REGIONAL ALUMNI RECEPTIONS
From San Francisco to NY
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HE HOTSPOTS: Alumni from the Classes of 1949-2011 gathered in February at the beautiful Pacific Heights home of Hallie Mitchell Hoffman ’93 and Auren Hoffman for the 2016 Bay Area alumni reception. In April, Kathryn Patton Beal ’90 and Bruce Beal hosted New York alumni at midtown Manhattan’s Harvard Club, a social club for affiliates of the university that’s on the National Register of Historic Places. Bay Area alums got school updates from Upper School Director Alixe Callen, and chemistry teacher – and newly named assistant Upper School director – Hans
de Grys shared how technology has and hasn’t changed the teaching of science. New Yorkers heard from Acting Head of School Booth Kyle and science teacher Devin Parry. (Head of School Bernie Noe, who was on sabbatical this spring, is looking forward to catching up with alums in both cities next year.) The buzz: Many SF alumni are working in clean, renewable energy or companies focused on smart buildings; many are at very small startups. Almost any young alum you talked to had, at some point, worked at Google. ■ See more photos at www.lakesideschool.org/ alumni . Alumni in the Bay Area and New York can easily connect via alumni Facebook groups for their regions.
Classmates from 2006, from left, Bennett Blau, Drew Rowny, Shane Easter, Carolyn Asuncion, Lisa Baldini, and Sarah Koo.
From left, Justin Norden ’09, Hal Wright ’10, and Kyle McAndrews ’11.
Bay Area hostess Hallie Mitchell Hoffman ’93, Margaret Campbell Miller ’93, Wendy Weiden ’94, and Shannon Fitzgerald ’94.
Merritt D. Benson ’49, Ned Sander ’90, Brad Benson, and Jonathan Wright ’86. From left, in New York City, Kathryn Patton Beal ’90, Kara Schocken Aborn ’91, David Williams ’91, and Mark Reed ’89.
From left in New York City, Manu Gandham ’11, Upper School science teacher Devin Parry, Mie Morikubo ’11, Alex Xu ’11, Betsy Wade ’11, and Erika Liu ’11. Receptions
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