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2 When Art Meets Science: Hopkins’ Design Engineering Course

Derek Byron 6 Behind the Screen with MSON Cathy Shufro

10 Hopkins Launches The Writing Studio 18 A Stroll Down Memory Lane With the Class of 1957 HGS

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11 Looking Ahead: Looking Through the Lens of Innovation 12 News from the Hill 22 Alumni/ae: Reunion & Commencement When art meets science you get Hopkins’ Design Engineering Course. Students fashion roadsters out of clay and test the aerodynamics in a wind-simulation machine, designed by Lynn Connelly, Physics teacher and course co-teacher with Derek Byron. See story by Byron on page 2.

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Derek Byron (left) designed the course to nurture both individual and collaborative learning styles.

when art meets science:

Hopkins’ Design Engineering Course

BY D E R E K BY R O N

Scientists and artists who make great leaps forward often describe the process as intuitive flashes of insight grounded in hard work and analysis.

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RESEARCH ABOUT HOW THE BRAIN functions and learns has increased exponentially over the past twenty years. This research shows that the brain is wired to make connections across disciplines and that the historic notion of separating academic disciplines into “right and left brain” fields should be challenged in favor of interdisciplinary work that accommodates a wider variety of student learning styles and back­ grounds. Scientists and artists who make great leaps forward often describe the process as intuitive flashes of insight grounded in hard work and analysis. Artists discover the science of creativity, and scientists expe­ rience the artistry of problem solving.

Design Engineering is Hopkins’ first multidisci­ plinary exploration of the unique relationship between science, art, and design. This course is collaboratively taught by the Art and Science departments, and chal­ lenges the misconception that these are disciplines that represent opposite cognitive skill sets.

In this course, we examine the space where art and science overlap. Although the synergistic relation­ ship between science and art is constantly evolving, they are both grounded in the notion that abstrac­ tion is essential to create an investigative mindset, and demand coordination between head and hand to transform theory into something tangible. In Design Engineering, students use principles of science and draw inspiration from design; they create projects that allow them to confidently navigate the vastness of an empty canvas and conceptualize the depths of a hypothesis. Students engineer ‘by feel,’ and create by 3

For one of its projects, Design Engineering looks at the history and physics of car design, and then challenges students to design and create their own scale model clay car that articulates their vision of beauty, recognizes the science of streamlining, and is ultimately wind tunnel tested for performance.

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STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) courses are the tip of the cross-disciplinary iceberg.

leveraging empirical data and formulaic constructs.

A great example of a class project is one titled Fluid Dynamics and the Art of Streamlining, or How to Design and Build the Perfect Automobile. The correlation between fluid dynamics (aerodynamics, more specifically) and beauty creates a space that has been at the core of automobile design for over a century. The technical term for making a car more aerodynamic is called “streamlining” and is a critical component in improving performance and reducing fossil fuel consumption. Streamlining is also a sculpt­ ing force in the creation of the ‘lines’ of a car, the defining characteristics that catch the eye and cap­ ture the imagination. For one of its projects, Design Engineering looks at the history and physics of car design, and then challenges students to design and create their own scale model clay car that articu­ lates their vision of beauty, recognizes the science of streamlining, and is ultimately wind tunnel tested for performance.

In a project scheduled for the spring 2019 curricu­ lum, we will create full scale footbridges following an examination of structural engineering and the design of the built environment. We will ask the age-old ques­ tions—does form follow function, or does function follow form? In the design and engineering of some of the world’s greatest structures, form and function are inextricably linked in a symbiotic relationship that serves as the muse for creative problem solving and

inspiration. Load paths and structural members, determined through the calculation of gravity and lateral loads, become defining architectural gestures and generators of form in buildings such as the CCTV in Beijing and the Hancock Building in Chicago; structures such as Roman aqueducts and the Great Pyramids; and bridges by Maillart and Calatrava.

In this course, students spend equal time in the laboratory, studio, and seminar room, working both collaboratively and individually, discussing, hypothe­ sizing, constructing and deconstructing. Often referred to as a “maker-space classroom,” the bound­ aries between traditional work spaces blur and the distinction between working alone and in a group gives way to a new collaborative balance; students are challenged to be nimbly reactive, bravely proactive, cerebral and physical, logical and whimsical.

STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) courses are the tip of the cross-disciplinary iceberg. Every day I speak with teachers in different academic fields who are brainstorming new ways to better deliver curriculum and further challenge stu­ dents to take responsibility for their own learning. I am excited about this kind of collaboration and look forward to working with my colleagues to make our curriculum increasingly engaging, diverse, and above all innovative.

On curiosity and teaching…

I find that I think a lot about what it means to be a teacher. I am constantly reimagining how to best nurture curiosity, facilitate creativity and critical thinking, and generate an energized classroom. One of my favorite things about teaching is collaborating with students in the learning process itself—by modeling the joy of being curious, leveraging existing skill sets and bases of knowledge and interest, and teaching how to connect cognition, hard work, and the power of intuitive leaps of understanding. It is those “aha” moments where it all comes together, and connections are made, that push students (and me) DEREK BYRON

forward and engender confidence in our ability to innovate and create.

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Behind the Screen with MSON

BY C AT H Y S H U F R O

WHEN DAVID HARPIN AGREED TO TEACH an

online course for Hopkins, he did it mainly to push himself to learn new technologies. As it turned out, new tech skills were the least of what Harpin gained during four years as an Ancient Greek instructor for the Malone Schools Online Network. Using live video conferencing to teach students from Hopkins along­ side students from far-flung schools has transformed how Harpin now uses his time in a conventional classroom.

“It was an incredible learning experience for me,” said Harpin, who joined the Hopkins faculty in 1996.

“It was as if I were a new teacher.”

Harpin, who serves as the Hopkins Dean of Academics, is one of four Hopkins faculty members since 2013 who have offered students from other inde­ pendent schools the chance to join their courses in Ancient Greek, Arabic, Chinese, and physics. Hopkins students, in turn, can take classes with online teachers 6

from any of the 23 schools that constitute the Malone Schools Online Network (MSON). Unlike some online courses in which participants cover material when­ ever they wish, these are conducted face to face, via video conferencing.

Harpin says it was the reduction in face-to-face instruction time that made him change his approach to teaching. He was accustomed at Hopkins to three or four 55-minute classes per week (depending on the week); MSON classes meet for an hour twice a week.

He was losing 72 minutes each week.

He had to make every minute count. “They don’t need to be hearing me lecture in class,” he told him­ self. He recorded 5- or 10-minute videos to teach basic grammar and usage; students could watch them at home (and rewind to review if they chose).

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was all application: apply, apply, apply.” That also made time for conversations about Greek language, history, and culture. “The hallmark of a Hopkins edu­ cation is to have that genuine authentic discussion,” said Harpin. As he returns to a four-walls classroom this fall, Harpin says, he’ll continue to ask himself, “How do I make the class the most valuable 55 min­ utes that it can be?”

This fall the MSON catalog lists 38 classes, with an enrollment of 243 students. Those students will log on from schools from Los Angeles County to Portland, Maine; and from Minneapolis to Fort Worth. Some of the courses keep alive subjects that would not draw enough students in one school to justify offering a class. This applies to Ancient Greek at Hopkins: the class survived last year because two students from other schools joined the two Hopkins students who signed up. This year, Hopkins teachers will teach online courses in first- and second-year Arabic and FALL 2018

fifth-year Chinese. In turn, Hopkins students may attend those courses and any others on the network.

Some of the courses in the MSON catalog are advanced, including multivariable calculus, advanced microeconomics and quantum physics. Others focus on topics likely to appeal to just a few students. New courses this year include a “journal club” in which students will read and analyze scientific papers, and “American Voice, American Speech: Word as Action from Anne Bradstreet to Donald Trump,” which will explore “voice” in American music, art, film, adver­ tising, TV, and politics. A teacher from Canterbury School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, will teach introduction to music theory. “We have a number of serious musi­ cians coming through,” said Janet MacKay-Galbraith, and a jazz bass player requested the class. Sometimes a teacher initiates a class on a topic that he or she wants to explore. In this vein, Aaron Lehman at Porter-Gaud School in Charleston will teach classes 7

MSON (Malone Schools Online Network)

38 23 243 classes

schools

students

MSON faculty from around the country gathered on the Hopkins campus in June 2018 for their annual conference.

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Brownell Talbot School Omaha, NE

Hopkins School New Haven, CT

The Prairie School Racine, WI

Trinity Preparatory School Winter Park, FL

Canterbury School Fort Wayne, IN

Manlius Pebble Hill School Syracuse, NY

Porter-Gaud School Charleston, SC

Casady School Oklahoma City, OK

Indian Springs School Indian Springs, AL

The Roeper School Birmingham, MI

University School of Nashville Nashville, TN

Chadwick School Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA

Maret School Washington, DC

St. Andrews Episcopal School Ridgeland, MS

Derryfield School Manchester, NH

Mounds Park Academy Saint Paul, MN

Severn School Severna Park, MD

Fort Worth Country Day School Fort Worth, TX

Newark Academy Livingston, NJ

Stanford Online High School Stanford, CA

Waynflete School Portland, ME Wilmington Friends School Wilmington, DE Winchester Thurston School Pittsburgh, PA

on literary Modernism and Ulysses. “If novels were mountains, James Joyce’s Ulysses would be Everest,” Lehman wrote in the course catalog.

Students take exams with proctors at their home schools, and teachers can embed quizzes in videos.

When multivariable calculus teacher Josh Link of Maret School realized that not all of his students were watching homework videos, he inserted questions that the students must answer while viewing them.

Students can post their own questions for the teacher.

“It gives me really great feedback,” Link said. He can also see whether a student has raced through a tenminute video in 11 minutes.

Perfection is not the goal when making these short videos, says physics teacher and Director of Academic Technology Ben Taylor, who serves as the Dean of Instruction for MSON. “I intentionally try not to oversterilize my recordings anymore,” he said. “The stu­ dents’ attention is better, their recollection is better, and their amusement is higher when they can hear background noise, hear your dog barking, hear your daughter whispering ‘Can I have a Popsicle?’” The stu­ dents will want to know the dog’s name and whether Dad said yes to the Popsicle.

Like Harpin, Taylor values the way that the videos free class time for discussion. One such moment is when students learn about special relativity.

“Mathematically it’s simple, but its conclusions are emotionally very difficult: the idea that the flow of time is not constant in different reference frames; that time travel is a real thing; and if you travel at the speed of light the universe has no thickness and you could see all of time happen instantaneously, including the entire future.” That discussion, he says, “requires togetherness.”

When Hopkins teacher Farha Mohamed greets her Arabic students onscreen at the beginning of each week, she takes five or ten minutes to ask them what they did during the weekend. Once, when a Hopkins student reported that she’d gone to Manhattan, a class­ mate from Indiana complained: “You guys all live in cool places. I live in a cornfield!” Mohamed uses those social conversations to convey to the students that “it’s not all about knowledge. It’s also about my connection to the student as a person.” By the end of the term, the nine students taking her course felt so close that dur­ ing the final class, some of them cried.

Taylor envisions a broadening role for MSON. This summer all the new teachers for the consortium met FALL 2018

at Hopkins for training, and Taylor said they had lively conversations about teaching that might not occur among faculty members who sit together at lunch day in and day out. “Sharing classes is a cool thing, but it’s just a start,” said Taylor.

Hopkins Young Alumnae Share Their MSON Stories Clare Chemery ’19 “The videos were a great resource,” said Clare Chemery ’19, who started her Greek career in Harpin’s MSON class and has gone on to complete Greek IV. “They were very clear and explained the topics beautifully, which is difficult, since many grammatical concepts in Greek are not used in English, like the middle voice, which is reflexive, between active and passive.” After watching the videos, she said, “We would come in fairly confident with the topic.” During class time they did exercises, read stories, and did sight translations.

Abby Miller ’18 Abby Miller ’18 took etymology of scientific terms with teacher David Seward of Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh. Miller drew upon her six years of Latin and learned some Greek, too. She was the only participant from Hopkins in a class of six students from four schools. “People might be a bit turned off by the idea of interacting with the teacher via a screen, but I think it was just as rewarding, because it’s all about the content,” said Miller.

Lisanne de Groot ’16 The network allowed Lisanne de Groot ’16 to take two advanced chemistry courses. By senior year, she had finished all the chemistry classes available on campus. “I love chemistry, so I wanted to keep going,” said de Groot, now a junior at Carnegie Mellon. She took MSON courses in organic chemistry and advanced topics in chemistry. For both, the teacher was David Walker from Maret School in Washington, D.C. Although Walker asked students about the weather, their hometowns, and what they were doing after school, de Groot did not build bonds with the other students in the virtual classroom the way she did with Hopkins classmates. “Still,” she said, “it was such a good experience, as good as any of the Hopkins classes I took. It was definitely a class I looked forward to.”

Last year, de Groot was debating whether to change departments at Carnegie Mellon, from materials science and engineering to natural sciences and chemistry. She called Walker for advice. Her new major focuses on organic chemistry, the subject he taught her.

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Hopkins Launches The Writing Studio The original length of T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece The Waste Land was over 1,000 lines. He sent his work to fellow poet Ezra Pound, who cut the first 55 lines, and then another 500 or so, bringing one of the 20th cen­ tury’s best-known poems to 434 lines with the memo­ rable opener, “April is the cruelest month.”

Founded on the principle that all writing can benefit from feedback and conversation, The Hopkins Writing Studio launched last spring under the guid­ ance of English faculty Brad Ridky and Chris Jacox.

The goal of the studio is to encourage students to improve their writing by working together with their peers. “We want to foster the understanding that writing is communal,” commented Ridky and Jacox.

“While we may literally write alone, we write ulti­ mately to clarify our thinking for ourselves so that we can share it with others.”

The studio is located on the third floor of Baldwin Hall, where a former classroom has been transformed into a comfortable space with writing and conference desks, a sofa, bowls of candy, and a distant view of

Long Island Sound—a helpful visual reminder that good writing is about the long arc, not the quick fix.

Writing tutors are available most blocks throughout the day, including lunch. Any student (all grades are welcome) can bring any kind of writing for feedback and conversation: an English essay, a lab report, a his­ tory paper, or more personal writing like poems, short stories, and reflections.

A writing tutor guides through confusion and writer’s block, reassures a peer that their ideas are valid, and strives to inspire a peer to move forward with their writing.

Prospective tutors are selected and trained to work with their peers. “We ask English teachers for names of junior and senior students who are not only strong writers,” says Ridky, “but who understand and embrace writing as a process rather than an outcome.”

Writing tutors train together under the guidance of Ridky and Jacox and participate in conferences, most recently the 11th Annual Conference for Secondary School Writing Centers at the University of Connecticut.

Writing tutor Hannah Stelben ’19 describes her role: “A writing tutor guides through confusion and writer’s block, reassures a peer that their ideas are valid, and strives to inspire a peer to move forward with their writing.”

With the launch of The Writing Studio, Hopkins is adopting a best-practice model that has been part of the college experience for decades and is becoming a vital fixture on the campuses of peer schools. It is a model that, as Ridky and Jacox emphasize, is a particularly good fit for Hopkins—one that fosters excellence in writing by entrusting and empowering our students.

Student tutors Siraj Patwa ’19 and Hannah Stelben ’19 in the Hopkins Writing Studio

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LOOKING AHEAD

KAI BYNUM

Looking Through the Lens of Innovation Our course catalog continues to expand as we promote Innovation is a lens for thinking, learning, and living that more methods that develop innovative thinking and learning. frames our perspective of the world in new ways. It is a con­ Through experiences like HARPS (Hopkins Authentic Research cept that invites ingenuity and inventiveness, and a platform Program in Science), Design Engineering, the Humanities that supports the integration of different disciplines and sys­ Symposium, the expansion of computer science and coding, tems to help create engaging platforms for knowledge and and many projects scattered throughout our curriculum, we awareness. invited the spirit of innovation into the academic life of our Within the past two years, Hopkins has started look­ school. These courses provide dynamic vehicles for our stu­ ing through the lens of innovation to explore new methods dents to engage the world, and we are actively considering how of teaching, learning, and operations. This lens creates the we can further enhance this aspect of our academic program. capacity for us to better understand the intersectionality of Innovation at Hopkins begins when we start becoming the world, and to realize how intellectual connections and more comfortable asking ourselves, “Is there a different way personal collaborations enable us to create solutions and to see this, to learn this, and solve problems. Developing to understand this?” It begins the institutional capacity to Innovation begins when we ask ourselves, by processing how we bal­ think in these ways enables ance innovation with tradi­ us to envision what is pos­ “Is there a different way to see this, tional and proven methods of sible within our community. to learn this, and to understand this?” teaching and learning, and by It helps us imagine what we realizing how we go beyond can do if we take intellec­ content to teach the skills and sensibilities students need to be tual risks, challenge convention, and have the courage to try courageous thinkers. something new. Through this enhanced approach, we gain As a school, we want to deliver a program that prepares the sense of confidence one only finds through experience— students for their futures, not our pasts. We hope that as this through making, discovering, tinkering, and creating. evolved consciousness grows within our community, our As we embrace innovation at Hopkins, we are called to students will be able to feed their hunger for intellectual develop new curricula and support forward-thinking peda­ curiosity with a much broader and more dynamic menu of gogy. In the classroom, we are starting to bring forth courses experiences. We hope that this way of thinking strengthens a and professional development opportunities that foster this culture where courage and character are valued, and students creative consciousness. Last year, faculty members led work­ realize that passions are often discovered through risk-taking shops to provide insights and encourage exploration in areas and mistake-making. We hope that as students learn differ­ like project-based learning, maker methods in our classes, per­ ent ways to think, create, and act, they will realize how they formance-based assessment, flipped classroom practices, and global education. We hired our first-ever Director of Innovation can have an impact on this world and help others. Moving forward, I hope we can all look through the lens of innovation and Technology, who facilitates conversations around teaching together to imagine the future in front of us, and modernize practices, peer-coaching, expectations for collaboration, and the legacy of academic excellence at Hopkins. the importance of professional reflection and feedback.

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The 2018–2019 Hopkins Committee of Trustees

The Trustees of Hopkins School gathered in Heath Commons for a photograph during their first meeting of the 2018–2019 year, on June 18, 2018.

SEATED (L–R) Lynn Jackson Quinn, Vincent Calarco, Head of School Kai Bynum, Gwen Evans ’84, Niall Ferguson ’92. STANDING (L–R) Barbara Rosiello, Michael Thomas ’86, Nicky Dawidoff ’81, Barry Blake, Mark Lynch ’62 HGS, Don Kendall, Debra Seiter, Eric Kutcher ’92, Peter Sasaki ’87. (Not pictured: Nory Babbitt ‘76, Medina Tyson Jett ’83, David Lefell, Pamela Crawford Paulmann ’89, Gregory Tanner ’92.)

Meet Our New Faculty & Staff

Hopkins welcomes eight new faculty members to campus this year.

FRONT ROW (L–R) R.C. Sayler, Visual Art; Keri Matthews ’94, Mathematics & Computer Science; Hannah Solis-Cohen, History, Penn Teaching Fellow; Dante Brito, Athletic Intern, Equity and Community. BACK ROW (L–R) Jessie Ramos-Willey, Assistant Director of College Counseling; Nathaniel Peters ’14, Science; Terrence Mooney, English, Equity and Community; Abraham Kirby-Galen, Mathematics. (Not pictured: Tom Diascro, Director of Leadership Giving; Paul Hyland, Maintenance; Marc Paradis, Finance and Accounting Manager.)

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Meet Hopkins’ Newest Trustees

(L–R) Eleanor Babbitt ’76, Barry Blake P’19,’21, and Nicholas Dawidoff ’81

Eleanor Babbitt ’76, Barry Blake P’19,’21, and Nicholas Dawidoff ’81 were elected as trustees for three-year terms, effec­ tive July 1, 2018, at the May 17, 2018, meeting of the Committee of Trustees.

and a Board Member of The Standing Committee of the Proprietors of Grove Street Cemetery. For her “conspicuous service to Yale,” she is the 2017 recipient of “The Morey’s Cup.”

ELEANOR (NORY) BABBITT lives in Hamden, Connecticut, and has worked at Yale University for nearly 38 years.

She is currently the Senior Director of Club and Association Relations at the Yale Alumni Association, overseeing Yale clubs and associations around the world. She joined Yale’s development office in 1988, first with the Alumni Fund and then in Major Gifts. She was also the director of development for the Yale Divinity School.

Nory has served on the Hopkins Class of 1976 Reunion Committee since 2006, and in 2014 she became a member of the Hopkins Alumni/ae Association Board. Nory graduated from Connecticut College in 1980 with a dual degree in botany and art history. Her deep inter­ est in those two subjects are evidenced by her volunteer leadership commit­ ments in New Haven. She is a member of The Garden Club of New Haven

BARRY BLAKE and his wife, Lisa, both originally from Arkansas, live in Westport, Connecticut. They are the parents of Hopkins students Zachary ’19 and Caroline ’21. Barry is Senior Managing Director of Guggenheim Partners in New York City. He previ­ ously was Global Head of Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions for Citigroup, Managing Director of Investment Banking Group at JPMorgan Chase & Co and served as a director at Merrill Lynch. He began his career in 1997 as an associate at Morgan Stanley.

Barry received his MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. In addition to the Hopkins board, Barry is a member of the Board of Trustees of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, from which he graduated in 1991. He also formerly served as President of the Board of the Suzuki Music School of Westport, and as a board

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member of the Stamford Symphony Orchestra.

NICHOLAS DAWIDOFF ’81 lives in Connecticut with his wife, Kaari Pitkin, and two children, Oscar and Beatrix, 8 and 6 years old respectively.

The Dawidoff name is well-known at Hopkins—Nicky’s mother, Heidi Dawidoff, taught English from 1960 to 2000, and his sister, Sally, graduated in the class of 1982. During his time at Hopkins, he was editor of The Razor, and played baseball and soccer and wrestled.

Nicky wrote for Sports Illustrated after graduating magna cum laude from Harvard in 1985. He was a Henry Luce Scholar in 1989–90, and since 1991 has been an independent writer. He is the author of five books, including the bestseller The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg, which was released as a feature film in June 2018, starring Paul Rudd. His memoir of his grandfather, The Fly Swatter: A Portrait of an Exceptional Character, was a 2003 Pulitzer Prize finalist for biography. He is a contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.

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Giamatti & Dawidoff ’81 Establish Fund for Their Mothers school, and their city, fairer, more progressive places. Our mothers loved that city, New Haven, because it was a compact community with such worldly diversity.

Both of them hoped the fullness of the city would join them in their classrooms, and in those of their colleagues. Our mothers knew that New Haven was complicated, a city that, as it went forward, would depend upon thoughtful, creative citizens who approached life with rigor and compassion—qualities they valued in students and literary figures alike. Now, in their names, we have created a fund that will endow financial aid scholarships so that future generations of talented young New Haven students can attend Hopkins. The fund will also make professional development resources available, enabling young, gifted English teachers to deepen their abilities.”

for the Hopkins community showing of Nicholas Dawidoff ’81 and Paul Giamatti the film on September 15. The ticketed grew up around Hopkins. Both of their event sold out, and included a cocktail mothers, Heidi Dawidoff and Toni Giamatti, were longtime teachers on the hour with Dawidoff and Giamatti, the screening of the film, and a discussion Hill, impacting generations of students. moderated by Hopkins parent and writer Both men are now in the midst of illus­ for The New York Times Magazine Emily trious careers of their own as an author Special thanks to the following: Nicholas Bazelon. Proceeds from each ticket sup­ and an actor. They combined forces on Dawidoff ’81 and Gwen Evans ’84, who ported the new fund. At the conclusion the evening of Saturday, September 15, conceptualized the event and worked of the event, the fund had raised more 2018, to honor and celebrate their moth­ to make it a reality; David Evans ’81 than $40,000 to support financial aid and for providing copies of the book for all ers’ legacy at Hopkins with a screening of The Catcher Was a Spy, benefitting the faculty professional development. In the attendees to take home; and all those words of Dawidoff and Giamatti: Heidi Dawidoff and Toni Giamatti Fund who donated to the fund and attended for New Haven Scholars and English the event.

