News and Notes 2006 Seth Clare (also CTT 04-05) Seth graduated magna cum laude from the College of Charleston this spring. He is now doing an internship in Israel as assistant to the director of the language services department in the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2009 Eli Clare (also CTT 2005) Eli recently transferred to Earlham College. current NCS families, including Mr. Yasuhiko Sotohama and Ms. Setsuko Egashira (back row), parents of Shinawi. Also pictured are Shusei Hirotake (CTT 13) with his sister Mio (CTT 14) and their mother, Norie Komatsu.
2010 Zack Tashman
This spring, Director of Alumni Relations and Events Kimberly Corwin Gray (NCS 95) visited former NCS students and alums at Stoneleigh Burnham School and Northfield Mount Hermon. Back row, left to right: Kate Majewski (NCS 08-13), Ashley Miles (NCS 11), Hongqiao (Jessica) Li (NCS 13); front: Emily Majewski (NCS 0913). Zack (far left) and other recent alums got together at the first Nordic prep school meet of the season, a 5K skate race, at Proctor Academy on January 8, 2014. Also pictured: Marcos Fernandez (NCS 12), Hyelom Love (NCS 13), and Lucy Hochschartner (NCS 13).
NCS STAFF Former farm intern Carrie Blackmore was honored recently as queen of Madison County (NY) hops. She and her husband Matt Whalen (CTT staff 09) own and operate Good Nature Brewing in Hamilton, NY, which produces handcrafted beers made with local ingredients and without artificial preservatives. On a fall 2013 trip to Japan, Director of Admissions David Damico visited with
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Gerald LaGrange Jr.
“I have had a long career in Supply Chain, but I miss teaching. Maybe something I’ll get back to in retirement in a few years. Best to Roger Loud, Don Rand, Dimitra, and all the team from the late 1970s.” During Intersession, NCS English teacher and curriculum coordinator Carrie Niebanck was a member of a NYSAIS visiting team for a 10-year
Organic Roots Summer 2014
accreditation of St. Thomas Choir School in New York City. Eliza Pillard (NCS staff 94-00) is a child psychiatric social worker in Burlington and Ken Spencer (NCS staff 94-00) is the technical director and lead stenographer of a cardiology practice. Nick returned from a term in Australia to his junior year at Middlebury College; Eli has adventured to Colorado for his junior year in high school.
CTT FRIENDS Linda Bird Francke
Camper 49-50 “It’s been 65 years since I was at Treetops, but I still remember the hot, canvas smell of Tent #5, a horse named Goldie, playing mumblety-peg (toe, knee, chest, nut), going to sleep in my clothes so I’d be faster off the mark for barn chores, square dancing, learning to make a halter hitch, the huge safety pins for blanket rolls, sleeping in John’s Brook Lodge and in lean-tos, Van Houten chocolate bars...on and on. Every child should have that same wonderful experience. Treetops shaped my life.” Gail and Robert Schumacher
CTT 56-97 staff, CTT parents 64-87 “During 2013, we moved to Concord, NH to be with our son Jay, his wife Sonya, and their two children Lindsey and Ian.”