Class Notes
Former Faculty News Jim Carter’54 is helping us keep track of former faculty, so please contact him, or FENN, with any news. You can email him at jrcarter3@comcast.net or FENN at loneill@fenn.org. Rob Achtmeyer ’94 is taking some time off from teaching to take care of his and his wife Kate’s children, Kevin and Henry. The family lives in Rockville, MD, where Rob is a commissioner for the city’s Historic District. Mark and Jane Biscoe reside in Brunswick, ME, where they serve as “casual monitors” at Bowdoin College, working in the three athletic facilities on campus. They check student ID’s and “keep everything orderly.” Last July, the Biscoe-Richardson-Fallon family donated four-acre Carlisle Island, which they call “Big Huckleberry,” in Maine to the Damariscotta River Association to ensure it will remain open to visitors well into the future. Silvy Brookby is an assistant professor of Education at Framingham State University, and “teaches teachers how to teach math and science,” she says. Her son Charles loves Fenn, she declares, adding, “Who would have guessed in 1997 that I would have my own son attending fourteen years later?” Dave Conti teaches at Casilleja School in Palo Alto, CA. Mary Coogan is retired and lives in Westborough. Kimberly Evelti is assistant academic dean at Williston School, where she teaches geometry. She and her family have moved into school housing “so there’s never a dull moment,” she says. Sue Finney is retired and living with her husband, Roy, in Wilmot, NH. Jull Guzzi lives in Lincoln with her husband Eric Harnden, Kathy Starensier’s oldest son, and their four children. Rob Gustavson is the headmaster of Fay School in Southborough. Nancy Hall, who started the Intensive Language Program at Fenn, runs Independent Testing Service and continues to write her Explode the Code books. She lives on Cape Cod. Joe Hindle is living in Lebanon, NH, where he and his partner, Jane Higgins, are skiing, hiking, biking, and otherwise spending time outdoors. Joe continues to enjoy baking and loves the fact that King Arthur Flour is headquartered nearby.
David Hughes lives in New Hampshire and still runs his camp, Masquebec Hill. Dave Huston is retired and living in Concord. Peter Hyde retired from growing hydroponic tomatoes in Wellesley, where he lives. Dave Irwin still works at Camp Belknap in New Hampshire, and he and his wife, Erin, are at Deerfield Academy, where Dave assists in admissions. Clark Johnson lives in Wayland and is president of the Seth F. Johnson Sales Co. Aaron Joncas is the head of a METCO program for the Concord Public Schools; he married Erin last summer. Liza Jones teaches at Shady Hill School in Cambridge and lives in Jamaica Plain. Julie Jospe recently retired from teaching in San Francisco and is spending time with her six grandchildren. Arnold Klingenberg is associate head of Middleburg Academy in Middleberg, VA. Stacey McCarthy is a visual arts teacher at Middlesex School, where she lives with her husband, Geoff, and children William and Elyse. Bob McElwain retired to Portsmouth, NH, ten years ago and paints for the Strawbery Banke Historical Society. His daughter Helen gave birth in March to Bob’s first grandchild, a daughter named Shane Dubois. Todd Nelson is the headmaster of The School in Rose Valley, in Pennsylvania. After Fenn he taught in Cambridge, San Francisco, Chicago, and Maine. Kit Norris heads a math consulting firm. Kate Padden Lee-Dubons teaches English at Concord-Carlisle High School and lives in Lexington. David Okada is in his third year of medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. He says “the learning is rich, exciting, and challenging.” David has met a “wonderful girl” with whom he plans to “match,” meaning that they will do their residencies in the same city. Brooks Pettit worked at Belmont Hill School after Fenn, and is now retired in Tallahassee, FL. Jen Pineau lives in Baltimore with her husband, Scott, and son Colten; she is assistant college admissions director at the McDonough School there. Bill Purdy recently retired as head of student health services at Duke University. Dr. Purdy says he will be playing a lot more golf in Lakeside, MI. Michael Rosovsky teaches writing at Harvard and at Emerson College, and has had his own work appear in several literary magazines,
The Biscoes on Big Huckleberry Island in Maine. The plaque honors their ancestors. L to r: Kate (Biscoe) Turlo, Mark, Jonathan Turlo, Jane, and Emma Turlo. including the Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, and Harvard Literary Review. Win Sargent retired from a career in international education, during which he taught in Lebanon, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela, and he and his wife, Bea, run a B&B in Tobago. Jon Schmalenberger, husband of Fenn admissions assistant, receptionist, and art teacher Marilyn, is a master cabinet maker in the Emerson Umbrella building in Concord. Curtis Singmaster recently completed a graduate degree in sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and says he is open to gallery, proposal, and grant opportunities. Mitchell Stern teaches math at Peabody Middle School in Concord. Heather Thomson recently retired from teaching elementary school in Newcastle, NH, nor far from her home in Portsmouth, where she continues to work as a substitute teacher. Lindley (Hall) vanderLinde is an admissions assistant at Holderness School. Tom West, who began his long teaching career at Fenn, is writing full time. The Colorado school where he was teaching literature, history, Greek mythology, and creative writing closed last year due to budgetary problems. Tom has had more than thirty short stories published in literary journals and magazines. Pierson Wetzel is co-head of the music department at Middlesex School. Jim 49