CLASS NOTES this year on a business video conference, while Imran is working in Saudi Arabia. Imran is just as lively and dynamic as he was 25 years ago, except working abroad and coaching a football team. Steve hopes to hear from other classmates. Look him up at www.facebook/com/srisourcing. Jean Keet and her husband, Hank, live in Crested Butte, Colo., with daughters Jacey (5) and Jessica (3). Jean writes: “We own a heavy equipment business and a bookkeeping business. We just finished building our new Energy Star house with solar panels that we built ourselves. Skiing and biking here are the best.” Ali Hokin’s daughter Hannah Levin, formerly class of ’15, has launched a thriving blog geared toward students interested in pursuing careers in theater and film. She has interviewed many notable actors, including Laura Linney ’82. Check out Broadwaymasterchat.com. Jessica P’Simer Henry and her husband, David, have twin baby girls—Donley Gray Henry and Dana Kincer Henry—born seven weeks early 7/19/12, but due to receiving steroid shots to help the babies’ lungs develop, they were born able to breathe without assistance. They had to stay in the neonatal intensive care unit for more than a month until they learned how to eat without drowning. They are thriving now. Jessica stayed home with the girls for their first year, but now she is returning to school to complete her degree in early childhood education. She lives in north Georgia, so anyone who wants to visit, or is just passing through, is welcome. She can be reached on Facebook. Lisa Quattlebaum is approaching 10 years of living in Asia. She is finding her yin and yang in Guangzhou, China. Still multitasking, she just finished a business school program while working full time as an art teacher at an international school and having a baby. She and baby Mila are loving expat life. Lisa is documenting most of this in her mommy blog (www.petitefrau.wordpress.com), which will soon transition into an ecommerce site for moms and families (NMH alums get discounts, of course). Geoff Weed didn’t send me anything but said I should make up something unbelievable—Geoff Weed has settled down to a quiet little accounting job in the middle of nowhere, where life is always quiet and calm.
Will Sheats and his wife, Lisa, are enjoying Columbus, Ohio. While the Midwest is the furthest they have been from the ocean, life is good. Will recently earned his bachelor’s in culinary and hospitality management from Johnson and Wales (all online mind you). It was capped with a pretty cool weekend as he celebrated his 44th birthday 5/17 with a banquet at Legal Sea Foods in Warwick, R.I., with friends and family. This was followed with walking through commencement on Saturday to obtain his degree and more fresh seafood, including oysters on the half shell and lobster rolls. He is now the executive chef at Nationwide Insurance through ARAMARK corporate contract catering company, feeding 10,000 Nationwide employees in four buildings, plus the executive dining room, and catering. He and Lisa work across the street from each other, which is about a 10-minute, six-block walk from their urban apartment. Will refutes the claim that was written in the beer blog about Sam Calgione’s ’88 NMH beer, stating: “the class of ’88. Probably the most awesome class of righteous human beings to come through NMH ever.” Will’s response: “We got them beat by a year.” Will wants to take the reins for a meal in ’17 for the casual cook-out night and expects assistance from fellow chefs Matty Daigneault and Chris Slayton. Will also wants to arrange an ’87 Naked Heaven NMH IPA—”So good it will make you run Nekid.” He sends his love to all. Morgan Sturges Vaughan and her husband, Tristan, live in East Hampton, N.Y., and have started Round Table Theatre Company, a classical company and academy. In ’13, they produced Macbeth and ran a performing arts summer camp. They teach acting and a Shakespeare reading class at John Drew Theatre. Morgan also sings in a jazz/ standards band. She is still in despair from not making last year’s reunion, and she pledges to be at the next one.
Head of School Peter Fayroian with his daughter and Steve Green ’87
Alison Tenenbaum ’88, Therese LaGamma ’88, Jay Armstrong ’88, and NMH Trustee Ann Tenenbaum ’79 at the Austin SXSW in March ’13
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From Ethan: Greetings from London. This is my last column as class secretary, so I wanted to thank everyone who has shared news with me over the past few years. If anyone would like to volunteer for the position, it is a great opportunity to reconnect with friends. And don’t forget to join our class Facebook page for news about Reunion ’14. Now to the news. Brad Anger visited with his NMH roommate, Ahmet Subasi, in Istanbul in May. Brad says that as a student, Ahmet missed his home in Istanbul, and after visiting him in Turkey, Brad now understands why. Unfortunately, I missed Brad on the London leg of his trip when I was hiking in Norway. Jonathan Peck just missed the deadline last time when he wrote to say that he moved back to Chicago with his wife, Zelda, and sons Jonathan (3) and Wesley (1). Zelda is the director of the Dan K. Webb Center for Advocacy at Loyola Law School in Chicago. Jonathan is taking time off to care for the boys. Eric Olander is living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where he runs a media company. He moved there last year after several years in both France and the Congo. If any NMHers pass through Saigon, Eric said it’d be great to connect, so don’t hesitate to look him up. After being quiet for 24 years, Bridget Mooney Bryan wrote with her news since ’89. After NMH, she earned a bachelor’s in psychology and a master’s in community counseling from Penn State-Behrend in Erie. She is certified as a guidance counselor and in educational leadership. Bridget is principal of nine alternative-education settings and oversees 16 mental health and education programs. She has a son, Jared, who is a sophomore in high school, and a daughter, Jemma, who is in fourth grade. Bridget and her husband, Dave, plan to be at reunion next year. “I am looking forward to reconnecting with so many of the people that were so influential in those precious and amazing high-school years.” And finally, Charlie Bankart and his wife, Kim, celebrated the first birthday of their son, Andrew, whom they adopted on the day of his birth. They live in Kansas and will be spending the summer in Paris, directing a study abroad program there. Charlie saw Malachi Weir, when Malachi visited his “nephew” on the way to California from New York City.