to become vice president– treasurer. He left IBM to serve as assistant secretary of commerce and international business in the

Nixon administration. He later had a long career in investment banking. Ken’s passing was a surprise to me, as we were frequently in contact after he received the class notes. I was always impressed by how hard he worked on government issues he felt were important to the future of our country. I’ll miss those phone calls. Ken is survived by three daughters and two granddaughters.

Oswald “Sandy” Lowsley died May 16, 2016.

Following graduation from Cornell University in 1950, Sandy worked as a computer programmer for Shell Oil Co. and was supervisor of commercial programmers for Sinclair Oil Co. He was an avid bridge player and read extensively, often reading three books a week. He enjoyed traveling with his wife until he became too ill to travel. Sandy is survived by his wife of 57 years, Jeanne, and 14 nieces and nephews. When I spoke with Jeanne, the conversation ended with her remembrance, “Sandy always loved Andover.”

In addition to these three classmates, the summer issue of Andover magazine reported George Lewis had died Nov. 29, 2014, in Palos Verdes Estates, CA. However, I’ve been unable to obtain any additional information about him.

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

Sorry to say, I haven’t heard from many of our classmates of late, so there’s not much to report as the days dwindle down in 2016. But I can offer at least a couple of items, starting with yours truly.

To wit: On Sept. 5, Labor Day, my wife, Madlyn, and I flew to Paris for a two-week vacation. But less than two hours after we’d settled into the spacious Left Bank apartment we’d rented, I took a terrible fall. We phoned S.O.S. Médecins, a Paris-based emergency service that responds to calls for help day or night. One of their doctors soon arrived. He took my vitals, gave me a prescription for pain pills, and wished me well. His charge for the house call: 70 euros, or about $73. Can you beat that? For a French citizen, of course, it would have been free.

Not until we returned to New York and I had an X-ray did we realize the extent of my injuries, which included three broken ribs and more. Why, oh why, had I not heeded that admonition I’d heard more than once from Roger Strong, “Don’t fall”?

Though I was basically sidelined for the first few days in Paris, we still had a wonderful time. The city is as beautiful and seductive as ever, and the fabled French joie de vivre lives on. The sidewalk cafes are packed at lunchtime and even dinner, and people sharing a table prefer to talk to each other rather than into their smartphones. Bicyclists, of whom

there are many in Paris, would apparently rather die than be seen wearing bike helmets; probably a matter of aesthetics. The tattoo craze seems not to have arrived as yet. Though American tourists were less present (the return flight to New York was only two-thirds full), there was no shortage of Chinese, mostly young. There were some surprises, too—one being that the grouchy Paris taxi driver of yore has mysteriously morphed into Monsieur Nice Guy, cheerfully at your beck and call. The taxis themselves are bigger and more comfortable, too, and are very up-to-date technologically. What can I say? We’ll always have Paris.

A blog posting by Richard Abrons earlier this past summer made me laugh. Here’s an excerpt: “It is well known that Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory that would explain everything. He never found it. What is not known is that I, too, have been searching for a unified theory. Not in physics, of course. I almost flunked that at Andover. No, a unified theory that would explain our lives—what drives us, what halts us—you know—everything.

I have not found it either. But I have come close, listening to the song ‘Make Someone Happy,’ as sung by Jimmy Durante....You can hear Jimmy belt it out on YouTube. I strongly advise you to do this.”

Richard continues: “In November I am throwing myself a 90th birthday party. I am going to invite the people who have made me happy down the avenues I’ve traveled—family, schools, sports, work, theatre, Henry Street, community gardens, Bronx Children’s Museum, old friends, new friends.

Some of you will know only one or two others there, maybe just me. Well, you belong there. You make me happy. I hope I make you happy, too.”

A brief email arrived from Peter Baker in Oregon, raising questions about the online versus print edition of Andover magazine. But he concludes philosophically: “My health at age 90 is OK, not great, but I’m not complaining.” Sound familiar?

I close on a sad note: in September, Whitney Stevens lost his wife, Helene, and some days later, Roger Strong’s wife, Lee, passed away, too. Our hearts go out to Whit and Roger—close friends of each other, dear classmates of us all—and we send condolences to their families as well.

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

Dear Andover Class of ’45, It is with great sadness that I inform you of the passing of dear classmate Brot Bishop. Brot was an outstanding member of our class and will be sorely missed. Brot joined the Marines after PA and then went on to graduate from Yale in 1950.

He then went into the family business, Pendleton Woolen Mills. Brot served on many boards. Three of his grandchildren graduated from Andover: Jon Bakken ’12, Thomas Bakken ’14, and Peter Bakken ’16. We in the Class of ’45 had a wonderful four years at PA, and it was individuals like Brot who made it so. I am sorry to have to communicate this sad news, and I hope this note finds you and yours well. My sincere thanks to all of you for making the Class of ’45 so special.

God bless you, Bill Barnum

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Andover experience and proudly displayed his cum laude certificate.”

I sent all of you a list of our “active” and “not so active” classmates. Thank you, Art Asbury, Pete Harrison, John Macomber, and Dick Phelps for your notes in return. If you missed yours or have news to communicate, call 603-869-2582 or email noelcliff@msn.com.

One last note from Chan Chrisman: “Thanks for the handsome mailing. Changed my phone to 408-666-6044. Dear wife and I built a home and family when I came home from Korea. We’re still here. Your two lists are complete and appreciated. I talked to little sister in Connecticut today. She’s been looking for a way to find Corky. Now she has it.”

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

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

One of the things we shared, as a generation, was the inspirational speeches of our leaders, 70-plus years ago: “We have nothing to fear but fear itself ” and “These are not dark days: these are great days—the greatest days our country has ever lived.”

I listened tonight to a divisive speech by one of our presidential candidates. It was not about “we,” it was about “me”; it was not about “the best” in us, it was about “the worst.” By the time you read this, we will have resolved this particular contest and moved on to making this world a better place. I thank you, our departed classmates and our school, for doing your part to make our 88 years our “finest hour.”

I sent many of you (but not all) a note from Ilse Corydon on the passing of Jeff Corydon, who tied with Geoff Bush for the brightest in our class: “I read your report of the reunion festivities, and Jeff would have thoroughly enjoyed them. Alas, he passed away on June 20, following a lengthy hospitalization for what we had hoped would bring him recovery from a fall at home. Jeff retired from his U.S. State Department foreign service career in 1989 and right away pursued his dream of freelance writing. His inspiration to pen articles and stories on various topics was phenomenal. I am surrounded by the products of his prolific writings, which his daughter has neatly catalogued and compiled in beautiful albums. In my heart I carry indelible memories of a rich and happy 39-year marriage to Jeff. At one time he gave me a tour of the Andover campus while we were vacationing in New England. Jeff has spoken fondly of his

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[Editor’s note: David Owsley called to let classmates know about this video, which he thought might be of interest: https://vimeo.com/128513855.

An accompanying text reads: “This documentary tells the story of how an average American town came to have an extraordinary art museum.

David T. Owsley, a surviving grandson of the famous industrialist and philanthropist Frank C. Ball, has continued his grandfather’s tradition of donating to the art museum on the Ball State University campus. Gift of David Owsley chronicles his journey to become an art museum curator and personal collector of art. The documentary also illustrates the impact that Owsley’s contributions to the museum have had on the community of Muncie and the students of Ball State.”]

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

Long telephone chat with Fairfield Frank Dubois, whose home base is a retirement community in Naples, FL. She and her husband spend a total of about four months a year there. The rest of the time they spend traveling to see their four children and 12 grandchildren. When I spoke to her, she was in Chicago with her son and his five children, including a set of twins. Twins run in her family, and her daughter, a State Department official who has lived in Haiti, Oslo, and Vienna, has triplets.

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stay connected... summer family reunion in a cottage in the north woods, with no plumbing or electricity, which they have owned since 1959. You go, girl!

I am in the throes of planning my mother’s 111th (!) birthday party at the Pierre Hotel. As always, it is climaxed by Mom dancing—in high heels—with son-in-law Oscar Tang ’56. She has always been a fervent admirer of Andover, and right now there are two Juliana Young Koo scholarship students at the school —a kind of repayment for the generous scholarships my sisters, Shirley Young ’51 and Frances Young Tang ’57, received from Abbot.

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

We lost two friends and classmates within one week this summer. We are indebted to Alan Schwartz for these words on the passing of Philip Stanley Aronson. Alan roomed with Phil during their four years at Yale.

Phil Aronson of Chestnut Hill, MA, died peacefully in the hospital on July 14, 2016, after courageously battling the effects of Parkinson’s disease for more than 20 years. Phil was well known by his many friends for his keen sense of humor (delivered always with a straight face and dry, subtle wit).

After Andover, Phil graduated from Yale and served as a supply officer for three years in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict. He also earned an MBA degree from Babson College.

Giving expression to his conservative and thoughtful nature, Phil entered the financial services industry, where he specialized and distinguished himself in fixed-income investments. He began his career with Goldman-Sachs and spent a majority of his career with Drexel Burnham Lambert and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Phil loved music and performed in both the Andover and Yale bands as a percussionist, enjoyed tennis, was an avid golfer, and enjoyed following all the Boston sports teams. Phil cherished education and supported many philanthropic organizations, but he held Andover in special regard.

He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Carole; his sons, Stephen and Daniel; six grandchildren; and his sister, Lois.

Family and friends filled Wilson Chapel in Newton, MA, to join Carole and listen to Phil’s children and grandchildren bear witness to his warmth, humor, and affection.

Sitting in the congregation were Audrey and Fred Horne, Nancy and Mike Hurwitz, Lila and Bob Mehlman, Barbara and Dick Rubin, Ronnie and Alan Schwartz, Maralyn and Bob Segal, and Bob Whitney.

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www.andover.edu/intouch Bob Brace was a classmate of Preston H. “Sandy” Saunders at Dartmouth and a neighbor in Dedham, MA. Sandy passed away at his home in Westwood, MA, on July 20, 2016. Bob contributed these words: Upon graduating from Andover, Sandy matriculated at Dartmouth College, where he was active in the Dartmouth Outing Club, assisting with the ski team and Winter Carnival, and ultimately served in leadership roles during his junior and senior years. He graduated as a member of the class of 1952. He went on to Harvard Law School and received his degree in 1955. He subsequently joined the law firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, becoming a partner in 1963. In 1998 he joined Nichols & Pratt, staying until his retirement, in 2014.

Sandy is survived by his wife, Rebecca Bulkley Saunders; daughter Katharine Grove and her husband, John, of Needham, MA; son Benjamin Saunders and his wife, Desiree, of Cheyenne, WY; four grandchildren; and his brother, Timothy Saunders, of Wellesley, MA. He was an avid outdoorsman and conservationist. Hiking, skiing, and whitewater canoeing were an important part of his life.

Sandy was also a dedicated volunteer, with many years of service to a number of organizations.

He served two separate terms as president of the Appalachian Mountain Club. He was a life trustee of the Museum of Science in Boston, chair of the Trustee of Reservations in Massachusetts, and a board member of the Northern Forest Center, Hale Reservation, and the New Hampshire chapter of the Trust for Public Land.

Sandy was among the founding members of a group of classmates working in downtown Boston who met several times a year for lunch. Known as the “Boston Group,” we continue to meet monthly in the suburbs. He served with distinction as chairman of our 65th Reunion. He said on more than one occasion that the years spent at Andover were the most important part of his formal education.

First Church and Parish in Dedham, MA, was filled for his memorial service. Several people spoke movingly of the full life Sandy had lived, but perhaps Becky captured that life most succinctly when she wrote to inform Allen West of Sandy’s passing: “I wanted to let you know that Sandy died comfortably here at home this past Wednesday evening. Our children were here and had been here for a couple of days, so we had sung songs and told stories to him. The last words we heard from him were in answer to his choice of music: ‘Gilbert and Sullivan,’ he said firmly.”

Chuck Maslin and Charlie Treuhold emailed to reflect on these losses.

My wife, Maralyn, and I rendezvoused for a few days on Cape Cod with Joan and John Monsky, who drove from NYC with their daughter. Nancy and Mike Hurwitz crossed from Martha’s Vineyard, where they had been visiting

family, to complete the reunion.

I spoke with Bernie Gaffney, whose voice has maintained the tone of a young man’s. He lost his wife, Meg, a few years back after a long illness, but he has not given up on life and continues to sit on the District Superior Court of Connecticut in New Britain. His son, who followed him into law, practices nearby. He has three daughters located about the nation who remain close and eight grandchildren, at my last count. He sounded proud and happy.

Don Campbell called in from Colorado Springs, CO, where he spends part of the year with wife Nancy. He had a medical setback a few months ago and has been struggling to get back in stride. He recalled the success of the Crest campaign, which he led at P&G; the fire burns bright.

Paul McHugh sent a note continuing our conversation about progress in social integration and the place of social networks in this process.

He is considering entering the fray, and we will be happy to pass along his commentary, if the commentary does not first appear in the WSJ. Shelby Coates sent a note with a picture of his grandniece training in Rio for a catamaran event.

She came very close to getting a bronze.

It’s time to start thinking of June 2018 and our 70th Reunion. Mark it down.

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

A number of requests have come to me about the Olympics, so here it goes. The 1948 Olympic Games began for me on School Street in the spring of 1948 when senior Mike Mooney ’48 hailed me, saying, “Let’s get together in London.” He had just been selected to crew on the big six-metre sloop, which took first place. He was selected by his skipper, whereas I had to qualify in the Olympic trials.

The celebratory feast for my success and his took place at the Michelin-rated Claridge’s, with roast beef carved on a serving trolley, accompanied by champagne. The games were staged in the original Wembley Stadium before an audience that included King George, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, and other members of the royal family. Red Smith of the New York Times commented sourly that the royals and 85,000 others assembled dutifully to observe a bunch of skinny men racing around in their underwear while everyone dodged what thousands of released pigeons generally do. The darling of the games was a 30-year-old mother of two, Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four track first places in an era when no one paid much attention to women’s sports. I skipped the opening ceremonies, not

wanting to wreck my legs by standing for hours in an assembly area before marching into the stadium.

These were the austerity games. The British were broke and exhausted after WWII. Christopher Wren’s landmark Saint Paul’s Cathedral miraculously escaped the near-total destruction around it, becoming a symbol of indomitable Britain and certifying that God had a hand in human affairs. The accommodations for the swimming team were in the former RAF officer’s barracks in Uxbridge. We were each assigned what in Britain is referred to as a “dogsbody,” someone to run any kind of menial errand. Airfreight brought our food. At the end of our meals the waitstaff cleared the tables and then scraped the plates to get the leftover steak for their family’s dinner. I suffered mightily from the clammy English cold. There was not sufficient coal to meet the nation’s demand for heat. The stadium dressing room’s concrete floor was so cold that, when there, we never took off our street shoes and reported to the starting blocks in leather shoes. We voted on whether to heat the locker-room floor one degree or make the frigid pool a bit warmer. I knew the gods were smiling when, on the day of my 1500-meter final, the sun rose brightly, warming the glass-roofed pool. For each event, assuming you advance through the early rounds, you must race three times against the world’s best: prelims, semifinals, and finals. Since I was in three events, that meant nine races in just a few days. So, my memories are mainly of being cold, waterlogged, and weary: not exactly the “thrill of victory.” The most agonizing defeat, without any doubt, belongs to marathoner Etienne Gailly, who entered the stadium in first place, collapsed, regained his footing, collapsed again. Two passed him as he staggered, dazed and exhausted, to third.

Television nauseatingly overuses the words “the gold.” The athletes rarely do. Nor does anyone with a modicum of sense pay attention to national medal count: The Olympics display individual excellence.

One of the most cherished of my memories is the daily contact with a cross section of the greatest American athletes of our time.

Despite their flaws, the Olympics are the greatest show on earth. I am thrilled beyond measure to have been a part of this marvelous tradition.

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

What am I doing here? I often wonder myself. It has to do with being 83—time to be farmed out to a very pleasant retirement home a few blocks from my son and his family of five. Time to stop spending so much money in New York. Time to get to know

some of my grandchildren better. Time to live in a healthier, happier place. Time to grow up. A hard decision, as I also have grandchildren in California and North Carolina.

Texas is strange for a New Yorker. Flat as a pancake. Like all Western cities, Dallas is enormous.

If you don’t have a car, you take a murderously expensive taxi. And the food is funny. But the people are sweet and friendly and say “y’all” and call me “Miss Nora” or “girl.” You don’t hear that that much anymore. I like it!

Trouble is, I miss New York, with all its warts. I’m used to the traffic, the silly shops, the funny people, and the culture, I suppose, even though climbing steps is no longer possible and subway days are behind me. I miss the street theatre, the rappers, the sidewalk art; I miss my chums to complain to.

Who knows? I might go back. I’ve had a bad accident and recovered, so who knows? It’s a crazy place, but I belong there.

I have one death to report: Mary Jane “Mickey” Greenwald Denzer in White Plains (see the brief mention in the summer issue) on Dec. 16, 2015.

Pickle (an occasional nickname) was pixie-like, graceful, a great dancer. She ran a very successful dress shop in White Plains, NY.

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

Sometimes it’s important to step back from more timely class news and focus on how individual class members—like Tony Beilenson, for instance— have left their mark over the years.

Millions of people are drawn each year to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in Los Angeles County, and many will stop by the Anthony C. Beilenson Interagency Visitor Center to ask for directions, enjoy the exhibitions, pick up guidebooks and memorabilia, and educate themselves about the park’s many attractions.

The visitor center bears Tony’s name in recognition of the leading role he played in bringing the recreation area into existence. Back in 1978, as a freshman congressman, he authored the federal legislation that created the area, as part of a major national parks authorization bill. Then, when competition for scarce federal dollars grew increasingly tight during the Reagan Administration, Tony was able to obtain needed funds from one congress after another to acquire land within the new area’s boundaries. Thanks to a supportive congressional colleague, Tony secured a series of appropriations, eventually totaling the $125 million that had been authorized for land acquisition within the Santa Monica park area’s boundaries.

The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is America’s largest urban national park, comprising some 150,000 acres along the California coastline above LA and containing numerous state and local parks and more than 500 miles of trails. It preserves the mountains themselves and their fauna, flora, coastal vistas, and immediate surroundings, protecting them from developers and allowing LA residents and other urban dwellers of all ages to enjoy the great outdoors close to home.

Tony moved out to LA after Harvard College and Harvard Law School to embark on a long and successful career in public service. He became a respected member of the California state assembly (1963 to 1966) and then of the state senate (1967 to 1976). As a state senator, he was the author of numerous environmental protection laws as well as many other important measures.

Tony was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1976 and served 10 successive two-year terms as a congressman, representing a district in Los Angeles.

It was during his first term that he was urged by local environmental advocates, including the Friends of the Santa Monica Mountains, to help protect these coastal mountains by bringing them under the aegis of the federal government.

Tony was more than happy to get involved.

He had loved the outdoors since childhood and became an enthusiastic hiker in New England and the Adirondacks back when he was a teenager and then a college student.

Tony retired undefeated from his House seat in January 1997. During his 10 terms, he gained the respect of fellow lawmakers for his intelligence, personal integrity, and political savvy.

As to more timely class news, Charlie Flather has clearly been bitten by the wanderlust bug. After our 65th Reunion, you’ll recall, Charlie headed for the North Pole aboard a Russian icebreaker. This winter, Charlie said, he was planning to head in the opposite direction aboard a cruise ship bound for the Falklands, South Georgia, Elephant Island, and Antarctica. In the preceding summer months, he had followed the journey of explorers Lewis and Clark along the Snake and Columbia rivers and then was off to Italy on a trip, sponsored by Colonial Williamsburg, to retrace Thomas Jefferson’s travels in that country. Charlie cleared his decks for more travel last May when he finally retired after 58 years in the investment-management field, the last 30 of them as proprietor of his own firm.

Down East in late summer, Phil Brooks reported that Pim Epler and his wife, Eleanor, visited Phil and wife Claire in Boothbay Harbor for lunch and a slow boat ride around the harbor.

“Those two do seem to keep on moving, although we are all a lot slower and more awkward getting in and out of a boat,” Phil wrote. “I usually take one or two short overnight cruises along the coast of Maine each summer, but my days of longdistance ocean cruising are over. My boat Fiddler is Andover | Winter 2017

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“The one recreation that I enjoy most these days,” Phil added, “is accompanying some of the local professional musicians on my upright bass.

Of course, the only time I was offered money was if I wouldn’t play!”

Dick Bell, one of our class’s under-recognized authors, demurred when I nudged him about finally publishing The Battle of Bahrain, his entertaining memoir of his post-college U.S. Navy experiences while he was on active duty in the eastern Mediterranean. Dick did report that he’d submitted an article to the American Fly Fisher, the journal of the American Museum of Fly Fishing. “I haven’t been inspired to write for a long time, and that was fun,” he said.

“I’m still a passionate singer,” Caleb Woodhouse wrote, “perhaps less fanatical, but (so people mention) improving. Our studio teacher has a young pupil who is really talented and whose recital I attended. At the reception, she gave me a warm hug, telling me that I sang with such passion. I never had a lovelier compliment. So there’s still (at my advanced age) some hope.”

While various classmates were suffering aches, pains, or worse, Skip Schaum’s laconic report just before Labor Day hit an upbeat note: “Annual physical very good.… Two hips and two new corneas, and now I am at least a three-milliondollar man!”

If you’re a careful reader of Andover magazine, you noticed in the summer 2016 issue a photo of Tom Keefe and Tony Herrey, with Tom’s wife, Susan, and Tony’s daughter, Dorothea ’85, at a Carnegie Hall celebration of the Thomas Cochran Society, whose members are generous PA benefactors.

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

Despite my late start gathering notes, four of our classmates sent news. I hope the rest of you will think of happenings you’d like us to know about! If you have email addresses, please email them to me.

We offer grateful thanks to Connie Hall DeNault, for doing so much for Abbot over the years and for being our class secretary for the past 15.

I had a wonderful long phone call from Carolin “Linn” Furst Carlson from her retirement complex, Bristol Village, in Waverly, OH. She says she’s slowing down a bit but still reads to her quadriplegic friend, Roger, chats with wheelchairbound folks in her complex’s medical center, writes

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www.andover.edu/intouch letters for veterans, and spends much of her time keeping in touch with her own family and her late husband’s, scattered around the country. Until recently she regularly visited her three children and their families, but now they make annual trips to Waverly.

I received a nice letter from Nancy Mercer Welch, who’s living in Pinellas Park, FL. She’s president of the Suncoast chapter of USA Dance, a national nonprofit organization for amateur ballroom dancers. She says “I’ve been dancing through my senior years, publishing a bimonthly newsletter, holding monthly dances at the elegant Gulfport Casino Ballroom, and serving as assistant DJ for my sweetheart, Sam, at some of the dances.”

(You can check the Internet for the Aug./Sept. ’16 Suncoast Dancers newsletter, Tempo: http://bit. ly/2eVxrD3. Nancy is the gorgeous gal in the ruffled dress on the far left of the group picture on page 13.) “This dance group also gives exhibitions at community events, retirement centers, assisted living facilities, and condo clubhouses. Sam and I have been an item since 1994. My life has been blessed with three loving children, dancing, and good health! Before I retired, I had a great career as the weekend physical therapist at St. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Petersburg. I had studied physical therapy at Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences in Boston with Fran Russell Phelps and met up with Fran a few years ago at one of the Bouvé reunions on Cape Cod.” Barbara “Gibby” Gibson Roth-Donaldson has nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

She and husband Frank moved from Massachusetts to Florida in 2008, after they both fell on black ice.

They are happily settled in a retirement community founded by the Mennonites in Sarasota. Frank is a retired MD who spent 10 years in Rhodesia running two hospitals and then moved to Newton, MA, to open a practice there. Gibby and Frank met 25 years ago. Gibby has three children: Allen, CEO of his civil engineering firm in Philadelphia; Douglas, executive VP of BB&T Bank in Richmond, VA; and Margot ’84, mother of four children, two of whom are in college now. “I am still a musician, singer, pianist, and organist; still playing at church on Sundays and singing in a local auditioned chorus of 110 members. I love to travel and have gone to mainland Europe at least once a year since the 1980s. I’ve just returned from three weeks in England, playing organs in cathedrals (including Westminster Abbey!), hearing stellar choruses and other concerts, and visiting friends.

We are very lucky to be healthy, relatively energetic, and active in our community. I appreciate not having to cook! Frank does a lot of writing, and we both walk two miles a day. We’ve gotten used to the heat but escape to the North to visit children once or twice a year.” Gibby has attended every reunion since graduating! She claims she always meets at least one Andover alumnus who remembers being

taught French by her father. This year, Lois Lovejoy Johnson (also from Sarasota) and Gibby attended reunion together.

A note from Patty Smith Langdon says she has become active in a local organization designed to help folks lead happy, productive lives in their own homes as they grow older—part of the nationwide Village to Village Network, which started on Beacon Hill in Boston. “We do some very interesting things together—a recent symposium on the Middle East, for example, with a panel of 10 of us who had worked and lived in that part of the world, along with speakers from our Muslim community. We take trips to historical places of interest, attend cultural events and lectures, and even scored tickets to Hamilton. Help is available from our central office in times of need, and a host of volunteers offer assistance with anything from setting up a computer to driving members to appointments.

“I enjoy visiting my children and grandchildren in New York and Cambridge, MA, go to lots of plays in New Haven, attend lectures and symposiums at Yale, and have a wide and varied group of friends and acquaintances. Life is good.”

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

Fall looms large! I’m finishing our notes on a crystal-clear day at our beach house in Lonelyville, on Fire Island, NY. One more check, and then the “send” button and a swim!

Just spoke with Richard “Kappy” Kapelson, who was on his way out to play a round of golf at an undisclosed location somewhere in Eastern Canada. His game must be off, or he would have mentioned the club! He is rounding into shape after rehabbing various parts of his anatomy. He and Don Falvey ’52 recently hatched a great idea—a monthly or bimonthly luncheon for classmates in Boston at differing locations, similar to the PA 48’s program. We’ll keep you informed. He also said that Bill Duffy is recovering from recent surgery on his hip. Or his knee? At this stage, it’s tough to keep track! Kap has had shoulder, knee, and hip encounters, and I have had three right leg (ankle) surgeries, two right knee operations, and a left hip replacement. We’re just three members of the bionic Class of 1951.

Bob Doran almost enjoyed a lobster roll luncheon with Don Falvey at the weekly Episcopal Church gathering in Vineyard Haven, MA. Donny couldn’t make it. In September, Bob hosted a “Celebration of Life” luncheon for Froggy Townsend, a Yale classmate and gifted Whiffenpoof who passed away recently. Other great Whiffs

include Jim Doak and Bill Flanders.

I ended the fall notes mentioning that grandson Graham Rider would attend Andover’s Summer Session and added that I had the great fortune to graduate in 1951 (my first bite of the Andover magic), then relive my experience through daughter Jenny ’86’s years at Andover, and finally get my third bite at the apple with Graham’s five-week term at Summer Session.

Little did I realize how sweet that would be.

Wife Dorothy, Jenny, and I visited Graham during his fourth week. He was bursting to tell us that he had been selected to carry the American flag at the final all-school parade and chapel service.

Fifty-three nations were represented, totaling 598 students, including 120 from the USA. Graham led the parade across campus and into the chapel. His grades were near perfect! Proud is an understatement!

Recently I checked the list of notable Andover graduates on the PA website. Abbot graduate Clemency Coggins ’51 is on the short list. The long list includes Ev Anderson, Tim Anderson, Ron Ansin, Ozzie Ayscue, Steve Booth, Fred Brandauer, Alex de Lahunta, Bob Doran, Tony duPont, Walter Goffart, F.M. Kimball, Billy Lee, Rosamond Peck, Tony Quainton, Klaus Sengelmann, Bob Thompson, Dick Ullman, Dave West, Frank Yatsu, and Shirley Young. What an impressive showing from our class. Please spend a rainy afternoon on the Andover website reading about those honored.

What a wonderful history!

Ed Nef is hard at work editing and adding to his film about Andover, which we contributed to at our 65th. The final version should be finished soon and ready for prime time.

Dave Brodeur writes that he moved to Gloucester, MA, in 2010. He asked to be remembered to Ozzie Ayscue, Tony duPont, Irv Kelsey, Bob Bachmann ’50, Don Falvey, and Pete Spruance. He wrote fondly of Bob Kimball and his roommates lower year, Frank Yatsu and Fred Weicker.

I received the sad news that Jerry Ward passed away. Read his obituary at http://bit.ly/2e3h4F6 for a smile. My favorite Jerry story: Jerry Ward and fellow classmate Jerry Lasley were fast friends.

Jerry Ward arranged a blind date for the prom for Jerry Lasley with his sister, Joan; they eventually wed. Some years later, at a reunion, Jerry Ward was overheard telling the story, muttering to a group at a reunion, “Geez, I set up a prom date. I didn’t expect it would turn into a marriage!”

I copied Joan Lasley on the current version of the trailer of Ed Nef ’s film. She writes, “OMG! I’ve watched and listened to the video! What a wonderful experience. I loved hearing Ozzie talk about learning to tie a bowtie from Jerry. I laughed aloud at some of the comments, especially from John Cobb. He certainly hasn’t lost his sense of the absurd! Loved your Kemper story and the raccoon

coat and subsequent remembrances from the Class of ’52, a treasure. Sorry that Pete Baldwin didn’t attend. I knew brother Jerry Ward wouldn’t be coming.”

Joan couldn’t attend our reunion because she was busy at her Wellesley 60th. More than 100 of her classmates attended.

With the help of a friend, Steve Yamamoto emailed, lamenting that he was not with us at our 65th.He sends his best to Ed Nef and all who attended. Billy Lee also sent a message to all classmates, wishing he had been with us to share the joy and friendship! He added a P.S.: “An article I presented to the All-China Women’s Federation and Women of China magazine will be published globally next month.”

In late October, I went to Jacksonville, FL, to attend a reunion of the crew of my destroyer, the USS Abbot. Though our ranks are depleted, the reunions are well attended and the spirit never wavers.

I write these notes on 9/11, watching the coverage of the tragedy on TV. God bless our country and men and women in uniform, and God bless Andover!

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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

Sad news about the passing of class secretary Mike Bromberg and Abbot Academy’s final principal, Don Gordon. Mike was an eminent New Jersey trial attorney who served for 28 years as managing principal of Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, where he mentored many young lawyers. Mike was justly proud of the Bromberg brothers (Ken, Eric, and Bruce) restaurant “empire” and their eateries in New York, Las Vegas, LA, and London.

Geoff Brittin wrote of rooming junior year with Mike, Harris Faigel, and Glenn Bridges (under housemaster Elbert Weaver) and reported how Mike’s dad retrieved Mike and his belongings from Blair Academy after Mike’s Sept. 20 Andover acceptance. Geoff also recounted visiting Mike in Passaic, NJ, and boating with him at the family’s

Lake Hopatcong vacation home. Geoff and wife Jirapa are moving shortly from Tennessee (Lloyd Farrar country) to Gig Harbor, WA, and what sounds like a spectacular location on Puget Sound.

Don Gordon, only 33 when appointed, worked from 1968 to 1973 with Ted Sizer and others preparing Abbot for the Andover-Abbot merger.

After leaving Andover, he worked as a consultant and then taught at colleges in New Hampshire and Colorado before retiring in 2006.

Kit Smith writes from Hawaii, where his 65th Punahou School reunion will be held next year, preventing Kit from attending our 65th. Kit has returned several times for off-year reunions to play trombone with the Old Guard Aces—with Lloyd Farrar serving as inspiration—and has been impressed by the rich ethnic diversity of the student body. He’s also completed nine (!) Boston Marathons, with a couple of age-category awards in the 70s division.

Charlie Greene plans to attend the 65th next year. He writes of studying organ with George Luhrmann in the chapel and mentions he’s lost contact with close Andover friends Buddy Warren and Chip Lundborg.

My wife, Geri, and I moved from New Jersey to Toledo, OH, at the end of 2004 to watch three splendid grandsons grow up. Now they’ve graduated from college and dispersed, and our daughter and son-in-law have developed into serious triathletes (Diana has qualified for the 2017 world championships, so we’ll be providing moral support in Chattanooga next September). Thus abandoned in Toledo, we decamped to Sarasota last December.

We began spending some winter time in Florida in 2007 so I could compete in their desirable (and highly competitive) tennis tournaments. The irony is that my back is now kaput, so even recreational tennis is no longer possible. The solution: volunteer to serve as class secretary.

Twenty Messers and partners spanning three generations gathered in Cape Hatteras this past July for something of a reunion.

Class president Ed Selig reports than he, Hubie Fortmiller, and Joe Wennik will shortly spend an entire day on campus advancing plans for this year’s reunion.

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

Setting: Cape Porpoise, Kennebunkport, ME. Time: three days in September 2016. Cast of characters: Pam Bushnell Ellis; Betsy Hitzrot Evans and her husband, Dick Evans; Anne Oliver Jackson and her Andover | Winter 2017

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From Pam, our hostess on Cape Porpoise: “I found that Abbot was certainly not gone after six-plus decades, after a wonderful visit with all the above! Pat and I shared all four years, while others attended only during our last two, and yet it made no difference. I had reconnected with Pat once over the years but never Corny, and now have two new good friends.

“Memories came wafting back, with Betsy supplying many forgotten by most of us. My biggest take from our brief time together is to urge all of our classmates to connect with any who are geographically near, to reach out and get together!

We had a ball. I now live on Sanibel (FL) full time and spend a month in Cape Porpoise in September, renting a house that turns out to be just 10 minutes away from Corny. Who knows who’s near you and might have shared the Abbot experience?”

We certainly did have a ball—and there were plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. It happens that Betsy not only has the best memory among us but also the best techie skills.

Here’s the scene (as was recorded on video): a couch in the family room occupied by Betsy, holding a pair of wireless headphones and her iPad displaying a book, sitting between Anne and Pam. She has been asked to explain the intricacies of her reading ensemble.

Anne (looking at the book on Betsy’s iPad and wondering why Betsy doesn’t simply read it): Can’t you just have it without the speakers?

Betsy: No, because I’m in bed.

Anne: Yeah, I know—but the thing is, we’re here and you’re not in bed...

Betsy: Well, I don’t want anybody else to hear it.

Anne: Are these wireless headphones?

Betsy: Uh-huh, uh-huh.

Anne: Oh, you’re not plugged into this (pointing to the iPad).

Betsy: Uh-uh.

Pam: So any earphones would work?

Betsy: No, no. Remember I showed you, it has a— Anne: These are wireless.

Betsy: Yeah, this is wireless.

Pam: Oh, it’s wireless!

Betsy: It’s charged, and it has a little Bluetooth thingy going on.

Pam: OK, so it has to be Bluetooth.

Betsy: And wireless.

And with that under our belts, we all agreed that life was nothing like it used to be.

Corny, who lives nearby in Arundel, joined us for lunch and supper, and we visited her at her home beside the Kennebunk River. A tour of her house— designed years ago by her husband, John—and of her serious garden, full of kale, tomatoes, and many other delights, as well as a bevy of chickens wandering on the outskirts, filled us all with wonder.

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www.andover.edu/intouch Corny, Betsy, and Anne have promised to share their thoughts and memories of this visit and of anything else they happen to remember. However, you will have to wait for the next installment of class notes to find out what they have to say. I hope you will add your news and reminiscences as well.

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

I never thought of myself as a TV serial producer, but here’s the latest episode of my Western (see summer 2016 notes for the first installment).

Pete Capra has sent me a photo of four teenagers working on the Mary’s River Ranch. Pete is the on the far left. Charlie Brodhead doesn’t recognize himself and can’t name the other two. Pete also copied me on the following email he sent to Charlie: “Charlie. Of course I should have mentioned you in my write-up. Who were the other two?

“I arrived later than you and the others. I had started the summer driving a car from Detroit with two other Andoverites for a dealership in Seattle and stayed at Dick Parke ’52’s home there before hitchhiking down to Reno, NV, where I made an off-hand call to Mr. Wright [father of Bill Wright ’50] at the ranch regarding a summer job. What could he say but ‘Come on and we will get you a job pitching hay’?

“I stayed in a bunkhouse with the one-eyed foreman and hid under the blankets one night as he had a knock-down, bare-knuckle fight with another ranch hand in the room. I also remember that one of us took a real knock to the head in the barn. Stacking hay was a rigorous job, as you know too well.

“I forgot who it was—maybe you!—who joined me in hitching a ride to Salt Lake City on a freight train at the end of the summer.

“My return with my grandson was a dream come true and maybe opened his eyes to the vast beauty of our country. The ranch has not physically changed much. One of Bill’s sons runs the ranch, and Bill and Mary live in Elko with a home also on the ranch; wonderful people.”

Mighty Joe Mesics sent the following: “On July 6, I left Cornwall [PA] Manor for a short bicycle ride. Rode into Lebanon, was on my way back to Cornwall on the Lebanon Valley Rail Trail.

Proceeded to the crossing at South Ninth Street, where I stopped to wait for traffic to clear. Both lanes stopped to allow me to cross on the protected trail crossing. I clipped in, took two or three pedal strokes, was in the middle of the two lanes of cars stopped on my right when I heard a noise, looked up, and saw a motorcycle about 40 feet from me, coming directly at me, between the two lanes of

cars stopped to allow me safe passage. Motorcycle hit me on my right, broadside, knocking me down and off my bicycle.

“No head injuries or broken or fractured bones, just a badly battered right hand/arm, some other injuries, and a serious, large leg wound. Ambulance to hospital ER. Received 40-plus stitches to put leg back together, but it didn’t work. After 11 weeks, three surgeries, including skin graft, and 39 days on a wound vacuum, I am about rounding third base, heading home. Surgeon’s office still dressing lower right leg wound; in maybe two more weeks I can finish the care myself. Expect to be back to my abnormal self by around middle of October.

“Thanks to a loving wife, wonderful care during hospital tour, good surgeon, lots of friends, and tons of prayers, I didn’t lose my leg and am on the way to full (almost) recovery. Will have some permanent scarring, other not-so-prominent evidence, and psychological issues regarding moving vehicles.

But so what? I never was planning to be in any beauty contests.”

And Skip Kimball sent the following: “My wife of 59 years, Linda Renfroe Kimball, passed away, leaving me, five children, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren to fend for ourselves.

After a number of years, I finally admitted she was more intelligent than I was. She had a lot of common sense, and she did a wonderful job of raising our brood. She will be missed.” We all extend our condolences.

Roger Donald emailed: “I’m fine, as are my kids, who turn 53 and 55 this month(!). One has already visited and the other— with his kids—is on his way, so I won’t make it back to NYC this year. So I send you—and any of our classmates you see or talk to—my fondest regards.”

In June, Paulette and Bill Kaufmann and I attended a memorial service for Dave Bowman in Darien, CT. Also present were Kathy and Pete Capra and Dick Lumpkin.

In July, Bill, Paulette, and I, along with Turhan Tirana, Bob Semple ’54, and Bob’s son, attended the memorial service for Dutch Wolff in NYC. In June, Ray Lamontagne reported that that he had spoken with Zeus Stevens and Bob Pelletreau as a result of Ray’s daughter having found old photos of our graduation. This gave Ray the idea of collecting and producing a collection of classmates’ photos from our days at PA. I have prevailed on Dick Kain to be the archivist. So send up to 10 photos to Dick, digitally as an email attachment to kain@umn.edu or physically to 1 Orlin Avenue, S.E., Minneapolis MN 55414. If you want the physical photos back, please send a prepaid SASE or other suitable alternative. Dick reported that he witnessed the total eclipse of the sun in Indonesia on March 9. He plans to catch the next one on Aug. 21, 2017, perhaps with his and wife Kathie’s great-grandson, Keenan Alexander Larson-Mason.

Keep those cards and letters coming.

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

One of the big topics of conversation for us this past year has been how many of us celebrated our 80th birthdays. There were family gatherings and parties, including time spent in NYC for Judy Prior Blair and her two sons and families. Judy was able to visit the places where she worked and lived soon after college and savored the excitement of being back in the city. Doris Niemand Ruedin enjoyed a trip to a favorite spot in the mountains of North Carolina with family. My family honored my day with a generous donation to our local library’s children’s department, since I use the library every week to select books to read to the children in the preschool where I volunteer.

We remain an active group of women and many continue to travel. Sylvia Thayer and husband Philip Zaeder went to Iceland in July with son Thayer ’83 and family. In July, my husband, Howard, and I enjoyed a wonderful visit and lunch with Peggy Moore Roll and her husband, Jack, in Bath, ME. The Rolls had been to Boothbay Harbor to visit the Maine Botanical Gardens and to play golf. Jackie Wei Mintz planned to take a trip to China and Hong Kong (which Jackie still thinks of as separate from China) in October 2016. A friend who is an artist and fan of Hong Kong was to accompany Jackie. It will be interesting to hear about the trip as Jackie will be hosted by anthropologist colleagues of her late husband, Sid. Jackie writes that she is becoming more active again after Sid’s passing and has two art shows planned. She is also becoming more involved in the community where she is living. Jackie connected with Lucy Lippard by email after watching a film about the artist Eva Hesse; Lucy was one of the important commentators in the film. Lucy shared that she had written the first book about Hesse.

Many in our class have been fortunate to meet from time to time, not always easy since we continue to lead active lives and schedules conflict. However, I was able to organize a meeting with Lucy Lippard and Leslie Hendrix ’73.

Leslie has been leading the effort to build up the Abbot Archives, including collecting oral history interviews [see page 9]. After several attempts, we picked Aug. 19 to meet for lunch at our cottage in Georgetown, ME. Leslie flew up from NYC and Lucy was in Maine near me. We had a very special time together, with much conversation and many laughs. I had our 1954 yearbook, which both Lucy and Leslie enjoyed looking at and which triggered many memories for Lucy and myself and questions from Leslie about what life was like for us at Abbot.

Lucy and I said that we did not mind the rules

as they were part of the culture of the time. The atmosphere at Abbot helped us to grow in selfconfidence, and interestingly, whereas Leslie was part of the rebellious times of the early ’70s, Lucy was active in the feminist movement and I became an active environmentalist. We were each taking action and voicing our opinions and concerns, and we continue to do so to this day.

I was appreciative of the many comments I received after the passing of Shirley Ritchie. We remembered Miss Ritchie fondly and appreciated the way she supported our class by attending many of our reunions. Marion Badoian Emmanuel wrote that she did not consider herself much of an athlete. However, she liked taking the Abbot walks, which led to a lifelong interest in walking and hiking in this country and abroad.

By the time these notes are published, it will be 2017. May everyone continue to keep well and safe.

Best wishes, and thanks for being such a supportive group of women.

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

Some of us have now reached age 80, and some of us are looking down that track. A month or so ago our VCR creator-operator reached 80, and many chimed in as their 80th passed or approached. Hard to think back to 1954, when we were awash with thoughts about our release to four years of college.

Who would have thought that so many of us would go on 62 more years, to achieve 80 years? We continue to be grateful to Ken MacWilliams’s VCR to keep us aware of ourselves as a class and to serve as a source for news about classmates activities, political views, etc.

In the last column I noted a few of us who were still working and invited those I had failed to mention to send me a gentle note. No notes have been received.

A note to follow up on the passing of our class friend, beloved Dutch Wolff. His ashes were interred next to those of his wife, Joan, in the Garth at the Andover cemetery. The Aces assembled and played a short concert. Present from 1954 were Alan Alberts, Dick Carlson, Bob Feldman, Neil Henry, Dave Mackenzie, and Kent McKamy.

Bob and Dick led the Aces, and Bob’s young daughter, Hannah, took a turn on the saxophone. I could not be there, but wife Liz and I did attend the lovely memorial service at the Brick Presbyterian Church on Park Avenue in NYC. Kent was there (it is his church), and Bob Semple spoke very eloquently about Dutch and how much he had meant to Bob and his son Kirk (who also spoke

with great feeling for Dutch).

