Class Notes

1940s

Maggie Domini ’44: I am still alive! I have various aches and pains, but still have my own home and activities. My Domini family and my own Colt family bring me enormous pleasure. I am staying with my daughter to ride out the pandemic, but hope to return to Florida after being vaccinated. With deep gratitude for the end of Trump and his henchmen.

Paul Sapir ’46: Have been retired from the practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis for nearly ten years. I had mixed feelings about winding up this central part of my life, but it was appropriate and timely to do so. Our twin sons are well, and two grandchildren are thriving, the older of which is now at Shady Hill School, which many CSW classmates attended. If there is a reunion (75th) in 2021 it will be something to look forward to.

Penny Witte Allderdice ’49: We have been living life during the pandemic with our hens in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

1960s

Esther Miskolczy Pasztory

’61: When the coronavirus began, I had been working on a book of essays entitled, Our Lady of the Amazon, about present and future trends. I had to rewrite and and rethink a lot! Steve Webber ’62: Steve made a recent trip to campus to meet with Head of School Lise Charlier and visit the costume shop in the Mugar Center for Performing Arts. Steve and his siblings (Ronald Webber ’58, Karen Webber Mulhauser ’60, Susan Webber Risho ’65, and Peter Webber ’66) named the costume shop in memory of their mother Leta Henderson Webber.

Heather Reed ’66: Greetings to all my classmates. This certainly has been an unforgettable year. I hope you and your families are all well and able to find glimpses of light each day. During this year, I was able to see a number of you and other CSW-ers, including Sarah Ladd Meiklejohn ’66 and her husband, Jon, Judy City

Bernstein and her husband,

Al, and my roommate Marsha Thomas Cymerman ’68 and her husband, Allen. I joined in zoom sessions with Richard

Shapiro ’66, Tony Barnston

’66, and Ed Hamilton ’66, and almost got to see Glenn Wright ’66 in Maine. I’ve also had a lot of email and text chats with some of you, and I am grateful for our continued contact. I encourage you all to reach out to one another any way you can. There may be some who could use an extra hug that we aren’t aware of. We need to keep our family well and keep the love we have for one another bright. 2021 marks our 55th anniversary of graduation, and soon we’ll begin planning our reunion (April 30 – May 2, 2021). It will be virtual this time. Jill Harkaway ’66 has kindly offered to help me as a co-organizer, and she and I have already attended a zoom preplanning meeting. Reunion can be anything we choose it to be, and CSW is behind us 100%. We can have a virtual talent show, brunch, cocktail hour, dinner, discussion group, memorial service, break into small groups, etc. If anyone would like to volunteer to help or has special ideas and requests for our reunion, please let me know. Granted, it won’t be nearly the same as being on campus, and topping our 50th will be hard to do, but the one great benefit of going virtual is that we can hopefully bring in our classmates who live remotely or overseas. It might even be the first time we’ve “seen” them since graduation. If anyone’s contact information has changed, please let me know so I can update my records and notify the school. Blessings to each of you. I hope to see you in April if not before. — Heather Heath Reed ’66, Class Agent/Den Mother

Anki Wolf ’67: Although 2020 was a difficult year for everyone, I had three grandchildren this year. My older son, Matt, and his wife had a baby boy in late August,

Penny Witte Allderdice ’49 with some feathered friends!

Heather Reed ’66 enjoying a walk along the beach and finding nature along the way. Steve Webber ’62 visting the CSW Costume Shop.

and my younger son, Jake and his wife had twin girls the day after Thanksgiving. Very exciting for all of us. My husband, Mark, and I have been living in New Hampshire since COVID hit in mid March. On a brief vacation to Martha’s Vineyard in October, we visited with Lisa Wiesner ’67 and her husband, Fred Volker.

Jonathan Haydn ’67: I’ve been painting for years now, sculpture on the back burner, all in my little northwest Arkansas home. I wanted to add a photo of my November painting: Hope trumps Fear Based Power for Joe and Kamala. TLC to all. P.S. my website is currently in transition mode.

Nancy Eldred Williams ’68:

I passed my “stay at home” time by waiting for, and then receiving, back surgery. In January 2020, I rolled over in bed, felt something funny in my back, and then couldn’t stand or walk. Loads of fun. My back is a mess due to spinal stenosis. After several steroid injections — some successful, others not — I had a L2 laminectomy and a L4-5 fusion in August. Recovery is very slow. However, the good news is that I have a grandson, Elliott, born in March. I haven’t met him in person, but we are hoping to do so in January 2021. I hope my fellow classmates are doing well. The 50th class reunion in 2018 was terrific!

Roger Conrad ’69: After retiring in 2014 from a career with the Peace Corps and the U.S. Agency for International Development, we relocated to Amelia Island, Florida, in early March 2020. We were fortunate to move into our new home just before the COVID lockdown.

Virginia Giritlian ’69: I had the great privilege of attending a CSW reunion back in Spring 2019, the first time I had been back to the campus since I graduated in 1969. The quad, the surrounding buildings, and the view of the field have not changed that much, and so it was certainly a flood of memories. Seeing old friends and teachers was phenomenal and we continue to communicate on Facebook. Join our group if you dare! There is a certain quality about Cambridge School grads. We learned to think and evaluate, and that never left us. I live in the Los Angeles area and welcome any communications from my alumni friends.

