stay connected... practicing functional and anti-aging medicine as she did in Caracas. Congratulations to Thayer Tolles Rogers! She tied the knot on the Tuesday before Christmas with longtime beau Ted Rogers, a labor attorney. Ted and Thayer live in New York and made up their own wedding rules, which apparently included no flowers but lots of champagne. This year will also bring big changes for Nancy Trepanier Lang, who, as most of you know, spent the past 22 years at Andover serving in many capacities, most recently as associate dean of faculty. She will be leaving Andover to become the head of Journeys School, an independent school in Jackson Hole, Wyo. We all wish her the best out in the Rockies! To read more about Nancy’s new position, go to http://bit.ly/1FDC4G7. Deborah Mei is back in Shanghai this year with her 2-year-old son. She is running the Chinese arm of the Raine Group, LLC, a boutique merchant bank focused on the global digital, media, entertainment, and sports sectors, while her husband finishes a four-year government posting in Spain. Deborah says that Andover rules in China! Blaise Zerega reports that after six years as CEO of FORA.tv, a website focused on streamed and on-demand video, he has left to pursue other ventures. In the meantime, he’s coaching his son’s basketball team. I was delighted to receive so many e-mails from our peers in the Golden State. Andrea Feldman Falcione writes from LA that she spent a great deal of time last fall traveling around the globe visiting art fairs with her clients. Andrea encourages those of you who do the art-fair circuit to let her know, so you can connect. During her recent odyssey, she drank with Max Drake in Chicago, ran into Stephanie Hunt ’84 at the Frieze Art Fair in London, spotted Kyra Tirana Barry at the NADA art fair near Miami, and celebrated her birthday with Amy Kellogg and Laura Culbert Knowles-Cutler in London. I caught up with Laura in London myself a few months ago over drinks, and we talked Andover, kids, life in London, and life in general. I missed Amy that trip because she had been called to work unexpectedly to cover the murder in Syria of UK aid worker David Haines. Menlo Park, Calif., denizen Susannah Hill and her husband, Pat, celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii this past December. Jamie Cohan e-mails that he is living happily with wife Carolyn and their three kids in Tiburon, near San Francisco. Jamie founded AllRounds Inc., which provides financial applications for the private capital industry. Also writing from San Francisco (but soon moving to Larkspur in Marin County), Ravi Mohan says he and his wife, Christy, celebrated the Giants’ third World Series win with his two sons, Max (9) and Campbell (6). Tim Choate, writing from Berkeley, Calif., tells me that the Berkeley Playhouse, the theatre he and his wife founded, continues to thrive. Tim has also joined the
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board of LandPaths, which fosters a love of the land through people-powered parks, education programs, and conservation-land access programs. He and his wife are adopting their fifth child, a girl, from China! From Virginia, where he lives with his wife, Lena, Jeff Rossman reports that he is back teaching history at the University of Virginia, after finishing a sabbatical year. Jeff ’s oldest daughter, Phoebe, is applying to high schools now, and his son, Elliot, is in fifth grade. Doug Neff, who moved to Virginia in 2011, is in a graduate program in cyber security management at UVa. His children are both in high school now, and he and his wife, Lynn, celebrated their 25th anniversary in St. Lucia. Angela Lorenz writes that four members of our class purchased original watercolors that she featured in her book The Mansion of Thought. One of those has been donated to the Addison Gallery from the Class of 1983 in honor of our classmate Greg Simon, who died soon after the painting was completed. Angela reports that our memorial maple tree, planted in honor of our four classmates who are with us now only in spirit, is doing well. You can find it in the corner adjacent to the Gelb Science Center. Kathy Macoul is living in Tampa, Fla., practicing eye surgery and raising four kids. Her oldest, Sean, has run into Struan Robertson (at the Head of the Charles Regatta) and Sarah Rosenfield Worley (at Holy Cross, where her daughter is a senior). Kathy welcomes visitors looking for warm weather. Bob Butera reports that his third book, Yoga Therapy for Stress and Anxiety, is coming out in the fall of 2015. Joel Brother and his wife, Betsy, live in Andover with their three sons (one of whom just became a junior at Andover). Joel recently helped Dave Lyons and Bill DiAdamo celebrate their 50th birthdays. A few news items from our monthly gettogethers in New York: Rufus Jones is building his institutional equity trading business by day and teaching, writing, and performing blues, soul, and folk songs around the area by night. Original songs that Rufus has recorded include I’m From Memphis, Baby and Voices Have No Color. John Floyd serves as chairman of Floyd Capital Management, an investment adviser. John Helmers has made it to several of our gatherings, despite living in Puerto Rico with his wife, Glenn, and three of his five children. John runs Long Focus Capital Management LLC, a firm focused on macro investing. It has been great to have Alexander “Sandy” Kemper join, all the way from his ranch in Kansas City, Mo., as well as Jason Bernhard, John Harpole, Karen Humphries Sallick, Jeffrey Stafford, Chris Thompson, Patricia “Tricia” Finneran, and others. I hope many more of you will stop by— just e-mail me and I’ll add you to the invite list!
1984 Alexandra Gillespie 52 Amelia St. Toronto ON M4E 1X1 Canada acoonpie@gmail.com William P. Seeley Department of Philosophy 73/75 Campus Ave. Bates College Lewiston ME 04240 wseeley@bates.edu Adam Simha 84 Rice St. Cambridge MA 02140-1819 617-967-3869 adam@mksdesign.com
In December I had a wonderful dinner with some of our best friends from the money patch (New York financial industry). Rich Eisert, Mike Cahill, Derrick Queen, Bob Zech, and Kent Lucas were all in fine fettle and were gracious enough to keep shop talk to a minimum and to agree that hockey really is the best sport in the world. BTW, if you ever want to find anyone from our class, Mike is your guy—he’s got everybody on speed dial. I was sorry to miss Stephanie Hunt, who remains one of the very few Andover girls I know who actually lives in Manhattan. In other Stowe House news (yes, I blatantly favor my own), Auny Abegglen is doing amazing things in tech, Laurie Nash is still on top of the recruiting world, Betsy Biern dominates fundraising, and Serra Butler Simbeck rules social justice causes. Susan Deeds Griffis continues to breed and train some of the top competitive show jumpers in the U.S. This is what I know from Facebook: Abby Shuman keeps us entertained and aware with her wonderful postings that remind us to care for each other and all living creatures. Milisa Galazzi has just finished an amazing work of art in her String Theory series. And I love the way she shares the process online. It’s really inspiring to see a work of art come to life. Nick Bienstock plays polo, shoots birds, and has a million (OK, maybe only five) kids. John Batten speaks and writes perfect French; a highly underrated skill, n’est-ce pas, mes amis? My other favourite Francophile, Alix Goodwin Olavarria, has a very scary portrait of herself hiding in her attic. She’s always running a marathon, skiing, or whupping somebody’s behind in tennis. If anyone has any questions about the moral and medical imperative of vaccinating against preventable disease, I refer you to our wonderful Daisy Smith. She’s a superb advocate for the cause. Bill Seeley took off his skis long enough to pass on the latest sage wisdom from Jim Reische: