Shady Hill Magazine Winter 2016 (Centennial Issue)

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Finding the Past in the Present

8 Centennial Celebrations 10 A Worthy Experiment 11 Learn to Teach by Teaching—21st century style 14 As the Twig Is Bent, So Grows the Tree 16 Happenings 18 Some Things Are Forever 20 Class Notes

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Boa r d of Trustees 2015–2016

Jane Moncreiff ’76, Board Chair Bob Crowley, Treasurer & Finance Chair Suzanne Siner ’83, Clerk Carita Anderson David Brewster ’86 Holly Edmonds ’84 Maria Choi Fernandopulle Jeanne Fitzgibbon Melissa Hanenberger Alyssa Haywoode Jake Hopkins ttc ’01 Wynn Huang Keri Hughes Hilary Johnston Christopher Lee Arthur D. Little ’59 Rory Morton ’78 ttc ’87 Jeita Phillips ’94 Erik Ramanathan Alex Sacerdote Mark Stanek, Head of School Ralph Wales

By Invitation: Kimberly Kubik, Director of Institutional Advancement Maureen Nunez, Chief Financial Officer/ Chief Operating Officer Sarah Wasserman, Co-Chair, Parents’ Council Allison Webster, Assistant Head of School

Commu nic ations office

Christopher Randall, Director of Communications Kathy Breen, Systems Specialist A LUMNI OFFICE

1921 mission statement

The aims of the school are to keep childhood alive to an open-mindedness and a love of learning; to develop the individual within the circle of the school community; to teach by contact with actual material rather than by information about it; to turn knowledge into wisdom; to secure freedom with self-control.

Founder Agnes Hocking working with students in 1923.

our mission Shady Hill School wants children to be joyful, active learners who develop the intellectual discipline necessary to become contributing, ethical citizens. To accomplish these ends, we believe in the primacy of exploration and discovery, we advance the mastery of skills, and we help students shape meaning from knowledge.

Alanna Boyd, Director of Community Relations Photogr a ph y

Porter Gifford ’79, Porter Gifford Photography L ayout

Boynton Hue Studio

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At an all-school centennial celebration, Head of School Mark Stanek portrays Shady Hill School founder William Ernest Hocking. See page 9 for the full story.

For 100 years, integrated, experiential learning has been a hallmark of Shady Hill.

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.

— Langston Hughes

“ The histo ry o f the Scho o l is being written e ach day in the

lives of the people who belong to it.” So wrote Ed Yeomans, Shady Hill’s second Director, in his book, The Shady Hill School: The First Fifty Years. As this centennial issue of the magazine attests, the histories we write today are profoundly shaped by those on whose shoulders we stand—the visionary thinkers, bold trailblazers, and undaunted educators who constructed an educational experience inspired by a distinct philosophy of childhood and the courage to experiment.

A good school never stops evolving. Despite the unimaginable changes, I predict that the Shady Hill of 2115 will embrace the same approach as the Shady Hill of today. The School’s mission is to forge flexible learners with the skills, values, and competencies to thrive in a future where diversity and an accelerating pace of change will be the norm. The articles in this issue will give you a glimpse of how we stay true to our core principles while adapting with the times.

In this Centennial issue of the magazine, my article maps a set of priorities that will serve our students well while honoring longstanding practices. Krista and Serena share what students say is important and special about their school.

As students’ answers make plain, the original goals and purpose of the School are very much alive and well. Desirée unveils a bold vision for the next chapter of Shady Hill’s Teacher Training Course, an engine of innovation and progressive practice for our school. Kimberly sheds light on how we fund our ambitious, innovative, and sometimes unconventional program. And as testament to the impact a Shady Hill education can have on graduates’ personal and professional lives, our loyal community of over 3500 alumni shares its latest news in the extensive alumni notes section.

Our Centennial is a moment to reflect on our incredible history and to take stock. Echoing through the decades is the mandate to do what is best for students. However, “what is best” is a moving target. The vision articulated in this issue by several of the thought leaders of today’s School gives me confidence that Shady Hill will continue to provide its students with the skills, confidence, and mindset to be the change-makers and leaders of tomorrow.

Mark J. Stanek, Head of School

LE T TER FROM THE HE AD OF SCHOOL

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Building Fortresses

Developing the Building Blocks for Fearless Living

Mark Stanek Head of School

Fo r 10 0 ye ars, Shady Hill Scho o l

has been a beacon for elementary and middle school education. Our founders, Ernest and Agnes Hocking, cemented a foundation for child-centered, experiential education. Our first Director, Katharine Taylor, brought Central Subject to Shady Hill, and it remains a unique and highly effective integrated approach to learning. These strong traditions and values are the bedrock of our program.

It is hard to imagine the world our students will inherit and the fulfilling career opportunities that will be available. This uncertainty makes a Shady Hill education particularly significant. As we look ahead to Shady Hill’s next century, we will continue to adapt our teaching practice to prepare students for an increasingly complex world. Shady Hill fosters intellectual and social growth and an ethical mindset for our students. Here they develop flexible thinking, resiliency, skills, and understanding that give them a potent toolkit and a platform for engaging effectively and meaningfully on the paths they choose.

Central Subject features depth over breadth and interdisciplinary work.

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Integrated experiential learning has always been fundamental to our teaching methodology. Thematic Studies and Central Subject remain powerful approaches for students to experience the connections within our curriculum and within their lives. We know that research supports a multi-modal approach to enhance learning and memory. Finland, frequently seen as a top educational leader, is embarking on a radical reform to replace subject-specific learning with a more integrated

approach. As we look to the next century, Shady Hill is well positioned to foster critical thinkers and creative problem solvers. For example, our current work is focused on connecting math, science, engineering, humanities, movement education, and the arts.

Integrated learning develops nimble thinking, an especially useful capability for contending with today’s unprecedented pace of change.

With the increase of robots and other devices in daily life, students grapple with the benefits and drawbacks of technology on human relationships, stress, and core needs. AÂ hightech future underscores the importance of fostering increased emotional and ethical awareness. Understanding this, we immerse students in experiences that instill a sense of interpersonal connection and promote ethical decision-making. Equipped with skills that promote compassion, critical thinking, and

Engaging in meaningful service is an important part of the program.

Our focus on well being helps students tap their creativity, value others, and maximize their impact.

creative problem-solving, our students will be prepared to address complex problems, such as income inequity, climate change, population growth, and diminishing natural resources.

According to a 2015 Harvard Graduate School of Education report, Turning the Tide, colleges are seeing an increased emphasis on personal success and achievement by their applicants. The report called for a renewed focus on concern for others and the common good. Our alumni speak about how social justice, respect for others, and taking action are all elements of a Shady Hill education.

We need to build on this foundation while also providing opportunities for our students to engage in and reflect on meaningful service. As the report states, it is not just about taking leadership and doing a service project, but about how students work with diverse

groups to learn from one another and how each experience expands emotional awareness and development.

This social and cultural sensitivity has far-reaching implications. As the global economy expands and we work across cultures and countries to solve problems, our students must be culturally fluent to understand different experiences and backgrounds. Globally, we have seen a spike in religious and regional conflicts, environmental pressures resulting in complex challenges, increased numbers of refugees seeking asylum, and nations engaging in shifting alliances. In our country, issues such as economic disparity, political polarization, and immigration call for a greater appreciation of difference and the willingness and ability to collaborate in order to tackle these thorny issues. At Shady Hill, we help our students see the value of embracing a

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diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and talents and in understanding the role of privilege in an inequitable system. We feel that such cultural fluency will be critical to our students’ success.

These core tenets of a Shady Hill education are more than words. I recently moderated a panel of Shady Hill alumni for our Centennial Celebration of Creativity. Five panelists spoke about the deliberate mix of ingredients that make Shady Hill’s program vibrant, enriching, and powerful. Joia Spooner-Fleming ’93 reflected on how she developed confidence and working relationships with classmates: “I learned how to listen, get along with others, create a richness for myself, and find my own path.”

Arthur Little ’59 pointed to the ability to understand different points of view and the importance of collaboration as key elements for success. James Whitters ’88 commented on how Shady Hill instilled fundamental habits of mind: “I learned to think dynamically and developed a fearlessness about learning. There’s power in not being afraid to dive in or to make mistakes—in being confident that you can figure things out.”

Ekua Holms ’70 spoke about how Shady

Hill fostered creativity: “Shady Hill gave us the confidence to express ourselves. Not only that, but that it is absolutely essential to express oneself. At Shady Hill, everyone felt that they had something to offer.

Everyone was an artist.”

It is deeply affirming to speak with alumni about how their Shady Hill education has influenced their personal and professional lives. I am confident that Shady Hill will continue to prepare our students for the challenges of tomorrow. Fostering a love of learning, instilling critical thinking and creativity, and developing collaborative skills have always been central tenets. Our alumni spoke passionately about how the skills, habits of mind, and qualities that they learned at Shady Hill influenced their lives in powerful, positive ways. Shady Hill’s mission and pedagogy, as well as its culture of reflection and innovation, prepare our graduates to thrive. As Janie Ward ’70 said so eloquently, “Here, I received the building blocks that let me go out and build fortresses.” We will continue to provide our students with the skills, confidence, and mindset to be the change-makers and leaders of tomorrow. _

Left: Each day, students hone their critical-thinking and creative problem-solving skills.

Right: At Shady Hill, developing cultural fluency is a priority.

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Finding the Past in the Present Student Reflections Echo Founders’ Vision

Serena Wilkie Gifford Lower School Head

Krista Demas Middle School Head

What happens when you ask 100 Shady Hill students what they like about school? They readily come up with more than 100 reasons why their school is such a special place. Culling through the student responses to this question, one comes across endearing observations, “I like that nobody purposely tries to be mean to somebody,” and remarks as only a first grader could put it, “The libary . . . ulot of godd books in thar.”

Our recent question to students confirmed what we suspected: Shady Hill students of today appreciate and cherish the same values and characteristics of the School that were present when it was founded and upon which the mission of the School was established.

I really like the open campus because you get to walk to all your classes. You get to stretch and get some fresh air. You get a walk to clear your mind.

—Grade V student

For study, play, and inspiration, the outdoor campus is an integral part of the Shady Hill experience.

The Cooperative Open Air School, as Shady Hill was originally named, was so called because the parents “believed that plenty of fresh air, no matter how cold, was the best preventer of colds, and that resistance to more serious pulmonary infections could be built up by this means. Open windows were accordingly the rule at the Open Air School.”1 Having outgrown the Quincy Street and Norton Estate locations, the School eventually relocated in 1926 to 11 acres on Coolidge Hill where windows were intentionally designed to “leave large spaces open to the fresh air of Cambridge.”2 Since the very first days, outdoor space was essential to the daily life

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of the School, from listening to Agnes Hocking recite poetry on the Quincy Street front porch to tending to school animals that once roamed the Coolidge Hill campus.

Today, the outdoor campus remains an integral and beloved feature of the Shady Hill experience. Full advantage is taken of the natural setting for explicit lessons about trees, the planting and harvesting of vegetables, and measuring the length of various whale species, to name a few. It is hardly unusual to come across a Beginners class on a hunt around the school property looking for examples of circles, triangles, and squares; to watch fourth graders practicing javelin and discus on the far field; or to overhear a seventh grade class discussing taxation without representation while unfurled under a willow tree. Classes suited to the outdoors are hardly the only times that the campus serves as a teaching and learning environment. More often than not, impromptu meetings occur along the pathways while nooks and crannies of the playgrounds are favorite places for quiet reading or just talking with a friend.

Soccer balls, footballs, and Frisbees abound, as do foursquare courts, fairy houses, knitting projects, and good books. Children choose where and with whom to spend their time and what to do. And when in doubt, they’ll figure it out or make something up. The notion from an early version of the School’s mission that children must learn “to secure freedom with self-control”3 is practiced daily at recess. Children are in charge and the adults step in only as needed.

Play that occurs during recess has direct implications for learning. The self-determination of such free time lets children try out a variety of possibilities and demands that they take ownership of their choices. Children are practicing important skills, such as self-regulation, organization, and collaboration, and as they grow older, they are increasingly aware of their level of agency in this process.

I like that we are not taught to regurgitate information, but instead we’re being taught to really understand the subject.

—Grade VII student

I like how there is lots of outdoor recess space and lots of freedom during recess.

—Grade III student

That children enjoy recess is no wonder, and at Shady Hill, the time is sacred. Recess is intentionally built into the schedule twice a day at every grade level to ensure that children have unstructured opportunities to make independent decisions about how to spend their time.

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The freedom and agency that students practice at recess undoubtedly carries over into the classroom. In both realms, students have the space, literally and figuratively, to explore. As with sandboxes or play structures outdoors, in the classroom, a selected reading or a discussion prompt serves as a springboard for thinking and decision-making. As Ernest Hocking described, ”Our position was that children learn to think by thinking, not by doing something else.” As part of a Grade VIII literature study of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, students research and debate

the name and mascot for the Washington Redskins. In the science classroom, Grade V students studying water issues in China design and build water filters that are tested using water collected from the Shady Hill wetlands. In Spanish class, students study the history of Dia de Muertos (Mexican Day of the Dead) and create their own tributes for a loved one. As these examples show, by taking an evidence-based stance, designing a new invention, or honoring a lost loved one, children “create new interpretations . . . that lend themselves to contemporary problems.”4 The world may be a different place 100 years later, but the essential shape of a Shady Hill education remains the same. Shady Hill students learn to move their ideas into action and practice the essential skills they need to become changemakers in the wider world.

I like how I can approach any teacher at any time and ask a question.

—Grade V student

Learning is a messy enterprise in that it requires making mistakes and taking risks. For students to engage successfully in that process, relationships with teachers must be built on trust, care, and understanding, and maybe a little touch of humor here and there! According to Katharine Taylor, Shady Hill’s first director, “The human being’s learning takes place in and through all his experiences and all his relationships.”5

I like the strong sense of community that you can feel.

—Grade VIII student

Students’ most frequent responses to our question were about Shady Hill’s sense of community. Students mentioned kindness, smiles, feeling welcomed, and working as a team. They note that relationships and community are fostered everywhere: collaborating to solve a math problem, interpreting a text from different perspectives, or a spontaneous cross-grade game of Ghost at recess. As a school, we are intentional about cultivating community.

Partners and Middle School pods are salient examples of the ways in which we create structures for students to connect across ages and divisions. There’s nothing quite like walking through the lobby of the Grade VIII building and hearing a six-foot, eighth-grade boy ask his kindergarten partner, “What’s your favorite color?” or “Tell me about a time you were brave.” Middle School pods are much the same. A group of Grade V–VIII students might roam the campus, taking photographs of their favorite hideouts or gather for a game of Apples to Apples.

Whether it is Partners, Pods, assemblies, or all-school events such as May Day and Thanksgiving, the many formal and informal interconnections knit us together in ways that foster compassion, trust, and a sense of belonging.

As the answers to our question attest, Shady Hill students of today recognize and appreciate what is important and special about their school, and, in this way, they are closely connected to students of the past.

The original goals and purpose of the School are very much alive and well in the minds of current students and in our community at large. We are indeed fortunate to be part of this amazing community dedicated to lifelong learning. _

Sources: 1. The Shady Hill School; The First Fifty Years, 1979, Edward Yeomans, Windflower Press, Cambridge, MA, p. 5. 2. Ibid., p. 34. 3. Ibid., p. 19.

4. “Teaching Children to Think,” Joel Westheimer, NAIS Magazine, Winter 2016, p. 70. 5. The Shady Hill School; The First Fifty Years, 1979, Edward Yeomans, Windflower Press, Cambridge, MA, p. 76.

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Centennial Celebrations

An Amazing Evening of Alumni Voices At the January 2016 Centennial Celebr atio n o f Cre ativit y , five alumni spoke about the influence and impact Shady Hill has had on their personal and professional lives. Head of School Mark Stanek posed a series of questions that drew thoughtful responses and shed light on the impact that a positive, nurturing school experience can have on one’s life.

Asked about the habits-of-mind fostered at Shady Hill, business owner and entrepreneur James Whitters ’88 said, “There was a fearlessness to the learning. When I don’t know how to do something, I’m confident that I can figure it out.” Picking up the thread, venture capitalist and consultant Arthur D. Little ’59 added: “Here, I got used to the idea that it was okay to fail. Not having an absolute fear of failing has been absolutely critical.”

Talking about attitudes instilled here, Joia SpoonerFleming ’93, R&D engineer and researcher, said, “Being able to create ownership over what I was learning really excited me, rather than being told the path.”

Professor and author Janie Ward ’70 spoke of being an agent of change: “The Shady Hill experience asks: Who am I? What are my responsibilities? How can I use my privilege and power to make a better world? With a

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Shady Hill education, one would never allow one’s self to avoid these questions.” Artist Ekua Holmes ’70 spoke of how Shady Hill seeded a guiding principle: “I learned that self-expression matters. This understanding came from here.”

Panelists often commented on how they learned as much from fellow students as from teachers. Joia said, “I learned the value of dialogue—respect for all opinions, how to listen, and how to appreciate different perspectives.” Arthur added: “We were continually challenged by classmates who didn’t accept statements at face value. Listening to others and learning things from multiple points of view will serve students incredibly well.”

The clear take-away from the evening was that the intensity of the Shady Hill experience forged deep bonds and left an indelible imprint. As the evening drew to a close, all heads nodded in agreement when Ekua spoke of what she saw as a fundamental idea nourished at Shady Hill: “Children remake the world based on their understanding of how to interact, collaborate, think deeply, and appreciate differences. I left here not just thinking outside the box, but rather thinking about building new boxes.” _

1915 2015 Life Is Good at 100 On the 100th day of the 100th year (February 26), the school gathered for a celebratory salute.

The focal point was the Centennial Tree . Standing 14-feet tall, it was a glistening fountain of copper, its branches radiating out 16 feet above the heads of the crowd. Attached to every branch were wooden leaves on which students had written their answers to the question, “What do you love about Shady Hill?” All of Shady Hill’s best sides were represented: the library on a rainy day, Dona Nobis Pacem, football, GHOST, Hades play, Mt. Monadnock, Greece, math problems, being welcomed in the morning, poetry, art, sandbox, recess, campus. Phonic spellings abounded: liberre, frns, OSM (awesome). Groups of students read some of the answers aloud so everyone could get a sense of what their friends and fellow students value about Shady Hill.

Other highlights of the celebration included: • Music teacher Kabir Sen leading the community in a song that he wrote for the event.

• Parent Tanya Donelly performing an original song, A Porch on Quincy Street, with the Shady Hill Blue Chorus.

• The magical appearance of Ernest and Agnes Hocking, marveling—with both joy and disbelief—that their experiment had not only endured for 100 years but that it had grown and thrived.

• The Mayor of Cambridge sending a proclamation declaring the 100th day of the 100th year as “Shady Hill Day” in Cambridge in honor of its centennial and its role as a venerable Cambridge institution.

The celebration was a warm embrace of the School and the community we love.

Ha ppy 10 0th Shady Hill

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1915 2015 A Worthy Experiment A Bountiful Legacy of Enlightened Thinking

It is no accident that Shady Hill’s program stands out as exceptional. It has been shaped and guided by progressive thinkers and courageous trailblazers. Their words, separated by decades, convey the essence of what makes a Shady Hill education such an effective way to prepare students for all that lies ahead of them.

Founder Ernest Hocking We began with no preconceived educational theory. We had a few firm convictions stemming from experience as to what constitutes good education.

Some of our improvisations, which certainly involved educational hazards, also held educational possibilities, and we, as a small and personal enterprise, could try them out.

Interest was of course of the first importance, and we secured it; but not by bending our work to what was on the surface of children’s minds. We expected children to take an interest in what was worthy of their interest; and with teachers who cared for their subjects, they did so. Our position was that children learn to think by thinking, not by doing something else.

First Director Katharine Taylor Life today, with its swiftly changing circumstances, draws heavily upon the individual’s resourcefulness. The environment never remains the same from one generation to another. . . .

The time when people are still young and growing is the time for them to begin to develop the insight and power which will serve them in directing their own lives.

Education guided by such ideas is necessarily an act of faith. It cannot be easily planned or explained, nor can its results be statistically measured. But even when our efforts seem to lag absurdly far behind the ideas by which we guide them, it is, nevertheless, this kind of education which interests us and which seems the most worth struggling for.

—From a fund-raising pamphlet

— From “Operating a School,” Atlantic Monthly, December 1955

Founder Agnes Hocking

Third Director Joe Segar

Information is not education. If we are to educate these children, it is life we must give them, not a few informing facts about life. Nutshell condensations of fact may be useful in later years; for children, they are the death of interest in the beginning of this taste.

There is no room for complacency in our view of the School’s future. Shady Hill has been a pioneer, but pioneers have a tendency to become settlers, letting a new wave of pioneers roll over them to an ever more promising future. To maintain vitality will require new vision and new methods.

— From a 1925 letter to a parent, quoted in the Atlantic Monthly article, “Operating a School”

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— From a 1965 speech on the occasion of the School’s 50th birthday

Learn to Teach by Teaching – 21st century style

1996 Strategic Plan Updated to Expand the TTC’s Reach and Impact

Desirée Ivey Director, Teacher Training Course

It’s 2016, and changes to the educational landscape are coming non-stop. Charter schools outnumber public schools in many U.S. cities. High-stakes testing affects students, teachers, and those aspiring to become teachers. The student population is growing increasingly diverse, but the teaching pool is not keeping pace. The cost of a college education is staggering, making it practically inaccessible for many. That’s the sobering news. The good news is that Shady Hill has much to contribute in addressing the issues in all of these realms.

Shady Hill’s Teacher Training Course (TTC) is a veritable engine of innovation, progressive practice, and reflection. Annually, it mints 15–18 new teachers. The ripple effect of its 1700 graduates is enormous. Each year graduates fan out, bringing a transformative progressive vision and methodology to schools across the nation.

Terris King, II, TTC ’10, a kindergarten teacher at Shanghai American School said, “The TTC developed my teaching foundation and inspired my educational philosophy. As a progressive educator, I understand that teaching is a craft, a craft that takes time, practice, and dedication. Joining the TTC was hands-down the best decision I ever made professionally.”

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Since its inception in 1928, the TTC has been the beating heart of the School’s teaching and learning practice.

The apprentice-mentor relationship powerfully shapes the learner and teacher experience at Shady Hill. “Having an apprentice in my classroom keeps my teaching fresh and relevant,” reflected Kindergarten Gradehead Betsy Anderson TTC ’86. “The ideas they have brought to the classroom have infused my curriculum with even more depth and creativity.” The TTC has also been influential in the wider education community. For two decades, Shady Hill has shared TTC lessons and its methodology with other schools across the U.S., Australia, Japan, China, India, and Qatar, helping sow the seeds of a profusion of teacher residency programs. “In my current role, I spend much of my time observing teachers teaching,” said a TTC alum. “I always harken back to what I learned in the TTC. I have not seen teacher prep done as well anywhere else.”

Recognizing that it is time to highlight TTC’s exceptional contributions to the School and to the field, as well as adapt its program to address the evolving needs of students and educators, the TTC inked a new strategic plan this past fall. It embraces the core mission of training apprentices to master child-centered, interdisciplinary, and thematic instruction. The intensive strategic planning process, which tapped the Shady Hill and wider education communities, expands that vision in several important ways. We reached consensus on a set of goals that make possible a fuller, more ambitious expression of Shady Hill’s decades-long leadership in the preparation of a diverse corps of educators.

• Outre ach. Despite its influence in the field,

the TTC is less publicly linked to the core of Shady Hill’s vision and practice than it should be. It has

accomplished what it set out to do in 1994 and that is to share the model with others, but the proliferation of teacher-training programs over the past 20 years has tended to obscure the TTC’s value to the field and its powerful model. An enhanced outreach effort will help us play a more significant role in the national and international dialogue about education and help the education community better appreciate the TTC’s contributions, model, and leadership.

• D e velo p cultur ally c ompe tent educ ato rs. Shady Hill has a long commitment to

diversity and inclusion. The TTC’s 1996 Strategic Plan set a goal to prepare a more diverse corps of apprentice teachers. Since then, we have trained 80 apprentices of color, and they are now teaching and leading in the field of education. In 2006, the Board of Trustees mandated that Shady Hill recruit and hire a talented faculty that reflects the racial demographics of the student body. We will work with School leaders to develop a process for considering the TTC as a source of candidates to help the School achieve its diversity goals.

• In cre ase supp o rt to TTC alumni. A TTC

experience gives apprentice teachers a running start in their careers. But we feel that we can do more to support them, especially during the challenging early years. We plan to develop an advisory board of diverse stakeholders to explore issues affecting beginning teachers. We will also hold a bi-annual alumni conference focused on trends, issues, and best practices in education. In addition, we will investigate how we can use technology to share best practices with TTC alumni and other interested educators.

Apprentices help our teachers reflect on their practice and on the students they teach.

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Timeline of TTC Milestones

1928

Apprentices enhance students’ experience by infusing the curriculum with depth and creativity.

1970s

TTC partners with Lesley College (now University) to offer a Master’s Degree in Education.

1980s

TTC partners with Tufts University to offer a Master’s of Arts in Secondary Education.

1994

TTC collaborates with the Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education to become an Innovative & Experimental program allowed to endorse for licensure.

1996

TTC develops a strategic plan, partners with Summerbridge Cambridge, and embarks on capital campaign that raises $1.8 million for TTC scholarships and for a full-time Assistant Director.

2000

TTC partners with John M. Tobin School in Cambridge so apprentices can have dual placements in a public and an independent school.

• Pro gr am d elivery and staffing. We will

be evaluating the effectiveness of the current delivery model and course sequence for all seven areas of licensure. As part of this process, we will also assess the effectiveness and utility of our partnerships (e.g., K–8 schools, the Massachusetts Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, and Lesley University) for providing apprentices with public-school experience and a master’s degree in education. In addition, because the program has evolved in significant ways, we will be looking at staffing levels and at faculty and apprentice professional development aimed at broadening collaboration among the School’s departments.

As a result of the capital campaign and the Charlotte Foundation, TTC offers the Katharine Taylor and the Urban Teaching fellowships for apprentices.

2002−04

• Finan cial sustainabilit y. To keep its tuition

affordable, we will work to increase the TTC’s $5.6 million endowment, secure grants, and determine the optimal size of the TTC program.

True to Katharine Taylor’s innovative efforts, Shady Hill is embarking on a reinvention of its approach to teacher preparation and development. In 2010, President Barack Obama spoke to a group of educators and told them that teacher-residency programs like Shady Hill’s would and could transform education for the many children in desperate need of excellent teachers. But we are also cognizant of the need to fine-tune elements of the program, evolve other parts, and make known all we do. The new Strategic Plan promises to fortify the foundations of the program, help realize essential aspects of the TTC’s mission, and continue our central role in positively influencing the ways that schools and teachers think about their practice and the students they teach. _

Katharine Taylor founds “The Apprentice Program.”

2010

2011−14

2015

TTC consults with the Boston Plan for Educational Excellence and the Boston Public Schools to help them develop the Boston Teacher Residency.

TTC hosts its first Roots and Shoots alumni conference to celebrate its impact on teacher-preparation programs nationwide.

TTC develops two national partnerships: City Year and Breakthrough Collaborative.

TTC meets the 1996 Strategic Plan goal of training more than 80 apprentice teachers of color.

TTC and Lesley University offer apprenticeships and Master’s Degrees in Creative Arts and Learning in Early Childhood Education and Elementary Education.

TTC develops a new strategic plan.

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As the Twig Is Bent, So Grows the Tree Through-Lines Offer a Blueprint for a Dynamic School

Shady Hill’s thought leaders formulated a broadminded brand of education that centered on a distinct philosophy of childhood. One hundred years into the experiment, a set of “through-lines” can be identified.

These principles are elemental to our program, practice, and culture—part of Shady Hill’s DNA. Ringing as true today as when they were first expressed, one can imagine overhearing current faculty and administrators voicing similar thoughts related to these through-lines.

Joyful E x plo r ation. This school firmly believes

Intellec tual Cour age . We need human beings

that whenever possible, children should be completely involved in what they are studying. This means living the subject as fully as feasible and in every way possible.

who will study facts reverently; who will refuse to generalize upon insufficient data; who will be able to find their way safely through the chaotic conditions of modern life; whose spirits are not barred to beauty and faith by materialism or cynicism; who will be able to join others generously and with understanding, in building the future out of the present.

— ted martin, Shop Teacher, Shady Hill News, late 1950s Diversit y. Looking at the community in which

this school exists, where our children live now, and at the country and world in which they will very soon be active, surely one of the most pressing needs is to be able to understand and live effectively in a society which is increasingly being run by and for a great variety of people—and this is the way it should be. Shady Hill graduates will need human understanding and skills— trust, sympathy, and knowledge of various kinds of people—to make society work, to create rewarding lives for themselves and their families.

— mary eliot, Associate Director, Shady Hill News, 1973

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— katharine taylor, Director 1921–1949 Effec tive Te aching. The evidence of real learn-

ing was a “becoming” of the learner: an intellectual or aesthetic transition from one stage of growth to the next.

