Class of 1986; row 1 (left to right): Grace Chan McKibben, Katherine F. Laing, Brooke (Coldiron) Penders, Olivia (Rugo) Free, Whitney (Shugrue) Hermann, Kathryn (Moran) Collins, Ruta Brickus and Baby Romas, Stephen Bordonaro— Samantha, Matthew, Shin Hirose; row 2 (left to right): Mariana Chilton, Susan Carter, Farah Pandith, Christopher Perry, Vanessa (Rugo) Robinson, Michael Gitlitz, John Marshall, Karen Euler, Stephen Brotman, Todd Chayet; row 3 (left to right): James Pringle, Barry Korn, Robert Ball, Derrick Cooper, Lewis Gilman, Graydon Clouse, Heather Ewing, Wendy Millet, Matthew Griffin
1982 Ryo Hirose recently went on vacation to Los Cabos with Isabelle Hunnewell Stafford and her family for relaxation. In family news, Ryo continues to work as a liver, kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and is now associate director of the surgical residency program. He is busy raising Kentaro (8) and Kyoko (7). Ryo also reports that Keiko Hirose ’85 is at the Cleveland Clinic and is a successful pediatric ENT surgeon. Shin Hirose ’86 finished his general surgery residency at UCSF and is at Columbia Presbyterian doing a pediatric surgery fellowship. Kenzo Hirose ’91 finished his general surgery residency at UCSF and is doing a liver fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. The Hirose family headed off to Brown this spring for Momoko Hirose’s ’02 graduation. Ryo reports, “she is thinking of going to med school— surprise, surprise.” Phil Robertson reports that he is living happily in Bangkok, Thailand, with his wife and fiveyear-old daughter and works as a consultant on human rights, labor and migration issues for United Nations agencies, inter68
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national trade union organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGO). He is also the country chair of the Democrats Abroad chapter in Thailand. He welcomes Milton Academy visitors. While in the United States last year, he saw classmates J. B. Pritzker, Fred Bisbee, Jim Ward, and Karl Austen. He considers himself incredibly lucky to have Fran McLean as a brother-in-law and saw Fran and Nan’s (Anne “Nan” Robinson McLean ’83) new home in Rockville, Maryland. Phil also catches up with Jonathan “Jones” Walsh, who is a longtime English teacher in Sapporo, Japan. Isabelle Hunnewell Stafford writes, “Hello Milton friends!” She reports that life in Tamworth, New Hampshire, is busy but good. Between juggling two jobs and running after her two children, Thomas (7) and Georgia (5), she is quite challenged on a daily basis. Isabelle checks her email periodically and would love to hear from people, exclaiming, “For example, has anyone successfully made it through their mid-life crisis?” Tom Waters is a policy analyst researching and advocating for low-income housing and supporting tenant organizing at the
Class of 1991; row 1 (left to right): Katharine Brooks Leness, Kaci Carr Foster, Hannah Miller Lerman, Linda Harrison Biederman, Shelly (Pitman) Suzuki, Courtney Monnich (Meredith), Ben Monnich, Luke Monnich, Spencer Hoffman (Celia); row 2 (left to right): Adriana McGrath, Jessica Semerjian Lopez, Aaron Goldberg, John Corey, Adam Stein, Sarah Millet (Scarlett); row 3 (left to right): Denielle Bertarelli, Robert Purcell, Fipp Avlon, Andreas Lazar, Michael Douglas, Matt Pottinger, Jeff Courey, Henrik Brun
Community Service Society of New York. He lives in northwest Bronx with Hilary Callahan and five-year-old Daniel Watahan.
1983 Claire Messud’s new novel, The Emperor’s Children, was released this fall by Knopf. She and her family—husband James Wood and their children Livia (5) and Lucian (2)—moved to the Boston area in 2003 and love being here. Cynthia Powell returned from the Peace Corps in Niger and is setting up a freelance writing/ editing business focusing on international development issues. She gives her best to all and can’t wait for the 25th!
1984 Sarah Hoit and her husband, Scott Bevins, live in Hingham with their two children, Samantha (3) and Wesley (4). Sarah is an investment advisor with ThomasPartners in Wellesley. Recently, Sarah and Scott had a wonderful time reconnecting with Patrice Dolan Morse and her husband, Carter. Lisa Donohue ’83 passed along the news that Asher Lipman is a proud father of a baby girl, Charlotte Manya.
1985 James Forbes lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with his wife, Alison, and their two girls, Alden (5) and Willow (2). He enjoys seeing John Siegfried and his family occasionally since they moved to Amesbury, Massachusetts. He finds parenting challenging and mostly a lot of fun—“especially since they’re out of diapers now!”
1986 Ely Todd Chayet currently works in Los Angeles, California, at Thelen, Rein and Priest, LLP. He resides in Calabasas, California, with his wife, Kathleen, and children, Aaron, Tara and Sarah. Grace Chan McKibben is vice president in human resources at LaSalle Bank, leading a change management initiative. After almost three years as Deputy Director for Administration at the Illinois Department of Employment Security, she has gained quite a few insights on effecting change in large, complex organizations. Her children, Jessica (12), Jacob (10), Vanessa (7) and Vincent (4), are growing too fast and Grace comments,