stay connected... funded and productive.” Vicki is also managing two companies she started. She happily reported that her daughter, Daphne, a resident in internal medicine at Carolinas HealthCare in Charlotte, planned to marry in April. Her son, Max, lives in the mountains of North Carolina, where he is an emergency veterinarian. In March, Peter Cohan took 27 students to Paris for a course on startup strategy. He was clearly confident about entrepreneur education but less so about his language skills, saying, “Will I remember any of the French that Andover tried to teach me?” Lisa Bennett Pierson lives in Jackson Hole, Wyo., with her husband, Scott, and commutes to Idaho, where she is director of flight operations at the Driggs Airport. Lisa reports having traveled to Denver last November with her daughter, Roxy Pierson ’07, to attend an Andover alumni event; she visited with Margot Kent Timbel and enjoyed the opportunity to meet John Palfrey. Peter Mitchell and Harry Flynn shared a unique and special experience at Andover last May while there for the event honoring Lt. Cmdr. Erik Kristensen ’91, one of the lost heroes of Operation Red Wings (subject of the movie Lone Survivor). Peter, living in Minnesota, flew to New Jersey to drive his Navy-veteran father up to Andover for the ceremony. Harry’s father, Harry Flynn ’48, also a Navy veteran, flew out from LA and attended as well. Before the main ceremony, which was held in the late afternoon beside the Bell Tower, Peter, Harry, and their fathers, along with George Rider ’51, another Navy vet, all rode together from campus to the new boathouse to gather with Erik’s parents and Navy Seal teammates and show them the new oars, trophy blade, and plaque that bear Erik’s name. En route in the car, as Harry recounted, “Our fathers chatted about their shared Navy experience and alighted by simple chance upon the fact that they had been commissioned out of Newport, R.I., together in the same OCS class back in 1953. They hadn’t seen each other in over half a century, and the pleasant (re) connection was only then and there made! What’s more, George Rider and my father had served together aboard the same destroyer. Andover’s legacy of pulling the world together is a blessing we’ve all enjoyed in one manner or another over the years. And we’re grateful for that.” Jay Finney, chief marketing officer for the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., spent 10 days in China, where he was a featured speaker at an international museum conference. While there, he also consulted with a number of institutions on museum marketing standards and practices. Jay also reports with pride that his son, Howard “Quint” Finney V ’18, entered Phillips Academy this past fall. Jay adds that Priscilla Perry Danforth, who’s also at the Peabody Essex Museum, has recently been shuttling between Salem, the Netherlands, and Florida as she directs the production of Dutch artist Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest exhibition.
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While she helps her older brother recover from a traumatic brain injury sustained more than a year ago, Cathy Chapman continues to work at Children’s Hospital. Her daughter graduated from college and is now gainfully employed at a nonprofit; her son works at a neuroscience research lab. Last October, Dan Cooper and his lovely wife, Carolyn, hosted me at their house in Palo Alto, Calif., not far from the Stanford campus, where we, along with several of our illustrious PA classmates (Lawrence Kemp, Lewis Butler, Brad Geier, Paul Murray, and Tom Meredith), enjoyed our 35th college reunion. Quite a crew—12, or was it 13 or 14 of us?—descended on Stanford in September ’75! Carrying forward a tradition started by my stepfather, Steve “G” Goodhue ’47 (and Harvard ’51), Gordie Nelson gathered classmates Mac DeCamp, Paul McNicol, and Rich Pietrafesa, along with their wives, for a festive dinner at Concord’s Colonial Inn the night before the Harvard-Yale game back in November... followed, of course, by tailgating and the football game the next day. This mini reunion was actually supposed to take place last June around the time of their 35th Harvard reunion and was also intended to mark Rich’s receiving a master’s degree from MIT! Rich explained, “I finally grew embarrassed enough by being the only one of our college roommates with just one degree that I did something about it. I think I was the oldest guy to get a diploma that day.” Rich has declared that he’ll be attending our 40th Reunion but expressed concern that we might now be called the “Old Guard.” No, we haven’t reached Old Guard status just yet, but we’ll soon be marching within sight of them. I’m told, though, that as far as PA reunions go, you tend to feel and act 40 at your 40th! In any case, more good times for us on campus just ahead. See you in June! [Editor’s note: The Academy has received word that Anthony Sanders passed away on Feb. 11, 2015. Please see his obituary in the In Memoriam section.]
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Having a class notes deadline right after the holidays turns out to be a little bit of a challenge, likely due to a combination of holiday lethargy and the daunting task of returning to work full time.
But several of you heeded my second Facebook request, so here goes. Pam Schwartz Bruckman continues to practice law in Methuen, Mass., where she concentrates on elder law, real estate, estate planning, and estate administration. Her husband, Ron, is a software engineer, currently programming the Android. Older daughter Nancy is a rights and royalties specialist for a children’s-book publisher in Boston. Younger daughter Molly is a data analyst for an Internet optimization company in Raleigh, N.C. Pam and Ron live in Nashua, N.H., where she sings and acts in community theatre. She recently bumped into Louise Aitel Koutavas at a movie. Louise and her husband live in southern New Hampshire. Pam also sees Dan Malis occasionally in person (and all the time on Facebook). Speaking of Dan, he reports a busy year in Cambridge and Westport, Mass., where Phil Adams is a new neighbor. Dan has also spent time with fashionisto Michael Krumpe, ever-loyal SYAer Pam Eaton, and food blogger Karin Stienemeier. Dan hosted Karin’s son Jasper for a couple of weeks of Boston exploration. Dan’s year was additionally marked by his law office’s move to Boston’s North End, where he diligently avoids Modern Pastry on his walk from the T. He still sings in concert performance groups in Boston. Responding to my pleas (in which I even asked what class members’ animals were up to), Lisa Spiegel Morasch writes, “I have no amazing pets, but I do have amazing children to brag about.” Lisa is two-thirds of the way to an empty nest, with two of her sons in college: Jonathan, graduating from the University of Washington and heading to Boeing’s 777 line as a mechanical engineer, and Noah, at snowy Bates college. Youngest son, Ben, is a junior in high school and an accomplished baker. Lisa has an association-management company, contracting with professional societies for management support of their volunteer organizations. She juggles lots of clients, adventures, and meetings in Mexico and various U.S. locations, including the Pacific Northwest, where she is based. Lisa had a terrific visit with Laura Kramer and Steve Kent on a trip east. Lisa may be moving her office to Casco Bay, Maine, while Laura and Steve are moving west from Winchester, Mass., to Healdsburg, Calif. Another frequent Facebook contributor is Ted Exstein, who continues his excellent European adventure. Ted moved to Germany in July 2012, and his family joined him in July 2013, when his base of operations moved from Heidelberg to Wiesbaden. The year was hectic, getting his teenage son acclimated to Germany and a new school and his wife integrated into the spouses’ community. Their college-age son remained in Virginia. Everyone has adapted brilliantly, and they are taking advantage of all that living in Europe has to offer, including travel. Destinations have included the UK, Italy, France, Poland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Ted and frau Patti have started running 5Ks locally, and