The actual move includes cleaning, furnishing, and personalizing the apartment to the family’s taste and transforming the apartment into a “home.” Furniture and housewares are either purchased new through funds raised, donated new, or gently used. The half-day experience concludes with revealing the apartment to the family and presenting them the keys to their new home.
1975 CLASS CORRESPONDENTS
Andrea Pape Truitt 609-646-5361 apape57@gmail.com Jed Dawson 508-735-9663 Jeddawson711@gmail.com Doug Floyd 781-788-0020 doug_floyd@yahoo.com Taking top billing this edition is Louisa Hackett, making her first submission to the magazine in 40 years. Yeah, Louisa! From Louisa: “In 2013, I founded Community Votes, a New York City–based initiative that leverages the connections nonprofits have in local communities to engage voters and, ultimately, strengthen those communities through active participation in the electoral process. Check out the recent New York Times article (12/11/15) ‘Mobilizing Voters in New York’s Housing Projects.’ And for more information, visit www.communityvotes.org.” Jed Dawson reports, “Well, the day finally arrived as Kirsten and I became ‘empty nesters’ for
the first time this past September, when Asher (Nobles ’15) went off to college. We now have three kids, Abram ’08, Hadley (Nobles ’10) and Asher, living in California, and Emily ’06 and Sam ’10 in New York City. The adjustment is still happening as I write these class notes. Home for the holidays, and then away they go. I am making good progress with the sale of our disinfectant technology to hospitals all over the country. It is a great time to be in the business of killing pathogens in hospitals. Kirsten continues her work at the aquarium to help save our oceans. Some exciting news arrived this morning when Abram was named to Forbes’s 30 under 30 in venture capital. Very proud parents we are! Check the link: www.forbes.com/30under-30-2016/venture-capital/. It was great to see so many of our classmates at our 40th reunion back in May. Thank you all for making the effort to come back.” Tom Pratt reports that he and his family have relocated from New Mexico to Lakewood Ranch, Fla. (near Sarasota). “After passing the bar here, I will be looking for a position as an attorney.”
Peter Rice submits this under the hypothesis that you never know who you will run into: “A few weeks ago, while teaching class, a girl touring the school came with her parents to my classroom. As I was talking to them, I must have mispronounced a word, and I said, ‘Oh, that’s my Boston accent.’ The mother said, ‘I’m from Boston.’ ‘What town?’ I asked. She responded, ‘Dedham.’ I replied, ‘I went to Noble and Greenough.’ She said, ‘I’m Eliot Putnam’s daughter.’ We did not talk long, but it was wonderful to meet her and reminisce about Nobles.” Tansy Parr Lovell reports, “Had the pleasure of a visit from classmate Ellen Quinlan in November as we were lucky enough to get our hands on some Dead & Co w/John Mayer tickets. Then, a couple of weeks later, I made it up to Boston and had a fun night out with another classmate, Asa Phillips, and Ellen. It was a great way to wrap up 2015. Old friends are the best friends!” Bob Phinney writes, “I am still a teacher/administrator at Dexter Southfield School in Brookline, teaching Latin, science, photography and computer coding. As
1975 classmates Ellen Quinlan, Asa Phillips and Tansy Parr Lovell during a night out in Boston.
director of the Clay Center for Science and Technology, I get to work with the huge telescope at the observatory. Come look through the biggest telescope in the area on a public Tuesday evening (www. claycenter.org) or call me for a VIP visit. My wife, Susan, still works for Johnson & Johnson worldwide, and my son, Matthew, is in New Mexico teaching/coaching MMA and professional boxing.”
1976 CLASS CORRESPONDENTS
Tom Bartlett +44 1908 647196 tom_bartlett58@hotmail.com Rob Piana 617-491-7499 robert.piana@vanderbilt.edu As we look forward to our class commemoration of 40 years of life after Nobles (Mr. Henderson exempted), it seems an appropriate time to preview coming attractions with news of what a few classmates are up to. Robin Cracknell writes that he has a show (he’s a notable artist, as noted in past Notes) at the Sous les Étoiles Gallery in NYC (yes, that’s New York, not Neuilly) on March 10, with an artist talk on the 14th. He mentions that this is his first return in a long time to his American “home” and that he’s hoping classmates will make it to the show. André Stark has brought new meaning to the word succinctness with his Facebook posts; the latest to this correspondent being “go, go, go!” Whether this is a reference to Robin’s show, an exhortation for me to attend reunion, or a dem-
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