“Our mothers adored their students, every Teachers of Promise.

To make a donation to the fund, contact one of their students. Committed as they Dawidoff released his best-selling were to your reading, writing, and thinking, Katey Varanelli. To view photos from the debut novel, The Catcher Was a Spy, event, view the news story on hopkins.edu. we suspect the most fulfilling part of their back in 1994. It follows the intriguing work was seeing you in full before you saw life of third-string major league baseball yourselves. To our mothers, you were all catcher, lawyer, and OSS spy, Moe Berg. compelling people, the heroic characters in Fast forward to 2018, and the book was the long story that was their teaching life. made into a film starring Paul Rudd and To us, and perhaps to you, they were a litPaul Giamatti, premiering at the Sun­ tle bit heroic themselves—two women who dance Film Festival in January and released in select theaters this past June. became revered teachers in what remained largely a man’s world; two women who The Whitney Humanities Center at helped, by their example, to make their Yale University served as the location ABOVE (L–R) Nicholas Dawidoff ’81, his mother and former Hopkins faculty Heidi Dawidoff, and actor Paul Giamatti. RIGHT A sold-out crowd attended the screening of The Catcher Was a Spy at the Whitney Humanities Center, on September 15, 2018.

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A New League for Varsity Football Changes have come to Hopkins Football.

Last year, the school applied for mem­ bership to the Metropolitan Independent Football League, and was granted accep­ tance in late December 2017. Hopkins, the only Connecticut school in the league, is now in a division with New York schools Rye Country Day and Hackley. Fieldston, Riverdale Country Day, and Poly Prep make another divi­ sion, and a third division includes New Jersey schools Montclair Kimberley Academy, Morristown Beard, and Pingry.

Head Coach Tim Phipps, also a History teacher, is excited about join­ ing the league. “We are playing schools that share our commitment to academic and athletic excellence and believe in developing the student-athlete. I believe that this will be an excellent opportunity for our players to experience the excite­ ment and rivalries that develop by being associated with a league.”

Hopkins had previously been a part of the Fairchester League, but began playing a modified schedule within the league in 2015. Director of Athletics Rocco DeMaio ’86 stated, “We were try­ ing to find schools that have a similar philosophy to ours, in not taking postgrads. It has to be a level playing field.”

Some schools within the Fairchester

League also allowed for transfers to reclassify, while Hopkins did not. The Fairchester Football League officially disbanded recently.

By entering into the Metropolitan League this season, Hopkins has the ability to play in the post-season for the first time in recent memory. In the Metropolitan League, the last two weeks of the season are dedicated to playoffs.

In the first week of playoffs, the top four teams compete with the first seed hosting the fourth, and the second seed playing the third. In the final week, the winners of those two games will compete for the League Championship.

When asked what he was most excited for, senior captain Douglas Guilford ’19 said, “For the first time in my Hopkins football career, I will be able to compete for a championship.” Senior co-captain Owen Sherman ’19 echoed Guilford’s sentiments by adding, “I am very excited for the ability to gain All-League Honors as well as the chance to compete for a league championship.”

While the league may have changed, the team’s goals remain the same.

Phipps states that his team goal for the season is “to always focus on how we play and not who we play.” Defensive Coordinator Dante Brito adds, “The

team goal for the season is to win every game but to have fun doing it. The true goal is to always progress to being bet­ ter players, coaches, and overall people on and off the field.” Best of luck to Hopkins Football in the Metropolitan Independent League!

Athletics Roundup 2018 SPRING SPORTS TEAM RECORDS

Varsity Baseball FAA Runner-up Record: 10–8 Varsity Softball FAA Runner-up; WNEPSSBA Semifinalist Record: 10–3 Varsity Boys Crew 1st Boat finished the season with two 1st place wins Varsity Girls Crew 1st Boat finished the season with four 1st place wins Varsity Golf Record: 4–9 Varsity Water Polo Record: 10–8

Varsity Boys Tennis New England Semifinalists Record: 9–6 Varsity Girls Tennis FAA Regular Season Champions; FAA #1 Championship Winner: Marion Conklin ’18 Undefeated regular season Record: 19–0 Varsity Boys Lacrosse FAA Semifinalists Record: 4–9 Varsity Girls Lacrosse Record: 4–10 Track & Field 7 All-NEPSTA awardwinning athletes: Nic Burtson, Michael Christie, Maliya Ellis, George Kosinksi, Jonah Norwitt, Jasmine Simmons, Julia Tellides

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Hopkins Launches Black Alumni/ae Network Over the past several years, Hopkins alumna and Trustee Medina Tyson Jett ’83 developed a vision to connect Hopkins’ Black population and help the school at the same time. After conversa­ tions with Black alumni/ae about their experiences at Hopkins and in the world beyond, Jett saw a need to build a more cohesive community of Black alumni/ae to support each other and to assist with Hopkins’ strategic goals related to diver­ sity, inclusion, and equity. With the full support of Head of School Kai Bynum and the Hopkins Board of Trustees, the Hopkins Black Alumni/ae Network (HBAN) was born.

HBAN’s mission is threefold: 1) to serve as a resource to the Hopkins Board of Trustees, administration, and faculty in support of its diversity and inclusion goals; 2) to re-engage Black alumni/ae with Hopkins; and 3) to provide a formal mechanism for mentoring and network­ ing among Black alumni/ae and current Black students.

An Executive Committee was elected in August 2017 to carry out HBAN’s mission. Members include: Hopkins Alumna Fellow Laina Jones Cox ’97, Barbara Wadley-Young ’83, Janay Sylvester ’08, and Nyah Macklin ’12.

L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy ’96 joined the Executive Committee in August 2018.

We are a vital part of Hopkins’ past and present, and we should be engaged in Hopkins’ future as well.

On Sunday, June 3, HBAN held its inaugural Mentorship Luncheon dur­ ing Alumni/ae Weekend in the Heath Dining Room, with over 80 alumni/ae, students, and parents in attendance.

The luncheon focused on HBAN’s first major initiative—a mentorship program between Black alumni/ae and current Hopkins students. The event included

group icebreakers, information about the mentorship program, and reflective speeches from two Black alumni, Kevin Suber ’81 and L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy ’96. A highlight of the afternoon was the celebration and welcoming of the nine Black members of the Class of 2018 into HBAN. “As I attended Hopkins events through the years, I was always struck by how few Black alums came back to Hopkins. We are a vital part of Hopkins’ past and present and we should be engaged in Hopkins’ future as well. I also felt there was an opportu­ nity to build community among Black alums and Black students based on our shared experiences. The more I talked to Black alumni/ae and the Hopkins administration, it seemed like a network of Black alums could serve multiple purposes all for the betterment of the Hopkins community,” said Jett. “I am thrilled to finally see my vision taking shape.”

More than 80 alumni/ae attended the inaugural meeting of the Black Alumni/ae Network (HBAN) on June 3, 2018.

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HBAN planned a series of events for Homecoming on Saturday, October 20. The day kicked off with a Mentor Matching Breakfast where current Black students in grades 9 through 12 and their parents met and got to know their assigned mentors over breakfast. The

Our goal is to support Black students by being a listening ear, offering advice, and helping to build their personal and professional networks during and after Hopkins. morning continued with a Diversity Panel exploring how Black students can optimize their independent school experience. Panelists included Dr. Holly Hinderlie, a diversity consultant who works to support positive identity at independent schools; Angela Wardlaw

’84, Hopkins Director of Community Engagement and former Hopkins par­ ent; and young alum Nyah Macklin ’12. The panel was moderated by Jett.

Following the panel, the group engaged in breakout sessions with topics focusing on achieving equity, managing microaggressions, and building community.

Looking ahead, HBAN will be host­ ing regional “meet and greet” events to connect live with Black alumni/ae across the country. Plans for this year also include sponsoring a diversity speaker on campus, an Alumni/ae Weekend event, and continuing to cultivate the Mentorship Program.

“Supporting Black students at Hopkins through the development of the Mentorship Program is my way of giv­ ing back,” says Laina Jones Cox ’97. “I still remember the feeling as a student yearning for support and advice from those I knew had experienced Hopkins the way I was experiencing it as a Black girl. It’s these feelings that have helped

HBAN members attended the Mentor Matching event on Saturday, October 20.

steer the direction for the Mentorship Program. Our alums span five decades and a myriad of professions and achievements. We have walked those same hills, pulled the same all-nighters, cheered at the same games, and chal­ lenged the thinking of the same types of classmates… We’ve all been there.

Our goal is to support Black students by being a listening ear, offering advice, and helping to build their personal and professional networks during and after Hopkins. Our success as a Mentorship Program will be measured by their suc­ cess as students.”

(L–R) HBAN Executive Committee members Nyah

Macklin ’12, Laina Jones Cox ’97, Medina Tyson Jett ’83, Janay Sylvester ’08, and Barbara Wadley-Young ’83

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A Stroll Down Memory Lane with the Class of 1957 HGS S U B M I T T E D BY A L A N C A DA N ’ 57 H G S

One day, out of the blue, Joe Schwartz submitted the following piece, “The Last.” It was sent to him by his wife Marilyn’s cousin, and he asked if our class might be interested in it. In sharing it with our class, the responses it triggered confirmed that, at our age, short term memory can begin to fail, but long term memory simply needs a little prodding to stimulate rapid recall.

The Last Born in the 1930s and ’40s we exist as a very special age group.

We are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900s.

We are the last generation, climbing out of the depression who can remember the impact of a world at war which rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.

We are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves.

We saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans.

We saw cars up on blocks because tires weren’t available.

We can remember milk being delivered to our house early in the morning and placed in the “milk box” on the porch.

We are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of our grieving neighbors whose sons died in the World War II. We are the last generation who spent part of our childhood without television; instead, we imagined what we heard on the radio.

As we all like to brag, with no TV, we spent our childhood “playing outside.”

There was no little league, no soccer. We just chose sides and played.

The lack of television in our early years meant, for most of us, that we had little real understanding of what the world was like.

On Saturday afternoons, the movies gave us newsreels sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons.

Telephones were one to a house, with often shared party lines and hung on the wall in the kitchen with no cares about privacy.

The radio network expanded from three stations to thousands.

Polio was still a crippler for many.

The Korean War was a dark passage in the early ’50s and by middecade school children were ducking under desks for Air-Raid training.

Russia built the “Iron Curtain” and China became Red China.

Eisenhower sent the first “Army Advisers” to Vietnam and many of us went later as it was now “our turn.” Castro took over in Cuba and Khrushchev came to power.

Only our generation can remember both a time of great war and a time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty. We lived through both.

We are “The Last”!

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SKIP BORGERSON

ED CANTOR

I remember taking the aluminum foil off the back of the individual gum stick wrappers and making a softball size ball of them for the war effort. And, living in Woodbridge, gasoline was extremely precious—no stores nearby, and no trolleys or buses to take you.

When the tank was almost empty and you started up a hill, the gasoline went to the back of the tank and could not go out into the gas line which was in the front of the tank. The simple solution was to turn around and go backwards up the hill. Mom did that several times. We could coast (in neutral with engine off) from the top of Center Road hill, everyone looking left as we approached Amity Road to make sure there was no car coming, making that sharp right-hand turn without slowing down very much, continuing on to the hill heading down toward New Haven, and making it all the way to the New Haven border line before having to start the engine again. That was a big success worth cheering for.

I remember the dark shades we pulled down over our windows each night so our house wasn’t illuminated in the event of a German air raid during WWII. I remember when my father was out in the street at night as an air raid warden, when we planted the community “victory garden” during the war, and when we saved all rags to be used for textiles by the army. In later years I remember the air raid drills in school when we were ordered under our chairs because of the threat of a nuclear attack.

PETER HART

On a hot, muggy summer day my memory bank goes to Savin Rock: Midway Games, Thunderbolt Roller Coaster, Bumper Cars, Fun House with the Laughing Lady, and of course, Jimmie’s Split Hot Dogs! Another summer memory—the circus coming to town. My Dad would take me to see the circus train arrive, and we would watch the circus parade led by the elephants make its way to the arena.

ALAN CADAN

I remember taking my own carpet to the Irving Grammar School in Derby to kneel on during air raid drills practicing for a Russian nuclear threat; hitchhiking (try that today!) from Derby up the Housatonic River to my grandfather’s farm to fish; checking to see if my tongue would really stick to my Flexible Flyer while sledding at the town green (it did!). Also listening to “Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club” when home sick in bed, Charlie McCarthy, and the adventures of Jack Armstrong (Wheaties, The Breakfast of Champions), and Sky King, where I ordered my first decoder ring!

White gas (today’s unleaded) was 25 cents a gallon.

My grandfather’s old Buick had a 24" floor gear shift, and at the age of 5 or 6 I remember hearing President Truman announce “The War with Japan has ended”!

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JOHN LUNT

I do remember one day in the mid-forties my father came home having “scored big” with cases of canned grapefruit segments. I can still picture the contents of those cases ever so slowly diminishing even though we ate them every morning—every morning. Needless to say, canned grapefruit sections have never been a big hit since!

TERRY MALCOM

Summer of 1942 our family moved from Denver to Bridgeport, Connecticut, as my dad was transferred

by Remington Arms during the war. Three years later we moved to a 25-acre farm in Huntington, where we raised chickens, cows, pigs, and all kinds of veggies.

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My younger brother and I each had our own horse and dog, helped on the farm, played Little League baseball, were Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and active in church.

Whew! Soon after starting at Hopkins we moved to Orange. I would meet my dad later after school and he would let me drive home—stick shift and all.

DANA MURPHY

I remember flattening cans in the kitchen, the metal to be used in the war effort; my mother asking me to pull the window shade down in our dining room (1944?) so prowling German U-Boats (Unterseeboots) would not see the light; riding in our 1935 Ford Phaeton convertible, with bald tires, but able to pull other vehicles out of the mud due to the weight of the car. Our first telephone number was 104 Ring 2.

DAVE OPTON

I remember how adamant my dad was that he was not going to allow that thing called TV into our home.

It took quite a while, but after relentless lobbying by my brothers and myself, the big day finally arrived, and there it was—a beautiful Motorola TV with a panoramic 7" screen where on occasion I could watch my beloved Dodgers lose yet again to the Yankees.

STEVE RYTER

I remember jujubes, the Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy on TV. Saturday double features for 25 cents with Gene Autry and Roy Rogers and Classic comics with Flash Gordon and Superman. And, adjusting TV rabbit ears, 3-cent stamps, and Victory gardens at the Yale practice fields. My dad was the gardener and I just tagged along. I have fond memories of eating tomatoes while they were still warm.

JOE SCHWARTZ

Recently, while driving to Hartford from our home in New York City on the Merritt, we passed through the West Rock Tunnel in New Haven. I recalled a special drive in my childhood friend’s father’s car through this same tunnel on the very day it first opened. I was in grammar school at the time (before Hopkins Grammar!). As for starting to drive, I’ll bet all of us now have been behind the wheel for over 60 years— perhaps over 70 for the farmers among us! Hard to believe. And, yah, I, too, liked the cream on the top of the Golden Guernsey milk that got deposited in front of the door each day.

FRANK WHITTEMORE

JIM ROSENFELD

In 1956 I remember learning the minimum wage was one dollar per hour.

It was an evening in the mid-1940s—probably 1944 or 1945—as I was trying to go to sleep. Suddenly, I heard loud bangs from the back side of my home and, from the bedroom window, saw various colored lights. As they persisted, I left my room and ran to my parents claiming: “The war’s here, the Germans are attacking!!” No, my father explained, what I saw and heard was simply fireworks from a football game at the new Bowen Field on Crescent Street, about five blocks from our house. Quite a relief!

(Editor’s note: Due to length restrictions, “The Last” and individual responses have been edited for this publication.)

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ALUMNI/AE

Reunion 2018 Hopkins’ celebrated Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1–2, 2018, with more than 600 alumni/ae and guests returning to campus for their reunion. Alumni/ae from the classes ending in 3 and 8 attended a luncheon under the tent and special programs led by Hopkins faculty, played in the alumni/ae lacrosse, baseball, and softball games, enjoyed family activities, and culminated the day with dinner and music under the big tent.

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ALUMNI/AE

Commencement 2018 Friday, June 8, was a wonderful day on the Hill to celebrate the 358th Class of Hopkins School. Under a big tent, surrounded by family, friends, and the entire Hopkins community, the Class of 2018 donned their maroon robes, received their well-earned diplomas, and stated the traditional Tibi Gratis Ago phrase.

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RETIREMENTS

Donna Falcone Fasano ’68 DPH

On Friday, June 1, the Hopkins community gathered in Heath Commons to celebrate Donna Fasano’s career at Hopkins. Pictured to the left with former students and to the right with members of her family (L–R) Tim Fasano ’06, Donna Falcone Fasano ’68 DPH, The Honorable Ronald D. Fasano, and Matt Fasano ’01.

Deena Mack

On June 14, 2018, the Hopkins community gathered to honor Deena Mack on the occasion of her retirement. ABOVE LEFT: Pictured here are many past presidents of the Hopkins Parent Association who were in attendance. (L–R) Lynn Jackson Quinn, Sarah Davis, Mindee Blanco, Mary Beth Pantalena, Mary Hoffman, Linda Calarco, Deena Mack, Wini Colleran, Kathy Stone, Caroline Daifotis, Donna Steinberg, and Joanne Kahan. ABOVE RIGHT (L–R): Bill ’92, Tim ’95, Deena, and Bill Mack ’65 HGS

Eric Mueller

LEFT On March 29, family, friends, colleagues, former students, and faculty gathered to celebrate Eric Mueller’s tenure and the closing of his retrospective gallery show in Keator Gallery. RIGHT (L–R): Emma Mueller Fedor ’05, Eric Mueller, and Jan Lenkoski-Mueller.

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CLASS NOTES

HOPKINS GRAMMAR

MRS. DAY’S

DAY

PROSPECT HILL

DAY PROSPECT HILL

HOPKINS SCHOOL

1660–1972

1916–1938

1938–1960

1930–1960

1960–1972

1972–Present

If your class is not listed, we are either seeking a class correspondent or your class did not have any news to report. If you have any questions, please contact Donna Vinci at dvinci@hopkins.edu.

1948 HGS Marvin Arons msarons@optium.com

For all of our classmates: I personally can account for only 15 members who are alive with known addresses, and some guys do directly communicate with Hopkins. Harald Ingholt wrote that he was in New Haven for a Yale Class Reunion this year; did visit the new Hopkins coed campus and was delighted with the new facilities and atmo­ sphere. His wife, Marilyn Smith Ingholt ’51, a Day School graduate, died in 2016 from Alzheimer’s disease, in an assisted living unit where she and Harald spent their final year together. For all their married life they resided in Arizona. Recently, he moved to Kennebunkport, Maine. Warren Jewett died this year in Cary, North Carolina. He was a scientist and inventor, which led him into aerospace entrepreneurship and venture capitalism. His wife is a research scientist at Duke and also earned a PhD. Warren wrote how happy he was with all the new types of hematologic drugs; no longer was he disabled from his hemophilia. We all sadly remember how disabilities could suddenly occur for him at Hopkins when there were bleeding episodes, especially into his knee

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Thelma Brock Bonnar ’48 DAY and Jane Echlin Kammerer ’48 PHS enjoyed reconnecting during the afternoon programs of Alumni/ae Weekend on June 2, 2018.

Henry Harrison ’48 HGS joined the festivities for dinner later in the day at Alumni/ae Weekend.

joints. David Seccombe still lives in New York City and remains there as a photogra­ pher and graphic designer. He wrote that he could not attend our 70th Reunion because a trip to Arizona had been planned with all his children and grandchildren. Who else will vote for him as our 75th Reunion Chairman in 2023 with that record? Paul Weissman and his wife had been considering their summer schedule, especially for June, but ultimately did not attend his 70th Class Reunion.

Steve Traub emailed that he remains at his home in Woodmont, Connecticut, on Long Island Sound and divides his time with his four children, one each in California, Massachusetts, greater Washington, D.C., and Taiwan. Incidentally, he has given up sailing as well as flying. Accolades to Henry Harrison, who was the sole representative of our Class at the 70th Reunion as well as being the only classmate who forwarded his C.V. It required extra postage since he has enjoyed such a successful multidisciplinary career in real estate appraisal and architec­

ture, as well as being an author, publisher, builder, and entrepreneur. Can we say that his experience at Hopkins as captain of our fencing team, under training with the legendary Yale coach Papa Gracon—to lunge, to parry-riposte—stimulated him to allez into the world of commerce? From Fred Maher, written in March 2018: “Mary-Barbara and I will be married 62 years in June. It looks like we will make it, but one never knows.

Five children. Our youngest died suddenly, shortly after Christmas 2011. Mary-Barbara spent eight years in the Vermont Legislature and about 25 years on the South Burlington, Vermont, Planning Commission. I was chair of the City Government Committee in South Burlington for about 23 years in two different terms. We eliminated the town meeting in the city, much to the annoyance of some romantic Norman Rockwell fans.

Vermont is a small state. I have known, on a first-name basis, five people who became governors, and three who ran and lost the election (Vermont has two-year terms, so

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there are many elections). I did not know Howard Dean, but Mary-Barbara served with him in the legislature. This is not Trump country. In the last three presidential elections, Vermont had the second-highest percentage for the Democrat (Hawaii was first each time). When we arrived here, Republicans had no-contest in 27 elections (1856–1960) and had never been lower than the 7th-most Republican state. Twenty times it was the most Republican. We don’t claim all the credit for that evolution, but it is an interesting coincidence. Occupationally, I was a professor of Sociology for 39 years. In the first decade or so, I had areas of com­ petence. As the years went by, my areas of competence merged with my areas of incom­ petence. What Bob Dole said of the vice presidency, ‘It is indoor work, and no heavy lifting,’ also applies to being a professor.

Dealing with serious students can be very gratifying. Unfortunately, they are not the majority. Our granddaughter Ilona Maher played rugby at Quinnipiac University.

They won the last three NCAA Women’s Championships. Now, she is one of many selected to try out for the U.S. Olympic team in Rugby 7s at the 2020 Olympics! We have three granddaughters, the youngest of whom will be 19 in late April. Two will graduate from college in May. That’s it for now. Next update in another 70 years.”

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your classmates, seeing the current campus and the city the school resides in. I did this and am still amazed at the positive changes.

Next year will be our 70th reunion from Hopkins, and living locally, I have been able to see the changes at Hopkins itself and the city of New Haven, Connecticut. Both are astonishing! I was the only one at our last reunion and I’m hoping for more at this one. It will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 31 and June 1. I’m sure many will not be able to make it, so I propose the follow­ ing: Pull together a brief write-up of what you would like to tell your classmates, and email it to me. I, in turn, will organize it and send it back to you as a package. You have plenty of time to do this, and I will remind you of this proposal at my next update. I’m not providing any specifics. That’s up to you! One thing I would like you to consider is a monetary contribution to Hopkins in your will. These new buildings do not build themselves; they cost money and that cost goes up each year. We all benefited from attendance at Hopkins, and its future needs our help. Talked to my neighbor Bob DeFeo ’50 HGS recently. His Hopkins class has an annual holiday brunch at Racebrook Country Club each year, and he is inviting our class to join him. Please email to get the specifics.

