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1980 Kate Thomes 158 Commercial St., Apt. 2 Boston MA 02109 katethomes@gmail.com
As I write this, the U.S. Tennis Open is coming to a close, and I have notes to report that were given to me back in June and July. The class notes are not yet on “text” time. Dan Jacobson attended a party in April in Manhattan in honor of Jon Dee’s latest novel, A Thousand Pardons. From Dan: “Kathleen Dooley Weathers was there, of course. She’s long been a literary groupie of Jon Dee’s. She brought greetings from Nathalie Valette, who lives in the San Francisco Bay area. The two apparently talk constantly, a tradition begun in their Phelps House days. When I’m out west, I make it a point to visit Nat. She has an elephant-like memory of our times at Andover, with a recall of obscure fascinating details of our lives as teenagers. I think she just makes the stuff up. My fellow Jersey Shore native Bob Feinberg, the general counsel for public television station WNET in New York, was not in attendance. However, Bob, Jon, and I remain close. We continue our periodic gatherings over Peking
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duck in New York City, a now 30-year tradition. Bob and I continue our 40-year friendship, which started long before Andover—we grew up together in the Asbury Park area on the Jersey Shore. I continue to publish an alternative newspaper in Asbury Park, after escaping the practice of law more than a decade ago. Jon Dee is the slacker among us—his previous book, The Privileges, was a Pulitzer finalist in fiction. He discovered that honor when he went online to see who was nominated that year. Apparently, there’s no notice beforehand letting you know that you’ve been put up for the award. Jon, being himself, told none of us. I discovered it months later when his wife forced him to cough it up when we were out to dinner. Every time I read our class notes, I think how more of us should contribute in this age of easy communications. So I’m doing my part with this info. Others should do the same. You know who you are, Michael Lee.” Mike Lee has really enjoyed getting reconnected with Andover the past four years. He writes, “My daughter just graduated [from PA] and my son just finished junior year in Rockwell. I got the chance to catch up with Nathalie Valette and Murrey Nelson at a dinner in SF and had a great lunch with Hyun Park on the same trip. I speak with Jon Dee and Bob Feinberg fairly regularly as well. I am enjoying the empty nest with my wife, Laurie, and enjoying my work, which is a combination of general pediatrics and medical information technology.” Ed “T” McKinley wrote in June, “I have just published a memoir on Amazon titled Boy in the Ivy: The Inner Child of a Buried Man. It crystalizes around the suicide of my older brother four years ago and details my own journey through depression to hope.” Peter Carley has started a master’s degree program in occupational therapy (OT) at Tufts. Not bad—some new updates. Thank you all.
1981 Warren Jones Houston Texas 281-450-6457 wcjonesllc@gmail.com Stefanie Scheer Young New York NY 917-287- 6111 stefanie.scheer@gmail.com
We really appreciate the updates we received from three friends. Send in yours! We know you’re all turning 50. What did you do to celebrate? Alex Sox-Harris writes, “Living in Palo Alto, Calif., with my wife and two kids, doing research at the VA and Stanford. ... Perhaps more interesting (and diagnostic), I recently quit ultra-running to pursue a multiyear goal of swimming the Catalina Island Channel. If nothing else, it keeps me going to the pool regularly. I also had a nice visit with
the always interesting and intrepid Steve Kane ’80 and his son, who is currently at PA. We had a good debate about the value of going to college right after high school. Damn, this is making me realize how boring I am.” Not at all—fantastic debate topic, and good luck with the swim! Jack Liebau is now working in Times Square, as president and CEO of Alleghany Capital Partners, which manages equity investments for NYSE-listed Alleghany Corp. From Halmstad, Sweden, Peter Leuhusen reflects, “Yes, I am 50 years old, still skating, zero gravity, skiing, and working with lots of big artists, but this is my call: www.childhood.org.” Also, check out the link to the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library if you haven’t had a chance. There are loads of great resources easily available at http://bit.ly/I1AmX5. There are also links to the Addison Gallery and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology at http://bit.ly/dpzHD9. Stay in touch! —W&S
1982 Graham Anthony 2502 Waterville Drive Champaign IL 61822 434-989-5800 grahamanthony@earthlink.net John Barton 480 Hulls Highway Southport CT 06890 203-254-7751 (home) 212-230-3235 (work) jwb@tfm-llc.com Parker L. Quillen 170 E. 87th St., Apt. PH1B New York NY 10128 917-923-7400 parkerlq@yahoo.com
Ah, the joys of print media existing alongside the virtual world! As your newly chartered class scribes, Parker Quillen, John Barton, and I [Graham Anthony] learned there is a four-month (or so) lag between our submission of class notes and that data arriving in your mailbox. As Parker Quillen aptly put it, “We appreciate Andover’s sense of tradition, but must we live as Andrew Jackson in the early 19th century and fight the Battle of New Orleans in complete ignorance that the War of 1812 had already ended (alas, the Treaty of Ghent’s signing had not yet reached his or his English adversary’s ears)? I know what an MCF of natural gas just fetched in Perth this morning, but the year will almost be done before we learn what our classmates are doing.” More surprising than this lag is perhaps learning that one of our classmates was paying attention in History 35!