Andover magazine — Reunion 2016 Special Edition

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REUNION by the NUMBERS

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1. Melinda Miller Patterson, Judy Mustille P’16, Ruth Sisson Weiner P’97, Paula Cortes, Bev Armsden Daniel, “Pinky” Rock Noll, Lucy Thomson, Marty Wies Dignan, and Ellen Ross Ebersole, all Class of ’66

Farthest distance traveled

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2. Kate Wiener and Ben Burke, both Class of ’11 3. Trustee Emeritus Oscar Tang, Ed Tarlov, and Jim Taylor, all Class of ’56

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4. Whitney Dublin, Tess Scott, Dariana Colon-Bibb, and Jevan Jammal, all Class of ’06 3 4

5. Ed Perrin ’90, Gant Asbury ’91, Fran Contreras ’91, and Fran’s wife, Veronica Viejo

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tents set up on campus

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6. Michael Blanding, Rebecca Uchill ’96, Fritz Gotha ’96, and Mekka Okereke ’96 7. Front: Trustee Emerita Mollie Lupe Lasater ’56, P’86, GP’17, and Garland Lasater Jr. ’56, P’86, GP’17. Back: Trustee Emeritus Oscar Tang ’56, Steve Snyder ’56, Head of School John Palfrey, and David Paresky ’56, P’85, GP’18 8. Jessica Weng, Brandon Lam, Kevin Qian, and Jonathan Leung, all Class of ’11 9. Lee Eddy and Art Harris, both Class of ’66

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REUNION 2016 Volume 110 Number 1 PUBLISHER Tracy M. Sweet Director of Academy Communications EDITOR Allyson Irish Director of Editorial & Creative Services DESIGNER Ken Puleo Art Director MANAGING EDITOR & CLASS NOTES EDITOR Jane Dornbusch CLASS NOTES DESIGNER Sally Abugov CLASS NOTES COORDINATOR Laura MacHugh CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Misty Muscatel Davis ’01, Adam Roberts PHOTOGRAPHERS Dariana Colon-Bibb ’06, John Hurley, Gil Talbot, Tyler Rynne ’18, Bethany Versoy, Jessie Wallner © 2016 Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

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Cover illustration by Molly Magnell '14, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis who is pursuing a BFA degree in graphic design with a concentration in illustration. Inspired by her time with the New England Aquarium Visitor Education Department, she aims to write and illustrate children’s books introducing kids to the wonders of our oceans.

ERRATA—In the summer 2016 issue of Andover magazine, a graphic listed the number of projects pursued on Non Sibi Weekend as 25.

The actual number of projects engaged in by the campus community was 48; in addition, there were 25 alumni non sibi projects.

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Andover for Life

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Snyder Center Groundbreaking

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Class Photos

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New Trustees/Alumni Council Letter

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Athletics Hall of Honor Inductees

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Reunion Giving

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Class Notes

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Class Notes Photos

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In Memoriam

Congratulations to Wei Han Lim ’15, who was the first person to correctly identify the Macro Mystery subject in the summer 2106 Andover magazine. The iconic Borden Gym cargo netting, often secured out of reach, has been climbed for decades by students. Look for our next Macro Mystery in the upcoming winter issue of Andover.

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No matter how many years it’s been since graduation or how many miles from Andover Hill you’ve traveled, stepping back on campus for reunion is like coming home. Time disappears and you are transported back to your dorm room, giggling late into the night. You relive shared meals in Paresky Commons, cheering for Big Blue at A-E games, studying (or not!) in the library, and trudging to early morning classes.

In these stories, alumni share special PA memories and reflect on the bonds they formed here, from budding campus romances to lifelong friendships and family ties.

Stories by Jane Dornbusch & Allyson Irish Headline illustration by Molly Magnell ’14

Paul Engelhardt ’06 and Carly Williams Engelhardt ’06 Once classmates and now a couple married for two years, Paul and Carly Engelhardt have fond memories of their Andover years, many of which relate to their nascent romance.

“Paul and I met on the first day of orientation our freshman year,” said Carly. “Our orientation groups went to [Paresky] Commons for lunch at the same time. We happened to take seats across from each other at those long wooden tables.

We felt a spark the first time we saw each other, and 14 years later, we were married. PA has played a huge role in our lives. It’s where we met, dated, shared successes and disappointments, and sat side by side at graduation.”

For Paul, attending prom with his future wife is a favorite Andover memory. “I’ll never forget how beautiful Carly looked that day and how lucky I felt to be her date. Both of our parents and Carly’s grandmother were there, and we even had the honor of leading the Class of ’06 at the front of Promenade.”

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Cheryl Ancrum, Sandra Pate, Peggy Dolgenos, and Kris Manos, Class of ’76 “These are some great ladies!” said Sandra Pate, “and that’s why I attended reunion.

The best time of my life was at Andover, and to have such beautiful memories reframed by time and by friends that I am so blessed to have in my life—both then and now—has been refreshing.”

Dolgenos described reunion as “kind of a ‘make new friends and keep the old’ situation.” She and Pate have kept in touch on and off through Facebook and rented a house together during Reunion Weekend.

She was not as close to Ancrum or Manos while at Andover, but found common ground at reunion discussing careers and similar personal interests.

“This was a great group of women to talk with,” Dolgenos said. “I really respect and admire each of them; it was only one of many such serendipitous gatherings.”

Roxane Williams, Millicent Channell, Martha Frahm, German Acosta, Tiffany Chanel Corley, and Victor Mejia, Class of ’91 Roxane: “I came to PA as a new upper in the fall of 1989. Tiffany Chanel Corley and I were in the same dorm, Isham.

She and I have remained friends ever since, including through a shared college experience at Wesleyan. Tiffany, Victor, Millie, and I were all in Af-Lat-Am together, too. Though I’m not a traditional American minority, I’m a coal miner’s daughter from Appalachia who didn’t fit in quite as well with the kids who looked more like me. Af-Lat-Am welcomed me with open arms; most of my best friends came from there.

“Andover is home—maybe because it’s the first place we went away, or because we were children there together. We have a shared love for our PA home.”

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Dina Burkitbayeva, Jeff Zhou, Andrew Park, Jeni Lee, Rajeev Saxena, and Ben Levenback, Class of ’06 Jeni: “I think the greatest thing that is shared among this group of friends is the diversity—I actually think [former advisor to Asian Society] Aya Murata influenced all of our lives in one way or another! For instance, I worked with Dina on the Asian Arts Festival productions, and Jeff and I were part of the Chinese Taiwanese Student Association. Rajeev was part of IndoPak. Andrew was a new upper and was close to Ms. Murata, as she was onboarding many of the uppers.”

Jeff: “Andover is where we all became friends, and it will always be the glue that keeps us together.

We share this amazing Andover experience that’s impossible to fully describe to others.”

Jon Noll ’66, P’01, and Ida “Pinky” Rock Noll ’66, P’01 “Robbie Brown ’66 introduced us in September of 1965 after a service at Cochran Chapel,” said Pinky. “We spoke, and I think we made arrangements to meet again the following Sunday after church.” The future Mr. and Mrs. Noll had sparked a romance that has lasted 50 years.

The pair went to sporting events and dances at Andover and took walks downtown and around the Abbot Circle. “It is difficult to recollect or appreciate the constraints upon us at that time,” said Pinky. “Abbot had a well-deserved reputation for diligently monitoring and supervising the interactions of boys and girls. Male visitors were allowed on Sunday after church only. We occasionally carved out ‘alone time’ at the local book store, but those moments were few and far between. Looking back on it, it’s amazing we stayed together! We would never have met had we not been at Andover and Abbot.”

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Ronald “Tak” Takvorian ’66, P’02, ’03, ’06 and Sarah Takvorian ’06 As her father played the piano in Cochran Chapel Reunion Weekend, Sarah Takvorian looked on with pride.

“This is my first time seeing my father play publicly and it’s pretty special.”

Though the two attended Andover decades apart, Sarah says she is grateful for their shared Andover experience, which “surpasses almost all others that we’ve had together.

“My dad tells stories of the 1960s Andover boys throwing butter onto the ceiling in [Paresky] Commons to see if it would stick and putting on a ‘faculty car showcase’ as their senior prank. Those things didn’t exactly fall within my Andover experience 40 years later.

But frankly, much ultimately seems common across our two experiences: The non sibi culture, a commitment to excellence, an astounding diversity of opportunities available to students, and the extended community that endures and strengthens long after graduation.”

Gar Lasater Jr. ’56 and Trustee Emerita Mollie Lupe Lasater ’56 with nephew Miles Lasater ’96 (son of Gar’s brother, Ike, ’68); Miles’s wife, Liz Lasater ’96; and their three children Mollie: “Gar and I met through our families in San Antonio, well before Andover. We were in the same class, which has made our relationship with Andover a lot more fun. What got me involved with Andover was the bicentennial campaign, in 1978. Headmaster Ted Sizer was very influential; I thought he was wonderful, and Garland and I started coming back for reunions.

“Between both sides of our family, 19 family members have gone to Andover.

Garland IV would be the fourth Gar to go to Andover. He’s 10, and he’s primed to go!”

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“Steve’s generosity marks the first step in the ambitious evolution of our campus and culture. The renewal and expansion of our athletic facilities, of which the Snyder Center is a touchstone, is key to how we educate the whole student.”

—Head of School John Palfrey

MAKING HISTORY—AGAIN On Friday of Reunion Weekend, more than 125 alumni and friends gathered under a tent adjacent to Sorota Track to mark a historic occasion in Andover athletics: groundbreaking for the Snyder Center, named for PA track legend and lead donor Steve Snyder ’56.

Snyder was accompanied by his wife, Jamie, and son Barron ’83, all of whom attended a special tour and review of building plans the previous day with Director of Facilities Larry Muench and Project Manager John Galanis.

“Athletics was so important to my Andover experience and to my life afterward,” said Snyder, proudly sporting a specially embroidered “Snyder ’56” varsity jacket presented by Head of School John Palfrey. “During my time at PA, we were privileged to have the best athletic facility available. My family and I are excited to be able to pass on that gift, providing today’s students with their own state-of-the-art facility.”

“Sixty years ago, Steve made track history here,” added Athletics Director Leon Modeste. “And his generosity makes history now. This facility means our student-athletes will now be able to train more effectively.”

The event concluded—after a rousing toast to the Snyder family—with the ceremonial groundbreaking, complete with commemorative shovels and Andover hard hats.

Through the years, Snyder and other 1956 classmates have shown enormous generosity to the school. The class has contributed more than $100 million collectively since graduation.

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Opposite page: Steve Snyder ’56 (center) with son Barron ’83 and wife Jamie This page: Athletics Director Leon Modeste, Snyder, and Head of School John Palfrey

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It’s interesting how these reunions become opportunities to find and explore new dimensions of friendships and relationships that were relatively tentative when we were students.

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—Mike “Biggie” Moore ’56

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After two days we were not talked out and were still having both light and “heavy” conversations. Some of us wished we could attend Abbot all over again—but only if we could know what we know now!

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—Abby Johnson and Sara Ingram ’71

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Fundamentally, our 50th consisted of a fabulous group of women coming together, tucked in friendship clusters (new and old!), who shared compelling narratives and life experiences.

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The Hill was alive with the sounds of music and much more in June.

The campus was dressed in splendor. What a weekend!

What a reunion!

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—George Rider ’51, P’86

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Reunion was a blast. We won’t let five more years go by before we get together again.

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We reminded one another of the intimacy and depth of our relationships—ones that never fade—and that we collectively share. It’s said that people make the place: for the Class of ’06, nothing could be truer.

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—Jeni Lee ’06

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What I loved about this reunion was how many meaty conversations I had. Can’t wait for the next one!

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—Kim Guzowski ’86

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I expected to enjoy myself, but not to feel transported the way I do. I am sure I will come down to Earth in a few days, but for now I am floating.

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—Barky Penick ’76

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Four New Trustees Appointed to Board Peter Currie ’74, P’03, president of the Phillips Academy Board of Trustees, announced that four new members have joined the board. Stefan Kaluzny ’84 and Eric Zinterhofer ’89, P’18, ’19, both of New York City, have been appointed charter trustees and will each serve a sixyear term. Eric “Ric” Redman ’66 of Seattle and Stefanie Scheer Young ’81, P’11, ’14, of New York City have been elected to serve as alumni trustees, each for a term of four years. All terms began July 1.

Kaluzny is a founder and managing director of Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm based in New York. He has been a member of the Andover Development Board and Regional Association Board and holds a BA degree in history from Yale and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

Zinterhofer is a founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners, a private investment firm based in New York,

London, and Toronto. He has been a member of the Parent Advancement Council, the Andover Development Board, and the Alumni Council. He and his wife, Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, have two children; both are currently attending Andover.

Redman is cochair and former CEO of Summit Power Group, a developer of wind, solar, and carbon-capture power plants. He has been a member of the Andover Gift Planning Committee, serving for 20 years as a cohead agent.

Scheer Young is a sports media and management consultant.

The mother of two Andover alumni, she has been actively involved in several alumni volunteer roles, serving on the Andover Alumni Council, as cochair of the Class Secretaries Committee, and as cochair of the New York Alumni Regional Leadership Team.

Strengthening Our Connection to Andover Dear Alumni/ae, The Andover Alumni Council serves as a voice for the alumni body. Comprising more than 140 members who represent classes from 1958 to 2013, the council serves to sustain the bond between alumni and the Academy, acting as a catalyst for lifetime engagement. With its eight standing committees and three ad hoc committees, members perform meaningful work that strengthens and extends upon Andover’s Strategic Plan.

The accomplishments of the council this past year include: • The Athletics Committee reviewed and selected candidates for the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor (see story on page 14.)

• The Class Secretaries Committee is working to improve the Academy’s outreach to alumni by providing “bounce-back e-mail addresses” and updating the school’s database.

• The Equity & Inclusion Committee continues to work with LaShawn Springer, director of CAMD, to suggest

and help secure speakers for student-related events and cultural weekends. This spring, for example, the committee helped bring to campus Peter Saji ’96, supervising producer and writer for the ABC series Black-ish.

• The Andover Alumni Award of Distinction Committee selected the following to be honored this fall: Constance Laurence Brinckerhoff ’59, Soiya Gecaga ’92, Capt. Thomas J. Hudner Jr. ’43 , and David Nathan ’47.

The council meets on campus each fall and spring. In addition to performing committee work, members also have the opportunity during these weekend meetings to hear from current students and faculty about campus life.

If you have questions or are interested in becoming a member of the council, please contact Karleigh Antista in the Office of Alumni Engagement at kantista@andover.edu.

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Andover Athletics Hall of

Honor John Turco ’66, Christopher Gurry ’66, Mary Hulbert ’81, James Herberich ’81, and Titus Ivory ’96

Big Blue Legends Honored The ninth annual Andover Athletics Hall of Honor induction ceremony was held June 11, with six alumni athletes joining the distinguished group. The 2016 honorees were introduced by Alumni Council Athletics Committee cochair Mike Moonves ’62 and committee member Rachel Weiner ’01.

Charles Borah ’25 A sprinter who set a national record for the 100-yard dash while at PA, Borah won gold at the 1928 Olympics as part of the American 4x100 relay team.

A dentist by training, he served in field hospitals during WWII. Borah passed away in 1980.

Mary Hulbert ’81 A multisport athlete at Andover, Hulbert excelled at squash at Harvard and was ranked No. 1 by the College Squash Association her senior year. Hulbert heads a company that provides life coaching and leadership development programs.

Christopher Gurry ’66 At Andover, Gurry started for four years on the ice hockey and golf teams and captained both his senior year. After graduating from Harvard, Gurry returned to PA to teach history and coach, spending 20 years as PA’s head ice hockey coach.

Titus Ivory ’96 Ivory is still remembered by many for the famous game-winning catch in the final seconds of the 1995 Andover-Exeter football matchup. He went on to play basketball at Penn State and now works with at-risk adolescents and coaches high school basketball.

James Herberich ’81 Herberich racked up track honors at Andover, but his true calling was bobsledding; he competed in three Olympic Winter Games on the U.S. team. An environmental consultant, he also served as secretary of the USA Bobsled Federation.

John Turco ’66 Turco played football, hockey, and baseball at PA and Harvard, where he captained the baseball team senior year. An endocrinologist, he received the Gold Humanism Award for his work with patients and students. 

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Alumni/ae Make Generous Reunion Gifts

Robin Hogen, Rick Allen, and Paul Miller, Class of 1966

Focusing on Attendance, Class of 1966 Surpasses Fundraising Records PA 1966 participation rate: 52% PA 1966 total reunion giving: $7.4 million

A chance meeting on an Andover soccer field in the mid-1960s began a decades-long friendship between Rick Allen ’66, Robin Hogen ’66, and Paul Miller ’66. Fifty years later, these friends steered their class to the largest 50th Reunion gift raised in the past 10 years.

Fundraising experience and the spark of competition led the three men to collaborate. “We were put ‘into the harness’ two years ago, when our classmates needed assistance,” said Allen, “so we stepped up.”

“Andover did a lot for me,” said Hogen. “I wouldn’t be where I am today without it. We were—and are—a spirited class. Sometimes, if you challenge people, they’ll surprise you.”

A collection of both leadership gifts and smaller donations paved the way for the class to meet its goals, which they reached through a mix of old tactics (dozens of phone calls) and new (an online auction hosted by Barr Potter ’66). “Over all else, we encouraged reunion attendance,” said Miller. “And that often opened the door to discussions of a gift.”

The crowning achievement of their 50th Reunion was the establishment—with the Abbot Class of 1966—of the Rx Fund in support of the Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center, to be used at the discretion of the center’s leadership. “Kids live in a new era now,” said Allen. “It’s very different from when we were young. One mistake can have significant consequences on a student’s life. We wanted to help, and we hope other classes contribute to this fund in the coming years.”

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Lucy Thomson, Ruth Sisson Weiner P’97, Blake Hazzard Allen, and Barbara Corwin Timken, Class of 1966

Planning and Commitment Produce Record-Breaking Results Abbot 1966 participation rate: 56% Abbot 1966 total reunion giving: $214,000+

25th Reunion Class of 1991 participation rate: 57% Total reunion giving: $1.3 million+

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The women of the Abbot Academy Class of 1966 had a special reason to celebrate their reunion this year: their class raised more than double its initial goal of $100,000, setting an Abbot giving record and raising more than any Abbot class since the 1950s.

These efforts were spearheaded by the leadership of 50th Reunion gift chair Lucy Thomson ’66, class agent Ruth Sisson Weiner ’66, P’97, and an inspiring $50,000 challenge by Trustee Emerita Barbara Corwin “Timmie” Timken ’66. “We built momentum by inviting classmates to provide leadership gifts that would be matched by Barbara’s challenge,” said Thomson.

“That spurred many others to join the effort at all levels of giving. In addition, we focused gift designation recommendations on areas within the Academy that would appeal to Abbot alums—the new Class of 1966 Rx Fund, benefiting the Sykes Wellness Center; the Abbot Academy Archives; and the Brace Center for Gender Studies. Without the generosity of so many class members, we wouldn’t have achieved such an incredible milestone.”

“These amazing results prove that if you make a plan and commit to it, you can accomplish anything,” said Weiner, who, alongside fellow reunion cochair Blake Hazzard Allen ’66, began a process of engagement two years earlier when they initiated a series of conversations with Abbot classmates. They were joined by engagement committee members Bethe Lee Moulton, “Pinky” Rock Noll, Marcia Watson Goldberg, Beth Humstone, and Peigi Donaghy Huseby.

“We asked three things,” said Weiner. “First, just think about coming back.

Second, contribute a memory to the yearbook. And third, consider a gift.”

These efforts bore fruit, with 52 percent of the class attending reunion and 56 percent making a gift, a participation rate virtually unequalled among other reunion classes. Observed Allen, “We are proud to support this unbelievable community—Abbot and Andover.” 

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Doris Schwartz Lewis 250 Hammond Pond Pkwy., Apt. 515S Chestnut Hill MA 02467 617-244-7302 doss123@webtv.net

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[Editor’s note: If any member of the PA Class of 1937 would like to take on the role of class secretary, please contact Laura MacHugh at 978-749-4289 or lmachugh@ andover.edu.]

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Dana Lynch ’68 P.O. Box 370539 Montara CA 94037-0539 650-728-8238 Dana.h.lynch@gmail.com

Bob Young sent me an e-mail in early April reporting that he and his wife, Mary Lou, had moved in early January from Vero Beach, FL, to The Forest at Duke, “a first-class retirement facility in Durham, NC.” Bob says he still plays golf and runs the annual giving effort for his Princeton class of 1942.

He would like to hear an update on members of Andover’s Class of 1938.

I am retiring from NASA this year at the advanced age of 66, and, looking into retirement, I wonder what all of you have done to be able to enjoy life into your 90s—or maybe what you wish you had done. I asked Bob about this, and he said, “I attribute my good health and continued golf to exercise. Starting at 45, I ran a mile every day as fast as I could. In 1991, at age 70, I had to have my knees replaced, so I switched to a bike, and I still ride a stationary bike most mornings.”

By the time you read this, I will have sent a note to all of you, asking what you might advise someone just entering retirement on how to live well into your 90s. If you haven’t answered already, I hope you will now. I could use the advice, and your classmates might enjoy hearing your thoughts too.

Joseph F. Anderson Meadow Ridge 100 Redding Road, Apt. 2118 Redding CT 06896 803-767-1667 (cell) 203-544-7089 (home) jfanders21@gmail.com

I have been thinking about the many classmates to whom I have spoken in my role as class secretary— most of whom, sadly, are no longer with us. Let me share some of those thoughts with you.

One of my first conversations was with Henry Terrie, self-described as a “classic underachiever,” who later became chair of the English department at Dartmouth and has since passed away. A call to perhaps our most distinguished classmate, John Blum, resulted in a thoughtful conversation with his wife, who reported that just a few days before my call John had fallen, broken a hip, contracted pneumonia, and died. Another conversation, this one with Eli Clark’s widow shortly after Eli’s death, reaffirmed his stature as one of Yale’s great legal scholars and longtime professor and mentor at Yale.

Art “Ace” Williams and his wife, Mary Helen, both now deceased, became close friends of ours during our summers in Vermont. One of Andover’s greatest all-time golfers, Ace knew how to win with his wedge, even at 90. It took a lot of prodding, with a big assist from wife Doris, to have Don Quarles tell me he was selected by the White House to track Sputnik, Russia’s pioneering satellite.

I caught up with Jack Walsh, Andover and Yale All-Star centerfielder, at the graduation of his granddaughter from Hamilton College. Jack was suffering from dementia but still able to relate his strong feelings for Andover. During his lifetime, Jack served on a variety of blue-ribbon committees in Buffalo and was considered by many to be one of its leading citizens.

Jack’s good friend and Andover roommate, George Wagoner, spent his final years at Galloway Ridge in South Carolina. We talked about Andover’s great baseball team of 1938. “I made the team, and my position was benchwarmer,” George told me with a laugh. Danny Dannenbaum, it turns out, was not just a great swimmer but also a most generous philanthropist in his hometown of Philadelphia.

After a rocky start, he left Andover in his lower year and resurfaced at Yale, where he made quite a splash!

I always enjoyed my conversations with Ralph Smith, a Washington regular who I suspect was at one time a member of the CIA. He was proud of the part he played in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. There are many others whose achievements deserve attention, like New York’s Tom Flournoy, Seattle’s Vern Williams, and DC’s Jack Connolly. We had a great class! Please let me know if you have any further thoughts on these musings.

Nadene Nichols Lane 125 Coolidge Ave., No. 610 Watertown MA 02472 617-924-1981

PHILLIPS Blake Flint The Pines of Sarasota 1501 N. Orange Ave., No. 1924 Sarasota FL 34236 941-365-0250 blake.flint@comcast.net

Tracy Dickson is no longer doing much traveling, as he is spending much of his time as caregiver to his wife.

Bill Hart (your former scribe for this column) is still doing very well. Bill reports that he often walks to the beach and plays golf twice a week.

He has three children who live close by, so he sees them with some frequency.

George Gibbs is still playing tennis and still drives a car. He and wife Sally were about to downsize their housing when their daughter got divorced and moved in with them. Her move included a dog and a cat and a 21-year-old daughter. Sally broke her hip recently, so George takes her to therapy five times a week. George is treasurer of his class at Princeton, so he is able to keep up pretty well with his classmates there.

George is proud to be a life member (50 years) of the Cincinnati Tennis Club.

I have made a good adjustment from independent living in my own condo to life in assisted living at a fine facility. Food is good and I have all the amenities—TV, computer, refrigerator.

My brother, Bob ’44, is here with me. I have a beautiful 96-year-old lady friend with whom I have dinner at least once a week. And my daughter Barbara lives here in Sarasota and is my wonderful advocate.

There aren’t many on the roster for whom I have a telephone number, so I would appreciate it if you would drop me a note and let me know how you are getting along.

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Ann Taylor Debevoise Pinnacle Farm 222 Daniel Cox Road Woodstock VT 05091-9723 802-457-1186 Ann.T.Debevoise@valley.net

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Robert K. Reynolds 185 Southern Blvd.

Danbury CT 06810 203-743-0174 rreynolds06@snet.net

As I write these notes, it is a warm day in spring. As you read them, it is probably a cool day in October.

The election will soon be over, and we will have a new president. Good luck to him or her.

News from living classmates is still in short supply. Obituaries, unfortunately, are increasingly frequent. Jack Raymond died back in February at age 92. After graduating from Andover, he entered Princeton and then enlisted in the Army, where he served under General George Patton and participated in the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he graduated from Princeton. His entire working life was spent at Washington Gas Light Co. His hobbies were numerous: flying, traveling, and collecting antique maps and sound recordings. He wrote six published reference books about music. Truly a man for all seasons, he is survived by his sister, Hope Raymond, and many nieces and nephews.

I noted in an earlier edition of Andover that Carl Badger died in June of last year. No details.

Noel Seeburg Jr. died April 19 at his home in New Orleans. He was a captain in the Army during WWII, serving in the Philippines, where he earned two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. After receiving his law degree from Harvard, he was in the family business in Chicago until 1976, when he moved to Beaufort, SC. There he joined the law firm of Harvey & Battey. In addition, he served on the boards of Beaufort Memorial Hospital and the Beaufort Open Land Trust. He was predeceased by his wife and his daughter Karin, and is survived by two daughters, Lucy Van Sands Seeburg and Alice St. Germain-Jefferson.

If any of you are bored and looking for cultural stimulation, may I suggest listening to the operettas of Gilbert & Sullivan? I have been an aficionado of G&S ever since our senior year, when HMS Pinafore was presented. A local group performs one of the works every year. This year it’s The Sorcerer, featuring John Wellington Wells, a dealer in magic and spells. For great music, crazy plots, and witty dialogue there is nothing better.

Looking ahead: Next year, 2017, we will be having our 75th Reunion. It would be great if all living classmates (there are about 40 of us) could attend. I hope to be there with my three daughters.

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Good to hear from Roger Morgan, who writes from England, “I always feel a bit bogus, as I never did my senior year and returned to school in England in August 1942, but I remember some of you.

I haven’t forgotten those years, nor the excellent education we had—memories of the U.S. helped, of course, by my wife of more than 50 years, who was born and bred in Milwaukee and Chicago and had several relatives who attended Andover. I have to wait until the summer to become 90, and it would be good to know how many of us are still alive and if any of you ever travel to London.”

Besides Phil Drake, who hosted the annual Naples, FL, luncheon, Dick Harshman, Art Sherrill, Bill Chipman, Charlie Arnold’s widow, Maxine, Martha and Skip Ordeman, and Skip’s brother, Jack Ordeman ’48, made up the group.

Before a delicious lunch, we paused for a moment of silence to remember Sue Drake and Mary Harshman, both wonderful ladies who had hosted and been a part of earlier gatherings. During lunch, Dick mentioned he’d grown up in Englewood, NJ, within two blocks of Ted Brockie and Dick Duden, whose first trip to Andover was with the Harshmans. Possibly [assistant dean] Spike Adriance ’28, also from Englewood, had something to do with this cluster of classmates. Dick further noted Steve Kurtz, later principal of Exeter, also lived nearby. Dick also told us his daughter had been in Andover’s first coed class, which led Bill Chipman to recall the excitement of going down to the Abbot Friday night dances with Ben Hammer.

Art Sherrill said his granddaughter would be graduating from the United States Air Force Academy in the spring. Phil Drake mentioned his daughter, Anne, is executive assistant to the general manager of the Winged Foot Golf Club, where the 2020 U.S. Open will be held. Thinking back on our enjoyable gathering, three things come to mind: There were no neckties, three of us had canes, and we forgot to sing the “Royal Blue”—small matter.

We plan to gather again next year!

Hildegarde and Dick Baird have been through some tough times. Their bank identified a possible fraud in connection with their account and changed the account number without informing them until later, creating a multitude of problems.

Then Hildegarde fell, necessitating a trip to the hospital. She’s fully recovered, but the event led to their moving to an apartment in Naples, where some help is available.

Pat and Dave Thurber have also moved.

They sold their Sanibel home, where they once hosted a February class dinner, and moved to a beautiful condominium on the island. They are

still very much involved in Big Arts, the center of arts activities on Sanibel. They were back in New Hampshire for the summer.

Dan Duke, a relative of John Book, is working on his family history and would appreciate hearing from any who might have memories of John. You can reach him by phone at 310-420-1105 or by e-mail at danieltduke@gmail.com.

With great sadness I report the loss of Eason Cross and of Dick Harshman’s wife, Mary. Eason died Jan. 28, 2016, after a stroke.

Responding to a notice of the Naples reunion, only 10 days before his death, Eason wrote, “I spent my vacation time this year on Santa Lucia with our four children, their three spouses, and our five grandchildren, so do not go near Naples. That was a gas station on the Tamiami Trail in 1948, when I spent the summer as a carpenter doing my required apprenticeship for the HGSD. I lost my spouse, Diana. We had a delightful 64-year marriage and moved to Greenspring three years ago. I miss her.” Eason was a noted architect in the DC area and was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He served on numerous national, state, and local boards and committees as well as local political and building boards.

Mary Harshman died Oct. 24, 2015. She and Dick had hosted many of our Naples gatherings in elegant style. Mary was a lifetime member of the Art Students League of New York, where she was a student for many years. One of her closest friends was Cynthia Stone, Jack Lemmon’s first wife. She was a bridesmaid at Jack and Cynthia’s wedding. At the Harshmans’ wedding, Cynthia was a bridesmaid and Jack an usher. Mary was a special person whom we miss. Our class extends its sympathy to the friends and family of Eason and Mary.

These two losses and a decline in the number attending our Naples reunions are signs our birthdays are catching up with us, as is the answer to Roger Morgan’s question “How many of us are left?” The answer is 85 out of a total of 295, which includes anyone associated with our class, regardless of the length of their time at Andover.

Against these sobering facts, excerpts from a recent essay by onetime commissioner of Major League Baseball Fay Vincent, titled “Life as the Ninth Inning Nears,” may suggest helpful guidance: “To me, old age seems to be the art of keeping going. Speed and direction are not important. Movement is. I have long surrendered any hope of impressing others or of being impressed by them. In these final innings I want to stay at bat, even if I know I cannot expect to get a hit.”

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Emily McMurray Mead Woodcrest Village 356 Main St. New London NH 03257 603-643-3741 Emily_mead@valley.net

In April I moved, somewhat unexpectedly, to assisted living in New London, NH, closer to my daughter, who is a professor in the department of fine and performing arts at Colby-Sawyer College.

It has not been easy to set aside my golf clubs nor to accept the challenges of our increased needs at our age, but I could not be in a lovelier spot.

A testament to our strong Abbot ties, one of my first visitors was Aagot “Ricki” Hinrichsen Cain Stambaugh’s son, David Cain.

[Editor’s note: The Academy was saddened to learn that Emily McMurray Mead passed away on Aug. 5, 2016, after the submission of these notes.

We are grateful for her service as class secretary.]

PHILLIPS Angus Deming 975 Park Ave., Apt. 2A New York NY 10028-0323 212-794-1206 ademingusmc@aol.com

Once again I raise my glass to our classmates, who continue to defy the odds. Take Ben Brewster.

Ben has six children, 19 grandchildren, and 20 great-grandchildren. A dynasty! Can anyone else in our class match those numbers? But because his numerous descendants are spread from Florida to California, Ben and Anne, his wife of 68 years, decided to move from their home in Slingerlands, NY (a suburb of Albany), to a nearby retirement community, where Anne organizes bridge games and remains active in the Albany Symphony auxiliary. Ben still dabbles in photography but had to give up the flute 15 years ago “for lack of vital capacity” (meaning he ran out of breath, I guess).

Still, he tries to get in a half hour or more on the piano each day and learn a new piece every year.

Meanwhile, he and classmate Art Phinney manage to get together for lunch, as they have for a number of years, at some spot halfway between Albany and Farmington, CT. “I am lucky to still be here on Earth with my bride, both of us in reasonable health and still compos mentis,” says Ben. All of the above is from a card with a glossy cover photograph taken at an antique boat show in Vancouver, Canada (photo by Ben Brewster).

For familiar reasons—loss of spouse, too much stuff to deal with—Harry Hall has also taken the route to a retirement home. “Like most people my age, my batteries are running down some, and the body feels like the joints are rusty, especially

the right knee,” he said in a recent letter. “So I decided to put my house on the market and move some 20 miles or so to a retirement village called Noble Horizons, in Salisbury, CT. The incessant demands of the house and the acres I loved to care for took away the joy I had living in the house I helped design,” Harry says. “Others do all the snow shoveling, grass cutting, and fixing things that need fixing.” Moving is difficult, Harry concedes.

For therapy, he’s writing a “long-winded” story of his life.

In a previous note, Woody Stockwell mentioned that he and Mimi had moved from their home in Denver to a retirement location called the Academy, in Boulder, near the University of Colorado. They enjoy the view of snow-covered peaks in the distance, and Mimi has been freed from having to decide what to eat—though deprived of her beloved gardens. Woody enclosed a list of his writings thus far: three works of fiction, three biographies, five books of nonfiction, six monographs, and two “supplements.”

Roger Strong continues to lunch every few weeks with Richard Abrons and Whitney Stevens, most recently at the Links, a private club on New York’s Upper East Side, which Roger says boasts the best lobster bisque and macaroons in town. As always, Roger is philosophical: “We’re glad to be here, though we recognize that time shows no favorites,” he says. Meanwhile, writing in his blog on the Huffington Post, Dick offered his own take on the political tug-of-war over the vacancy on the Supreme Court. “The controversy over Obama’s pick [to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia] for the Court clearly shows that that body is neither supreme nor a court.

It is a political arm of whichever party controls it. Since the death of Scalia, nobody controls it.

Conservatives and liberals are in a fight to change that to their liking. The answer, it seems to me, is to get rid of it. Do we need nine people, often a majority of one, making decisions that profoundly affect our lives? Is that democracy? While we’re pruning,” he adds, “let’s get rid of the Senate, too.”

Good luck with that.

In a nostalgic note, retired U.S. Army colonel Leo McMahon recalled a special night back in 1950 at the officers’ club at Breezy Point Naval Air Station in Norfolk, VA. One of the Navy aviators present there recognized Leo and came over to say hello. It was Tom Hudner ’43, a lieutenant (j.g.) at the time, whom Leo had known since they were both students at Andover. The two held a mini reunion over a couple of drinks at the bar.

Hudner’s carrier air group was at Breezy Point at that time, preparing to deploy to the Far East to support U.N. forces fighting enemy troops in Korea. In recognition of his extraordinary heroism in that war, Hudner subsequently received the Medal of Honor.

Finally, I’m particularly saddened by our class’s loss of Wheelock Whitney, who died on May 20, 2016 (an obituary is in this issue’s “In Memoriam” section). Wheels (as we knew

him) was a force of nature, even as a teenager. He took part in a variety of extracurricular activities at Andover and was captain of the basketball team. In later life he became a major figure in Minnesota, with a big impact on business, politics, philanthropy, sports, and the arts. His generosity was boundless: In the 1990s, when he learned that my son Nicholas was a student at nearby Macalester College, he invited Nick to join him in the owner’s box at a Minnesota Vikings football game. He took Nick out on the field for the kickoff and introduced him to some of the players in the locker room after the game. R.I.P., Wheelock Whitney.

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PHILLIPS Cliff Crosby 45 Hedgerose Lane Bethlehem NH 03574 603-869-2582 603-991-4919 (cell) noelcliff@msn.com

Our 70th Reunion was a smash hit! Danny Anderson, Martin Begien, Cliff Crosby, Bill Currier, Dick Fullerton, Pete Harrison, Frank Jones, Ed Jordan, John Macomber, Brad Marvin, Dick Phelps, Bob Rosenthal, Don Walker, Edge Quaintance, Walt Landergan, Fred Lanes, and Corky Carlsmith made it, and Rick Hudner, Fred Pelham, Bill Creelman, and Giles Constable were near misses. The highlight was undoubtedly our dinner at the Andover Inn and inspirational speeches from Frank Jones, Leon Modeste, and John Palfrey, but the real fun was talking to individual classmates about how they had weathered the ups and downs of life over such a long period.

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It was good to see Don Walker. After Andover, Don received four degrees from MIT and taught there for four years, and spent two years in Army Ordnance and 17 years with Avco working on Atlas, Titan, and Minuteman reentry vehicles and the Apollo heat shield. He worked for 14 years with Baird as VP and GM of its largest division, involved in electro-optics and night vision equipment. He retired to Boothbay Harbor, ME, in 1987 with Lois Hormel, his wife of 59 years, and has two children, four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Had a great time reliving punch-card and IBM experiences with Peter Harrison, who looks about 30. Pete was weeks away from retirement when he lost his first wife, Roseanne, to cancer.

