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Bridgeport, CT, was voted to serve on the Board of Directors for the Marble Institute of America in November 2015. Buddy will represent Zone 1, serving the northeast corridor of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. Mike Rodgers writes: “I have been working for a small software company for the last 15 years and love it. I’ve seen the company evolve from an office building setting to all homebased, a nice bonus. My wonderful wife works for a home-and-officecontents appraisal company, and we have a daughter who just earned her graduate degree from the University of Denver. She accepted a teaching position at Williston Northampton and all the extra responsibilities that come with being a dorm head, teacher, coach, advisor, etc. I will have to split allegiances at Bears vs. Bobcat games since she is also the varsity womens basketball and softball coach!” John B. Voss writes: “I am now an independent construction process consultant working for American Bridge Company in Pittsburgh. I live in Charlotte, NC, when I’m not sailing in Florida. I was blessed with my second grandson in September, and my first turned two in October.”
82 Anthony P. Addison anthony_addison@ml.com Thomas B. Fahy bfahy44@gmail.com
Wags Berl writes: “I was happy to attend Alumni Homecoming this fall and ran into a few friends whose children are attending Berkshire. I also sat with a few teachers at lunch and they were so nice and friendly. My brother, Ennalls Berl ’81, and I watched the football team win with a few trick lateral passes. We talked to some parents, made some new friends, and it was a fun time. The hockey rinks and athletic center look great. I hope to skate there sometime. I want to go back as a PG! I saw Terry Gregory in
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Boston, and we went to my first ever professional baseball game, the Red Sox! He seems very happy, and it was great to see him. I moved to Burlington, VT, and it is so beautiful and healthy up here. If any of you get up this way, look me up. Cheers! Missing Mr. C. Twiggs Myers Hon. ’57.”
83 Karen Schnurr Secrist karensecrist6@gmail.com
Sarah Bakhiet writes: “After 16 years in San Diego, I left La Jolla to come to Maui, HI. I’m the Head of School of Seabury Hall, a wonderful school in upcountry Makawao. Every day I’m grateful for this exquisite place and its kind and loving people. Warm aloha to all my Berkshire friends, classmates, teachers and colleagues. Mahalo nui loa!” Alana Bernstein Beattie writes: “I am still in Durango, CO with my husband Todd and our two sons. We try to take advantage of all the San Juan Mountains have to offer. When we are not skiing, the boys play a lot of soccer, and I watch a lot of soccer. For 12 years I have worked as a hand therapist at a private therapy practice. I am rarely in New England, but I look forward to visiting family in the Berkshires.” John Fletcher writes: “I live in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL and own a commercial property and casualty insurance brokerage company and have been doing that since 1990. I have three kids: John Jr., a freshman at Bates; Olivia, a senior in high school; and Phoebe, a 6th grader. When I tire of the heat and humidity in Florida, I escape to the mountains of North Carolina where I have a place.” Katie Saxby-Welsh Schindler writes: “Turned 50...time for change. We moved to Kennebunk, ME last year, and this fall I shifted careers and am now Minister for Children, Youth and Families at St. George’s Episcopal Church. As part of my job I am the Executive Director of an Early Learning Center, which is a church outreach project that provides quality affordable childcare for all families. We serve
many families who might not otherwise be able to afford childcare. At 51, it is exhausting, but so rewarding and so much fun. My family is great. My oldest daughter will be graduating from Mt. Holyoke in the spring, my younger daughter is a freshman at the University of Southern Maine, and my son is a freshman at Kennebunk High School. My husband Steve and I just try to keep up with them!”
84 Steven G. Sanders writes: “In March 2015, I was promoted to Deputy Chief of the Appeals Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, where I have served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney since 2007. In June 2015, at a ceremony at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, two colleagues and I received Director’s Awards for the successful prosecution and conviction of Paul Bergrin, a defense lawyer (and former federal prosecutor) who used his law practice as a racketeering enterprise, engaging in witness murders, cocaine trafficking, and prostitution, among other crimes.”
85 Lionel A. Shaw lionel_shaw@yahoo.com
Charles Fletcher ’85 coaching his son’s flag football team
Charles Fletcher writes: “I graduated from law school in 1997, and by 2007 I formed my own firm, practicing in the areas of criminal defense and personal