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a research fellow for Eli Lilly & Co. In his spare time, Chris renovates older properties, helps run the family store (Chatham Home Interiors) and creates and casts bronze sculptures. Liz Backhaus Jonsson is also in the scientific research field, and she writes, “I am a clinical research specialist who for the past 25 years has been involved in developing new drugs for patients with unmet medical needs. I am driven by a passion to help patients, alleviate their suffering and translate discoveries into breakthrough drugs. I married my scuba diving buddy and best friend Hans, and we are currently living in Eads, Tenn.” Meg Catzen-Brown is happy to report that she and her husband Jeff recently sold their home in hot, dusty, dry, landlocked Sacramento, Calif., and moved to clean, cool, coastal Anacortes, Wash. They live in a gigantic, funky, fixer-upper beach house at Alexander Beach north of Puget Sound. The downside is that Meg is still commuting to Sacramento for work, where she has been a registered lobbyist for over 25 years, working with California water utilities and Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus. She is hoping to retire or at least move on to her “encore” at the end of 2014. Other classmates are involved in entrepreneurial pursuits. Audrey Dannenberg retired this year from the Virginia Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired after 30 years of state service. She has started her own private practice, which can be found at visionadaptations.com. She enjoys racing a solo and tandem outrigger canoe and has recently taken on a new sport: standup paddleboarding (SUP, or as they say in the sport, “whasup?”). Janney Woods has three sons Joe, 29, John, 27, and Cameron, 16, and lives in Winthrop Harbor, Ill. (located between Chicago and Milwaukee). She was recently able to give up her day job with a consulting firm to dedicate all her time to her antiques and vintage furniture business. The website is janneyscollection.com (check it out!). Janney would love to hear from anyone and everyone: just.janney@yahoo.com. Ann Eliasberg Betten left the world of commercial banking and commercial real estate to go back to school for landscape design. She worked for others while her children Sam, 25, and Leah, 23, were young. With the support of her husband Alan she opened her own business 20 years ago. The website is bettenlandscapedesign.com. Ann has also become involved in Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital, the Horticultural Society of Maryland,
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CLASS OF ’76 pals Steve Stuart and Ray Carpenter ready for a game of lacrosse. JEAN and John Patz ‘76 were there to cheer on their son Evan as he won the
Wisconsin State Championships freestyle cross-country race.
Chizuk Amuno Congregation and has taken up both rollerblading and figure skating.
1976. John Humphries jehriver@aol.com
1974. Sally Slingluff salslinger@aol.com On a very special evening in June of 1974, a wonderful group of people graduated from Friends School — wait … that was us! Some of us have lost touch with our “forever” friends, and some have maintained those friendships, and some have formed new friendships with old classmates. Unfortunately, a few of our classmates have also passed away. Over the weekend of May 2, 2014 we will be celebrating our 40th Reunion, and wouldn’t it be fun to meet up with your classmates and see what they have been up to? It’s amazing what happens over 40 years! More detailed information will be coming from Friends over the next few months. In the meantime, mark your calendars for what promises to be a great time.
1975. This class needs a secretary. If you’re interested in helping with this volunteer job, please contact the Alumni Office.
www.friendsbalt.org
Jon Patz writes “I am now the director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin. My wife Jean and I are so proud of our son Evan who recently won at the Wisconsin State Championships for high school cross-country skiing. He started at Middlebury College in Vermont in the fall.” Steve Stuart met up with Ray Carpenter in March for Ray’s son Jack’s lacrosse game vs. the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, Long Island. Jack is a defenseman for Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Ray and Steve ran midfield together during their junior and senior years for the Quakers. Keith Tabatznik reports “I am now the head coach for the U.S. Soccer Region 1 (East Coast) Boys’ Olympic Development Program. I am still doing broadcasting for Fox Soccer and also for D.C. United games. I continue to return to Georgetown University for Athletic Department events to bump into GU alumni like Patrick Ewing!” Jean Alexander Barnett writes, “Life in Bellingham, Washington could not be better. The weather has been exceptional; no droughts, floods, wildfires or other crazy feats of nature like the rest of the country! I am continuing my work with the local service dog agency, and in September, I will be graduating three dogs and their human partners. One dog is going
to a child with autism, one to an older adult who is losing his vision, and one is going to a veteran with PTSD. I continue to play tennis frequently along with yoga, Pilates and kickboxing. I am really loving being a step-grandma!” After over 20 years as curator of International Space Programs at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Cathy Lewis took on responsibility for the spacesuit collection from a retiring colleague. A new traveling exhibit entitled “Suited for Space” that features photographs and X-rays of the spacesuits was developed by the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service out of her predecessor’s book “Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection.” Cathy organized the kickoff event in November 2010 and supplied programming and media commentary at the exhibit’s venues. She also participates in socials (previously known as “tweet-ups”) for the exhibit, which involves adult, children and family programming. The exhibition ran through December 2, 2013. MaryAnne Bartlett Bues’ shop is still going full-steam ahead, despite the lower numbers of tourists since the economy went sideways. It’s wonderful to have a business that uses all of her talents and her even stranger hobbies! Her push this year has been to get more designs up with the print-ondemand companies, such as Cafe Press and Spoonflower Fabrics, and she got stonkered last month by having not one or even two computers collapse on her, but three! She’s also been doing more with Mab’s Creations, her embroidery design product line that