They had four beautiful girls and a boy. Within months, another angel materialized: Joyce, the widow of a former IBM friend who had died of the same cancer, treated by the same doctor, at the same hospital. She and Pete got married in 1991. In 2000, Joyce was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and she passed in 2014. Christian moral values, pursuit of intellectual excellence, and the importance of ongoing physical activity (especially team sports) have helped Pete cope with this double whammy.

He lives in Audubon, Penn., but winters in Isle of Palms, SC. Of the 243 assigned to our class, 89 were still available to attend this reunion when I started to call. In February of this year, we lost Bob Weis of Dublin, NH. Bob graduated from Williams College and Worcester Polytechnic Institute and served in the Army near Washington, where he married in 1952. His first wife died in 1960, but he too found a second angel, Mary, and added one more child to his three. In 1962, he found his calling as a math instructor at Mount Hermon (later Northfield Mount Hermon) in Gill, MA. He always said, “I never felt like I was going to work.”

One final note, this one from Phil Sweet: “Reading your ‘Cliff notes,’ I was struck by the memory of picking up downed pilots off a small island in Wonsan Harbor. I bet Roger Neuhoff could have told me how they got there.”

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Gene Young 30 Park Ave., Apt. 12C New York NY 10016 212-679-8931 panchogene@gmail.com

I talked by telephone to Martha Ball Clayton this Memorial Day weekend. Marty, who headed the Abbot Christian Association our senior year, went on to Smith. She married Jack Geiken halfway through college and graduated in 1952. They had two boys, Brooks and Stacy, and a daughter, Paris.

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Widowed, she married Richard Clayton and moved to California, where she now lives.

Her children live nearby with their families and have turned out to be “wonderful adults.” She has six grandchildren, the youngest of whom is 16, and spends a lot of her time with her family.

She is happy to report that she is “very healthy” and active.

I have just returned from the opening of a show at the Chicago Art Institute, centering on a collaboration in the mid-1940s between my late husband Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison. Their aim was to illustrate in words and photographs the theme of Ellison’s novel-in­-progress, Invisible Man. Commissioned by a magazine that folded before the resultant article was published, it is an in-depth look at their shared vision of black life, centered in Harlem. The show consists of all the photographs taken by Gordon and Ellison (who was also a photographer), plus the drafts of Ellison’s text.

Most of the material has never been seen before, and it is a fascinating show by two gifted young men who became famous in later life.

That’s all I have for now. Please call or write with your news, or I’ll be driven to call you, as I did with Marty!

PHILLIPS Robert Segal 118 Sutton Hill Road North Andover MA 01845 978-682-9317 robsegna@verizon.net

Paul McHugh sent me a copy of his book, The Mind Has Mountains: Reflections on Society and Psychiatry, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2006. While I may not agree with everything he says, I look forward to his comments on current happenings. He is insightful and articulate.

Maralyn and I returned to Sarasota, FL, for the cold months. It has become easy to enjoy: Lifelong learning classes, a range of lectures on subjects ranging from the Supreme Court nomination to modern architecture, the Sarasota Symphony, theatre, and more meals than we should eat keep us moving. Ruth and Bob Diefenbach came twice from Fort Myers to join us for dinner and opera: Fidelio in February and Aida in March. They had cruise plans for this past spring. Bob and Ruth are in fine shape, devote their time to several cultural organizations in Fort Myers, and enjoy their brood of children and grandchildren.

Joan and John Monsky drove to Sarasota from Jacksonville to rendezvous with Nancy and Mike Hurwitz, who drove from Naples. They attended a Yale-sponsored lecture and theatre series. We enjoyed a day with them.

Dan Garland came across two old photos while rummaging through some boxes. The older was shot on the steps of Day Hall senior year and showed a standing Bob Mehlman with Dan sitting on his shoulders. The second photo was of Dan

standing on the same stairs, many years later. Dan has remained in good shape, and Bob at last report was still comfortable on downhill skis, handling whatever the Colorado slopes might have to offer.

We learned that Kenneth Knox White had passed on Feb. 4, 2016, in Chillicothe, OH. Ken was born in Adams Run, SC. He served in the Army during WWII. After Andover, he graduated from Yale with a degree in industrial administration from the school of engineering and spent his career as an engineer with Goodyear Rubber. Ken was predeceased by his second wife and left four daughters, a son, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Chuck Maslin commented that he recalls Ken as one of the veterans who joined our class in 1948.

Mike Sapuppo says wife Helen’s physical health has been stable for the past year. He says, “She can walk, slowly, with the help of a cane, but I am always by her side. Conversation with me, family, and friends is quite normal. Her memory is very good, and I depend on her for my spelling.”

Mary Engstrom e-mailed, “Bill [Engstrom] is now in a cognitive unit, only 20 minutes from our house. He went the end of January. It is hard, but we are both gradually adjusting.”

Bill Miner says that he and Judy continue to be in good health. Before leaving for a Caribbean cruise, they visited with Anne and Dick Kimball in Florida. Dick apologized for his short memory but was good company. Bill caught Allyn Bress at home in Madison, WI. Al is gradually making a new way for himself after the loss of wife Francoise.

He had recently visited Washington, DC, where he paid a call to his older brother’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery. They were both Annapolis graduates, and his brother had served as a submarine commander in WWII. Bill added a final detail to report that his grandson had chosen Merrimack College in North Andover to study mechanical engineering, as if to imply that he might have a reason to look in on the PA campus from time to time.

Andover magazine writes about our upcoming 70th Reunion. While we have not received any official notice, it’s nice to know that someone thinks we may have enough left for one more effort.

Bob Diefenbach is putting together the beginnings of a reunion group for anyone who might be interested in working with him.

The Boston Group met for conversation and lunch in May. Noted at the table were Bob Brace, Norm Henderson, Mike Hurwitz, Bob Segal, Allen West, and Bob Whitney. We were evenly divided: Three had canes and three did not.

Stay well.

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Nora Johnson 1619 Third Ave., Apt. 13G New York NY 10128 212-289-2097 noraj31@gmail.com

PHILLIPS Eric B. Wentworth 2126 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Apt. 32 Washington DC 20008 202-328-0453 ebw@bellatlantic.net

One morning in early May, Tony Herrey was invited to the Andover campus to take part in a class discussion on the 1990 reunification of West and East Germany. The course, German 300, was created by the history and German departments to combine intensive German with Berlin history.

Tony told the students how his sister-in-law (wife of Julian Herrey ’56) and some of her ambitious schoolmates had been barred from taking the exams in East Germany necessary for university admission because their families were deemed “bourgeois.” Instead, they had to leave their homes and families and escape to West Germany with one or two small suitcases so that they could pursue their university educations in West Berlin.

Tony also told the German 300 class about the only East German citizen who, thanks largely to Julian’s efforts, came to Andover to earn a diploma.

Tony picked her up at Logan Airport in September 1990, just weeks before the traditional Andover parade in early October, when foreign students marched in the Samuel Phillips Quad, each bearing his or her country’s flag. But this happened to be the year East Germany became part of the Federal Republic of Germany on October 3, after which it was no longer a separate country.

On a Sunday last winter, Tony accompanied his wife, Maria, a talented artist, to the opening of an exhibition of her recent paintings at the Marblehead Arts Association. Will Watson and his wife, Myra, were among the many visitors, and they quietly purchased one of Maria’s pieces. “While I was sorry to lose that landscape—one I love dearly—it pleases me a great deal it will henceforth grace Will and Myra’s living room,” Tony said.

Also last winter, Tony had dinner with Dudley Shepard in Auburn, NH, after an Andover alumni event. “Dud had just been to his regular clarinet lesson in Concord,” Tony wrote, “and waxed enthusiastic about his deep commitment to music, which contributes to an exceedingly busy musical life for him and his wife, Becky, in Exeter.”

During a midwinter trip with Maria to Florida to visit their son and granddaughters on Sanibel, Tony spent time with Dick Ross and his wife, Mimi, in Bonita Springs and enjoyed learning more about Dick’s entrepreneurial career in the financial world. While in Florida, he also saw Francis Lombardi and his wife, Angela, at a Harvard mini reunion.

During another recent trip, Tony was Peter Sourian’s dinner guest at the Century in NYC. Despite Peter’s challenging medical problems, Tony reported, “his mind remains agile and strong, full of humor and the absurdity of life.”

Historian (as well as art collector!) Will Watson shared the welcome news that he was finally ready to find a publisher for Ernest Hemingway’s 1936 Bimini Big-Game Fishing Log, a manuscript on which he’s long been toiling. “The responses thus far have been quite positive and give me confidence that I shall have no trouble in finding a good publisher,” Will wrote in early May. Meanwhile, with an eye to the fiction bookshelf, I was delighted to hear from George Beatty that he had finished his first draft of a novella chronicling the political turmoil over the necessary replacement of the entire Supreme Court in a future national crisis. George shared a first draft, and it could prove to be a blockbuster.

George and wife Noelle, Chris Weatherley-White and wife Dorian, and Bill Drake and wife JoAnn enjoyed a tasty Asian dinner in Denver at the Cholon Restaurant in early April.

Charlie Austin and his wife, Carol, were preparing to cruise the upper Danube in June, from Budapest to Nuremberg, and celebrate their 61st anniversary on the Main-Danube Canal. “Since losing central vision in my right eye to macular degeneration,” Charlie acknowledged, “my birding ability is much diminished, and our travel to exotic places has been replaced by placid river cruises in Europe.”

Other classmates were staying closer to home.

“We opened our cottage, Rockwood, located on East Bear Island on Lake Winnipesaukee in central New Hampshire, for our 49th season this past weekend,” Jim Malcolm, with wife Beverly, reported in late April. “Our Scottish terriers, Alleetta and Brodie, were happy to be back. It was great to return to this special place.”

Among doting grandparents, Alex Pausley proudly reported that his granddaughter Lizzie, a senior at McDaniel College in Maryland majoring in environmental science and biology, had been invited to join Phi Beta Kappa. She spent a semester in the mountains of Ecuador studying a rare lizard.

Sadly, our class poet, Ralph Blum, died in late March. Thanks to Andover’s supportive alumni office staff, I was able to e-mail all of you fairly promptly a brief obituary I’d written about Ralph. Regrettably, I must report the loss of other classmates as well: Chuck Wood, a longtime Episcopal chaplain at Louisiana State University; Doug Coles, an internist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN; and Pete Goubert, a career U.S. Air Force officer.

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Anne Bissell Gates 11684 N. Mineral Park Way Oro Valley AZ 85737 520-664-7245 annieb@tedgates.com

PHILLIPS George S.K. Rider 22 Curiosity Lane Essex CT 06426 860-581-8199 ridercrawford@gmail.com

The Hill was alive with the sounds of music and much more in June. The campus was dressed in splendor. What a weekend! What a reunion!

Those present included Robin and Norm Allenby, Ron Ansin, Emily and Oz Ayscue, Nancy and Doc Castle, John Cobb, Al Dibbins, Carol and Jim Doak, Happy and Bob Doran, JoAnne and Bill Duffy, Carol and Tony duPont, Mary and Bill Gilland, Marian and Doc Houk, Dick Kapelson, Ed Krukonis, Elizabeth and Ed Nef, Andy Parssinen, Paul Potter, Eleanor and Fred Pratt, Susan and Tony Quainton, George Rider, Jacklyn and Locke Rush, and Don Falvey and Ann-Marie Carroll.

Wife Dorothy is recovering from knee surgery and wasn’t far enough along to make it. Daughter Jenny ’86 drove. We left Essex, CT, for Andover and our reunions on June 9, arriving in time to unpack at the Andover Inn and join Dick Kapelson and Bill Duffy at the North Andover Country Club for an “early arrivals” dinner that set the tone for the weekend.

The organizational skills of Jenny Savino and staff were put to the test as the campus hosted 1,500 eager alumni, families, and guests. Judy Davis spent many hours making sure that 1951 was well taken care of for our 65th. Thanks, Judy, from all of us! The team’s attention to detail and cheery countenances were ever-present. From check-in time on Friday until the Sunday breakfast, followed by my ritual campus drive from the football field and hockey rinks by Bishop, Rockwell, the infirmary and Eaton Cottage, Draper, Clement House, and the Abbot campus and fond farewells Sunday morning, our Andover | Reunion 2016

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Friday afternoon activities included studentled walking tours of the campus, classes taught by current Andover faculty and alumni, open houses at the Addison Gallery and the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, and the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Snyder Center, led by Steve Snyder ’56 and Head of School John Palfrey. Buffet dinners were held at the Case Memorial Cage and the Smith Center.

Saturday’s activities included reunion rowing and more classroom offerings. The alumni parade, led by bagpipers, kicked off at 10:30 a.m. and led us to the Celebration of Reunion 2016 at Cochran Chapel, including remarks by John Palfrey. At the conclusion of the chapel meeting, Charlie Dean ’79, chairman of the executive committee of Andover and the Military, and former board member Dana Seero ’71 pinned and enrolled 20 Andover veterans, including several members of 1951.

Following the cookout luncheon, our class gathered in Bulfinch for a program led by Ozzie Ayscue that featured the outstanding film trailer about the Class of ’51, produced and directed

by Ed Nef, with his cameraman Richard Needham and music director Doug Hartley.

Ozzie devised a format for the two-hour program that allowed individual participation by everyone rather than simply featuring one or two speakers addressing the group. The entire program was filmed, and all the individuals who spoke were recorded. As many of the individual talks as time permits will be added to the enhanced trailer for final production. As a participant and timekeeper to keep us on track, I can only say how proud I was and am of our class and all who spoke at the gathering. I can’t wait to see and hear again the eloquent and often profound words of those in attendance. Between Ed’s filming and The Nest project, Ozzie’s class gathering and our Thursday night dinner, aren’t we the lucky ones?

The memory of our absent friends is dear to us all.

God bless them!

Daughter Jenny, the engaging Carter Vincent ’85, and I met at the Inn for a quick cup of coffee before joining our respective classes for breakfast at Paresky. Jenny invited Dan Anderson ’46 to join us. Dan said that he had brothers in 1949 and 1951, and asked whether I remembered them. A chill went up my spine.

Dan was the older brother of Tim “Toto” Anderson, one of five Anderson boys to attend Andover. They were raised in Jamestown, NY, on Lake Chautauqua. The memories of Toto came cascading back. We were close friends and teammates in football and lacrosse. One story about his childhood stood out. Tim’s mother must have been a saint, raising five rambunctious boys, of whom Tim was the youngest. One afternoon, as Tim told the story, his older brothers were playing down by the lake. One of them fell and hurt himself, and let out an anguished cry for help.

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Tim in the house, his mother’s first impulse was to run down to the lake, but what was she to do with Tim? She quickly placed him in the deep, empty bathtub and raced to tend to his injured brother.

She returned to the house as Tim was trying in vain to climb out of the tub. As Jenny and I were leaving, Dan looked at me and said, “Be good, George, and if you can’t be good, be careful.” He sounded just like Tim. The questionnaire we sent out got many of us thinking and became the basis for some of the talks delivered Saturday afternoon. Dig it out, read your answers again, and think about what Andover meant to you. No two answers will be the same.

Some had amazing experiences, others had not-sopleasant memories, but all of us came away with an incredible academic experience and discipline that lasted a lifetime.

The joy of the reunion was tempered by belated news of the passing of Halsey Sandford and the recent passings of Win Adkins, Packy Maxwell, and Al Moe. Win’s wife, Caroline, accompanied Jacklyn and Locke Rush to Andover and added a special presence to our reunion.

Our oldest grandchild, Graham, attended Andover Summer Session. This was my third bite of the apple: living the Andover experience for four years, seeing Andover through Jenny’s eyes, and now watching and listening to young Graham experience Andover.

Stay well and stay in touch.

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Mary “Molly” Edson Whiteford 149 Pine Valley Road Lake Oswego OR 97034 503-636-0980 mwhiteford149@gmail.com

Ethel Kenah Bowman wrote that she has moved to a retirement apartment that she likes, but is still settling in. She had lunch last winter with Audrey Taylor Maclean ’53. They get together four times a year for a lecture. That is all the news for now. Do send me yours.

PHILLIPS Alan Messer 7302 Eleanor Circle Sarasota FL 34243 941-388-8767 alan.messer@supersenior.info

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Patricia Eveleth Buchanan 9 The Valley Road Concord MA 01742 978-369-6838 pebl35@comcast.net

Last December I was pleased to hear from Ruth Fleischmann-Colgan, who wrote, “I continue to be at the University of Rochester as a director in development. In October, I spent 10 days in southern France on a trip sponsored by our Memorial Art Gallery. My daughter-in-law Carolina and I made the trip together. Warm regards to all and best wishes for 2016.”

Your secretary has decided to share with you her own eyewitness account of the merging of two inapposite subjects, in which she discovers a surprising and most unlikely parallel between a morel (a gustatory delight) and the hairstyle of an 18th-century Scotsman living in France, hoping to help salvage the collapsing French economy.

She hopes you will bear with her. The morel’s distinction, of course, is its edibility. The hairstyle, on the other hand, is all about appearance. In this instance, it belonged to a rather dastardly but charming fellow named John Law, whom I’d just met in a book that had sat on a shelf in plain sight for decades, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, written in 1841. Perhaps the title caught my eye because it conjured up the extraordinary madness of our own times. Anyhow, just as I was becoming acquainted with Mr. Law, it happened that a friend invited me to view a morel that was growing in her garden. Not wishing to dine on it, she was happy to have me take it home to sketch—sketching mushrooms being one of my pastimes. I did the sketch and then I sliced the lovely morel in half in order to draw its cross section. Next, taking a break from my work, I returned to the tale of John Law and made a little detour by way of Google to see whether I could find any pictures of him. I found several, and here is the point of this wandering account: Trust me when I tell you there was a stunning likeness between Mr. Law’s coiffure and my cross section of the morel. It was a dead ringer; if only you could see the two side by side. Actually, you can: Simply e-mail me a request (that’s pebl35@comcast.net, with a lowercase L).

Other than the excitement over the morel and Mr. Law, it’s been a quiet spring so far. However, I’m ramping up for a not-so-quiet summer and fall, as I prepare to spend a couple of weeks at Eagle Hill in Steuben, ME, and then go on to Italy in October. Eagle Hill is a wonderful retreat not far from the Maine coast, offering all sorts of nature courses. I’ll be taking one on polypore fungi and another on slime molds. You might want to google that last item. Slime molds are really very clever little organisms, although

www.andover.edu/intouch they are neither delicious (as far as I know) nor particularly attractive.

Happy fall to everyone, and please do send me your news.

PHILLIPS Bill Joseph 225 W. 83rd St., Apt. 5Q New York NY 10024 347-907-4647 (cell) wjoseph80@hotmail.com

Bruce Rosborough supplied this gloss on Carl Andre and Minimalism following the showing of selected works of Carl’s last winter: http://bit.ly/1M4dTbX. Billie and Fred Fenton write, “We are moving from our Concord, CA, home to an apartment at Leisure World in Seal Beach. Our address as of May 25, 2016, is 1670 Interlachen Road, No. 43G, Seal Beach CA 90740.”

In March, Bill Kaufmann hosted Ray Lamontagne and me for a fascinating lunch.

Someone should write a biography of Ray. The things he has done! But one of the more interesting things I learned is summarized in the following e-mail excerpt from Shelby Tucker: “Two months ago I received an extraordinary letter, the most extraordinary letter that I had ever received. Here is the story. (June and Maples are pseudonyms.)

“In 1958, during our last term at Oxford, June, an undergraduate, and I had a one-timeonly ‘romance.’ She was 20 or 21, and I had just turned 23. Some weeks later she told me that she was expecting. We decided to present the baby for adoption. Elizabeth Maples was born on 10 January 1959. Roman Catholic nuns handled her adoption. Based on the erroneous assumption that Oxford-educated parents signified brains, they presented her to an authentically brainy couple named Aylward, who renamed her Rebecca and sent her for long periods during her childhood and adolescence to a family in France, named Pergot, who sent their daughters as au pairs to the Aylwards.

“Rebecca’s adoptive mother died recently (aged 99), having appointed Rebecca the executrix of her will, and, going through her adoptive mother’s papers, Rebecca found her birth certificate, which provided June’s maiden name. June’s family is somewhat prominent in Devon, where Rebecca was living. A family genealogy disclosed June’s married name, and the Internet provided her postal address. [Rebecca contacted June and] June immediately rang Rebecca, and mother and daughter spent the next day together, which Rebecca described in a letter to me written that evening as ‘a surreal day of extraordinary coincidences.’ Her letter to me also stated, ‘I am writing to you because I understand that you had previously asked about my whereabouts. If you felt able to, I would love to meet you also.’ The letter

nearly propelled me from my chair. I rang her, and she drove up to Oxford the following day and spent four and a half days with me.” There’s much more, including photos and a video, but contact Shelby directly for the full story. My thanks to Shelby for permitting us to share in this story. And my apologies for cutting out large swaths of it to meet Andover’s word count limitations.

Our condolences to the friends and families of the following. Berdine “Dean” Groel died on Jan. 24, 2016. Mike Kohler wrote, “Dean was a fine guy.

We got to know each other at Andover because he was the drummer and I played trumpet in the Aces dance band.” Turhan Tirana adds that at various times, Dean was president, vice president, secretary, and agent of his Princeton class and that he attended Columbia Business School and worked for Teachers Insurance and Goldman Sachs along the way. His memorial service was attended by PA classsmates Ken Demarest, Peter Wiese, Bill Ridgway, Ronde Baquié, Bruce Rosborough, and Turhan.

Received the following by way of James M. Banner and my oldest friend (from first grade), Walter Benenson, both of Yale ’57: Ralph David Bowman died on May 5, 2016.

Though quiet and unassuming, at Yale he was president of Fence Club and the Interfraternity Council, on the Record board, and a member of Skull and Bones. After college, he achieved the rank of major in the Marine Corps, in which he served in Japan. He then worked in advertising and marketing. Subsequently, he turned to acting in feature and television films. He had a bad bout with alcohol, but with the help of others—especially his wife, Gail, whom he’d met in AA, and his dear friend Don Roberts—Dave found the grit to live without drink. He spent the remainder of his life helping others with similar struggles. He studied social behavior and, in practice with his wife, a psychotherapist, he counseled troubled souls and became a specialist at working with teenage boys on the edge of trouble. He also counseled convicted felons. All who knew Dave knew his sunny disposition and mischievous wit. “A playful arrogance was part of his charm,” writes Don. “He was unfailingly upbeat and never one to feel sorry for himself.” In addition to Gail, Dave is survived by his son Bruss; daughter Cindy Thimmesch; Gail’s son, Daniel Paige; grandchildren; and a devoted family of nephews and nieces.

Bill Kaufmann wrote, “Dutch Wolff, who entered Andover in our senior year as an instructor in music, died on May 23 at the age of 91. He was a wonderful teacher, devoted to his students, and a lifetime friend to many of us.” A memorial service was planned for him at the Yale Club in NYC in late July. For more about him, turn to the “In Memoriam” section toward the end of the magazine.

Keep those cards and letters coming.

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Nancy Donnelly Bliss 31 Cluf Bay Road Brunswick ME 04011-9349 207-725-0951

On Saturday, April 9, Sylvia Thayer, Sandy Liberty, Betsy Hilgenberg Heminway, Maris Oamer Noble, Paula Prial Folkman, Sue Larter Lingeman, Francie Nolde, and I joined about 35 other Abbot alumnae plus faculty, friends, and interested PA students in Davis Hall on the Abbot campus to hear a presentation by Brace student fellow Erica Nork ’16. The presentation was part of the 20th anniversary celebration for the founding of the Brace Center for Gender Studies, which many class members continue to earmark with our annual giving. Erica gave a very impressive presentation focusing on findings from her research in the Abbot Archives. The message from the alums present was for the PA community to keep the Abbot name and legacy alive in the years to come. I believe the effort on the part of the Abbot Archives and Oral History Project is a worthwhile step toward this goal.

After the presentation, our group gathered in the Brace Center, in Abbot Hall, where we celebrated our time at Abbot, our friendships over the years, and our 80th birthdays. The Office of Alumni Engagement provided champagne for a toast, accompanied by a delicious birthday cake provided

by Maris. We had a grand time reminiscing and also discussing many “hot” topics of the day, including race, gender, the environment, books currently being read, and, of course, politics.

Later in the afternoon, we were each interviewed, along with about 30 other alums, by at least a dozen trained students for the Oral History Project. My interviewer asked very good questions, and we had a great visit as I traveled down memory lane and also showed her our 50th Reunion Yearbook, which included our dress code and other interesting rules.

Sue left after the presentation to join her daughter and grandson, a PA student, for lunch and a track meet. We missed Peggy Moore Roll, who was traveling with husband Jack and Peggy’s sister, brother, and sister-in-law in Tuscany. Peggy was sorry to miss the gathering, but she said the trip was great, especially having the Moore siblings together.

Marti Belknap sent her regards, as did Cornelia St. John Lewis, who also mentioned having taken a great river cruise on the Upper Mississippi River in fall 2015. Due to other commitments, Joan Wheeler Kaufman, Patti Skillin Pelton, and Jane Munro Barrett were unable to attend the gathering. I had a nice time catching up with Betsy as we drove down to Andover from Maine together.

Betsy is well and enjoyed a trip to Costa Rica last winter.

I am sorry to report that Edie Williamson Kean’s husband, Ham, died April 7, 2016. Many Andover | Reunion 2016

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stay connected... of us remember how gracious Ham was when participating in reunions with Edie. We enjoyed our visits with him. Ham had a long, full life, marked by his concern for others. We think of Edie and her family and send our deepest sympathy.

Since we continue to enjoy our class gatherings, we hoped to meet in Georgetown, ME, when Lucy Lippard was in residence this summer and possibly meet in Brookline, MA, at Paula’s home in the fall.

I close with a thought from Paula about how important it is for women to cultivate lasting friendships with other women, for we need their support throughout our lives. Best wishes for the days ahead.

PHILLIPS W. Parker Seeley Jr., Esq. W. Parker Seeley, Jr., & Associates, PC 855 Main St., 5th Floor Bridgeport CT 06604 203-366-3939 ext. 483 wps@seeleyberglass.com

I apologize for the dearth of “news” for this issue. It is partly because I was out of the box with a kneereplacement operation and partly because I just did not reach out, or ask the “usual suspects” to reach out, to classmates to shower us with their news.

Could it be that we are too busy in retirement to jot down a few notes about ourselves and our classmate friends, or could it be that the continuing 2016 “presidential candidates’ show” has consumed us? We are deeply thankful to Ken MacWilliams’s “VCR” (Virtual Class Reunion) to keep us aware of ourselves as a class, and we do get a lot of news about classmates’ activities there.

Tim Hogen points out members of our class who are still working: Spike Bragg, spreading the truth about how to save money car shopping; Dick Carlson, with his own business; Jonathan Foote, architect of great repute, spending time between Tucson, AZ, and Jackson Hole, WY; Kent McKamy, with his work as adjunct professor at the New York Theological Seminary, his consulting work in leadership training and oral communications, and his teaching work at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, NY; Bob Semple, in his 51st year at the New York Times; Dave Mackenzie, who’s with Merrill Lynch and is a member of the Fairfield, CT, Representative Town Meeting, the local legislative body, almost a separate job in itself; Steve Wilson, who continues to write his blog, LetsFixthisCountry, with thoroughly researched material (there’s a recent piece on the travails of the IRS); and your scribe, who continues to practice law in Bridgeport, CT, with his wife, Liz (based in Southport, CT). My apologies to others still working, and please send me an e-mail telling me about it.

Many of us who have retired remain very active and engaged in various pursuits: Jud Sage,

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Dan Woodhead, and Bill Blunt writing novels and histories; Dave Knight, designing a “friendly type” reader for printed material, making it easier to read and comprehend what is read; David Green, continuing to produce scholarly works; and Ken MacWilliams, who keeps the electronic waves bright with news of classmates and so many other topics on the 1954 VCR, providing a great forum for interchanges.

I must apologize for an oversight in not reporting on our classmate, Paul Keaney.

Hugh MacMillan and I remember what a huge contribution he made to our 60th Reunion in helping to locate classmates for whom we had no contact information. For this effort, Ken MacWilliams said on the VCR he was better than the “FSB, BND, MSS, MI5, the NSA, DCRI, and Mossad, all put together.” Paul was for many years a statistician and film clip analyst for the St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Dover, NH) football team. Due largely to his painstaking analysis as an assistant coach, St. Thomas had an incredible win-loss record (42-10, from 2011 to 2015) and won two Division II state titles (2001 and 2015).

For his tireless efforts, Paul was inducted into the St. Thomas Aquinas High School Hall of Fame. He continues to review film clips to this day.

We have lost a great class friend, beloved Dutch Wolff. He loved this class and the Class of 1953, as well as the Aces dance band that he founded and led at so many of our reunions. There is a remembrance of his life and the details of a memorial service in the “In Memoriam” section, page 73. His daughter Melora wrote to say that “his ashes will be buried next to his wife and my mother, Joan, in the Garth at Andover cemetery.”

He is also survived by daughter Margaret. Kent McKamy and Steve Wilson circulated on the class VCR a picture of Dutch wearing a huge smile and riding a horse on the merry-go-round at Bryant Park in Manhattan, a picture taken after one of the class lunches that Kent has organized over many years and Dutch loved to attend. That’s Dutch!

As you read the foregoing, I am sure you were thinking, “Why did Seeley not mention what I am doing?” So write me and tell me your news of any dimension for the next issue of Andover magazine.

Please use my e-mail address, listed above.

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Nancy Eastham Iacobucci 17 Wilgar Road Etobicoke ON M8X 1J3 Canada 416-231-1670 nyakblue@gmail.com

Thank you very much to our classmates who wrote in reply to my threat to stop writing this column, saying they do read it and I should not retire! That response was much appreciated, so here I am again.

One of the first to respond was Ann Cleveland Lange, who wrote to say that she had been to New York to see the Whitney Museum exhibit of Frank Stella ’54’s work, and it was fabulous! Ann still lives in Andover and is busy teaching fiber arts at a senior center. She also teaches floral design and went to Florida in February for a seminar given by the Creative Floral Arrangers of the Americas. (It’s a very small world: I googled the event, and discovered that a Toronto friend of mine had “headlined” it!) Ann describes her grandchildren as “great fun” and reports that one is starting to think about colleges. She was looking forward to getting her house in Chatham, MA, ready for the summer and hoping for warm weather. Finally, she wished all our classmates safe and healthy years ahead.

I was also very happy to hear from Marlena Comas Rodriguez, who started her e-mail by saying she wondered whether I would remember her. Of course I do (and I expect we all do)! She evidently enjoys reading the Abbot ’55 news, although unfortunately she didn’t send any news about her life, so all I know is that, according to a 2014 class address list, at that time she lived in Florida. How about something for the next magazine, Marlena?

Lyn Gardner Esbenson also replied to my threat and said she enjoys catching up with the news of our classmates. (She has also contributed in the past—thank you, Lyn!) She added that she is still happily living in the Denver/Boulder area of Colorado and is working for Visiting Angels, caring for a 90-year-old man four days a week and loving it. She also does pet therapy with her 9-year-old Newfoundland. In her “spare” time, she enjoys quilting, making totes, and playing with her beloved granddaughters, 8 and 10 years old. She concluded by saying that she has a “busy, fun life!”

Starr Best Hope sent a marvelous catch-up, including many memories of her only year at Abbot (senior year). She was most enthusiastic about the music there: Miss Friskin’s piano lessons (including playing a duet with Dee Fleming King), singing in Fidelio, and taking part in Bastien und Bastienne (as a boy shepherd!) with “wonderful singers” Tucky Munroe and Elaine Exerjian de Gonzales ’56. She then went to Wellesley and loved her first-year courses; in her second year she took “as much studio art” as possible, made posters for “every organization on campus” (and also decorations for a dorm dance that a Boston TV station photographed!), and sang in a chorus that performed Brahms’s Requiem. She dropped out during junior year and married her second cousin, Peter Blanchard Hope, a medical student. They lived in NYC; Poitiers, France; and rural New Hampshire (where she still lives) and had six children and eight grandchildren. When she became single again, she worked as a “doughty” home health aide, a position she found fascinating, hearing the life stories of people born as long ago as the late 1880s. She now lives in a cozy apartment with a large chocolate Labrador named Charlie,

www.andover.edu/intouch sings with church and community choruses, and is dating a delightful widower. She sends greetings to all.

Thanks again to these contributors, and now I await more news from the Abbot 1955 silent majority!

PHILLIPS Tom Lawrence 1039 1/2 Sweetzer West Hollywood CA 90069 323-804-4394 (cell) yogi@earthlink.net

Dick Smith passed away in Jupiter, FL, on Aug. 6, 2015. From Marblehead, MA, Dick came to Andover and adeptly balanced his scholarship, athletics, and journalistic activities. He did the same at Harvard, where he earned a master’s degree before serving with the U.S. Coast Guard in Portland, ME. Dick was a fixture at every one of our reunions through the 25th as he pursued a career in marketing communications and public relations, primarily with Bergert Henderson Schecter & Smith in NYC. No sample of his business prose survives, but I will quote a wry sample of his reportage from the fall 1989 issue of this publication: “The cat’s fur has pretty much grown back in and the swelling in its paw has disappeared; the older boy, Gareth, has paid off half the bill he ran up listening to the Wrestling Hotline on a 900 number; the younger boy, David, seems to be living and eating in bed; my daughter, Sara, is looking forward to getting away to college next year and is applying to the kinds of places where you have to wear topcoats and earmuffs in the summer; the house, one of those ‘tender loving care’ deals, has stopped leaking ever since the new roof was slapped on. Now the furnace seems to be going through a death rattle; the car is running again, but I can’t figure out how the water keeps seeping in; the divorce is almost final and I’m coming out the winner. I got to keep the cat, the kids, the house, and the car.”

In 1998, Dick took his second wife, Myriam, on a Mexican honeymoon. He had tried his hand at detective fiction in 1966 when he wrote Death Be Nimble. But come the 21st century, his inner Raymond Chandler could not be denied. His last novel, Naked Fear, featured northlander Sitka Annie. Previously, “divorce and dog-bite lawyer” Jack Scully was the protagonist of The Hitman’s Lover and Grind His Bones. Both of those titles won Royal Palm Literary Awards, given by the Florida Writers Association, in 2012.

Long-overdue news from Dick Krasker reveals that after receiving a master’s degree in education at Harvard and helping run the family business— arguably the longest continually operating U.S. summer camps, Indian Acres for Boys and Forest Acres for Girls in Fryeburg, ME—he retired in 1998 to concentrate on raising funds for Fryeburg

and advocating for water resources there.

In the non sibi spirit of PA, the future chairman of the local parks committee shared his conservationist philosophy with hundreds of young campers over the decades around many a campfire. Dick is caring for his wife, Sandra, and enjoys the proximity of daughter Andrea, her husband, Chip, and their daughter, Sophia.

Jack Doykos reports a tropical reunion as he and wife Joanna, Mary Claire and Steve Clarkson, and Doug Fisher and his partner, Joann Buckley, sought winter refuge in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Diane and Art Kelly hosted the group for an evening in Palm Beach. John Palmer and Art Murphy made separate appearances during the winter and joined the snowbird activities.

Ray Clevenger dropped me a short e-mail from his latest designation at the 11th Circuit Court in Jacksonville, FL, where he is relishing newfound or heretofore undiscovered Southern hospitality.

“Gentlepersons” is his word for it.

Enjoyed a couple of exhibition baseball games in Phoenix with Jon Weisbuch in March. Thought I could handle the sun like I used to. No way.

To my fellow soon-to-be octogenarians: Caveat heliomaniacsi…Y.

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Anne Woolverton Oswald 7862 East Greythorn Drive Superstition Mountain AZ 85118 480-374-4281 317-502-0339 (cell) Woolvie56@gmail.com Judy McCormack 1442 West St. Wrentham MA 02093 508-384-5996 judymack3@verizon.net

Our 60th Reunion was terrific. The events were well planned, and we had interesting presentations from special faculty members. I am so sorry more of you could not be there to share in the fun.

Abbot classmates were small in number but mighty in spirit. Those attending were Elizabeth Parker Powell, Judith Warren McCormack, Susan Wickham Maire, Nancy Swift Greer, Anne Tripp Hopkins, Lee Pelton Morrison, Mollie Lupe Lasater, Jane Tatman Walker, Susan Waterous Wagg, and your faithful scribe.

We marched in the alumni parade with bagpipers leading us to Cochran Chapel for class meetings. A memorial service was conducted in the old chapel in Abbot Hall. Although the benches were gone, the simplicity of the venue and the service brought back memories of our chapel days. There was also a combined memorial service in Cochran Chapel. A number of us took the opportunity to go to the archives to read letters,

look at pictures, and reminisce about those longago school days. If you have memories from our days at Abbot, they are welcomed by the school, which is still compiling material for the Abbot Archives Project. Send to archivist Paige Roberts at abbotarchives@andover.edu.

We concluded with dinner and dancing at Paresky Commons. And good news for me: Judith Warren McCormack (judymack3@verizon. net) has volunteered to help with class notes and will generate the next set of notes for the magazine. Hurrah for Judy! She will be in touch.

Hugs, Woolvie

PHILLIPS Phil Bowers 322 W. 57th St., Apt. 30F New York NY 10019 212-581-0538 philbowers@verizon.net Philip R. Hirsh Jr. 106 Body’s Neck Road Chester MD 21619 prhjr@rockbridge.net

Reunion 2016: Sixty years and counting! Wow! Thirty-four PA alums and 27 of their guests marched under the 1956 banner, as did nine Abbot alums with four of their guests. In toto, 74 hardy souls represented our class—just as predicted from your responses to our poll back in mid-December.