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70th Reunion DAY, HGS, and PHS—May 31–June 1, 2019

PHS

HGS

To start off, I’d like to tell you that I have moved to my independent living space at RiverWoods in Exeter, New Hampshire. The move took place on May 7, 2018, and I had only spent a month there when I started coming up to Holderness, New Hampshire, and White Oak Pond, whenever my sister Anne Haskell Knight ’55 PHS needed to make the drive, and we moved up here for the summer months at the end of June. You may recall that I sold my place, so now I

Robert Archambault thearchambaults@optonline.net

They say “no news is good news,” and I hope that is true, since I have not heard from any classmates for some time. I did have lunch with Rich LoRicco earlier this year, but it was a Providence College event. He looked well, but admitted to some health issues. I hope some of you were able to make your 65th college reunion and enjoyed meeting

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Joan Haskell Vicinus joanvicinus@yahoo.com

live with Anne right next door, through the woods. It is not quite the same but almost.

These notes are being written while sitting at her dining room table, glancing at the lake whenever my mind needs a rest. Intentions are to stay at the lake until Labor Day and then move back to Exeter, and RiverWoods, where I will really dig in and start focusing on becoming a new and committed resident full time. Before the move, I spent time visiting my daughter Julie in New York City and twice had an opportunity to spend time with Susan Myers Jacobs. On the second visit in the spring, we walked through the gardens in Fort Tryon Park, New York, near her home in Washington Heights and The Cloisters, and then had lunch nearby. There the conversation turned from gardening to the pros and cons of going to a retirement home or staying put where one lives. We both agreed that there are pluses for both points of view. Susan has been preparing for and looking forward to a trip to England and Germany for ten days in the fall. She will be traveling with her grandson, his wife, and the wife’s sister. They have steeped them­ selves in preparation by spending two days a week, for months, studying the German language. Susan also has had Spanish les­ sons over the years, so she is keeping her mind challenged and sharp. Nancy Mueller Holtzapple is living in her Walnut Creek, California, condominium, which has lots of space, and she says “it suits me just fine.”

She has the good fortune to have two of her four sons living close by, with another son in Oregon and the other in Washington, D.C. For her, the big news is the purchase of a hybrid car, a Chevy Volt. Great mileage—in a month she used just one gallon of gas!

Is that possible in California or anywhere else for that matter? Nancy says that she has visited or traveled through every state except Oklahoma, and it looks as if she’ll get a chance to check that one off. In the fall, she will accompany her granddaughter and husband, both UCLA grads, to the UCLA vs. Oklahoma football game. I generally

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reach out to Gladys Bozyan Lavine, who can be counted on to bring me news of her life and her family. This summer she has had many visitors coming and going. Her sister Patty and husband Peter Jefferies are with Gladys for two months, and daughter Rebecca and son Ari come frequently from Cambridge, Massachusetts, most recently for Ari to attend sailing camp. Gladys’s daughter Rachel is a lawyer in New York City and also active in New York State politics. In Gladys’s words, “… all continues well for me except for poor vision. All else cheerful, with for lively summers, and a little travel. In sum­ mer I see Susan ‘Sukie’ Hilles Bush and visit Elizabeth DeVane Edminster when possible.

Children and grandchildren continue to surprise and delight. I am a Democratic State Committeewoman from my district, which means practically nothing except a few more letters seeking campaign donations, but it reminds me of old battles and better out­ comes.” Jane Karlsruher Shedlin and I had a good chat recently. She and I usually com­ municate by email, so this was a long over­ due conversation. She sounded strong and full of enthusiasm about a grandson who just graduated from college and has enlisted in the Navy. He was leaving the next day to go to Chicago, Illinois, for basic training. From there, after the requisite time, he will go to Texas for training to be a medical corpsman.

Always the trip-taker, Janie went on a cruise on the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Memphis, Tennessee. And she slipped in a bit of news about breaking her knee in Florida this past year, but is already back on the golf course in Connecticut as we speak. August 5 is the date chosen by her children for a big birthday celebration for Sukie at her Westport, Massachusetts, home. Sixty guests expected, all children, grandchildren, a brother from Vermont, friends from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and places beyond. Her actual birthday is in September, but August could work for most of her/their list. Sukie is taking two sons and an ex-daughter-in-law to Italy in the fall for

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an extensive tour: Venice, Murano, Ravenna, Florence. I was lucky to have reached Susan Adams Mott on the eve of her departure for a large family reunion at Saranac Lake, New York. The setting there is ideal, with each family living in a separate cabin and then all joining forces for communal dinners. Lots of swimming and boating and games and visits from friends fill the time. Their children and grandchildren are scattered all over, coming from California, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.

Only the family from Texas will be absent this year. Another quick conversation took place as I called Mary Rossman Bird in Maine, and happened to catch her as she was en route to lunch. She is grateful that people would drive for her and do nice things like take her out for a meal. Her son Jeff Fenn and wife Tammy had Mary come stay with them for a week in Charleston, Maine, about 2.5 miles north and east. All of you who came to our last gathering at Gladys’s would remember Tammy, who kindly drove both Mary and me to and fro and who was such a help. Tammy and Mary sat quietly on their porch and chatted, they worked together in the garden, Tammy and Jeff hosted a BBQ with family and friends, and they took her home via lunch in Bangor, Maine, for a little extra treat. Cheers to all.

HGS John F. Sutton johnfsut@aol.com

Thanks to all who sent news for this column.

First the sad news. In July, Bill Harkness was rushed to the hospital with breathing and kidney problems, and two days later, with Priscilla and his family at his side, he died. The scattering of his ashes will take place in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in the fall. Many of us will remember the enjoy­ able lunches Bill arranged for us from time to time in Southington. On a lighter note, Paul “Pablo” Brown led the Memorial Day parade in his Chicago, Illinois, suburb vil­ lage, carrying the American flag for the 33rd consecutive year. “Most of our veterans,”

he comments, “ride in convertibles with pretty girls driving… I think I may make that move in the near future.” Dick Wilde has been in touch with Hopkins, suggesting that a memorial to Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) be placed in a publicly visible location at the school. In the 19th century, Gibbs was a student at Hopkins, and in adult­ hood served as a long-standing trustee. As a scientist, he made important contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Yale awarded him the first PhD in engineering granted in the U.S. Dick is “hopeful that we can work this issue so that today’s students and faculty will have a golden opportunity to appreciate one of the giants upon whose shoulders the school stands proudly today.”

Fred Beck moved to the Northwest in 1965 for a temporary job, and never looked back!

He retired from Boeing in 1995 and thought of getting his resumé out, but did not do it.

Activities, family, friends, and travel have kept him and Dee busy. One of his volun­ teer projects has been building pipe organs, which, he says, is interesting and challeng­ ing. Frank Foster and Terry continue their travels. Next on the agenda are New England and Africa. Don Scott reports, “I retired in 2015 at age 81. I’m having difficulty adapt­ ing to just doctor appointments. I take naps and attend an occasional United Way board or committee meeting. Gale and I think about assisted living, but 34 years in one place and almost 60 years of stuff make a move seem awesome. My two girls are 57 and 60. Their daughters are still in school, one in medical school, one married. Now I have multiple myeloma and am on chemo. I think about our years at Hopkins often and the fun we had.” Your reporter is also dealing with health issues, most notably Parkinson’s Disease. With the help of numerous medi­ cal “–ologists,” I am holding my own. Woody Bogan checks in. “The pottery studio sums up our lives. From about April on, Martha and I make pots, go to fairs, and sell out of the studio. After 30 years here in Neavitt, Maryland, it was retire—never!—or shake

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things up, which we did: new glazes, dif­ ferent pots, some new fairs, and leaving no stone unturned around the studio. Was it T.S. Eliot or Robert Frost (or both) who said after a while you will see the old stuff as if for the first time? [JFS: Eliot!] Among my many grandchildren, two of them have made me a great-grandfather! My kids, their children, and these great-grandkids, not to mention my brother and his wife, still live in the New Haven, Connecticut, area after all these years. Martha and I haven’t been back there for a few years. It will be pretty exciting when we do.” Hal Bartlett reminds us that he retired from practicing dentistry 20 years ago after a 40-year career. Like many of us busy retirees, he wonders how he had time to have a practice. He and Barbara have been doing some traveling and enjoying their life on their farm. Last winter they spent three weeks in Florida and almost froze! They were happy to get home to Maine, which this spring and summer has been dry, requiring extra water for the garden. When the son of one of their friends became interested in fencing, Hal retrieved his trusty saber from the attic and gave it to the young man, which for Hal brought back memories of his days on the Hopkins fencing team. Finally some exciting news. Wick van Heuven retired in 2009 after a half-century of ophthalmic practice. This fall his book The Eye: Window to Body and Soul was published. Its chapters consist of true stories about patients Wick encountered during his medical career. The book is available from bookstores, Xlibris. com, and by phone (888-795-7879, ext. 4528).

1952 HGS John Noonan noonansugrue@aol.com

Patti and Dave Steinmuller have just returned from a three-week visit to Portugal and Spain, sponsored by the Overseas Adventure Travel Company. They ate lots of

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tapas, good wine, and stayed in centuries-old posadas. They met many of the local people, and were awed by Roman ruins and fine art, ranging from Goya to Picasso. Dan Ruchkin has been spending time at Lake Saranac, New York, where he spends occasional time fighting black bears, as well as growing a fine crop of dandelions. Elma and Matt Smith are proud of their MG TD, which they bought in 1956. Since then, they have had the engine rebuilt, and Matt did a good bit of the work restoring it. In addition, both Matt and Elma have biked in every state east of the Mississippi, except Mississippi and Louisiana. In addition, June 9 is their 62nd wedding anniversary. Dick Catlin writes, “I am still helping out at Timberlock, our Adirondack family resort. Still flying and will be taking our little trawler from Lake Champlain through the Champlain Locks, Hudson River, East River, Long Island Sound, Cape Cod Canal, and into Maine, visiting friends along the way. I think it’s the ninth time I have made this trip and never tire of the wonderful scenery.”

1953 HGS Hal Hochman kappieh@aol.com

There’s little to report this time, despite its having been a reunion year (our 65th). Just four classmates—Dante DeDominicis, Allie Malavase, Gary Sochrin, and yours truly, Hal Hochman—and three wives were pres­ ent at Dante and Linda’s traditional Italian dinner, highlighted by Linda’s homemade manicotti and other specialties (and Allie’s magic tricks). In addition, Phil Wedemeyer called in from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Unfortunately, several others (including David Beers and Robert Hitt) who had planned to attend were unable, for various reasons, to do so. Despite the small number of attendees, the dinner was marked by lots of laughs and remembrances of pleasant

Bill Branon ’55 HGS and his wife, Lolly

memories. Over the course of the last year, I’ve spoken with many of our surviving class­ mates, and a goodly number have indicated that they plan to attend next time (in 2023).

I hope that they can and will follow through on this intention, as we will have few more opportunities to gather. In the meantime, I wish to exhort all of you to take the time, at least once or twice a year, to email me with brief reports of your goings-on.

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65th Reunion DAY, HGS, and PHS—May 31–June 1, 2019

1955 HGS Woolsey S. Conover, Jr. woolcon@aol.com

Bill Branon writes: “Still wrestling reality and

wrinkles out here in the Vegas desert. At 81 years these alumni notes are tough to write, aren’t they: keep it shallow, put a not-toofocused spotlight on the family tree, maybe toss in an anecdote or two, sprinkle on some AMA paw prints, then sign out with a gentle chew on the end of the old school tie. Tough specs. Kudos to Sgt. Conover for tootin’ the bugle at us ’55ers this late in the day. Lolly and I don’t have many leaves left on our family tree, so that part is ‘easy.’ And my

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guess is that we two are luckier, health-wise, than most of the ’55 community. We hurt for you who suffer. Aside from desiccation, our major health threats are gravity and gallop­ ing lunacy. Anecdotes? Not enough space.

Suffice to say I’ve had my share of sharks, seven-outs, short rounds, shipwrecks, and tsunamis. I’ve known some of the finest, most compassionate, decent and productive people on the planet—not a few of whom are reading these words. Wife Lolly is one of the bravest human beings I have known. (She received an Official Navy Commendation letter for attacking six machete-wielding burglars with her tennis racket in the dark of night. Captured one of their cayucos, too, by holding onto the bow and digging in her heels as they tried to retreat.) But life continues to come at us with teeth bared. No rest. Duck! React! And I thought these later years promised blissful rot and cheap gin— wrong again, Kemosabe! Bucket list? A few.

I’d like, just once, to catch and control one of Tom Young’s cut curve balls. I’d like to sit and swap ‘sea stories’ with Pete Goldbecker on sailing the Caribbean and ‘she stories’ about raiding the Grace (Yale) New Haven School of Nursing for prime wife material.

I’d like to best George Hodgetts in some­ thing, anything, damn it—Wiffle ball, golf, mumblety-peg, anything! And so it goes.

Hopkins did good.” From Susan and Tommy Young written in early May 2018: “We are headed to Wesleyan for tonight’s Baseball Wall of Fame dinner. Tom had been inducted three years ago. This year’s inductee for the 1950s is a gentleman named William Bixby ’56, who was a senior when Tom was a sophomore, his first year on the varsity baseball team. Bill had been especially welcoming to Tom, who has never forgotten Bill’s kindness to him. Tom will be so pleased to see Bill again.” From Peter Goldbecker: “I’m in Sarasota, Florida, for now, but will be spending three or four months this summer in Hamden, Connecticut, at my sister’s.”

Don Buell writes: “You could ask the class to watch for a blog from me, either as Don C or

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D.C., referring to my graphic novel in manu­ script form, Grrendelina—yes, two rr’s—the short working title.” From John Lewis: “So good to hear from you and thank you for agreeing to fill in temporarily as scribe for our class. Gail and I are now into our tenth year living in Maine and still like it very much, even with the long winters we’ve had the last two years. We also celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary last December, likely the earliest claim to this milestone by a ’55er. This week we travel to Disney World for a granddaughter’s wedding and will be in Connecticut in October for another granddaughter’s wedding. As far as missing members, unfortunately the deceased list is somewhat longer. I believe the following have passed on but I list from my own recol­ lection. Jonathan Clarke, Ed Dimenstein, Ed Hay, Stan Preisner, and Wilson Symons.

I look forward to receiving news of other classmates and I will gladly provide some of my own goings on.”

PHS Lucie Giegengack Teegarden teegarden_lucie@comcast.net

Dear classmates: Time for our semi-annual representation in the Hopkins magazine.

I wish I had more to report from more of you, but perhaps in this decade of our lives I should trust that no news is good news, as I heard recently in an email from Cathya Wing Stephenson. I would be glad to note that as true for all of you. Our next column will be due to the magazine’s editor February 1, 2019, so please consider sending a greeting or update to my email address above before that date. Judy Buck Moore was in Maine for granddaughter Sydney’s high school gradu­ ation in June, so we had a chance for a visit and I enjoyed seeing great photos from her most recent birding expedition—to Cuba!

As for me, Lucie Giegengack Teegarden, my only recent travel was a quick overnight to see granddaughters Becca and Margot at their New Hampshire camp. Otherwise, I’ve been busy here at home; current book

projects are an exhibition catalogue on a Long Island, New York, silversmith who was a contemporary of Paul Revere and another for a museum retrospective on N.C. Wyeth.

That’s it for now! Please send an update for our next class column.

1956 HGS Stephen Raffel tuleton@sbcglobal.net

Dave Bluett writes that after living together

for about 10 years, “Sharon and I got married on 22 December in a civil ceremony here at our house, in the company of some of her family (the rest of whom arrived later). The delay (years) was due to a divorce from her ex that proved more time-consuming than it should—that divorce became a done deal only on December 14.” Finally, he added, “we had some major work done to our yard to improve the drainage (think excava­ tor, trenches, piping, etc.), after there was an inch of standing water in my shop one morning.” Peter Knudsen received a tornado warning on his phone. He and his wife retreated to their basement. He writes, “After it passed, we went outside and noted that trees had fallen, many across our driveway with the ones near our home falling away from our home. The next day my grandson and I sawed until 7 p.m. to open a pathway down our driveway. It was a few days before I could take my usual route to the office.

He sent the following picture of a recent breakfast guest at his bird feeder. From Dick Walton: “I am in my 21st year of practicing tai chi, pay regular visits to my acupunc­ turist, do Lumosity (which is supposedly good for my brain), and exercise as much as I can stand but it seems I can stand less and less.” We have a very informal Class of ’56 luncheon twice a year in the New Haven, Connecticut, area. Let me know (see contacts below) if you would like to receive a notice of the luncheon. Also, twice a year

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you will get an email request from me to contribute to our class news. If you don’t get the request, it is because I don’t have your email. Please send your email or anything you would like published to me at one of these contact points: tuleton@sbcglobal. net, or 6 Janson Drive Westport, CT 06880 or 203-226-3954. Thanks. Steve Raffel, class secretary.

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A black bear having breakfast at a bird feeder belonging to Peter Knudsen ’56 HGS

The 1957 HGS “Boys That Lunch” out at a minireunion lunch at Adriana’s on June 28, 2018: (L–R) Cadan, Marino, Cantor, Borgerson, Corradino, Apuzzo, Schwartz and Ryan

Unexpected highlights included experiencing the mountainous region of the Dolomites, seeing the 3,300-year-old mummified corpse of ‘Otzi the Iceman,’ and touring the Barolo winery including, of course, a memorable lunch with their great wines!” The Boys That Lunch: “The ‘Hopkins ’57’ glue continues to hold tight as we periodically meet for lunch locally, most recently at Adriana’s in New Haven, Connecticut, when we were joined by a classmate most of us haven’t seen in 61 years—Pat Marino. If you’re looking for a great lunch, a chance to catch up on each other’s lives and hear Corradino’s jokes, join us next time and see what you’re missing!

that right, Phil). A private class dinner was held the first night, during which we openly and perhaps too candidly reminisced about our Hopkins experiences and classmates.

We publicly reviewed the 1958 Pantagraph, with special attention to nicknames and the “most likely to…” list. Bob “the Claw” Kolb was my personal favorite moniker (derived apparently from his excellent imitation of a horror movie character), right up there with Jim DeLucia as “Class Wolf.” Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (Loosely translated, “some things never change.”) We were sad­ dened by the loss of those who had departed before us, most recently Arnie Friedman, but heartened by the energy and camaraderie in the room. Special shoutouts to Sperry, who journeyed auf Deutschland; Dave Hummel trekking from Billings, Montana; and Pete Meehan crossing the Mason-Dixon Line from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A sur­ prise cameo appearance by School Head Kai Bynum was another highlight of the dinner, and he graciously made a point of speaking with each and every one of us and updat­ ing us on the school. Safe to say, a good time was had by all. In other news, Fred Wintsch tools around New England lakes in his wood-fired furnace driven steamboat, the Valcherie (the name derived from his Swiss ancestry). Bob Kolb continues his music career with saxophone gigs with his trio and other bands. Recent events included a Harvard graduation reception “with an elite

HGS Alan Cadan alancadan@mac.com

David Hungerford: “Three of my longtime hunting companions and I went to South Africa a few months ago. A very interest­ ing trip in the bush and we stayed in a very civilized camp. However I do not think we will be going back to South Africa.” Frank Whittemore: “Oldest child retired. First great-grandchild arrived. I’m the only person to run all forty 5K Kirkland Art Center annual races here in Clinton, New York. Life is good.” Ed Cantor: “Rise and I had a great trip to Australia and New Zealand during the spring. At the the end of June, I frac­ tured my ankle. It wasn’t a big deal, but my activities were a little restricted. An unfore­ seen benefit was that I was able to do some serious reading and have started to do a brief memoir for a restricted audience—my son and grandchildren. The memoir has proven to be an enjoyable and stimulating exercise.”

Terry Malcolm: “I am recently out of the hospital having had heart surgery May 4, one bypass and aortic valve replacement. Now starting rehab and back on the treadmill.

Thanks to my wife, Joanne, whose help has been invaluable. I feel like a new person.

Think I am. God bless.” Alan Cadan: “Lynn and I just returned in June from a great trip to Northern Italy touring Stresa, Santa Margherita, Barolo, Portofino, Portovenere, Cinque Terre, Lucca, Florence, Siena, Verona, Bolzano, and ending in Venice.

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1958 HGS Dan Koenigsberg suedan@optonline.net

Tempus fugit. Six seemingly short decades after we left those hallowed HGS halls for the last time, a fabulous 60th Reunion was held on the Hill. In attendance were thir­ teen 1958 stalwarts and spouses, namely, John Schneider, Jim DeLucia, Chris Doob, Gordon Daniell, Jim Cohen, Peter Meehan, Dave Hummel, Doug Sperry, Dick DeNicola, Bob Kolb, Gene Kiley, Taber Hamilton, and your Scribe. Phil Moriarty emailed his regrets since he was attending his grand­ son’s graduation from Andover (hope I got

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Members of the Class of 1958 HGS gathered for their 60th Reunion during Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1 and 2, 2018.

group of musicians led by Marshall Wood, Tony Bennett’s bass player” and a dinner for a Yale class. Our two class authors weighed in with their latest productions. Chris Doob’s Great Expectations, the book’s title, sums up what it involves: anticipated major rewards for successful athletes, most decidedly for the male professionals in the four leading sports, but varying amounts of fame and recognition available for top performers at all levels of team sport for both females and males. However, as an athlete progresses through a particular sport’s different levels, the competition becomes stiffer and the pressure from such sources as coaches, parents (at the youth level), and oneself can be unrelenting. The book starts with little children’s team sports programs and extends to the pro level in both men’s and women’s sports. At the moment, I am revising my book Social Inequality and Social Stratification in US Society. Dave Branon reports that his “third and latest novel, Angels With Broken Wings, is a thriller in the guise of a satiri­ cal and jaundiced view of prevailing race relations in our ever self-inflicted divisive country. It joins The Curmudgeon’s Tree and The Spider’s Web in my literary effort to prevent (or at least delay) the feathers of my post-retirement brain from molting.” The books are available through dot.com sites and his website, authordavidrbranon.com.

Dave Hummel says, “Kay and I are blessed with good health and our grandkids keep

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having kids of their own, which has elevated us from grandparents to great-grandparents, proving that however we try to impede its relentless progress, time marches on.” The Hummels continued their extraordinary geo­ graphic quest, and according to Dave, have now visited 165 of the 196 sovereign nations on this planet and counting. Go, Dave! Their last major trip was to Oceana, with tours of numerous Polynesian and Micronesian islands. The islands turned out to include several independent countries, including the Marshall, Gilbert, and Caroline islands, Tuvalu and Kiribati. Who knew! Impressive pictures of the native flora and fauna sent by Cindy Hummel. Then they were off to Korea and Mongolia. Safe to say not many tourists venture to Ulan Bator (capital of Mongolia).

There were also reports of the arrival of new grandchildren, one of whom was Susan Koenigsberg, born June 23, 2018, and named after my late wife (DPH ’59). Back in New Haven, Connecticut, in June, yours truly sang in a Yale international choral festival in New Haven, which included troupes from several countries around the world (though Tuvalu and Kiribati were noticeably absent!).

Doug Sperry reported that last November he had a routine appointment as part of the Disease Management Program (DMP) offered by his health insurance. “I men­ tioned that I’d been experiencing occasional pressure in my chest. I had an appoint­ ment for two days later at the cardiology

practice. That morning after a blood test, I heard one technician say my name and a doctor came over and said, ‘We’re keeping you here, Herr Sperry. You’re in the middle of an infarction.’ A few minutes later, I was being dressed and shaved for a catheter operation. An hour after that I was being wheeled into the IT-section of the adjoining hospital after having had a stent implanted at a ‘tricky’ location. That way they found that I had a potentially serious problem which we’re now following up on. And all of this, except for €10 per day, is paid for by the health insurance provider. The system works, despite some talk here about a twoclass system. I simply haven’t experienced it, except when I’ve wanted an appointment with a particular specialist, and even then I’m well networked. In the meantime, I get other MDs running interference for me. Of course, I’ll be rehabilitating for the rest of my life. Meanwhile, Brigitte has gotten involved in a folk dance group and we’re still helping three young men from Eritrea, although the Nigerian family is getting more and more independent. They only need occasional translation service when official meetings with the job center or the immigration service are scheduled, as well as arranging for the Nigerian woman’s transfer home from one of the local hospitals following an emergency operation. It’s nice to see positive developments in their integration.” Back at the ranch, 60th Reunion notwithstanding and because we can’t seem to get enough of this stuff (and perhaps because we know that time not on our side), the semiannual gathering of the ’58 clan was held in July at Bonnie and Jim DeLucia’s. Once again, they graciously and elaborately hosted the luncheon as the usual suspects—in this case nine—convened with spouses on Jim’s oceanside porch. I think it is safe to say that by now we are as much old friends as class­ mates. Pax nobiscum.

