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1985 Class Agents – Communications: Margaret Flanagan Solomon mfs@simbolcommercial.com Elise Black Parteli tiaparteli@aol.com We have lots of exciting news this time for the Class of 1985! Thank you to all who wrote! Lisa Pearson reports that things are going very well at Siglio, her independent publishing house that she runs out of her garage in Northeast Los Angeles. She publishes books that straddle the literary and visual arts, that defy categories and genres, and that have great physical appeal (no e-books yet!). Recent titles (like Bough Down by Karen Green) have gotten rave reviews in The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Two of
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First day of school for the family of Holly Harris Harris ’85: Jackson (12), Campbell (10), Hockaday Class of 2022; and Harper (7), Hockaday Class of 2024
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Margaret Grace Collett, Elizabeth Oldham Collett ’85, Elizabeth Neall Collett
last year’s books by French conceptual artist Sophie Calle and the master of American collage, Jess, were highly praised in the New York Times, the Paris Review, Artforum, Art in America, etc. Several books are in second and third printings, and next year she’s doubling the number of releases. Needless to say, she’s happy and busy. Mary Kate O’Toole Mellow writes that her son Sam is starting high school this year! They just got back from a trip to London and Paris with her children. The London Eye and the Eiffel Tower were big hits with the kids. In London they got to see her pen pal (before the days of Facebook), whom she has been corresponding with since she was 16. As some of you might know, Tracy Bassman Kaye has been battling breast cancer since last year. Her daughter Skyler Kaye was all over the news as she ended up raising close to $17,000 for Susan Komen and came in first place for individual fundraising. Tracy is doing great. She just finished all of her chemo, after 16 rounds in all over five months. With a bit of good-natured arm-twisting from yours truly, JoEllen Mason sent in this update: “Life is good! Mason is a junior in high school now, still passionate about playing baseball and still going strong with his high school sweetheart Emily, whom he met his first month of high school. He’s a great young man and I’m very proud of him. I’m still working as a residential realtor and also work part-time with the North Carolina Mountainsto-Sea Trail. I’ve also had a great year of fun adventures. I went biking with
friends for several days in and around Williamsburg, Virginia, in April, completed a sprint-distance triathlon then chaperoned a group of middle schoolers on a nature journaling trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in May, had a fun family summer beach trip in South Carolina, moved to a different part of Durham, North Carolina, and even got engaged at sunrise at the peak of Mt. LeConte in the Smokies! Whew, what a fun year it’s been! Wedding details will be decided as the options for same-sex couples continue to emerge. Stay tuned!” Claire Hughes Lynch writes that her biggest news is that she got tenure as an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at the College of Coastal Georgia. What an honor! Claire and a colleague of hers from LSU are the co-editors of a new online journal, Teaching Special Populations of Gifted Students, focusing on the needs of students with high potential who also have factors in their lives impacting the development of their talents – such as coming from poverty, ethnic and cultural differences, linguistically diverse backgrounds, and those who are GLBTQ or have disabilities. The journal is being published through the Council for Exceptional Children – TAG Division. She is very excited, because so often teachers and parents are looking for ideas to work with these children and have to look through an awful lot of information to find something useful! In her personal life, her family is finally putting down roots on St. Simons and buying a