Happy Birthday Louise B. Adams
Honorary Board of Directors member Louise B. Adams celebrated her 90th birthday at Bear Island in Stony Creek, CT with over 100 friends and family members. Peter and Sue Evans and George and Barbara Trautman were all in attendance. Louise’s birthday was also recognized at Avon Old Farms School with the Board of Directors. Louise has been a part of the Board for nearly 40 years, and her husband Paul (deceased 2005) was a member from 1948–66. Their two sons, Edward ’68 (deceased 2007) and Thomas ’64 (Board member from 1972–75), graduated from Avon, in addition to grandson E. Thomas (Tommy) Adams ’01.
Joe Dolcimascolo and his wife, Chrystal, announce the birth of their daughter, Madison Anne, on December 6, 2007. She weighed 6 lbs. 7 oz.
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Timothy B. Stay, Co-Head Class Agent; Avon Old Farms School, 500 Old Farms Road, Avon, CT 06001 stayt@avonoldfarms.com
Catching up at Vic and Angelo’s Restaurant in Palm Beach Shores, Florida over March break were Paul Gozzo ’94, Peter Evans, and Shawn LaBonte ’95.
Kyle R. Youngquist, Co-Head Class Agent; 60 West 23rd Street, Apt. 950, New York, NY 10010 kyoungquist@msdcapital.com David Jorgenson is engaged to Rachel Lutzker; a 2009 wedding is planned. Rachel graduated from Scarsdale High School and the University of Hartford, earning a B.A. in mass communications. She is a television reporter and traffic reporter for WTIC-TV, Fox 61, and radio DJ for Clear Channel Communications in Hartford. David graduated from University of Florida in Gainsville, where he earned a B.S. in business administration and was a three-year starter for the Gator football team. He is an insurance consultant for The Hartford in New York City.
Austin Sperry ’96 with skipper John Dane prepare to represent the United States at this summer’s Beijing Olympics. The pair won the Olympic trials last October, and they are the sole U.S. Star Class representatives.
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Geoffrey R. Barlow, Co-Head Class Agent; Avon Old Farms School, 500 Old Farms Road, Avon, CT 06001 spitfiregp34@hotmail.com J. Andrew Corrigan, Co-Head Class Agent; 826 Gould Hill Road, Contoocook, NH 03229 jamesandrewcorrigan@gmail.com
Doug Chasser ’01 is engaged to Jillian Campanella; they have been busy planning a May 17 wedding.
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Spring-Summer 2008 The Avonian
Jesse Carleton emailed this spring, “I’m currently in an area called the Silver Banks, about 90 miles northeast of Dominican Republic. We’re here with a few expert scientists researching the mating habits of the humpback whale—the same humpbacks that we see in the waters off the Cape in the summertime. It’s all quite interesting as we have the opportunity to get in the water and swim
with these enormous creatures. In fact last night a pod approached our ship about sunset and we were able to swim with them for hours, getting as close as 1–2 feet away at times. We got some incredible photos. After this trip we are crossing the Atlantic on our way to the Mediterranean.” On February 23, many members of the Class of ’98 gathered at Avon to remember classmate Kareem Norman, who passed away in May 2007. Among those on campus were Arthur Andrews, Chris Baran, Matt Biscaldi ’00, Kayser Dixon, Craig Evans, Greg Kraczkowsky, Adam LaVorgna ’99, Brian Lemek, Chris Migliore, George Psaras, James Reinhardt, Paul Rhodes, Brendan Riley ’01, Kelvin Roldan ’96, Corey Salvatelli ’00, Neil Sirni, and Drew Stroud.
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David R. Gryboski, Co-Head Class Agent; 5339 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach, FL 34217 dgryboski@tampabay.rr.com Jonathan M. Carroll, Co-Head Class Agent; 1486 Pescadero Drive, San Diego, CA 92107 carroll_jonathan@yahoo.com Brendan Mooney emailed, “I’ve been living and working out on Long Island with my father in Bay Shore. He’s a great partner and I manage the terminal portion of Fire Island Ferries (properties, parking lots, marketing/advertising). It’s going really well. We’re insanely busy for about 10 weeks out of the year, Memorial Day until Labor Day, and after that it dies off rather quickly. For that brief time, however, there’s very little time to relax. I’m less than five minutes from the beach, but didn’t make it into the ocean this year.” Adam Stifel moved back to D.C. and works in executive search for the McCormick Group. Adam emailed, “We have offices here and in Boston, so if anyone is looking for work in either of those places, let me know and I will try and help you out.”
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Michael J. O’Neill, Co-Head Class Agent; 37 Anderson Street Apt. 5, Boston, MA 02114 michael.oneill@fmr.com