News and Notes NCS ALUMNI/AE 1947 Piri Halasz “I just got my bathroom remodeled – it’s beautiful!” 1970 Cassia Levitt Dippo (also NCS staff 80-82, CTT staff 80) “I am teaching third grade in Salt Lake City as well as working at our family business, the Alta Lodge in Alta, Utah. Both sons are doing well in California and Idaho. Great to see familiar faces and renew friendships at our NCS/CTT reunions every spring at our lodge in Alta.” 1970 Amelia Wood Silver “I’m happily ensconced in Pownal, Vermont working at Sunrise Family Resource Center. We run a high school for pregnant and parenting teens and work with families in crisis. After nine years of direct service in the field, (which means in houses and trailers), I have just started as development director for the agency. It’s a very exciting new job. I think of North Country every day still (after 43 years!) and those years still reverberate in my life. My daughter and I worked for CTT alum and fellow Buxton School pal Peter Shumlin’s (CTT 66-69) two gubernatorial campaigns—she’s got the activist/political bug too! And I had the great honor of going to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte as an alternate delegate in Vermont’s delegation. North Country pops up everywhere: not long ago I met a sheep farmer in Pawlet, VT, at a party. After talking for awhile it turned out he had taught at ‘a school no one’s ever heard of in the Adirondacks,’ to which I replied, ‘I went there! NCS!’ It was Peter Helmetag…Very cool stuff. After my oldest daughter’s wedding next summer, I’m hoping to come visit you all up there. It’s time!” 1971 Charles Biddle “I’m living in South County, Rhode Island. I follow NCS daily on Facebook. My son Charley is at Georgetown University; my daughter Kate will attend Washington University in St. Louis. If nearby, please come visit.”
1971 Tanaquil “Tania” Taubes “I am indebted to NCS for the social activist in me. I’ve been raising my son, Solomon, in the NCS spirit, the internet notwithstanding. When my son slips into that ‘lost-in-his-own-thoughts-I’m-toobusy-world,’ which our society calls, ‘Oh, he’s a teenager,’ I use my NCS compass and repeat: ‘Solomon, please do x, y & z (then, with emphasis): If not you? Who?’ For me NCS taught: Yes, you can help.” 1974 James Lindquist James founded and runs Red Sky restaurant in Southwest Harbor, Maine, with his wife Elizabeth. Red Sky was featured in the January/February 2014 issue of Bangor Metro magazine. James remembers night walking to the chicken coop for goose eggs to cook omelets. 1983 Tom Hughes (also CTT 84-85, CTT staff 89-94, NCS staff 92-93) “Una Loomis Hughes, born December 16, 2013 at 5:48 AM, 8 lbs. 20 inches. Born under a full moon shining through the window, her name rhymes with Luna and evokes her grandmother Nancy Hughes and great-grandmother Natalie Loomis. Everyone is doing well!”
1984 Alex Delgado
“Our NCS family hiking in Guatemala in January 2014 (from right): Alex Delgado (84), Cecelia Delgado, Irene Delgado, and Alexia Delgado, who will be joining us at NCS in Fall 2014. Also hiking but not pictured are Isai Calderon (00) and Maria Calderon (02). 1993 Donald McKoy “I just want to let everybody know that I’m doing ok. I’m still living in North Carolina (Wilmington). I’m a proud father of two girls, Kamahra and Chi’Asia, ages 7 and 8. I would love to hear from anyone who attended NCS. NCS holds a special place in my heart. What an experience. Class of 93: We Are NCS! Love each and every one of y’all.” 1995 Josh Rowan Our thanks to Josh, who this spring hosted 22 NCS seniors on his family’s schooner, Hindu, in Key West. http://sailschoonerhindu.com. 2002 Jon Hochschartner
Jon and Amanda Kane are happily engaged.They live with their three furry “children,” Max, Rosie and Teddy. Feel free to drop them a line at JonHoch3@ gmail.com. continued on page 33
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