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Northfield Mount Hermon Veronica Froelich Adams veronicafadams@gmail.com • Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett kbmhartnett@gmail.com Lucie Lisle Austin retired after 20 years of teaching high-school French in Montgomery County, Md., and traveled to Spain, Morocco, and Martinique in the summer, something she hopes to do more of with her free time. She’d like to find the right place to volunteer and make a difference, possibly using her language skills and understanding of cultural differences. • Jon Newman is enjoying life in south-central Pennsylvania (near Baltimore) with Cyndi, his wife of 38 years. Their three boys are starting families of their own: three grandkids and another on the way. Jon sold his company and is looking forward to road trips, writing, consulting, board work, chasing grandkids, and drinking good wine. He’s still making music as a recording studio owner, engineer, and performer. He enjoys visits with Marshall Wood when he passes through playing standup bass. Jon says he would love to catch up with Brian Eady, and have a mini reunion with his old bandmates Marshall, William Foley ’76, Tad Hitchcock (Daniel Hitchcock’s brother), and Travis Hudelson ’76. • Ruth Lapin enjoyed a weeklong visit at her Brooklyn apartment with Ilene Feldman Steele and husband. The highlight was their annual rib fest in Woodstock — and by the time you read this, they will have gathered for Ruth’s 60th in France. • Adrian Shoobs and family have turned his retirement home in New Lebanon, N.Y., into a bee mecca. Regarding the close proximity to bees, Adrian said, “If you are careful and deliberate in your movements, there’s not much to worry about.” His daughter, Elizabeth, helps him keep things, um, buzzing. • Chip Lende wrote, “I’m still in Haines, Alaska, where I’ve owned and operated the local lumberyard for over 30 years, raised five kids, and exercised too much. You can find out all you want to know about living (and dying) in rural Alaska by reading my wife Heather’s blog or her books (heatherlende.com.) … I credit my NMH experience for helping me to live such a full life.” • John Lozada and wife Beth have been enjoying a wonderful, albeit challenging, transition into a third phase. As their kids explore life and careers, Beth is living out her lifelong dream to write novels, and John continues his career in civil rights — lately, in transportation. This spring, John was honored by the American Public Works Association with their Diversity Exemplary Practices Award, in recognition of his work to increase disability access across the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s highway infrastructure. John also continues to serve on NMH’s Alumni Strategic Advisory Committee. He will be reaching
out to classmates to gather ideas on how we can build alumni engagement in mentoring the next generation from the school we all so love. • Gail Majdalany Heaslip should win the prize for most original birthday celebration. She said, “I spent my 60th with my brother (Ron Majdalany ’69) and sister (Carol Majdalany Williams ’71) being serenaded by Maasai herdsmen in Tanzania last March.” • After 24 years in Brazil, where he married, raised a family, and developed a large group of friends, John “Whit” Kennedy moved back to the States in July, resettling in Connecticut. In Brazil, his work focused on U.S. venture capital and IPOs, advising Brazilian and U.S. family offices on their investments. His youngest child, Charlotte, is a sophomore at Furman University; Nicolas is a banker at JPMorgan in Geneva; and Christian runs a small flavors and fragrances business outside Mexico City. John hopes that his Brazilian partner of the last 10 years will join him soon, in the States and in matrimony. He looks forward to reconnecting with NMH friends, like former roommate Rob Brougham, Bill Blais ’74, and Chuck Knirsch ’76, among others! • Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett shared, “We had our own mini reunion in Portland [Ore.] during Ronni Froelich Adam’s visit to the Northwest in April. I spent my milestone birthday having pizza in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with husband Tim and former students from the CODA Social Work Scholars Project I coordinate each summer in Portland. The project brings students from Queen’s University, Northern Ireland, to shadow clinical staff as they treat folks with opioid use disorders. Earlier this year, I fell and broke my shoulder … and a week later, I got word that the University of North Carolina Press is bringing my 2015 book, Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights, out in paperback this summer. (I am working in physical therapy to recover my ability to do an appropriate happy dance.) Of course, Kathy Lyons Egan jumped on a red-eye from Baltimore to be couch-side for the tough first days of recovery. Without her and NMH, I would not have made it this far, no joke.” •
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Northfield Mount Hermon Susan Loring-Wells susanloring@me.com • Joe Mcveigh joe@joemcveigh.org From Joe: Lisa Morgan and Mary Clifford Tittmann met up at the Head of the Charles Regatta in October 2017. They were honored at an NMH reception for playing an important role in the beginnings of women’s rowing at NMH in the 1970s. Lisa works in architecture and design in Rockport, Maine. She also paints and hosts visitors at her Airbnb. Daughter Vivian (20) is a junior at
the University of Vermont. Son Adrian (28) lives in Steamboat Springs, Colo., where he is a practicing Rolfer as well as an avid golfer. Lisa spent the spring of 2018 coaching novice rowers for the Megunticook Rowing Club in Camden, Maine, and says it is great fun to be out on the water again. Mary and husband John live in Cambridge, Mass. Mary works in public policy and John is an architect. Mary’s oldest, Hester (26), lives and works in the Bay Area. Son Henry (24) is an architecture student at Wentworth Institute of Technology. In addition to Lisa, Mary regularly keeps in touch with Alice Payne-Merritt. • Tom Jamison, an archaeologist, made his way up to Middlebury, Vt., in the summer of 2017 to work on a nearby dig. He stopped by for dinner on our deck, and we reminisced about old times. Tom lives in Putney, Vt., with wife Nancy. He has also posted some photos of the MODOS tour of Romania on the “NMH Class of 1976” Facebook page, with photo credits to Phil Lee. Meanwhile, Rich Miller ’78 has been scanning and posting photos of old articles from The Bridge. • Saralee “Taffy” French Etter is one of the recent additions to our class Facebook page. Taffy has published several novels set in England in the early 1800s. Think of Jane Austen and add in romance and mystery. Check out her work on Amazon or at saraleeetter.com. The biggest excitement in her life recently was winning a round of Jeopardy! that was broadcast in January 2018; she enjoyed a brief taste of celebrity. • After 30 years in Bend, Ore., and a year in Topeka, Kan., Tim Goulart moved his chiropractic practice to Fort Smith, Ark. • I managed to squeeze in a dinner with Bob Mudge at the airport in Washington, D.C., in November 2017. Bob is an expert in corporate and project finance matters in the energy industry. Wife Ingrid Creppell is an associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. • I have increasingly been running into my fellow faculty brats Michael LaChance and Will Torrey at memorial services for former faculty members, including services for Michael’s father and for Will’s mother in 2017. Our sympathies to them and to all of you who have recently lost parents. Will’s son, John, graduated from Andover Newton Theological Seminary this year. Daughter Lucy teaches in the Boston area, and daughter Kay is a student at Bowdoin. • Travis Hudelson is still playing drums and selling software. His wife, Patty, is a realtor. They celebrated their 30th anniversary last summer. Daughter Molly works in music video promotion and is a music photojournalist; son Luke left Discovery communications and has been traveling in Asia; youngest daughter, Maddie, a junior at Elon, spent the fall studying at the London Academy of Dramatic Arts. Travis hopes to make it to our
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