www.andover.edu/intouch Here are the latest updates on our classmates as of early last fall: Chandri Navarro looks great, living in Old Town Alexandria, Va., and is fighting the good fight in international law as a partner at Hogan Lovells. She writes, “Daughter Bianca ’15 is in her third (11th grade) year at Andover, so I get to visit often and relive my good old days. Twin daughters Sofia and Gabriela are in boarding school at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., for 9th grade, so I am an empty nester! Yalda Tehranian-Uhls and daughter Chloe came to visit for the presidential inauguration. Yalda is getting a PhD degree in psychology at UCLA and working on fascinating issues on children and media. John Nahill owns a liquid natural gas company that is going gangbusters in New England. He is happily married and has four daughters and one son. The older three have gone to Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and Colgate, and two are still at home. Kudos to John! When I went up to move Bianca out of her dorm last spring, I went to a cocktail party at John’s beautiful beach house in Gloucester, Mass., with Jennifer Scheer Lieberman and Tiffany Cobb Bradlee ’83 and their families.” Jane Pollard has had a busy year maximizing celebrations for hitting her half-century, including trips to Oman, Barbados, and various European countries. She writes, “The EU still counts as abroad since Britain resolutely refuses to join the Euro! I saw Marie Helene Oddo, who is unchanged and still stunning. She is successful in the insurance business in France and happily married with two nigh-on grown-up sons. It was great to see Graham Anthony in London, too, and I would love to see anyone else who is passing through.” Catch Jane near her home in South Kensington at her favorite gastropub, The Cadogan Arms, where, like Cheers, everyone knows everyone else’s name. After years of journalism, first in the U.S., then in Prague in the 1990s, and finally as a wine reporter for a few years, Walt Devine is now celebrating almost a decade of teaching high school. Asked his approach to teaching, Walt responded, “I introduce them to the club of the ancient questions—and hope the lessons from these age-old struggles provide interest in the classroom and useful insights for life.” Write a book, Walt! We could all benefit from revisiting those lessons—as perhaps would our leaders. In 2012, Dutch Miller moved from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, to Washington, D.C., as a relationship manager for the Northern Trust Company offices there, which strikes us as moving from a haven from taxes to the source thereof. Dutch and I met up with George Canellos in DC for a very enjoyable dinner. In 2012, George left private practice to become the SEC’s über cop, helping run enforcement operations. While dining, two of the five SEC commissioners came over to say hello, which we took as a sign George was on top of his game. Just after that dinner, the Wall Street Journal confirmed George had been named codirector of enforcement at the SEC. George currently spends
the weeks in DC and weekends with his wife and young daughter in Brooklyn. Paula Lee writes, “I have news, I suppose: four books published this year, including the forthcoming books about hunting: Game: A Global History, and my memoir, Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of Guns, God, and Game Meat. Already picked up by Target and Walmart, and stocked by all the usual bookstores.” From UK bookseller Waterstones’ website comes the following blurb on Deer Hunting: “What happens when a Korean-American preacher’s kid refuses to get married, travels the world, and quits being vegetarian? She meets her polar opposite on an online dating site while sitting at a cafe in Paris, France, and ends up in Paris, Maine, learning how to hunt. A memoir and a cookbook with recipes that skewer human foibles and celebrate DIY food culture, Deer Hunting in Paris is an unexpectedly funny exploration of a vanishing way of life in a complex cosmopolitan world. Sneezing madly from hay fever, Lee recovers her roots in rural Maine by running after a headless chicken, learning how to sight in a rifle, shooting skeet, and butchering animals. Along the way, she figures out how to keep her boyfriend’s conservative Republican family from ‘mistaking’ her for a deer and shooting her at the clothesline.” Clearly Paula is no deer in the headlights—nor has she lost her sense of humor! This scribe, Graham Anthony, moved from Charlottesville, Va., with wife Angela and 2-yearold son, Thomas, to Champaign-Urbana, Ill., in 2013. Despite Andover touching on quantum theory alongside Newtonian physics, I was nonetheless unprepared to understand the strong gravitational pull between grandparents and their first grandchild—capable of moving whole families halfway across the continent. Fortunately, we have found Champaign a lovely town with great restaurants and a broad and deep engineering and scientific community. Come visit anytime! Thanks to a lot of philosophical and actual bandwidth here tucked amidst the cornfields, I am able to continue working with my companies. Personally, I have also found that a happy wife, child, and grandparents = a happy life.… Now that they should teach at Andover! —Graham
1983 [Editor’s note: We are currently seeking a member of the Class of 1983 to take on the role of class secretary. It’s a great way to stay connected to PA and to your classmates. If you are interested, please contact Laura MacHugh at lmachugh@andover. edu or 978-749-4289.]
1984 30th REUNION June 13–15, 2014 Alexandra Gillespie 52 Amelia St. Toronto ON M4E 1X1 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 617-876-0103 adam@mksdesign.com
My fellow mid-lifers, Thanks for providing variety to the occasionally tedious litany of weddings, births, and job descriptions that are the class notes. I would like to particularly thank the two poets, the DOMA crushers, and outstanding achievers. You brought humor, beauty, and awe to this round. Well done. In their own words: Paul Murphy: “Adolescents are fun human beings; just added 1,129 of them back into my life. Twenty-sixth year. Kids in the ninth-grade class were born in 1999.” Chris Yerkes: “I (well, my wife, Susan) am expecting my second child in January. Girl.” Murchelle “Murri” Brumfield: “I’m tickled pink to have been awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching. [Congratulations!] I’ll be heading to Singapore with my husband and two small sons for eight months to research how they prepare their exceptional-needs learners for college and career opportunities. Who would have thought that my scheme to avoid intramurals many years ago by assisting in a local special-education class would have turned into a lifelong passion of mine?” Claudia Kraut Rimerman: “I’m living in Stamford, Conn., with my three children and my husband, running a boutique consulting firm, often feeling like I am living a Talking Heads song (“How did I get here?...This is not my beautiful home...This is not my beautiful life...”). So I fight the middle-age blues with muay Thai, obstacle races (Warrior Dash, Rugged Maniac), and the occasional gig with a local classic-rock cover band. Then I feel young and rebellious again, until I have to pack a suit for a client meeting and my 5' 10" teenager asks me what’s for dinner.” Stephen Jones: “I love you.” (He means me. Spontaneous declarations of love always get ink.) Carlotta Mills: “The mention of our ages in your request reminded me of this random thought Andover | Winter 2014
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