Do. Not sure if there’s some interesting connection there. My husband Andy and I are also excited to report that our older daughter, Amelia, will be going to the University of Chicago next year and hopes to focus on studying Arabic.” “Time certainly flies but all is great with us!,” reports Nina Frusztajer. “We (myself and my three children Catherine, Hugo and Zeno) all play instruments (piano, ukelele, guitar, drums) and sing. The kids perform in recitals and compose their own songs, and I am still playing with a band (guitar and vocals), which is really fun. I was very lucky to be able to attend the Grammy’s this year, which was a blast.” Hilary Hart’s third book about women’s spirituality, Body of Wisdom: Women’s Spiritual Power and How it Serves was published in April. “If you are interested in women’s spiritual power, how it functions, and how it can help resolve some of the world’s most pressing challenges, please check it out! Aside from book news, I’m living in Taos (where I hung out with Lucy Perera before she moved away!) and still really enjoying staying in touch with my Park classmates on Facebook.” Nadia Belash McKay reports, “All is well. I own and operate Mom Corps Boston, a staffing firm that firmly believes that flexibility is the workstyle of the future and a way to attract and retain top talent. Needless to say, it’s an interesting time for us with all of the controversy in the press. Enjoying living in Milton with my husband Jim, and boys Henry (12) and Ollie (9).”
1980 Class Representative Susan Schorr Myra Paci writes “My husband Michael Furlong and I are still happily married and have even started a company together: SLAP Agency. We’re a marketing and video production company, so we have basically combined our talents and two career paths into one. So far, so good. Check out our website at www.slapsf.com. On other fronts, our older daughter Adriana is finishing 8th grade and will start Berkeley High School next fall, if all goes as planned. Our younger daughter Nora is in 4th grade and organizes all our lives. My mother Mary Paci and brothers Christopher ’74 and Stefano ’77— and their families—are all thriving as well; this is a true blessing. Greetings to all you Parkies of yesteryear: students, teachers, and administrators!” Greg Welpton has been back in New England for a little over a year, work-
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ing as the operations manager for Hodgdon Defense Composites in Bath, Maine. Greg tells us, “I’m living down on 40 acres between the Kennebec and Bath rivers. It’s pretty quiet and peaceful here—and a nice place to retreat to from the organized chaos of getting a production facility up, running and delivering boats out the door. I wish everyone out there well, and if you are ever up in Maine to please stop in and say ‘hi’!”
1981 Class Representatives Matt Carothers Alex Mehlman
1982 Class Representative Allison Nash Mael Tracy Slater, whose trials of navigating life and language in Japan was featured in a recent Park Bulletin, has a memoir forthcoming from Penguin’s Putnam imprint. Her book, The Good Shufu: A Wife in Search of a Life Between East and West, is the true story of finding love and meaning in another language and home in another world—and of how sometimes, when we let go of everything we’ve ever planned for, we find more than we could have ever hoped. thegoodshufu.wordpress.com
1983 Class Representatives Lisa Livens Freeman Elise Mott
1984 Class Representative Anne Collins Goodyear Anne Collins Goodyear writes, “Things have been busy and exciting with lots of new professional and personal opportunities. I recently assumed the presidency of the College Art Association, helped design a project for study the fair use of copyrighted images by scholars and artists for which the College Art Association has been awarded two major grants and, now, just recently, have accepted, together with my husband Frank, positions as the CoDirectors of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.” Laura Church Wilmerding and her interior design firm Laura Wilmerding Interiors was featured in the March 2013 issue of House Beautiful magazine. Congratulations, Anne and Laura!
Top to bottom: Nina Frusztajer’s ’79 kids Catherine 11, Hugo 9, and Zeno 10; Myra Paci ’80 with her husband Michael Furlong and their two kids Adriana and Nora; Interior designer Laura Church Wilmerding ’84 was featured in the March 2013 issue of House Beautiful magazine.
The Park School Bulletin | Spring 2013
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