class notes Tom Howland still works in the accounting division of Den Norske Bank’s Northern European headquarters in Stockholm and travels to London as often as possible. While there last June, Tom had a visit from Sheila Saunders at Christmas. Tom was involved in two plays this spring: One was performed in April in Stockholm, the other in May in Hamburg at the Festival for European Anglophone Theatrical Societies. Tom’s big adventure last year was singing “Stand by Me” during the bridal march at a friend’s daughter’s wedding in October on the beach in Taiwan. Kimberly-Toy Reynolds Pellerino and husband Giorgio both have U.S. and Italian citizenships. They continue to visit presidential libraries across the United States and hope that Chicago will be the home of President Obama’s library. Son Ming is in Cambridge, Mass., and son Marcus is in Atlanta, Ga. Giorgio and Kim have signed up as disaster inspectors with FEMA. Emily Odza has lived in warm and sunny (and drought-ridden) California, which seems a world apart from the woes of the Eastern winter, since 1979. She works for the Oakland Public Library, where she is a popular substitute librarian. Emily loves the 10-minute commute. She has been involved with neighborhood organizing in East Oakland for 15 years and has recently published a neighborhood newsletter: “It’s fun to have a byline again.” She is interested in cuttingedge librarianship and how social media tools can help promote the library as well as the neighborhood. Culturally, Emily is busy, with four subscriptions to small theaters around the Bay Area, museum visits, and concerts and movies. Reach her at eodza@comcast.net.
Martha Robinson Heard ’77 (left) and Beth Barry ’77 exhibited their artwork at a show in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
Connie Kiachif Helms continues her therapeutic education practice in Burlington, Vt., lectures and blogs on parenting and education, and is co-director of a remedial education training program. Her consulting and mentoring take her to places south of Vermont in the winter, her favorite being Nashville. She and Dale will celebrate their 30th anniversary this year; their three children work outdoors and in healing arts. Connie keeps in touch with Margy Erdman Becker, Amy Grossman, Margaret Bradley Felton, Wendy Crandall and Lorri Cohen Rich ’78. Annual delight: visiting Alison Macmillan ’78 in mid-coast Maine.
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Since retiring as president and CIO of Seix Investment Advisors in 2008, John Talty has worked with Episcopal Charities of New York, becoming president of the board three years ago. The organization supports 95 grassroots programs, ranging from feeding programs to prison education and rehabilitation. John, wife Adèle and their four children have lived in Bedford, N.Y., for 19 years; the couple will be empty nesters next year. Since last Reunion, Sue Gorvine Nelson has changed jobs, cities and industries, and now works as the New England local executive director of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. She lives in Boston with her daughter, 18, who is doing a gap year. Sue says that being around creative folks inspires her to paint and play piano, as well as come up with story ideas. She has a 4-year-old grandson in Connecticut. Holly Corroon Robinson has returned to school at the University of Fairfield to get a master’s in clinical mental health counseling. She also volunteers at Silver Hill, a psychiatric
(L-R) Peter Stoops ’79, David Rittenhouse, Tony Bowe ’79, Tom Roosevelt ’78 and Jon Perry ’78 in Charleston, S.C.
hospital in New Canaan, Conn. Holly’s daughter is a freshman at the University of Richmond. Holly plans to be fully employed by the time her son, in 10th grade, enters college. Michael Litchman and wife Elisa celebrated their 25th anniversary in the summer of 2013 with a trip to the Cinque Terre and Tuscany. Son Josh is a freshman at Wake Forest and son Zach is a high school junior. Mike has been practicing real estate law with Goodwin Procter LLP for over 26 years. By the time this is published, he’ll be living in Needham, Mass. Jim Levine wasn’t at Reunion, but, after 35 years, he wanted to write in with his news. For the past 20 years, he has run a consulting behavioral health company in South Hadley, Mass. — 24 psychologists who consult for more than 50 school districts in New England. He’s also involved with the Heartwood Academy & Center, a therapeutic school for elementary school-aged children with severe mental illness. Jim lives in South Hadley, where he and his wife have raised two children. He has biked thousands of miles, some of the best of them with Arthur Berg ’79, and coached hundreds of basketball games. Jim is lifelong friends with Lawrence Strauss. Tony Morazzini is a construction inspector for an engineering consulting firm in Connecticut, working on railroad and highway infrastructure improvement projects. Oldest son Michael is a high school biology teacher; youngest son Evan is in fifth grade. Michael and his wife Margaret blessed Tony with a beautiful grandchild, Wesley, last summer. Doug Fisher still lives in
Westchester County, N.Y., and has two kids. Son Steve is an actor and Internet producer in Los Angeles, and daughter Nora is getting her degree in theater and stage management at Trinity College in Dublin, where she also rows crew. The last five years have included a trip to Iceland and a family reunion to welcome home his uncle, Doug, who had been missing in action in Korea since 1950. Jessica Brackman lives in NYC with husband Charles Melcher and son Daniel, who enters Emory University this fall. Since selling her photography business, Jessica’s been working with social, environmental and film organizations, including the New Economy Coalition, the Tibet Fund and Working Films. She co-produced the documentary “Ram Dass: Fierce Grace,” and is the founder of the New Economy Film Festival, an annual event that features documentaries on social justice and sustainability. After 25 years in Harvard, Mass., where she raised two terrific daughters, tended acres of grass and survived many animals, Tammy Bickford Nuenighoff moved to Charleston, S.C., where they live downtown and love every tourist, carriage ride and garbage truck. Tammy says the people are so friendly, and she has reunited with her best friend from high school. Lisa Schumacher has finished an intensive training and certification in facial rejuvenation. She is also a massage therapist, specializing in Zero Balancing, massage cupping, therapeutic massage and natural facelifting techniques. She also still works on her pottery every week in the same
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