Class Notes

1942

Richard Mansfield is still hale and hearty in Sarasota, Fla., and says Cushing will always be tops in his memories.

1944

Marcia Wells Seely is proud of her daughters. Dr. Ellen Seely is a professor of medicine and on the board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She’s also a professor at Harvard University Medical School. Anne Seely is a district attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y.

1948

Al Hixon is still actively playing music. In the fall, he was pleased to be named an Ageless Creativity - Longboat Luminary by the Longboat Key Center for the Arts of Ringling School of Art & Design. His Al Hixon Jazz Groups regularly play balls, concerts, dances, festivals, and other events.

1949

Edgar Bourgeois recently wrote an autobiography.

1951

Class Agent: Lilian Goss

20 Apple Blossom Drive

West Lebanon, NH 03724

Home: 603-298-5564

A book co-authored by Nancy Craig McGrath was published in June. It's entitled No Man's Land. Nancy has been busy painting as she’ll be exhibiting at a gallery in Meredith, N.H., this summer. She is still singing in the choir, and she and her son are working on a book, The Magic Mirror Company, that they hope to get finished this summer.

1957

Captain Peter Joseph, USCG (Ret) was recently selected as one of the 125 Graduates of Distinction of the United States Coast Guard Academy. Peter's nomination by his peers was primarily based upon his numerous at-sea rescues in which he was involved in the saving of over 100 lives throughout his career.

1961

Dennis Driscoll visited campus this spring to talk to a Cushing history class about his experiences in the Vietnam War. See page 42 for more.

1964

Several members of the Class of 1964 got together in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., in January, including Sarah Krug Barbee Nancy Johnson Richards Rich Mohlere, Peter Carleton, Ellen Weaver, and Donna Merrill Stout, along with Betsy Johnson Messenger ’71. They realized at last year’s reunion that about 10 of them were in the area so they decided to continue the celebration in Florida. They look forward to doing it again next year.

1965

Class Agent: Jim Rondeau

7 Robert Arthur Way

South Dennis, MA 02660

Home: 508-394-8250

Cell: 805-292-6994

Email: jimr2121@comcast.net

1966

Class Agent: Thomas Doughton College of the Holy Cross

1 College Street

Smith 503

Worcester, MA 01610

Email: tdoughton@gmail.com

1968

Class Agent: John Shirey

3 Millview Court Malahide Co., Dublin Ireland

Home: 353-184-56581

Email: john@shirey.com

Class Agent: Alan Crocker

50 Winnecowett Drive

PO Box 781

Ashburnham, MA 01430

Home: 978-827-5787

Cell: 978-424-6949

Email: abccrocker@gmail.com

1971

Betsy Johnson Messenger joined her sister, Nancy Johnson Richards ’64, at a small reunion of the Class of 1964 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., in January.

1982

Paul Dever is in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he works as the Deputy Human Resource Officer at the Embassy of the United States. As of March, he had been there for eight months with 16 to go. His wife and daughter are passing the time with family. Prior to Afghanistan, he worked with the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs office in Baghdad, then a soft landing in Fiji for about two years, both with the Department of State. Feel free to drop a line at DeverPS@state.gov or Dospaul2002@ hotmail.com.

Mark Friedman played a lawyer in the Apr. 1, 2015, episode of Law & Order: SVU.

1984

Jennifer Clickner-Engel is living in Geneva, where she and her family spend weekends at their ski chalet, making the most of ski season. Her son Tristan just turned eight and is in a bilingual school (French and English). Her husband is a documentary film maker, and she runs between two jobs, as a media trainer at the United Nations and as a culture commissioner for the government. She’s missing her Cushing classmates!

Vero Beach in February.

Mini reunion of the Class of 1964 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

David Cowell ’82—great-grandson of Dr. Hervey S. Cowell, Cushing’s third headmaster—visited us this spring. Here, he stands in front of Dr. Cowell’s portrait.

1985

Class Agent: Esther Young

“Onaway”

36 Pitts Bay Road

Pembroke, HM 06

Bermuda

Home: 1-441-296-4749

Cell: 1-441-504-0375

Email: esthernew@hotmail.com

Tim Whitcomb is completing his 16th year of teaching at Zayed University in Dubai. He invites you to email him at samuelsuncletim@hotmail. com, especially if you are traveling to Dubai or Sri Lanka.

1987

David Elliott performs in a duet with his mother, Dionne Warwick, on her new album, Feels So Good. The duet is “Windows of the World.” David’s daughter, Cheyenne, also performs a duet, “Let There Be Love.” Available on iTunes.

Will Day was recently featured in an article for Colorado Homes & Lifestyles. You can read the article at www.coloradohomesmag.com/Day-Time/.

1990

Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent welcomed a daughter, Poppy BrentBerkus, to their family in March.

Congratulations!

In March, Mike Landers and some of his West Point hockey colleagues raised over $50,000, in a charity game with former Bruins, to aid veterans. They played for the Fisher House of Boston, which provides housing for family members of veterans being treated at the VA in West Roxbury.

Pete Snyder and wife Burson added a beautiful baby girl, Bee, to their family in January.

1993

Japanese alumnus Taro Fujikawa visited campus in February with his niece and brother-in-law for an interview with the Admissions Office.

1996

Dex L. Lewis is a civil engineering working in Farmington, N.M.

Tom Poti was back on campus in November, where he spent an afternoon on the ice at Iorio Arena. The former NHL player assisted in the Varsity Boys’ Hockey practice, running drills and working with the players and coaches to kick off the 2014–2015 season.