I had a note from Ken Pyle, who said he retired from the University of Washington last year after 50 years of service but has been rehired at half time and will go on teaching there. The university has created the Anne and Kenneth Pyle Professorship in American Foreign Policy, which will have been inaugurated in their honor by the time you read this column. Their house looks out on Lake Washington, and they often see the crew team practicing. Their children are all in New England, and he notes that their son Will “went into the family business”: he is chair of international economics at Middlebury. Ken noted that on a recent trip to New England, he visited his Andover roommate, Fred Anderson, in Noank, CT. Fred was recovering from surgery for spinal stenosis and is doing very well, says Ken. Jake McMichael writes that after a 20-year naval aviation career, followed by a similar number of years at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA, he and wife Dianne retired to the Charbonneau District of Wilsonville, OR, in 1998.

Their daughters and grandchildren are nearby, and they are able to attend many of the school functions.

Jake is active in the Wilsonville Rotary Club and is now its youth exchange officer. His club is sending two 11th-graders to Slovakia and Austria for the school year and two others to Spain and Argentina, and it is sponsoring an inbound 18-year-old from Switzerland who will live with three local host families. Jake has just joined the UFO (United Flying Octogenarians). He frequently sees Bob Feldman and occasionally Duncan Smith.

Mort Downey, the longest-serving deputy secretary and chief operating officer of the U.S. Department of Transportation, received a lifetime achievement award at the Eno Center for Transportation’s 24th Annual Future Leaders Development Conference Dinner. He notes that the Eno Center was founded by William Phelps Eno in 1921; it has been a pioneer in the field of traffic management. He also writes that, “As a formed Eno Center board member, I’ve had the privilege of meeting with this group each year since 1993, and it is always a humbling experience to see how well prepared these students are to take over the nation’s transportation affairs.“ Tom Cushing writes that on Aug. 14, he and wife Diane, along with Blair and Bill Blunt, attended the 80th birthday gala for Charlie Fagan at Fort Ligonier, PA, organized by Charlie’s wife, Stephanie. Charlie retired from the Fort Ligonier Museum Board, where he had been chair for many years, and was awarded the title “emeritus” for his many years of service there and his successful efforts to restore the fort.

Dick Carlson writes that he continues to be active in the Connecticut Senior Golf Association, where he had been president for many years.

He says he shoots about 90 and makes some of us jealous.

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On the sad side, Tim Hogen forwarded a note from Chuck Oberhauser’s wife, Mary-Ellen, who wrote that Chuck had a stroke in 2013 and has been in a nursing home in Lexington, MA, for three years, suffering from frontotemporal dementia. While “he doesn’t make sense in some of what he says, she and the family are making the best of it.”

And also sadly, we lost Philip D. “PD” Block III in July after a long struggle with dementia. After 27 years with Inland Steel (which was founded by his great-grandfather), PD launched a new career and opened the Chicago office of Capital Guardian Trust Company, an LA-based investment management firm. He retired after 18 years there and enjoyed and pursued his passions: his family, fly fishing, travel (he preferred to travel by train), all of the Chicago sports teams and Northwestern Wildcat football, and helping others, having been involved in many Chicago charitable organizations.

His wife, Judy, wrote and noted how much he loved Andover.

Again, as you read the foregoing, I am sure you will be thinking, “Why doesn’t Seeley mention what I am doing?” So write me and tell me for the next issue of Andover magazine. Please use my email address to send me your news of any dimension.

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

The flurry of mail following my threat to stop writing this column was short-lived, and lately there has been almost complete silence from south of the border (no, I don’t mean that border, I mean the one to your north). However, I did receive some encouraging correspondence from a few classmates (even PA classmates David Haartz ’55 and Dave Harrison ’55!). Thanks to all of them!

In the last column, I somehow omitted an April 2016 email from Margaret “Peggins” Holbrook Birch, and I apologize. She continues to live a busy life! She wrote that she had just finished serving as president of her garden club and was returning to being program chair, as well as planning for a fall flower show. She is an accredited judge and has been judging shows in New Hampshire and Vermont and even judged the Connecticut State Show. She was also beginning to work on the children’s department of a huge annual book sale and was looking forward to spring and gardening.

Her daughter and son-in-law in Connecticut have a wonderful but neglected garden, which Peggins is helping them restore, and she enjoys visiting her family in Massachusetts, attending performances and concerts by her “talented eldest grandson.”

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www.andover.edu/intouch Sadly, her elderly Labrador retriever died in autumn 2015, but she was continuing to walk daily with her dog group; she suggested that another dog might find her in the future!

A July note from Anne English Hull commented that she wondered what had happened to the class, since she never hears from anyone anymore! (I know what you mean, Anne!) She reported that all is well with her and that she would now be in Connecticut full time since she had sold her house in Florida. Her grandchildren were growing up or already grown, and she was still playing tennis and singing in her church choir.

Many thanks go to my loyal correspondent Dee Fleming King for a wonderful update on Aug. 18. As mentioned in an earlier column, she had visited Alaska and fallen in love with dogsledding, particularly the dogs, so I always send her anything on the subject I find in the Toronto Star. One plus of that is that she always replies—providing news for this column! August is apparently a peak time for fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, and she lives on its shore. She reported that she was very busy with a “houseful of fishermen” just about every weekend, Thursday through Sunday. She herself used to be among them, and she expressed regret that she is not doing that now. Instead, she bakes cookies and brownies for them to snack on after dinner. The fishermen, who are wonderful chefs, take turns cooking dinner using the day’s catch, and Dee’s grandsons are “right in there with them” helping to “fix” fish for their parents and Grandma! Dee had broken her hip in a bad fall earlier in 2016, but as of August was very pleased that she had almost fully recovered.

As for her children, she reported that her eldest, JC, was “working and keeping things together as best he can” one year after his wife’s death. Her daughter Carolyn and Carolyn’s husband, Bob, are planning to build their retirement home by the “most beautiful” lake they can find. Suggestions, anyone? Dee’s son Brad and his wife, Sheryl, took a trip to Canada, along the St. Lawrence River, to visit friends. Quebec City was on the agenda, and Brad decided it was now his second-favorite city. (Excellent choice.) Dee wasn’t sure what his favorite city might be!

Sue Appleton Jowett and Kathy Lloyd both follow the tennis pro circuit quite closely, and a longstanding annual tradition is for Kathy to visit Sue in Maine during the French Open tournament.

Sue thinks this year’s visit was the 15th or more! In a July email, Sue said she was looking forward to visiting with her brother Tom and her Appleton cousins from Wisconsin, who were arriving in Maine to stay at Drakes Island. She was also planning to attend the October wedding of her grandson Ross in South Carolina. Sue commented that “it will be wonderful to see everyone at once,” as the whole family would be gathering there.

Speaking of gatherings, the Easthams had another reunion in upstate New York in August 2016. We often have a special celebration, and this time it

was the 90th birthday of my brother Bill ’43. He is amazing: still downhill skiing, and driving from coast to coast! After the reunion, he visited various New England spots and then drove home to Wisconsin via Canada, stopping overnight with us (and played nine holes of golf with Frank).

Again, I thank the contributors to this column!

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

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

Judy McCormack 1442 West St. Wrentham MA 02093 508-384-5996 judymack3@verizon.net

Our classmates who are Harvard alumni know by now that an engaging and erudite presence at Harvard Magazine is gone. Christopher “Kit” Reed passed away on July 21. While Kit was a bit remiss keeping this reporter informed over the past 60 years, he regaled his readers with cultural, political, and serendipitous gems from the time he joined the publication as managing editor in 1968 until long after his retirement as executive editor in 2007. Not an obvious career choice for a Yale man.

Starting at the Harvard University Press soon after his Eli credentials passed muster, his way with words and sense of humor found him a niche he was born to fill.

The sparse communications in this column note “rumors” in 1961 of Kit “playing guitar, working for the New York Herald Tribune, and contemplating further education at the Sorbonne in Paris.” No confirmation for that, but the report of his marriage to Jane Crampton in Middletown, CT, in October 1963 has been well documented.

Jane, a photographer, and Kit collaborated on many projects while he pursued his interest in collecting arrowheads, ancient Greek coins, and antique guns. He loved Scottish terriers, and many of them became family members over the years. Kit’s passion for gardening and landscaping was the envy of neighbors and friends, and he delighted in sharing clippings from his favorite plants, which now thrive in many Massachusetts gardens. Since 1980, he was a contributing editor to Horticulture magazine.

Jane preceded him in death in 2013, as did his brother Peter in 2009. He is survived by his daughter, Jennifer, of San Leandro, CA. A Google search will reveal some choice items from Kit’s Harvard magazine oeuvre.

Steve Clarkson has written a new book, a semihistorical tale involving a mysterious rumrunning episode off the coast of New Hampshire during Prohibition. The Last Run is available at Amazon, and there is a Kindle version for the leaf-allergic.

I enjoyed some Southern hospitality with Linda and Syd Morgan in Wingate, NC, on my summer junket in July and found them knee-deep in visiting grandchildren—and loving it…Y.

Happy New Year, everyone! Our lives seem to be going faster and faster, or maybe we are just going slower and slower. Either way, I’m going to be helping Anne “Woolvie” Woolverton Oswald with the class news. Be prepared for a phone call from me to see how you are doing.

Dave and Betsy Parker Powell are definitely on the move. They have sold their home in Wellesley Hills, MA, after some 40-odd years and are moving to new digs in Needham. They have been floating since July 18 as the new place won’t be ready until November. By the time you read this, they should be settled in.

Louise “Weezie” Day Cook, Ellen Welles Linn, and Anne Woolverton Oswald met in Jackson Hole, WY, this past summer and had a wonderful reunion.

They discussed grandchildren, as Ellen has two new granddaughters. Woolvie has eight grandchildren: two boys and six girls. Weez, of course, takes the prize, as she has nine grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren. Is anyone able to top this? Weezie claims it is because she and husband Leon started sooner, as did their children. She also commented on how wonderful it is that all of us stay in touch and are able to pick up right where we left off those many years ago.

I had a nice phone chat with Phoebe Estes Bryan. She is holding her own, and she and husband Smokey were able to spend every weekend last summer on their boat on Lake Champlain.

Their grandson, Lucien Bryan, is a great downhill skier. His ranking is fifth in New England, 14th in the U.S., and 45th in the world. According to Phoebe, now that Lucien is 17, he needs to start the ranking all over again. We hope to be able to see him on the next U.S. Olympic team. Wouldn’t that be fun?

I spoke by phone with Sheila Prial Jacobstein.

She and her husband made it all the way to New England for our reunion. He became ill, and after three days at MGH, they had to return to Tennessee.

All is well now, and they are enjoying their new apartment after 42 years in the same house. I suppose many of us are considering downsizing.

Sheila gave me a great pep talk about it.

A 60th Reunion photo was sent to the entire class. The hope is that you will decide to join us for the 65th Reunion. Scary, isn’t it, that we have been

graduated from Abbot for so long? If you did not receive your picture, please let me know right away, and we will see that you get one.

Please email me your news (or send it to Woolvie). You don’t have to have exotic news. We all just want to know that you are alive and well. Love to all of you. —Judy

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

Our last set of notes focused mainly on the justcompleted 60th Reunion but ended with reference to the passing of Andover musical icon Dutch Wolff. His death prompted tributes not only from many classmates who knew him during his brief time on the Hill from 1952 to 1954 but also from others who met him later, including Phil Bowers, Jesse Barbour, and Dan Kimball. Phil got to know Dutch over the past decade in New York, through a series of Andover luncheons he hosted. He was amazed that neither aging nor the injury that put Dutch in a wheelchair diminished the power and excitement of his personality. Jesse wrote, “I did not play for him when I was a student. I met him in 2008 at the first Aces Reunion Band, and I can tell you from my short association with him that he was an amazing guy, one of a kind.” Dan also met and played with Dutch after Andover, saying, “I met Dutch as an alum Ace and played with him as our director, as well as our ride tenor sax.” (Dan says “ride” means smooth and cool.)

Peter Wells did play with him at Andover and spoke of the “unusually influential” effect he had on musicians. Knowing that Dutch was buried in the Andover cemetery, Haj Ross wrote, “So glad that Dutch will be part of the ground that Andover stands on.” In a letter he wrote to Dutch several years ago, Haj said, “You made us into jazzmen… and gave us music that has stayed in our hearts.”

Tony Eller wrote a lovely tribute to Dutch, saying, “Teachers in music and arts, like athletic coaches, can have a far greater influence on young lives than academic faculty, possibly because interaction is more likely one-on-one. Dutch was for many of us a key influence in our development, a critically important model.” Tony describes Dutch as “one of those bigger-than-life personalities with a profound effect on people.” Dutch was buried in the Andover cemetery Garth next to his wife, Joan, on July 22, just weeks after our 60th Reunion. Nine former Aces, including Tony, Peter, and Dan, gathered there to play selections from the group’s 60-year-old

repertoire, and, as Tony put it, to “say goodbye to our teacher, mentor, and dear friend.”

Lynn and Jerry Ringland are among several whose plan to attend the reunion was derailed at the last minute—in their case, by an infusion of Swedish relatives. Both Jerry and Lynn are again working, following an unsuccessful attempt to be completely retired. Says Jerry, “We tried the bucket list idea, but it just didn’t work for us.” Jerry has shifted from an active medical practice to doing consulting work, applying years of clinical and academic experience to help attorneys and ethicists sort out complex medical-legal dilemmas. Lynn has returned to her career in the culinary arts. She joined Sur La Table, bringing her experience to the firm’s teaching program to sharpen its focus on the fusion of fundamental skills and artful innovation.

Julie and Bill Wilson, both retired surgeons, split their time between Virginia and Florida, staying near warm waters to continue enjoying their lifelong passion for water sports. Both have been competitive water-skiers; Julie is a former Virginia state slalom champion. Perhaps as a concession to aging, Bill moved from skis to wake boarding, but a severely detached retina forced him to quit altogether and take up golf at age 70. He has embraced golf with the same enthusiasm he had for water sports. “I love it, play every day—and I’ve gotten pretty good, too,” he says. Now he drives the boat for Julie, who “slaloms with the pros” every morning at 7 a.m. When he isn’t driving the boat or out on the links, Bill is writing. He has written several books, including the one I am about to start reading, Insanity by Murder. Bill’s mantra is “Find happiness by being content with whom you are,” a lesson he learned from “mental wrestling with Walter Gierasch.”

Another must-read is Doc Bennett’s latest book, Comandante Ibarra: A Novel of the Yaqui Wars.

Here’s an idea from Nick Andrus for the many alumni living in the Washington, DC, area: Take in a rehearsal or concert by the Harmony Heritage Singers, a four-part harmony chorus of retired gentlemen—average age 78—active for the past 20 years. It is amazing that Nick’s perfect pitch and voice both remain in concert condition, and that he and his 60 colleagues maintain a rigorous yearround schedule of appearances in nursing homes, schools, and veterans’ organizations. Their favorite activity is greeting veterans with patriotic songs as they arrive in Washington on charter flights. You can find out more about rehearsals and appearances at http://hhsingers.org.

John Pitts is sad to have been unable to make the reunion. “Andover was extraordinarily good for me. I treasure those memories,” he says. John is active in his church and the Sarasota [FL] ballet and opera companies, and he does fundraising for the Sarasota Orchestra. He is busy, cheerful, and endlessly grateful, a feeling he says softens the losses he has experienced.

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Anne Boswell 5 Choate Road Hanover NH 03755-1701 603-643-5043 aboswell@valley.net Louisa Lehmann Birch 18 Rivermead Road Peterborough NH 03458 603-499-6120 louisalbirch@gmail.com

The news from our Abbot ’57 class indicates that we’re active, engaged, and leading interesting lives.

Louise “Glee” Wooldredge Wieland moved to Carlton-Willard, a retirement community in Bedford, MA, a couple of years ago. She continues to work at her church and in a nearby hospital.

Ever an expert athlete, Glee plays golf, and in her down time she enjoys reading.

The news from Carol Gaines Ruckle describes her very busy life. She and her husband, Jim, have recently bought a house in Sarasota, FL, as a winter getaway. She continues to spend the rest of the year in Michigan, where she is engaged in hospice work. Carol is also returning to her creative endeavors as a potter, and she’s interested in learning more about environmental issues. As if that’s not enough, she’s a soccer mom for her two granddaughters and helps in a third grandchild’s second grade classroom.

We express our sympathy to Karen Jones Anderson, who lost her husband in April 2013.

Although she suffers from a hearing loss, she continues to enjoy her strong love of music.

Her husband, a talented jazz musician, left her recordings of his music, and she frequently goes to concerts. Karen is involved in church mission activities and is on the symphony women’s board.

Jody Bradley Bush is delighted that her son, Bill, is moving East after 12 years in LA. His schoolage children enable Judy to continue being an active grandmother.

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www.andover.edu/intouch Anne Luquer Boswell and Louisa Lehmann Birch have been considering the pros and cons of living alone or moving into a retirement community. As we age—and we all are—we wonder how we’ll manage as we grow less able, more dependent, and in need of some sort of assistance. Anne, who lives at Kendal in Hanover, NH, writes, “It’s a complicated subject, and so much depends on personality. I’m impressed by those who have the energy to function independently on their own for a long time, but I realize it may be simpler and no less satisfying to accept extra help and get on with the projects one used to do. In any case, please keep the garden watered or your windowbox full, learn to get around on a bus or cart, and receive visitors joyfully!”

Louisa splits her time between her retirement community, Rivermead, in Peterborough, NH, and her summer home in nearby Dublin. She enjoys the contrast between the two and is secure in knowing that good health care is always nearby if necessary.

What are your thoughts on living independently or moving to a retirement community? This is a choice we all face, and hearing others’ ideas is of interest to us all. Send Anne or Louisa your comments and we’ll include them in our next class notes.

Several classmates mentioned their delight in learning of the maple trees planted in the Maple Walk in Joan Pelletier Isabel’s memory. Hope Hamliton Pettegrew, Miriam Ganem Reeder, Dinah Hallowell Barlow, and Lynne McLaughlin Moughty were on campus for the celebration of the Brace Center and saw the trees shortly after they were planted last April. By the time of our 60th Reunion in June 2017, the trees will happily greet us and welcome us back to our lovely Abbot campus. So mark your calendars for the weekend of June 9, 2017. This will be a very special time and perhaps the last reunion for many of us. We’re rapidly headed toward 80, and the older we get, the harder it is to travel. Please don’t let this special opportunity to be together again go by. If you have ideas about what you’d like to do during the reunion weekend, please contact committee members Lucinda Sulzbacher Cutler and Louisa Birch. We want to make this an interesting, engaging, and happy time for all!

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

Many of our updates this time came from distant parts of the world, reminding us that there’s still plenty of tiger in our tanks.

A year ago, Marnie and Grabo Keator decamped from their bucolic Vermont farm and are now settled into a no less beguiling setting on the Big Island of Hawaii. “We live in Kamuela, with its steady trade winds at an altitude of 2,500 feet and a 180-degree view across some 20 miles of Parker Ranch pasture land to the 13,985-foot Mauna Kea,” Grabo writes. “It’s a 20-minute drive to the beaches, where temperatures are some 15 degrees warmer, especially appreciated in the winter.” Marnie is ministering in the local Episcopal church and other parishes. As we all know, Grabo is still employed by PA, raising funds.

The following came from Bob Darnton: “I write to you in haste during a stopover in São Paulo, where I am giving lectures as part of a marathon tour through universities in Brazil and Argentina. It is fatiguing but fascinating, especially here, because the impeachment hearings of Dilma Rousseff are occurring at this very moment. Like many Americans, I have fallen in love with Brazil (it’s my sixth trip here), and my heart bleeds to see it in such disarray. At my next stop, Buenos Aires, I will attempt to speak Spanish, which I taught myself last year but have never spoken. Then home to recover and enjoy continued visits from our three children and our grandchildren. Now at the end of my first year of retirement, I find that life has sped up instead of slowing down, but mellowness may be just around the corner, like prosperity.

From Elon Gilbert: “Greetings from Malawi!

I am back as interim project manager for a few months, this time with an International Institute of Tropical Agriculture project to strengthen value chains for grain legumes, mostly soybeans and groundnuts. Yes, this is a USAID-supported project that could be helping competitors with US producers of these commodities. Is it working?

Yes, but slowly, not at all helped by adverse weather during the past two years. This year could be very different. Susie joined me for the final month last year and loved it, so I’m hoping that she will come again. The chitenge traders are awaiting her return.”

(What is a chitenge? See http://bit.ly/2g4Xzxg.)

Leo Ullman reports that he recently spent

nine days touring Colombia. He writes, “Bogota is a world-class city with great restaurants and museums. We went to a coffee plantation in Perrera, in the mountains, then to the seaside resort of Cartagena, where there’s the most amazing aviary.”

In May, Leo, along with five other survivors, was invited by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to light a candle in a remembrance ceremony at the capitol in DC. Lee and Tom Terry jetted to Stockholm for the wedding of their oldest grandson, a chemist, who has spent the past four years working there; his Swedish-born wife’s Iranian parents immigrated when the Shah fell. “The wedding,” Tom writes, “was a cultural smorgasbord.” To prepare for the event, Tom and Lee spent 10 days in Ireland, hoisting pints of Guinness along the way.

Diana and John McConnell are still keel-deep in yacht racing. John sailed his 30-foot Etchells sloop in the Long Island Sound championship this summer. In September, Diana flew to Porto Cervo, in northern Sardinia, to monitor another regatta. The two planned to meet in Milan and go on to Vienna and then Prague, where they were to spend a week with their Italian “son,” Roberto, who lived with them back in 1989–90 as a high school exchange student.

Eric Myrvaagnes writes that he and wife Naomi have been making short trips to such places as the Dordogne in France, Quebec, Vermont, and “even” NYC. For some time, Eric has been bedeviled by kidney disease and is awaiting a transplant. While the ailment may constrain his travels, it has not dimmed his passion for photography. A collection of his black-and-white stills, Captured by Light: Fifty Years, came out in September. For a peek at Eric’s work, and to learn where to purchase the book, go to http://myrvaagnes.com/booksample.

John Douglas reports that his photographic compositions won first prize in Vermont’s ArtHop, the state’s largest juried show. His work hung in two major Burlington galleries this fall. Remarkably, John managed to do this while battling a malignant tumor, undergoing hormonal therapy and radiation. Check out the class website for images of his latest pictures.

“A busy summer for the clan,” Bill Rapp writes. “I taught an online course while getting ready for my 17th year at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Daughter Stacy, whose [witchcraft] store was featured in the New Yorker’s Talk of the Town section, will be featured again in the HBO series Girls this fall. Son Jordan took second place out of 2,500 competitors in an Iron Man triathlon at Mont Tremblant, Canada. Most important, daughter Christina and her husband welcomed another generation into the world.”

Jim Cook and Scotty Marsh were back on campus in July for a melancholy reunion of the Aces. They performed at the funeral of Dutch Wolff, the former music instructor who founded the group. “A number of us arrived the day before,

rehearsed twice, and played five old Aces numbers at Wolff ’s grave site in the PA cemetery,” Scotty writes. “Quite an emotional moment.”

In his class letter, Bill Sterling tells of his relief at bringing his career as a lawyer to a close and of his exhilaration as he turns to community activities. Bill is focused on the local high school. He describes his plans to lead a seminar on the Odyssey and chronicles his adventures in learning Homeric Greek. As usual, you’ll find his musings, in full, on the class website. —G P.S. Have you marked your calendars with the 60th Reunion dates, June 9–11, 2017?

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

Sally Leavitt Blackburn has the “adventure bug”!

In March, she took an Amazon cruise and in the fall a Viking cruise from Prague to Paris, and she plans to visit South Africa in November. How great to have a good friend who is a travel professional!

She also reminds us to focus on our 60th Reunion in 2018.

Val Matthews Andrews recently retired from teaching ESOL. Her husband died six years ago of multiple system atrophy, which she continues to research. Her son lives in Berlin, where he and his partner had their first child, a boy. She visited them in the spring with her sister Wendy ’74. Her daughter lives near her in Warrington, England, with three children. Val is contending with liver cancer but between treatments happily made a trip to Cornwall with a friend.

Nancy Russell Curran sent a very poignant note revealing her recent diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, her encouraging participation in drug research, and a life-enhancing positive attitude. We join her in living each day to the fullest, counting our many blessings, and sharing happiness and love with all.

Thank you, Nancy!

Doris Ward Lawson keeps in touch with Sandy Bensen Calhoun, Jane Christie, Jo Shanklin, and Shirley Slater Crosman. She is trying to write a memoir of 1957, our senior mid year. For those of us who lived in Ripley, it’s on Zillow and on a list of historic homes in Andover.

Price: $1,100,000!

Susie Tidd Augenthaler forwarded to me an obituary of Miss Shirley Ritchie, who passed away on April 2, 2016, at 92. [Editor’s note: Please see Shirley Ritchie’s obituary in the In Memoriam section of the reunion 2016 issue.]

And last but not least, I am sorry to report the August passing of Ingrid Stahlbrand Kassler.

Apparently she had taken a fall, which produced

irreversible complications. Her very strong affinity with Vickie Kohler was a gift of the Abbot experience. Ingrid’s wit lives on.

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

I resume my report from Tony Mayer from the last Andover magazine. You’ll recall Tony retired from J.P. Morgan, after a long and distinguished career serving variously as head of investment banking and CFO. Tony is involved in a group called No Labels, which is a bipartisan organization seeking real progress in Washington, a goal that seems somewhat quixotic in light of the quality of political discourse this year. However, No Labels has accomplished a surprising amount that can be harnessed in the event that we elect a president who is actually willing to spend his or her political capital to get the two sides to the table to solve pressing issues.

No Labels has developed a caucus of more than 80 members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, who have committed to work with the next president in a bipartisan fashion to achieve these goals.

Tony says that this is the only organization in Washington that gives him real hope for the future. He says that he has committed to this organization because it is wrong to leave these issues to our children and grandchildren, given how economically blessed our generation has been.

Einar Westerlund reflects on the changes that have befallen elite private secondary schools in our lifetime. Einar says, “At the time we attended Andover, it seemed to be generally accepted that PA was one of the major feeders of entrants to Yale.”

He continues, “As it happens, some stats released not long ago from the Yale alum office (where I worked part time while attending) demonstrate just how strong that feed was—and how much times have changed. The stats show that 1958 fell into the middle of a four-year period that marked about the peak of PA’s role as Yale’s dominant feeder school. Across that period, Andover sent 218 grads to New Haven, far and away the largest number from any secondary school anywhere. Between the two ‘Phillips’ schools (Exeter was number two), about one member in 10 of the entire Yale College population traced to the two Academies, the majority of them coming from Andover. It felt at the time as though one could hardly make a crossing of the Old Campus (site of freshman residences) without tripping over a classmate. The remaining ‘top five’ contributors were Lawrenceville, Andover | Winter 2017

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Hotchkiss, and St. Paul’s. Well over half of all Yalies had attended private school.

“Compare with a more current four-year period: PA still served as one of the top five feeders (tied for first place) but at a much diminished levels— now down to just over 40 entrants across the four years, a number not much different from those of the other four top feeders (still including Exeter).

Today, not even one in 100 Yale students would have entered from PA. And the two Phillips schools added together wouldn’t even make up 2 percent of the population. Well over half of students now come from the public school system. Interestingly, in the last tally the other top feeder school, tied with Andover, was Harvard-Westlake, in the LA area, I believe. Good-bye to Eastern domination.”

Einar continues, “Of course, one of the illustrious PA grads ‘fed’ to Yale was our own Bill Hamilton, who roomed with fellow ’58ers Lije Hubbard and Steve Ripley in his years there.

“Fast forward about 54 years to the Yale Class of ’62’s 50th reunion, with Bill leaving a special lasting memento. The official tote bag provided to class members for accumulating our swag celebrating the occasion was prominently emblazoned with an iconic Bill Hamilton cartoon—making this item an instant collectible, now of course carrying even greater significance.

It all brought back memories of his inestimable graphic contributions to the PA ’58 yearbook, on whose editorial team I toiled.

“Would that Bill were still with us, as now one can only speculate about what he might have dreamed up a couple of years down the line for a tote bag commemorating our Andover 60th Reunion.

Riccardo Boehm writes, “For the past eight years I have become more and more active in my Rotary Club in Palm Beach, FL. I am currently the president and trying to do good works in the world.

“My club is one of several that help sponsor a remarkable school in the jungle on the Rio Dulce near Livingston, on the Caribbean coast of Guatemala. Ak’ Tenamit is a boarding high school for 500 students, both boys and girls. I have visited the school several times and always return amazed at what they are achieving.

“The students are very poor indigenous Maya from all over Guatemala, with a number of local Garifuna kids as well. They graduate with a high school diploma and with internship experience in tourism and community development. Almost all of the graduates are employed or continue their studies at a university. They are able to support their families and don’t make the dangerous journey to the United States.

“Education and a sense of self-worth are particularly important for the girls. They might otherwise get pregnant at a very young age and face a life of child bearing, child care, cooking, washing clothes, and having few opportunities to earn money for their families.

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www.andover.edu/intouch “I recently spent a month in the beautiful Lake Atitlan area in the highlands of Guatemala.

Unfortunately, the lake is becoming more and more polluted, which is tragic for the lives of people who live around the lake. This will result in even greater health problems and lead to the destruction of a major income-producing tourist destination. I am starting to work with some organizations that are trying to help save the lake. I am very pleased that I can still do some of these things, even if at an increasingly slower pace. I only went to PA for a year, but non sibi became a part of my life.”

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

Over the summer I received a letter from Steven Ritchie informing me of his Aunt Shirley’s death in April. Shirley Ritchie passed away on April 2, 2016, shortly after her 92nd birthday. She was buried at Ewing Cemetery, Ewing, NJ, with honor as a Navy service member and reservist during WWII. Steven wrote, “Although she was failing and required additional support during the last 10 months, she never failed at being enthusiastic, cheerful, and kind. All who met her enjoyed her company and she theirs. We lost our mother to cancer in 1990, and Shirley became our surrogate mother for her remaining life. She was involved in our daily lives and enriched them beyond belief. We will miss her dearly.” As shall we.

As you all know, Susie Goodwillie Stedman and David Othmer ’59 organized a 75th birthday celebration for our combined classes in August.

David and Maureen Othmer hosted the party at their farm in New London, PA, on the hottest August 13 on record! Duncan Moose Whittome, Jean Roundy Sullivan, and Susie had a jolly good time while the rest of us who couldn’t get away stayed home. The ladies looked pretty good in their swim attire as they lounged by the pool. Then, in a recent exchange of emails, Goodwillie revealed the following: “Guests through Sept. 12, then I take off on the 18th for nearly a month in Italy and the UK with a dear old pal/new love.” Sounds like fun!

Well, as they used to say in Looney Tunes: “That’s all, folks.”

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

By the time you get this copy of Andover, we’ll be close to the end of celebrating our 75th—and some 76th and 74th, and of course, one 73rd—birthdays, and what a great celebration it’s been. But more important, what a great three-quarters of a century it’s been! When we got to Andover there were no commercial jet airplanes, no transistor radios, no color TV, no birth-control pills, no hints of what was coming just a decade later; the only computers filled entire floors of buildings, and the only phones were inexorably tethered to a wall. But not everything has changed: When we were born, the U.S. was at war; while we were at Andover we were at war; and…we’re still at war.

In 2011, thanks to efforts by Susie Stedman ’59, Tina Treadwell ’59, Bill Bell, and Lee Webb, a bunch of us gathered in Maine, braved Hurricane Irene, and celebrated our 70ths. We repeated the party this summer at Maureen’s and my farm— formerly vineyard!—in southeastern Pennsylvania, and on a glorious, not-a-cloud-in-the sky day, Joyce and Peter Moock, Susan and Quinn Rosefsky, Susan and John Smith, Susie Stedman, Lee Webb and Susan Petersmeyer, Susan’s sister Nancy, and Duncan Moose Whittome ’59 all enjoyed the weather and each other’s company to celebrate our 75th. The party was remarkable because we all have so much to say to each other, because we all have had such varied, interesting, and challenging lives, and because so little of what was said was about our PA or AA days, yet all of it was, in one way or another, formed by those days.

So it’s been a remarkable 75 years, and thanks to you all for being a part of the year-long party.

Lex Rieffel was in Myanmar/Burma for a month this summer to lecture and lead discussions about economic development with students, business leaders, and government officials. His visit was funded by his classmates and other U.S. taxpayers via the State Department’s Fulbright Specialist Program. He is now in his 15th year as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where his policy research has focused on Myanmar’s economy for the past seven years. Lex also played a key role in the 10th Anniversary Forum of the Building Bridges Coalition (BBC), held at Brookings on June 14. The BBC is the association of U.S.-based international volunteer-sending organizations and grew out of work Lex did at Brookings in 2005. The keynote speaker in June was General Stanley McChrystal, who chairs the Service Year Alliance. SYA is working to make a year of national service as much a part of growing up in America as going to high school. BBC is partnering with SYA to certify international volunteer

programs that will be eligible for SYA support.

You should be hearing a lot more about SYA in the months and years ahead, and there will be ways you can help to make it succeed.

Lex continues, “Next January and February, my wife, Alaire, and I will be teaching a course in global economics at a startup liberal arts college in Yangon. Myanmar/Burma is in the midst of a historic political transition led by democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi [who, as I write these notes in mid-September, is dining with President Obama at the White House! Who’d a thunk it?]. The challenges she faces in this task are monumental, perhaps greater than those facing any other leader in modern history, including Nelson Mandela. A big question is whether outside pressures, including those from the USA, are making her job easier or harder. My conclusion from all the evidence I have gathered is toward the harder side. I might add that the time to visit this country is now, before it has been ‘spoiled’ by modernity like all the other Asian countries.”

Bill Anderson reported, “My son, Spencer, and his wife and two young children live in Hong Kong. He has been working for the Reuters office there (he used to be with them in London) for 20 months as a journalist, writing about Asian debt.

This winter will be our third trip to see them there.”

Bill will try to connect with John Charlton when he’s in Hong Kong.

Finally, another AA ’59er, Connie Laurence Brinckerhoff, received the Andover Alumni Award of Distinction. Susie Goodwillie Stedman was honored a couple of years ago.

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

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 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 has sent us her news via email with her three websites, www.eheart. com, www.cesareanvoices.com, and www.the ceremonycards.com.

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

Hannah Jopling writes that she is “teaching race and ethnicity at Fordham, and also organizing

adjuncts on campus to demand better work conditions.” Hannah has recently enjoyed visits with Phyllis Ross Schless, Aida Sharabati Shawwaf, and Mary Feldblum. Mary, she says, “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.”

Susan Lothrop Koster says that www.home exchange.com is her “two cents” of news. She and her husband are enjoying their 12th “exchange” this fall in New Zealand! 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,” she writes.

Mary-Candace Mize has finished writing her historic novel, The Flypaper Witch. Now she needs a publisher! Charlotte Palmer Moreno greets us with, “Best wishes to you all; keep happy and safe.” Sarah von der Heyde Richards reports that “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, Kenya, and 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 and Andover 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 that “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 her time is spent “working to support two foundations that 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.”

Its website is www.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 in Riga, Latvia; Alice and her husband have taken new jobs outside of Cairo, Egypt, in the American International School.”

Kathy Stevens is reading Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. She writes, “We have been reflecting on how fortunate we are to have choices about how and where we live during our 70s and 80s.

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 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, asking, “Where shall we go?”

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

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

My news from Mount Desert Island, ME, continues to be positive: house and property on the market, family doing well in Arizona and California, health stable. My favorite read recently has been Peter Barton’s Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived.

Thanks to 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 that Roger Hardy died. After spending most of his career in Connecticut working for Travelers Insurance, he retired to Wolfeboro, NH, where he quietly passed away last January with his family at his side. Eight months later, the wife of Dick Leete (née Jean Frances Markella) also died, two days after she and Dick celebrated their 51st anniversary.

Speaking of anniversaries, in the marriagelongevity sweepstakes, we have a photo finish: Mike O’Brien nosed out John Doak by six days!

Mike reports that “Vana and I celebrated our 52nd anniversary on August 22. We spent the weekend camping at a pretty little lake in the Cascades.” John reports that on August 28 he and Ann celebrated their 52nd!

John adds, “Meeting Ann at a Wheelock mixer was the best thing I got out of four years at Harvard, and marrying her was probably the best thing I ever did.” They have two children and five grandchildren.

After a long stint in business, John reinvented himself as a mechanical engineer. In 2006, he began designing a lightweight, folding, portable battlefield surgical table that could be deployed by military doctors in front-line combat areas.

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John converted his garage into a machine shop, where he taught himself to become a metal fabricator and machinist of aluminum and stainless steel. It was not a totally new experience, for he had long been restoring old cars and motorcycles as a hobby. For two years he toiled away, working more than 60 hours a week and taking many trips to Fort Bragg, NC, to consult with military field surgeons and support personnel, who were quite demanding.

Every time John presented a version of his table, they would change the specifications. Finally, they agreed to accept a 42-pound, aluminum-andstainless-steel model that can be set up in less than a minute.

Today, the “Doak table” is standard issue for all four military services. John says that “being told by surgeons that ‘Doak tables’ have saved and continue to save lives in combat is vastly more satisfying than anything I ever did in my previous 40-year career in business.” Beginning a new career at 65, he says, “has been interesting and extremely gratifying, but I never worked so hard for so long in my life!”

Have any of you had a similar post-retirement experience?

John visits Andover regularly, even though he says he is “increasingly estranged from PA” and is saddened that he no longer feels “a part of what is clearly a vastly different place” from what it was in our day.

Do any of you share that feeling?

Speaking of doing special things in retirement, Allen Ward is teaching upper-level Greek and

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www.andover.edu/intouch Latin courses this fall at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. For decades, he was a member of the classics department at the University of Connecticut. Now Allen enjoys teaching without having to attend committee meetings, which prompts him to ask: “Isn’t retirement wonderful when you can get paid for doing what you really love without the hassles of a full-time job? Life is good!” Allen reports that construction on his new house (which he designed) continues at “a very hectic pace, with plumbers, electricians, carpenters, flooring people, and cabinetmakers all needing decisions at once.”

On his blog, John “Tex” Daniel succinctly described his long career as an editor, author, and occasional ghostwriter: “I’ve been a professional editor for close to 50 years, during which I’ve whipped hundreds of manuscripts into shape by copy editing, line editing, and development or structural treatment. But these chores, though satisfying work for me, don’t thrill me anywhere near as much as creating, almost from scratch, a novel or a memoir, something with plot, conflict, and character. I specialize in stories. Consequently, I’ve ghostwritten only seven books, of which five were novels of mystery and/or suspense, one was a mainstream novel, and one was a posthumous memoir. I consider these jobs some of my best writing, and of course I’d like to tell you to buy them and like them, but I can’t.” So those of you who need help whipping your memoir, novel, story, or other literary creation into shape for publication, get in touch with John.

After living in Weston, MA, for more than 41 years, Jeremy Wood is now a full-time resident of Martha’s Vineyard. In July, he and his wife, Catherine, joined Charlie Bradford and his better half, Sue, for a visit to the Berkshires to take in a concert at Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In search of art, the culture vultures visited the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge and the Bennington Museum. While in Bennington, they strolled down memory lane at the local college (Catherine’s alma mater). Jeremy also plans to attend a major Stuart Davis show in Manhattan. He calls Stuart Davis “an old favorite of mine thanks to the Addison Gallery, to Gerry Shertzer, and to Diz Bensley ’43!”

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

Summer went by waaay too fast. Still, I do love autumn here in Maine. There’s no place else I’d rather be at this time of year. I spent a good part

of July at my Downeast Maine cottage with my three grandchildren, ages 13, 10, and 9. And what an idyllic summer they had, with sailing and tennis and socializing with friends. I am also working on a children’s book about a blind cat. Fun to write—not so much fun to find an agent to endorse it!

In August, I had a good visit with Sybil Smith and her husband, Don. She and Don had a wonderful spring and summer, though she broke her arm in June while visiting friends on Martha’s Vineyard. They cruised on the Rhone in May and said they had a wonderful time. She reports, “We spent three weeks in Maine at Bailey Island, where, among other things, we had a wonderful catch up lunch with Cally Dow. We are looking forward to a visit with two of my college friends and their spouses in Victoria, BC, then moving on to a further week’s adventure visiting my sister in Anchorage, AK. Obviously, we have just discovered the actual reality of being retired, advancing on from a mere concept!”

From Cambridge, MA, Judith Jordan reports: “My work as a therapist focuses on lessening the suffering created by disconnection, bringing people back to a sense of belonging and mattering. I am also dedicated to changing the social context that disempowers and wounds so many; as change agents we have a responsibility to individuals and community. Mutual empathy is at the core.” And from Seattle, Jane Paffard Nichols writes, “I am still messing about in theatre. I’m directing The Tempest now at Cornish College for the Arts. It’s kind of perfect for this moment in our lives, with lines like ‘These our actors were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air’ and of course ‘ We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep’ carrying a certain weight and meaning they didn’t in college. All children and grandchildren are well and sassy. I am, too.” A good way to close these notes, hoping all you ’61 classmates are well and “sassy,” too, in the best sense of the word!

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

Our summer joys were dampened by the report of the passing of Tom Pollock. Comments from many classmates celebrated Tom and the effect he had on our class. Here are words from Tom’s close friend and fellow oarsman Dave Hannon: “Tom was a great friend. We roomed together in college.

Both of us became lawyers, on opposite coasts, but kept in touch through family, mutual friends, phone calls, and visits. Fay and I have wonderful memories of being with Tom and Helen. Tom, rightfully, was proud that both his children graduated from

Andover. I still marvel that Tom’s mom taught him and his two sisters through the eighth grade, before they left the ranch to go to boarding school.

Tom read widely, including Scientific American, and enjoyed talking about important issues. People liked Tom and respected him, and felt the feelings were mutual. A good man.”

I also received tributes to Tom from Ray Keeney, Jim Rubin, Bob Trivers, Jack Schmedeman, and Bob Diemar.

Mike Bragg has “moved from Arrington, TN, to Murfreesboro, TN, a move of less than 25 miles.

Main reason was to get closer to family. We have a great back porch overlooking the fourth green of the Indian Hills Golf Club! Unfortunately, the process of selling the old place and packing for the move eliminated any possibility of me getting to our 55th Reunion last June.”

An interesting query from Leslie Stroh: “Who is not retired? And gainfully employed 30 or more hours per week doing what? Or volunteering 30 or more hours per week doing what? Choosing 30 or more hours is the key to the question ‘Why?’ ” I’m trying to work this out.

However, an answer to Leslie comes from Andrew Johnson. “I am currently working two part-time jobs and doing it because I enjoy it. I’m working part of my time at the local community college library as a reference librarian. Then I also work at the Rancho Mirage [CA] Library, also as a reference librarian. It keeps the brain active and me on my feet. The Rancho Mirage library is a totally new experience for me. I’ve never worked in a public library before; in addition, this one is unlike lots of other public libraries in that we are serving Rancho Mirage, which is a very upscale community with—unfortunately in some cases—attitude to match! ’Nuff said.”

To mark our 50th wedding anniversary, Marnie and I visited the Canadian Rockies with Ruth and Ed Quattlebaum ’60, who were married the same day in 1966. We were not the only visitors to this beautiful area in August, of course, but you can’t change your wedding date retroactively.

As time rolls by, it seems to pick up speed.

However, it slows a bit when we break the routine with a trip, or a new enthusiasm, a different role, or a move. Thus I am still thinking about Leslie’s questions. There have been quite a few breaks in routine in the 10 years since I retired from the Andover faculty. For those of you who have continued in your vocations: What’s life’s speed for you?

Mark Munger is a summer Mainer. The other day I got a call from him, and we will have gotten together long before these notes go to press. Don’t hesitate to call. Yes, I hate the blasted instrument, but I am always happy to hear from you.

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

Talk about time travel!

As I write this, I just returned from Havana, where I felt catapulted back to Dec. 30, 1958, when I was a 14-year-old PA ninth-grader. A school friend, Bob Kepner ’59, an American whose family was living there, invited me to come over from Miami Beach, where my mother and I were vacationing, so we boarded a Pan Am flight and spent the day. The revolution was about to triumph.

By Jan. 1, Fidel Castro ruled Cuba.

The rest is history, but history still lives. Havana is bedecked by signs hailing the revolution or quoting Castro and by photos of him or his brother, Raúl, or Che Guevara.

Among the American classic cars—dinosaurs, really—refitted with diesel engines and, metaphorically at least, held together by baling wire, I spotted a ’53 Oldsmobile like my father once owned.

