Class Notes the shadow of the University of Washington. My husband, Burt, and I are three days away from participating in our only daughter’s graduation from Seattle Preparatory School (a Jesuit high school in Seattle). Lea will be attending Yale in the fall and, oddly enough, has already learned that at least one of her classmates is a Friends Seminary NYC graduate. I am totally open to being contacted by Quakers visiting from afar...please email me using ghee@uw.edu. With sadness, we report the death of Pamela Fox Dannenberg. Please visit the Tribute section to read more.
1980
hasklar@aol.com and at www. latebloomingmom.com. This spring I took my five year-old twins, Jacob and Samantha, to visit the Alice in Wonderland Statues in Central Park. Most of the year we’re found in Los Angeles, where I continue to work as a story analyst at Warner Bros. Pictures, and husband Michael Berman produces and manages websites (www.theberminator.com).”
1982 Elizabeth Baer (CS)
Sarah Halley Finn (CS)
Karen Gross Fittinghoff (CS) Jin Lee (CA)
Michael Golden (CS) Marc Rachman (CA)
released back into the deep unharmed... Oh, and a baby named Grace...first birthday next month— her Mom and I decided she was a keeper :-)” Susan Carmody writes from the playground: “I spent the summer learning not to buy nice clothes when your primary job is to take a one-year-old to the playground twice a day and spoon feed him three times. So it’s back to our old Quaker values about not caring what you wear for me (at least until my son can go down a wet slide by himself).” Charles Bender is busy arranging his son’s Samuel fifth birthday party—paint your own pottery with classmates and friends just in case you were wondering. Chris Noble files this piece: “Um, let’s see. I got home Wednesday and the thermostat in the house said 62 degrees. So I turned on the heat for an hour or so. Then, yesterday, I had a call from my son Sam, who is 13 and at a soccer camp in the Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco this week. He told me that since Monday, he has had exactly 30 minutes of sun and is playing the whole day in warm-up pants and heavy sweatshirt. Once,
when I was about 15, I flew from Abidjan to Geneva in January. When I got on the plane in Ivory coast, I remember my shirt was soaked with sweat and the temperature was well into the 90s. When I got off in Geneva, it was in the teens or low 20s and my friends arrived to pick me up with a spare ski cap. On Saturday, I am heading to New York City and I am already anticipating a similar thermal disconnect.” More news of traveling from Toby Shaw: “I am in Thailand; it is not summer here but rather the rainy monsoon season, which is a bit cooler than average. Due to the troubled political climate here, it is relatively quiet, which is great for us expats, if not for business. Currently in Chiang Mai studying Thai, Mandarin and Middle Egyptian. Headed off for a visit to Laos soon for a new visa and a bit of tourism; I will return here, possibly visiting Ko Chang on the way back; then I will probably be in Siem Reap Cambodia for a couple of weeks in September.” Susan Lowen Maniatis is headed back home to Maryland from Greece where she spends part of the summer with her husband’s family. “We spent all but
Sarah Edmunds Goodwin (CS)
1983 Jokingly, Kenneth Fagan wrote to Steven Lowen. Kenneth writes: “After graduating from Clark in one semester, I took a double Masters (six months) at Harvard, followed by a PhD (one year) at Oxford (as a triple Fulbright Scholar). Last year, I took my clean-tech company public and gave away 90% of the IPO’s proceeds to charities. I spend 90% of my time in Third World villages identified as needy by Nelson Mandela, bringing vaccines, drugs, food and water to the locals. Bono joins me on most trips.”
1981 Vanessa Cox Nishikubo (CS)
Victoria Masi Pryor (RC)
Holly Sklar writes: “Dear Friends’ Friends: Find me on facebook, or
32
FRIENDS SEMINARY
Martha Ehrenfeld (CS)
Keith Smith (CS)
Compiled by Martha Ehrenfeld: Jim Infantino writes: “I am heading off for a ten-day meditation retreat in August. Not sure it’ll keep me cool though. Wondering if all those silent meetings inspired any other classmates to start their own meditation practice in adulthood. If so, how does it relate/compare if at all to silent meeting?” Susan Bronzaft Santoro is almost too relaxed to write: “I took most of the summer off to just hang at the beach—my daughter is in sleep away and my son is in day camp, so I am able to fully relax. Just returned from Aruba, where I celebrated my 17-year-anniversary. Life is good!” Callum Benepe out on the ocean: “Caught this 40”+ striped bass on the ocean side of Cape Cod,
Christina Moustakis, Faculty Emerita, writes: “Margaret ‘Marge’ Gonzalez, long-time language teacher at Friends who retired seven or so years ago, moved to Florida. She teaches French, piano, and Sunday School, cares for her adopted daughter (who was briefly at Friends) and her daughter’s son, and she runs an outreach program for her church. Well...lo and behold, Marge, who had never married, met a wonderful man in her community and they wed! She and her husband, Donald Routh, came to NYC this summer, and Annette Kahn, recently retired from FS and another long-time faculty member, hosted a party for her.