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for an event in your neck of the woods. Please keep your news and photos coming. Unless you want to keep seeing photos of me and my kids, send me some of you and yours. Hope to see some of you as I travel for NMH this year.
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JENNIFER BUELL HORSCHMAN Apdo 442-4013 Atenas 20501, Costa Rica jenhorschman@yahoo.com
Enjoy our Class of ’85 news brought to you mostly through our class Facebook page (please join) from classmates posting to my request for info. William Choi had dinner with John W. Mitchell ’56 and Brian Walsh in Seoul and with John Yang in NYC. John keeps in touch with Weston friends Jeff LaVangie and John Cadran. He also met Tetsuo Iguchi with Etsu Taniguchi a couple of times in NYC. David “Slaugh” Cole says: “It’s been quite a trip to watch son Atticus ’13 go through the NMH experience.” Jim and Anne Rosenau Most ate the pie that Jim won at the Pie Race. Emily Gillen Ballou was going to homecoming with Ina Anderson ’86, but it was the day of the snowstorm so they cancelled. Emily planned to go to Christmas Vespers and show her daughter (10) the school. Carl Vazakas is still ski bummin’ in Jackson Hole: never grow up, never get old. Ann Baccari Steffes attempted to attend the NMH soccer reunion weekend in Oct, but got snowed-in instead at Sara Morton Driscoll’s cabin in Stratton VT. “Also got snowed-in with Ceylan Onor Cross, who we discovered is a bomb of a chef, and Linda Maddern Leduc, who we found out is a real wine connoisseur. Morts was a great host, despite the bronchitis she was battling. Turns out the game was cancelled after all. It was a great girls’ weekend.” Ann competed in her 1st triathalon this fall and finished in stellar form. Charlie King says life in the Pacific Northwest is great. He is an accredited life coach and says he is “honored and blown away by my clients’ outrageous commitment to their lives and love being a part of watching them putting aside their pasts to create a future that is not contiguous with their past.” Isabella (8) and Harrison (10) are at the Madrona Waldorf school. Charlie’s wife teaches kindergarten, and he is head of the dads’ group at the school (the “Dusty Gnomes”), as well as being a board member. Sue Gentile, Linda Maddern LeDuc, Katherine Ballard, and Ceylan Onor Cross had dinner with the infamous Bryan Callen before his Foxwoods Casino show, which they all attended in Sept. Mark Read got written up in “Art Info: A Look Back at 2011, the Year of Art and Protest” for the Occupy Bat Signal, “the giant light projection cast upon the side of the Verizon Building as crowds
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streamed across the Brooklyn Bridge on Nov 17, two days after Bloomberg ordered the sneak raid on the Occupy Wall Street encampment.” Mark, who was one of the creators, said: “It was executed using a high-end projector but held together with ragged ingenuity. The whole thing was a combination of high tech and super jerry-rigging on the fly.” Maria Bate Grannell posted that David Skeeter suffered a minor heart attack. David posted: “I’m not dead yet. I’m feeling better. I think I’ll go for a walk...Thanks, everyone.” Heather Hewitt Main is in Burlington VT bringing health promotion workshops and fitness programs to workplaces. Her business is Main Wellness Works (www.mainwellness.com). Keith Finney checked in, looking for a ticket to the soldout Burning Man festival in Nevada. Laura Fitch Mattson saw Collins Whaling Baker and Sarah Morton Driscoll in 7/11 on parents’ weekend at Camp Dudley, where their boys spent time last summer. Laura is still in Rye NY and happy to have Collins nearby. Collins is in marketing at Condé Nast. Sarah works in Boston at a hedge fund. Laura saw the documentary Bag It created by Jeb Berrier. “It’s a fascinating documentary about the large-scale and often mindless use of plastic bags and other plastic items in the US, and the impact that it has. I highly recommend it.” Christina Canas Stinchcomb owns Sugarloaf Mountain Ranch in CO. As for me (Jen), I continue to live, work, and explore Costa Rica with my family and business of customizing study abroad immersion programs (www.SpanishImmersionCostaRica.com). We are branching out to programs in nursing and marine science this year. To all our classmates…a healthy and hearty… heady and handy ’12.
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GEOFFREY LOCKE 19 Whittier St Northampton MA 01062-9722 gwlocke@gmail.com LI LIN HILLIARD HALLY 3584 SW Hillside Dr Portland OR 97221-4102 Lilinhally@hotmail.com
From Geoffrey: I write this on New Year’s Day, so a belated Happy ’12 to you all. Andrew Boyarsky recently moved to South Orange NJ with wife Claire and their boys, Joshua (4) and Gabriel (3). Abbe Bartlett Lynch works at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle while juggling the demands of 3 children under age 10. Abbe spent the holidays on the East Coast with family. She still has dreams of being back at NMH.
Mel Park Lovering says hello to everyone and loved hanging out and dancing with everyone at our 25th reunion. Nilda Lopez spent a weekend with Bebe Brown in Las Vegas. Nilda ran the Las Vegas half-marathon, and then they had some fun. Nilda also spent time with Kendel Leet in NYC during the Christmas holiday week when Kendel was on break from her job in Jakarta. Amy Schwartz Saklad celebrated the b’nai mitzvah of her triplet sons, Joel, Jared, and Jeremy, in Oct in San Antonio TX. Amy looks forward to reconnecting with everyone again at our 30th. Carolin Young still lives in Paris, where she spends her time immersed in the French culinary culture. Michael Newsom had a great time at our 25th reunion with his dad Jeffrey Newson ‘61, his wife Kathryn Gardner, and their daughter Olivia. Michael lives in South Paris ME. Eileen Pierce is now juggling the demands of Maeve (1) and a job. Eileen played a major role in the lighting design for the new Islamic galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Aliina Laine still enjoys her work as an independent financial advisor. She would love to hear from Ann Little. Wendy Mansfield Donovan writes that she had a “great visit with Schuyler Bush, Jim Rymes, Jen Williams Davis ’87, and families at the NMH ME summer clambake. I’m hoping we can have a larger ’86 turnout at next year’s clambake and will be in touch to let folks know what’s going on. I also really enjoyed being able to bring daughter Alison to reunion. It was great for her to hang out with other alumni kids and to see where her grandfather Bob Mansfield ’57 and I lived in Crossley. She can’t wait to enroll.” Wendy is in her 17th year as project manager at the Kennebec Company (designing and building custom cabinetry), and she’s active in Girl Scouts, both as a troop co-leader with Sue Page and as a trainer for new leaders. Jim Rymes regrets that he was not able to make NMH on-campus Vespers this year, but he plans to help out the NMH farm this spring with its maple sugar production. Ellen McCurtin ’85 and I went to the Pie Race again. Ellen won a pie, and I visited with NMH faculty Vicki Jenkins and Sarah Hoffman ’78. Ellen has been hanging out with fellow ’85 alums Etsukazu Taniguchi ’85, Ethan Garber ’85, and Matt Pavoni ’85in NYC. She even traveled with Ethan to Mexico City and then later hung out with Etsu in Tokyo. In Dec, Ellen attended a performance by Amy Hunt England ’85 in NYC with Ethan and Matt, and she also caught up with Charlie Hunt ’87. Charlie and his wife live in Concord VT. Leigh Beisch loves living in Corte Madera CA close to the redwoods and Mt Tamalpais. Dana Kulvin Dietch has moved back to So Florida, where she lives with her family. Alysa Ray is back in NYC working as a clinical psychologist in private practice and teaching at NYU and Hunter, living happily blocks away