CLASS NOTES
Chris Roof ’89 and Kathryn Zainea at the Pie Ride
Rebecca Soulette ’89 and her children
Michelle Matteo ’90 with her children
visiting there in May. • Marcie Etscovitz Levin lives in Havertown, Penn., with her husband, Franklin, their two daughters, and the newest member of the family, Blossom— their 5-month-old Maltipoo. • Christopher Till lives in Connecticut with his wife, Daria, and two boys. Christopher’s employer, the City of Manchester, approved an $85M referendum to fund the next three public school building projects that he oversees as their facilities project manager. He is hoping to connect with Eric Smith, his former Gould roommate, when they vacation in the Adirondacks. • Josh Cohen invites all to stop by Moe’s Tavern in Lee, Mass., anytime for a tasty Dogfish Head beer and a good time in the Berkshires (nocoorslight.com). Every year, Josh goes to the Big Beer and Belgian Fest in Vail, Colo., with a pack of NHM alums. • Yolanda DeHoyas left her job at Caesars (Las Vegas) to concentrate on a bigger investment. Her only child, Ronald, is in high school. She loves being an entrepreneur, selling on Amazon and eBay. She would love to hear from Adrienne Wynn, if possible. • Fina Conde Arnold and her family moved to Nicaragua last May. They are working with a Christian nonprofit that lives and works among the urban poor. It has been a difficult and wonderful experience, but Fina wishes she had chosen to take Spanish (not French at NMH!). • Sequoya Frey has been living in Belgium after moving from New York City last summer. Her kids still follow a bilingual program at the French school. Sequoya will definitely visit Jeremy Wolf and his family in Switzerland—only a few hours’ drive. • Spencer Luckey’s band, Buddig Meats and Fowl, are getting back in the studio and planning a reunion tour this autumn in western Massachusetts. • Holly Hornor Cleary lives in Eliot, Maine, with her husband, Matt, and their 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son. Earlier this year, they had a nice visit with Kathy Pazuk Naficy and her family in California. Elizabeth Hall Olszewski ’87 moved to the seacoast area, so she and Holly see each other quite a bit as well. In July, Holly was planning a mini NMH reunion with Karyn Burtt Banks, Kibby Dworkin Sheperd, Kathy Pazuk Naficy, and Beth Wetherbee Klein ’89. • Karyn Burtt Banks is excited about the reunion with her buds from Crossley,
and gives a shoutout to “Nicole, Holly, Nate, Josh, John, Todd, Sam, Cam, Jeremy, Pete, Eric, and many others...for showing up to 25th reunion and making it so much fun.” • Jeremy Steinberg wanted to shout out to the Weston Crew: Otis, Kow, Pete, Pecos, David, and Hyung. • Liza Schmeltz-Brocker reports that it was surreal but the fact that her son, Jack, survived his freshman year at NMH made her really proud! Fall parents weekend had her family crashing at Kristen Pierce’s house and they had a great weekend together. • After a long process of boarding school application and consideration, Peter Harris’s twin sons are off in the fall to Hotchkiss. NMH was a strong contender, but the twins are both squash fanatics and picked a school with that sports program. After stepping down as the CEO of the medical device company he was with for 15 years, Peter now works for a Swedish family office doing direct/private investment in companies. They just bought a robotics lab automation company outside of Boston, so he expects to be spending a lot more time in that area. • Henry Wheaton is still co-owner of SHOW Circus Studio in Easthampton, Mass., where he teaches trapeze, aerial fabric, tumbling, hand balancing, and acrobatics. He produces, directs, and performs in circus shows all over New England, and accepted a position co-running the flying trapeze program at the New England Center for Circus Arts in Brattleboro, Vt. • Mark Chaffee was in Burlington, Vt., in May and shared a deli sandwich with the fabulous Lauren Swick Jordan. He adds, “If you’re ever in the area, she makes a great tour guide—the hospitality and laughs are abundant.” • Jeff LeClair has gotten into mountaineering and climbing. He has summited Mt. Rainier and rock-climbed the east face of Mt. Whitney. He and his wife, Susan, have also been busy with their two boys, who are big into baseball and basketball. They still live in northern Virginia. • Alison Stern Simard lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two kids. Three years ago she started a nonprofit environmental agency, Citizens for Los Angeles Wildlife (clawonline.org), an organization working to protect wildlife and restore their disappearing habitats. • Chris Sexton was in Dover, Del., for the Firefly Music Festival in June, where he
saw Mariah Draper Calagione ’89 and Sam Calagione—and enjoyed more than his fair share of Dogfish Head. • Matthew Hand is a
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financial planner at Wells Fargo Advisors in downtown Boston. He is married and has two boys, Nicholas (4) and Henry (7).
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Northfield and Mount Hermon Chris Roof roofsound@comcast.net • John Carroll jcarroll@nmhschool.org • Caryn Crotty Eldridge slickcke7@gmail.com From Chris Roof—I had the pleasure of
attending an NMH “Party in the Barn” in Lincoln, Mass., hosted by Andrew Gnazzo ’91 and Trintje Van Winkle Gnazzo ’91. It was great connecting with other, local alumni and hearing in-person details and some of the inspiration behind NMH’s new strategic plan. • A number of ’89ers crashed this year’s reunion. I was motivated by the (hopefully) first annual Pie Ride—a scenic 30-mile bike ride through Massachusetts and Vermont. It was great to catch up with ’89 friends Kara Seager, Mark Medeiros, and David Febus. Kara ran, as she does a lot these days, the Meg Peller Memorial Run. Mark was on the mend from one of his many recent bike “impacts” (he needs to learn one is supposed to stay on the two wheels). David is still the rock that we’ve known him to be for years. • It was also great to see a number of long-lost friends from other years, including Haegan Forrest ’90, Go Akimoto ’90, and Michiko Umeda Sakai ’90. Joss French was apparently there, but unfortunately just late enough to the Pie Ride to make it a challenge to do on one’s own with all the turns. My sister, Kathryn Roof Deckers ’85, thoroughly enjoyed pretending she’s 30 years younger. • Back in Cambridge, Mass., I ran into Katie Klapp Sonin and her boys in Harvard Square—it can’t help but bring a smile to one’s face to spend even a few minutes with Katie. I often pass Kit Gattis ’87 as we’re commuting in opposite directions on our bikes throughout the city. • Mac Ritchey continues to perform in a number of musical groups around New England. I’ve only managed to catch a couple of shows, but it’s always great to hang with someone with one of the biggest hearts around, and one heck of a musi-