www.andover.edu/intouch Speaking of The Phillipian, I just opened an old box in my basement to discover that my mom had socked away every single issue from the fall of ’83 through our graduation! Totally nuts. Fun to read some of those stories and, of course, see Stan Tarr’s big glasses. Actually, we all had pretty big glasses back then. Think for a moment and remember. And, if you want an old Phillipian, please do stop by Arlington, Mass. Cold beer included with your copy. Tony also reports that he and his wife, Lucia Jaccaci ’88, are in their fifth year in Shanghai and that their YK Pao School has grown to 460 kids and more than 100 teachers. Nothing like growing at China speed! Emilio “Mimmo” Iasiello reports that a couple of short films for which he wrote the scripts finally got posted. Here are the links to Tennis, http://tinyurl.com/PATennis, and Stopping Blood, http://tinyurl.com/PAStopping. A quick disclaimer here: I have not watched either. Not due to a lack of desire, mind you. It’s just that I have yet again left these notes to the last minute and can’t take the time, or I’ll miss my deadline. Plus, one of these videos “is unavailable with Safety Mode enabled.” No idea how to turn that off, although I am sure my kids could. Chris Whittier kindly dropped me a line in between the demands of his busy schedule as director of conservation medicine at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts. Recently, Chris reconnected with Louisa Edgerly, who is currently an associate scholar at Seattle University and is helping advise one of Chris’s graduating students. Louisa, it appears from a search of the Web, is doing some pretty terrific things in the field of communication research, public health, and more sustainable human development. Chris also reports that in his travels he had the opportunity for a brief catch-up with Justin Loew (MD, who reports that his oldest son is taller than he is) during a presentation in Newport, R.I. He also saw Gary Sousa at a recent Science on Screen presentation at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Mass., where Chris apparently “was asked to realize a childhood dream that I never actually had by introducing the original King Kong (surely the most fun I’ve ever had or will have public speaking!).” Gunga would be proud. Staying on theme, let’s close with a YouTube link. Seth Berry—now the house majority leader in the Maine legislature!—forwarded to me an e-mail from Karl Kister with a link to the trailer for Karl’s documentary film Hanna Ranch (http://tinyurl.com/PARanch). When you finish listening to Ulrich’s piano, check it out. And after that, please send me your thoughts and what’s up with you for the next class notes. Be well, class. —Dave
Aisha Jorge Massengill, Terri Stroud, Chris Hekimian, and Jon Pratt, all Class of ’88, attended a surprise birthday party for Chris in May.
1988 Terri Stroud 800 4th St. SW, Unit N418 Washington DC 20024 202-486-4189 terri.stroud@gmail.com Laura Cox 21 Merced Ave. San Anselmo CA 94960 415-302-7709 laurajeancox@gmail.com Matt Lavin 1203 Constitution Ave. NE Washington DC 20002 202-365-8593 mattlavindc@yahoo.com Heather Ross Zuzenak 16 Essex St. Medford MA 02155 781-874-1747 hrzuzenak@yahoo.com
Greetings, ’88ers! Here’s the lowdown: Shannon Smith Meyer and her family (husband Dave and children Toby, 13, and Cassidy, 11) went to Italy and Greece to climb this past summer. They were joined in Lake Como by Karin Maus ’87 (an exchange student from Germany who lived with Shannon and her family for a year), Karin’s husband Thilo, and two of her four beautiful children, Johanna, 13, and Ronja, 11. Shannon lives in the mountains of western Colorado near Aspen, at a boarding school where Dave teaches history and rock climbing, and she works for the national conservation group Land Trust Alliance, the umbrella organization for land trusts nationwide. Tanya Selvaratnam is now splitting her time
between NYC and Portland, Ore., where she gets to see Arthur Bradford. Tanya continues to promote her book, The Big Lie, and is working on her next book, which will be about existential dilemmas and radical transformations. She has also completed production on several films, including Catherine Gund’s feature Born to Fly (which premiered at New York’s Film Forum in September), a short film by Chiara Clemente about Alex and Ada Katz, and a music video for Pink Martini and the von Trapps. Paul “Pablo” Valdez remains a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State. He is now serving with his family (wife Katherine and daughters Anna, 10, and Olivia, 6) in Mexico City as environment, science, technology, and health counselor. Joyous news alert! Elee Kraljii Gardiner is 100 percent healthy and cleared by the neurologist from the spontaneous artery injury that sent a blood clot to her brain stem, and she is busy, busy, busy! Her nonprofit writing program, Thursdays Writing Collective, just raised $7,000 via Indiegogo to publish its seventh book. The book will be the printed representation of a year of writing about music and the collective’s collaboration with classical composers and performers. Elee credits English instructor Lou Bernieri with informing her pedagogical approach. She was lucky enough to study with him not once, but twice: during senior year and at the amazing Andover Bread Loaf Writing Workshop. She hopes to bring Lou as a guest lecturer to the collective’s sessions in Vancouver, B.C. Elee and her husband, Robert, vacationed with Suzanna Petren Moritz and her family in Mexico this past spring, and Suzanna, John Kline, and John’s wife, Penny Windle Kline ’87, planned to join Elee in New York in October at a skating gala honoring her mother. Finally, Elee brings news of J.D. King, with whom she spent a year abroad in Andover | Winter 2015
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