Stats aside, here they are: Doc Bennett, Bob Birch, Phil Bowers,* Tom Burke,* David Dean, Tom Dent,* Charlie Duell,* Tony Eller, Bill Ellington, Ron Goodman, Julian Herrey, Phil Hirsh,* Ed Hopkins, Grabo Keator, Lanny Keyes, Frank Killilea, Steve Kunian,* Gar Lasater,* Ernie Latham,* John McBride, Biggie Moore, Jerry Nahum, Dave Paresky, Dick Parks,* Sam Rea,* Haj Ross, Dick Sigal,* Steve Snyder, Alec Sutherland,* Oscar Tang, Ed Tarlov,* Jim Taylor,* Pete Wells, and John Winslow.

The asterisks denote those who, along with their guests, attended the “Boston Extravaganza” on Thursday, the day before the official festivities began. Jim Taylor and Steve Kunian initiated the setup, a great kickoff to a great weekend.

Jim arranged for a special afternoon tour of the new American Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, preceded by a short, private talk by curator Elliot Bostwick Davis. Thirty strong, the group, under Steve’s direction, then repaired to his venerable St. Botolph Club for cocktails and an elegant dinner served with Old World charm.

This event marked the beginning of the “special bonding” upon which so many commented as the weekend proceeded.

Our class reached its first plenum at Friday’s Peabody Museum lunch. There, the meeting and greeting exploded in a mighty crescendo.

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stay connected... your visit. Friday afternoon was left to studentled walking tours (especially useful to guests and Abbot alums), along with an abundance of classes taught by faculty and alums.

The end-of-day groundbreaking ceremony for the new $34 million Snyder Center highlighted Friday’s events. It will be a low-lying indoor sports complex with a 200-meter track, 12 internationalsize squash courts, and an infield containing convertible basketball, tennis, and practice space for field sports. Head of School John Palfrey officiated, promising that the complex will be ready by late 2017. He pointed out that the growth of athletic facilities, relative to that of other assets, has been shortchanged in the past few decades.

The Snyder Center embodies the beginning of a master plan to remedy the lacuna. Lest you missed the name, that’s our very own classmate, Steve Snyder, who stepped up to the plate with a major contribution in the double-digit millions of dollars.

The weather being gorgeous, our class was sequestered in its own private area for Friday evening’s outdoor cocktail party and delicious lobster bake, a smash hit. Classmate Biggie Moore played guitar and sang 1950s and ’60s pop and folk songs, backed up by his one-man ’56 reunion pickup band, Phil Hirsh, also on guitar. Again, the intense bonding and accumulation of new connections grew exponentially. Biggie captured its essence with his note: “It’s interesting how these reunions become opportunities to find and explore new dimensions of friendships and relationships that were relatively tentative when we were students.” Amen.

On Saturday morning at 6:15, former oarsmen Phil Bowers and Gar Lasater arrived at the William H. Brown Boathouse on the Merrimack River to watch Oscar Tang and 23 other stalwart alums undertake a leisurely row in three shells. They even managed a rapid-fire, 10-stroke start, devoid of catastrophe. Remember… the bicycle.

Concurrent with the sculling, a breakout discussion group of literary-minded authors comprising Doc Bennett, David Dean, Phil Hirsh, Sam Rea, Ed Tarlov, and “guests” of Bennett, Hirsh, and Rea co-opted a site in the library for a prebreakfast discussion. By all reports, the encounter was a roaring success.

Led by the traditional bagpipers, the reunion parade conveyed 1,500 alumni and guests into Cochran Chapel for what was billed as the “annual meeting of the alumni.” The big takeaway among the bounty of awards, mentions, honors, citations, accolades, and tributes was John Palfrey’s announcement that, over the past 60 years, the Class of ’56 had cumulatively donated over $100 million, by far the highest total of any class. (Had the figure been adjusted for inflation, the amount, expressed in today’s dollars, would be even larger.)

Remember, too, that two other campus facilities have already been named for donor classmates Oscar Tang and Dave Paresky.

After the midday luncheon on the main quad for the same 1,500, we ’56ers returned to the

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chapel for a short memorial service for departed classmates. Pete Wells and Jim Taylor solemnly read the names of 66 deceased PA ’56 classmates.

Anne Woolverton Oswald ’56 and Susan Watrous Wagg ’56 read those of 15 AA ’56 classmates. The Reverend Margaret K. Schwarzer ’81 delivered the homily. In all, the service was short, effective, and tasteful.

The “homily of all homilies” came from Phil Hirsh after Saturday evening’s cocktail party, before the dinner’s main course. In a poignant narrative to a suddenly hushed audience, he described his first encounter with an act of kindness by fellow classmates during his first few minutes alone on campus, back in 1953. In a make-or-break situation, Phil could have ended his PA career then and there by marching downtown to the railroad station and hopping on the first train back home to New Jersey.

If it were not for this benevolence, we never would have known Phil.

One of the emotionally tougher experiences for your correspondents to absorb was the extraordinary number of last-minute exigencies that prevented classmates who had registered or expressed a strong intention of attending from making it back to the Hill. Those who had registered and distressingly canceled within the final week or so included Nick Andrus, Tom Bagnoli, Louis Brownstone, Jim Clunan, Tom Corbett, Jim Fisher, Sven Kraemer, Jerry Ringland, Guy “Robo” Robinson, and Toby Schwartzburg. Others who had indicated a strong desire to attend but were unable to appear included Frank Converse, Jerry Galyean, Trevor Grimm, Skip Klemm, Bill Kieffer, Andy Leaf, Sandy Saunders, and Bill Towler. The extreme disappointment in their follow-up voices and letters was palpable.

Of the 12 classmates (plus spouses) who made the May 2013 Berlin mini reunion, eight attended our 60th. The other four can be categorized as “almost-made-its.” Notably, our fearless leader, Julian Herrey, made the trek from Germany to our 60th. On Sunday afternoon, Ed Tarlov hosted a post-reunion gathering of the group at his nearby home.

Well-deserved kudos and thanks go to Betsy Powell ’56, who stepped forward to effect stellar behind-the-scenes planning and execution. Thank her when you see her.

In nonreunion news, Jim Hinish died peacefully last January in Williamsburg, VA. He graduated from Yale in 1960, having majored in Russian studies. He later earned a law degree from the University of Colorado. He worked in military intelligence for the U.S. Army for a few years in West Berlin. He inherited a lifelong interest in politics from his father, a small-businessman.

Among numerous other career endeavors, he acted as a congressional legislative assistant.

Last April we also lost classmate, lawyer, and real estate developer Dick Blumsack, who passed away in his hometown of Somerville, MA. After PA, he went on to graduate from Harvard and Harvard

Law School.

Extraordinarily beloved erstwhile PA music instructor Raymond “Dutch” Wolff died last May in NYC. In just two years as an Andover faculty member, Dutch made a lifelong impression upon those with whom he crossed paths, elevating him to “honorary” classmate status. Leader of Dutch Wolff Orchestras, a society band located in New York, he was a “friend of Andover” to the end.

His wife, Joan, an NYC art gallery director who predeceased Dutch by 22 years, is buried in the cemetery behind PA’s Sam Phillips Hall.

A reunion “wrap”: In one last attempt to antagonize our English teachers, we can legitimately invoke the clichéd and ignoble passive voice by uttering those memorable words “A good time was had by all.” To classmates who did not make the reunion, please take comfort in the fact that you were sorely missed by those who did. The new bonds of warmth and grace extend beyond what happened on campus. —The Other Phil (Bowers)

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Anne Boswell 5 Choate Road Hanover NH 03755-1701 603-643-5043 aboswell@valley.net Louisa Lehmann Birch 18 Rivermead Road Peterborough NH 03458 603-499-6120 louisalbirch@gmail.com

[Editor’s note: Lucinda “Lulu” Cutler has stepped down as class secretary. The Academy thanks her for her service and welcomes Louisa Lehmann Birch as a new class secretary for the Abbot Class of 1957.]

News from classmates far and wide has arrived.

Mary Wellman Amundson writes, “Gordy Amundson and I were married on July 11, 2014, in Duluth, MN, with our immediate family with us.

Gordy is a retired dentist and lives in Pelican Cove, in Florida, where I have lived. His wife died several years ago, and Marsh [Bates] has been gone since 2004. I never thought I would ever find anyone to love again, and then it happened. We fell in love.

Gordy has four children, nine grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. I have two children, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild—so we have quite a clan. That may account for my lack of communication for the past few years, but I have been a very happy gal. Gordy is from Minnesota, where we spend our summers. He has a condo in Duluth and a wonderful cabin at Lake Vermilion, where we spend most of our time when up north.

Gordy is a big boat enthusiast and has all different kinds at the lake and a wonderful cruiser in Florida.

We have lots of family visit us here in Florida and

www.andover.edu/intouch even more at the cabin. This keeps us hopping and happy. Life is good.”

Kathy Earthrowl continues painting her handsome, large canvases. She has a studio in her own home and her paintings are shown in galleries in North Carolina, Florida, Washington, and Texas. You may view her marvelous creations at kathleenearthrowl.com.

“My life is much the same as when I last reported,” Dinah Hallowell Barlow writes, “except I’ve added another grandson, Elias, now almost 2.

Most fortunately, my home in Cambridge, MA, is only five minutes away from these adorable monkeys. My son Ethan is an architect in Boseman, MT. Cambridge is a heavenly corner in which to be retired—courses, concerts, plays, and plenty of new friends. I’m playing tennis outdoors from spring to fall. I traveled to the Canary Islands and Madrid in the winter of 2016 with two fellow students from 1963. Life is good!”

Gus Guthrie Atwood sold her beloved Montana cabin, Twin Lakes, to a conservation outfit. She still owns, but is renting out, a house in Choteau. Gus is now living in a retirement community in Great Falls, and she writes: “Don’t get old! It’s highly overrated!”

“I imagine a lot of us have opted for caregiving facilities,” writes Anne Luquer Boswell. Among the advantages of Kendal at Hanover, NH, where Anne now lives, are the vibrant souls who obtain extraordinary movies for the residents’ edification.

Visits from children and grandchildren are cherished. The flowering tree under the common room, which everyone passes, has a robin’s nest with four eggs and attentive parents.

A special thanks goes to Lulu Sulzbacher Cutler for all her good efforts, with Anne Boswell, to collect and write up notes for the magazine.

When Lulu calls, her cheery voice on the phone is such a pleasure to hear, and her warm and friendly conversation always brightens the day.

Thank you, Lulu!

It’s hard to imagine that it’s been almost 60 years since we graduated from Abbot. The date of our 60th Reunion is fast approaching. When you come, enjoy a visit to the maple walk at the rear of the Abbot campus, with its trees newly planted in memory of Joan Pelletier Isabel. Please put June 9–11 on your calendar, and let’s all get together for a joyous reunion in less than one year!

—Anne Luquer Boswell and Louisa Lehmann Birch

PHILLIPS Stephen C. Trivers 151 South Rose St., Suite 611 Kalamazoo MI 49007 269-385-2757 Stephen@StephenTrivers.com Gregory Wierzynski 4426 Klingle St., NW Washington DC 20016 202-686-9104 gregor@wierzynski.com Class website: www.andover57.ning.com

Normally this isn’t a place to dwell on politics, but this year has been exceptional. Like most of us, I cast my first vote for president in 1960. I had become a U.S. citizen just a few months earlier, and the campaign had fascinated me. I’ve been a political junkie ever since—until now, that is. It would appear I’m not alone in my despair. Fellow junkie Alan Reische, an activist in the Obama campaigns, is also sitting this one out, choosing to focus on New Hampshire public television, where he is a trustee, and on attracting high-tech startups to the state. Alan’s advice: “Stay calm and keep Zoloft at hand.” Bill Sterling suggests treating the spectacle as theatre. “The tickets cost nothing. The show is interminable. One can leave and return and not miss a thing. And while taking a break, one can laugh or weep or do both.”

An alternative, of course, is to get away from it all.

Joan and Alan Reische planned a September jaunt to Reykjavik, Iceland; Stockholm; Copenhagen, Denmark; and London. Patsy and Lance Odden spent a month trekking up and down New Zealand last winter; they loved the land and the locals, though even there, politics dogged them. “The most frequently asked question of us was ‘What kind of person would support that man Trump?’ ” Lance writes, adding, “If he wins, I may return to New Zealand full time.”

In February, Chelsey and Dave Remington visited their daughter, son-in-law, and grandson Sam in Basel, Switzerland. In July, they’re joining Susan and Reuben Perin in Sun Valley, ID, to toast the Perins’ 50th wedding anniversary. Dave writes, “Between Reuben and me, it’s about 104 years of wedding bliss. Who’da thunk it?” Home in southern Maine, Dave busies himself writing a history of the Gettysburg Foundation, which built the impressive visitors’ center for the Civil War battlefield and in which he played a key role. Says Dave, “It may not sound like much of a story…but it should say a few things about the state of our republic, how extraordinarily difficult it is to get something done.”

Working in a rather different literary genre, Karl Milde has penned another potboiler, Women Rising, featuring a female magazine editor who learns about a new biochemical concoction called Nemow—“women” spelled backward—designed to subdue aggression in men. She wants Nemow to tame her motorcycle-gang boyfriend, but the U.S.

Army, which invented the weapon, wants to keep it secret and deploy it in Syria.

For the past several years, Bill Dial has been settled in tranquil retirement in Santa Barbara, CA. Aside from his golf game, he works on the Alternatives to Violence Project, a 40-year-old Quaker-founded group that organizes workshops to help convicts understand how to resolve conflicts nonviolently. “The reaction of inmates is that this is the only place they feel like they can take off the prison yard ‘tough’ mask and relate to each other as human beings,” Bill writes. “I have never felt more gratitude from anybody for anything I have ever done.”

Tom Fox has stepped back from African development work but continues doing good.

“Along with my wife, Elizabeth, I’m helping older people in our Washington neighborhood in a so-called village, part of a program that is developing many such villages around the country.

I’m also very active in our Unitarian Universal Church. Overall, life is good.”

From Alabama, Jim Blackmon reports he’s “tearing [his] body up” training in Shotokan karate.

He’s finding that rising through black belt stages is a far more grueling process—“an unrelenting form of hellacious punishment”—than getting a PhD. Karate, he says, is “one organization that hasn’t caved in to grade inflation.”

Longtime finance scholar Bill Rapp continues to run the Leir Center for Financial Bubble Research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Management, trying to figure out why financial bubbles form and how they can be managed. But Bill’s more striking news is in a lovely Talk of the Town item in the May 10 issue of the New Yorker about his daughter, Stacy Rapp, who runs a witchcraft shop, Enchantments, in the East Village. When the mop-topped British actor Ben Whishaw stopped in the shop, here’s how the conversation went, according to the magazine: “ ‘What are you interested in? Spells?’

Rapp, who wore black ear studs and a skull-andcrossbones bandana, asked. ‘We can’t really fly on brooms, I’m sorry to say. We do sell them, though.’ ” Our 60th Reunion is around the corner.

Arkie Koehl, head of the planning committee, asks everyone to save the date: June 9–11, 2017.

Earlier this year, Arkie sent out a notice, which I repeat here for those who may have missed it: “We have the traditional Saturday ‘free time’ from 1:30 to 3 p.m. for a class gathering. For our 55th, we had four classmates from different walks of life sketch out their work. We’re considering various formats for next year, and would welcome any and all additional ideas. Just send me an e-mail (arkie@arkoehl.com).”

I’m off to western Ukraine in search of family roots. My grandfather was the stationmaster in the town of Drohobycz, an important railroad crossing that was part of Poland before WWII. Mention of the trip stirred in Bill Sterling an old fondness for rail travel. His letter, as usual, is on the class website.

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Parry Ellice Adam 33 Pleasant Run Road Flemington NJ 08822-7109 908-782-3754 peaba@comcast.net

Vickie Kohler took a second trip to Bhutan with a weaving group (although she doesn’t weave!) to partake more of the culture. From there she went to Robben Island in South Africa to work on her fourth Earthwatch Institute penguin program, then to Zimbabwe and Botswana for great game viewing. The adventure continued in Cuba on a botanical tour with very interesting sightseeing. She drove to Wisconsin three times and also got in 10 days of skiing in Sun Valley, ID, many trips to Stratton, and a week of heli-skiing in British Columbia in March.

She is looking forward to a wildflower trip to the Tibetan Plateau in China and a trip to Antarctica in November. She continues to give slide shows at the local retirement home and get in some golf as well.

“Life is good,” she says. (I’ll say!)

Ingrid Stahlbrand Kassler sends greetings from the Pacific Northwest. Last summer, Carol Greene Donnelly and husband Joey arrived after their huge cross-country automobile trip.

This summer Ingrid hosted some Swedish relatives whom she hadn’t seen in 57 years.

Betsy Gardner Riley is busy knitting, quilting, and doing other handiwork, as well as leading two support groups. One is called Just Friends, a monthly social gathering in her church. The other is a community bereavement group, where there is sharing of memories, losses, tears, laughter, and hugs. She says, “My glass is definitely half full.”

Anne Neilsen lives on a creek on Maryland’s Eastern shore, navigable by kayak. Her very old family farm yielded its first organic corn crop last fall after three years of transition. Her son and her nephew tooled up the organic equipment and are out in the fields enjoying the change. Anne has been invited to show some photographs in the Berlin Foto Biennale 16 in October, during Oktoberfest—an added incentive to attend! She sends best wishes to all.

Linda Carr Milne-Tyte writes from England the good news that her daughter is getting married and her son has two delightful children. She still gets to the Poconos every summer, not to be stopped by a stroke in March. She says her right side is a mess but at least she can walk and talk!

Mary Steketee MacDonald went hiking in Provence in June 2015. Biking, skiing, and canoeing are still in her active schedule.

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PHILLIPS Dermod O. Sullivan Carlton House, Apt. 3-L 35 North Chatsworth Ave. Larchmont NY 10538 315-750-0385 or 914-834-6816 dermod58@gmail.com

My significant other and I recently attended a concert with Barbie and Tony Mayer at Christ Church in Greenwich, CT. The performance was by the men’s and boys’ choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge University, England. Wonderful music, spanning eras from the Middle Ages to contemporary times.

Tony retired from J.P. Morgan, where his last title was corporate secretary, after a long and distinguished career serving variously as head of investment banking and CFO. One of his first assignments was as head of operations for a bank Morgan had acquired in Italy. No one at the bank spoke English, so Tony was forced not only to do his job but also to learn the Italian language on the fly and immerse himself in a crash course on local business behavior.

It is with sadness that I note the passing of Tom Myers on April 25, 2016, of causes related to Lewy body dementia with Alzheimer’s disease.

Tom was the first classmate I met at Andover. Tom was everything we admired (and envied): a top student, a leader, and an athlete. He graduated from Sewanee and HBS. He worked on Wall Street for 13 years, returned to his beloved Charleston in 1977, and worked for many years in real estate. Those who knew Tom would not be surprised about his charity and community engagement. In 1993, he created We Are Family to serve the individuals, families, and loved ones of the gay community. Tom served on the board at the Bishop Gadsden retirement community, a nonprofit that serves 450 residents, and was a member of the St. Cecilia Society, the St. Andrew’s Society, the Charleston Club, and many others.

Tom attended St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Tom was physically active all his life, a passionate runner from a young age, and reached his physical peak, literally, when he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He learned to dive in the murky Charleston waters and the clearer glory of the Caribbean. Tom is survived by his devoted and loving wife of 24 years, Debra Uricchio Myers, along with son Thomas, daughter Zoe, stepdaughter Paulann Rhodes, and four grandchildren.

Numerous classmates sent me their heartfelt memories of Bill Hamilton, who died in an automobile accident in April. David Finkle writes, “Extremely sad. When Bill Weeden, Bob Nurenberg, and I wrote the senior class musical, Where the Elite Eat, it was Bill who drew the cartoon on the program cover. When Bill Weeden and I shared the theatre review column, “The Aisle Seat,” our senior year at Yale, it was Bill who drew our logo—a bulldog sitting, legs crossed, on the

aisle, holding a pen and pad.”

Bill Weeden adds, “The first time I really became aware of Bill Hamilton was when he drew the cover for the program of the senior class musical. That show, Where the Elite Eat, will forever be remembered as my first exposure to the art of William Hamilton.” Mal Salter wrote, “Bill contributed a great set of drawings and cartoons to our 1958 yearbook. Marvelous person.”

Einar Westerlund writes, “I echo Mal Salter’s recollections of Bill’s wonderful, creative contributions of expressive drawings as we worked on putting together the 1958 class yearbook.

They’re well worth checking out all over again. As great as his sketches and cartoons were, they were barely a match for his verbal wit, which I savored at any interaction with him I can recall at either PA or Yale. His spontaneous comments were always in themselves appealing, real-time, real-world ‘captions’ for the passing scene.”

Dan Rowland conveys his regrets: “Bill also drew the 8 ‘n’ 1 Sour Grapes cover. My wife, Wendy, and I live in Lexington, KY, where we sometimes saw Bill, but not often enough. His cartoons are truly priceless.”

David Kleinberg-Levin writes, “One more of us down and out. His cartoons brought out astute perceptions and gently self-referential laughter.”

John Murphy remembers Bill from lower year.

“I had the pleasure of a year in Pemberton Cottage with William Hamilton. It was classically ‘droll’— to say the least! The San Francisco Quarterly Luncheon Group had the great good fortune of having Bill as guest of honor at Mustards Grill in Napa in April.” Blitz Fox sends a picture of that luncheon [see page 70].

Grant Brownrigg writes about the same lower year: “Murph and I roomed together at Pemberton Cottage on the second floor, across from Bill. It was amazing to watch Bill draw. He’d put his pen down and the drawing would just flow out. Artistic, funny, and cool.”

Charlie Brennan recalls senior year: “Just before the Andover-Exeter game, Bill prepared a banner with a clever depiction of a blue dog with a hind leg lifted toward a red fire hydrant.

Housemaster Brendan Farrington persuaded Bill it was ‘not appropriate.’ The wall over his desk was papered with rejection notices from the New Yorker.

How ironic.”

Jim Knowles recalls Bill’s nickname as “Six” (an outlandish body configuration as described in a Brooks Brothers survey published during our junior year), adding, “Little did we know that his life would be so graciously outlandish!”

Tony Rhinelander writes, “I always admired (and was envious of) his drawing ability—but most of all, I loved his facility for seeing the humor in awkward situations, poking fun through caricature at the foibles of his social classmates and, by extension, himself, the mark of a great humorist.

Sic itur ad astra.”

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Nathalie Taft Andrews 2407 Ransdell Ave. Louisville KY 40204 502-459-5715 dulcie@iglou.com

PHILLIPS David Othmer 4220 Spruce St. Philadelphia PA 19104 215-387-7824 davidothmer@aol.com

Thanks for all your wonderful notes about the birthdays! It’s been a hoot!

This spring, Jay Nelson won his recordbreaking 29th Masters Squash title. The following is excerpted from the May 2016 issue of Squash Magazine, forwarded by Ralph Johanson.

“Jay Nelson’s journey to the record was a long one. After losing three straight years in the finals of the 70-plus division to Gerry Poulton, Nelson finally defeated Poulton in three games in this year’s 75-plus final.

“As a junior at Andover, Jay had never played any racquet sport. He was thrashed in the first round of the first tournament he ever played in, the New England Inter-Scholastics, by a far more experienced player. Fifty-seven years later, on his way to his record-setting title, Nelson defeated that same player, Bob Hetherington, in the quarterfinals.

“After Harvard College, the Army, and Harvard Business School, he moved to New York to work as a securities analyst and continued playing. From 1992 to 2004, he won a remarkable 13 consecutive national titles, winning the 50-plus and 55-plus five times each, before taking down three consecutive 60-plus championships. He won five more times in the 65-plus draw, including 2010 in Newport, when, down 10-6 to Poulton in the fifth game of the finals, he came storming back to win 12-10. Of all the wins, that victory has stuck in his mind. ‘It was a matter of perseverance. I literally said to myself, “You’re probably going to lose, but you may as well play out all of the points as hard as you can.” ’ In 2012, he captured his record-tying 28th Masters title.

“In 2013 and 2014 he was soundly beaten by Poulton in three-game finals. In 2015, Nelson came back from two games down in the final, only to lose the deciding fifth game.

“A few months before this year’s nationals, Jay’s pro, Richard Chin ’87, advised him to play lowerrated players who shoot a bit more to prepare better for age-group play. With that advice, he turned the tables on his old rival Poulton in Charlottesville to win the 29th title in straight sets.”

Wow! Nancy and Luke Fichthorn live in John’s Island Club, Vero Beach, FL, seven months of the year.

“John’s Island is an amazingly wonderful place: wonderful people, golf, tennis, five miles of beach, squash, croquet, guest speakers from Supreme Court justices to CEOs. We still have our house in Darien, CT, because our two sons and their families live in Darien and Brooklyn, NY. Life has been very kind to us. If Nancy and I make it to July, we will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary!”

Jack Matton retired in 2010 and writes, “I’m trying to keep my golf game sharp and my waistline in check.”

John Briley was forced into early retirement by post-polio fractures and severe sciatica but keeps writing illustrated middle-grade fantasy chapter books: Dragon Central and Seafoam Wave Follower have been getting great reviews (“from nonrelatives,” he adds).

Ed Benson in Pawtucket, RI, is working for Hillary and antipoverty NGOs in the area, including the George Wiley Center and Direct Action for Rights and Equality.

David Harris continues his acting career (Memphis: The Musical, Prelude to a Kiss), volunteers for two professional theatres in St. Petersburg, FL, and is on the board of directors of the Creative Clay Cultural Arts Center, which provides expressive, educational, and vocational opportunities in the arts to people with developmental, physical, and emotional disabilities. Jim Hayman and his wife, Jeanne, visited Florida; they attended one of David’s performances, and visited afterward.

After living in Utah and New Mexico for a number of years, Mickey Simmons and Sharon Burkard moved back East a year ago to be closer to their families. They live on a farm in Pennsylvania, with five horses and three dogs!

My wife, Maureen, and I had a delightful visit with Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz at their fabulous museum in Miami—a must-see experience.

They are also doing important work encouraging and helping high school arts students in Miami broaden their lives with special programs and travel outside Florida.

Finally, Ralph Johanson reports, “For several years, I had great fun helping a friend, Stephen Grant, write a biography of Henry and Emily Folger, Collecting Shakespeare, published last year.

Henry Folger collected the contents of and built the magnificent Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. Unbeknownst to most, Folger spent his entire business career (1879 to 1928) working for Standard Oil and, after the breakup of the Standard Oil group in 1911, served until 1928 as the first head of the Standard Oil Company of New York, Socony. Socony evolved into Mobil, where I spent the last 25 years of my career. I helped Stephen with the chapters of the book related to Folger’s business career and how he made his fortune. I spent hundreds of pleasurable hours researching and writing, mainly about Standard Oil’s involvement with the oil and gas business in Texas at the beginning of the last century and about how that business eventually became a domestic cornerstone of Socony/Mobil, since Folger was

inextricably intertwined—both professionally and personally—with that business. Conflict-ofinterest regulations would preclude either of his involvements today! Steve gave me a nice credit in his acknowledgments.”

Be well!

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Virginia P. Agar 41 Dix Point Road Bernard ME 04612 207-266-1705 virginiaagar@gmail.com

Greetings! Because of e-mail we have been able to effectively communicate our reactions to the Girls of Abbot video that was produced by Charles Stuart ’62 for the Brace Center for Gender Studies.

Money for this production came from the Abbot Academy Association.

As of last inspection in my “trending” responses, we have had 26 replies—anecdotes of humor, honesty, and appreciation for our Abbot experience with much attention to the quality of our teachers, Mrs. Crane, and those people who filled in the ranks as “helpers” within the school community. The video is bringing us together across the country; I hope there will be communications from some of our international classmates as well.

Phyllis Ross Schless writes of her reactions to the event held in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Brace Center for Gender Studies, April 9 in Davis Hall on the Abbot Campus: “Historically, Abbot was known for creativity, community, and a focus on personal empowerment. Abbot’s strong suit was creativity as expressed through the Courant, an abundance of music groups and drama, etc.; that has infused the Andover community in many positive ways.”

Aside from the news of the sharing of the video, we hear from Lynne Furneaux Clark that “things in Vermont have not much changed. Dave has not improved and probably won’t; more surgeries ahead. As always, my needlepoint and knitting friends are my support group, as is my daughter.

Having a nurse with me at the hospital really helps.

To all our classmates: Enjoy life, and travel for interest or to see the grandchildren whenever you can, as it can all end suddenly. Be well!”

Cyndy Smith Bailes writes, “Wow, that video is powerful! I am in my sixth week of recovery for knee replacement; finally have two walking legs again. I have a long bucket list of things to do now, as I start to be able to really walk again.”

Dorothy Tod submitted her film on dyslexia to the Brace Center in honor of its anniversary. Hannah Jopling’s book, Life in a Black Community: Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902–1952, is available on Amazon. The review I am reading says, Andover | Reunion 2016

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“Life in a Black Community is the invisible third of Annapolis; here is the African America that made the city.” As soon as my Amazon bill becomes more manageable, I will buy the book or find it at our local library.

I planned to head down to Andover on June 7 for a visit to the SHED (Shawsheen Educational Development) Center, housed in our old laundry building behind where we had our Abby dormitory. Part of the Reggio Emilia approach at the center is that the environment is the “third” teacher in a child’s life. The Abbot campus where we took our Sunday afternoon “long walks” is now part of this children’s center’s campus.

I am wishing each of you a happy, healthy summertime, always encouraging you to share any news that we, your Abbot classmates, would enjoy.

My best! —Ginny

PHILLIPS Mike Burlingame 111 North Sixth St., Apt. 301 Springfield IL 62701 217-206-7364 (work) 217-299-9306 (cell) mburl50@gmail.com

Allen Ward is planning to make a donation to PA to ensure that the teaching of ancient Greek on all levels continues at the school. In April, he met with Nick Kip in Andover to figure out how best to apply the funds he intends to donate.

Allen has put his classics training to work in another practical way: designing a neo–Greek Revival house for his wife, Carol, and himself. He has ingeniously drafted plans—now being carried out by contractors—for a symmetrical abode, one half for Allen and the other for Carol.

Commenting on Allen’s achievement, architect Jeremy Wood reports, “Our love of ‘the classics’ in all areas is owing to tracking/negotiating through Latin and Greek in classes with ‘Kingfisher’ Colby as well as Drs. Gillingham and Chase, who were all demanding mentors, alternately stern and tolerant. Gillingham and Chase wrote my college recommendations. I owe them big time for whatever they said!”

Ed Quattlebaum reports that he is keeping busy by helping fellow American historians with their book manuscripts (a most generous gesture, in the view of your humble scribe). He also enjoys spending time with what he calls the “five best-in-the-Western-world grandchildren” and undertaking “an occasional teaching stint around Boston.”

Charlie Bradford writes that he and his wife, Sue, welcomed their first grandchild: “His name is Jack and his mother, Kendall, works at the National Gallery in DC as manager of visual display. Sue is reliving an important part of her youth, as we now have two horses in our back meadow in Marshfield, MA. I am learning a bunch of new concepts, like ‘cribbing,’ ‘mucking,’ and the like. I am actively

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involved as a board member and second tenor in an area group, Pilgrim Festival Chorus. I have Louis Davis and his famous cry of ‘We go!’ to thank for this. We extend an open invite to any classmates to visit us here if they are in the Boston area.”

Gerry Shea forsook his estate outside Paris to summer in Marblehead, MA. John “Tex” Daniel tells how he became a writer-publisher: “Not long after I learned to read, I developed a strong urge to tell stories of my own.

I decided to write my first story when I was 5 or 6 years old. I borrowed a pencil and a piece of paper from my mother and asked her what I should write my story about. ‘Write about what you know about,’ she advised me. So I did. The story came out something like this: ‘Johnny and his mother went to the circus. They saw clowns. They had fun. They came home. The end.’

“My mother was proud of me. But when I showed my story to my brother, Neil, who was nine years older than I, he said, ‘It’s not a real story. A real story needs conflict.’

“That put me in a quandary. At the age of 6, I had no conflict in my life, so I couldn’t write a real story if I were to write about what I knew about. That put my writing career off for another 10 years or so.

“Then I started reading the novels of Richard Bissell, and I thought to myself: I can do this. I tried it, and I found I was right: I could do this. By that time I was a teenager, so of course there was conflict in the life I knew so well.

“Once I got started, I never stopped. The first fiction I wrote wasn’t worth the wear and tear on my typewriter, but I got some stories published in little magazines, and eventually my first novel was published—by Perseverance Press! I dedicated Play Melancholy Baby to the memory of Richard Bissell (and Lorenz Hart, another one of my writing heroes).

“I haven’t supported myself with my writing, but I’ve never stopped writing, and in the meantime I’ve worked in the written word: as a student, a reader, a bookseller, an editor, a ghostwriter, a fiction writer, a publisher, and a teacher of creative writing.”

Tony Lee reports that he and wife Margie are “fortunate to be physically fit and to still enjoy the big outdoors. We hike, mountain bike, crosscountry ski, windsurf, and tend large organic raised-bed gardens. Perhaps our highlight every year is our two weeks with our two grandsons, now 11 and 13. Last year, we hiked across the Knife’s Edge in Baxter State Park in Maine. This year it will be the Presidential Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

“At the end of most of our adventures I produce a short iMovie that gets posted to YouTube. It’s been fun.”

Marine captain Karl Novick ’07, head of the membership subcommittee of the affinity group Andover and the Military, has urged anyone in our class who has served in the military to join the project. Here’s a description: “Alums who have served or who are currently serving in the U.S.

armed forces are invited to join PA’s Andover and the Military affinity group. There are no dues or commitments! You’ll receive the Blue Guidon newsletter, connect with fellow veterans, learn about upcoming affinity group events, and help Andover and the Military familiarize students, alumni, and faculty with Andover’s rich military history and traditions.” If you are interested in joining, contact Captain Novick at karl.a.novick@ gmail.com or complete a simple form at www.andover.edu/forms/AndoverMilitary/ contactinfo.aspx.”

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Carolyn “Cally” Butler Dow 44 Spruce St. Portland ME 04102 207-899-4178 Callydow365@gmail.com

Well, our 55th Reunion came and went in a flash.

I was only able to be there for the Saturday reception at the Addison Gallery. I heard that Susie Fox Reepmeyer and Eileen Keegan Pakstis attended, but I never caught up with them. A bit disappointing all the way around. I can only guess at this, but maybe our 50th was so over-the-top successful that anything else would be a downer. So I will be the lone wolf-ess here. The only news worthy of reporting is that I am having a lot of fun writing a children’s book about a blind cat and a timid boy.

Both have been bullied; both find the courage to survive and thrive. By the time this goes to print, summer will be long gone. So I wish everyone a good fall and happy holidays.

PHILLIPS Paul Kalkstein 42 Doubling Point Road Arrowsic ME 04530 207-443-5675 pkalkstein@gmail.com

Our 55th Reunion was a minimalist affair.

Jim Sprague noted the difference in communication and enthusiasm between this year and our 50th and hoped that we would do better next time. But those of us who were there had our share of quiet delights. The Saturday dinner included what appeared to be an eating contest between Steve Hurlbut and Dave Murphy, as well as the remarkable and somehow disappointing situation that no one accepted my offer of a free drink ticket after the meal.

Allen Adriance lamented the paucity of the turnout, but as he won third prize for the shortest trip to the reunion, no one applauded. James Field came from Paris and Frank MacMurray from Oregon. Ted Cox came from London, John Marks from Amsterdam. It was great to see

www.andover.edu/intouch those folks, as well as Dave Hannon, Peter Grillo, and Anthony Iarrobino.

Also at the reunion, I learned from Greg Kimball ’01 that his father-in-law, George Bartlett, is moving to Colorado. George and Lisa have a lovely home for sale in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. Good place to retire.

Prior to the reunion, I heard from several of you.

Jim Rubin reports, “I am still teaching, but I will be off all of calendar year 2016, thanks to having won a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar grant. The project involves writing a book called Why Monet Matters: Meanings Among the Lily Pads. The idea behind the grant is to make original scholarly research available to a wider general public than the academic audience.

“The question of why art matters has been on my mind for a long time. Every time I or someone tries to answer the question, I can still respond, ‘So what?’ If it is true that humans are the only beings that create art (yes—I do know about monkey paintings and elephant art), is it also true that to live without art is to live an incomplete life? And yet… why? Of course, I’ve thought of ways to answer, but I can’t claim to have found the best ones or a definitive one.”

Another classmate still in harness is Mal King.

He writes, “At my advanced age I am still practicing law in Durham, NC, after 42 years of practice.

During those years I have been active in the North Carolina Bar Association as well as the local Durham Bar.” Mal has a daughter in Maine. Let us know when you’re Down East.

And here comes Jim Durston, who is “already 11 years retired from JPMorgan Chase but remaining busy by working the baseball season with the Mets and Yankees, doing customer service and ticket sales. The computer changes and updates there keep me alert and in touch with past contacts. During the other six months, I’m here at my place in Asheville, NC, with a daughter and two grandchildren in Knoxville, TN. Certainly am thankful for my health and surroundings.” Me, too.

In October 2014, Jim and Frank MacMurray hiked the Cumbria Way in the Lake District of Northern England, covering 75 miles in eight days, from Ulverston to Carlisle. “I strongly recommend this rewarding experience—and there are shorter three- or four-day trips,” says Jim. Back in early March, I e-mailed to our class an image from the PA archives, a picture of our class swotting up notes for History 4 in the late, unlamented Copley Wing of the library. As several classmates remarked, it is a fascinating piece of time warp. Mike Bragg met my challenge and identified a whole passel of classmates.

Of course, it’s our class, so a few of Mike’s calls were disputed. “I think Mike made some wrong calls,” says David Jenks. “For instance, against the wall to the right of Peter Mott is Mike Rosati.

I could ID a lot more if I cribbed with the 50th Reunion repro of our yearbook pics.”