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60th Reunion DAY, HGS and PHS—May 31–June 1, 2019 HGS William F. Dow III wdow@jacobslaw.com

Well, I feel I’ve held my tongue long enough. While I do try to keep my ego in check, I would be less than candid if I did not acknowledge, as a matter of pride and self-respect, the lack of personal recogni­ tion for my contribution to the fake news concept. For over the past year-and-a-half, there has been more than a bit of criticism directed at electronic and print media by people in high places. That criticism is made as if this were a very recent development.

Well, as readers of these submissions well know, fake news, because of the paucity of input from our classmates, is the stock and trade of the Notes of the Class of ’59. I have resorted, over the years, to flawed memories, confabulation, apocrypha and downright fic­ tion to muster the modest brigade of words required to march—or stumble—across the page. Well, fear not, classmates. This edition is rooted in fact. I now have both news and advice. The news is that at Yale’s 55th reunion of the Class of ’63, Hopkins was more than well represented with the likes of Bill Oldakowski, Bud Conrad, Alan Schwartzman, Tom Tilson, Mike Wilder, and Bob Dickie. Yale, in its eminent wis­ dom, does not charge for reunions after the 50th, recognizing, I’m sure, the gratitude it receives from septuagenarians and on up.

It was enjoyable but not as good as what’s coming. This leads me to the advice portion of this epistle: Our 60th Reunion is June 1, 2019. Without cataloging the obvious reasons why, let’s all try to make it. Bob Dickie, still trying to decline several Latin adjectives to please Mr. Weber or refine his skills with a protractor, is on this like white on rice and has already lined up a dinner venue for Friday night. So, come. We’ll talk. We’ll remember. We’ll make stuff up. We’ll have a good time.

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1960 PHS Tricia Swift TSwift@grubbco.com

I’ve moved to Auburndale, Massachusetts, and retired—getting settled in a senior liv­ ing/learning community, Lasell Village, with interim excursions to New Mexico (Santa Fe Opera) and Alaska (Denali). Ursula Goodenough is retired but continues her science, publishing papers (details to follow), and has had lots of travel from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, including a safari in Kenya. Her son, Thomas Heuser, will be conducting the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra October 27 and 28 in Nashua and Concord, respectively. Come join us! If you read The Washington Post, you may have seen an article by Ruth Osterweis Selig, who has returned to Washington, D.C., after sum­ mering at Tanglewood, about breast cancer, her own consideration of risk and action, and twin-dom, and Rollie’s too early death.

Ann Hummel Hoag is taking a big road trip to Vermont and Michigan this summer and then has plans to go to Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico.

1961 DPH Valerie Banks Lane capecodwoman43@gmail.com

I hope everyone had a great summer. It’s been hot here in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and there is usually a little breeze. However, as I write this, it is 90 degrees F. and very humid, and we haven’t gotten into the glory of AC yet. The sea breeze used to suffice, but now not so much. We may have to break down and take the AC plunge! Anita FahrniMinear spent the month of May in the USA as Oberlin College presented her with the Distinguished Service Award 2018 during Commencement weekend. She enjoyed three weeks in her house in Vermont before

flying to Ohio for the ceremony, joined there by some classmates. Usually in Vermont dur­ ing the month of December only, this spring visit was a pleasant change and included additional time with her brothers and their partners, but also involved lots of work on the property. Jennifer, Anita’s younger daughter, a doctor in Switzerland, gave birth in late February to Juno Antonia, her first child. To welcome the new family member, daughter Elisabeth returned to Switzerland from Bangladesh, India, for three weeks in June, bringing Dylan and Amaya with her to meet their new cousin. In September, Anita will again spend a month working in Mongolia, distributing 20 tons of school material, visiting the people whom she has placed there to teach and strengthening her network. One organization on whose board she works is the International Takhi Group (savethewildhorse.org). Congratulations, Anita—for new babies, grandchildren, and awards! Phoebe Ellsworth writes that her big news is that she is retiring this year after teaching since 1971! So is her husband.

So in honor of this life transition, they are planning a trip to Greece in September, “a treat never possible with an academic schedule, when our travel was restricted to high tourist season.” Their daughter, Sasha, and her husband are moving from California to Ann Arbor, Michigan, this fall, much to their delight. Phoebe says, “As for serious retirement plans, don’t ask: we haven’t any, and useful tips from those of you who’ve already made the transition are welcome. I don’t see myself taking up knitting or Etsy crafts…” she says. I’m sure we can help her out there! (Don’t knock knitting though. I love it!) Malitta Knaut writes, “I don’t really have any news. My youngest granddaughter is off to college in September and I have a new passion. I have a miniature horse named Levi who we are training to be a therapy horse. I’d like to take him around to nursing homes, etc., and let people watch him do tricks and pet him. It will take a few years until he earns his red sneakers, how­

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ever.” Malitta and I always talk about getting together for lunch, so this time I’m going to call her and I mean it! Sally Henrickson Shaw said that she hopes to get to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in August and would love to get together with me. That’s another lunch I can look forward to. She says they have been busy enjoying their grandchildren playing soccer, basketball, baseball, football, and competitive gymnastics, high school and club. Sally says, “Can’t believe that we (class) turned or will turn 75 this year and we are still walking and talking. David said I celebrated my birthday so many times this spring that I must be 95 now!” Rives Fowlkes Carroll wrote as she was in the car return­ ing from a “glorious week at the beach” with both children and their families. She said, “lots of water play, bike rides, and laughter.

The most recent change in our lives is the death on July 4 of our 101-year-old mother.

We were lucky to have her so long.” We send our condolences to you, Rives. She lived a good long life and will be sorely missed, I know. It’s always hard when it is your mother though, no matter how long you have had them to love. Rives writes that we can get a copy of her book, a compilation of her father’s WWII letters that she edited, called Chaplain: the WWII Letters of Army Air Corps Chaplain Paschal Dupuy Fowlkes, available online through Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. She says that the research and writing “were an education for me in many ways.” In September, she and Dickson will be heading off to France for their sixth home stay and two weeks of language classes, this time in Dijon and Burgundy. “Far from fluent, we make baby steps each trip while enjoying the French life.” Congratulations on publishing your book, Rives! I can’t wait to read it. Maureen McKeon Peterson was on Facebook in pho­ tos and a video of her with all four children and all grandchildren at a New Jersey beach house family vacation in July. Maureen gave instructions on how to eat tacos. She had put out all sorts of ingredients and was telling

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her grandchildren how to serve themselves.

It was very entertaining. Maureen lives in Buckeye, Arizona, and she looks great. I get emails from Joy Haley Rogers, usually news on various things and some jokes (only the best ones). She is living in Solana Beach, California. My husband, Jim, and I, your cor­ respondent, traveled on the Queen Mary II to England in May, and spent almost a month with British friends in Alton, England. We took a ride on the Eurostar train that runs under the English Channel to Paris, France, spent a few days there visiting other dear friends from many years ago when our chil­ dren were small, going to Notre Dame and to the Musée d’Orsay to see the Impressionist paintings, and to many lovely churches. We stayed in the most charming and quiet hotel, the Hôtel Des Grandes Écoles, near the Sorbonne. It was so peaceful with a cobble­ stoned courtyard and glorious old-fashioned wallpaper, breakfast on a silver tray with a doily, croissants and cheese, delicious coffee, and jam. And we took a ride on the Bateaux Mouches on the Seine to enjoy the lights of Paris at dusk. Then we and our British friends drove to the Yorkshire Dales in England, and stayed in Hawes, a lovely small town nestled in amongst the hills. Clean fresh air, gorgeous green fields, lots of sheep, stone walls built in the medieval days, a beautiful clear blue sky and a most beautiful singing skylark at the top of the dales! It was just fantastic. We had about three vacations in one. I think we made up for all those years when we couldn’t travel. Jim met a cousin in Yorkshire, England, that he had never met and who had found him through ancestry research, and we spent a most pleasant afternoon with her at our hotel, Heath Cottage, where we had a delicious lunch and talked for hours. Next, I would love to go to Scotland and to the Isle of Skye, where my father’s mother’s MacReynolds ancestors came from. And I love France. I’d like to go to Provence, and then to Tuscany in Italy too! We want to go while we can still travel. Speaking of which, Happy 75th

Birthday to you all! Keep in touch please through the glory of email. Ciao!

1962 HGS Denis Tippo writes, “I am retired and living in Fredericksburg, Virginia. At age 74, I am still coaching the Junior Lacrosse team at Fredericksburg Academy (a K–12 Day School). It keeps me out of trouble and focused! I enjoy the school environment.”

DPH Judith Parker Cole judithparkercole@gmail.com

Thanks so much for all who sent updates!

Lucia Urban Bakewell has been very busy: “We had a great trip to Greece in April to visit our son, Geoff, and family. Geoff was the Whitehead Professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece, for his sabbatical year from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Daughter Andrea is Executive Director of Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in the state capitol. Back in Virginia, we have attended musicals, A Chorus Line and Young Frankenstein, where daughter Christine is dancing, when not teaching, working, or consulting, in family restaurants, her PR business, or her classes taught at the community college. My husband, Charlie, continues to work with small businesses, pursuing government contracts. I continue with my creative and art endeavors, giv­ ing art workshops locally. Our grandkids are growing; one grandson graduated from VCU and another will be a third year at UVA. Granddaughter here is in acting too. Grandkids in Memphis, Tennessee, are busy with academia and keeping up their Modern Greek. Granddaughter in Pennsylvania has an artistic bent, as do those in Memphis. Busy life, love Virginia and the mountains, and nearby Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.” From Terri

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Roz Farnam ’62 DPH in her art studio at her summer home near Taos

Classmates from 1963 DPH enjoyed dinner together on June 1, 2018, and also joined Carol Stock Kranowitz ’63 DPH, who spoke as the 2018 Distinguished Alumna on June 2 during Alumni/ae Weekend.

Petrillo Connolly: “Frank is semi-retired; doing interim gigs with boards of educa­ tion. We have been blessed this year with a new granddaughter. Our oldest son, Chuck, and his wife, Jin, gave birth to Emma Park Connolly on May 3. She joins her big brother, Sean, who is now two. It’s so much fun having little ones in the family again as our other grandchildren are growing up too quickly!” Terri also enjoyed seeing Ann Carter-Drier when she came to Connecticut for a wedding. Terri says that Ann is still in St. Francis, Wisconsin, and is doing well, spending a lot of time with her two grand­ children. It was great hearing that Roz Farnam is finding her inner artist: “After working in Denver as a Health Sciences Librarian for 40 years, in my retirement, my husband, Jim Mills, and I are building a summer house near Taos, New Mexico, this year. Last summer I built a casita, or little house, on our land, which I am now using as a studio to become more skilled as a watercolorist. I have yet to exhibit or sell, but am having a creative experience learning the techniques. A change of place and a change of interest keeps you young!” Joya Granbery Hoyt reports that she is in her last year of a graduate program in expressive arts therapy at Salve Regina College in Newport, Rhode Island, that she has just sold her house of 40 years, so has lots to do! Mae Hultin has perhaps traveled the farthest recently. Mae “took a trip to Japan in the spring with son Erik, daughter Julie, and Julie’s part­

ner, Jason, and had a fantastic time!” Ellen Kuhbach Lucas writes that she had a very special 50th anniversary celebration this summer, as she and Hank treated their two sons and families to a week’s stay at a resort in Maui, Hawaii. Ellen and Hank also went to France and Switzerland to retrace their honeymoon travels. From Suzie Ferguson Nicolino, in Asheville, North Carolina: “I love reading about old friends when these class notes come out! I will say that my years at DPH continue to be some of my fondest memories, including our close-knit class and the fun of dancing during lunch hour.

Good times! I love being in the mountains, enjoying hiking and being out in nature, and have taken up Pickleball. I recommend it to anyone and everyone. It is great for comra­ derie with some exercise, but it isn’t exhaust­ ing.” The last time Rocky Mitchell Morton visited Sue, she got to see a bear visiting in Sue’s backyard. Our lives continue to be full, whether at home or away, in city or country.

What have YOU been up to? Let me know for our next update!

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1963 DPH Carol Stock Kranowitz carolkranowitz@gmail.com

Reunion was lovely, with Mary Anne Barry Cox, Meg Bluhm Carey, Pat Fiorito Oakes, and me attending. It’s cheering to learn that

many of us are still producing meaningful work, much of it based on the writing and organizational skills we learned 55 and more years ago. For instance, Mary Anne says, “My undergraduate and graduate lives were built on the foundation of my DPH educa­ tion. As an undergraduate, I discovered the advantages of clear expression, a good vocab­ ulary, and a convincing argument, either pro or con, on any subject with just a few facts.”

In the early ’80s, she wrote a dozen articles on suburban motherhood and relationships, published in The New York Times. In 2013, she re-published the collection, And Then I Wrote, for her family. Mary Anne also worked with the Community College System of the State of Connecticut for 25 years. She says, “I wrote everything from press releases and public testimony to TV commercials and website copy to increase the public understanding, support, and funding for the 12 two-year colleges in the state system. A successful piece of legislation brought $1 million of new funding, and a series of fed­ eral grants brought over $15 million to help disadvantaged students in Connecticut gain access to the education needed to help them gain career opportunities and a better life for themselves and their families.” Retired now, she still helps to raise funds. On the personal side, she has written an autobiography, The Look of Love. Mary Anne says, “And so, ‘write on’ or ‘right on’—or both. My writing consulting business uses the tagline: ‘Get it in Writing.’ Get it?” At our 50th reunion in

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Classmates from 1963 HGS enjoyed reconnecting throughout Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1 and 2, 2018.

2013, Holly Conklin Fitzgerald enthralled us with a description of her book-in-progress about the death-defying experience she and her husband had as newlyweds on a Brazilian river. Her book, Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon’s Relentless Madre de Dios, which I heartily recommend, was finally published in 2017.

Holly says, “I’m thrilled it’s gotten positive reviews, including from The New York Times!

It’s a quick read, people say, good for a plane ride or the beach. One can read it a lot faster than it took me to write it, that’s for sure! An adventure story, but I hope it has meaning for the reader as well. It’s supposed to be a movie produced by Matt Charman, script writer of Bridge of Spies, at some point. But lots to do behind the scenes to make that happen. Fun at this time of life.” Meg Bluhm Carey co-produces documentaries with her husband, including Rails to the Catskills, The Catskill Mountain House and the World Around, and John Vanderlyn: The First Artist in America. Their next film is about the his­ tory of fly fishing on the Esopus Creek in the Catskills, New York. Meg says, “I’ve learned so much about local history as a result of working on the films, and it’s been a lot of fun! I also read Holly’s book and couldn’t put it down. It would make an amazing film!”

Nancy Boldt Vicknair writes, “Green thumbs have always been in my family… My spe­ cialty crop is artists. Yes, a human garden! It was my many clients at Parents Press telling me they needed help with marketing their businesses that propelled me into starting

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my own PR company. My business quickly grew, with a client pool concentrated in the arts. I managed to have many of their won­ derful artworks shown and sold. Today, I can sit back and smile about the hundreds and hundreds of talented people whose dreams I have helped realize. I’m still available to write a last-minute press release about a new show and recently gave assistance to a craft perfumer. I love my human garden.

Each blooming plant is interesting. Plus, the watering, tending, and end results can be very rewarding.” What are you producing at your desk, in your garden, behind your camera, with your paintbrush, or in your community? Keep us up to date!

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55th Reunion DAY, HGS, and PHS—May 31–June 1, 2019 HGS Michael Adelberg mga@aya.yale.edu

Fred Smith responds: “I don’t see any specific information about the course sign-up. I’m sure Miss Barton would NOT approve (of your leaving out the course information, not the course itself)!” John Morgan: “I spent my 50th Colby College reunion not in Maine but rather in San Jose, California, where I enjoyed being with my nearly two-year-old grandson, Zain, my daughter, Sara, and son-in-law, Zoheb. My dog, Jack, and I were away from my home in Colorado for a month. We had an enjoyable

road trip, highlighted by a visit to Glacier National Park, Yosemite National Park, and a drive along the Pacific Coast from Washington State through Oregon, and finally the top of California.” Paul Thim, Sr., “Thank you sending out this request. I enjoyed reading John Morgan’s update and look forward to hearing from others. Here’s my update: In the past, I have heard people say they spent a year focused on their daughter’s wedding, which seemed to me to be a self-absorbed and excessive thing to do.

And now that is exactly what my wife, Sandy, and I are doing. Our daughter, Annie, will be getting married July 2019 near Paris, France, where she lives, and at least every other day we have conversations with her and each other about wedding issues. It’s self-absorbed, excessive, and also exciting.

Our son, Paul Jr., lives nearby in Atlanta, although for five months he is in Cupertino, California, doing an internship with Apple. I continue to work four days a week for a drug and alcohol treatment program. Fortunately, I enjoy my work. At the same time, I relish the idea of retirement, at a date yet to be determined.” Chris Fenger: “Feeling really good today. I’ve been struggling for the past year plus with daily stomach upset, mild nausea, occasional dizziness, muscle weakness, and general fatigue. Looked into the side effects of my meds and each had some or all of those symptoms in common.

Stopped taking them two days ago et voila.

Symptoms gone. Have followed up with my doc in Connecticut to see how to properly approach this, but for now, it feels so good to feel normal. Making tacos from leftover Jamaican jerked pork tonight with a tomatillo salsa, a bottle of white Chateauneuf Du Pape that I’ve been saving, and a fire at sunset to celebrate.” John Walker: “I retired at 56 so as not have any regrets about working too long—it seems to have worked. I came to work for the Navy in a roundabout sort of way. After Hopkins, I didn’t go straight to college—guess I took what they call today a ‘gap year’—back then we just

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called it ‘I wasn’t accepted anywhere I applied.’ So to satisfy my military obligation (remember the draft?), I joined the Army Reserves, went into an MP unit in Hamden, Connecticut. They sent me to Ft. Dix for training, where I went through basic and then to cook’s school, learning how to make SOS for 150 guys. Meanwhile I had applied to Stetson U. down in Florida and been accepted there, so off I went in 1965. Stetson didn’t agree with me for whatever reason and I ended up working for the Florida DOT on a survey crew for several months, got tired of wading in swamps laying out new roads or ‘locating’ existing ones—seems mapping hadn’t kept up with construction somehow. Went from Florida to Colorado and got another surveying job, this one with a private company. Spent about a year there laying out subdivisions. That got old, so I went home to Hamden, Connecticut. My parents were understanding enough that they let me move in with them and go to the University of New Haven, where I graduated with a BSME in 1974. Dad was still teaching at the time and he came home one day and said that there was a guy from some Navy lab in Maryland who had come up to recruit engineers and that none of the Yale students had signed up to talk to him. He asked me if I would go meet with the Navy guy, a PhD physicist, so he wouldn’t have wasted his time, and I said sure why not. That meeting led to my spending 30 years having a great time breaking things and blowing things up, 14 years in Maryland and the rest of the time here in San Diego. Guess I forgot to mention that I spent almost a year as an apprentice tool and die maker at a little company in Shelton and that experience served me well when I became an engineer—it also paid for my first brand new motorcycle, a 650 Triumph.” Mark Blumenthal: “As you may have gathered from previous reporting, I play a lot of bridge these days. On the weekend of the Hopkins reunion, I faced a dilemma. I wanted to see some classmates from the Class of ’63, but I also wanted to

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compete in a bridge tournament in Orange, Connecticut. The solution was to visit Hopkins late on Saturday afternoon after I finished playing. I did go to the campus and saw five people I knew. First I ran into Art Kreiger ’73, Mike’s brother, and had a chat with him. I spent a few minutes talking to Dana Blanchard ’63, then I ran into Dick Ferguson ’63, Chris Komisarjevsky ’63, and Fred Martz ’63. I related a story to them about a problem posed on a test in Mr. Luther’s geometry class from 1962, which involved Jack Weir and Dick Worms ’63. We shared a few laughs and I left.” Michael Adelberg: “Out there are two living wives or ex-wives out of an original three; four kids/ partners, and four grandchildren. Counting me, that’s 10. Half of these live within easy driving distance. Now, the other half, all five, announce plans to move to Sacramento, California, where I live. Can anyone please explain this?” Neil Hiltunen: “Ahh, 50 years.

A half century. One piece of paper, maybe two. I guess, at this stage, writing on paper (pixels on a screen) is better than on granite.

Strange, it seems, that half a century sounds like a long time, and I suppose it is, depend­ ing on one’s reference points. I’m not sure that one could find a 50-year band in the Triassic sedimentary rock strata we discussed in ‘Rocky’ Mahard’s geology class.

Experientially, though, it doesn’t seem particularly long looking back. It is very clear in my mind remembering the science fiction that the year 2000 seemed to conjure up, and the year 2018 wasn’t even part of the picture. Of course, time seems to go faster the older we get. When a person is six, three years is half one’s life. At age sixty, 30 years has the same relative proportion, and now I understand why some people don’t take down their Christmas lights. So what filled my past 50 years? Gratitude seems to be the foundational emotion, and that began at Denison with the education, and very special friendships that last to this day. Following Denison, I received a DMD degree from the University of Pennsylvania, completed a

dental residency program at Crozer-Chester Medical Center just south of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then established a dental practice in North Hampton, New Hampshire.

My dental hygienist wife and I set up our practice in a home/office on Route 1, in the middle of New Hampshire’s coastline, four miles from the ocean and about an hour north of Boston. Just four years later, a house came up for sale and we moved across the street, which turned me into a commuter (albeit a short commute), and sometimes even forced me to put on a coat to go to work. In 1996, as part of long-term planning for retirement, I invited a husband/wife dentist couple to join the practice; and then in 2005 another dentist bought in while I progressively cut back on my hours and relinquished management and emergency responsibilities. Today I like to describe my schedule as ‘working full-time on Tuesdays.’

Professionally I’ve been active in the New Hampshire Dental Society, and served for thirteen years on the New Hampshire State Board of Dental Examiners, the last three as President. This responsibility also led to my ongoing position as an examiner for what had been the Northeast Regional Board and is now the Commission on Dental Competency Assessments. Examination teams administer the ADEX dental licensing exams from Hawaii to Halifax and even in Jamaica. Our 50th Reunion demographic is on the leading edge of the baby boomers who have few models to follow for retire­ ment. There have never been so many older people on earth who are living so long and relatively healthy. The whole concept of retirement is changing, and it is not about pursuing a life of leisure, but one of purpose.

So, a colleague and I started the Association of Retiring Dentists, which today numbers over 700. We help dentists make this transition to a very new phase of living that could easily encompass a third of our lives.

How can we best take advantage of the knowledge and resources we’ve accumulated during our first 60-plus years and use them

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creatively and productively in our last 30-plus (maybe) years? Wow, that’s stagger­ ing potential! Studying retirement is opening a new perspective on a phase of life that was previously rare for humanity… large numbers of people living much longer than ever before and still able to be productive. It has become clear that successful retirement isn’t a life of leisure, but the freedom to choose pursuits that are fulfilling and enjoyable. For me, this has included volunteering, and I’m fortunate to have a regular monthly morning when I volunteer treating patients in a dental clinic in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Volunteering has also taken me to Jamaica and twice to New Orleans, Louisiana, in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. It seems clear that a happy life includes recreation and I’ve continued the photography and skiing that I had pursued while at Denison, and have added scuba diving, windsurfing, and golf. (I took a three-year stab at kiteboarding and found the learning curve in New Hampshire way different than for those people enjoying the big beaches and consistently warm waters of the Caribbean, Mexico, or Hawaii where practice can be a daily activity.)

