class notes Last fall, Karen Lanphear Malinowski and Wayne Malinowski joined Bill Malinowski and his wife, Mary; Herb Kenny ’80 and Barb Marino Kenny ’80; and Kim Gibbs Dolan ’82 and her husband, Mark, on Fishers Island for a weekend of conviviality and oysters. (Karen’s brother-in-law owns Fishers Island Oysters.) Karen and Wayne now have three grandchildren, and Karen’s dad planted a tree at Northfield Mt. Hermon in honor of his grandchildren. Son Nate lives on Fishers Island, where he is executive director of The Lighthouse Works. Oysters? Reunion dinner appetizer? Let’s get this party started! Brooke Perry Pardue got a jump on reunion parties by hosting Rick Gersten, Cris Revas and Scott Hefter for dinner in Washington, and then Chip Maguire and his wife, Jackie, in Louisville for “lots of bourbon and sightseeing, and a road trip to the Maker’s Mark Distillery.” Greg Taylor and his wife, Abby, are empty nesters. Son Alexander is at High Point University and daughter Olivia is at Colgate University. Greg sold his commodity-trading software company last year and is now building their dream modernist/contemporary home in Connecticut, “replete with large-form sculpture park, four dogs, two cats and future livestock.” Greg climbed Tuckerman Ravine last spring, as well as the “neat 9,500-foot Pyrenees peak Pedraforca” while visiting his daughter in Barcelona. Let’s continue the party in Greg’s backyard at the post-postReunion 2016 hoopla. Our own bon vivant Duncan Dayton is the new owner of Casa Chameleon, a luxury boutique hotel that caters to adults, in the lush tropical Costa Rican surf town of Mal Pais, where Tom Brady and Gisele spend their off-gridiron hours. There are six (expanding to 10) private villas, each with a private pool and spectacular ocean views. An in-house chef cooks locally caught fresh fish, as well as farm-to-table meats prepared in a classic Costa Rican style. Go surfing, zip-lining, ATVing and birding, and relax in the glorious sunshine. See www. casachameleon.com. Reunion afterparty will be at Dunc’s place. Bring your own jet. Vanessa Stock Bristow’s life on Facebook is a visual cornucopia of all creatures great and small. She saved a wildebeest that had been forced over a dam wall by poachers. A week later, she organized the darting,
capture and transfer of a starving lone baby elephant from the banks of the Limpopo River. The baby elephant is alive and well and living in a dedicated elephant nursery in Harare. Check out her website at www.sentinel-eco.com. Get fired up for Reunion 2016! See you in June, Camels!
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Anick Pleven and Andy Hoffman celebrated their 25th anniversary in May. Anick celebrated another anniversary in June: 15 years as the production manager of The New York Times Magazine. Andy is a senior portfolio manager at the HSBC Private Bank and an active sailor and musician. They enjoy seeing many CC friends and look forward to the 35th reunion in 2018. Come one, come all. Matthew Martin had lunch in August with Rachel Shatz and Alec Madoff in midtown Manhattan; they talked a lot about kids and college. In the fall, Matthew drove son Daniel to Ithaca College for his freshman year; Alec took daughter Isabelle to Bates College. Rachel’s oldest, Amelia, is a junior at Kenyon College, and her younger daughter is a high school senior looking at schools. Matthew’s daughter, Erin, started high school at Hackley. “It took us all back to that September day in 1979 when we came together on campus for the first time as freshmen: Morrison, where Rachel and Matthew met that very first day, KB for Alec. Seems like … maybe not yesterday, but was it really 36 years ago?” Oran Tasini lives in Florida with his wife, Tammy, and practices law. Youngest daughter Madeleine Tasini ’16 is in her final year at CC, so it was a little blast from the past during their weekend move-in last fall. “The campus looks spectacular, as does the newly renovated Shain Library.” Oldest daughter Sara lives in New York City and works in the art world; she earned her master’s degree from New York University last May. Hope Walker Slonim got together with Christina Carroll ’82, Kathy Cavanaugh and Lisa Narva Jaffe in Jamestown, N.Y., and participated in “LucyFest,” the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, in honor and memory of Christina’s father, Bob Carroll, a celebrated comedy
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group or email us your news. Kimberly Norton Butler attended Reunion with her husband, Bill, and their four children, Jackson, 16; Nicolas, 12; Graham, 9; and Lilly, 6. Highlights included touring the new library and meeting Professor David Dorfman ’81, chair of the dance department, at the afternoon Castle Court beer tasting. The weekend ended with a BBQ at Peter Benoliel’s home in North Stamford, Conn., 10 minutes from Kim’s home Correspondents: Lucy Marshall Sandor, in New Canaan, with Judy Burger 251 Katydid Lane, Wilton, CT 06897, and Paul Stueck in attendance. Next lucysandor@aol.com; Sheryl Edwards Rajpolt, 17 Pheasant Lane, Monroe, CT 06468, Reunion, Kim suggests that the Connsrajpolt@us.ibm.com; Liz Kolber Wolkoff, 18 Chords get together to sing. Earle Drive, Muttontown, NY 11791, lizkprinc@ Liz Swinton Schoen has lived aol.com near Atlanta since 1987. She is married to Randy Schoen, a Ph.D. electrical engineer and patent attorney. Liz is Correspondents: Deborah Lowry MacLean, 42 general counsel for the Harbin Clinic in Catbird Court, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-2045, northwest Georgia, a large multispecialdeb.lowry.maclean@gmail.com; Meg Macri, ty physician practice organization. She megmacdoy@comcast.net saw Gina Batali in Seattle and attended Fifty-six classmates and guests the funeral of her former roommate gathered in New London last May to Ann Gallager, who passed away from celebrate our 30th reunion. Two of our cancer. own received awards at the Alumni Steve Geiser enjoyed seeing everyConvocation: Wendy Hermann Steele one at Reunion, especially those attendreceived the Harriet Buescher Lawrence ing for the first time, including fellow ’34 Prize, and Lisa Levaggi Borter re- oarsman Jon Scheiber. “Please don’t ceived the Agnes Berkeley Leahy Award. make it another 30 years before you Please join our Class of 1985 Facebook
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