Eddie Allen chipped in: “The first on the left of the window is Joe ‘Charlie Dobbs’ Dolben.

Johnny McPherson is in the left of middle table.

Brad Donahue is on the right of the first table.”

And Ted Cox identified himself: “I think I might be No. 5 on the window wall.” At the reunion, he asked me whether he was correct. Maybe so, maybe not.

I have spent a lot of time with that image. I see you, Belden Johnson, and you, Wells Walker, and—so studious—you, Denny Holahan. Are we still the boys in the picture? Have our lives moved past Munn v. Illinois? Has anything?

I guess the final word on that image goes to David Kirk: “Now I know why I had trouble in American history.”

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Kathrin Krakauer 240 Columbia Drive Bomoseen VT 05732 802-273-2548 kkrakauer@shoreham.net

PHILLIPS M. Charles Bakst 1 Wayland Ave., Unit 112N Providence RI 02906 401-465-2781 mcbakst@gmail.com

This is my first report since succeeding Vic Obninsky as class secretary. His death was devastating, but his legacy shines.

A nature’s force of energy, passion, and determination, his flair and aura endeared him to the class. We smiled at Hobey Birmingham’s description of the open-casket funeral: “Vic was in a tan suit, with two cigars (presumably Cuban) tucked into the breast pocket of his suit and baseball caps of the Cal Bears and New York Yankees on either side of his head.’’

Vic perhaps thought more about PA, cared more, cheered more, and spoke up more than any other classmate. And he was resourceful. Jack Fabiano, a eulogist at the gravesite, passed on this memory: “We weren’t allowed to have radios at a time when all teenagers were in love with transistor radios. Vic worked his way around the prohibition by buying a thick hardcover book (Leon Uris’s Exodus?) and hollowing it out.” And, Jack recalled, “Vic was also the only lower who arranged to have a milkman deliver to his room.”

Vic fostered annual reunions at various venues.

This year’s, centered on the Academy, is on the weekend of the Nov. 12 Andover-Exeter game.

(Dick Johnson, curator of the Sports Museum in Boston, says that, as the 2016 game nears, the museum will display in its TD Garden home a vintage A-E victory banner I donated.)

Now, news. Old as we are, we get around. My

wife, Elizabeth, and I had a great visit to Israel in the spring. Many other classmates also were on the move or planned ambitious summer trips.

Andy Levy weighed in from China. He and his wife, Tovah Feldshuh, were hitting “off-the-beatenpath” places, encountering “tremendous progress,” lots of smog, etc. He wrote, “Food is wonderful, as are most of the people we meet, who, after all, are just people, and they aren’t involved in international diplomacy or political intrigue. So far, very few photos and/or references to Mao.” Jordan Budd, whom we knew as George Budd, reported, “Jan and I are 10 days into a 30-day trip. We are on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza.” Jon Sox wrote, “Jack Fabiano and I got back in March from a two-week fishing trip in Chile, and Sam Caldwell is off with me to Montana.”

Vic Peppard was heading to Kiev, Ukraine, for his nephew’s wedding. For their 50th anniversary, Bill Mann and Sis lined up an Alaska cruise and a stay at Lake Tahoe.

From North Carolina came word from James Pfaff that, facing mandatory judicial retirement, he and wife Carol were moving to coastal Wilmington and he was eying a return to politics. He had this news for 50th Reunion attendees who might recall him as the “really fat guy—at about 375.” Jimmy wrote, “I had the bariatric ‘sleeve’ done last year and am down to a relatively skinny 250 (at 6’ 5”) and still dropping, with 215 my goal.”

David Smith’s achievement: His latest book, If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers, was in the top 100 of all books on amazon.ca for 2015. He’s now a Canadian citizen.

Jorge Gonzalez finished a half Ironman in Puerto Rico in about 8:20. Mike Davey caught up in Savannah, GA, with By Bishop and Buzz Andrews (“nowadays they go by ‘John’ and ‘Archie’ ”), then in Florida with Dan Jenkins.

Lee Allen and I joined Dan at a ballgame.

A nice line from Woody Boynton: “Retirement means every day is Saturday.” But tell that to Bill Chickering, now working as an urgent care doctor in NYC. Tom Israel, dealing with serious health issues, dispatched this tough but optimistic update: “About seven years ago I was diagnosed with lymphoma. After some pretty ugly chemo and an 18-day stay at Memorial Sloan Kettering, I returned home thinking I won the war. However, (in September 2015) my semiannual CT scan showed that my lymphoma had returned. Given this was my second time around, my 72-year-old immune system was no longer up to the task. So they needed to find a match…and using blood stem cells, they transplanted his immune system into me. Meantime, I was getting chemo, which has now totally wiped out my old immune system 100 percent. The biggest risk is rejection, but so far I am doing very well. I spent the month of March going through this procedure in the hospital and have been home ever since. The rule of thumb is you stay home for 100 days post-transplant, and Andover | Reunion 2016

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stay connected... then ease back into life. I only go out three times a week to visit the hospital and take daily walks in the park. So I only have 45 more days as a prisoner.

“I need to be on a low-microbial diet because of my immature immune system. That means all my meals have to be cooked at home (no order-in is permitted).

“And no sushi, raw fruit and veggies, or salads, and if I have meat it has to be super well done— ditto fish and chicken. Not my ideal, but I am over halfway home.

“I am happy to report that all is going very well as I regain my strength from all the poisons they pumped into me…I look forward to seeing you in November.”

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Cynthia F. Kimball 7 Thoreau Road Lexington MA 02420 781-862-6424 cynthiakimball@earthlink.net

I had a nice call from Emory Wood Disney. She and her husband are living in Brookline, MA. Emory’s son is doing well, working in Providence, RI. Carolyn Holcombe Damp submitted the following piece, titled “The Plight of a Remote Nepalese Village,” which she and two other teachers wrote: “In just 53 seconds, deep shakes beneath our feet changed life in Nepal beyond recognition for all. Our role as teachers changed, too. We three retired American educators had originally planned to teach English to children and consult with faculty on instructional strategies at the Shree Ram school. Aftershocks continued intermittently day and night throughout Nepal more than one month after the original magnitude 7.8 quake of April 25, 2015. One remote village was essentially reduced to rubble. Villagers were forced into makeshift tents.

They faced depleted supplies including staple foods (rice, potatoes, lentils), drinking water, and loss of electricity to pump water to their village wells.

These hard-working villagers are subsistence farmers living on terraced, steep hillsides and use the most basic tools, growing food for themselves and feed for their animals as they are able. Most people have no income, savings, or earning power. There is great difficulty in purchasing and bringing building materials and equipment to the region, clearing debris, and rebuilding; reconstruction is daunting.

“With the school officially closed, our role changed from teaching to providing a place for a tiny bit of normalcy. We invited children to join us for informal daily classes. In the afternoons, teachers came to share their stories with us. When aid began to trickle in, we assisted, alongside a few international volunteers and locals, in distributing food, tarps, and clothes. Our work as educators is not done, and we plan to return as soon as they can house us.”

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Danica Miller Eskind wrote, “Late in February I heard from my good friend Yi-an Chang Chou, former Abbot piano teacher, that she had been diagnosed with last-stage pancreatic cancer the previous October. After six chemo treatments, she decided to quit in order to enjoy life, family, and friends in the time she had left. When I called and discovered that she felt well enough to have me visit, I dashed to New York to see her. What a gift that visit was. Yi-an was just the same—filled with stories, laughter, and an incredible zest for life. We talked nonstop about everything from museum exhibitions and current political crises to our days at Abbot. Many of you will remember talking with her when she returned for our 45th Reunion in Andover in 2008. When she wrote me about her illness, she ended her e-mail by asking me to ‘say hello to all the Abbot Rabbits!’ Yi-an died April 12.

She was a wise woman, filled with a wonderful spirit of generosity. I know many of us feel lucky to have known her. Her obituary was published in the New York Times on May 8, 2016, and can be accessed online.” [Please see Yi-an Chang Chou’s obituary on page 73.]

Iris Vardavoulis Beckwith wrote about her adventures with ballroom dancing: “I still think of our Abbot days when Lissa [Felicity Colby], Lois [Lois Golden Champy], and I used to dance and perform. I never would have guessed that I would now be competing in the ballroom world, as well as performing in local Broadway-type shows. If you feel the beat, my Rabbit friends, give it a try. It’s such fun, and learning all those steps is good for the memory!”

PHILLIPS John C. Kane Jr. 28 Puritan Park Swampscott MA 01907 781-592-4967 Jkane2727@aol.com

None of you has volunteered anything since I last put finger to keyboard (yes, finger; my late mother’s attempt, in the summer of 1959, to have me taught touch-typing was an immediate and lasting failure—but man, can that digit fly). In the past I have threatened to exercise my “filler” rights with political screeds, dark visions of the world, or homey anecdotes about my grandchildren. The grandchildren are quiescent, American politics incomprehensible, and the world too complex to unravel in the word allotment. So, to a slightly different, perhaps more rewarding theme.

Over the past 45 days I have been in touch with four classmates: Will Nettleship (and wife Lois), Johnny Bilheimer, Joe Belforti, and Louis Wiley.

Will and Lois came East in April and spent a day on the Massachusetts North Shore with Louis, poking around art galleries and visiting the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, after which I joined them for dinner. Joe outreached by e-mail in search of contact information for Tracy Kidder. Along with

Johnny’s friend and my Yale classmate Henry Jones and Johnny’s adopted daughter Katina Napper ’92, Johnny and I re-created the Little Rock school integration presentation, first presented to my KIPP Lynn students, at the Justice Department in DC. More than half a century ago, all four came to Andover through different routes and for different reasons. Each experienced Andover in a very different way. Each has experienced adult life in his own unique and hardly predictable way. And each finds himself in his 70s firmly connected to Andover for reasons largely distinct from our experiences as students and yet as a result of those shared years.

First, the routes. Louis, like me, came as a legacy, and we both repeated the ninth grade.

I suspect Louis Sr. saw Andover as a known commodity that would expand his son’s horizons, as it had expanded his. Will came through the Andover-Exeter outreach program that brought in exceptional students living in the national parks.

(Gerry Liles came through the same program.)

Johnny came because of the closure and turmoil of the Little Rock schools over integration. And Joe arrived from Marian High School in Framingham, MA, as a marquee student-athlete.

No one, it seems to me, could have foreseen the lives these four have experienced, and little predictive evidence lies in a retrospective run through our 1963 Pot Pourri.

Joe was stricken early and devastatingly by a medical condition that has bounded his life.

Perhaps we would have projected him as a professional athlete or as a teacher-coach on the Sorota/Harrison/DiClemente model. Those options were denied him. Yet his courage, strength, and warm candor have inspired others through a life that is now firmly into its eighth decade.

Louis was the quiet leader, recipient of the Lord Prize, president of Philo, and one of the three classmates having “done most for Andover.” I suppose a 40-plus-year career in public television, devoted to informing and engaging the public around the most important issues of our times, could be projected out of that resume—but certainly not the gay man who waited 44 years from our graduation to exit the closet and whose time in retirement has been devoted to identifying and understanding, through art, the major aspects of being gay during our lifetimes, including the devastating effects of AIDS. Johnny was certainly one of the smartest members of our class (three times on honor roll, a National Merit Finalist), reserved, Southern, a member of the chorus and spring musical casts, and, in 1963, heading home to the University of Arkansas. Despite his being one of my closest friends at Andover, I cannot recall a single, serious conversation with Johnny during those years about his views on race relations, and I am confident I myself did not hold a serious, deeply considered view on the subject. I certainly could not have predicted Johnny becoming a civil rights lawyer,

www.andover.edu/intouch a member of the first integrated law firm in Little Rock, and parent both of a white son and an African American daughter.

Finally, consider Will, whose Andover resume includes the Science Journal and the Mirror, JV cross-country and track, and a series of poetry awards. Smart, sensible, and not a social butterfly.

Where are the seeds of the professional artist whose work has graced several communities? And where is the evidence of the social animal, married young, well, and permanently to Lois, a future academic, in 1966, and now completing their 50th year of marriage? (Unwanted aside: I have a clear memory of Johnny and myself struggling, without significant success, to find dates for the HarvardYale game in 1966. Anything more permanent than that was beyond at least my comprehension.)

Unlikely, too, that Will and Lois in 1966 would have projected having a daughter who would graduate from Andover and, after college, embark on a life of service in the military.

There is a common denominator in all four of these lives: unselfishness, and an ability to live a life in the context of serving (and in Joe’s case, inspiring) others—lives rooted, if not directly guided, by the non sibi ethic we all took away from Andover. And so, from all quarters youth came, and continue to come. To all quarters they went, and continue to go. Neat to observe and reflect upon.

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Allis Brooks Hanley 206 Sioux Place Loudon TN 37774 865-458-8872 dhanley@bellsouth.net

The Class of ’6 4 at Abbot continues to exhibit an interest in music, books, travel, and grandchildren!

Kit Jones Prager writes that in the first week of May, her daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter (6 ½), grandson (4), and Bernese Mountain Dog moved in with her for a projected yearlong stay while their house, around the corner from Kit’s, is demolished and a new one constructed. A 40-foot shipping container in front of their house holds her daughter’s furnishings and some of her own. The adventure has begun! In late May, Kit and husband Allan continued their visits to the presidential museums. They planned to visit Lincoln’s, Eisenhower’s, and Truman’s.

Kit received sad news from Mary Sturgeon Wright. Her husband, Chip, died Feb. 27. Mary and Chip had been married 51 years. Mary was a childhood friend of Kit’s in Venezuela (where they were also friends with Gail Gruver) and was Kit’s roommate for two years at Abbot.

Gwyneth Walker returned to the PA campus on Memorial Day Weekend. Chris Walter, the longtime music director of Fidelio, retired this year after 34 years of wonderful musical work with the

students. There was a special farewell concert on May 29, which included a new Gwyneth Walker composition. She stayed at the home of our dear Abbot liaison friend, music instructor Abbey Siegfried (also the Cochran Chapel organist).

Conveniently, she and her family live directly across the street from the Abbot front gates. Imagine!

Lucretia “Lucy” Bingham enjoys staying in touch by FB. Her family is expanding. She has added two more grandchildren already this year, and another will be arriving in the fall. That will make eight so far. Holidays at her house are chaotic but fabulous. She and her husband, Jim, have started traveling by swapping houses, from Africa to Amsterdam. It’s truly stepping into another world. Speaking of other worlds, next spring she will lead a second trip to Peru for Connecticut Audubon. She would love to have some of you join her. Other than that, she’s busy editing her second novel, She, soon to be published by Keith Publications.

Pat Morrill sends greetings from NYC, where she and Ed continue to take advantage of the many wonderful cultural activities, including theatre, music, and museums. Having put her recruiting business in the Cloud, she works from home and enjoys spending more time in their Upper West Side neighborhood, where she continually runs into neighbors and friends. She and Ed are just back from a three-week trip to Paris and the Loire Valley—lots of time with French friends, enjoying good food, museums, and the châteaux of the Loire. They both feel very comfortable there, since Ed spent time in Paris as Chase’s group executive for international planning and development and Pat studied in France during her junior year abroad.

Jackie Meyers Eby participated in a regathering of the people who shared a table at our Friday night 50th Reunion dinner, including Jo-Anwyl Foster Keefe and Lee Hoehn. After the new Addison director, Judith Dolkart, and the curator of the Daze exhibit, Susan Faxon, gave the group a tour of the current exhibit at the Addison Gallery, they had dinner at the Andover Inn in the Abbot Academy room.

Husband Dan and I are looking forward to seeing all three of our sons as we celebrate the engagement of our youngest son and visit with our oldest and his family before he transfers from Anchorage, AK, to Ramstein AFB in Germany.

PHILLIPS Ken Gass 2107 Evening Star Lane Bellingham WA 98229 360-393-2612 (cell) agassk@aol.com

Our class seems to hibernate well into spring when it comes to reportable events or sightings.

If it seems as though certain classmates’ names frequently appear in this column, remember that only you can add a new class voice. Additional

class news and pictures related to these notes are at http://bit.ly/2477wr6. You’ll see references to this link throughout these notes. In a further nod to our electronic and social media age, a restricted PA ’64–only Facebook group is proposed.

Looking for an adventure with classmates?

Despite record-low snow, Pam and Paul Gallagher had so much fun this past winter hosting Tom Seligson and Tony Sapienza for a weekend of skiing at Mount Snow, near their house in Vermont, that Paul said, “I would love to hear from any interested in a ski trip, either East or West or both. Tune-up in the East and five days or so in the West. I would prefer spouses or significant others be included or at least optional.” If you are interested, contact Paul at 203-809-8531.

For exotic yet comfortable travel to Asia, count on Peter Schandorff, organizer of our 2015 PA ’64 trip to China. Here is his latest offering for the AA and PA ’64 classes: “We’ll visit ancient and modern Southeast Asia: Bangkok and the island of Koh Samui in Thailand, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, then Hong Kong and Macau. Our time frame would be for two weeks in early April 2017, and we would need 16 people (e.g., eight couples) to qualify for group rates. We’d take up to 24 and encourage family and friends to go along. If interested, please contact me at 314773-3808 or pschand@charter.net.”

Keith Muscutt is a regular traveler to an exotic part of this country: the annual temporary creation in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert that is known as Burning Man, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. This year he will be part of a team creating an installation called “Electric Renaissance (A Tribute to Cadillac Ranch).” (See link above.)

Retirement news and views keep rolling in.

From Ron Rooney: “I retired in December from the University of Minnesota. My wife, Glenda, and I then traveled to Australia and New Zealand for five weeks.” Ron included a picture (see link above) of three colorful old birds from their travels.

A relaxed Dick Howe wrote on his retirement, “I’ve received several nice congratulatory notes from my letter and perhaps the photo in the magazine. John Bemis shared a nice thought about retirement as ‘having the time to give conversations with anyone the time they deserve—not to be hurried all the time.’ When I shared that with Bob Marshall, his reaction was, ‘As for John’s wisdom, I’ve been retired 21 years now and have yet to find anyone willing to give me the time my conversations deserve.’ ” The Howes live half a mile from Paresky Commons. Dick encouraged classmates traveling through Andover to look him up.

Bucking the retirement trend, James “Jim” Lockhart is working on how all of us might secure our financial future. (See link above.) Jim writes, “Our two children, J.B. ’95 and Graci, have both moved to Greenwich, CT, with our four grandchildren.”

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stay connected... my corner of the nation! Conway “Doc” Downing announced, “My daughter-in-law just accepted a senior HR position at Nordstrom last week, and the clan will be moving to Seattle over the month of July. I’m clearing my calendar to help them with the transition from Florida to Washington. My son is still looking for a job. He’s taught at charter schools in Brooklyn and Florida. Will give you a heads-up when I get a better handle on my ETA.” Doc’s grandkids are 7 and 3.

Two voluntary class communication projects already floated online by your scribe are PA ’64 in the Military and PA ’64 Facebook Group. The first is a listing of classmates who have served in the military, which would provide the class a way to recognize their service and allow the veterans to connect with one another. The second is a group accessible only to the members of PA ’64 who choose to participate by providing their e-mail address and logging on. It would be a venue for sharing personal and family events in a timely fashion, while leaving commentary on contemporary political and socioeconomic events to the existing pa64@yahoogroups.com mailing list. See the link above for more details.

Observing our 70th birthdays this year or at the end of the last is cause enough to make us ponder how we got here, what matters to us, and how much longer we have to live. The deaths of three classmates in the span of 12 days brought our mortality even more to the fore: Francis “Fran” Crowley, Jan. 30; David Dimlich, Feb. 7; and Owen MacNutt, Feb. 11. At least 34 classmates have died, out of 279. See the link above for more information about these classmates and e-mail responses to their deaths. To the 30 percent of classmates for whom I do not have an e-mail address and who may be reading about these losses for the first time, you may give me your e-mail address with strict conditions—for example, only for death notices, special all-class events, or to request CN material, and not to be shared.

1965 ABBOT Karen Swenson 20100 SW Peavine Road McMinnville OR 97128 503-472-2988 chezkren@gmail.com

Anna Thal-Reno and husband David have been to several reunions but did not come to our 50th, and they were missed. Anna writes, “I heard that a good time was had at the 50th. Life got in the way; we had too many things planned for June 2015. Dave and I hope that all is well. I am mostly retired but do substitute childcare for one of my old families when needed. It is time to reinvent the wheel; I am trying to explore new interests and doing a little writing from time to time. Like the proverbial cat, nine lives would be great. There is so much richness

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in the nonworking world. Community activities are always waiting for volunteers.”

Tunket Spaulding wrote, “Melanie Fales Davis and I just spent a glorious extended weekend together in NYC, where we saw four shows, visited two museums, went to Ellis Island, heard a concert in the Park Avenue Armory, and lunched at the deservedly famous Del Posto. Just before leaving the city, we had lunch with our dear friend Doug Pirnie ’65, whom we’ve come to know from working on reunions. We began taking these twice-yearly trips in April 2011, and they never lose their luster. I am still working at Harvard Business Review but thinking more often about retirement sometime in the next two years. Melanie retired last July and has been traveling, working on her house, reveling in family, and thinking about what’s next.”

Katherine Abler Harvey wrote, “We have moved out of our apartment for at least six months for a total renovation. We will be in Antibes for June, July, and August. We hope to be able to move back November 1, but who knows? I have been writing for a local magazine, Classic Chicago. I have also had some gigs narrating, and [husband] Julian and I were commissioned to do a program about the composer John Alden Carpenter and his wife, Rue Winterbotham Carpenter. They were quite an amazing couple; he was very famous in his time (between the wars) but is little known now, and she was a much-sought-after designer.”

Marjorie Strauss Power and her husband have moved to his hometown of Denver. She has a new poetry collection from Cherry Grove Collections. If you’re curious, you’ll be able to find Seven Parts Woman online, through Marjorie.

Here’s one of the blurbs, by Joseph Hutchison, Colorado poet laureate: “Among the many energies Marjorie Power’s poetry taps into are the healing ones of humor, friendship, intimacies physical and spiritual, and abiding love for the natural world.

Earnest and playful by turns, her poems refuse to shout or make feeling submit to cleverness. She says what she means and what living means to her, and reminds us of the luminous worth at the heart of it all.”

Ellen Huntington Slade checked in with this news: “[Husband] Clarke and I have moved out of a retirement community and back into the world as I wish to experience it. Baby boomers aren’t going to be comfortable with many of the retirement communities that are out there now.

Long on chandeliers, fancy dining rooms, food that is the opposite of ‘farm to table,’ and dress codes demanding coats and ties, these communities don’t feel authentic or like a good fit to the up-and-coming demographic. I have a grandchild coming on June 6 to my daughter Emily, who lives in Rockport, MA. My daughter Sarah, who has lived in the UK for the past five years, is moving to Tuscaloosa to teach at the University of Alabama in the book-arts department.”

PHILLIPS Ely “Terry” Kahn 243 West 60th St., Apt. 7D New York NY 10023 917-575-1514 ejkahn3@gmail.com

There are two whale-related items that lead this, the official version of our class notes for (I think) the fall. I’m writing this in mid-May, and these lead times can be confusing. And, since I’ve just sent out a class notes update via e-mail, I’ve already written about one of them: a stop on the “greatest hits” tour of the American Museum of Natural History that Doug Pirnie led for Charlie Sheldon, Jack McLean ’66, and me in April. So I will begin with the other. Chuck Vinick has been appointed to the board of the Whale Sanctuary Project, a newish nonprofit whose mission is, as Chuck puts it, “to establish a model seaside sanctuary where cetaceans (porpoises, dolphins, and whales) can be rehabilitated or live permanently in an environment that maximizes well-being and autonomy and is as close as possible to their natural habitat.”

If you read the essays in our 50th Reunion book (and if you haven’t, you really should take a look), you know that Chuck was deeply involved in what’s known as both the Keiko and the Free Willy project, a five-year effort managed by our classmate to return the captive whale into the ocean waters off Iceland and Norway. This time around, reports Chuck, “we have assembled an excellent team of experts and advisors basically believing that it is time for captive whales and dolphins to be part of our past rather than part of the future.” Not that this is the only item on the Vinick plate. “My day job as CEO of Aquantis, a renewable energy (tidal and ocean current) company,” he adds, “keeps me very busy, but it is fun to also be again working on behalf of whales.” Chuck’s vacation breaks are pretty cool, too. This summer he and wife Susan visited the Society Islands in the South Pacific with JeanMichel Cousteau. Yes, those Cousteaus.

Pirnie, on the other hand, stays pretty close to his Upper West Side home. As a volunteer at the museum, he takes his tour-guiding very seriously.

For Sheldon, McLean, and me, he jumped from floor to floor and room to room to show us “the biggest, the greatest, the most.” The categories included dinosaurs, squids, trees, plants (he showed us a picture of a fungus, which felt a bit like cheating), flowers, mosquitos, canoes, and, of course, whales. Sheldon noted that he’d once caught a huge halibut, and then surprised us by saying he thought he was about to end his career as a merchant mariner. Having just sailed (not the right word, obviously) up from Louisiana with a cargo ship heading to Bayonne, NJ, for repairs, he’d realized—not for the first time—that he was the oldest crew member by a decade. And he’d had a bad fall. “Probably my last rodeo,” he said, mixing metaphors proudly.

For McLean, the news was all good. He’d

www.andover.edu/intouch finished the sequel to Loon: A Marine Story, and sent the manuscript off. Tentatively titled Dover Point, the new memoir picks up where the first left off, with Jack’s return to America and his efforts to reengage with civilian life while trying to sustain the relationships and sense of purpose he found in Vietnam. Not sure of its publication date, but you should definitely look for it.

Several months ago, many of you may have received an e-mail from a classmate asking whether (a) the data we have regarding your contact information is accurate, and (b) whether you’re interested in supporting (or continuing to support) Andover’s fundraising initiative. These communications stem from a terrific conference call set up by Eddie Samp on April 7 that engaged 16 of us, including Samp, Mike Hudner, Dick Cromie, John Deane, Jim Eller, Paul Henry, Nick Marble, Kit Meade, Mike Sheldrick, Colby Snyder, Ralph Swanson, Danny Samuels, Don Shepard, Tom Hafkenschiel, Vaho Rebassoo (who underscored how sweet his life was by calling in from a beach house in Mexico), and me. Reports from that call include that Sheldrick has retired from Wall Street and his wife is running for office in Morristown, NJ; that Meade is consulting and his wife is working as a nurse practitioner; that Cromie’s wife is happily cancer-free and he’s consulting in the “electric vehicle space”; that Eller recently visited five Eastern European countries; and that Deane was heading off to Australia’s Lord Howe Island for “a fishing and wine contest.”

Deane won.

Other bits and pieces: Phil Young is one of a group of international photographers featured in a show titled Under the Andalusian Sun, which is touring Spain in the second year of a two-year run. Dan Warren was part of the Rachmaninoff Festival Choir that performed a benefit concert at New York City’s Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation. Nick Marble—after five surgeries, three of them major, in 16 months—reports, “I am very much on the mend, so much so that a buddy of mine (40 years of hiking, backpacking, climbing, cross-country skiing, running rivers, and mountain- and road-biking together) and I are headed for the wilds of Utah (Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument) for five days of cycling and hiking.”

Unfortunately, the June 4 memorial celebration for Mike Hudner’s late wife, Hope, will fall just outside the deadline for this column. So I will report on it later. Stay in touch.

1966 ABBOT Blake Hazzard Allen 481 School St. Rumney NH 03266 603-786-9089 603-359-0870 (cell) blakemanallen@gmail.com pakistan.partnership@gmail.com

Our celebratory 50th Reunion was over in a flash, and class notes focus on that brief period when a grand total of 36 members of Abbot ’66 marched back onto “our” campus and reclaimed space and memories. The four-day event encapsulated a moving mosaic of familiar faces and voices—even after a 50-year lapse—with classmates arriving from as far away as Australia and as near as Andover.

Due to 16 months of programmatic brainstorming built on class input and unflagging outreach, reunion provided options and opportunities. Women returned for a day, a program, a meal, with the intrepid back for a longer haul. The class gift, and the generosity of a classmate’s initial challenge, resulted in a 56 percent participation rate, emblematic of the ability of Abbot ’66 to give back—whether to Andover; within our communities (local to global); or to one another, in friendship, solidarity, and support.

Joyous dancing with our Phillips ’66 gentlemen friends, as well as thoughtful discussions, reflected the legacy of the 1973 merger. As Phillips ’66 returned to their school and we regained ours through Abbot@Andover day, collaborative leadership teams integrated event planning. The generosity and sensitivity of Phillips ’66 to our complex Abbot history and consequent AA ’66 customized initiatives resulted in meaningful reunion intersections, with all welcome.

However, fundamentally, our 50th consisted of a fabulous group of women coming together, tucked in friendship clusters (new and old!), who shared compelling narratives and life experiences. Spurred by Abbot@Andover day, with its anchors of the Brace Center, the Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center, the Abbot and Phillips archives, and a profound memorial service, Abbot’s legacy expanded with our 36 participants.

Lucy Crane Draper’s return from Santa Fe, NM, resonated with special meaning as we honored our headmistress, Mrs. Crane, along with classmates sadly no longer with us: Mauricia Alvarez, Elizabeth Ayer Chamberlin, Nancy England, Susan Lebach-Rosenbloom, Emma Welling “Winkie” Thomas Stocker, and Gale McKenzie.

The following consists of reunion snippets.

Cincinnati’s Barbara Roediger Seiver generously offered (after several late nights) to write a submission: “I think this is the first time I’ve sent a submission to the alumni/ae magazine and am prompted to write because I just returned from my first Abbot reunion. (It only took 50 years!) I had

not kept in touch with anyone from Abbot and had no idea what to expect. I was so overwhelmed by the warm reception I received. Most of the people there were not people I knew well at Abbot, but we bonded over a shared past and the diverse paths we have all taken since graduation. The program was carefully put together by Blake [Hazzard Allen] and Ruth [Sisson Weiner] and the committee to have a nice blend of Abbot and Andover events and included a good amount of time on the old Abbot campus. Because the Abbot Circle looks very much the same, with the gate and the three familiar buildings around it, I felt a very strong sense of connection to the Andover of today. I truly can’t put into words what a wonderful experience it was to return to campus after so many years. It was rich and emotionally fulfilling—I’m so glad that I made the decision to return.”

With Beth Humstone setting up our class Facebook group, “Abbot ’66 50th Reunion, June 9–12, 2016,” Bev Armsden Daniel posted the comment, “I already miss you all. What a wonderful reunion! Thank you for your thought and time invested in creating an Abbot space—for the first time I felt this was all about us (the lack of recognition by PA was sad, demeaning, and alienating). On Friday, finally, we were empowered, due to your insisting that we should be equal! As Julia Alvarez ’67 said, quoting Miss Stevenson, ‘Ladies, let’s have ourselves a hell of a good time!’

And we did.”

Ruth Sisson Weiner, traveling all the way from Andover’s Mohawk Drive, captured the essence of reunion when eloquently writing to our reunion committee of Marcia Watson Goldberg, Beth Humstone, Peigi Donaghy Huseby, Bethe Moulton, Pinky Rock Noll, Lucy Thomson, Barbara Timken, and me. In part, her note read, “Hello, dear friends. Just a week ago, we were saying our final farewells to friends and classmates after a truly outstanding weekend. The Academy really came through for us, delivering on all our expectations. With hundreds of people on campus and lots of moving parts, that was quite an accomplishment, and they executed it beautifully.

“What made last weekend’s success possible is all the thought, planning, time, and dedication that took place beforehand. The commitment of this remarkable group of women set us up for a weekend of laughter and fun, meaningful conversations with friends old and new, and three nights of dancing till midnight! I know I will never again have the privilege or opportunity to work with such an amazing team of people. Every one of you took your assignments seriously and went above and beyond. Thank you.

“Looking back on last week’s attendance, I am still awed. People joined us whom we never expected to see. From near and far, for lunch and for four days, regular reunion attendees and those coming for the first time, classmates involved and connected and those disenfranchised from our class and the school—the variety was wonderful.

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stay connected... time with interesting, kind, thoughtful people, and never having to cook or clean up from a meal—it was truly a special time together.

“Heartfelt thanks to this group of incredible women, who made it all happen. We always talk about mini reunions and getting together, but five years is much too long to wait to see one another again. I hope we can figure out some ways for AA ’66 to spend time together.”

As a reunion wrap-up, thanks to all who returned and created a thought-provoking 50th: Martha Bayles, Sarah Downs Bowie, Jan Waring Cavedon, Paula Cortes, Beverley Armsden Daniel, Val dePeyster, Marty Wies Dignan, Lucy Crane Draper, Ellen Ross Ebersole, Donna Wlodkoski Economou, Judi Bricker Flanagan, Marcia Watson Goldberg, Jane Minor, Lee Haselton, Beth Humstone, Peigi Donaghy Huseby, Nancy Whitehead Kieling, Margy Ryder Kornblum, Debbie Stone Mager, Martha Church Moore, Bethe Moulton, Judy Mustille, Pinky Rock Noll, Nee Gaines Olsen, Melinda Miller Patterson, Nancy Warlick Powell, Babs Slaymaker Sale, Barb Roediger Seiver, Lonnie Somers Stowe, Rose-Jane Bendetson Sulman, Lucy Thomson, Barbara Timken, Laurie Hinckley Towers, Ruth Sisson Weiner, and Mettie Whipple.

For those who wanted to come, but couldn’t: Flash forward to our 55th! And remain connected!

Cheers, Blake

PHILLIPS Ray Healey 740 West End Ave., Apt. 111 New York NY 10025 212-866-8507 drrayhealey@gmail.com

Our grand 50th Reunion opened on Thursday, June 9, at a felicitous location, The Country Club in Brookline, MA, the oldest country club in America.

We were hosted by longtime member Skip Freeman, who not only arranged the foursomes, but treated us to a sumptuous luncheon after play, during which we reconnected with old friends.

Among those swinging clubs were Warren Baker, Alex Belida, Bill Dawson, Fernando Gonzalez (and son Sebastian), Chris Gurry (and son Chas ’05), John Hilley, Topper Lynn, Earl Maxon, Paul Miller, Flip Morgan, Bill Newhall, Don Ross, Charley Sawyer, Andy Scott, Steve Sullivan, Denny Tottenham, Jack Turco, Kai Underwood, and Bruce Walton.

Charley Sawyer, who is also a Country Club member, kindly bankrolled a portion of the day’s festivities.

Later we gathered at Abbot, where Blake Allen ’66 and Ruth Weiner ’66 and their many Abbot ’66 classmates treated us to a delightful cocktail reception and sumptuous dinner. Our 50th Reunion cochairs, Warren and Topper—to whom we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude for their indefatigable labors in staging our

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reunion—spoke warmly of the strong bonds linking PA and Abbot; Topper also thanked Rick Allen and Paul Miller, who did a sensational job raising north of $7 million for the class. And speaking of raising money, hearty thanks to Barr Potter, whose innovative auction raised a fivefigure sum for our class gift. The other members of the reunion committee, all praiseworthy, were Eric Almquist, Ric Redman, Lee Eddy, and Andy Scott.

Then the partying began. Our special thanks to Don Ross, former lead guitarist for both the Spectres and the Ha’Pennys, who arranged all the splendid music for the entire weekend—and who on this particular night served up a band called the Foreverly Brothers. Seen dancing up a storm were Blake Allen, Gary Ahrens, and Gerald Harris.

Early Friday morning we gathered at Kemper Auditorium, where George Edmonds, an English teacher to a number of us, presided over a lively discussion about Andover curricula of the good old days versus those of now, which included fond references to Great Expectations and Dudley Fitts. We then convened at Cochran Chapel for a somber ceremony remembering our 31 classmates who have passed on. Jim Munroe, who recently retired after 17 years as dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Springfield, MA, presided at the memorial service, and several classmates read the names of the deceased. Tak Takvorian played two piano pieces. That afternoon a group of PhDs and other smart guys gathered at Pearson Hall—home base of legendary Latin instructor Alston Hurd Chase—for a chat about the pursuit of a career in academia. Scholar, prolific author, and classroom sage Andy Abbott traded quips with Michael Tansey, a professor who has enjoyed a highly successful teaching and writing career, and had some trenchant things to say about the intersection of academia and politics.

Others with lively comments included Eric Almquist, Ric Redman, Gary Ahrens, Jon Noll, Loring Lincoln, Rick Pieters, Howie Borgstrom, and Joe Schepps.

On Friday night, bolstered by the arrival of scores of our classmates, we gathered at a big tent adjacent to our reunion lodging, Paul Revere Hall, and enjoyed a lavish seafood banquet, followed by dancing into the wee hours. First it was sparkling music from a steel band, and then it was exuberant rock ’n’ roll dished up by another Don Ross pick, a foxy DJ who got the house rocking with Van Halen’s “Jump”! Showing exuberant moves on the dance floor were Geoff Davis, Jack Turco, David Rockwell, Roger Lowell, Peter Lowell, Steve Cunningham, Paul Miller, and Marty Geiger.

Saturday was a whirlwind of activity, with some of us visiting classes, others marveling at the Addison Gallery, and still others catching up with old friends after 50 years. A band of intrepid ’66 oarsmen journeyed at dawn to the new Andover boathouse on the Merrimack River, where they tested aging muscles in one of the new fiberglass

shells and displayed vigorous form as they rowed along the waterfront. In the boat were Kit Wise, Ned Kendrick, Joe Seamans, Bill Newbury, Peter Brand, Gary Ahrens, and Warren Baker.

On the dock were fellow rowers Matt Molé and Tom Weil.

