www.andover.edu/intouch roommate Maureen Walsh Hooft Graafland ’78, Drew Guff and wife Jessica, Bill Cohan ’77, and Connie Barrett Dawson ’78. Susan saw Victoria Hull Robey ’78 and Nick Gutfreund ’77 in New York last October and reconnected with Geri Pope Bidwell, as well as Briggs Tobin and his wife, Jessica, at Andover Family Weekend. Susan’s daughter, Natalie, and Briggs’s son, Sam, are both juniors. In NYC, Susan saw Tad Flynn, whose son, James, is an upper. Susan attended her daughter’s Drama Lab debut and checked out the alumni hockey game. Susan’s daughter and David Hartzell’s daughter, Katie ’18, are friends. Kay McCabe, chair of the art department and a dance teacher at Kimball Union Academy in Vermont, wrote about plans to take the school’s musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, to India on tour this past March. Kay expected to take 26 high school students from six countries to India, which she described as “a whole new lesson in international diplomacy.” Kay’s daughter, Georgia, will be going to medical school in the fall, and her son, Gus, graduates from Colorado College in May. Paul Golitz is planning to take his daughter to Andover for a visit. He writes, “It will be great to be on campus again and have a chance to visit with Jimmy Ventre and John Francis.” John’s youngest son is currently at Andover. Augustus Schoen-Rene is the technical director of the Smith Opera House in Geneva, N.Y. Augustus takes care of his mother, who has Alzheimer’s. He writes, “I am hoping to get a third book out this year if I can—this one is a sort of self-help/philosophy book.” Bruce Aylward and family moved from Bend to Portland, Ore., last year. His daughter, Rianna, an economics major and soccer captain at Wellesley, is spending a spring semester in Chile. His son, Cal, a freshman at Pomona studying computer science, is, according to Bruce, “throwing the javelin far more successfully than his father ever did.” Youngest son, Nolan, plays soccer and enjoys “life with the Timbers in Portlandia, RCTID.” Thanks to all who took the time to write. See you in the notes! —Amy
1980 35th REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Jane Shattuck Mayer 80jshattuck@bluelink.andover.edu 781-710-7532 Amy Davidsen 451 West End Ave., Apt 14E New York NY 10024 917-545-9617 amydavidsen@yahoo.com
Greetings, Class of 1980, and welcome to our last notes before our 35th Reunion, June 12–14. We
look forward to seeing many of you on campus. I am pleased to have Amy Davidsen join me as class secretary. As we work together on ways to make the news-gathering process interesting and interactive, please contact either of us to share news. We are excited to reconnect with all of you. As previously promised, here is the rest of the news from the 2013 Google Doc, with more recent information sprinkled in. Lisa Posey Krakowsky wrote that she was a “postulant for holy orders in the Diocese of New York” and expected to be ordained in two or three years. In April 2012, I attended her MDiv thesis quilt show, An Artist’s Trinity, which was breathtaking. Larry Harris and Dianne Hurley also attended. Posey has taught a class at Union Theological Seminary in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and exhibited her quilts in a solo show in early 2014. She is currently preaching, teaching, and preparing for ordination. Rich Goldberg, who remains a principal at the Brattle Group, has been leading a bicoastal life since he and his wife, Marina, sent their son to PA this fall. Alex ’18, is quite an accomplished violinist, and I look forward to hearing him play in person. In 2013, Jay Glynn wrote from Parkland, Fla., but Facebook tells me that he can frequently be found in Rhode Island. Jay passed along the sad news of John Olcay’s 1992 death, as well as a note that Julian Harris lives in London and Jason Lucero is a film professor at NYU. Perhaps his most intriguing tidbit was that James “Jimmy” Deyo, now known as Rabbi Yaacov Deyo, is the man behind speed dating! (Seriously. Google him.) Kim Lilly Curry wrote from Hillsboro, Ore., that she was “SVP of strategic planning and engagement at Babcock & Jenkins, a half-marathon runner, a nationally ranked amateur-owner jumper rider, an avid gardener, and a roadie for her musician sons.” Harry Bartlett wrote that he is principal at Bartlett Interactive LLC, director of ConcordConserves.org, and “father of three kids coming up on college.” He’s finding more time now for writing music and growing food. He had also caught up with Allyn Burrows (who, wrote Harry, is “doing inspiring work as artistic director of the Actors’ Shakespeare Project and is the papa to a cute little baby”) and Chris Thomajan, whose “travels to the northern British Highlands amongst his partner role at TechCXO and parenting duties are impressive.” Harry also described Fred Bever’s extensive live reporting for WBUR during the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers in Watertown as “very dramatic and chilling.” Julie Hey Lillis wrote that she is codirector of college counseling at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y., where she lives with her husband, Richard. Julie sees both Wai Hoi-Drayson and Martha Caverly. As a member of the Alumni Council, I have seen John Furse, Aimee Thorpe MacFarlane,
Four members of the Class of ’80 had a mini reunion within a reunion, when they met at a Brown University reunion in Providence last spring. From left are Aimee Thorpe, Liz Brennan, Amy Davidsen, and Suzanne Sherrill.
Chris Rokous, Murrey Nelson, Beth Bishop, and An-Dan Thi over the past few years. John and his wife, Susanne, moved to Austin, Texas, after 17 years in Boston. John’s family has a long Texas history, and his mother has published a book on it. Chris continues to teach English at the Governor’s School and, like many of us, is contemplating what comes next. Beth remains at Deerfield Academy. Murrey left her job at the San Francisco Conservatory to become director of individual giving at Meals on Wheels of San Francisco, Inc. An-Dan continues performing and teaching piano at Bay Keys. Kathleen “Kathy” Dooley Weathers wrote that she attended a party celebrating the publication of Jon Dee’s sixth novel, A Thousand Pardons; she saw both Dan Jacobson and Fred Leebron ’79 there. She also “ran into Maro Chermayeff outside the HBO Building, where she had finished a long day as executive producer of Half the Sky.” Kathy missed Bob Feinberg since he was “fulfilling his civic duty as chairman of the board of the Montclair (N.J.) Film Festival.” Kathy also caught up with Jennifer Kimball, whom she describes as “landscape designer; engaging, creative mom; and, luckily for us, singer/songwriter.” Kathy is also in contact with San Francisco artist Josie Iselin. Check out her work at www.josieiselin.com. Anne Hotchkiss Janzer wrote from Mountain View, Calif., that she “is a content marketing consultant/writer for B2B technology companies [who] sings with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus.” She and her husband, Steve, have two grown children. Anne sometimes connects with Jane Willis, her former Double Brick roommate. I am writing my doctoral dissertation on 19th-century New England girlhood using Abbot in the McKeen era as a case study. On one research trip, I connected with Alan Evans and Andover | Spring 2015
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