CLASS NOTES skied Killington Mountain, Vt., post-project. The year ended with a pre-Christmas right knee replacement, matching the 2012 left knee — with no signs of cramping his style! • Florida-based Andy Tofuri ran into classmate Betsy Dudley Youngsma, librarian, at her Uxbridge (Mass.) library last August. • Susan Perkins Stark graduated from Western New England University School of Law last May, and passed both Florida and Massachusetts bars, where she was admitted to practice. Daughter Maddy Stark ’13 had her professional acting debut last year at New York City’s International Fringe Festival in Michael Stock’s No Chaos. • “My wife and I moved from Wisconsin back to New England,” writes Jeff Sawyer. “I’m managing editor for Garnet Hill, in Franconia, where we live in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Older daughter is a veterinarian and younger daughter an artist. We enjoy hiking in the area and being close to family again. Too soon to think about retiring — still enjoying my career!” • Laurie Lee Jillson Mason has a newfound passion: golf. Her love remains riding and dressage, as she trains her 6-year-old Friesian/Clydesdale horse, Atticus. With husband Bob, she owns Inner Space Services, the hydraulic dredging and water treatment company, including commercial diving for Massachusetts locks and dams. They snowbird in Florida. • Liz Johnson Cua had a full year, highlighted by her son’s Villanova graduation. Their daughter continues with her D.C. start-up, Aspire. “I am still a full-time Boston-area radiologist. We’ve had the good fortune to travel to Chile, Easter Island, and Antarctica this year. With winter bearing down, we invested in an elliptical to beat back the ‘delights’ of age. We are very grateful for our health and opportunities.” • Lyn Tranfield Bennett’s year included her parents’ 60th anniversary celebration (they are former faculty members, Charlie and Pat Tranfield)
Liz Johnson Cua ’74 and husband in Antarctica
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with all children and grandchildren but one, followed by their downsizing from a Keene, N.H., house to an apartment. Lyn’s daughter, Vera, found a job in her field — at Legendary Entertainment as assistant special effects coordinator on The Great Wall, to be released later this year. In October, Lyn visited son Chris, who spent the fall in London. • Bonnie Sue Boswell Claypoole returned to nursing at Kindred Hospital, Texas Medical Center, Houston. She is pursuing an M.A. in executive nursing, dovetailing with her B.A. in business administration. Bonnie, widowed with two daughters, visits her Boulder-based younger daughter, a movie scriptwriter. Bonnie’s older daughter does entertainment public relations in Houston. Bonnie’s bucket list includes visiting Italy and Alaska. • Geologist Stephen E. Laubach is deeply into the power of quartz crystals, as discussed in his paper, “Insights into rates of fracture growth and sealing from a model for quartz cementation in fractured sandstones,” published in the Geological Society of America Bulletin. You can find Steve at his web page, jsg.utexas.edu/sdi. His daughter, Eva Laubach ’15, is happily ensconced at Cornell. Daughter Isabel ’17 is next year’s volleyball co-captain. • “I never imagined I’d feel so young at this age,” writes John DiMeo, “and three years into my encore career as psychotherapist. Still gaining mental-health work experience, I completed an 18-month Stonewall Project program under San Francisco AIDS Foundation, treating gay men seeking recovery from crystal methamphetamine addiction. My red hair has turned white as the driven snow! Have yet to experience the health issues of our age, which I attribute to continued fitness training since 1974, healthy diet, volunteer work, and brilliant friends of the younger generation, who keep me sharp.” • Margaret Honey continues to run the New York Hall of Science in Queens, New York City’s only
Margaret Honey ’74 and late husband Ron Thorpe in Nantucket, Mass.
hands-on interactive science and technology museum. She invites all NMHers to come and visit. Sadly, Margaret’s husband, Ron Thorpe — a respected advocate for high-quality teaching in K–12 education who ran the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards — lost his battle with cancer in July 2015. • Nancy Doonan Coppelman writes that in 2015 “on April Fool’s Day (no joke!), I was laid off from my Framingham Heart Study job through federal budget cuts. Over seven months, I enjoyed summer, re-connected with old friends, participated in career workshops, traveled, applied for jobs, and did ceramics at Danforth Museum.” As of December, Nancy is an outreach coordinator for the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. • “I’ve been running wildly about in usual chaotic fashion for the holiday music crunch,” writes Bonita Hyman after singing the December UNICEF Deutschland Benefit Gala. “How do I feel about that impending 60th birthday? Still mentally clinging to 45, although my knees have other ideas. Four choirs, two music schools, concerts, and opera engagements keep me busy. I’ll be blessed with my official stage debut as soloist at the New York City Metropolitan Opera just three days after my 60th birthday, singing Erste Magd in Richard Strauss’s Elektra, the same Patrice Chéreau production I performed in Aix-en-Provence (2013), and at La Scala, Milan (2014). The production continues to Helsinki, Berliner Staatsoper, and Barcelona over 2016. My son is now 17 and shaving. I am not yet used to this idea.” • In summer 2015, Meredith O’Dowd Adams and 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 the small dot-com Wiser. Many of my friends’ kids are hitting the road to find their fortune in California. Sad parting. Luckily, Ed’s sailing coaching takes him that way frequently; I joined him in Tiberon for a nice vacation with Luke. Our big October trip was to Turkey. It was great! Istanbul was fascinating and vibrant. We visited World Heritage site Cappadocia, finding its vibe akin to Moab — ‘geological oddity of honey-