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entirely more Adam Reist Reunion painful than and premiered DURHAM ACADEMY necessary. I at the Sarasota HOMECOMING OCT. 13 & 14, 2017 continue Film Festival to enjoy in April. Make Spread the word. Register at www.da.org/alumni. photography and sure to join our currently have Facebook group a photo displayed at Kettering to stay in touch. The group name University for the Flint Water is “Durham Academy 1984(ish)” Crisis Show. In June 2018, I will be a featured artist at the Buckham Gallery in Flint.” My update: still in Fort Worth. Juliellen Sarver Last summer, I had the great juliellens@yahoo.com pleasure of traveling with my brother, Jamie France ’88, and Despite the current embrace of our mother, Barbara France, to fake news and the simplified Ennis, Galway, Tipperary, Cork sleuthing thanks to social media, I and Dublin, Ireland. I wish we tempered my considerable creative could do this several times a year! writing tendencies and chose only to write about classmates who voluntarily provided their updates. I enjoyed catching up with them Durann Williams Archer this year. Bill Bernard reports durann.williams@gmail.com from way up north that he still works for a food manufacturer/ Greetings to the class of 1984. franchisor a few miles south of Congratulations are in order for Minneapolis and coaches his son three of our classmates. Sayeed Cooper for traveling basketball. Choudury was named to Recently, father and son have the National Museum and Library been installing a chip and putt Services Board by President golf course in their backyard Obama in late 2016. This is an — no sand trap yet, but there’s advisory body that includes the talk. Speaking of father-son golf, director and deputy directors of Duncan Isley continues his Institute of Museum and Library adventures at Duke, and his son Services and presidentially Angus will follow the esteemed appointed members of the general Isley tradition of golf at N.C. public who have demonstrated State University and will study expertise in, or commitment golf management at NCSU in the to, library or museum services. fall. Cheryl Ann Welsh became His term expires in 2018. Mark a member of the Foundation of Porcelli writes that he will be Hope Team in 2016. FOH works expanding Common Grounds, to fund critical research at UNC the coffee house he started on understanding the causes and over nine years ago in Apex, to potential cures across the mental include breakfast and lunch. If you illness spectrum. As a Duke dieare in the area, make sure to check hard, being around UNC campus it out. Dare to Be, a documentary has been a little strange for Cheryl film about the sport of rowing and Ann, but UNC is really doing the human spirit, was directed by some amazing work.
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David Brower is still the program director for North Carolina Public Radio in Durham. Last year he launched wuncmusic. org, a 24/7 new music discovery stream. Careful listeners will hear a couple geezer-rock tunes from Ken Bowers’ and Jody Maxwell’s (’84) old bands snuck into the mix. I had the honor and pleasure to catch up with none other than Ken Bowers recently when he drifted northward for a trip to Richmond. He has caught the cycling bug big time, and we took a delightful bicycle ride on the Virginia Capital Trail for a few hours. Ken is a fellow city planner and the planning director for the City of Raleigh. My city planning and landscape architecture career has led me into the world of craft beer. I have settled in Richmond, where I manage community development and environmental sustainability initiatives for Stone Brewing. Outside of work, I ride bicycles of all types, tend my urban garden and this year will celebrate the big 5-0 by hiking from southern France into northern Spain along the Camins de Ronda, an historic pirate-lookout trail along the Mediterranean coast. There are worse ways to age!
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Rob Everett rob@teamapartments.com Jonathan Avery javery@ravenscroft.org We begin our annual Class of 1986 notes with following reports from the field. Eric Singdahlsen writes: “Hi, Everyone. I hope you all are well. I’m living outside D.C., and working in medical simulation for the military and federal agencies.
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My daughter Maxine is 11. Making art in my spare time. (My dad is doing well; living in WV with my stepmom.)” As for Barbara Bossen: “I am living in Durham with my two kids. My son is studying at UNC and my daughter will be finishing high school next year. I am working in the school system, which keeps me incredibly busy! As a side note, I am very happy that my dear friend of 42 years, Joe Taylor, has found his way back to the area — at least for now!” Andrew King still resides in Charlotte and shares: “I have two boys (13 and 16), and I continue to spread World Peace through Crafting Beer with Geoff Lamb.” Virginia Stump Spell reports: “GSO is good. I’m working as a speech therapist. I have two beautiful kids and am happily divorced.” Alec Bell: “Kristi and I started our 4th year of marriage in April and are enjoying the work, making our home in Plano, TX, cheering on our Texas Rangers, and taking as many trips to OBX we can. Ready for summer to keep the pups (and us) in shape.” Kristy McAlister Brown shares: “Hello all. Still living in Atlanta with my husband Mike and our 3 daughters (Avery, 13, Maisey, 11, and Sawyer, 8). I’m a litigation partner at Alston & Bird where I’m the co-leader of the firm’s nationwide litigation practice. Life is good. If you are ever in Atlanta look me up!” Rob Phay reveals: “Sofia is finishing up sophomore year at Williams and still enjoying it.” Lisa Tulchin writes: “We are off to Germany in June to visit the in-laws for a few weeks. I ran a
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