I actually felt my parents’ presence. An old picture shows them visiting Havana’s historic Morro Castle fortress on their 1939 honeymoon.

Now, 77 years later, my college-freshman granddaughter and I were photographed at the same site.

Havana is gorgeous. The ocean views are stunning. The architecture is ornate and colorful but has deteriorated dramatically. Many buildings have been restored or are being worked on, but many more need doing.

Cubans are effervescent, the dark coffee is terrific, the coconut ice cream fabulous, and life may be improving, but we visited a neighborhood distribution center where people come to claim their ration quotas of rice, beans, and other essentials—a jolting reminder that life in a beautiful country can still be hard.

I wasn’t the only class member to go to Cuba in 2016. Archie Andrews, a retired systems consultant who calls the island “the place these days,” was there before me. He says Havana was developed long ago as a “mind-boggling joy of beauty.” More recently,

of course, it turned Communist, was propped up

by Russia, and left to struggle on.…But Archie found the food in privately owned restaurants “phenomenal” and was wowed by the artists’ studios and music, including salsa lessons.

Then he visited Dubai and Abu Dhabi (the United Arab Emirates, he reports, is full of superlatives: “Everything is either the tallest, the biggest, the fastest, or the longest.” ) And, oh, he also revisited Rhodes, Greece, where he’d been 40 years ago.

Incidentally, Timothy Crowell reports that he once visited Cuba’s Bay of Pigs Museum. Now that’s something I’d like to see! And Bill Chickering, who lived in Beijing and Phnom Penh and then alighted in New York, was eying a move to Havana or Barcelona. Meanwhile, he was working on a book about Cambodia’s role in the Vietnam War. Whit Pidot and his wife, Jeanne, and son Whit Jr. ’91 were in Singapore during the summer, and John Garver, who lives in Bangkok, flew over to see them.

Mike Davey was planning to take a cruise down the Rhine from Amsterdam to Basel and to settle in Long Boat Key, FL, for the month of February.

He wants to see Dan Jenkins and other classmates who have migrated south.

One of our Florida folks is Vic Peppard, professor of Russian at the University of South Florida in Tampa. For several years, he reports, he was working on numerous connections between the work of Norman Mailer and Russian literature.

He was planning to attend a Mailer Society Conference in New Jersey and present a paper about Mailer and Isaac Babel. Babel was a Russian journalist, playwright, and author.

I am a Florida snowbird of the Fort Myers variety. Dan, Lee Allen of Coral Gables, and I take in a Red Sox–Rays game in March together in Port Charlotte. If you’d like to join us, holler.

And speaking of sports, back in the Northeast, George Andrews reports that he and several other classmates convene four times a year to golf at their home courses. They call themselves the Benner Bill Golf Association in honor of the Benner House snack bar that PA students patronized, across the street from the Commons, and of Bill, who took care of us. Myself, I was partial to their cinnamon toast, but I remember guys devouring French fries with butter(!).

George says his golf buddies include Jay Westcott, Brent Mohr, Charlie Stuart, Jonathan Sox, Mike Moonves, Dick Leger, Sam Caldwell, Marty Shulkin, and Peter “Ace” Lake. (Locales chosen for their 2016 outings were Kittansett Club in Marion, MA; Tedesco Country Club in Marblehead, MA; York Golf and Tennis Club in York, ME; and Ferncroft Country Club in Middleton, MA.) George says all ’62 golfers who are in New England and/or the Northeast during May through October are welcome to join in.

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stay connected... here’s an interesting dispatch from Carl Corey: “I still sing a lot—especially gospel music from the African-American tradition. I was one of the leads in the final Gospel Night at the Pops encore at Symphony Hall [in Boston].” You can check it out at http://bit.ly/2f Dm3cM. So there you have it: In the space of a few minutes, you’ve been to Cuba, Greece, Abu Dhabi, Singapore. You’ve been invited to watch baseball down south and to play golf up north.

We were lucky to attend PA, and now we are lucky, through the grace of God, to still be alive, to get around, to share our company, to reminisce, and to continue conversations that began in Rockwell House and Williams Hall in 1958. The Blue Wave yet rolls!

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

This column has been written in the midst of the truly contentious and crazy-making aspects of the upcoming presidential election, with an additional background of very troublesome weather patterns throughout the country. We are living in challenging times indeed. I’m so grateful for family and friends. Bettina Proske Walker wrote, “For the past several years, each November, I have had the great pleasure of meeting up with Eileen Schock Laspa. Jude, her husband, travels to Tucson each November on business. Eileen accompanies him.

So, while Jude is in meetings, Eileen and I do a hike, usually in beautiful Sabino Canyon. November is a great time of year for hiking out here in the Sonoran Desert.”

Margaret Brown Coakley wrote that she “had a transitional spring and summer. My mother, who died in early March, faithfully attended her Class of ’38 Abbot reunions over the years. My husband, John, retired after 32 years of teaching at New Brunswick Seminary. He continues to work on his research. I’m trying to keep active (aren’t we all?). I now enjoy taking a class similar to the exercise class I used to teach. We often travel to Connecticut to watch our grandchildren, Sam, age 4, and Henry, almost 2.”

Barbara Rugen, who has had an adventurous life in the Peace Corps over the past two years, wrote an update in response to my request. “We’ve left Namibia, but I hope to write a book on the need to help marginalized people, such as I worked with, to help themselves. Now we’re traveling until Sept. 6. In Turkey, we attended whirling dervish services at their monastery in Istanbul and stayed in a cave hotel in Cappadocia.”

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www.andover.edu/intouch math, Karla Haartz Cortelyou has been doing long-term substitute teaching in local independent schools. When not teaching, she has been on wonderful horseback riding trips (what a surprise!).

She toured western Ireland on horseback and most recently was in Ecuador, riding across the Andes. Karla spoke of how great it was that the local inhabitants with whom they stayed in Ecuador could benefit from income earned by renting horses, serving as guides, hosting riders in their homes, and serving wonderful meals made with food they grew themselves. She also spends time in Texas with her son and two granddaughters, ages 3 and 1. But Virginia is still “home” for Karla.

Mary Jasper Walter offered lots of news. “The Class of ’63 completed a circle at our 50th Reunion.

Then we initiated a new arc. Coming back together, we discovered shared experiences and interests.

Somewhat miraculously to me, as we sat under that tent on the PA campus, Muthoni Githungo Gitata and two of her granddaughters walked in. Muthoni and I followed life paths in opposite directions: She left her home in Kenya to come to the U.S. for secondary school, college, and dental school.

I left the U.S. immediately after finishing college to teach in Kenya as part of the Peace Corps. Fifty years later we reunited. Efforts to stay in touch were made difficult since our lines of communication were hacked. I tried to reconnect with her through the Nairobi Peace Corps office and the Red Cross but was stymied until I learned about a program in Nairobi’s Kibera slum operated by the University of North Carolina. A new friend from Carolina For Kibera enthusiastically agreed to search for Muthoni, though in the meantime, Muthoni reconnected with me. I alerted her to the promised visit from the CFK group. In the following weeks, Muthoni visited Kibera, which is the focus of considerable outreach from Muthoni’s church, Nairobi Baptist, and CFK. Muthoni reported she had agreed to volunteer her services as a dentist to Kibera residents at the Chemi Chemi Clinic.

Muthoni learned on further investigation that the space allocated for dental services is in very poor condition, following the departure of their previous dentist. We need to resupply dental equipment and furniture, as well as day-to-day supplies.”

Muthoni, who developed a budget, adds, “We have not yet equipped the dental clinic, and therefore I have not started treating the Kibera people who need dental services.” Mary wrote, “A group of our classmates has indicated their support for the project. Muthoni and I began to investigate ways to purchase what is needed and a system to manage international financial donations. CFK staff is working toward a partnership with us, though there are legal, financial, and political complications.

International aid to developing countries is far more complex now than it was when I first stepped off the train in western Kenya in January 1967. We have learned what truly helps and what actually harms the people and places we have grown to love.”

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

Dennis McCullough died unexpectedly on June 3, 2016. I am deeply appreciative that Matt Hall, Dennis’s Harvard roommate and lifelong friend, has written the following for us.

“Our classmate Dennis McCullough, who had become a renowned geriatric physician, died of a sudden heart attack in Bar Harbor, ME, where he had gone to address community nurses in a conference about ‘slow medicine,’ an approach he championed. He advocated ‘slow medicine’ as an alternative to our current acute-care-dominated system, which he believed was uniquely unprepared to help elderly people and their loved ones make health-care decisions toward the end of life.

“McCullough was soft-spoken but determined.

Much of his resilience came from his mother, who raised two children as a single mother in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but Dennis had his own sense of purpose that could not be brooked. He knew at the age of 12 that he wanted to be a doctor, and he knew it was his athleticism that would provide him the ticket to pursue his dreams.

“When McCullough was 16, his local hockey team won a national championship, beating out Northeast teams and garnering the attention of Harvard recruiters, who encouraged him to apply to Andover. He came as an upper and eventually worked his way onto the first honor roll. In his senior year he played on a hockey team remarkable for many things, but especially for his classmates Jack Morrison, Bill Smoyer, Jon Stableford, Johnny Odden, Roger Farrar, and Nick Prahl.

The team went 11–5 in a schedule that included nine college teams, and Dennis went on to captain his Harvard team against a Yale team captained by Jack.

“Dennis chose to go to Harvard Medical School and, while attending a party there, met his future wife, Pamela Harrison. ‘We were fast in love by the end of the week,’ she said of their meeting in 1969. They married in 1971, and Dennis saved up elective classes so the two could travel. The couple journeyed to Finland, England, and Uganda, where McCullough helped treat some of the first Kaposi sarcoma patients, before HIV was identified.

“The two eventually made their way to the Upper Connecticut River Valley, where Pam became a poet and Dennis joined a community-oriented family practice. Soon after, he began his association with Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. At Dartmouth, he met fellow physician Peter Mason, and the two worked to build a residency program for family physicians and later worked together in a private practice. When McCullough left the practice to join Kendal, a continuing-care retirement

community in Hanover, Mason said he inherited patients grieving the loss of a great doctor whose values always shone through in his care for patients, his compassion, and his willingness to go the extra distance.

“But McCullough was best known for his work with seniors and their families, much of it at Kendal. McCullough had become a major figure in the field when he fell ill with an autoimmune disorder, forcing him to withdraw from clinical practice. In 2008, he wrote the book My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing ‘Slow Medicine,’ based both on his practice of medicine and his own intense experience helping to care for his mother, Bertha Juntenen McCullough. The book could not have been more timely, as world populations aged and medical procedures became more intrusive.

“As he wrote in the spring 2008 issue of Dartmouth Medicine, ‘Patients are briskly shunted off for various kinds of expensive but Medicarecovered tests and procedures or quickly put on medications based on rapidly made decisions and standardized protocols,’ his point being that many of these protocols were developed for much younger and less frail patients. Slow medicine, on the other hand, allows ‘family, friends and neighbors (to) team up with an elder and with health-care providers—including visiting nurses and other home-based care providers—to improve the quality of care and avoid inappropriate, sometimes harmful care.’

“It is ironic that death came so unexpectedly to someone who had spent a large part of his career trying to slow down and manage the process of aging and dying.

“For the past three years, McCullough had worked to develop the Upper Valley Community Nursing Project, which connects seniors to community or parish nurses. “ ‘I think Dennis really saw this project as a culmination, in some ways, of so many thoughts he had about the health-care system,’ said Laurie Harding, the project’s cofounder and the former director of the Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire. ‘The focus was really listening to older people as they aged in their community.’

“Eight communities now have a parish nurse, who doesn’t provide direct care but rather helps patients navigate the health-care system to find proper treatments.

“Dennis was an avid athlete, and he and Pam were formidable as a mixed-doubles team in tennis.

He also could build or fix almost anything and was a thoroughly effective gardener. He and Pam also fell into the wonderful practice of reading aloud to each other. They have a daughter, Kate, son-in-law, Scott, and two young grandsons, Marcus and Calvin Dennis, the latter named after him. ‘He was just so proud to have his name carried on and just to be a grandfather,’ Pam said. ‘It was one of the greatest joys in his life.’ ”

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

Our contributions are coming in steadily. I’m proud that we’re all keeping in touch!

Joan Harney Wiles sent this note regarding her husband’s death: “As some of you may know, my husband, John ’64, died on June 24, 2016. Our son, Christopher, and I are gradually adjusting to life without him. Although it’s been a very difficult few months, we are incredibly grateful to family and friends whose thoughtfulness and kindness have buoyed us up. Thanks so much to those classmates who have been in touch. I appreciate it very much.”

Susie Localio writes of her experiences with her grandchildren and her life in Washington State: “This summer was a whirl of grandchildren. Nineyear-old Ana Rose and I went car camping farther out on the Olympic Peninsula, with the requisite toasted marshmallows and a hike up to Marymere Falls. I declared it a ‘girls only’ trip, so she helped put up the tent (we practiced in the backyard first) and blew up her camping mat herself. We also read a lot!

Etta, who is 3, is indefatigable, talks a blue streak, and asks questions like ‘Where is God?’ and ‘Where was I before I was born?’ Daniel’s vegetable garden was again a success. We are never bored.”

Gwyneth Walker was heading off on her fall/ winter music travels to places such as Little Rock, Baton Rouge, Spokane, and Cambridge (a concert at Harvard). As usual, she is training to survive the “rigors of travel” by playing tennis with friend Kam Cheung ’82. Much laughter and running are on display during these matches! Gwyneth enjoyed a visit from Joanne Schwiebert Birge (a fellow Chanticleer!) over the summer.

Dale Thomson Milne sent news of her summer, writing, “We had another ‘family and friends’ summer, with volunteer tasks (lake monitoring, cemetery and town issues, cancer center and land trust activities) overlaid. No health issues, except an appendectomy for our 8-year-old grandson six days before he was coming here (to New Hampshire) from Seattle. I thought only Madeline had that! Joan “Whippie” Trimble and Tucker Trimble visited from Maine while the Seattle crew was here.” Dale promises pictures next time!

Susan “Sukey” Stafford has written three books: Edges of Waves, Around the Bend, and Thrums and Tapestry, which debuted Oct. 11, 2016. Anyone who wants a copy can email her at staffpub@comcast.net, and she will include a personal note.

Sukey is also proud to announce her two children, Jason and Torrey Oberfest, have given her four grandchildren. Sukey splits her time between Palm Beach, FL, and Exeter, NH.

My husband, Dan, and I enjoyed seeing all three of our sons and our extended family in Atlanta in July. Our oldest son, Jonathan, and his wife and son were transferring from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, AK, to Ramstein AFB in Germany, so Atlanta was a good gathering place. We’re hoping to visit them in Germany next year.

Thanks so much for sending your news on short notice. Mark your calendars! My next deadline is January 5. Make it your resolution to submit an entry!

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

What do Richard Wolf, Warren Everett, Keith Muscutt, Peter Schandorff, Daniel Cooper, Bruce Kauffman, Charles Durfee, Dick Howe, David Gang, and Howard Cutler all have in common? Web updates at goo.gl/P0N1Cf. Now, for the rest of the story…

Sam Allis (samallis88@gmail.com) has admitted, “I knew when I was about to retire from the Boston Globe in 2011 that I needed a project. Otherwise, my body would be found floating in Boston Harbor. So I wrote a book of historical fiction called A Hero of Two Worlds, set in Rome in the early 1860s, when the great fight to unify Italy into a country was raging. It traces the life of a young American sculptor from his arrival there in 1847 to his soldiering with the Union Army in the American Civil War 16 years later. It’s available on Amazon in paperback and on Kindle.”

In June, Joe England wrote, “I am living in Hudson, OH, with a wonderful woman. We have known each other for more than 40 years, been engaged for nine. Marriage is not in the near future.”

Further good news: His 44-year-old daughter had recently given birth to a grandchild. However, he wrote, “Since retirement looks to be about 20 years from now due to my ‘brilliant’ financial planning and the vagaries of life, I have dived in with both feet to a new venture.” Following up in September, Joe admitted he was learning the hard way about the impact of supply-chain quality on clinical trials of a novel nutritional supplement. Ever philosophical, he added, “Can’t wait to see how we get out of this mess.”

“Although I feel like I have had a great life so far,” opined Jeff Garten, “in terms of major visibility, a career in four presidential administrations, on Wall Street, as a dean and professor at Yale, and an author of several books has not brought me out of the shadows. All this is about to change, due to something that happened in October 1964, shortly after graduation from Andover. I was sitting in the library at Dartmouth, gazing out the window, and looking at a 15-year old girl who happened to be visiting her brother. I never spoke to her, but I was smitten, found out her address, and wrote her a letter.

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One thing led to another, and we were married in 1968, just as I was commissioned in the army and headed off to Southeast Asia. She couldn’t boil water at the time. For the next 48 years I watched her slowly but steadily—from making those early meals for me to hosting small dinner parties to owning and running a specialty food store to building a catering business to writing books to hosting her own TV show—become one of the best-known cooks in America. This October, she launches her 10th cookbook, which tells our story interwoven with some terrific recipes, and I’m afraid my relative anonymity will be blown.” See link (goo.gl/P0N1Cf) for book cover!

[Editor’s note: The book is Cooking for Jeffrey: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, by Ina Garten.]

From his South Texas home, Joe Parker commented, “I really haven’t had much to share with the Class of ’64 because I don’t ever run into any of you in Maverick or Uvalde counties, Texas.

With recent rains, the desert country ranch lands have really come to life. What a blessing! Fat cattle, green grass, and huge coveys of quail aren’t the norm for us during the dog days of August. Life is good. My wife, Chrys, just received her doctorate in counseling and continues to help vets suffering with PTSD.” Their three children—two married with three children—all live in Texas. Their youngest child, a son and corporate pilot, flies north with Joe to the prairie lands of South Dakota and Wisconsin to hunt pheasants. Joe is also taking to the air in his own Vans RV7, a single-engine, twoseat kit airplane, and added, “I am building time flying it with the hope of flying sport aerobatics without killing myself. Still kicking and still up to my nose in agriculture.”

Tony Sapienza wrote, “By the time the next issue is in print, my 36-year-old son will have gotten married. I’m still waiting for grandchildren.

The further news is that I am giving up daily operational responsibility for manufacturing Joseph Abboud suits to my successor but will stay active as a part-time advisor to the company. Less work and more time for travel and civic volunteer activities (museum and community college boards, workforce and economic development chair for the city of New Bedford) is looking very appealing, with golf, sailing, and skiing as side dishes. I have no plans to leave the New Bedford and Cape area.”

Mid-summer, Pam and Paul Gallagher visited him at his beach house on Cape Cod. Says Tony, “We talked about some mini reunions with classmates in addition to our annual ski trip with Tom Seligson, and I certainly will find the time to attend.”

From DeWolf “Dewey” Fulton: “Just closed out my English-teaching career last June, retiring after 14 years in the Providence, RI, public school system. Very rewarding years. I will miss the teacher camaraderie built around taking on impossible urban-education issues. I will also miss being witness to even the smallest student success. I will not miss the preoccupation with data and testing.

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www.andover.edu/intouch Looking forward to more gardening, birding, local Bristol community service, and part-time writing with an undisclosed publication.”

John Wiles died on June 24, 2016. You may remember that John met his future wife Joan ’64 at our 20th Andover/Abbot reunion. See link (goo.gl/P0N1Cf) for details if you missed the obituary in the reunion 2016 issue or my July email report. Patricia Crowley wrote of her husband, Francis Crowley, and corrected the reported cause of his death: “He died on Jan. 30, 2016, after a brave fight to survive gallbladder cancer. He was gallant until his last breath. I miss him terribly.”

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

I am saddened to report that Gail Goldstein died suddenly of a heart attack in July 2016. Several classmates shared memories of Gail. Marjorie Strauss Power wrote, “I remember her as a fireball, with a joyous laugh.” Barbara Sykes said, “She always seemed to have a lot of energy, lots of projects going on, and she had the most astonishingly black shiny hair. She was bright!”

Melanie Fales Davis wrote a lovely remembrance. “Gail was the only child of Dr. and Mrs. Goldstein of New Bedford, MA. Living as I did on the Canadian border, it was difficult to get home for some of the shorter holidays.

The Goldsteins very graciously invited me for Thanksgiving one year. New Bedford was a whaling town, and many Portuguese settled in that location.

Gail had a friend, a guy our age who was 100 percent Portuguese, with the biggest eyes I had ever seen! I thought he was the most exotic thing I had ever laid eyes on, and I thank Gail for that.

“While visiting Gail one time, we went shopping for a prom dress. My mother had made a dress for me that I thought was the ugliest thing ever. Gail lived in the relative sophistication of southern Massachusetts, and we found a great two-piece number that is pictured on the upper right corner of page 83 in our senior yearbook. I was indebted to Gail for making my senior prom wonderful.

“Gail embraced life and could be very funny.

Some of you may remember that she had a habit of fidgeting, absent-mindedly twirling a pencil, finger, or whatever in her hair. One time she was just too absent-minded and wound a rattail comb in her hair that she could not get out. She went to dinner with this comb sticking out of the top of her head and probably enjoyed the humor of it rather than being embarrassed, as some of us might have been.

Gail signed my yearbook: ‘Pooh says live it up— live it up!’ Live it up, Gail, wherever you are.”

Barbara Sykes also noted, “My summer has been about working in retail and going nuts with the traffic and heat in this so very vacation-bound peninsula. Lots of family issues to deal with, and some swimming and time spent at Long Pond kayaking. My daughter Katie, who’s 34, just changed jobs and moved from Albany, NY, to Jersey City, NJ—from the frying pan into the fire, I say!”

Maggie Warshaw Brill is excited to report that her first grandchild, Josie, was born in May in San Francisco. Maggie retired this summer from MIT, where she was a lawyer in the general counsel’s office. She loves retirement and has been spending a lot of time at her beach house in Maine, as well as visiting her children on the West Coast. She is delighted to report her son, Jacob, also living in San Francisco, is engaged to his girlfriend, Emma Huntington. Maggie’s youngest daughter, Charlotte, is working hard in a PhD program at the University of Washington.

Liz Eder McCulloch hiked down to Phantom Ranch in the Grand Canyon on Thanksgiving 2015 with a party of five, including her husband and granddaughter, got a severe respiratory infection, and then had to hike out. Her “rescue” by a park ranger consisted of being set up with soup and sleeping bags in an open shelter a mile and a half below the rim on a sub-freezing night and then hiking out (very slowly) the next day. She is now fully recovered, though it took about eight weeks.

You can read all about it at thefeministgrandma. typepad.com. Liz’s newest grandbaby, Ula Mae, was born in June to her stepdaughter, Leah, in New Orleans. Her first grandchild, Arianah, is now entering eighth grade and rapidly becoming easier to live with. Her son, Eric, has come home for an extended stay, so they have a full house: a 13-year-old, a 46-year-old, and husband Joe and Liz holding it together. She continues working with homeless people, writing (blog and novel), and having happy times singing with Voices Rising Community Chorus.

Emily Davis is spending her time commuting back and forth from Greenville, SC, where she is fixing up her home to sell, to Pendleton, SC, where she has bought property. She wants to spend time on the new property before siting her house but is in the bind of having to sell her other house first. Unfortunately, she took no trip to Maine this summer because of the work she is doing at both sites. She ends, “So, basically, my life is work, work, work, but at least I’m the boss of me—and I am quite a demanding but a very good boss. I’ll just say that about it.”

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

For many of us, I suspect, non sibi did not carry the same resonance in the early-to-mid-’60s that it does today at Andover. While not all of the student body were the “nihilists” that one national magazine suggested we’d become, selflessness and a life principle of helping those less fortunate were not typically—and I’m speaking for myself here—top of mind as we ran to morning chapel. So it’s remarkable, humbling, even somewhat dumbfounding to catch up with Alex Sanger and realize the difference he is still making in our world.

I had lunch with Alex in Manhattan in early September, probably the first time we’d had a one-on-one conversation since we cocaptained JV hockey. His travel as the “international ambassador” and a chief fundraiser for the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has taken him recently to Mexico and Bolivia. In Mexico City, he’d met with representatives from every IPPF organization in the Western Hemisphere. In La Paz, Bolivia, he inspected several of the 16 clinics and four mobile units delivering sexual- and reproductive-health services under the auspices of a group funded by IPPF. Next stop, he said, was most likely El Salvador, where the federation funds the largest nongovernmental sexual- and reproductive-healthcare provider in the nation. “I have retirement thoughts all the time,” Alex reflected, “but then my wife and I go someplace like El Salvador, where we’re both reminded of the value of the work being done, and she will turn to me and say, ‘Don’t you dare.’ ” The consequence, as it turns out, is that he now has the equivalent—in his words—of “three fulltime jobs.” The second, which he’s been involved with for the past four years, is as trustee of the Virginia Toulmin Foundation, which gives grants to female playwrights and composers to underwrite their new work. Through a partnership with Opera America, the foundation has commissioned 30 new operas on Alex’s watch, three of which have been staged. He’s also enabled a young composer to hear her music performed live—by the New York Philharmonic, no less—for the first time (she’d used a computer to create it). Says Alex, “She began to cry when the orchestra was playing, and I thought, ‘Oh my God, what have we done?’ Then she said, ‘These are tears of joy.’ ” Job three? Well, you could choose between the novel he’s writing about his grandmother Margaret Sanger, the reproductive-rights pioneer who had to flee the country in 1915 to avoid being arrested for the publication of her pamphlet “Family Limitation.”

Or his new avocation as a painter, which was showcased this past summer in a family group show in Poughkeepsie, NY, featuring work by Alex,

Margaret, and grandfather William, who was arrested and jailed for said pamphlet.

When Alex resigned as president of Planned Parenthood in 2000, after 10 years of political and cultural challenges and victories, he remembers thinking, “Enough!” Sixteen years later, he’s more reflective. “All my life,” he concluded before heading off to a Hillary Clinton fundraising dinner, “I’ve worked to improve the lives of women. There never was a plan. It just happened.” Non sibi, indeed.

On the topic of reflection, Mike Hudner’s June 4 memorial service for wife Hope Freeman Hudner drew a crowd of many hundreds. Set in a huge opensided tent on a 40-acre plot overlooking the water in Little Compton, RI, with examples of Hope’s artwork exhibited throughout, Mike, daughter Bay, and other family members and friends drew laughter, smiles, and more than a few tears with their anecdotes and goodbyes. Schoolmates attending included Franz Schneider, Greg Richards, Geoff Davis ’66, and me, as well as others from Harvard, the sailing community, and the business world. As fog descended in the evening, the fireworks—which Hope loved—served as a muffled, subdued curtain falling on a too-short life, very well lived.

Ed Samp reports our fundraising efforts this past summer were quite successful. The committee— Hudner, Dick Cromie, John Deane, Jim Eller, Paul Henry, Nick Marble, Kit Meade, Mike Sheldrick, Colby Snyder, Ralph Swanson, Danny Samuels, Don Shepard, Tom Hafkenschiel, and Vaho Rebassoo—raised approximately $40,000 from 96 classmates. “This was far better than we had expected this year,” Samp reported. “We even raised our class database number, where the usual trend is down.

We’re finding lost people, including classmates who attended but did not graduate.”

Sadly, we have lost another classmate, Perry Thurmond, who we learned this summer had died in Fayetteville, AR, in March. No obituary has surfaced, and if anyone has thoughts or memories to share, please do so on the memorial pages being kept

by Ed and John Samp.

As I write, it’s just the second week of September, and there’s still a lot of tennis talk with the Open fresh in folks’ minds. Steve Devereux had more to discuss than most, due to the success of PlaySight, a company that’s building “smartcourts” that use video and analytics technology to turn a court into a kind of athletic performance laboratory. Universities like Stanford, Harvard, the University of California, and Duke and tennis-club companies like Bay Club and Midtown are already all in, and Steve spent the two weeks of the Open in meetings with more potential clients. “I inserted myself into the PlaySight equation two years ago to help the Israeli founders raise money and close a few very strategic tennis deals,” he reported. “I am a consultant, but my business card says I’m in charge of ‘strategic sales and business development.’ ” Finally, I have to thank Paul Henry for the tennis lesson in Truro this summer. Hope to see more of you—on the court, in New York, wherever.

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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

Greetings to you all. With class-notes time lag entailing a post–Labor Day 2016 deadline and winter 2017 delivery, the following will be short and sweet.

For a more in-depth reminder of our dynamic, multifaceted class, please refer to that remarkable 50th Reunion yearbook coordinated by Bethe Moulton and sidekick Lucy Thomson.

As a corollary of the many months of outreach and engagement, Judy Froeber Rizzo sent a prereunion excuse. Thank you, Judy, for the update, in spite of your insistence on remaining in Surf City and the vibrant Wilmington, NC, area.

“Hey, Blake! I so wish I could make the trip but I am slammed with recitals, sports, programs, and vacation bible school (I have the kindergarten).

May and the first part of June are always the busiest, besides December! I plan to write a letter to the class and send a couple of photos of my crew: Eight grandkids and another on the way! I know you will all have a ball. Please extend an invitation to any and all to come south to the beach!”

Elizabeth Walker Compton, one of my former roomies, used spring to decamp from DeLand, FL, and return to her beloved Deer Isle, ME. So yes, Lizzie, you are off the reunion hook as well.

In alignment with requests for mini reunions, Beth Humstone stopped by en route to her Charlotte, VT, camp. For those interested in joining us, we will send out several dates in spring for response. With Abbot@Andover Day programming as a catalyst, Beth suggested we use Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal (http://atulgawande.com/book/ being-mortal) as a discussion base.

While open to any recommendations, currently we are considering bucolic Rumney, NH, as minireunion headquarters: It’s between two college towns and interstates, with regular bus service from Boston, and easy lodging and yummy food are available. Located within the White Mountain National Forest, Rumney encompasses the Baker River, Stinson Lake, and the famous Rumney Rocks climbing area. Yes, I do live here. However, Beth and I talked about an accessible (and fun) locale. All input and involvement welcome. Several of us are committed already!

As a sad segue to our memorial service, and with Being Mortal as appropriate coda, a note to classmate Ann Garten Shaw of Tallahassee, FL, was returned and marked as “deceased, unable to forward.”

Wishing you all a healthy and happy 2017 from a brilliant September day. —Blake Andover | Winter 2017

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Louise Shimmel ’66 Raptor Rehab

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ouise Shimmel ’66 has always been an animal lover. She remembers growing up with rescued bobcat kittens and a desert tortoise, bringing home classroom snakes, and catching a black widow spider in a jar. As executive director of the Cascades Raptor Center in Eugene, OR, where she responds to bird emergencies around the clock, Shimmel’s passion for animals is on display in a unique work environment.

Brian Lanker

Shimmel grew up in 1950s California, playing in a nearby creek, building forts, and climbing trees. At age 12, she moved with her parents, brother, and sister to Bangladesh and later, to Pakistan. “I remember being fascinated by the vultures that would hang around dead cows, the python in the backyard, the geckos all over the walls,” she recalls. Shimmel enjoyed many social freedoms in Pakistan, such as parties and dating. This experience was vastly different from what she would encounter when she moved back to the States and entered the more austere environment of Abbot Academy in the early 1960s.

“The single-gender education was definitely a shock to my system. I felt pretty isolated at first, but then I made good friends and studied hard. I remember the rhythm of the days at Abbot: morning chapel, tiffin, classes, the ‘tea dances’ where they lined you up by height,” says Shimmel.

After graduating from Abbott, Shimmel attended Stanford University. She traveled, worked on Wall Street, earned a graduate degree in business from the University of Chicago, spent four years in international banking, and served as an editor for a nonprofit. But it wasn’t until she found an abandoned squirrel in her yard and nursed it back to health that she realized how much she dearly missed the connection she had had with animals when she was a youngster.

“I was 36 by then, but it was finally crystal clear to me that this was what I was supposed to be doing.”

So Shimmel joined a fledgling animal rehabilitation group, eventually becoming president. In 1990 she left to start the Cascades Raptor Center, wanting to focus solely on raptors and education.

“Raptors are a fascination for most people, no matter the age or culture, so they provide a great window for learning,” she says. “Just seeing a vulture spread its wings to sunbathe becomes a perfect teachable moment.”

Acting as a resource for state and federal wildlife agencies, Shimmel has served on the board of the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council, and was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association. Her staff serves on national and international professional association boards in both rehabilitation and education.

“What I loved about it when we started [the center] was the birds and sharing my passion for them. What is fulfilling now is seeing what I have created—with lots of help—grow and come closer to the vision I had in the beginning of a place where birds are well cared for and returned to the wild when possible, and where people come to become intrigued.”

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

Last August, my old buddy and hockey linemate Eric Best, who lives in the cabin next to ours in our community, Gipsy Trail, had a grandson, the son of his older daughter, Emily. And then, a week later, this correspondent joined the lucky band of grandparents when our daughter Melina brought into the world her daughter, June, out in Chicago.

Wondering how many of our classmates have had the pleasure of becoming grandpas, I went to the source, our Class of ’66 50th Reunion book, and here are the stories.

Eric Almquist writes, “Nanny and I have just entered the ‘grandparent’ stage of life, and we’re enjoying it thoroughly. While I’m still a full-time partner at Bain, we are beginning to split our time between Boston and the San Francisco Bay area, where all our children live.”

John Bakalar writes, “We have four sensational granddaughters, with another due soon. How fun to work and play with your children and enjoy them as adults, while delighting in the grandchildren.”

Howie Borgstrom writes, “Added blessings include [son] Eric’s wife, Kate, [daughter] Christine’s husband, Greg, and two wonderful grandchildren, Josh and Maggie [see photo in yearbook, with Howie’s wife, Carol].”

Steve Cunningham writes, “My son, Jim, is a stayat-home dad. They have three children. I’m a very proud dad and granddad.”

Bill Davis writes, “Our daughter, Mackenzie, in 2009 married Jonah Tower, a computer engineer, and they now have a son, Nathaniel, who just turned 2.”

Bill Dawson writes, “Our oldest daughter, Emily, is expecting our first grandchild in November 2015.

While we will continue to use Charlotte [NC] as homebase, retirement from one activity will simply allow us the freedom to shift the focus to others, like grandchildren.”

David Farley writes, “We have three children, all married and productive. Our oldest daughter has given us four grandchildren; our son, three grandchildren. We went from two grandchildren to four when our son had twin girls, then two weeks later to six, when our daughter also had twin girls!”

Marty Geiger writes, “We have a son, Andrew, who lives in New Orleans with his spouse, Jamie (both are attorneys), and our three young grandsons: Dylan and identical twins Max and Brody.”

Ben Gardner writes, “My oldest son, Ryan, and his wife, Helena, have a son William Benjamin. My daughter, Abigail ’98, has given birth to her second son, Sebastiano Athanasopoulos, who joins his 3-year-old brother Nikkos.”

Geoff Gibbs writes, “My son, Tyler, and his wife,

Julie, have given us two wonderful grandchildren.

Kathy and I live on Possession Sound in Everett, Washington.”

Fernando Gonzalez writes, “I travel to Boston where my two sons live with their families, and I have the joy of spoiling my two grandchildren, Daniel Luis (16 months) and Madison (five months).”

Chris Gurry writes: “My family extends well beyond my wife, Sarah, and our four children, Erin, Adam ’94, Chas ’05, and Jon, their spouses, and our four grandchildren.”

Gerald Harris writes, “As I type these words with my right hand, my left arm is holding our grandson, Fuller. He naps while his mom, Holly, works on a college assignment. Fortunately for us, Holly and our son-in-law, Alex, a cellist, live in our city, Victoria, on Vancouver Island.”

Robin Hogen writes, “Today I find myself jetting to the Left Coast to visit my two perfect daughters and four above-average grandchildren— ages 11, 9, and 8 (twins)—who all live in Northern California. They are my pride and joy.”

Carl Johnson writes, “My wife, Susan, and I have raised two amazing children, Haleigh and Peter. Haleigh is a new mother (Noah was born two months ago, and being a grandparent is just indescribably joyous).”

Mike Krinsky writes, “My wife, Marcia, and I have three children and six grandchildren.”

Chris Moore writes, “Along the way, my wife, Betsy Harrington, and I have had two kids, who turned into blindingly smart, funny, enormously capable grown-ups, now with babies of their own.”

Jon Noll writes, “The accomplishment that Jon and Pinky are proudest of is our family. We have three children. Lindsey and her partner, Katie, are the mothers of a 6-year-old daughter, Romy.

And son Daniel ’01and his wife, Sarah, have two children: a 6-year-old son, Jon, and a 16-month-old daughter, Eva.” Chas Phillips writes, “Our family has lived in NYC for the past 45 years. My wife, Candace, and I have four wonderful children and eight grandchildren, and have been happily married for almost 49 years. My eldest son, Charles ’88, and his wife, Maureen, live two blocks away from us with their three wonderful children. My younger son, Scott, and his wife, Julie, live in Studio City [CA] with three rambunctious boys. My elder daughter, Austen, is taking care of her two energetic children.

They live three blocks away from us.”

Don Ross writes, “I have also been extraordinarily fortunate to have two wonderful, well-grounded kids, both now married to amazing spouses, and, over the past seven years, they have added four beautiful grandchildren to the family.”

Bruce Stanley writes, “Together, my wife Pam and I have faced the challenges of stepparenting, parenting, and making a life. Our daughter, Julie, has two of our grandsons. She is married to Mel, who has grandchildren of his own, so we are

‘great-grandparents’ of three, soon to be four, wonderful children. Son Charlie and wife Laura have a 1-year-old son who is an absolute delight.”

Barry Tung writes, “I’m blessed with four children who lead busy young lives. My two grandchildren make me smile.”

Jack Turco writes, “Mary and I are the very proud parents of three children (Mark ’95, Scott ’96, and Molly ’00) and two daughters-in-law (Julie and Jess) and the exceptionally proud grandparents of six precious grandchildren who are all 5 years old or younger.”

Erich Wise writes, “Of course, all of this was only prologue to our four grandchildren: two girls in Solana Beach, CA, and two boys in Wenham, MA.” Adios, amigos. Keep writing and emailing.

1967 50th REUNION June 8–11, 2017

ABBOT Anstiss Bowser Agnew 446 Hollow Tree Ridge, No. 2 Darien CT 06820 203-912-5264 a.elizabeth.b@gmail.com Catherine Hoover Petros 25119 U.S. Hwy. 40 Golden CO 80401 303-526-5202 chpetros@msn.com

Barbara Barker Siegel says, “Finally made it on the road this year, starting with a two-week trip to Bhutan on global health, followed by a medic position in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The program was awesome, introducing high school and college students to marine conservation and environmental consciousness. I visited the panda reserve in Chengdu, China, then on to Camp Leakey, one of the last habitats for orangutans. On the way home, I looked at a job with Project Hopecore in the foothills of Mount Kenya, supplying a school district of 181 schools with water, healthcare, mosquito nets, etc. I hope to join everyone at reunion and hope this finds you all healthy and well.”

Anstiss Bowser Agnew writes that she, Nancy Porosky Harris-Frohlich, and Weezie Huntington met at Warren Osborne Collins’s home in Kinderhook, NY, in mid-July for Warren’s famous farm-to-table event. The laughter and heartfelt discussions began at breakfast and continued well into the night. Warren and husband Lenny are selling the farm and moving to Falmouth, MA. For Anstiss, it was a time of renewal as she retires in Jan. ’17 after 10-plus years leading a poverty-fighting agency in Queens, NY. Margery Goldman divides her time between

Boulder and Vail, CO. With a life now focused on philanthropy, Margery is a member of the board of the Women Donors Network (womendonors.org), a national organization of 200 progressive women philanthropists who work on a wide range of social and economic justice issues. Dorsey Green chimes in, “I am working with private clients and coleading a Hold Me Tight couples workshop. I’m looking forward to our 50th Reunion.” Catherine Hoover Petros reports, “My husband, Ray, and I joined a Colorado Bar Association group for a trip to Havana, Cuba. The people were warm and friendly and eager to share their city and diverse culture. We recommend a trip to Cuba. I hope to see everyone at reunion!”

Weezie Huntington writes, “I am in Iceland on a photo workshop. It is chilly and rainy, but we are having a good time. As Anstiss knows, several of us got together at Warren’s house in July for a final farm-to-table weekend of eating, drinking, and good company. It was great spending time with these wonderful ladies. Looking forward to seeing everyone (and I mean everyone) at the 50th.”

Nancy Porosky Harris-Frohlich writes that she traveled across Canada with her husband, Bill, by VIA Rail, a must for anyone who loves train travel, good food, and off-the-charts service.

From Vancouver they ventured south to Danville, CA, where Nancy’s son got married. Her public school program, Leaps of Imagination, is growing.

Nancy’s goal is to bring in-depth art experiences to underserved kids in their classrooms, linking monthlong projects to a social justice theme and hosting a gallery exhibition of kids’ work at the end. Priscilla Howes Harris shared: “Clint and I sold our Michigan home of 30 years and moved to Florida. Hope to make it to our 50th.”

Roxanna Wolfe reports, “My life is good and quite busy. I have the privilege of being involved in work that is rewarding. I have dialed down to a three-day week in the office, with no plans to retire. I have had a couple of trips, including going to the Holy Land with the rector of our Episcopal Church. In April I complete my eight-year term of being totally overinvolved at church. My reward will be a threeweek birding trip.”

Sarah Beale Gaffin shared, “My cancer returned this spring, but I’m happy to say that after eight chemotherapy treatments, I’m in remission again.

This time I’ll be taking maintenance chemo pills and Avastin every three weeks. I feel very positive and can’t wait to get back to work! See you at reunion!” Diana Bonnifield Hill shared, “Life has been a whirlwind. I started the year with cataract surgery on one eye. Within 18 months we lost three parents (Mike’s mom, then my dad and mom).

“A bright star in October 2015 was our informal class reunion on Cape Cod. I’m grateful for rekindled friendships. We began our bucket list: a December ’15 trip to Tanzania; a Disney cruise from San Diego to Vancouver with our six grandkids; a trip to Fiji with Mike’s family.

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The beauty of nature and warmth of the people makes Fiji my favorite destination. I was elected president of Soroptimist International of La Jolla, CA, an organization helping women and girls. For retirement, we decided to stay in our house and retrofit it with an elevator.”

Julia Alvarez is swamped: Working on a novel, she and husband are selling their house, building a new one, and organizing Border of Lights, their annual border gathering between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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

The big milestone looming is our 50th Reunion, taking place June 8–11. By now, you should have received a prereunion package and submitted (I hope) a personal essay for the class yearbook.

Thanks in advance to Paul De Angelis and Steve Gardner for assisting with the editing.

Meanwhile, working hard on the reunion itself are Luis Menocal, Bill Williamson, and John Bassett, whose requests for donations to the class gift fund ought not (again, I hope) to go unheeded.

For many of us, June’s festivities could be the last opportunity to reconnect with dozens of classmates in one setting. Do make plans to attend if you can.

Joining us will be a film crew shooting a biopic about the Rising Storm—the eternally young garage-rock band formed by ’67ers Tony Thompson, Bob Cohan, Tom Scheft, Rich Weinberg, Charlie Rockwell, and Todd Cohen—and the Stormers themselves, who’ll perform sometime during the weekend.

How do I know? Because I was interviewed by the filmmakers at length last July. With me was Sidney Morris, to reflect upon the Andover of our era and the cultural climate that gave rise to the Storm. Bruce MacNelly later joined the interviewee parade. Portions of the film will be screened at our 50th. Should be fun.

Tony Thompson tells me the film project reached their inbox via drummer Tom Scheft, a childhood pal of the producer/director. “We’d gotten a lot of inquiries from all over the world before this one landed in my lap,” says Tony, referring to the global curiosity about the band and its 1967 album “Calm Before…”—a copy of which now fetches as much as $7,000 on the rare-record market. Band members were initially skeptical but ultimately agreed to participate, provided they had no control over the finished film. “This is not a Rising Storm vanity project,” Tony asserts.

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Last July, they hosted the film crew at Tony’s retirement home in Kittery Point, ME, where he and wife Mady now spend nearly half the year and soon plan to spend even more post-retirement time.

Rock on!

What’s it like to hunker down with a film crew for several days and relive your youthful glory days?