Learning, in order to proceed in this manner, had to be infectious, for it required an engagement of one total personality with another—teacher and student.

— ed yeomans, Director 1949–1961

Lifelo ng Journe y. If education is to be for life,

Music. Every child has a right to the heritage of the

it is desperately important that the joy of discovery be experienced by young students. Truth comes to us clothed in beauty.

best in music. If he gets it, he will seek out music-makers wherever he goes and enjoy music for the rest of his life.

— james mccarthy, Math Teacher, 1954 Centr al Sub jec t. The aim is to develop in each

year an awareness of some of the peoples of the earth: a knowledge of the earth itself, and the importance of the land in the development of people; an understanding of the causes of conflicts between groups, and a growing, conscious awareness of the ways people have devised for living together.

— edie caudill, Gradehead, Shady Hill News, 1950 Me aning fro m Kn owled ge . We must, without arrogance, help students to draw the meaning out of their experience, remembering that it is their meaning, not necessarily identical with ours, that they must find. We must help them to see not only the imperative need, but the keen enjoyment of using one’s full will and intelligence, of losing one’s self in something beyond one’s self. If their learning is confined to exercise and following ready-made patterns, how are they to learn to deal with the raw material of experience, to invest it with meaning and purpose?

— ruth abbott, Music Teacher, Shady Hill News, 1962 The Arts. It is the teacher’s function to lead him, with appropriate discipline, toward a consistent development of his powers.

— m argaret stout, Art Teacher talking about the art curriculum in the mid-1960s D ep th Over Bre adth. Everything was over our heads all the time. But within reach. We were always pulling ourselves up to exciting new levels. From them, we looked out over vistas of history and scanned yet unexplored (by us) fields of experience. Mrs. Hocking did not feed us grade-school pablum. We conquered Peru with Prescott and sailed into Viking fjords on du Chaillu’s two thick volumes.

— mary f. williams, one of Shady Hill’s first students Co mmunit y. Shady Hill is a place where adults and children can learn from one another and live in a climate of mutual respect.

— ed yeomans, Director 1949–1961

— k atharine taylor, Director 1921–1949 in a 1947 speech

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happenings

Shady Hill Fair (October 2015)

Over 1000 adults and kids gathered for a memorable day of rides and games, music, tasty food, and a choice selection of gently used clothing, books, and sports gear. Kids (and a few intrepid adults) braved the obstacle course, “time-machine” haunted house, and giant hamster wheel. Special thanks to this year’s Fair Chairs—Josephine Atluri, Emily Carroll, Christina Mann, and Tonya Orme—and to all the event chairs and volunteers! This community-building event is also a major financial-aid fundraiser at Shady Hill.

Grandparents and Special Friends Day (October 2015)

More than 350 grandparents gathered for a welcome and performances by a Lower School chorus and a Middle School orchestra. Next, they headed to their grandchildren’s classes to see Shady Hill learning in action. Over the course of the day, they listened to stories and poems, played math games, designed with computers, talked about Central Subject topics, and shared treats at snack time.

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Grade VIII Play: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (November 2015)

This year, Shady Hill revived a tradition, bringing back the Grade VIII Shakespeare play. The cast and crew delighted audiences with spirited performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Masterfully weaving together four interconnected plots, they performed for fellow students during Lower and Middle School assemblies and for the wider community at an evening performance. Once again, the campus was alive with fairies, magic spells, dukes, and queens.

Stratford-upon-Charles!

Black History Assembly (February 2016)

After welcoming students, families, and guests, Head of School Mark Stanek opened the Assembly on a powerful note, saying, “Today we take a moment to reflect on our country’s history and the fight for equality by many courageous individuals.”

Keynote speaker, artist Ekua Holmes ’70, picked up the theme, speaking about how she uses art to tell her story and to honor the people in her community who broke down walls for the next generation.

“Their battles against social and racial injustice planted seeds of hope that bloomed later in my life.”

The students’ music, performances, and poetry made clear that Shady Hill is engaging them in many of today’s key issues—equality, justice, and inclusion— and inspiring them to take action.

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Some things are forever For 100 years, people have shaped Shady Hill through a tradition of giving, caring, and sharing

Kimberly F. Kubik Director of Advancement

Fo r 10 0 ye ars, Shady Hill School has been doing

something quite special—equipping people to engage meaningfully in their personal and professional lives. As part of our work in the Advancement office, we have the privilege of hearing alumni stories of how Shady Hill taught them to think, play, sing, run, write, experiment, problem solve, and learn from failure and try again. Across all 100 years of this extraordinary education, philanthropy has played a pivotal role.

Tell Me Why. Why do alumni, parents, and many

others give to Shady Hill? Threads that run through most every response are that they want to make a difference in the lives of children, to give back to the School as did donors before them, and to ensure that Shady Hill can continue its life-changing work. These quotes highlight several recurring themes: —“ I know every gift counts and, together, all our gifts make a profound difference.”

—“ Shady Hill gave me the joy that comes from becoming a lifelong learner with a can-do attitude.”

—“ It is opportunity to say ‘thank you’ each year.”

The take-away is that supporting a school is an investment in the future. We find that people are motivated by the idea that, through philanthropy, they can participate in shaping the future—change a life and change the world!

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It Takes a Vill age . But don’t take my word for it!

This year, in honor of Shady Hill’s Centennial, we have collected hundreds of ‘“stories” from our alumni, parents, faculty, staff, grandparents, and parents of alumni. Each story answers the question, “Why do you give to Shady Hill?” The breadth, depth, and outright joy in the many answers are a delight to read. To see what people have said, visit the Centennial Year Annual Fund webpage in the “Give” section of the School’s website.

Did You Kn ow ? All tuitions are augmented. Last

year, for instance, tuition covered only about 75% of the School’s expenses. Independent-school operating budgets are based on a tuition-supplemented model. Quite simply, tuition covers part of the cost of a yearly education. A combination of endowment return and yearly Annual Fund dollars make up the difference. In this way, everyone—students, families, alumni, and even society— benefits from philanthropy.

A Tr aditio n o f Giving, C aring, Sharing.

For 100 years, people have profoundly shaped Shady Hill through a tradition of giving, caring, and sharing. Each day, the potential of the School unfolds thanks to the “time, talent, and treasure” given by so many to honor, celebrate, and perpetuate the extraordinary enterprise that is Shady Hill. _

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THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO STRENGTHEN OUR SHADY HILL COMMUNITY!

Look at some of the things we ACCOMPLISHED TOGETHER last year.

$1.48M

1,565

TOTAL ANNUAL FUND DOLLARS RAISED

ANNUAL FUND GIFTS

WHICH HELPED SHADY HILL AWARD

$2.2M IN FINANCIAL AID

(a 21% increase from 2012!)

Support

2015

2012

50 of whom have been at SHS for 10+ years.

That’s dedication!

100%

RECYCLE

1,584

CUBIC YARDS OF MATERIAL (that’s enough to cover the gym to a depth of 8 feet!)

5TH & 6TH GRADERS RUN APPROX.

100 MILES

IN THE ANNUAL MILE RUN

150

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FACULTY, STAFF, AND COACHES

STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF

PRUNE, PLANT, AND RAKE AT THE COMMUNITY TOT LOT IN CAMBRIDGE

OF FACULTY BENEFIT FROM PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAST YEAR

including national conferences, curriculum development, and diversity & inclusion training

Our student community gather for

60 SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES that often that included visiting artists, authors, speakers, musicians, and hundreds of songs

DIRECTING TEACHERS COACH AND LEARN FROM TTC APPRENTICES (Over 1,440 hours of partnership invested.)

(Continuing a 25-year-long service learning tradition!)

Your Annual Fund support is essential to the School’s day-to-day operation and ability to deliver an amazing eductational experience to our students.

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Class Notes 1942 Tom Ragle: In November my wife Nancy and I celebrated our 50th anniversary on Culebra, a small, non-touristy island off Puerto Rico, not bad for a second marriage for us both. Because all of the six children were present from the beginning, we invited any who could get free that time of year to join us. Two daughters and one son-in-law managed to join us and were the life of the party.

1943 John Cobb: Ann and I are still in our house on Avon Hill in Cambridge. We are attending and giving classes at the Harvard Institute for learning in retirement and following the goings-on of our children and grandchildren. Our many lives are going well. I would like to hear from classmates and talk of Old Times.

Sherman Hill: There are several Shady Hillers living in Concord beside myself: classmates Barbara Beatley Anthony, Deborah Perry Johnson, and Angela Middleton ’45. I no longer visit Shady Hill in the wintertime, but expect to return this spring. I very much appreciated reading Mark Stanek’s State of the School letter. I shall always be interested in what Shady Hill is doing and hope to return for Alumni days.

Enjoying the campus, 1943

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Hugh Clarke: Very grateful that Heather and I can still enjoy life, albeit at a slightly slower pace. Great holiday in Oman with family last year otherwise plenty to enjoy at home with watercolor painting, bridge, opera, and history of art classes. Plus great fun keeping up with children’s and grandchildren’s progress; just back from checking on grandson’s first year at Glasgow University where he is studying to be a vet. Notable feature was discovering that porridge for breakfast comes with a bottle of Scotch whisky.

1944 Biz Paynter P.O. Box 184 Weston, MA 02493

biz @ paynter.net

Holly Forbes Leon still suffers exhaustion from an unknown cause, probably Lyme disease. It is very annoying.

Jean Packham reports: We have had a very, very wet but unseasonably warm winter and I am very glad that I live high up on the South Downs and have avoided the flooding that much of the UK has had. I am awaiting the arrival of two more great grandchildren with great excitement—the total will then be three. Unfortunately the two families live far afield, one in the north of England and one in Australia so I don’t see them very often. Thank heavens for Skype!!

Christmas was great with the family’s first experience of Christmas lunch in the local pub. No cooking and no dishes with a bonus of superb food! Fun! Binda (Payson) and Frank Parra are about to vacation in San Miguel D’Allende (Mexico) the last two weeks in February where they will see “Fen” Taylor or Elinor Hegemann as we knew her. Bin adds that she hates Donald Trump and worries about the country if he wins.

Biz Storer Paynter is temporarily trying out the merits of independent elderly living here in San Mateo, CA, halfway between her son and daughter. It is a very nice place, but there is “no where like home.” She expects to return mid March.

Betsy King Platt is relieved that husband, Bernard, seems much better after a sudden, very serious and mysterious illness.

Sue Steinert Poverman says she enjoys her SHS contacts and life at Carlton Willard where she dines with Neela (Perkins) Zinzzer. There is always something to do and the days go by quickly.

Jane Williams writes: I’m off on a 10-day cruise to the French Polynesian Islands with an old friend, then to Rio Rancho, NM where my son David and family live, and finally on to Santa Cruz, CA for more visiting. Perfect way to miss the New England winter.

Cornelia “Neela” (Perkins) Zinsser echoes Sue’s comments: I can only say that Sue Steinert Poverman and I both continue to enjoy life at Carleton Willard Village in Bedford, MA where we hope to see some of our class of ’44 lady friends for lunch as the spring comes on! We are equally fed-up with all the political hoopla about the Presidential Election, and hope that the American public will come to its senses. Too bad that a SHS education wasn’t available to EVERYBODY of voting age—so they might be able to think straight! We are also very impressed with the 100th Anniversary related material that has come our way by mail. I have a daughter who has run an independent elementary school in the hills of Virginia for thirty plus years, and she gets a great boost from the SHS material which I forward to her regularly. Here’s to another wonderful one hundred up ahead!

1945 Alan Carpenter: I am still active in our retirement community in Portola Valley, CA. Singing in 3 groups: barbershop, madrigals, and unison singing of old songs from the ’40s and ’50s. I’m keeping up with medical advances in journals and Stanford lectures. Sister Anne Robertson ’48 lives 5 miles away. Two great grandchildren are in Seattle.

Bob Romer: I recently had the pleasure of meeting an amazing SHS 3rd-grader, Sophia George. As I explained to Sophia, even though I was only there for 7th, 8th, and 9th grades, Shady Hill was the best school I ever went to–better than Exeter, Amherst, and Princeton. I met Sophia through a remarkable set of circumstances. For the last 15 years, I have been researching (and talking and writing about) the history of slavery in western Massachusetts. A year ago Sophia’s aunt, Alyssia Bailey (adopted as a child), who knew almost nothing about her ancestors, discovered me and my book about slavery in this area and in that way learned that her great-great-great-great-great-greatgrandfather was one Amos Newport, born in Africa about 1715, captured as a boy, who spent almost all his life as a slave in Hatfield, just across the Connecticut river from Amherst where I have lived for many years. I have often described Amos Newport as a hero of mine from colonial times, because he tried so very hard to become free, going to court twice, to sue for his freedom – unfortunately unsuccessfully. How wonderful for Alyssia Bailey to suddenly discover this family history, a history that she can pass on to her children (Sophia’s cousins) and what a joy for me to have my work play a part in her discovery.

1946 Nancy (Newbegin) Feldman writes: I am still around musing over the fact that there was a time when the thought of being around for the advent of the year 2000 was beyond imagination. I’m still married to the same husband, live at the same address and have the same three kids and grandkids I’ve had since 1955, scattered across the country. I still host and care for our daughter’s two ex-racehorses when she’s away and her two German

Shepherds and two cats in addition to our own beloved dog. Paul and I are still well and reasonably active in our family business, which we have turned over to our daughter and son-in-law. We visit back and forth with the younger generation as often as we can. I look forward to hearing about my remaining classmates and would be appreciative of hearing through the class notes or from the school directly of their well-being and current addresses of everyone still around.

Jim Leaman reports, Although retired from the Bates College department of history in 2000, I’m still doing some research, writing, and occasional public presentations concerning early New England history, especially relating to Maine.

1947 Joanna Bailey Hodgman 64 Monteroy road Rochester, NY 14618

Joannahodgman @ frontier.com

Nat Bowditch reports: We are enjoying life at Kendal at Longwood and head to Maine for the warmer five months of the year. In Maine one of our children is buying out his siblings so that Peggy’s family farm is now housing the sixth generation of her family. Our house is a mile away and we see our children and theirs often in summers.

David Clark writes: Mary and I are still well and active though becoming more appreciative of naps. Our children and grandchildren keep us amazed with all their energy and interests. My involvement with the Concord Trails Committee is great fun, rewarding, and gives me an incentive to be outside. I keep up with Jock Forbes at music events in Cambridge.

Cornelia Fuller writes: I went to Iran with the New York Times Journeys with a reporter who is on the Times editorial board and writes all the editorials on Iran. Highly recommend these new Times trips. Lee and I have just moved to a brand-new retirement community, Monte Cedro, in Altadena, CA and love everything about it!

Joanna Bailey Hodgman writes: Thanks to those of you who wrote in after my pleading letter. No particular news from me, but I have written a piece

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about my time at SHS from kindergarten through the ninth grade and would be glad to share it with any of you who would be interested. I enjoyed writing it and thinking back on our many experiences.

Doe Coletti Mechem reports: I turned 84 on Feb 6th. I am in very good health ten months into recovery from a knee replacement last April, not 100% yet but that’s OK. My husband is 90 and we are both very engaged with life. We have four grown kids, three daughters and a son.

Two daughters are married and between them they have 4 girls, ages 17, 16, 15 and 10½.

Harriet Myers shares: Not much news here other than I went on two trips last year. The first was a cruise in May to Russia. I enjoyed every minute and I have to say that St. Petersburg is quite amazing—much to see and absorb about it’s history and culture. Gold is everywhere—in palaces, on onion domes, etc. No wonder there was a revolution.

In contrast, Moscow was pretty drab, aside from the fact it was the only time we had bad weather. That city is pretty grim in the rain. My second trip near the end of June was to Northern Ireland to find family roots. My paternal side were Covenanters originally from Scotland to the Ulster area; Presbyterians, basically.

My great-grandfather came to NYC from Tyrone County in 1852. I made the trip with a third cousin whom I’d found through DNA testing. We traipsed the countryside with a gentleman who’d done all the research for us. We met other third cousins and saw old family homes, some in total disrepair and others still lived in.

One was a 165-acre sheep farm. Ireland is a beautiful country with much to see.

With the guidance of our genealogist, we spent most of our time driving to cemeteries where our ancestors were buried, family homes and saw a lot of dilapidated

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castles along the way and other places that tourists like to visit such as the Giant’s Causeway. It was an enlightening trip for me. I keep busy and my health is excellent.

On a final note, an anonymous classmate invites us to reflect on a couple of her favorite quotes: “I’ve ransacked the past, now that I have the answer sheet.” –Ingmar Bergman “Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d’heure made up of exquisite moments.” –Oscar Wilde

1949 Jim Barton 130 Appleton Street Cambridge, MA 02138

redwing1986 @ hotmail.com

James H. Barton: I have become a caregiver; identifying things, telling time, reading labels. I don’t need to provide any physical assistance, thankfully. More must go without saying. I can leave the house for several hours during the day without much risk, yet. We have replaced our gas cooktop with induction cooking, highly recommended for safety. A friend said, “Remember to take care of yourself.” So far, so good. I have discovered more emotional resilience than I would have thought I had. Modern pharmacology should get some credit for that.

Considerable credit, maybe. We went to Mexico with our younger son for two weeks in August 20l5, staying entirely in Mexico City, a place we know well, and visiting Puebla with our Mexican cousins, where we enjoyed Chile en Nogada, available only in late summer and early fall. Knowing my great liking for chipotle, our cousins served us tinga at their house.

I didn’t get to do several things revisit the

May Day—then and now

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magnificent archaelogical museum called the Antropologia or the strikingly colorful artifacts in the Museo de Arte Popular, on Revillagigedo street, named for a Mexican admiral. Several islands are also named after him. How’s your Spanish? Try pronouncing his name. Our hotel served excellent comida mexicana including many dishes I hadn’t encountered before.

I recommend the rooftop restaurant at the hotel Zocalo Central, across the street from the Cathedral and across the Zocalo from the Palacio Nacional, where you will see some of Diego Rivera’s most impressive murals. Eat, too, at the white tablecloth Mercaderes restaurant next door to the hotel. I continue my strong interest in the field of theoretical linguistics called generative grammar, in European mysticism, in the Spanish language, in jazz and classical music, and in the theory and practice of poetry. I have an old stamp collection I would like to get organized.

I enjoy flowers. I greatly appreciate the unimaginable improvement in the variety and quality of food and beer in our country since the 1940s, when a trip to the Arafat Café in Boston was an adventure, and since the 1950s, when Dave’s Delicatessen served magnificent blintzes early in the morning in Roxbury, still a Jewish neighborhood at that time. I well remember How Yen Han downstairs at 23 Tyler Street in Chinatown, and the nearby Dimlight Village, which served superb sweet and sour pork at 3 a.m. I thank members of WHRB for taking me there for the first time. Our older son, Matthew, married Karen Lund in 2013 in Fairfax, VA. He is Curator for Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress, responsible for acquiring collections and managing donations (e.g., the Les Paul and Gunther Schuller archives). Karen

trained in silent film, but spends most of her time helping the Library manage websites. Our younger son, Patrick, works for the Harvard Medical School in facilities management. He lives with us.

Kitsy Olen wrote: I am now a Floridian, and I think it’s cold when the temp dips to 70 during the day and 50 at night.

After my mother died in November 2000, we were free to come to Florida, and so bought a condo in Fort Myers. We were snowbirds for a while, then sold everything and moved permanently to Fort Myers. My husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1999, and did very well until 2013. We had moved to Cypress Cove Continuing Care retirement home six months earlier. Having taken care of my parents for 20 years I vowed we would not do that to our children. Rog died from Parkinson’s complications in September 2013, having had great care here. This is a wonderful place and I am so busy its hard to find a free day to go back to visit our friends at our condo. I am so grateful to my husband for all his hard work, enabling us, now me, to live here. My children are all on the west coast, California and Oregon. We go back and forth as much as we can. I have five grandchildren, two out of college and working; one in first grade and twins in kindergarten. Even though I consider myself a Bostonian and New Englander, I probably won’t get back there anytime soon.

Marina v. N. Whitman writes: Perhaps the best way to describe the arc of my life, without spending hours or days on it, is to attach a summary of the major themes of my memoir, The Martian’s Daughter, published a few years ago.

The first theme is my struggle to emerge from the shadow of a larger-than-life parent and define myself in my own terms. My father, John von Neumann, sometimes hailed as the greatest mathematician of the 20th century, was the inventor of game theory, a key figure in the Manhattan project, and a pioneering developer of the modern stored-program electronic computer, whose modus operandi is still referred to as the “von Neumann architecture.” I explore how the cosmopolitan environment in which I was immersed, the demanding expectations of my parents, and my own efforts, from childhood onward, to emerge as my own person shaped my life and work. The

second theme is how my career evolved against the background of a world in which the role of and opportunities for women were rapidly changing. I became an increasingly recognized academic in the male-dominated field of economics in the 1960s, the first woman ever to serve as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in the 1970s, the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. automobile industry, as a senior vice president of GM, in the 1980s, and the first woman on the board of directors of several leading multinational corporations. As I broke through one glass ceiling after another, I struggled daily to strike the right balance between my professional life and my role as a wife and mother. Only now, that Bob and I remain lovers and best friends after 60 years of marriage and my middle-aged children have turned out to be human beings of whom we are deeply proud, can I feel reassured that I did not fail in the latter, that, as a wise friend once put it, “At least, Marina, you didn’t screw them up.” In my lifelong pursuit of “having it all,” there were heartbreaking moments like the deathbed scene with my father, who strongly opposed the early marriage I was about to embark on, as well as hilarious episodes, like the middle-aged student in one of the evening classes I taught, who unthinkingly sputtered “at U.S. Steel we don’t expect women to think.”

My story, although the intimate account of one woman’s life, is also a mirror that reflects the changes that were reshaping American society.

1950 Monique “Niki” Spaulding 15 Gurney Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Jeff Freeman 77 Broad Street Guilford, CT 06437

Also, the French Government made me an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres.

From the Harvard Gazette, 5/28/15: Professor, writer, and critic Svetlana Leontief Alpers is among the most influential art historians of her generation, a specialist in Dutch Golden Age painting who has also written extensively about Rubens, Bruegel, Rembrandt, Tiepolo, and Velazquez. ‘All my writing,’ she wrote, ‘stood aside from established ways of looking’ and as a consequence ‘has often not gone down well with specialized academic scholars.’ Alpers was a founding member of the Women’s Caucus for Art and founding editor of the journal, Representations.

From Fred Chang: Jeff, it was a real treat to meet with you and Joel last summer. We had a wonderful cruise to Bermuda and had a fun time there thanks to your advice and recommendations. The occasion was my 80th birthday. For those interested, we were on a Royal Caribbean ship out of Bayonne, NJ. They took good care of us and would be a very easy cruise for those on the east coast.

The summer and fall passed quickly.

My golf game remained status quo and I started to play duplicate bridge once again, after a hiatus of about 30 years. I read several interesting books including: All The Light We Cannot See (about St. Malo which we visited last year) and the Dead Wake (about the Lusitania). Best wishes to all former classmates.

Patricia (Smith) Elvebak’s letter: For those of us able to make it to the 65th reunion last May, it was a unique experience. Old memories surfaced during and afterwards as our aging minds got into gear. I thought Jeff and his team really pulled it off, inspiring us to go for our 70th in 2020? Or maybe the 66th next year. This past year has been the year of the plane, as I travelled around to visit my brother. Vermont winters are no longer feasible for him and hopefully he

jef freeman77@ gmail.com

Svetlana (Leontief) Alpers writes: I struggle a bit to think of news to contribute to the Centennial year. I am not given to reporting on my family—and as for me I am not sure what I sent along last time.

All I can offer is that at Harvard’s May 2015 Harvard Commencement I was awarded an Honorary Degree, a Doctor of Arts, rather neatly just 50 years from receiving my PhD from Harvard in 1965.

Svetlana Alpers ’50 received an honorary degree from Harvard.

Fred Chang ’50 and family on a birthday trip to Bermuda.

can survive the trip to San Diego for the winter. It is a challenge. In the summer his family loves our Gloucester house where we have been going for 71 years.

I’m venturing to VT (Middlebury) for Christmas. I have been fortunate to be in good health, for which I thank the practice of Qigong.

Lee (Ginsberg) Herbst reports: We have been back and forth to Chicago and Tucson and I lost track of some of the things I needed to do. At 80, I feel grateful that Art and I continue to be healthy. I find it most important to keep learning which keeps me growing and also in contact with young active people. I take classes at the Humanities Seminars at the University of Arizona, attend art and archeological lectures in Chicago and am in several book clubs. I am struck with the rate of change in the current world in attitudes and events. It is a challenge, but one needs to accept this fact and not try to hold on to the past. I think the younger generations are often more accepting of this than the older ones. Hopefully grass root pressure groups will be able to enforce some gun controls especially in urban areas. The threat to religious freedom and separation between church and state is a great concern. Hopefully with more economic opportunities, the drive to fanaticism will decrease. The migration across Europe is overwhelming. Climate change is a concern, but it feels like the deniers are having to face the facts and

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the severity of the problem is motivating countries like China to join in the solution. In spite of this litany of problems I have faith in man’s ingenuity to find solutions and recognize that this may be a multi-layered process. For example we did put men in space and landed [rover] on Mars. I find watching my children as adults and my grandchildren become adults very pleasurable. I recognize that the timing of this process is unique to each person. Let’s celebrate these differences. They strive to keep me up to date with technology and fashion. We watch PBS news and old movies nightly to keep abreast of the issues in the world and to escape into the images of the past. We are lucky to be able to do all of this.

John Horvitz’ succinct contribution: I’m not sure Shady Hill School will want to publicize the accompanying photo of ‘two seniors’ enjoying a sunny day in the Hamptons this past summer, while supporting Hillary, but if the choice is ‘The Donald’ (or worse?) then maybe the attached photo sums up where we stand on the state of our country.

John Horovitz ’50 campaigning for Hillary.

David Kaplan’s comments: Life goes on, albeit with my dear wife still in a memory care facility, I’m back and forth to Florida all winter from Boston so I can see Nancy and 3 grandkids. They’re growing quickly. The oldest, 21, graduates from Bates this spring and my middle one is entering college next year from Dana Hall. The little one, at 16, moving through Chapel Hill Chauncy Hall [Waltham] and getting her drivers’ license soon. They’re happy, healthy and smart.

What else could I ask for? As for us: we’re almost as old as Shady Hill. OMG. Best to all.

From Eleanor (Jones) Luopa: Not much news from here these days. We are

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Playing with blocks—then and now

well and I am too busy! Attended and had a reading part in my granddaughter’s wedding in September in CT. A real joy!

Previously, in August we welcomed my first great-grandson, Andrew Ryan, born to my oldest grandson! So you can tell I’ve been heavily into family events. I hosted Thanksgiving for most of Reggie’s family and part of mine, 19–21 people. Great fun! Continue activities with the Garden Club and town newsletter as needed, training a year-old golden retriever and co-chairing the annual Christmas craft fair at our church in November.

Celebrated Christmas with half of my family in CT this past weekend and will see more between now and Jan. 1! Life is good but I am weary! The best in 2016 to all and to the United States of America.

Helen (Cutter) MacLennan: I had a lovely visit to Cambridge in early November. The weather was superb, perfect fall color, wonderful temperatures and a number of happy visits, some in person and some by telephone. I had a delightful visit with Binda (Erika Payson and Frank Parra in East Orleans, a delighted visit to the Harvard Art Museum, brief visit to my brother Louis in Brunswick Maine, a few days with my sister in law, Connie Cutter, (mother of Jane ’78, Nathaniel ’81, and Rebecca ’89) at the Cambridge Home, good phone call to Niki, and a fleeting trip to Randolph, NH and a snow-dusted Mt. Adams and Kings Ravine. The second week of USA time was in New York with my elder son, Nicholas Noyes and his wife, Jessica Monaco and their son, Charles Paul Ammi Noyes, where I indulged in visits to friends and former colleagues and lots of younger family as well as a healthy diet of galleries and museums. Now back in London. I am still sheep farming and Bob

is still very active in the House of Lords.

Daughter Ruth is writing up her dissertation for her PhD at the Royal College of Art. It was very exciting to hear Robin’s (Ruth’s husband) program, News Hour on NPR, Adam is starting up an office for PKF Hotel Experts in London and his wife Bumjoo is working for Investco in London. Grandchildren are all middle sized and in school. I hope that the Centennial campaign goes well.

Frances (Bailey) Pinney writes: I’m in Puerto Rico for the winter. Had fabulous journey on the cruise yacht “Windsurf ” sailing across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands to St. Maarten for two weeks. There were 60 of us on the largest sailing yacht in the world, very relaxing, quiet, good people and good food. Totally different from a large cruise ship. I am frightened about political news becoming “entertainment” to fuel the fires of fear in so many people. I fear charismatic demagogues attaining too much power in government. Hope for rational leaders, who are wise and have a calm, rational leadership style.