Saturday afternoon we gathered at the hallowed playing fields of the head of school’s backyard, where we played a rousing game of stickball while dodging raindrops from lovely summer showers. Eric Best pitched gamely for one team amid a blizzard of trash talk and catcalls from both squads; when he came to bat, facing the formidable flamethrower Don Ross, Best lashed a screwball into the shrubbery for a called home run. Recalling the administrations of eminent former stickball commissioners, like George Bush ’64 and Bill Eakland, an impressive roster of players came to bat, including Art Harris, Bruce Stanley, Andy Hemenway, Lee Eddy, Al Basile, Jim Fabiani, Fernando Gonzalez, Jamie Wyper, Craig Miller, Andy Ogilvie, Gerald Harris, Bob Campbell, John Cooney, Paul Mitchell, John Erskine, Rich Dawson, Paul Miller, and Brew Brewster. Our esteemed head of school, John Palfrey, batted in the ninth inning against fireballer Ray Healey and proved that he had learned a few moves on the baseball team at his alma mater, Exeter, by lashing a stinging line drive and scampering all the way to third base.

There, with the game on the line, Palfrey tried to steal home—and some say Healey picked him off, while others say Healey balked. The final score was a tie, as in “Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29.” That same afternoon we returned to Kemper Auditorium to cheer on two of our finest athletes, Chris Gurry and Jack Turco, who were inducted into the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor.

After yet another glorious cocktail hour, we gathered in an upstairs room at Commons, and, far from dining on “mystery mounds,” we enjoyed one final glorious banquet, again thanks to the hard work of our quintessential PA ’66 classmate Skip Freeman. Headlining a night of stellar musical performances was our own Al Basile, trumpeter extraordinaire, who sang the memorable debut of his great song “Royal Blue Persuasion,” which brought the house down and kicked off the epic final party of this memorable reunion.

Hundreds of photos of the weekend will be posted on the PA ’66 website curated by Andy Scott, at www.phillipsacademy66.com/ gallery.html.

Adios, amigos. Keep writing and e-mailing.

www.andover.edu/intouch 1967 ABBOT

Anstiss Bowser Agnew 446 Hollow Tree Ridge, No. 2 Darien CT 06820 203-912-5264 a.elizabeth.b@gmail.com Catherine Hoover Petros 25119 U.S. Hwy. 40 Golden CO 80401 303-526-5202 chpetros@msn.com

The Abbot Class of ’67 is gearing up for our 50th Reunion next year. Thus far, Anstiss Bowser Agnew, Diana Bonnifield Hill, and Catherine Hoover Petros make up the reunion committee, but they are working to engage other class members. We believe that Sara Delano and Faith Beane will be coming and hope that Charlotte “Lotte” Elmenhorst-Volz and Sally Cobb Dale will join us as well.

Those attending our 45th Reunion so enjoyed the Friday activities, which included a cocktail reception and dinner for all Abbot grads and their families in Abbot Hall. The camaraderie among our ranks was terrific, and the great stories of our Abbot experiences were heartening and often very amusing. So, Class of ’67, we hope to see you there and continue our conversations!

PHILLIPS Joseph P. Kahn 28 Gallison Ave. Marblehead MA 01945 781-639-2668 617-515-7553 (cell) josephpkahn@gmail.com

1968 ABBOT

Karen Seaward 1071 Thompson St. Carson City NV 89703 klseaward@att.net

For our class notes this spring, we were prompted to think of springtime and renewal. A month prior to this, the mini-reunion revelers of Naples 2015 were watching, or were afraid to watch, the viral video of one alligator eating another, for which Susan Barton sent the link. But back to renewal.

Beginning the conversation was Cary Cleaver, writing, “We’re officially Old People. I’ve started taking naps after an afternoon of gardening or horseback riding!” Her dad “celebrated his 98th birthday in April and still takes daily walks, cooks, has cocktails before dinner.” She was writing from Newport, RI, while visiting Tina Kaupe.

Kathy Wies Dietz wrote about the arrival of two grandchildren: Rose in December and Ben in March. She commented on the situation: “The role of grandmother is definitely one of life’s best.”

Betsy Handy McCormack reported that she and her husband, Paul, went on a “fabulous” river cruise in March, starting in Passau, Germany, and traveling through Austria to Budapest. She is now back spreading mulch.

Always regaling us with her travels, Cher Lewis was in Mexico twice, then Bali. This is in addition to wintering in Miami and living in Italy the rest of the year near Florence and Pisa, growing olive trees and now orange trees. Her daughters are widespread in location as well, being in NYC and Greece. Cher has been accepted into a writers’ residency starting October 2016 and is “very nervous and excited!” Congratulations, Cher! She saw Joanna “Jody” Frost Golino and granddaughter while in Miami.

Sharon Hughes Fiyalka and husband Art spent 10 days in Italy visiting Milan, Bologna, and Venice.

They are summering at their house on Fire Island, NY, and enjoying retirement. Debbie Webster and husband Michael went on a people-to-people tour of Cuba in January, visiting Trinidad, La Havana, and the countryside. They found Cuban artists to be especially fascinating and noted that there is plenty of time to visit Cuba before tourism changes it. Debbie and Michael went to Virginia Beach in April, to welcome the arrival of grandchild number three, Dalton. They head off for a Paris-to-Prague river cruise in August.

Another traveler, Nan Roberts, visited Peru with a tour company and found that Machu Picchu lives up to its World Heritage Site reputation. Her husband, Mike Godfrey, lived in Lima with pisco cultivators in the early ’60s, so she experienced “cultural immersion by way of pisco sours and purple corn drinks.” Hmmm! Nan reported that Daisy Schnepel continues to save her neighborhood from blight and overdevelopment, describing her as an urban “shero.” She also heard from Paula Atwood, who is still using her medical expertise.

Lynn Trenbath Key sent news of her upcoming move from Boca Raton, FL, to Chapel Hill, NC. Lynn’s daughter lives in that area, and it’s time to make a change after 28 years in one place. Lynn and Billy are letting go of lots of stuff, including home ownership, and Lynn will be working part time.

You go, girl! We are going, too! Mark and I have moved to Carson City, NV, and are ready for new attitudes and adventures, and much less traffic, in the Wild West.

PHILLIPS Gordon Baird 27 Fort Hill Ave. Gloucester MA 01930 978-283-0390 Gordon@rampartsfarm.com

Another long-lost precinct reporting in—in the form of Robert G. Anderson, who wrote, “By now, many of us are enjoying retirement. I’ve put mine off for at least another two years to continue as a producer at 60 Minutes. This season, my 26th, was one of the most satisfying, with stories on candidate Trump, Speaker Ryan, and CIA Director Brennan. Reporting included three trips on Trump’s plane, a day in Wisconsin with the speaker, and dinner with the director at the CIA. Beyond the big names, we did a story in Paris immediately after the attacks; spent a week in New Zealand with an amazing woman who’d been kidnapped in Yemen and turned the tables on her kidnappers; and interviewed three inmates on death row who’d been given their execution dates and explained how knowing exactly when they were going to die changed their views of life and death. You can probably see why I chose to postpone retirement.”

Rex Armstrong feels “it will be interesting to watch the legal process unfold, because I expect that the Harney County [OR] sheriff is correct in saying that people involved in the seizure of the wildlife refuge will be prosecuted. It is a large, sparsely populated area. I spent a year out there in 1972 working as the Eastern Oregon field director for Sen. Mark Hatfield’s reelection campaign, and I came to enjoy the area and the people. I drove a load of cattle between Portland and Winnemucca, NV, for Madras Freightlines in January 1973 in a convoy with five other commercial livestock rigs that traveled through Burns over roads that were completely covered by snow and ice. I drove the leg from Portland to Burns, and my sleeper partner drove us on to Winnemucca through the night. I drove back to Burns the next morning and, on the way, had one of my two experiences as a commercial driver in which I could have lost control of the truck and killed my partner and myself.”

Vermont’s Al Alessi says, “I would love to see any of you as Facebook friends, so let me know if you’re using said electronic drug. More important, given that so many of you donated to my 50-mile ride two summers ago, my daughter Eden is cancer-free, seems strong like a bull, and is engaged to someone we love already. She lives 15 miles from me and works in town, so we see her often.

My younger daughter lives two miles from us, also works in Woodstock, and is on the school board!

So I’m blessed to see them both. [Wife] Deb and I are looking to downsize. I have so enjoyed getting to know many of you better over the past decade.

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stay connected... let me know. I aim to do some of those as I begin to retire. May you all have a superb fall!”

By now, Henry Hart will have been almost a year up north (if you can call Maryland that). He shared his thoughts as a Southerner: “Jan. 12: It snowed an additional five inches last night (on top of the first five), and the temperature has dropped to about 11 degrees. Several limbs on the trees and shrubs snapped due to the weight of the snow. I shoveled our driveway again. Shortly afterward, the snowplow came by and did his trick of blocking us in again. Much of the snow is now brownish-gray.

“Jan. 13: Warmed up enough during the day to create some slush, which soon became ice when the temperature dropped again. Bought snow tires for both cars. Fell in the driveway. A hundred forty-five dollars to a chiropractor, but nothing was broken. More snow and ice expected.

“Jan. 14: Still cold. Sold the wife’s car and bought a 4x4 in order to get to work. Slid into a guardrail anyway and did considerable damage to the right quarter panel. Had another eight inches of the white stuff last night. Both vehicles covered in salt and crud. More shoveling in store for me today.

That bleepin’ snowplow came by twice today.

“Jan. 15: Two degrees outside. More snow. Not a tree or shrub on our property that hasn’t been damaged. Power was off most of the night. Tried to keep from freezing to death with candles and a kerosene heater, which tipped over and nearly burned the house down. I managed to put the flames out but suffered second-degree burns on my hands and lost all my eyelashes and eyebrows. On the way to the emergency room, 4x4 slid on the ice and was totaled.

“Jan. 16: Snow just keeps coming down. Have to put on all the clothes we own just to get to the bloody mailbox. Power still off. Toilet froze and part of the roof has started to cave in.

“Jan. 17: Six more %@#&! inches of %@#&! snow fell last night. Car won’t start. I think I’m going snowblind. I can’t move my toes. Haven’t seen the sun in weeks. More snow predicted.

Wind chill -22 degrees. I’m moving back to North Carolina!”

1969 ABBOT

Sheila Donald Millington 5271 West Boniwood Turn Clinton MD 20735 smilling192112@yahoo.com 301-868-1631

I am happy to report news from our class and looking forward to hearing from many of you in the future.

Jessie Butler reports, “The big news in our lives is that our oldest son was recently married. What this means is that all four of our children officially have families of their own and are really out of the nest. My husband retires from his long career as a

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health care administrator and that means we’ll be able to visit our kids, who are all over the country: NYC, LA, Memphis, and DC. On one of my past trips to Washington awhile back I had a wonderful lunch with Stephanie Ross and Sandy Waugh Winans. We talked for hours, reliving some Abbot days and just laughing. I also caught up with Margaret Gay Lavender here in our hometown of Winnetka, IL, when she e-mailed me that she and her husband were moving away, heading to Massachusetts and Florida. My husband and I have also bought a place in Florida.”

Madelon Curtis Harper writes, “I returned recently from a guest appearance in Albuquerque, NM, where my film, Caged No More, was featured at the Albuquerque Film and Music Experience. It has won many awards at film festivals around the country over the past several months. You can learn more about it at www.cagednomoremovie.com.

It came out on DVD in June, so watch for it! In the meantime, I continue to enjoy teaching ballet and Pilates. Please check out my website, www. madeloncurtis.com, for more news, videos, and photos of what I’ve been up to most recently!”

Susan Drackett writes, “We continue to spend the spring and fall on our commercial Indiana farm (corn, soybeans, hogs), where we have begun working with honeybees. Our honey production has grown to the point where we have begun selling our raw honey both locally and online. Both of our sons had been living in Chicago, but our oldest son and his family moved to the Seattle area a couple of years ago, and now our newly married younger one and his wife are moving there in July. My husband and I are now spending at least half of our time (summer and winter) in Washington. If any of you are ever in Indiana or Washington, please let me know. We love visitors!”

Katrina Moulton Wollenberg reports, “It is quite interesting to me that after looking for years for charitable organizations in the Dallas area in which to become involved, I have finally connected with two: the Dallas Arboretum (one of the loveliest gardens in the USA) and the North Texas Food Bank (an amazing organization that provides food to those in need). After years devoted to Rebuilding Together (housing rehab), I have come full circle assisting those in my fields of passion: housing, food, and gardens. This summer I look forward to an all-family reunion at Big Cedar Lodge outside Branson, MO.” Margaret Lavender writes, “After 30-plus years in the Chicago area, my husband, John, and I have decided to move closer to our roots, in Westport, MA. We plan to spend the cold-weather months in Naples, FL, and have loved the people in both places. We leave behind many wonderful friends in Chicago but hope they will find us in two beautiful new spots. We are really looking forward to reconnecting with our East Coast friends and the Abbot friends with whom we have lost touch.”

Thanks for your submissions!

PHILLIPS Hugh Kelleher 12 Atwood St. Newburyport MA 01950 617-448-8073 hughkelleher1@gmail.com

The editors hate me because I am always late with these notes and revert to delaying tactics, since news keeps coming in from one direction or another. So, in the interest of speeding things along, this time we have a quick series of reports, events, and random thoughts from others and from me.

Hubert Crouch is having great success with his latest legal thriller, The Word, which was named first-place winner of the CLUE Awards for Suspense/Thriller Fiction 2015 in the “courtroom drama” category: https://t.co/8UAfntOn7N. Hubert’s next book, The Weight (working title), is in production. Speaking of authors, Mark Goniwiecha says, “I’m thrilled to report that my manuscript, titled Japanese Influences on Kapingamarangi, has just been published in the scholarly journal South Pacific Studies, Vol. 36, Issue No. 2, 2016, pages 111 to 126. South Pacific Studies is published by Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.”

Meanwhile, have you read the Olney Odyssey, Pete Olney’s blog series of key events and reflections on his life? You can find Peter’s work online. He and his wife, Christina, recently returned from a trip to Italy.

Media guy David Ensor—who, over lunch last winter in Cambridge, MA, said that he could not imagine retiring—has another prominent position. David is the new executive vice president for external relations at the Atlantic Council, an international relations think tank. Last year, David left his position as the head of Voice of America.

Jeremy Bluhm was headed to Japan for a couple of weeks. He got advice regarding his trip from Davis Everett ’68, who for more than 20 years led regular tours there. Jeremy and Davis met in SF, where Jer was visiting Beau Watson, the aforementioned Mr. Olney, and others. I know he is not in our class, but I am mentioning Davis because he is one of my favorite people of all time and recently visited me in Newburyport, on his way to Milwaukee to visit his daughter, who is out of law school, becoming a public defender, and buying her first house.

Facebook can provide a number of interesting tidbits about our classmates. I’m not very active on it myself, but every couple of months I check in.

Recently found: a photo of Charley Donovan and his bicycle at the top of a mountain in California.

My friend Heather looked at the photo and said, “That guy’s in incredible shape.”

Howard Murphy sent around a photo of his brother, a former Massachusetts judge, wearing a red baseball cap with the inscription “Make Cambridge Great Again.”

John Hosken and his wonderful wife, Nancy

www.andover.edu/intouch Friedlander Hosken, came to Newburyport for an art show of work done by my late former wife, Sue Keller. There is no one who has a happier smile than John. And the art show was a success, raising more than $6,000 for an arts scholarship for local high school students.

Had lunch with Jim Volker, who is more or less retired from his career as a lawyer. Jim and his wife sold their home on the North Shore. Until they buy another, they are temporarily ensconced in a nice apartment right in the town (Danvers, MA) where I (still) work.

Chuck McDermott had a great photo on Facebook of himself with one of the great rock album cover photographers, writing, “Checking in on my old buddy and all-around great human @ HenryDiltz in Malibu today. Henry is one of the most celebrated rock music photographers in the world, having shot iconic cover photos for CSN, The Eagles, The Doors, James Taylor, and more.

When I lived in LA in the ’80s, Henry shot all my music promo photos and more. As a result, I can say with certainty that my inclusion on his roster measurably lowers its ‘celebrity factor.’ ” Jim Shannon, retired CEO of the National Fire Protection Association, has been appointed to the board of UL, formerly known as Underwriters Laboratory. UL has offices in 46 countries around the world, and Jim has already traveled to meetings in Japan, China, and Belarus. He had dinner recently with me and David Tibbetts (recently retired as the head of the Merrimack Valley Economic Development Council). Jim, whose knowledge of politics, management, and literature is exceeded (I mean it) by that of no one I know, recommends the Economist. I have subscribed.

Looked forward to a visit this summer here in Massachusetts with my old dormmate Henry Dieterich of Ohio. Henry became a devout Catholic. As one who regards himself as still reeling from eight years of Catholic elementary school under the tutelage of the good Sisters of St. Joseph, I am certain Henry and I will have much to discuss.

On a recent lobbying trip to DC, I had my annual dinner with Alex van Oss. We did not meet at our customary spot, Kramerbooks in Dupont Circle. Nonetheless, Alex generously brought me a novel to read.

Summary: Still a lot going on. Keep it up, boys.

P.S.: If you really want to learn more of what is going on, or at least some reasonable portion of it, check out the class Facebook page, Andover 1969.

1970 ABBOT Adelle Nicholson 851 Three Islands Blvd., No. 118 Hallandale Beach FL 33009 954-456-4312 adeil@aol.com Tobi Solomon Gold 25 SE 23rd Ave. Cape Coral FL 33990 239-940-2396 myyogagirl77@gmail.com

Adelle Nicholson and Tobi Solomon Gold here!

We hope that you all had a wonderful summer. We are both looking forward to speaking with you in the near future!

Tobi says, “It was so great catching up with Gay Luster Sawabini—it had probably been at least 10 years! Gay is enjoying her new career in real estate in Connecticut. Her children are thriving. Polly, her youngest, lives in New Orleans and turned 24 this year. Alex and James ’08 are both in Boston and love it there. Alex is working for Cambridge Associates, a private investment consulting company, and James is studying at Harvard Business School.

“When I heard the sparkling tone of Elise Straus-Bowers’s voice and her general enthusiasm at the prospect of reminiscing about AA and our classmates—well, it was 1970 again! Elise continues to play the violin and is currently with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. They wrapped up their season with a youth concert in May. She inherited the family home in Portsmouth, NH—10 acres on the Piscataqua River. Now she and Brian divide their time between Woolwich, ME, and Portsmouth.”

Sandy Urie writes: “Frank (Herron ’70) and I saw Penny Snelling Sullivan when we attended her son Tripp’s wedding on April 9, 2016. It was a lovely wedding on the rooftop of the Gramercy Park Hotel in NYC. Penny, in a long navy gown, looked beautiful as the mother of the groom.

All her siblings were in attendance, including Marge Snelling ’73 and Liz Snelling ’75. Here is the link to the New York Times announcement: http://nyti.ms/29U9iXI. “I stepped aside as chairman and CEO of Cambridge Associates on July 1. I have been working with our board on succession planning for two years, and now is the right time for the firm and for me to take this step. I am not retiring; I will take a three-month sabbatical from September through November, which coincides nicely with the birth of my first grandchild in early September. Frank and I plan to spend some time in NYC during the three months. We also hope to travel in both the U.S. and Europe.”

Adelle visited Melanie Rosen Brooks in NYC in May. Melanie lives with her husband, Mitchell, and daughter Gillian, who is an analytics advisor for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Several years ago,

Melanie left her executive position at the New York Times, after more than 20 years, to cofound and direct Scholarship Plus, a program that assists deserving but disadvantaged New York City high school graduates with their college careers. She finds it to be very rewarding to nurture and track these young people as they navigate their way through college and begin their professional lives.

Anne Smith is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. She works on the upper-altitude extension of the climate model, which, she says, is always a work in progress. In her words: “The atmosphere is a very complicated system that follows simple laws of physics, but what tends to happen can really surprise you!” Anne’s passion is gardening, from her rock garden in the front yard to succulents in the back. Anne and her husband, Rolando, have two young grandsons in Cleveland, who call their grandma “Granny Smith”!

Adelle took a trip to the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico to scuba-dive the cenotes, sinkholes that contain mostly fresh water, leading into caverns and caves with stalagmites, stalactites, and other limestone formations. These environments, in their otherworldliness, defy description. Suffice it to say that they are truly arresting in their beauty and tranquility.

PHILLIPS Peter Williams 3070 Shamrock North Tallahassee FL 32309 850-893-3342 Petewilliams1@hotmail.com Frank Herron 38 Prospect St. Winchester MA 01890 617-852-0126 ffherron@gmail.com

Picture this: Here you are, holding a copy of Andover magazine. It just came in the mail, right?

And, presumably, it feels good. Now, take a moment to consider how much better it would be to get a copy of the magazine every time you go to your mailbox. Wouldn’t that be something?

Well, the intrepid and clever Len Stewart has figured out how to do just that. You see, his mailbox is in Yuma, AZ. That’s 600 miles north of his home, in the oasis town of Mulegé, Mexico, which is perched on the Gulf of California in Baja California Sur. Len makes the 1,200-mile round trip every six months or so. He did it in April of this year and “was happy to find the most recent Andover magazine near the top of the pile.” He “flipped it right open to read the most recent class notes” and was grateful to “remember tiny little moments that would never come to mind otherwise.”

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stay connected... about two months later than normal, so he got eight months’ worth of mail. His reward? “Being political season, there was a gigantic crop of requests for contributions from Democrats across the U.S., from Alaska to Massachusetts” (his former homes).

Len runs a free dental and vision clinic. He wrote (by e-mail) that it “keeps me excited, engaged, and leaning forward, even in retirement (whatever that is).”

Sitting here in May, we’d like to come up with a timely message for Len: How about “Happy Halloween”?

Much quicker 1970-related communication was on display during a chilly April evening at Fenway Park in Boston. At the time, I was on a cell phone. You know: Makin’ deals. Settin’ things up. Gettin’ things done. A call came in. It was an unrecognized number in Detroit. Turned out to be John Sheffield.

We were in Latin II together in Pearson Hall back in the fall of (gasp) 1967. We probably had not spoken since graduation. After 1970, we went in different directions. He went on to earn his way into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame at the University of Pennsylvania. I went on to buy a lacrosse stick at a used-sporting-goods store.

John had just gotten home from a visit to Kansas City, MO. He had traveled there to attend a saxophone recital by his grandson Kameron, a sophomore at the University of Missouri Kansas City. The event was at the Kansas City Art Institute on April 26. By all accounts, the Interlochen Arts Academy graduate did fabulously.

While in Kansas City, John kept seeing and hearing a word that’s familiar to all at Andover.

The word was “Kemper” (as in Kemper Arena and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art).

That prompted the call to Fenway Park. He wanted to know if I had contact information for Crosby Kemper ’69.

John also talked enthusiastically about an alumni reunion weekend in Philadelphia, where he enjoyed the Penn-Harvard lacrosse game. He was happy to run into former Andover teammate Kevin McCall ’72, a two-year captain at Harvard.

John also spoke briefly of his lacrosse adventures after Penn, where he had been first-team All Ivy (with teammate Todd O’Donnell). After graduation, he headed north of the border to become one of the few U.S.-born players in the short-lived National Lacrosse League (indoor box lacrosse).

John’s modest, so he didn’t say much, but he is google-able. Here goes: He played for the Toronto Tomahawks in 1974 and Montreal Quebecois in 1975, tallying more than 100 goals and assists in 69 bruising games. John has the distinction of being mentioned on the same page as the legendary Jim Brown in the “lacrosse” entry in the 2015 edition of African Americans in Sports, edited by David Wiggins.

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sent me a great team photograph of Andover footballers, including John, probably from the fall of 1968. Hmmm. That’s when David Bowie (not a classmate) was about to record an early version of “Space Oddity”—you know, “Ground Control to Major Tom.” That song returned with great force on Jan. 10, with news of Bowie’s death. That tragedy prompted Charlie Finch to share some deeply personal and intriguing reflections about the artist on Jan. 11 and 12 on Joe Piscopo’s early-morning show on 970 AM in NYC. Charlie, who was a longtime loved-and-hatedbut-hard-to-ignore critic for Artnet Magazine, told listeners that he spoke or met with Bowie every week between 1998 and 2000. Charlie described a daylong session he had with Bowie in November of 1998 when the star interviewed Charlie in his East Village apartment for Modern Painters magazine.

The article appeared the following spring.

“I owe any professional success I have to him,” Charlie reflected on-air. Bowie walked out with “eight hours of tape with me, a nobody, just a guy.” He also walked out with two shopping bags filled with some of Charlie’s music CDs, given by the owner.

You can hear Charlie’s reflections from the comfort of your office or home or treadmill. Here are links to two audio files, six and four minutes. If this works, you will be rewarded. Charlie appears about halfway through each clip: http://bit. ly/2a6X4Oj and http://bit.ly/2a5ZR7n.

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Sara Ingram 500A E. 87th St., Apt. 12D New York NY 10128 212-879-4665 sara-ingram@earthlink.net Abby Johnson 1983 Maison Way Carson City NV 89703 775-885-0612 saged183@gmail.com

The Abbot Class of 1971 had a fine turnout for our 45th Reunion this past June. Attending were Sally Browning, Sara Ingram, Debbie Huntington, Helen Lacouture, Dory Streett, Mary McCabe, Carol Kennedy McCarthy, Abby Johnson, Nancy Phillips Peoples, Heide Kropp Riess, Judy Fletcher Woodbury, Sandy Rollins Upton, Beatriz McConnie Zapater, and Lucy Pope.

We first gathered for the Friday Abbot dinner in Davis Hall on the Abbot campus. Everyone had a great time catching up over drinks. Before going in to dinner, we posed for a photograph on the inside steps going up to the second floor. We almost felt we should be running off to a class when we were finished! Once in Davis Hall, we quickly discovered that we were the perfect number to

push two tables together, so we could easily talk with everyone. While everyone looked great, it must be said that Mary stole the show each night with her fun and fabulous designer outfits. After dinner, most went back to the Airbnb house that our world traveler, Dory, had reserved for some reunion attendees. It was such a comfortable way to continue conversations, listen to “oldies,” and look at our senior yearbook that we did the same thing Saturday night as well.

Saturday morning many of us participated in the alumni parade, piped in by the venerable Clan MacPherson Pipes and Drums, followed by lunch on the Andover campus.

The remainder of Saturday afternoon was devoted to Abbot-related activities. Located in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, the Abbot Archives were open to alums who wanted to learn more about this vital trove of Abbot memorabilia and documents. The Abbot Archives team had just completed cataloguing all the donated materials, and there was a small exhibition available for viewing. It was amazing to see an Abbot trashcan; Abbot china, utensils, and water pitchers; Gargoyle and Griffin beanies; and the like. Lucy and Dory found their prep year Sherman House “Four Room” letters and read them aloud, to much hilarity.

Some of you may remember this annual year-end tradition, where the inhabitants of this special dorm room would write advice letters to the following year’s inhabitants. The letters were all stored in a metal box kept under a loose floorboard. Words from the past! Beatriz made herself available to discuss and show portraits of classmates from her senior photography project, which she donated to the Abbot Archives.

On to the Abbot Tea in Abbot Hall! Beforehand, some of us took the opportunity to tour the Abbot campus, which is in incredible shape, including the Sacred Circle (yes, reader, we walked on it!).

The tea warmed us up after being out in the chilly, cloudy weather. We were further warmed by having a good time in the old chapel, mingling with other Abbot classes.

The final Saturday event, which most attended, was dinner on the Andover campus. Again, we pushed two tables together and continued the party. It was amazing that after two days we were not talked out and were still having both light and “heavy” conversations. Some of us wished we could attend Abbot all over again (but only if we could know what we know now!). We promised this time around we would take advantage of every wonderful opportunity.

Not to jump to the future, but our next reunion is our 50th! Yes, you heard me right—this is a big one.

Please do plan to come. We really had a lovely 45th, and our 50th will be even better with you there.

Our final (truly final) bit of news is that Deborah Huntington has graciously agreed to be our class secretary going forward. Abby and Sara thank you all for sharing your news with us and making us look good as co-class secretaries. See you at our 50th Reunion!

www.andover.edu/intouch PHILLIPS Frank duPont 8 Nichols Drive Hastings-on-Hudson NY 10706 914-478-7818 dupont@wdfilms.com

On Reunion Weekend in June—45 years to the day after 235 members of the Class of ’71 celebrated the 193rd PA commencement—a bunch of us gathered to check in on one another and the school. I was wondering in advance what to expect. Forty-five: not exactly the magical round number or quarter- or half-century benchmark year. Nonetheless, we had a good showing.

My wife, Lindsay, joined me, in part because PA elicited so many fond memories, with our kids Sam and Rosie having graduated in ’04 and ’06.

The campus looked great—the school seemingly firing on all cylinders—and John Palfrey was in top form.

For some it was a repeat of a regular five-year cycle. Ernie Adams, who arrived on Saturday evening with his wife, Christine, mentioned that Fred Johnson has been to nearly every reunion.

Ernie, by his own account, has missed only a couple. Dana Seero, who wrote class notes for 20 years—God bless him!—and who came with his wife, Kathy, has likewise been a frequent attendee.

Others in this camp: Chris Duble, who could roll out of bed and be on campus, was there. Not surprisingly, proximity was a factor. Pete Sachs with wife Tracy, Peter Kellogg with wife Jane, and Dave Samson (without spouse, but with a threelegged dog) came from nearby Massachusetts towns. Jamey French was there with longtime work colleague Tom Chamberlin. Vin Broderick was down from New Hampshire, John “Falstaff ” Smith came from Vermont, and Evan Livada and Drew Cheney came from Maine.

Cheney, who had not returned to PA in years and “didn’t know what to expect going in,” was pleasantly surprised by how our class “seems like a group of really good people. In several instances, I had conversations that were longer and better than any that had taken place during the three years I was at PA.” Evan Livada was in top form throughout the weekend, regaling everyone in conversational range with stories about extracurricular activities back in the day. I enjoyed BS-ing with Livada, Samson, Duble, and others about athletics at PA and about individual characters—where they came from and where they might be now. Kevin O’Brien, Fred Pepin, and Milt Holt (none of whom were present) were remembered.

Kurt Kuchta, a garrulous and opinionated fan of ’71, made the trip from Colorado. Kurt, who is semiretired and coaching lacrosse, stayed with Evan up in Maine, then, after the weekend, stopped off for a day at Pete Sachs’s place in Newton, MA. Don’t know whether it’s due to the rigors of managing a vineyard, but Fred Johnson is still

totally fit and was up rowing crew at 7 o’clock Saturday morning. I enjoyed meeting his wife, Jennifer. As a bonus, they brought a selection of wine from their upstate New York winery, Johnson Estate; the bottles were uncorked on Saturday afternoon before the Addison Gallery cocktail party. The attendees included Phil Kann, Art Just, Vernon Barksdale, and Chris Brescia, among others.

I was fascinated to hear about Arthur Just’s post-PA life. As it turned out, studying Greek at Andover aligned perfectly with a devout Lutheran background and interest in Christianity—all of which coalesced into a life studying the Scriptures in the original Greek and becoming a pastor, then picking up a master of divinity degree from Yale and a doctorate in New Testament studies from Durham University in England. For the past three decades, Arthur has been a professor of exegetical theology at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN; he has traveled extensively to Kenya, among other places, to teach and share his expertise. Along the way, Art and wife Linda have raised three kids.

Cleve Burton came from NJ with his brother Kelvin; Chien Lee came from Hong Kong (he was already in the States for a PA Board of Trustees meeting).

Cleve said, “My brother has attended about four Andover reunions with me and enjoyed this particular cast of characters the most.” Both Cleve and Chien, former roommates, enjoyed reconvening for the first time in 20 years. As Cleve recapped, “Who knew that after 45 years we would be talking about how he introduced me to classical music, which I exported to Detroit? He told me that I had introduced him to Michael Jackson. We are proof that Bach and Michael Jackson could coexist in the same dorm room.”

Chien also enjoyed connecting with Vernon Barksdale, saying, “Despite the fact that I am the only one in our class living in Hong Kong, I found out that Vernon, through his involvement in the Amway organization in Phoenix, has close associates in Hong Kong and China.” Chien briefly outlined to me one of his current business objectives: working to build/create a new hospital in Hong Kong.

Geoff Foisie was up from Alexandria, VA. Paul Tessier flew in from Niceville, FL, with his partner. Sandy McAdam traveled up from Florida as well. Rob Hearne and wife Nancy came from Princeton, NJ, and Dave Cuthell came up from NYC with wife Catherine.

It was great seeing Foisie after about 30 years.

He still embodies the same reflective, philosophical cast of mind, capable of seeing both sides of every exchange or situation. He recently retired from his investment company and is contemplating his next career.

Sandy McAdam moved a few years ago to Wellington, FL, where he lives “on a private airport.

We are 12 miles from Palm Beach. We enjoy flying out of here to many different destinations.

The Bahamas is a favorite. I never thought that we would leave New Hampshire, but it has been fantastic here. I am still working trading options.”

Sandy also credited Phil Kann for doing a superb job of rounding up the class. “Health willing, I will return for my 50th,” he said.

Other moments of interest included checking out Ernie’s very gaudy Super Bowl ring (I asked him whether he ever wore, at the same time, the four or five rings he has received) and hearing that Evan Bonds was a key third person with Bill Belichick and Ernie deconstructing football videos senior year; catching up with Pete Sachs and Tracy about their lives with youngish kids; and learning from Jamey French about his involvement, senior year, in leading an initiative to stop spraying trees on campus with DDT. As Vin Broderick noted, Jamey, president and CEO of Northland Forest Products, was recently recognized with the 2016 Granite State Award for his longtime commitment to conservation and nonprofit organizations in the state.

I heard from a number of guys who were leaning our way but couldn’t make it at the last minute: Andy Rutherford, Ted Mook, Sam Coleman, Paul Finnegan, Jon Grant, and Steve Sherrill, to mention a few.

BTW, I had a fun mini reunion in NYC over lunch, about a month before the 45th, with Nils Finne, who was in for his daughter’s graduation from NYU with a master’s degree in art restoration; Bill Gardner, who was down with wife Kathi from Ottawa; Pierce Rafferty; Stewart Crone; and Dave Winton, who was in from SF. Great conversation, with lots to catch up on—more than could possibly be accomplished in a two-hour lunch.

Here’s to revisiting those connections, and to a massive turnout for our 50th!

1972 ABBOT Julia Gibert 300 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 7ED England + 44 0 7766 022832 juliagibert@gmail.com

PHILLIPS Tom Rawson P.O. Box 1361 Eastsound WA 98245 206-632-8248 tomrawson@gmail.com

Sam Butler reports that he spoke with Dave Wilson in January. Dave “had a stroke three years ago (on the operating table during routine surgery). He sounded great, lots of therapy, and is hoping to improve enough that he can take Andover | Reunion 2016

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stay connected... his ’vette out on the racetrack again. Not racing. He calls it tracking, where you zoom around on your own.” Wishing you continued healing, Dave, and looking forward to seeing you on the track.

Rick Hall died from cancer Nov. 29, 2015, in Paradise, CA. A running back on the PA football team (among many other accomplishments), Rick then went to Brown, where his football career was cut short by a knee injury. In the late ’70s, Rick settled in Northern California, where he had a long career as a home-builder. He later spent eight years in Nicaragua as a farmer of bananas, papayas, and limes. Richard Darner writes, “Rick was arguably my closest PA friend, but we lost contact after a mid- to late-1970s reunion down in Houston. He was a complex individual. While a very talented, hard-nosed running back with a high threshold for pain, he was also a fun-loving, hopeless romantic who loved to write poetry. I find it fascinating, but not all that surprising, that he ultimately ended up farming in Nicaragua.” Thanks, Richard, for the tribute. Our condolences to Rick’s mother, siblings, and children.

Imagine George “Tony” Hewett’s surprise when he logged on to his e-mail one morning in March and received the following message: “Dear Mr. Hewett, My name is Mary Corcoran, and I work in the Office of Alumni Engagement at Phillips Academy. The reason I am reaching out to you today is that I received an e-mail from a woman named Paula LeClair, stating that she had found a Phillips Academy 1972 class ring with the initials GAK or GAH—she really couldn’t make out the last initial. Have you lost your ’72 class ring from Phillips Academy? I have looked through your ’72 yearbook and class list and you were the only one who comes close to having those initials.

This woman is very excited that she found the ring and would love to return it to its owner. If you think that this may be you, please be in touch, and I would be happy to connect the two of you.” Long story short, the ring was found on a Cape Cod beach in the 1970s, put in a drawer, and forgotten for several decades. When rediscovered, the finder contacted PA. Thanks to the tenacious sleuthing of Ms. Corcoran in the alumni office, Tony and ring are now reunited. And at last, Papa Tony can display his Andover class pride alongside that of his two daughters, Marilyn ’11 and Andrea ’13, both of whom have PA rings. Thanks to all who helped crack this case.

By the time this appears in print, planning for our 45th Reunion will be under way. Hope to see you in June.

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Jane Cashin Demers 43 Morton St. Andover MA 01810 978-470-1684 (home) 978-502-8733 (cell) jane.demers@gmail.com

“On Saturday night, other Rabbits showed up for a fun dinner at the Inn. In attendance were Connee, Leslie, myself, Jenifer, Elizabeth Coward Miller, Kristine Tomlinson, Peggy Bliss ’74, and Mary McCabe ’71.”

Wishing you all a happy fall, and we look forward to hearing from you! —Marcia McCabe

PHILLIPS

Noreen Markley 783 Wooddale Road Bloomfield Village MI 48301-2468 248-645-0536 noreenmarkley@aol.com

Pete Morin 41 Border St. Scituate MA 02066 pbmorin@comcast.net www.facebook.com/pete.morin2

Marcia B. McCabe 160 W. 62nd St., Apt. 10B New York NY 10023 917-796-1594 mbmg55@gmail.com

Public service announcement: Join Facebook and look up “Andover/Abbot Class of 1973.” It’ll make you feel 30 years younger.

