CLASS NOTES musical talent and made her debut with the Boston Pops in early June performing a piece she had written. • Carol Abizaid, also known now as Jamila Noor, accepted a position at the King’s Academy in Jordan as head of the fine arts department. • A number of us have convened at NMH for various events, whether as volunteers, to hear Valerie Bowman Jarrett ’74 deliver the Commencement address, or to drop off or pick up our students. If you are back on campus or want to swing through and get a tour of all that is happening, then be in touch with us here at the NMH advancement office. We will gladly show you where the new childcare center is being built (for the infants, toddlers, and preschoolers of faculty and staff), or plans for the new Gilder Center for Integrative Math and Science, a new boathouse, and a new fitness center. We will also make a plug for supporting financial aid through gifts to the endowment. (Gifts to the Gilder Center will be matched by Dick Gilder ’50, with the matching dollars designated to the Gilder Scholars, an endowed fund providing financial aid. A wonderful “two-for-one” opportunity for a donor’s contribution.) Much is happening on campus and we are eager to provide information on these capital projects. Please consider supporting one of these projects or the NMH Fund, which fuels the school every year. Every contribution adds up to make a collective difference for the school and the students, who are not so different than we were at their age. They love their (our!) school, and understand an education for the head, heart, and hand, while wanting to change the world. • Please stay in touch. We’ll hope for some mini-reunions to bring us together in our regions and provide news for our next column.
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Northfield Mount Hermon Frank Chandler frankchandler1@verizon.net • Marina Colman marinacolman727@yahoo.com • Lilian Blacken Hannapel lilhannapel@gmail.com • Class of ’81 Website: www.nmh81.us Richard Anthony writes, “On the heels of a lovely and often moving experience at our 35th class reunion this year, a week later several dozen fellow ‘faculty brats’ and I gathered at NMH for our first official reunion. I’m so grateful to have been with childhood friends I’d not seen in decades, and to meet kids who had grown up there and left by the time I was born. In keeping with the theme of gratitude, this Thanksgiving I will be celebrating 18 years of service as an IATSE Local 44 prop maker (set builder). The workload is very full, often 50–60 hours a week or more. In my free time I rest, paint, meditate, and immerse myself in the study of human design and grief work. Already looking forward to our 40th reunion.” • Tracy Korman is the managing partner for Health Data Sciences Group, which provides
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had the coolest welcoming committee at the Hartford airport. Mike Rickard met me at my gate in full state trooper mode. Thankfully, minus the handcuffs. • At the time of this writing, Amy Price Lutz was preparing for her wedding to Clyde Waggoner, an oral surgeon from Denver. They went on a Mediterranean cruise, bringing Clyde’s two girls as well as Amy’s daughters (Hannah and Olivia). Spain, France, and Italy are among the countries they planned to visit. “We will also have a long layover in Iceland on the way,” wrote Amy before her departure, “where we will tour around for several hours. The plan is to have a Sarah Meyer ’82 and Craig Parker ’82 connect in Louisville, Colo. very simple [wedding] ceremony in our state room, probably on June 13.” • Craig Parker made a quick trip to Colorado and caught up analytics, infrastructure, and population with Sarah Meyer. Sarah is “still working for health strategies. In addition to being our Denver Water and winning running races in class treasurer, Tracy is active with the NMH my age group! Just got back from two weeks in Alumni Council and serves on the Diversity, Nicaragua, spending six days on the Caribbean Equity, and Social Justice Committee. “Joan Islands, three days in Granada, and three days has shifted to part time with Princeton and on a beach on the Pacific Coast.” Sarah hopes is using her other time to pursue a master’s to be at our next class reunion! • NMH has in information sciences with Rutgers,” says a new faculty member and she is one of our Tracy. “Milo ’11 graduated in 2015 from own — Jane Mellow! “Life has taken me from University of Chicago and has completed the Florida to Lake Placid, N.Y.,” says Jane, “and first year of his astrophysics graduate studies at lo and behold: back to NMH! Three years ago, Case Western. Sylvie ’14 is a junior at Barnard when my now husband and I were looking and is focused on directing Shakespeare and to leave upstate New York, one of the schools studying postmodernism. This last year has that came across his desk as a [job] possibility been consumed with helping my mom, as she was NMH, and I told him to go for it. Thus has fully descended into Alzheimer’s dementia. for the past three years, Joel has been NMH’s She has quickly become wheelchair-bound director of educational technology while I and mostly nonverbal, but has maintained her taught NMH Summer Session and worked smiles and laughter.” at another private school down the road. This fall, however, I have been hired by NMH to Northfield Mount Hermon teach English full time! I will also be coaching Sally Willis field hockey, and I’ll be back in McCollum willissally@hotmail.com Arena as the head JV girls’ ice hockey coach. • Michael Rickard My two daughters just finished their first years mrickard330@cox.net here as Hoggers (Emily as a freshman, Kate From Sally: I had the opportunity to do an as a sophomore), and we all live on campus East Coast road trip to visit family last winter, now.” • Ismael “Izzy” Ramirez became a father which also turned into many opportunities to to Isabelle Lucia in December 2015. • Mike connect with some NMH classmates. Outside Rickard and I hope that you will make plans of Pittsburgh, I had lunch with Peter Schogel, to attend our 35th reunion (June 1–4, 2017). whom I hadn’t seen in 30 years. Great to I observed the class of ’81 at reunion 2016 catch up with you, Peter. Then it was on to — what a powerful ’81 reunion, and I hope Connecticut for dinner with Katrina Harriman that our class will have half the reunion they Conde, Juan Conde, Kate Stookey Haviland, had. Check out the class of ’81 Facebook page Toby Green, and Per Furmark. We missed you, when you have chance; reading their thoughts Liz Cote Stine. In D.C., Marion “Mickey” Gill will have you back at NMH in a flash. I know took some time off from her big project, openthey will resonate with you as they did with ing the Smithsonian African American Mume. If you are interested in being a part of the seum, to have lunch with me. Later that night, ’82 Reunion Committee, please reach out to Dave Perrotta, Christa Skerry, Cynthia Cumme via email or Facebook, or contact Rennie mis, Toby, and I braved the big winter storm Washburn (rwashburn@nmhschool.org). Also, and met for drinks at The Tabard Inn. So great please make sure that NMH has an updated to see everyone, and I hope you all make it to email, snail mail address, and phone number our reunion next year. • I stopped in Charlesfor you so you won’t miss out on receiving ton, S.C., to visit Lilian Blacken Hannapel ’81. reunion information. Join us on Facebook at Here in Denver, Tim Severance, Amy Price “NMH Class of 82” — reunion info will be Lutz, and I had the chance to see Dylan Brody posted there, too. perform in May, and Dylan’s material included his time at NMH before and after graduation. Thanks for the laughs, Dylan. In June, on my way back to NMH to observe reunion, I
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