Hiram Ratliff ’81 presented the Couloucoundis Award to Alexander Gellert ’14 (son of Alex Gellert ’79) in June. The prize goes to a 6th grade boy who embodies the spirit of Anthony
Couloucoundis ’81, who passed away in a car accident during his 6th grade year at AllenStevenson. A member of his class presents the award every year to a boy with scholastic excellence, all-round participation in athletics, arts and community service; and above all, the gift of friendship.
Jeremy Beard ’86 (jbeard1@nyc.rr.com) and his wife, Lindsay, are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Caroline Elizabeth, born on April 12, 2011. She weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces and was 20.9 inches long.
alumni news als in the public domain, so check it out if you're interested in scholarship), and going back to Silicon Valley, to the Palo Alto office of Skadden, Arps to get back to doing M&A, capital markets and other transactional work with private equity firms and technology companies.”
Christopher Persley ’88 (cpersley@vcsnyc.org) and Jenelle Timmins-Persley welcomed a daughter, Camilla Catherine Persley, born on March 24th. Persley is continuing as Director of
Jimmy Gleacher ’86 (gleacher5@aol.com) just released his third novel, Paradise Rules, this
1982: 30th Reunion
John Goldstone ’84 popped in from LA to say hello to us on East 78th Street. Philip Gardner Utsch ’84 (utsch@gmail.com) married Leena Jain in April in Irving, Texas.
Diversity at Village Community School in NYC and he is chairing the Prep For Prep/A-S event on February 7, 2012. summer. Gleacher previously wrote Silly Little Rich Girl and It's How You Play the Game. He is also the screenwriter of the film "He’s Such A Girl." He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Phoebe Ryder Wartels, daughter of Wyatt Wartels ’89 (wyattwartels@gmail.com) and his wife Sally,
1987: 25th Reunion
A Hindu priest performed a traditional Indian ceremony. Utsch is a managing director for CLSA, a French brokerage and investment firm in New York, where he specializes in Asian institutional sales. His wife works in New York as an assistant vice president of marketing for L’Oréal.
Christopher Weitz ’84 directed a new movie, "A Better Life," about a gardener in East L.A. who struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while trying to give his son the opportunities he never had.
Pete Conlon '87 (Pete@wutitis.com) lives in Los Angeles. In 2005, he founded Wut It Is, a full service film and broadcast design, direction, production and post-production boutique located in the center of Hollywood. "Our process is simple, seamless and takes place under one roof. We cram motion graphics, special effects and live action into an old shoe box, bury it in the back yard and let it ferment." Barnaby Gibson ’87 (Barnaby.gibson@gmail.com) writes: “I'm leaving a New York-based non-profit called Ithaka that is focused on how technology is transforming universities, libraries and scholarly publishing, and home to JSTOR, a massive online database used by universities and libraries (now available to the public for materi-
was born May 31, 2011. Wyatt works at Gastronaut, a San Francisco-based catering company. He writes: “We provide food for all sorts of events using local sustainably-sourced products. An area where we are popular is catering daily meals for tech companies, namely Twitter for a year or so and now Square, Yelp, Mozilla and Causes to name a few. After cooking for a year, I am the brand manager working on developing and building the brand.”
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