Happiness also includes community, and I continue participating in various church committees and Boy Scouts as former Scoutmaster and current committee chairman. Travel is a common aspiration for people, and is on many bucket lists. Gail and I are fortunate to have had opportunities to travel with friends and family, and have found cruises to be an easy way to visit many areas of the world because of the simplicity of travel (luggage can be checked at the airport and next appears in your stateroom) and the many offerings for tours and guidance in unfamiliar areas of the world and differing languages and customs.

Onboard activities, entertainment, and education easily keep a person occupied, while there is always the opportunity to relax. There are still many places to visit while we balance our families with our other

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dreams. Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to have a very lovely and loving wife with three children and now three grandsons which expands our visions and dreams. The three grandsons are in the Boston, Massachusetts, area, enabling frequent visits and opportunities for the cousins to connect.

It is exciting to envision and participate in the growth of grandchildren, and studies are showing the importance of this grandparent/ grandchild relationship in the healthy development of the child.”

1965 HGS Tom Delaney tfed3rd@gmail.com

Jeff Alderman and his wife, Shizuko, have been living happily in Portland, Oregon, for eight years now. “Shizuko tackles a multitude of challenges including tai chi, Japanese cal­ ligraphy, a recently acquired accreditation of BCGP (board certified geriatric pharmacist), and much more. I plod along as a consultant to pharmaceutical companies willing to lis­ ten to me, offering advice on the conduct of clinical studies. Last year, our big event was a trip to South America, sailing on a cruise from Buenos Aires, Argentina, around Cape Horn to Santiago, Chile, while stopping to see every penguin colony located along the way. This year, we took a trip to Germany to celebrate Jeff’s 70th birthday by soaking up classical music in Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden. We were pleasantly surprised to find the German people kindly and openminded. Looking ahead, we’re planning to spend several months living in Japan, starting in October. Jeff wants to improve his Japanese (it really needs it) and to learn shojin ryori, the Zen art of vegan cooking.”

No, he’s not vegan, but leans in that direc­ tion more and more as the years go by. And go by, they certainly do. Jeff welcomes the opportunity to see any classmates traveling in the Portland area. He can be reached at

jeffrey_a_alderman@yahoo.com. Tommy Burkhard will be going on a golf trip to Scotland in September, where he’ll play at Royal Dornoch. Tom Delaney has been fortunate to pick up snippets of informa­ tion from time to time on Facebook from some classmates. Bill Mack has been active recently online with pics and narrative about family vacations; Deena Mack, Bill’s lovely wife, is retiring after a gazillion years working with the HGS alumni community; Dr. John Mordes has randomly phoned a number of our classmates just to say hello; Billy Walik forwarded a New York Times article about another HGS alum, Homer “Bill” Fogle ’66, who was doing a fascinat­ ing deep-dive investigation of a fatal fire in a Cornell dorm while he was a student there.

Your persistent class secretary got together with Gordy Clark and his wife, Gail, for a pleasant lunch in Malibu, California, when they were in the Los Angeles area this past spring. We even placed a surprise phone call from the restaurant to Jim Nippes, in Mississippi, and encouraged him to submit information for our Class Notes. Regrettably, I was forced to miss the Hopkins Alumni/ ae Gathering in Los Angeles this past spring.

While I had every intention of attending, heavy weather (for the Los Angeles area) and hazardous traffic conditions at that time of day made the trip into Los Angeles a nonstarter. Finally, thanks to those of you who sent notes of appreciation to me for perform­ ing the Class Secretary duties. I enjoyed all of them. John Cherniavsky used a wedding in France as an excuse to tour Iceland, taking advantage of a six-day layover provided by Icelandair. Great scenery, but ten times the number of tourists since his last visit in 1994.

Then off to the wedding of a nephew in Lyon with a family celebration in Annecy—where Maria and John celebrated their 21st wed­ ding anniversary. In the fall, their son was off to George Mason University, where he had a very strong year as a computer science major. John and Maria are now contemplat­ ing retirement in another year or so with

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Jeff Alderman ’65 HGS and his wife, Shizuko

Tom Hadley ’65 HGS during a recent trip to the Far East

1965 HGS classmates Doug Romero (L) and Bob Jose (R) while on vacation in Sarasota, Florida.

plans for travel and volunteering as docents.

Tom “Bump” Hadley: Tom and his wife had a wonderful trip to Thailand and Cambodia for 24 days this past January. Their trip was in and out of Bangkok, Thailand, and from there to Chiang Mai, Phuket in Thailand, and Siem Reap in Cambodia. “Siem Reap is the location of Angkor Wat, and we were able to tour the site. It is amazing how such a huge structure could have been built so long ago. And the very detailed carvings in the stones, done so precisely depicting much of the history of those times. That alone made the trip worthwhile. In Bangkok, we found a statue of Buddha made of solid gold and weighing over 30 tons. Chiang Mai is a wonderful city to explore as it is a blend of new, old, rich, and poor. Most people in Thailand and Cambodia speak English, so getting around was easy.” If any of you are thinking of making the trip, please feel free to contact Tom, and he’ll help as much as possible to make it worth your time and money. Our class secretary knows how to reach him. Start your planning at least a year in advance and think January and February for the best time to go, as it is the dry season and winter there, when daytime tempera­ tures drop below 100 F. Bill Kneisel provided interesting information demonstrating how well a Hopkins education and experience compares to other high schools nationwide.

A new website called PolarisList now offers a new way to rank high schools, by the num­ ber of students the school sent to Harvard,

Princeton, and MIT from 2015 to 2017.

Connecticut schools made a strong showing.

The four Connecticut schools—all pri­ vate—that cracked the top 50 in the U.S. are Choate Rosemary Hall (#1 in Connecticut, #21 overall), which sent 27 students to those three institutions during the period; the Hotchkiss School (#23 overall), which sent 23 students; Hopkins School (#31), 21 students; and Greenwich Academy (tied at #40), 18 students. Congratulations! John Mordes: No specific news to announce, but he observes that, at our age, no news is good news. Bill Sarris has retired from his full-time law practice, sold his house in Hamden, and is starting to look at relocating to Virginia or Delaware to start the full-time retirement experience. His son JP became a full-fledged Green Beret this past winter, and will shortly deploy overseas. Best wishes to him through that experience. Jim Waterman feels some­ what guilty that he doesn’t have anything like exotic vacations or overachieving grand­ children to report. His life is pretty simple and he prefers it that way. He still lives in Connecticut, so he moves snow in the winter and attempts to do the same with golf balls in the summer. He enjoys the four seasons and, despite a few state political issues, Connecticut is still a great place to live. Jim looks forward to seeing classmates who dare to attend the 2020 reunion (the big 55th)!

Billy Walik visited New Haven, Connecticut, in the early spring and got together with classmates Dick Hutchinson, Bill Sarris, and

Bob Schulz. Schulzie entertained Billy’s

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wife, Kathy, with “new stories!,” not the same tired old ones she’s heard hundreds of times from Billy. Classmates are reminded that Billy and Kathy spend a lot of time each year in Europe, primarily in France. If your travels bring you over there, perhaps you could get in touch. After 42 years at Indiana University, Bob Wintsch has finally thrown in the towel and retired. He calls it instead more a location change. He has relocated from Bloomington, Indiana, to Haddam, Connecticut. He still wants to teach and do research, but just not any longer at UI. Bob plans to revise the bedrock geologic map of the whole state of Connecticut, which was last published in 1985, a task that should easily fill a long retirement. His admirable goal is to wear out, not to rust out. Gordon Clark, MD, MDiv, was elected as a Fellow by the American College of Psychiatrists.

Dr. Clark is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He was the founding president of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists, and works part-time in his private practice, Select Psych, LLC, in Yarmouth, Maine.

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Classmates from 1968 DPH enjoyed reconnecting throughout Alumni/ae Weekend, including the event celebrating Donna Falcone Fasano’s 44-year career at Hopkins on June 1.

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50th Reunion DAY, HGS, and PHS—May 31–June 1, 2019

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Michael P. Finnegan mfinnegan218@gmail.com

Louise Dingle writes: “My two children got married within six months! My oldest one (Dan, 32) was married in December. The other (Concetta, 28) was married in May. Dan is an auto technician; Connie is head scribe in a hospital. I am very proud of both of them and their new spouses. If anyone would like to contact me through email (which I only check on about once a week) my address is lbeach96@comcast.net.” Mike Finnegan writes: “I am living in Clearwater, Florida, with my beautiful wife and our 6-year-old son. I’ve been in the Tampa/ Clearwater area for 22 years now and I’ve recently retired to have more time with my family and enjoy life.” Nestor Cybriwsky wrote: “After 30-plus years slinging emerg­ ing market bonds and dealing with crooks and charlatans of every color, I am a bit tired of commuting to Penn Station and would happily retire to Madrid (Spain), given the chance. We love Spain, can’t beat the climate or the cuisine. Now that we are empty nest­ ers (see what I did there?) with third kid Pete a senior at UVA, Anne and I watch every Brit detective show: started with a series called Prime Suspect with Helen Mirren, then

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Members of the Class of 1968 HGS gathered for their 50th Reunion during Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1 and 2, 2018.

graduated to Inspector Morse, Lewis, Foyle’s War, Inspector George Gently (who reminded me of my father), DCI Banks (ended sadly), Vera, and even Doctor Blake and Miss Fisher, both of which were Australian-made. That’s assuming the Yanks aren’t on. Our elder two (Willie and Natalie) both live in New York City, so we see them often enough, with food always a focus. Our family dinners do resem­ ble one of Chuck Welles’ English classes, with participants out-dueling each other in no-holds-barred put-downs while retaining the greatest respect for proper grammar.

I still hit Pepe’s every so often, especially on the way to visit my sister and Mom (she’s 96!), who still lives in Woodbridge, Connecticut. Hopkins and Pepe’s will always be near and dear to my heart—perhaps we could cater our 50th there? If so, I’ll be sure to come!” I look forward to hearing from more of you, as I collect our class notes. If you have anything you would like to share, please send it to me. Even if you just want to say hello, please write to me. Lastly, our 50th reunion is in five years and I hope we will see each other then.

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Anne Sommer anne.sommer.editor@gmail.com

Hi all. Thanks to so many of you for sending in your news! From Tony DeLio: “I continue

to be gainfully employed at Ingredion, a global food ingredient supplier, where I head Innovation and M&A activity. My role requires me to travel globally and I am gone most weeks and some weekends. We have mandatory retirement for corporate officers at 65, so 2.5 years to go before I need to find something else to keep me busy. My dad turned 90 this summer, is in good health and continues to live independently between homes in West Haven, Connecticut, and Naples, Florida.” Bob Kyrcz writes: “This past summer, Sarah Kyrcz ’76 and I have enjoyed traveling. We celebrated the May graduation of our oldest daughter, Ana Kyrcz ’14, from Bryn Mawr College. Youngest daughter Sophia Kyrcz ’17 will be a sopho­ more at UConn, studying pre-vet. I practice family medicine in Guilford, Connecticut.”

Dave Landman writes: “I climbed Mount Everest in May. I have now completed six of the Seven Summits (the highest mountain on each of the seven continents). The remain­ ing mountain for me is Aconcagua, the highest mountain in South America at 23,000 feet. I plan to climb it this winter. I began this journey when I climbed Denali (Mount McKinley) in Alaska in 2001. It’s been a great experience seeing the world, climbing with different partners in extreme conditions and maintaining a high level of motivation and training.” From Steve Lichten: “My daugh­ ter, Molly, married Josh Meister on June 9 at the Villa del Sol d’Oro in Sierra Madre,

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Classmates from 1973 enjoyed reconnecting throughout Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1 and 2, 2018.

California, a few miles from Marsha’s and my home in Pasadena where Molly grew up. Molly has a very successful photography business (mollylichten.com) and much of her work is wedding and engagements. For once, she was ‘on the other side’ as the bride!

Josh is a lieutenant in the Navy and start­ ing in late 2018, he faces a deployment to some hot spots on the other side of the world for six months. My Mom (who will be 90 in September) was able to travel from New York to California to be here for the wed­ ding. My work continues at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, where I am part of the management team for the NASA Deep Space Network. We have had plenty of excitement this past year—many interplanetary mission launches, building new large (34-meter) antennas at the deep space tracking complex in Spain, and even a labor action (walkout/strike) at our Australia tracking complex during mission critical events. We managed to handle it all. Best wishes to all my classmates!” Paul McCraven writes: “I recently became President/CEO of ConnCORP, a new start-up company investing in real estate and small businesses development. The projects we invest in have a positive social impact such as job cre­ ation, community services, or neighborhood revitalization. Our first project includes the development of a digital broadcast center, performing arts space, café, and daycare.

Our offices are located in Science Park in

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New Haven.” Heather McGaughey told me that she and her family (husband John and son Evan) are moving to Evergreen, Colorado, in the late summer. From Matthew Patrick: “Sharing my photography website: MatthewPatrickPhoto.com.” Jim Perito writes: “So, my last kid is done with college!

Elena graduated from Tulane, triple major of English, French, and Sociology. Our entire family made it down to see the event in the Superdome and spent four days eating and drinking, as you have to do in NOLA. Elena currently has a couple of jobs (one with the Director of the Jazz Museum and another with the French library) and will leave in September to work for the French Department of Education teaching English to French high school students in Aix en Provence, France, for a year. Her older sister, Katrina, left the French American Chamber of Commerce in New York City to get a master’s in French Business and Professionalism at University of Wisconsin in Madison. We visited in February, saw a Badger/Michigan BBall game—nothing like Big 10 college ball—ate cheese curds and bratwurst and drank lots of beer. Cold there, five degrees all day with light snow. Katrina is in Paris (France) now with a marketing company to finish up her master’s until December. We’ll return to France in late November and then visit Elena. Our son, Noah, is working in New York City, living in the Ridgewood section of Queens, making a living and trying to break into the music world. Time will tell. Maybe next year I will have news of an album. As for me, I really enjoy my law practice and hope to keep at it as long as they will let me. My wife, Anita, also practices law in her own firm, doing a lot of family work with the State—hard cases about lives always in turmoil. We go to our cabin in New Hampshire most weekends in the summer, but I see Dean Baker and his wife, Amy, at the Owenego in Branford, Connecticut, when we are here. He seems well.” Carrie Shepard writes: “Our daughter Talia got married last November in Chicago

(Illinois). Now it seems like all the cousins are jumping on the marriage bandwagon. We still live in Davis, California, where I spend my time tutoring B’nai Mitzvah students, leading chanting, horseback riding and, most recently, doing Reiki.”

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Diane Kolligian Shannon dshannon925@gmail.com

Congratulations to Susan Scarf Merrell, whose latest novel, Shirley, published in 2014, was optioned for Hollywood. Filming began in August 2018, starring Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg. How about that news! In 2000, I remember visiting the RJ Julia bookstore in Madison, Connecticut, with Cindi DeLuca Gagnon to hear Susie read from her first novel, A Member of the Family. In 2011, she authored The Accidental Bond, a nonfiction work about “how sibling connections influence adult relationships.”

Now, her third novel is going to hit the big screen with amazing actors. Moss, who recently won a Primetime Emmy for her role as Offred/June in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, will play Jackson, while Stuhlbarg plays her often cruel husband, Stanley. Both actors are currently red hot, as Moss stars in the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale, airing now, and Stuhlbarg played roles in three of this year’s Best Picture nominees, The Post, Call Me By Your Name, and winner The Shape of Water. I know that everyone reading this article looks forward seeing the movie, and because this is a Hopkins audience, first, they will read the novel. Shirley tells the story of a fictional young woman, Rose, who moves in with real life author Shirley Jackson—best known for her short story The Lottery and her 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House—and her husband, Bennington College professor Stanley Hyman, in 1946 Vermont. This is the same year, in the book and in real life, that Bennington student Paula Jean Welden disappeared while hik­ ing, and Rose becomes obsessed with both

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Classmates from 1978 enjoyed reconnecting throughout Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1 and 2, 2018.

Welden’s case and the enigmatic Jackson. In addition to her career as a writer, Susie also directs the Southampton Writers Conference and teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Literature program at Stony Brook Southampton. More to follow in the next issue! Howard Reiter wrote: “Kids are in and out of the house all summer long; it feels like a hotel. Oldest, Gavriela, graduated with a master’s in Nonprofit Leadership from UPenn and will be an Urban Fellow with the New York City Urban Fellows Program in September. Aiden will be at Peking University’s Business School next year.

Ariana will be a junior at Fashion Institute in Los Angeles, and Gideon starts 10th grade at Choate (I struck out at Hopkins four times).”

Jeff Burns says, “Just bought a new home in Evergreen, Colorado, and a sincere welcome to all visitors who have Red Rocks or climb­ ing a 14er on their bucket list… the rent is cheap and the older we get, our stories of the journey get better.” Thank you to those who sent news. Perhaps we will hear from more classmates next time!

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40th Reunion Hopkins—May 31–June 1, 2019

Jeffrey A. Arons jeff@jeffreyaronsmd.com

Rich Kuslan seems to be flourishing, as

he reports: “He who first quipped that life begins at 40 (Moses, maybe, who wandered

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(L) 1979 classmates Jeffrey Arons and Francisco Palmieri in the Hearing Room before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on August 22, 2018, where Palmieri was officially nominated to become the next Ambassador to Honduras. (R) Francisco Luis Palmieri ’79 at his confirmation hearing.

40 years) couldn’t have been more surprised than I to learn it. Though the joints may ache (and how!), the fertility of maturation delights me to no end. I’ve never found myself as productive as I am today, finally doing the aesthetic work I can say achieves in some small part those hopeful goals I first dreamt of for myself at Hopkins. In July, the New English Review published a poem I wrote in the classical style, ‘The Birth of Venus.’ I’ve just completed mixing my solo guitar and voice album, titled Whinin’ and Complainin’: Classic Nashville Out-of-Love Songs. I perform very often at corporate and private parties in south Texas; have narrated several nonfiction audiobooks, including The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism; written a new album of original songs to be recorded in New Orleans this fall; and many other poems, songs, scripts, and essays, some of which have already found outlets for publication. If anything, the manifold frustrations of (my) youth— presumably ‘the peak’ LOL—have given way to ripening capabilities, patient (or less impatient) practitioning and genuine delight. So, yeah, old… frankly, I kinda like it!” Howard Etkind reports that his son Sam is enjoying completing his first year as an MIT graduate student in chemistry with only four more years remaining in his PhD program. Rachel Golder updates us with this: “Our oldest, Maggie (22), just graduated from Mount Holyoke with high honors and

accolades from her double-major depart­ ments, dance and psychology. She has moved home (temporarily, she promises) in part because she will be office manag­ ing, and teaching at, the dance school in town that trained her, while she auditions and choreographs. She has had a couple of dances performed in New York City already, and will be dancing at Jacob’s Pillow (the Tanglewood of dance) this month. Tom (21) has just left the school system for ‘adult life,’ and is getting good support from the system for vocational training and life skills; he has a great attitude about working (more on this in a minute) and likes to greet people with a cheery ‘you look great today,’ which makes him very popular in town. And Jack (19) finished his first year at Brooklyn College, demonstrating pretty remarkable indepen­ dence skills and quite a lot of interest in Film and Business—so the launch process is moving along well for Golder youth! I am dying to retire—Wall Street isn’t as much fun as it used to be, IMHO—but will prob­ ably commit a few more years to it. This last year has seen four trips to Tokyo (Japan) and one to Abu Dhabi/Dubai, apart from the usual Europe/Latin America cycle: a little wearying! One more piece of the retirement plan fell into place this spring: together with a friend, I bought the local yoga studio! I’m passionate about yoga and it is the perfect antidote to Wall Street; but also, Tom will now be working there for a few hours each

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day. He has been taking yoga for five years, and for all his twitches and behavioral challenges ‘off the mat,’ he’s an awesome yogi! He doesn’t like bare feet, so that is the current behavioral challenge to overcome.

Meanwhile, husband John persists with his bagpiping and historical reenacting. We just came back from my parents’ 60th anniver­ sary party (congrats to all who still have both parents!), and he piped on the lawn in full regalia.” David Hurwitz was recently in Oviedo, Spain, where he presented a paper at a conference on the topic “Symphonism in Nineteenth-Century Europe.” A paper of his, on Brahms and Dvořák, is slated to be published next year. Dave recommends trav­ eling to Oviedo, which is in the northwest corner of the country, and is the capital of Asturias. Scott Fisher recently celebrated his 34th wedding anniversary, is enjoying life as a grandfather, and is happily expecting his second grandchild. Finally, congratulations to our own distinguished alumnus Francisco Luis Palmieri, who received this official noti­ fication from the White House of his nomi­ nation: “to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Honduras.

Mr. Palmieri currently serves as Acting Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the Department of State and brings more than 30 years of expe­ rience as an American diplomat to his posi­ tion. During his three decades of service as an American diplomat, he spent time at five U.S. Missions overseas and held senior lead­ ership positions in within the Department of State domestically. Mr. Palmieri earned his AB from Princeton University and MS from the National War College. He speaks Spanish fluently.” At the time of this writing, he completed his confirmation hearings in front of Senator Marco Rubio’s Foreign Relations Committee (which I, Jeff Arons, was fortu­ nate enough to attend), and is now waiting for final confirmation from the entire Senate.

And last, but by no means least, I am happy to share a note from long lost, but not forgot­

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ten, classmate Lori Miller, who provided the following update for the first time since graduation: “It is a bit daunting after 39 years to write an entry to our class notes, but as I’ve so enjoyed reading about everyone else over the years, and after recent contact and encouragement from Loren Ziff and Jeff Arons, I decided to take a stab: Post-college, and after about a decade of career explora­ tion, I moved to Los Angeles, where I started my career in the independent narrative film arena in 1992. About ten years ago, I segued into making documentaries, first as a producer, and now as a director-producer, and am hoping to release my current film, Day One, about a public school for refugees and immigrants in St. Louis, Missouri, in the coming months. On the personal side, I have one wonderful daughter who just started 10th grade at our local public high school, where she plays water polo and swims, and is generally enjoying her teenage years. A highlight of the summer was dinner in Santa Monica with Loren and his oldest son, Adam, and my daughter, Maxine. Hoping to connect with more alumni.” Don’t forget our 40th Reunion on May 31 and June 1, 2019!

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Pierce Tyler ptyler@gmail.com

It’s back to school time, as I write this. One more week of summer left to go. Soon we’ll be back in the familiar rhythm of the school year. Our son, James, is a rising senior, so we’ve got a big year ahead, with college visits, applications, etc. Hard to believe that in a year from now my wife, Dia, and I will be empty-nesters. Friends tell me the transition is actually not so bad—and that life on the other side is pretty good. Fingers crossed! For now, the plan is to try to soak up as much of this last year as we possibly can.

If anyone’s got advice, please feel free to share it! Thanks to everyone who contacted me recently with updates, including Kate Higgins, who wrote to say, ‘I got nothing.

Chase Welles ’80 owns this fire boat, which he keeps in the waters off New York City.

Sorry!’ When pressed for at least some small tidbit, she replied, ‘Nothing. Honest!’ Oh, well. I tried. Good to hear from you anyway, Kate! Ethan Taub sends us all warm greet­ ings from Zurich, along with this news: “My wife, Lisa (Elizaveta Shnayder Taub), and I are delighted to report the birth of our son Jeremy Daniel on July 11, 2018. He joins Alexandra (10) and Ephraim Evgeny (8).” It was great to hear from Holly Pruett, whom I catch glimpses of periodically on Facebook.

It’s hard to get a full picture from those snippets, though. Thankfully, Holly brought me up to speed. She wrote: “I still live in the People’s Republic of Portland (Oregon) where I moved for college as a 17-year-old.

