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son had a great freshman year at Cornell. He is a licensed EMT. Sally and I celebrated 25 years together this past May. As partial empty nesters, we have started traveling the world with trips to Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, France, Croatia, Italy, and the Baltic capitals. Spent a wonderful day during the winter at NMH with Lisa Glovsky-Zeien attending the New England wrestling championships. Got to have a few beers with Dick Peller on campus without the fear of being busted. Also, saw Bob Cooley and Jay Ward ’68. Toured the new Rhodes Arts Center. It is amazing.” On the music front, Kevin Goodspeed is a freelance recording engineer in Maryland, doing primarily tracking, mixes, and mastering. He has worked with Chris Isaak, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Tori Amos, Rusted Root, The Goo Goo Dolls, as well as helping on the sound part of many national commercials. He is finishing up his second solo CD titled “Beneath The Still.” Kevin has been working with Junior Marvin (lead guitarist for Bob Marley and the Wailers) and has cowritten a song with him. Kevin has a daughter who also plays guitar and piano, writes, and sings songs. Kevin writes: “I do hope to see all my dear friends from NMH real soon, but until then let’s reminisce.” In Chicago, Bob Krebs is about to celebrate his 30th year at Wells Fargo Advisors LLC and has been managing director for the last five years. Recently, he and Drew Dolben went deep-sea fishing at the Ocean Reef Club. Bob also spends time at the family farm in Swanzey, N.H. On his way there, he stops by campus to visit Tom Pratt. I’m always inviting folks who travel through the Niagara region of Ontario to give me a holler. Katy Hauke DuGarm did belatedly, writing: “I passed through your area over Memorial Day weekend. Megabus from Buffalo to Toronto. Part of a grand train trip from St. Paul to Vancouver. We caught a Buffalo Bisons game during the six hours in town. We admired grapevines while passing through the Niagara Peninsula but only got off the bus for border control.” Too bad, Katy, as we have some great food and wine we like to share with our guests. What a great trip you’re on, though. I do keep in touch weekly with Beth Graden Rom. She recently talked with Erika and Maxine after their visit to school for reunion, and they are ready to get us rallied for our reunion next year. Beth writes: “It was great to see some Facebook photos and hear about what a wonderful time they had with the class of ’77. (I am not so secretly hoping David Allen ’77 will come back for our reunion.) I am grateful for the kindness of NMH friends during my mother’s struggle with ovarian cancer and since her death in May. I was pleased that Ellen Sennott McGillivray and Lisa GlovskyZeien could be at her service in Rhode Island (as well as Neil Keilly ’70). My mother was proud that Dale ’70, Gary ’73, and I were able to attend
NMH. That gift of educating head, heart, and hand will never be forgotten and is with us in our daily lives. See you in June (and to quote the great Cathy Hopkins—‘Woohoo.’).” On the home front in Niagara, we survived the Wallenda walk over the falls and are back to normal. I continue to run and finished the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run in California last year with crew support of Tom, my husband of 31 years, and son, John. What a trip that was. We hope to return to South Africa for our third Comrades ultramarathon in ’13. I continue to be grateful to my parents for making it possible for me to go to NMH. What a gift. Please keep in touch.
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Mary Jane Curry is working on another book and just got a $2 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help improve education for English language learners in Rochester, N.Y., and surrounding counties with a focus on developing curriculum for refugees. In June ’12 she gave a weeklong workshop on academic publishing in Mexico and in January ’13 will be giving a talk at Oxford. Sara Hare writes that her mother, Betsy Brazil Hare Buchmiller ’52, just attended her 60th reunion. Her father is Edward Hare ’48, but her parents didn’t meet at the school. “The older generation is really hoping for the best possible outcome for the Northfield campus. Me, too. What about turning it into a magnificent spa resort?” Anita Nordal writes: “Big news is that our son Aidan Conroy is going to NMH in the fall. We are all excited for him and have been so pleased with what we have seen of the school thus far. Daughter Emma will attend Union College in the fall, so we will be empty nesters—how did that happen so quickly?” Tracy Longacre has had many cool experiences recently. “At this moment, I am about to finish my pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago—790 km from Roncesvalles to Santiago, Spain. I spent last year working in Katima Mulilo, Namibia, as an adviser to a local HIV and AIDS organization, then spent three months at a Franciscan friary in Dorset, England. After the Camino, I’m going to volunteer for a month at the Art Monastery in Labro, Italy, then visit a friend near Taizé, France. After that, I honestly have no idea, so I’m hoping something shows up soon.”
Matt Vought lives in Lake Worth, Fla., with wife Veronika—they married in ’08. He is a semiretired yacht captain, now working with a marine electronics company as a service manager. His wife is a ballet and fitness instructor and dancer. Matt also pursues a side career as a fine art photographer and has been successfully showing at a gallery in Delray Beach for about six years. “Thank you for all you do to keep us close as a class,” writes Jay Kanzler. “I am looking forward to the release of my first feature film, 23 Minutes to Sunrise, starring Eric Roberts (Dark Knight, Pope of Greenwich Village) and Nia Peeples (“Pretty Little Liars,” “Walker Texas Ranger,” “Fame”). It is a film noir fantasy thriller that I cowrote and directed. I continue to practice law to pay the bills and my kids are growing up too quickly (13 and 10).” Daphne Perry has lived in Salt Lake City since ’84. She graduated from the Univ. of Utah physical therapy school in ’93, was married for six years to the wrong man, and then found the right one, Bill Kushner, and married in ’05. They have a daughter (4) born when Daphne was 47. She raced bicycles for eight years prior and had success in both road cycling and mountain biking. Daphne’s father passed away 12/12/10 after an unexpected bout of respiratory distress turned heart attack and major heart surgery. They moved her mother closer to them in Salt Lake City and then found breast cancer. “After her two lumpectomies, I found out I had breast cancer and had a double mastectomy. When that was all said and done, I had ovaries and tubes out in early March ’12, as I found I carry the BRCA2 gene. I have gone on to do quite well, as has Mom (this story, to date, has a happy ending). I have been on the bike and trying to get stronger for my ride to give back to those who cared for me and my mother. On 6/16/12, I rode 75 miles in the Huntsman 140 for hope, for a cure, and to get the word out that a mammogram saved my life—as it did Mom’s. Next year, I hope to ride from Reno, Nev., to the Huntsman Cancer Institute. I am sure that many of my classmates have gone through something similar, as one in two men and one in three women will have some sort of cancer in their lifetime. Our Hometown Heroes team raised more than $100,000 for cancer research for this ride. I am proud to be a survivor and happy to give back to those who cared for me, my mom, and others. To all you NMH rowers—there is a rowing program through my hospital on the Great Salt Lake. Imagine rowing in saline water that is no greater than 20 feet deep. I hope the flies stay away.” Estelle Dorain Burgess is excited that our reunion is just around the corner in ’14. She hopes to see many of you there. Candace Roper lives in Lancaster, Pa., where she works at Franklin and Marshall College in the provost’s office and the international studies department. She has two kids, one (18) who is going to
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