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Kit Gattis ’87 performs in Harvard’s 11th annual Dancers’ Viewpointe. months. She hopes to go back to work full time as a classroom teacher in the fall. In the past year Alex Palmer Gormley started her own clothing company, called Palmer Noelle. Although the business is less than a year old, she is in some fabulous shops, most notably Scoop NYC. It has her up early talking to her manufacturing facility in Mumbai and working the market by day. Check her out on Facebook or the website. Alex is also a Girl Scout leader to her daughter’s troop of 14 five-year-olds. She thought it would be a total drag but is totally surprised to love it. Alex also teaches religious education to 5th and 6th graders at the Unitarian Church in Westport. Chuck Linton is busy as export manager for oil equipment firm Barclay Wholesale in Stafford TX and even busier with 2 girls Sydney (4 1/2 years) and Nicole (2 1/2 years). Later this year he will visit Indonesia to see wife Linda’s family. Nora Minton Urdi has moved yet again. She and her family just bought a house in the beautiful area of Mammoth Lakes CA, just minutes from the entrance to Yosemite National Park and Mammoth Mountain Ski Area. Husband John is exec dir of Mammoth Lakes Tourism. Nora and her children Bryn ( 7) and Jace (5) are thriving in this beautiful new landscape. Morgan Sturges Vaughan got married in Dallas TX in Aug 2010 to Tristan Vaughan, whom she met while they were getting their MFAs in acting at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University in DC. They now live in NY, where they split time between Queens and the Hamptons, performing, auditioning, and teaching. Richard Weis has had an eventful last 18 months, moving down to the civilization of Northampton from the hills of Conway MA, taking a new job managing ServiceNet’s Early Intervention program, marrying the delightful Kelly Coffey (1/17/10), seeing his daughter Faith Weis ’10 graduate, renovating the new house, and welcoming new daughter Cerys Mary Margaret Coffey (4/4/11). “On 4/23 at 4:06 pm, with Faith home from AmeriCorps before starting at George Washington, we got to celebrate the moment when Faith’s age in years and Cerys’s age in days converged at 18.687 each—thanks to Mike Fleck ’84
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moved to just over the MN border to WI. She hopes that 3M will leave them there for longer than 9 months this time. However, the brief sojourn in MA allowed Tamson to spend some quality time with Julie Smith and her adorable son Hugo. Tamson is looking forward to reconnecting with Anna Meek, who lives in Minneapolis. Paul McDaniel has been busy with his band Wormburner. They just returned from a West Coast tour of LA, Portland OR, and Seattle. Paul caught up with Corrina Wright and Dakota Smith ’89 at his show in LA, where they both live. In LA, Wormburner performed on the popular morning TV show, “Good Day LA,” and in Seattle appeared on an in-studio performance on KEXP’s radio. Wormburner also just landed an opening slot for the band Cracker (with David Lowery) in Brooklyn in July. Paul’s “other band,” the Jazzholes, just learned they are opening for Blues Traveler at the Ridgefield Playhouse in June—rock ’n’roll. See you all at our 25th in 6/12.
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CHRIS ROOF 465 Concord Ave Cambridge MA 02138-1217 roofsound@comcast.net JOHN CARROLL Box 4722, One Lamplighter Way Mount Hermon MA 01354-9638 jcarroll@nmhschool.org ETHAN KLINE 61 Ramdsen Rd, Flat 3 London England SW128RA ethankline@gmail.com CARYN CROTTY ELDRIDGE 20 Glover Rd Needham MA 02494-1414 caryn@eldridges.net
From Ethan: If anyone is coming over for the Olympics next year, please get in touch. Thanks to all those who responded, starting with Charlie Bankart, who is at U of KS, where he is the asst vice provost for international programs and is finishing up his PhD in higher ed admin. He was recently elected to serve on the board of dir for the Assoc of International Educators, and his wife just received tenure in the Dept of French and Italian. Laine Romero-Alston is moving back to the NYC area to head up the Ford Foundation’s program on Next Generation Workforce Strategies, supporting low-wage and immigrant workers.
Lauren Burns is back in DC after spending the better part of last year in Afghanistan. Her time in Kabul reminded her of NMH, and she credits NMH for instilling the desire to take on new challenges. Gail Doolittle is working on her 17th year as an NMH employee and is now the asst dir of campus services. Colleen Nielsen Gibney is a technology consultant and SBIR program dir at ITAC in NYC. She lives in Plainfield NJ with husband Paul and daughter Gemma. Sarah Watson and her boyfriend Ian welcomed Viggo Watson Engberg in 4/11. Julie Siegel Falatko and husband Dave welcomed Ramona Greta in 5/10, joining siblings Henry, Eli, and Zuzu. Julie completed her master’s in library science the day before Ramona was born and eagerly awaits the chance to use it. Kristen Broadhead Cashel and husband Colin welcomed son Teddy in 3/10. He joined siblings Charlie (5), Will (3), and Katie (3). She would love to get back in touch with Carrie Bruggeman. Katy Clapp Sonin welcomed son Viggo in 8/11, who joins Udo (4). She recently saw Eileen Williams, Larisa Mendez-Penate, and Bethany Wood Beatty and would love to find
Trixie Souza. Alice Austin splits her time between LA and
Boston playing music, painting, and running a massage therapy studio. She recently had an art show with Nick Houghton and is looking for other LA NMH people. Mac Ritchey lives in Carlisle MA and keeps busy with his recording studio Possum Hall and his music groups 35th Parallel and Ensemble Datura. He will be performing at the Tamburi Mundi international music festival in Freiburg Germany in August. J J Holbert lives in San Diego with husband Philip and son Hobie (5). She teaches English as a second language to adults, which she started in Japan, where she taught at an engineering university for 3 years.
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