From Faith Rohrbough: As we watch with care the discussions on climate change in Paris, words from Isaiah 35:5–7 call us to work to make the world a better place for all, where there the land is renewed, there will be no terror states, people will not be forced to leave their homes and become refugees, where mass shootings are no longer a way of life and the color of your skin or what you believe does not give someone else the right to persecute you. The refugee settlement group, NEST, to which I belong, is gearing up to be even more active now to help more of the sixty million displaced persons around the world. We are hoping to help others here in Saskatoon take on this

burden as well. We are in conversation about helping two Syrian families. I have also been active this year in the Lutheran Hospital Chaplaincy called LuMinHoS. As small towns disappear and communities become more secular, there are more and more people who have no parish and no pastor. Our chaplain discovers them in the hospital, having listed their religion as Lutheran but with no one to support them. I sit on the Resource Committee that is trying to find the funds to support this ministry. For the ten days before Christmas, I was in Kansas with Bea, Bob and Connie. All the family was there in June for our usual family gathering that has become so important to us through the years.

James Romer’s news: Hello classmates. Sorry to have missed the earlier request for news. I was in the midst of a mammoth move from the house I’ve lived in for 26 years to another house on our land trust, about half a mile up the dirt road. Not only have I been moving (or giving away) a huge accumulation of possessions (including many books) but also, with the help of many neighbors, refurbishing the new house and building elegant book shelves. I’m really lucky to live here in a neighborhood with so many good friends.

David Sears sent: Still enjoying the bosom of my crazily multi-blended family. A big year for my youngest daughter Meredith, who got married in May, and then received her PhD in clinical psychology from UCLA in June. Her husband is a veteran, and she is enjoying a post-doc at the San Francisco VA hospital. My stepson Patrick, who has been living with me for several years, got admitted this fall to UC Riverside as a junior transfer, and is majoring in Chinese Languages and Literature. He spent the summer visiting friends in China, and we have a delightful young woman student from China living with us. My two older daughters are enjoying the fruits of the last years before my four grandkids hit adolescence. My daughters put on a lovely 80th birthday celebration for me in June, with friends from all over the country. I’m still a full time faculty member at UCLA, but I notice the students are getting younger and younger, and living in a world that is more and more different from mine.

They walk all over campus all hunched

over, much like some of my emeritus colleagues.

From Tom Stout: Moved from RI to Rockport, ME; finally got Maine pharmacist license reactivated; will check in with local methadone clinic tomorrow (not as patient but as per-diem dispenser); built deck ‘tween house and garage; designed and supervised new “hi-end” bath installation; got 14KW backup generator installed; planning kitchen remodel; getting monthly injections of Lucentis into right eyeball which seems to keep its macular degeneration at bay (left eye is out of service); will soon get diagnostic workup for possible replacement of aortic valve. Susan is well and still working at a local hospital as night nursing supervisor.

Tench Vans-Murray-Robertson writes: The other day we learned that Joan Cary Cunningham ’38 died last summer. I think she was a classmate of Barbara Barnes ’38. Joan lived about five miles south of us at Trinity Farm. The Carys lived on Gray Gardens East about five houses from our house. We have decided to sell Brookside, which is Vermont’s most important and historic 19th century farm.

First we plan to finish restoring various barns so I am fund raising. I think it will cost a significant amount, probably more than we have spent on the Manor House. Brookside sold Morgan Horses to J.P. Morgan and to the Kaiser. Brookside started the Spanish Merino sheep industry in Australia. We need to restore the barns that were associated with the horses and the sheep. If anyone has contact information for J.P. Morgan and Merino sheep in Australia we would appreciate receiving it. Brookside will be conserved when it is sold. I will miss our forest. Great Houses of New England, published by Rizzoli Press, has twelve pages of history and photographs of Brookside. The demand for our grass-fed Belted Galloway beef and our

Tench Vans-Murray-Roberston ’50

raw honey is growing. We still have the B&B. While we remain on Brookside Estate we will be happy to see any of the Shady Hill Family.

News from Joel Wechsler: Herewith highlights (2) and lowlights (also 2) of 2015: I was hospitalized with a bowel obstruction in January and had surgery to correct the presumed cause of that problem in early May. So far, so good.

In August, Joey and I, our two children, son-in-law, two grandchildren and one significant other spent 5 wonderful days together in Jackson Hole, to celebrate my 80th birthday (8/12), our son’s 55th (8/5) and our daughter’s 30th wedding anniversary, which was actually in June.

We stayed in a fabulous condo in Teton Village, ate great food and did all the usual touristy things-trail ride, tram to the top of the mountain, rodeo, boat ride across Jenny Lake, hiking etc. In October I gave myself a birthday present of a tandem parachute jump, something which I had been thinking about for a long time. It was a great thrill and I have a short video of the whole thing, which I would gladly do again. If you want to see it, go to YouTube and type in my name.

Other than the foregoing, life continues as before; I’m still working 5 days a week and Joey has resumed substitute teaching, which she greatly enjoys. Finally, what initially seemed laughable about the Donald Trump candidacy has now turned deadly serious, and I am very concerned about what affect he may have on the nomination process.

Class Co-Correspondent Jeff Freeman writes: As the compiler of news from classmates, I am gratified by the variety of tales told and the forthrightness of opinions expressed by each of us. Almost all of us have now passed the eightieth milestone. Who wouldn’t enjoy sitting with each of these individualistic

Joel Wechsler ’50 on his tandem parachute jump

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1951 Janet Vaillant 35 Belknap St. Concord MA 01742

janet vaillant @ verizon.net

Jeff Freeman ’50 and family in Bermuda

characters to find out more about their lives? Freeman family members didn’t parachute from planes to celebrate Jeff’s big birthday, but did jump on several planes to convene in Bermuda for a week of reconnecting in August at Pompano Beach Club, a family-oriented resort with enough built-in features to make touring sights in Bermuda almost superfluous. All but one of the 12 family members were present; oldest granddaughter stayed in New York to finish an internship which resulted in a job offer next year upon her graduation from UWisc-Madison.

I wonder about the political circus we’ve experienced in 2015. We’re probably too close to really understand the ‘why’ but there are antecedents. Research the KnowNothings who flowered in mid-19th century America. We’ll find the same virulent strain of fear-mongering that currently flavors so much of today’s political bombast. I’m optimistic it will pass. There’s no way The Donald (and others) are going to pull wool forever over the eyes of 320 million Americans. Eventually, the majority will make a better choice. Just like many others, I am busy beyond belief, happy to find myself so engaged, and looking forward to what is to come. Good wishes to all.

Finally, about Monique (Chamberlin) Spalding: Niki has been preoccupied in recent months with Oakes’ health, and has had to give all her attention to these family matters. She passed along to me notes from classmates, but requested that I take the responsibility for assembling and reporting on the Class of 1950 for this edition. Of course I was glad to do this for our Class Correspondent-for-Life.

Sadly, I report the deaths of two individuals dear to members of the Class of 1950: Katherine Hobson Southworth on January 13, 2016 and Niki’s husband, Oakes A. Spalding Jr. on January 11, 2016.

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Sad news first. Our class lost Bob Cleary and Cindy Kennedy Sam in 2015, both stalwarts of our class. Many classmates offered memories of them.

Cindy Kennedy Sam was often the force behind our class reunions and a key reason why so many of us have remained close to each other and the school.

Kadie Staples, Maisie Crowther, Flossie Hammond Phillips and I all visited her in her last months of life, along with rafts of other friends. Susan Alden recalls staying in the B&B that Cindy ran in Cambridge at the end of Kennedy Rd. Another time Cindy gathered Susan and others at an odd-year SHS reunion at her house for memories and slides of Cindy’s family, here and in Africa. I enjoyed sharing my love of Senegal with Cindy, whose husband, Sam, had lived both there and in Mali. Cindy continued to raise money for a small non-profit group in Mali.

Anne Mayo recalls how poignant is was to see Cindy “in the recent SHS announcement of the centennial reunion, looking beautiful.

More than one of us recall early crushes on Bob Cleary. Maisie Crowther recalls that he kindly picked her first for his softball team (imagine, such a memory from 60 plus years ago). Anne Mayo recalls, as do I, how Bob and his brother Bill ’49 took Harvard by storm with their hockey playing, and later watching the 1960 Olympics with a personal interest in its outcome. Bob told me that there is a documentary about this famous Olympic victory of young Americans over the seasoned Soviet team at the height of the Cold war. He modestly said that the Olympic coach wanted his brother Bill, Bill said he wouldn’t play without Bob, and that’s how they both were there to win their gold medals. Susan Alden reports that Bob was happy to meet with 4th graders around the time of their Olympics. She also learned that he used to leave a window unlocked at the badminton building so he could go in and shoot baskets. Practice makes perfect.

I’m told that was Casals’ secret too. (see Charlie Forbes)

Jonathan Aldrich writes: Happily we’re all well here. Our daughter Tess, a nurse practitioner, married a great person this fall, and our son, Tom, is raising a family and composing and playing music in Amsterdam. Last year we had our house entirely renovated so we wouldn’t ever have to move to an old persons’ home, but I think the process of moving everything out, including ourselves, and everything back, has aged me about five years.

Am still writing poems and stories.

Susan Bliss Alden echoes thoughts expressed by many others: Hard to believe we graduated that long ago. The time goes faster and faster.

Bob Bradford reports that he continues to write. I have witnessed that he continues to preside over wine dinner extravaganzas at the Cambridge Boat Club, along with his wife, Harriet Parker Hofheinz ’54.

Maisie Goodale Crowther has had a busy year participating in group art shows and writing what she remembers about studying earth science. If anyone has anecdotes about Lillian Putnam or other science teachers at SHS, she’d like to hear about them. “I apprenticed with Michael Butler and Kaki Aldrich, in 1960-61. I have since met Claire Walker Leslie, Carleton ’68, who also apprenticed with these wonderful SHS hands-on teachers. Her drawing books have been inspirational.”

Paul Dodson relocated to Falmouth, ME last December. His has been a year of extensive travels: February to Cuba with a group of alumni from Princeton and Exeter, an educational tour of the island, and the month of May doing an independent hiking trip along the coasts and in the mountains of Ireland; and after a great summer in Maine, he realized a goal of backpacking in the Grand Canyon in October. Again this was a solo hiking trip to the Colorado River, exploring side canyons and back to the south rim. The canyon trip was on his list of things to do before turning 80 in 2016!

Charles Forbes writes: I’m feeling very lucky to be alive and generally healthy, still playing the cello, including working with a good professional quartet for monthly concerts in Philadelphia, and playing principal cello in a community orchestra. I also continue to teach folks from 12 to 65 and my four kids are doing

things that mostly make me proud of them. I visit NYC from time to time and recently put together a fun event in NY about Casals, with whom I studied way back. The game was to try to answer the question, “What was so great about Casals?” (see Cleary above.)

Tom Goodale will be on a 115 day world cruise starting Jan. 5, 2016.

Eliza Cope Harrison won a prize at a fundraising event, “to wit, a week’s stay in an old house in a little town in Languedoc.” She’s planning to go there in the late spring with both of her daughters and their families. She’s also working on another history project, this one about the man whom Monroe sent to St. Petersburg as US Minister.

Anne Freeman Mayo writes that she and Walter moved to Middletown CT near the Wesleyan Campus (well, they say you should move south when you retire—this was 16 miles). We had looked at retirement communities and found them not for us. Our alternative is a modern 1994 house with attached garage, no sidewalks to shovel, and lots of sliders letting in lots of light. It had been designed for an artist who knew he would be in a wheelchair, therefore one-floor living, no sills, two rooms and bath on a second floor in case we need someone to move in to take care of us, and best of all, it is just a half mile from our oldest child, Jennifer Curran. The artist’s former studio was easily converted to a music room for piano, harpsichord, and chamber music players.

We are very happy, even if pushing 80 (or maybe because we are pushing 80!).

7 Bretton Pl., Middletown CT 06457 George P. Smith: I continues to fight the inevitable decline of age with useful exercise and a low carbon footprint. I still work our certified tree farm here in Manchester and, with the exception of last year, heat virtually 100% of half of our house with wood. We get lots of swimming and walking. We are nearly self-sufficient year round in vegetables.

When we first moved back to this, my childhood summer home, people saw me on a bicycle so much that they thought I wasn’t able to drive. I continue my strictly utilitarian bicycle use. Age is taking its toll, but so far so good while it lasts.

Kadie Maclaurin Staples is recovering from a recent successful operation but continues to struggle with other issues.

Performing Arts—then and now

She remains cheerful and bright and joined me on several visits to Cindy in her final days last summer. Kadie went often to see her life-long friends.

Janet Green Vaillant triumphantly sent off ten cartons to Harvard’s Widener Library full of educational materials gathered from Russian educational reformers in the 1990s and early 2000s. Now their work will be available for the next generation. I was lucky enough to work with some of them in those heady years. Henry and I took our two oldest grandsons to Iceland last June to see earth being born and experience an icy habitat that will probably disappear in their lifetime.

1952 Anne Watt 15 R Sargent Street Cambridge, MA 02140

annewat t99 @ gmail.com

John Grace writes: After living with ever-deepening Alzheimer’s for more than a dozen years, my wife Carolyn died in January this year. She was a wonderful woman, wife and mother and, during her long and varied working life, became an accomplished TV producer, film editor, political organizer, lawyer, law-teacher and crafts-person, pretty much in that order.

She produced shows for MIT Science Reporter (the precursor to NOVA) at WGBH, edited the extraordinary films of the Kalahari Bushmen by John Marshal ’48, helped organize and run the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam and the Universities Antiwar Fund, co-founded the law firm of Shapiro and Grace (now Shapiro, Haber & Urmy) in Boston, taught litigation at Harvard Law School and founded, with me, Atlantic Blanket Company, maker

of Swans Island Blankets in Maine.

Memories fondly shared by family and friends at Carolyn’s memorial in June were so vivid as to make it almost seem that she was with us and well once more if only for the afternoon. Meanwhile, my wonderful partner and childhood sweetheart, Anne Elvins, and I are happily living in Belmont, MA. Anne and her husband, Peter, were opera singers and Anne still teaches voice at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA which will celebrate its centennial next year. Anne and I first met in the fifth grade at Shady Hill, were dancing school partners in the eighth grade and reconnected several years after her husband died and Carolyn entered a nursing home. The blanket company Carolyn and I founded and then sold to friends (www. swansislandcompany.com) is thriving and I’m still weaving bed-side rugs from wool raised in Maine right here in Belmont in our basement apartment. I like to say they’re soft and soothing on your way to bed and full of energy in the morning for the day ahead. I don’t have a website but inquiries are welcome at johngrace1937@ gmail.com and I’m always happy to hear from our Shady Hill.

Richard Poindexter states: I recall my glory days at SHS vividly.

1954 John Wheeler PO Box 169 Chocorua, NH 03817

Jwheeler61@ roadrunner.com

Many thanks to those of you who answered my email appeal for information on your lives and the comments by others that were sent to “reply all.” Those who have not updated changed email addresses

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please let the school and me know. I have tried to summarize the themes that ran through the replies along with some specifics. As we all get into our later 70’s, we have had health issues of varying degrees, but seem to be handling them well with lots of travel and grandkids along the way.

Several comments on how much SHS teachers helped us through the years and wondering how Trump could possibly be so popular. I think SHS taught us to be good thinkers involved in our communities—many of you mentioned your involvement in community betterment of one sort or another.

Barbara Bryan writes her primary “work” these days is as a volunteer for an almost all volunteer organization, HLAA (Hearing Loss Association of America) as a board member of the NYC chapter.

Amongst the things we advocate for are awareness of the invisible disability, accessibility (via captions & looping) to movies, TV, theater, public meetings, taxi’s, and public transportation. Lowering of the high cost of hearing aids is yet another goal. I love that where I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, has a strong sense of community. We have our Aging in Place (AIP) organization, which is all volunteer and covers primarily just 4-5 blocks. Our AIP is now offering about 30 regular activities: book groups, photography, bicycling—the list goes on.

Harriet Parker Hofheinz: I find retirement a somewhat unexpected pleasure; timing and flexibility are the best aspects of it. I feel lucky that I can still do the things I want to do: my pottery, my museum work, and my conservation work in NH. A year ago, I took great pleasure in visiting my AFS sister in Istanbul.

Rollyn Hoffman: I run a boat yard for the town. In two locations we store about

Music—then and now

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100 boats in the winter. In the summer we have active storage where a member can launch a boat and leave it on the pier when not using it. It keeps me active and out of trouble for 6 months. We also are on a number town boards. We are both healthy but find getting old is not for sissies.

Ben Cox reports he lives on Coolidge Ave in Watertown, only about 10 blocks from SHS, which he bicycles by often: I’m still singing and playing a fair amount of tennis and skiing in NH, when there’s snow, by myself due to dearth of fellow oldies ready to head downhill on the boards. Anyone out there still down-hilling on the easy slopes? Do any of you remember doing the Fauré “Libera Me, Domine” from the Requiem in the 9th grade under Abby’s direction? McCarthy and the marvelously gifted Frank Vincent counted the most for the one or two petals I produced later on. Great teachers, and a blessing in my life. We spend a third of the year now in Munich, the city where I met my wife in the late 60s and where I sang the role of Luigi in Puccini’s Trittico in a real theater with a real orchestra; I’ve added a few languages since the days with Frannie’s incomparable father (including Russian from my Army days at Monterey in the early 60s); Our son is principal of a tiny elementary school in Viterbo, 70 miles north of Rome. His wife is Italian, and we have two little granddaughters who we manage to see a couple of times a year.

Lee Kennedy Laugesen: The Laugesen family is all well out here in Colorado.

However, my sister Cynthia ’51 died 6 months ago of complications from a blocked colon. Amy, Karen, and I all got back to see her. She had such courage and died peacefully at 16 Kennedy Road.

It was special, but I miss her so much.

Our family are all in Colorado within 20 minutes of us. So my life revolves around them. I still play tennis and I bowl and watch football.

Frannie Vincent Rich: In February we went to northwest Haiti for the third medical mission, made much more special by having a granddaughter with us.

She was a senior in college, mulling her options, and had quite an epiphany. On returning from Haiti, she applied and was accepted to Teach For America and is currently in New Orleans teaching in a charter school for two years. Our summer Tamworth NH time was the third year of Bill’s training to walk the 500 mile pilgrimage in northern Spain, the Camino de Santiago. It is nothing short of a miracle that he was able to complete the walk after two foot fusions, one knee replacement, lower back and hands very impacted by arthritis. We are back in Juno Beach FL, very active in our church and outreach. Our prayer is that Pope Francis’ message of peace may resonate throughout the world.

Melissa de Haan Cummings was recently appreciating John Brown’s Body as she tramped through the woods, recalling, as so many times before, “Jack Ellyat leaned with his back against a tree…

October, ruddy October…” she still has the same glorious feelings about New England autumn as in seventh grade. She included some of her poems, including: Ochre Day High sun tide and dew all rising Maple leaves write on the rear window ochre day to orange Debbie Ellis Bigelow: It has been interesting seeing class postings in response to John’s note to us all. I loved particularly Melissa’s John Brown’s Body references, as I only yesterday was remembering (and listening to the record album I still have) music from that wonderful rendition. (I had forgotten Burl Ives was really first an operatic singer) and I seemed to remember practically every word of prose or song that we did. A truly memorable part of the seventh grade, actually of all the years since then. They say that past memories are the ones that stay with you which seem true.

Tom Weisskopf summarizes our collective feelings about getting older: Susan and I consider ourselves very lucky that we are still in good health in our advanced years, and able to fully enjoy life in retirement (or quasi-retirement in her case). Indeed, I feel guilty—in a Lutheran Prairie-Home-Companion way—that life can be so good for us these days, whereas the country seems to be going to hell.

Jim Bowditch: Felicity and I went up north to Churchill, Manitoba to see the polar bears on a Natural Habitats tour, and had a very good time—saw lots of polar bears, a couple of arctic foxes, an arctic hare, a snowy owl, a couple of eiders, some 500 year old trees that were my height, and willow bushes. We were 500 miles south of the arctic circle in November (!?), and were with a very interesting group on the shore of Hudson Bay. Our twin sons are now 50, which is a bit scary; our daughter is 45. We expect to remain in Camden, ME for the next chapter, as there is a good retirement community, but as long as our health holds out, we will be in our house overlooking Camden harbor.

Liz Borden Nix: We have been members of an early Alzheimer’s group for Quentin and had made good friends there. Also as a board member of Kanawha Valley Village people we also have made new friends. The Village concept is a nationwide group of villages helping seniors age in place. Early September I was diagnosed with breast cancer and at the same time a very bad hip that will eventually have to be replaced. We are battling the cancer first and I am undergoing chemotherapy. With all the appointments and my mobility problems our lives have drastically changed. We are hoping things are better in 2016.

David Wilson: I am now half-time in the Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics at Cornell and will retire after the 2017 school year. I am still doing research on enzymes that degrade cellulose, produced by a cellulolytic bacteria.

In the last ten years cellulase research has become important so I am now on the editorial board of four journals. It is a major change from 1980 when there was little interest in this area. I had a serious setback this summer as I had undiagnosed Lyme disease for several months

followed by a heart attack. However, I am doing fairly well as long as I do not over do things. I still remember my time at Shady Hill. Not only did I appreciate the excellent history teaching but I also made a kayak in shop, which I used for many years.

Tom Bever: I do not have many changes to report. I refuse to retire from being a regents’ professor, although university life in Arizona is under some unpleasant pressure from a legislature, many of whose members pride themselves on not having a college degree.

Re SHS: In the past few days, Ken Burns’ series on the Civil War is being rehabbed and re-presented. Part of the surrounding discussion is reminding us how the civil war was a defining event, crystallizing issues that the constitution left unsettled, and defining issues that are with us today. How lucky we were that Ms. Caudill latched onto this as a fulcrum for our education and understanding of the United States. In the ninth grade, Mr. McCarthy had us read sections from The Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, can you believe that? There were great lessons in what lead up to the war between Sparta and Athens, notably a mutual arms race. Of course this was 1953–54, when we were also being taught how to survive a nuclear attack, so he knew what he was doing. Later because of his influence, I read large parts of Thucydides and it lead me also to study Greek, which in turn lead to my current profession in the Language Sciences. Thank god, the big grant proposal from the Russian government did not come through. If it had, I would have been required to spend fourw months a year in Russia. Russia is a very complicated place for an American and certainly not a pleasant one.

Mike Magruder: My brother Cal and I have sold the Tamworth prwoperty after a fifty-six year family run. We are somewhat wistful about it and intend to maintain contacts with that community, but practical considerations overrode sentiment.

The two-hundred year old farmhouse is going to require a significant infusion of cash!

Carl Pickhardt: Major family news is a new grandchild. Otherwise, we are still continuing down paths that are familiar and rewarding. Very grateful for that.

John Wheeler: I am still enjoying Chocorua, NH, taking care of my family’s properties, including refinishing floors, mowing fields and plowing snow on occasion. I am involved in various town government functions as well as volunteer driving and board memberships.

Gail and I get in some dancing—contra, square and ballroom, including a weekend in January at UNH. We hope to go to Copenhagen in June, if enough people sign up for the trip, for a week of contra dancing. Many thanks again to all who respond to my pleas for information.

1955 Ross D. Hall 38 Braddock Lane Harwich Port, MA 10646

ros shall @ comcast.net

Ellen Corcoran was sorry to miss the reunion: We were somewhere along the Rhine enjoying castles, vineyards, and exploring some wonderful medieval towns here and there. I don’t really have much of note to report, which is a good thing at this stage of our lives. Working with a new rescue dog is taking up a fair amount of my energy. I am finding it challenging and fun at the same time. The season is slowly gearing up down here in Key West, although there has been so little snow up north that the concept of “snow birds” has not yet come into play. We too have had exceptionally warm weather for this time of year. So I really want to say hi and to wish you all well for 2016.

Anstiss Hammond Krueck writes: One of my happiest memories of 2015 is our May reunion. I loved seeing classmates and being in the Assembly Hall for the luncheon. The founding plaque ceremony the next morning was inspiring—as was being with old friends like Kitten Cushman Fischer, Mimi Kellogg Truslow and John Jeppson in that gorgeous spring morning sunshine. This was capped by Maisie’s gathering that night at the Houghtons’ beautiful apartment. We talked, we ate, we laughed, and we became more serious as each person spoke. As I repeatedly say, in class notes and otherwise, the Shady Hill years meant more for my intellectual development and my soul than any other subsequent period of education. How lucky we were to be there!

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Lucy Stone McNeece reports: I spent last year doing research at the French Institute of the Middle East in Beirut, where I had to work hard to do everything in Arabic. As usual I was the oldest cutie in the group, but it was a great experience, despite the chaos of the city and the region. In the Fall I began a Master’s degree in Arabic civilization at the National Institute of Oriental civilizations and languages in Paris (INALCO —no wonder the French love acronyms!)

In June my son Chris and I traveled from Paris to Florence and then to Rome and Naples and the Amalfi coast and Sorrento, where my husband Robert’s family originated. I had not been back to Italy very often since Robert died, and it was a wonderful trip. Then in July and August I returned to Castine, ME, where I spent time walking in the woods, playing in my garden, reading and laughing with Tim and his two adopted kitties, and Chris, too, who came from San Francisco for a few weeks. I also visited my sister Roz in Vinalhaven. As much as I love to travel, I am so very happy to come home.

And from Tom Yeomans: I wrote quite a bit a little while ago, and not much has changed, except the world which is changing very fast and too fast to write about here. I do send warm greetings and good wishes to all the classmates, living and no longer living.

1956 Robert Beal writes: Looking forward to our 60th reunion in June and seeing our classmates. We haven’t aged much!!!

Merry White reports: I alternate between (sometimes grudging) devotion to students, as I teach Anthropology at Boston University, and (sometimes grudging) devotion to writing, as I sit in a little study Harvard is kind enough to offer me, away from places where I can be found.

I love what I do, even while I’m doing it.

Food anthropology, on top of learning and thinking about Japan are my main endeavors. My son Benjamin Wurgaft and I are putting final touches on a world history of food for Oxford University Press.

I’m aiming at sabbatical leave next year in which to think about the work of food in Japan and write about it—artisanal, domestic, industrial. . . . Or maybe I will

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Debby Goldberg Stinnett ’56 and Susan Counihan Fratus ’56 in Keene, NH

have time to paint my toenails. A book out two years ago is still keeping me on the road, cafe to cafe, to talk about Coffee Life in Japan. Gus Rancatore (maker of the world’s best ice cream) and I got to sip the world’s best coffee—in Japan—last fall, and we try really hard to remember to weigh the beans before and after grinding on a digital scale. I’ve been on the road for a cookbook I wrote 40 years ago, in a new edition from Princeton. So wonderfully bizarre to think what we ate and eat.

Ben is at MIT on a postdoctoral fellowship, Jennifer lives with her husband Richard and their daughter Meghan in London. They are wonderfully situated, and Meghan is a wondrous granddaughter. Martha (Rochlin) Kapos and I meet whenever I visit London, and we’re both quite taken, sentimentally, with the cd that was made of our SHS concert in 1956. Alleluia? Poor Lonesome Cowboy?

In the Shade I Lie and Ponder —I miss Miss Abbott.

1957 Judy Zetzel Nathanson 310 Ll andrillo Rd. Bal a Cynw yd, PA 19004

jznathanson @ gmail.com

Millard Alexander, writing from Annapolis, MD: What’s most important at our age is health. Knock on wood, I have no serious issues so far. This means I can still heli-ski and fly around in my little plane. I still work. I’m teaching undergraduates this fall; thermodynamics.

It’s incredibly invigorating. I still travel to scientific conferences in all sorts of exotic locations. Last year: Beijing, Telluride, Cuba; this year: Argentina, France, Monterey (CA). I’m sending in a picture

Miles Jaffe ’56 and Tony Bryan ’56 at Martha’s Vineyard

of me at graduation in 1957, with a profile of Mr. Candage. My best to all my classmates.

Barbara Friedman Sherman is writing for the first time in a long time, fills us in on events of her life: I am a retired Hospice social worker—am not enjoying retirement too much, though I do some interesting volunteer work. i.e. guardianship to those unfortunates in nursing homes who have no family. I belong to a bird watching group and two reading groups. I am divorced since 1995 (an emancipation). I have three grown children. Brad is 47 married and living in Houston doing immigration law. He has a lovely wife and two little girls. My daughter, Nancy, lives in Stonington CT with her husband, three school aged children, two dogs and eight chickens.

She is an administrator/nurse at Woman’s and Infants Hospital in Providence. My son Michael is 40, not married. He is a computer consultant/trouble shooter. I frequently take out the SHS graduation photo that Dr. Land took of us and it conjures many pleasant and vivid memories. I remember that the Friday evening of graduation, he presented each of us with a framed picture . . . wow what technology. I can’t wait for the newsletter.

Tracy Keppel Drury writes: Real estate or should I say “real-e-stress” is my big news. Ray Holland and I are leaving our Vermont home of 20 years and are resettling in Greenfield, MA. We are sad to be leaving our dearly loved VT and are looking forward to new adventures in the Pioneer Valley. By mid-December we will be settling in to our new house; two senior citizens surrounded by zillions of moving cartons, many filled with unnecessary stuff and wondering why we were so silly and sentimental to hold on

Millard Alexander ’57 at his Shady Hill graduation.

when letting go would be so freeing. New address: 113 Hastings St., Greenfield, MA 01302. Any classmates nearby?

