“And next week I’m meeting with Dan Pryor, Parry Gosling, and Kip Howard here in NY. Looking forward to seeing them!” Paul Kruk reports: “My family and I are moving back to the Boston, MA, area after living for six years in eastern NC. I will miss the mild winters there. Still with FedEx but taking a new worldwide sales manager position. My twins are about to turn 16 and start driving. I was able to live out my longtime dream last summer, when I took batting practice at Fenway Park.” Brad Palmer writes: “We are still enjoying living in England, with four kids at the American School in London. We are doing a lot of adventure travel over here. I saw Dan Maynard at a Deerfield event in London and made a visit to Deerfield this past fall. We will be on Martha’s Vineyard in July and August in case anyone is going to be out there too.” From Chris Teevens: “Small World Part I: My daughter and Jim Bloomer’s daughter are roommates and good friends at Dartmouth. Small World Part II: John Lewis’ daughter Maddie and my daughter Lily won the New England field hockey championship for the second year in a row for Thayer Academy.” Dan Goss reports: “I started a new sales job with a Pittsburgh-based firm: Access Data. We’re a division of Broadridge. Our firm transforms data from asset management firms into valuable business information. Still playing water polo
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Chris Hunt ’79 and Steve Schmidt ’79 mountain biking near Mount Tam. with a group of guys largely based on the east coast (former Bucknell, Brown, Fordham, and NYAC ‘athletes’). We’ll be traveling to Irvine, CA, for Masters Nationals come June. Lastly, and most importantly, Alex turned three in February. He keeps us young!” Chip Lewis writes: “I am now a senior program manager for Snapfish by HP, and we operate the Walgreens photo site. On a recent business trip, I connected with Bob Friedman who lives minutes away from Walgreens headquarters in Chicago. Was just like old times (except we’re both over 50 now!) and great to re-connect. Ralph—next time we will kidnap you for a mini-JW reunion! Also, after three granddaughters, we finally had our first grandson, Mitchell Maddox Lewis born December 1, 2011.” Dave Lucas reports: “Ran into Brad Palmer at DA last fall. His daughter and my son were interviewing. We’ll see what
happens. While visiting, I saw Nick Albertson and had a few laughs when we recalled Jake Murphy’s (Class of ’81) announcement at School Meeting when Mac Jackson and I were his proctors. I would give more details to those who don’t remember, but it would compromise the integrity of this publication. Still working hard in orthopedic private practice and doing some teaching with the Orlando Health residency program. The house is a little emptier with my eldest now a freshman at Yale and competing on the gymnastics team. She met a hockey player from DA . . . at least he wasn’t from Choate. Please look me up if anyone is down here. Our house is always open.” Steve Schmidt and his wife Lisa are working on a startup in Silicon Valley called High Energy Audits, helping homeowners save energy through online analysis of their energy use. Part of their inspiration came from
visiting Chris Hunt’s leaky old home in Marin; see above picture of Chris and Steve mountain biking in Chris’ backyard. Dan Pryor reports: “Rick Prum was on the cover of Yale Alumni Magazine, and the story about his academic career is fascinating. Prum’s healthy skepticism about the world has helped him to become one of the most compelling thinkers in the natural sciences. Rick was a knowledgeable ornithologist in 1978, which we witnessed during our occasional hikes up to the Shack. Prum went to Harvard for his undergraduate degree and years later was hired as the head of the Peabody Museum at Yale and won the distinguished MacArthur ‘genius’ award. As the Yale Magazine article says, this ornithologist discovered new kinds of color, proved T. Rex had feathers, and answered the question ‘What is art?’ Visit yalealumnimagazine.com/ issues/2011_11/feature_prum. html for the article.”
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