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for many of the great composers. Everett enjoys reading FENN, seeing the new buildings and “reliving for a while” his life here.
Everett M. Beale, who taught percussion from 1996 to 2003, when he retired from his position as timpanist with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra (a position he held for
Jeff Chaffee, who taught math at Fenn from 1994-1997, recalls coaching some of Fenn’s current faculty members and coaches, including Alan O’Neill, Nat Carr, and “Tate” Bevis. Jeff teaches math in Franklin, MA, at the Remington Middle School, where he is called a Mathematics Curriculum Enhancement teacher, aka “a math coach.” Jeff married in 1996 and he and his wife, Lisa, have two daughters: Laura (12) and Christina (10). “I miss Fenn and hope to make it back there soon. I love seeing how my students turned out and what the teachers are up to.”
Everett performing as a timpanist with the Augusta Symphony Orchestra
Kit Norris, who taught math for seventeen years beginning in 1981, serving as a department chair and later as director of the Academic Program, is a busy educational consultant when she is not “trying to keep up with four adorable grandchildren” on the East Coast and two others on the West Coast. She works with public and private schools, supporting teachers’ professional growth and development. Kit has developed products including Common Core Collaborative Cards, sets of cards that can be used to start a lesson or review previous content; the cards reinforce the math content from the Common Core Standards. She recalls advising ninth graders—“Oh, those trips to the North End!”—and says that she and her husband, Chip, who recently retired from St.
Mark’s School, hope to find time for travel. Former Fenn tutor for more than twenty-five years, Sally Wylie, whose son Seth Wylie ’97 was highlighted in the Winter 2013 issue of FENN for his work at a Cambridge startup, writes from Maine to say that she and her husband, David, spend much of the year in Rockland and in warm weather move to their home on the island of Vinalhaven, a ferry ride away. In the summer Sally works for a landscaper, creating beautiful cottage gardens. In the winter, she takes zumba and yoga classes. David continues to work part-time writing business cases for private clients and for Babson College. Sally says she misses her former students and colleagues, but that she feels fortunate to have been a part of Fenn for so many years. When cleaning out his attic recently, Robert M. McElwain, who lives with his wife, Mary Lou, in Portsmouth, NH, was reminded, he says, “of all those wonderful Fenn exchange trips,” including staying in youth hostels and taking excursions to the Normandy D-Day beaches, the Loire Valley, and Verdun. Bob taught French at Fenn from 1985-2002, and oversaw the transition to Spanish as department chair. He coached cross country for many years. Marjorie Gornall, former secretary, reports that all is well in Arizona, and says it was a pleasure for her to open the Fenn Field Day games last spring. It was fun to see Matt Lincoln, class of ’62, she said, as well as Mark and Jane Biscoe.
On a recent visit to the apartment in Heiligenstadt, a suburb of Vienna, where it is thought Beethoven worked on his 2nd symphony—he called his trip with his wife, Eva, “On the Trail of the Composers.”
forty-three years), continues to perform with various orchestras near his home in Pickens, SC, including the Charlotte Symphony, the Greenville Symphony, and the Augusta Symphony. Everett and his wife, Eva, have been traveling in Europe, most recently on a trip he dubbed “On the Trail of the Composers,” which included visiting Vienna’s museums, the apartment of Johann Strauss II, and the city’s Central Cemetery, where a section is reserved
Jeff Chaffee in back row, beige shirt; daughter Laura to his right; daughter Christina on the couch; wife Lisa in chair at right
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