Anne Perry Weir wrote to send warm wishes to classmates and to report all is well here in this northern ‘clime’ [Pownel, ME].

Sue Ryerson Moon writes: I’ve had a year of traveling with my most recent book on Buddhist women’s teachings called The Hidden Lamp (with co-editor Florence Caplow) to Italy, Vienna, Prague, Berlin, and more recently to Mexico. But that last teaching gig in San Miguel de Allende was really just an excuse to take a vacation trip with Judy Nathanson, which was a great joy. Next book, with Norman Fischer, comes out in Feb. 2016: What Is Zen: Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind.

Still in my big old house in Berkeley, sharing it with a niece and her family of four, and still wondering how much longer I want to keep on taking care of it, and what to do next when I’m ready to stop. Lots of plane travel to see my three granddaughters, two in Austin and one in Los Angeles. Two new knees and two new lenses in my eyes are all working well. Who knew that the older you get the better you can see and the further you can walk? At least for the moment.

Roz Stone Zander, living sometimes in Cambridge, MA writes: While most people at our age prefer to downsize, I find myself expanding into new arenas, and I’m not sure my brain is up for the journey. I spent a significant portion of last year in a small cabin finishing a second book, and the rest of the year packing and unpacking my bags to join my partner Hansjoerg Wyss in his (and now our) commitments to preserve landscapes, save elephants and rhinos, develop centers for scientific research abroad, and create

beautiful buildings here and elsewhere.

Daughter Alexandra and her husband, Ted, and their children, Jack and Poppy, have moved from Cambridge to New Haven, where Ted is doing research in epidemiology and teaching at Yale, and Alexandra is involved in the artistic life of the community—as well as tending to 4 chickens, 2 coon cats, a dog, a bearded dragon and a garden. Their move necessitates more packing and unpacking on my part, but I love every moment I spend with them. I stay in close touch with Ben Zander and with his two orchestras, with which I am very involved, and with daughter Jessica ’84 who lives with her husband Dave, and their girls, Maya and Vivian, close by. Judy Z. and Susie (Ryerson) Moon and I all got together this year briefly, but I have high hopes for an adventure with them this year.

Jeff Stonberg writes after a long hiatus to update us on his life since SHS: Naomi and I live on the edge of the Atlantic, at Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester. We have three married daughters and six grandchildren. My life has been about building things. This may result from my family history, immigrant grandparents and their offspring who were all in family businesses. For Naomi’s family it was the law. She had her own practice as a school-labor attorney, principally as a negotiator. The summer following my graduation from SHS, my brother Peter ’58, my parents, and I traveled across the US, my first experience with travel, exposing me to people very different from my circle, varying landscapes, architecture styles. At the Belmont Hill School I bunked with Paul FremontSmith. I graduated from the College at the U. of Pennsylvania, concentrating in American Civilization studies. I had been active in the Daily Pennsylvanian (school newspaper) and student government, mostly as an “outsider” challenging “the system.” My first job, before entering the Army, was in the laser business. The company developed and manufactured systems used for communication in space, surgery, and manufacturing. This gave me an opportunity, as a non-scientist/ engineer to be part of a highly technical enterprise, part of the future. Following active Army service, I entered the MBA program at the Harvard Business School.

Unlike most of my contemporaries, I

knew what I wanted to do: build housing.

My parents’ example inspired me. When I was ten years old, they purchased a carriage house on the former Claflin estate in Newton and transformed it into a unique and wonderful home. I had read an article in Look magazine about how a builder in Harlem had totally replaced the guts of a three-family over a weekend. On a Friday afternoon he moved the families to a hotel, then gutted it out, leaving only the masonry walls, dropped-in a new core by helicopter, and moved the families back into their new homes in time for the kids to go to school on Monday. This fit with the can-do innovation we had practiced in the laser business. At business school I came to know Philip David, HBS Baker Scholar and PhD, groomed by renowned urban redeveloper William Zeckendorf, creator of the case based, Urban Land Development Course. Dr. David introduced me to the possibilities of urban real estate development, became my thesis advisor, and helped me get my first job following graduation, later employed me. He taught me to think and operate independently. During the next several years I developed low and middle-income housing in several locations, and then turned around a failed, large urban housing development. Naomi and I had, by that time, moved back to Boston from Washington DC and New York City, and I rebuilt a brownstone in the South End. I became a project manager and builder and, over the next several years restored and repurposed brownstones, a school, and a factory-loft as apartments. By the 1990s I had succeeded in my business, but its cyclical nature had taken a toll on me. Not having had much of a Jewish education, I decided to explore my heritage, traveled to Israel and learned spoken Hebrew. We had moved to Wellesley, and I became involved in our local synagogue, later helping to build its new building.

Naomi and I had found some very interesting relatives and made good friends in our many trips to Israel, and I became involved in pro-Israel activity. When I stopped building, I decided to diversify.

Ten years ago, I made my first investment in early stage pharmaceutical development. It has been a very interesting set of experiences and I was thrilled to have this opportunity. These companies are working to combat diabetes, cancer, infectious

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disease, the effects of brain trauma, macular degeneration, sickle cell anemia, ADHD, and addiction. Naomi and I love our life on the beach. We wake up and go to sleep with the sound of the waves. Our grandchildren are a delight and our kids are well settled. Looking back, as we all are, I have been a product of my heritage, education, and most of all, family background. jstonberg@aol.com David Tartakoff reports: Splitting our time between Oak Park IL, Falmouth MA, and rural MI, delighted by our daughter Ann’s intense experiences at Vassar (2nd year), and dreaming of moving back East. Chicago is toooo far away.

Susan “Soo” Whiting writes: My husband Flip Harrington and I continue to spend 8 months on Martha’s Vineyard managing the property that my parents me. The other 4 months we travel to areas we haven’t visited—the bucket list which consists of locations that provide us with new habitats and therefore new bird species to enjoy. Last winter found us in Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Thailand.

This fall we had a fabulous exploration cruise amongst the eastern Pacific islands learning about Polynesian culture, architecture and, of course, birds. (www.

Vineyardbirds2.com) Happy 100th Shady Hill.

I, Judy Nathanson, class secretary for the class of ’57, am as always pleased, interested and moved to read what classmates are up to and how they describe their lives at this moment. For myself, I haven’t written a new book (or an old one either), packed up and moved, built or demolished any buildings, sailed to far away exotic lands, funded great enterprises, retired or started new work, or even acquired interesting and better-functioning body parts. But I have enjoyed my long-standing work a great deal and even gotten busier, I have read a number of terrific books, continued playing— not always perfecting—the piano, seen much of my children and grandchildren all blessedly nearby and as much of dear friends as I can. I think I am pretty healthy today and no body parts are screaming out for attention at the moment (or maybe my hearing just isn’t picking up the call). So I am very grateful for all of that. Happy 100th, SHS! and my warmest wishes to all my classmates, and beyond.

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Campus—then and now

1958 David Ross 275 Spring Street Concord, NH 03301

davidros s2243 @ comcast.net

Alan Tartakoff writes: Since last Christmas what has happened? Another grandson was born, some more articles on basic cell biology, some more teaching and organizing of symposia, a meeting in Barcelona and a chance to visit old friends, a family reunion near Mt. Washington, reading with great fascination Oliver Sacks autobiography, inimitable Willa Cather and Edith Wharton, rediscovering some Bernard Shaw, the joy of playing chamber music with others, remembering that we all started (almost) from the same point and have now led such varied lives. Here’s a good idea: at Thanksgiving last year a college student (son of friends) suggested that we go around the table and each of us explain what we were thankful for. I am thankful for the chill that now greets me in the morning, for the struggles that make it all worth while, for an awareness of our living as an unpredictable sequence that still fits a frame, for the hope that so many unpardonable injustices will never recur.

Eleanor Earle Ferguson reports: All is well here in Chapel Hill. Our daughter, Eliza, and we welcomed a granddaughter, Julia Grace Ferguson, last June. They live nearby so we thoroughly enjoy them. We welcomed a German Shepherd puppy, Vesper, in March, and she is fast becoming the wonderful family dog we knew she would be. We are so blessed. Jim continues to teach his Honors undergraduate seminar in Food and Culture at UNC. The students are bright, inquisitive, gracious, and fun—we have 20 for dinner every Tuesday during the fall and spring terms. We plan to be at my summer place

in CT, although I have given up my sailboat, and rely on invitations from others to get out on the water. But I will never give up skiing in Deer Valley, UT. We will be there again in February.

Caroline Norton wrote: Moved back to the east coast from Colorado in the fall of 2014 and am rediscovering gardening where you are allowed to water, which is a treat. I have two children and four grandchildren here in Massachusetts, but the remaining two children and three grands are still moored in Utah and Idaho. I have just now been in email contact with Reed Cherington and Susan Brooks Morris, which is such a total high. I find it magical that decades upon decades can pass and you can still converse with classmates as if it was only yesterday. I love that.

John Martin wrote: Wow, long time!

I have been retired for over 5 years—hard to believe. I still enjoy sailing; current boat is a Pearson 35 with yawl rig, a great boat for the Chesapeake because of shoal draft and centerboard. Both sons live in Colorado—younger, a roofer, is married with two kids, 9 and 11 who are doing great in school and becoming really good skiers. Older son is a great guitarist and works in construction.

Walter Vincent wrote: We are currently in limbo in terms of a winter residence, as we’ve sold our condo in South Glastonbury, CT. We’re looking for a place in Newburyport, MA/Portsmouth, NH, which will position us better for getting into Boston and to our vacation home in Tamworth, NH. So far we’ve looked at a number of apartment units, but haven’t found the right one. We’ll be in Tamworth for the winter months if nothing comes up. We are both healthy and well. As always, I have warm memories of my years at Shady Hill, and in particular of my father as a teacher there.

Caroline Norton and Weston Thorn both expressed fond memories of Walter’s father, Frank Vincent, who taught French to the upper classes.

Your secretary, David Ross, is still living in New Hampshire, now in Concord, loving the ability to walk to everything in downtown. Anne and I are still bicycling and hiking all over the world, and plan to spend 3 weeks in Northumbria next July, joining an archaeological dig at Vindolanda, a Roman fort dating from the first century. I still look back on my 14 years at SHS as some of the most informative, pleasurable and, of course, formative years of my life.

1959 Charles M. Wyzanski 75 Frances Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138

w yzanski @ gmail.com

Bob Bremner: Our son, Matt, and wife and children, Rex and Ruby, are living with us for 5 months while their house is under renovation—an interesting change of perspective to have so many under our roof again. My wife, George, is retired, but seems to always be busy. I plan to keep working. Business continues to grow since Matt has been with us. Working every day with one of your closest friends is a joy. We continue to travel: to Spain, Portugal, and Russia as well as a couple of quick getaways in 2015. This year to Germany, Poland, and France. The trips are a little less strenuous, but just as exciting. The biggest change in my life is that I live much more in the now, and I worry about very little. I’ve learned that anxiety about the future will not change anything, but that it will never be as bad as you fear nor as good as you hope, but mostly we all muddle through. Health still good.

Plenty of energy. Would love to come to the centennial as long as it is not the first weekend in June.

Nate Bowditch summarizes: Family: one wife, Susie. We’re best friends and have pretty much done the world together—living and working in five countries. Kids: Windi and Sean, now older than many of the young professionals I work with, and doing important, challenging work in psychotherapy and journalism. Two grandchildren: fun, mostly cute and adorable, tend

to leave behind their head colds after the holidays. Volunteering: work with younger folks on their dreams, the latest being with an amazing young man building a simple, workable, revolutionary public health model for kids in Zambia (HealthyKidsBrighterFuture. org). Work: Writing now. Retired three years ago (used to say: “I do economic development in Maine and the rest of the developing world,” did it in 19 different countries). Got a call a month ago to go back to Liberia—a project and country close to my heart for many years. It felt good, and I could still do it. Maine: Its lakes, streams, ocean, woods—wonderful outdoors is The Way Life Should Be! Life: So good; so good; so good! What I think about: How fortunate I am to be an American (and to have attended Shady Hill and the other institutions that followed). The craziness of America.

How much I have learned from living and working in other cultures.

Betsy Chapin: Working full time seems to still agree with me and the global art market is both fascinating and challenging. After Friday night, art or rather the pursuit of art seems frivolous and yet as David Cameron pointed out we must continue with our usual daily lives and pursuits. And this is mine. John, who is retired, is now having a relaxing life with time to do as he wishes. We have between us 4 amazing children, all wonderful and all very different, whose 4 marriages we have enjoyed and 3 divorces we have endured. We also have 3 incredible grandchildren ages 10–21. We have a large extended family and often these family holidays include 50–60 people which I admit when hosting is a bit daunting.

We do not plan to move from our place on Buzzard’s Bay when I retire but can spend time visiting our children if we get restless who are located between London and Santa Cruz. Frankly I cannot believe that I am in my 70s; it always comes as a surprise, not unwelcome just so startling.

Olivia Cheever: It’s great to hear all of your news especially those who couldn’t make our last reunion. My husband, Richard Picariello and I are enjoying our 70s starting it off with a great vacation trip back to visit old friends and new in Arizona last January. We caught up with a former Lexington H.S. student of mine in Scottsdale whom we had last seen at her wedding there in ’97, a new

online artist friend and her husband in Mesa, played great golf in Carefree—can’t believe how fast the altitude makes the ball fly (!) before heading to a wonderful week in Sedona including finally seeing the Grand Canyon which nothing can prepare one for when face to face. No we did not avoid the winter to end all winters in Boston in so doing—arriving home just in time for the February/March “Snowmageddon” where our neighbors took pity on us when we could escape to our apartment in Bristol, VT! With the return of spring, we enjoyed participating in Grandparents’ Weekend at our two granddaughters’ wonderful Waldorf School in Blue Hill, ME where I was reminded of Shady Hill in its central subject approach. Now we both feel we are in a “2nd Genesis.” In addition to both continuing to work part time, Richard having taken up trumpet seriously again and now performing in a 40 piece Concert Band and me still seeing private students but taking a leave of absence from teaching at Longy School of Music of Bard College and Lesley U. to finally complete a how-to book filled with healing stories about “neuroplasticity” of those I’ve helped through the Feldenkrais Method of movement awareness education. Erik, are we still able to get a recording from that singalong a la Miss Abbott? If so, would love to know how!

Davis Cherington: Last summer, I purchased and renovated a detached condo in Lexington, part of a circa 1983 105-unit development. It’s nicely landscaped and the grounds are immaculate so I’ve given away my rototiller and rakes in favor of non-stop WGBH and audiobooks. I have a Boston Whaler and a modest motorcycle in the garage. I could say that life is perfect, or as perfect as widower-hood can be.

Anne Cushman: My memories of SHS are mixed—fond ones of Mr. Sheldon, Ms. Rowl and others, not so much of Ms. Abbott (mentioned by many classmates) who told me, ‘only move your lips’ (no sound please!). Turns out, I sing very well in the shower! One thing for sure, SHS did instill a joy of learning and, in the all-topics-welcome vein, I have learned that SHS people are dog lovers. In my neighborhood, I am surrounded by SHS students, alums, parents and grandparents, all meet dog walking! The dogs sniff, conversations start, SHS comes up and 33

friendships follow! Perhaps not surprising in Cambridge still, a happy outcome!

Of course, at this point, I am grateful for good health and the resources to enjoy life, work, family, and friends!

Charlie Deknatel: Spring 2016 marks two years of retirement from a career in planning that began in college and took place in several locations in the U.S. with often very different types of work.

This season also marks over six years of living in Jamaica Plain after many years in Somerville—longer for Cath than for me. Work ended quite decisively—no transition or continuing involvement with my Commonwealth of MA job. I wonder occasionally how retirement would have been if I had remained an academic. The move to Jamaica Plain provided many things: an easier house to manage, interesting neighbors in a diverse community, the ability to walk to many things including major Boston open spaces and most particularly a lot more time with (Cath’s) grandchildren (ages 5–15) since both her son’s and daughter’s families are on this side of the Charles River. We frequently pick up the boys from Brookline schools and see the girls who are in Newton fairly regularly. I am one of many volunteers in the program run by the City of Boston Archaeologist. This means weekly work sorting and cleaning artifacts and last summer three different “digs” in Boston-hard work particularly as most compatriots are decades younger and often more experienced. Cath continues some career counseling as a private practice combined with some volunteer work. We both, I think, feel that retirement is still very much a work in progress with the continuing questions of how best to use this time.

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Mary (Fainsod) Katzenstein: I saw Yo Yo Ma’s interview on PBS the other day where he commented on how he gets so much more pleasure, now that he is 60, out of seeing (and no doubt assisting in) the successes of others. That’s how it’s felt reading our class’ accounts of these last years—including all the self-deprecation and humor. I also read somewhere that the 70s is the decade of “gratitude” which seems autobiographically true.

Gratitude in my case, mostly, for being able to be active in the local world. We spent Thanksgiving in Durham where one of our daughters, Suzanne, lives. She is working at Duke in an ethics institute.

Our other daughter (Tai, a psychologist in the Boston area) and family came too.

We managed a family game of soccer. It felt almost Kennedy-esque though I guess our Jewish ancestry meant we failed at the numbers required for a full team of touch football. At home in Ithaca, I’m still active in the Cornell college prison program, which I helped to start, and which brings daily rewards. We received a big Mellon Foundation grant, which makes us able to operate soon in four different prisons (there are more prisoners in the local counties than farmers). Retirement has meant less stress and more novels—such a gift. Peter still teaches so I very occasionally do the dishes and feel I am doing my share. I’d love to come to another reunion and hope this time to be there for the Miss Abbott singing. I still listen to a recording or two that Erik shared and am grateful, grateful.

Michal Goldman: For me the film I have been making (about Gamal Abdel Nasser) overflows the year and is its main ingredient. The grant supporting this project ends neatly on Dec. 31 but my work shows signs of spilling over into early 2016. I’ve spent the past years with this towering, controversial figure as my daily companion, and it will be strange to watch him thin out and disappear over the next months. Still, I can hardly wait to be done with the making of this film.

The struggle seems so undignified at this point in life! I’ll spend the next year getting the film into distribution. After that, who knows—certainly not me. (I do find myself thinking a lot about people who seek refuge.)

Hope Green: Bob and I have closed our consulting business. We still help our

former clients when they need us, but I am learning, reluctantly, to admit that I have largely retired. I am going to publish some of my mother’s poetry. She and I started work on that before she died, and I promised I would finish the job, so any advice on self-publishers to choose or to avoid would be very welcome. We are still living happily in our big old house in Burlington, closely supervised by two cats, and frequently visited by our far-flung and wonderful family.

Gay Harriman: I am living in Bath, ME, which I love. I am writing a lot, quilting a lot (I should have paid attention in Math . . . 7/8 of an inch vs. 3/4 of an inch threw me into a panic.) Does anyone remember a Mrs. Coburn who came in 6th grade and taught Math? She was an angel of understanding and would explain ad infinitum basic concepts to me.

Like all of us, I assume, this is not the easiest age. #! Don’t read NYT obits because everyone is under 71, even the clowns and opera singers. But on we go and as always I think and dream re: Shady Hill— always as a wonderful school that saved my life. Everything I value in learning came from those many years of safe questioning and a free ticket for exploration. If anyone is in touch with the devil tell him I am up for a swap . . . my soul for another childhood at SHS. OK, well raving is better than telling about cardinals at the feeder or my buddies at the Galley diner who told me just tonight, “Women don’t hunt.” —Why? I asked. An old guy said emphatically, “Because they are scared of the wilderness.” Love to all of you.

Richard Horvitz: I am still working in the hospital clinical laboratory department where I have worked for the past 38 years, though only part time now. A big piece of the work I do is getting busier and busier, and I do not think they could get along without me. Our hospital is just starting a big project to install a new computer system, and it looks like they are going to need the help of my expertise in this area, so I think I will be working at least a couple more years. I have stayed physically active over the years, and ran a 5K in 31:55 this fall, but I do not think I am going to do any more of these races.

I just turned 71 last month, and as I get up in years it gets harder and harder to get into the kind of shape I want to be in to do well in these. Not that I am going to

give up exercising. I want to get back into some running once I get over a sciatica problem I have had for the last few weeks, and also enjoy swimming (a form of exercise which does not bother my back).

There is a new YMCA opening next week about a mile from where I live. I have already signed up for a membership. My wife, Anne, is basically well, but is having more and more trouble getting around with arthritis, back problems, and other issues. I had to get her a handicapped parking permit earlier this year. She can no longer handle taking our stronger male Samoyed dogs outside, so I have to do this, and on the days when I work and the dogs cannot go all day without being taken out, I have to take them to our animal hospital to day board them there.

She is pretty much retired from her law practice, but still does some consulting work for a legal services plan. She enjoys reading, going to book discussions and a Bible study group at a local church, going to emeritus classes at a local college, and watching movies and British mystery series (which she says are much better than any American programs) on Netflix.

We are both taking life as it comes to us day to day, coping with things reasonably well, and enjoying what we do.

Erik Johansson: Earlier remarks about septuagenarian gratitude ring true, and bring to mind something I blurted out at our next-door neighbor’s dinner table on Thanksgiving. It was basically that the practice of gratitude is often and easily neglected, but can be a profoundly transformational ongoing exercise. It can sparkle in the examined life, defusing the excesses of regret, and energizing positive change. Gratitude soars free above and beyond cultural and denominational opinions, rituals, and strictures. It can do much to rescue bungled friendships, and brings more of the world’s people into the scope of compassion and goodwill. I even wonder how many people practicing gratitude have stumbled on the illusive mysteries of forgiveness, and found themselves able to forgive freely. True liberation. On a more specific level, Alysoun and I are happy that our daughter Ailyn, her husband Mark, and grandson Zane have moved to their first owned house a third of a mile away from us. Alysoun has already been with Zane at least every other day while his parents are working,

Science discovery—then and now

and it’s great to see so much of them all.

Zane will be 4 when I turn 72. I’m busy with too many projects, but the resulting confusion points me to the possibility of being more selective so I can get through the more important ones. I’m planning to take a video editing class at the local community TV station starting January with a view to putting some musico/ video tidbits out into the ethereal realms (internet). Results may begin to appear on Facebook or even by way of this alumnae email address list. There I’ve said it so you can bug me all you want if I don’t make good on my promise (threat). Alysoun and I are alarmed to realize that all desire to cook has vanished with little trace from us both, save for my occasional impulsive experiments with gelatinous fruit dishes.

(But we’re still eating well.) Our peculiar sense of adventure however, is undiminished. In December, we went to get a tree from a 10-acre wood lot she kept when her parent’s farm was sold. I wound up sawing easily by hand through a 60-foot balsam that was hollow with rot at the bottom, so we cut the still flourishing top off to bring home. It was in three shoots, so this balsam tree-nity was ready for grandson’s further decoration.

Danny Ingalls: Regarding Elvis’s “It’s now or never,” I realize this more with each day, and especially with regards to the prior reunion that I missed. For those who might be thinking about another, I would make it a priority this time. I can’t recall how much I have written before, but my wife Kat and I are still in Aptos, CA (just south of Santa Cruz), and I’m working in a start-up-style lab in San Francisco. The move of office to San Francisco left me with a huge commute (almost 2 hours), but fortunately I like to drive (along the Coast highway), I enjoy the time to think, and I only have to do

it two or three times a week. There is an increasing chance that my part of the work will move to Los Angeles, which would put us closer to some of our children. I miss the mountains of Virginia and the mountains of California where I spent over 10 years in each, but the urban life has some upsides as well. I still ride a bicycle for exercise, and my last physical project was to build a bike that you can ride on abandoned railroad tracks (there is one near my house that goes through Santa Cruz).

Mark Isaacs: Now THAT is a great name for the Ms Abbott “Glee Club” of 59.” This year was or still is year one of the Mark and Dorothy Isaacs re-entry to full time Caribbean Life. Seems that every birth, birthday, baby naming, graduation, and all life functions result in some level of partying. There are numerous free concerts and outdoor functions.

Dorothy now does mediations, I continue with art. Still serving as resident artist in Virginia at Philip Carter Winery and Creek Edge Winery while also showing at galleries in Fairfax and Falls Church, VA. I am a featured artist at the Camille Pizarro Gallery and the Watson Gallery on St. Thomas and am a guest artist at the honors art class for high school students.

That is really exciting. They are quite challenging and Ms. Sproul would be pleased. Continue to contain my weight and reduce more. For the literary group, this year I deposited roughly 25 boxes of Dad’s works at Cornell’s archives in Ithaca, NY—the Smithsonian in DC has the rest. I also donated one Navajo rug to the American Indian Museum in DC. Attaching several photos of recent works.

“Two large works” actually is one medium size of part of Phillip Carter Winery, Under the Sea, and June 20th is a view of St. Thomas from several residents to our

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west. All painted this year. Acrylic. Hope several of you will come down and paint with me.

Pam Johnson: 2015 marks two milestones: my retirement after 40 years of teaching art and textile design at Montclair State University in New Jersey, at what seems like the perfect moment, and publication of my chapter, “A Wall in Mexico City’s Historic Center, Regina 56” in Understanding Graffiti: MultiDisciplinary Studies From Prehistory to the Present, a book edited by Troy Lovata and Elizabeth Olton with one of my photographs on the cover, a colorful mixedmedia mural celebrating and lampooning the 2010 centennial-bicentennial year in Mexico. The dualistic push-pull of two cultures keeps me totally attuned.

At “home” last spring semester I was the omnipresent “member of the public” at lectures and interdisciplinary conferences co-sponsored by the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities and Program in LatinAmerican Studies, in Princeton and New York. This fall have expanded my horizon to Global History and History of Science.

One constant thread is a weekly lecture on issues of translation, which seems an apt metaphor the cultural shifts between NJ and DF, where I spend increasingly more time. In Mexico I’m in the streets, protesting the disappearance and massacre of 43 students in Iguala. The marches united classes and generations. I left just as 30-year commemorations of the 1985 earthquakes began. Mexico City is both a political cauldron and a relatively secure island. During my four months’ residency I dug into new research on the burgeoning zines scene (do-it-yourself magazines/

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comics), continued to photograph Aztec dance costume and made a visual presentation on networks of craftspeople at the Franz Mayer Museum of decorative arts, where a second international seminar on the art of ikat and the rebozo (Mexican shawl) took place. Also found kindred academics in visual anthroplogy and urban design.

Arthur Little: As is often the case, our year was eventful: Jann’s health has been a question mark without the question being completely answered. We started with her spending all of Christmas 2014 in the hospital after getting to the emergency room by ambulance. We’ve eliminated the big ones of cancer and heart but she’s still not back at full strength It has been very troubling worrying about the woman with whom I’ve spent the last 44 years, but she’s way better than she was even several months ago. The more enjoyable highlights are: (1) Taking our three granddaughters, ages 11, 14, 16 to London and Paris. I’m never sure of the immediate effect of those kinds of trips on kids that age as I remember being “dragged” by mother and father when I wanted to be home playing baseball, but plainly, the long term effect is powerful. I wrote my essay for the Harvard admissions form about my experience in Calcutta at age 13. (2) Seeing bunches of Off-Broadway plays at theater companies with which Jann has very close ties. For those classmates traveling to NYC for theater, I strongly recommend Off-Broadway as being better and much cheaper. The exception is Hamilton which is a must see for many reasons. (3) Going to Nova Scotia for the opening of Cabot Cliffs golf course where I had worked with the

architect, Bill Coore, setting the positions for the forward tees. Cabot has already been judged the best course in Canada and I’m sure will jump into the top 20 (if not the top 10) in the world when those rankings are done next. Working with the golf industry has really become my main activity. I have sharply curtailed my business “adventures.” I resigned from the Iron Mountain board in 2014 and have backed off working on all but a few.

John Perry: Our two sons, their wives and our four grandchildren are well, happy and terrific. Barbara and they have been for many years the focus of my life. I continue with a full course load at UVM, which keeps me in the astrophysics game.

Soccer games, however, have fallen victim to a twenty-foot head-first fall I took in mid-summer onto a brick path. Five months and I’m creeping back to 100%, but count my blessings daily. I know how lucky I was, and think often of friends who were not. I try not to ask why this is, but really, I can’t help it. In the end I’m glad to be alive, and that you are too. A last note, thanks to those who read my novel and offered feedback. It is much, much appreciated.

Steve Saltonstall: Ellen and I have retired and moved to Tucson, the northeast part of town, where the Catalinas meet the Rincons. This is a big change from New England, where my family has lived since 1630, but a welcome one, especially weather-wise, and we have terrific mountain views from our back yard. Ellen is volunteering for the Jewish History Museum, which is about to open a new wing that will memorialize the Holocaust survivors who settled in Tucson. I’m volunteering for Humane

Borders (www.humaneborders.org), an organization dedicated to saving the lives of undocumented migrants, who might otherwise die from thirst and exposure, by maintaining water stations in the Sonoran Desert. My usual water route is through the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge and into Sasabe, AZ and Mexico.

