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Greetings and salutations! As this pours out onto digital paper, it’s early January and it’s 7, I kid you negative, 7 degrees outside, which Heather Pottle, Henry Gourdeau, and I are enjoying (not!). But by the time you read this, the Gunga time machine will have sent us all to spring 2015. You’re now “back to the future”! So strap on your self-lacing sneakers and enjoy the latest Class of 1989 news. David Carnes is happily building his techconsulting firm, keeping active in a global entrepreneur organization, and spending much time opening his first office in Toronto. Iceland has become a favorite getaway for him and his wife, Oksana, and their three kids. George Webb gives a “Good morning, Rockwell!” shout-out and is soon releasing an open software project called, yup, Bitchen. Paul Howe and I continue to grapple at Scrabble in the phantom zone (Internet) when he’s not working at Nextdoor, a social network for U.S. neighborhoods. He and his wife, Andrea Newell, are in San Francisco. Paul reports that Rob Schick lives in a little farmhouse in Scotland, is a marine biologist at the University of St Andrews, and takes falconry lessons with his 9-year-old daughter. Pete Katz is now COO of MoMA PS1 and recently starred in a production of Glengarry Glen Ross. Always be closing, Pete! He also attended the launch party for Atticus Lish’s recently published Preparation for the Next Life. Atticus is currently penning his next best seller and sends his best to everyone. Adam Pechter created and runs an opinion research firm in Princeton, N.J., specializing in subnational populations for the U.S. and other “Five Eye” governments, primarily in Arab and Muslim countries. He has traveled to the border of Syria and Turkey five times since the revolution in Syria began. Justin Jefferies and his family have moved to Sydney, Australia, the hometown of his wife, Catherine. His three boys love NFL and Aussie rules football and play basketball, club soccer, and baseball. He visited his 115th country, North Korea, a little less than a year ago. Justin acts as an Andover
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alumni interviewer for Australia and New Zealand and recently had a beer with Jill DiMaggio, who, Justin adds, lives in Melbourne and is rocking an Aussie accent. Find Justin on InstaSugar for some “Jefferies family goodness.” Nils Gilman won a Sidney Award, given by the New York Times’s David Brooks, for his essay “The Twin Insurgency,” which appeared in The American Interest and addresses the squeeze political forces are putting on the middle class. From Madison, N.J., Tyler Merson reports he had a great time at the reunion and highly recommends Marianna Baer’s book, Frost. Cadir Lee and his kids also enjoyed the 25th. Over the summer, Cadir caught up with former roommate John Roesler, who has a “fab” new house near the beach for surfing convenience. Cadir works with Opower and other companies trying to save the world from climate change. Adam Wolfe and his wife, Sherry, had a baby girl, Lily, in March 2014. Adam practices law in Tampa, Fla., and has traded referrals with Eric Van De Water, who lawyers in Atlanta. Emily Gordon returned to Manhattan and looks forward to seeing more performances, paintings, and people. She is now newsroom managing editor for Ogilvy & Mather, which is more like Mad Men than she expected (but just the good parts). She is always up for trading work with fellow creative writers. After many years in NYC, Jennifer Stableford and husband David Finley accepted posts at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, N.H., and are relocating with their two sons to nearby Vermont. Edenn Sarino Vidrio was part of the team that conceived and opened the Wellness Center in Los Angeles in early 2014, the first of its kind in LA County. Jeff Ferris and his wife, Laura Ballentine Ferris, have two kids: a 3-year-old daughter, Sally, and a 9-month-old son, Brewer. They live in Manhattan, where Jeff is the head of credit asset management Americas for UniCredit Bank. In the hustle and bustle that is Wisconsin, Molly Foster Keller (one of our newly crowned co-class agents, along with Ariel Anderson Moore) juggles three kids and farm chores, including caring for three Nubian goats, aptly named Pabst, Blue, and Ribbon. If anyone’s interested in taking on three sassy goats, be sure to contact Molly! Her family launched the #SayCheeseChallenge, which, she adds, “needless to say, has not ‘gone’ (viral) anywhere and remains an isolated case of Wisconsin insanity.” Their video is a hilariously epic must-see; search for #SayCheeseChallenge on YouTube. In November, Molly and Ariel reunited with Christina Weaver Vest at Christina’s home in Wellesley, Mass. Spending the spring and summer on the Greek island of Kea, Costas Anastassiadis cofounded Kea Family Homes, a boutique property-management business. He and his wife, Myrtia Nikolakopoulou, also founded Qbox, a
contemporary art gallery in Athens. They have a 5-year-old son named Phoebus. Costas keeps in touch with Michael Froeschl, a cardiologist based in Ottawa, and Hassan Ahari, who works for the Mubadala Fund in Abu Dhabi. Lee Webster reports that Eric Zinterhofer’s wife, Aerin, has started a home-decor line called, yes, Aerin. Mike Hearle, his wife, Mary, and their three kids had a great time at the reunion. Mike now has a framed selfie with stage and screen star Sarah Rafferty as proof of attendance. He hosted Josh Bienfang, Jake Appleton, Dave Satterthwaite, Caleb Jacobson-Sive, and their assorted significant others and offspring for dinner and a late night of laughs. He also visited Jake in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in March 2014 and got in four days of lights-out trout fishing in Patagonia. Living in Boston, Mike is an alumni admissions rep, interviewing incredible kids from around the world. Craig Knight lives in Beverly Hills, Calif., with his lovely wife, Jody, a successful screenwriter, and two sons, Reed, 4, and Lucas, 9. Along with Charlie Kemp, as well as Shian Velie Brisbois and husband Ken Brisbois ’93, Craig hounds me about returning to LA. I am still acting (when I can get the gigs—can I get written into Suits, Sarah Rafferty?) and planning a return, but for now I’m still in, as Orin Herskowitz eloquently describes it, an “odd zone: too old to feel as if there are guaranteed to be unlimited possibilities ahead, too young to just phone it in.” But hey—“What, me worry?” Y’all feel that? So by phone, Internet, telepathy, smoke signal, or other, please keep the 1989 news coming! — Curtis Eames
1990 25th REUNION June 12–14, 2015 Regina A. DeMeo 1666 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 250 Washington DC 20009 240-621-0559 reginademeo@yahoo.com Thomas W. Seeley 1572 Heifer Road Skaneateles NY 13152 315-263-0052 (cell) 315-685-3416 (work) twseeley@gmail.com
Hey everyone! No news to report this quarter because we don’t want any spoilers for (drum roll, please)...our 25th Reunion, in just a few short weeks! How I wish we could go back to our former selves, from 25 years ago. Since Jim Croce never did figure out how to save that time in a bottle, the next best thing is to haul ourselves to campus and imagine a time when we all had a little more