“Like being a Kardashian for a week” is how rhythm guitarist Bob Cohan described the experience in a phone call with me several weeks later. Yes, there were moments of tension and disagreement among old friends, Bob admitted. Then again, “Being a rock god is a burden,” he added with a laugh. On a more serious note, Bob and family recently spent nearly a year in Israel, where his daughter Sofia underwent successful treatment for bone cancer. Bob managed his Boston-based law practice from afar, flying home for important trials and such, and also serves as cochair of the Jewish National Fund’s general campaign, while generously helping out with 50th Reunion planning—all good and important stuff.

More than two years after the fact, I (and PA) learned that Michael Post died of cancer on April 26, 2014, in Framingham, MA, where he’d been living in a group home run by an organization that assists people with developmental and mental health challenges. Mike had been diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 19. A talented musician, he joined our class during upper year and was a twoyear member of the Madrigal Society and Baroque Ensemble. He later attended Harvard and the New England Conservatory of Music. Mike is survived by his three sisters. Classmates with more updated information are welcome to contact me or to share their memories of Mike at the June reunion.

Apologies to Derek Rainey for reposting this email many months after he sent it: “I retired from teaching history and art for 35 years (world history, American history, drawing and design, ceramics, and sculpture at Portland [MI] High School), but I’ve continued to teach and to sculpt. I’m a docent at the Michigan History Museum, doing the voyageur program (dressing as a French voyageur telling thirdand fourth-graders about the fur trade in early Michigan). When the kids first see me, they think I’m an elf! And I continue to sculpt. One of my last big sculptures was of a modern voyager, Verlen Kruger, an amazing, long-distance canoe master.

Also, I’ve added disk golf to my workout routine.

Some retired buddies and I play every weekend in whatever weather Michigan throws us. All that Frisbee playing as a crazed youth finally paid off!

There must be a course near PA to explore during the reunion. Anyone up for a different sort of golf ?”

Golf, disk golf, tennis, pickleball, stickball: Whatever form of sporting competition you’d like to see held during reunion weekend (quidditch, anyone?), let a committee member know and you might just find a match.

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

Here is some news from Diane Russell that just missed our “spring renewal” notes. “My summer begins with a work trip to Kinshasa [Democratic Republic of Congo] and then on to that prime vacation spot, Kisangani—better known as the Heart of Darkness or the Bend in the River—where I did my PhD fieldwork, 30 years ago. Summer goes out with a bang—as a member of the USG delegation to the World Conservation Congress in Hawaii, where we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Parks Service.” Her daughter Eva starts her last year at University of Maryland in film studies.

Responding to the request for “summer fun” news, Lynn Trenbath Key wrote that she and husband Billy moved from Boca Raton, FL, to Durham, NC. They were grateful for lots of help from her daughter (spreadsheets!) and son-in-law (driving the van!) and now are living close to them.

We heard from Daisy Schnepel, who had just returned from an annual pilgrimage to Martha’s Vineyard with her sister. She described the ocean island scene of good swimming and foraging turkeys, writing, “All my sins have been salt washed away for another year!”

With another story of travel, Cher Lewis just returned from Tuscany, where she met former travel friends. They experienced the grape harvest and the making of vin santo, a sweet wine. Cher described her Mom’s big 90th birthday celebration, her daughter Zoë’s visit celebrating her first year living in Athens, and her daughter Emma’s first home purchase and engagement. Toby Dondis Farman was traveling this summer as well. She wrote about kids and grandkids; her dad’s 91st; and visits to Chadds Ford, PA, Wilmington, DE, and Glen Arbor and Traverse City, MI, for a wedding, with the bonus of meeting with her Abbot roommate Patty Rockwood. “The only other time I was in that neck of the woods was the summer of ’68 right after graduation when I visited Patty and her family.”

She also spent time in Maine and in Massachusetts, visiting Nantucket, Falmouth, South Dartmouth, and the Berkshires.

Debbie Webster and husband Michael toured Paris with friends from Belgium before taking a river cruise from Paris to Prague. They sampled lots of wine and hiked and rode bikes along the way.

She also made a quick trip to New England in July to visit her two sisters and mother. She said, “I just can’t get enough seafood when I am there!” (Well said.) The highlight of summer for Nan Roberts was a week at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York with her husband, Mike: “The theme of money and power resonated.” Nan also

reminded us that this is the 50th anniversary of the TV show Star Trek. On the opposite coast, Ann Doty in Laguna, CA, was enjoying the music and art festivals. Her youngest, Joe, was married in an old LA warehouse big enough for the large contingent of relatives to celebrate and dance. Ann closed with “Best to all, and I am sure Jean St. Pierre is waving fondly.”

Sharon Hughes Fiyalka and husband Art had a visit from Art’s 95-year-old mother at their summer place on Fire Island; they played lots of Scrabble and solved jigsaw puzzles for several days. “She’s amazing—still bowling every week with no score below 100.” Sharon also described “working on a cookbook featuring cartoonists I worked with when I was at the New Yorker, with their recipes and cartoons. Have 20 on board.”

As for me, husband Mark and I completed our move to Carson City, NV, dealt with renovations there during our move, and are very happy with our new place “on the water.” OK, it’s only on a small pond, but this does have a few waterfalls and is home to seven ducks. In August, I took some time to visit my dad in Maine and celebrate his 90th. While there, I feasted on lobster with blueberry beer, got in a day of paddling, and rode my bike to the local summer scenes of too many umbrellas shading too much skin at the too-sunny beaches.

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

International bulletin: The irrepressible Bruce Hearey, charged with keeping an eye on his classmates, reports: “My son Leif ’93, his wife, Kristin, and son, Owen, visited our guy, Ambassador Rob Barber, in Iceland this past June. Rob has an impressive apartment overlooking Reykjavik. He loves it.” For those lucky enough to have guzzled Rob’s home-brew beer, you know the treat. Beer diplomacy is not dead; it’s only moved offshore.

Who are our most influential music icons?

Any great stories of them? In a continuing series, Edward Moulin remembers back to his.

“When I heard the news that Pete Seeger had died, I thought back to a time 20 years ago when our kids were little and we owned a cabin in the Catskills.

The kids were often restless and bored with hiking, so we looked for child-friendly activities nearby. We saw a sign up in the local general store about a festival along the Hudson that featured games for the kids, as well as storytelling and singing. It was a new festival called the Clearwater, which celebrated the progress being made to clean up the Hudson. A reproduced Hudson River sloop of the 19th century named the Clearwater was promised as a featured attraction.

“We put together a picnic lunch, threw the kids

into the car, and headed for Beacon, NY. The festival was being held down on the bluffs of the river just outside of town. We unloaded and found a nice spot on the grass to lay down a bedspread, unpack our food, and enjoy a picnic. As we were finishing lunch we looked up to see a tall, thin man strolling by. [Wife] Willa tapped me on the arm and pointed.

‘Doesn’t he look just like Pete Seeger?’ she asked.

I shrugged and said yes, he looked a little like him, but what would he be doing here at this little out-ofthe-way festival? Must be somebody who looks like Pete Seeger.

“About 15 minutes later, we heard the unmistakable strum of chords on a banjo. We looked over and saw a group of very excited young children, jumping up and down. Just then I stood up and looked over to see what all the excitement was all about. But somehow I knew before I stood up that yes, Pete Seeger was here, and he was about to play. And I was feeling that same excitement as those little kids who were standing near him jumping up and down.

“He played for an hour, gathering first the nearby children then the rest of us into his circle. It was just a magical moment, singing and clapping in time to the music, first to children’s songs then to the folk songs that everyone seemed to remember. It was a wonderful, spontaneous, impromptu concert celebrating the day and the people who were there.

“We attended the yearly festival several more times. Once, Governor Pataki showed up, wearing blue jeans and just hanging out with the crowd. It turned out that he and Pete were pretty close. Pataki had really pushed hard to clean up the river and had talked Pete into serving on one of the advisory boards the state had assembled to oversee the project. Still, I didn’t know any of this the first time I saw them together shaking hands down by the river.

I thought it was pretty strange that a lifelong antiwar activist should be smiling and shaking hands with a Republican governor. What did I know?

“Not long after that festival, we sold the cabin.

The kids had gotten older and had lost interest in Catskill weekends. We never went back to Beacon for the festival. But this morning after hearing the news, I walked back to the boys’ bedroom, long since vacated by them. I looked over at the wall.

Hanging there is a poster we bought that day, which Aaron and Jonah took over to Pete when he finished singing. It’s still there where we hung it, 20 years ago. At the bottom it’s signed simply ‘Pete.’ ” A 1968 icon, Sherm Drake, housemaster at Will Hall, left his daily log notes, which were passed on to me. [Editor’s note: Sherman Drake passed away after the submission of these notes. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.] His stated goal to his team of proctors in our first year was “to run a good, quiet, happy dorm with no appeal to formal outside ‘school discipline.’ Any time we are tempted to or resort to ‘school discipline,’ we have been a failure in our job and relations with our boys.”

That being said, his very first room inspection tour found Baxter Lanius, Rip Cohen, Gordon Baird, Bob Pratt, and George Wolf with minor issues with their room appearance. A bigger warning went to Rick Devereux and Sean Konecky’s “generally messy room—but not gruesome.” However, while Dick Spaulding had to go back to the library after hours to look for his lost history notes, Ed Moulin’s “sheets were taken by the cleaning staff but no new ones left.” Traumatic, non?

No wonder Ed liked Seeger so much.

Sherm went on that first week to highlight that “Sam Feldman/Gil Hall, Rich Proctor, Skip Jensen, Dick Spaulding, Bruce Truitt, Rip Cohen/Gordon Baird, Rob Hart, Mike Farrell, Harold DeFelice/Al Clark, Eric Douglas/ Scott Richmond, Ned Albright, Tom Smith/ Bob Laurier, Dick Stevenson/John Woolsey, Chips Outerbridge/Bob Anderson, Ed Moulin, Sumner Smith, Bing Chang, Wright Watling, Vin Crowley, Frank Currie, Rick Devereux, and Baxter Lanius/Gary Meller were all guilty of filled wastepaper baskets, and they all have now been firmly instructed on the proper arrangement. No further violations should occur. Lastly, at 8:30 Skip Jensen appeared at my door and asked if there was an iron available for his pants. I told him to go study.”

So there, you future captains of industry.

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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.

Jennifer Cecere reports “a mini beach reunion with Anne Dillard and Wendy Ewald. So great!

“On a sad note, Wendy Ewald and I (Jennifer) would like to acknowledge the passing of our inspirational photography teacher and mentor at Abbot Academy, Wendy Snyder MacNeil. She was crucial in the development of many young artists’ careers. She taught for years at Abbot and Rhode Island School of Design. She was an important artist who developed an innovative approach to portraiture and documentary narrative. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, as well as many other collections.”

Carol Kinzler announces that after a wonderful career at Environmental Defense Fund, she’s planning to retire this fall and move to New Hampshire.

Katrina Moulton Wollenberg writes “I have just returned from a family reunion at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, MO. What an amazing place.

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Luxury cabins, miniature golf, pools, a lazy river with floating tubes, an amazing spa, campfires for the kids, restaurants with entertainment, over-thetop golf, the best Native American art museum in the USA, and more. It is worth considering if this sounds intriguing. I did give a review on TripAdvisor. Anyway, 15 of our family members enjoyed this vacation spot the last week of August.

How fun, as we had not done this kind of getaway before. So, yes, I envy families who do this every year. It was a blast, and it definitely brought us closer together—much like our Abbot family. I think of many of you often and look forward to reunions, so we can reconnect. It is the glue of history. Wishing all of you a happy fall from my home in Dallas.”

My family (Sheila Donald Millington) held a family reunion this year, as well. It was in Chicago, IL. We are one of those families that holds reunions every two years. It is always fun and great to be able to reconnect with family. We also get to see different parts of the country. I, like Carol, will be retiring at the end of the year, after more than 30 years with Kaiser Permanente. I haven’t decided what I’d like to do with the time. Perhaps I’ll become a writer, world traveler, or student, or just chill.

Facebook shows that Susan Gurganus Drackett was in Iceland. Perhaps she will provide some information about her trip in an upcoming issue. Helene Tolbert Kovach, Dale Dingledine, Gali Hagel, Sara Gray Stockwell, and Linda Lacouture Vliet shared on Facebook. Perhaps they can expound and send information for the class notes.

Which of the two school teams were you a member of while at Abbot—Gargoyles or Griffins?

For the next issue of class notes, let’s have a friendly competition to see which team will have the most members provide notes. Go Green! Go Orange! I currently see a mixture of Gargoyles and Griffins providing information.

Hope you all had a great summer. Thanks for your submissions!

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

Larry Glenn, still lawyering in Houston “and practicing my version of full time,” is among those living the good life. He’s taking time to be with his family, including his daughter Elizabeth ’99 and her three young boys. He and his wife, Louise, spent a week with the rest of the family in Breckenridge, CO—and he continues a 20-year tradition of powder skiing in Alta, Utah, with Jim Hearty, Tom Sperry, and (sometimes) Digger Donahue, a

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Larry writes, “In September, my family will attend the wedding of J.J. Hearty [Jim Hearty’s son] in Rye, NY. J.J. and Malcolm McAvity’s son Jamie were college classmates and then roommates in NYC before J.J. got an MBA and returned to Boston. While they were in NYC, they hung out with our son Peter ’02, so the HeartyMcAvity-Glenn connection continued in the next generation—a scary thought. Malcolm is Elizabeth’s godfather.”

He passes on the following matrimonial news via Jim Hearty: “All Hogs should have felt a slight tremor in the atmosphere last Saturday evening as our own T. Sperry tied the knot with the lovely Julie Wachtel at their beautiful place in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut. It was a beautiful night and a joyous occasion. I can report that our man T is down about 25 pounds and looking to continue that trend. All is good!” Congratulations, Tom! Our classmate and consummate musician Chuck McDermott recently appeared at Club Passim in Cambridge—the venue long ago known as Club 47. It’s a very small place in Harvard Square that, over the years, has hosted pretty much the pantheon of American folk music, including Dylan, Baez, Tom Rush, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Muddy Waters, etc. It ain’t just anybody who gets a gig there. Consider this: They once turned down Bruce Springsteen. Excellent work, Chuck!

Went with one of my brothers to Tanglewood this summer to see Dylan. Didn’t run into Fred Adair, as I often do at Dylan concerts.

It is odd, and kinda fun, to hear the author of “Desolation Row” singing standards from the ’40s and tunes from the Sinatra songbook. The croaky voice grows ever croakier.

Speaking of Fred Adair, check out his consulting company’s impressive website at http:// adairleadership.com/. Another classmate still busy in the professional world is Crosby Kemper, who generously hosted me and my friend Heather Gretz this past summer at his family home in Chatham, MA, on Cape Cod. Beautiful weather, a beautiful place, great conversation. Crosby continues as the head of the Kansas City Public Libraries and was accompanied on his vacation by Deborah Sandler, CEO of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. For 50 years we have been having the classic conservativeliberal dialog. These conversations are always enriching, and (DC take note) I think we find many, many principles and policies upon which we agree. It might be fair to say that Croz might not endorse one of our other old pals, Pete Olney, who will be going to NH to work for Hillary Clinton.

Nor might he encourage me to spend some time there (as I plan to) working for senate candidate Maggie Hassan, the current governor and the wife of a recent Exeter principal. Nonetheless, to this day I consider my old roommate to be the essence of what a thoughtful intellectual and a gentleman should be. Meanwhile, he reports

that Yale instructor and environmental writer Fred Strebeigh was once again spending his summer in Siberia.

Apropos of nothing, a bit of prep-school trivia: The head of PA is a PEA grad and the head of PEA is a PA grad. I guess that, down deep, we all love our cousins.

Finally, it was with special delight that I received a visit one fine summer day from another former dormmate, Henry Dieterich. Henry lives in Ann Arbor, holds a PhD degree in history, and has taught at several institutions in Michigan and in the south. He also has become something of a tech guru, working with tech companies, and is recently retired. But the center of his life has been his conversion to Catholicism, not long after he left Antioch College those many years ago. We had a long, enjoyable afternoon of conversation, walking around Newburyport, discussing ideas and old friends. He confirmed something that Nat Winship had posted on Facebook: that Kit Lynes, of NYC, had passed away. Kit was a mutual friend of mine and Henry’s, a sensitive, kind person who had a special talent for music and particularly the recorder. Many years ago the three of us shared poems we had written. Henry, who long has amazed me, actually quoted several lines I had written in 1968. How do people do that?

I’m hoping that Henry and many others (I’m thinking of you, Steve Cadogan) will think about returning for our 50th, which the highly efficient alumni office has already begun planning. Class agent Bill Schink will be contacting you! Until then, stay in touch.

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Adelle Nicholson and Tobi Solomon Gold here!

The year 2016 has passed as swiftly as ever. We hope that this message finds you well and doing what you love to do with the people you love!

Adelle writes: “Over the summer, I had a delightful reunion with Amy Baldwin Bratten in her home state of Georgia. Together, we drove to beautiful Amicalola Falls State Park and hiked up the falls, taking photos along the way. Amy has been retired from nursing for a few years. She and her husband, John, are just fine and celebrated 42 years of marriage in August. Their son, Paul, lives in

NYC with wife Alex and their two toddler boys and works in mortgage banking and securities. Their daughter, Tyler, lives in Texas with her husband, Luke, and has a daughter and a son. Tyler has recently started a job with Toyota in the media/ marketing department. The entire family enjoyed a six-week reunion in New Hampshire this past August at the family home, which was built in 1820.

Amy feels right at home there, because she is a selfdescribed minimalist and appreciates not having a dishwasher and a laundry machine! Since the 200th anniversary of the home and our 50th Abbot/ Andover Reunion are the same year, she hopes to celebrate both, and looks forward to seeing classmates in Andover!”

Tobi writes: “Sarah Bowen Blades is having the time of her life! Her three children, their spouses, and her five granddaughters are well and living in Fairhaven, NJ, their hometown. Both her daughter and daughter-in-law are expecting, so soon they will have seven grandchildren under the age of 8!

Husband Fred sold his ophthalmology practice and is working for the group that bought it, so he’s still working, just a little less. Sarah is a tutor at the community college and truly enjoys it! I was so happy to hear that they have bought a place in Bonita Springs, FL, on the Gulf Coast (near me) so we are all looking forward to Sarah inspiring another Florida reunion.

“Su Johnston Peyton and husband Rob are enjoying their lives in St. James, NC, their home since 2010. They love the area and find people very welcoming! Rob retired in spring of ’16 and Su consults as a website developer for a small marketing company. She also enjoys water aerobics and zumba in her community, where she serves on a couple of committees for their property association. In her spare time, she paints in watercolor and does some knitting. Su’s greatest joy comes from her twin 3-year-old granddaughters, who call her Mimi. This past August, Su flew out to Portland, OR, to take care of them so her daughter, Meredith, could work. ‘They are very into climbing and running around!’ she reports. Her youngest son is a robotics engineer in Cambridge, MA, and married to a lawyer. They all took a three-week trip to New Zealand in November 2015, where they toured Sidney, Queenstown, Milfordtown, and Dunedin, then traveled through Christchurch and North Island. Sounds like an amazing time! Can’t wait to reconnect in person in 2020!

“It took a few months, but we finally connected with Sandy Perkin Queram. She and her husband, Chris, live on a lake outside of Madison, WI. When I tried to reach her last spring, she was very busy with her grandson Sebastian, whom they call Basti, and daughter Alexa, who were visiting from Chicago. At this writing Basti is 8 months old.

Sandy reports that he is a ‘happy, happy boy— sweet, social—and loves everybody!’ Sandy’s children are all doing well. Alexa is a civil rights attorney. Nick, an actor, also lives in Chicago.

Daughter Blair lives in Denver and is a hospital social worker. Sandy and Chris were just leaving for Germany when we spoke last September. I’m looking forward to hearing about their trip next time we talk.”

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

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

Our 45th Reunion was so much fun that I was moved to volunteer as class secretary, taking over from Abby Johnson and Sara Ingram. Thank you, Abby and Sara, for your many years of honorable toil on behalf of our class. My goal is to encourage everyone’s commitment to attend our 50th Reunion! Others are thinking the same thing.

Anne Rappaport writes that she will reach out to other day students, whom we agree seem to be underrepresented in the exchanges and events. Can you help out? Anne writes that her youngest son just married. She is a therapist, providing counseling for individuals, couples, and families near her home in Godfrey, IL. I left our reunion thinking about the many and varied contributions that our classmates are making to help meet the challenges of our communities and our world. Sally Browning is a diagnostic radiologist who specializes in breast cancer detection and treatment in the Seattle area.

Beatriz McConnie Zapater is an accomplished educator, retired recently, now helping to design school initiatives for Boston’s marginalized student population. Peripatetic Dory Streett is back in Bowdoinham, ME, working on an experiential education initiative (details, Dory?).

Heide Kropp Riess reports that Walter, her 2-year-old chocolate lab passed his “Love on a Leash” certification. Heide and Walter now make weekly visits to the dementia ward of the local nursing home. “I like to think of it as my way of paying it forward,” Heide writes. Sara Ingram visited Heide at her New Hampshire home in August and

marveled at Heide and Pete’s spectacular garden of fruits and vegetables.

For the 48th summer, Mary McCabe volunteered at Camp Fatima’s Exceptional Citizens’ Week, helping put on a full theatre production of Frozen for the special-needs campers and their staff, which was performed nightly in front of 500 people. It included donations by Disney’s costume designers of wardrobes, plus fog machines, snow machines, blue lights that turned the set to winter, and, says Mary, “hordes of people in blue hazmat suits with snowflakes glued to them.” Her 21-year-old daughter Anna works part time as a vocalist at two Catholic parishes. Mary writes “I’ll take whatever help she can give to atone for her mother’s sins.”

I am sorry to report that I learned of the tragic death of Megan Treneer Berger’s 30-year-old son in 2013, in Spokane, WA, not far from where Megan and her husband, Will, lived in Port Angeles. His obituary may be found at http://bit.ly/2gby7D4.

Megan, our hearts go out to you, recognizing that your pain surely endures. Please send us word of your life.

Ptarmigan Teal, who left our class after 10th grade, works with her daughters in landscape design, installation, and maintenance, and specializes in custom gardens and fine stonework in the Seattle area. You’ll remember Ptarmigan well by the photo at http://ptarmigantealdesigns.com.

Tara Sartorius has made a lasting contribution to her hometown of Montgomery, AL: a mural installed at Riverwalk Park in 2004 consisting of thousands of handcrafted porcelain tiles, with the timeless inscription: “From many, one. Dedicated to friends and leaders who break down walls and build community.” A ceramicist and glass artist, Tara was the curator of education at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts for 21 years. Tara can be found on Etsy, with the moniker ArtChicDotBiz. Tara, fill us in on your recent work!

Alison Squiers (known at Abbot as Trinka Galusha) writes that she retired from the “worst job in the world” and now lives in Horseheads, NY, with her aging parents. She works part time in Rochester, near her 30-year-old son, Nate, and his wife. “My big push is physical fitness. The gym and yoga keep me busy for a good part of each day.” Unfortunately, that leaves little time for her photography pursuits, but “all and all, I am grateful for the way everything is settling.”

I close this column thinking of Jean St. Pierre and her incredible devotion to helping us master the English language and a love of writing. She died this past summer, at age 79. As noted by Andover, she was one of the few Abbot teachers to be retained long term. A shame, for there were many teachers who cared so much for us young women, even if we weren’t aware of it at the time. Please stay in touch! —Deborah

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

Wondering what the narrative thread might be following the 45th. As we grind down the last couple of months of the presidential election, two classmates surfaced in unexpected ways: Former presidential candidates Linc Chafee and Jeb Bush.

I emailed Linc after seeing that his daughter Louisa ’09 was competing in the Rio Olympics, sailing the Nacra 17, a high-performance catamaran.

As Linc wrote, “I have been on a ‘sabbatical’ year, which has fortuitously coincided with our daughter’s winning the Olympic trials in Florida.

I was able to be there, as well as at a World Cup regatta in Hyeres, France, in April. A good year to take a break from politics!” Delivering parental pride in a characteristically restrained manner, Linc said, “Believe me, all the Olympic class boats are very athletic to sail. I even heard that the sailors tested in the lowest group for body fat of the Olympic participants!” Louisa and her skipper did well, making the “medal round.” Linc wrote,“I believe that having tasted the nectar of Olympic competition, they want to aim for Tokyo in ’20.”

Then, I happened to be watching the opening video sequence leading into the Emmys. As host Jimmy Kimmel is trying to hitch a ride to the event, he’s picked up by the Veep motorcade (Julia LouisDreyfus). Jeb is in the front, wearing a chauffeur’s cap. “I’m in between jobs right now,” he says. “You know you can make $12 an hour driving for Uber?”

Speaking about his nomination for an Emmy, Kimmel shares that there’s a lot of competition, at which point Jeb offers some advice: “If you run a positive campaign, the voters ultimately will make the right choice.” Pause. “Jimmy, that was a joke.”

He kicks the bearded Kimmel out of the car. “And shave that wig off your face, you godless Hollywood hippie!” The limo peels off, revealing a Jeb bumper sticker!

Now that’s the sharp-tongued, biting sense of humor that I remember from Jeb. Other classmates added their latest news.

Rick Prelinger volunteered, “Heading into my fourth year as a professor at UC Santa Cruz (the ultimate late-bloomer case study)—a dream job as far as I’m concerned. It’s eye-opening and a great privilege to be actively involved in the development of what I call the ‘new California,’ a state of strivers and experimenters. I commute down the coast highway from San Francisco several times a week.

Otherwise, still making urban history films. Last year, I premiered Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles, with Harry Chandler sitting in the audience, and made the 10th annual iteration of Lost Landscapes of San Francisco; delighted when Stewart Crone flew out to visit and see the show. I’m still trying to build the

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Nils Finne writes, “The big news of the spring was our mini reunion in NYC” with Bill Gardner, Dave Winton, me, Stewart Crone, and Pierce Rafferty. “It was quite a lunch, and I really enjoyed seeing everyone after so many years. I don’t think we have changed all that much, in the sense we are all so intense about the things we do!” Nils was recognized this year with the 2016 Canadian Wood Council Award for his MAZAMA House project.

Check out his website.

With his wife, Liv, Nils is the proud owner of the FINNE Svendsen Building, which opened in Seattle on August 1. Nils writes, “This ‘boutique’ commercial building is one of the most energy efficient and sustainable buildings in Seattle. Our office occupies about 18 percent of the building, and we lease out the rest. We have exposed steel construction and 12-foot ceilings, with enormous amounts of natural light and ventilation. The radiant concrete floors provide great heating in the winter, and then we chill the floors to provide cooling in summer.

“Some people call our building ‘a house masquerading as an office building.’ It does feel like we have actually made a building that embodies my philosophy of fighting ‘throwaway-ism’ and short-term thinking in our built environment. If we consume less but make sure we choose thoughtfully well-crafted objects and environments, then we are on the path to a sustainable future.”

Writing from Ottawa, Bill Gardner caught me up. “My wife (Kathleen Pajer, chief of psychiatry at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario) and I are starting a large project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health. The goal is to improve mental health care for children and adolescents in remote parts of the province by using videoconferencing to train local doctors and nurses. It’s an interesting challenge. Ontario is a big place—quite a bit larger than, say, Texas—and the remote parts are truly remote.”

From Georgia, Sam Walker writes, “My daughter Charlotte gave birth to our second grandchild, Lucy June Olsen, in August. What a bundle of joy. Big brother Ellis calls her ‘Lucy Goosey.’ ” Sam’s daughter-in-law Ashley graduated from FBI school, and she and his son Benjamin now live in San Francisco. Benjamin works for Deloitte, having graduated from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins.

Sam adds, “We are having a family get-together at Isle of Palms, SC, this weekend. Good times.”

Excellent! Be in touch!

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ABBOT Julia Gibert Uplands Cottage Canada Lane Faringdon England +44(0)1367 615553 juliagibert@gmail.com

My combination of threats and whining proved irresistible for once, and several classmates answered my plea for news.

Linda Calvin, an economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will be in Boston for the annual meeting of the Agriculture and Applied Economics Association, so she and husband Jim have booked a few days at the Andover Inn. Linda is looking forward to seeing for herself the changes in the Abbot campus, which she hasn’t visited since we graduated in 1972. Linda’s current work involves understanding how the new Food Safety Modernization Act will affect farms—most recently the onion farms of eastern Oregon, which, Linda writes, “were very interesting, but all those onion skins drifting around were hard on my nose.”

She added, “I also visited the apple- and pearproduction area of Washington state. Pears were in bloom and it looked like a fairyland. Oh, I love produce!”

A few years ago, Brett Cook landed herself a great “gig” (as my kids would have it) writing speeches for the president of Bates College, and one of the fringe benefits is that she gets to meet the recipients of honorary degrees at commencement.

This year she is looking forward to meeting John Lewis, a “legend” of the civil rights movement, and the novelist Lisa Genova, who has tackled the subjects of brain traumas—among them Alzheimer’s, a “tsunami” for which Brett fears we are woefully unprepared.

Brett is defying aging (and at least pool-sized tsunamis) by joining her kids on a family triathlon team, donning a bathing suit and jumping into the Bowdoin College pool at 8:15 a.m. in front of the 500 other participants. She says it is the bravest thing she has ever done and wonders if Miss Ritchie might be turning in her grave, because Brett probably had the most creative excuses ever for missing gym (not infrequently accompanied by Joanie Blaxter and me).

Joanie dropped me a quick email to say that things were going well with her, work-wise, though she didn’t elaborate, because inevitably whenever work is good, time is short. She and (Bowdoin alumna and fellow Californian) Sarah Richardson Bearden share a passionate interest in the importance of healthy food for healthy living—so

perhaps there’s also a link back to Linda C.’s work and passion.

I hadn’t heard from Kristina Brainerd Innes in a while, so I was especially glad to get her email and to hear such happy words about her world, full of love. She writes, “I’m still working at the hospital and enjoying my dogs. We are three old ladies who limp along together very well.” Her youngest child, Bridget, has moved back home to continue with school while also working (and Krissy is predictably glad to have her). The middle two are teachers, like their dad; Alison, providing the “grandpuppy,” teaches fourth grade, and Peter, who still plays guitar in his spare time at the nursing home that looked after his grandfather, teaches special ed, social studies, and continuing education.

Maggie, her eldest, is in the fourth year of a PhD degree program in art history at Harvard—facing a challenge as she moved to DC in September, because her funding comes from the Smithsonian, while her “SO,” also a Harvard art history PhD candidate, remains in Cambridge.

Linda Gilbert Cooper is still the regional director for New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, overseeing four counties, meaning she gets to spend a lot of time in the lovely Hudson Valley. Her daughter, Anna ’98, has just completed her orthopedic residency at University of Rochester and will be pursuing a fellowship in orthopedic oncology at the University of Florida Gainesville. Linda’s son, Kevin, is an attorney in NYC. Beth Urdang Shiro’s newest granddaughter, Lucy, was born in February, and Lucy’s mother, Nicki, went back to work in May, as an attorney at the Hartford in Chicago. Beth’s younger daughter, Faryn, is a producer for Good Morning America in NYC. Those of us on Facebook have the pleasure of seeing the lovely pictures Beth posts with her husband, children, and grandchildren.

Finally, and for the avoidance of doubt, Maud Lavin’s news is that she is in love with her husband and that she works too hard.

So now you know. Write soon. We hope to see everyone at the 45th Reunion in June. —Julia P.S. If anyone would like to take on the role of class secretary, or even contribute a guest column, please let me know.

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

It’s Sunday night and the assignment I’ve known about for three months is due tomorrow. Haven’t even started thinking about it. PA student Tom in Johnson Hall, 1971? No, class secretary Tom enjoying laid-back island life entirely too much in

2016. What to do? Why, put a plea for news (true or otherwise) on our class Facebook page, of course.

And the news rolled in! From Joe Valencic: “I’m roaming the Alps of Slovenia in my Andover cap.”

From Mace Yampolsky: “I’m in Arizona for the Pats game. Wearing my Patriots regalia among the sea of red Cardinal jerseys.”

From Rus Perry: “The news from here is that I have retired from active practice to focus on material health and toxicity issues that have been a focus of mine for the past 20 years. With the support of my firm (SmithGroup), I am continuing to speak and write on these issues. I still serve on the American Institute of Architects’ materials knowledge working group and continue as a founding board member of the Health Product Declaration Collaborative.” Rus continues, “I am completing six or seven years of study with an attempt to tell the 100-year history of jazz in 100 hours of music, stories, and personal reflection— mostly music. I am in discussions with the University of Virginia’s public broadcasting station about presenting this here in Charlottesville two hours a week over the span of a year. February 26, 2017, is the 100th anniversary of the first jazz recording. It’s an ambitious undertaking, and we’ll see if it comes together. And of course, I am working for the Clinton-Kaine campaign, which all of us should be doing. The alternative is terrifying.”

From Vic Comer: “I moved to New Orleans and am working with this wonderful organization (lowernine.org) to rebuild Katrina-damaged abodes in an underserved community, the Ninth Ward. Loving it here.” From Chris Bretoi: “I have two kids in college. My son, Travis, is at the University of Wisconsin River Falls, and my daugher, Jasmin, is at Wayne State College in Nebraska (will be a junior transfer to Bethel University in St. Paul, MN). She will continue to play basketball. Both have internships for the summer, Travis in finance at 3M and Jasmin a research internship at the University of Minnesota.

Still toying with the idea of one of these days returning to Andover to play in the alumni hockey game.”

There were two gatherings this year at Jon Atwood’s place on Cape Cod. That happens with such frequency now that it’s hardly news anymore. If the present trend continues, we will become the first class with an ongoing, neverending reunion party. But don’t forget the main event, which is, of course, our 45th Reunion this coming June in Andover. Sam Butler and Peter Hetzler are heading up the planning committee for what promises to be a yet another fabulous get-together. Looking forward to seeing you there.

1973 ABBOT Jane Cashin Demers 43 Morton St. Andover MA 01810 978-470-1684 (home) 978-502-8733 (cell) jane.demers@gmail.com Noreen Markley 783 Wooddale Road Bloomfield Village MI 48301-2468 248-645-0536 noreenmarkley@aol.com Marcia B. McCabe 160 W. 62nd St., Apt. 10B New York NY 10023 917-796-1594 mbmg55@gmail.com

This summer marked the deaths of two of our greatest teachers and mentors, Donald Gordon ’52 and Jean St. Pierre.

Shortly before Don’s death, Mary “Mimi” Kessler recorded his stories for the Abbot Archives.

Leslie Hendrix and Mimi attended his memorial service, where Mimi spoke eloquently about his time at Abbot. Leslie and Mimi were planning a service for Don at Abbot in the fall.

Aina “Phoebe” Allen writes of Jean, “Having had the privilege of being not only Jean’s student at Abbot but also a close friend, I had the opportunity to experience her brilliant intellect, open mind, and loving heart for close to 45 years. The example of her fierce personal integrity and encouragement of all of us to find our own unique path in life—her Man and God course helped so many of us learn to hear and listen to our own soul’s voice—was life-changing for me. Thank you, Jean, for all that you gave us.”

Mimi is organizing the papers of a constitutional lawyer while updating software for her social club and planning a home tour in her historic neighborhood.

Noreen Markley and husband Maynard toured Alaska, spending one week cruising the inside passage and one week on land.

Anne Spader Byerly’s China trip included “a camel trek in the Gobi Desert, a horse trek in the Tibetan plateau, great hiking, Thangka painting, fabulous food, and seeing my daughter during her teaching fellowship.”

Catherine Armsden writes, “In April, Jessica Straus ’72 hosted an East Coast book-launch party for my novel, Dream House, at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, where her amazing work was on exhibit.

Jess and I are still glowing from the warmth of the large bevy of Abbots from ’72 and ’73 who came and shared our art with us. It was an unforgettable night and another powerful reminder of how grateful I am to have gone to Abbot!”

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Elizabeth “Bets” Kent shared, “My husband and I ventured south to the Olympics. We got tickets before we even knew the word ‘zika’! The venues were great, and Rio was fascinating. We were told not to wear any USA gear nor to carry much of value. There were lots of empty seats, except when the Brazilian men’s beach volleyball team was playing!”

Nancy Clifton Collier and her husband live in Hanover, NH, where she is chair of their local land trust, which runs outdoor adventures and conserves land. Their two sons live in Utah.

Lori Goodman Seegers hosted Edith “Edie” Wilson Fleming and family in NYC this past summer. Lori also had summer fun with Marcia McCabe and spent July 4 with Elizabeth Rollins Mauran.

Edie invited Cornelia “Connee” Petty Young, Loraine Washburn, and Lissy Abraham ’74 to Healdsburg, CA, in late August. Fellow Stanford University School of Engineering alum Lawson Fisher ’73 joined Edie’s engineering team at Omnicell in May. Ellen Hoitsma saw Bets Kent this past summer before heading back to Arctic Svalbard, an area she had visited the previous summer. She then sailed to Greenland, Jan Mayen, and Iceland as a 2016 National Geographic/Lindblad Expeditions Grosvenor Teacher Fellow. Check out her blog at parktic.edublogs.org. Ellen visited Mary Clements Michelfelder in Tupper Lake, NY, and they both saw Mardi Jane Hudson Abuza in Northampton, MA. Judith Webster had dinner in March with Josephine “Josie” Martin, Debra Heifetz Stein, and Liz “Betsy” Coward Miller, who joined the technology advisory board of Judith’s nonprofit.

Cathy von Klemperer Utzschneider writes, “A von Klemperer family reunion in Dresden this summer reminded me of how empowering reunions (and Abbot reunions) are. One hundred thirty von Klemperers, descendants of Gustav von Klemperer, gathered there from four continents.

Though sobering to remember the circumstances during the 1930s, when the family was forced to leave, it was uplifting to meet relatives we hadn’t known. (I met another Catharine von Klemperer, a 40-year-old cardiologist from London.) That was amazing—along with something completely different: watching Jane Demers and Betsy Miller swim the length and back of Walden Pond (about 11/4 miles) for the second time this summer.”

Marcia McCabe reports Victoria Elicker Joh is a second-time grandmother. Marcia broke two ribs falling off a dock in July but has healed and is heading to Paris, London, and Dublin with her sister for a belated 60th birthday celebration.

Wedding bells are ringing, as Amanda Cobb married her longtime partner, David Halberstadt, in a small private ceremony in May, followed by David’s daughter’s wedding in October.

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

Public service announcement: the Facebook Andover/Abbot Class of 1973 group is an excellent place to learn of and discuss (if in desultory fashion) news and issues coming from PA. What are you all waiting for?

Most recently, our group (and many other PA class groups) talked a bit about Head of School John Palfrey’s letter to the community regarding campus sexual abuse in the past (posted by Mindy Feldman ’73). There has been generally enthusiastic reception to Mr. Palfrey’s exceptional transparency on this sensitive matter.

In any event, sharing their opinions were Ted Harshman, Ted Maynard ’74, Noreen Markley ’73, Mimi Kessler ’73, Josie Martin ’73 and Molly Porter ’73. Over on the 1972 group page, they were really burning the subject up. Sam Butler ’72, David Schwartz ’72, Rick McKallagat ’72, Nancy Pinks Bennett ’72, Julia Gibert ’72, Melissa Baird ’72, and Brett Cook ’72 all weighed in.

(This is the news you get when you don’t write in.)

Connee Petty Young ’73 chimed in with a gem: Visiting with Lissy Abraham ’74 and Loraine Washburn ’73, they came across a picture from the yearbook. Which she posted. It shows Susan “Sam” Macartney ’73, Dave Downs, Annie Palermo McCready ’73, Amy Rogers Dittrich ’73, and me at the Abbot Fair, circa 1973.

Here’s how cool Facebook is. A list of the people who saw the photo and “liked” it (in addition to Noreen and Amy: me, Ted Maynard, Jeff Howard, Dave Harsch, Paul Gordon, Robin Waters ’73, Susan Donahue ’73, Judith Webster ’73, Ila O’Brien Loveridge ’73, Sue Wheelwright ’73, Laurie Woodworth Gilligan ’73, Amanda Cobb ’73, Dianne DeLucia ’73, John Friedenberg ’74, Jonathan Meath ’74, and Becky Putnam ’74.

Dave Swanson sighting: In between gallivants to Palo Alto, Hawaii, Florida, Las Vegas, Italy, and Ireland, Dave lays his head in Hingham, about five miles from me. We’ve been playing a lot of golf and listening to a lot of blues music.

Dave Donahue and his wife, Sue, have moved from the homestead in Walpole, MA, to smaller quarters in Mansfield.

Dave, Dave, John McDonald, Steve Rooney, Jim Hackett, and I returned to “The Barn” in Dorset, VT, for a short weekend of fun in June: golf, food, wine, music, and a lot of laughter.

Finally, Bill Robinson had several big performances of his new compositions in the Raleigh, NC, area in the 2015–16 season; those interested can see and hear them via Bill’s website, billrobinsonmusic.com. In fall 2016, he held premiere performances of a cello concerto in its chamber version, as well as a short work for concert band and a brief piece for string orchestra.

Go listen to it—it’s very intriguing.

At the end of the 2016 spring semester, Bill was told that his last year of teaching as a lecturer in physics at North Carolina State University would be the 2016–17 academic year, due to budget cutbacks. Adding some medical complications to that, Bill faces some big obstacles, and I would love for some of you to drop him a line and let him know we’re thinking of him. He’ll be moving to Cleveland, NC, 110 miles west of Raleigh, out in the countryside, with green hills and clean air, in May 2017. Bill would welcome correspondence from classmates at billrobinsonmusic@yahoo.com.

My daughter Kate Morin Brotman ’07 got married in October ’15 in a spectacular bash in Kansas City. Love that town. We were joined for the occasion by Kate’s bestie from PA—and mine, too—Mathew MacIver ’72. (How did I forget to mention that last time?) We then performed a reprise in Chatham, MA, for the wedding of Mat’s daughter, whom Kate has known since infancy.

Ain’t life grand?

Please feel free to use my email address above and send me some news. I can only quote from Facebook so many times.

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

Ann Hoover Maddox and I had a fun dinner with Peggy Bliss and her husband in Washington, DC. They were in town to celebrate their anniversary with, among other adventures, the show Kiss Me, Kate.

Steve Miller called me from Singapore. He was characteristically frank about his professional transition from his role as dean of Singapore University to a solely teaching role. He misses the responsibility but not the stress. We spoke at length about what we want now as we move towards an “emeritus” professional role—in his case, literally. Steve’s candor, always bracing, is particularly refreshing as we enter our seventh decade. Ted Maynard is also looking beyond

his distinguished career in the law. As Ted put it, his priority is “time, not toys.” All three of us, as it happens, are thinking hard about how we fill that time. We must choose carefully now.

Speaking about a life choice, Howard Lee wrote us that he “heeded Bill Cunliffe’s advice and got married for the first time, just before our 40th PA reunion.” The spring before last, his wife, Amy, gave birth to a baby boy, Derek Matthew Lee. This past spring they all went to Shenzen, China, to meet Amy’s family. While there, they took side trips to Macau and Sanya, on Hainan Island in the South China Sea. Howard is a board member and a minority owner of a for-profit two-year college with three New York campuses: Tribeca, Flushing, and Commack, on Long Island. He trades debt and equity positions from home, where he frequently takes the opportunity to bask in the glory of new fatherhood. Enjoy being the daddy god (at least for a few more years), Howard!

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

Greetings, Class of 1975! Thank you to all who took the time to write in. I am hoping 2017 will be a year when we all find the time to celebrate a birthday that’s a milestone for most of us. Life is speeding by.

Louise Kramer sent news: “Frank Lavin and I had a great lunch in NYC in May when he was passing through my beloved city from his home in Singapore. Was great to catch up. We hadn’t seen each other since PA graduation, and neither of us has changed a bit, of course! Frank has a book coming out about his father’s time in the military during WWII and encouraged me to get my dad, age 96, to tell more about his time in the Navy and to take notes. Great idea for all of us with parents still here.” Frank’s book will be out in January 2017, and is posted on Amazon: http://amzn. to/2dv18Mk. During the summer Jon Alter had a chance to catch up with George Cogan. He writes, “My wife, Emily, and I spent a terrific weekend with George Cogan and his wife, Fannie, in Isle au Haut, Maine,

a place of spectacular beauty where the extended Cogan family has vacationed for decades. The kayaking, hiking, and droning (not my droning on about the Trump menace but George’s drone-shot footage of the island) were all first-rate, though the highlight for the group gathered on a dock was when a squid squirted its black ink all over my face.”