I’ve just graduated from riding shotgun, as it were, on the water trucks, to driving one of them; a sometimes daunting task, with 2,500 gallons of water in a big barrel sloshing back and forth, making the truck sway in the direction of the slosh. We also have to cope with vigilantes who vandalize our water stations and our trucks. These racist-losers hate brown-skinned people so much they actually want them to die in the desert. They ride around on all-terrain vehicles, armed with semi-automatic weapons and dressed in military garb. I have had one encounter with a group of them so far, which was reminiscent of some experiences I had in the civil rights movement in the 60s. The landscape down here is incredibly beautiful, and it’s ironic that is so deadly for so many—200 or so bodies found per year on average, and many more that are never found. I love it here in Arizona and I’m very happy doing this new work. So much more fun than law practice!

David Smith: News from Vancouver— Suzanne and I are still having fun. My new book, If, A Mind-Bending Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers has been in the top 100 of all books on amazon.ca for most of 2015. I’m out on the road visiting bookstores and schools more than I expected, but I’m also learning to say “no” to some requests. We are now officially Canadian citizens, with Canadian passports—the US Embassy in Ottawa says it doesn’t matter if US citizens take dual citizenship, as long as one makes sure to keep up with their debts to the IRS. Upcoming book-related journeys include schools in Hawaii in January, New Zealand in March, as well as Ottawa and Toronto; add to that, reunions in New Jersey and Cambridge, and the SHS Centennial in June. Finally, we’re delighted with our new Prime Minister, like a breath of fresh air. Our c​oordinates are: 137-3300 Capilano Road, North Vancouver, BC V7R 4H8 Canada, FB: Mapping the World By Heart, twitter: djsmapping

Susan St. John: With blessings for all, here are my two cents. With Down East Singers we are doing Harps of Gold for the season, thank you Miss Abbott.

Having been a widow for exactly two years, I seem to be hanging out a lot with an acquaintance of Bob’s and mine (from the Unitarian Universalist church.) Tom has been rowing and singing and listening to Gilbert & Sullivan and enjoying weekly meditation in the same spots as I have. The interesting part is that while I have always been a head and body person, this friendship is straight from the heart.

I certainly wasn’t looking; I was as happy as could be! Sometimes that is when magic shows up, when we aren’t searching for it. It does feel like magic. The book I have been working on forever, All in the Same Boat, Outward Bound, Our Years on Hurricane Island 1964–2006, is due to be finished soon. My collaborator says we are “at 88%”. I also sing with the Midcoast Community Chorus, and Yale Alumni Chorus, with whom I will head to Vietnam and Singapore in June. Fixing and filling family houses in a conservancy on the coast of Maine fills up the rest of my time. Life is good. With warmest thoughts for all.

Gerry Storrow: I am at work on what a friend refers to as my “me-moirs.” What else is there to do with a superabundance of years? It is written in a combination of prose and verse, and is very much a work in progress. Time and chance indeed! The whole situation seems so improbable that the effort seems as much fiction as fact.

But the human urge to make cohesive story from assorted factoids probably accounts for its presence in his-story (though that sounds sexist as well), of the order of summoning dogs or wagons from totally unrelated stars in the northern sky.

What can we do? It’s an appetite like any other.

Lili Brooks West: I participated in a plein air painting workshop given by Henry Isaacs ’66 (Mark’s brother) and Ashley Bryan during the past summer on Little Cranberry Island in Maine, where my father’s family has summered since the early 1900s—a beautiful spot that means a lot to me. (My father, Arthur Brooks, and his siblings, Francis, John and Harriet all attended Shady Hill in the very early days, and my brother, Arthur, and I followed in their footsteps.) Now I’m

inspired to transform a very funky small place I own south of Santa Fe, across a county road from my ex-husband, Archie West. Our three children all live nearby. I have enlisted the brains and muscle of our son, Ben, to help me create a small studio so that I can splash around with acrylics.

He assists his father with ranch work, and he and his wife, Alison Bentley, a teacher, have two children: Clara (11) and Harold (6). Our elder daughter, Melanie, is a photographer and lives with her partner, Kurt Stritzl, who is from Germany; I’m guessing that when she is hired to photograph a wedding, the couple involved are happy ever after, no matter what. Our younger daughter, Mollie, is an elementary school teacher and is married to a chef, Matt Fox, and they eat very well with their daughter, Julia (6).

As soon as the studio is done I intend to paint portraits of all these people, these wonderful people who form the core part of my Santa Fe community. No mention this time of our world’s challenges, Mary Sidney and the Shakespeare authorship question, and my arthritis.

Steve White: 2015 has been pretty uneventful for me and for Kate. We travelled to Norway and Sweden (via Iceland) in February, went to Scotland for a week in May, and in August, took a brief vacation in Maine. We also took trips to New York and to Atlanta; and I’ve been going to Princeton regularly to see my father, who, at 98, is still in pretty good health. Otherwise, Kate and I have stayed put in Somerville. She is still working as an editor and writer. Joe (31) continues to work as a composer/musician in New York, while Hannah (26), after teaching for three years in a primary school in Atlanta, is now in Tucson, volunteering with a group that takes water out into the desert for migrants. As for me, in addition to publishing a couple of papers and giving a few lectures and conference papers, I’ve been teaching a freshman seminar on medieval Iceland at Harvard this fall.

Initially, it felt very odd to be working in the same building in Harvard Yard where I had an office before I left Cambridge in 1975. But I’m gradually getting used to it.

Kathy Winslow: My father, Henry D. Winslow, was an original student in the open air classroom days at the start of Shady Hill. My brother Henry N. Winslow (Nick) and I have spent a lot

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of time and effort this past summer and fall doing what we needed to do to make it possible to donate his sailboat, the La Mouette, to the MA Maritime Academy.

The boat was untitled and had passed on through two wills. Otherwise, Al and I have active lives as we approach, Good Lord, our 50th anniversary this coming August! Al has cut back his work slightly but continues the private practice of psychiatry, working the equivalent of at least four days a week. I consider that my life and accomplishments are very unremarkable, but I am happy and content and always busy. I will also have my 50th reunion at Mount Holyoke this May. Seems impossible. We are lucky to have our two daughters and their families fairly close to CT in Massachusetts. In fact, I say “what is wrong in this picture?” when I note that they live closer to the family summer house at Cape Cod than Al and I do. Their children, our four treasured grandchildren, are the sixth generation to enjoy their summer days there.

Charlie Wyzanski: Please don’t assume, Dear Reader, that Class Notes fall like manna from heaven. As any Class Correspondent comes to know all too well, notes must be assiduously harvested to counteract those who deluded themselves into thinking that by failing to note the passage of time, they somehow avoid it. In fact, wasn’t it but a few weeks ago that I took down the storm windows and now find myself putting them up again! My past year can perhaps best be explained by the handling of two pro bono cases, weekly college counseling at Cambridge Rindge & Latin, and more hours than I care to admit at the local Arthur Murray Dance Studio.

There on the dance floor, I theoretically get to lead my wife. Of course, Mr. and Mrs. Nott would turn around in their graves if they saw me, though I would want to remind them that they once awarded me a Conway Twitty 45 rpm, even if it was only as a consolation prize.

Nilgün and I have much enjoyed the hospitality of classmates near and far this past year: near with Charlie and Cath and with Davis; far with Charlie Peck and Joanna in London, Jim Kaplan and Brooks in Santa Fe, and Nate Bowditch and Susie in Westport Island. Then, too, we spent three weeks in Turkey in September with children Talya and Tamara, often in the company of some 38

of Nilgün’s extended family and former classmates. For these and other reasons, I must confess that I made little progress this past year on the intended book on my father. I did manage, however, to give three talks at different campuses of the U. of Maine Senior Colleges, as well as the Annual Donald Shire Lecture at the US Department of Labor in Washington, DC where my father served as Secretary Frances Perkins’ Solicitor of Labor in the New Deal. The relationship between Frances Perkins and my father was remarkably significant and productive by any measure. It did much to bring about the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act, the constitutionality of both of which my father successfully defended in the United States Supreme Court. It was not all that unusual for my father to dream of Francis Perkins, even in later life. In that connection, those of you who knew my father personally or by reputation might find amusing and even personally instructive at our age to read what he wrote a friend and Exeter teacher not long before he died. He had dreamed that Miss Perkins had invited him to a large fundraiser for Harvard where he had found himself seated next to two of the most important prospective male donors. They were elderly, ugly, narrow-minded, dull, and nearly deaf.

My father wrote that: “[e]gotistically I took over the conversation and, with no particular reason to do so, recited my accomplishments and interests. One of the old duffers—pretending that he was more deaf than he actually was—had me repeat everything that I had said, only to then proceed to disagree with it. I replied by exposing his ignorance and scoring points against him. Suddenly the two old duffers got up to go. Someone who was Miss Perkins’ friend and her contemporary came over to me and made it very plain that I had thwarted the whole object of the party. I was genuinely sorry and ashamed. Miss Perkins then came over and told me not to worry, but I knew that she was disappointed in me.

She had remembered me as a modest young man, so able to flatter my elders by listening patiently to them and apparently recognizing how important they and their views were. And now I had been spoiled by conceit, and she couldn’t any longer use me, except for supplementary tasks of a secondary order.

1961 Andy Oldman 31 Kilburn Road Belmont, MA 02478

aqopbketch @ aol.com

Andre Mayer reports: I’m living in Cambridge—not a part of Cambridge I was aware of 50 or 60 years ago—and am retired as of 1/1/16. Now up to five grandchildren, from here to California.

Frederic Ross writes: Thanks again for shouldering the heavy burden of keeping us all on track for the News. We visited Castine and Bar Harbor/Acadia in 2008 after our daughter graduated from Bennington College. Beautiful little town. Our granddaughter Norah is now a walking, (almost) talking one year old.

She lives with her lucky parents (son Ben and Sarah) in Seattle, so we see her mostly electronically and perhaps 3–4 times a year in person. They are thriving, as is Auntie (daughter) Amy who also lives in Seattle. Cindy and I have traveled to Portugal already this year (October) and are preparing to join an Audubon bird-watching trip to Thailand at the end of January. In the meantime, Oregon continues to be a beautiful and exciting place to live. Greetings to all SHS 1961 friends.

Andy Oldman writes: As you all know I have maintained a close and long friendship with my pen pal from M. Vincent’s 7th grade class. Jean and his Catherine finally came to visit us after all this time and they were thrilled to see the recreated Hermione in Castine, ME. This is the frigate which Lafayette had sailed across on his mission to help out in the Revolutionary War. I am looking forward to teaching three ocean sailing classes at Wooden Boat School in Maine this summer; and otherwise continuing at my usual tasks and interests. More locally, we saw Sam Sherman and visited his design firm on Martha’s Vineyard in April on an antique car tour.

Lisa Shields writes: Several years ago, I started what must be my 18th career. I am now a realtor, working in a two-agent office out of Vinalhaven, ME. We focus exclusively on the islands of North Haven and Vinalhaven. I also fill my days as part-time Arts & Enrichment Coordinator at North Haven Community School, as well as serving on numerous boards and writing for the community newspaper. As a new widow, my heart space, however, is

filled with family. I live in an absolutely astonishingly amazing community, and count my blessings. Maine Governor Paul Lepage is not included among aforementioned blessings.

1963 Alice Coda 400 Gould Hill Road Hopkinton, NH 03229

alicec1@ comcast.net

This year was a tough one for our class, as we lost our class correspondent and general cheerleader, Lenore Gessner Travis to a tragic accident early this spring. We have spent the time since then corresponding between as many of us as we can find, and it has been a stupendous experience to reconnect, re-living many memories and sharing what SHS has meant to us all. It is what Lenore wanted for so many years, and it is sad that it took her passing to bring it to fruition.

Some small measure of our feelings will, we hope, be demonstrated by a gift of a Tree and stone marker in her name from the class; and also to the Food Project, which she championed as much as she did Shady Hill. So many emails passed between us during the spring and summer that I think we all feel quite connected again. We had two gatherings, one in June at Louis Postel’s house and again in October at Kari (Laursen) Shaner’s.

It was lovely to see David Lettvin, Peter Bell and Jim Pickel in June. Linsey (Grossman) Grinder made it to our October meeting, as did Brina Peck and her husband Gaj, Denny Anderson and Cynthia Shelmerdine. Others who made it to both were John Stendahl, Dan

Wallace, Lizzie deRham, Pam Fairbanks Kirkpatrick, Sarah Creighton, Kari, Louis, Brooksie Stanton, Alice (Ross) Coda and Steve Buchbinder. In addition we have heard during the year from Paul Gifford, Carole Counihan, Al Lamb, Lizzie (Hawthorne) O’Beirne-Ranelagh, Spencer Cowan, Robert Alexander, Craig Barger, and John Locke. Al Lamb has shared with us some of his writing, especially about his memories of Harvard Square in the early 60s.

Jim Pickel writes: I’m loving my second year of being 85% retired. Still coordinating all of Thayer Academy’s foreign programs, but going in to school only two half-days a week. I was so happy to see you all a few months ago, and I am looking forward to the next meeting. I’m going to a lot of grandkids’ sports contests and loving it. I’ve been trying to find John Wulsin, but no luck so far.

Dan Wallace writes: Not much change in my routines—still retired with an emphasis on meditation (as in both daily practice and service at my group, Boston Center of Self-Realization Fellowship in Somerville). I’m noticing some cognitive shifts (nothing alarming but certainly different), but so far the body is holding up surprisingly well. Judith is doing more teaching nowadays than producing her own art, but both are active (and satisfying) qualities. Mark, now 34, continues making custom skis (www. parlorskis.com), and Glen, 32, and his Spanish wife have relocated from Madrid to UC-Davis where he is well embarked on his PhD in Linguistics (special interest, adult language acquisition). Bennett, 15 months, Mark and Meredith’s son, and my only grandchild, just started walking.

And so the cycle continues to turn! As

Members of the Class of 1963 gathered at Louis Postel’s house.

will be recorded elsewhere in the News, my brother Jim ’56 died two days before his birthday (in September) after a slow decline. Only Andy and I left of our generation.

Cynthia Shelmerdine writes: My partner and I are loving being residents of Brunswick, ME. Though retired from teaching Classics at the University of Texas at Austin, I am still doing research, working on an excavation in Greece each summer, and doing some adjunct teaching at Bowdoin College, which is down the street from us. That still leaves time to enjoy other things, like music (we play recorders weekly with friends in the area) and agility with my golden retriever, Callie. I have loved getting back in touch with Shady Hill classmates, sharing memories of our time there and catching up with people’s lives. Long may the reconnection continue!

David Lettvin tells us that: I have worked as a clown, cook, brown bat photographer, herbalist, mechanic, octopus tutor, perfumer, poet, rare book & manuscript researcher, reporter, roustabout, sea urchin egg counter, singer, storyteller, tarot reader, teacher, technical writer (in addition to 300+ manuals, I have also written papers and guides on single source software documentation methods and marketing of technical solutions), television station manager, tobacconist, tour guide to Pompeii and Herculaneum.

These days I mostly write. It’s probably not surprising that I have been diagnosed ADD. I am primarily vegetarian, love all kinds of music, and have lived in Cambridge, Craftsbury VT, Naples IT, Paris, St. Louis MO, Old Lyme CT, Milwaukee WI, Norfolk VA and Kirkland WA. For much of the past 30 years I have

Members of the Class of 1963 gathered at Kari (Laursen) Shaner’s home.

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lived in a small town north of Boston.

My beautiful, artistic wife and I have four intelligent, good-looking, and otherwise exemplary grown children. My current projects include a cookbook, two novels and a biography of a colonial American criminal.

Paul Gifford reports: The major change for Carla and me was my unplanned retirement (elimination of my position at Kaiser) in June of 2014; we are still adjusting to the changes. I may have mentioned that in last year’s news; the part I find amazing is just how much adjusting it takes to make this work. Still a “work in progress.” As far as daily activities, I’ve been busy both with the Homeowners’ Association at our condominium (I’m on the board and we’ve been doing a lot of stuff) and more importantly with Psychic Horizons, the meditation school where I teach. I’m working now on getting set up for online classes, which takes more than I expected. Check it: www.psychichorizons.com. I also honored my SHS roots by taking a woodworking class—I remain endlessly grateful to Mr. Martin for his wonderful teaching. Our adventure for 2015 was a trip with the kids and the grandkids to Paradise Point, a “family resort” in San Diego. It was great for the grandkids but a little tiring for the adults.

After that, we drove back to LA and helped take the grandkids for the first day of first grade—amazing and wonderful to see all that happen.

Lizzie (Hawthorne) O’Beirne-Ranelagh writes from England: Husband John retired at the end of 2014, but has been taking up consultancies and trying to get a project off the ground, so I seem to have seen even less of him than usual this year!

I’m still working with farmers to improve the farm environment for wildlife and to protect soil and water. In my so-called spare time I still have 3 elderly horses and a flock of sheep, in addition to the organic farm (looked after by contractors), and am very involved in a mandolin orchestra and a ceilidh band playing mandola, banjo, mandolin and guitar. The latest news is a border collie puppy to join my Jack Russell terrier—I’d forgotten quite how much work puppies can be but she’s beginning to fit in and will one day earn her keep working with the sheep!

Alice (Ross) Coda writes: All remains well enough in NH, barring some aches and pains of aging, and the never-ending political pounding that comes with being First In the Nation, something to be fought over and preserved, apparently.

Arnold and I keep talking about downsizing, but have no clear idea of where we want to relocate. In the meantime we keep busy with gardening, both vegetables (Arnold) and landscape. I also have just gotten back into knitting, and have begun volunteering at the library. Stepson Matthew and son Daniel are both doing well, the former in California with his wife Jenn, and the latter in northern Virginia, though he spends a good deal of time driving to North Carolina to see his girlfriend. The reconnection with classmates has been a wonderful bonus to this year, and I hope it continues and expands to include those who seem to be “missing.”

1964 Nick Deutsch 43 Linnaean Street, #42A Cambridge, MA 02138-1569

deutsch.eubanks @ gmail.com

Dry dock, 1958

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At the end of 2015, Holly Cheever wrote: Greetings, dear ones, I enjoyed our 50th last year very much, and hope it will inspire us all to stay in touch, even if only via class notes. I continue to work very full time in my veterinary practice, and look forward to cutting back next summer for a few more years, health and hiring a fourth vet permitting. My grown children are all well, and my major joy this year is the birth of our first grandchild, Weylin Sommer Mott, five weeks ago. He is adorable but too far away, in

southwestern Colorado, to the tune of three planes, a rental car and an hour drive. I yearn for the days when all my relatives (30 first cousins, and we’re not even Catholic) lived within a 30-minute radius of Boston. My Parkinson’s disease is a very mild and very slowly progressive form. It is not yet impacting my activities and I am grateful that, if I have to have a health issue, it is not a life-threatening and dire one. My love to you all!

From Susan Martin Mahony: Fresh in my mind is the fine time we had at our 50th reunion last year. More and more I realize now what a unique gift it was to attend Shady Hill. The experience profoundly shaped who I am.

This year I have seen my encore career expand pleasantly. I am teaching violin privately—young beginners as well as adults. Also I am teaching groups in an after-school program near home. I enjoy it greatly, and it is a fine integration of my teaching experience and musical abilities.

My husband and I have refurbished a dear old camping trailer, and we get a kick out of traveling around Vermont exploring its places and histories, especially when the swimming and canoeing are good!

Anyone coming up to Vermont do give us a call. Best to all!

Your Class Correspondent Nick Deutsch adds: Back in early October, I was surprised and delighted to receive a voice message from Phil Somervell, who was in Cambridge briefly and unexpectedly. As he currently lives in Alaska, this was a rare opportunity to see one another.

We managed to get together over coffee and tea and catch up. Thanks, Phil! I hope that other classmates who live in or visit the Boston area will consider getting in touch, now that Clinton and I are settled in Cambridge.

1965 Betsy Brackett writes: I’m set to retire as of February 2016! I’ll have my going away luncheon Feb 9th, Mardi Gras with masks and beads and Southern cooking!

I tell everyone that when I retire I will make more quilts. I hope to get to Shady Hill this spring. Hope to see many of my class. Last year our get together was just a taste.

1966 Margaret Bullitt-Jonas 83 Bancrof t Road Northampton, MA 01060

margaretbj @ aol.com

As usual, I marvel at the wide range of interests in our class—artistic, educational, religious, political, and just about everything else you can think of. Our 50th reunion is this spring, and I hope that many of us will gather at SHS in June. I miss our friends, Judy Selverstone and Tim Harkness, who have already passed on.

Kathy Agoos headed from Australia to the US to enjoy “our first white Christmas in 8 years. Things in our family are not much different since last year: one more grandchild, courtesy of Michael’s older daughter Bibi (and a bit more babysitting) and job changes for some kids and spouses. I continue to enjoy travels and volunteering (Melbourne Visitor Centre and live radio broadcasting for Vision Australia Radio), plus tennis and a crazy dog. I’m so sorry that the reunion is not in early August, when we’ll be briefly in the US prior to an all-Agoos sibling week on a canal boat in Wales. If anyone would like to have another catch-up in Cambridge/Boston, we will be there the second week of August!

Lark Batteau returned from Paris and now lives in an old farmhouse four blocks from downtown Santa Barbara: With my Paris cabaret troupe, Bohemian Dreams, I have had a great time performing all around Santa Barbara for both public and private events. I write the script, direct and promote. As Zizou, I play the guitar and sing, while Gregore (Gregory Beeman) plays the accordion and JeanPaul (Riccardo Morrison) riles up the audience. Members of my ‘dynamic gypsy troupe’ sweep you away to another time and place. If only for one night, disappear into the dim and decadent world of post World War II Paris. With French songs, English poetical translations and intrigue, our sexy little cabaret will entertain and distract you down in their dilapidated dream café called Pigalle Brutal. Who knew I’d be wearing sexy corsets in public at 65? I have always been a late bloomer.

People often say that we seem like real Bohemians. They have no idea. Gregory, Riccardo and I used to live together in

Lark Batteau ’66, in her role as the Children’s Festival Director of Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Festival, wears the outfit of “Goddess with a Thousand Eyes,” shown here with her goddaughter Taran and baby Bodhi, who is chewing on one of the Third Eyes.

a warehouse, where there was no real kitchen, no hot water or shower, and I had to climb a 12-foot ladder to get to the loft sleeping area, with pee bucket, cup of water and my iPhone for music balanced on one arm. Some of the most creative days of my life! There’s something to be said for a lack of creature comforts.

Letty Belin reports from DC: My kids, Miles and Miranda, and daughterin-law, Rachael, are looking forward to a post-Christmas week in snowy Santa Fe, which we have missed in recent years as we have found ourselves on the east coast.

I hope to recharge my batteries for the last 12 months of work in the Obama Administration. One of the joys of being in DC these past 7 years working on environment, water and climate change issues has been overlapping passions and work with Margaret (Peggy) Bullitt. Of course Margaret is following the high spiritual path while I am mired in the political and legal trenches, but it is wonderful to share our journeys once again, 50 years after leaving SHS. Kitty (Waring) Block writes: This is a momentous year—husband Frank is set to retire. It’s been in the process for a year. (When you run an adoption agency, you don’t just give your two weeks notice.) I’m definitely looking forward to spending more time with my best buddy!

We’ve got some trips planned including one riding halfway across Missouri on the Katy trail, Missouri’s longest rails-to-trails trail. Might need a bit of training for that!

Our future is somewhat up for grabs. We know the Lord has something for us to do

in our ‘latter years’; we’re just not yet sure what. In the meantime, we look forward to spending more time with our kids and 21 grandkids. As a career homemaker, my life is still full and happy. Besides time with family, I’m active at our church, developing my skills as a watercolorist, teaching a Bible study, and learning how to reupholster furniture. There’s always one more project than I have time for.

Any SHS alums passing through the St. Louis area, send an email (Kwblock@ gmail.com). We live one hour south of the city in a beautiful rural area and we have space.

Kitty reports that her brother, Christopher Waring, ’68, is alive and well in northern Vermont, where he’s taught high school science for many years.

Now the department head, he is two years away from retirement. He and his wife, Marie, have two charming grandchildren.

Kitty Brazelton sent an ecstatic email: I have just come off a weekend of first rehearsals for the 2015–16 revision of my opera ‘The Art of Memory.’ My grant from Opera America covers only the initial stages of development, so we have a long way to go, but right now I think we can fly. My grant proposal was to bring in musicians early rather than late, as is traditional in opera. So I had an ensemble of 5 singers and 8 instrumentalists, including violin, cello, electric guitar, double bass, alto sax, keyboard live-processed through delay controlled by Max/ MSP and percussion—udu, pandeiro, cajon and modified kit. I’m in heaven with the after-ring in my mind. The opera is set in 4th-century early Christian Milan as the Roman Empire is falling. It’s an opera about addiction, and recovery from addiction, through the lens of Augustine’s Confessions. But Augustine is played by a woman, and I play his baptizer, Ambrose. The Nicene Christian viewpoints expressed by Augustine that I’ve translated directly from Latin (thanks Kitty (Waring) Block ’66

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to Mr. Candage) reveal a more Buddhist monotheism than I’d ever thought possible! Why do we continue to believe religions are separate? I am still teaching full-time, making my students cry and laugh, and loving them desperately as they grow before my eyes. My daughter Rosie (24) is graduated and engaged, living with me in New York City, and getting started in the fashion event industry. I spent a lot of time on Cape Cod these past years to be with my aging parents. Mom died in August but Dad lives on, 97, and still goes to work!

Margaret BullittJonas ’66

Your class correspondent, Margaret (Peggy) Bullitt-Jonas, is deeply engaged in the interfaith climate justice movement as Missioner for Creation Care in the Episcopal Diocese of Western MA. In September I headed to DC for the Week of Moral Action on Climate Justice to welcome Pope Francis, gave a prayer at an interfaith Yom Kippur service beside the National Mall, and helped lead a religious delegation that visited the State Department’s climate office to deliver an open letter to President Obama. (Plus I got to see Letty Belin—was that a great week or what?) Another recent highlight was being a speaker at Boston’s biggest climate rally yet, which was held on the same day that the U.N. climate accord was reached in Paris. (More at: RevivingCreation.org) Being with family members gets sweeter every year. My husband Jonas and I are preparing to downsize and will put our home on the market this spring. His cancer is in remission and we savor every day. Our son, Sam Jonas, ’04, is living in DC, completing a Master’s program of Liberal Studies at Georgetown U and working as an athletic coach at National Cathedral School.

Mary-Ellen “Mel” Candage reports: It’s a watershed year for me and my husband Steve, as we finally packed our trunks and moved to the tiny commune

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of St-Cirq, where I bought a house 24 years ago (this is our next-door neighbor: http://www.grottedusorcier.com/). It’s a dream that’s been in the making for over 30 years. Thank you, Miss Hajenian, for sending me a postcard of Lascaux the summer after 2nd grade, and Monsieur Vincent, for drilling me on ‘Jules, as tu vu la mûle?’ Needless to say, living in a rural community of 112 farmers, truffle hunters, manor owners, tree fellers, lauze roofmakers, hunters and fishermen, glassblowers, a good handful of Le Pen supporters, and not a few widowed great-grandmothers has been a considerable change from living in the heart of downtown DC, but such a welcome one! I fear we are never going to want to return. We still have writing, editing, and travel consulting to keep us busy when we’re not knocking down walls, painting, digging up the garden, refinishing old furniture, or filling up on delicacies at the local markets, but instead of gazing out over our desks at presidential motorcades screaming up 18th St., we gaze out over the alluvial plains of the Vézère Valley, the local train, and fields of cows and sheep.

We keep busy by hosting lunches for small groups, giving cooking lessons, and doing some touring of markets and local producers and artisans. In summer, the Périgord is brimming over with visitors, so we hope that come May or June of next year we can expand on those endeavors.

In the meantime, we’re enjoying the quiet of winter. If anyone is ever in ‘the neighborhood,’ let us know, or if anyone needs help arranging a trip most anywhere in France, be in touch. Bonnes fêtes à tous!

Zanna Hull Feitler (Susan Hull): I had a very full past year. After the passing of my husband David in October 2014, I bought a piece of land, commissioned an architect, readied our big house for sale, moved to an apartment, sold the house, formed a LEED team, and hired a builder. In August I scattered David’s ashes in Frenchman’s Bay, ME, during a small family gathering at our family summer place. Our two sons are a great comfort to me. I am relieved to be done with my year of ‘firsts’ as a widow, and am starting to resume social life with contra dancing and other gatherings.

My TM teaching has continued to be a great source of satisfaction. My new house will be in a special Maharishi Vastu

development at Lake O’ Springs village (http://www.ohiovedichomes.com/) certified as a Maharishi Vastu house, and is on target to exceed a LEED Platinum rating. I consider this building project an extension of my teaching career in Transcendental Meditation. It will be a beautiful, peaceful, life-supporting building that will support health and wealth, and will be very low maintenance as I approach retirement age. I expect to break ground next spring, and to be moved in by this time next year. Best wishes to all the class of ’66 as we become eligible for Medicare and retirement! Personally I expect to keep on teaching for at least the next decade, because I love it so much.

