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where she is the assistant head of the lower school at Convent of the Sacred Heart. ■ Jamie Dingman has also been living abroad — Russia for five years, China for five years and the Bahamas in between. He recently bought a house in the Hamptons. ■ Bill Budinger got to see Jamie as he and his wife just bought a house in the Bahamas. Bill says they have been spending a lot of time there kiting, spearfishing, etc. He says they also ran into Billy Bush ’90 over Christmas/New Year’s. Aspen, Colorado, is still their main residence. He still spends a lot of time flying and enjoying the good life out west. ■ Brooke Lachman Lightner is also still living in Colorado — in Steamboat Springs. She was finishing up her master’s degree in social work this spring. ■ Susanna Craib-Cox Rosenblatt had a series of board meetings in Virginia right before the reunion and, these days, it is very hard for her to be away for two weekends in a row. Her daughter, Minka, just turned 2 and keeps her and her husband, Jason, very busy. She has developed a new vocabulary and firm opinions on food, clothes and activities. Mama’s taste in clothes is no match for a toddler. ■ Tobin Dominick told me the reunion was the same weekend as her mother’s 70th birthday. Still, she wanted to be sure to send her love to the whole class! She just saw Ginny Flower Marvin at the New England Boat Show while she and her brother, Drew Dominick ’95 were representing their businesses selling outboard engines and talking about their marina. They talked about hopefully seeing each other next on the slopes at Sugarloaf. ■ Mike Gardiner said the reunion was the same weekend as his state tournament (he coaches boys’ lacrosse at Virginia Episcopal School in Lynchburg). Of course, there was a chance his team wouldn’t make it … but it was hard to root for that! ■ Rich Dempsey and his wife, Mary, and their 4-year-old son, Teddy, are loving life at Pomfret School. As assistant head of school, he has the pleasure of working closely with Head of School Tim Richards and Associate Director of Development Vassar Pierce ’02. (Last fall, Rich was thrilled to return to St. George’s to attend the Sports Hall of Fame Ceremony and Middlesex games. He says he was both humbled and honored to have been inducted into the SG Sports
Hall of Fame and he, along with his family, wish to send a heartfelt thank you to the SG community! ■ That’s it for now – be sure to share your reunion photos and check into the SG Class of 1992 group on Facebook, if you haven’t already!
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Geoffrey C. Siebengartner, Unit 4100, Box 6069, FPO, AP 96521, geoff@siebengartner.com ■ It was so nice, as always, to hear from a few of you, and I hope others will write in the future to touch base. Genevieve and I are still in Asia, now working at our embassy in Manila. You may know that we’ve got a populist president with authoritarian tendencies (here), so our hands are full professionally. Our kids are happy and healthy, so much to be grateful for and always look forward to the prospect of connecting with you all at some point soon. ■ Chris McNally and I chatted a bit the other day; our boys are both building radio-controlled cars, with some help from their dads. He reports, “All is well in Newport. Still practicing maritime and immigration law. Family is fantastic; our boys are growing like crazy. We look forward to seeing ’93 classmates at next year’s reunion!” ■ It was also great to hear from Clay Rives, who I discovered shares my newfound love of squash (the racquet sport). He wrote shortly after the birth of his first child: “Hope you are well! My wife, Emily, and my first child was born just yesterday: John Lloyd Rives, after my father, who passed away two years ago, and my great uncle Lloyd Michael, who lived on Bellevue when we were at SG. Both of them were St. George’s men on the wall at King Hall themselves and, God willing, little John Lloyd will be as well. ■ “I am addicted to ‘Game of Thrones,’ Haagen Dazs butter pecan ice cream, playing golf poorly, New York Times crosswords, and political news. I’ve discovered the miracle of playing squash for winter exercise, and lament the fact that I didn’t play it at SG, although I would have had to sacrifice weight training with Minden and that could never happen. ■ “Outside of very exciting family developments and addictions, business has continued to go well. Amazingly, the companies I’ve founded now employ a bit more than 100 folks — the vast majority
of whom work from home, including me! ■ “I continue my work as a trustee of the Conservatory Lab Charter School in Boston, which brings the benefits of music education to urban students, most of whom would not normally be exposed to the magic of playing in orchestra as young people. Go music. We need something to bring us all together and I’m betting on art and music.” ■ Charles Barzun was typically modest in his assessment that not much has changed, when only weeks ago he and Emily welcomed a baby boy to their family. He says, “Still living in Charlottesville, teaching constitutional law at UVA, married to Emily Little, and just added son James to our family, joining his older sisters, Maria and Serita. Don’t get to see SG friends (especially those living in exotic Asian lands!) nearly enough, though I do get to see Megan Eagle in Charlottesville.” ■ And Ingrid Ahlgren reports, “Hope you are doing well. My only real news is that we had a second baby on July 2 of last year. Isabella is now seven months old and very sweet and happy. We are still working/living in New York City. Our older daughter, Annika, is in kindergarten now.” ■ Colleen Gorman also shared an amazing update: “Milestones I’d like to share — my son Salvador is turning 3 and my 18-year-old Tachii’nii (pronounced Tacheenee) is a senior at the Media Arts Collaborative Charter School (MACCS), a school that I founded in 2008. Last year I also helped launched a low-power FM community radio station and finished a mural project for the City of Albuquerque called “Historic Women of New Mexico.” I wrote a chapter for a book on Dineh Sovereignty published by the Indigenous Studies program at the University of Arizona. ■ “Other than that, just keepin’ on in the trenches as a high school social studies teacher at RFK Charter School. Considering my options if the school district goes to four-day school weeks in the interest of a statewide initiative to save money. The school I’m at serves a low-income population with a special ed population of at least 30 percent so statewide budget cuts will have a huge effect on the students. I’m worried about the homeless youth, undocumented students and teen parents who attend the school. Making my prayers and sending love out