CLASS NOTES time on the North Shore of Boston, where I grew up, and I would like to have a mini-prereunion gathering by the sea soon. Email me if you are interested in attending or helping. • Jennifer Hankin Bourdain heads the U.S. supervisory analyst team for international investment bank, Nomura Securities, in New York. She and husband Chris recently celebrated 28 years of marriage. Her daughter was in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake in 2011, and her father and brother both died that same year. • Ann Hinds lives in Brookline, Mass. She has a significant partner in her life, Emily, and travels a lot to Provincetown, the Thousand Islands on the St. Lawrence Seaway, and New York City, where her daughter, Rachel (30), lives. Ann runs the Catherine Hinds Companies. “I love my work and the people I work with, mostly women. My philanthropic work is spent on Fenway Institute for Health here in Boston and supporting women in their entrepreneurial pursuits.” Ann adds, “I look back on my time at NMH with joy. It was the most positive educational experience of my life. I plan on attending [reunion] with Lisa Price. Jon Rubin must be out there somewhere!” • Charlotte Bacon Holton lives in White Plains, N.Y., with her husband Steve, four chickens, and two sons. She is the owner of Curtain Call Custom Sewing, a drapery workroom, is active in teaching Scottish dancing, and sings with the Charis Chamber Voices in the Katonah/ Bedford, N.Y., area. • Nina Kruschwitz lives in Ipswich, Mass., and works with MIT Sloan Management Review as a digital editor and senior project manager. The rest of her time is filled with dance, reading, friends and family, and spending as much time outdoors as possible. • After a 20-year career as a military nurse, and later as a civilian advanced-practice nurse, Jennifer Nash Morgan-Johnson and husband, Royce, switched gears to a sailing lifestyle, living full time on their sailboat, except for occasional visits back to the States. In the past few years they sailed in the Bahamas and Florida. “This past year we sailed to Guatemala via Mexico and Belize. Future travel plans include Roatán and the San Blas Islands of Panama. Susan Loring-Wells and Marty have joined us and they are great crew. Hoping to attend the 40th reunion next year.” • Debbie Rooney Mayer lives in Newburyport, Mass., with her beautiful 14-year-old twins. Thirteen years ago she adopted the twins from Russia and says, “They have been the light of my life.” She has been running her own advertising business for 30 years, deHaas Advertising & Design. • Darcy Schramn’s son is entering junior year at Elon University in North Carolina. She is expanding her court-reporting business with a new office in Plymouth, Mass., and would love to do business with alum litigators in Massachusetts. • From Joe McVeigh—I live in Middlebury, Vt., with my wife, Leila, and son Nat (11). Nat is a sixth grader, Leila works as a school
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mental-health clinician, and I work in the field of English as a second language. A couple of textbooks I’ve co-authored are just out in a second edition. I travel a lot for work, including trips last year to Turkey and Spain, doing teacher-training work for the U.S. State Department. In the fall of 2014, I played the role of Mr. Bumble in a community theater production of Oliver! Leila and I both enjoy music, and a singing visit to New Hampshire last June took us to see Becky and Will Torrey. Meanwhile, Laura Stookey Johnson and I, along with Laura’s husband, Steve Johnson ’75, were back on campus last June planning for our 40th reunion. Don’t miss it! • Dongsok Shin and wife Gwen were thrilled to be featured performers at the Flint harpsichord collection in Delaware, where they performed on original instruments from the 17th and 18th centuries. Dongsok also assisted Gwen in recording a new European organ CD. He occasionally gets together with Charlotte Bacon Holton. The two attended the parody Forbidden Broadway, whose music is directed fabulously by David Caldwell ’75. Dongsok is hoping to attend our 40th reunion in June! • After 30 years in Southern California, Nina Tufts Seidman and her husband moved to Hawthorne, N.J.. She is in touch with Chris Matthews ’74, Debbie Hayes Boyce ’75, Grace Mauzy ’77, and Lisa Clarke’77. Lisa and Nina would like to explore the possibility of multi-class reunions, as the