Writing from a sweet part of rural NH,” Kevin Frank: I have a life that involves all kinds of physical movement and many different domains of activity.

We repair the old and newer buildings on the property, host and teach residential workshops, rent the summer cottage to families, and now also an AirBnB apartment that is year-round, cut and split firewood, hike, ski, and run, write articles about movement and perception, teach movement for the Rolf Institute, and do the endless volunteer work that goes with working for a non profit school.

We both have a private practice in our studio that is just across the driveway. We hiked last year in UT and CO, and Ojai, CA, and snorkeled in Bahia Honda State Park in FL. Each morning Caryn and I sit together and then move together and talk about movement, before we start our day.

Our website is http://resourcesinmovement.com/, for anyone who wants to see some visuals.

Peter Galbraith recalls a farewell dinner for our class at Shady Hill: The teachers read out predictions and, if I recall mine correctly, it entailed public office in an obscure hamlet on Mt. Washington.

Looking back on my career, I realize that my professional life has involved places that were, back in 1966, even more obscure than that New Hampshire hamlet: Croatia, Kurdistan, and East Timor. I have even held public office in northern New England. Earlier this year, I completed two terms in the Vermont Senate. These days I am working a lot on Syria. I just came back from my third trip in a year to the Kurdish controlled part of Syria where I am helping Syria’s

Peter Galbraith ’66 with Yazidi refugees near the Syrian border in Iraqi Kurdistan.

minorities (Kurds, Alawites, Christians, and Druze) prepare for possible peace negotiations. My older son Andrew now has a two-year-old son, making me a very proud grandfather. They all live in San Anselmo, CA. My daughter Liv is a freshman at St. Andrew’s in Scotland, while my younger son Erik is in 11th grade at the Commonwealth School.

Ralph Gifford laments: We are the generation who just missed taking Smitty’s bookbinding course—to my everlasting regret—and have now experienced the rise of the e-book and the decline of newspapers and magazines. Meanwhile, I remain a ‘double-dipper,’ retired from the government but hired back as a contractor to train our incoming staff of international agricultural specialists, which has been a lot of fun and also ensures that I focus on the future and not the past. Linda and I live in a part of DC with lots of trees and brick sidewalks, so I don’t miss Cambridge as much as I thought I would.

Another child just got married, but so far no grandchildren.

Caty (Kessler) Greene poses the question that all of us are asking: “Fiftieth reunion, pause, am I that old? I have a wonderful and crazy life in a very small town in the Florida panhandle, called Apalachicola. It’s historic, and near some really beautiful un-crowded beaches, but do I get to go? Well, only on weekends.

I’m the librarian for the very small municipal library. Despite a very small city budget, I’m poised to build a new city library with state and endowment funds. We’re planning new programming for children and will have a much larger space for all services. When I’m not doing library business, I make jewelry and crafts with Apalachicola Bay oyster shells (it’s my hippie side I can’t seem to suppress). I sell at

festivals and in lots of local shops. My two sons are doing well. My younger, Sam, is married, and he and his wife are expecting their first child. I’m so excited about being a grandparent at age 65.

Anna (Stendahl) Langenfeld reports: A busy year for the usually quiet Stendahl/Langenfelds: first, my mother’s 90th birthday party with over 100 of her friends and family present to celebrate an amazing life; then our son, Nick married his lovely wife in May, a completely charming home-grown wedding held in the bride’s family’s yard. It’s amazing what two detail-oriented, creative people can create. After the wedding, my husband, Eric and I went on an Alaskan cruise.

What a wonderful experience, breathtakingly beautiful. Now we are back to a more normal pace, enjoying grand­ children, life and Medicare.

Checking in from Vermont, Tim Segar writes: “I still teach sculpture, drawing and design to undergrads at Marlboro College, along with my wife Cathy, who teaches painting and printmaking. My own artwork continues as well (http:// segarsculpture.com/). Daughter Nora, a physician, lives in Chicago, works at Northwestern Medical center, and got married last summer. Daughter Lucy lives in Hudson, NY, teaches writing to college students, and works with young kids, as well doing environmental education.

We’re also very involved in educational projects in Cambodia, having traveled there four times with students on grants from Freeman Foundation; we’re now sponsoring a small school there, started by one of our translators, where students go to work and teach (any and all support is welcome. (www.khmerchildren.org).

Thanks, and hope to see some of you in Vermont.

John Sheldon: I’m living in Amherst, and recently passed my 50th year of playing the guitar. Lately, I have been doing monologues with the guitar, one called ‘The Red Guitar,’ and a new one, ‘My Journey to the Center of the Earth.’

Making plans to take these performances to Europe next summer and fall. I guess, like a lot of us, I am approaching retirement age, but I have no plans to stop learning, practicing, teaching, and performing music, as well as composing for theater and film. I still play songs from SHS days, ‘Signor Abate,’ ‘Ring

John Sheldon ’66

Dem Bells,’ and ‘Hold the Wind,’ being favorites. I sometimes say a little prayer of gratitude for Miss Abbott, and her swirling, rocking piano. Those assemblies have really stayed with me! My older daughter, Spring, is a chef, and her sister Elisabeth runs a farm program for the developmentally disabled. Susan and I recently traveled with our daughters to the Peruvian Amazon. We came back with a new appreciation for life in all of its forms.

Steve Wessler writes: This is my 40th year living in Maine, the past three on Mount Desert Island. I work with a number of different human rights organizations in Europe and the US on a variety of issues including conflict resolution; working with students and faculty to prevent harassment, bullying and violence; and developing and implementing training curricula for police, educators and others. While I no longer practice, my experiences as a civil rights lawyer are important to the work I do. I have been teaching courses on human rights issues at colleges/universities for 15 years. My two sons and partners live in Brooklyn and work on social justice and civil rights issues. Living on MDI and hiking, canoeing and snowshoeing in Acadia National Park helps sustain me between work trips.

1968 Tesi Kohlenberg 93 Garfield Street Watertown, MA 02472

te sik @ rcn.com

Peter Agoos writes: I’m designing exhibits and scenery, and producing events, and making installation art from time to time; Diane’s teaching art, and making artwork about climate change, some of which (huge watercolors of polar bears) as been floated and photographed in arctic icemelt waters; Zoe ’99 finished med school in May and is a first-year family medicine resident in

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Philadelphia; Ian ’02 is finishing a masters in mechanical engineering at Columbia and headed (perhaps) into aerospace (likes hot parts of engines). And Christmas 2015 will see an all-SHS-all-sibling gathering in USA: Ted ’65, Kathy ’66, me, and Julie ’71.

George Beal has moved to Avon Hill, living in the Wexlers’ house and writes: I occasionally walk the dog by Steve Cohn’s old house and by Steve Thoma’s, not to mention Laurie Pierce’s, Chris Bator’s and Andrea Mason’s. Other than that, life goes on, with Charlotte ’08 expected to graduate from college this spring.

When Andrew Bundy reminded George about our first grade Circus Play, George said, “ I probably mistakenly thought of myself as a baseball player; that baseball players did not act; and sat out the show. I do remember one May Day, Henry Woolsey and I refused to put on rabbit costumes and sat defiantly on the mats (in street clothes) as the rest of the class performed for the School.

Sarah Bullitt wonders when we might next have a reunion, as she’d like to come. For the past 4 years I have been living on the rural coast of Maine where the extraordinary beauty of the land and the simplicity of the life brings me great joy. I have had a full and rich life thus far. Most of my life I was a member of a religious community, and after having worked in classical ballet, education, and health care, I retired early to live a contemplative life suited to my personal rhythm and to explore other practices of spirituality. I have three beautiful children, and am accompanied by my beloved cats.

Gary Cowan says: I’ve come within a mile or so of full circle—Hilliard Street to Porter Square, where I’m in my 15th

Math activities—then and now

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year of bookselling, and where I continue to see the odd SHSer. (Few months ago a familiar face turned out to be Rufus.)

I spend as much time as possible in our New England mountain forests. Presently working on dispersing 50 years’ worth of stuff prior to selling our Concord house.

As to where yours truly ends up, I’m thinking some sort of ascetic bark lean-to in the woods (with bookshelves). Holly Rockwell Celerier showed up in the store years ago, the day before she and her man were moving to New Orleans.

Mark Finn writes that nothing much has changed save for the growth of his kids: My oldest is a junior at Earlham studying Arabic and Spanish. The younger brother is doing a gap year in Israel studying music before starting Oberlin next fall.

Matt Gutmann: News this year is a move to a house on the water Stonington, CT. I’m still teaching at Brown, but with retirement in sight. Please stop by; it’s a short hop off I-95 if anyone is looking for a pitstop on the way to or from Boston. gutmann@brown.edu.

Peter Howe, wrote in part about Will von Stade: Twenty years ago, we moved to southwestern New Hampshire, and early on I saw Will a few times. However, life seemed to speed up, and our paths did not cross. It seems to me that the words of the obituary, “…the kindest of men, the finest of friends…” sum up who Will was to those who knew and loved him. One of the memories of my time at Shady Hill School, which I carry with me is learning Psalm 100. While I did not graduate from Shady Hill with the class of 1968, I recognize that my time in Shady Hill was incredible and unique, at a variety of levels. During the past five years I have served on the Board of Trustees of The Grammar School (TGS),

a small independent school located in Putney Vermont, a school our daughters attended. In many ways TGS traces its roots as a school rooted in progressive education to Shady Hill. Also, the TGS has benefited by having staff who were trained at Shady Hill’s Apprentice Program. As Shady Hill celebrates its 100th anniversary, many thanks to all who have been part of the school, and thanks to all who will be part of it in the future.

Kathy Logue reported that she lost her husband and life partner of 38 years, Ernie Mendenhall, to cancer in September, so is gradually acclimating herself to a very different life. She has the benefit of love and great support from her mother Margaret Logue (still teaching other teachers how to teach reading to dyslexic students via Skype), her daughter Megan (now a sophomore at Smith), her three stepchildren and their spouses, and her five grandchildren (ages 12-27). Kathy is still a Town Treasurer on Martha’s Vineyard. If any classmates would like to write to Kathy, her address is: PO Box 804, West Tisbury, MA 02575-0804.

Jennifer Gordon Lovett: I’m still living in Stamford VT with my husband Chip and assorted animals. We also have a home in Belize and are about to depart next week to prepare for the 4th End of the World Marathon which Chip organizes (with a bit of help from me) and directs. It is a great race that raises funds for high school scholarships in Belize, where high school is not free… I am in the midst of having my first book published. Beavers Away! is written for kids and based on a true story in which beavers were dropped by parachute into the wilds of Idaho in 1948. On the home front, we are now grandparents times three. Our four boys are all well. The oldest, Justin, a middle school science teacher, lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons, ages 6 and 4. David, owns a business in Williamstown and has a one year old son.

Dan, is in his final year of a Master’s in architecture at Pratt Institute in NYC and Jonathan, the youngest, lives at home and works nearby as a Volvo mechanic.

He is currently restoring a 1940 Cadillac LaSalle in our garage and hopes to start his own classic car restoration business.

Debbie Kahn writes: I continue to teach at BU and have become completely

absorbed by early 11th-century Europe and its visual remnants, especially sculpture. The brutality of the period makes the world of now seem just a little less disturbing. Beheadings excruciating behaviors towards women and children and any “other” religious persuasion were the norm but if you made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem all was forgiven. I’m spending as much time looking at buildings as I can. My son Will ’07 graduates from college this spring.

As for your class correspondent, Tesi Kohlenberg, I continue to work four different part time jobs in child psychiatry. Our big one, Asa ’08 is graduating Amherst College this spring, double majoring in Math and Music. Asa has been deeply involved in the renewed campus activism in the wake of Mizzou and Yale, bringing nuance as well as passion to it, and I am absurdly proud. Our daughter has both intellectual disability and now serious emotional illness. Caring for her takes a great deal of thought and energy, as well as engagement with many infuriating and inadequate systems. On the up side, it has brought some terrific human beings into our lives. And then there’s the world; as of today’s writing Paris and Beirut and San Bernardino and the horrifying refugee situation, the images of police killing young black men (not new, but newly visible) and Donald Trump, may the gods help us. By the time this is published, these things may be very much displaced in our minds by something else, but so it goes.

Andrea Mason: Nolin dropped by as I was writing up these notes, a lovely surprise. She sends along this photo of her son Alex receiving his Associate Degree of Arts and Sciences and a certificate in computer game design, with the highest honors, a deeply meaningful event

Andrea Mason’s son, Alex, receives his Associate Degree of Arts and Sciences.

for the whole family and for his school, which was very proud to honor Alex.

Alex achieved this in the face of Muscular Dystrophy, living on campus with the support of his parents and a team of devoted aides and physical therapists.

Mort Rosenthal left us suddenly in March 2015. He and Peter Agoos had been friends since their moms were pregnant with them, and Peter’s remarks at Mort’s memorial service are full of humor and love. Here is one of many wonderful sections: “So now I want to talk about Mort’s heart.

I’m not that interested in its problematic mechanical deficits, which showed up with a heart attack in his early 20s. The really remarkable thing about Mort’s heart, the thing worth remembering, was its great emotional size—anti-Grinch scale; expansive, inclusive, generous, and open. Mort could be and regularly was ornery, dismissive, aggressive, condescending, and prickly, but as he grew and grew up, he mellowed and his emotional heart came forward. It took him a lot of years and hard work to grow into this oversized organ and let it become the most notable thing about him. This was the real engine and genius of Mort, the part of him that really drew all of us here, the part of him that made it possible to create the great, messy, warm, chaotic mosh pit of a family enterprise that he and Maryann built with Solomon, Emma, Ben, Michael, and Alex, and even Hal. They all threw their arms wide—a Mort gesture if ever there was one—and invited us all to join the party, to be a part of their family community, to be a community of families. We have all been and will always be members of it. That’s the glory and legacy of Mort’s great, big heart.”

Dan “Donny” Stendahl writes: Still in Ipswich (27 years), Susan and I married 30. Two grandchildren. Stendahl Tree Service 40 years. Saw Willie Peck at his house in Salem. Niel Wright is a Facebook friend. We went to Palfrey St. School along with a number of other ShadyHillers. Life is good.

We learned with sadness of the death in 2008 of Will von Stade, who lived in New Hampshire pursuing a range of interests outlined in his obituary: http:// www.sentinelsource.com/news/obituaries/ william-f-von-stade/article_42ac385a19c3-5fe8-8a84-4261677bf33b.html.

Andrew Bundy wrote: I remember Will with fondness. He and I played together often when we were little. He was a BIG kid when we were six and seven, and played the ‘he-man’ in the first grade

circus we did with Miss Raoul, complete with a huge papier maché barbell. He had to apply all his acting skills in order to demonstrate just how heavy a load he was lifting, all the while with a little smile on his face. Tesi, you wore a kimono and were some kind of exotic presence, (fortune teller?) already showing your cultural curiosity and breadth, and I was a fierce lion tamer, with a braided whip, ahem. Sarah Bullitt was a horse, Rufus de Rham and Kevin Butler were clowns, somebody was a trapeze artist.

Niel Wright sends: I’m retired in Centreville, VA, and quite happy to have left my work week commute and the dysfunctionality of Congressional staff work behind. I have various retirement projects under way, including genealogy and relocating old friends. To that end I recently attended my 40th Harvard reunion! Hard to believe.

Niel has started a SHS Class of ’68 Facebook page (https://www.facebook. com/groups/354487161342785/) and would love to see more of us join it.

1970 Ekua Holmes 72 Monroe Street, Apt 3 Roxbury, MA 02119

ekuaholme s @ gmail.com Joan Bulliner-Durant 38 Royal Crest Drive, Apt 8 Nashua, NH 03060

bullinerjoan @ gmail.com

Just one Shady Hill memory, tale or diatribe. This year’s Shady Hill Class of ‘70 notes are about what we remember. Short.

Sweet. Or whatever you wanted to share.

Priscilla Cobb: I remember making wooden knives with Miss Roul to cut out blocks of snow for building igloos; making paper maché puppets with Miss Gatchell; performing Philoctetes outside; scraping a sheep hide to make parchment for the Medieval Fair in 5th grade; the leather arm chair in the library; and the chicks hatching in the science building, and . . .

Ekua Holmes: I entered Shady Hill in the 4th grade, just months after my father died earlier that summer. I was sad, numb, but excited to go to the beautiful school on the shady hill in Cambridge; the school with an art studio

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and woodworking and silversmithing.

Mr. McKernan was the perfect first teacher for my new situation. He made me feel at home by introducing me to a world of powerful gods and mischievous demigods, beautiful star crossed goddesses and talking trees and rocks. A world I could lose myself in through reading. I was a bit shy and hadn’t really found my voice until I met Joan Bulliner in the 6th grade. She later told me that she’d targeted me for friendship after seeing me joyfully swinging on the swings through the window. It was an easy sell as we were both part creative, part intellect and part crazy. Our friendship has endured nearly five decades. Each day we made the hourlong commute to Shady Hill by taking at least one bus, two trains, a trolley and then walking the quarter mile or so up Coolidge Hill Road. Daunting in the winter, but fun in fall and spring. Laughter, storytelling, crushes on boys (I won’t say who) and comparing favorite teachers.

I remember collecting what seemed like hundreds of horseshoe chestnuts on the way. They were so beautifully brown and lustrous. I memorized the shapes and colors of houses on Coolidge Hill Road until, over the years, they blended into a well worn backdrop. I remember: folk dancing with the Taylors, music with Ms Abbott and John Langstaff (sung on his album), Dona Nobis Pachem, ice box cake and blueberry cobbler, searching for tadpoles in Mt. Auburn Cemetary, weeping willows (the first I’d ever seen), a pool party in Lexington when I almost drowned, playing with teddy bears, hot fudge sundaes from Baileys in Harvard Square after school, and the beloved Maypole dance. I can still hear the music.

The pool of memory is deep and wide.

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Every now and then, it’s fun to take a swim. Thank you all for jumping in with Joan and me. See you same time next year.

Maude Fish: I was only at Shady Hill for two years, arriving in 7th grade. One if you had to clue me in gently that SHS only went through 9th grade. This was a body blow. Aside from this, I remember incredible classes with Mr. Bellows and Ms. Caudill. Do you remember the binders we used to keep for each subject and how huge and heavy they became? I also had a blast in Latin. I remember learning to play field hockey thanks to Ms. Hardy who also challenged me to try high jumping. I flopped in every way. I remember music classes and all-school assemblies with Mr. Langstaff. Little did I appreciate then how much he was teaching us with his folk songs from around the world.

My memories generally fall in the fond category.

John F. Hughes: I recall playing the part of Abraham in some short play, perhaps involving the burning bush(?) that was performed outdoors. I remember several science-class demonstrations including: (1) Two milk-bottles, one filled with warm water and a drop of red food coloring, the other with cold water. The warm one was set upright on a table, and the cold one had its top covered with an index card, and then inverted while the teacher held onto the card, and placed the whole assembly on top of the warm one, so that from bottom to top, we had the upright bottle of red water, and index card, and an inverted bottle of cold water. The teacher then pulled out the card, allowing the two liquids to mix, but what happened was that the cold water dropped, and the warm water rose, and

we ended up with a faintly pink bottle of cold water on the bottom and a mostly red bottle of warm water on the top, with a little mixing at the interface. Very cool! (2) A discussion of how much air weighs (with a lot of wrong and half-right answers, like “14.7 pounds at sea level”, followed by an experiment in which we weighed a flask filled with air and capped, then pumped out (most of ) the air with a vacuum pump, and re-weighed it, learning that the flask had contained a few grams of air. I also remember learning how to thread the drawstring for my “Indian pants” in (perhaps) third grade. We’d sewn these cotton pants, and perhaps dyed them using teabags or something. To thread the drawstring, we attached the string to something—a paperclip perhaps—and pushed it into the hem, gathering lots of material at one end, and then grabbing the pin through the cloth at the other end and pulling, and repeating that process to draw the drawstring all the way through. I thought it was the coolest idea I’d ever seen (still do). In first grade, some visitor came to teach one class (perhaps it was someone interviewing for the teacher training program), and this person asked for words to illustrate the use of each letter (“apple” for “A”, etc.), and then to illustrate various two-letter combinations (“shoe” for “sh”, for instance). And someone—I have this feeling it was Aaron or Addie, but it was a long time ago—came up with the word “church” as an illustration for “ch”. I think that may have been the first moment in my life when I thought to myself, “Wow, there are people in the world who are a lot cleverer than I am.

Ned Jackson: Take your pick. I couldn’t stop once I started. Miss Caudill crying because we were driving her so crazy. I am grateful to this day for the pleasure of having read John Brown’s Body all the way through. I’m no poet but there was so much there. Building the Parthenon out of sugar cubes in Mr. McKernan’s class, when most other people were out at recess and I was still on crutches after my femur was broken (hit by car) in the 1st few days of fourth grade. He was so great—came all the way out to Brookline to help keep me up with the class. Writing thoughts and wondering what we were supposed to feel and understand in third grade with Miss Hajenian after JFK was

shot. An infinity of wonderful songs from Miss Erlich, then Miss Abbot, then Mr. Langstaff (who then turned into the king of Revels, a favorite event through years of trips back to Boston).

Building boats with Mr. Martin to a plan that Derry Cohn had found in Popular Mechanics (I think). I used my version of that boat to coach crew up and down the Charles through college. Miss Swift’s great book suggestions, the beehive, and knowing she had a cool old schooner, the Tyche. Yeah—absence of coolness was a well-established theme for me by 8th–9th grade (Brookline was even more remote than Lexington). Remember Miss Loewenberg’s 9th grade class where we had that little lounge space for hanging out, complete with a record player. The cool music was stuff like Cream’s Disraeli Gears, Jimi Hendrix, etc. So of course I brought in Mozart horn concertos and E. Power Biggs playing Bach on famous organs (still love such music, as well as Cream). OK, so people left the room, but no one was outwardly abusive—thank you. David—Yes Miss Kenney was for Latin, and she had a really nice dog too— golden retriever? Didn’t know about the Jim Lonborg theory. Mrs. Sisson from Mississippi was our math teacher in 7th grade. I don’t remember knowing anything about her politics. What was the name of the woman who introduced us to classification books for identifying insects in 7th grade? I remember thinking their systematic analyses were interesting.

Linda Nathan: I remember the plays, making a prop out of a pig’s bladder for the medieval fair with Mr. Bellows (at least he told me it was a pig’s bladder!)

And when we built an actual igloo in first grade! I’m out in California meeting our new granddaughter, Sana Mir Cohen.

I know some of you have already joined

Linda Nathan ’70 meeting her new granddaughter!

the grandparents’ club but wow!!! What a thrill!

David Paul: There are countless many things that have stayed with me over the years. Somewhat in chronological order: hours and hours playing ghost; building a Greek temple out of sugar cubes to see how it would deteriorate over time, with Mr. McKernan (and being punished and made to sit in the back room with a clock that ran backwards). When I was in the Greek isles a few years ago, the first thing I wanted to know was if Samos was a real island. I was Acostas of Samos, written out in Greek in our wax tablets for writing our lessons. Reading Evenings by the Village of Dikanka and Deep in Siberia’s Mines and absorbing the sense of Russian peasant life with Mr. Hakes.

I could name the tsars in later years but not the presidents. I still remember scenes from Alexander Nevsky. Sergei Eisenstein, Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, Anna Ahkmatova, Dostoevsky, it was magical. My father’s family was from outside of Kiev. They try to tell me now it was Ukraine, but in large part because of Jerry Hakes, I cannot accept it as anything but Russia. Having our Latin teacher, or was she math? Miss Kenney? who we thought was dating Jim Lonborg in 1967, but (I think) she just turned out to be a groupie.

Spending hours with Emma and Emmet and cuisenaire rods with Mr. Lawler. Then there was reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile and getting a sense of what our own educational experience was grounded it.

Around that time, there was a straw vote for president, must have been 1968, and was it the Latin teacher who was from Mississippi who was the only Republican vote? We were not tolerant of that manner of diversity in our midst. Oh, and interviewing Mark Rudd and others in the SDS in the Harvard dorms for some paper or another. Ninth grade was a bit disjointed as I recall.

Peter Rabinowitz: Why are my memories of Shady Hill so much clearer than many other years? Fifth grade: Mr Harding and his accent, “I have an ideer.”

Sixth grade: Ms Kellogg and Africa, having a pan African conference and trying to solve the problems of post-colonialism.

Seventh Grade: Ms. Foote trying to figure out who was talking and passing notes, and getting us to play Mercantilism.

Eighth grade: Mr. Nordahl and the

French Revolution—his absolute fascination with the topic that was infectious, and I felt like Danton and Robespierre were about to knock on the door. Ninth grade: Mr. Blake trying to keep the lid on a bunch of rebellious teenagers as Harvard went on strike and everything seemed more interesting than studying. Yes it was Ms. Kenney who taught Latin- she was pretty glamorous with her tall boots, which made Latin much more interesting.

She told us how she left public school teaching because the principal was mostly concerned with making sure the window shades all lined up. Mr. Phillips dressed up as a high altitude climber for science assembly, the science building, and the teachers who would stay after class to help me with an independent project on chick embryos. The contest to design an egg machine to drop from the top of a building. Early morning birding around the school and Mt Auburn Cemetery on spring mornings with Ms. Raoul and Dr. Robey, listening to the Baltimore orioles and warblers in the willows, Soccer with Mr. Vincent—the thrill of playing on a really good team and having the referees tell us that. Mr. Lawler and Emma and Emmett. The book of illustrated Beatles songs with lyrics that sat in the classroom in ninth grade- amazing artwork.

A party at the science teacher’s house and hearing Sergeant Pepper for the first time on the stereo while all of us reeling from the news of the Robert Kennedy assassination. Art class in general—getting the feeling that everyone had something artistic in side them. And the maypole each spring, especially our graduation spring, the feeling of coming of age with an amazing group of people. Thanks for giving us all a chance to share!

Carol Robey: Yes, you all have nice memories that I remember too.

Congratulations to you, Lindy, and the other grandparents! Some of my favorite memories were: of Miss Prescott as she introduced us to monarch butterflies from caterpillar to pupae and finally to the beautiful butterfly, carrying a ‘torch’ for the Greek games (and being Athena), learning how to break in a new book from Mrs. Swift, success with hatching a chicken egg that I watched grow though a membrane (plastic?) in science class, listening to the birds in the woods with Jory Hunkin (sp.?), playing left wing in field

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hockey under Miss Hardy, running hard and hitting a goal, singing the songs with Mr. Langstaff that I think became part of his Revels Christmas celebrations.

Aaron Thomas: Miss Morgan in Beginners reading a book to the class about a lobster, and a couple of other underwater animals. Also, Mimi Kessler bringing in her older sister’s copy of Meet the Beatles, and this must have been 1964, so we had a group of 5 or 6 third graders standing outside on the walk discussing the cultural import of this new band from England. I remember that clearly.

Sacha Sullivan: Hi All! I remember the huge weeping willows and swinging on their bows learning the words to “three, six, nine the goose drank wine . . .” Thank you Miss Swift, for taking me under you wing, and teaching me how to rebind books. I felt so special. And thank you, Mr. Tierny!

Nick Trefethen: I remember discovering the Beatles in, well, probably 1969. At this point the cool kids from Cambridge (coming from Lexington made it very easy to be uncool) said, “Who listens to that old stuff any more?” So I bought about three no-longer-needed used Beatles records from some of you cool ones for, if I remember right, 50 cents each.

Patrick Webb: I have so many fond memories of Shady Hill it is hard to pinpoint any in particular: the first year with Miss Raoul began the journey, studying the Eskimos, my mother writing Aguk of Alaska to help me read; the wild adventure of fourth grade Olympics with our

home-sewn Kytons; playing Phyloctetes with suppurating sore, fifth grade as Caesar in Julius Caesar and then in eighth grade with Mr. Nordal hearing the recording of Dylan Thomas reading Do Not Go Gently and writing my only good poem about my grandfather. Of course Mr. Langstaff began my delight in choral singing that remains a part of my life if only now through listening. I think, however, the art studio was the big thing for me, whether my early sculptures or my later eighth and ninth grade obsessions with Morandi and Cezanne, search and discovery both of the world around us but also the self was always encouraged.

What a place!

1971 Emmy Howe 482 Newhall Road Conway, MA 01341

ehowe @ welle sley.edu

Alexandra Sheldon: I am being an artist more than ever right now. My sons are living in NYC and my stepdaughter has a baby so we are now grandparents. I do a lot of yoga, walking outdoors, painting outdoors and making big abstract paintings of what I image the heavens to look like. I infuse images of saints and great helpers of humanity (John Lennon, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela) into my paintings with the intention of calling on them for help down here on earth.

The Class of 1971’s 40th Reunion at Alexandra Sheldon’s home.

