www.andover.edu/intouch got a certificate for 20 years as a teacher in Fairfax County, Va., where we live ‘inside the Beltway,’ on the other side of the Potomac from DC. My wife’s college graduation year is 1983, and my older daughter graduated from high school in 2013, so I have never been to a reunion, because I have been booked in all the years ending in 3s and 8s so far. We did manage to go to a Penn reunion in 2003, and that was a lot of fun, connecting with college friends. Maybe I will make it to a PA reunion some day.” We hope so, Chris, as you are quite the connector! Jeff Swartz shares, “Married over my pay grade these 30 years; two married sons/magnificent daughters-in-law-and-in-our-hearts, third son a junior at university. Worked in our family business for 25 years; after three generations, sold it in 2011. Full-time focused on my small part in building civic imagination/capacity and supporting heroic social-change agents, usually from our adopted home in Jerusalem. Frightened by the naked triumphalism of hatred on display globally; shaken by rampant/rabid anti-Semitism, overwhelmed/ nearly overwhelmed by seeming lack of moral compass and felt absence of principled leadership everywhere I look. Where are non sibi American political leaders? Wilderness helps—Paintbrush Canyon in the Teton Range (Wyo.) was a hopeful day recently.… National parks reflect civic boldness, societal wisdom, principled leadership, and respect for truth greater than those indicated by a polled question or referenced in a salacious tweet. Praying for, and working for, better days.” Share your current e-mail, phone, or FB address so we can include your news in the next edition. Thanks!
1979 Amy Appleton 2201 Hall Place N.W. Washington DC 20007-2217 202-338-3807 Applta9@aol.com Rick Moseley 7703 McCallum St. Philadelphia PA 19118 215-275-5107 rdmoseley@gmail.com Doug Segal 1556 North Orange Grove Ave. Los Angeles CA 90046 323-969-0708 dougsegal@earthlink.net
Children: I often hear parents describe them as mirrors, but I prefer to think of them more as windows, windows that allow us to see into our past as well as our future. When my son, Michael, was about 5 years old, I took him on his first ski chairlift. As I looked over at this little guy, the
memory of riding on the same lift with my own father (for whom Michael is named) flooded through me. Here I was, with my son, on that same lift, seeing my past through him but also wondering if someday he’d be here with a child of his own. Forty Conklin experienced the same sensation at this past reunion when he convinced his 15-year-old daughter to cox the same boat he and Rick Moseley rowed in. Rowing alongside her on the same glassy waters, thoughts of the past, present, and future flooded through him. Geri Pope Bidwell, Kaaren Shalom, and Susan Jenkins Warren must have also been experiencing this state of déjà vu as Geri wrote me after just dropping off her twins, who are now PA lowers. On campus, Geri had bumped into Sue Jenkins, who also has a daughter attending Andover; word has it that Kaaren Shalom had also just dropped off her youngest son for the fall semester. I know many others of you have kids who are also attending or who did attend. I imagine you had similar feelings as you stood with your children in the same places you stood when you were their age. Margaret Shuwall Briggs informed me of Kaaren Shalom’s news, and in addition to having a mini Double Brick reunion with Kaaren, she also connected with Amy Morton for a quick picnic and swim while both were on their East Coast family vacations. Courtney Moss was not able to reunite, as apparently she was off at her own union: her wedding. Congratulations, Courtney! Margaret, meanwhile, had just tearily dropped her youngest off at Northwestern, joining the ranks of many of you who are now empty nesters. She’s currently living in Sherborn, Mass., with her husband and often sees Tori Abbott Riccardi, who lives in nearby Newton. By the time this is published, Margaret will probably have taken advantage of her empty nest by traveling to the SF Bay Area to visit Sarah Moore and Kyra Maes Kuhn. Chris Peacock and wife Alyson are also in the E.N. club, having dropped off their daughter, Katie, at Blair Academy. Their son, Timothy, graduated from Brown in 2012 and is now working in Silicon Valley. Chris comments, “It shows we’ve reached a certain age when our news is mostly of our offspring.” Carroll Bogert is also a full-fledged E.N. member—her oldest daughter just graduated from Stanford, and the younger one is at Carleton College. Carroll is living in NYC and currently appears in the documentary E-Team, about human rights researchers in Syria and Libya. Carroll also spent some time this past summer on Lake Michigan sunning with David Daskal and Tom Rubin. Fred Leebron writes that he and Tom met up for dinner in Seattle back in March. Bill Schultz has returned from his 10-year stint abroad and is now living in Atlanta. The youngest of his three kids has another two years at Columbia; his eldest is soon to be married. Which brings to mind another window into the past and future: the not-too-distant prospect of becoming grandparents, as echoed by Paul Whittall, who is
looking forward to that event. His oldest daughter is 28 and living with her husband in Seattle, and his youngest is finishing up college. Paul’s wife works at Keep Your Home California, an organization that helps homeowners grappling with financial hardships to stay in their homes. And yes, in many cases, the news is about our offspring, but not always. Melinda Hobausz could have been writing about her child, but instead it was she and her husband who were just at Burning Man, enjoying the rain, muck, and techno dubstep from the comfort of the solar-powered yurt her husband had built. Kay McCabe recently finished a dance workshop with Pilobolus, coincidentally dancing alongside another PA graduate, who was (gulp) 30 years her junior. But we will focus on the fact that Kay is still going strong in that world. Another who is still going strong in her own world is Ranie Crowley Pearce, who writes of her latest swimming adventure. This past summer she swam around Manhattan before traveling to the southern tip of Argentina to swim in the frigid glacial Argentino Lake at the base of the Perito Moreno Glacier. Gretchen Van Dusen Ramsey ran into John Andrews at a Macalester College crosscountry race where their daughters happened to be competing on the same team. And after 35 years, I am pleased to relay some news from Karen Albert. Karen lived abroad for 15 years; among other things, she spent nine months in Ethiopia volunteering at an orphanage for HIVpositive children. She is now living in the polar opposite place—Malibu, Calif.—but from the sound of it, still taking care of both people and dogs with her company, HealthyMouth LLC. Augustus Schoen-Rene is the technical director at the Smith Opera House in Geneva, N.Y., and is caring for a family member at the other end of the age spectrum, his mom. Paula Elias Ross lost her mom this year, and we send lots of love her way. Paula and husband Hank are still in western Massachusetts, as are Rachel Cartmell and her family. Paula, Rachel, and Jennifer Melville are among the many classmates I had hoped but failed to see this past summer. Roger Kass was happy to see Jorge Pedraza and his wife at a screening of Roger’s latest film, Emptying the Skies, released in October 2013. Rachael Horovitz also has a new movie that premiered in Toronto this past year, My Old Lady, written and directed by her father, Israel Horovitz. Rachael, among others, spoke of how wonderful the reunion was—“a nourishing reminder of the place Andover holds in my heart.” Sharing that sentiment was Sophia Sayigh, who loved hanging out with Kay McCabe, Amy Appleton, and Suzy Page. Bill Miles enjoyed catching up with Jim Pawlowski, Rick Bradt, Rick Wolk, and Stevie Lake, among many others. I envy those of you who were able to connect in person at the reunion, and though I don’t look forward to the years flying by until the next, I do hope to see you soon.—Doug Andover | Winter 2015
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