I’ve been partnered for 22 years now with Amber; we’ve been married three times, always to each other, thanks to the roller coaster ride of legal recognition. I continue to consult part-time with social justice organizations, with my primary focus on my work as a Life-Cycle Celebrant. I essentially fulfill the role of a non-denominational clergy person for the large sector of the ‘spiritual but not religious’ in this corner of the country. Five years ago, I brought the community conversation model called Death Café to Portland; PDX Death Café has been cited as the largest of its kind in 50-plus countries. I also founded the Death Talk Project, home to a blog and related events fostering useful, honest conversa­ tion about how we die, how we mourn, and how we care for and remember our

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dead. I’m a dedicated auntie to four kids from 1st grade to 10th, love to backpack and travel, and will set up a travel Scrabble board just about anywhere.” Several of our classmates have taken interesting-sounding trips of late, including Greg Valente. Greg, who lives in Greenville, South Carolina, reported, “Diana and I recently traveled to Spain for the first time, to celebrate our 10th anniversary. It’s a beautiful part of the world. The people were warm-hearted and the food was fabulous! As always, we would love to meet up with anyone who happens to be in our neighborhood.” Dave Celone wrote that he recently spent some time in the Liguria region of Italy, “where Lisa and I lived aboard a cool catamaran for a while.” Not too shabby, if you ask me!

Dave also reports that he sold his art gallery in White River Junction, Vermont. He is currently shopping a creative nonfiction manuscript, and has been “cranking out poetry by the boatload.” Dave also said he ran into Chris Cogguillo recently in Lyme, New Hampshire. Speaking of Chris, he wrote to say he planned to play golf at Pine Orchard this summer with Byron Brewer, James Calcagnini, and Guy Iaccarino. I have a photo from Chase Welles, of his very cool-looking fireboat, which he keeps in the waters off New York City. Chase writes, “In commemoration of the end of WWI, our 130foot 1931 retired FDNY Fireboat was chosen by the Public Art Fund to be dazzled. Dazzle was the marine camouflage developed by the cubists to fool the U-boat captains into thinking a ship was moving in the opposite direction. They hired well-known artist Norman Wilkinson and painted four boats in the United Kingdom and one in the United States. We had the pleasure of working with the artist Tauba Auerbach on this project, and she transformed our rusty (but beauti­ ful) fireboat into a marvelous work of art. We do free public trips around New York Harbor, including water displays at the Statue of Liberty. Any classmates who’d like to come for a ride should email me directly.” Peter

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Paul Pardi writes from London (England)

that he’s getting ready to send his last kid off to college: “The kids are finally out of the house!… Well, at the end of this month!

Both of our children will be in New York City at Columbia (one at Columbia College and one at Barnard), which will make visiting them from Europe easier. We still live here in the United Kingdom, and can now make some rational decisions to avoid months of winter rain. Having said that, we have experienced a unique summer: five to six weeks no rain (Wimbledon and no rain?) and everyone going to the British beaches! All of this fun and Brexit to boot means the next nine months will be interesting. If anyone passes by London, please let me know.”

Finally, Jenny Burwell, who owns the Jenny Jib gallery in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, will be headed to Spain and Morocco this fall on a vacation/buying trip. I was sorry to hear about the passing of Jenny’s father earlier this year. He will be missed. That’s it for now. Let’s stay in touch!

1982

Diane Lifton diane.lifton@hugheshubbard.com

Hi all, greetings from Brooklyn, New York.

My husband, Rich, and I are nearing our 20th wedding anniversary, and are enjoy­ ing a summer with two teens, two dogs, a lot of travel baseball, and the start of college tours. Meanwhile, our class has some terrific updates just one year after our 35th reunion.

Drew Nuland writes with great news: “After 32 years in China, we’re finally moving back to the U.S. It’s time. We’re taking a family gap year to travel to all those places on the bucket list then settling in Princeton, New Jersey, sometime next summer. I never dreamed (or ‘nightmared’) that I’d live in New Jersey… forgive me, beloved Hops Crew… but come visit!” Kenny Ballard and his family also are on the move: “The Ballards moved from Southwest Colorado when I took the job as president and CEO

of a Keene (New Hampshire)-based lifestyle brand called The Mountain. We bought a house, a horse, and are loving being back on the East Coast close to family and friends.

Our daughter, Erin, is 17 and son Liam is 15 and getting settled into high school graduation and 10th grade. All the best to everyone!” Marie Wilkinson writes: “Have been immersed in making my first featurelength documentary for the last few years, Elephants, Africa, Tribes and Journey from Wonder to Concern to Activism, and very happy to announce that it is done! We have started submitting it to festivals and hope to premiere some time in the fall or winter.

I’ll keep you posted! Otherwise, still based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and spending summer months on the east end of Long Island, New York, when not somewhere in Africa or the Arctic. Still doing photography and practicing a little architecture in very spare moments. My son, Lysander (13), is now taller than I am, and is heading to Santa Fe Prep, coincidently a school modeled on Hopkins!” Elise Gordon is still living in Florida. As I can also attest to from visiting her, Pensacola definitely is, as Elise reports, “the other Florida. On the Pan Handle. In Central Time Zone with grits, y’all and Mardi Gras. Taking a break from theater, dance, performing arts hobbies, trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Sure, I’m a physician. But what next? My two daughters are in graduate school and college pursuing their dreams. The eldest just got engaged! If anyone pops into Pensacola, say ‘hello!’” Fellow Brooklynite Bruce Gifford lives in DUMBO with his wife and 16-yearold son: “I’ve been working in advertising as a creative director for about 30 years now, here in New York; San Francisco, California; Richmond, Virginia; Boston, Massachusetts; and Washington, D.C. And yes, all the online ad targeting, data tracking and online behavior snooping comes from people like me who are convinced that if you buy shoes online, you should then see ads for the same shoes everywhere for the next three months.

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Members of the Class of 1983 gathered for their 35th Reunion during Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1 and 2, 2018.

My wife works as a curator at the Museum of Arts and Design here in New York City.

Our son will be a junior in high school and is also an actor—he has been on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and recently starred in a fea­ ture film to be released next spring. Clearly his acting talent and good looks come from my wife. I am also a beekeeper here in the city. I have a few hives on the roof of a high school in the West Village. Glad to stay in touch with anyone and everyone from the Hopkins community! Keep the great stories and news coming!”

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Andrew Levy alevy@wywhp.com

This column is dedicated to Evelyn Reid, who passed away before our 35th reunion.

Many shared stories and memories of Evelyn during the weekend. It is appar­ ent that Evelyn’s voice, primarily through song, as well as her sense of humor and kindness, will always be remembered by members of the Class of 1983. The reunion weekend was a lot of fun. When our class gets together, it seems like it is 1983 all over again. Yes, we have all grown up, but for one weekend we entered a time capsule begin­ ning at Roia, where we kicked back and enjoyed great food, drinks, and songs such as “Every Breath You Take,” “Billie Jean,” and “Flashdance What a Feeling!” Quality music to set the tone. There were many laughs, and

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even some tears, as everyone reminisced about the past. I am still waiting for Mary Beth Abercrombie Butler to text me once she finishes her family responsibilities so we could meet up during our late Friday night bar crawl. Also, waiting on a return text from Dan Esposito, who, with the aid of technol­ ogy, was able to instantly receive a photo on his cell phone of the entire class saluting him. We may, however, have had the wrong phone number. I was confused and my apol­ ogies to Dan if that was the case. Walking through downtown New Haven, Connecticut, we hit all the “oldies but goodies.” Some had different names but seemed to “serve” the same purpose. My niece Allison, who works at Harvest (the old Whistlers) asked her co-workers to re-open the bar for our class when we arrived very late. From there, Allison became our tour guide through downtown New Haven, giving us a second wind as we later arrived at Three Sheets, formerly known as Rudy’s Restaurant. It was there that David Amendola became four sheets! Sorry to digress. It was simply a great night! The slumber party at my Woodmont house with Seth Stier, Lesli Greenberg, Diana Lawson Goldman, and me was truly a flash from the past. The years have gone by but the personalities have pretty much remained the same. Diana and Lesli sharing a bed and Seth and me relegated to the floor and couch. Strong bonds with close friends, which is common for our class. Returning to The Hill on Saturday also brought back

many fond memories. While we personally know fewer of the current faculty, spend­ ing time with our former teachers such as Donna Fasano, Bill Ewen, and Dana Blanchard, was awesome. I know it’s cliché, but they really haven’t changed. While at the reception, I learned after all these years that Medina Tyson Jett always thought I was part African American. No doubt due to the huge afro I “rocked” back then and the fact that I was so cool. It was enlightening to say the least! The story that accompanied that revelation is very touching. It meant a great deal to me hearing Medina share what our friendship has meant to her during our years on The Hill and through today. I’ll always give Medina an “H!” [As an aside, I do have Medina’s permission to put this in the notes.] Looking forward to seeing everyone at the 40th but we won’t rush time along.

It doesn’t need to be five years before our paths cross again. David Keck reports his first “empty nest” heartbreak: “Our youngest child just started college, and when I went grocery shopping for the first time since he left, I found myself about to cry when I realized that I was no longer needing to look for his favorite foods. I felt as empty as the shopping cart.” Rich Ridinger is six months in as the owner of the Lakehouse Tavern in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, and is “still busy serving the best food and spirits around these parts!” New York City Mayor de Blasio appointed Adam Perlmutter to be a judge. Adam is presiding in Brooklyn Criminal Court. He continues to love living in Brooklyn with his girlfriend, two sons and two dogs. One day I received a text message from my nephew Eric who works at Unilever with Rachel Goldman, daughter of Diana Lawson Goldman. It was simply a photo of Diana presenting a lecture on vegan trends to a “packed house” at Unilever. Eric added the caption, “Are you available for the next show and tell?” Bob Bua writes, “Jim Bucar and his wife visited me at my ice cream par­ lor in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, this summer and we had a nice time catching up. Jim is

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doing some great work building and main­ taining hiking trails in the northeast corridor.

Jim Bucar does not like coffee flavored ice cream.” Jim Bucar writes, “August 4, I spent an entertaining and warm-hearted afternoon with the Bua kid at his ice cream shop in Boothbay Harbor with Maine friends. He was high-energy and ultra personable; what else? My friends, who probably grow tired of my encomia about Hopkins and its young adults, were suitably impressed. Bobby even delayed his date to take his family out to dinner in order to fill us in on his life and triumphs since Hopkins. At the end of the day, I was invigorated but also reminded of how much I miss those wonderful years with such talented and decent people. BTW, the ice cream is worth the trip.” Mr. Bucar, was the coffee ice cream worth the trip? Just curious. Bucar continues, “Also had visits in the last couple weeks from Hopkins people: Barbara Hanscom and husband Mike, Dave McCord (twice), Sam Mashaw ’07, and Don Bagnall. Got caught up on ALL the gossip.

Time for a tell-all?” Karen Helene Stevens writes, “We enjoyed a fantastic trip this sum­ mer to New Mexico and Colorado. The views were incredible! Loved seeing classmates at our reunion on Saturday!” This summer on my annual trip to Block Island, Rhode Island, with my Lehigh friends, I was pleas­ antly surprised by a chance encounter with Mike Stratton on the porch of the Spring House Hotel. No further details available to share. Isam Kaoud is still deciding if he will attend the reunion and Seth Stier is still not a banker in Boston, Massachusetts! Stay well classmates… We are the best!

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35th Reunion Hopkins—May 31–June 1, 2019

Kathleen Hager Tasonis Oogg66@yahoo.com

Mark Fawcett wrote, “Some recent news for

me, I was appointed to the Compensation Committee for Apollo Medical Board of Directors following its merger with Network

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Medical Management. I continue to work as SVP and Treasurer for Fresenius Medical Care. It’s now my 16th year at the company and still love it. More important news, Bram has graduated from kindergarten and has begun reading to us at night. Thea is in preschool, loves to eat cherry tomatoes while sitting in the garden and walks with an everchanging mashup of jumps, ankle flips, and dance. All is well.” From Melanie BarronGoldstein: “Our son, Joshua Goldstein ’18, graduated from Hopkins in June after six years on The Hill. He will be attending Tufts University in the fall.” Michael Prichard appeared with a Boston, Massachusetts, area-regional opera company in the leading role of Mephistofeles in Gounod’s Faust in June. He is working for Bodyport, a startup based in San Francisco, and continuing to sing with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Tanglewood Festival Chorus (when in Boston). Nancy Sharp is still living in Denver, Colorado, and works as keynote speaker, trainer, and coach. She presents to businesses and groups nationwide on the topics of resilience, change, and overcoming adversity. Learn more about Nancy’s new, custom programs and her award-winning books Both Sides Now: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Bold Living and Because the Sky is Everywhere at NancySharp.net. Victor Feinberg Alfandre reports, “My son, Jason Alfandre, is a 2018 Hop grad and is headed to Bates to study biology and geology.” I (Kathy Hager Tasonis) was promoted to analyst at Market Strategies International in July, where I work on syndicated market research reports on the wealth management industry. My sons turned 13 in August, offi­ cially making me a mother of teenagers. I’m sure many of my classmates can sympathize.

I hope to see all of you at our 35th reunion, May 31–June 1, 2019! If you have not con­ nected with your classmates on Facebook yet, please like the “Hopkins Class of 1984” page at facebook.com/hopkins1984.

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Cristina Benedetto lucysmom1@optonline.net

Jon Lippincott had some exciting news to share. His new book will be published in January 2019. It’s a monograph on the sculptor Robert Murray. This fall Jon will be posting information about the book, the artist, and the book tour on the website robertmurraysculpture.com. Please mark your calendars to read all about it! Also, a big shout out and happy birthday to Ken Lee, who celebrated the big 50 with fellow classmates Matt Lieberman and Jeff Potash in New York City in March. Please keep the news coming…

1986

Jennifer Hulford Odell jhodell2@yahoo.com

Hello Class of ’86! Tremaine Cooper and I recently got together when he traveled through Portland, Oregon, during one of his visits to assess the horse eventing cross country courses he designs. We went to my favorite French restaurant a few blocks from our house and our kids’ school, had delicious pastries, and chatted about both school memories and what has been going on since. Being one of the few attendees of the Mountain School, he was sharing what he did and how great the program was, and looking back, it is something I wish I had pursued. He also shared images of the amaz­ ing courses he designs, which are beautiful handmade pieces of art. And my favorite vignette was about the time he and his wife decided to renovate an old building and both live in it and start and run their own res­ taurant. It was a great visit, and these class notes helped reconnect us. Sharon (Yoon) Adam writes, “I am writing from Silicon Valley. I’ve unfortunately missed all the local Hopkins gatherings because it’s hard to get up to San Francisco on a weeknight. I have two daughters, Marina (17) and Claudia (13).

My younger one is an avid squash player, so

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I fly to the East Coast often now for squash tournaments. Now that my older daughter is driving and the girls are more indepen­ dent, I’ve been able to work on myself. I work as an engineer full time and teach yoga, spin class, and core classes. If anyone is in the South Bay area, please come join me! It’s shocking if you remember me from high school, because I think I was the worst athlete in our grade. I cried when we had to run two miles in JV soccer and then I quit. I was also terrified of public speaking. I hope everyone is well. If anyone is up for a South Bay get-together, please email me!” Sharon_ adam@yahoo.com. Hans Berglund writes, “In mid-June, Matt Greene, George Wolf, Jonathan Lippincott ’85, and I got together in New York City for dinner and to catch up.

It was great to connect. Looking forward to the next reunion. Life is great for my wife, Alix, and me and our two golden retriev­ ers in Edwards, Colorado, in the Vail Valley despite a low snow year, very dry spring, and hot summer. It was the least snow recorded since Vail opened in 1962. Yikes!”

1987

Megan W. Holbrook meganwh@gmail.com

Greetings, classmates! Lots of good news came in from many of you. Rebecca Lieberman writes, “We are in the midst of renovating a big chunk of our nearly 100-year-old house in Yonkers, New York, which led us to live first with my parents for nine weeks and then like college students (think mini-fridge and microwave) in our own home. If you haven’t lived with your parents as an adult, give it try. It was fun.

As our oldest starts middle school and we think about high school options, I’m struck by how highly I value my Hopkins educa­ tion and actually hope to replicate aspects of it for her. Professionally, I run a foundation in New York City and feel super lucky to be able to help people do good in the world.

Most immediately, with our girls away at

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summer camp, I’m looking forward to din­ ners of cheese and crackers and vodka.”

Jeremy Kasha is “still alive. My baby, Leticia, turns one year old in August. She is super sweet and talks a little already. Still work­ ing at the New York AG, and still playing music—mostly jazz on flute and bass these days. Hope everyone is well!” Shareef Antar writes, “History tends to repeat itself. As I spent one year in Jülich, Germany, during my 10th grade, I have returned to Germany.

Currently, I am living in Hamburg and set­ ting up a Mass Spec lab for a Swiss scientific instrument company (Tecan). So far, living here in Germany has been good to me.”

Michele Niro Schweighoffer writes, “Some months ago I was promoted from Operations Manager to Director of Operations where I work—Horizon Personal Training, a pri­ vate personal training club in Cheshire, Connecticut.” Her daughters are as talented and athletic as their mother: “My youngest daughter’s solo was within nine points of a perfect score and came in 4th overall at the nationals competition. My older daughter did not place in her age group, but she went against dancers who were on So You Think You Can Dance and Abby Lee’s Ultimate Dance Competition. Each of them had a group dance that made it into the final dance battle with the criteria for invite was to be the top two scores in the category. Competition was fierce. They’re active in their studio and also part of an outside dance company called the Connecticut Tap Collaborative. They dance a lot!” Dan Tamarkin is “alive and well and living in Chicago, where I just bought a cute little 1927 bungalow. Lawn mowing, camera selling and summer cocktail tasting.

It’s a good summer. Hi all!” Jen Chernock Howland writes that she’s enjoying just mundane “doing life, parenthood” stuff: “My first daughter will be starting college in the fall; my heart aches to have her leave but also super fun to be enjoying her as a young adult. Navigating middle school with #2 daughter, learning lots new through her, like fencing and computer coding. Back in

my nursing lane, I’m trying to figure out how I want the next phase of my career to go. Perhaps next class notes for that update!”

Kevin Hirokawa writes, “The past five years have been focused on my wife. Two separate diagnoses of breast cancer in a three-year span. She is now one and a half years cancer free though, so that is a great thing! We’ll start getting out and about again now that is in the past! Things are going well now, though. If anyone ever is in the Philadelphia area, please look me up!” Dan Appelquist says he’s “just truckin’ along in Brexit land.

As an immigrant myself, I have been espe­ cially concerned about ICE’s treatment of asylum-seeking families and the children the government has still not reunited with their parents. I have therefore been donating to causes such as the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and RAICES Texas to help fight back against these abhorrent prac­ tices in the courts, and I encourage others to do the same.” Matt Carrano writes, “My wife, Diana Marsh, and I welcomed our first baby, Max Louis Carrano, on August 1. Everyone is doing well, and we are all learning the ropes of our newly expanded household.”

Martin Asis writes, “Life in Minneapolis, Minnesota, continues to go well. Betty and I are in the same practices we joined following our fellowships and we recently celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary. The music, theater and food scene keeps us entertained throughout the year. Also, I started a men’s book club, which to my surprise is going strong after three years. This summer, I represented my golf team ‘Doctors Without Bidies’ (yeah I know we are terrible people) in the final shootout. Let’s just say it’s good I have a day job. I believe we lost to ‘Weapons of Grass Destruction.’ My newest thing has been biking to work. Now that I don’t have to drive my kids to school, I get to take advantage of the robust Twin Cities biking trails and I absolutely love the physical and mental benefits of ditching my car at least for a few days a week. My oldest son, Ethan, will be applying to colleges this fall. On a

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recent trip to see some schools, I was able to catch up with Bruce DelMonico and Michael Thomas. It was great to see them both as you can imagine. Hopefully such opportunities will continue as Ethan wants to be on the East Coast for college. Romer, my youngest, will be starting his sophomore year of high school. A towering child at 5 feet 3 inches, he has somehow managed to earn the nick­ name ‘Big Daddy’ and they are not mocking him. At this point in life and child raising, I am happier not knowing how he pulled that off. Life is currently a satisfying blur of work and family life with some really fun family trips thrown in. Having said that, I am looking forward to the benefits of empty nesting when Betty and I will have some more time for each other and can travel outside of the confines of the school sched­ ule.” Keith Lender writes, “Not sure the last time I checked in, but we moved to Weston, Connecticut, about two years ago. Odd how there were a handful of kids at Hopkins from Fairfield County, now there’s a bus! Among others, Kenny Potash ’88 and Christina Benedetto ’85 live here and have kids there as well. In terms of ’87, Nick Scriabine was back east visiting family last week, so we ral­ lied the troops. We found ourselves back on the shoreline in Branford, at Brooke Delfini’s oceanfront resort, along with Dave Fallon and Dave Friedman. We tried reaching out to Doug Millen, but he was already back home in Chicago, Illinois. We also contacted Kevin Cohen, who Nick mentioned is now back liv­ ing stateside, prompted by civil unrest in his adopted home of Nicaragua, but he couldn’t make the trip from Vermont. While it took some hard wrangling to get us together, we had a great day of golf and dinner overlook­ ing over the sound. The most surreal part of the day was when Brooke’s son came home with a group of high school senior friends who must have thought we looked like we did to our parents those many moons ago.”

Other than that, Rick Mangi is looking for­ ward to turning 50. Matt Black and Michael Hanscom checked in as alive, but had no

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Classmates from 1988 enjoyed reconnecting throughout Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1 and 2, 2018.

news to share. I, Megan Holbrook, am on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, with my family celebrating my mother’s 81st birth­ day. May I hope to have her energy when I get to be that age—which feels closer all the time! Gina Paolini Marcus and I are planning to celebrate turning 50 next year by going to Burning Man—we’re gathering a group of women friends, tentatively titled “We are Stardust.” Fellow female classmates (sorry guys, you’ll have to form your own group) are welcome to join us! Thanks to all who contributed, and I hope you’ve inspired oth­ ers to share next time.

1988

The Alumni/ae office would like to thank Lisa Goldbecker for her time and help in gathering the class notes. If anyone is interested in taking on this role please contact Donna Vinci at dvinci@hopkins.edu.

1989

30th Reunion Hopkins—May 31–June 1, 2019

Curtis Groves curtis.groves@gmail.com

Big Cat, Little Cat, the latest book from author and illustrator Elisha Cooper, received a Caldecott Honor in February as one of the most distinguished American picture books for children of the year. Elisha’s book tells the story of two companion cats and the impact of loss on one. And at 40 pages it’s

the perfect length, far shorter than the books I didn’t read at Hopkins. Congratulations, Eli. Tony Ziomek in March closed on a new house in Oviedo, Florida. Tony’s older set of twins turned five in February, and his younger set of twins turned four in July. In other Tony news, Tony D’Angelo’s daughters are now in high school, having survived North Haven Middle School and its principal, Phil Piazza. Aaron Sack and Amanda Oberg ’90 hosted a Shoreline-area end-of-summer welcome party for new Hopkins 7th and 9th graders, including their daughter, Margot, who is entering the 7th grade. Margot joins her brother, Andrew, who is in the 9th grade.

Aaron ran into Missy Robbins this spring at an event supporting sustainable healthy foods for New York City public schools. And he keeps in touch with Jeff Millen through their mutual hair stylist, Maureen, who says Jeff’s kids are great, thriving in Scarsdale, and that he still supports the Michigan Wolverines passionately. No surprises there.

