Nancy Sarkis Corcoran writes, “Dare I say that our 30th reunion in the spring was our best so far? Thank you to everyone for making the effort to be here, for donating money, and for organizing such a fun weekend. By my calculations, 43 classmates attended the events. That’s about half the class! Great stats and great fun! Special kudos goes out to the many classmates (some first-timers) who came in from far away. Paul O’Boyle, Lindsey Plexico Ford and Jill Rudman from California. Meg King-McFarland from Utah, Elaine Soderstrom Anderson from Michigan, Kwame Dixon from North Carolina, Seth Goldman from Maryland, Jaquie Lawhorne Holder from Virginia, Muffy King O’Day from New Hampshire, Jocelyn Webster from Maine, and Geoff Smith and Amor Towles from New York. Steve and I kicked off the weekend by hosting the traditional Friday night cocktail party at our house—lots of good food, drinks and music; a few broken glasses; an overflowed toilet; lots of memories. Seeing everyone together again: priceless! All my fellow ’83ers looked fabulous and are doing well. Great to see John Disangro and Paul O’Boyle, who were both first-timers. What a bonus to have Kelly Keyes Carey’s daughter, Katie, who lives in Atlanta but was in for the weekend, join us. Kelly and Katie showed up in almost identical outfits (unplanned, of course!). (See picture on page 54.) Peter Amory stopped by after coaching his daughter’s soccer game down the street. He even wore his Nobles lax T-shirt from the graduates game a few years ago.
Great to see first-timer Peter Griglik and his fiancé, Michael. They were married in June 2013. Congrats to them! Dan Tarlin works at The Lodge, a psychiatric hospital in Westwood, Mass. He also has a private practice and a son headed to BU this fall. Lindsey Plexico Ford’s oldest son will be playing lax at Georgetown this fall. Kristin Vinios Marken’s second son will be at Elon College in September. Her oldest son is also in North Carolina, attending Wake Forest. Margot Hartley MacArthur’s son is headed to Exeter Academy in New Hampshire for secondary school. Betsy Morris Rosen’s daughter Samantha ’13 graduated a few weeks after the party. (See photo on page 54.) Kim Huskins is still running her dog-walking biz, Paws to Consider (www.pawstoconsider.com). Be in touch with her if you need dogwalking services in and around Jamaica Plain and Roslindale. Good friends Debbie Paine Sabin and Wendy Riseborough are now neighbors in Lexington. Kwame Dixon is the athletic director at a high school in North Carolina. He has a son in high school and twins in middle school. While looking at our class picture from 1980, Kwame Dixon thought I was Jeff Stein! Turns out he wasn’t totally crazy. Jeff and I do look alike (in that picture)! See for yourself if you can find your yearbook. The rain didn’t stop the fun on Saturday. Nobles moved the cookout indoors. Mr. [Nick] Marinaro (who retired in December 2012) was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame. Marc Gladstone, who is an educator in New York, was particularly sad to miss this event. He
writes, ‘I’m sorry that I will not be in for the reunion this weekend. I was hoping to attend and celebrate Nick Marinaro’s retirement. The man was not only influential during my years at Nobles but an inspiration to go into the field of education and teaching and coaching young people.’ Very fitting for such a great man, teacher and coach. Saturday night’s buffet class dinner on campus was held in the admission office. We had a chance to catch up with many of our old teachers: Bill Kehlenbeck, Tim Carey, Fred Sculco, Nick Nickerson, and Tilesy and Mark Harrington. They seem to have found the fountain of youth. They look exactly the same! It was great to see reunion first-timer Amor Towles, whose book, Rules of Civility has been on the bestseller list for a billion weeks. We hear a movie is in the works. Can’t wait. Seth Goldman, founder of Honest Tea, was also there. (Looks like we made the right call when we elected him class president senior year!) Seth donated his teas and juices to Nobles reunion weekend. Thanks, Seth! Very generous and delicious! After dinner, John Kirk, Amy McCulloch Brown and Jane Fogg presented the results from the class survey—very revealing and funny. The biggest takeaway: We all drink alcohol and most of us color our hair. When this event
ended, Jane Fogg invited everyone back to her place for a little more fun. I couldn’t attend, but I’m sure there must be some good stories out there. Maybe someone will write in and share for the next Nobles magazine. Other classmates not previously mentioned but who attended either one or both days of the reunion: Mark Young, John Glass, Munchie Holway Conran, Roxie Pitkin McKeever, Jeff Schwartz, Haley Clifford Adams, Hilary Whitman Allinson, Jim Cabot, Kristen Forsberg Diebus, Wendy Clayson Harris, Tina Malek, Lou Moses Mizgerd, John Montgomery, Greg Pastore and Nancy Lavin Scheerer. News and pictures from classmates who couldn’t make the reunion: Todd Chisholm sends his best to all, but he had to pick up his son from college in South Carolina that weekend. Eliza Gleason Kean sends her best from Washington, D.C. She couldn’t miss her sixth-grade daughter’s performance as the lead in ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ Terance Perry, an attorney living in Montana, couldn’t make it to reunion because he was trying a case that week and was waiting for the jury to come back with a verdict. He wrote me later saying he won his case. Marty McDonough was busy with his daughter’s first communion. (See
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