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Tom Loeser: Recently finished with 5 years as Art Dept. Chair. Never thought I would like it as much as I did. Hiring new young professors was the most fun. Cecil our youngest is graduating high school this spring so we will have no kids at home. Upcoming plans include attending the world unicycling championships in San Sebastian Spain in July (Cecil is really good on one wheel). And if everything goes according to plan, I will be teaching for UW-Madison in London in Spring 2017. If anyone can visit Bird and me there.

1972 George Perkins 11 Yerx a Road Cambridge, MA 02140

georgehperkins @ hotmail.com

Helen Bouscaren writes: We are good here in Cambridge. Travis (19) had a great gap year in Barcelona, Micronesia where he worked at the Coral Reef Center on the island of Palau and then finished up in Sydney, Australia. Highlight for me was getting to visit him in Barcelona over Thanksgiving last year and then going to Australia with my niece, Sophie Hollingworth (Sue’s oldest daughter), to trek in the outback and go to the great barrier reef! He is now a freshman at Brown and was recruited for water polo so we have had a lot of fun seeing his games. Lindsay (16) is a junior at CRLS and starting to think about college as she hopes to play soccer as well as get an education :) I will add that as I am writing this, my sister Sue and her daughter Sophie are attending the wedding of Amy Vorenberg’s oldest son Nathan in Sarasota Springs! We are also looking forward to spending Christmas Eve at our house with Sally Onesti Blair and her brother Stephen ’75, their families and parents, Dr. and Mrs. Onesti! Truly coming full circle since we all grew up together on Coolidge Hill.

Paul Klemperer writes: Another busy year. I spent much of the summer in New England and played some great jazz shows with Joe Reid. I ended 2015 with my big annual Festivus Celebration. It’s becoming a popular tradition in Austin, and I bring a mix of Jazz, Latin, Motown and Bollywood to the people. Onward into 2016! www.pksax.com

Helen Bouscaren ’72 and family.

Rich Read writes: After 34 years, on and off, at The Oregonian newspaper, Rich Read is taking a buyout, and plans to spend 10 paid months twiddling his toes. After that, he must land a job, somewhere, in order to send his daughter, Nehalem, through her dream school in Cambridge’s backyard: Tufts University.

If you see him down and out in Harvard Square, toss him a quarter.

And from your loyal class correspondent, George Perkins: William ’09 (21) has an amazing semester in Berlin Fall 2015 a NYU Berlin. He even let us visit. Lucy ’11(18) is in her first year at Bennington, and is currently at a work/ study program in NYC. (What cosmopolitan kids!) My mother recently joined my dad at Cadbury Commons assisted living. Leaving our family house of 60 years is of course a major transition for all. As for me, I seem to be getting busier and busier—not sure how that’s possible at this point.

1974 Orlando Williams 52 Pine Ave Randolph MA 02368

orlandoawilliams @ live.com

Amy Paegel is in Tucson, AZ. She smiles a wicked little smile whenever she thinks of how she conned Orlando Williams into taking over as Class Correspondent.

Orlando Williams, of Randolph is trying to figure out how he became Class Correspondent.

Kate Read Villars visited Shady Hill last spring for the 100th anniversary celebration: Great to see all the new facilities and improvements, as well as all that hasn’t changed, and to sing some of the SHS favorites that Jack Langstaff taught us. As a third generation Shady

George Perkins ’72, his wife, Polly, and children, Lucy ’11, and William ‘09.

Hiller, it was also a chance to remember my great aunt, Kay Sturgis, who was one of the school’s first students when classes were held on the porch of the Hockings’ Cambridge home. Kate is living in Norwich, VT, with her husband, Thom, and working in communications for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the medical school at Dartmouth.

Nina Gurewich Mayer is in Newton.

She has recently been recognized with inclusion in the prestigious Notables List™

by Notable Today™.

Ethan Pettit has an invite for us from Brooklyn, NY: After 3 years of running an art gallery in Brooklyn, we finally had a show with some respectable sales, about half the paintings moved. Thanks are owed to an artist with street cred and pedigree in the BKNY scene—my old friend Robert Egert. And it is also thanks in part to our ramping up the brand and just and doing the million little things you have to do. It’s like any business . . . incremental.

We also have classes in Buddhist art on Saturdays, we publish catalogs, we have great archives of local bohemian history.

And we have a Youtube channel, where you can see me giving a TED talk about how “art causes gentrification.” If you are in NYC or passing through, please do give me a shout at ethanpettit@hotmail.com or (347) 578-3041.

Ethan Pettit ’74 with wife Eva Shicker and a friend at the opening of Robert Egert’s Morphopolis Park Slope.

Joe McDonough resides in San Francisco where he is bringing the power of personalized learning to online, performance skills instruction. He also researching, and generously sharing, some of the fascinating history of the McDonough clan of Carraroe, Ireland.

Sarah Kahn lives in Newton where she works (is it “work” if its something you love doing?) as an artist. She writes: I have been in art shows, all around the Boston area, and have recently started teaching art to kids at SHS – it’s true! I am really enjoying the teaching aspect of my career path—both to adults as well as to kids.

I have also designed programs to teach developmentally delayed young adults, and at two womens’ shelters. My older son, Jake is engaged to be married in August, which is very exciting news.

Marjie Alonso gives us this third person summary: Marjie lives in Somerville and is the Executive Director of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants, working and traveling to learn and educate in the field of animal behavior. Her two almost-grown sons, Thing 1 and Thing 2, are doing almost-grown stuff like going to college and traveling the world in search of girls and showers.

Kate Bull (one of three ’74 alums currently in Australia) tells us: I am presently living and working in Australia. I still own my house in Alaska (my cat is taking care of it), but husband’s work and a full-time job drew me here. I work for the NSW Geological Survey. It’s an interesting job, I work with good people and so far I have not died of a snake bite doing fieldwork, so can’t complain. I do loathe the heat here and miss snow terribly, but we can’t have everything. I send greetings to all and welcome any news.

Audrey Powers Thornton pens this missive from her office in Carlsbad, CA: I am still enjoying practicing law, running my law firm in Southern California (Thornton-Koller), and recently enjoyed the rare but well-earned surprise of winning a writ of mandate from the Fourth District, reversing the trial court. To escape the stress of being a lawyer I decided to try throwing pots on the school, I have perfected the coffee cup, an essential item in our cupboard.

Remember, fellow Shady Hillers, to stop and smell the roses.

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Allison ’74 and Kip Brown ’84 and Liz Krengel ’74.

(sez me, OAW, for those without Google: writ of mandate (mandamus) n. a court order to a government agency, including another court, to follow the law by correcting its prior actions or ceasing illegal acts. Go Audrey!)

Kirsten Edey is in Montpelier, VT, enjoying all things that are—with herself also being—adorable.

Elijah Wald, music scholar and author, lives in Cambridge, and has a book on The New York Times-Top Books of 2015, titled Dylan Goes Electric!

Liz Schein Krengel is in Seattle and reports: Here I am with Alison and Kip Brown ’84, who came to Seattle for Alison’s son Oliver’s Harvard vs.

University of WA soccer game (which ended in a 0-0 draw!). For those who don’t know, Liz is also a painter.

Erika Munson, Sandy, UT resident, in addition to being a teacher and a mother of five, is an advocate for LGBT people in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, as a co-founder of Mormons Building Bridges.

Heather Corbally Bryant, resides in Boston, and currently teaches in the Writing Program at Wellesley College and at the Harvard University Summer. She’s published her third poetry chapbook, Compass Rose.

Rick Plant (aka Pappenheimer also in Australia), lives in Melbourne. He is a musical entertainer extraordinaire, playing with a number of bands and musicians (check out “The Mudcakes”). He has recently introduced one of his offspring to the “Star Wars” mythos with episode 4.

Hester Kaplan resides in Providence, where she is probably penning yet another great book.

Daphne de Marneffe lives in Mill Valley, CA where she is a licensed clinical psychologist.

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Alice Warner is in Eugene, OR where she is an Instructor in Adult Basic and Secondary Education.

John Nordell is in Massachusetts, working at Create Look Enjoy, American International College and at John Nordell photographs, while he maniacally snaps awesome pics.

Nik Laskaris (another alum in Australia) lives in Turramurra, New South Wales and is an IT manager in the Sydney area.

Jethro Pettit is over in England, living in Lewes, East Sussex. He’s the Director of Teaching and Learning at Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. During the summers, he also runs a farmhouse in Tuscany, Italy.

Tom Cronin is in Concord, CA. He got his pilot’s license not that long ago.

Seth Shulman is in Northampton. He is at the Union of Concerned Scientists and regularly produces articles we all should read to stay informed regarding things scientific. He’s authored several books.

forty years of being unsatisfied with my hair, I have reached an equilibrium, gray streaks and all so there’s that. When I look back at what I learned at Shady Hill, I mostly think about Art, Shop, and Music.

One of my jobs around here is Property Manager and most of the repairs that happen are by virtue of Mr. Maple teaching me some carpentry basics. I have taken up quilting recently where I relive the magical feeling of diving in and making something new like I did in the art room at Shady Hill. I reserve my singing for the car where I won’t scare the dogs and I even have a decent collection of some of our old songs on my iPod with which to sing along.

Peter Schein wrote: I was back for my wife’s 30th from Harvard in October, and got together with John Steinert for a many-beers reunion in Harvard Square.

Later we visited our moms in Mt Auburn Cemetery. Such great memories, so many good times! SHS ’76, still my favorite of all classes, like family.

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Tom Bator 78 School Street Weston, MA 02493

Rick Jarvis 12 Standkish Road Watertown, MA 02472

tebator @ comcast.net

rjar vis62 @ gmail.com

I (Tom) was reminded of our special connection to our school when my wife and I went to look at an old farm in southern NH this fall. A large map was on the table showing the land of the “Estate of John K. Marshall.”(SHS ’48) 6th grade CS and the Kung of the Kalahari jumped to mind as well as the fact that he and my mother went to SHS together. Such a strong connection. My book The Boston Trustee has been published this fall. A four-year project finally completed. Soccer playing and beer making continue to absorb my spare time. I hope to see everyone this spring.

We continue to be actively involved in the school with our own Jane Moncreiff serving as current Board Chair.

Kate Koeze writes: While turning 54 at my last birthday, I realized that I was officially in my mid-fifties which is a sobering thought. On top of that, I am a part-time working Midwestern suburban housewife whose children have moved out to lead interesting lives of their own. I cling to the fact that I am at least somewhat selfaware. On the plus side, after more than

Debby Bernat is celebrating 10 years as a realtor working in residential real estate.

Jonatha Brooke writes: Touring again! jonathabrooke.com. Teaching songwriting in Nashville and Tuscany. Working on two new musicals. Bringing my one woman “My Mother Has 4 Noses” musical to Arkansas and Utah this year. Trying to stay afloat as the music business sinks to the bottom of the sea.

Rick Field reports: I just moved Rick’s Picks to Bushwick, Brooklyn. I am the only business owner within half a mile who does not have a majestic beard and copious tattoos. One of these years, I’d like to organize a summer weekend Debby Bernat ’78

reunion/retreat at our family home in Vermont, where several of you visited us back in the day. My girls, Alice and Madeline, are in first grade, and while I have very fond memories of Miss Gabron, I am incredibly impressed with early childhood education as it is conducted in our school.

Elizabeth Steiner Hayward reports: My youngest is a junior in high school, so we have started our last round of the college process. The next one up is a junior in college, and our oldest works and lives about six miles from us with her partner (I got a package deal so have a 36 year-old daughter as well as the two younger ones).

I’m in my fifth year in the Oregon State Senate. We’re in the middle of legislative session and I’m writing this an hour into what promises to be a multi-hour debate on raising our minimum wage, so at the moment I have somewhat mixed feelings about my job. Overall I love it, and consider myself blessed to have a job that gives me such a great opportunity to serve my state.

Sarah Churchill Silberman writes: Changing focus. Moving from curriculum development back to work in schools as assistant principal. Daughter is in 3rd grade. Brookline Public Schools. Lots of ex-SHSers on this side of the tracks!

David Summersby shares: This is our first year in the last 15 that we haven’t had a child at Shady Hill. We miss the campus and the SHS experience but not the long commute we endured from Melrose. Our daughter, Emily ’10, is now a sophomore at St. Lawrence and our son, Jack ’15, is a freshman at Melrose High School. For my parents, last year’s graduation marked the end of an era, 33 years with either a child or grandchild at Shady Hill. My wife Susan and I work in human services.

I continue to work as a clinical psychiatric social worker, presently at the Cambridge Health Alliance Whidden Hospital in Everett. I have enjoyed running into classmates on campus who have been SHS parents, including Rory Morton, Rick Jarvis, and Mary Webb.

David Sun writes: Still working in Taiwan for Cathay Financial Holdings.

We acquired a US asset management firm last year and as a board director, I am now in Boston this week for meetings.

It’s nice to be back shoveling snow. I wish we still had first graders like Rick. Our

older daughter is now a first year graduate student at UMichigan doing a PhD in chemistry and I still can’t quite get my head around it. Our second daughter is a sophomore at Northeastern. Our son is still in Taiwan, but will be applying to college next year, hopefully focusing on the Boston area.

I am sad to report that two of our classmates, Oakes Spalding and Antea Von Henneberg lost parents this past year.

Sending them our thoughts.

1979 Porter Gifford 15 Coolidge Hill Road Cambridge, MA 02138

Hello all. I was gratified to hear from many, if not all of my usual customers this year.

Jennifer White Callaghan reports: Meg is almost five, and started kindergarten this fall. She’s swimming like a fish and learning to read, and is almost always fantastically happy. What more could a parent want? Richard is the finance director at Saferworld and puts up with the frustrations of Skype calls to South Sudan and similar places, looking at the bigger picture. I’m still at Allen & Overy and still doing strategy work on the derivatives/capital markets side, since the 24/7 job of practicing law doesn’t go well with actually seeing my family. I fit in some, but not enough, work on human rights. I am very envious of Porter and family seeing the Grateful Dead. We took Meg to James Taylor recently, which sure brought back memories for me. If anyone is in London please do get in touch.

Thank you Jennifer. My trip to San Francisco in June with my family to see the Grateful Dead was certainly a highlight of the year.

Speaking of highlights, Hal Movius checks in from Charlottesville: And you may ask yourself: Well, how did I get here?

At one level, life is flying by in a collage of computer screens, carpools, calendars and client engagements. My wife Kate is coaching leaders on how to give great talks; Luke (11) loves soccer, math and Minecraft; Anya (9) loves singing, soccer and arts. I have a busy coaching and consulting practice and another book coming out at the end of 2016. On another level,

the dilemma of whether to sacrifice now or seize the day only seems to get sharper.

A highlight in 2015 was 3 months in Spain, on the Costa Del Sol, having a family quasi-immersion experience. A lowlight was rupturing and tearing a lumbar disc. Don’t try that at home!

Kristina Vetter says that she feels like the theme of this year was “things that I never thought I’d do, but am doing anyway.” This includes: teaching high school, teaching online, working 3 jobs at once, wrapping my head around my kid maybe dropping out of school, paying ridiculous amounts of money for club sports for my kids, and doing an ironman triathlon.

So, yes, a year of ups and downs—ending on a good note, with much thanks and gratitude.

Polly Hutchison achieves a certain milestone before the rest of us, I think: One of the crazy things about adopting an older child is that you get to be a grandmother tout suite! Here’s my new favorite person at the beach near our home in Saunderstown, RI. Living a happy busy life as a flower farmer and floral designer with husband Mike. Still awfully glad I got to know all of you for a year at Shady Hill, and remembering you fondly.”

Polly Hutchinson ’79

As for me, your faithful correspondent, my son, Abbott ’14, is a sophomore at Cambridge Rindge & Latin, and loves lacrosse, electronic dance music, and most things with a screen on it. My daughter, Suzannah ’12, is a senior at Rindge, and headed to Barnard College next fall. My wife, Serena, is the head of the Lower School at Shady Hill, and when she not corralling her pint-sized charges, can be found correcting progress reports or knitting mittens. My photography business continues to afford regular challenges, and I have spent much of the past summer and fall photographing the circus presidential primary in New Hampshire. I hope to hear from many of you next year, if not sooner.

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1981 John Wilson 139 Stafford Road Monson, MA 01057

wilson @ dbit.com

Yvette Anderson sends this: I still live in Ohio but I hope to move to North Carolina with my company next year or the year after. The biggest news I have is that I recently returned from a 20-day vacation to New Zealand and Australia. I visited Sydney, a gorgeous city full of great food and a diverse culture. I absolutely fell in love with New Zealand though. I completed a 12-day Adrenalin Tour of the South Island. My itinerary included the routine outdoor activities such as hiking, kayaking, and sightseeing, but the adrenalin rush came from the tandem skydiving jump from 16K feet over Lake Wanaka and the spectacular paragliding views of the Southern Alps. The Tasman Sea is also very beautiful and stunning. Oh, I cannot forget the very tasty New Zealand wine.

As they say in NZ, ‘sweet as.’

Lisa Brown has had quite a year! She ran a marathon in New Orleans (after doing the Dallas Marathon in 2014) and was accepted to run in the 2016 Boston Marathon. Then she saw Bobby McFerrin in concert, got her first ever brand-new car (a black 6-speed Mazda 3 iSport), had her nose broken playing basketball, and drove 7000 miles visiting 24 states over the summer, and had her picture taken with Meb Keflezighi at the National Black Marathoners Association summit.

Nathaniel Cutter writes: I am plugging along, about a third of the way through a master’s program in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Lesley University, and have started a Fitness and Yoga Training Business that is a lot of fun. I hope to incorporate fitness, yoga and meditation into therapy as I progress in my studies, as they are a powerful tools of health and well-being.

Jared Mazlish is the owner/operator/ creator of the Fat-ypus ski company in Breckenridge Colorado. He is married with three kids and enjoying life.

Dominic Montagu says: Terrified at the prospect of turning 50 in May, I’m consoling myself with the knowledge that at least I still have my hair and sure I could climb a mountain if I wanted to. I just want to less and less. My son

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A family photo of SHS grads! (from left) Diana Stonestreet Uhrig ’11, William Stonestreet ’13, Emily Stonestreet ’15, John Stonestreet ’81, Jenifer Stonestreet Uhrig ’76, Wendy Stonestreet Sciolla ’77, Christina Stonestreet Uhrig ’09

(18) is on a “gap year” before college in Vermont. My daughter (15) is having a great time at high school. My wife, Diep, and I are gardening and reading when we aren’t doing other stuff that earns money.

I still travel too much for my research at UCSF. Life continues well. My parents are living in Cambridge about 5 blocks from SHS so I visit our old stomping grounds often, amazed each time at how small the buildings have become when set against my memory.

Ed Peterson writes: For 2015, I climbed Mount Everest and took Michelle Obama on a date. Not really. Mainly loving life in SLC as a psychotherapist and husband and Dad to Isabelle (19) who enters BUY Tisch school in fall) and Tyler (11) and Eli (7), who spend most of their time wrestling and playing and laughing and beating each other up. I love spending time at my beloved church, K2 The Church, a non-denominational Christian church. I have given my heart to Jesus (although that must sound like a mix of Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell— oh well, it is me). I send my love to my Shady Hill friends. Shady Hill is my educational and social foundation. I think of those formative days every day with warm regard. I am so grateful for Mr. Lawler, Ms. Shed, Ms. Lazarus, Mr. McKernon, Mr. Crowder, and so many more. I miss Eric Wiseman, Stony, Beth, Troy Dinkins, Margaret Harkins, Lisa Brown, and sooooo many more!! Love to you all.

Sarah Wyman enjoyed a lovely cup of tea with Lyn/Raine Gifford in New York City. She has been keeping up with Lisa Brown, Nathaniel Stevens, and Stephanie

Dyer Carroll. Sabbatical affords time to track down old friends and catch up on reading and writing. Most of us turn 50 this year, so happy big birthday! Please stay in touch, and stop by if you are in the Hudson Valley, wymans@newpaltz. edu. Sarah also read a Boston Globe article about classmate Adam Simha ’81, “a Cambridge knife maker whose instruments are utilitarian and beautiful.”

John Stonestreet says: My daughter, Emily ’15, graduated from Shady Hill last May and is now at Deerfield Academy.

My oldest son, William ’13, is a junior at Belmont Hill. I also have two children currently at SHS, Sarah ’17 and Teddy ’21. We are very busy but having a blast.

1982 Chad Gifford 352 Central Park West New York, NY 10025

chg7@ columbia.edu Kate Movius 1116 Le Gray Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90042

katemovius @ gmail.com

Tonya Banks sends in this update: Living in New Orleans, working at an independent school which reminds me of SHS every day, not missing the snow at all!

My brother Damon ’85 became an SHS parent this year when his twin daughters, my nieces, Amaya ’25 and Dezarae Banks ’25 started in Beginners this past September.

Christopher Barnes and his family are finishing up a sailing sabbatical (!!) and moving to California where he will be the new Head of School at the Midland School in Los Olivos.

Jeb Berrier lives in Portland, has a son who’s 6, and a wonderful wife. He mostly stays at home writing haikus, which he learned how to do at Shady Hill: May the dim light of middle age shine brightly off your balding heads He sees Charlie King every now and then when he races by on his motorcycle.

Colum Garrity lives in Washington, DC, and works at the World Bank, where he is surviving “the ongoing ‘strategic staffing’ (downsizing)” typical of that sector. His daughter is now seven years old.

Chad Gifford lives in NYC with Betsy and Lake (his wife and daughter). Life is good.

JJ Gonson shares some exciting news: I am writing from a laptop balanced on a box in the shared office/green room at the venue I suddenly am operating.

My locavore catering company turned ten this year; still doing meal deliveries to folks in the Boston area and catering wonderful parties (lots of 40 and 50th birthday parties, hint hint). Our venue, at 156 Highland Ave, Somerville, is about to turn two and was sort of a surprise. I thought we were running a catering company, but we also seem to be an event hall.

Called ONCE. With two rooms. And a restaurant. Yup, it’s a lot, but it’s a good thing. Come by and see me sometime.

Look up the Boston Globe article from May 7, 2015 (“JJ Gonson turns Cuisine en Locale into rock club”).

Arjun Gupta sends in this update: I live in Tiburon, CA with my wife Seneca, my son Talin (3) and my daughter Indira (17 months). I spent too many years studying (art history and law), and I now work as publisher and a consultant trying very hard to relate my past to my current work. After living in San Francisco for nine years, I moved across the Golden Gate Bridge with my growing family in 2014. When I’m not working, I’m writing, playing with my kids, and enjoying Marin County. I have not had a solid night of unbroken sleep in the last three years.

Elizabeth Ferry reports that she is living in Brookline and continues to teach anthropology at Brandeis. She is currently working on a book with her brother Stephen Ferry ’75, a photographer, on small scale gold mining in Colombia. Her sons are in tenth and sixth grade but they sometimes still let her hug them (a common phenomenon for many of us). She also lives with her husband, father, dog, and snake.

Rodney Lee is still living and working in Manhattan. He is married and has a four-year old daughter who truly is the apple of his eye. He is a Deputy Division Direct of Child Welfare at The Children’s Aid Society, working with NYC’s neediest, vulnerable and poor. In September 2015 he spent two weeks in Beijing helping to develop Child Welfare policy at NonGovernment Organizations (NGOs).

Rodney has finally come to terms with the fact he just Can’t Dance and that for decades he deluded himself and a few others along the way that he was a funky dancer, but alas he admits he can’t dance.

However he dances like no one is watching him with his sweet daughter who believes her Daddy is the best dancer.

Hannah Lefkowitz (Weil) lives in South Boston and is trying to find her way around after a decade in Florida. (So please if you see her give her a restaurant or shopping tip!)

Lucy (Spalding) Schroepfer shares these words: In some ways everything is different and in some ways nothing is different. We are living in a house of teens being instructed on a daily basis by our kids how little we know about how things really are. Otto, our oldest, is a high school sophomore—now on the third floor—seen downstairs for dinner and midnight snacks and the occasional board game. The girls (6th grade) are skating, texting, and new this year wrestling (coed!). Bill continues to be a soccer fanatic—so excited the new field planned for Minnesota will be just a mile away on the light rail. I am working still in the arts—becoming more and more involved in the art/quilting world. Folks can see my recent more artsy things at www. lucequilts.com. Sadly, Lucy’s father Oakes Ames Spalding Jr. died in January of lung cancer. All of the kids (Tim, Oakes, Lucy) and Lucy’s mother (Monique) were by his bedside. Rest in peace, Mr. Spalding.

Finally, we turn to A. St. George (ACE) for some uplifting news (literally). Ace reports that after many years spent perfecting their underwater commune, ACE, Elizabeth and Daniel Kaufman went on to form other vital and successful equitable cohabitation living systems. ACE, along with his husband Joel, currently floats above the San Francisco Bay Area in a dirigible-based community where he tests for winds of change and air pollutants. The new book about his experiences is tentatively titled, Dust in the. . . , a screenplay also in the works. Elizabeth and Daniel could not be reached for comment.

1983 Vivian Barad 2928 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94110

vbarad @ gmail.com

From Ivan Kreilkamp: Hello from Bloomington, IN. I’m teaching in the English Department at Indiana University, and recently have had the chance to teach a summer literature course in London a couple times, which has been a treat. Our daughters Celeste and Iris recently turned 12 and are thriving. If you’d like to see some of my recent writing (in the Los Angeles Review of Books, New Yorker online, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other places), check out my website, https://moonraking.wordpress.com/ or follow me on Twitter: @IvanKreilkamp.

Eric Henderson: From my side, I don’t believe I have too much for the class notes, as I am truly pleased with my life on an individual, family and professional basis. Hope that you can make the next

Ivan Kreilkamp ’83 with daughters Celeste and Iris last spring on a visit to Joshua Tree State Park.

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1985

Vivian Barad ’83 with husband Jason, daughter Esther (9) and Moss (5) on Mount Tam’s Cascade Falls.

class reunion. . . . I’ve attended the last three (2003, 2008 and 2013) and it’s so nice to re-connect in person.

Suzanne Siner says hello to everyone from Boston and that she loves to see photos of all of us in the news!

1984 Jared Eigerman 83 Hight Street Newburyport, MA 01950

jaredeigerman @ yahoo.com

Andrew Houghton writes: We moved to DC a few years ago to be closer to family, but my wife and I both work remotely, so there’s a lot of travel involved; her to NYC where she works for TED Conferences, and me to Los Altos where I work for an Internet-of-Things startup. Our 5-year old and 9-year old continue to alternately make us miserable and enhance our lives; it’s anyone’s guess what a given day will bring. Hi to everyone.

Jessica Zander writes: I started working at the local Make-A-Wish chapter (Massachusetts and Rhode Island) as the COO in September. I went with my family to Greece last summer, where I have been interested in visiting since the fourth grade. And who did I see there, in Santorini, but Courtnay Brower and his family. Unbelievable.

Recess—then and now

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1986

Xander Dyer 34 Coolidge Hill Rd. Cambridge, MA 02138

Nell Breyer 474a 16th street Brooklyn, NY 11215

alexander.dyer @ gmail.com

nellbr yer @ gmail.com

Thad Davis reports: Not much new to report, I’m afraid. I am still working in Boston (Aureus Asset Management) and live in Cambridge. We have two kids at SHS (Eliza ’18 and Grace ’24) and one at CRLS (Max ’15), and it is going really well. I see a fair amount of Xander Dyer. Now that Car Talk is off the air, I rely on him for advice on everything mechanical.

China Forbes shares: I am still living in Portland, OR with my nearly seven year old son, Cameron. I got divorced (again) two years ago and am actually loving being a single parent with my symbiotic co-parent ex-husband. I get to see Lilly Windle often and have also stayed in touch with many classmates: Elizabeth Hexner, Anna Winger, Emily Hass, Sofia Kennedy, Mike Ladd, Nellie Perera, Xander Dyer, and Thaddeus Davis. This year marks my 20th singing with the band Pink Martini and it is always a treat getting to see old friends while touring the globe. In fact, we are playing Berklee Performance Center on March 17!

Ben Harris reports: I had a wonderful time seeing several people (XD, IB, TD, WA, AT, TM, GE. JF) at dinner during the reunion. My SHS friends remain the greatest.

Nick Houghton writes: I am still a prop master in Los Angeles and being a dad to my four-year-old girl Olivia and my two-year-old boy Brock.

Always the jokester, Mike Ladd reports: On the record? —Work is great, I’m playing in an adult league, and I see Jean Smithique ’91 from time to time. Off the record—not so much is new.

Suchi Mumford writes: I live in Arlington and own Indigo Fire, a local pottery and glass fusing center. I have the pleasure of seeing alum and current SHS students in my center often. Last summer several classmates (Janet, Sabrina, Caroline (Alex) Robboy), and I had a ‘reunion’ in the studio with our children. I would love to do it again next year or anytime alum are in the area.

Our reunion this year coincides with the 100th year celebrations for the school.

Hoping to see you all of you in the Assembly Hall on June 3 and 4! More details and a wonderful historical timeline about the school and its evolution is here: http://www.shs.org/Page/About-Us/ Shady-Hills-Centennial.

