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KAREN PERKINS 252 Monte Grigio Dr Pacific Palisades CA 90272 onoclea@verizon.net
Yes, it’s really me in the photo, your class secretary, Karen Perkins. I decided to exchange my photo for something more recent. By the time you read this, I will have traveled in the past six months to Madrid, Rome, London, Paris, and to North Carolina for dinner with my mom on her 80th birthday. And, my son will have graduated from high school. He became an Eagle Scout just last week. My daughter will have finished her second year at Maryland Institute College of Art. Rose Bonomo writes: “I’ve been living in Portland, Ore., since ’93, and spent six months this summer living in New York City and working for Manhattan by Sail. I was able to reconnect with Elaine Monchak ’76 for quite a few dinners and even some tennis.” Rose graduated from Hunter College in ’88, after attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and spending six months on the road as Daffy Duck. She lived in New York until ’93, and had worked as a makeup artist in the world of fashion and beauty, and then as a personal trainer for many years. In Portland she has worked as a strength and conditioning coach, an event planner, and head of catering. She had breast cancer in ’05–’06 and is fully recovered. In’09, she had a hip replacement, and then she opened a shop called rosabode, which she had until ’12. Rose has a son who is a sophomore at the University of Oregon and a daughter who is a senior in high school. Rose writes: “Very happy and healthy now and have recently taken up aerial training, so I enjoy life upside down more often.” Rudi Simpson has made an incredible, brave transition. After 32 years of living in Los Angeles, Rudi and his partner moved to Zürich, Switzerland, his partner’s childhood home. Rudi’s first job after Juilliard and the School of American Ballet was in Zürich with the Zürich Ballet at the Opernhaus Zürich. “I’ve been visiting Switzerland since ’78. Every year, we tried to spend a couple of weeks here on vacation, so it seemed like a natural at this point in our lives. This has been a dream of mine for many years and we finally decided to act on it. We sold our house and two cars to get here. I said goodbye to my job at CBS television, where I worked for over 12 years as director of photography. One of my last photo campaigns was for a new show this
Veronica Froelich Adams ’75 during her recent trip to Scottsdale, Ariz.
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season ‘Elementary.’ I produced the print ad and publicity photo shoot for the series. I also worked on the original ‘NCIS’ with Mark Harmon and ‘The Mentalist’ with Simon Baker, to name a few. “I recently received my Aufenthaltsbewilligung [residence permit], so it’s official. I can stay and live in Zürich and begin looking for work. I speak Swiss German, so that will come in handy. If there are any NMHers in Switzerland, please feel free to get in touch. I’m on LinkedIn and XING. I also post photos on Instagram. I love living here and I’m happy to have my four seasons back. We have a beautiful apartment with views from every room. Some of the homes in our neighborhood date back to the 15th and 16th centuries.” Rudi is in touch with Toyo Obayashi, Hong Chen, and Peter Marcalus. Rob Brougham attended NMH Homecoming in the fall with his daughter, who is a student at Boston University. It was his first time back in 32 years. “It was more spectacular than I remembered, so beautiful. Didn’t see any other ’75ers, though.” Rob Farley wrote that after one year of happy marriage, he and Gail are grateful that their girls get along so well. Their youngest is a senior in high school, so they are downsizing two homes into one. One house is sold and they are trying to sell the second. They plan to stay in New Hampshire. Bill Gladstone has made an earth-shattering observation, and I believe he will win next year’s Nobel Prize for Alumni Magazine Readers. He writes: “I wonder if other ’75ers are having the same experience I am having with the alumni magazine: It seems that often the magazine is miscompiled, with our class notes appearing in the middle of the magazine, rather than near the back where they belong.” We are always on the lookout for keen observations such as Bill’s. Peggy Millett Zemach lives in Durango, Colo., with her pediatrician husband and three children. Two of her kids are in college and one is in high school. Peggy is the executive director of the Durango Arts Center. Peter Crimmin and Ned Perry got together in Portland, Ore., for a week of catching up. One weekend they drove north to a cabin in the Olympic Peninsula and another they drove to Bellingham, Wash., for a taste of extraordinary crepes. “We reminisced about NMH a good deal and agreed to attend the 40th reunion.” Elizabeth Armstrong has a Hogger daughter, Rebekah Lofgren ’13, who is scheduled to graduate in May. “We look forward to joining her for graduation in the spring.” Paul Lessard enjoyed spending time on campus and running in the Pie Race. “I would boast about my ability to still run the race 37 years after graduation; however, there was an alumni participant who is 85. My residential architectural business was busy this year with many projects.” Tom Clark recently returned from an eight-week trip around the world. He used up his frequent flyer miles to visit Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Portugal, Hungary, Belgium, Netherlands, Turkey, Thailand, China, and Japan. “I had an amazing time and met
great people all along the way. Going back to work was tough, though.” Christina Farr Zaharchuk writes: “We have three children between the two of us. Joshua Pasetsky has his own pest control business in Florida. Sarah Zaharchuk works at Lockheed Martin in Clearwater, Fla., and recently bought her first home. The youngest, Sarah Pasetsky, volunteers as an assistant basketball coach at Lynn University.” When I caught up with Veronica Froelich, she was in the East Bay “cat sitting,” San Francisco, that is. By the time we all read this column, Veronica should be in the South Bay or Silicon Valley. Veronica is working in instructional design. Finally, I want to remind all of you, my great friends from NMH, to feel free to drop me an email anytime between NMH Magazine issues. I will always save your emails for the next notes. If you have some great photos, or you just happen to think of it, send your information my way.
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SUSAN LORING-WELLS 12 Ames Haven Rd, PO Box 273 Shutesbury MA 01002 susanloring@me.com
JOE MCVEIGH PO Box 883 Middlebury VT 05753-0883 joe@joemcveigh.org
From Susan: In September ’12, my husband and I celebrated 30 years of marriage. We had a wonderful trip to Northern California, where my husband grew up. After dropping our youngest daughter off at Santa Clara University for her freshman year, we spent two weeks in Marin County and a week in Lake Tahoe. We explored backroads on a motorcycle, hiked, kayaked, bicycled, and visited with friends and my husband’s side of the family. We are now part-time empty nesters and enjoying it, though always ready to welcome home our three daughters and our nephew, who has been living with us for six years. Julia (26) lives in Macon, Ga., and works for GEICO; and Hannah (24) lives in Manhattan and commutes to Stamford, Conn., where she works for Viridian as a sustainable project manager. My nephew began his freshman year of high school at the Landmark School in Beverly, Mass., as a boarding student, hence our taste of the empty nest. I continue to weave and teach at my
Joe McVeigh ’76 and former roommate Bob Hodgkins ’76 got together in Boston last August.