CLASS NOTES and appreciation for the great outdoors. Blue crabs, freshly caught rockfish, and handmade margaritas are Maryland staples — and the Johnsons don’t buck tradition. • In summer 2015, Meredith O’Dowd Adams and husband Ed cruised down the Connecticut coast over to Long Island, meeting Lynne Trezvant for Shelter Island bike riding. “Son Luke (22) graduated from Brown, moved to San Francisco, and is now a data scientist for Wise, a small ‘dot com.’ Sad parting. Luckily, Ed’s sailing coaching takes him that way frequently.” • Errata from the last issue: Gooz Draz lived in Wellfleet, Mass., not Rhode Island. And Andy Tofuri still lives in Texas, not Florida. Jonathan Towne ’74 (in bearskin hat) performed as drum major in the Coast Guard Band on the red carpet in Hollywood, Calif.
partner in the firm of Landmark Capital Advisors. Kristy and I are empty nesters — our three kids fledged: Erin is a tax accountant for KKR in San Francisco, Ainsley is a recording artist in Sydney, Australia, and Ian is a civil engineer here in Newport Beach. I visited NMH a couple of times for college visits, with great memories. Brother Jack Farrell ’80 is a class secretary. Wishing all ’74ers the best. Sixty is the new 40, right?” • Bradley Schneider lives the good life in beautiful Rappahannock County, Va. A developer of renewable energy plants, he consults on waste-to-energy systems and on two African solar installations. Brad and Wendy are organizing their fifth horseback safari to Kenya with 13 guests for September 2017. “Riding with wild animals during the Great Migration in the Masai Mara is a unique experience,” says Bradley. He serves on the Town of Washington Planning Commission’s Comprehensive Plan, focusing on energy and environmental provisions. He also engineered foam pads for Wendy’s Sure Foot Equine Stability Program (wendymurdoch.com). • Texas-based Andy Tofuri sailed from Charleston, S.C., to Spanish Wells, Eleuthera, Bahamas, in early April. “It was a good trip in spite of the weather aboard the S/V Scarlett BEE, the newest of seven Morris 486 sailboats,” says Andy. “Now I’ve been on three of them, and am working to find a ride on the rest of the fleet as I finagle a ride with the other owners. Perhaps an NMH alum reading this can help me do some networking.” • After graduating from Tulane University, Scott Johnson moved to D.C. in 1978. In 1986 he and future wife Margaret founded their digital agency, CHIEF, comprising 120 employees today. Clients include the White House and State Department, Yale, Hilton Hotels, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. As a scout leader and Eagle Scout with son Charles, Scott resumed his youthful Nicaraguan adventures with long back-country backpacking trips to many national parks, mountains, and trails. Unwinding at their Chesapeake Bay island cottage, Scott fishes twice weekly on his boat, CHIEF, teaching friends’ kids fishing, camping,
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Northfield Mount Hermon Veronica Froelich Adams veronicafadams@gmail.com • Carrie Roantree Ahlborn crahlborn@gmail.com
From Ronni: Liz Armstrong was promoted to full professor at Bucknell University, where she has taught for 16 years. Her daughter Mariah placed fifth in her class in a national equestrian competition in Lexington, Ky. Daughter Rebekah ’13 spent her spring semester in Japan. Liz happily reports that the daughter of friends heeded Liz’s encouragement to apply to NMH, and said daughter is now joining the fold! • Phil Mead ’76 is an ER doctor in the Philadelphia area and his wife, Carolyn Fox, continues to work in securities compliance. Their older son, Loren, attends medical school at University of Pennsylvania. Younger son, Nick, rows for Princeton as a junior and was recently chosen for Selection Camp for the U.S. U23 team competing in Rotterdam. Phil says that all four in the family rowed in college, but it looks like Nick will be the star! With sons away at college, Phil and Carolyn enjoy the company of their other family members: two Labs and a cat. • Randy Showstack is senior writer for Eos, an online news service published by the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D.C., where he reports on earth and space science news. In January, he and his wife, Michele Zador, celebrated the bat mitzvah of their daughter, Danielle. • John Robinson and his wife, Karen, are enjoying life in their Londonderry, N.H., home and spending any time they can with their four children. Their twin sons are grown and off into the world; daughter Brooke is a college senior and Shea is in her last year of high school. John keeps busy with his freelance communications consulting and his Ph.D. program in media psychology at Fielding University. • Chris Thompson and his wife, Elena Caudle Thompson, live in northern Virginia, where Chris has been running the area’s largest ballroom dance studio for five years. Elena is an IT enterprise system director with Freddie Mac, after previous roles with Amtrak and Fannie Mae. Chris reports that their two kids are off saving the world: one in the field of urban planning in D.C. and the other in teaching
English to orphans in Turkey. • Kim Marlowe Hartnett’s book, Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights (UNC Press), came out last year. Congrats, Kim! She’s been enjoying her book tour, life with her husband and dog in Portland, Ore., and traveling to Northern Ireland for fun and research, and is working with social work students there. She says her best news is that Kathy Lyons Egan and her husband are in Portland, too! Kathy’s daughter has a new son, which makes all of the Egan/ Hartnett clans delirious with joy! • David Caldwell lives in Manhattan with his wife, Alyssa. After 10 years as the musical director for Forbidden Broadway, his career as a director and composer continues to sing along. Ronni Froelich Adams had the pleasure of attending a reading of David’s new musical, Gotta Getta Girl. David and Ronni also attended George Takei’s musical, Allegiance, which was inspired by Takei’s experiences as a child imprisoned in an American Japanese internment camp. John Howley was also at the play that evening. John was one of the producers of Allegiance through his company, Mabuhay Productions. He continues with his law practice and enjoys spending time with his wife, Isabel, and their two grown sons. • Bryan Flippen married his partner, Mark Houle, in May. Congratulations, Bryan! He runs a real estate practice in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. Bryan and Mark enjoyed dinner and theater with Ilene Feldman Steele and her husband, Mike Hickes, in London last year and again this year in Miami Beach. Ilene has a jewelry design business in London and produces beautiful pieces of jewelry. • After spontaneously flying in from Oregon to attend her first NMH reunion last year, Deborah Rosenberg reports that the experience of re-connecting with the school, classmates, and “who we were” helped her make a career decision that she’d been struggling with. After enjoying many years as faculty and chair of Southern Oregon University’s theater department, she has accepted the role of co-chair of the university’s creative arts department. • Jamie Pond Renning and her husband, Aaron, live with their four-pawed family outside Albany, N.Y. Together, they help run a busy nursery, growing green things and the good life.
Elizabeth Armstrong ’75 is all smiles with daughter Rebekah Lofgren ’13.