Tony Nahas emailed with an update on his life. “Few of our classmates know that I changed my career from investment and finance in Europe (London and Paris) to sustainability at UC Berkeley, where I am a visiting scholar in the Energy & Resources Group, project managing the Oakland EcoBlock, an urban sustainability experiment that brings together more than 100 residents of a local Oakland neighborhood block and an interdisciplinary team of urban designers, engineers, social scientists and policy experts from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, NASA Ames Research Center, and Stanford University. Using a whole-systems approach, the project will retrofit a typical residential neighborhood block from a high energy and water dependency to the lowest energy and water footprint possible—transforming an obsolete, resource-wasteful model into an integrated design that guarantees long-term urban sustainability.

The program’s objective is to build and blueprint a pilot system that demonstrates a highly efficient, affordable neighborhood block-scale energy, water, and wastewater treatment-and-reuse platform and retrofitting process that can be replicated anywhere in California and the United States. I love working at a world-class university, and sometimes I see our classmate Dori Hale, who is a professor of American literature at Berkeley! I live near campus and miss living in Paris, but love my work.

The EcoBlock’s mission and challenge is a daily inspiration. Otherwise, I return several times a year to Paris, where I still keep a flat and where the four kids congregate.”

Gren Blackall writes that, after living and working on both coasts and in the Midwest, “[Wife] Joyce and I settled in Woolwich, ME, about 10 years ago. This is probably the only place on the planet below the Arctic Circle where we could afford a house on salt water with a dock and boat right at the end of the lawn. I’m in a kind of semiretirement, having a little too much fun writing and playing, in between occasional gigs in bank strategic and marketing consulting and nonprofit board meetings. Life is good, including my lingering efforts to add another interesting business experience to my resume. My history is in banking, where I have been fortunate to have a great series of interesting experiences, across a wide spectrum.

My two boys are deep into music and game production, Whitaker in Chicago and Stoddard in NYC. Joyce and I hit 40 years of dating this July, including her honorary membership in the illegal Silliman ‘commune’ in the Annex on Wall Street by Naples Pizza during the strike. While I don’t do a

great job of connecting with people, I cherish my insanely great times at PA and miss every one of my friends.”

I heard from my favorite public defender, Helen Levin: “At last, a newsworthy announcement from the annals of criminal justice.

Along with Defender Association colleagues, I have established the Juvenile Lifer Project. We are representing most of Philadelphia’s 300 juvenile lifers, some as young as 14, who were given mandatory life-without-parole sentences as teenagers. Thankfully, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that they all must be resentenced. Nearly 100 have been incarcerated more than 40 years. On the whole, a thoughtful, mature, achievement-oriented group of clients with uncanny patience. Having done only homicide trial work for two decades, meeting these clients is like looking through the other end of the telescope. What an education.…

Hard to avoid comparing their adolescence to ours at Andover. It is exciting, not at all dreary. And I intend to see some clients get out before I turn 60.

Please stay tuned.”

In closing, I have sad news to share. Margo Donahue dePeyster died Aug. 29, 2016, after a long struggle with breast cancer. Her twin sister Marion Donahue Gay writes, “Margo was described as a ‘cultural leader’ of our town in Palm Beach [FL], founding the now very well attended ‘Campus on the Lake’ program at the Society of the Four Arts. Margo served on the board with fellow Andover alum Ambassador Edward Elson ’52. She excelled at history, art history, and English at Andover and pursued art as a career.”

Please see her obituary: http://bit.ly/2dqsCRw. Her family set up a special fund in her memory with the Dominican Foundation in New York, the Margo DePeyster Memorial Scholarship Fund: http://dominicanfriars.org/margo/.

I remember Margo always having a smile on her face, with a spirited wit and intellect to match. I can picture Margo and Marion walking side by side through campus. While students at Andover, some of us wore teenage angst on our sleeves at times.

Not Margo. She always offered a warm greeting, and her lovely spirit was felt by all.

The PA Class of 1975 sends its warmest condolences to Margo’s husband, Fredric Ashton dePeyster III; her sister, Marion; and the rest of her family and friends.

Wishing all of you and yours a happy, healthy 2017. Let’s make it a year of reunions. Stay in touch.

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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

I (Ruben Alvero) have been blessed with relatively few regrets in my life so far, but missing the 40th Reunion figures prominently among them. Lisa Barlow and Al Cantor’s wonderful description of the festivities, which ran to approximately six pages in the PDF version I just posted to Facebook, captures a vibrant class that remains a tight-knit family and is even growing, with honorary new members.

Sadly, I had several unforgiving deadlines in my new role at the Brown Medical School and Woman and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island that swamped me at just the wrong time. Despite being only 57 miles

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from PA—closer than I’ve been since 1982—I was unable to break away even for part of the weekend.

I plead for forgiveness from my classmates and promise that I have tattooed the dates for the 45th Reunion on my left forearm. Hope to see most of you then or, with any luck, even sooner.

George Chadwick also regrets not being able to attend the reunion, as the youngest of his four sons visited colleges and graduated high school.

George says Facebook posts allowed him to attend vicariously. Now he has an empty nest for the first time in 27 years. Having raised the boys by himself since 2005 and donated his parrots (he advises not to get any) to a rehoming shelter, George will fill his days hosting wine tastings on the water in San Francisco and continuing many years of work as the deputy DA for Silicon Valley’s alternative treatment court, which rehabilitates long-term offenders with mental illness or disability, severe drug addiction, and combat PTSD, under several grants. He hopes an old sailboat will one day be shipshape for San Francisco Bay sailing and to spend as much time in the summers in New England as possible. George opines that Northern California is beautiful and vast, but it never quite felt like home. George would

be happy to open a bottle with any classmate in SF on a Sunday. He was soon to break bread (or pancakes) with Jim Horowitz, who planned to be in town for a conference. He also gives a shoutout to Churchill housemates Nat Smith, Ruben Alvero, Labeeb Abboud, and Dave DeLucia, as well as to Millard Tydings and Steve Harrington.

George had dinner in DC last summer with Barky Penick and his lovely wife while at a conference. Per George, Facebook is a blessing when one is 3,000 miles away.

Brooks Cutter also reached out from the West Coast. He practices law in the San Francisco Bay Area and recently opened a new office in Oakland.

Fortunately, it appears that he won’t have much difficulty staffing his office. His two daughters recently finished law school and have joined his firm. His 17-year-old son is a junior at the Cate School in Southern California. No word of his son’s professional interest, but I would imagine that, if family influence has anything to do with it, there is at least a chance for a third barrister among Brooks’s offspring.

Lisa Barlow sends her greetings from the Telluride Film Festival, where she and husband Alan just spent a beautiful Labor Day weekend blissfully in the dark watching movies. She adds: “It was great fun to see Jim Horowitz [he appears to get around], who has become a regular attendee, and we have fun texting each other our picks and pans throughout the weekend. One of our favorites this year is Chasing Trane, the masterful new documentary about John Coltrane. And what a delightful surprise to run into the movie’s producer, our very own Scott Pascucci! Scott specializes in documentaries about music legends; his last movie here at the festival was Martin Scorsese’s look at the life of George Harrison, Living in the Material World, in 2011.” Scott’s next movie, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week—The Touring Years, directed by Ron Howard, should have been welcomed in theatres by the time we are reading these notes in print.

Also a world traveler, Sam Worthington, who is chief executive officer at InterAction, the largest U.S. alliance of international NGOs, was glad to return home after a quick speaking tour in Paris.

Not able to rest for long, Sam was quickly off to the Middle East and then to President Obama’s refugee summit in New York.

Another of my West Quad North housemates, Jack Shoemaker, was in NYC recently and saw Heather White at the Smoke Jazz & Supper Club.

Her husband, Freddie Bryant (’76 honorary; see the reunion-issue report featuring the extended description of our 40th Reunion) was performing.

On a sad note, at around the time of this writing, Tanya Luhrmann’s younger sister, Anna Dewdney ’83, the famed children’s book author, passed away after a battle with cancer. She requested that in lieu of a funeral service, people read to a child instead. Our deepest condolences go out to Tanya and her family.

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 hasn’t had much success in soliciting any NY Post–style gossip on our class, but a few stalwarts reached out to me, including Dave Davis, whose youngest son, Chance, recently turned 7. Dave thought he might have the youngest sproglet amongst our ’77 classmates, but no such luck: Bob Benner’s youngest recently celebrated one year on the planet, and I have heard rumors of a classmate expecting that blessed event before too long. Sorry, Dave, but we don’t want to hand out an oldest-parent award any more than we’ll hand out a youngest-grandparent award at our reunions.

Tom French responded to my gentle pressure to “get the band back together” this coming June, and I am hopeful he’ll be able to attend. Tom, still a major domo at McKinsey & Co., has offered to share sailing stories (often called “tall tales” or “outrageous fabrications” by landlubbers) with me, and I intend to hold him to it. Tom, if you had only seen the hurricanes I’ve weathered.

I reconnected via the web with classmate Elizabeth Green, who admitted she had been out of touch with Andover friends for a while (39 years, in my case). She writes, “After graduation from UVa, I stayed in Charlottesville for several years before attending the University of Florida for an MBA degree. At the time I graduated, it was hard to find a job, but I ended up at American Home Products in Richmond, VA, which then became Wyeth, which was then acquired by Pfizer, which subsequently sold the plant I worked in to Fareva, a French company that manufactures and packages for the pharma, cosmetic, and other businesses.

I left that firm a few years ago and consequently retired a little early. With no kids, my husband opted to retire also. We have had between one and three dogs at any given time, which keeps us busy. We live in Richmond, VA, and travel occasionally. In fact, we just returned from Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas (which is quite remote), with my parents and my sister’s family, including two active nephews.”

Finally, in case you failed to get the not-sosubtle messages in these notes and the Class of ‘77 Facebook page, our reunion is fast approaching and attendance should be mandatory for those of us still ambulatory. The Class of ’76 (pretenders all) managed a reasonable showing of nearly 60 classmates at their 40th, and I would hope that the great Andover Class of 1977 will improve upon that tally. The reunion planning committee of Duncan Campbell, Susanna Jones, Marty Koffman, Gerry Harrington, Peter Ventre,

myself, and perhaps some others press-ganged into service are planning a great celebration for June 2017. Peter Collery, resplendent in a “Big Papi” authentic, game-used Red Sox uniform, has committed to attend, despite his sadness at the slugger’s retirement. I know Fritz Thompson will be there—because Fritz and I hereby offer to chauffeur Merry Reymond to the event, if she’ll only tell us where to pick her up. I do 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

Nominations are open for class secretary, so nominate yourself or someone who’s mentioned they want to get involved; submit names to me as soon as possible. —Jamie

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

Our cohorts continue to move forward in new and inspiring ways.

Carroll Bogert spent 18 years at Human Rights Watch and loved her work as the deputy executive director overseeing global media. “But if my job were a person,” Carroll wrote, “it could have voted, and I had to leave before it could drink.” So in March, she took a new position as president of the Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering criminal justice in the U.S. “It’s our country’s biggest human rights problem, and it won’t get solved without good investigative journalism shining a light into its darkest corners,” she wrote. A few weeks after Carroll arrived, the organization won the Pulitzer Prize, which Carroll thought was “very thoughtful and obliging of my new colleagues. It’s fun to be back in journalism and to help build this new sector I like to call ‘intentionally nonprofit media’—probably

where much of our serious news is headed.”

John Andrews and his wife, Beth, had dinner on their back deck with Sukey Bryan and her husband, Jim Brooks, in June. “Our youngest, Maeve, and their youngest, Will, joined us,” said John. “They were visiting Jim’s family home in Minnesota. It was great to catch up about Sukey’s painting, our kids’ lives, and how we’ll all cope with the empty nest.”

Bruce Aylward moved to Portland, OR, a couple of years ago and has started a new business, AMP Insights, “with two young bright things, refocussing our efforts more squarely on addressing Western water issues.” Check out Bruce’s new venture at www.ampinsights.com.

Sukey Bryan wrote, “As I read your email, I am weeping over my Raisin Bran in a La Quinta hotel in Tacoma [WA]. We are about to drive over to the college campus where we are leaving our youngest son, Will. Hope I’m not this broken-up all weekend!

Happy-sad.”

Augustus Schoen-Rene is, he writes, “once again, happily unemployed.” After a stint as “technical director/program manager/film guy” at the Smith Opera House in Geneva, NY, Augustus has decided to discontinue his efforts on their behalf. “If anyone wants to buy copies of my books Bar Dreams and Diary of a Plate Addict, to help me keep a roof over my head, please let me know!”

Amy Morton Durbin is still teaching middle school science but this year made the switch from private to public school. She is very excited about her new school.

Ranie Crowley Pearce wrote: “I had a lessthan-successful swim this summer, but I had a good reason to abort…two tiger sharks (10' and 8' long) would not leave me alone.” Watch the video of her attempt to swim the Molokai Channel between Molokai and Oahu (28.5 miles, one of the Ocean’s Seven swims) at http://bit.ly/2dTa4r2. Ranie said it was “not exactly shark week, but pretty scary.”

In June, Sara Cox Faulkner’s fifth and youngest child graduated from Andover. Nicholas ’16 followed siblings Katie ’06, Andrew ’07, William ’09, and Kristen ’11. Sara says, “The past 14 years at Andover have been absolutely amazing as a parent!”

She especially enjoyed the opportunity to visit with fellow classmates/parents: Geri Pope Bidwell, Tia Doggett MacDonald, Forty Conklin, Jim Ventre, Tad Flynn, and many more. “Now back in Alaska, I look forward to visits from anyone heading to the last frontier!”

Patty and Scott Drescher are the proud first-time grandparents of a baby girl, Haverty, born in August.

Megan Owen is living happily in Maine with her new husband, Nat Hussey, who is a lobsterman, musician, and attorney. Megan wrote, “We divide our time between Bristol and Matinicus island where I have production facilities for my awesome goat-milk soap line Sisters Soap (mainesisterssoap. com), made with sister Cait’s [Caitlin Owen Hunter ’71] goat milk.”

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Ernest Smithson Worthing IV has taken up wingsuit base-jumping. He’s broken and replaced so many body parts, he now calculates how old he is based on the average age of his original and new components. “Gadzooks,” says Smitty in his familiar booming baritone, “as soon as I make it to 14 again, I’ll be the first in our class to matriculate at Andover for a second time!” Our old/new pal promises to invite everyone to his refreshman dorm room for parietals.

New chapters and old, your classmates would love to hear from you. Please take a moment to update your contact information, if you did not receive an email request for notes in August.

Wishing all of our Andover friends the best of luck at every stage. Until next time, see you in the notes!

—Amy

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

Greetings, Class of 1980! It’s been a busy summer with lots of interesting weather throughout the country. Here in New England, we had the hottest summer in decades and are experiencing a drought.

We hope that classmates everywhere have been able to enjoy the vagaries of Mother Nature and have not experienced her wrath. I (Jane Shattuck) drove a lot this summer—up and down the East Coast from Maine to South Carolina. I enjoyed seeing family and friends before settling in for a fall of dissertation writing and new home construction. By the time you read this, I should be almost moved in, so do be sure to let me know any time your travels bring you to greater Boston—I have a guest room and you have an open invitation!

Over the summer, I managed to catch up with a few classmates in the local area, on the road, on the phone, and via Facebook. Locally, I had a delightful dinner with Teri Hensey Starling and her oldest daughter Naitasia while Teri was in town for the sale of her mother’s Wilmington property. It was a quick trip but great to catch up as always. For those of you on Facebook (and encouragement for those who are not), the Fifth Reunion photo shows Teri standing beside me on the far left. Naitasia is the toddler on Teri’s hip! Tempus fugit, indeed!

Our own best-selling, Stephen King– endorsed author, Justin Cronin, had a book tour that brought him to the Boston area last June, so I caught up with him and bumped into An-Dan Thi, who was also attending the event at the Brookline Booksmith. Justin is a great speaker—his talk about

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I’m looking forward to reading it when my dissertation is done!

Facebook left me drooling over the peripatetic life of Bob Stammers and his wife, Ileana, so I reached out for details. Bob obliged, saying that they had spent “three very fun days at the Lockn’ music festival in Virginia with Liz Sargent Corcoran ’79 and her husband, Ted Corcoran.”

After visiting their daughters in Atlanta, Bob and Ileana were heading to Camden, ME, where they hoped to see Lisa Lattes Carter ’82 and her family.

When I mentioned that Chris Rokous and his wife had recently relocated to that very place, Bob immediately sent Chris a message in hopes of catching up. I hope to have a few words or maybe a picture to include in the next class notes (hint, hint!). Earlier in 2016, the Stammerses vacationed in Greece en route to Bob’s speaking engagements in Istanbul. Judging by Bob’s posts, his job as director of investor education at CFA Institute provides great opportunities for worldwide travel.

I had the pleasure of meeting Chuck Schneider and his wife, Dessi Karbanova, at the last reunion and enjoyed following their travels on Facebook.

When asked, Chuck wrote that “northern Europe was chilly, unlike the scorching summer weather in the Northeast U.S.” Following Chuck and Dessi’s summer travels was like playing “Where’s Waldo?”

Thanks for posting all those wonderful pictures!

Chuck is an oncologist in Delaware and lives in Pennsylvania. We hope to connect on my next trip.

Perhaps a mini reunion is in order—thoughts, John Sheppard and Dan Hajjar? Who else lives in the greater Philadelphia area?

I was lucky enough to hear the voices of Julie Hey Lillis and Claire Gilliatt Wade on the phone. In July, Julie moved to Potomac, MD, where she and her husband have combined households with her parents, who are longtime Washington, DC, residents. Julie is happy to have her youngest daughter, who graduated from college in May 2016, living at home while job-searching and to have her older daughter close enough for family dinners on Sunday. She’s relishing this time together with all three generations. Julie has met with Wai Hoi-Drayson and Martha Calvert Reynolds every six months for more than a decade, something Julie hopes will continue, despite her greater distance from them. According to Julie, Wai lives in Norwalk, CT, and Martha lives near Wheaton College in Massachusetts. I hope seeing their names in print will spur both Wai and Martha to write in. Personally, I’d love to see all of you in 2017! How about a girls’ date in DC with Julie— Shakespeare at the Folger, anyone? Julie would love to connect with Claire, now that they are practically neighbors. What a fun mini reunion this group would be—we four day students and Wai, who was a fixture in my parents’ house our first year at PA. My family still laughs about that Thanksgiving, when Wai was so shocked at how my brothers and

I teased my dad about being bald. It was one of my first encounters with cultural difference.

Amy Davidsen was sorry to be swamped at work but promises to chime in next time. She’s always happy to meet with classmates when they are in NYC. Well, that’s it for this issue. We are not using our full allotment of words, so please write to us. We love hearing from all of you! Meanwhile, we trust you all had a happy fall and are in the midst of a newsworthy winter. May your 2017 be happy and healthy. Cheers, Jane & Amy

1981 Sean Rynne 7 Pierrepont Rd. 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

This edition of the class notes marks the end of the decade-long commitment of Stefanie Scheer Young and Warren Jones to keep us all connected with our classmates. Thank you both for staying with it for so long. After an amazing reunion in June, I’m inspired to take on the responsibility of keeping tabs on the escapades and interactions of the great Class of ’81. If anyone would like to join me, please let me know. Also, we all love to hear stories that go beyond the quick Facebook post, so please help continue the tradition of colorful commentary from our class by submitting stories about yourself, classmates, or Andover in general.

Coinciding with this transition, Brad Kliber and Laurie Hogin submitted notes that sum up not only the creation of a work of art but also remind us of the opportunities to reconnect and reflect on our common past that occur in everyday life.

Brad’s story: “It was sometime in the late 1980s in Chicago. I was entertaining clients in a fancy restaurant, and I noticed some incredibly beautiful artwork displayed on the walls. As I was leaving I read the bio of the artist, our classmate Lauretta Hogin. I was stunned! Flash forward to 2014. I had this fantasy of commissioning a painting for my wife, Karen, and our new lake house in Montana.

Very fun and long story short, I reached out to Laurie (thank you, Internet) to see if she would be interested in this project. Thankfully, she was!

We shared wonderful emails for nearly two years while we brainstormed about different elements that were important to the piece and also became reacquainted with one another. What resulted is this wonderful painting (also, a new and wonderful rekindled friendship) that has elements and

symbols that reflect people, places, and nature that inspired and continue to inspire us. In this incredible work of art, there are special touches that Laurie and I wanted to include that represented how this came about in the first place. If you look closely you will see bees and a beehive in the lower righthand corner and PA Blue in the bluebirds looking at the beehive. Thank you, Laurie, for bringing a dream to canvas in a way that is far more incredible than I ever imagined!”

Laurie’s story: “So here’s my side of the story! I was returning from a solo exhibition in Los Angeles when I got Brad’s message, letting me know he was interested in exploring a possible commission. I was thrilled; I knew it would be a grizzly bear, a subject I’d never addressed, because I remembered that the grizzly was Brad’s “spirit animal.” There is ample photographic evidence in our yearbook! Though we traveled in different tribes at PA (oh, high school!), I remember thinking of Brad as someone possessed of character, clarity, and strength. I remember admiring his bear spirit!

“I thought the timing of the message was related to the LA show—after all, walking near Venice Beach before the opening I’d run into John Lockwood, who’d been surfing and who called out to me because I was wearing my very authentic, very ‘vintage’ Andover girls’ lacrosse T-shirt. Then Brad told me the story about the dinner in Chicago. It brought to mind the time Bing Broderick struck up a conversation with a friend of mine at a pub in Galway, Ireland, or the fact that my Seattle artist friend, Peter, knows Sophia Wheelwright. Or the time I literally bumped into Steph Koules on Fifth Avenue in the slipstream of a rush-hour crowd. Evidence that we are, indeed, the ‘soybean class,’ as Dr. Sizer put it all those years ago: Rhizomatic. Of course, I said I’d be very interested in the commission.

“As work proceeded, Brad and I were in constant communication—well, constant by the standards of my work, which is quite slow (perhaps ‘painstaking’ is better). We discussed locations in Montana that had great meaning to him and species that resonated allegorically and metaphorically, both for their meaning in material culture and in Brad’s deep connection to the natural world.

We share this sensibility, this inspiration: Such connections, this resonance of place and nature and species and ecosystem have been major themes for me throughout my life. They are at the essence of my work as an artist.

“As we proceeded, layer by layer, element by element, I stretched my wings: New species became part of my iconography, bringing a new palette, new techniques. I researched everything.

I learned about the mountain landscapes so dear to my classmate, as the Eastern woodlands were always so dear to me. I recognized Brad’s love of his family, his home, and our school in each choice of species, each allegory. The bees are an example.

I remember reading about our school’s seal when

I first arrived on campus in 1978. (I geek out on such things, clearly. I’ve made a career out of this.)

The bees are us, Phillipians, working, serving each other and our collective home, our society. It is the Andover creed. It was such an honor and a pleasure to make such an artwork based in this connection, these memories, informed by Brad’s story and executed in my own. And the friendship of our high school days—pleasant, casual, and occasioned by happenstance—has grown into a friendship characterized by a loyalty and mutual respect that will last a lifetime. Thank you, Brad!”

Final words from Warren: “Many thanks to Sean for stepping up to the plate. It’s been a quick 10 years for your Houston correspondent, but it’s time to pass the torch. Thanks to everyone for sharing your adventures over the past decade and for all the great conversations, new friendships kindled, and old friendships that have grown. This wildly creative bunch is always full of exciting news and it’s been a blast working with L, S, and the PA team. Slow to embrace the tools of the trade, I remember griping mightily when Bill Kummel insisted that I join Facebook, a passing fad I was sure. (Feel free to friend me if you haven’t already; touché, Kummel!) In my spare time, I’ll be checking newsfeeds frequently, posting periodically, and indulging old interests like the Saints and Man City and new ones like reading Welsh verse. My current favorite website is Forvo; one must know how to pronounce places like Argoed Llwyfain to appreciate the cynghanedd. I muse about how much easier research would have been ‘back in the day’ and contentedly anticipate the rabbit holes that still need exploring.”

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

I am following up Yalda Tehranian-Uhls’s great work on the class notes, as the other half of the diversity notes team! I finished drafting these notes over Labor Day Weekend, marking the end of what has been an eventful summer for me. It

included meeting my three daughters in Madrid for a whirlwind driving tour of Spain and France, followed by college tours up and down the East Coast for my twin rising senior daughters, and installing my firstborn, Bianca, in her freshman dorm at the College of William & Mary. Bianca graduated from Andover in 2015 and took a gap year that included living in Madrid for six months with Cristina Rubio Suarez ’81’s first cousin! I get to see Cristina, who lives in Andover with her husband, Jose Suarez, several times a year when I come up to Andover for my Abbot Academy Association Board meetings twice a year, my quarterly National Brain Tumor Society Board of Directors meetings in Newton, MA, and my upcoming stint on the Andover Alumni Council, which started in November. After issuing threats of all sorts if they didn’t get their college application essays done before school starts, I installed the twins in their boarding-school dorms at Episcopal in Alexandria, VA, for their senior year. Funny how it seems like the end of summer is a break, as I throw myself full throttle back into my work in international trade law at Hogan Lovells.

From my Facebook feed, it looks like many of our Class of ’82 classmates are in, or have been in, the same boat, with lots of FB posts about kids graduating from high school and going off to college. That includes Jennifer Scheer Lieberman, whom I have had the fortune of seeing several times of year in her lovely home in Wellesley, MA. She has her own interior design firm and recently started a company called Decorum, which sells stylish decorative home accessories all designed

by Jennifer! She’s obviously putting her art history major from Northwestern to good use. And speaking of Northwestern, her first-born son, Matthew, will follow mom’s footsteps as a new freshman at Northwestern! Matt will have plenty of purple gear, as Jennifer’s husband, Gary Lieberman, is also a Northwestern grad. Jen’s other son, Tommy, is a junior at Wellesley High School and a baseball wiz. I expect to see him playing college ball and in MLB in the near future!

Also in the Boston suburbs and going through college-application hell is John Nahill, who is busy building his natural gas empire. John started a liquid natural gas company that he has been expanding throughout the East Coast. I guess he gets the energy—pun intended—to build his empire from the need to foot the bills for all the college, graduate school, and weddings he’s been dishing out for: Daughter Tara got married this year and daughter Kathleen got married last year. Kathleen is in her final year of law school at Duke; having spent her summer at my law firm, Hogan Lovells, in Washington, DC, she will join as a new associate at the firm’s Washington, DC, office upon graduating.

Daughter Caroline is a freshman at Barnard. John’s house will finally be majority male as his youngest, son JP, can now be king of the hill at home while he is still in high school.

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On FB, I saw that Harold Kim’s son Max graduated from Andover in June 2016 and is a freshman at Princeton. From FB and LinkedIn, I gather Harold is the founder and CEO at Neo Risk Investment Advisors in Hong Kong and has a brood of six gorgeous kids. During my Spain tour this summer, I stayed with Carlos Valls Martinez and his lovely wife, Maido, a psychologist, in their great apartment in Barcelona and visited their beach house in beautiful Caldetas on the Costa Brava. Carlos, a renowned intellectual property lawyer, left his post as managing founder of the Barcelona office of UK firm Clifford Chance to run his own firm, which he did for 10 years. Recently, he joined a group of lawyers at Fornesa Abogados.

His oldest son just graduated from law school, following in his dad’s footsteps. His second-oldest son is in college in Spain, and he has a third son in middle school. I expected to see Carlos again in September at our annual jaunt to the International Bar Association conference.

Some of our classmates got started a little later with the kid thing, including fellow class notes scribe Graham Anthony. A decade ago, Graham left M&A work to partner up with a bunch of PhDs who envisioned applying Big Data to bioscience, hoping the effort would lead to better, faster, cheaper drug discovery. Here is what the journal Nature recently had to say about their endeavors: “Biovista…[using] all the publicly available information...creates a kind of cellular social network, mapping all the connections that it has found between drugs, molecular pathways, genes, and other biologically relevant entities. The thinking is that the more connections that a drug has in common with a disease, the more likely it is to be a good candidate for repositioning. This is how Biovista discovered that pirlindole—a generic antidepressant that was developed and is used in Russia—might be a potential treatment for multiple sclerosis...as well as on another candidate treatment for multiple sclerosis, still another for epilepsy, and three for cancer.” Graham says, “We are on our way to being an overnight success, 10 years in the making.” That’s the update from our super accomplished, traveled, and inspiring Andover 1982 graduates! Now, let’s all pitch in to make a great 35th Reunion in June 2017! Maybe we can get our famous chef, TV cooking-show host, and Boston-area restaurateur Ming Tsai to cater one of our reunion events. Cheers, Chandri Navarro

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

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Dear classmates: This edition is dedicated to the advent of our 51st year—a sentence or two from as many as possible, truncated as necessary.

Jim Reische claims he’ll likely celebrate somewhat less vigorously than his 40th, 30th, or, God knows, 20th...but with increased respect and gratitude for the scant time available. (Also, there was pastry.

Yeah, definitely that.)

Cathrine Steenstrup enjoyed a stay in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, “in sync with nature, mangroves, and wonderful Mayan cooking.”

Murchelle Brumfield celebrated by having a pretty ho-hum day, with marked periods of grateful reflection…only to head off to Bangkok to celebrate in style! Duncan Robinson spent his 50th with wife Joelle in Reykjavik at an amazing Radiohead concert. I have independent confirmation that it was indeed amazing.

Stephanie Hunt just absolutely got married in Lake Placid, NY! Laurie Nash threw a weekend party at a Napa vineyard with friends, including Betsy Biern, Serra Butler Simbeck, Susan Deeds Griffis, Auny Abegglen, Stephen Jones, Beverly Lindh Little, Alexandra Gillespie, Carlotta Mills, and their spouses. For her own celebration, Alexandra had such a massive dance party in Maine (keg on the porch, sloppy behavior, outlasted the teenagers) that it thumped all the way to Cambridge. John Caulkins was there—he’ll back me up. Auny, for her part, whooped it up in Park City, Utah, at a new house with boyfriend Brian and friends. She sends a heartfelt happy 50th to “all us old farts!”

Beth Serlin will be heading to Santa Fe to see the light. Sara Poinier held a home dance party with best pals featuring Billboard hits from the past 50 years. Teen kids and middle-aged parents rockin’ out together! Ted Niblett’s 8-year-old got his gold belt on Ted’s 50th, and his family surprised him with a fire pit and fiery Mexican food. John “Stalky” Henderson played a backyard show with his dad

band, the Mossgatherers. Says John, “We may not be Youth in Asia, Adam, but we try to keep the spirit.” I have no doubt!

Chris Lynch visited Ha Long Bay in Vietnam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Kristen Toscano Messina had a weekend away with girlfriends in Ojai, CA: natural hot springs, picnic, masseuse, wine. Low-key but fun. Anita Cataudella Wright played tennis in the morning, rode her bike, swam in the ocean with her boys, played Wiffle ball in the rain, and enjoyed dinner out with her lucky husband! Hans Wydler spent the occasion with four couples in Napa, including Rich Eisert, Dave Charlton, and their spouses.

Anne Stout Hughes welcomed the half-century mark over a long weekend with dear friends on the eastern shore of Maryand “dancing like I haven’t in a long time and finding muscles I had long since forgotten about.” Claudia Kraut Rimerman “hiked in the morning with good friends, picked up my boarding school boys from the train, and had lunch with my whole family. Just together time, appreciating what I’ve got and where I am in life.” Milisa Galazzi had (I’m betting “everything”) bagels for breakfast at home on the Cape with three generations of family, “nieces and sons and a girlfriend included,” then took a ferry from Ptown to Boston with her husband of 24 years for a city overnight at the Taj, followed by walking all over town and a ferry back to the Cape for work: “Simple. Grateful. At peace.

50.” Abby Shuman crushed dinner and a Bill Charlap Trio concert at Birdland Jazz Club in NYC with 10 of the most important people in her life, followed by a weekend with three of her closest female friends in the world (including Sara Poinier). Steve Hochman rode a 100-mile bike race through the mountains near Santa Clara, CA: “My wife surprised me by flying in 30 crazy friends from around the country to ride all or part of it with me. Going to extreme lengths to prove ourselves still alive!” Lee Novick assures us that his skates are still on the ice...though not as often a they should be. Alix Goodwin Olavarria, having survived Tim Cahill’s fete—where she reports Tim looking better than ever—took morning meditation class with girlfriends, followed by a delicious mimosa-infused breakfast, followed by museum lunch with family and a visit to the amazing Rain Room. Two months later, she and hubby headed to the Big Island of Hawaii for some much needed R&R. There was a lot of eating involved! Sturgis Woodberry writes, “As much as I wanted to join Steve on the century ride through Napa, I took [wife] Carolyn to Bermuda instead…Choices.” John Henry Fullen dined with his wife at Alice’s restaurant in Berkeley, CA, and then a week later took a surprise birthday party to the chin, “with my younger sister setting it up as a fundraiser for a favorite charity, ShelterBox USA, and joined her band in singing ‘(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding.’

Then the next day, felt old dropping off my younger brother at the Burner Express Bus from SF Civic Center…now wondering if there is a PA encampment at Burning Man scheduled for next year?” Sam Shinn, wanting to do something momentous for his 50th, went to India and climbed mountains with a friend. Fellow scribe Bill Seeley headed north to spend his 50th birthday in the woods of northern Ontario working as a canoe guide at the wilderness camp that he, Sturgis Woodberry, and Alan Yost ’83 all attended when they were at Andover. He didn’t quite get as far as Hudson Bay this time around but shone bright on the appointed day. In an odd, serendipitous twist, Elliot Beck ’05 swapped in for him in August when he had to wander home to work.

Pauline Lim writes, “My birthday is right around Election Day, so I’ll probably spend it biting my nails. I already splurged on a shiny new pink folding bike, on which I will be biking in England in October.”

John Chaisson claims to be as yet undecided, but I suspect he’s eyeing that new glider!

Janine DiTullio (only honest response): “Can’t remember.” Thank you, Janine.

Sarah Jane Grossbard will be turning 50 in February and is trying to plan a trip to Patagonia— or maybe someplace closer, like Iceland—with kids and husband.

David Duckenfield is insisting on a wait and see. Oh, and this youngster has been honored as one of Black Enterprise’s 100 Men of Distinction!

Congratulations, David! Also, huge congrats to Chas Fagan on his rendering of Mother Teresa for her official portrait.

Best as always, Adam

1985 Pamela Paresky P.O. Box 8878 Aspen CO 81612 pamela@ayearofkindness.com

Liz Somers Urdang, Clifford Bernstein, and I met at a Mexican restaurant in NYC and regaled each other with stories of PA while learning about one another’s current lives. Clifford is a lawyer with a client in an international case that brings him to NYC frequently, and Liz’s two daughters are talented competitive skiers. Ellie is still at Greenwich Academy, and Kitt is at Hotchkiss. Liz DeLucia did some back-to-school shopping on a girls’ weekend with Kitt and Liz and also had a visit from Lisa Johnson and her husband, Rene, and son, J.P. Alice Stubbs visited Liz in Boston in September as she dropped off her two PA students, Davis ’20 and Buzzy ’18. I also ran into Alison Smith Lord over the summer at a NYC function for Andover parents. Her daughter, Annie ’19, is at PA.

Carter Vincent writes, “It’s been quite a summer’s end of Andover folks, having a quick vacation that included seeing Sandra Comstock ’88 up in Maine and going sailing with Jennifer Rider ’86 on Martha’s Vineyard. We almost got Jeff Kip onboard, but things didn’t work out with having a hat-trick of alums.” Carter has taken on a new role doing business development at INC Research, a contract research organization, where he works with biotech companies to advance clinical trials. Carter’s daughter, Olivia, is now 10 and likes squash and sailing (which Carter jokes are “proper preppy pursuits”), but more important, Carter describes his daughter as “sharp and kind.”

John Caron has been very involved with libraries and participated in an 11-week writing program.

John Regan writes that he has lived in Charlotte, NC, for 16 years with his wife, Angie, and kids, Zach (14), Ethan (13), and Alivia (9).

“Although we do not get to Massachusetts often, this year we plan to see the Patriots play in person, and maybe even swing by PA for a trip down memory lane!”

Megan Carroll made a career change and is now a financial advisor and wealth manager with the Bulfinch Group in Needham, MA. She also has a new home address in Wellesley.

Susanna Harwood Rubin’s book, Yoga 365, is out! She writes, “Book parties are coming up this fall in NYC, Paris, and possibly LA, so sign up for my (very occasional) newsletters to be on the invite list at www.susannaharwoodrubin.com.” She’s been traveling and teaching across the country and all over the world, but I have it on good authority that if we create a class wellness retreat/ conference, we could get her all to ourselves. I’m thinking fall 2017 in Aspen, CO. Any takers? Maybe Michelle Kluck Ebbin would join us and teach us about massage. And Whitney Stewart could be in charge of the food! Katrina Korfmacher (whose son, Ty, spent the summer working in Hopkins Forest taking care of trails, supporting research, and doing some environmental education) could talk about her work in environmental health, and Strother Purdy could talk about how to be a superhero—which is what Ben Schwall’s children call him.

Ben (who lives in Taipei with his wife, Emmy, and their four children) writes, “In an attempt to inject our children with Americana 101, after 26 years I finally spent a summer in the U.S. Though we were in New York state, we were far from the city and the usual suspects, but did manage to connect with Strother Purdy [who makes beautiful furniture]. He arrived in a one-way U-Haul with some chairs, a table, and his motorcycle for getting home. My kids now think he is a superhero, riding out of the back of a truck on a motorcycle. Other encounters were with Pete Kleinman and family.

(Melissa Falcone Zell, you are on our radar for next summer: be warned.)” Ben adds that earlier in

the year, “I had the privilege of seeing Doug Stiffler and his wife, Jingxia, in Beijing, where they were leading the annual Juniata College summer tour of China. We had last strolled the streets of Beijing together in 1984. We spoke of those days and of Yantao Jia, who a few days later would inflict a massive headache on me in Dongguan.” (Perhaps at our class wellness retreat, Ben will give us his secret headache remedy recipe.)

Ben also shared a memory about our reunions.

“Pete Kleinman, Chris Schluep, Chris Flynn, Melissa Falcone, and I all went to Cornell together, where they met Gerry Haddad, who had been my friend since junior high school. Gerry was such a great guy that we smuggled him into our PA Fifth Reunion, and no one knew he wasn’t our classmate. (He is even holding our school banner in the class photo.) He had such a great time that he came to our 10th as well. Problem is, the rest of the Cornell crew ended up not coming, so Gerry stood out—until, at the class brunch, a faculty member kept looking at him and finally came over and said something like, ‘Excuse me, but I do not remember you. Are you a spouse?’”

I laughed while writing about our fake classmate on September 6 (the deadline for submitting these notes) on my way to Andover to drop off my son for his third year at PA. As soon as we arrived at the Andover Inn, I joined a mini reunion in progress with longtime English teacher Greg Wilkin, Drea Thorn (English teacher Craig Thorn’s widow), Liz DeLucia, Strother Purdy, Seth Brooks (who popped up on our Facebook page to say he could drive from Hanover to meet us), and mini reunion regulars Megan Carroll, Rebecca Derderian Daniels, Peter Stark, Alex May, and Ted McEnroe (who always wins the award for shortest distance traveled). I had the crazy idea that we should all participate in one conversation, but after a brief attempt by Peter and Strother to have people hold the conch (aka bread basket) while speaking, we not only failed, we managed to drive Greg Wilkin away. (He had to “make a phone call.”)

As evidenced by the great success of the mini reunions at the Andover Inn, our Facebook page is a great way to connect both virtually and in reality. On Facebook, search for “Phillips Academy Class of 1985.” Visit our page frequently! Post on it frequently! And let everyone know when you’ll be traveling so you can create your own mini reunion wherever you are!

A quick reminder: Because of the long publishing delay, before you get each Andover magazine, I will have asked for news again. Keep sending news anyway. (If you don’t send news, next time I’ll make something up about you!)

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Kathleen Campbell DiPaolo 2516 Vista Drive Newport Beach CA 92663 949-689-3314 (cell) 949-209-2043 (fax) Kathleen@kathleendipaolodesigns.com

30th REUNION June 9–11, 2017

Caroline Langston Jarboe 3124 63rd Ave. Cheverly MD 20785 301-322-4241 (home) 301-379-6572 (cell) caroline_jarboe@yahoo.com

Hello, class. I have some sad news to share.

Juan Mario Laserna passed away on July 24, 2016.

Juan’s wife, my old roommate Christine Balling, wrote a beautiful tribute that I want to share.

“Juan Mario and I met formally for the ‘first’ time at our 20th Reunion. We struck up a long conversation. (He told me that, while we were at Andover, he had gone to all my harp concerts and swim meets. I thought to myself: Yeah, sure, but regardless...el tipo got game.)

“After the reunion, as I had been a co-organizer, I emailed Juan Mario to thank him for traveling so far.

I let him know that I was living in New Hampshire, as I do now, and he wrote that he was soon to travel from Colombia to visit his sister in Cambridge.

He asked if I might have time for lunch. Shortly thereafter, we had lunch in Portsmouth, NH. After lunch, we took a walk, and he confessed: ‘I lied. I didn’t fly up here to visit my sister. I just came here to have lunch with you. And so, if you are available during the rest of the week, let me know, because I don’t have any other plans.’

“We were married by Rev. Philip Zaeder on July 2, 2007.

“After graduating from Andover, Juan Mario earned a BA in economics from Yale and an MBA from Stanford. He returned to Colombia to commit himself to a career in public service.

“In the past decade, he served as a board member of Colombia’s central bank and a senator in the Colombian congress, and, at the time of his untimely death, he was the editor of the Colombian magazine Dinero. He received many honors throughout his career, including his being chosen as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Juan Mario was a Colombian patriot whose love of country endures in the hearts of those who knew him. That and the rest endure in the hearts of those who loved him. Paz en tu tumba, Juan Mario.”

Thank you so much for writing this tribute! My heart aches for you, your family, and Juan Mario’s family. I will always remember his infectious smile.

XO —Kath Campbell DiPaolo

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

Do you have your reunion plans firmed up? I hope so! And if not, I hope what follows spurs you to action because it brings back great memories or gets you going so you can create new ones! So, without any further ado, let’s get to it!

Tricia Paik is a much better writer than I am. So, in a second, I’ll share directly what she wrote. But first, in summary, Tricia continues her passion as a dynamic and accomplished advocate for the visual arts with her appointment as—big congrats!—the director of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; she is also the author of “one of fall [2015]’s 10 best new coffee-table books” (per Bloomberg Pursuits), on Ellsworth Kelly’s entire career from the 1940s to today. Note: All that is me touting her, thanks to Google. Here is what she more modestly wrote: “The summary of all this, when I look back on my 25 years in the art world, is this: it all began at Andover. Taking art history with Diz Bensley ’43 was truly formative, as were visual studies with John McMurray and visits to the Addison. I actually wrote my first art history paper from a painting in storage at the Addison: The Red Cart by Stuart Davis. I remember our TA, Bonnie Garmisa, taking me into storage so I could study the work directly. I was so in awe.

What incredible opportunities we were given at Andover. It still amazes me when I look back—that I went to a high school with its own museum and a curriculum so committed to the visual arts. Such experiences shaped me in unquantifiable ways. All right, that’s enough waxing nostalgic—just wanted to express my deep gratitude for my Andover days.”

Rebecca Tversky wrote in with lots to share, which she summed up as follows, to make my life easy (do love that): “Reporting from stealth state, Delaware, Rebecca Tversky reports herself annoyingly fulfilled by a modest, stable, and devoted family, professional, and spiritual life, with disturbing hints of hippie-ism and unappreciated empathy.” I’ll add to this that she also finished up four years of service to Andover as a member of the Alumni Council, for which we should all be thankful. Toward that end, an encouragement to everyone reading this to stop and send her cosmic thanks for her service in “shifting the leadership approach a tiny bit toward paying homage to those who walk the path less traveled and contribute to society in less lucrative and resume-building ways.”

