Amanda Jylkka-Mattson and husband Myles who live in Rockport, MA, welcomed their fourth child on February 6, 2007 – a beautiful little girl named Aili (eye-lee) Christina. Aili joins brothers, Myles Christopher who is ten, and Henry Edwin and Preston Charles who both will be seven in October. On June 15, 2007, Robrecht Jan Ouwinga married Eva Galuszka in Charlotte, NC. Among the guests present at the wedding were Derek Dresser ’87, Eunice Pikuzinski Conway ’86 and her husband, Judson, Don Kingsbury ’86 and his wife Leannah, Rob’s sister, Marlies Ouwinga ’90 and her husband, Scott Campbell, and of course, Rob’s parents, Marv and Tineke. I am still living in Hopkinton, MA (almost 12 years now) with wife Amy (celebrated 10 year anniversary this year) and three kids, Tatyana (7yrs), Nikolai Jr (6yrs) and Katya (4yrs). I’ve been working at EMC Corporation, also in Hopkinton, for over 14 years as their Director of Engineering and more recently a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. I’ve recently become the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Alumni rep – so for those of you in the area, look to be contacted! This new position was created to help build a stronger alumni community in the MA/RI region. There is also a Facebook group (“Gould Academy Class of ’88”) where Chrissy, Ruth Giles, Stuart Newell (in Panama), Jordy Almgren (in New Hampshire) and I are members. Send me an email to get connected – we want all of ’88 to participate! During the Gould Trustee and Alumni Board weekend in early November, I caught up with Alec Newell and his wife Lynn and Sara Whalen Shifrin and her husband Brett who are all teaching at Gould now. And thru using Facebook, I found out that Ruth “Ruthie” Giles is still living in Springfield, MA since graduating from Smith College. She’s opened up a yoga studio (www.nowandzenyoga.com), is married and is also keeping busy working in the alumni/development office of a boarding school out there. Ruthie will try to make the 20th reunion if her yoga studio activities permit – she leads a training program to teach people how become yoga teachers on weekends. Ruthie has had some contact with Dana Ludvick Grank, Lisa Dawson Andrzejczyk and Nancy Smith Pike – hopefully we’ll see them all up in Bethel for Alumni Weekend.
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If you’re looking to help out with plans to make next fall’s 20th Reunion a memorable one, please send me a note.
1989 Class Representative: Laura H. Ordway laura@winonacamps.com Alexandra Pray Dumont wrote to say she recently got married and is now living back in New England after a stint living just outside NYC and working internationally (Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico & Venezuela). Amy Ford graduated from St. Joseph’s College in May with a Master of Arts in Pastoral Theology. If finishing school wasn’t enough to stay busy Amy also planned the sale of her home and adopted a puppy at the same time. She remains in the Waldoboro, Maine area. Turns out that Patrice Leary Forrey continues to be a Mainer as well. Plans to move her family to Germany from Cape Elizabeth were put on hold for the time being. This meant having to unpack everything before beautiful daughter number four was born in September. Welcome Marta! Also in Maine is Todd Kirn, located in Kennebunk, with his wife and three kids. He has an optometry practice with offices in Kennebunk and Sanford and fondly used the term “deadbeats” when referring to our class history of keeping in touch with each other. But if I can hear from Todd and Adam Wales in the same month (okay, technically it was Adam’s lovely mother, Margaret, who wrote to me, but that still counts) I think that we are really getting something going here with the class of ’89! Adam is in the Mount Desert area and asked for Todd’s contact info. I’ve also forwarded Adam’s contact info along to Mike Baker, who had asked for this info in our last issue of class notes. Do you need classmates address or phone number? Just email me and I’ll send it along to you (after gathering from you the required amount of data about you for our next issue). And don’t worry: no home addresses or emails will get published here unless you specifically tell me to do so. From a bit further away, Brett Bloomberg wrote from Putney, VT where he is working as an acupuncturist and as a yoga teacher. He is staying busy building a house with his wife and preparing to greet their first child in January. Sounds like he’s planning on being at our 20th reunion, but wants to know what’s happening with David Sirois, Jay Bowns and Wes Moses. And to wrap this entry up, Steve Dunn sends greetings from Aspen, Colorado where he lives with his girlfriend and nine year old son. He works at an architect’s office and visited Bethel in fall 2006 for the memorial service of his grandmother, Frances E. Lane Dunn ’26. He writes, “I invite any of my
classmates who come to ski Aspen to contact me (zumerdunn@sopris.net). I know the hidden snow well.” A new year with new goals to set...so break your silence and email me a short note. I’ll share your success in accomplishing this “getin-touch-with-old-friends” goal with other ‘89ers in the next issue of our class notes. And remember: our 20th reunion is just around the corner (fall 2009). Let’s encourage, coax and harass one another into meeting back at Gould for the weekend to relive all the fun and embarrassment of those high school years. The response to our last issue of class notes was phenomenal: six of you emailed me...well, five actual classmates emailed and one mother of a classmate emailed which was great! See you all next time.
1991 Class Representative: Vanessa R. Lira-Crabtree vrlc3@msn.com We have been told that Steven F. Hodgkin owns and operates a pottery studio, Forest Rhythms, deep in the woods of the northeastern United States. An article described how Steve started to work 21 acres of densely forested property to create a largely selfsustaining home and livelihood. Today next to his wife Mara’s basket studio and their house, the garden soaks in the bright sun. The house is off the grid, a term used by homesteaders to mean disconnected from public utilities. Water is pumped by hand and carried indoors. They burn lamp oil and wood for light and heat. All waste is carefully composted. Sounds like Steven is definitely into the world being ‘Green.’
Fukutaro MItsui ’93 wife Yukako and one year old son Fukuei
1993 Class Representative Needed Fukutaro Mitsui from Japan tells us that after he graduated he went to Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH from 1994 to 1995. In 1995, he changed schools and went to Green Moutain College in Poultney, VT and graduated in 1999. He went back to Japan in 2000 and joined his father`s company,