2001

Isaac Fitzgerald was a guest on the Today show in January, talking about books to read before they hit the big screen. Isaac is the books editor at Buzzfeed.com. If you’re looking for good advice on books, you can follow him on Twitter @IsaacFitzgerald. He’s also got a blog at penandink.tumblr. com all about tattoos and the stories behind them.

2003

Shantih Chanel Lewis is employed at a ski resort north of Durango, Colo.

2005

Michelle Lu Saetersmoen attended Boston College from 2005 to 2009.

She studied sociology and biochemistry, but realized toward graduation that she wanted to pursue a career in research. She applied to the University of Oslo in the program of molecular biology/medicine and started in the fall of 2009. She has been living in Oslo since then and she is very happy with her decision. She says it can be cold, but the summers are amazing and after what she saw of the New England winter this year, she thinks it’s not much different from Norway. She’s currently a Ph.D. candidate working at the Radium Hospital of Norway in Oslo and living with her husband, Ola, and her German shepherd, Max.

Ashley Zimmerman is a graphic designer at Dinardo Design, a small educational publishing company in Concord, Mass.

2006

Class Agent: Mike Nadler

375 Howard Street

Northborough, MA 01532

Home: 508-393-7865

Cell: 774-258-1040

Email: mbnadler@gmail.com

2007

Jill Barry will be traveling to Rwanda in July as part of a final project for her Applied Theatre master’s degree at the City University of New York. Applied Theatre is a specialized field that uses theatre in a variety of non-traditional contexts in nontraditional spaces. It can be used for education, community building, and social justice. It is often found in places such as schools, prisons, hospitals, and churches. She’ll be sharing the practices she has learned over the past two years with the Rwandan students and learning about the techniques that they have developed in their program in Rwanda. To learn more, or support her travel, visit life.

and-learning-applied-theater-inrwanda.

Whitney Raelynn Cheree Lewis is attending Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo.

Amelia King Randolph was married in May 2014. Three of her bridesmaids were Cushing alumnae: Marina “Boo” Vernon, Mary Hannah O’Brien, and Rachel Sommers Andrea Del Bello also attended and made the bridesmaids’ necklaces for the event. The ceremony and reception were outdoors at Adventures on the Gorge in West Virginia.

2010

On Jan. 31, 2015, Scott Baron became engaged to Katherine “Katie” Cadieux. The couple both attended Utica College and they plan to live in Clinton, N.Y. It was quite the proposal. Scott says, “I had a limo pick us up without her knowing in the morning. I took her shopping and to a spa and to lunch. Then, at the end of the day when I told her we were going home, we took a detour to Green Lakes State Park in Syracuse, N.Y., and I took her by the water and proposed. We plan to have the wedding in the Adirondacks by the mountains and by the lake with our family and friends. The wedding is planned for August 2016.”

Class Agents and Representatives

Rob Hollomon, a senior at Central Connecticut State, was named a finalist for the 2014 Walter Payton Award. Rob was one of 25 considered for the award, which goes to the most outstanding player at the NCAA Division I FCS level.

Hyung Suk “Robert” Nam is completing his degree at Northwestern. He expects to graduate in December 2015 with a degree in economics. He worked for a hedge fund in NYC last summer and will do so again this summer. He expects it will turn into a full-time job. He keeps in touch with Derek Salama, who graduated from Dartmouth and is now working at Google. Robert also keeps in touch with Jeremy Manore, who is in the business world.

Phil Pressey was on campus in February, being interviewed by Comcast SportsNet for their “Deep Green” segment, an in-depth piece on a Celtics player. If you missed it, you can watch it online here: www. csnne.com/blog/celtics-talk/deepgreen-pressey-visits-his-alma-matercushing-academy.

2011

Jake Droogan visited Cushing this spring to talk to Bob Johnson’s architecture class. See page 12 for more.

In March, Sam Kane and Paul

Burns won the NCAA DIII National Ice Hockey Championship as part of the Trinity College team.

New Mexico native Robin Yoshida is a senior defenseman on the hockey team for St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. A sociology major, Robin wants to get her master’s in public health with a focus on epidemiology and maybe global health. Of her time at Cushing she says, “That experience was the best thing I could have done to prepare myself for college not only in hockey, but academically as well.” Read more at www.uscho. com/2014/11/27/st-anselms-yoshidaproof-that-talent-can-be-found-innew-mexico.

Former Faculty

Former faculty member David Grant recently published a book called The Social Profit Handbook: The Essential Guide to Setting Goals, Assessing Outcomes, and Achieving Success for Mission-Driven Organizations

The book is available through Amazon.

There are a number of ways you can help your alma mater. You can attend events, mentor young alumni (see www. cushing.org/alumni for more information), make a gift, or serve as a class agent or class representative.

Class agents help raise funds for the Cushing Academy Annual Fund and other special projects, like the new athletic facility, by building enthusiasm and asking classmates to contribute. Class representatives work to build relationships among class members and to keep the Academy informed of news and updates among members of the class.

This is a fairly new program at the Academy. The classes who have agents and reps have that information listed in the Class Notes section of this magazine. If you don’t see a class agent or class rep listed, it means we don’t have one for that class yet. If you’d like to serve as either—or both!—please call us at 978-8277400 or email alumniprograms@ cushing.org. You can help make Cushing’s alumni bonds strong.