Peter Schay hits us from the West Coast, where

he is the proud inventor of a freshly minted patent that—in layperson’s terms—lets one copy millions of files and folders super fast. Pete also reports getting to see Jason Fry from time to time. Pete said Fry continues to tear up the Star Wars literary world.

Indeed, I loved reading the summary of the Mellitto.

Totally cool blending of the feudal period of Japan with entomology. Intrigued?

No less intriguing was the email from Jonathan Bush with not only a written description of a Jonathan Lutes sighting but also a picture of Lutes from a hike in Maine. Crazy, I know!

However, I will tell you that the picture was terribly disappointing, given its Sasquatch-like quality. There was a tree branch in front of Lutes’s face. Was it really him or just an illusion? Perhaps both will join us at reunion, and the mystery will be solved!

Mary Caulkins sent me a great picture from a recent yoga getaway weekend with PA pal Posy Stone. The picture of Posy was great—a terrific smile about to become a laugh, I am sure.

Martin Valasek emailed me a great update from Montreal, where he litigates cross-border disputes (for and against private companies, and sometimes countries) outside the public court system. Some cases he has been in involved in are the $50 billion demise of the Yukos Oil Company in Russia and fighting Albania on behalf of a Canadian oil company. He also has a teenage daughter and two younger boys—to which I must raise the question as to which sort of arbitration environment provides better training for the other. Hmmm, Russia versus kids. That question aside, Marty asked about the goings-on with other residents of Adams South from our class—Kent Kendall, Jason Pechinski, Kim Dunn, and Alex Chandy—and those from the Class of ’88 (Tim Alperen, etc.), to which he added “I got my kids a dartboard for the cottage this summer, and was reminded of being hosted by Timmy at his house in Revere during Thanksgiving in the fall of 1986 (I was only at Andover for that one year). It was a rainy weekend, as I recall, and we must have played darts almost every minute we weren’t eating!”

Robin Koster-Carlyon continues to send great news from Down Under and reports a busy time on the farm this season, wonderfully resulting in a nomination by one of the Australia’s top chefs for the delicious Produce Awards (sponsored by food magazine delicious) for 2016. As a Victorian state winner in the “From the Earth” category, she advanced to the national competition. Results to be revealed on September 12—after this deadline, so you will have to go online for results. [Editor’s note: She won!]

On other fronts and class years, Dave Mainen ’89 popped back up in New England, and we connected briefly thanks to the help of Doug D’Agata ’88. Still need to connect in more detail with Mainen but had a wonderful conversation with Doug, who is devoting significant time and energy to PA in the area of athletics as cochair of the Athletics Hall of

Honor committee, as well as general troubadour on campus in the spirit of Twisted Sister.

Last, a warm hello to Melanie Shaw MacMillan (married to Brendan MacMillan ’85). Melanie is a Brown classmate of a bunch of us, and she told me she reads these notes. Plus, they are so much better than St. Paul’s!

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

My dearest classmates: It was a slow news cycle this go-round. Although no news is said to be good news, that rule does not apply when it comes to class notes. I fear part of the reason may be that some of you have new email addresses and aren’t receiving the requests for updates from us, your humble class secretaries. If you have a new-ish email, please send a note to the alumni records office at alumni-records@andover.edu so that we can keep the master list up-to-date.

On to the news. Jill McElderry-Maxwell reports that she’s still an alpaca farmer in Maine, and in June she was honored to be elected president of the Suri Network, the North American breed association for suri alpacas. She writes, “We have an active association, and I’m proud to help move alpacas forward as a livestock breed. We have more than 50 here on the farm, as well as pigs, goats, burros, and an abundance of poultry. My son just started his freshman year at Hamilton College after graduating from the Maine School of Science and Mathematics this spring. Any Andover alumni traveling through Maine are welcome to stop in!”

Nick Hofgren is living in London while fixing up a farm in Wiltshire. His new business, which he’s been building for a few years, is based in Guernsey.

Work often takes him to the UAE and Germany.

He’s also been traveling to Seville, Spain, the past few summers to get the nieces and nephews

together in one place.

A self-professed procrastinator, Caleb Hellerman decided it was finally time to send something in for class notes. Being a news producer, he didn’t disappoint, writing, “I left Georgia last November and moved with my family (wife, two sons, daughter in the middle) to Framingham, MA. Don’t forget the two dogs, the cat, and six chickens. It’s been 16 years since I lived north of the Mason-Dixon line so I thank the weather gods for being merciful this year.

I’m looking forward to catching up with New Englanders and New Yorkers whom I haven’t seen in a long time. What else? I left CNN a little over a year and a half ago and launched my own production company (Curiosity Lane) to work on documentary films, and now I’m also covering science for the PBS NewsHour with correspondent Miles O’Brien. Any crazy ideas for on-air science experiments, send ’em my way.” Will do!

Tim Griffin was recently made a Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters. Soon after Tim was awarded membership, Tony Rotundo visited him in NYC. Tony’s response: “Where’s the horse?” My response: Can you wear that beautiful medallion whenever you want? Because I would totally wear it on the subway and maybe to bed, too.

That’s likely one of the many reasons I will never get one. Felicitations à vous, Tim! Tim is executive director and chief curator of The Kitchen, NYC’s oldest nonprofit performance and art space. He lives in the city with his family and invites any classmates wishing to visit The Kitchen simply to drop him a line.

Back in Washington, DC, I went to a baseball game with my scribal colleague, Terri Stroud, who is still hard at work as counsel to the District of Columbia Board of Elections. The following week I went back for another game and got to spend time with Joe Proctor and his very smart (and very tall) 11-year-old son, Will. They were in town from London, visiting family in the NY and DC areas.

Nationals Park truly is a magical place.

On a sad note, our good friend and classmate Steve “Menni” Mencis passed away suddenly in August. Menni was one of the kindest, gentlest, and most humble souls I’ve ever met. I don’t think he ever had an enemy. For a few hazy summers in the ’80s, Menni, Todd French, and I were inseparable. We’d ride around in Menni’s open-top Jeep listening to James Taylor and Bob Marley, looking for whatever teenage trouble we could find.

I’m still in shock over his death, and I know many of you are as well.

Menni leaves behind a wife and six beautiful young children. Obviously, this is an incredibly difficult period for them, both emotionally and financially. I know that they would appreciate whatever help our class can give. To that end, a GoFundMe account has been set up to provide support. If you haven’t done so already, please go to www.gofundme.com/2kfarq4 and give whatever

you can, or go to gofundme.com and search for “Mencis family fund.”

We’ve lost a number of classmates over the past 28 years. All of their deaths were tragic and all of them way too soon. The lesson I take from this is that our time for action in this world can be unexpectedly and unreasonably short. If there is a friend or someone on your mind from our class that you’ve been thinking about reaching out to and reconnecting with but just haven’t found the time, stop and try to find the time. You won’t ever regret it. —Matt Lavin

1989 Curtis Eames 978-994-9015 curtiseames111@gmail.com Gina Hoods 400 Chaney Road, Apt. 1024 Smyrna TN 37167 615-686-7025 ghoods@yahoo.com

As I type these notes, I am basking in the last days of summer. When my sparse words arrive on your doorstep, most of us will be trying to stay warm in the middle of winter, dreaming of sunshine from summers past and springs to come.

Big ups to some of our classmates for being team awesome and answering my cries for updates for this edition. So here’s all the great information I have to share.

We have several individuals in our class whose kids have started school on the Hill, including Alex Tibbetts, Rob Kinney, Jamie Tilghman, Mike Hearle, and Mike Megalli. (I know we may have others that are unnamed or choose not to mention info about their kids.) Welcome to the Andover family!

Jenny Siler shared some cool news. For three years, she and her husband have been honing their barista skills at their coffee shop, Black Cat Coffee, located in Portland, ME. In addition, they recently launched a line of homemade honey ice cream called Little Bee. She has invited anybody from our class to stop by and enjoy their offerings. Jenny, my Southern blood is too thin to visit Maine till late spring. If y’all offer shipping, I am down for the cause, as both the coffee and the ice cream sound yummy! Congrats on two businesses.

Curtis Eames just started teaching English at Prospect Hill Academy in Cambridge, MA, and is also helping his wife launch her new organic skincare/makeup line, Glamour Organics. If that isn’t enough, he is also adapting a memoir into a screenplay. The memoir centers around growing up in an Ohio orphanage in the 1950s.

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And what would our class notes be without a tidbit from Andrew Kunian? Andrew keeps dodging my marriage proposals and jeopardizing the future of our dynastic children yet to be conceived. How could an OB/GYN and a natural gas baron not make great progeny? He has survived the recent floods of Houston, continues to believe in climate change, and allows us all a glimpse into his world. Awesome!

If you are groaning or cheering at this edition of the chronicles of the Class of 1989 and have a deep desire to join me and Curtis in the shenanigans, drop us a note to come aboard. Non sibi love today and forevermore. —Gina

1990 Thomas W. Seeley 1572 Heifer Road Skaneateles NY 13152 315-263-0052 (cell) 315-685-3416 (work) twseeley@gmail.com

A quiet quarter in the land of 1990 as my time was consumed primarily with the cross-country road trip I’ve been planning since roughly three months before commencement...

I had a wonderful time visiting with Roberta Ritvo and Louise Parsons Parry and meeting the entire Parry crew in DC at the end of June. Together, Weezie, Bert, and I enjoyed an evening of meditation with Tara Brach at River Road Unitarian Church, around the corner from the Parry residence in Bethesda, MD. Bert’s wanderlust took her to Seattle recently, where she enjoyed a cup of coffee with Annie Reese.

I also found time to catch up with Regina DeMeo, who graciously hosted me for my visit. Regina continues her meteoric rise in the upper pantheon of family law expertise. Regina practices family law and blogs about all things marriage, divorce, and family relationships in the DC area.

Excited to learn that Catherine Bryant Crocker signed on as dean of students for the Class of 2020 at Riverdale Country School, where she also teaches math. She is working with a new group of students for the next four years. Somehow, in between these newfound responsibilities and tending to her lovely family, Cat was training to run in the TCS NYC Marathon in November to raise money for cancer research in honor of a friend and fellow marathoner.

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www.andover.edu/intouch Sanders ’94. What better way to start the day than listening to the inimitable Jake Barton discuss his firm’s design and development of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum? Jake is currently working on a project in Montgomery, AL, that seeks to tell the story of racial injustice from slavery to mass incarceration. Sounds like a good excuse for my next road trip. Shared a quiet moment of silence standing by Todd’s name on the memorial with Uche Osuji ’91 and Tiffany Corley ’91.

Great to see Erik Moody and his two boys among the many cheering on those brave enough to battle it out at the annual alumni basketball game at Stuyvesant High School. I also had time to visit and reminisce with fellow Syracuse alum Ellie Miller ’92. The festivities found their full swing over Mexican food and cocktails at El Vez, where I was happy to see Ivy Baron among the many faces channeling Todd’s joy. As I was preparing to depart, I was tapped on the shoulder by Lucie Boyce Flather ’91, another familiar face not seen in many years, who regaled with tales of 1991’s excellent reunion last June.

Was happy to make it back East in time for the Todd Isaac event after traveling 4,500 miles from Tucson to Skaneateles, NY, via San Diego with my 17-year-old. Managed to catch some rays on Venice Beach with Jennifer Brown Hodur and Heather Keller, along with their spouses and Heather’s wonderful son. Was sorry I wasn’t able to coordinate with John Achenbach and Anna Ivey, among others now calling the LA area home.

Anna recently launched inli.ne, which provides college application assistance through a Google Chrome browser extension. Looking forward to testing it out as we navigate the college application process for my—gulp—high school senior! Sadly, our cross-country trek did not include a trip to Charleston, SC, to visit with Hamlin O’Kelley, Anne Wolfe Postic, and Avery Edwards, as Hurricane Hermine forced us to make our way home inland. Was happy to see Rob Bohorad made his way to the Holy City in August and caught a bite to eat with Hamlin.

I hope all had a wonderful fall and a holiday season filled with love. Talk soon, I hope. —Tom

1991 Roxane Williams 2732 Goodwin Ave. Redwood City CA 94061 roxandover@gmail.com

Greetings, classmates! Wow, did you really vote me back in to do this again? I’m humbled to be here for another term and vow to do my best to deliver great columns until our…gulp…30th Reunion.

Note that I’m writing now from Redwood City, CA, from my new home, on which I closed during reunion with the help of a traveling lawyer/

notary—because I really wouldn’t miss reunion for anything! For work these days, I run my own content-writing business, which mostly entails ghostwriting for tech execs. My daughter, Grace, is now a junior at Tabor, where she’s involved in varsity volleyball, varsity softball, model UN, and helping to run the school’s GSA. She also plays guitar and sings at every open-mike night, cementing her status as far cooler than I. My son, Taylor, just began middle school in Palo Alto and is loving flag football and year-round baseball.

Also on the move, Shannon Canavin and family had an exciting summer that included moving into a new condo in East Cambridge, MA. Her music group, Exsultemus, which specializes in performing Renaissance and Baroque vocal music, recorded a new CD in August; their second CD was released this past May, and both are world premiere recordings. Shannon works in development at the Boston Early Music Festival, where she’s been working off and on since 1994. Her daughter, Leah, just began first grade.

Nnaemeka “Meka” Egwuekwe is now emptynesting, with daughter Elechi in 11th grade at Groton and daughter Sobenna in eighth grade at Fay. Meka is the executive director of CodeCrew, a Memphis nonprofit that teaches kids to code. He founded CodeCrew in 2015 with funding from the Memphis Grizzlies Foundation and left his job as director of software development at Lokion this May to take on CodeCrew full time. Meka writes, “We have served hundreds of kids across Memphis and will soon be serving thousands, as we have been seriously scaling!”

Nathaniel Pendleton writes, “I am a medical shut-in for the past four years, obviously missing 25th Reunion, reflecting several decades of declining health for undiagnosed reasons, but work on #DCstatehood...online from my room when feeling up to it, such as creating/operating the V4DC2 Twitter handle.” Nate also still runs the North East Rail Map Facebook page, marketing a free unifying map of all passenger rail services in the US Northeast for trip planning and line identification.

Last but not least, let’s hope he changed that Facebook status: Uche Osuji is a married man!

He wed the truly lovely Maggie Mund, whom many of us met and thoroughly adored at reunion, on July 30, with the following Andover crowd in attendance: Jonathan Tower, Mr. Chris ’66 and Sarah Gurry, Coach Bill and Nina Scott, James Elkus, Lex Carroll, Tigger Hitchcock, Alison Parnell, Melinda Page, Rejji Hayes ’93, and Jenny Elkus ’92. Uche has remained involved in the annual Todd Isaac Memorial event and reports that this year’s sixth annual gathering in NYC went very well. Allyson Ford ’92 and Tom Seeley ’90 also attended.

Please continue to send me your news as it happens via email or Facebook. Till next time, best wishes for a magical winter. —Roxane

1992 25th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 Allen Soong 1810 Burnell Drive Los Angeles CA 90065 asoong@post.harvard.edu

As I write these notes in early September, New York–area alums and others in the tri-state/ New England region, including Natasha Austin, Tracey Mullings Reed, Josh Davis, Aditi Joshi, Ellie Miller, and Darryl Cohen, are gathering for the Sixth Annual Todd A. Isaac ’90 Memorial Basketball Game at Stuyvesant High School, to be followed by a class dinner at El Vez. This year the day also includes a tour of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and breakfast with Jake Barton ’90, whose media and architecture firm designed the media installations for the museum and the algorithm used to place names around the memorial itself.

Ken Lee, Gene Park, and Dylan Seff have set themselves up for a mini reunion in about 14 years, when they’ll be handing their kids off to the Blue Keys at Andover to start their junior years. Within a month, all three welcomed newborns to their respective families: Ken’s third child, Jonathan; Dylan’s third daughter, Daisy Monroe; and Gene’s firstborn (and future Stanford women’s golf prodigy), Dakota. Congratulations, guys!

Congratulations are also in order for Sookyoung Shin, who was nominated to the Massachusetts Appeals Court by Governor Charlie Baker back in July, after having served as an assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since 2005.

Another reunion of sorts occurred in the pages of the Wall Street Journal: Hilary Potkewitz interviewed Josh Davis (that’s Doctor Josh Davis, by the way) for her article “Why 4 a.m. is the Most Productive Hour.” Hilary explores why many executives and nonexecutives alike prefer to start their day while others are just hitting their third REM cycle. Hilary writes: “One of the most common challenges to productivity, Dr. Davis says, is that people booby trap their offices with distractions: Desk clutter, email pop-ups, cellphone, Facebook, news feeds. ‘By waking up at 4 a.m., they’ve essentially wiped a lot of those distractions off their plate. No one is expecting you to email or answer the phone at 4 a.m. No one will be posting on Facebook. You’ve removed the internal temptation and the external temptation.’ ” Hilary’s article—one of many she has written for the WSJ, by the way—was the most popular story on the Journal’s website for a few days in August.

Notably, neither Hilary nor Josh copped to waking at 4 a.m. themselves.

Alex Lockwood has been making abstract sculpture from colorful repurposed or recycled

materials in Nashville for five years now, relocating there from Brooklyn with his wife, Genie, a Nashville native who owns a kids’ clothing/ toy boutique. Alex takes small items that are commonplace and disposable, such as used lottery tickets, bottle caps, those plastic tabs that hold bread bags closed, and even expended shotgun shells, and works them into large-scale sculptures of hypnotically repeating patterns and bold colors that beg to be touched. His work can be seen at www. alockwood.com and at hole two of the mini golf course at Nashville’s minor league ballpark, First Tennessee Park.

Alex works out of a building he and his wife own that is also home to a creative collective in the emerging Buchanan Arts District of Nashville.

The group includes visual artists, a ceramicist, a jewelry designer, a pastry chef, and a florist. When he first saw the building, says Alex, “It was a mess.

It was painted this really disgusting green. It had bad carpet and leaks all over.…But I could see it.”

After beautifying and revitalizing an old forgotten commercial space into a creative haven, Alex now has designs on developing other live/work spaces for artists in the neighborhood, including an arts-education center for kids, to help establish a long-term presence for the arts community. “I was in Brooklyn for 15 years. I didn’t see change this fast. I mean, for artists who are struggling to find workspace, it’s scary. Maybe you’ll find a place in a neighborhood, but in a year that neighborhood could be a totally different thing, and you’re out of there.” Practically speaking, part of Alex’s plan is to maintain a two-tiered rent structure, with a lower tier for artists and a higher one for others.

“I’m not going to gouge anyone, but at the same time, I really want to avoid the cycle of artists being displaced right when a neighborhood starts getting attention. I’d eventually like to create workspaces that I can then sell back to artists, so that they can be permanently invested in the neighborhood.” Alex counts himself fortunate. “I know I’m lucky. I know it’s not common. This is always awkward to talk about, because artists are usually really struggling to find space, and we’re not right now. In the Buchanan Street neighborhood, we can still make some things happen. For Genie and I to be both creative and also be in a position to develop something is really exciting. It’s a position that a lot of people usually aren’t in.”

Start making your travel plans—reunion will be upon us before you know it! Check out the class Facebook page for updates; contact Jenny Elkus, Sherri Shafman, Pristine Johannessen, Darryl Cohen, or Daphne Matalene for an invite if you’re not already part of the class Facebook group.

Please also make sure the school has all your latest contact info, particularly your email address. If you are interested in helping out, including organizing pre-reunion gatherings, reach out to your reunion cochairs Todd Lubin and Christy Wood or the Office of Alumni Resources.

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

Hello, friends. Let’s start with wedding, birth, and new home announcements. Adam Cail and his wife and sons welcomed baby Elle, who was born in June. Heather Brown Lewis moved with her husband and kids from Stoneham to Reading, MA, where I’m sure they’ve started several home renovation projects that put HGTV personalities to shame. I saw a picture of lovely walls freshly painted in Edgecomb Gray. Amber Miller Mason and her family moved from Atlanta to Salem, VA, to the home Amber grew up in, which has been in her family for generations. Eric Hartell married Andover | Winter 2017

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Stephanie Kindel in mid-June in Connecticut.

And Mary Olivar and Merritt Lear were present to celebrate Hilary Williams’s August wedding.

Congratulations, all!

Dan Haarmann wrote just before embarking on his “fifth annual weekend of togetherness” with Tushaar Agrawal and Mike Schulte. Last year they were in Mexico; this year, Chicago. He also included the news that “Chris Keady is moving home from Germany. The Marines are bolstering their defenses in the Carolinas, and we’re all happy to have him home after five years in Europe.”

Nina Steiger sent word that she is “still living in London and started a new job a few months ago at the National Theatre, which is great.” She juggles that with her busy 4-year-old, Zachary. “Amazing for me that what started as a totally temporary move over here, for a year or two tops, was actually 13 years ago, and this November will be the third U.S. election I’ll be voting in by absentee ballot, this one seeming more urgent than the others!”

Stacie Ringleb emailed to say, “I have to be honest, I can’t remember if I ever announced the birth of my third child, Abraham (we call him Abe); he was born in April 2014.” Having three kids myself, I can totally relate to not remembering such details! Stacie also let me know what she’s up to professionally. “I am still an associate professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, and am currently the secretary and membership chair of the American Society of Biomechanics and am also a part of their diversity committee. In addition to my usual biomechanics research, I am starting an educational project this fall where I’ll be pairing freshman engineering students with third-year teacher-prep students to develop and deliver engineering lesson plans to pre-K through sixth-graders (we’re starting with fourth-graders at the elementary school just off campus and the 3- to 5-year-old classroom in our on-campus child-care center).”

Jessica Glasser Kaufman had some cool news about her professional life to share as well. As of this writing, she is the winner of four Emmys— the most recent one for her role in her television station’s coverage of the Baltimore riots in 2015, for which she also received a national Edward R. Murrow Award. And, after seeing several Facebook posts about the Class of ’91’s reunion, she said, “I think we should start a push to have Darryl Cohen ’92 DJ ours in two years. (It looks and sounds like everyone had a great time.)”

Susannah Smoot Campbell wrote with an update on Mike Kodinsky, who “just finished a massive home remodel” and is living with his family in Marietta, GA. She also forwarded a note from Laila Kuznezov, who has been living in Dubai for the past few years with her husband and two kids.

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www.andover.edu/intouch where he’s been working for Amazon for the past year. Susannah wrote, “After tons of travel around Europe this past year, he popped back over stateside for a visit with the family in Maine. His German improving, Dave is looking forward to another year in his new home.”

When you’re a class secretary, you come across press releases and industry articles about your classmates who are making all Andover alums very proud. The two most recent were about George Weinmann and Dan Smith. George, the chairman and CEO of Mega Maldives Airlines, was recently profiled in a piece headlined “George Weinmann:The Man Behind Maldives’ Largest International Airline.” Mega Maldives started up in 2011. Dan was selected to serve as president and CEO of the Vermont Community Foundation.

He had been, until this past summer, president of Vermont Technical College. The press release announcing his new position pointed out that Dan is an eighth-generation Vermonter. Wow! Finally, this message was sent out to class secretaries earlier in 2016, and we want to make sure you all see it. It comes from Karl Novick ’07. “Alums who have served or who are currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces are invited to join PA’s Andover and the Military affinity group. There are no dues or commitments! You’ll receive the Blue Guidon newsletter, connect with fellow veterans, learn about upcoming affinity-group events, and help Andover and the Military familiarize students, alumni, and faculty with Andover’s rich military history and traditions. To join, please contact Capt. Karl Novick ’07, USMC, Andover and the Military’s membership subcommittee leader, at karl.a.novick@gmail.com, or complete a simple form at http://www.andover.edu/forms/ AndoverMilitary/contactinfo.aspx.”

I think I can speak for Susannah and Ted Gesing when I say we hope you’ll drop us a line or two from time to time. Not only does it help us write notes worth reading, but your emails and posts really do make us happy. Keep in touch!

1994 Moacir P. de Sá Pereira 244 Greene St. New York NY 10003 312-792-8828 moacir@gmail.com

You’ll receive these notes much later, of course, but they’re being written right in the middle of back-to-school season. This accounts in part for how excited I am to be writing them (everything about back-to-school time fills me with joy and stress, but the kind of stress that is still joyful), but also, alas, may account for why they’re so short.

Labor Day weekend is apparently not the best time for my last-minute requests for more information,

but perhaps this installment’s brevity will encourage future correspondents to be more forthcoming.

Jess Lunt wrote from Woodstock, NY, where she teaches yoga. The “centerpiece” of her summer was buying a “sweet house.” She’s rather excited to be joining the propertied ranks, and she also added that she travels to Costa Rica regularly for yoga and 5Rhythms retreats. 5Rhythms is a dance/ movement practice, and Jess is undergoing training so she can bring it to her students back in nearupstate New York. Another infrequent contributor, Rachel Rivkind, wrote to announce that she’s moved back to Massachusetts from NYC. In midSeptember, she began working at her new job as partner at Rubin and Rudman, a law firm in Boston.

Aaron Sharma wrote with the same end-ofsummer feeling many of us have: that it went by far too quickly. The unstructured time (for someone like me) gets to be too much, but the end of summer means the end of all those projects you had hoped to complete over the summer. Yet they languish, incomplete. Those are my thoughts, though. Aaron, instead, wrote that his daughter Ellie is starting second grade and his twins Harrison and Emmett begin preschool.

Donna Kaminski wrote that she’s loving her job as faculty in a residency program, and she enjoys teaching residents and seeing her own patients. She planned to take three residents along with her on a medical mission to Vietnam in the fall and then two more to Malawi in April. Otherwise, all is well for her in New Jersey.

Aaron Flanagan sent a note that his 4-year-old is bicycling with no trouble on a regular two-wheeler.

Aaron also speculated about a variant of Pokémon Go (will anyone even remember this game by the time this sees print?) where one aims to gobble up various burritos in their environment. That strikes me as a project worth pursuing, though securing funding may be difficult.

David Callum sent in a longer update, so it’ll be the last (save my own). He celebrated his 40th birthday last October with a surprise party but was met with another surprise shortly thereafter. His second daughter, Kaydyn Sienna Callum, was born three months early, weighing only two pounds. Her name means “little fighter with a fiery spirit,” and nominative determinism seems to have helped.

Despite four major surgeries and four months in the hospital, she has met all her milestones at five months (adjusted). I wish the Callums all the best going forward. Further, David has added an anatomy and physiology course to his chemistry load at Hull [MA] High School, while still coaching track at Thayer Academy. Back in June, he had his last USATF club national track meet with the Greater Boston Track Club, where he’s been co-head coach for 17 years. He’s taking some time off, but the tone of his email suggested that this is a temporary condition. In the meantime, he’s also considering a second master’s degree, beginning with a medicinal chemistry course he’s taking this fall.

I’m sort of taking a course myself this fall on digital literary studies, taught by one of my colleagues here at NYU. But I’m also teaching my own version of digital literary studies to undergraduates, a course titled “Does It Work?”

Our first class is tomorrow (as I write this, of course), the syllabus is finished, and I’m ready to go. Students are going to spend five weeks reading The Great Gatsby and its critical tradition before trying to use digital methods on the text (word collocation, concordances, geographical distributions) for the second five weeks. The end of the semester will give students the opportunity to blend the various methodologies on more contemporary texts. I’m very excited about this.

And that’s it! Please join our Facebook group (http://tinyurl.com/pa94fb) and keep the stories coming. To those of you—the really young ones— who still haven’t turned 40, happy birthday!

1995 Erik Campano DeMartini-Spano via Saccardo 44 20134 Milan 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

It is with heavy hearts that we report the loss of two of our classmates. Matthew Goldstein died on April 7, 2016, while on business in Kiev, Ukraine. In addition, shortly before submitting these notes, we learned of the July 20, 2016, death of Allen “Jamie” Klein. Jamie, you may recall, studied Japanese and loved film when at Andover. He went on to become a prominent and groundbreaking blogger whose writings built connections between Japanese and American popular culture, particularly in the field of computer gaming. Jamie’s huge blog audience, family, and friends remember Jamie as kind and compassionate, with a very clever sense of humor.

Chris Barraza shared with us his memory of Jamie.

“We were reading the Odyssey freshman year,” Chris writes, “and Jamie pronounced ‘Penelope’ like ‘cantaloupe.’ We all got a good laugh out of that.”

Meanwhile, Sebastian Frank sent us this tribute to Matthew: “Matt Goldstein was passionate, hilarious, and courageous. I have many striking memories of Matt, all of them good, and now they are painful. Here is an early memory: He was acting in Buried Child, and for three performances he had his hair cut on stage. Each day in English class,

his hair looked wonkier and wackier, and then for weeks he wandered around campus with the worst hairstyle imaginable: half normal and half crazily chopped off. That was gutsy. As our friendship grew, I realized that Matt was not just a goofball.

He had, as they say, a very sensitive side. Maybe others never saw that side (or maybe that’s all they saw), but Matt was often troubled. In muttering Shakespearean asides he would narrate the probing of his own mind. It was fascinating. He was very intelligent, probably more than he realized, and hanging out with Matt could be intense. I guess it was all pretty intense, but Matt had a gift for interpreting and performing our collective ferment, by blending the profundity of his and our angst with that unmistakeable stylized affectation of prep school ennui and rebellion. And so we hit the road. It would be impossible to think back on Matt without thinking about him driving. He shepherded us away onto the best adventures we could muster. I can still hear Maria Taft Swanson ’94’s hysterical laughter from the time he, having tapped a pickup, somehow permanently attached the bumper of his mom’s minivan to the truck’s trailer hitch. Or the time he let Miriam Bertram-Nothnagel spontaneously and surreptitiously practice driving for the first time, roadkill immediately ensuing. Or the time we ran out of gas on the side of the highway coming back from New York the evening of the senior-faculty dinner and had to hike into some Connecticut village and beg strangers for some fuel and a canister.

But we always made it home safely. Brave Matt, I’m sorry and sad, intensely, profoundly, ridiculously sad, that you’re not coming home this time.”

Seb also updated us on his own family. “I’m 10 years married in rural Vermont,” he explains, “with two daughters and two goats. I am deeply engaged in a battle with the state over who controls public education and how we fund it.”

Lon Haber is spending time in south Florida, “building up the Miami office of his PR firm, and working as an actor on some new hit shows, like Bloodline and Documentary Now!, and in the Baywatch film set to be released next year.” He has also been teaching at various locations, and he expects to be moving into academia before long.

Lon points out that the “infamous Under the Bed improv troupe he began with Rachel Levy ’96 has now been going strong for just over 20 years!”

By the time you read these notes, Tom Chapman Wing says, he will have been married this fall— twice. The first time, he writes, will have been “a small destination wedding at the Grand Canyon,” to be followed by “a larger Catholic wedding for the bride’s grandmother.” Tom and his fiancée—I hope I got that spelling right, because Tom’s a professor of French—have been “enjoying the toils” of owning their new home in Princeton, NJ. It is “an awesome Dutch colonial with a pool and a lawn, and we haven’t figured out how to deal with it all yet. But we’re happy!”

Stuart Shapley writes from Austin, TX, that he is

a patent attorney, the “proud parent of an ebullient 3-year-old girl,” and “looking forward to the arrival” of his “second kiddo in November.” Jillian Lewis also happens to live on a ranch outside of Austin, which was the site of her wedding to John Rawls, a “fellow IBMer (aka the other Big Blue).” In attendance were Jennifer Lewis Hershman ’92 and Linnea Basu ’92.

Laurie Coffey writes that, by the time you read this, the Navy will have moved her and her family to Naples, Italy. Her tour there should last two years. Meanwhile, in June 2016, Laurie sailed up the East Coast to Stamford, CT, with a group of midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy, in her role as the academy’s deputy director of sailing. “We have a fleet of over 20 offshore boats we sail/race all summer,” writes Laurie, “from 44-foot sloops and TP52s to a 100-foot John Alden Schooner.”

As for me, Erik Campano, Laurie and I share two coincidences of geography. First, I was born in Stamford, and second, I still live in Italy—alas, a day’s sail north of Naples, in Milan. I have been working with an NGO here called Emergency, which is similar to Doctors Without Borders, and am crossing my fingers in hopes that the organization will place me for six months on a humanitarian mission as a medical technician and translator, most likely in Bangui, Central African Republic. Whenever I am in Milan, my guest room is open, with a warm welcome to any classmates who happen to pass through.

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 2538 NW Thurman St., No. 205 Portland OR 97210 919-949-0736 illegalparietal@gmail.com

We were delighted to hear from Danielle Brown about her recent career change, business venture, return to speak on Andover Hill, and participation in a dialogue that’s been at the forefront of many of our class discussions of late. Two years ago, after resigning her position as assistant professor of music history and cultures at Syracuse University, Andover | Winter 2017

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Danielle relocated to New Orleans and started her business, My People Tell Stories, LLC. Danielle returned to Andover to participate in a career panel, where she talked with current students—young women of color—about her career choices. Other alums on the panel included Jennifer Wade ’96 and Nicole Williamson ’95. Afterward, Danielle returned to her hometown of Brooklyn, NY, for the release of her book, East of Flatbush, North of Love: An Ethnography of Home. The book is a music-centered ethnographic memoir that explores growing up in the West Indian community of East Flatbush.

It contains more than 100 suggested listening tracks that accompany the narrative. The book is interdisciplinary, and it is recommended for grades 8-plus (including colleges and universities). A teacher guidebook is also available. The book release was held at CaribBEING House in Brooklyn. The event was well attended, and Danielle was happy to see several Andover alums, including members of the Class of ’97—Joaquin Escamille, Misun Chung, and Natalie Grizzle—as well as Tiffany James ’95, Denise Simon ’94, and Danielle’s brother, David Brown ’95. Danielle has upcoming events planned for her business, including a research trip to Cuba, speaking engagements, and musical performances.

Books can be purchased directly from the My People Tell Stories website, www.mypeopletellstories.com. Don’t hesitate to contact Danielle if you are interested in her work and/or would like to connect her to your school or organization. You can also contact her just to say hi!

Danielle also responded to Jack Quinlan’s request for submissions about the recently honored Steven Carter with this note: “Mr. Carter was my math teacher and was also coach when I managed football. I will always remember his kindness when I suffered an illness that forced me to take incompletes in most (if not all) of my classes during the final trimester of my junior year. I’m sure for him it was nothing (and he probably doesn’t even remember), but it’s often the small things that matter to people who are suffering from an illness.

Whenever I think of Mr. Carter, I think of him with fondness, because of how he treated me during a difficult and stressful time in my life.”

Dia Draper wrote to tell us that her business, Workplace Evolved, continues to provide leadership development and employee-training programs based on NeuroLeadership and mindfulness, as well as yoga, to workplaces. She’s also about to leave Denver for almost two months to do a little volunteering in Peru and a little learning Spanish.

Our main man, Marc Hustvedt, let us know that in January, he and his wife, Carly, welcomed their second child, Edie Wes Hustvedt, into the world; she joins older brother Maverick, 2. Hust continues to run his entertainment studio, Supergravity, which is growing rapidly, producing and distributing a steady crop of films.

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www.andover.edu/intouch 2015; he and wife Molly were expecting a baby boy in early September 2016.

Michelle Kalas recently moved to Fort Sill, OK, where she is the chief of claims as a full-time civilian legal-assistance attorney for the Army and serves as an Army Reserve judge advocate officer on the weekends. She saw Kenny Weiner ’96, husband of our own Hannah Brooks Weiner, while he was training in nearby Altus, and Michelle hopes to see more Andover folks, military and otherwise.

Michelle is enjoying the change from urban life in Boston and is trying to get outdoors to hike and rock-climb and enjoy other activities of country living, such as skeet shooting, as much as possible (which Jack vigorously encourages).

Luis Gonzalez moved back to New England in December after five years of service abroad.

He is currently at the Surface Warfare Officers School in Newport, RI, where he is lead instructor in basic engineering and gas turbine for the surface combatant fleet but is soon to head back out to sea to as a newly minted commander of a destroyer. Luis’s daughter, Catarina Anne, was born in February. Luis has been spending time with Mike Napolitano; he’s been a tremendous “uncle” to Catarina Anne. Luis reports Mike and his twin boys are doing well. Luis also ventured down to New York for NYC FC games, catching up (and drinking a bit too much) with John Hyon.

Nick Wilson’s wife, Kate, gave birth to their son, Bodie, in June, and the new family moved back to Boston this fall. Nick is doing research and evaluation at the new Center for Teaching and Learning at Boston University.

Finally, we’d like to get Old ’97 thinking about attending our 20th Reunion next spring. We’re both on the reunion committee (in addition to serving on Alumni Council and writing these notes) because, apparently, we just can’t get enough of giving our free time to Andover, and we want all of you to come back and spend some of your free time with us on our beautiful campus in June. This is a big one, and it’s usually the first real family reunion.

So we expect to see many classmates and a lot of these kids that we’ve been writing about for the past five years. Start making arrangements now!

Faithfully yours, Jack & Kelly

1998 Zoe Niarchos Anetakis P.O. Box 384 Westport Point MA 02791 781-475-9772 zbniarchos@yahoo.com

Well, that didn’t go as planned. I did it again; I missed another column! I was so busy liking your photos on Instagram and commenting on your Facebook updates that I never put pen to paper (or hands to keyboard, as it were). I’m sorry.

I was listening to a morning radio show recently

because—side note—I moved to Providence (more on that later), so I am in the car more these days. The hosts were talking about phrases that our children won’t understand as digital natives—things like letting the phone ring “off the hook.” (What hook?

Phones don’t go on hooks!) Maybe that’s the way of class notes; maybe they belong to a bygone era, before our actual, hard copy face book became Facebook. But just as I am firmly in the camp of hand-written thank-you notes, I am firmly in the camp of composed and written class notes, published in a magazine that shows up on your doorstep. Good news is, lots of you agree with me. The school did a survey, and something like 90 percent of alums read their class notes. This is good for me, because I love an adoring audience (in my head, you adore hearing from me; let’s stick with that). But it’s bad when I can’t live up to my promise to get my notes in on time because #lyfe.

So I’m here to ask you for help. After 13 years, I’d love a partner in this thing. I love writing our column, truly, but I need help getting the raw updates sourced and organized and keeping our deadlines in check.

It is about five hours of work a year, and I really believe that it matters and is a great (and easy) way to give back to our beloved school. If you want to lend your voice to write one column a year, great, but no pressure.

Before I leave you, I’ll give you my quick update on Providence. Backing up, I moved to Boston in 2002, right after college. In my 20s, I honestly believed that at any minute an opportunity was going to arise for me to move to Europe or Japan or somewhere other than Boston. Well, almost 15 years later I got my opportunity to move out of Boston! And I moved 60 miles away, to Providence.

If that doesn’t scream adventure, I don’t know what does. Over the past 14 years I grew to know Boston like the back of my hand, so I’ve got some serious scouting to do to get up to speed here. If you grew up in Providence or have lived here, I’d love to hear from you.

1999 Marisa Connors Hoyt marisahoyt2@gmail.com

It’s a pleasure writing these notes again, as is being back on the Andover campus twice per year for the Alumni Council meetings. At last May’s meeting, I was able to catch up with Samantha Shih, among many others from a few classes above and below us.

It’s unbelievable how things on campus have changed but also stay the same. I walked into the Garver Room, and honestly, it felt like I’d been transported back to 1999. Then again, the new Sykes Wellness Center is a pretty amazing addition to the Andover landscape and makes the sleeping room at Isham seem like a relic. Isham, by the way, has been turned into a new dorm. Anyway, I digress, so on to the news.

Noah Orenstein and his wife, Diana, have been living in Newton, MA, for the past few years and welcomed their daughter, Charlotte Eve Orenstein, into the world in July 2016. Noah reports that it has been a wonderfully enriching peak experience and that he and his wife are looking forward to catching up on their sleep sometime soon. I can relate, Noah!

Nels Frye and his wife are the parents of a 2-year-old daughter, Ricarda Jia Frye. Nels has started a new business, Pawnstar, which aims to be the top secondhand clothing and accessories retailer in China.

After nine years in the Bay Area, Justin Bandy moved to Chicago last August, as part of a group opening a new Chicago office for his firm, Artisan Partners. He is a partner and associate portfolio manager in the global value strategies division.

After graduating from Stanford in 2012 with a PhD degree in economics, Charles Wang moved back to the Boston area with his wife to join the Harvard Business School faculty. He was able to catch up with Jon Fisher in NYC recently and said that Jon seems to be doing very well at his hedge fund. Charlie and his wife live in Lexington, MA, with their two kids, Thomas, 4, and Ava, 2. Over the past four years, Charlie has taught in the MBA and executive education programs at HBS and has had a number of PA alums in his classes, including Aneesa Sayall ’03, Mark Margiotta ’05, and John Lippe ’06. In addition, Alexa Rahman ’08 recently joined the doctoral program in accounting and management. Charlie reports that, not surprisingly, Andover alums really shine in the HBS classroom.

Bill McGonigle and his wife welcomed their first child this past June. His name is Cormac, and Bill reports he is pretty amazing. Fellow former Foxcroft resident Barrett Hamilton and his wife also welcomed their first child, a girl, born just a week after Cormac. Barrett and Bill were hoping to meet up in Maine over the summer to introduce the two kids and catch up.

Amylynn Teleron Findley and her husband, Joe, welcomed their first baby, a beautiful girl named Mariana Teleron Findley, this past summer. They honored Amylynn’s family tradition of using the mother’s maiden name as the baby’s middle name.

They were able to catch up with fellow Vermont residents Alex Moore and his wife, Kayla, and were able to meet their adorable 1-year-old son, Lee. In August, Heather Collamore Skalet and her husband, Ari, welcomed a baby girl, Quinn Kennedy Skalet. Tiffany Horne Noonan and her husband, Joe, welcomed their third baby girl, Liv, in June and are living on Nantucket for the year while they renovate their home in Andover.

While traveling in Japan for work, Kristin Hooper caught up with Sam Jung, Matt Kish, and Tomoyuki Sakakura ’98 in Tokyo.

As always, if you have any news you’d like to submit, please email me at marisahoyt2@gmail. com. I hope all is well!

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Jia H. Jung 550 11th St., No. 4R Brooklyn NY 11215 917-589-5423 (cell) jiajung@alum.berkeley.edu

Ramesh Donthamsetty rdonthamsetty@gmail.com

Here’s what I managed to juice from you guys in 2016.

Grace Hong and Jonathan Sabatini were recently (September 2016) in London, doing exactly the same thing they do every week in NYC. Grace was jealous that Jonathan was planning on going to a class at Psycle London, because she had too much work to do, yet she somehow managed to make it to a 6 a.m. yoga class, before he was even out of bed.

Dan Schwerin, Hillary Clinton’s main speechwriter, was so gracious as to answer a mid-campaign email of mine. He did so with a question of his own, asking what, in particular, I was most interested in hearing about. Well played, Dan! When I responded to his response with coy, deflective curiosity, he wrote: “Dan Schwerin is in Brooklyn, writing speeches for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The hours are a lot like editing The Phillipian, except now he doesn’t have to climb up the Bishop fire escape at the end of the night.”

And we can’t say with total certainty at the time of writing, but we are still rather sure that, by the time our class reads this, the rest of his news will be the news.

As for your class secretary, highlights of last year did not include becoming engaged or married, bearing a child, or buying property, but rather turning 35, surviving a Portuguese man o’ war sting in Key West, and placing articles in Public Radio International’s Global Nation Education series while working an inconsequential day job that I couldn’t stand but had to be grateful for. And so it goes: May that low bar make you all feel the comparatively inflated sense of self that might be necessary to encourage you to share what’s been going on in your lives.

Peace, love, and prosperity for 2017. —Jia

Jennifer (Zicherman) Kelleher P.O. Box 762 Byfield MA 01922 978-273-8557 jenniferakelleher@gmail.com

First order of business: Misty Muscatel Davis, thank you for carrying the class secretary torch for an impressive 15 years and for being the glue that has held this class’s spirit together since junior year.

Your passionate commitment to keeping our class informed, connected, and engaged enhances our experience as ’01ers every day. Accepting the role of youngest Alumni Council president to date is not easy, but there is no one we would rather see at the helm. As a class, we wish you all the best and are honored for you to represent ’01 in your new position. Ramesh Donthamsetty and I are thrilled to be your new cosecretaries and will try to do a job that will make you proud, Misty. Thank you for all of your hard work and guidance and for all that you do for Andover!