The Honorable Sarah Merriam continues her passionate support for the Georgetown Hoyas, but that didn’t stop Sarah from earn­ ing an LLM in Judicial Studies in May from Duke Law School. It’s not clear whether Sarah struggled more to manage the class­ work and write a thesis while working fulltime as a United States magistrate judge for the District of Connecticut or to balance her loyalty to Georgetown with her new Duke degree. But Sarah says she survived the tur­ moil by separating Duke’s law school from

VIEWS FROM THE HILL

Ona Alpert-Josselyn ’90 ran a 50K on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

the basketball program. As for me, Curtis Groves, earlier this year I finally got to see

my favorite hockey team hoist the Stanley Cup. If only they were wearing green and blaring “Brass Bonanza”…

1990

Brock Dubin bdubin@ddnctlaw.com

John Pfannenbecker is continuing his work at Subway headquarters as Deputy General Counsel and supporting the Chief Legal Officer and fellow Hopkins alum Bethany Showalter Appleby ’85. Because Ona Alpert-Josselyn got bored, she ran yet another 50-kilometer race on St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands, near her beach house. Karl Schmidt reports he was working at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, as an assis­ tant nurse manager at the time of our last reunion. Karl left there in 2016 and became the Director of Emergency Services at Saint Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers, New York. After enduring the commute for a year, he became the manager of Emergency Services and Diagnostic Testing at Milford Hospital in April of 2017. Karl is now back in school and will be graduating (with his wife) in October with his MBA and MSN in Nursing Leadership from Grand Canyon University. Karl’s daughter Karleigh will be entering 6th grade at the Unquowa School in Fairfield, Connecticut, in September. His

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two oldest, Breagh and Katilyn, attend Saint Vincent’s Special Needs and are currently practicing for the Special Olympic Croquet Championship in September. Alisa Berger reports she moved to New Haven last sum­ mer and would love to be in touch with any classmates still in the area. Since Alisa did not live in New Haven while at Hopkins, she is now discovering the city all over again.

Alisa loves bumping into classmates and reports that her children and husband love living in New Haven.

1991

Jessica Roberti jessicaroberti@msn.com Jonathan Ross-Wiley jrosswiley@gmail.com

Greetings Class of ’91: It’s hard to believe that it is already August and the summer is almost over, although many of you have had a busy summer! Condolences also go out to Billy Grundy and his siblings Kevin ’91, Karen ’94, and Maureen ’96 on the passing of their father after a long illness.

A number of our classmates remember Dr. Grundy as their pediatrician. Andrew Whitley continues to coach lacrosse at Fairfield University (it will be his tenth year there this fall). Andy’s exciting news is that he went to Israel this summer as an assistant coach for the Puerto Rico National Lacrosse team at the World Games in Netanya, Israel.

He was there for two weeks and said that it was a truly terrific experience; think of it as the Olympics for lacrosse, so very impressive! Andy followed up after his trip to let me know that his team, Puerto Rico, finished 8th (out of 46), losing in the quarterfinals to Iroquois National Team. It was the second highest finish by a first year country, so a very successful tournament!

Ted Anastasiou is still living in Holmdel, New Jersey, working as a technical direc­ tor at a Swiss fragrance company. The rest of his time is spent with his 4½-year-old twins (who are hilarious). Ted and his wife

are constantly renovating their antique home, which will never be complete, and he writes that “I reluctantly accept the hope­ lessness of that and welcome it at the same time.” Last month, Scott Kaplan visited Ted and his family for the weekend from Massachusetts, where he is a professor of computer science at Amherst College. Ted and Scott spent time “catching up, lamenting on aging, smoking a pork butt to eat for din­ ner, and had super-intellectual discussions that I realized are missing from my life so I can’t wait for him to visit again.” Sue Naci started a new job at Amazon working in the Amazon Media Group. She is six months in and “totally loving it. The summer has been lovely, we’re spending lots of time at Beaver Dam Lake in Stratford, Connecticut, as we bought the house I grew up in (and most of class of ’91 has been to for various par­ ties).” Congratulations, Sue, on the new job!

Rachael Moses Schatz wrote to share some exciting news—“I got married in St. Lucia to kick the summer off. Surrounded by friends and family, it was a magical Caribbean adventure. My girls are going into 10th and 8th grades, respectively, and I’ve gained two step-daughters too! My husband and I are going to Paris for our honeymoon, so our newlywed adventures continue. In the fall, I will be returning to reality, starting my sixth year working for New Haven, Connecticut, public schools. Hope all of my classmates are happy and healthy!” Congratulations to the happy couple! Jon Ross-Wiley shared an update: “The only big update from the last go ’round is that I was able to complete the Spartan Ultra race in April and, surpris­ ingly, my performance earned me a spot at the Spartan Ultra World Championships in Iceland in December! Unfortunately, it didn’t earn me a free trip to Iceland, so the jury is still out on my attendance. Could be a great time, but I have heard the conditions are crazy… pretty much what you would expect from Iceland in December, I sup­ pose. Everything else family and work-wise is humming along!” I, Jessica Roberti, am

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Lundberg, Jessica Levitt, Dana Merk, Derek Ohly, Jason Pfannenbecker, Ethan Sack, Evan Schiff, Chris Slawsky, Rachel Soboslai, Kendall Spaght, Shelby Wilson and Eliza

Classmates from 1993 enjoyed reconnecting for their 25th Reunion throughout Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1 and 2, 2018.

happy to report that I am back in the United States for a few weeks after a quick trip to Ethiopia and Kenya followed by a three-week trip to Hong Kong. After so much business travel, I am looking forward to taking a week off in late August to travel to Sicily, Italy, for a weeklong cycling trip. It is well deserved and should be fun. I have also been emailing with Sue Bull Rutstein about a potential surf trip to Central America in the spring. Please reach out if anyone is interested in joining us—the more, the merrier! Please enjoy the balance of your summer. Cheers!

1992

Sam Ozeck samhome@juno.com

Everyone’s thoughts are with Sue Wang and her three young children, who lost their husband and father in May. Sue especially appreciates the thoughts of classmates including Danielle Bucar Cote, Meredith Janson, Katy Oviatt Murphy, and Jamia Gaffney. Our condolences also extend to Shay Dvoretzky on his mother’s passing earlier this year. Eric Feldman was among the mourners comforting Shay and his fam­ ily. As happens many springs, I saw Jeff Sklarz at a conference in sunny Orlando, Florida. Jeff reported having had dinner recently with Jeff Possick and his wife, Jen Sharp Possick (who went to college with me, Justin Zandri, and Justin’s wife, Abby), and enjoyed catching up with Jeff and his

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family. Jeff Sklarz also sometimes sees Rob Klee as their children each attend the same

school (a school avid readers of this column know well). After departing the confer­ ence, I visited the alma mater of Tory Hayes, Rollins College, in Winter Park, Florida.

Unfortunately for me, Tory has moved from Florida to the Bay Area, and so I was unable to see her. However, Tory attended the Bay Area Hopkins alumni/ae reception and was glad to catch up with fellow ’92 alum Karen Murphy. Around the same time as that San Francisco area reception, Hopkins staff, including the retiring Deena Mack, visited Los Angeles and caught up with alumni/ae there, including Billy Mack. Alicia Bromfield-Dusza has assumed a new posi­ tion with her company, Liberty Mutual.

1993

Tara Cook-Littman taracook.littman@gmail.com

First of all, the class of 1993 needs to express our gratitude to AJ Kelleher for producing our class notes for more years than any of us want to admit we’ve been out of high school.

Although, for those of us who attended our 25th Class Reunion this past June, we were reminded of how many years it’s actually been. It was wonderful to see so many class­ mates, including: Lauren Lawrence-Riddell, Andy Dow, Phoebe Fellows, Claire Lehneis, Brad Groves, Jennifer Kaplan, Huey Hsiao, AJ Kelleher, Jill Krauss, Jack Lindsey, Ted

Sheffield. Let’s all make sure we don’t wait another five years before seeing each other.

And, in the meantime, let’s keep each other posted on what’s going on in our lives by sharing news for class notes. Please send me a message at taracook.littman@gmail.com. I look forward to hearing from all of you.

1994

25th Reunion Hopkins—May 31–June 1, 2019

Christian J. Sauska cjs.nola@me.com Adrienne Betz Oliver adriennebetz@gmail.com

1995

Michaelangelo Palmieri michaelangelo_44@yahoo.com Luretha McClendon Tolson lrmcclendon@sbcglobal.net

Jennifer Kantor Gershberg is teach­

ing Business Law and Business Ethics at University of Maryland and keeping busy with Mike and their three kids. Matthew is almost 13 and Brooke and Tolly are almost 10! Alle Bucar Gildart shared, “I’m still here in southern Maine and enjoying the beauti­ ful summer we’re having. My kids are 15 and 12 years old now (yikes!), and my daughter is going into high school, which just seems impossible! I’ve decided to go back to work full-time, so I’m getting my real estate license, which I’m really looking forward to. Hopefully it will fund a few trips to Disney, as well as some bucket list items like London and Greece!” Sara Spodick writes, “Jim Boryczewski ’96 and I added Zoey, an English lab, to the family in April.” They now have two dogs—so exciting! “I’m in my 14th year as the Director of the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic at Quinnipiac University School of Law and enjoying the madness.”

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Members of the Class of 1998 gathered for their 20th Reunion during Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1 and 2, 2018.

Gena Rega Newman got a new puppy named Bailey. “She is a Zuchon, which is a mix of a Bichon and Shih Tzu.” Justin Belcher also added a new addition to their family: their new puppy, Biscuit. We are so excited to hear about all the new puppies! I, Luretha McClendon Tolson, am enjoying my little ones—Trinity, age 4, and Rowan Major, 18 months—who both keep me on my toes! I’m currently training for my first full mara­ thon, which is on October 13—the Hartford Marathon. I am running as a member of Team Sprint to raise money for the NICU at St. Francis Hospital. I’m very excited to run for such a worthy cause! I’m also running the New Haven Road Race Half Marathon Relay with Mychal Boyd on Labor Day. I’m sure I’ll see many Hilltoppers at the race, which starts on the New Haven Green. I’m also looking forward to coaching basketball again and gearing up for the upcoming basketball sea­ son with Hamden Fathers’ Girls League. We are so happy to hear from so many of you— please continue to send us your updates!

1998

Misha Body mishabody@gmail.com Tina Chen tina.chen02@gmail.com

missed! Shout out to Karla and Rocco Demaio ’86 for hosting another fantastic

post-Reunion gathering! It’s been a busy year for me [Tina Chen], finishing my master’s in Nursing Informatics. Hopefully, I’ll have some more good news the next class notes!

Misha Body has added a few more things to her plate, including helping teach a class on strategic planning for graduate students and joining the board of directors of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network in Los Angeles. She scoffs a bit at the word “young” since her joints are already a little creaky, but she says it’s rewarding to be able to help nonprofit professionals connect with one another and grow their skills. Christoph Hutchinson is still living in Philadelphia. He is now working as an interventional pulmo­ nologist at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Michael Fasano is currently performing as an understudy in Jersey Boys onboard the cruise ship Norwegian Bliss. This August, he made his debut in the lead role of Frankie Valli. If you weren’t able to make Reunion, we have pictures on Facebook and a Google folder. We want to see even more of you at the next Reunion!

1999

20th Reunion Hopkins—May 31–June 1, 2019

Eamon Griffin grifbear@ahoo.com

Erica Schwartz erischwa@gmail.com

It was so great seeing everyone at Reunion and those who couldn’t make it were truly

Allison Grady alligrady2@gmail.com

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Michael Fasano ’98 performing as an understudy in Jersey Boys onboard the Norwegian Bliss.

2000

Robert Curry rccurry01@yahoo.com

After celebrating his wedding with fellow alums Will Nuland, Harold Pierce, Jordan Silidker, and Jake Malmad in attendance, Jonathan Lichtenstein took a belated honeymoon this past April, and was lucky enough to have a pint with Greg Yolen while in London. Jon and his wife are now living in New Hampshire with their 4-year-old Brittany spaniel, Bentley. Most of Jon’s time is spent at Dartmouth, where he is the direc­ tor of pediatric neuropsychological services.

He has a packed clinical service, a robust training program, and an active research lab. Sports concussion is his major areas of focus, and with football season upon us he will be busy! Gabrielle Moss’s second book, Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction, was published in October 2018, and should be available at your local bookstore. Writing this book required Gaby to reread all of her old BabySitters Club and Goosebumps novels, which was extremely fun until it wasn’t. Adam Kaye is busy juggling his radiology practice along with his three daughters in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Robert Curry and his family just returned from an amazing vaca­ tion in France, Croatia, and Montenegro.

Rob is still active in the fetal bovine serum (FBS) industry; FBS is used in manufactur­ ing life-saving vaccines. Ian Shedd and his wife, Stephanie, are actively raising money

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Marissa Black ’01 and her husband, Cimarron Wortham, recently welcomed son Luca Alexander.

Classmates from 2003 enjoyed reconnecting throughout Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1 and 2, 2018.

for Qhubeka, a South African charity that provides bicycles to needy children. These are not just for recreation, but a basic form of transportation.

2001

Marissa Black blackmarissa@gmail.com Daniel Zlotoff zlotoff@gmail.com

The Class of 2001 continues to make waves in the world. Burak Erem and his wife wel­ comed a new baby, Mara, born in February.

“That brings us up to three, so we’re outnum­ bered at home,” he writes. He also joined the R&D team of a Boston, Massachusetts–based startup called TrueMotion, which is trying to make driving safer through mobile phone technology. Marissa Black’s year has been full of major life events. She finished her clinical training in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at University of Washington and married her longtime partner, Cimarron Wortham, at Naturebridge in the Olympic National Park in Washington State. This July, she welcomed her son, Luca Alexander, into this world. She writes, “We have settled in Columbia City, Seattle, about a mile from Isaac Pattis and enjoy visitors anytime!

Most recently, Isaac and I had dinner with Jesse Patrone-Werdiger and reminisced about our high school shenanigans.” Josiah Venter lives in New Haven, Connecticut,

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and teaches at St. Thomas’s Day School.

In the fall, he plans to switch from the 6th grade homeroom position to science, where he will teach grades K–6. Vanessa Soto has been teaching yoga and continuing her massage therapy practice in Miami Beach, Florida. She also recently completed the Modo Yoga Teacher Training in Nicaragua.

Speaking of far-off places, Chanelle Dumas received a Master of International Law and International Relations from University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She is currently working as a financial analyst in special leases and contract services for the U.S. government, and resides in Washington, D.C. On the home front, she welcomed daughter Bailey Victoria Adams this year.

2002

Aaron Zelinsky Aaron.Zelinsky@gmail.com Ellie Stewart estewart@hopkins.edu

Congratulations are in order for several members of the Class of 2002, who wel­ comed new additions to their families this year! Eric Warren wrote in from Los Angeles to share that he and his wife, Andrea, became new parents with the birth of their first child, Eli Steinberg Warren, on January 4. Jason Meizlish and his wife, Allie, cel­ ebrated the arrival of their daughter, Naomi Rubin Meizlish, on March 4. Just a few days

later, on March 7, Brianne Cassidy Papa and her husband, Anthony, welcomed their fourth child, Jameson Papa. Wishing you all happy days and restful nights! Thank you to Ellie for helping gather some notes during Aaron’s very busy days.

2003

Courtney Hart courtneyleigh.hart@gmail.com Arielle Traub arielle.traub@gmail.com

We loved seeing so many classmates at our 15-year reunion in June. It was great to catch up on career advancement, weddings, house buying, babies, and so much more. We missed our classmates who couldn’t make it but hope to see you in five years for Reunion 20! Emily Corwin writes from her home in Burlington, Vermont: “Ella Spottswood and I were married on June 16, 2018, in Shelburne, Vermont. Ella is an attorney with the Vermont Attorney General’s office.

It was, without a doubt, the happiest day of my life! It was humbling to be married

by Vermont Supreme Court Justice Beth Robinson, who argued the landmark case that, when we were freshmen at Hopkins, made Vermont the first state in the nation to enact civil unions.” Congratulations, Emily and Ella! Jessica Bloomgarden Muse is the COO of Well+Good, which was recently acquired by Leaf Group. Julia Israel

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Emily Corwin ’03 and Ella Spottswood were married on June 16, 2018, in Shelburne, Vermont.

Wilhemina Annette Watson, daughter of McAllister Windom ’04, was born June 6, 2018.

Conrad von Poelnitz, son of Christina (Sumpio) von Poelnitz ’04, was born March 4, 2018.

Edelstein has taken on a new role as Health

are so excited to be living in a ski town again.

Email me if you are in town!” As for your class secretaries, Courtney Hart continues to live in Brooklyn, New York, while working at Bloomberg and I, Arielle Traub, continue to live in Westfield, New Jersey, and work at Manatt Health, where I focus on Medicaid policy and children’s health policy. Keep the updates—we love hearing from you!

that they are all doing well and, “loving life as a family of three.” McAllister Windom, who is finishing up a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Duke University, is also now part of a family of three. She welcomed her first child—a girl named Wilhelmina (“Willa” for short) on June 6, 2018. Erin Johnson (one of your trusty class correspondents) is honored to have been named godmother for baby Willa. Hearty congrats are also in order for classmates Alejo Cabranes, Anthony D’Souza, and Mary-Beth Grimaldi, who each were married in 2017. Alejo Cabranes married Abigail Coster on July 25, 2017, in Middleburg, Virginia. Guests included Steven McDonald, David Congdon, David Goodrich, Mike Dearington, and Conor Ginsberg. Mary-Beth Grimaldi married Matt Rich on November 4, 2017, in Southington, Connecticut. The wedding party included Hopkins classmates Emily Summers and Kelly Ruby and Hopkins alumnae Molly Caplan ’06 and Nisha Gupta ’02. Anthony D’Souza married Amy Elizabeth Gress in August 2017. Classmates Adam Sauerteig and Rocco DeMaio ’86 were groomsmen.

Professionally speaking, the Class of 2004 continues to excel. As evidence, perhaps, of the strength of the Hopkins network, we were excited to hear that Bill Lane and Mike Knapp are both clerking on the D.C. Circuit.

Mike is working for Chief Judge Garland while Bill, who wrote in to share the news, is with Judge Katsas. Meanwhile, the class

Features Director at Health Magazine. She continues as Health Features Director for Parents Magazine as well. She and Andrew Edelstein still live in New York City with their two adorable little boys. Meanwhile, Andrew Soberman writes from the Pacific Northwest, where he moved in February 2018. He is stationed at the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, where he works at the dedicated Search and Rescue (SAR) Unit.

The unit’s primary mission is to support the fixed wing assets and operations and, as an integral part of the National Search and Rescue Plan, to assist local search and rescue groups and hospitals on SAR mis­ sions and MEDEVACS in the Olympic, San Juan Islands, and Cascade regions. He also recently became the father of an Australian Cattle puppy named Zeeva. Aaron Silidker is also on the move, but closer to home. He writes, “My girlfriend, Lindsay, and I just moved back to Connecticut (Guilford) from Boston, Massachusetts, with our new golden retriever, Eli. We try to explore the coun­ try as much as possible and just bought a camper van that we will use for ski adven­ tures all over the country this winter. I still spend three to four days a week in Boston doing a variety of mechanical R&D proj­ ects for a metal 3D printing manufacturer called Desktop Metal.” Olivia Haedt Stevens and her family recently relocated to Stowe, Vermont. She writes, “We all love to ski and

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2004

15th Reunion Hopkins—May 31–June 1, 2019

Erin Johnson erin122@gmail.com

Lots of changes and updates for the class of 2004 as classmates reach exciting life mile­ stones. We are thrilled to share the news of weddings, births, career updates, and other new adventures, while also reporting in on the everyday and special occasions that our classmates have shared since our last column. We are especially excited to kick off this column by sharing recent birth and marriage announcements for classmates, including Joshua Fein, Christina Sumpio von Poelnitz, McAllister Windom, Alejo Cabranes, Anthony D’Souza, and Mary-Beth Grimaldi. Joshua Fein and his wife, Michal, welcomed a daughter, Tamar, in April 2018.

Christina Sumpio von Poelnitz and her husband, Demian, welcomed a son, Conrad von Poelnitz, on March 4, 2018, at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. Christina reports

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of 2004 can now count two new professors among our ranks: Sarah Keenan is starting a tenure-track position as assistant professor in the department of Geology and Geological Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota, this fall. She will be teaching courses in pale­ ontology and geochemistry and setting up a research lab. Steven McDonald, who last wrote us during a monthlong stint at a local hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, finished his residency on June 1, 2018. After Labor Day, he will begin work as an assistant pro­ fessor of emergency medicine at Columbia University. During his time off, Steven has been traveling and catching up with Hopkins friends including Alexander Teicher, Barrie Segal, Alejo Cabranes, Sophia Lear, and Johanna Kinsley. His travels in the past year have also included trips to attend wedding of classmates Anthony D’Souza recently joined Citadel’s new equity long/short hedge fund business Aptigon Capital, where he now works as a trader. Finally, Nate Rosenblatt, who most recently wrote in from the United Kingdom, where he was pursuing doctoral studies, moved back to the United States this summer with his wife, Lydia, and his daugh­ ter, Shoshana, after two years in Europe and three in the Middle East. They are now based in the Cambridge/Somerville area of Massachusetts, and he would love to recon­ nect with Hopkins alumni/ae. As we sign off, a reminder to mark your calendar for our 15th Reunion (!), May 31–June 1, 2019, and a quick plug to continue sharing your news with us when you have it. Please also consider joining the new online platform, Hopkins Net@Work (hopkins.edu/network­ ing), which will help you to connect with Hopkins alumni/ae in your area or indus­ try for networking and professional advice between reunions and columns and to serve as a resource for current students participat­ ing in the job shadow program.

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2005

Courtney Ann O’Brien Yakavonis courtneyobrien@gmail.com Pamela Soberman pamela.soberman@gmail.com

Ian Epstein writes he has finished his first

year at Apple, where he has been working as an editor for Apple News. Thanks and hope life is going well on the Hill! It was bittersweet to hear about Donna Fasano ’68 DPH’s retirement—her impact on our time at Hopkins was immeasurable.

2006

Corey Briskin cbrisk01@gmail.com TiffanyAnn Johnson tiffanyannjo@gmail.com Lucas Kelly-Clyne lukekellyclyne@gmail.com

their new home in the Springdale section of Stamford, Connecticut. Having finished her MBA, Hallie Coffin-Gould lives with her fiancé in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and works at Thermo Fisher Scientific. This fall, Aleks Romano will be singing with the Seoul Philharmonic, the Utah Symphony, the Newfoundland Symphony, and the Israeli Philharmonic. Aleks and her husband married last September and bought a house in Greenville, North Carolina, where her husband teaches trombone and euphonium at East Carolina University. Eva Wilson, who is finishing up a PhD at Boston College, is in the process of applying for a pre-doctoral internship on the West Coast. And as for me, Corey Briskin, I live in Brooklyn, New York, with my husband and our two French bull­ dogs. I recently finished my first year at the Manhattan D.A.’s office, where I prosecute sex offenses and other violent felonies.

Luke Kelly-Clyne is knee-deep in various

TV and movie productions as head of Big Breakfast Productions. Look out for more episodes of Adam Ruins Everything on truTV and more Hot Date on PopTV, along with some other really fun stuff coming down the pike, including a horror comedy based on M.A.S.H., that sleepover game we all played in middle school. Back on the East Coast, Alexis Sharpe just finished her residency in internal medicine and is now specializing in pulmonary and critical care medicine at NYU. Also at NYU, Lucien Harlow-Dion finished a sustainable develop­ ment class and then switched jobs to help build the footprint of a friend’s business in New York. Even closer to the Hill, Spencer Church graduated from medical school and has started his residency in pediatrics at Yale. Also in Connecticut, James Ringold married Chelsea Krombel in Elizabeth Park in West Hartford this past summer, and is in the process of planning a honeymoon in Kenya this fall. Another recent newly­ wed, Tom Lambert, and his incredible wife, Sarah, a nurse at Greenwich Hospital and future midwife, are currently living in

2008

Marguerite Paterson marguerite@gmail.com

It was wonderful to see so many of you at Reunion this year. Although we have a short column for this issue, it was great to see how many of our classmates seem to be really enjoying where they are in life!

