have come to love it. Mark works for Cisco, and I have recently resumed a full-time career, working in grants management for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. This is an NIH institute that is located in Research Triangle Park, NC, and I’m really enjoying being a part of NIH and doing whatever I can to promote the scientific research. I was initially hired to work on the Recovery Act and then transitioned to career staff. Following is a link from an institute publication from about 18 months ago: www.niehs.nih.gov/news/ newsletter/2009/october/science-extramural. cfm. On the home front, we’re about to become empty nesters, so we’ll see how that goes. I’ve been told that it is just fine.” And for news from your not-too-prompt, but ever earnest Reunion Co-Chairs: Emily Hubley is living in NJ with her husband Will Rosenthal and is still a devoted animator, churning out some really creative independent films and providing animation for various movie and TV projects. Her daughter, Leila, is a sophomore at McGill University in Montréal, and her son, Max, is a senior at Hampshire College. Bill Webb is currently living in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, working for a small marine supply company nearby having left NYC after two frustrating-but-worth-it efforts to improve NYC public sector operations and is starting to think about what’s next. He has for 10 years shared a 1924 old wooden boat, the Klang2, with three others loosely affiliated with the Ear Inn on Spring Street. His Friends friends are still among his closest friends. As for me (Suzanne Telsey),
I’m still in NYC and working midtown as an Associate General Counsel at The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., where I practice publishing law, and love it. I’ve been working as an in-house lawyer at publishing houses for over 20 years, and feel lucky to have found an area of the law that I still find challenging and fun (yes, a lawyer who is having fun, go figure). Steve (Bennett) and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary this July (hard to believe that milestone). Steve’s a litigator at Jones Day, and we have two girls, Dani (Danielle), 18, who actually just graduated from Friends in June and is now a freshman at Tufts, and Nicki (Nicole), 16, who’s in 11th grade at Friends. As a parent as well as an alumna, I can tell you that 35 years later, Friends is both exactly the same as, and completely different from, the school we left. Same basic spirit and vibe, but you probably wouldn’t recognize the place. You’ll have to come visit to see what I mean. Stay in touch, all-email me or Bill with more news for the next bulletin, or just to say hi.
1977 Deirdre Murphy Bader ca Suzanne Gluck cs Ruth Pomerance cs Being five-feet-half-an-inch tall herself, Suzanne Gluck gets the biggest kick out of her high school football player! She is happy to report that her son, Nicholas Dyja, is a captain of the football team at Dalton.
David Bragdon reports that he moved back to NYC in 2010, 39 years after leaving the city and sixth grade at Friends in 1971.
1978 Andrew Owen ca Barclay Palmer ca Antonia Torres-Ramos cs Matthew Hupert reports that his first full length collection of poetry was published. Ism is a Retrovirus (Three Rooms Press) is a rock solid collection of 87 poems that examine life, lust, love, religion and politics in a word play phantasmagoria in which, according to poet Dean Kostos, “sound is meaning and syntax is thrummed like strings on a guitar.” A native New Yorker, Hupert probes his subjects like an true urbanite-in short, accessible works that seem like passing glances, yet resonate and bring increasing pleasure on multiple readings. Mondo 2000 editor R.U. Sirius raves, “Matthew Hupert had me at ‘shell my pistachio eyes.’” Beat Generation and Grateful Dead historian Dennis McNally enthusiastically applauds Hupert’s writing: “He sees how the words work, listens to them working, feels their meaning and spits ‘em out. I love his poetry.” Funny, insightful and to the point, Matthew Hupert’s Ism is a Retrovirus is a song in a true modern American style praising beauty and grit of life with new insights in a determined, fresh voice. His poetry has been published in The Formalist, the contemporary dada poetry and art journal, Maintenant, and the anthology 150 Contemporary Sonnets. He is also a multimedia artist and has done extensive work with musicians to create psychedelic visual environments. He currently lives with his son in Manhattan.
1979 Darcy Flanders cs Victoria Wightman Pierce cs Members of the Class of 1976, Emily Hubley, Suzanne Telsey Bennett, Susan Collins, Nanci McCarter Worthington, Bill Webb, and Jessica Weisner Fieber, celebrate their 35th this past May
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