— T H E G I R L S O F ’ 77 —
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Katherine Buechner Arthaud sent a photo of herself at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles: “I am there because my middle son is a senior at USC — at the Marshall School of Business. I have two other kids: Dylan, a junior at Middlebury College, and Caroline, a freshman at Middlebury. I live in northern Vermont, which I love. I am a United Church of Christ pastor, serving at two churches. I also write poetry. I have two dogs, one cat, a few horses, play lots of tennis, ski when there’s snow, and paddleboard in the summer. I am also a Guardian Ad Litem for the Chittenden County Family Court. I remember with much fondness my two years at Groton and was thrilled to meet up with Naomi most serendipitously last summer in Denver, of all places.” Catie Camp: “I headed out from Groton to study government but somehow ended up three years later in Vermont, for ten years . . . then on to work in New Mexico a bit . . . and then teaching in India for the next few years. But Vermont called me back — many years at Shelburne Farms, where the work was rewarding and family was near (all the Camps except Bill lived there by then). Unexpectedly, I found myself engaged and moving
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It’s been forty years since the first female students received a Groton School diploma. The Quarterly asked the women of the Form of 1977 to send a brief update about what they’ve been doing — whatever they consider most important. They graciously accepted the challenge to sum up four decades in a few sentences.
again in 2006. I’m now in Newton, Massachusetts, and enjoying new adventures.” Ellie Dwight: “For the past seventeen years I’ve worked at Sonoma Academy, where I am the assistant head of school and feel very lucky to have been part of the founding administration. My daughter Reilly is a senior at SA, and after a gap year of adventure, she will head east to enroll at Bates College.” Megan Gadd spends winters in Wellington, Florida. “I have had a lifelong love for horses, and I decided a while back to focus on dressage while I am still athletic enough to ride at a higher level. I have worked doing photography and multimedia presentations, sports marketing, architecture, graphic design, publishing, and environmental conservation. I love being outside or better yet in a barn. I am very happily married. I have worked for nonprofits ranging from Boston’s Long Island Shelter for the Homeless to the Nature Conservancy to the Center for Whole Communities, founded by Peter Forbes ’79. His work epitomizes the social and environmental responsibility that I think Groton engendered in me.” Mary Atwater James: “I have been happily married to Dan
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James for twenty-nine years. We have three lively children — the oldest is a banker, the middle an actor, and the youngest a teacher. So the dinner conversations cover a lot of territory! I have been involved in philanthropy in Los Angeles since moving here in 1994. My main focus is education, but I also support visual arts and Planned Parenthood.” Lee Woodsum Jones: “After teaching special ed/functional life skills in Washington, D.C., and Maine, I left teaching to raise a daughter and two sons. In my spare time, I served on the Friends of the Scarborough Library board, where I helped sort books for their annual used book sale, and the Maine Children’s Cancer Program board, where I served as secretary for twenty years. I live in Scarborough, Maine, where I spend time with friends and family and am supposed to be training for a triathlon. I can be found walking or swimming at the local beaches, cooking, or sorting books for another book sale.” Alyce Jones Lee: “This fortieth reunion year finds me turning a major chapter in life. My youngest daughter is a freshman in college, and for the first time in twenty-five years, Patrick and I
are empty nesters. I am enjoying this time while simultaneously remembering the sweetness and joy of raising our four daughters. I continue to work/volunteer in Bbanda, Uganda in order to improve the quality of life in that rural village. Currently we are working on the development of a community hospital for the village and surrounding areas. That work, volunteer activities in the arts, thinking about a possible next career, staying politically active, nurturing my mother and motherin-law, and intentionally enjoying time with friends and family fill my days. I am deeply blessed.” Tish Churchill Lewis: “Having just left a thirty-plus-year career in commercial interior design, I am now back living in Vermont, where I spend my days watching the chickadees, growing exotic vegetables, and swimming with the dogs in the pond. Looking forward to the next number of years giving back to the community, enjoying my family, making new friends, and having wild adventures.” Holly Lyman: “After a career of (mainly) financial writing in New York, I’ve retired to Old Lyme, Connecticut, where I focus on one boyfriend, two dogs, and many plants. It’s beautiful here, and I love working outside.”