Dan Peckham couldn’t make the reunion, but has some big changes coming up—after finishing up a master’s in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, he’ll be moving from Boston to Washington, D.C., for a new job consulting for cities and states on big infrastructure projects. He says that after six years in Boston, it’s about time for a change of location. Jay Brett finished a PhD in phys­ ical oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program and started a postdoctoral fellowship through the University of Hawaii Manoa, which includes spending this summer visiting the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Jay is now research­

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ing how the physics of the ocean at scales of 1–10 km may affect phytoplankton in both the current and warmer climates. After more than five years in Los Angeles, Doug Prusoff recently moved back to New York and mar­ ried Kristin Horvath. He is still working for the Movember Foundation, heading up corporate development efforts, and would love to catch up with some more Hilltoppers now that he’s back on the East Coast. After leaving her marketing job with Chanel in New York City, Shirley Liu moved back to Connecticut to start her own business, called Shirley and Audrey, with her mom. She also married her partner of nine years, Geoffrey Lawson, this spring in New York City and missed reunion because she was honey­ mooning in Portugal and Spain. Hopkins was represented at Shirley’s wedding with Emilia King-Musza and Abby Walworth in atten­ dance. Ben Sperling recently transitioned out of a full-time role with his organization, Next Generation Men & Women, and is in the process of applying to business school for the fall of 2019. He looks forward to moving back up to the Northeast with his wife and dog and starting this next chapter. Julian Gewirtz recently completed a doctorate in modern Chinese history at Oxford University and is now a postdoc at Harvard.

2009

10th Reunion Hopkins—May 31–June 1, 2019

Allison Lyons lyonsal@sas.upenn.edu Rajeev Mehrotra rmehrotra@wustl.edu

Classmates from 2008 gathered for their 10th Reunion during Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1 and 2, 2018.

and skincare company. She’s living in Stamford, Connecticut, with her two pups, Lucy and Phoebe, and her fiancé. Kavan Reddy is interning at Biogen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this summer. Pablo Cuevas just celebrated his five-year anniversary working in investment banking at Citigroup.

Additionally, he spent five weeks in Uganda, working at a youth empowerment center out­ side of Jinja. Finally, after many years, Pablo has returned to swimming and will be com­ peting in the 2018 Paris Gay Games against nearly 1,100 swimmers from around the world. Also competing in an event is Mike Levine running the New York City Marathon this year for the second time. Currently, he is going into his final year of medical school at the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in Brooklyn, New York, and is in the process of doing away rotations while figuring out where he’ll be doing his training to become an emergency medicine physician. He is looking forward to all of the free time he’ll have starting in September, and to spending time with friends in the New York City area.

Nathaniel Zelinsky just graduated from law

school and moved to Columbus, Ohio, for the year to clerk for a federal judge. Nabil Mehta graduated from Brown Medical School in May, and has recently begun his residency in orthopaedic surgery at Rush University in Chicago. Tiffany Gagnon is still working at Indeed, but moved from client services to sales. Recently, she has also become a consultant for Beautycounter, a clean beauty

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2010

Allie Briskin alliebriskin@gmail.com Molly Levine mollyhl@gwmail.gwu.edu

Maggie Grimes started a new job at Compass

as its Industry Relations Associate. Allie Briskin is working as a summer associate in

JP Morgan’s Private Bank for the summer, prior to heading back to Washington, D.C., to finish up her second (and last) year as an MBA candidate at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Maddie Kern is going into her final year of dental school at Tufts.

2011

Matt Pun poonee_11sbcglobal.net Cailin Gillespie cgilles1@nd.edu

Amanda Dobbyn is living in Brooklyn,

New York, now, working remotely for the Chicago-based tech company she has been with for a couple years. She spends her free time developing fun but mostly useless R packages, playing Ultimate Frisbee, and getting to know the dogs in the neighbor­ hood. Jerrod Dobkin is currently living in Denver for the 2018 election cycle, where he is serving as Communications Director and Senior Advisor for the campaign of Walker Stapleton, the Republican nominee for Governor of Colorado. Sam Greco is a thirdyear law student at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is currently clerking for Chairman Chuck Grassley’s majority staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Earl Lin is also still living in Washington, D.C., though now in the District proper, as opposed to Arlington, Virginia. In June, he started working as a paralegal with the Roderick &

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Solange MacArthur Justice Center, a non­ profit civil rights litigation and advocacy law firm that works mainly on issues of criminal justice reform, including police misconduct, prisoner rights, wrongful convictions, and the death penalty. Specifically, as a member of the MacArthur Justice Center’s Appellate Project, he works on litigation before higher courts around the country, up to and includ­ ing the United States Supreme Court, which is very exciting. In his free time, he has been trying to take advantage of all D.C. has to offer, including regularly hanging out with a few fellow Hilltoppers in the area and trying to find opportunities to get back into sailing.

Emma Gleeman is having a great winter in Valdivia, Chile, and overall loves living in Latin America. Fulbright research is fun and challenging; she has active projects on forest regeneration and productivity, volcanic and fire disturbance to native ecosystems, and land use change and wetland degradation.

Emma finds that the more she learns about something (academia, the higher educa­ tion system in Chile, post-dictatorship social and political change, or even just Chilean Spanish) the more she feels like she needs to improve. Highlights include fieldwork (on volcanoes, in coastal forests, in national parks), practicing and performing with a batucada drumming group, travel (especially to see the geology and astronomy in the San Pedro de Atacama desert), and making new friends. She does miss New Haven pizza, though. Kristi Hill has started at Harvard Medical School this fall. She experienced a mini Hopkins reunion when she ran into Grace Baldwin ’12 and Emory Werner ’12 at the white coat ceremony.

2012

Luke McCrory luke.mccrory@yahoo.com Amanda B. Fath amanda.fath.16@tfacorps.org

From far and wide the Class of 2012 contin­ ues to keep busy in academic and career

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pursuits. Amanda Fath finished her two-year commitment with Teach for America and is leaving the classroom to research neural correlates of schizophrenia as a Fulbright Scholar in Barcelona, Spain. Robbie Emmet is continuing his studies at the University of Washington to pursue a PhD researching models of abundance and survival of highly mobile species. Nicole Gorton is moving out west, where she will begin a PhD in economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Nolan Paige will be finish­ ing a master’s of Theology at Vanderbilt University while interning at an elementary school as an assistant Bible teacher. Nolan will continue following his passion for tennis by coaching tennis at Lipscomb University in the fall. Nicole Wolfe will be leaving Boston, Massachusetts, and joining Nolan at Vanderbilt, where she will be studying Special Education. Hannah Johnson is jug­ gling her graduate work in Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with her professional position as an Autism Treatment Specialist. This upcoming year she will be a fellow with the Wisconsin Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Program, where she will be work­ ing with a team of graduate students from 16 different disciplines. Kela Caldwell is leaving Los Angeles, and will be joining Hannah at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to pursue a PhD in Human Geography. Brian Astrachan is leading business development for Health Joy, a healthcare technology company, while also managing a physical therapy company, Rekinetics, on the side.

Leslie Brunker is deep into her clinical and final year of veterinary school at Cornell University. She will be an active duty Army Veterinary Corps officer when she gradu­ ates in the spring. Andrew Stone is gearing up for his second year of medical school at the University of Connecticut, joined by Vijay Kodumudi, who will be entering his third year. Jay Sullivan has just returned from Malaysia, where he ran a hackathon and design competition for his new job at

Conservation X Labs, a Washington, D.C.– based innovation and technology company that works on environment and international development projects. While he was there, he was able to reconnect with his former stu­ dents and fellow teachers from his Fulbright year. Jay would also like to thank any 2012 alums who served as pen pals for his former students in Malaysia. Grace Baldwin will begin medical school at Harvard University in the fall. Emory Werner recently returned from traveling across Europe, where she spent two weeks traveling through Portugal with Erin Rosenberg. Emory will join Grace in Boston to start medical school at the Health, Science and Technology program at Harvard and MIT. Jack Lubin is begin­ ning a graduate program in Astrophysics at University of California, Irvine, and intends to get a PhD. He had a great time this spring addressing the current Hopkins student body at assembly for his 11th annual grilled cheese extravaganza.

2013

Leili Azarbarzin lazarbarzin17@gmail.com Alex Dillon alexbaileydillon@gmail.com Eli Lustbader e2lustbader@gmail.com

Hey Class of ’13! Time keeps rolling on, and we have rolled back around to class notes time! Before we start in earnest, a huge thank you to our reunion committee: Leili, Pat, Matt, Sarah, Kelsey, and Cory! I couldn’t get away from work, but I hope everyone who was able to make our five-year (!) reunion had a wonderful time! Now, this edition of class notes will be coming at you in coast-to-coast format: First, the wild card: Cristina Detwiler de Castro is officially an elementary school teacher specializing in English—congratulations, Cristina! By the time you’re reading this, she’ll be in Spain working as a language assistant and pursuing her teaching credentials there. She hopes to

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Classmates from 2013 enjoyed reconnecting throughout Alumni/ae Weekend on June 1 and 2, 2018.

travel the world and teach in different coun­ tries; I look forward to a biannual Where’s Waldo for a long time to come! Starting our east-west journey in our home region of New England, Zeynep Tek spent the year at the Yale diabetes program and will be starting med school at the University of Vermont.

She’s excited to get back to school and hopes to take maximum advantage of the loca­ tion to learn to ski. In the Big Apple, Sarah Wagner is working in Christie’s Marketing Department, getting to know the auction world (how fancy!) and the city. Brendan Donovan is also in the city, although poten­ tially not for long—he’s contemplating (and networking for) a move to Los Angeles.

In the meantime, he’s been keeping busy as producer’s assistant on a Netflix sports documentary series, developing and writing some of his own TV projects, and releasing music through his conceptual electronic music project Bastion, available wherever you stream music. Moving across to Chicago, Illinois, Patrick Quinn is in his second year of work at the Civic Consulting Alliance, where he’s advising the State’s Attorney on criminal justice reform. He’s also contem­ plating a move in the next year, so watch this space! I (Alex Bailey Dillon) am also still based in Chicago, although I’ll be bouncing around a bit in the next year. I’ve finished my apprenticeship at Steppenwolf and am

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jumping into the big bad world of freelance stage management. I’m still spending time in Edinburgh, Scotland (for the Fringe), and San Francisco (working with the SF Playhouse), but I’m sticking with Chicago as a home base for now. And finally, westernmost of this issue’s respondents, Gleeson Ryan is working on Chevron’s Corporate Social Responsibility team in San Francisco and studying Japanese in her free time. Thanks so much to everyone who wrote in—I really love getting all of your emails and hearing what you’re up to. I hope everyone is doing well and having a great time.

2014

5th Reunion Hopkins—May 31–June 1, 2019

Joshua Furth joshua.furth@duke.edu Jack Greenberg jbg3@williams.edu Ross Pforzheimer rossinator199@aol.com

With much of the Class of 2014 now finished with college, the incoming Fifth Reunion class has hit the ground of the “real world” running. In graduate school news, Hope Whitelock graduated from the University of Connecticut with a bachelor’s—and master’s!—in physics and is heading to the University of Colorado-Boulder as an NSF

and Center for Experiments on Quantum Materials fellow to get a doctorate in condensed matter physics, working on strongly correlated systems. Dan Kluger, for his part, is bidding farewell to the East Coast and heading to the sunny skies of California to begin a doctorate in statistics and data science at Stanford. On the jobs front, Nicole Kogan is sticking around in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After finishing up at MIT, she now works as a data scientist at nference, a startup focused on biomedical knowledge synthesis. Brian Keller is staying (relatively) close to Haverford, Pennsylvania, taking up work as a production assistant at Glass Entertainment Group in Philadelphia.

Natasha Sinha, after finishing up college and a master’s program at Cornell, is starting her professional career at Deloitte, work­ ing within their mergers and acquisitions division. Abigail Eberts is now working as an equity research analyst at Renaissance Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut, after graduating with a degree in dance and economics from Barnard. Too big a fan of croissants to stay in America for too long, Kaitlin Hickey is heading back to France on a Fulbright, working as an English teaching assistant at Lycée Julie-Victoire Daubié. In other news, I, Jack Greenberg, am currently halfway through a bag of Five Guys french fries and want to remind everyone that we

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have a reunion in June! Please mark your calendars now for a return to the Hill on May 31–June 1, 2019. The Fifth Reunion tends to be the best attended (and among the most fun) of all, and I am immensely excited to see you all back at 986 Forest Road. In the interim, have wonderful years and, if you would like to include anything in the next issue of the class notes, feel free to send any and all life updates along to my email listed above. Tibi gratias ago!

2015

Griffin Smith smithg2@union.edu

Time continues to fly by with this article coming three and a half years since the Class of 2015 last walked the grounds of Hopkins as students. Members of the class are living and traveling across the globe, achieving great successes in a variety of fields. With the five-year reunion and life after col­ lege inching ever closer, hearing what the class has been up to in their time off the Hill has been particularly exciting. Down in Washington, D.C., Leah Salzano spent the summer interning at Public Citizen, a consumer rights organization. She worked in their Access to Medicines department and has been lobbying government officials, in particular members of Congress, to lower the price of prescription drugs, as well as making medicines more accessible to people across the globe. After quitting the lacrosse team at Dartmouth, Walker Schneider found himself without a sense of direction. In typi­ cal Walker fashion, however, he joined the rugby team and over the summer he worked as a research intern at Esquire Magazine. The former tennis star Sayer Paige has turned his attention to another sport: baseball.

Using what he learned as Vice Head of the Hopkins Fan Club senior year, Sayer worked as a broadcasting intern for a minor league baseball team down in Virginia. With a career in sports media in mind, Sayer noted

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that although classroom work has helped him immensely, there is nothing like truly working in the real world. Rob Schaefer has utilized what he learned as Sports Editor and Editor-in-Chief of The Razor to help him succeed as an intern at the fast rising sports and pop culture website, The Ringer. As an up-and-coming writer, it is only a matter of time before Rob reaches his ultimate goal of obtaining the coveted blue checkmark on his Twitter account, @rob_schaef. After spend­ ing a term abroad in Europe, Isabel Balcezak spent the summer in New Haven working at a venture capital firm that invests in digital health startups, Healthventure. Similar to the famous song lyric “there’s no place like home for the holidays,” Isabel believes there is no place like home for the summer after becoming homesick during her travels.

Alex McMahon spent the summer in New York City working with the Finance Group at Barclays. As a former IMBL star, Alex was also able to lead his intramural team at Fairfield to the intramural champion­ ship before missing the game winning shot, but he is excited for another chance next year. After finishing up the year as a part of the dual-degree engineer program, Justin Bower continued his studies at Dartmouth over the summer. Among other things, Justin learned how to ride a bicycle this year and is excited to take his new skill back to Hamilton College. Tova Benson-Tilsen spent the month of July working at Camp Ramah, where both Tova and actor BJ Novak spent their childhood summers. One of the benefits of the job is that she is able to snoop through campers’ packages to confiscate con­ traband candy. Another member of the Class of 2015 in the Big Apple is Jake Poliner, who has been working as a quant trading intern at Virtu Financial, a high frequency trad­ ing firm. His Columbia classmate, Michael Leone, is working close by as an investment banking intern at Citigroup. Despite their demanding schedules, Jake and Michael have still been able to make time to meet up

with their amateur bicycling group on the weekends. Griffin Smith spent the summer working as an economic development intern in New Haven and served on the Orientation Committee, helping run the orientation program at Union College. Over the summer Sanjay Dureseti worked as an Accelerate Fellow with Teach for America. He helped perform consulting work with nonprofit and governmental clients that focus on fighting educational inequity and increasing voter engagement. As part of his involvement with the Accelerate Fellowship, he has traveled across the country and worked on projects in Albuquerque, Nashville, and Chicago.

In the fall, Sanjay will also be working as a fellow for Scott Wallace’s congressional cam­ paign for Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District. Will Pitkin worked as a bartender over the summer while also taking an online Harvard Business School class. A member of Colgate University’s rugby team, Will is excited for the team’s season and to fully utilize the skills he learned from Coach Ayer at Hopkins. After finishing up his squash season at Haverford College, where he had a mediocre season, Alex Liu worked as an investment banking intern at BNP Paribas in New York City. Kamsi Nwangwu spent the summer in Bethesda, Maryland, work­ ing at the National Institutes of Health doing research. The main project that he was involved with was constructing a novel plasmid coding for a transmembrane protein called C1C7. At the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Sophie Liebergall has spent the last three years doing heart disease research. This most recent summer, how­ ever, she decided to try something new and helped research Alzheimer’s at the George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience in Rhode Island. She is looking forward to spending her last year at UVA, hosting dinner parties for her friends, and taking advantage of the Charlottesville, Virginia, music scene. It was great to hear from a few new people for this issue and I hope that

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more people continue to reach out in the future. With many members of the Class of 2015 entering their senior years of college, it is exciting to hear what everyone has been up to and what is planned for the future.

2016

Eric Kong eric_kong@brown.edu Sophia C. Cappello sophia.cappello@yale.edu Emmanuel C. Chinyumba emmanuel.chinyumba@uconn.edu

Eva Mullineaux: “I spent the summer work­

ing at a consumer behavior research firm in London, England, and am having a great time exploring the city and Europe. I’m back at Barnard for the fall, where I’m going to be the musical director of my acapella group, Bacchantae (Spirens never dies though), and then I’ll be going to the University of Auckland in New Zealand for the spring.”

Mollie Seidner: “This summer I had an internship at WashU and worked in the Musculoskeletal Soft Tissue Lab (a mechani­ cal engineering lab) on campus. My project has been to make bioengineered tissue ana­ logs that will be used as a proof of concept for a reflected-light quantitative polariza­ tion light imaging (rQPLI) model that can analyze full-thickness tissues. I also wrote some of the code that was/will be used to analyze the tissue analogs and eventually cadaveric UCLs. I’ve also been swimming so that I’m in shape for the upcoming season.

Kristine Ahn: “I’m studying economics at Dartmouth and have been working in New York City since May as a product and brand management intern at a venture funded startup, and will be in the city until January, but go home to New Haven from time to time.” Cam Morris: “I’ve continued playing lacrosse at Fordham for their club team, and have become a producer at Fordham’s radio station, WFUV, producing everything from our sports talk show to basketball and

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football games. This summer, I interned at a venture capital and private equity firm as well. Lindsay Martin: “I am currently a junior in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, pursuing a major in Global Business and a minor in Spanish. In addi­ tion to taking classes, I work year-round in the Wealth Management division of UBS Financial Services in Washington, D.C. However, I took this summer off in order to be a Global Operations Intern for Marriott International’s Corporate Headquarters.

Here, I assisted with the integration of Starwood Hotels after the company’s acquisi­ tion by Marriott—specifically with the unifi­ cation of Marriott’s three rewards programs into one, which launched on August 18 and impacts 21 countries and 6,500 properties worldwide.”

2017

Caroline Simon pokeysimon@gmail.com Sanaea Bhagwagar sbhagwagar17@students.hopkins.edu

Over the summer Tatyana Rozetta was in a production of The Color Purple at the Connecticut Theatre Company. The produc­ tion received amazing reviews, one of which was from Broadway World! Holden Turner worked at a summer camp and is excited to be assistant directing a show at Bowdoin this fall. Zev Rosen reports, “I still say ‘Let’s Go Hop!’ at inappropriate times throughout the day, but now people don’t know what I’m talking about.” Lydia McGrath is teach­ ing pre-K for Horizons at Greens Farms Academy. Caroline Laplaca was a teaching assistant for kindergarteners this summer.

Sydnee Blanco was an intern for a startup company in New York City. Sophia Kyrcz is transferring to UConn, studying animal science. Sarah Traynor enjoyed farming in Italy and studying at the London School of Economics this summer. In Chloe Glass’s first year at Yale, she spent a lot of time

in the art museums working as a gallery guide at the Yale University Art Gallery, and also interviewing people as a contributing reporter for the Yale Daily News. For the past month, she has been studying art history and British literature in London, England, at the Paul Mellon Centre, and she was a leader for the pre-orientation hiking trip Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trip in August. Tiffany Buu says: “This summer, I studied abroad at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, Spain. I also performed CS research focusing on the efficiencies of natural lan­ guage processing systems and its abilities to parse through electronic health records, used in the medical field. It was such an amazing experience to meet and travel with people from around the world. When I wasn’t in the classroom, I traveled as much as I could, from hiking in the Swiss Alps, riding camels in Morocco, cliff-jumping near Madrid, Spain, to enjoying the historical landmarks all around Spain. Next semester at UIUC, I will be an academic-alumni officer and a family head for the largest Asian-interest organization on campus, and I’m beyond excited.”

If your class is not listed, we are either seeking a class correspondent or your class did not have any news to report.

If you have any questions, please contact Donna Vinci at dvinci@hopkins.edu.

Alumni/ae Weekend FRIDAY, MAY 31 & SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2019

For classes ending in 4 or 9— but all are welcome! Visit hopkins.edu/reunion for details.

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MILESTONES

Births

Marriages

In Memoriam

1980

1991

Ethan Taub and Elizaveta Shnayder Taub

Rachael Moses Schatz and Gary Lippin on

John Crosby Marshall ’46 HGS

welcomed Jeremy Daniel on July 11, 2018.

June 30, 2018

d. June 15, 2018

1987

2003

Elizabeth Converse Lewis ’41 DAY

d. January 18, 2018

James J. Carroll ’47 HGS

d. April 13, 2018

Matthew Carrano and Diana Marsh wel­

Emily Corwin and Ella Spottswood on June

Newton Ennis Morton ’47 HGS

comed Max Louis Carrano on August 1, 2018.

16, 2018

d. February 7, 2018

2000

2004

Emma and Adam Kaye welcomed Anna Mabel Kaye and Bella June Kaye on March 10, 2018.

Alejo Cabranes and Abigail Coster on July

Warren R. Jewett ’48 HGS

25, 2017

d. April 20, 2018

Anthony D’Souza and Amy Elizabeth Gress

William B. Harkness ’51 HGS

2001

in August 2017

d. July 19, 2018

Mary-Beth Grimaldi and Matt Rich on

James A. Shanley, Jr. ’52 HGS

Marissa Black and Cimarron Wortham wel­

November 4, 2017

d. March 11, 2018

comed Luca Alexander Black Wortham on July 3, 2018.

Chanelle Dumas and John Adams welcomed Bailey Victoria Adams on March 23, 2017.

Jennifer and Burak Erem welcomed Jennifer in February 2018.

2002 Anthony Papa and Brianne Cassidy Papa welcomed Jameson Papa on March 7, 2018.

Jason Meizlish and Allie Rubin Meizlish welcomed Naomi Rubin Meizlish, on March 4, 2018.

Andrea and Eric Warren welcomed Eli Steinberg Warren, on January 4, 2018.

2004

2006

William S. DeMayo, Jr. ’48 HGS

d. January 25, 2018

Nancy Pierce Williamson ’55 DAY

d. February 23, 2018

James Ringold and Chelsea Krombel in

Arnold H. Friedman ’58 HGS

summer 2018

d. June 6, 2018

2008

Lawrence P. Hastings, Jr. ’62 HGS

d. June 16, 2018

Adam Arthurs and Siran Cao on July 28,

Jane Horton Cantlin ’66 DPH

2018

d. September 1, 2018

Emily Carroll and Bridget Johnston on June

William H. Horton, Jr. ’68 HGS

6, 2018

d. July 7, 2018

Shirley Liu and Geoffrey Lawson on May 26,

Evelyn Reid ’83

2018

d. May 25, 2018

Doug Prusoff and Kristin Horvath on July

Corey B. Hausman ’18

14, 2018

d. September 12, 2018 Evan Herrick Schechner ’18

d. September 1, 2018

Michal and Joshua Fein welcomed Tamar in April 2018.

Demian and Christina Sumpio von Poelnitz welcomed Conrad von Poelnitz, on March 4, 2018.

McAllister Windom and Cornell Watson welcomed Wilhelmina Annette Watson on June 6, 2018.

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