On to updates: At the end of September, Rachel Weiner started at Snapchat, where she’ll be working with Meredith Hudson Johnston.

Maeva Bambuck caught up with Riccardo Viaggi in July while on assignment in Brussels. Maeva will be leaving Beirut and moving to Mexico City, where she will be working as planning director, Latin America and the Caribbean, for the Associated Press.

After a fun trip out to San Francisco to visit his former roommate, Mike Paa, and catch up at brunch with Austin Arensberg and Frank Brodie, Ian Cropp spent most of August in Rio working for clients at the Olympics. He also caught up with Emily Thornton in Brooklyn, where she has begun a new position as design director of sweaters at Ralph Lauren’s Lauren division.

We heard from Jason Cheung, who is working as a spine surgeon in Hong Kong and is a happily married father of two sons.

Postdoc training is under way for many of our own. Bryan Haughom has moved from Chicago to Boston for his orthopedics fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Jess Watson and husband Zach, daughter Rosemary, and son Baxter will be moving to Portland, ME, in July 2017 after Jess finishes her vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at the University of Iowa. The whole family is enjoying their Midwest adventure but is excited to be coming back to the East Coast! Amita Singh welcomed a baby girl, Naomi, this past summer and is finishing her cardiology training.

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Misty Muscatel Davis was excited to return to campus and cheer on Big Blue for the fall Alumni Council weekend, where the council hosted the first ever Andover-Exeter tailgate for the home games.

Meg Blitzer had a marvelous visit to Boulder, CO, to see Kate and Greg Kimball and their daughter, Cora, at the end of July. She spent a couple of days at Kate’s family cabin near Crested Butte and saw Kate’s parents, including her dad, George Bartlett ’61.

Thibault Raoult recently celebrated one year as an assistant editor at the Georgia Review. Each September, he hangs out with Lawson Feltman at the AJC Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, GA. James Shin is holding it down in LA. He has hung out with Cap Bacon, Jim Cunningham, and Darcy Brislin from the ’01 flock. He recently left his job as a movie development executive at Sony to produce film and TV content for manager Scooter Braun, who represents Justin Bieber, Kanye West, and Ariana Grande, among others.

James Wylie is finishing off the year polishing his PhD thesis and overdosing on the Fringe and International festivals in Edinburgh, which he can’t recommend enough (the festivals, not the thesis writing). His wife, Lillian, remarkably and against her better judgment, continues to tolerate his life choices.

Ashley White-Stern, Nekia Durant, Raquel Leonard Moreno, Shanna Bowie, Casi Kolbjornsen, and Stephanie Soli Araujo had a great time at Jadele McPherson’s wedding to Charlie Hart this past summer in Montpelier, VT. Ramesh Donthamsetty has completed a decade in New York and is excited to be co-class secretary.

Besides catching up with folks at reunion, he recently enjoyed trips with Alex Finerman to Japan, watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver with Vikas Goela in New York, and visiting Eric Newman for a weekend at his new home in New Jersey with his wife, Monica and two daughters, Eva and Ellie.

I couldn’t be more delighted to get more involved with Andover as co-class secretary, and I look forward to hearing more about what everyone is up to. I finished my pharmacy residency this past June, and I’m working near Boston as a veterinary compounding pharmacist at the Massachusetts Veterinary Referral Hospital in Woburn, in addition to working per diem at two hospitals along the seacoast. I had a blast with all of the ’01ers who made it to reunion in June, and I am already excited for our 20th! —Jennifer

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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

As I write these notes, many of you are celebrating the remains of summer on Labor Day weekend. By the time the notes are published, however, it will be the beginning of winter 2017. Our 15th Reunion is coming up; get your blue attire ready and start counting down the days!

On May 28, Jessica Duffett married Edward Decker in Portland, OR. Sam Spears, Luke Spears, Cassie Kaufmann, Tisse Takagi, Liz DeLacy, and Lillian Kingery were all in attendance to celebrate the bride and groom.

In August, Kelsey Siepser got engaged to longtime partner Francisco Pryor Garat when he proposed, post sunset, at Leo Carrillo Beach in Malibu, CA. How romantic! Kelsey wrote a solo show and performed it at Son of Semele theatre in LA. Supportive classmates Stevie Brock, Alex Anderson, and Brandon Winston all made it out to see the show. Jonathan Adler married Nahal Hamidi on Sept. 10 on Martha’s Vineyard. Their nuptials were an Andover-studded affair, with many classmates in attendance. To that end, Jonathan basically hosted his own mini reunion! Wills Hapworth, Ben Beinecke, Jarrett Wetherell, Brandon Winston, Dean Felch, Stevie Brock, Mitch St. Peter, Jeanne LeSaffre St. Peter ’03, Becca Lewis, Chloe Lewis, Malik Lewis, Nico Wheadon, Holly Schroeder, Becca Wexler, Dan Cote, and Kate Bach all joined together to celebrate the happy couple.

Shortly after the wedding, Jonathan and Nahal moved to San Francisco.

Wedding bells will soon be ringing for wedding guest and classmate Wills Hapworth. No, he did not catch the bouquet, but he is engaged to Abigail Weiner ’04. Wills is a partner in an early-stage venture capital firm and runs the entrepreneurship institute at Colgate University. At this writing, Kate Planitzer was looking forward to her Sept.

24 wedding at St. James’ Church in NYC, with a reception to follow at the American Museum of Natural History’s Powerhouse. Kate and fiancé Michael Harper invited many classmates to celebrate their love, including maid of honor Rachel Sobelson Tash, Elizabeth Thorndike, Ryan Coughlan, and Alexis Steil Burwell.

Congratulations to all of the recently engaged and married couples!

Expect lots of babies in tow at our upcoming reunion, because the Class of ’02 continues to contribute to the next generation. In May, Matt Kelly and wife Kate were blessed with a baby

boy, whom they named Michael McShane Kelly.

Ryan Coughlan wrote to say, “Niki Roberts had a baby, Theodore Rex Roberts Benskin (aka T. Rex). I’m heading down to Houston to visit the baby (dinosaur) as soon as humanly possible.”

Baby Theodore was born to Niki and wife Krisa in June. Also in June, Kim Ramos and David Breen celebrated the birth of their son, Cameron Landers Breen. In July, Madeleine Fawcett and husband Adam welcomed daughter Ines Fawcett Atenasio, and the parents “couldn’t be more in love.” In her first few days of life, lucky baby Ines was visited by her Andover aunties Christie Checovich, Courtney Gimbel Bardo, Olivia Wilde, and Mariel O’Brien ’01. Sam Takvorian and wife Melina celebrated the arrival of daughter Stella Ann Takvorian in July. Sam reports, “She’s turned our world upside down in the best of ways; we’re smitten!” Tom O’Rourke joined fellow dads Matt Kelly and Patrick Linneman for dinner in New York. Tom and wife Farrell’s daughter, Mary Carmen O’Rourke, was born in November 2015. Pat and wife Lindsay have been enjoying parenthood for a few years now, thanks to son Jack Owen Linneman, born in December 2014.

One alum who will not be joined by a tot at reunion is Alice Percy. Alice writes, “With everyone announcing their pregnancies, babies, and marriages on Facebook recently, it occurred to me that I’ve hit a different kind of a milestone: All three of my boys are in elementary school now! I’m enjoying my regained semi-independence. While I very much look forward to admiring everyone’s little ones at our reunion, there had better be a few people left who are ready to stay up until the wee hours with me!’’ Congratulations to all of the new parents and to Alice for celebrating her newfound independence.

In July, Cranston Gray and wife Leigh moved to Boston as Cranston begins the next phase of his medical training as an anesthesiology resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In August, Leanna Boychenko moved to Chicago, where she is an assistant professor of classical studies at Loyola University Chicago. She is mainly teaching ancient Greek, which she began studying at Andover! Dave Paolino finished nearly a decade of training and is practicing as a cardiac anesthesiologist in San Antonio, TX. Dave and wife Celest visited Diane Liu and her husband, Mason, in Hawaii in June, and met up with Erik Lepke in Boston in July. Also in Texas (Houston), Ellie Marshall Osborne is finishing up her last year of residency in radiation oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is looking forward to graduating in June. In September, Ellie and husband Eric celebrated the first birthday of their daughter, Charlotte Jane. In San Francisco, Jess Tory works for Boston Consulting Group, where she has been since graduating from Stanford.

Jess was looking forward to tying the knot on New Year’s Eve in Napa with a fellow Stanford classmate.

After three years in Nairobi, Kenya, Emily Kumpel will be moving back stateside in January to be an assistant professor at UMass Amherst in the department of civil and environmental engineering. Sandra Leung, who is still living in Hong Kong, visited Madrid, Spain, where she met up with Eva Martinez Orbegozo.

The two former Stimson dormmates had not seen each other since our graduation. In September, Eva began pursuing a master’s of education degree at Harvard.

Greg Chang celebrated his bachelor’s party with Kwadwo Acheampong, Gabe Cuthbert, and Jordan Harris in Cartagena, Colombia. Greg reports that “a grand time was had by all, as we sampled the local cuisine, enjoyed Colombian coffee while resting in old town, and gallivanted throughout the Rosario Islands by boat.” Sadly, according to Greg, no photos were taken.

It would not be ’02 class notes if we did not have some good old-fashioned sports ribbing. This month’s contribution comes from Sean Mansfield, who enjoyed watching Ben Chang lose copious quantities of golf balls when the pair got together for a round of golf in Chicago in August.

Until next time, start prepping for reunion by getting into the Big Blue spirit: “What do we eat?”

2003 Will Heidrich wheidrich@gmail.com

This set of notes begins with some exciting news: Evan McGarvey and his wife, Allegra AsplundhSmith ’04, also welcomed a son, Winslow, this August. They live in Austin, TX, where Evan works and where Allegra is finishing graduate school.

It’s also fun to report a number of weddings from our class over the past few months. Former Phillipian editor Courtney McBride married Ted Engelhardt in Washington, DC, this June, with many of our classmates cheering them on, including Ryan McChristian, Kathleen Minahan, Katie Dlesk, Kaitlin Ainsworth Caruso and Phil Caruso, and Sam Weisz. On the same day, fellow former Phillipian editor Evan Panich married his longtime girlfriend Amy Pimentel in Boston, MA. Michael “Rudy” Ruderman, Janis Rice, Evan McGarvey and his wife, Allegra, Mike Panich ’98, Bryce Kaufman, Alex Minasian, and Bob Yamartino all joined Evan and Amy on their big day.

A few weeks later, Dan Koh married his longtime girlfriend, Amy Sennett, in Milwaukee, WI. He, too, celebrated with a number of our classmates and fellow alumni, including brother

Steve Koh ’00, mother Claudia Arrigg Koh ’67, sister Katie Koh ’05, Kanyi Maqubela, Shaun Blugh, Duncan Dwyer, and Sarah Newhall ’02.

Kaitlin Caruso wrote from NYC, where she and her husband, Phil, saw Phil’s former Stearns mate Tom Oliphant for dinner in August. I also hope to make it to New York soon to catch up with the Carusos and my former Georgetown roommate Andy Hattemer, who recently moved to Jersey City with his fiancée, Stephanie.

Heading west, Meryl Mims wrote from Corvallis, OR, where she and her husband, Scott, have spent the past year as Meryl completed postdoctoral research for the U.S. Geological Survey.

In January 2017, Meryl and Scott are planning to move to Blacksburg, VA, where Meryl will join the Virginia Tech faculty as a professor of ecology and global climate change.

Sam Beattie wrote from Seattle, WA, where he and his wife, Julie, recently relocated for Sam’s new job as a game designer for PopCap Games.

Gardy Gould and his fiancée, Tiffanie Hsu, visited Seattle this summer and caught up with Sam. If you have not seen it yet, be sure to check out Don’t Breathe, the summer movie thriller on which Gardy worked as an editor.

Brian Karfunkel recently returned to the Bay Area. He and his fiancée moved in April, when Brian started a new job at Pinterest in San Francisco.

Brian met up with with Janis Rice, Katie Dlesk, Seb Benthall, and Tara Anderson when Tara visited in August.

Stephen Fee visited SF this summer as well and brought out a bunch of our classmates.

Tom Dimopoulos, Rudy, Matt Lindsay, and I met Stephen for a drink while he toured the city.

Longtime SF resident Rudy also caught up with several more of our classmates in August when Mitch St. Peter ’02 and Jeanne LeSaffre St. Peter hosted Nick Franchot and Alexa Raducanu Franchot, Kanyi, and Rudy at their apartment in SF. Finally, I also heard from Nate Meltzer, who continues to lead backpacking, climbing, and winter courses for the National Outdoor Leadership School in the Tetons, near Driggs, ID. Nate was in Maine for Emily Guerin ’04’s August wedding and also ran into Matt Garza ’04.

That’s it for this batch. If you haven’t recently, update your contact information in the Andover alumni database, and stay in touch!

2004 Ali Schouten 1806 Lucretia Ave. Los Angeles CA 90026 617-584-5373 AlisonSchouten@gmail.com

The Class of 2004 is continuing its steady march toward becoming the most successful, well-traveled group of married people ever to exist.

Jackie Latina wed Christopher Whipps on Cape Cod, with Katie Ting, Sarah Sherman, and Nicole Slezak all in attendance. Jackie recently finished her internal medicine residency and is applying to cardiology fellowships. April Warren sent off her single days in style with a San Diego bachelorette party that included Mimi Hanley, Amy Lippe, Hilary Papantonio, and Malika Felix. Rich Besen and Stephen Russell planned to join that group in Kansas City to watch April wed Justin Mills in September. Dan Serna married his fiancée, Carly, at their Catholic church in Austin, with J.J. Feigenbaum on hand, in addition to alums from many other classes. Emily Guerin married Andy Cullen on Bailey Island in Maine. When the bartender bailed on the reception, Matt Garza and Anthony Roldan came to the rescue, traversing the tiny island until they found a replacement. Emily is a radio journalist in North Dakota. Laurie Ignacio wed Laura Kaneko at the Richardson Garden at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, where they met. Laurie and Laura were fêted by Susannah Gund, who performed a reading, and Shauni Deshmukh, who gave a toast.

Now for a little preview of the 2017 wedding season! Jen Graham finished business school at Yale with a degree and a fiancé, Alex, noting that “all of my mother’s dreams came true.” Before starting at Parthenon-EY, Jen took a few months off, during which she celebrated Clem Wood’s 30th birthday with Olivia Oran, Jasper Perkins, and Carey Hynes and visited Jessie Birecki Osborn in Colorado. Jessie has a son, Taft. Jisung Park got engaged to Irene Youngji Kim. They live in Cambridge, MA, where Jisung is completing a PhD degree in environmental economics at Harvard and sees Patrick Callahan, on his own PhD track at MIT, as well as Taylor Yates, who has a young son. Ashley Whitehead Luskey and her husband, Brian, welcomed a daughter in August. They refer to little Harper Jane as their “junior historian,” which class secretary Ali Schouten feels is the cutest thing she has ever heard in her life.

Jessica Chermayeff is following her Emmynominated and Oscar-shortlisted documentary, Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace, with another documentary project, this one focusing on themes of forced migration. Jamie Bologna and his husband, Alex, traveled to Japan and South Korea this summer. Lolita Munoz Taub is headed to Madrid to get an MBA degree at IE Business School. Also starting toward an MBA is Emma Etheridge, who is attending the Johnson School at Cornell. Alanna Hughes completed an MBA and MPA program and ran an entrepreneurship bootcamp in Algeria with a local partner before moving back to Boston in the fall.

In the time it took to type that sentence, Alanna probably learned yet another language.

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She works for La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland as a fundraiser. Jami Makan is taking time off from practicing law, getting back into journalism, and relocating to NYC, where he hopes to connect with fellow alums. Benn Waters repatriated after living in Israel for seven years and serving in the IDF, where he rose to the rank of captain. Benn will start at Georgetown Law in the fall. Welcome back, Benn! I hope law school is only slightly more intense than the Israeli army!

Here in LA, I am braving pitching season.

Pitching season is where introverted writers must leave their homes and interact with actual human people. It’s terrible! I got to take a break when Jenny Byer Elgin and her 6-month-old son, Maddox, drove up during a visit to her in-laws in Orange County. Jenny is enjoying life, having moved back to her home state, Michigan, but was glad to have a proper LA fish taco. Apparently, Detroit hasn’t quite nailed that dish.

2005 Ian Schmertzler Ian.Schmertzler.Andover@gmail.com

News from the Class of 2005 was sparse this summer, likely because so many people were in motion. Nate Scott was in Rio reporting on the Olympics for USA Today. He got engaged to his girlfriend, Kelli Nicole, in mid-July while in Maine. Mac King supplied a photographer to capture the moment. Kelly Stecker competed in several triathlons and made it to the podium in Nantucket. David Billingsley and Ben Lasman ’06 got together in Brooklyn to form Nobody’s Ghost, resurrecting a portion of the Angkst band from Andover days. Though they technically formed in September 2015, the two-man act began hitting the circuit in earnest this year, doing performances with Band of Young Saints and Hell Yeah Babies.

Alex Moris managed to pry Kenechi Igbokwe from his desk and they, along with Clarissa Deng, spent a day on the beach with Ian Schmertzler.

Sims Witherspoon moved to London to lead Google.org’s EMEA marketing and to work on the development of crisis response products.

Mary Burris Riordan is also over at Google in the UK, and the two see each other quite regularly.

Shawn Fu summered in Washington and shared some air-conditioned time with Derek Nnuro and Stefanos Kasselakis. Derek has finished an MFA degree at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is now pressing ahead with his first book. Shawn also attended a sendoff for Andrea Rowan and her

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husband, who are now bound for Uganda. Lastly, screeching in under the wire for this magazine’s submission deadline, Charlotte Pougnier married Noel Lopinta, and Hector Inirio married Bianca Pelzel.

If you have any news you would like to see printed in the next edition, please email me at Ian. Schmertzler.Andover@gmail.

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 Yi 250 Mott St., Apt. 10 New York NY 10012 978-886-3307 justinyi@gmail.com

To quote childhood heroes Kenan & Kel, “Aw, here it goes!”

Emily Frumberg shares that BFF Lauren Bissell is engaged to Matt Ragland. Emily writes, “She will murder me for sharing this [engagement] photo, which I very much forced out of her...but whatever!”

Email Emily for a copy!

In September, Mike Spiak married his college sweetheart, Margaret Owen, in Montana.

Attendees included “best person” Kristin Spiak ’08 and groomsman and former soccer teammate Pumi Maqubela, along with Sam Hall, Ben Weiner, T.J. Thompson, Alex Clifford ’07, Jon Hillman ’05, Mary Buttrick Burnham ’78, and former faculty members Temba and Vuvu Maqubela. The couple lives in DC and would love to host visitors, mostly to put their new wedding dishware to use.

Pumi Maqubela himself got married—to fiancée Akhona on June 10, the Friday of reunion.

Peter Kalmakis married Simone Berkower last June; in attendance were Rachel Isaacs and Peter’s cousins Kathryn Doyle ’03, Billy Doyle ’05, Mary Doyle ’08, and Jack Doyle ’10. O’Doyle rules, indeed. While cups were being flipped at Rockwell during reunion, the newlyweds were honeymooning in Bora Bora. They are now living in Manhattan, which I hear is an up-and-coming neighborhood west of Brooklyn.

After four years in the Bay Area near Sarah Takvorian, Catherine Wright moved to Boston to pursue an MBA degree at MIT Sloan.

There’s strong Andover representation (every year from ’04 through ’08!). In Boston, Catherine reconnected with Chris Sargent and Ali Holliday.

Before going back to school, Catherine was on a Kiva microfinance fellowship in Mexico City, where she

saw Anna Ho. Pressed for comment, Anna responded, “lol I’m not sure my everyday life stuff needs to go in the Andover bulletin?” The masses disagree!

And Anna, the Bulletin was rebranded in 2009.

Come on.

John Lippe has started a management role with DaVita Health Care Partners in Kansas City, running dialysis clinics. He and his girlfriend, Rachael (whom many met at reunion), are happy to host visitors for some local BBQ! In May, Matt Boylan married Meredith Senter; they met as undergrads at Brown and both graduated from medical school in May. After honeymooning in Spain, they started their residencies in July—Matt at NYU for orthopedic surgery and Meredith at Columbia for psychiatry.

Jeff Zhou writes, “Panda Express opened on Third and 51st. It’s changed my life.” Jeff moved to NYC this fall but will also be spending time in LA. “Hi from Anchorage!” writes Marty Schnure.

What’s she doing there? We’ll never know; Schnure did not respond to requests for comment. Knowing her, I’d guess on account of “wilderness.”

Louisa Rockwell married Adam Drici in September at the Providence [RI] Public Library.

The bride will be keeping her name. Bridesmaids included Emily Chappell and Claire Collery, and attendees included “the usual whoevers.”

Merit Webster hosted an “end-of-summer party” in August on her Tribeca rooftop with Justin Yi, Claire, Emily, Jackie Price, and squashers Derek de Svastich, Simon Keyes, and Dan Wagman. Highlights included Merit trying to make plans for “two falls from now” and explaining that “cold red is the new rosé.”

Lucretia Witte moved to San Francisco after completing a master’s degree program at Georgetown. She’s now a principal for Summit Public Schools.

Longtime roommates Aaron Weisz and Rachel Wilson got married at Northwestern (where they met as undergrads). Sam Woolford, Jeff Bakkensen, Alex Campbell, and Mike Galaburda served as best men. Tom Tassinari, his wife, Erica, and sister of the groom Samantha Weisz ’03 also attended.

This summer, Jeff Bakkensen married Jen Bender in Buffalo. In the wedding were Eric Bakkensen ’01, Mike Galaburda, Sam Woolford, Tom Tassinari, Aaron Weisz, and Alex Campbell, and in attendance were Justin Yi, Cornelia Wolcott, Christa Vardaro, Simon Keyes, Owen Remeika, and Emily Chappell. Following the wedding, the Bakkensens moved from NYC to Boston, where Jen, a doctor, started her residency.

Andrea Coravos interned as a software engineer at Akili Interactive, a company making video games to help children reduce their ADHD symptoms. She’s back in Boston for her last year at HBS and writes, “Haven’t seen many Andover friends except for reunion! But also haven’t seen

many friends outside of my laptop.” Does Andrea consider her laptop her friend? Please reach out to her if you’re in Boston, to provide human interaction.

Andrew Park sends in an unflattering photo of himself and Owen from spring break 2006, captioned, “How about this for class notes?” Scroll back far enough on Park’s Facebook photos to find it.

Maxwell Parsons visited Emily Pollokoff in Syracuse and had dinner with her and her family (husband Elliott, children Hazel and Clara), which included sidewalk chalk drawings, s’mores, and some very special butter that Emily procured through her extensive local farming connections.

Emily elaborates: “Late summer harvest preservation madness is in full swing.”

After finishing a PhD degree in physics in May, Max backpacked in Norway’s Jotunheimen National Park and visited Han Cheng Lie ’04 in Berlin. Max then moved to Seattle to work as a research scientist at Oculus. He enjoys hiking with crossword champ Julian Jacobson and girlfriend Chelsea and lives across the street from Rajeev Saxena. Could this be the start of a Pease House reunification project?

Speaking of Pease, Dan Bacon and Ben Levenback visited Paul Engelhardt and Carly Williams Engelhardt for the day in Napa.

Cheesecake was served. Ben visited after taking the bar and before a trip through Asia. They drank wine and talked about ways to take over the world, “like any good ’06ers.” We look forward to our future subservience.

Caroline Pires also stopped by the Engelhardts’ while in SF. They too drank wine, and Paul busted out the piano-playing skills he honed in Fuess.

Carly later joined Emma King in wholesome Las Vegas for Emma’s bachelorette. Insiders report that

Mason Fried ’06 A Career on Ice

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hen Mason Fried ’06 was a student at Andover, glaciology may have been the furthest thought from his mind. After playing lacrosse, football, and squash and studying piano at PA, Fried entered college intent on becoming a writer. But after taking an introductory geology class at Hamilton College, his curiosity was piqued, and Fried set his course toward a career studying massive chunks of ice.

Today, Fried is working toward a PhD degree at the University of Texas at Austin. As a research assistant at UTA’s Institute for Geophysics, Fried works with a team of glaciologists and oceanographers to determine the role that oceans play in glacial melting, the effects of which range from rising sea levels to diminished drinking water. Explains Fried, “The majority of the world doesn’t have the resources to address the change.”

Fried’s work addresses those concerns. Although most of his time is spent compiling results and recording trends, Fried and his team do fieldwork in Greenland once a year—always in summer, when the weather is most hospitable to their work. Reaching their destination isn’t simple: The team flies with the Air National Guard on C-130s to Kangerlussuaq, on the western coast of Greenland. There, they board small planes or helicopters for the trip to Uummannaq, an island town in northwest Greenland. The trip takes five days and covers more than 3,000 miles. According to Fried, “There are no real highways in Greenland, and most summer travel is accomplished on planes and helicopters.”

Once in Greenland, the team stays for roughly one month, two weeks of which are spent installing weather stations, GPS systems to measure ice motion, and seismometers to measure glacier calving—the breaking away of ice from glaciers.

Fried enjoys collaborating with other scientists who study geology and glaciology, as well as traveling to remote and beautiful parts of the world, such as the Ukrainian Vernadsky Research Base on the Antarctic Peninsula, which he visited as an undergraduate. The base is a former British station and famously features a lounge with a gorgeous handmade wooden bar dating back to the 1950s. The trip not only was productive but also gave Fried and his team the opportunity to engage with other geologists. “At the end of the day, we all made time for vodka and music at the bar.”

Looking back on his days at PA, Fried recalls piano lessons with his music instructor, playing songs as they popped into their heads. He also has fond memories of starting the spring lacrosse season with snow still on the ground.

Fried believes there are many routes to a career in science, and says his diverse studies at Andover helped shape his path. His advice to students interested in pursuing glaciology? “A career in science is certainly attainable, and there are many avenues to get there. … We need physicists and writers and people with big ideas.”

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Emma is an incredible craps player, whereas Carly is better suited to drink-scouting.

Unfortunately, we have some sad news to share.

Conor Sutherland writes, “I got engaged! To an Exie!” The future bride is fellow Princeton alum Grace du Pont. The pair got engaged in New York’s Hudson River Park in June, after reunion. Conor warns, “Let the cold war of influence over which Phillips our future kids will attend begin.”

An edit to our last note—Morgan Abraham also pitched his startup, UGo Smoothies, at our Reunion showcase, a vending machine which creates fresh fruit smoothies.

Jeni Lee hopes that people continue moving to Boston, Owen is surprisingly silent, and I am enjoying commenting daily on @paresky_dining.

—Justin.

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Stacey Middlebrook Spurr recently finished a master’s degree at MIT and moved back to downtown Boston, where she now works at a commercial real estate company. She hangs out with Adrienne Sabety all the time and is excited about Shay Paintal and Andrew Faulkner moving back to Beantown! Jack Dilday moved to LA this fall to start up his production company, I&I. He spent much of 2016 codirecting and acting in his first feature film, with a six-person crew shooting in locations such as Death Valley, a Colorado ghost town, the Adirondacks, and NYC. In between shooting, Jack managed to catch up with Jim Larson—who consulted him on the film’s score—and David Mauskop, who took a teaching job at Swarthmore this fall.

Hasan Siddiqi is managing The Tulip and The Rose Café, a farm-to-table restaurant in the Catskill Mountains, and would love to have anyone visiting the area stop by. After graduating from medical school (with Robert Hsu ’05), Song Kim moved to Atlanta to start her residency in neurology at Emory. In the midst of moving, she got engaged to her sweetheart of 1½ years. During a Poconos weekend earlier this year with Song, Lindsay Agostinelli, Jean Pak, Michelle Nguyen, Aline Dubois, Ola Canty, Amy Chen, Alicja Lam, and Jack Pettit, a bet was placed on which member of

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Molly Ozimek-Maier would like to thank the entire class for amazing participation and contribution for the Andover Fund! If anyone wants to become a class agent, they should email her at mozimekmaier@gmail.com.

Molly, Joy Joung, and Kayla Lawson recently all got together in DC at Joy’s house for dinner; Molly also saw Sam Gould, Karen Schoenherr, and Marina Warsaw-Fan at Marina’s house in Grantham, NH. Sam Gould spent last summer in Europe, traveling and continuing his climb up the professional squash-world rankings (he was 165 at the time of this writing). For those of you who are dying to hear more about his squash exploits and world travels, Sam has a blog titled 408 in the World.

Olivia Pei still lives in SF but travels regularly to Europe for work, which is made even more fun by seeing Andover friends (Laura Minasian in Copenhagen and Marina Warsaw-Fan in Berlin).

She also saw several people in SF recently: Emma Wood, Catherine Crooke, Charles Francis, and Liz Finnegan ’06.

Mary Catherine Grinton married Hasil Patel in April; she got to celebrate with Sara Nickel, Kate Morin, Fori Wang, Henry Frankievich, and Paz Mendez Hodes. Alessandra Siraco got married to Bob McHugh in Cochran Chapel in September. Mike Siraco ’09, Alexander Abugov, Emily Anderson, Betina Evancha, and Lindsay Maroney were all there. Miles Silverman continues to bask in the radiant glow brought on by life as an engaged man, but his wedding isn’t for another year. After getting married in Andover this summer, with a beautiful reception at the Log Cabin, Ryan Ferguson is back at home in Washington, DC. Susannah Poland lives in rural southern Vermont, designing educational programs for Putney Student Travel and National Geographic Student Expeditions. When she’s not visiting partner communities in France and Nepal, she’s in the woods—working out of an old cow barn, gleaning from local farms, and sitting at the Vermont Insight Meditation Center. This year she’s creating new programs in Morocco, Bhutan, and the French Antilles. She welcomes all visitors to Vermont!

As part of his work as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force, Helal Syed is continuing to travel around the CONUS (continental U.S.).

He just completed a temporary duty assignment in Biloxi, MS, and is now in San Antonio doing a fourth-year medical school rotation. After completing his rotation, Helal will head out for Operation Bushmaster, a full-scale medical field exercise. Cecily Pulver spent last year living in Uganda studying baboons. Now she’s relocated to Paris, where she masquerades as an adult and tries to apply to grad programs so she can continue to play with monkeys for the rest of her life.

In August, Ben Feng won his third Ultimate Frisbee youth national championship in four

years—as a coach. He’s coaching an elite DC adult club team this fall. Maura Mulroy has been living in Basel, Switzerland, for the past year and completed Ironman Switzerland (a triathlon consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run) in July. Jocelyn Gully is living in Brooklyn, where she recently acquired two chickens to roam her backyard. Jocelyn frequently sees her sister, Hanna ’09, and longtime friend Danny Silk. Colleen Thurman married her college sweetheart, Andy Proudman, at a beautiful ceremony on the Cape this past October. It was attended by many Andover alums, including maid of honor Katharine Matsumoto and her longtime boyfriend, Vic Miller ’05. And Amy Chen writes, “The West Coast move is finally happening, after living my entire life between Boston and New York!

Spent the summer interning at a startup in LA and am making the jump after B-school graduation— hit me up if you’ll be there.”

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Marriages, moves, mergers, meetings, Moscow, Lezzertag—the Class of 2008 is making magic happen all over the globe, starting with the production of wildly popular lesbian laser-tag events in NYC (@ Rachel Cohen).

Jessica Cole moved to San Francisco for a fellowship with Code for America. Jess rallied some ’08ers for a picnic in Dolores Park this summer, including Christina Coravos, Silke Cummings, Brian Watson, and Frank Pinto, as well as Arun Saigal ’09.

Mary Doyle ran into Arun and Eleazar Vega-Gonzalez while catching up with Dan Bacon ’06 at SF’s premier pirate-themed bar, Smuggler’s Cove. Eleazar moved to San Francisco last year and founded a startup, Reduced Energy Microsystems, with Will Koven.

Frank Pinto, Chad Hollis, Zach Dixon, Alex Schwartz ’07, and Sam Gould ’07 headed to Colorado this summer for Lou Tejada’s bachelor party. Earlier, in the spring, Dave Holliday, Zach Feldman, and Ian Accomando joined Ben Schley for a Montana ski weekend.

Silke recently moved to San Francisco, where she initially crashed with Eleazar, Will, and Katherine Chen. Sara Ho still lives in the Bay Area and recently started at a new private-equity firm, Hellman and Friedman, amid dinners with me and

her new puppy, Maverick. Do yourself a favor and follow the pup on Instagram: MavtheFluff Monster.

After more than nine years of dating— since Blue & Silver during upper winter!— Hillary Baker and Billy Draper ’07 got engaged over July 4 weekend.

Kristy Spiak returned stateside after six months in Kampala, Uganda, working for a solar-power and financial-services company. Kristy is now living in Washington, DC, where Victoria Glynn works as deputy press secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs and Blaine Johnson is at a think tank.

Victoria went on a Labor Day camping trip with a crew that included Duncan Crystal ’10, who is working with one of her best friends.

Jen Downing got married in Vermont in September, with Kristy Spiak serving as maid of honor. Lauren Shevlin—now Lauren Mace—got married in the Berkshires the previous weekend, with Lindsey Branson Crosby, Kelci Thomasco Blomker, and Abby Donahue as giddy witnesses.

Lindsey rendezvoused with Kate Foley for dinner before heading back to Indiana.

Abby Hoglund-Shen got married at the end of July. Nicole Duddy, who is getting married next year, just asked Lisa Lian (recently moved back to NYC) to be a bridesmaid.

Lisa recently caught up with Paul Hsiao and Chris Cheung—visiting from Hong Kong—in Central Park. Paul visited Matt Emery in Philly this summer and saw Nicholas Koh at Nic’s birthday in NYC. Philip Meyer and Lucas McMahon caught up in NYC, where Steve Bartz recently moved.

Caitlin Feeney is in her last year of law school at Cornell and is interning in NYC at the ACLU this semester. She provided this update while en route to dinner with Liz MacMillan, Kimbo Chang, and Sarah Pucillo.

Molly Shoemaker, expanding her scope at Signature Theatre in New York, is now working with Signature’s new artistic director, Paige Evans ’80. Andover power women of the theatre world, unite!

Jacqueline Hall is still at the Yale School of Architecture, starting a joint degree program in environmental management. More important, she now lives directly across the street from Alice Conant ’09, who is starting grad school at Yale.

Siobhan Alexander moved to Moscow. She’s starting a two-year master’s degree program in international business and is eager for visitors!

Sarah Cohan is on sabbatical from her consulting job of the past four years, exploring Chile and her own home city of Boston. Mercy Bell opened a wellness retreat center in the Bahamas, starting her own life- and wellnesscoaching practice. Kelly Lacob moved to Minneapolis to work at Medtronic, steering projects in a new incubator dedicated to healthcare solutions for emerging markets.

Eamon Hegarty recently returned from

Okinawa, Japan, as part of his four-year service with the Marines. He and Zack An, currently in the Republic of Korea Air Force, are both looking forward to their transitions back to private life this year.

Rajit Malhotra is working as director of strategic initiatives at Bank Street, a progressive private school in NYC. Chip Schroeder commutes to Silver Lake’s NYC office from Boston, where his wife, Marcheta, is attending Harvard Business School. The Schroeders join a big ’08 family at HBS: Adam Giansiracusa, Joey Mensah, and Veda Eswarappa all started this year, and Kie Watanabe, Nkem Oghedo, and James Sawabini are all in their second year.

Nick Anschuetz and his band, Bearly Dead, recently played one of Nick’s dream venues— Nectar’s, in Burlington, VT. Chad Hollis, Lou, and Ian have all been to Nick’s shows over the past year.

Stephanie Clegg, in her second year of med school at UMass, saw Jamie Harisiades, Tucker Mullin, and Jack Walsh at the Falmouth Road Race in August. Tucker and Jack sped ahead of Steph before they had a chance to properly chat.

Steph spent the summer researching in the orthopedics department at UMass, specifically looking at patient-reported outcomes of pain and function after total knee replacements.

Kate Measom and Thomas Smyth ran into each other at the Shrimp Shack on St. Helena Island, a tiny town in South Carolina! J.J. McGregor, Zach Dixon, and Kaitlyn McInnis ’09 had an awesome weekend in New Orleans.

Keep the news coming, team! Much Big Blue love. —Mary

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By the time you read these notes, ’09, it’ll be winter, and the days of basking in the hot sun will be all gone. But never fear! Your class secretaries will keep you up to date and help you reminisce about the days of tank tops and sundresses. #AllSummer16, the Class of 2009 has been living it up and successfully adulting. I think it’s safe to say we’re all winning, whether it’s with more degrees, career accolades, exploring new places, expanding families, or all of the above. We may not see each other every day, and some folks we almost never see, but I for one love hearing and seeing

how everyone’s doing.

Jessica Frey, Eliza Campbell, and Marianna Jordan get to enjoy an Andover reunion every day as they live together in Brookline, MA. They recently ate their way through Mexico City by way of tacos and tequila on a 10-day vacation. Jessica works for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund as an event planner in the fundraising department. In her free time, she rows and races with a women’s masters team on the Charles.

Alex McHale grabbed dinner with Ishan Kapoor as Ishan was traveling through Oklahoma City. The two feasted on surprisingly good Oklahoma Korean food and reminisced about the good times at Andover over bulgogi tacos. Ishan has recently accepted a new position at Guggenheim Partners as an equity research analyst covering oil-field services companies.

Courtnie Crutchfield met up with Scott Dzialo in July to “help” him set up his new apartment. Courtnie also saw lots of alums at Abby Hoglund-Shen ’08’s July wedding including Chris Lim ’08, Nicole “Sam” Hantman ’08, Lizzy Chan ’08, and Rachel Cohen ’08. The meetups kept rolling as Courtnie met up with Linda Griffith for a Broadway show and dinner with Tiffany Corley ’91 as well. Courtnie is living in North Jersey with her boyfriend of five years, his 11-year-old daughter, a 150-pound Newfoundland dog, two kittens, a 17-year-old cat, and a bunny.

She’s working at Enterprise Rent-A-Car in the management training program and was looking forward to reconnecting with her PA family at the Todd A. Isaac Memorial Basketball Game on Sept. 10!

Happy belated birthday to Margaret Finch, who spent a bit of this summer on the East Coast, where she enjoyed brunch with Salena Casha, Megan Farquhar, and Eliza Campbell.

Gustavo Tavares wishes everyone his best as he continues to kick butt in the Dominican Republic. He is sad he missed Hannah Kauffman’s birthday party.

Anabel Bacon, Kevin Ofori, and Michael Kaluzny met up and hung out in Atlanta while Anabel was in town for work. After finishing up a master’s degree program at Oxford in June, she is back in the States, producing original audio programs with Audible. Congrats on another degree, Anabel!

Kyle Ofori recently moved to the Cambridge area to start his a master’s degree program at Harvard. He and Johnny Carmona have been hanging out a lot as they close out the summer—those in the area should totally hang out with them. Over on Cape Cod in August, Krystle Manuel-Countee hung out with Jack Walker, Eric Kanter and Andrew Pohly at the Beach Club.

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Over Labor Day weekend, Olamide “Mide” Babatunde got together with Peter Ly and Brendan Casey for dinner and some drinks in Chicago. Peter was visiting for the weekend from San Francisco; both Mide and Brendan live in Chicago now. It was Peter’s first time in the city, and the guys were sure to show him a good time.

In August, Larry Zhou spent the night in Yosemite camping with Charlie Dong and Pat Wolber ’11. They went on a 16-mile hike to a watering hole. They followed that up with a trip to Vegas, which included ATVing in the dunes around the city! While out and about, Larry also got to catch up with Blaine Johnson ’08 during a layover on her way back from Beijing and summited Half Dome using the cables this past month.

Wedding bells are ringing for several members of ’09 who’ve taken that step and are truly killing this adulting thing.

In June, Steven Lee-Kramer got married in Charlottesville, VA, and had a spectacular mini reunion. Alums in attendance included Larry Zhou, Ishan Kapoor, Andrew Malin, Shaun Stuer, Kyle Rogers, Trevor Gulick-Stutz, and Geoff Kwok ’10.

Shaun, Kyle, and Steven even put on their unies again and did a pre-wedding rowing session!

Georgina Norton got married on July 2 to Trevor Middleton. Alli Lyons was a bridesmaid, and Stephanie Moroney and Aubrey Zimmerling attended as guests. They actually had their ceremony in Cochran Chapel, and the reception was held at the Andover Inn. Georgina highly recommends Andover to any engaged ’09ers looking for wedding venues.

On August 13, Olivia Panaccio Tresham Mackasey also got married. There was a big Day Hall ’09 reunion with Rebecca MacRae, Allison Flanders, Blaire Pingeton, and Carolyn Han in attendance. Just one week later, Danica Mitchell got married in upstate New York. Emily Kowal and Antoinette Oot were bridesmaids, and Alice Conant and Mali Bowers were also there.

To all the newlyweds, newly engaged, and the happily single, congrats. And in case you forgot how long we’ve been at this, this fall’s Andover-Exeter Weekend marks 10 years since our first home A-E on our amazing campus, during our lower year!

Alex and I are totally making this a thing, so check out the Facebook group. I can’t wait to cheer on the young’uns against the school we love to hate in November. Who knows—I may even dust off a few Blue Key Head cheers and bring out the old sweatshirt.

As always, we love hearing stories and updates from all of you. Please send any- and everything to pa09classnotes@gmail.com, so we don’t have to resort to stalking all your exciting lives and colorful social media pages. If you haven’t been getting our emails, send us an email, so we can update your contact information. —Deidra

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Will Winkenwerder and Paul Bloemsma continue to spend time together in New York and report that they “have jointly adopted a pet gerbil named Armani.” Will just started a new job in private equity at Apollo Global Management, and Paul just started in private equity at First Reserve.

Sebastian Becker is currently working on the field program for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, as a regional organizing director in Ohio. He started on the campaign in August 2015 and worked as an organizer through the primaries in four states: Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, and Nevada.

Trevor Braun is starting a master’s degree program in economics at McGill this fall. He’s working on hiking the 46 Adirondack high peaks on the weekends. Trevor says, “I’ve done 15 this summer. Still got a ways to go.”

Zahra Bhaiwala graduated from the Harvard School of Public Health in May. In September, she got engaged to Ahmed Alkhateeb, whom she met two years ago “in a hallway at HMC.” He was there doing a postdoc. She currently lives in Central Square in Cambridge and works at a biotech/ biopharma consulting firm.

Annie Li was happy to report that in July, Julie Xie had a birthday get-together in NYC, and it turned into a mini reunion with David Chung, Minyoung Kwon, David Luan ’09, Mike Discenza ’09, Peter Bang ’11, and Kim Kuoch ’09.

Catherine McLaughlin is currently living in London and working as the commercial manager for a TV post-production company.

Over the summer, Isabella Uria went on a pilgrimage through northern Spain called El Camino de Santiago. Now, she’s starting at Yale Law School and says she is “excited to be back on the East Coast, so I can catch up with other Andover grads in the area!”

Alexis Dawkins recently moved to Shanghai, China, to work for a tech translation and localization company. She’s been spending a lot of time with Stephen Xenakis and Mat Kelley, who “also live and work in this amazing city!” Mat will be relocating soon, but staying fairly local, as he is moving to Singapore.

In September, Kyle Leahy moved out to San Francisco with his girlfriend. He transferred within his current company, but, he says, “My girlfriend, Olivia, actually is the one with the cooler transition.” She had been working in development at Concord Academy back in Boston, but she got an offer from Stanford’s undergrad admissions office.

“So, long story short,” says Kyle, “once she got the job it was a no-brainer to move out West!” He’s currently working at Yesware’s San Francisco office and says, “Hopefully, I’ll get to connect with some PA people out here soon!”

Emilie Kannekens recently moved back from Copenhagen to Amsterdam to finish law school at the University of Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, she met up with Celia Cadwell, who, she reports “has been traveling around Europe for a couple of months.”

After having worked in the software industry for a year and a half, Kelvin Jackson was accepted to a master’s degree program at the University of Turku in Turku, Finland. Kelvin is there now, studying Finnish and its related languages.

Andrew Townson spent the summer backpacking across 13 countries in Europe. He’ll spend the next few months in Baltimore helping to open a ramen shop with a friend from college. He says, “If you’re in the area, come enjoy a bowl!”

