to serve as a town meeting member in Needham and have been volunteering in local and state election races. This spring we will go to England and France for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. This should be fascinating and moving.” Janet Wakana Moore writes, “Unfortunately, I missed the Reunion. I am doing great. I still work at Dartmouth College but have a slightly different role, which has made things interesting again. I also now work 90%. I love having every other Friday off. I have been enjoying my two new hips. It is so nice to be pain-free. It is a new lease on life! I don’t take things for granted anymore. I have been doing a lot of bike riding and started doing gravel rides. These are bike rides on mostly dirt roads, so lots less traffic and beautiful scenery in New Hampshire/Vermont where I do them. My son is 16 and now drives, so no more being a chauffeur, which frees me up a ton. Thus, life is good. I hope everyone else is doing well.” Janet Wakana Moore
Lisa Partridge Ramsbottom writes, “Wildcat called last weekend! My son works there and my daughter had the weekend off from work, so we convened on skis for the mountain’s final day of a season that lasted 185 days! Otherwise, I am working a lot as an associate broker with Keller Williams Realty still. Additionally, I focus on private real estate transactions, design-build projects as well as staging. My why is serious and bold, especially now that it’s all on me after a lifetime of marriage. I’m enjoying my in-town house in the Stone Bridge neighborhood of Tiverton, Rhode Island: a 1900s house I gutted and renovated. Perhaps I’ll see some Dana Hall friends at a summer soiree here in New England!” Kathy Davidson Lobo writes, “I walked along the Camino do Santiago from Sarria to Santiago, a distance of about 115 km, for five days during my April school vacation. I was featured as a Northern New England Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NNETESOL) Members
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Spotlight. I participated in the Dana Hall Reunion Alumnae Art Show, and I got to catch up with Dana Hall teacher Jean McCarthy with whom I studied China for the first time. I went on to study Chinese language, first traveled to China in 1982, went as a one-for-one exchange student from Philadelphia to sister city Tianjin to study traditional Chinese paining for a year and a half, later lived in Hong Kong for three years. Now my daughter, having completed a six-month Fulbright in Xian, is now into her second year of one of China’s ‘one belt, one road’ scholarships to earn her master’s degree. It all can be traced back to Ms. McCarthy’s classroom!”
Maria Febres-Coredero de Orellana writes, “I’m still living in Guayaquil, Ecuador. My family is getting bigger every year. I have seven kids (two were my late husband’s but they grew up with me so I considered them as my own) and 12 grandkids. I’m a widow and although I thought I would never ever be as happy again, I met Pablo with whom I’m really happy. I went to visit Dana with him last November and walked the whole campus. It’s even prettier than before and I was very proud to show him everything. So many beautiful memories! I’ll be looking forward to reading what everyone is doing and seeing the pictures of Reunion. Four of my daughters went to Dana and I hope my granddaughters will go there, too.”
Kathy Davidson Lobo with former faculty member Jean McCarthy
Vicki Tompkins Heydari writes, “It was great to see everyone at our 40th and catch up! I am working as a design manager/ senior interior designer for a design-build company in Medfield: Mitchell Construction Group. I have been there for seven years and enjoy the work and people. My youngest son Andrew is in college and my older boys, William and Cameron, are launched and working in Boston. I keep in touch with Lisa Cheren Bilbo, Katina Athans Engle and Debbie Black and have lots of Facebook friends from Dana.”
Vicki Tompkins Heydari and Debbie Black
Susan Sykes writes, “Just returned from an appearance in the Netherlands and getting ready to go to Croatia for a TV appearance. My English TV video filmed at my club in Turtlepoint, Pa., by Hooked on the Look Barcroft Media now has 261 million views. That’s so crazy. Sorry I missed the Reunion.”
Maria Febres-Coredero de Orellana with her seven children, including Dana alumnae Alejandra Garcia ’00, Estefania Orellana ’01, Leonela Garcia Febres-Cordero ’02 and Mariuxi Orellana Febres-Cordero ’07
Class of 1980 Melissa Brown Moore mbm@ibl.bm I (Melissa Brown Moore) love when a few classmates’ notes trickle in, providing some much-needed fodder for our class and the Bulletin. I have two daughters in college and my boys are now in the cities of London and New York, my eldest working in private equity and my second following a creative track in advertising and art. It is an honor to receive the occasional phone calls asking for advice and the wish to have their mom visit. Still based in Bermuda and welcome any visitors, or if you find yourself in the Aspen Valley, give me a head’s up as I find myself spending more time with extended family in the small town of Carbondale. Heather Hodgson DePaola writes, “Our family visited northeast Arizona on spring break, a 1,500 mile loop starting and ending in Phoenix. We travelled in a 17’ campervan painted with the San Francisco skyline. Our amazing adventure included a Pink Jeep Tour in Sedona, a snowstorm in