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CLASS NOTES
st. george’s school
// SPRING 2015
Maria and Serita are the daughters of Emily and Charles Barzun ’93.
expecting their third child in December! They are very excited and Charlie, 6, and Rose, 4, can’t wait to meet their new little brother. Lukas raced both Cowesweek and the Round the Island Race this year as he continues to be a keen sailor, and he won together with his son Charlie the overall sailing regatta in Greece during the summer holidays. ■ Jordan Macy is back stateside these days. He and his family have safely escaped West Africa and the Ebola crisis. It is a pretty grim situation, and he feels it is going to get much worse before it gets better simply because the West African health systems are not capable of containment. So for now they have relocated to a lovely old brick house on a working farm in the woods north of Monadnock, N.H. Jordo is keeping himself busy job hunting, but he is also enjoying being able to take in the seasonal sensations of New England once again and was looking forward to winter! ■ That’s it for now. Be sure to keep the updates coming!
1993
Geoffrey C. Siebengartner, Unit 4100, Box 6069, FPO, AP 96521, geoff@siebengartner.com
1994
Christine McSweeney Orthwein, 756 N Lake Way, PB, Palm Beach, FL 33480, 561848-2235, binkieo@gmail.com / Sara Selbert Savov, 424 Cognewaugh Road, Cos Cob, CT 06807, saraselbertsavov@ gmail.com ■ I thoroughly enjoyed seeing so many of you at the reunion and catching up after so many years. Isabel Lirakis was such a wonderful hostess and a highlight of the weekend was taking a class picture on the Peter Hurd Memorial Bench. I hope everyone stays in touch and starts gearing up for our 25th. ■ In
Steve Lirakis ’66 was one of several school and community members to join artist, fellow Dragon and daughter, Isabelle Lirakis ’94 at the opening of “Gilded” on Sept. 11. Isabelle’s work was the first exhibit in the Hunter Gallery this school year. photo by Mark Niu ’17
other news, Mark Traina is happily back at Taft as dean of students after enjoying a wonderful summer on the Cape. His daughters—Caroline, 6, and Lucy, 5—are enjoying fall in New England and playing well together. ■ In babyland… ■ Tris Millard is still in New Orleans working for JP Morgan Private Bank. His wife, Meagan, just gave birth to their second boy, and they are readapting to the life of new parents. He was bummed to miss the reunion and hopes to catch everyone the next time around. ■ Shreve Ariail reports, “My wife, Carrington Alvarez, and I had a beautiful baby girl, Anna Lourdes Ariail, last January. In keeping with family tradition, Lourdes is stuck with her middle name. Carrington just started teaching again part time and I’m still working as a deputy chief at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn prosecuting gang and terrorism cases. We try and keep in touch with the Roses, but like the rest of you ex-New Yorkers, they live in Connecticut. Nicki and Charles Rose: Consider this your dinner invitation to Brooklyn!” ■ In wedding news… ■ Mary Friberg and her new husband moved to Northern California for his job where he’s working for Bloomenergy, which is a clean technology company. They are currently living in Los Altos Hills (about 45 minutes outside of San Francisco). They have been loving the new Northern California lifestyle! Lots of hiking and eating at great restaurants, etc. She has also been fortunate to keep her job at Hourglass Cosmetics and work remotely— so she still gets to travel back to L.A quite often. They just opened their first store in Venice, Calif., this fall. Lastly, they have a new addition to the family—a sweet puppy named June.
Britten West ’95 captured this candid shot in Bermuda of his growing family: twin girls Isabel and Caroline, and son Oliver.
1995
Carolyn Sclafani Mowat, 111 Silver Hill Road, Concord, MA 01742, 978-341-8259, carolynsclafani@gmail.com ■ Eben Colby writes: “I seem to have reached a point in life where I never have anything new to report, but things continue to be great. I am a litigator at Skadden, Arps in Boston, which is always tough and interesting. I live just north of the city, have been married more than 10 years and have two boys, ages 6 and 8. We spend a lot of our free time in Maine, both on the water and working on our house and property, which is a lifetime project. Basically, it’s a lot of my boys and I messing around with a tractor, backhoe and a variety of other implements of destruction, cutting trees and planning various sheds and outbuildings. We also maintain a bunch of mostly old boats in various states of disrepair, which we are slowly restoring or refurbishing one at a time. In the winter, we like to ski. Of course, all of this nonsense is being strangled by the boys’ ever-increasing sports schedules, which is on the cusp of taking over any and all free time. I’ve managed to keep in touch with a few classmates, but am really looking forward to a big turnout at our upcoming reunion—something we all need to focus on making a big event.” ■ Tony O’Donnell writes: “Drew Dominick and his fiancée, Georgia Bridges, had Andrew Anthony Dominick IV on Nov. 1, 2013. It’s great seeing Drew be a terrific father and little Andy loves spending time with Uncle Tony! I’m bringing my lacrosse team down to St. George’s this spring to play. Going to be weird coaching against the Dragons! But hey, they are not as stacked as when John Harvey ’97 and the Jay “The Big Dog” Davenport and I were dominating the ISL! Hoping to come home with a W. But what I’m really hoping for