Sara Bakrow is currently living in Manhattan and recently celebrated two years at her job at BMI Research. She also spent two weeks in Italy this summer and came back just in time for Avery Stone’s surprise birthday party (organized

by Kelsey Lim; Caroline Kaufman made an appearance from DC!).

Kelsey started a new job in July as a designer at Sweden Unlimited, a digital agency in Manhattan specializing in strategy, design, and technology for fashion and lifestyle brands.

Meredith Rahman is currently back at PA working as a teaching fellow in biology.

Hannah Bardo is finishing up her Fulbright ETA grant in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and plans to backpack her way from Brazil up to Colombia before heading back to the States in the spring.

Hannah says, “It’s been a blast catching up with alums passing through Rio.” She’s recently met up with Jasmine Stovall, Trevor Gulick-Stutz ’09, and Nate Scott ’05. Hannah says that a major highlight of the past few months was Courtney King’s recent visit with her boyfriend, Joe, during which they “discovered a new passion for Olympic canoeing and ripped up the France House dance floor.

Courtney even got a tan from our daily treks to one of Brazil’s most beautiful beaches on Ilha Grande!

Looking forward to many adventures to come.”

Hannah Hall worked for two years for Mammoth Mountain Ski Patrol: the first year in the room, and the second year on the hill (after she learned how to ski). For the past seven months, she has been living out of her car, traveling, climbing, and writing articles for climbing magazines.

Now, she is back at Mammoth again, finishing her prerequisites for nursing school; she plans to apply at the end of this semester. She has spent a lot of time rock climbing, and says she is “most passionate about trad climbing and getting into the mountains!” This summer, Hannah climbed the Salathe Wall on El Capitan and the North Ridge of Mount Baker. She is “all about the adventure” and recently attempted the Minaret Traverse but “bailed after three towers, realizing we had to adjust to different tactics.” Next up, Hannah is planning a trip down South this winter to pursue some more mountains.

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

Congrats to the many members of the Class of 2012 who just graduated from college! In June, Margot “Maggie” Shoemaker started working for GoPro

in Munich. After living in Germany for two years she has adapted quite well to the culture; when she’s not working, you can find her swimming in the Isar River, drinking a Helles, or eating a Brezel.

After graduating from Harvard, Katie Hebb spent part of her summer traveling through Asia with Allison Morrison. The two of them ran into Sheiling Chia and Ariana Brenner in Thailand and Eric Meller in Japan!

Dylan Gully, Ben Manuel, and David Russell continued their tradition of spending July 4 together at Dylan’s family house in York, ME. Dylan added in an email, “And I continued the tradition of kicking Ben’s butt in the annual home-run derby tournament.” Ben recently moved to Asheville, NC, to continue working in solar-energy development.

He came up north to visit Dylan, as well as other Andover people like Ryan Ramos, and to attend the BC-Clemson football game. Go, Tigers!

At the end of the summer, Chelsea Ward headed to Shanghai to study Mandarin for the year as part of the Chinese Government Scholarship program. Over the summer, Danny Gottfried lived in a small village outside of Chisinau, Moldova, where he completed his preservice training for the Peace Corps. This past August, he moved to his permanent site of Comrat, where he teaches English in a local school. After graduating from Yale, Claudia Shin took a film class in Paris and hung out with Collin Benedict, who was working there. Claudia has since moved to Los Angeles and started working for United Talent Agency.

Henry Field received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army after a term of service that spanned several years and included a humanitarian rotation to North Africa and a combat tour in Afghanistan. SPC Field served as a senior combat medic on patrols in both Eastern and Southern Afghanistan. Upon concluding his service, he intends to return to coastal Maine and, as he wrote in an email, “take up the hobby of not being blown up and shot at.” He also might try gardening.

Kelsey Jamieson is in Beijing for a master’s degree program in global affairs at Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar. If any Andover people stop by Beijing, be sure to look her up! James Lim, Gabriel “Gabo” Cordero Fuentes, and Kian Ivey are all working in NYC and are planning the first of many mini Stowe House reunions. Evan Eads just graduated from Duke University alongside Benjamin Scharf, Rachel “Sage” Hunt, Nicholas Camarda, Joseph Kruy, Shannon Adams, Ricky Goldstein, and Chelsea Grain. Evan is now working as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in NYC with Colton Dempsey and Soo Jung “Christa” Choy. Shannon began a medical postbac program at Goucher College in Baltimore. Gabbie Cirelli recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill and is living in NYC with Isabel Elson, who graduated from Harvard in May and now works at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea. Madison Grant

recently graduated from Colgate and started law school at Columbia University this past fall. William “Trey” Jennings graduated from Dartmouth as a double major in neuroscience and economics. Trey moved to San Francisco to work for Wells Fargo, doing life-sciences investment banking. If anyone is in the SF area, let him know!

Scherezade Khan has begun working in marketing and business development for a software company in Cambridge, MA. That’s all for now, Class of 2012! Stay classy.

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

Hello, Class of 2013! We hope you enjoyed your amazing summers of internships, international travels, and Andover reunions.

Jing Qu was looking forward to spending her fall semester as a White House intern, but she enjoyed living with Connor Fraser in NYC over the summer. Connor is excited about senior year in his new penthouse suite dorm at Columbia University. They often ran into Julia Kichorowsky, who still regularly attends family dinners with Lucy Frey in Andover. Anna Stacy had a very theatrical summer with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. When we heard from her, she had just finished a production of Henry V, was working on Coriolanus, and was then going to be in Hamlet!

She was worried about memorizing her lines, but we know she was incredible.

David Crane, Hemang Kaul, and Sahil Bhaiwala reunited in Boston for a night out, where they ran into Gabriel Kneisel-Freund.

Rory Ziomek, Ross Bendetson, and Jason Nawrocki road-tripped to Saratoga Springs, NY, in July. They had a fabulous time at the opening day of horse racing and are preparing for their senior years. Eddie Ellis was inspired to become more involved in activism, so he traveled to Houston, TX, where he supported laws encouraging the advancement of women’s rights. He also spent time going door-to-door as a volunteer for the Clinton campaign. He finally got rest and relaxation with his family in Burlington, MA, and best friend Ross Bendetson.

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Christian Langalis worked at Graham Capital, a hedge fund in Connecticut, and often saw Kevin Fung, who worked at JP Morgan.

He also supported Ross Burnaman’s rowing competitions and had a lovely lunch with Suzanne Wang. Arianna Chang interned in sales and trading this summer down the street from Lydia Kaprelian, who was interning at 30 Rock!

They loved exploring NYC together and even went to a clam bake in Connecticut. They also had a blast at a sneak preview of The Secret Life of Pets with Saroj Gourkanti and Kevin Newhall.

Mimi Leggett spent last year in Berlin, interning for a fashion designer and studying art and German.

She returned to Oberlin for her senior year and is working towards her senior thesis exhibition.

I wish you the best as you enter the last stretch of college. We are looking forward to hearing where your experiences and opportunities lead you!

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

Junius Williams had a great time coming up to Andover for commencement, to see friends from ’14 as well as their younger siblings and other ’16s, many of whom he prefected during his time at PA. Casey Durant, Adele Bernhard, and Esther Cohen saw Waitress on Broadway together this summer! Cat Haseman took a break from her internship with the International Justice Mission in Washington, DC, to travel to San Francisco with Renee LaMarche and Natalie Kim to visit Zoe Gallagher for a weekend. John Henry Fitzgerald spent a couple weeks at Mads Engel’s house in Colorado Springs, CO. According to John Henry, Mads is

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www.andover.edu/intouch a great cook. Jake Marrus had Luke Stidham, Stephen Moreland, James Robertson, and Alec Tolentino up to his house in New Jersey for July 4. According to Luke, “’Twas a great time.”

Miguel Wise and Henry Manning traveled the Southwestern US, hiking the Grand Canyon, trudging through three feet of summer snow, and fervently searching for available campgrounds at the last minute as punishment for their lack of planning.

In NYC, Janine Ko, Tyler Tsay ’15, Chris Li ’15, and Djavaneh Bierwirth got together over Chinese food. Meanwhile, while interning for Ali Baba in Beijing, Caroline Chen met up with Suzanne Wang ’13, Haonan Li ’13, and Rachel Xiao ’13. Also in July, Ryan Miller traveled from his summer post in Berlin, Germany, to visit Emilia Figliomeni in Bologna, Italy, for the weekend. They ate lots of gelato and reminisced about Art 500 while at the Architecture Biennale in Venice. On the other side of the world, in Venice, CA, Djavaneh met up with Celine Kwon ’13. In August, Djavaneh also caught up with Caroline Chen and Vanessa Shrestha in San Diego and LA. They took several small road trips in a bright red Mini Cooper convertible and reminisced about PA over copious amount of poké.

2015 Devontae Freeland 1455 Harvard Yard Mail Center Cambridge MA 02138 732-841-1839 dfreeland@college.harvard.edu Tessa Peterson 70 Pennsylvania Gulch Road Nederland CO 80466 303-717-2764 tessa@boulder.com Kailash Sundaram 186 Rosemont Drive North Andover MA 01845 408-417-2033 ksundaram@college.harvard.edu

Sophomores, freshmen, abroad, off-radar? The further removed from Andover we become with time, the more the narratives of our class members broaden and vary. It is our pleasure to share now just a few of the updates from fellow 2015 graduates.

Both Zachary Baum and Kelli Mackey transferred to Hamilton College, where they live down the hall from one another. Zach is thinking about pairing environmental studies with a government or world politics major. He wants to be involved in the outing club, as well as the ski and sailing teams.

Last year and over the summer, he was able to reunite often with Billy Hubschman and also saw Elijah Jackson and Jack MacWilliams.

After a year of focusing solely on hockey as a juniors player, Drew DiGeronimo has started his college career at Wentworth Institute

of Technology. Over the summer, Drew met with fellow 2015 postgraduates Ben Reinisch, Jake Nelson, and Culver Duquette to celebrate their mutual love of the 1986 classic film Stand by Me. Meanwhile, Arthur Doran camped for a week in the Adirondacks with Reid Bradt and Robby Schwartz.

Tom Burnett hosted fellow Yorkie Devontae Freeland in Providence, where they performed a duet together at a new interactive performance lounge on Thayer Street.

Scott MacDonald worked as an A/V intern at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY, this summer; the festival featured four main stage productions as well as other performances and lectures. In the fall he will head back to Carnegie Mellon for his second year in the school of drama.

Ravn Jenkins, Wei Han Lim, Owen Corey, and David Benedict attended a concert in Portland, ME, to see Noah Singer play with his band, Miss Rosie. David was also part of a crew at school whose radio play was featured in the freshman showcase and nominated for a Tisch award. His current project is sound-designing and scoring a 20-minute horror film.

Jen Kaplan has also been incredibly busy this past summer and school year. Thinking of doublemajoring in computer engineering and gender and sexuality studies at Brown, she interned as a research assistant to a computer-graphics professor at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology this summer. In this position, she coded 3D games and created web viewing platform for displaying 3D geometry online. Jen has received visits at school from Charlie Jarvis and keeps a car on campus, which she uses to visit Kayla Thompson in Cambridge and Alex Thomas and Isabel Taylor in NYC. Other Andover classmates have also been able to keep in close contact at college. After two years of living together at Andover, Paulina Munn and Marina Folz are dormmates again this year at Cornell University. Last year, Paulina got her first job working in a restaurant on campus, was accepted into the Hospitality Leadership Development Program, filed her own taxes for the first time, and drove herself to and from school—a great number of personal accomplishments! She said she also enjoyed watching Andover seniors in the Class of 2016 grow into their role and graduate.

Tessa Peterson and Alex Westfall are two gapyear students who started college side-by-side with Andover 2016 alumni. In August, they matriculated at Bowdoin College with Caroline Shipley ’16 and Matt Whalen ’16. Since arriving, Tessa has had campus encounters with Andreas Tonckens, Derek Yau, Tim Bulens, Nick DiStefano ’14, Walter Chacón ’13, and Richard McAllister ’13.

So it goes at small New England liberal-arts colleges. Earlier this summer, Tessa contributed to a Kickstarter campaign Alex launched to publish Silver Hour, a book of photographs from her travels

in Iceland last fall. The Kickstarter was successful!

As the demands and excitements of our present endeavors nudge nostalgia for Andover out of mind, there are still some moments of reflection about the Class of 2015. Alejandra Uria shared one such thought as we probed her for some words about being a year out of Andover: “Andover was bae, and I never realized it.” Wherever your reminiscing about PA has taken you, we welcome news about your life and hope to hear from you.

—Devontae, Kailash, and Tessa

2016 Tyler Lian 860-460-6715 lian.tyler@gmail.com Mofopefoluwa Olarinmoye 4b, Babatunde Jubril Close Omole Estate Phase 1, Ikeja Lagos, Nigeria 100213 978-289-0778 mofopsy@gmail.com mio@princeton.edu Arzu Singh 3807 East Millers Bridge Road Tallahassee FL 32312 850-728-7073 arzuksingh@gmail.com

Though it has been only a few short months since we left Andover, members of the Class of 2016 have been busy!

First off, cheers to Angela Tang and Jenny Huang, who both received Presidential Scholar Medals from U.S. Secretary of Education John King ’92 this past June. Also, a big congratulations to Gabe Blanchard for winning gold in the U19 Men’s Eight event at this summer’s Canadian Henley regatta and Annette Bell for completing six weeks of intense cadet basic training at West Point.

Quite a few of our classmates have had exciting international adventures. Diana Ding traveled to Europe with her family, and Felipe Chamon attended the Olympics in Rio. Kailey Kirkwood and Lizzie McGonagle spent three weeks traveling across Europe after graduation. Parker Tope climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with her family.

Sara Luzuriaga visited family in Ecuador in June, then spent the last few weeks of summer traveling around Europe with Franziska Trautmann.

Angie Lara visited Colombia to see her relatives for the first time in seven years, and she interned at Ferguson & Shamamian, an architecture firm based in NYC. Vienna Kuhn spent most of her summer splitting her time between a biotech startup and an investment firm in San Diego. Kasey Welch and Claire Ressel visited her, and she took a week

off from work to go on a bike tour of Italy and visit relatives in Switzerland.

Giulia Paletti had a blast with Anna Dear in LA. Now, though, Giulia is “back to reality” and studying, as Italian admission tests are in September and the college process is not over for her. Let’s wish her luck! Claire Glover is loving living on her own in Salzburg, Vienna, as an au pair to “two feisty and affectionate kids.” She says she has plenty of free time, which she has already used to adventure in Italy, Austria, and Germany.

Kieto Mahaniah worked as a roadie this summer, going to fairs, carnivals, music halls, and more. He thoroughly enjoyed his summer of eating lunch with bands, having dinner at 4 a.m. after gigs, and driving all day with the crew. Christina Schoeller spent a month backpacking with NOLS in the Yukon Territory, where she happened to be in the same group as Jack Lawlor ’17. For her gap year, she will be based in Denver, doing service projects throughout the Southwest for 10 months as a member of the AmeriCorps NCCC program.

Lauren Luo spent the summer interning for Vince Siu ’06 and Wes Mui ’06 at their board-game startup, Press Start Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, Lauren met up with Jonathan Jow, Michael Shen, Cameron Wong, Jenny Huang, Riku Fukumori, and Terrence Xiao. Lauren visited Jules Comte in southern France and stopped by to see Tora Liu while in Beijing. Tora coached little kids in hockey while in China and returned to Boston to begin his year at Northfield Mount Hermon. Tyler Levine started his first season playing junior hockey with the Brooks Bandits in Alberta, Canada.

Even those of us who did not travel the globe had interesting summers. While walking the streets of NYC, Theodore Perez ran into Mr. Palfrey, who, according to Theo, “was not prepared for the encounter.” On another day, Theo walked around New York with Joel Peña and Richard Ira playing Pokemon Go. Theo also went to the Panorama Music Festival with Ian Jackson and Joe Lee. In a “life-changing turn of events,” Theo became a proud holder of a membership to the Bronx Zoo. He went to the zoo one day with Ellie Shang (Samantha Lin) and Tora Liu, where they rode the Bug Carousel.

Charles Stacy and JongHo Park went to a midnight showing of X-Men. (They were the only ones in the entire movie theatre.) Charles also visited Kastan Day at his internship at NASA Langley Research Center, and wrote— big surprise!— a film score that featured Joshua Henderson ’15 on the violin.

Mihika Sridhar, Olivia LaMarche, and Nupur Neogi all worked at Noodles & Company, a fast-casual restaurant, and the three hiked Mount Major in New Hampshire with Peyton McGovern. Mihika then spent a few days with Thea Rossman ’15, John Gorton ’15, and Bella Berkley ’15 on Martha’s Vineyard, eating fried

clams, soft serve, and freshly caught scallops.

Noah Wintman was busy taking on the role of field director for Massachusetts state senator Eric Lesser’s reelection campaign. John Isenhower helped with the campaign of Congressman Denny Heck and started working for Fidelity National Title.

Sean Hawkins interned at a neuroscience lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, which he secured through an Andover teacher.

Sean also met up with other members of the Class of ’16 to go blueberry picking, to the beach, and into Boston. Mofopefoluwa “Mofi” Olarinmoye interned at an engineering firm, where she had the opportunity to build a power panel alongside the firm’s technicians, then spent the rest of summer enjoying much-needed relaxation.

Eric Lee, Sabine Nix, Ellie Shang, and Tora Liu hiked the Adirondacks together.

Sam Shapiro spent some time with Rohan Dixit, Darren Ty, Ryan Fischer, Sam Cohen, and Michael Najem before heading to off to work as a counselor at an overnight camp.

Kyle Kingston, Payton Jancsy, and Alex Dziadosz exchanged goodbyes before college over pancakes and waffles at a diner in Beverly, MA. Kyle Kingston also reunited with Meredith Collins ’14 at a Coldplay concert, which they followed with a visit to Taylor Swift’s house in Rhode Island.

Erica Shin grabbed breakfast with Isabella Haegg in Beverly Hills, CA, and met up with Emily Anderson for a couple of days in Manhattan Beach. Arzu Singh visited Sara Kowdley in Seattle for a week and became a burrito-wrapping pro at Chipotle. Speaking of minimum wage, Tyler Lian learned to fold clothes at Gap. Jeanine Moreau had a quiet summer, then began her career as a college athlete on Rensselaer’s soccer team. Also in the realm of soccer, Darian Bhathena is playing on the varsity team at MIT as a walk-on player.

Harper North struggled through chemistry at UVA with Richie Zhang. Samantha Hagler took an ecology class on Appledore Island at the Shoals Marine Lab, and Claire Tellekson-Flash studied environmental science at UVM’s Rubenstein school.

Whew, what a summer! With the first semester of college well under way, we hope everyone is having a blast. Keep in touch with each other— and keep sending news our way!

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At the Main Street CVS in Andover, George Edmonds was delighted to bump into Doug and Shane Crabtree and to learn that Shane is exhibiting her acrylic paintings at Merrimack College and Doug is working part time for a local financial planner, paying special attention to the mathematics of medical insurance.

Recent retiree Tom McGraw writes about going in late summer to stay at Keuka Lake in upstate New York at the home of his former student Ben Schwall ’85; he also planned to travel to Ireland in the near future. Just a few weeks before Jean St. Pierre passed away in Harwichport, Tom and wife Celeste visited her and found her looking “alert and well.” Hired by Jean in 1983, Tom became her neighbor, teaching in adjoining rooms in Bulfinch Hall and living near her on Stonehedge Lane.

Deeply saddened by her passing, Tom writes, “Jean was very much the spiritual godmother of our little family, leaving Easter candy in baskets on the back steps of Hearsey House and hosting Christmastree-trimming parties in her home every year. We shall not see her like again. She cared deeply about great teaching and the welfare of her colleagues and students.”

From Chestertown, MD, Elisabeth Tully reports that in her retirement she is still pedaling, having taken a bicycle trip in Albania. (In the past, she biked twice across America.) At nearby Washington College, she is taking a course linked to the class’s trip to Cuba and is also “restoring” the Spanish she used long ago during her two years with the Peace Corps in Colombia. Elisabeth has four children and 11 grandchildren, three of whom live just two blocks from her.

Steve and Adele Carter are settling comfortably, after some recent renovations, into the house they bought some years ago in Rye, NH. As a native of Rye, Steve says that the town he always liked hasn’t really changed all that much. Adele retired before Steve did, about three years ago, from her position as director of the nearby Middleton Public Library. Right after Steve’s recent retirement, they took a French cruise trip from Lyon to Provence.

Their son, Steve ’96, is an assistant professor of literature at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, and their daughter, Emily ’00, a familypractice medical doctor, is in Houston, taking courses in geriatric medicine.

Other recent retirees—Seth Bardo, Kathy Dalton, Marc Koolen, and Chris Walter— have described their retirement plans in the summer 2016 issue of Andover magazine.

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voice, Kelly Wise explained that he is now living at Waterstone, a senior living community in Wellesley Hills, MA, where he enjoys many amenities like meals, yoga, swimming, and visits from Bostonarea writers reading from their works. He himself reads two or three books a week and currently recommends The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

by Rachel Joyce.

Warren and Pat Gerety moved to Fremont, NH, four years ago. Although Warren is still working, together they volunteer in the library of their condo association. They are proud of their three grandchildren now in college at Bowdoin, the University of Albany, and the University of New Hampshire.

In their Chatham, MA, community, Lynn and Sally Herbst are variously active. Sally is a founder and president of the League Club of Cape Cod, providing social services for the Cape women and children. A Massachusetts master gardener, Sally also makes the famed Nantucket baskets as a hobby, even turning one into a lamp. Lynn sings in his church choir and in the Chatham Chorale, for which he also has arranged three classical concerts around the Cape, and he serves on the learning committee of the local library. They see two of their grandchildren regularly in nearby Harwich. Their other three, however, live in San Antonio.

David and Rachel Penner have taken on new volunteer vocations here at the Edgewood Retirement Community as retailers. David is responsible for buying the supplies for the community convenience store, usually by driving to the

local supermarket. He recently voiced his satisfaction when two new products he had stocked sold out immediately. Over the past few years, David also has been tutoring in schools in Methuen and Lawrence and privately in Andover. Rachel started up the Treasure Cove, which sells resident-donated items ranging from jewelry (the big seller) to furniture. Most of the proceeds from these two stores go toward college and training scholarships for young Edgewood staff members.

Rachel worked in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library at PA for many years, and she has been sharing some of her intellectual interests with her many friends in the community’s lifelong learning program, freed in her retirement to do something she had never anticipated. Her first course focused on WWI as a worldwide war, involving battles in the European colonies as well as in Europe. Next was a course on film noir, followed by another course on films by Alfred Hitchcock. Her fourth course is Majesty, Murder, Mayhem, and Madness: The Plantagenet Dynasty of England, involving the lives and deeds of the 14 monarchs and their subsequent portrayal in literature.

We would like to take a moment here to pay tribute to two outstanding Abbot Academy faculty members, both recently deceased, who joined the Phillips Academy faculty in 1973 and, in their own special ways, succeeded in offering Abbot traditions that then enhanced the Andover experience for students and faculty—Jean St. Pierre and Shirley Ritchie.

1. Georgina Norton ’09 (third from left) married Trevor Middleton in July; the ceremony was held in Cochran Chapel on the PA campus. Classmates Aubrey Zimmerling, Alli Lyons, and Stephanie Moroney joined in the festivities.

2. William ’50 and Prudence Crozier were on campus in November for the Phillips Academy Chamber Music Society concert, which is supported by the William M. Crozier ’50 and Prudence S. Crozier Fund for Chamber Music. From left are Director of Performance Holly Barnes, Chloe Lee ’17, William Wang ’17, Yuji Chan ’18, Aditi Kannan ’18, Claire Lee ’17, and the Croziers.

3. Jackson Hole, WY, was the setting for a summer get-together for Class of ’56 alumnae Ellen Welles Linn, Louise Day Cook, and Anne Woolverton Oswald.

4. Several Andover friends made the trip to Montana for the wedding of Michael Spiak ’06 and Margaret Owen.

From left are former PA dean of faculty Temba Maqubela and wife Vuvu, TJ Thompson ’06, Mary Buttrick Burnham ’78, Alex Clifford ’07, bride Margaret Owen, Ben Weiner ’06, groom Michael Spiak ’06, Sam Hall ’06, Pumi Maqubela ’06, Kristin Spiak ’08, and Jon Hillman ’05.

5. Five members of the Abbot Class of ’53 met in Maine for a September mini reunion. From left are Cornelia Nyce Kittredge, Pam Bushnell Ellis, Pat Eveleth Buchanan, Anne Oliver Jackson, and Betsy Hitzrot Evans.

6. Head of School John Palfrey and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Jim Ventre met with Dave Goetsch ’88 (center) on the Burbank, CA, set of the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory, where Goetsch works as a producer and writer.

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7. Several Bay Area alums got together for a September dinner in San Francisco. From left are Christie Checovich ’02, Sophie Noero ’02, Lucy Keating ’03, and Sarah Wendell ’04.

8. Olivia MacKasey ’09 got married in August. Joining the bride, from left, are classmates Rebecca MacRae, Allison Flanders, Michelle Kwon, Blaire Pingeton, and Carolyn Han. 9. Two generations of alumni celebrated Dan Koh ’03’s wedding to Amy Sennett in Milwaukee, WI, in July. From left are Steve Koh ’00, Claudia Arrigg Koh ’67, Kanyi Maqubela ’03, Shaun Blugh ’03, the groom and bride, Duncan Dwyer ’03, Katie Koh ’05, and Sarah Newhall ’02.

10. In June, Evan Panich ’03 and Amy Pimentel got married in Boston, with several Andover alums in attendance. Front, from left, are Michael Ruderman ’03, Janis Scanlon Rice ’03, and the bride and groom. Back, from left, are Evan McGarvey ’03, Allegra Asplundh-Smith ’04, Mike Panich ’98, Bryce Kaufman ’03, Alex Hammer Ducas ’03, Alex Minasian ’03, and Bob Yamartino ’03.

11. In September, Kate Planitzer ’02 married Michael Harper in NYC, surrounded by Andover friends. Front, from left, are the bride and groom and Rachel Tash ’02. Back, from left, are David Charles ’92, Alexis Burwell ’02, Bradley Burwell ’02, Ryan Coughlan ’02, Erika Gruenberg ’01, and Elizabeth Thorndike ’02.

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13. Several Andover friends (all Class of ’06 except as noted) helped celebrate the June wedding of Jeff Bakkensen ’06 and Jen Bender in East Aurora, NY. Front, from left, are Aaron Weisz, Emily Chappell, Cornelia Wolcott, Jen and Jeff, Simon Keyes, Michael Galaburda, and Christa Vardaro. Back, from left, are Justin Yi, Owen Remeika, Thomas Tassinari, Eric Bakkensen, and Alexander Campbell.

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15. Andover friends (all Class of ’02 except as noted) turned out in force for the September wedding of Jonathan Adler ’02 and Nahal Hamidi. Front, from left, are Chloe Lewis, Holly Schroeder, Becca Wexler, Becca Lewis, Katie Bach, and the bride and groom. Back, from left, are Jeanne St. Peter ’03, Malik Lewis, Nico Wheedon, Dan Cote, Ben Beinecke, Mitch St. Peter, Dean Felch, and Wills Hapworth.

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Middlebury, VT; Sept. 21, 2016 Sherman Drake, instructor in mathematics at Andover for 34 years, passed away at age 94.

Drake graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1944 and served as an engineering officer aboard the USS Missouri for two and half years, which included engagements in Iwo Jima and Okinawa. When the Japanese surrendered on board the Missouri in 1945, Ensign Drake was the officially designated band officer. Following service on Guam during the Korean War, he returned to Annapolis to teach marine engineering and coach soccer.

In 1953, Drake came to Andover to teach mechanical drawing and navigation as well as a variety of other math courses. He and his wife, Dottie, were known as a pleasant and congenial couple who were very welcoming to new faculty. Drake cared deeply about his students and the Academy. “He was famous for his academic rescue of innumerable math dropouts,” noted Frederick Peterson ’34 in a 1987 Andover Bulletin article about Drake and his teaching career.

Along with coaching stints in baseball and cluster softball, Drake coached the girls’ varsity soccer team to New England Prep School Championship honors in 1981, 1983, 1984, and 1985.

“The record speaks for itself,” wrote Peterson, “but what it does not say is even more important: the extraordinary bond linking players and coach, the zest, the fun, the understanding, the devotion to the game and to one another.”

During his time at Andover, Drake served as housemaster in five dorms.

From 1953 to 1974, Drake served in various Naval Reserve command posts in Boston and Salem, Mass., retiring with the rank of captain. He also taught in the Andover-Exeter School Year Abroad program in Barcelona in 1963 and 1978.

Following his retirement in 1987, he and his wife moved to Centerville, Mass., on Cape Cod. Drake is survived by his wife, Dottie; a daughter, Carol Chamberlain; three sons, Thomas, William, and Jeffrey; and nine grandchildren.

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Exeter, NH; Nov. 1, 2016 Longtime Phillips Academy instructor in classics, history, and English and former classics department chair Carl Krumpe died at age 83.

After graduating from Wabash College in 1955 with a BA degree in classics, Krumpe served in the U.S. Army, living on bases in the United States and Europe. After discharge, he earned a master’s degree in classics at Brown University. In 1960, Krumpe began a 38-year career at Andover.

“Carl was truly ‘a man for all seasons’— musician, organist (he had his own pipe organ installed in America House!), opera buff, and probably the most literate colleague I’ve ever had,” wrote instructor in classics Nick Kip. “His sterling example of academic dedication, along with his affable and thoughtful nature, inspired me and countless others to the best of professional and personal standards.”

Divorced in 1967 and raising his three children on his own, Krumpe met his second wife, Elizabeth, through his student David Epstein ’72—Elizabeth’s son. A mere two months after Epstein covertly arranged a dinner party to bring them together, the couple got married in Cochran Chapel.

Former student Malcom P. Galvin III ’86 remembers Krumpe fondly. “He embodied everything that makes the Andover faculty exceptional,” said Galvin. “He was a perfect blend of scholarship and passion [combined with] the demeanor and motivation to connect meaningfully with the young minds in his care.” Krumpe, who was also a cluster soccer coach for many years, will long be remembered for his off-campus contributions as well. In addition to acting as the master of the town of Andover’s spelling bee, he hosted a classical music radio program, gave recorder lessons in adult education programs, and served as organist and choir director at multiple area churches. Krumpe retired from the Academy in 1998.

Predeceased by Elizabeth in 2005, Krumpe is survived by his children, Michael Krumpe ’76, Andrew Krumpe ’77, and AnnaJean Krumpe ’80; two stepchildren, David Epstein ’72 and Catherine Epstein ’80; and 10 grandchildren.

John Anderson, former director of college counseling at Phillips Academy, died following complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 66.

After graduating from Colgate University in 1971, Anderson attended the University of California at Berkeley and in 1974 earned an MEd degree at the University of New Hampshire.

He then began a nearly 40-year career working with college-bound high school students and their parents. Following longtime positions at Earlham College in Indiana and Kenyon College in Ohio, Anderson became director of college counseling at Andover in 2002.

“John and I were colleagues for many years, both in Ohio and at Andover, and I was delighted when he was chosen to succeed me as college counseling director,” said Faculty Emeritus Carl Bewig. “John was the consummate admission professional and one of the kindest, most thoughtful people I have ever known. He was always held in the highest esteem by the college admission/college counseling community.”

“He knew the business and was smart and creative,” said Faculty Emerita Anne Ferguson, former senior associate director of college counseling. “He mentored countless young deans from Kenyon as well as other schools. When people had questions about their careers or about admission matters, they called John. He always took the time to assist whoever needed him.

“When John moved to the secondary school side of the coin, he was equally invested in the students whom he counseled. John’s meetings with students frequently ran overtime because he took such care listening to them and trying to assist them with whatever happened to be on their minds, college or otherwise. He was one of the most genuinely kind and gracious human beings I have ever known—warm, funny, smart, devoted to his family, the soul of integrity, and a good friend.”

Anderson is survived by his wife, Nancy; son, Nathan; and two grandchildren.

Louis P. Dolbeare

Seattle, WA; Oct. 15, 2016

Wendy Snyder MacNeil

Lincoln, MA; July 20, 2016 Photographer, filmmaker, and former Abbot Academy instructor Wendy Snyder MacNeil died at her home with her family at her side.

While a student at Milton Academy, MacNeil studied painting and drawing with American artist Elizabeth Saltonstall. After graduating from Smith College, she earned an MAT degree in visual studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. It was in graduate school workshops led by Bartlett Hayes, then director of the Addison Gallery of American Art, and Phillips Academy art instructor Gordon “Diz” Bensley that she was first drawn to photography.

In 1967, MacNeil began teaching at Abbot Academy, where she created a popular new photography program; photographers Wendy Ewald ’69 and Francesca Woodman ’76 were two of her protégées. “When I first met Wendy, I was a senior thinking about a career in politics or international relations,” said Ewald.

“I was making my first silver print with Wendy and seeing large-format portraits she made of Haymarket in Boston—portraits of butchers, vegetable vendors, and customers. I was thrilled by their sharper-than-life quality, the way she captured the light, and the precision of her composition. Wendy made herself a vehicle for us to learn who we were and to reveal it in our photographs with depth, but without pretense or flourish. We learned that being an artist was serious business, and that it had to be truthful.”

In 1973, MacNeil was appointed assistant professor of art at Wellesley College. She joined the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design in 1976, where she continued teaching until 2007.

MacNeil’s remarkable platinum-palladium prints have been collected by New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art and by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, among others. The donation of her work to Ryerson University in Toronto was celebrated in 2016 with the exhibition and catalog Wendy Snyder MacNeil: The Light Inside, Photographs and Films.

MacNeil is survived by her husband, Ronald, and children Jazimina and Noah.

Louis P. Dolbeare, 100 years and 18 days old, would-be flâneur-writer, poetaster, sometime urban planner, househusband, family man, and dissembler since adolescence, died of cancer with loving family by his side.

Following his 1940 graduation from Amherst College, Louis moved to Washington, DC, to work at the Office of War Information. He was sent to Paris after its liberation in 1944 and was in the City of Light in uniform to celebrate V-E day the following year. In 1948, Louis earned a master’s degree in city planning from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He and his family then moved to Philadelphia. After a 28-year career in planning, he retired at age 61.

In 1977, he and his wife, Cushing, moved to Washington, DC, so that she could devote herself to housing activism. A lifelong Democrat, Louis was active in Americans for Democratic Action and the American Institute of Planners. Though conventional in many ways, he was also a homeopath, an agnostic, and a prodigious writer of letters and, in later years, obituaries for his many friends whom he outlived.

Louis is survived by his children, Mary and Niles, and four grandchildren.

—The Dolbeare Family Lothrop Withington Jr.

Plymouth, MA; Aug. 1, 2013 1937 Albert E. Van Court

North Hollywood, CA; Feb. 5, 2012 1939 Nancy Lambert

West Newbury, MA Patricia Goss Rhodes

Paradise Valley, AZ; June 26, 2016 1940 Arthur F. Horwitz

Aug. 1, 2016

John Sharpless Klein

Jacksonville, FL; July 28, 2016

Robert Deormand McLaughry

Hanover, NH; Sept. 7, 2016 Muriel Ponzecchi

San Francisco, CA; Dec. 21, 2015 1941 Louis V. Sorrentino

Providence, RI; June 25, 2016 1942 W. Farrar Brown

Gainesville, FL; June 8, 2016 W. Lawrence Eccles Jr.

Chevy Chase, MD; Sept. 9, 2016 William S. Stiles

Marblehead, MA; Sept. 12, 2016 1943 Betty-Lou Monett Hess

Libertyville, IL; Jan. 21, 2014 Wagner P. Thielens Jr.

New York, NY; Aug. 6, 2016 1944 Emily McMurray Mead

Lebanon, NH; Aug. 5, 2016 Emily “Amie” Mead, an avid golfer and diehard Republican, passed away following a brief period of declining health. She served Abbot and Phillips academies in numerous ways and was class secretary for many years.

A graduate of Barnard College, Amie was a campaign volunteer for GOP presidential candidate Gov. Thomas Dewey, worked on John Lindsey’s successful run for mayor of New York City, and was appointed to the Board of Visitors of the Manhattan State Hospital by then Governor Nelson Rockefeller.

In 1967, the Meads moved to Hanover, NH, where Amie continued her civic involvement. In 1986, she moved to Washington, DC, to work on George H.W. Bush ’42’s presidential campaign and was appointed to Bush’s senior staff.

The Meads returned to New Hampshire in 1993 and started the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan independent think tank focused on state and local public policy issues.

Amie was predeceased by her husband, Edgar, and eldest son, Thorn. She is survived by her daughter, Mary; son, Malcolm ’85; and six grandchildren.

—The Mead Family

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Dorothy Eccles de Ganahl

Edwin W. Biederman

Ingrid Kassler

Michael A. Post

Peter David Field

Frank E. Rutan III

Frank P. Morse III

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1986

George O. Van Hazinga

Juan Laserna

Bath, ME; Aug. 26, 2015

Bogota, Colombia; July 23, 2016

1975

1988

Margo Donahue de Peyster

Steven Mencis

Sanford, FL; Dec. 2, 2014 Jean Mulvey Friedmann

Princeton, NJ; July 25, 2016 James S. Herman

Old Lyme, CT; Aug. 30, 2016 James S. Herman treasured his four years at Andover and became a strong supporter of the school. He competed as a varsity athlete in football, swimming, and lacrosse at Yale, graduating in 1950.

He married Brita Lehmkuhl in 1959 and, after working at Fairchild Aircraft Engine in Dayton, OH, for five years, he and his family moved to Warren, VT, where he was active in the community, served as a selectman, and developed and ran the Sugarbush Inn and Resort and the Sugarbush Golf Course. An avid sailor and pilot, Jim sailed in a number of Bermuda races, flew twinengine airplanes as well as gliders, and helped develop the Sugarbush airport. He and Brita and their three children lived in Vermont, France, and the Bahamas prior to settling in Old Lyme, CT. Jim is survived by his wife; children Kerry ’79, Jigger ’81, and Mikkel ’83; and seven grandchildren, including James III ’15 and Adam ’17.

—The Herman Family Suzanne LeFeber

Mequon, WI; July 1, 2013

State College, PA; March 22, 2016 Westerly, RI; May 22, 2015 Preston H. Saunders

Dedham, MA; July 20, 2016

Belmont, MA; Sept. 21, 2016

Arthur B. Ward

David W. Grant

Santa Barbara, CA; Sept. 14, 2016

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Peter G. Banta

Thomas Pollock

Asbury, NJ; June 12, 2016

Dec. 1, 2013

Lewis Clinton Bancroft

Wilmington, DE; Aug. 3, 2016 Jeff Corydon III

Tampa, FL; June 20, 2016 1947 S. Gordon Dabney

Louisville, KY; July 26, 2016 Nancy Hamilton Eglee

Orleans, MA; Sept. 23, 2016 John Howland Grinnell

Georges Mills, NH; Sept. 12, 2016

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Philip L. Bancroft

Marvin H. Kendrick Jr.

Sudbury, MA; Nov. 15, 2013 1955 Christopher D. Reed

San Leandro, CA; July 21, 2016 1957 Joan Pelletier Isabel

Chapel Hill, NC; March 18, 2016

Timothy W. Ross

Matthew T. Abruzzo

Gloucester, MA; Jan. 24, 2016

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Leicester H. Sherrill Jr.

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West Vancouver, BC; Aug. 29, 2016

Duluth, GA; Jan. 30, 2016

Swampscott, MA; Sept. 18, 2016

Jonathan P. Atkinson

Joan Pelletier Isabel, originally of Concord, NH, passed away peacefully at home.

Joan earned a BA degree in 1961 from Denison University, where she met her future husband, Dick. She enjoyed an interesting career, holding many volunteer offices while living in Darien, CT. She also worked for 10 years for the City of New York, serving as director of the city’s office responsible for economic relations with the not-for-profit sector of the city.

In 1998, Joan and Dick moved to Governors Club in Chapel Hill, NC, where she was active in community affairs. Joan loved her two years at Abbot Academy, and, thanks in part to donations from alumnae, 10 sugar maple trees were planted along Abbot’s historic maple walk in her memory.

Joan is survived by her husband of 54 years; two children, Mark and Margo; and three grandsons. Memorial contributions in honor of Joan can be made to Phillips Academy.

—Dick Isabel

Joseph L. Smith Jr.

Anacortes, WA; Aug. 29, 2016

Hayward, WI; Dec. 11, 2014

Stow, MA; Sept. 26, 2016

Framingham, MA; April 26, 2014

Palm Beach, FL; Aug. 29, 2016 1976 Steven D. Slater

Colorado Springs, CO; April 6, 2016 1978 Mary Camp Hoch

Bronxville, NY; Aug. 3, 2016

July 15, 2016

Mary Camp Hoch, former alumni trustee, died unexpectedly this past summer.

After graduating from Phillips Academy, Hoch attended the University of North Carolina on a Morehead-Cain Scholarship. A Fidelio Society singer at Andover, she cofounded the Loreleis at UNC, the university’s first female a cappella group. She double-majored in political science and economics, graduating in 1982.

After traveling to England, Russia, and Japan to research labor-management relations, Hoch worked at Kidder Peabody for two years and then earned an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1986. She continued to work in corporate finance and investment banking at Kidder Peabody and then at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette before moving with her growing family to London for six years.

No matter where she lived, Hoch was an avid volunteer. Among other causes and organizations, she supported education, her church, and classical music. Hoch served Andover as president of the Alumni Council, an alumni admissions representative, and a trustee; she cofounded the Academy’s London Regional Association and established a scholarship for the school.

Hoch is survived by her husband, Jim; their children, Bill, Julia, and Ross; and numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews.

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Ann Shaw

Anna E. Luhrmann Dewdney

Marvin H. Kendrick Jr., of Stow, MA, and Martha’s Vineyard, MA, passed peacefully, surrounded by his family.

Following graduation from Harvard University and Tufts School of Medicine and a cardiology residency and fellowship in the Boston area, Marv served as a physician at Emerson Hospital in Concord, MA, for more than 40 years. He always said, “The man who loves his job never goes to work”—and he certainly loved the field of medicine. His kindness and brilliance touched the lives of many people.

He enjoyed fishing, playing the piano, and spending time with his family on Martha’s Vineyard. This past summer, he achieved one of his life dreams, spending a day on Philbin Beach on Martha’s Vineyard with his family while watching grandchildren Joey and Jack play.

Marv is survived by his wife, Kathleen; children Jeffrey, Julia, and Andrew; and two grandchildren.

—Ken Gass ’64 1965 Perry K. Thurmond

Gardy, AR; March 9, 2016 Gail Goldstein

Tallahassee, FL; May 27, 2016

Lower Bartonsville, VT; Sept. 3, 2016

Atlanta, GA; Sept. 15, 2012

Haverhill, MA; Aug. 8, 2016 Janice L. Neri

Boise, ID; Oct. 14, 2016 Janice L. Neri died at her home following a sixyear battle with cancer. Her husband, Ted, was by her side.

Neri earned a BA degree in history from Pomona College in 1992 and a doctorate in visual studies from the University of California Irvine in 2003. She and Ted Apel met at Pomona College and were married in 2000; their son was born in 2009.

An art history and visual culture scholar, Neri joined the art department faculty at Boise State University in 2004 and was promoted to full professor in 2013. Her book, The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500– 1700, was published in 2011. Neri cared deeply for others. Her friends, colleagues, and students found her to be unfailingly kind, considerate, and gentle; her wit was unparalleled. She loved traveling, bicycling, and camping with her family.

Neri is survived by her husband, Ted; her son, Abingdon; and her mother, Jane Neri.

—The Apel and Neri Families Nathan Garrett Rowe

Amesbury, MA; Feb. 9, 2015

In Memoriam Protocol Please notify Alumni Records at alumni-records@ andover.edu about an alumna/us death.

Andover welcomes obituaries written by family members or classmates. Submissions should be no longer than 150 words and will be edited.

Please e-mail questions or submissions to Jill Clerkin at jclerkin@andover.edu or call 978-749-4295.

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