DePaul University.
Reunion 2011: Loomis Chaffee Class of 1986 — 25th Reunion Back row: Elizabeth “Kiki” Hopkins Davis, Lauren Fisher, Sarah Grubbs Kotwicki, Scott Barnard, Chad Olcott, Philip Keating, Edward Sharkansky, and Christopher Whelan; third row: Peter Hsing, Margaret “Margie” Butler, Allison Mills Wickersham, Molly Wickwire Sante, Peter “PJ” Rubin, Heather Sargent Mather, Paul Havel, Katherine “Kaki” Martin, Timothy Craig, R. Stevens “Steve” Hall, Mark Rush, Julian Riley, Alison Patricelli, and Scott Lahman; second row: Christina Perez, Sharon Rogers, Jessica Thurrott Haxhi, Megan Burgess, Julie Elias, Sarah Curtis, Mynette Shifman, Philip Sanderson, Joseph Michaels, Matthew Walton, Robert Lammey, Andrew Mayo, and David London; first row: Hillary Keller, Lynn Goldfarb, Patricia “Trish” Franklin, William Melcher, Perrin McCormick Menashi, Lynn Petrillo, Maureen O’Brien Klautky, Eve Bridburg, Paula Kelly Galanti, Jodi Gebeloff Churchill, Dana Gillette, and Wendy Weller Aldrich. Photo: Wayne Dombkowski
1983
News from Carolyn Carmody: “Mary and I and the kids, Vincent and Simone, moved back to Arlington, Va., from Capitol Hill last year. I’ve had three careers since being on the Island: lawyer, firefighter/medic, and now proposal management consultant. Hope classmates are doing well.” Linda Huang Tolentino reports: “My oldest son, Alec, entered Phillips Academy at Andover as a freshman last September. Although he is required to board because we live outside the day student radius, we see him regularly and have attended sports competitions that involve Loomis Chaffee. It has been a conflicting experience for me. Whom do I cheer on?”
1984
B. Maria Dennis was hired in January as associate counsel by the National Hockey League Players Association. She focuses on collective bargaining and other individual player matters. Maria is a graduate of Yale University and the Georgetown University Law Center. She had an outstanding athletics career,
playing on the Yale women’s ice hockey team and the U.S. women’s national ice hockey team. She has served on the board of USA Hockey, the U.S. Olympic Committee, and the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee. In the latter capacity, Maria worked closely with presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
1986
David Sarno in the Los Angeles Times (March 13, 2011) reports: “Scott Lahman is co-founder and chief executive of Gogii, Inc., a California start-up that created the free text-messaging application textPlus for the iPhone and Android smart phones. TextPlus is one of Apple Inc.’s all-time most popular apps, with nearly 8 million active users. The ad-supported app allows users to join group texting conversations with people in their social circles or interest groups, and is an attempt to add new visual and social functions to text messaging, long an unadorned but widely used technology.” Jill Traverso Vogel has been appointed associate administrator of the Adirondack Com-
munity College Foundation. She will develop new fundraising projects and provide support for the foundation’s annual giving campaign. Jill received her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Union College, where she met her husband, Fred. She was awarded a master’s degree in educational administration and policy studies from the University of Albany. During her studies, she was employed as a college admissions administrator at S.U.N.Y. Albany. She previously served in a similar capacity at the College of New Rochelle. Jill and Fred have two children, Abigail, 13, and Will, 10. They live in Queensbury, N.Y.
1987
Thomas A. Foster is the editor of a recent book, New Men: Manliness in Early America, published by NYU Press. Contributors consider how colonial and Revolutionary conditions gave rise to new standards of British American manliness as new manners developed and European mores and prejudices were cast aside. Thomas is associate professor and director of the LGBTQ Studies Program, Department of History,
Suzanne Meyer McKinney and her husband, Mike, are founders of Pacific Quest, an outdoor therapeutic program for high schoolers and young adults in Hawaii. Suzanne and Mike and their partner recently won Small Business of the Year in Hawaii. See pacificquest.org. Cathryn Prince spoke about her new book, A Professor, a President, and a Meteor: The Birth of American Science, at the Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, in March.
1988
“Things are good,” writes Eric Turner. “I just earned my master of arts in liberal studies from Dartmouth, and I’m studying at Oxford this summer.”
1989
News from J. Wells Dixon: “My wife, Alison Sclater, and I are pleased to announce the birth of our son, Christopher, January 6, 2011, in New York City.” The film Fake, directed by Gregory Friedle, which premiered June 9, 2010, in the Hoboken International Film Festival, received its Connecticut premiere April 9 at the Litchfield Hills Film Festival (formerly the Kent Film Festival) at the Bank Street Theater, New Milford. Cast members include Gabriel Mann (The Bourne Supremacy, Josie and the Pussycats); Jill Flint (Royal Pains); Fisher Stevens (Academy Award winner, Short Circuit, Hackers); David Thornton (John Q, Home Alone 3, Swept Away); Robert Clohessy (Oz, The Interpreter, Angels in loomischaffee.org | 45