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CLASS NOTES
st. george’s school
// SPRING 2015
quo from last year other than my oldest daughter spending her junior year (of college) in Europe. I have not been back to SG for many years, but I am thinking it is about time to venture back to Newport sometime in the near future.” ■ Louise Wales: “We are at that age when life’s stakes are getting higher and the tests seem to be more challenging. I am sending focused thoughts of healing your way. ■ “My daughter is a junior at college and doing well. It goes insanely fast at this point. She is doing well and I am happy to be visiting her at the moment. All good there. ■ “I am still teaching for SCAD, though mostly with the eLearning students— a hazard of being facile with technology, I guess. I do still love the classroom and had a joyous spring semester this year. I am simultaneously and painfully plucking away at a Ph.D. —a story of love and hate that involves Kant, Hegel, Marx and Freud, along with a couple of trips overseas, so I cannot complain too fervently about the work. It’s really fun meeting with other students at residencies. ■ “I am spending quite a bit of time in the Outer Banks of North Carolina these days, so if anyone is keen to visit, the scenery and peace are exquisite.” ■ Danny Dunn: “Still working like crazy—going well, but a bit much at times. A road trip to the Hilltop seems pretty appealing right now. My son, Aidan, is a junior in high school now, and my daughter, Maureen, is a freshman, rowing crew. Both taller than me, although that’s probably not the hardest benchmark to hit. ■ “Wonderful seeing the names pop up—it really brings back a lot of good memories. Would be great to catch up in person.” ■ David Hennessy: “We sent our youngest daughter off to Boston College and are adjusting to the empty house. Very bittersweet to say the least. Our middle daughter is in her senior year at Middlebury and our oldest is working for Doctors without Borders in NYC fighting the Ebola outbreak. Miss them but also proud of all they have accomplished. ■ “Let us know if anybody makes it out to Idaho, and I will try to make it to the reunion next spring.” ■ Giovanna Marchant: “I now live in Merida, Mexico, and recently got my Chilean passport. For years in NYC I loved and had the privilege to work in the interior design
field. For a brief minute I wrote film reviews and couldn’t believe how happy that made me, and still I love sitting in the dark with flickering lights. ■ “I see Faulkner Fox, Sophie O’Shaughnessy, Julie Jensen and Joe Arcidiacono ’82 on a regular basis. When I am lucky, I see Megan Armstrong and Jo Greene in San Francisco where some of my family lives. I am sorry I missed Stephen Upjohn—but next time. ■ “Does anyone know about Michelle Ebanks or Anne Merriman? Also, I am curious about other Latinas/os as I am newly re-minted Chileana. Hola to Ana Kreisler. Sounds like catering must be fun in Madrid. Here in Merida we have a slow food market with delicious organic stuff. Jesus Mena and Greg Choa and Maria: What up?” ■ Jeff Lamb: “I had the chance to climb to the top of one of the wind towers we were installing in Two Dot, Mont., at 250 feet above the Montana plain. It was so worth it. ■ “My son is now a freshman at WVU and my daughter continues to excel in the ARC program. So life moves on and the roller coaster keeps going up and down while we ride.” ■ “As for myself, Charlie de Kay, it’s been a great year. Fast and furious at times, but nonetheless a great year. Last summer, I took the family to visit my sister, Sarah, who lives in France. She and her artist husband, Mihail Chemiakin, moved to the Loire Valley almost a decade ago. Our ‘European Family Vacation’ was great fun, and I think we succeeded in creating a whole new set of quality family memories. Returning home, my lovely wife, Christina, and I celebrated our 10th anniversary and look forward to many more. Our oldest is a high school junior and our youngest is in third grade, so we’re readying ourselves for the lengthy college years. ■ “In the meantime, I have the pleasure of seeing Evan Westerfield ’82 often, and—Bonus!—I get to have his great kids in my confirmation class. I had a special treat recently when Kim Hardy Erskine ’80 turned up for a visit at the church. Seems she’s a consultant for the Episcopal Church Foundation. Amazing what our classmates get up to!” ■ And now the “vintage” notes from the previous year ... ■ Nate Hemphill wrote: “OK, I can’t resist any longer ... As I write this, I am on dorm duty and it is my birthday! (Really! Half a century plus one.) ■ “I entered the
boarding school world with many of you in the fall of 1977 and I have not yet managed to leave. After teaching at SG for four years and grad school, I have been very happy teaching and doing lots of different jobs at Northfield Mount Hermon (NMH for short—nice initials) for the past 23 years. The time has passed quickly. I followed my wife, Mace, here and I figured we would stay a year or maybe two ... It is a great life and you never really need to grow up. ■ “I have taught math all along but have done stints in faculty recruitment and as a dean of students as well. I am now in college counseling and am loving the challenge … never a dull moment and I get to cross paths with Burke Rogers pretty frequently. ■ “Mace and I are the proud parents of two kids: Mackey, 21, is having a great junior year at Wesleyan, where she is playing both field hockey and ice hockey. Mace is no longer the varsity field hockey coach at NMH, so we have had the chance to see a lot of NESCAC campuses attending Mackey’s games. Cooper, 18, is a senior at NMH and is in the midst of the college application process. He has an ED app in and we are keeping our fingers crossed. ■ “I have managed to wrangle my way into a couple of programs at NMH that have allowed me to travel the world (with kids). I have been able to be the ‘math guy’ on several sophomore humanities trips to places like China, Brazil, and Africa (and India this coming spring) and I have enjoyed my work with our fabulous Model United Nations group and have been on about a dozen trips with those kids (Egypt, Poland, Turkey, Italy, Qatar, Holland, Prague, Germany, Russia, and ... I can’t think of the others). Anyway, it has been a great way to see some pretty amazing places. ■ “It is great to hear from so many of you. Let’s keep this going. Best to you all. One of the boys in the dorm needs help with his math homework. And so it goes.” ■ Anne Kuzminsky wrote last year that: “I’ve been living in West Kingston, R.I., and married to the same wonderful man for 23 years. I am still a martial artist after all these years and serve as director-at-large for self defense for the National Women’s Martial Arts Federation (www.nwmaf.org), which promotes the involvement of women and girls in martial