Class Notes their sports and hobbies. We spend our summers
1989
sailing and on the beach and winters skiing. Hope
Nancy Walsh Gonzalez has
everyone from the Class of ’86 is well.”
been living in Miami for the 20 years next March. Can you
Adam Renner writes: “Things are going good – still
believe that!? I have two sweet
in Tucson, Arizona. We spend our free time chasing
boys, Lawrence and Alexander,
twins Caleb and Connor, 2. They keep us on our
ages 12 and 8, and I work for
toes.”
Tiffany & Co. Got diamonds? I
be back in Wolfeboro. I’m planning to return to
ago. Now I battle with shopping and eating! I can
England College in July 2009 with her master’s
Brewster for our 20 reunion in 2011.”
find some humor in it all! I’m excited about starting
to see my mom.”
Lara Dowdall and husband Andy live in Eugene, Oregon, with their children Jason, 8, Diego, 5, and
Ted Latham, wife Barbara, and
Mia, 3, and their chocolate Lab Sadie.
their three children Alexa, 6,
1992
Concord High School in Concord, New Hampshire.
Austin Connors writes: “After Brewster I made it
1993
I also applied to Kingswood High School so I might
through three years at the University of Vermont
Sarah (Bunker) Kern, husband Daniel, and daughter
and stepped out to figure out what it was I actu-
Samara welcomed Sedge Edmund Warren Kern on
ally wanted to do. At first I got involved in building
January 5. “Everyone is happy, healthy, and grateful.”
America’s Cup racing boats, but after four years
Todd Parola ‘89, David Lynch ‘89, and Mike Clark ‘89 returned to campus for the Trey Whitfield Memorial Lecture in January. Parola was the guest speaker (see page 15.)
Edward, 3, and Isabella, 2, live in Miami. He is busy Jon Konheim wrote: “I have my household of estro-
being a dad and is working hard.
gen with my beautiful wife and three rambunctious girls. I’m working my butt off with two jobs: running
A busy Sydney Sklar dashed off a quick note saying
an aerospace business and running the inside sales
that he was on a first responder training course in
for a dental implant company. I don’t get much
Colorado for a week and then back to Joliet, Illinois,
sleep!”
where he now lives. This summer he will take some of his college students on a wilderness canoe trip in
Holly Sexton is glad to have made it through
a new chapter in my life.”
find a job, but I did get a substitute teaching job at
visit Wolfeboro every summer
1988
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degree in education/special education. “I have yet to
past 15 years. “I’ll be married
1987
Susan (Aranosian) McTague graduated from New
the Boundary Waters.
I took six months off and toured the States. I got
Walter Newell writes that he gave up hockey after
into doing finish-work carpentry, custom cabinetry.
a brief stint in the minors. He’s now a professional
I moved on to building large custom homes, got
golfer and the head pro of a golf club in Florida. He’s
licensed, and started my own construction business. I
been on the golf circuit since he was 22 and loves it.
moved to Hermosa Beach, Californina, to run a high-
Todd Willens moved his family from Capitol Hill in
end residential company. Fun times ensued with live
1994
Washington, D.C., to the suburbs of Denver about 18
music hookups in L.A. and San Fran ... lots of surfing
Jeffrey Pricher reports: “Life has been a total
months ago. “Greatest thing I ever did for my kids.
and recreating. And hard work too. Started my own
adventure. Skydiving, mountain climbing, kayaking,
I have four (8,7, 4, and 2). My wife wanted to make
business in Manhattan Beach, California, but just
anything outdoors. I spent six months at the South
the kids her full-time job, and I was coming to the
recently moved back to Gloucester, Massachusetts,
Pole working for the National Science Foundation as
to be with my father who’s quite ill with cancer.”
their lead paramedic for the search and rescue team,
end of my position with the Bush-Cheney Administration, so we made it happen. I’m doing consulting/
Chrissie and Katerina, daughters of Daniella and Alexis Pappas ’88
lobbying for a variety of clients before the federal commute. While it’s hard to believe, I see my family
and just had her 10-year anniversary working for
more than I did before and the quality is much bet-
John Hancock.
ter. Business is slow but hopefully picking up. But the important parts of life are good and strong!”
1990 Kate Goldberg is “Waiting for Mr. Right!” But in the meantime, she plays golf and tennis at the local country club, does charity work, and (along with her boyfriend) is remodeling her house.
I’m the chief of a small agency (been writing a lot of grants lately), and started a consulting business
government. My office is in D.C. and I pretty much
another hurricane season without a major storm
worked for a few different fire departments, and now All is well in Colorado for Jennifer Finn.
Daughters of Megan (Boyle) O’Niell ’89 and husband Kevin: Adare, Catherine, and Margaret
Chrystie O’Brien writes that she finally graduated
for the film and sporting industry. I have traveled
from college in 2009 with a B.A. in psychology and
the country coordinating safety, medical, and rescue
a substance abuse certificate. “Believe it or not, it
methods for major sporting events, worked for MTV
only took me 17 years! I finally found a passion that
for two years, and visited nine countries. I’m also
I’m good at. In 1998 I was diagnosed with Bipolar 1
a member of a Federal Emergency Management
Disorder, which was a hard diagnosis to swallow (so
Agency team that worked with the Katrina after-
were the pills!). I was fortunate to get the best care
math. During the summers, I moonlight with the U.S.
there is at the Harvard Bipolar Research Center in
Forest Service, working the major fire circuit. I live
Boston. I also fought substance abuse and addiction
on the Columbia River Gorge in the Northwest with
for probably the past 20 years. I got sober in January
my two dogs. Once again I’ve fallen in love with film
2003, and I gave up smoking a little over three years
and photography, and in my free time I’m making
Cameron, 9, and Ellie, 5, children of Charlie and Kim (Boyce) Seefried ’90
Hugo, 2, son of Michael and Elizabeth (Traverso) Palmer ’93, with Mr. T. and Lily
Lauren (Sheahan) Zelko writes: “Our fourth baby arrived in January 2009 – a girl, Rowan Kerith Shea Zelko. She joins her brothers Keegan, 8, and Torin, 3, and sister Maille, 5. We are a very busy, active household!”
1991 Lesley (Casty) Grinberg writes: “It’s my10-year anniversary with my husband Gyl Grinberg, a Gunnery alumnus. We have two boys, 6 and 8, who have so Mandy Clark Scheel ’87, Maggie Sutherland ’87, Heather Monroe Rohner ’87, George Ide ’87, Tamah French-Proops ’87, John Hamblett ’87, Barb Matthew’s Hamblett ’88 , Cara Douglass-Graff ’87, Jenny Ryan Haugh ’88, Sarah Graham Hayes ’87, Liz Scully ’87, and Joanne Zammer Iverson ’87 got together for a minireunion at the home of French-Proops in Massachusetts in September 2009. Some of the attendees were local, but some traveled from as far as New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio. “It was an amazing weekend with old friends!” French-Proops declared.
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much energy they could power the space shuttle. We live in Atlanta and love where life has taken us. Thank you, Brewster!”
Former faculty member Barbara Douglass lunched with Jae Young Shin ’92 and his wife and two-year-old daughter in December in Wolfeboro. Shin is an associate director at the Macquarie Group.
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