Geoff Aronow posted a link in our Facebook group to the Amazon page of A Long Day’s Journey into Night (Multimedia Edition), edited by William Davies “Dave” King. It includes a bunch of rare archival recordings of Eugene O’Neill reading key scenes and divulges O’Neill’s creative process through the tiny pencil notes in his original manuscripts and outlines. There is rehearsal footage in which actors wrestle with the play, clips from a full production, and a lot more. Dave has been up to some very interesting things in nonfiction, art, and theatre, out of his base in Santa Barbara, CA, where he is a professor of theatre and dance at UCSB. Liz Miller ’73 reported (via Facebook, again) that author, runner, swimmer, and coach extraordinaire Cathy von Klemperer Utzschneider ’73 was interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered in March.

Roger Lawrence posted an old Phillipian article (on Facebook; do you see a pattern here?) announcing the Washington interns for the 1976 spring semester—picture and everything. I resist the temptation to repeat the recollections of those present. In response to the post, comments were offered by Jeff Howard, Noreen Markley ’73, Bill Robinson, Ned Johnston, Robin Foster, Henry Mueller, and Aronow. One particular story from Ned Johnston deserves special recognition, so here goes: “In 1984, I was in Egypt, shooting a film about a National Geographic expedition that was searching for artifacts from ‘The Lost Army of Cambyses.’ After four months in the far reaches of the western desert, we returned to Cairo, where we discovered that the Egyptian members of our team had been arrested and all of our equipment, including all my exposed film, had been confiscated.

Even with the grudging help of our embassy, we could not find out who had our film and how we could even begin to try to negotiate for its release.

In 1972, I’d worked in the office of Sen. Charles Percy, who now, 12 years later, was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He also happened to be up for reelection. I called my dad and asked if he could contact the senator and ask for his help. It was 9 p.m. on a Saturday evening, but my dad knew that Percy was back in Illinois at a campaign event.

It is May in NYC and I just returned to the Big Apple after a wonderful winter in Naples, FL. Living in a bubble of daily tennis and sunshine didn’t give me much contact with Andover folk, but I did attend a lovely party hosted by Tom Kukk ’59 and his wife, Judy.

Vicki Elicker Joh came west from Delray to spend a few days with me. She retired last June and is loving her new life. We were in rock-and-roll heaven as we saw Elton John and the Moody Blues on consecutive nights in Naples!

I would like to express my sincere thanks to Jane Cashin Demers for writing about a gathering of “Rabbits” at Andover early last April: “In response to an e-mail I sent out inviting local Rabbits to gather at the Andover Inn in April because Leslie Hendrix was in town doing Abbot Archives work and Cornelia “Connee” Petty Young was flying in from Petaluma to attend a Brace Center for Gender Studies presentation (which drew a full house on April 9 in Davis Hall in McKeen), a dozen Rabbits showed up at the inn on Friday night, and we had a reprise with eight Rabbits—some of the same players, some different—on Saturday night.

“Anne Weisman Hogeland made the trek east from Williamstown, MA, and spent the night at my house along with Connee, Amanda Cobb, and Elizabeth Rollins Mauran. On Friday afternoon, several of us walked down the street to the Abbot campus and toured the old gym and Draper.

“On Friday evening, we all converged on the Inn and were ushered into the private dining room off the main dining room. In addition to Connee, Buzzy, Amanda, Anne, and myself, Leslie showed up after a long day in the archives, followed by Jenifer McLean Cooke, Debra Heifetz Stein, Judith Webster, Catherine von Klemperer Utzschneider, Dianne DeLucia, and the newly married Elizabeth “Bets” Kent. Bets married fellow rower John Everett, a professor of engineering at Michigan. She retired from her job at Cambridge Associates in early February.

www.andover.edu/intouch He wrote a letter explaining my predicament, drove it to Percy’s house, and left it with his nonagenarian mother, who promised she’d leave it on his pillow.

Around midnight my parents’ phone rang. My dad picked up and heard a familiar voice saying, ‘Hello, Alan. Chuck Percy here. I remember Ned very well. A fine young man. I’m sure I can help out.

I’m having lunch with Hosni on Wednesday.’ As it happened, President Mubarak was visiting DC the following week, in part to ask the Foreign Relations Committee to remove the ‘strings’ attached to U.S. aid to Egypt. Of course, everything changed after that. It still took a few weeks to locate our film and arrange to bring a colonel from the Egyptian military intelligence back to New York with us to ‘observe’ the processing of our film, but I have no doubt that had I not been in Washington in 1972, I’d never have seen my film again.”

See what the rest of you are missing? See? Ellen Hoitsma ’73 posted from Maryland, lamenting the physical detriment of excessive snow shoveling and wondering who remembered the snow-shoveling drills. I think we were ignorant of the child labor laws back then.

Brooks Bloomfield posted (yes, yes, there) a great picture of him and Sandy Wood hiking in the Park City, UT, area. Mindy Feldman ’73 and May Irwin ’73 loved the pic.

Soon after I submit these notes, John McDonald, Dave Swanson, Jim Hackett, Walter Bukawyn, Steve Rooney, and I will head up to Manchester, VT, for the (approximately) 20th anniversary of our annual golf outing. This year, instead of the grueling back-to-back golf upon one of the world’s finest, we will settle for a single round, and then some fly fishing or skeet shooting. Much food will be eaten and spirits consumed.

We lost another classmate on Feb. 7, 2016, when Scott Midgley left us from his longtime home in Phoenix.

Please feel free to use my e-mail address above and send me some news. I cannot report what I do not hear.

Stay in Touch!

Visit our “one-stop Web page” that consolidates all the various ways of connecting with Andover friends and classmates.

At www.andover.edu/intouch, you can link to Alumni Directory, Andover’s Facebook page, Notable Alumni, and lots more.

Of course, you can still update your records in the traditional ways: ● Visit

www.andover.edu/alumnidirectory, and log in to update your information

● E-mail ● Call

alumni-records@andover.edu

978-749-4287

● Send

a note to: Alumni Records, Phillips Academy, 180 Main St., Andover MA 01810-4161

1974 Jack Gray 80 Central Park West, Apt. 20F New York NY 10023-5215 212-496-1594 ray0x@hotmail.com

1975 Mari Wellin King 1884 Beans Bight Road N.E. Bainbridge Island WA 98110 206-842-1885 marjoriewk@gmail.com Roger L. Strong Jr. 6 Ridgeview Circle Armonk NY 10504 914-273-6710 strongjr@optonline.net Peter Wyman 963 Ponus Ridge Road New Canaan CT 06840 203-966-1074 peter.wyman@merrillcorp.com

At the height of pomp-and-circumstance season in the spring, a number of classmates reported with pride about the graduations of their offspring from institutions of higher learning. Steve Goldberg

wrote that his son, Jacob, earned a bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics, summa cum laude, from the State University of New York at Geneseo in May and planned to enter a PhD program at Johns Hopkins. Steve works in actuarial, reinsurance, and risk management consulting in Oceanside, NY. Geoff Richards enjoyed the soggy weekend of the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, where he celebrated the graduation of his daughter, Emily, from Loyola University Maryland.

Paul Suslovic and Anne Atkinson ventured east from their home in Redwood City, CA, to see Paul’s younger son, Will, graduate from George Washington University in Washington, DC, where Will will be “doing neurological research—and getting paid for it,” according to Paul. Roger Strong’s daughter, Sarah, graduated from Yale with a bachelor of science degree in physics before beginning coursework for a master’s degree in food studies at New York University in the fall.

The youngest son of Peter Cohan graduated from Northeastern University in May and moved to NYC to work for Goldman Sachs. Peter continues to teach strategy and entrepreneurship at Babson College, outside Boston. He appeared in We the People: The Market Basket Effect, which he describes as an “only-in-America documentary about employees and customers fighting a billiondollar company.” Real estate investor Mark Grange joined the commencement theme with the news that his son moved up from the eighth grade at Veritas Preparatory Academy. “It is the next best thing to Phillips Academy in Phoenix,” he Andover | Reunion 2016

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stay connected... reported. Mark’s daughter attends high school at Phoenix Country Day School (“founded by Exeter graduates”).

After decades in the Boston area, Donna Cameron moved to NYC in April and became senior vice president and chief legal officer at MCIC—the company, she wrote, “that provides general and professional liability insurance to the academic medical centers affiliated with Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Rochester, and my alma mater, Yale, among others.

“I had decided it was time for me to wind down my horse-related activities and focus full time on the practice of healthcare law for one last professional hurrah before retiring for good.

Accordingly, I closed my private practice in Boston and Palm Beach, FL, sold my competition horses, and leased out my beautiful farm in Massachusetts.

Horses will always be a part of my life, though, and I still hope to be able to ride some in my beloved Florida during the winter months. I am also hoping to connect with many classmates in the NYC area over the next few months as I settle into this new life.”

Also in the New York area, James Young lives on Long Island and calls his occupation “programming with HTML.” Louise Kramer caught up with Frank Lavin when Frank visited NYC from Singapore in May. “We hadn’t seen each other since PA graduation, and neither of us has changed a bit, of course! Frank has a book coming out about his father’s time in the military during World War II and encouraged me to get my dad (age 96) to tell me more about his time in the Navy and to take notes. Great idea for all of us with parents still here.”

Laura Broaddus Hexner’s artwork was exhibited in April in a group show titled Structure/ Nature at the Cross Contemporary Art gallery in Saugerties, NY. The program for the exhibition noted that “Laura Hexner has been meticulously painting and drawing the often overlooked subjects of everyday life: bridges, dams, telephone poles, and highways.”

In honor of what would have been the 59th birthday of our distinguished late classmate Thomas Chapin, a number of PA ’75 types gathered in Thomas’s hometown of Hartford, CT, in early March to attend the world premiere of the documentary film Night Bird Song, an intimate tribute to Thomas’s unforgettable music and remarkable life. Phil Hueber and his wife, Judy, and Lisa MacFarlane trekked to the event from New Hampshire, Cathy Chapman came from Massachusetts, and Geoff Richards drove from New Jersey. Also in the audience were Thomas’s widow, Teri Castillo Chapin, and his older brother, Ted Chapin ’68. More details about this inspiring movie by Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo can be found at www.thomaschapinfilm.com.

Sadly, Steve Sun died in New York on Jan. 4, 2016, from cancer. John Lenz honored him in a touching post on Facebook: “Steve had an

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impressive career as a banker in Hong Kong, but more impressive were his constant humor and varied interests, from baseball to photography to music, and his great family of close sisters, wife Nancy, and three daughters. Steve was a highly balanced person; his sister called him ‘that rarity, a humble banker.’ ” We extend deepest sympathies to Steve’s family.

If 60 is really the new 40, please let Peter Wyman, Mari Wellin King, and me know how you plan to mark this milestone birthday over the coming year. As Cathy Chapman pointed out, “One thing about your high school friends: You’re all gonna turn 60 the same year!” —Roger

1976 Ruben Alvero 137 Sessions St. Providence RI 02906 303-358-8739 ralvero@wihri.org Lisa Barlow 530 9th St. Brooklyn NY 11215-4206 lisabnyc@gmail.com

Barky Penick affectionately sums up the spirit of our sublime June weekend back on campus.

“Today has been a little bit dreamy,” he writes. “My mind keeps gently running back over the weekend and the events of the reunion, mixed with traces of memories from 40 years ago. It was so great to see classmates from long ago, some of whom I was close to and some of whom I had never really chatted with before. I expected to enjoy myself, but not to feel transported the way I do. I am sure I will come down to Earth in a few days, but for now I am floating.”

With her customary eloquence, Sue Chira writes, “I just wanted to thank all my classmates over Reunion Weekend—it was a joy to see you and remember how creative, kind, and thoughtful you are. It was an odd split-screen moment for me, beginning Sunday morning with the terrible news from Orlando, thinking of those who have lost those they love and surrounded by so much friendship. And now back at work in the newsroom, immersed in horror, remembering that horror is not all there is.”

Helping us frame the warm conviviality of the weekend within the sobering context of current events, Bob Merrill gets first prize for his upbeat showmanship and his generosity as bandleader during dinner on Saturday night and in introducing the cinematic tribute to Thomas Chapin ’75, Night Bird Song, on Friday night. Citing the moving speeches honoring Muhammad Ali that many of us listened to over the radio on the drive up to Andover, Merrill noted the precariousness of world affairs and human relations, and then proceeded to create a musically ebullient response that had

us all on our feet singing along. Around Bob at the piano were Tim Dempsey and meistersinger Dan Malis. “Bob’s rendition of ‘Here’s to Life’ was so fitting of the weekend overall,” writes Heather White, whose fiancé, jazz musician Freddie Bryant, brilliantly accompanied Merrill on guitar. Freddie was such a welcome addition to the class festivities that we have given him honorary Class of ’76 status.

Determined to dance our way across campus after dinner, we thank the classes of 1981 and 1996 for allowing us to linger longest at their reunion tents. Energetic dancers of note included Ellen Greenfield Lewis, Fran Oberbeck, Patrice Le Melle, Chris Auguste, Lee Day, Pam Eaton, Alan Cantor, Karin Stienemeier, Steve Colella, and Phil DiPietro, who was complaining that his “adductors still hurt” two days later. Millard Tydings and Kelly O’Brien kept the libations flowing back in the Adams dorm. Louise Kennedy, Jack Shoemaker, Tom Schofield, and a hardy group sustained the after-party into the night. Perhaps some firecrackers were lit at some point during the evening, summoning the fire department, but no one is talking.

The Addison Gallery was an important draw for many of us, most notably Betsy Senior, who served for 12 years on the Addison’s board of governors. Naomi Rush Olsen relates, “This was my spiritual home when I was a PA student. I spent the summer between 11th and 12th grades as a 16-year-old curatorial assistant, acquisitioning works on paper. I have to pinch myself to believe it sometimes.” David Kufferman says, “I had the privilege of being included in the

By Design exhibition there in 1997, honoring Robert Lloyd. I learned so much from both him and John McMurray. I lived in their sculpture studios during my time at PA, which is probably why so many people at the reunion told me they did not remember me!” Ellen Greenfield Lewis shared a poignant story with Addison director Judith Dolkart about Francesca Woodman, who collected marsh grasses in a trunk in her room, causing much finger wagging by her dorm counselor, who didn’t like the loose seeds blowing around. Those weeds now live on in photographs that are a permanent part of the Addison’s collection.

Biology teacher Marc Koolen, who is retiring this year and whose wife is our classmate Anita Thomas Koolen, gave a wonderful class on Darwin and the Beagle. Kayce Freed Jennings was impressive in her role as moderator of a panel discussing the state of the Academy.

Larry Fong led the parade, with his two boys Landon and Matteo holding our 1976 banner. I enjoyed catching up with Toonie Casey Bukawyn, who still keeps us in style with her work in the fashion industry, and Charles Emery, who is a psychology professor at Ohio State. It was a pleasure to see Nina Kimball and Carina Elgin, who reunited at the parade with their old elementary school head, Allen Adriance ’61,

www.andover.edu/intouch the man who inspired each of them to apply to Andover.

Lee Day, like a number of us, has posted some lovely photos on our “Phillips Academy Class of 1976ish” page. He writes, “So beautiful and green at Andover. That hasn’t changed a bit. Sanctuary is as remembered. And I’m still sort of amazed that there is this impressive graveyard right in the middle of school.” Joe Salvo reminds us that “if you look carefully in the graveyard, [you’ll see] some of our teachers are there.”

During the weekend, it was hard not to feel the presence of the classmates who are no longer living.

Adam Rosenthal shared his joy in seeing friends but also his sadness in missing others, writing, “It was special reminiscing with Julie Allen about our dear departed friend and classmate Michael “Felix” Murdoch. We miss him very much! I also had a great time rowing with the Class of 1966 and dedicated my morning row to the memory of our departed classmate Colin Gavin.”

Chris Mullen gets the award for the most miles traveled to reach reunion. In from Ghana, Chris shared fascinating observations about the United States from the perspective of someone who has been living outside the country for the past 25 years. Michael Krumpe, the life of every party, celebrated his birthday with old PA friends, who presented him with a cake wishing him a happy 18th.

While some of us, like Kris Manos and Wally Row, are enjoying lighter workloads or early retirement, others are still pursuing the 9-to-5 life.

Peggy Dolgenos owns Cruzio, an Internet service provider in San Diego. Sandra Pate is a pastor in New Orleans. Bart Partington, who hasn’t aged a day, is living in Martha’s Vineyard, MA, where he is a financial consultant. Karin Genis and Dave Dumais are teaming up professionally as therapists, a job they are well suited to do together after sharing many years of marriage and raising three children. Cheryl Ancrum shared lively stories about her work as a dentist with prison inmates in Long Island, NY. Perry Flanagan and Nancy Richman have moved to new states—Perry to Tennessee and Nancy to Massachusetts, near Boston.

Thorn Smith is working as a lawyer focusing on insurance issues in Peoria, IL. Thorn enjoyed regaling Al Cantor with the infamous story of piloting the plane that buzzed the Exeter football field in 1975, with Frank Androski acting as copilot. Pam Eaton is in Andover working for School Year Abroad. Rob Middlebrook is also in Andover, where he is a biotech entrepreneur.

Ann Pawlowski Burnham is an ophthalmologist, and Bob Burnham works at a company creating medical devices. Ann and Bob split their time between suburban Boston and Stowe, VT. Thatcher Townsend is a banker with BB&T Bank in NC. Rob McCabe is near Albany, NY, working with the state university. John Chory is an attorney in Boston. Bill Rhangos is in Savannah, GA. Ed Eich still loves his job as an

elementary school teacher. Peter St. Louis is an internist in Palm Springs, CA. John Davis works with affordable housing in Vermont. Phil Adams is in Concord, MA, with World Energy Solutions.

Sam Worthington is the CEO of InterAction, the largest U.S. alliance of nongovernmental international aid organizations. David Spound is an avid cyclist, a therapist, and a teacher of mindfulness in western Massachusetts.

It was a pleasure to see Kate O’Reilly. As with Pam Schwartz Bruckman, it was all too short a glimpse. David Sheridan, Duncan Donahue, Andy Yett, and John Burke were part of the reunion fun, too.

We missed many of you, including Ruben Alvero, who is busy at his new job in Providence, RI, at Women & Infants Hospital.

Huge thanks to former class secretary and allaround magnificent guy Al Cantor for helping with these notes. I’ll leave Al with the last word: “The weekend sure was fun and stimulating, and it left me with a great sense of friendship and belonging. I would cite my favorite moments from the weekend, but there were way too many. Really, such fun! Life is too short not to stay connected.

Warmest thoughts to all—those who were there and those who didn’t make it. Be well, everyone, and be in touch!”

1977 Buck Burnaman 222 Nod Hill Road Wilton CT 06897 203-834-9776 bburnaman@msn.com

Your faithful class secretary underwent a second try at hip replacement surgery (the first was last year) a mere five days ago, so I ask the reader’s forgiveness for the brevity and content of this submission. But I would also point out that class notes deadlines, like time and tide, are unchanging, unstoppable, and always dependable—unlike the news flow from our class. Would that some of you might think to “loop me in” to your news from time to time, that on these precious pages I might breezily explore subjects other than my increasing decrepitude. Do you really want to hear about my inability to don my Speedo at the beach this summer—or will you commit to coming to Andover in a few short months to see my latest scar, in all its Frankensteinesque glory, when I agree to flash the crowd at cocktails on the Great Lawn? You’ll have to be there to find out, Merry Reymond. And because I am Facebook pals with Doug DeSimone’s wife, she gets a pass.

Preoperation business travel took me to Kansas City, MO, where I enjoyed breakfast with Fritz Thompson and swapped tales out of school regarding our Churchill House roommates (you know who you are) and girls we admired from afar (at this writing we recall them, generally).

Fritz still has a few scars from Andover sports but remains the same genuine great guy we elected class president in ’77. He’s committed to coming back in June.

Marty Koffman, always the dependable pen pal, sent me news on other classmates, and I quote him in full, without having checked all of Marty’s facts. He writes, “Will Iselin is engaged! Will, his fiancée, Tom Hartman, Tom’s wife, Claudia, and I all met at the New-York Historical Society’s cafe for brunch and congratulations. Willie seems absolutely euphoric. The wedding is planned for sometime in the fall. Nick Gutfreund and I met up last weekend at the new factory I’m building out in West Nyack, NY. Nick is doing well. Nick’s daughter, Sophia, is a junior in high school, and the pressure on the kids (and their parents) mounts monthly as they figure out colleges, etc., like many of us are doing. By the way, when the factory opens, I’ll have you send out the invite, as we’ll be giving tours and giving away cheesecakes (or vegan muffins) to all Andover alumni! I recently got a call from Cha Cha Hartwell Gesten. We laughed and spoke about her kids and her husband, Shoobie. I owe her a call back, now that I think of it. Sara MacLean just got back from Europe with her daughter, Hallie, and has left us New Yorkers for the sunnier climes of Johnson City, TN. I heard from Phil Balshi recently on FB. He is up in Great Barrington, MA, from what I can tell.”

Thanks, Marty, for the update. I hope you all will mark your calendars for June 2017 and join Marty, Fritz, an assortment of other classmates, and this Steve Austin wannabe at our 40th Reunion. Be well, stay in touch. —Buck

1978 Jamie Clauss Wolf 514 Ribaut Road Beaufort SC 29902 843-694-7443 JamieClaussWolf@gmail.com

I wrote and compiled these notes in the spring, but by now, quite a bit of time has passed. Back in the spring, I opened up my first specialty gym and wellness center for people with chronic disease and other health challenges. It is called Second Wind, because we believe people deserve to get their second wind when it comes to being able to move, relax, function, and feel better. At the two-week mark, it was being well-received by people with Parkinson’s disease because we are affiliated with Rock Steady Boxing and yours truly was certified as a boxing coach last March. The goal is to franchise these, because the stats show that more and more people struggle with cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, balance and fall risk, obesity and related issues such as heart disease and diabetes, and more.

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Meanwhile, also this past spring, Elizabeth Carlson’s new book was released. Liz is the founder and education director of Carolina Music Ways, a nonprofit group that educates North Carolina schoolchildren about their state’s diverse musical heritage. She holds degrees in English and American studies from Princeton University and in language and literacy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She lives with her husband in Winston-Salem, NC. North Carolina String Music Masters: Old-Time and Bluegrass Legends profiles seven great North Carolina musicians, including Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson. Liz concludes: “Thanks to stellar history teachers, such as Mr. Frederick, my early interest in American history became a lifelong passion.”

George Mostoller works at the University of Pennsylvania library in the interlibrary loan department and lives with his inamorata, Michelle, and son, Franklin. Franklin graduated from high school this past spring and is now attending Temple University. George’s other son, Edward, is 26, living in Brooklyn, and working as a lawyer providing legal aid to people with landlord problems. There’s probably a term for that, but George says he can’t think of it off the top of his head.

George’s spare time is mostly spent writing songs and playing guitar with his band, Hawk Tubley & the Ozymandians. George says, “We do sort of an eclectic folk-rock thing, I guess, and play a show every once in a while. It’s fun.

We are trying to record some stuff that might get released sometime, so if anyone needs a song for their upcoming Hollywood blockbuster film, call me. I also just finished a course at Penn called Introduction to Electronic Music. That was a lot of fun, getting to make music with old-school analogue synthesizers like the Buchla Music Easel, which Morton Subotnik helped design and used to create his classic Silver Apples of The Moon.”

George concluded, “It is a beautiful day, and from my window I can see Philadelphia’s famous Italian Market district, where next week they will be having their big spring festival. Not only is it a great excuse to eat cannoli, but the headlining musical act will be The 1910 Fruitgum Company, which actually was the music of my single-digit years. I’m excited about that.” We hope it went fabulously, George!

Joe Tatelbaum says, “The best thing that I have been involved with most recently was helping to bring Jane Goodall to Andover and to UMass Dartmouth. I’ve been on Jane’s boards in China. Done several trips with her here. Then I thought it would be nice to have her in Southcoast Massachusetts and at PA. A year later, both schools pulled off amazing events. More than 3,000 attended the live events and many more watched via streaming. Many Roots & Shoots groups started as a result of her visit. Listening to her story and watching it affect her audience is an amazing

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experience. Everyone gets it: We all matter and we all have choices about how to live our lives.” I’m sure I speak for many, Joe, when I say I’m sorry I missed it. Thank you so much for your part in making it happen!

Chris Prenovost checked in, saying he is enjoying filling his children with culture by taking them to lots of museums. And he’s also becoming a pretty decent cook. Lifelong learning takes on many forms!

Gwen Page is being intentional with her time, between work, crafting, doing furniture repair, and tending to her great cat. She’s also being a wonderful support for her parents, which I’m sure they appreciate greatly.

I want to welcome two classmates to the Alumni Council, Lee Apgar and Chris Leggett. This fall will be their first of eight meetings over a four-year commitment, and it will be awesome to have more representation from the Class of 1978. They will bring much to the council and be inspired in the process!

Nominations are open for class secretary, so nominate yourself or someone who’s told you they want to get involved; submit names to me before Jan. 15. —Jamie

1979 Amy Appleton 2201 Hall Place N.W. Washington DC 20007-2217 202-338-3807 Applta9@aol.com Rick Moseley Philadelphia PA 19118 215-275-5107 rdmoseley@gmail.com Doug Segal 1028 Kagawa St. Pacific Palisades CA 90272 310-617-9988 dougsegal@earthlink.net

Beth Garrity-Rokous moved to Columbus, OH, three years ago after 25 years in New Haven, CT. Beth continues to consult on a research project on genes and reading disorders and a reading intervention program evaluation in the New Haven public schools. Her youngest of three boys will join the Andover Class of 2020.

Victoria “Tori” Abbott Riccardi is happily living in Newton, MA, with husband John and still writing freelance food and travel pieces for magazines, newspapers, and online media. Tori regularly sees Margaret Shuwall Briggs, who lives in Sherborn, MA. John Andrews says, “I’ve been reliving lower year, listening to Boston and Boz Scaggs and allowing them to transport me to my dorm room. I miss the vinyl. And being 15. And my friends. Resorting to social media, I now know Tori

Abbott’s dog on Instagram. It’s not the same.”

Gretchen Van Dusen continues to do design work and coach rowing, and is looking forward to seeing Barb Trafton ’78 and Tim Goss ’80, fellow high school rowing coaches. Her son will be at Occidental College next year.

Elisabeth Tolmach Burch lives half of the year in Crested Butte, CO, and the other half on Hutchinson Island in Florida. Her twins, Ally and Matt Harper, will be seniors at Duke and Wake Forest next year. Mark Mathewson is still in Boulder, married, three kids. Neil Sheehy is in Minnesota, and his daughter, Audrey, will be attending Harvard in the fall. Neil made a campus visit in April and had dinner and drinks with old roommate Steven Collins.

Geoff Proctor is finishing another year teaching English and creative writing at Helena High School in Helena, MT. Geoff continues to direct the USA Cyclocross Team. His son, Andriy, is doing a PG year at Andover and is hoping to play for Big Blue soccer in the fall.

After the better part of 20 years, Guy Chirico is now out of the hotel/restaurant business and back to practicing law, “walking the planet with my wonderful wife, Pawalee,” and enjoying working with old friends. Guy is back in NYC after a threemonth stint in Bangkok. Sali Gear lives in Virginia Beach and has gone back to her aviation roots, with plans to fly a Cuban route this fall. This summer found her tying up loose ends at her horse farm, sailing, and saving dogs from St. Croix.

Beth DiRusso Grenauer has just opened a new law practice, she writes, “since 55 is the new 35. My daughter is 12, so I have to stay young.” Beth provides outside general counsel for companies that don’t want to hire in-house counsel.

Andy Hilliard stays in touch with old roommates Chris Morris and Tim Davenport ’80, and has advised a few alums regarding global software development options. Andy’s kids are off to Stanford, Princeton, and Chapel Hill. Roger Kass will have had lunch with Dan Zanes by now and is still wondering what ever happened to Tim Finn. Rachael Horovitz is still producing movies and living in NYC, where, she says, “I am currently engaged in a humbling Little League season, thanks to my sons.”

Forty Conklin saw Nick Lobenthal sing with the New York Oratorio Society at Carnegie Hall: “A big choral piece by Hayden. He was amazing.”

Forty connects with Hugh Silbaugh, dean of students at Northfield Mount Hermon, around rowing events, among other things. Forty’s son graduated from PA in June.

Greg Moten had a basketball reunion in February at Princeton for the Harvard game with Rob Doar, Tom Mannix ’77, Chris Leggett ’78, Dave Gutzke ’77, Michael Cleary ’77, and The Most Reverend Bishop John Barres ’78.

Catherine Tice spent her birthday with assorted friends, including Nick Lobenthal and Jorge Pedraza, hearing Alexandre Tharaud play the Goldberg Variations, followed by dinner at

www.andover.edu/intouch The Grange in NYC. In Boston, Catherine saw Jane Moncreiff for lunch. Catherine was looking forward to having her son Gus back home after his second year at Williams.

Susan Jenkins Warren and Tad Flynn both have daughters on the PA lax team and sometimes catch the games together. Moses Grader and wife Gayle are doing well in Marblehead, MA, with one son, Zach, off to college at Oxford and another, Nick, finishing his junior year at Marblehead High.

After staying in the Boston area to get her youngest through high school, Amy Haigh Fassett recently moved to the LA area to join her husband, who was transferred almost four years ago. A.C. Doyle saw the Rolling Stones in Cuba in May. After 18 years at Human Rights Watch, Carroll Bogert became the new president of the Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering criminal justice issues in the U.S. One daughter works in the ACLU racial justice program; the other is a sophomore at Carleton College.

John Vail enjoyed catching up with Doug Segal, who is making shows for the History Channel.

Doug’s son is going to Tulane this autumn.

Amy Appleton saw daughter Charlotte graduate from Wesleyan. My son, Jack, is at Colorado College, Lucy at Pomfret, and Ava at Germantown Friends. Leta graduated from the Camphill Special School this year after 10 years. Maisie is 2 1/2 (which PA class would that be?). Amanda and I spent a halcyon July 4 with Jorge and Jen Pedraza and Marty and Rick Bradt in upstate NY, where Emma Pedraza sweetly watched over Maisie. No more words allowed­—stay in touch! —Rick

1980 Jane Shattuck Mayer mtwjshattuck@gmail.com 781-710-7532 Amy Davidsen 451 West End Ave., Apt. 14E New York NY 10024 917-545-9617 amydavidsen@gmail.com

Thank you to everyone who provided updates. We hope your news will inspire others to chime in!

Bob Stammers posted a wealth of interesting travel photos on Facebook, thus catching the attention of your intrepid class secretaries. When asked, he wrote back immediately with lots to share: “I am the director of investor education for CFA Institute, the body that sets global standards for investment management professionals. In addition to being a spokesperson and working with a multitude of media channels to educate investors, I am often invited by investment organizations to present on investment-related topics relevant to high net worth and retail investors.” Bob also wrote, “After many years of not seeing Fred Bever, I see him quite frequently now. His son lives in

Brooklyn, so he has stayed with us in Manhattan when he comes to visit. We spent a week skiing with him and his girlfriend, Georgia, last year at Sugarloaf, and they house-sat my cat for a couple of weeks last summer when my wife and I were traveling in Asia.” On one of Bob’s many business trips, he caught up with Mark Roberge, in his hometown of San Diego, over cocktails at the famous Hotel Del Coronado. On other trips, he has seen Mimi Keon in her home in the West End of London and Sally Doyle in Paris. Bob also sees Liz Sargent Corcoran ’79 in Charlottesville, VA, which is where his employer is located. Bob would love for anyone finding themselves in NYC to look him up.

Chris Rokous completed his teaching career at the Governor’s Academy and started as the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School development director in June. He and his wife will be relocating to beautiful Camden, ME, for the next chapter of their lives. OK, we are a little jealous we didn’t think of that career move.

Dan Hajjar resides outside Philadelphia, where he has been father to three children and an upperschool math teacher at the William Penn Charter School. Still passionate about teaching after 31 years, he supplements his enthusiasm for education with his passion for playing bass, which he does in two well-known classic rock bands in the local area. Jane Shattuck, realizing that two of her classmates share a bass-playing talent, introduced Dan to Bill Blank and his wife, Debi, over dinner when Dan was in the Boston area. Bill is a software robotics engineer at Boston Dynamics and shared the exciting news of the company’s new worldfamous humanoid robot, Atlas, of YouTube and Nova fame. Bill says he has never been happier or more excited about his engineering career.

Jane caught up with Claire Gilliatt Wade on the phone. Claire is still living in the greater Washington, DC, area and is busy with two highschool daughters. Jane has also been e-mailing with Julie Hey Lillis, who is working less and gardening more. Jane and Julie hope that 2016 is the year they will see each other in person. Most recently, Jane had lunch with Teri Hensey Starling while Teri was in town to take care of some family business.

Teri has just purchased a new home in Tempe, AZ, and is happy to have two of her grown daughters in residence. Her oldest daughter just passed the Massachusetts bar exam and lives in Somerville.

At the Academy’s annual senior-alumni dinner in early May, Jane also saw Louis Elson, who was at Andover for a weekend of trustee meetings before dashing back to London.

That’s all for this issue. We love hearing from you and look forward to hearing more about your adventures! Cheers, Amy & Jane

1981 Warren Jones Houston Texas 281-450-6457 wcjonesllc@gmail.com Stefanie Scheer Young New York NY 917-287-6111 stefanie.scheer@gmail.com

Welcome to the 35th Reunion edition of Class Notes. First, many thanks to Sarah Horowitz and Katie Leede, who planned the stellar event with your New York correspondent. The food, beverages, music, and decor were only rivaled by the great fun dancing and conversing enjoyed by those in attendance. One of the best parts was the chance to meet and talk with wonderful classmates we did not even know in our Andover days. We came back to see our oldest friends and left with new ones.

Friday night we forewent dinner in the Cage in favor of a food truck at our reunion tent on the quad in front of our base, Johnson Hall. New England favorites chowder and lobster brioche and treats like Bing Broderick’s famous cookies were washed down with specialty beers and tequila shots. DJ Tom Efinger arrived just in the nick of time to provide the grooves. They were clearly hitting a beat as we continue every reunion to host the parties most crashed by other classes.

Saturday morning featured the traditional class parade on the Great Lawn with stalwarts Clan MacPherson still piping the way to Cochran Chapel. It was humorous to note that we are getting closer and closer to the front of the parade and that the youngsters clap for us these days. Golf carts were provided by “Bluber,” but there weren’t any takers…yet. At the reunion update in the chapel, board president Peter Currie ’74 announced the incoming trustees, including our own Stefanie Scheer Young, who will serve a four-year term as an alumni trustee. Hey, she finally won an Andover election! Then we were off to a barbeque lunch in front of GW, followed by rain just in time for our class picture on the steps of Samuel Phillips Hall.

No bad-hair comments, please.

Speaking of photographs, we enjoyed meeting Sean Rynne’s son Tyler ’18, who was helping chronicle the event for Andover magazine. Sean joined your Houston correspondent on an afternoon walk through the graveyard and a stroll through Pearson Hall with Bayly Ledes-Daviau, husband Fabrice, and daughter Isabelle, as well as Joe Sutherland. Among the old desks, fond memories of Dr. Pottle and Mr. Krumpe came to mind.

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stay connected... community as a whole. There were also open houses at the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library (which now houses a makerspace), the Peabody Museum, and the Observatory. Several classmates also attended mini classes on topics ranging from the current exhibition at the Addison to the social issues posed by the television series The Wire. Also Saturday afternoon, Mary Hulbert and James Herberich were inducted into the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor, due in no small part to the advocacy of Mark Bamford, who later assured doubters that he had in fact graduated.

Those of us in attendance were Randy Accetta, Scott Amero, Pete Anderson, Win Anderson, Mark Bamford, Fran Trafton Barnes, Chris Bedell, Alison Bentley, John Blasberg, Karen Brace, John Brenner, Bing Broderick, John Burgess, Jane Butler, Mary Cataudella, Jim Cleary, Leon Collins, Kitty Cornwell, Grace Curley, Steve Dembitzer, Becky Warren Duseau, Tom Efinger, Kathleen Lyons Fanikos, Rosalina Feliciano, Katrinka Heher, Sarah Horowitz, Alan Howard, Mary Hulbert, Carlo Innocenti, Warren Jones, Tom Kinsky, Petrie Kodzis, William Kummel, Bayly Ledes-Daviau, Katie Leede, Jack Liebau, John Lockwood, Liz Longsworth, Paiboon Mahaisavariya, Michael Marrus, David Martz, Jodie McAfee, Sean Moore, Philip Murphy, Paula Muto-Gordon, Caroline Otto, David Parker, Drew Quinn, Bruce Raphael, Tim Richards, Jim Ringer, Ellen Robbins, Lynda Rowe, Sean Rynne, Catherine Best Slack, Gary St. Onge, Cristina Rubio Suarez, Joe Sutherland, Suzanne Tanner, Amanda Tepper, Laura Whitman, Karen Woods, Stefanie Scheer Young, and Andrew Young. And if you’ve seen any of the Facebook pictures, you may have spied a few more who dipped in and out, like Steven Harrington, Jamie Lebowitz, Debbi Neyman Silverman, and Lee Anne Snedeker.

Saturday’s dinner in the Underwood Room featured an honored guest, former Rabbit Pond cluster dean Wendy Richards, and kicked off with a specialty cocktail crafted by our own Steve Dembitzer, with Tito’s vodka, fresh mint, and lime juice. The lovely long tables were dotted with photos of us back in our prime. Katie warmed up the crowd before dinner by asking each of us to stand and give a quick update on where we live and work, our marriage/dating status, and our passion. We got two “still writing poetry,” the expected paeans to spouses/significant others, and a dubious update on the twin brother not in attendance (Chris Richards was actually coaching his Belmont Hill crew to a heartbreaking second-place finish by an infinitesimal fraction at the high school nationals). There was heartbreak (the loss of Suzanne Tanner’s beloved daughter) and triumph (our Drew Quinn has been fighting the good fight around the world in the Foreign Service and on the White House National Security Staff; he was deputy chief negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but you won’t find him

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boasting about it). The dating-status question did generate one viable lead, as newly divorced classmate Alan Lewis just launched a mobile social networking app for dating, Just Ask Me, available in the Apple App Store and coming soon to Android.

