board, whether or not my nephew decides to play football again next season. Right now, he’s saying no, but if experience bears out, that will change at least a half dozen more times before football season begins.” As for me, Cary Liebowitz Bonosevich, I still work for the US Postal Service. I am part of the finance dept, doing data collection. My husband Len and I still live in northern NH with 3 of our 4 children—Sara (23), Sam (21), and Lauren (19). Mike (25) lives in TX. Over the yrs we have had many of our kids’ friends live with us for one reason or another—currently Kelsie (20) has been our guest for almost a year. We always have room for kids, friends, and animals. Visitors are also welcome. I have connected with many NMH ’79ers on Facebook. Many of these posts were sent to me through Facebook. Recently, Susannah Clifford Blachly asked: “If I write on the NMH wall does it automatically go out to folks via email? I never think to check the NMH wall but love hearing what folks are up to.” Yes, our posts on our NMH Class of 1979 Facebook page automatically emails posts to users, if that is your chosen setting. Paige and I post on our personal pages and the NMH class page. Join us on Facebook if you can. From Paige: The Class of 1979 is thriving. Our classmates are doing well, raising families, enjoying interesting careers, and doing lots of travel. Keep up to date with everyone by joining nearly 150 classmates on our Facebook group Northfield Mount Hermon Class of 1979. In addition, you can submit notes anytime to the NMH website. To check it out, please login to the alumni community at community.nmhschool.org. In the left-hand column, click on the link that says, magazine notes. At the top of the next page, you’ll see a button that says: submit/edit my NMH Magazine notes. Click on that and follow the directions to submit a note. To search all notes that have been submitted online, click on the NMH Magazine notes button and fill in the appropriate boxes to define your search. This site will not be an archive of notes published in the magazine. This site will only display notes that alumni submit through the site. David Gessner writes: “Pretty much doing the same things I was at NMH 30-plus years ago—writing, cartooning, reading, drinking. Live in NC now.” He has 2 books coming out summer 2011: My Green Manifesto, which tells the story of a wild ride down the Charles River, and The Tarball Chronicles, which grew out of spending summer ’10 blogging and writing in the Gulf for the Natural Resources Defense Council during the BP oil spill. He is an assoc professor of creative writing at U of NC-Wilmington, where he lives on a marsh with wife Nina and daughter Hadley (7). He and the Maine nature writer Bill Roorbach keep a blog called “Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour,” which they hope is occasionally funny. He looks back fondly on NMH for teaching him everything he knows about English lit and partying. The view from his writing shack can be seen at the NMH Class of 1979 Facebook page. James Philcox invites anyone visiting the St
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Members of the Class of ’80 gathered for a mini-reunion in DC. Front row: Jeff Leyden, Catherine “Kit” Crawford Arthur, Sarah Browning, and Lee Coykendall. Back row: Phil Schoenfeld, Jessica Elfenbein, Marya Fogel Flanagan, Susan Gibbs, Henry Wooster, John Mannino, Catherine “Cab” Dempsey, Jae So, and Christine Lindstrom Schaeffer. Augustine FL area to look him up. He was planning a trip of the East Coast this summer and stopping to see classmates along the way. Jay Kanzler lives in St Louis, where he is a lawyer and Episcopal priest. “I just completed my 4th documentary, Close But No Cigar, which is making the rounds on the film festival circuit. Also, working with my son (12) on his fastball so I can retire soon. Why doesn’t anyone ever come to St Louis? Please come to St Louis.” Jennifer Baker Warren lives at Verde Valley School in Sedona AZ, helping with the riding program, so she gets to ride 4 or 5 days a week. Her middle child just finished jr year. They were planning on an East Coast road trip this summer to look at colleges. Anita Nordal is also checking out colleges. “I thought a lot about NMH recently as I toured some colleges with daughter Emma, who is a jr this yr. (I don’t remember giving the choice of college that much thought.) It’s fun to see some schools, and the whole process has taken us to places we might not have visited otherwise.” Son Aidan is a sophomore in high school. Anita teaches at White Plains High School, where she is in her 5th year after a career change. “I think a lot about NMH, its philosophy, and the sense of community there that is often missing elsewhere.” She has been in touch with Cuppy Howe ’80, whose son is also touring colleges, Jane Cunningham ’80, and Susan Gibbs ’80, and usually runs into Sam Pettengill ’80 when they head to VT in the summer. She and husband Kevin were hoping to take the kids to Italy this summer and perhaps to France, where her brother and family now live. News from Rob Magie, who lives in London and escaped the royal wedding festivities. “Our son Will just started his 1st yr at U of Leeds, so we’re halfway to an empty nest. Daughter Jen has transferred to one of the American community schools in London and is thinking about college in the States; my wife just finished a grueling 2-week college tour through NY and NE. I am commuting between Poland and Italy, the latter is great as it gets me to our farmhouse in Marche on a regular
basis. We are counting the days to our upcoming trip to Tbilisi, Georgia, which is hosting the 2011 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy, where we’ll be watching Will represent the USA.” And for me, Paige Relyea Lehman, husband Charlie and I are navigating the teen yrs with our 2 daughters—it’s truly never dull. As 50 approaches, I’m updating my “bucket list” with the things I want to accomplish in the next 50 yrs. Looking forward to the annual Nov visit from Estelle Dorain Burgess and husband Ray. We hope James Philcox and family will be able to join us this year. If any other NMHers are in south FL the first weekend of Nov, email me. Brad Will has been going through major transitions, which he says started with his dad’s passing (John Beaver ’46) in Mar ’08. In May ’09 he re-met Sari in the Bay Area and life started to change. Sari made the move across the country on June ’10, and they settled into the 2nd-floor home of his company, Ashokan Architecture. A short commute to the office, 22 steps up. “We made the most of a situation that was not initially designed for living—meals from a hot plate, crock pot, microwave, and toaster oven—the Indian and Chinese restaurants down the street. We managed to coexist with the gallery Art On Wall, tough it through the winter, and deal with a busy commercial sidewalk right outside the front door.” In 3/11, they purchased a vintage 1900 Victorian with beautiful leaded glass, abundant light, 3 and a half bedrooms, a carriage house, a huge yard, and in desperate need of some attention. Professionally, Brad has been busy: the 53-unit Woodstock Commons Intergenerational Community project that has been in the works for 6 and a half years is slated to break ground in July; at Bard College a 20-bed dorm, an extension of the original Village Dorms begun in ’01, is under construction. He started a 5,400-s.f. house in Woodstock in June, a 2,300-s.f. vacation house, and an addition project will be starting shortly. You can read about his work at http://westfaironline.com/2011/12403geothermal-gains-momentum/#comment-35610.