Anna Dibble Newton ’69: Hi! Latest here is that two years ago I started a collaborative arts/ecology nonprofit, Gulf of Maine ECOARTS, and our main project is creating a large-scale sculpture installation at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine. We hang it October 2021, and it will be in place for a year. The collaborative consists of students and teachers from 12 schools (middle through college level), a curated team of 8 professional artists, and regular input from the phytoplankton research scientists at Bigelow. I am also continuing to paint a lot. My work was just was accepted into the 2021 biennial show at Portland Museum of Art, which will run from February 12 to May 2021. Hopefully they’ll be able to keep the museum open during at least some of the run. Things are going very well here in Freeport, Maine! Recently turned 70 — daunting, but I think it’s given me a new kind of energy.

Todd Sostek ’69: I recently retired after 38 years with SoCalGas, a large natural gas utility in Los Angeles. I was blessed with a fantastic career being on the ground floor of the environmental movement in the early 1970s. Hats off to teachers Mario Castillo and Finlay McQuade for helping me on the pathway towards making a significant contribution to our planet’s well-being. I am happily married and living in Glendale, California.

Artwork by Jonathan Haydn ’67: Hope trumps Fear Based Power.

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1970s

Catherine Clark Demetriadi

’70: I plan to work in the international charity sphere for the foreseeable future (no retirement in the offing, i.e.!) and will be relaunching FundraisingPoint as PhilanthropyPoint in the new year, reflecting the holistic nature of the consultancy and welcoming new associates with African fundraising and communications expertise. Lockdown found me and husband/business partner Julian furloughed by the UK government. We have spent much of our down time exploring the wonderful local Wigtownshire and Galloway landscapes in dozens of long walks. A September week on the Isle of Skye, between

COVID-19 restrictions, inspired me to start drawing again. My son, James Clark ’05, was in twenty-three-and-a-half hour lockdown for much of the spring and summer, but has remained well and even cheerful throughout. We managed to visit him in a mad March dash to Boston, days before U.S.-UK travel was banned by the U.S. government. James would love to hear from his classmates!

Celeste Nossiter ’70: I retired from college textbook publishing four years ago. During this pandemic I’ve been leading a more contemplative, creative life and relishing the slower pace. Although I’ve been an avid knitter for a long time, I’m enjoying playing with embroidery on felt. I’ve also had yarn made from my own sheep and goats, which is too much fun! Below is a hat I made with Mohair from my Angora goat. The pink felt piece is Circus (11”x27”); the blue one is Growing (6”x9”). Amy Goldstein ’70: We are fine, COVID notwithstanding. Doing our best to not let the pandemic get in our way. But, like you, missing hugs and more. Hope to spend time in Maine during 2021. Wishing everyone well.

Jackie Reizes ’70: After our virtual reunion, our class and friends began meeting twice monthly for online WALRUS. Some of you may remember Friday afternoon tea/discussion at the head’s house. The inspiration was, of course, “The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things...” It has been delightful to catch up, forge new relationships, and chitchat with fellow alums. We routinely have six to twelve participants, and of course welcome “newbies” to join us. Our group has been involving members of our class and adjoining classes who live all over the place, from Hawaii to Scotland. We reminisce, talk politics, celebrate accomplishments, share hopes, share about partners, grandkids, and others in our lives, gab about movies... You name it! I am very glad that we’ve established this new WALRUS. Particularly during the pandemic it’s been a terrific way to connect.

Jody Guralnick ’71: Jody’s latest project, Prima Lingua: First Words of the Earth is currently on display at the Denver Botanic Gardens (December 19, 2020 – March 14, 2021). Jody’s work explores the intersection of science and art, bringing to light the microscopic and often unnoticed structures of lichens, mushrooms, molds, and more.

Petie Moeller ’71: I retired from Kaiser Permanente in 2018, after 29 years there providing occupational therapy services to the pediatric population, including the tiniest humans in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The pandemic threw a monkey wrench into my retirement routine. Like many others I stepped up my baking skills (maybe not such a great plan!), taught myself to sew face masks (donated around 600 to date), and focused my attention on my garden (going native) and my neighborhood. Have also written many hundreds of political postcards; I am currently writing to Georgia Democrats. Grateful always for the CSW community. STAY WELL. Hope to see 1971 and friends in person in 2022.

Elizabeth Meyer ’71: Hello, friends. I live on a farm in Westport, Massachusetts, with Michael, my husband of 30 years. We are both sailors, boat and building restorers and preservationists (houses, barns and other commercial structures), and outdoorsy types. CSW was one of the two most important influences on my life. The other, and honestly greater influence, was Alamoosook Island Camp (AIC) in Maine. Quite a few CSW students are/were also AIC campers.

Robert Friesen ’71: It’s tough to come up with a cheerful opening line to accompany ten months of COVID. I have been busy attempting to keep a new company afloat and completing many post-divorce house projects. The company failed and we are closing it down. But new opportunities always come up. I am on the boards of advisors of two healthcare companies and advising the founder of a terrific gourmet charcuterie company (Tempesta Artisan Salumi) that satisfies my enduring love for cooking and eating. Bob Vickers ’71 learned the virtues of Tempesta’s “Dante” sandwich in person during a Chicago stopover as part of his recent nationwide Tour de COVID. He stopped in Chicago on his cross-country COVID-beDamned driving tour and we celebrated his birthday at Chicago’s wonderful RPM Steak restaurant. What an evening for a couple of 39-year-olds. Ummm… okay, 40-year-olds. But still displaying all of the maturity of a pair of 16-year-olds, so all is good. Board work is less demanding than consulting,

Artwork by Celeste Nossiter ‘70.