Users enlist “helpers” to introduce them to their friends, and then they can chat directly or enlist the “helper” to break the ice. We look forward to juicy details at the 40th. By the way, does anyone in the class not live in Brooklyn?

We danced long into the night, as did some committed members of the Class of 1976, because thanks to Tom, our music is the absolute best.

We also took a moment to toast and remember the good times with our departed classmates James Alex, Christopher Arnold, Kevin Brown, Kevin Footman, Robert Hawkins, Kimberly Hillier, Henry Hough, Lisa Tay Lawrence, Peter May, Martin Melia, Patrick New, Elisabet Samuelsson, James Spanos, and Ian Tuchen. We are thinking we will plant a tree at our next reunion in memory of those we have lost.

The list of those who have attended every one of our reunions is not long. We can now count those classmates on two hands, but of course, leading the charge as always is Bill Kummel, who holds our wonderful class together as none other.

Now it’s time to pass the torch to a fresh set of class secretaries. We foolishly squandered our opportunity to tap the new regime at reunion, but an exhaustive search is under way. We will continue to be your contacts until the announcement; details next issue. Best, 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 Chandri Navarro 604 Tivoli Passage Alexandria VA 22314 chandri.navarro@hoganlovells.com Yalda T. Uhls 616 Via De La Paz Pacific Palisades CA 90272 yaldatuhls@gmail.com

As you may have heard, in recent years Andover has been making great strides toward gender equality and diversity. It’s wonderful to know that our school is at the forefront of these important issues, which are critical for all schools of the 21st century

to address. The times are a-changin’, but even the older generation (that’s us, folks) can be part of this conversation. In fact, today I can announce that the Class of 1982 is proud to support that trend, with both Chandri Navarro and me contributing to our class notes.

All joking aside, I am honored to be contributing to these notes. My goal is to share information about our cohort as we enter the “sandwich” years of our lives, between taking care of kids (for those of us who are parents) and helping our own parents. Every year I realize more and more that my Andover friends are some of my favorite people.

The bonds of high school are strong, but you are all just an amazingly smart and cool group of people.

My life has changed quite a bit in the past few years. In 2009, I thought I was leaving the film business for good, going back to school to get a PhD from UCLA in developmental psychology.

I had no agenda, just a passion for learning about child development. It led to a new career path as author (Media Moms & Digital Dads), nonprofit exec (Common Sense Media), and liaison between Hollywood and academics (as the only person I know with a PhD and a formerly robust Hollywood career, I am a bit of a unicorn). On the home front, my two kids are digital teens, with one starting to embark on the college madness.

I’m not the only Andover alum who made a career transition. Calista Woodbridge writes that she now is on her third career, this time as a mom.

She lives on Johns Island, which is near Kiawah in South Carolina, on a dirt road near a tidal creek.

She has a 9-year-old son, the light of her life.

Courtney Zani, housed in Orange County, CA, is following her passion by working with her husband on his start-up, along with Brett Johnson.

Courtney has three teenagers, with the oldest daughter on her way to Berklee College of Music next spring.

Others follow their passions in more unusual ways. Daniel Jacobs, who lives in Waltham, MA, has a video business as a DP, camera operator, and editor (Avid). One film he’s particularly proud of is Daughters of Anatolia, for which he lived with and videoed nomadic goat herders in Turkey for a total of 37 days.

I recently saw Mary-Ann Somers at Sundance; those of you who follow her on Facebook may have seen a picture of her there with her “boyfriend,” Jon Hamm. She now lives in rural Pennsylvania, running the U.S. candy division of Hershey.

Paula Lee and I correspond frequently in the virtual world, where she demonstrates mastery with 1000s of Twitter followers. She is also the author of Deer Hunting in Paris: A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat and many cutting-edge Salon pieces.

One of her passions is increasing diversity among authors, and as a fellow author, I wholeheartedly support her cause!

Others live out their passions in exciting locales. Stephanie Han writes and teaches with her 21st-century global family. She now does a Hong Kong-to-Honolulu commute after years in a

www.andover.edu/intouch beloved medieval Chinese village, where the water buffalo roam. Her Swimming in Hong Kong comes out in October 2016! Andover appears in her short story, “Nantucket’s Laundry, 1983.”

Will St. Laurent reports that he has been married for 28 years! He manages the family ranch in southern Oregon along with investments in biotech, recycling, and real estate. His older son is getting married next year, and the younger, a senior at Brown, will be going to law school.

Ellen Nordberg reports that she is looking forward to reading my book. As the mother of 12-year-old twin boys, she believes it might be a helpful resource. She is in the midst of producing a show called Listen to Your Mother in Boulder, CO. Chris Dean is the CEO of Swrve Mobile, an ad mobile engagement platform (www.swrve. com) headquartered in SF, with half the company in Dublin. He’s been married for 19 years, and he and his wife have three kids, Eliza (16), Diana (14), and Nicholas (12). So far, the kids have all attended high school locally, but Nicholas is threatening to go to Andover or St. Paul’s.

Pam Webster works in healthcare in southern Rhode Island, after spending two years as manager of the cancer registry at Boston Medical Center.

Her daughter graduated this spring from Olin College of Engineering, and her son graduated from the Moses Brown School in Providence.

Both are headed to the Pacific Northwest in the fall, one for work and the other for college. Empty nest ahead!

Calvin Hsu claims he lives a pretty boring life, but to me, Hong Kong sounds very exotic. He lives there with his family: his wife (an occupational therapist and clinical psychologist), two beautiful girls in grades nine and six, a dog, and two cats.

That’s the update from several Andover 1982 graduates, a diverse crew of people indeed. Hope to see you all in 2017 at our 35th Reunion. Who’s in? —Yalda Uhls

1983 Andrew L. Bab 170 East 83rd St., Apt 6F New York NY 10028 212-909-6323 albab@debevoise.com

Just a few items this time. Please keep in mind that there is a significant delay between submission and publication, so I’m often asking for news before the latest Andover magazine shows up in your mailboxes. Some of you re-sent news that you had sent me last time, which by now you will have seen included in the last edition.

Our classmates have several significant life changes to report. Deborah Mei has given birth to her second child, Lauren, and now has two children under the age of 4. She is running the Raine Group LLC, a technology, media, and telecommunications merchant bank in China.

While Deborah has now spent more than 20 years in Hong Kong and China, working at a small bank is a big change from her 15 years at Morgan Stanley.

Deborah reconnected recently with Peggy Lim Shaw—they were both alumni interviewers in China (Peggy has since moved to Hong Kong).

Apparently, we have a far better presence in China than Exeter does, and the number of Chinese candidates is through the roof.

Amy Kellogg has moved to Roma Aeterna!

She tells me she is studying Dante in the original, while still reporting for Fox News (only now with ruins as her backdrop). Not a bad gig, Amy! She reports that she was in Paris in April and caught up with Alison Beaumont Hahn, attending a conference on cancer research, and Laura Culbert Knowles-Cutler.

Frederick “Fritz” Reichenbach is moving to Singapore with his family. He’s preparing well: Chris Suan ’84 hooked him up with some of his local friends, and he’s getting connected with the local club as well. Not sure exactly what that means, but sounds fun. Son Alex ’18 will come home on vacations.

Bob Butera’s third book, Yoga Therapy for Stress and Anxiety, was published in September 2015.

He says his YogaLife Institute has expanded by adding a holistic healing center for yoga therapy and healthcare, with a doctor, psychotherapist, acupuncturist, and massage therapist.

Howard Miller is happy in Seattle. One of his remodel projects will be featured in the 2016 kitchen and bath issue of Fine Homebuilding. Turns out his client is an Andover alum—but a decade younger than us.

Well, that’s it for now. Please do let me know what’s going on in your lives and our classmates’ lives! Till next time.

1984 Alexandra Gillespie 52 Amelia St. Toronto ON M4E 1X1 Canada 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 617-967-3869 adam@mksdesign.com

The news from our friend, Dr. Bill [Seeley]: “I was back on campus for the Alumni Council meeting this past weekend and spent two awesome spring days with Phoebe Brown,

Susan O’Brien Lyons, and Torrance York, who all represent our class on the council. I also had the opportunity to catch up with Philip Zaeder, Jim Sheldon, and Shirley Veenema Friday night at a dinner celebrating the retirement of Seth Bardo, Kathleen Dalton, Marc Koolen, and Stephen Carter. Boy, time flies. Peter Nesbett and his wife, Shelly Bancroft, joined us for dinner. They run an independent curatorial agency in New York called Triple Candie. [I believe that they are scheduled as artists in residence at Andover next year. I am looking forward to returning to the Addison to see what they come up with!] On the home front, we have moved to Bath, ME. We finally hung up our skis after a day at Sugarloaf on April 24. I am handling the transition by playing ice hockey three nights a week. Some colleagues and I received an NEH digital start-up grant this past spring to develop software that uses digital image analysis algorithms to categorize paintings by genre, school, and artist. The goal is to study the formal qualities of artworks that define artistic style. We are hoping we can put something together that museumgoers, computer scientists, schoolkids, undergraduates, and researchers in the humanities can all use to explore artworks!”

And from John C. Canty: “My wife, Mary, and I have lived in Chicago, the ‘city of the big shoulders,’ for 15 years now. We love it here, as the people are very friendly, there is a lot of intellectual stimulation, and there is so much to do in the outdoors. The snow and ice just keep you on your toes! We have two ‘unguided missiles,’ Barbara (just turned 16) and Jack (13), who keep us quite busy. In fact, 30 years later, I want to express a fullfledged mea culpa to Janine Coleman LeSueur, Laurie Vance, and the rest of the groovy cats of Andover field hockey for not expressing sufficient reverence for their sport. My daughter is an up-andcoming field hockey goalie (team went 18-1-3 this fall, I hasten to add), and now, many games later, I realize that field hockey lies at the very center of Western civilization. In fact, if anyone wants to launch a 24/7 ESPN field hockey channel, I’m in!

Since 2007, I have managed a group of corporate bankers at Northern Trust responsible for building new clients in the southeastern U.S. While at times this involves way too much travel, it has been a fun and rewarding job. I learn about new industries all the time, I get to coach and mentor some of our junior cadre, and we have put a lot of points on the board.

“I sincerely regret missing the 30th Reunion. My wife and I had planned a big trip with our kids for our 20th wedding anniversary that summer, and that won out. But I do hope to see classmates at the next reunion.

“I bear glad tidings. Chip Wittmann is doing very well indeed. This summer he received a big promo to a senior executive role for Sterling Asset Management in Virginia Beach, VA. He and his very lovely wife, Heyden, have been married for over 20 years. Chip reports that they will have two kids at Duke University next year, with his third Andover | Reunion 2016

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stay connected... still in high school. He is distressingly lean and fit.

Chip runs marathons; I run after my #+$@ 6:50 a.m. train.

“Arren Fisher, late of Adams South as well, is a rising IT exec at North Carolina blue-chip LabCorp. I have caught up with Arren several times in my North Carolina travels, and he is enjoying life in the dynamic Raleigh-Durham area. And he is finally willing to concede that, yes, he does owe me beer money.

“On a few occasions, I have been able to catch up with Chas ‘Renaissance Man’ Fagan and his gracious wife, Katie, on business trips through Charlotte. I have even seen the studio (at his house) where future works of art for presidential libraries are produced! I don’t know what I am more grateful for: that we have such talent in our class or that Chas has never pointed out that I struggle with drawing so much as a hangman.”

Happy 50th birthday everyone! I’ll leave you with a nugget from Groucho Marx: “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”

Big hugs all around. —Alexandra

1985 Pamela Paresky P.O. Box 8878 Aspen CO 81612 pamela@ayearofkindness.com

School/class president Bill Parsons, who as of our 30th Reunion was chief of staff to Maryland congressman Chris Van Hollen, writes, “After 14 great years, I have left Capitol Hill.” Bill accepted a position as executive director for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Greater Chesapeake and Potomac Chapter. Bill’s son, Will, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 3, so this is a very personal cause for his family.

Before his years on the Hill, you might recall that Bill was a traveling musician. “You can still find my CDs on iTunes—from which I continue to make tens of dollars annually in royalties,” he quips. I had the great pleasure of having dinner with Christine Balling ’86 (who was completing a graduate degree in national security affairs) and Bill when I was in DC. On the other side of the country, Peter McNulty has been living in LA for 26 years. Married for six years, he has two teenage stepchildren who, he raves, “are as cool and smart as I could have hoped for.” Peter is the inventor of water-treatment technologies, one of which is for ocean-going cargo ships. “I spent about a decade in the shipbuilding industry, essentially,” he recounts. His next big thing is ultraviolet LED water treatment. “I filed a patent on that about a year ago and am in start-up mode again. An ultraviolet LED is the closest thing to magic I’ve ever worked with. My mind is blown on a regular basis. High-tech fun.” Peter filled me in on Prescott Woodruff, who is running a cancer research lab at UC San Francisco and is an assistant

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professor of medicine. “He’s with a gal whose cognitive credentials are just as impressive as his,” Peter reports. (Prescott is an MD with a master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.)

Michelle Kluck Ebbin’s fourth book, The Touch Remedy: Hands-On Solutions to De-Stress Your Life, came out in April (basicknead.com). Michelle lives in Santa Barbara, CA, with her husband and three boys and works regularly with the media to promote the benefits of massage. She has appeared on television (e.g., The Dr. Oz Show) to demonstrate how touch therapy can relieve stress.

(Maybe that’s why she always looks so relaxed in her photos on Facebook.)

Shirin Christian Samiljan recently purchased Mission Peak Soap, a supply company in Fremont, CA, that produces custom blends for soapmakers, custom wholesale soap, and at-home soapmaking kits. She hosted a statewide conference in September (missionpeakworkshop.com).

Shirin’s eldest daughter is studying logistics and international business at Cal Maritime, her middle child started college in the fall, and her youngest is still in high school.

Heather Louise Parker lives in Los Angeles and is keeping busy protecting people and businesses from identity theft (legalshield. com). She writes, “Chris Liou (a VP at Infinera) continues his triathlon racing, nationally and internationally, and proudly posting the beautiful artwork of his daughter. Meg Bottcher McManus took a new position as health IT director at Planned Parenthood of Maryland. Meg and her husband, Steve, live in Baltimore with their kids: Owen, 16, and Fiona, 13.” Meg says, “Like many of you right now, all of our waking hours outside of the office are spent on the side of a lacrosse field.”

While visiting New York, I spent an afternoon with Ben Schwall (from Taiwan) and three of his adorable children at the American Museum of Natural History. In another NY visit, I had lunch with Clifford Bernstein, who was there (from Japan) on business. Lesson: When traveling, post your itinerary on our class Facebook page so classmates at your destinations can reach out. When it works, it’s such fun to reconnect in person!

Megan Carroll is among our classmates on the Alumni Council, along with Rhys Dekle, Carter Vincent, Alex May, Alex Mishkin, John Kole, Alison Smith Lord, and Matthew Littell. They all participated in meetings in May and attended the dedication of the Sykes Wellness Center, named for Becky Sykes, former associate head of school, who worked for years to optimize both wellness and student leadership. Megan reports, “Sleep, stress, and nutrition were big topics of conversation, as the theme of the whole weekend was student wellness—physical and mental.” (For information about the center or the school, contact any of our Alumni Council reps!)

Becca Derderian Daniels and Peter R.H. Stark, who live nearby, joined AC reps at the Andover Inn, where our class has monthly mini

reunions. Get on our Class of 1985 Web page and join one! Megan says, “Strother Purdy often drives up from Connecticut and Carter Vincent from Rhode Island; local friends Ted McEnroe, Maureen O’Brien, Hal Gillam, and Liz DeLucia, and many others [including favorite teachers] pop in for a drink and their famous fries.” (I recommend the chocolate martinis.)

I continue to write for PsychologyToday.com (PsychologyTodayBlog.com is the direct link), consult for organizations and schools, and coach executives and others. And my new goal for the guided journal, A Year of Kindness, is to get it into middle schools in an effort to create school cultures of kindness. If you know any schools that might be interested, I would be very grateful for an introduction.

As always, send news about yourself and other classmates!

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

Well, rats! This was apparently not a reunion to miss, but miss it I did, schlepping my 12-year-old son around to a bevy of sixth-grade graduation activities. I was blessed, however, to have a window onto the event via the Class of 1986 Facebook page, where the feed was updated throughout the weekend with photographs of our betterlooking-than-ever classmates and even a video that documented Maurice “Cee” Plaines’s memorial tribute to the late Kevin Liberty.

Whether we attended or not, all of us owe our thanks to the generous efforts of the reunion committee, headed by David Eckman and helped by Emily Bernstein, Jenny Rider, Kathleen Campbell DiPaolo, Kim Doggett Formisano, Malcolm Galvin, Ellen LeMaitre, Debby Murphy, John Nesbett, Matt Pechinski, Alex Pozzy, Dave Sullivan, Lee Westerfield, and Lydia Wise.

Speaking of Jenny Rider, I’m always heartened by the fact that Jenny’s reunion is truly a family affair. Jenny writes, “I had the joy of reunioning with my father, George Rider ’51, celebrating his 65th.

Ed Nef ’51 is making a documentary film about their class and how Andover has shaped their lives.

It was incredibly moving listening to my father and his classmates reflect on this and to see how strong

www.andover.edu/intouch their ties to Andover and to one another continue to be. Plus, Dad picked up the bar tab at the Inn!” Kim Guzowski—who, along with Nicole Grieco Butterfield, was part of an education panel that I hear was great—also gave testimony: “It was wonderful to catch up with folk, especially Ray Johnson, Lydia Wise, Carlos Barrionuevo, Ariel Hubbard, Cee Plaines, Randall Batinkoff, Kim Doggett Formisano, Ken Uchino, and Susan Willard Hawes. Saturday night’s late night turned into some very fun dancing—great to see we’re not too old groove.

“We (Nicole Grieco Butterfield and Kim Guzowski) thank everyone who came to the education discussion, including special guests Tom and Celeste McGraw. We’re going to continue that conversation online. If you are interested in hands-on education or how to get involved with your local schools, contact Kim and Nicole, who are doing a lot of work in this area, both together and apart.”

Kim concludes, “What I loved about this reunion was how many meaty conversations I got to have. I found it especially interesting how many of us are deeply interested in education and work in schools. Can’t wait for the next one! Congrats to the reunion committee.” (Kim, please sign me up for that online discussion, too—others?)

Speaking of my fellow classmates and education, I want to give a special shout-out to Cee Plaines, who gave me a back channel to the reunion conversation (even though I didn’t attend), because he met with my son weekly this summer to do some academic and sports coaching in advance of his attending a new, challenging school this fall. It has been really incredible to see Cee (now known as Coach Mo!) help my son cultivate some planning and “grit” skills that are really useful and strengthening—and unlike anything else you’ll see from the tutoring/testing world. I understand that Kendall Price and I are going to be holding Cee to the task of writing a book about his experiences and methodologies.

At least I am not the only one who missed reunion. Dear Matt George writes: “Sorry, nothing to contribute to class notes this time around. Sorry to have missed people at the reunion. All about the kids these days, running the summer camp shuttles. Both boys are into karate, so I’m training with them (and my wife) at the same dojo. After six months, I have attained the lofty status of white belt. Great larks.”

Rachel Coppleson Entwisle is our lady in England, and she reflects on the personal and the public: “Gossip? Oh please, girl. I’m in the scary/ boring part of life when my eldest son has to sit 13 parts of just three A Level exams, making me yearn for the simplicity of SATs. I’m awaiting receipt of a fox red Labrador named Ruby, who will be turning our comfortable world upside down over the summer. And I work at the most amazing hospice in all of England.

“The EU referendum has produced some of the worst lying from both sides that I’ve ever observed

here, and I find the rhetoric of leaving like a Trump speech: Initially it has a hook to it, but then it peters out, and no one can tell you how things will actually get done. This is a feisty island nation that values its independence above most things, but it suffers from acute nostalgia that may cloud any forward thinking.

“The recent violent death of MP Jo Cox has had two unusual effects: It has ratcheted down some of the political vitriol that we’ve been subjected to over the referendum, and it’s taken some of the self-righteousness out of British tutting over Orlando, which I welcome if only because I’m asked frequently to explain or defend America’s gun issues for spirited debates. Personally, I have given up understanding the subject since Sandy Hook. I really thought we had a shot at gun control then (pardon the pun).

“I live across the pond in a hidden shire/ cowtown, working for a charity and getting fatter from all the cooking and baking I like to do. Hope to see everyone at the next reunion, though!”

And from my colleague Kathleen Campbell DiPaolo, perhaps the biggest news I’ve heard in awhile: “I am moving to New Delhi next month to join my husband, who works with KPMG Global Services, and we will be there for two to three years.

My daughter, Posy, will be attending the American Embassy School. Conner, 19, is at Harvey Mudd College as a sophomore, and Christopher, 17, is a senior at Blair Academy. I can’t wait to see whether I can get my two dogs into the country. I know— all things are possible!”

Peace to you all on your journeys! Please stay in touch, and if your travels have you rounding the Capital Beltway, please cut through Prince George’s County and come see me!

—Caroline Langston Jarboe

1987 David Kopans 2 Princeton Road Arlington MA 02474-8238 781-646-4515 617-947-2454 (cell) dave@kopans.com

Let’s start with some crazy sightings and end with high fives.

Crazy Sighting No. 1: Nicole Wynn reported seeing Torrence Boone in Nairobi. Yes, you read that right. Nicole is an employment lawyer for the U.N. in Nairobi, and Torrence was in the neighborhood, so he took a “side trip” to visit.

Crazy, because the side trip was from Morocco!

No. 2: Randall Kempner reports, “I have seen the reclusive species Bowmanus andus [Andrew Bowman] twice in the last month, one of which was at a party to help my parents celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Seeing Andy is exciting. Having parents who have been married for 50 years is extraordinary—though it did

remind me how close to 50 we all are.” To this I say, raise a toast to being almost 50, having sightings of Bowman, and of course to Randall’s parents (even if his dad went to Deerfield).

No. 3: Steve Hopkins relayed the story of watching Andover baseball play Poly Prep with Hiroshi Okamoto. What was crazy here was Steve watching Hiroshi show the PA pitching corps his high heat fastball. Yes, Hiroshi is close to 50 and still “smokin’ ”!

No. 4: Greg Shufro reports seeing Jordan Smyth ’84 some 32 years after he was school president and our proctor in Rockwell. “Jordan has not changed!” says Greg.

OK, not a sighting, but still crazy, and a direct quote: “David Kunian got his first real job ever. After more than 20 years as a freelance ethnomusicologist, he is now the music curator of the Louisiana State Museum. He has been placed in charge of the care of artifacts such as Louis Armstrong’s first cornet, Papa Celestin’s death mask, and several Blue Books, which are 1915 guides to prostitutes in Storyville. His family is overjoyed.”

In less nutty but far tastier news, Mike Peterson made Philippian headlines by having 37 Harrison’s roast beef sandwiches delivered to Bartlet for his son’s 16th birthday. OK, I lied about the Philippian headline, but it should have been one.

If Rett Wallace, Anselm Fusco, and Tony Jaccaci were still running the newsroom, it would have been.

Speaking of Tony, he is now firmly stateside after five years in Shanghai. Tony, wife Lucia ’88, and their three kids moved a year ago to Cincinnati when Tony took over as head of the Cincinnati Country Day School. Tony reports seeing Woody Taft regularly. No mention whatsoever was made of any new-age gentleman farming activities (read prior notes and Ohio voting records for insight here).

Continuing the moving-about trend, Kristin duBay Horton is moving to Austin, Texas. As she reports, “Tough road for a lifelong New Englander. Any fellow Andoverites living in Lakeway? Would love to find Blue friends locally.”

Deb Palmer proves there is sometimes a bummer of a balance in the universe, as she reported that she is moving, of all places, from Austin. Deb and family headed to Boulder, where she will be joining the University of Colorado as an associate professor of bilingual education.

Sticking with our classmates in academia, we heard from the esteemed prof with the best autoreply ever. Yes, that’s right: Charles Mathewes wrote in a piece that made me laugh so hard, tears ran down my legs (another lie, but what he wrote was really funny). It also ran some 182 words, which is 20 percent of our allotted 900. So it gets cut by 128 words to this (it’s still funny—I’ll e-mail anyone all of it, if asked): “My life…lends itself very little to excitement…which is pretty much the way I like it.…I see Greg Hays…I sometimes shock our students…my longstanding offer to Andover | Reunion 2016

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Up in Fairfax, VA, Gilbert Gimm is fifthyear faculty at George Mason. Check out his smiling face and cool list of research at http:// bit.ly/1Ot7Ajb. Randall Kempner, like Bowman, appears a second time, as Gilbert reported catching up with him and Carter Hood at a college event.

William (Downs) Rosselli Del Turco recently transitioned to a part-time position with Maryland’s Department of Labor as an adjudicator, in order to focus more time on his private practice of law in the field of child abuse and neglect.

Stefan Cushman wrote about his recent non sibi activity, joining the board of the Maine Seacoast Mission, a wonderful organization based in Bar Harbor (seacoastmission.org).

Kristen Nork wrote from Reno, NV, where she is a family physician and medical director.

Janice Neri ’88 and family visited over Christmas, and Kristen saw Selena Seto this spring when on campus to watch her niece, Erica Nork ’16, graduate from PA. Congrats, Erica, from the Class of ’87!

Suzi Leech Strate wrote for the first time from bucolic western Massachusetts, where she is raising her son and working as a state demographer. “Also still cycling,” she writes, “but at about a fraction of the old team mileage!”

Jonathan Bush continues to try to eat more jelly doughnuts (read the winter notes for insight).

And with the shortest but most poignant notes submission ever, David Lillard responded to my request for news by throwing both hands up in the air and yelling, “Two high fives!” Yes, he just e-mailed a capital “Y.” Right back at you, David, and of course to everyone else in the class as well: Y!

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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 2221 46th St. NW Washington DC 20007 202-365-8593 mattlavindc@yahoo.com Heather Ross Zuzenak 12 Ginn Road Winchester MA 01890 781-874-1747 hrzuzenak@yahoo.com

Allison Picott ran into Bart Kalkstein in their mutual hometown, Concord, MA, in April. She’d previously seen Bart’s parents at PA and recalled how she’d stayed overnight at their cabin in Maine along with Bart, Luke Wennik, Gary Witover, and Kristin Humphries Bouchard ’89 following graduation. They’d attempted to cook lobsters on the wood-burning stove (not recommended). While back on campus for trustee/Alumni Council meetings, Allison had the pleasure of seeing John Kline, Doug D’Agata, and Andy Brown. Doug wrote separately of the weekend, noting that “apart from participating in the critical mission of the Alumni Council, we proved the postulate that nobody shuts down a bar like the Class of 1988.”

Elee Kraljii Gardiner hangs out with Wing Taylor ’89 in Vancouver, BC, where “he has been cheerfully withstanding poetry readings as I launch my first book of poems, Serpentine Loop (Anvil Press).” They saw Atticus Lish ’89 when he brought his runaway novel to town. Elee also ate at Corinna Mozo ’86 and Pablo Mozo ’89’s Toronto restaurant, La Cubana, “which is excellent and beloved already.

“If anyone has book groups, classes, or a friendly bookstore and wants a visit from a poet, let me know. I’m bringing the book to the East Coast in the fall and would love to reconnect!”

Paula Rand Hornbostel loved seeing college roommate Christina Weaver Vest ’89 in Wellesley, MA, and getting their children together.

Brennen Keefe was pleasantly surprised to hear from Hannah Bardo ’10, who reached out to him and his Will Hall buddies for memories to include in a book she made for her dad, Seth Bardo, who recently retired from Andover after 30 years.

Aisha Jorge Massengill is in lawyer grad school at Georgetown. She reports, “It’s kickin’ my behind, but I’m pushing through. One more

semester to go.” Aisha traveled to San Francisco and saw Jill Miller and Malieka Bundy. “We had a ball, as it had been several years since I’d been in the presence of my girls. We didn’t miss a beat,” she says. Earlier, she attended a PA-sponsored event featuring a documentary about Brian Gittens ’89’s protest for recognition of MLK Day at PA. Sarah Perkins and her daughter were in attendance, as were Terri Stroud, Sanders Adu ’90, Sherry Martin ’89, Willie Tate ’90, Malcolm Palmer ’89, and Sheldon Royal ’89.

Rani Ali-Ahmad, wife Abby, and son Dany welcomed new baby boy Noah in March. Rani’s family lives in LA, where he runs a venture fund called Venvest Capital.

Also welcoming a new arrival is Stevie Ray Nezhad, who writes, “I’m pleased to announce the arrival of our second daughter! Sabine Marie Nezhad was born in March in Beantown. Older sister Annalee is thrilled, as are mom Aimee and Big Daddy Ray! We are doing well and getting more sleep by the day!” Perhaps getting a touch more sleep is Jed Gore, whose littlest, Jackie, is now 18 months. “Not sure what year Andover that makes her,” he writes, “but I’m damn well going to push for it!”

Shannon Meyer’s son, Toby, has “somehow become a 5΄11˝ high school freshman” at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School, where her husband teaches. Toby’s climbing team won the state championships. Shannon’s daughter, Cassidy, is 12 and loves skiing and playing soccer. Shannon still covers seven states for the Land Trust Alliance.

After 20-odd years of living overseas, Steve Schlemmer and Tanya Rulon-Miller ’89 will move to Sag Harbor, NY. They look forward to seeing neighbors Chris Husband and Dan Koontz, as well as reconnecting with other PA alums.

Rob Patrick will have a change of command in October at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, near Seattle. If anyone in the area would like to attend, message Rob on Facebook, and he will coordinate base access and an invitation.

In 2013, Grace La and her family returned to Boston, where she is a professor of architecture and director of the master in architecture degree program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. La Dallman, the architecture practice she cofounded with her husband, James, continues to operate in Milwaukee, as well as at a new office in Boston. Grace’s older son, Seamus, will join the Andover Class of 2020 this fall. After a recent visit, Grace confirmed “the rumors that the food has seriously improved since our day!” Grace’s younger son, Henry, will join the sixth-grade class at Milton Academy this fall.

Also joining the Andover Class of 2020 is Roddy Scheer and Alex Tibbetts ’89’s daughter, Eliza. Their family moved from Seattle to San Francisco. Falcon Guides published Roddy’s Waterfall Hikes of Washington guidebook, which details his experiences hiking to 70-plus waterfalls and includes his photos.

Tina Merrill writes from Durham, NC, where

www.andover.edu/intouch she’s spent time with Miguel Sancho and his family, who are in Durham so their 4-year-old, Sebastian, can undergo a bone marrow transplant at Duke. Tina says, “Classmates can stay updated and donate to a nonprofit fund in Sebastian’s honor here: COTAforSebastianS.com/blog. Let’s all hold the vision of Sebastian fully cured, strong, and healthy, with the full head of curls that is his birthright.”

Indeed. I’ve been reading Miguel and wife Felicia’s blog, and each entry is moving and will sharpen your focus to life’s essentials. Sending all of you and yours wishes for good health, peace, and love. Warmly, Laura

1989 Curtis Eames 978-994-9015 curtiseames111@gmail.com Gina Hoods 400 Chaney Road, Apt. 1024 Smyrna TN 37167 423-892-7140 404-667-4939 ghoods@yahoo.com

“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life.” Yes, many of us are still in shock and mourning over the recent death of Prince Rogers Nelson. These class notes were supposed to be dedicated to our collective memories of him, but, well, life got in the way, I guess. To those of us who still cannot quite believe that we will never see him in concert again (or for the first time), to those of us who can recall specific memories around many of his songs and albums, I feel you, I share your loss and pain, and we will allow the doves to cry while we try to soldier on.

Social media complicates obtaining updates on people’s lives and careers. Will share what was freely given. Curtis Eames and Kent Strong started early with the vigorous election debate.

Both are avid Democrats, but pulling for different candidates. I wish all our political leaders could learn how to remain respectful of one another’s humanity even when they disagree.

Kate Spencer Doak recently completed teaching her first online course for the Eight Schools Association, whose members include Andover, Exeter, and Choate. Kate’s hubby, Sam Doak, is the dean of Choate’s graduating class.

Emily Muldoon Kathan kissed Somerville goodbye and established roots in Arlington, MA. She now gets to rock out with DJ/police officer Corey Rateau ’88 and hang out with trustee Allison Picott ’88 and her husband, as well as with Heather Pomeroy Kelley. I am all kinds of jealous that Emily was able to hear Jane Goodall in person when the eminent primatologist spoke at PA. Emily also sent word that Jen Stableford is a proud aunt to baby Beatrix. Per Emily, Lee Webster continued

to uphold our non sibi motto by submitting an upcycled chair in the design competition/ fundraiser for the New England chapter of the International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA-NE), benefitting the Women’s Institute for Housing and Economic Development (WIHED).

Awesome, or should I say wicked awesome?

Betsy Wiedenmayer Rogers sends greetings from Tokyo. She plans to get three of her four kids Americanized by sending them to camp in Vermont, with side trips to visit Shian Velie Brisbois in Manchester and Heather Pomeroy Kelley in Quechee. There are rumors Betsy may run for president and snag a spot in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. As long as you allow your fellow ’89ers VIP access to all events, Betsy, I support you in all your endeavors!

In between fighting the good Internet fight and for kids’ education in NYC, Kent Strong managed to slip away to Disney World with his wife and two kids. He stimulated the Orlando economy and was proud to pay his fair share.

Erica Gaines and her husband are celebrating daughter Destiny’s high school graduation and matriculation to Arizona State University. Erica is one child away from being an empty nester, with three kids having flown from the nest and still flying high. Rob Kinney is continuing the Andover legacy, with his son joining the Andover family this fall. His son will be among a number of our classmates’ kids. Congrats to all the parents on your kids’ academic achievements!

Sarah Davis Priest has relocated to Chicago, where her daughter attends Lake Forest Academy with Molly Foster Keller’s child. Former Andover faculty member John Strudwick is head of school.

Malcolm Palmer’s wife, Monica, teaches at the school, but Malcolm remains to be seen. The Andover takeover is real.

Liz Symchych King does development work for the Teton Literacy Center in Jackson, WY. Budget cuts have made the work more challenging, but she does get to hang out with Amy Morse Rogers, as both their kids Nordicski. Liz has also issued an invite to her crib for the August 2017 total solar eclipse; local hotels are already sold out. Let it be known I have dibs on a spot in the house. Class secretary privilege.

Unashamed.

As for me, I am enjoying reuniting with alums all over as I organize physician wellness conferences, in addition to working as an OB/ GYN. I cannot thank Carl McCarthy enough for his help with my nonprofit and Tyler Merson for his recipes as I work to get my temple in order.

Dave Mainen Milligan tries to keep me away from the yummy bacon. Thanks for all the love! —Gina

1990 Thomas W. Seeley 1572 Heifer Road Skaneateles NY 13152 315-263-0052 (cell) 315-685-3416 (work) twseeley@gmail.com Wanda Mann wanda@wandamann.com

How does one follow the eloquent and witty Hamlin O’Kelley as a guest correspondent for our class notes? I approach this task with some trepidation, but I feel honored that our devoted longtime class secretary and 25th Reunion cochair, Tom Seeley, has invited me to document the latest milestones and achievements of our classmates.

Our reunion may have been more than a year ago, but that spirit of camaraderie has not wavered.

It seems that wherever Tom Seeley travels, mini reunions happen! On a recent trip to NYC, Tom shared dinner and plenty of laughs with Ivy Baron, Jake Barton, Susan Marcus, Seth Schiesel, Laura Vinroot Poole, and Uche Osuji ’91. Moving along the Northeast Corridor, Tom attended a gathering at the DC home of Meredith Persily Lamel with Sanders Adu, Regina DeMeo, Roberta Ritvo, Weezie Parsons Parry, and Willie Tate.

Bobby Edwards, an honorary member of the Class of ’90, was also in attendance. Regina and Tom were class secretaries together for 10 years, but had not seen each other since our 15th Reunion!

Hamlin and his wife, Mary, shared a lovely photo on Facebook of their time with Jenifer Foss Smyth and her husband, John, on spring break in Florida.

On the West Coast, Gretchen Whittier, Kathy Huibonhoa, Olivia Morgan, and Kiersten Todt shared a spur-of-the-moment glass of wine in Northern California. They promise to be at the ready for other classmates so that no one has to drink rosé alone. A fine example of non sibi!

Sherita Gaskins-Tillett and her lovely daughter, Sophia, met for a lively lunch with Bobby Edwards in Maryland. Alas, I was not in attendance, but Sophia did bring along her doll, affectionately named Little Wanda!

Our classmates continue to make amazing strides in their professional careers. Andrew Case’s debut novel, The Big Fear, has been receiving rave reviews. The book, based on Andrew’s experience investigating misconduct at the NYPD, is described as “a story of corruption, profiteering, and betrayal in a city where crime is back on the rise and the police are back under suspicion.” Sounds like a gripping and relevant read; I encourage everyone to add it to their reading list.

If there are nuptials on the horizon, read Cristina Spencer’s article, “Modern Vows for Modern Couples,” which was published in Catalyst Wedding Magazine, to help you or someone you know prepare for this special day. Cristina is also the author of the book Writing Your Wedding Ceremony: Andover | Reunion 2016

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A Simple Guide for Modern Couples. Cristina is a coactive coach and certified lifecycle celebrant who “inspires women to draw on their own core values to craft lives that are nourishing and resonate with the greater good.”

