to Eric Ma and wife Patreesa, who were off to visit Eric’s America House roommate, Vivek Davé, an accomplished serial entrepreneur in N.H. Vivek has a daughter, Janaki, in 11th grade and a son, Tejas, in fifth. The news from Margot Mims is a reminder that we are at an age when loss becomes a regular part of the tapestry of life. She writes, “In the past two years I lost my mom to brain cancer, my dad to emphysema, and a sister to breast cancer. The biggest thing I learned is, ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff.’ And during the time of hardship wonderful things can happen. I got married.” Her note brings to mind the PA teachers we have lost over the years. Fortunately, both Peter Washburn and Tom McGraw are still with us, but sadly, both recently took leaves of absence. Peter is not returning to PA, and as for Tom, only time will tell. I report this to prompt us to keep in touch with the teachers we loved. They do the hard, important, and often thankless work and rarely get to see the final results. Let them know how you turned out—and let them know that they still matter to you. In closing, if you expected to be in the notes and were not, I did not receive an e-mail from you, so please reach out to one of us for the next edition. Make sure we have your e-mail address, and please join our class Facebook page. (Search Facebook for “Phillips Academy Class of 1985” and click the “join” button to be added.) See you at reunion! —Pamela
1986 Kathleen Campbell DiPaolo 2516 Vista Drive Newport Beach CA 92663 949-689-3314 (cell) 949-209-2043 (fax) Kathleen@kathleendipaolodesigns.com Caroline Langston Jarboe 3124 63rd Ave. Cheverly MD 20785 301-322-4241 (home) 301-379-6572 (cell) caroline_jarboe@yahoo.com
Hi, class! So, summer is over, and the school year has begun. Andover is in full swing again. We have had a few classmates give tearful goodbyes as they dropped their kids off on campus! Eunice Lee left her son off at French House, and Kimberly Doggett Formisano left her daughter off at my old dorm, Paul Revere! Paul Revere rides again! I know we have had others with children at Andover, but I just think it is amazingly full circle. Randall Batinkoff directed, cowrote, and starred in a new film, 37: A Final Promise. The film is about a rock star who wants to end his life at 37. Congrats! I remember practicing lines with Randall during the old days. You can stream
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the film on any of your devices. The company that Alec Guettel cofounded, Sungevity, Inc., a solar power company created for homeowners who want to design their own solar power systems, has been busy raising money for its sister organization Sungevity.org. Recently, it raised more than $1.5 million for a variety of nonprofits. Way to go, Alec! Kim Guzowski is bridging the gap between traditional education and real application of concepts with her company, Technical Artisans Collective. She is serving as executive director while also pursuing an MFA degree in performance and interactive media arts at Brooklyn College. I was happy to see an article in the New York Times about Matthew Bellows, cofounder and CEO of Yesware, a sales software startup. It was a great case-study article and follow-up. I highly recommend reading it; you can find it at http:// nyti.ms/1BSUorm. Tad Beck recently showed his art in Worcester, Mass., at the Worcester Art Museum, in a group show, called Perfectly Strange, on the aesthetic of the strange. I really used my imagination with that title. I tried to get people to send me some funny anecdotes about our time at Andover. I still can’t believe my parents let me go to the Bahamas unchaperoned for senior spring break! David Sullivan (Sullyyyyyy!) wrote that he has been to Cape Cod lately and was thinking about the grad party that Kimberly Doggett Formisano had, which, in turn, reminded him of Kaitlin McDermott’s fun grad party in Old Lyme, Conn. That was a blast! I remember thinking I had seen a slice of heaven—the location and home were so beautiful. Hope everyone had a great rest of 2014! XO, Kath Campbell DiPaolo
1987 David Kopans 2 Princeton Road Arlington MA 02474-8238 781-646-4515 617-947-2454 (cell) dave@kopans.com
Let’s start out by saying how totally cool it is to see a classmate’s talents showcased on iTunes. So take a moment to stop right now and visit the following link to hear Ulrich Murtfeld’s tickling of the ivories in a just-released (as of this writing) CD that is dedicated to American composers: http://tinyurl.com/PAMurtfeld. Ulrich sent in this exciting news from Germany, where he works as a piano pedagogue and concert pianist in Friedrichshafen and Frankfurt. He also wrote in that during his last trip to the United States, a bit over a year ago, he connected with Tricia Paik and Erik Tozzi from our class and Guenter Meyer ’88
and Roberto Woldenberg ’89. Among the topics of discussion, he wrote, was the “sharing of nice memories of our musical activities with the PA orchestra directed by Mr. Thomas.” OK, let’s continue the German theme here with a history lesson. In particular, did you know that the sport of gliding emerged after the First World War as a result of the Treaty of Versailles? Tony Gellert probably does, but the rest of us, except for Timothy S. McAllister, I am sure do not. Tony knows because he is a wicked smaht fella (similar to Chris Regan, of course—who will be the only one to get that joke from an experience my wife, Lauren, and I had hanging with him at a bar in Miami some 20 years ago; if you want to know, call up Chris). Tim knows, however, because he was yet again selected to fly for the U.S. National Soaring Team at the FAI World Gliding Championships in Pociunai, Lithuania, in 2016. He must be good, since this is his fifth time on the team. I kid you not. Check out Tim at http://tinyurl.com/PASoaring. When both feet are planted on the ground, Tim reports, “I am happily indulging my passions as rowing coach and husband/dad in Dallas.” Tim is also starting up a business to import and advise on a new series of racing gliders built in Poland. And thus, he says, “If any classmates have picked up or would like to pick up glider racing, then I am your hook-up for a new glider.” Bill Watt is not racing gliders or playing the piano. Indeed, he wrote in that he is “single and losing normal social skills rapidly.” I think we can all excuse this as he is also, mind you, cofounder and CEO of a cancer vaccine company called EpiThany, which has a number of vaccines entering phase one clinical trials over the next 12 months. No time for dating, indeed. Good luck, Bill and EpiThany! Jamie Rosenberg did not write me. His autoresponder did, however. I followed the link to his new e-mail address, and he appears to have started yet another endeavor in the education space that looks pretty cool. It is called ClassWallet.com, and it is “a new and better way to collect, spend, and track money for classrooms without handling cash.” Check it out. Melissa Hardin and Holly Milton each were kind enough to write in to celebrate a longoverdue get-together with Jenny Lim over beers and pizza. Hear, hear to great friends getting together! We should all do more of that. Life is short. Tony Jaccaci reported from China about his successfully teaming up with Jason Fry (author, not power lifter) for a fundraising effort on behalf of the Phillipian Endowment Fund. Apparently Jason shares a little bit of arm-twisting ability with the power lifter of the same name, as the Class of ’87 class came through with donations from 17 members of the 1987 board—one of the highest participation rates in the campaign. Nice work to Tony, Jason, and the ’87 Phillipian Board!