CLASS NOTES Elizabeth Wright sends greetings from the San Francisco Bay area: “I’m constantly striving to balance work and other life demands, and reconnecting with NMH is one of my priorities. I may seek out the local NMH group. And I am eager to come back for the next reunion. Best wishes to all.” • Jay Kulick is shooting shows for TV, concerts, and events of all sorts, including a network television production of Peter Pan. He also received a major athletic award from his alma mater, New England College, for his student accomplishments on the lacrosse fields. • From Andrew Pratt, “I moved to Utah in 1997 after a couple of years in Los Angeles, where I worked in the tennis event business. Since moving here, I’ve kept my work as a real estate broker in the Salt Lake City area and lived in Park City. I live with my wonderful longtime girlfriend, Susan, who has an art gallery in the Old Town area of Park City. Hoping to see everybody at reunion in the spring.” • Personally, I stay in touch with quite a few friends from our class, but often I forget to write about them. I travel a bit for my 12-year-old son’s wrestling competitions, and Lilian Blacken Hannapel came out to Greensboro, N.C., last year to spend some time with us at a tournament. She looked and sounded great, as usual. I saw Janeth Lazore Murphy in Virginia Beach at another tournament last fall. She and her husband live in southern Virginia. Among other things, she’s doing some work at the local library and smiling a lot. Somebody needs to talk her into coming to reunion. Marina Colman is living in Taos, N.M., and spinning tunes on local radio station KNCE. The radio station is run out of a very cool trailer, where Marina does her show. It’s broadcast via the Internet every week and having listened in on many a Friday afternoon, I can say that Marina has incredible taste in music. I saw Julie Kawadler Kendall in Boston — she was home visiting family and casting for a part in a TV show. She has a recurring role in If Loving You Is Wrong, and is pursuing her dreams full time. Ian Stone is living in western Massachusetts and continues to practice law there. Larry Chase was in Florida with his family for the holidays. • I strongly suggest you join our Facebook page — “Class of 1981” — if you would like to stay in touch with classmates in real time. More than 150 of our classmates are in that group, and it’s been a great tool for staying in touch or finding lost classmates and friends. Our 35th reunion is this spring, and I urge you all to come back to campus for an afternoon, an overnight, or the entire weekend. I know that everybody battles their own ghosts (obviously, me, too) when it comes to high school reunions, but I’m telling you a spring weekend with your classmates on the NMH campus is probably just what you need to put a big smile back on your face. I hope to see you there and maybe catch you on Facebook even sooner. My warmest regards to you all.
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Northfield Mount Hermon Sally Willis willissally@hotmail.com • Michael Rickard mrickard330@cox.net
Congrats to classmate Andrew Wolkoff on the birth of a namesake calf at the NMH farm. Andrew is the newest member of the school’s herd of seven. • Congrats to Suzy Smith Long, who writes, “Chad Prosser and I married on my birthday in December and honeymooned in Tahoe, where my mom was a ski teacher. We enjoyed skiing, visiting the house where I grew up in Reno, Nev., and the medical school that my dad founded in 1967. Chad enjoys running his hospitality and cloud computing companies. We will live on the South Carolina coast, in Murrells Inlet, with our three teenage sons and two pups! • Jessica Neary: “I have sublet a studio in Montpelier, Vt., and am painting after a hiatus. Painting again feels great.” • Shelagh Connelly writes, “Our final child is now a sophomore at NMH. Liza follows the trail of her sister Molly, who graduated in 2016, and Liza has her sights on 2018! Our son, Liam, chose to go to our local high school instead of NMH, but he visited last month and ran the 125th Pie Race (he came in fourth place overall…not bad for a high school senior!). We are looking forward to attending Vespers…one of our favorite afternoons on campus. I encourage all our classmates to make the journey some year, as it is inspired song and celebration. My husband, Marty, and I still own and operate a biosolids and wood ash recycling company based here in Holderness, N.H., and we work throughout all of New England and eastern New York. I usually go back for NMH Farm Day in the spring and teach a few classes on why recycling organic byproducts is such a good thing…kind of fun to bring it full circle, as we provide wood ash fertilizer for the NMH farm to improve crop yields. Love being connected to NMH and can’t wait for the new science building!” • Jennie Anderson, who is busy making a big move north from Pennsylvania, was called to be the priest in partnership at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Norwich, Vt. Her post began in January. • Brett Jacobs Axelberg made the move to Pennsylvania. Her husband, Marc (and Brett as a volunteer), retired from the Army this fall. Marc was on active duty for 28 years and they were at 11 duty stations. Brett and Marc are in Carlisle, Penn., now and looking forward to staying put for a while. • We have covered the West Coast in this round of notes, with updates from Oregon, Washington, and California. • Ginny Cairo: “I have been living in Roseburg, Ore., since 1999. I just started my 26th year working as a civil engineer with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. My current work includes improving frost control for cranberry growers near Bandon, Ore. I became a ‘grammy’ in February to Yaffa.” • George Thomas lives in Redmond, Wash.,
with his son and daughter. They get out often to ski, hike, and mountain bike while tending to their property, with numerous gardens and a pinot noir vineyard (thanks, NMH farm program!). This recent summer, George returned to NMH when son Henry attended summer school: “a memorable experience for him and fond memories for me,” says George. “In 2014, I had the opportunity to spend time in Cambridge while finishing my master’s in sustainability at Harvard. I currently apply my sustainability studies within a few different aspects of the wine industry. And I ran into Toby Green in Maui! Connect with me on LinkedIn.” • Alison Mandaville is at Fresno State (Calif.), in her third year working with future educators, and teaching and writing about comics and graphic novels. “Summers in Seattle keep me out of the heat,” writes Alison, “but fall and spring in the Central Valley are lovely, and the Sierras are a short drive away. Come visit! Also, I’ve been translating poetry by women from Azerbaijan for an anthology spanning 800 years. Hoping this project will support strong, creative voices in a world that surely needs some. My daughter graduated from Macalester College in May 2015 — we are officially elders. Which the daughter says is a positive thing. I’ll take it.” • John Hsu writes from Hong Kong, “Since graduating from NMH, I attended Colgate University, then Columbia Business School, returning to Hong Kong in 1993 and working in the maritime and asset management professions. Recently, I was in Sydney, where I completed my 10th full marathon. Please ping me if you’re ever passing by Hong Kong!”
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Northfield Mount Hermon Allyson Goodwin agoodwin@nmhschool.org • Angela Lambert drangela@mac.com Audrey Hanson Davis’s son, Chaz Davis,
returned from winning the silver medal in the 5,000 meter at the Toronto 2015 Parapan Am Games. “His next goal is to make the U.S. Paralympic track and field team and go to Rio 2016 after he graduates from the University of Hartford this spring. He’s a great runner and obviously didn’t get his talent from me! Proud mother,” says Audrey. • Martha Phelps writes, “I am here in the Twin Cities with my family
Newlyweds Chad and Suzy Long Prosser ’82
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