1987 Emily Lloyd Shaw 28 Kirk Street Housatonic, MA 01236

elloydshaw @ gmail.com

Hi everyone, I, Emily Lloyd Shaw, don’t have any new news since our last class notes—still living in Great Barrington where I have a private psychotherapy practice in town and my husband runs his own agency focused on theatre for young audiences. We have two daughters, age 9 and 7, and are bummed that we have had virtually no snow as skiing is what we do out here each winter! I love seeing Katie Salter Holleran in the summer when she visits her parents who have a house here, and love seeing some of you on Facebook.

Great to hear from some new people this time- and will hope to hear from more next time!

Zoe (Kafatou) Bunnell reports: What seems like a lifetime (but is actually 19 years) ago I went to grad school at the U. of Michigan for Master’s degrees in Social Work and Public Health. I met my husband Ben there, and we married in 2000.

I worked as a medical social worker for a few years in Ann Arbor and then in San Francisco, until I found myself with two toddlers demanding my attention. I made the decision to leave paid work and be a

Eli, son of Melanie Temin Mendez ’87 “on TV.”

full-time parent, and we moved back east to be nearer our families. I’ve been living in Richmond, VA for almost a decade, with Ben and our kids Sophia (13) and Arthur (11). I’m feeling the itch to rejoin the paid workforce, despite two adolescents demanding my attention (or maybe because of that?). Writing a resume etc. after so long has been challenging but also invigorating. Perhaps within the year I’ll have more news on that front. My parents now live in Greece full time, and my sister Helen is in Cambridge with her family, living in our old house. I rarely make it back but would enjoy catching up with classmates at a reunion someday.

Maia (Sloss) Carson wrote: I’m having kid #4 in 4 weeks. I guess he (my 3rd boy) will be here by this time you go to press! We live amidst total chaos, and that’s all I have to say about that for now!

I love keeping up with the old SHS gang on Facebook and look forward to seeing everyone at the next reunion. Anyone passing through Larchmont, NY is encouraged to stop by our house, say hi to me, and take a kid for a couple hours ;-) Lara Heimert is still living in New York, where she is the publisher of Basic Books, a publishing company dedicated to serious non-fiction. When she’s not working on books, she travels widely – recent highlights include trips to Namibia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Malta, and Papua New Guinea. In December 2015, Lara visited with Valerie Hamilton ’87 in California and reports that Val is still the most brilliant and hilarious person she’s ever met.

Lila Javan shares: Cancer has taken many things from me, but it can’t take my dreams. In 2014, I was planning a solo trip to Africa to climb Kilimanjaro.

The very week I was booking my flights, I discovered that my cancer was back.

Devika, daughter of Zweli Miller ’87 and Mom Mary with Grandma Grace

Those three words “you have cancer” put a halt on my life and my plans for the future. I am not alone, to many people like myself have had their lives and their dreams stopped short because of those three words. Too many have not been as lucky as I have to survive. Cancer has not stopped my dreams – in fact it has made them grow larger, to expand beyond my own personal goals and aspirations. I now dream of a world where we can have a cure for cancer. I believe we all can be part of achieving that dream. Visit my Team in Training page. http://pages.teamintraining.org/calso/mtklmjr16/ljavan#home Zweli Miller writes that he has a baby daughter, Devika.

Melanie Temin Mendez shares: Eli is doing great in first grade, and we got a cat! His name is Marshmallow and he came from the wonderful cat rescuers at the Melrose Humane Society.

Sara Simmons wrote: So I still live in Sarasota FL with my husband and two kids. I have a 5 year old daughter, Shai, and a 20 month old son Rafi. We live across the street from the beach and try to get to the beach everyday even just to see the waves for a few minutes. I’ve been trying to paddle board on the weekends but it’s been a little rainy lately so I haven’t been doing it as much. I work as a hand surgeon for a local private practice group in the area and while I’m really busy I enjoy it. My husband and a friend of his are refurbishing a small 12-unit hotel behind us on the beach and hope to have it up and running in a few months.

Otherwise we are pretty busy with everyday stuff but I try to be back in Boston every few weeks to see my parents and my two sisters, Molly and Quincey. I’m coming up with the kids in a few weeks to go skiing so they won’t be total Floridians.

Sara Simmons ’87 with Shai and Rafi.

1988 Kristin Mercer 327 East Tul ane Road Columbus, OH 43202

mercer.97@ osu.edu

Sanford Brown writes: I am living the dream in Darien, CT with my wife, Krista and three children; son Morgan (10) and identical twin daughters Charlotte and Finley (7). He focuses most of his time on sustainable investment programs of hedge funds, integrating environmental, social, and governance criteria into their investment process. “It is fascinating work and hopefully the wave of the future!”

Sarah (Kanter) Brown writes for an agricultural magazine and teaches yoga in Billings, MT. She writes: I enjoy learning about food production and visiting spectacular farms and ranches around the region. My family and I spend a lot of time skiing, exploring and napping at our cabin in Red Lodge, MT. I’d love to hear from old friends by email or phone: sarahkanterbrown@gmail.com and (406) 696-3067.

Mark Lu lives in Boston where he is watching the city grow, diversify, and globalize. He writes: I’m happy to be part of the transformation as we rehabilitate old buildings in my professional life. In my

Kristin Mercer ’88, Joel Wainwright, and their daughter, Ines (4), enjoy the winter beach in Vancouver, BC.

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home life, I’m doing my best to take care of my mom—this, I am afraid, will be one of the defining challenges of Gen X. It is a duty, a gift, but equally a heartache.

Kristin Mercer is spending the 201516 school year on sabbatical in Vancouver, Canada at the U. of British Columbia with her husband, Joel Wainwright (also on sabbatical), and her daughter, Ines (4).

She writes: The whole family is enjoying exploring and taking in the beaches, forests, and mountains. The sushi can’t be beat either! It feels like we breathe deeply here. I’d love to be in touch: mercer.97@ osu.edu.

Sarah Trautvetter says: Things are great in Baltimore where I work on my own as a landscape architect. My projects run the gamut, but nicely I can say that they are slowly increasing in scope (and budget), which makes it a little easier to breathe at night. I also teach a rewarding landscape architecture graduate studio at Morgan State University. I spent Thanksgiving with Sophie (Hayward) Hanrahan ’89, who lives in Bethesda, MD. I published a children’s book called Hazel’s Masquerade.

So far it has been really well received; one little two-year-old actually wanted to take certain pages home with her to California.

I would love to catch up with everyone and always have a guest bed open for a visitor to the DC-Baltimore area.

1989 TK Baltimore 3 Paulmier Pl ace Jersey Cit y, NJ 07302

tk @ tk t v.net

TK Baltimore and her husband, Jay Konopka, are excited to be working with architects supreme Mette Aamodt and her husband, Andrew Plumb, on the upcoming renovation of TK’s family’s house in Cape Cod. TK and Jay continue to live in Jersey City, NJ with their one-year-old daughter, Tesla.

Mette Aamodt and Andrew live in Arlington with their two children, Solveig (6) and Espen(2).

Rebecca Cutter is a writer and producer for the FOX TV show Gotham, and continues to live in the Los Angeles

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area with her husband and two children, Bea (2) and Frances(6). She still sees Marina Lang (Kheel) on a regular basis.

We have heard through the Day family grapevine that Jay Day and his wife, a painter, are moving back to Berlin from Florence where they have spent the last six months due to his wife’s fellowship. Jay is an artist and teaching, and the couple have one son, Cassidy (I can’t vouch for the spelling), who is somewhere around four years old.

Betsey Geller Keely and her family relocated from Darien, CT to Los Angeles this past summer and they are living in Manhattan Beach. Although they miss family and friends from back east they are enjoying the change in lifestyle.

Miranda Pearce lives in Cambridge with her husband, Matt, and sons Oscar (5) and Leo (6). Miranda sees Amy Bracken when Amy is between reporting trips. Miranda also runs into the occasional Shady Hiller at local playgrounds: Becca Strauss ’90, Antonia Blythe and recently Lydia Ogden ’90 at a bowling alley full of kid parties.

Rosanna Martin lives in Long Beach, CA, and is a nurse at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.

Sam Thompson and his wife, Anne, daughter, Clare (9), and son, Hayes (6), have been living in Cambridge since 2003. They are in Cambridgeport and Sam works in Kendall Square running a boutique investment bank and early stage venture fund. He travels a fair amount for work and is in NYC two or three times a month. He runs into Harry Kargman on a regular basis, and also sees Mason Smith and his sister, Weezie ’90. Sam’s kids attend the Advent School in Beacon Hill, and Anne is training and running with the Mass General team for the Boston Marathon this spring. Outside of work and time with the family, Sam does what he can to get out on his road bike. He also sees Amy Bracken, Miranda Pearce and Antonia Blythe from time to time around town. Antonia’s son Ramsay and Sam’s son Hayes played soccer together last fall.

Sarah Hsia continues to reside in Jamaica and is expecting twins in January.

1990 Kathryn Bailis Phillips 322 West 72nd Street, #12 C New York, NY 10023

Kathr yn.phillips75 @ gmail.com

Hello to the class of 1990! Hope you have all been well! Some of us were lucky enough to get together last year at our 25th reunion and it was such a special time! It was great to see people so happy and healthy back at school! We are happy to say that the assembly hall was virtually unchanged and the campus looked gorgeous. I hear that some of our classmates are lucky enough to be parents at the school now!

Weezie (Smith) Goff reports that she and her family are settled in Cambridge.

She continues to balance running her own small residential architecture practice and goofing around with her daughters, Liesl (4) and Lottie (18 months). She said she recently met up with some 1990 ladies including Lydia Ogden and Becca (Straus) Ravenel for dinner.

Lydia Ogden wrote: After a total of 17 years in NYC I moved to Somerville in July. My son and I love it and I highly recommend that the entire class of 1990 moves back to the area. It has been so fun catching up with old friends. My favorite is running into people in random places, like the bowling alley off Route 2. I also adopted a rescue mutt named Lenny. He is the light of our lives. In fact, so far I would say my only regret in life is not having adopted a dog sooner. My son is a sophomore in high school. I hope to see everyone soon—at the bowling alley or elsewhere.

Amanda Van Vleck shared that she is still living in Somerville with her husband, Ben, and three-year-old, Nathaniel.

She works as a reading interventionist in the Cambridge Public Schools and “walking a fine line between REALLY missing having my own classroom and enjoying the relative freedom that my more peripheral role provides.

Amelia Margolis writes, It was wonderful to catch up with classmates last spring at our 25th reunion and at the SHS Fair in the fall; being back on campus reminded me of how special Shady Hill is, and how lucky we were to be able to grow up there. I began working in the Advancement Office at BB&N in July

Visitors and newcomers still admonish us: ‘Shady Hill is not the real world.’ And, of course, they are right, for we try to teach our children not how the world is, but how it might be.

— Jonathan Slater, Director, 1989 to 1994

and have run into some former SHSers on campus such as my 8th grade teacher and one of my all-time favorites, Rory Morton ’78, TTC ’87, Jesse Sarzana, and Christina Dello Russo ’97 whose sister, Emily, was a classmate and good friend of mine. My supervisor’s son is a current SHS student, and I am now also co-workers with former SHS employee, Julia Welter. I have been in touch with Lydia Ogden. My sister Caroline ‘06 is graduating from Boston College this year, and Annabel ’10 is studying photography at Cazenovia College in New York. I am excited that baseball season is starting soon and I will be attending the Patriots Day game as I do every year. I will be running the Spring Classic 5K in Central Square in April, if anyone is interested in joining my team let me know! My son Aidan and I moved to Watertown last fall and have been getting to know the area.

Our place is not too far from classmate (and my first friend) Max Sederer, and his wife Jenn’s house. I had the pleasure of hanging out with them shortly after they moved in a year ago. If any local classmates would like to plan an informal get together soon, count me in. Cheers!

This summer, I caught sight of Rupert Grantham at a Friday night lobster bake at the store he and his wife own in Adamsville, RI. As for me, my family continues to enjoy life in NYC. I continue to teach, but mostly spend my time taking my daughter to her various sports practices and social engagements.

As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Shady Hill, this place we love so much, I encourage you all to come to join in the celebration events at school. It would be fun to catch up! In the meantime, I wish you all a belated happy New Year and hope to see you soon!

1991 Jennie Dapice Feinstein 163 Harvey Street Cambridge, MA 02140

jdfeinstein @ gmail.com

Ariane Gauchat had an eventful 2015— married in June and welcomed baby Audrey Juliet Byler in October. She is working in international development in DC and loves watching the kids of her Shady Hill friends growing up!

Noah Freeman: Noah has been married for almost 6 years, and has two lovely children, Ella (5) and Julian (2.5). He lives in Boston, and runs Social Fulcrum, a 20-person advertising agency.

Vera Garibaldi: My husband and I are happy to announce the birth of our third daughter, Nicola Virginia Garibaldi, born Monday, June 29 at 6 lbs. and 5 oz. and 17.5 inches long. Nikki is healthy and happy getting to know her two sisters, Natalie (5) and Nadia (3).

Josh Dapice: Living in Berkeley, CA with four children. Sophie (7), Eliza (6), George (4), and Nellie (<1). Working for an investment firm in San Francisco.

Jennie Dapice Feinstein: Baby Sadie arrived in April, joining big brother Samuel. I graduated with my PhD in May. Now I’m doing some work in Human-Animal Interactions at the university level. I still knit, quilt, and sew in my “spare” time. So, in addition to the friendships I made at Shady Hill and the math from Mr. Lawler, the knitting (Ms. Austen), quilting (Ms. Hakes) and sewing I learned have stayed with me.

Vera Garibaldi ’91, with (clockwise), Natalie (5), Nadia (3), Nikki and Andrew.

1992 Alexander Dunn writes: Just back from a trip to Mexico City and hoping that I make the cut! I moved to Gloucester last July, working for The Trustees doing audience development and programming at farms, woodlands, and historic houses.

Always game for a trip down memory lane with a SHSer. David Meshoulam reports: I’ve been living in Watertown for the past 4 years, working as a physics teacher at Newton North High School and raising two wonderfully curious and engaged daughters, Ella (8) and Hanna (6). I regularly see James Thomson, whether it be on top of tree houses or at Solid Sound in western Massachusetts.

Kabir Sen writes: My wife Rebecca and I had a baby boy last August! His name is Ethan Jacob Sen. Big sisters Eva (6) and Julia (4) love hugging him and bossing him around. I am still teaching music full-time at Shady Hill (a job I love). My new band “The Krush Faktory” plays regular gigs in the Boston area, including at the Lizard Lounge, Bull McCabe’s Pub, and The Plough and Stars. I have a new album that came out last month called “No More Excuses,” www.cdbaby.com/ kabirsen. Whereas my previous releases have been hip hop albums, this one is more of a Beatles-inspired project with a singer-songwriter feel and elements of soul, blues and rock. Vinyl version is available! Things are busy but not boring!

Sending my best to SHS classmates!

1993 Joia Spooner-Fleming writes: We are having a ton of fun parenting Henry.

We spent Christmas in San Diego with Henry’s cousin, Finn, who is Micah ’96 and Melinda Spooner-Wyman’s son.

Joia Spooner-Fleming ’93, wife Laura, and their son, Henry.

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1995

Kat Boger 249 School Street Belmont, MA 02478

Carrie Simonds 1644 Taylor Street, Ap 32 San Francisco, CA 94133

kat katdboger @ gmail.com

carrie.simonds @ gmail.com

Josiah Bragdon shares: On September 27, 2015 we welcomed Charlotte Parker Bragdon to our growing family. As soon as she had her first meal we swaddled her up and put her in the arms of her adoring older sister Ella (age 3). Ella started preschool last fall where she is enjoying making new friends and amazing preschool art! Liz Clemons ’97 is not only our downstairs neighbor, but also considered part of our family, and is one of Ella’s favorite aunties!

Sarah (Kirchner) Brown writes: I am living in a suburb of Orlando, FL. My son, Jonah, has just started Kindergarten.

I work in a Reggio Emilia-inspired preschool. I love my job -it is amazing to witness little minds unfolding!

After well over a decade in NYC, Jeff Green will be moving with his husband, Adam, and their son, Zac, to Scottsdale, AZ, at the end of the year. Jeff invites his classmates to get in touch if they are ever in the Phoenix area.

Rob Hill: Living it up in Beantown, trying not to work too hard, keeping the fun to the maximum and looking for the source of eternal life.

Robbie Hill ’94 and folks at the end of the world.

Zakia Jarrett (formerly Dilday): Only July 8, 2015 my partner, Montgomery Jarrett, and I eloped in St. Croix, USVI. We spent the next week honeymooning on the island before returning to MA. Upon return we packed up my apartment and we moved to Washington, DC. I am still adjusting to life in the Capitol, but we like it so far. I teach 7th and 8th grade English in DCPS, and have been fortunate to catch up with May Wheelwright. I hope to see her and other SHS alum soon!

May Wheelwright: I was in Los Angeles for 5 years, but moved to Washington DC a few years ago. I am married to my college sweetheart and have two little boys, an almost 4- and an almost 1-year-old. I’m a labor & delivery nurse, though I am in school to become a nurse-midwife. Zakia and I met up a few weeks ago, and I bumped into Yantee on the sidewalk in DC this past summer.

Shady Hill classics like “Inch by Inch, Row by Row” often make it into my bedtime song repertoire.

Austin Falxa: I have been living in South Korea for the past nine years. For most of that time, including this past year, I have been teaching English at elementary schools. I got married 5 years ago, but have no children yet. One of my hobbies has been swimming. I swim 3 times a week, and last August I had the chance to swim in the Yellow Ocean for a 3 km swim event. While visiting Cambridge last January, I helped Elie Jean-Louis celebrate his birthday.

Julia Martin Morgan: I’m living in the Boston area, working in independent school admissions which allows me to work with my former seventh grade teacher, Jen Tobin, from time to time!

Alexandra Schumm ’94’s two kids, JJ and Victoria.

Kathryn Boger ’94’s two kids, Brady (4) and Tommy (1), with their new cousin Alice (2 months), daughter of Alexandra (Dingman) Richardson ’91.

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Austin Falxa ’95 at the Yellow Sea last August.

Julia Morgan Martin ’95 gave birth to daughter Caroline in October.

My husband and I just welcomed our first child in October and are adjusting to all the exciting parts of being new parents.

I see Lila Dupree somewhat regularly when she’s passing through Boston, and saw both Lila and Carrie Simonds in San Francisco last fall. I was excited to run into Beth Murrell at the end of the summer!

Alex Dowling: I live in NYC where I have been for the last three years. I recently took a job at Moda Operandi as Director of Customer Experience managing a sales team. I will get married in April and hope to see some SHS friends there!

Lex Beach (Alexa MacDonald): I live in Northampton with my wife Meg, our six kids: Leo (6), Liesl (7), Zeben (9), Aviva (10), Jasper (13), and Lukas (13), and way too many pets. During the school week/year, I teach first grade at the Smith College Campus School, and on weekends and summer break, I work as a lactation consultant and as a lifestyle photographer (www.alexabeachphotography. com). We’ve recently become friends with Henry Frechette (SHS ’98-8), his wife Heather, and their adorable kids, Ginny and Arthur. Together we’ve made a plan to travel east in the fall of 2016 for the SHS fair—primarily to eat some of that most delicious beef teriyaki, which Henry assures me is still a happening thing, but also in hopes of running into other other old pals and seeing all the babies. As a teacher who spends many hours watching

my students play on the [exceedingly supervised] playground at work, I can’t help but feel wistful for the SHS recesses of my youth—climbing trees, exploring the swamp, playing pooh sticks on the bridge by the gym—out of sight of the teachers who trusted us to live a full and curious childhood, “dangers” and all. We were the luckiest.

Ben Grossman: I’ve been living in Newton, MA with my wife, Becky, and our kids, Madeleine (4½) and Jack (1½) and we’re having a lot of fun! I’m running our family business, Grossman Marketing Group, with my older brother, David ’91.

We continue to grow and enjoy the challenge!

Lila Dupree: I’m in LA where I’ve been for almost seven years (!) working as an actor, producer and writer. My latest project, a super wacky comedy, El Grande CIRCUS de Coca-Cola, is just about to end a 20-week run here in LA and we are transferring to London’s West End next year. In January I got to see a lot of SHSers! Carrie Simonds and I spent a fun weekend skiing together in Banff, I saw Julia Morgan Martin for coffee in Boston and Elisabeth Gutowski Munder and I had dinner in Palm Beach. If any of you are in or through Los Angeles, would love to see you!

Emmy McQuaid Hanson: I finished my residency in anesthesiology (in Denver) and have moved back to Boston for a fellowship in obstetric anesthesia. I will be staying on as an attending at Mass General when my fellowship wraps up this summer. My husband and I are really enjoying living in Boston and exploring the city. I would love to get together with any classmates in the area!

Yantee Neufville: 2015 was certainly a year of personal milestones which included getting engaged and married.

In May of 2015, I married Malika Fair in a private ceremony in Boston followed by a September ceremony of consecrating our vows in my wife’s home State of Michigan. We had a terrific time with our family and close friends including Charley Aldrich ‘95 and his wife, Meg, whom were there to witness and party with us in Detroit. Malika and I are now rooted in Washington, DC and would love to meet up with visiting folks from my class.

SHS ‘98 grads met at Mike Shaw’s restaurant Loco Taqueria and Oyster Bar in southie. (from left): Mike Shaw, Katherine Wheeler’s husband Peter, Katherine Wheeler, Lindsay Gittens, Emlen Page, Alec Millman, Talya Wyzanski, Kate Rembsberg and Kate’s boyfriend.

1998 Yalun Tu writes: After 9 years in Hong Kong, I moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career (dream) in writing TV shows and movies. Let’s hope I don’t fail miserably!

Eben Miller reports: I’m teaching eighth grade in Lexington, MA, and living it up in Arlington. My wife Rachel and I welcomed our son Nate into the world last year and he’s running amok already. All is well!

2001 Hilary Johnson writes: I just finished my MS in Human Factors in Information Design at Bentley, and I’ll be staying in the Boston area for work. Empathy, curiosity and creative thinking are key competencies for the field I’ll be in (“User Experience”), and I developed such a strong sense for them through all my experiences at Shady Hill. Thank you!

Yantee Neufville ’95 and his wife, Malika.

Tamara Wyzanski shares: I am working at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston, running the 2016 Boston Marathon, and going to Mexico and Belize for 9 days in August!

2002 Isabel Black reports: I am living in Boston and working at State Street Global Advisors. I’ve loved staying involved with Shady Hill through my membership on the alumni board. I’m getting married in June!

2006 Anjali Lappin 15 Carleton Circle Belmont, MA 02478

anjalilappin416 @ gmail.com

Anjali Lappin writes: Hi everyone! I just recently graduated from Lesley University with a B.A in Child Studies with a minor in Early Childhood Education. I am beyond thrilled to be done with college, finally! (that is, until I start grad school).

I am currently applying for teaching jobs around Boston and I hope to begin working in some sort of daycare or preschool.

For a graduation present I am being whisked off to Thailand by my family at the end of January for a couple weeks.

I’m so excited! One highlight, we will be spending some time in an elephant

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playground! I am really hoping to join the TTC soon too, hopefully next year.

I miss everyone at Shady Hill and hope you are all enjoying life!

Kamilah Washington writes, I am blessed. I am teaching K1 in Roxbury and live in Milton.

2010 Martha Hoffman writes: I am a firstyear potential East Asian Studies major and Dance minor at Oberlin College.

I spent six months of my gap year living in Asia and hope to go back soon to study traditional medicine and improve my Mandarin. Meanwhile, Sporcle geography quizzes are still a piece of cake, thanks to SHS! Noa Randall sent these words of wisdom: Shady Hill taught me to value

Greek Olympics—then and now

the process of learning over achieving the correct answer. So, at college, I am willing to make mistakes and ask questions that I would not do otherwise. By not asking questions and trying to get the most out of your learning you are the only one who is losing.

Losses 1937

Alice Bird

Nov. 10, 2015

1938

Joan Cunningham, Ph.D.

July 22, 2015

1941

Theodore Conant

Oct. 14, 2015

1944

Andreas M. Koehler

May 16, 2015

1945

Frances Lipp

May 28, 2015

1946

Margaret Morton

Jan. 19, 2016

1950

Katherine Southworth

Jan. 13, 2016

1951

Robert B. Cleary Cynthia Sam

Sept. 16 2015 June 8, 2015

1953

Dix Campbell

May 4, 2015

1961

John Bremner

Sept. 17, 2015

1963

Lenore Travis

Apr. 26, 2015

1968

Morton Rosenthal William von Stade

Mar. 19, 2015 Sept. 4, 2008

Faculty

Marie Mulhern Judy A. Higbea

Mar. 27, 2015 July 14, 2015

Shady Hill School lists alumni and faculty deaths as they are reported.

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2012 Ishan Bhatia and Noah Chisholm are both Posse scholars at Hamilton College and Bucknell University, respectively.

2013 Charlotte Tirman writes: Things are going well this year, still very involved in the theatre department at Beaver Country Day School, and just beginning the college process! Shady Hill definitely prepared me for Beaver, and I’m really grateful to have gone there.

2015 Alyssa Shen Filerman writes: I’m really enjoying Arlington High School but I miss the family and community at SHS. I’m amazed how much I use the knowledge I learned at SHS in my high school life.

Montanna Riggs reports: Groton is awesome. I can’t wait to go on the orchestra trip to Europe this summer. Also, shout-out to Ms. Phinney and Ms. Jones for teaching me excellent grammar; it helps a lot with Latin.

Audrey Lin shares: Enjoying high school academics and sports but missing teachers and friends from SHS! Megumi Kirby writes: Cambridge Rindge and Latin School is a much bigger school than Shady Hill, but there’s no need to be intimidated; it’s easy to navigate once you get the hang of it. The acapella program is great, and I’m really looking forward to taking a variety of classes (especially art electives) this year but still miss the SHS community and am hoping for a chance to visit soon.

The Rest of the Story

New Book Chronicles Shady Hill’s Second 50 Years In 1979, Shady Hill’s third Director, Ed Yeomans, published The Shady Hill School: The First Fifty Years. It was an internal story, focusing on the School’s founders, the first Director, the faculty they hired, and the programs they developed. That was appropriate.

The first 50 years, 1915–1965, were a creative time, and the book centered on how they built a great school. But any volume commemorating Shady Hill’s second half-century had to tell a new kind of story. First of all, by 1965, Shady Hill was established and recognized. But more importantly, the rapidly changing social, economic, technological, and political milieu would continuously shape its maturity and reshape its identity. The resulting book, Keeping Wonder and Intellectual Hunger Alive: Shady Hill School’s Second 50 Years, is due this fall.

These second 50 years yielded a series of themes that, instead of unfolding linearly, spiral through all five decades. Consequently, rather than offering a purely chronological history of the School, the book follows a series of interrelated themes: Shady Hill’s fifth Director, Bruce Shaw, has written a history of the School’s second 50 years.

• Co mmunit y. The definition of commu-

nity evolved not only from the increasing diversity of the School, but also in response to changing demographics in the U.S. and the Boston area.

• In clusivit y. The School’s commit-

ment to being an inclusive community would come to define many of its actions and decisions over the decades—as it does currently.

• Finan cial stabilit y. To realize its

broad vision, complex goals, and innovative program, Shady Hill decreased its reliance on tuition by growing its endowment and building its fundraising.

• Te aching and le arning.

Throughout the changes, the curriculum and teaching continued to advance, sometimes in dramatic ways. To remain vital, the School required new vision and methods.

• The nature o f childhood.

Shady Hill’s vision about child development would be tested continuously by major changes in how Americans viewed childhood and, by extension, the roles of parents and school.

• Te acher tr aining. The Teacher

Training Course (TTC) expanded as Shady Hill deepened its collaborations with local universities and public schools.

Just as the Hockings would have struggled in 1915 to imagine American society as it is today, so we are unable to comprehend how a future filled with rapid change will shape the school of tomorrow. We only know that what the world demands of education will be vastly different. Yet we also understand that, in many respects, children in 2115 will be like their counterparts today. Developmental stages don’t change, yet schools must be responsive to an altered world that can affect how those stages progress. The book’s conclusion looks to this future and to the challenges the School will likely face over the next 100 years.

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Upcoming alumni events Film screening

Alumni Community Event Class of 2012 High School Graduation Party Reunion Weekend

View the award-winning documentary Most Likely to Succeed April 28 at 7:00 pm Parents of Alumni Cocktail Reception precedes the screening at 6:00 pm Shady Hill at Cambridge Brewing Company Tuesday, May 10 at 6:30 pm Tuesday, May 17 at 6:30 pm Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4 Reconnect with your classmates and Shady Hill School!

This year, we are celebrating classes ending in “1” and “6.”

To make a gift in honor of your Reunion, visit www.shs.org/onlinegiving

To volunteer, or for more information, contact Alanna Boyd at 617-520-5238 or alanna.boyd@shs.org.

Centennial Gala Shady Hill Fair

Saturday, June 4 at 6:00 pm Saturday, October 22 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Please go to www.shs.org/alumnievents for more information about these and other upcoming events.