single-year designation always excludes lots of the friends we had who graduated a year ahead or behind us. • Donna Lazerwitz Roggenthien and husband Ron moved from Boca Raton, Fla., to Portland, Maine. Their beautifully renovated home was featured in Maine Home + Design magazine. Donna works as a landscape designer and makes custom jewelry. See her work at dyettadesignstudio.com. • Tom Schiller and wife Janet are empty nesters in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. Daughter Laura (21) finished her third year of a doctoral program in physical therapy at Ithaca College. Son Cyrus (18) is a freshman at St. John’s College. • Adam Saffer is CEO of Gateway Development International. He writes, “I am here [Kabul, Afghanistan] trying to grow, expand, and diversify the indigenous construction materials manufacturing sector. Afghanistan has tremendous resources, but not exactly a conducive environment for business. Other than that, the situation here is fascinating...in a Full Metal Jacket kind of way.” • Marcy Robinson Dembs can’t believe she’s been practicing law for 30 years. She is a partner in Damon Barclay, specializing in estate planning, administration, and trusts. She’s been married to husband Chris for 34 years! Marcy says, “We built a new home three years ago just outside Syracuse on seven acres, surrounded by another 40 acres of farmland. It’s an architecturally accurate Greek revival farmhouse and looks and feels like it has been here for 100 years, except for the solar panels.”
They also have a cottage on the St. Lawrence River in Canada. • Elaine Monchak is an architect specializing in residential work in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Her older son, Gus, is a sophomore at Cornell. Her younger son, Isaac, is a sophomore at NMH, which gives Elaine an excuse to visit the campus often. Elaine writes, “I am still in awe of the beauty of the campus each time I visit throughout the seasons, and am very impressed with the performing arts program. I am in contact with Anne Wenniger, Nadine Moll, Lisa Morgan, and Maureen Miller.” At their mini-reunions, Mary Thoms Madden and Beth Thoms Twombly ’75 join in the celebration, which is filled with “laughter, good food, and lots of reminiscing about NMH escapades.” • Mary Robinson Mailand writes, “I became a speech/ language pathologist and love it! I have worked in the public school in Meredith, N.H., grades 3–6, for more than 20 years.” • Chris Kraus stepped down as chair of the classics department at Yale in 2012. Apparently bored without sufficient administrative duties, she immediately signed on as acting chair of the Near Eastern languages and civilizations department. • Phil Mead never knew Carolyn Fox ’75 while we were in school. The two met at a tae kwon do class in Washington, D.C., in 1986 and married in 1989. They live outside Philadelphia, where Phil is an emergency physician. Carolyn recently retired from her job as an investment attorney. Phil got together in upstate New York for a long weekend with Steve Smith that included many fond reminiscences of NMH! • Mary Worthington is busy in the Boston area with her business that provides home care for seniors. Mary has recently been in touch with Phebe Gregson, Steve Hibbard, Cathy Campione, and Valerie Malter. • Chuck Funderburk is an orthopedic surgeon in Oklahoma. His wife of 30 years, Beverly, is a child psychologist at the Oklahoma University medical complex. • Terry Green had a great time at his Bowdoin reunion with Lisa Morgan and Kaye Tiedemann. Kaye lives in Connecticut with her daughter, Mattie. Lisa lives in Maine, where she works as a designer. Terry lives in D.C., where he consults for low-income housing developers. His daughter, Lucy, just graduated from Bowdoin, so they’ll be in the same reunion cycle—but 35 years apart! • John Puopolo graduated from University of New Hampshire in 1981. He retired in April 2015, following a 35-year career with Verizon, where he was director of infrastructure construction for New England. John is divorced. His daughter, Danielle, is a junior at Providence College studying finance and business management. (“Go Friars!” says John.) In retirement, he will be splitting his time between Boston and Naples, Fla. • Leigh Pardee-Haller graduated from Mills College in Oakland, Calif., and received a graduate degree from San Francisco State University. She has spent most of her career working in