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Dominique Callimanopulos is the owner of a philanthropic travel company, www.elevatedestinations.com, that this year became the first company to launch a Buy A Trip, Give A Trip platform. For every trip her company books worldwide, they sponsor an excursion for local youth to get to see sights normally reserved for tourists. Dominique lives in Boston. Her daughter, Alexa Clay has a new book The Misfit Economy, being released in June by Simon & Schuster, which has been called out by The Daily Telegraph, the Huffington Post and the World Economic Summit as a must-read in 2015. Dominique and Erica Disch (formerly Erica Ellis ‘76) are still best buds and are traveling to New Mexico together soon.
’77
RH Bonnie Hutchinson Zellerbach had a wonderful time at the 125th anniversary reunion in Bangkok in March. She writes, “While I was the only member of the class of ‘77, it was good fun to meet and share stories with fellow alumni. It was particularly nice to see Tom Yankus and to meet his daughter who was born years after we graduated. I kept chuckling to myself because I remember my 16-year-old self thinking Tom was ‘old’ when we were there; old is definitely a relative term now! Please let me know if you are ever in Bangkok.”
’78
Phil Squattrito writes, “In 2014, I marked 25 years as a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Central Michigan University. My main work these days is teaching general chemistry to future generations of doctors, engineers, and the occasional chemist. I am also active in our faculty union, serving on the last two bargaining committees (collective bargaining is not dead in the Midwest yet) and chairing the grievance committee. Outside of the university, I am in my sixth year as chairperson of the Union Township Planning Commission, which oversees development in the municipality of roughly 10,000 residents that encircles the city of Mt. Pleasant.”
1980s ’80
Michael Lewyn is finishing a one-year visitorship at the University of Missouri at Kansas City law school. He has been busy both in the scholarly community and in the community at large; he recently spoke at a conference of property professors at Washburn Law School on “Smart Growth Oriented Density and Parking Regulations”, and recently published an article in the Real Estate Law Journal on gentrification (works.bepress.com/lewyn/96/ ). In addition, he has created a “Car-Free in Kansas City” webpage (mlewyn.wix.com/autofreekc ). In August he will move to Pittsburgh to begin another one-year stint at the University of Pittsburgh’s law school. Gordon St. John writes, “My family and I are looking forward to the 2015 Choate graduation of Jake and Alex Amorello, twin sons of my sister, Susan St. John Amorello ’84. With this, we will extend the Choate Rosemary Hall family tradition to five generations of St. Johns – great aunt Gladys Watkins Seymour RH 1905 and great-grandfather Seymour St. John through Alex and Jake. As for me, I am excited to report that daughter Ashley will be finishing her second year of her PhD program at Boston University. Son Chris will graduate from Princeton, alma mater of great, great uncle Jim St. John ’28. Chris is a chef and will likely head to Oregon to carve out his niche. Alex, the youngest, is at UVM. My questionable hockey career continues in an ‘old man’ league. Most important, marriage is going strong after 31 years. Business at Pentra, the employee benefit consulting firm I lead, provides plenty of challenge and opportunity.” Kenny Tung finally launched into advisory mode last year but continues to provide ad hoc general counsel services to mostly foreign investors in Asia. A few months ago, he started to advise a top U.S. private equity fund to help look after risks in the China portfolio companies. Recently he also began an engagement to advise ZF, a German auto components company, to facilitate the Asia Pacific aspects of the closing and integration of their acquisition of TRW.’81
Tom Colt writes, “I have been living in Pittsburgh since 2008 with my wife, Megan. I work at Shady Side Academy as a college counselor and assistant cross country coach. In the summer I am a narrator for Just Ducky Tours of Pittsburgh. My wife and I have been able to take some great vacations over the past few years to places such as Iceland, Cuba, Panama, Peru, and Colombia.”
’82
Kalen Hockstader Holliday writes, “The silver (no pun intended) lining of being eligible for an AARP card was reuniting with so many (hate to say it) old friends. I was fortunate to have many Choaties come to my December birthday celebration in Sleepy Hollow, including Page Vincent - who came despite the party taking place on her own birthday, Cynthia Houx, Christine Mulkiewicz, Dave Seaman, Caroline Vincent Mockridge ‘84 and my brother, Lee Hockstader ‘77. It was wonderful kicking off the birthday year back in May with one of my Choate roommates, Laura Rawlings, with 12 of our college classmates in Arizona. Lynn Pantano Dale had a rooftop birthday celebration in Boston last June that showcased her amazing event planning skills. When not celebrating birthdays, I’m directing communications for Covestor, an online investing company. My company relocated from Times Square to Boston’s financial district two years ago.” Jim Loughlin writes, “I am planning to move my law practice around the corner, directly across from the Wallingford Public Library and adjacent to the Choate campus. I see Tom Daly, Dave Valenti and Ken Mita frequently. But most important, I believe Will Aufderheide can be seen in Nissan television commercials. If it is he, I never knew Will was so good looking. How’d he get that gig? If it’s not him, my recollection about his looks remains undisturbed.”
LEFT Taylor Safford ’77 and Chris Rice ’72
CENTER Jim Sherman ‘80 escaped the
on Pier 39 in San Francisco. Taylor, who is president of Pier 39 (www.pier39.com), and Chris met while Chris was working on a project for Pier 39. They realized they both went to Choate!
brutal Northeast winter with a 10-day Caribbean sailing trip. On a sailing yacht, he and a group of friends visited Antigua, St. Barth, St. Kitts, and Nevis.
RIGHT Ricky Posner ’82 and his wife, Isabel Serra, and their three children, twins Nicolás and Natalie, and Laura, with Director of Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Programs Eera Sharma. The Posners hosted a Summer Programs reception in Guatemala City.