Our class has several law school graduates who are applying their expertise to a variety of creative and impactful endeavors. Roberta Ritvo is a strategic leader working with businesses for justice and is making things happen at the DC Paid Leave Coalition. Anna Ivey is living in LA and is about to launch a software product that helps students with their online college applications. Kristen Carpenter co-authored a paper, “Owning Red: A Theory of Indian (Cultural) Appropriation,” that was printed in the Texas Law Review. Mark Ramsey is in NYC and specializes in leveraged finance at Skadden. I shared some holiday cheer last winter with Mark and his husband, Ron, at a fantastic party they hosted at their new apartment.

CNN news anchor John Berman is moving toward pop-culture icon status: His name recently appeared on-screen during the cold open of Saturday Night Live! Could an actual impersonation of Berman by one of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players be next? John recently made time in his busy schedule to welcome the talented staff of The Phillipian to the CNN studios in NYC. Last fall, after more than 20 years working in museums in NYC, including the Whitney and the Guggenheim, Yvette Lee took on an impressive new job as executive director of the Skystone Foundation. Yvette is working with James Turrell, one of today’s most important living American artists. Her career move was featured in the Washington Post and other media outlets.

Danielle Graham continues to be an amazing athlete. She recently participated in the Washington Ironman Figure Competition and ran the Sunflower Marathon and Relay. I’m always inspired by the Facebook pictures of Danielle and her family hiking, skiing, swimming, and running. Danielle is also a master docent at FISH (Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery).

It is always heartwarming to welcome new members to our Andover family. Oluwaseyi Owodunni and his wife, Jumoke Adejumobi, welcomed their beautiful daughter, Tirenioluwa Mabel-Christie Owodunni, in April. The pictures of the happy family on Facebook will absolutely melt your heart.

Our reunion DJ, Luis Calderin, is not an Andover alum, but he has made major news as the arts, culture, and youth vote manager for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. Politics aside, how many reunion classes can boast that their DJ was a key player in a presidential campaign?

We don’t have to wait until our next official reunion in 2020 to see one another. Hamlin O’Kelley has extended an invitation for everyone to head down to Charleston, SC, the weekend of December 2–4 for the Garden and Gun Jubilee.

Hope everyone had a wonderful summer!

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1991 Hilary Lerner Gershman 6124 SW 104th St. Miami FL 33156 305-467-6581 hilarygershman@yahoo.com

Greetings, classmates! As I write this, pictures are being posted and stories are being told of our incredible 25th Reunion last weekend. Reunion cochair Mara Raphael, who with cochairs Victoria Farley Hostin and Blair Lawson threw our huge dance party Saturday night, recalls that our party was so hot it was crashed by classes above and below! We should probably check the class notes of the other 1s and 6s in this issue, as they will most likely have some stellar reports from our party. Thanks to James Schriebl, who came to reunion with his wife, Zoe, not only do we have great photos of the class of ’91 but also some hysterical pictures of the party crashers getting down to the music spun by DJ Darryl Cohen ’92.

All of the hard work on behalf of our class by Mara, Vicki, and Blair and their amazing committee, including Toyin Ajose, Desmond Butler, Lex Carroll, Tiffany Chanel Corley, James Elkus, Mike Day, Steve Matloff, Brendon Guthrie, Shafika Khayatt, Kinn-Ming Chan de Velarde, Shane Cooper LaPointe, Willy Tong, and Roxane Williams, was definitely appreciated by all of us partygoers. There has been talk of starting our reunion on Thursday next time around, so we should start preparing ourselves now for 2021!

Friday night’s class party at the Log Cabin was a great success, even if some people (Ben Stout) may have gotten lost in the Sanctuary on the way there. The path was very dark, to be sure. The huge piles of Harrison’s roast beef sandwiches and fries, along with a couple dozen pizzas, were devoured quickly. Somehow, they were more popular than the hummus tray from Whole Foods!

Norm Gardner, Mike Day, Steve, Roxane, Brian Mancke, German Acosta, Sandeep Mammen, Eric Stockman, Gant Asbury, Ran Sarkar, and Shanti Roundtree were spotted going up for seconds. Smith House roomies Blair, Vicki, Mara, Lucie Flather, Tina Hartell, and I celebrated on our makeshift dance floor to Lucie’s awesome playlist and managed to get Chris Chase, back on campus for his first reunion since graduation, to dance with us. Jim Gosselin, Sarah Gallagher, Erica Danielson, Tigger Hitchcock, Pat Shea, Melissa Bearns, and the rest of us managed to find our way through the Sanctuary and back to the dorms when the party finally wound down around 2:30 a.m. However, we did see an Uber arrive to drive Roxane to Nathan Hale!

Saturday morning found many of us wandering over to Paresky Commons just in time for our “continental breakfast,” which we quickly discovered did not include eggs or bacon or pancakes or waffles. No matter. I got to

see my lower-year roommate Liz Farr Kuhse, enjoying her coffee and yogurt along with Amy Bronson Lieb, Alex Bernbach Howson, Ezinda Franklin-Houtzager, Darby Laspa Catalano, Tory O’Connor, Erin Eggert Brenner, and others. Following breakfast, I walked around campus with Vicki (who barely limped, even though she had sprained her ankle at the Log Cabin!), Mara, Blair, Lucie, Tina, Chris, and Ben. Exploring our old stomping ground in Smith House, we may or may not have set off the fire alarm when we tried to open the window by the fire escape upstairs. Ben and Chris still managed to locate the entrance to their old crawl space to the attic of Adams, even though the building has been completely renovated and is now a girls’ dorm.

It was great to see many of our classmates with their children at the reunion events. Lex and wife Emma brought brand-new baby Elle with them to get a taste of dorm living. Andy Frankenberger and wife Martha Fortune also bunked in Fuess, with baby Leo. Millicent King Channell came with her son and reunited with her girlfriends Tiffany, Mari Powell, and Kirsten Saunders and her adorable baby, Kinsey. Willy brought wife Elizabeth and children Penelope, Eleanor, and Sasha to check out the school on Saturday, and Juliet Sorensen Jones brought son Hugh. Mike Meiners and son Bug also visited from Chicago, in the hopes that Bug might want to become a Blue Key leader himself someday soon. Mara’s kids, Jack and Whitney, ran around campus with Blair’s son, Ryker, like they owned the place! On Saturday morning, Jack found the football field on his GPS and the three kids ran there to play catch until lunch.

Our class parade on Saturday morning included Uche Osuji and his fiancée, Maggie, Alex Techet and her triplets, Jamie Kim and his two daughters, and many more. As always, the parade was led by the bagpipers and the Old Guard. Alison Mitchell reunited with Kathleen Wolf, Michelle Doucette, Donna Coppola, and Maura McGrail Dunn.

Erin Twomey, Valla Vakili, Amy O’Neal Nylen, Jessica Gonzalez, and Linda Ficociello hung out around campus and dined together al fresco at the lunch buffet. Elaine Kim Benfield made it just in time for the class photo in the rain! Later on in the day, Sara Su Jones and her partner, Dennis, played a beautiful concert at Cochran Chapel.

Alyssa Sullivan Volker, Shannon Canavin, and Ted Latham also performed. Donna, Dawn Peters, Sam Robfogel, Diana Zipeto, Deanne Holder, Jennifer Wu Hernandez, and many more scored some front-row seats to enjoy the beautiful performances.

Bishop South took a break on Saturday afternoon for cocktails at the Andover Inn with Drea Thorn, the wife of beloved house counselor Craig Thorn. Jamie, Nat Furman, Tyler Newton, Chris Smith, Win Burke, Charlie Glass, Max Hoover, Sasha Kipka, and Elizabeth Hui von der Goltz toasted Craig and reminisced about their crazy days and nights in Bishop. Chris

www.andover.edu/intouch Chase, Hilary Driscoll Price, Jacob Minas, Kinn, Phil Bellizia, Mike Meiners, Steve, Alexandra Thompson, and many others congregated in the common room of Nathan Hale to read some of the Phillipian newspapers that Lucie has “archived” (emphatically not hoarded) over the years. A favorite article was the one in which Matt Fleming denounced Andover as a police state after the Adams South bust in the spring of 1991. Another memory recovered, thanks to The Phillipian, was that former student body president (and current state representative) Willy had fired his roommate Sam from the vice presidency and replaced him with Chris Smith! Could explain some of the surprised looks on the faces of many a classmate.

Lucie, I hope you have archived more treats for our 30th Reunion! Although some of the talk was decidedly middle-aged, any mention of reading glasses or large font on our phones was quickly forgotten when Matt arrived at Nathan Hale with a case of Bud Light.

Jason Haas generously poured his family’s delicious Tablas Creek wine at a tasting that kicked off the Saturday night festivities. Kate Petty Benett and Nicole Graber Stephenson toasted with Dan Raedle, Logan Sawyer, and Norm. Amara Moreau Briggs clinked glasses with Valentine Douglas, as did Buck Glenn, Stefan Cegalis, and Jon Odo. It was all very civilized.

Saturday night’s dance party was the scene for lots of revelry on and off the dance floor.

Thanks again to DJ Darryl, aka DJ D-Skillz, we had an amazing playlist. Mike Day and Anthony Cunningham did the Running Man Challenge to “My Boo.” James Elkus, Meka Egwuekwe, and Victor Mejia did their best when Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way” came on. Amy O’Neal Nylen, Wendy Espinoza Cotta, Jessica, Carolyn Bernal, Amy Ferraro, and Holly Parker knew all the words to “Don’t Stop Believin’.” And Brian Mendonca, Woo Lee, Fran Contreras, and Willy were all down with O.P.P. (the song, that is). Vicki managed to snag Jamie’s camera and take selfies with so many of you amazing ’91ers at the party. They will live on as an incredible piece of class history. Almost as good as the keg out the window at our Fifth Reunion (missed you, Josh Tulgan!).

So many of us were fortunate to celebrate our time together again at Andover and that special bond that continues 25 years later. If you were there but I have neglected to include your name, please accept my apology and let me know what you have been up to, so it can be included in our next issue.

It was really hard to keep track of everyone! And if you weren’t able to make our 25th, I hope this recap will inspire you to come for our 30th. Even the dorms weren’t so bad. Thanks to Matt Fleming for being an amazing co-class secretary these past five years; I couldn’t have chosen a better partner. I hope we will see and talk to and hear from many of you before our next reunion! —Hilary

1992 Allen Soong 1810 Burnell Drive Los Angeles CA 90065 asoong@post.harvard.edu

By the time these notes go to press, we will be just about seven months away from our 25th Reunion. I, for one, am getting pretty excited to ascend the Hill again, especially since I had to miss the 20th. Some of us are already reconnecting: Just as I was handing in these notes in mid-May, Kristin Hansen ’90, Jenny Elkus, and Nicole Quinlan hosted a cocktail party for alums at Tavern in the Square in Cambridge, MA. Back in October 2015, Berit Campion got hitched in Idaho and had Darryl Cohen and his alter ego, DJ D-Skillz, on the decks during the festivities; also in attendance were Ashley McKinney Fischer and Susan Abramson. Darryl also caught up with Kurtis Auguste in San Francisco in March.

Whether there’s a wedding to celebrate or not, take a cue from them and don’t wait until 2017: Organize a meet-up in your town. Think of it as a reunion warmup!

One of us will have actually been back on campus a year early. Aditi Joshi’s son, Thomas ’16, graduated in June as a four-year senior! Aditi writes, “Mother and son can’t wait to attend alumni events together in NYC in the coming years/decades. #andoverforlife.” Aside from being a proud parent, Aditi has been quite busy professionally. The start-up where she had been working for a few intense but thrilling years was acquired. Rather than take her foot off the gas, however, she returned to her alma mater, Yale, last year as a fellow at the law school, and also co-authored an academic research paper that was recently accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

Almost a year ago, I first heard from Alex Lippard that he was working on a new musical called Queen of Mean, the unknown story of Leona Helmsley, the notorious New York hotelier who—infamously (and allegedly)— said, “Only the little people pay taxes.” After eight years, he has finally completed it (this draft, at least, Alex wryly notes), and in April, two sold-out performances of the music and lyrics were held at the Actors’ Temple in Manhattan. Starring as Leona Helmsley was four-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh, best known as Deanna from The Walking Dead.

In a previous edition of the notes, we featured a number of classmates who’ve become entrepreneurs. That inspired Monisha Saldanha to write in with an update regarding Momaya Press, a social enterprise that she and Maya Cointreau, BFF and fellow “optimistic social entrepreneur,” launched in 2004. Observing that the experience of writing is chiefly a solitary affair, in which writers rarely get to see their words in print or hear from

their readers, Maya and Monisha set up Momaya Press as an online forum where aspiring writers can post their work and get feedback. Since their first annual short story competition in 2004, Maya and Monisha have had the pleasure and privilege of reading thousands of submissions, some of them astonishing in their insight and beauty. They have lots of fun thinking about each year’s theme, which for 2016 is Ambition. They love meeting the writers at the annual awards ceremony in London and hearing that so many of them feel transformed in how they view themselves and their writing ability once they have been published. Taylor Antrim, whose second novel, Immunity, was released last year, had his short story, “Announcement,” published in the 2004 edition of the Momaya Review.

To move half a step from social enterprise to public service: You may have read in the national news about John King’s appointment as acting U.S. secretary of education at the end of 2015.

One of the youngest Cabinet members ever, John came to the job after many years working as a teacher, a leader in the charter school movement, and education commissioner in New York State.

John appeared on the first episode of comedian Chelsea Handler’s Netflix talk show, Chelsea. The conversation began with an exploration of the state of education in America and then shifted to John’s personal story as the son of two New York City teachers who tragically passed away by the time he was 12. John credits the New York City public schools with helping him cope with loss, find hope, and chart a new path for himself, in which he made it his life’s work to expand educational opportunities for others facing similar challenges.

Previously we noted that Ai-jen Poo was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship—more commonly known as the MacArthur “genius grant”—for her efforts to organize housekeepers, nannies, and home health aides and expand workplace protections for domestic workers. In April, Ai-jen returned to Andover to accept the Fuess Award, established in 1967 in honor of Andover’s 10th headmaster, Claude Moore Fuess.

The award is given to alumni engaged in public service who exemplify the spirit of non sibi.

As we get closer to reunion, a lot more communications will be coming directly from Andover, so please make sure the Office of Alumni Engagement has all your current contact details, particularly your e-mail address and zip code. That way, you can be sure to get all the information about reunion and invites to local alumni events.

Just send an e-mail with your updated info and privacy preferences directly to OAE at alumnirecords@andover.edu. And join the rest of us on Facebook!

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1993 Susannah Smoot Campbell 301-257-9728 Susannah.s.campbell@gmail.com Jen Charat 619-857-6525 jcharat@yahoo.com Ted Gesing 917-282-4210 tedgesing@gmail.com Hilary Koob-Sassen +44 7973775369 hksassen@hotmail.com

If my calculations are correct, this issue hits newsstands just before a presidential election we will have all been hearing about for far too long.

Several of our classmates probably played minor roles in this election, but you may have missed the candidacy of one of our very own. Yes, that’s right: Jon Adams wrote me one of the most interesting class notes submissions I’ve had the pleasure of receiving, writing, “How’s it going? So, I ran for president of the United States.”

Not only did he run, but Jon believes he was the frontrunner in terms of fewest dollars spent per vote. In New Hampshire he spent less than $3K campaigning and beat 18 other candidates to take 10th place. Who knew the ballots were so long in New Hampshire? Not I. In Missouri, Jon came in nine votes behind Martin O’Malley for fifth place. (Yes, O’Malley had dropped out six weeks earlier, but I’m still impressed.) Jon was featured in Rolling Stone and on C-Span, and various other media covered the long-shot campaign. Jon adds a minor footnote to his illustrious political career: “I also just filed a patent with a group of investors and doctors to prevent heart disease and strokes by lowering blood-clotting Factor X.” No, dear readers, I don’t know what that means, but it does sound impressive.

Speaking of presidents, I saw Samantha Appleton in the neighborhood recently. (In case you’ve forgotten, Sam served as White House photographer for the first few years of the Obama administration.) It turns out that Sam and I, along with Asher Richelli and Josh Rosenblum, all live within a few blocks of one another in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Probably others are here, too, and I just have yet to see them in the neighborhood. I’ll keep my eyes peeled. We talked about Sam’s wardrobe, which consists almost entirely of jumpsuits, and of course about Sam’s beautiful daughter, Beatrice.

Mike Corkery, also of Brooklyn, reached the finalist status for the Pulitzer awards this year. He and two colleagues at the New York Times were nominated for a six-part series on the arbitration clauses that none of us bothers to read when we sign up for consumer products both big and

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small. That’s the kind of reporting that effects real change. As I was writing these notes, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule to fight back against the ubiquity of these clauses, and the House scheduled hearings on the proposed rule.

Brooke Guthrie and I went to the same grade school, and she’s known me for so long that she wrote “Hi, Teddy,” an e-mail salutation I haven’t heard since before there was e-mail. Brooke and Eric Guthrie live in North Andover and send their kids to our very own Pike School. Brooke wrote because she had recently caught up with some of our classmates. Jean Cine, who was only at Andover for our junior year, now lives in Virginia with her son and daughter. Jean and Brooke caught up in DC. Later, Brooke had the chance to see Zeke Farrow promoting his newest film at the Nashville Film Festival. It’s called Before the Sun Explodes, and Brooke says it’s awesome. Brooke still sees lots of Carrie Pelham Burton, who lives in Georgetown, MA. Carrie’s two kids entertain Brooke’s three daughters while the adults drink wine and reminisce about Andover.

Chris Hawley wrote en route to his first shows in Chicago as part of his band’s world tour. The Christopher Hawley Rollers played Hawaii and Japan in 2015, and Chris is having his new album mixed in LA. It should be available through most digital music outlets before these notes go to press.

Chris writes that he enjoyed catching up with Fred Terry and Hilary Williams while on the tour’s February leg through Denver. In addition to performing and recording, Chris teaches surfing and guitar and coaches soccer.

Mark Jaklovsky wrote in that he saw Rejji Hayes, Phil Akel, and Angela Cheng Matsuzawa at spring Alumni Council meetings.

Rejii was finishing his term as alumni trustee, so the group gathered with other trustees, staff, and instructors for a dinner to send him off. Angela and her family live in Hong Kong, where she devotes her energy to a juice brand she’s launched called Punch Detox. Angela’s commitment to the meetings involves flying all the way from Hong Kong just to participate.

Your faithful class secretaries do not expect such devotion, but we do expect notes! Send news. Stay in touch. Be well. —Ted

1994 Moacir P. de Sá Pereira 244 Greene St. New York NY 10003 312-792-8828 moacir@gmail.com

Andover! You’re everywhere! I was casually minding my own business during an NYU English department faculty meeting, listening to my colleagues argue about the hiring focus for the future, when one senior professor starts talking about the

courses Liz Twitchell taught while she was here. I saw Liz for all of three minutes at our reunion back in 2014 and wouldn’t have even thought to ask, but a little research unearthed that, in fact, she did precede me in this department but left to find other work. In other English department news, I also saw Hillary Chute for a few minutes in Austin during the Modern Language Association convention.

Hillary’s taking time off from Chicago to teach (again) at Harvard. As for myself, I finished my first year here, loved it, and am looking forward to an irrepressibly busy summer, one I hope to launch as soon as these notes are done, when I’ll hop a train to Columbia and scheme with some colleagues from atop Fortress Morningside.

Greg Whitmore also met up with me in person in the Village in the early spring. He was in NYC for a few days shooting but made time to catch up over Ethiopian food on MacDougal Street. Greg’s been getting some ideas from Williams alums about how to be a better PA alum, so I expect we’ll he hearing more from him soon. Less mysteriously, Tim Moore sent me a photo of the newest addition to his family. Well, additions. One is a blue Mustang with white stripes that I’m guessing is from about 1969, and the other is a son, Julian Almeyda, who joins older sister Lydia.

One prompt I employed to get classmates to write this time was asking how they celebrated turning 40. My birthday was more or less like my 30th, except in the East Village of Manhattan, not Cleveland (for an ill-conceived Cinco de Mayo party). Much more interestingly, Tricia Marshburn Davis organized a trip to Belize.

Among the travelers was Gillian Rickmeier Schmitz, who found time, she said, “between her four jobs” to join Tricia in cave tubing, snorkeling, and learning about the Maya. Also tropically situated, Jessie Clyde hiked the 23-mile Kalalau Trail on the Na Pali Coast in Kaui for her 40th, wearing her hiking boots from high school. Jessie survived one of the hardest hikes in the world, but the boots, alas, did not. Anthony Crawford, who recently moved to NYC to work as an insurance recovery attorney, was in Aruba with his wife for his birthday, scuba diving and relaxing.

Aaron Sharma’s 40th was rather uneventful, but he was preparing to travel to Cartagena, Colombia, for a bachelor party, marking his first trip to South America. Danielle Debrule put her 40th celebrations on hold until the summer, when she had a trip to Greece, Croatia, Montenegro, and Italy in the works. An Adriatic escape sounds wonderful.

Finally, Jessica Lubarsky Wax wrote about her 40th but distilled it down to the news that she’s back in NYC after a short stint in San Francisco.

The end of the school year (when I’m writing this) means that Non Sibi Weekend has also recently come and gone, and Mike Koehler sent in his update for our class. Beth Crowley, Hannah Sharpless Graff, and Kevin Moran all led or participated in Non Sibi projects, and Mike wants us to check out Saasha Celestial-One’s food-sharing venture, Olio, at

www.andover.edu/intouch http://bit.ly/295dLqq. Beth will be taking over as the cochair of the Alumni Council’s Non Sibi Committee as Mike steps down, so thanks, Mike, for all you’ve done, and congratulations, Beth. Mike closed his Non Sibi update by encouraging us to share or read about Non Sibi Weekend projects through the URL mentioned above.

In other news, Laurence Jollon wrote to let me know that he married Jordan Pagonakis at Gramercy Tavern in New York back in February.

Megan Kultgen Dailey ’96, who introduced the couple, officiated. The couple honeymooned in the Maldives and Thailand. Stephanie Dixon Britz has moved her family, including daughter Calliope Rose and son Owen, to Blodgett Landing in Newbury, NH. Stephanie plans to write full time— or maybe part time, if the ski conditions are good.

Aaron Flanagan sent me a recipe for chicken tinga tacos that you cook in a slow cooker and top with bacon pico de gallo.

Finally, from the already very busy life that Donna Kaminski leads, she sent this bit of news.

While at Haverford, she was the college’s first (and one of the few in the U.S.) female sabre fencers, competing on the men’s varsity team. After her success, the NCAA looked into her record and opened the field to women. Now women’s sabre fencing is commonplace. Haverford will commemorate her trailblazing by inducting her into its Hall of Achievements.

That’s enough from me this time. Please join our Facebook group (http://tinyurl.com/pa94fb) and keep the stories coming. Happy birthday, everyone!

1995 Erik Campano DeMartini-Spano via Saccardo 44 20134 Milano Italy +39 338 740 0452 campano@gmail.com Lon Haber 2645 South Bayshore Drive Miami FL 33133 323-620-1675 lon@lonhaber.com Margot van Bers Streeter +44 077 393 77700 margotstreeter@gmail.com

From Washington, DC, Chris Barraza writes that it was great catching up in May at a Nationals game with Laurie Coffey, her sister Claire ’99, Beth Crowley ’94, and Creence Lin ’98.

Jane Chen Fulop ran into Emily Martin Boland and Emily’s 4-year-old son at an IKEA in Boston.

Emily, Jane said, is working as a psychiatric nurse.

Lisa Chow reports that she left her senior editor job at FiveThirtyEight to become the co-host of

StartUp, a “documentary-style, serialized podcast” produced by Gimlet Media. Lisa also now has a second baby boy, Eliot. She saw Rachel Goldberg during a trip to Irvine, CA, where Rachel is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California. Lisa writes that she is very close to Rebecca Slotnick, who is working as director of communications at Pfizer.

Phil Ciampa and wife Erin welcomed their third daughter, Julia Mallory, in March. In Boulder, CO, Tyler Currie says he was planning to go to the birthday party of Nader Akhnoukh in June.

Jed Donahue writes, “[I got a] new job, and we’re moving to Philly.” In January, Shirley Fan gave birth to Kai Fan Borkenhagen, who joins his big brother, Nils. Shirley is working as a food and nutrition educator and consultant in New York. She ran into David Brown on the train and says she “still can’t get over how we were neighbors almost 25 years ago and still are today!”

Frank Georges is finishing up a year on the economics faculty at Brandeis University and is moving to the business school at the University of Hartford. He’s also still running road races.

Rafael Kalichstein’s firm, FORM Design Studio, has launched a line of fine stationery, in collaboration with the “illustrious” Dempsey & Carroll in New York City. You can find the stationery not only on their website but also at Dempsey & Carroll’s Lexington Avenue showroom. FORM has also created a “line of reproduction artworks (of our originals) with Leftbank Art, which is recently open to the public through their Manhattan showroom” at the Decoration & Design Building in Midtown.

Rafi’s daughter, Skylar, who is 11, was planning to compete in the rhythmic gymnastics national championship at the Olympics training facility in Lake Placid in May. Cem Karsan was in Napa as a groomsman in Terry Friedlander’s wedding. Cem called it a “breathtaking affair set under 160-year-old Tuscan olive trees.” Cem says that Miles Lasater ’96 and wife Liz Lasater ’96 were in attendance, as well as “the four Andover grads of the Friedlander clan.”

Cem recently caught up with Scott Kaiser and Peter Kaiser ’93 when Scott was on his way through Chicago. Scott, Cem writes, “is seemingly ageless, still exuding the same youthful energy of 20 years ago!” Cem describes his own life as in a “sweet spot.” “My oldest, Kai, just turned 41/2 and started school at Latin, here in Chicago, and my youngest, Isis, is 21/2 and finally out of diapers!”

Liz Campbell Kelly had her second child, Eve, in February, “giving Eli a run for his money.” She and her family have moved to Cold Spring, NY, and are “enjoying the Hudson Highlands, with lots of hikes and local food.” Liz is transitioning back into working in landscape design and had a visit with Sarah Klipfel Wiebenson out on Cape Cod. Alexandra London-Thompson is entering her third year as drama director at Miss Porter’s School. By the time you read this, she should have directed Much Ado About Nothing at the Vineyard

Playhouse on Martha’s Vineyard and selected the children’s films for the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival. Her “wonderful and hilarious kid” is starting kindergarten. “People are not kidding when they say time goes too quickly when you become a parent,” writes Alexandra. “Where did our little boy go?” Kevin Mendonca reports that he’s in LA, working as an editor on Cutthroat Kitchen, a Food Network competition show. Kevin had regular opportunities to see Gibby Greenway until recently, when Gibby moved to Idaho.

Margot Stiles went off on a spring work exhibition at an undersea mountain east of the Philippines, where she was supervising robots, baited cameras, and tech divers “with breathers and scooters like James Bond.” Margot and her husband were planning a kayak trip in Idaho. In May, Parker Sides and his wife, Lori Marshall Sides ’00, were thrilled to welcome their second son, Andrew “Drew” Dillon Sides, who joined his 17-month-old brother, Bobby. Mimi Crume Sterling says she’s happily living in Dallas and, in her role as head of communications for Neiman Marcus, recently opened the company’s 42nd store, in Roosevelt Field, Garden City, Long Island, NY. The store was coincidentally designed by Jenny Elkus ’92, of Elkus Manfredi Architects. Elizabeth Clarke Walentin is celebrating her 11th year in Stockholm, with her husband, Karl, an economist, and kids August, 8, and Ellinor, 4. Elizabeth has launched her own firm specializing in public relations and appears frequently as a political pundit on Swedish television. Thomas Chapman Wing writes that he’s planning on getting married in October, “on the edge of the Grand Canyon.”

As for me, Erik Campano, by the time you read this, I hope to have passed my anatomy exams and will be enjoying the second year of medical school here in Milan. I’ve got a guest room that is always open for PA classmates, and I’d love to see you.

1996 John Swansburg 396 15th St. Brooklyn NY 11215 john.swansburg@aya.yale.edu

1997 Jack Quinlan 514 S. Clementine St. Oceanside CA 92054 760-415-9054 illegalparietal@gmail.com Kelly Quinn 2538 NW Thurman St., No. 205 Portland OR 97210 919-949-0736 illegalparietal@gmail.com Andover | Reunion 2016

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1998 Zoe Niarchos Anetakis P.O. Box 384 Westport Point MA 02791 781-475-9772 zbniarchos@yahoo.com

I excel at excuses. I was planning to go for a run, but it it looked like it was going to rain (I felt a drop!).

I was late to work because of traffic (I walk). As you know, I missed our last column. But I’ve got the very best excuse I’ve ever had. My daughter, Theodora, was born in November. She came out eager and determined, and is a lovely and spirited, albeit sleepless, girl. She has brought truth to every parenting cliché in the manual that no one gives you but is universally known. The CliffsNotes: We are in love. Now, on to our column! Many of these updates are belated, but let’s pretend everything is timely...mmmk?

Nnamdi Okike delivered me a bounty of good updates on several classmates, making him once again one of my favorite people. Nnamdi’s fund, 645 Ventures, recently sold one of his investments to Google (woot woot!). Kyle O’Brien was named director of player personnel for the Detroit Lions. He, wife Alexis, and son Finn will make the move up to the Motor City from Jacksonville, FL, where Kyle previously served as head scout for the Jaguars. Malick Fall is executive director of Boys Hope Girls Hope, an intensive collegeprep program based in Brooklyn. John Tarantino has successfully launched his e-commerce watch company, Martenero. Made in New York, Martenero watches are designed and customized by customers online. I want one! Dario Collado is the new director of strategic development for the Hispanic Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. Nnamdi’s last bit of news is the sweetest: Pete Karlen and wife Meg welcomed their daughter, Layla, in September 2015.

While we’re at it, let’s move on to even more baby news. Amelia Stoj and wife Cat welcomed daughter Parker Dial Clem-Stoj in January. Parker has cheeks for days and a smile that would warm a Grinch’s heart. Abigail Gardner Athanasopoulos and husband Vasilios welcomed their second son, Sevastianos Keon, in October; he joins big brother Niko, who is still warming up to the idea of brotherhood. Erin C. Dougherty O’Connor and husband John added baby Rory to their roost in December. Together with Adair and Jeremiah, the siblings O’Connor are poised to take New York by storm. Taking a brief detour from babies, Erin, along with Happy Menocal, Lindsey Heller Lohwater, Samar Jamali, Helen Struck, and Jackie Bliss, convened the Smith House squad in April for Anna Larson’s marriage to Dave Thomas.

The happy couple wed in Sausalito at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge. Smiles were wide, and Anna looked simply perfect.

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Goldberg married Jason Tower in November. Fun fact: The couple met on a Southwest Airlines flight!

Gillian, Kathleen Burke Colbath, and Leah Willis Basche reunited in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival in January. Getting back to babies, Leah welcomed her son, Willis Andrew, in October.

The last (but never least!) of the wedding news is that Amse Hammershaimb married John Heck at the Union League in Philadelphia in December.

Michael Nardy, Winnie Chan Wang, Austin Ownbey ’99, and Nikki Salva ’00 all attended the celebration.

Whenever I get a note about a mini reunion of our classmates, I have a particular sense of pride unique to my station. In addition to the ones I noted above, Lia Welsch McNeely caught up with Chrissie Cloonan over a fun girls’ weekend in New York. Our brethren in Singapore held an Andover-Exeter barbeque organized by Sung Nam and attended by Sarah Corbin and Hieu Nguyen, among others from various years and classes.

Hieu has worked for the past five years at Diageo, the world’s largest spirits company, handling its acquisitions in Asia and its commercial strategy in Southeast Asia. Sarah has been in Singapore for 10 years. She works in business development for Marriot Vacation Club, the perks for which involve business trips to places like Phuket, Thailand, and Australia.

This past New Year’s Eve, Moses Kagan, Max Ventilla, Greg Chase, and Danny Addison, along with their families, convened in LA for the umpteenth time. Thank you, gentlemen, for your steadfast determination to keep that party going. It must be said, however, that the MVP of reunions goes to the Christodoulo duo (Amy Mueller-Christodoulo and Peter Christodoulo), who hosted brunch for a gaggle of Andoverites at their home in San Francisco in May. Attendees included Anna Larson, Peter Karlen, Ish Harshawat, Emma Soichet, Max Ventilla, and Helen Struck.

Now for a few career notes, to keep us all motivated. Amelia Tseng earned her doctorate in linguistics from Georgetown University and began her second year as faculty and director of bilingual education at American University.

Fred Papali completed 16 years (not a typo) of formal education and is now a member of the pulmonary/critical-care faculty at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. Ali Ghaffari and family were transferred to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, where Ali is a professor, teaching freshmen leadership.

As I write, summer is upon us and I have unilaterally crowned Anne Martinez the winner of the season. She bought a boat! Annie will be hitting the waters on Skirt, a beautiful J/22. To Annie and to all of you near and far, may the wind be always at your back. Be well and stay in touch.

1999 Marisa Connors Hoyt marisahoyt2@gmail.com

It is with deep sadness that I begin the notes with news about the passing of our classmate Victoria Taylor. As a psychotherapist in New York, Victoria devoted her life to helping people in distress, especially young women and LGBT youth who had suffered trauma or abuse. If you would like information about contributing to a fund in Victoria’s name, please e-mail me for details. She was still very close with a few of our classmates, and my thoughts and prayers are with you all.

After working as an architect in New York, Paris, and Philadelphia, Nick Risteen is back in school to begin work on a PhD degree in architectural history and theory at Princeton. He received a 2016–2017 Fulbright Scholarship to Japan, where he will focus on archival research for a dissertation on post-disaster reconstruction. Over the past six years, Nick has also been on the board of Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn, an independent small press.

Jess Ellis has been teaching in Boston public schools for the past 12 years and is currently working at an inclusion school, teaching kindergarten. She wrote, “[I] will be taking a sabbatical, traveling around South America and hopefully visiting Antarctica. I will also be attending Burning Man for the first time this year!

I have been fully exploring my photography and hope to parlay it into some sort of travel or wildlife photography career.”

Kristy Wiehe is also taking a sabbatical of sorts from the practice of law to spend two years studying business at Wharton. She is planning to move to Philadelphia this summer and hopes to connect with Congressman Seth Moulton ’97 while he is in Philadelphia for the Democratic Convention.

Lindsay Hoopes treated Claire Coffey to a visit to Dallas. Lindsay and Claire stayed with Liza Darnell in Dallas, drank frozen margaritas with Heather Gotha ’98, and ate dinner with Grancis Santana. Sounds like a great trip all around, and I hope some Hoopes Vineyard wine was consumed, too!

Rob Ramsey moved to Charlottesville, VA, two years ago and enjoys life there with his growing family. He and wife Tricia welcomed a daughter, Anna Ruth Ramsey, last November. She joins older brother George, who is 2 1/2.

Morgan Madera Baroni and her husband, Roland, also welcomed their second child, Francesca Adele Baroni, in March. She joins Isabella, who is thrilled to be a big sister—most days, at least! Matt Kalin and his wife, Rachel, recently bought a house just down the street from Morgan in Walpole, MA. Paul Penta and Marlena Montanez Penta are expecting their first baby, a boy, in September.

www.andover.edu/intouch Cheryl Dawson Kaba and her husband welcomed a baby girl, Madison, in February.

Brian Kibler married his longtime girlfriend, Natalie, last September. Just as in high school, Brian still loves to play and comment on games.

He works as an e-sports commentator, which is essentially a sportscaster for video games.

Nick Johnson passed his tenure review at Trinity College Dublin and is now a permanent fixture on the drama faculty. He planned to spend the summer in New Haven as a visiting fellow at Yale’s Center for Cultural Sociology. He mentioned he “hoped to see more ’99 people this summer now that he’s on the same continent—looking at you, Teddy Dunn.”

Ben Goldhirsh hung out with Nick MacInnis and Happy Menocal ’98 in New York this spring.

Ben reports he “enjoyed sleeping on Nick’s sofa bed and being woken by his 1-year-old boy, Charlie, in the morning. I’m out in LA, married to an awesome woman, Claire, and raising two really sweet girls, ages 3 and 6. We spent most of last year on sabbatical while Claire was working on a book, living in Costa Rica and Indonesia. Now I’m back working at GOOD with Max Schorr and have been teaching social entrepreneurship at USC. I also recently went sailing with Greg Chase ’98, Eli Kagan, and Priscilla Fraser.”

Jenny Seo finished her internal medicine/ pediatrics residency and will be working in primary care at Northwestern. She recently caught up with Dan Chen in Washington, DC, where he is an attending physician at the VA hospital. Dan wrote that his parents still live in Andover, and whenever he visits, he makes a point of walking around the Andover campus.

Jazmine Leon-Wing and her family continue to live in Austin, TX, where she recently started a new development position with the division of diversity and community engagement at UT Austin. She writes, “I am thrilled to be working as part of a team that is actively changing the face of higher education. I convinced my brother, Brienne Leon ’02, to move to Austin a couple of years back, and it’s been wonderful to have him in town. My husband, Tisun, and I have a 2-year-old son, Aidan, who is growing like a weed. We are expecting the arrival of number two—a baby girl—in September. I can’t wait to bring the little ones to Andover one day to see where their mommy and uncle spent some of their most formative years. If anyone finds themselves down in Austin for Austin City Limits, SXSW, or any of the other special events that happen throughout the year, give me a holler!”

I hope everyone had a relaxing summer, and keep the updates coming. Always a pleasure to hear what you are up to!

2000 Jia H. Jung 550 11th St., No. 4R Brooklyn NY 11215 917-589-5423 (cell) jiajung@alum.berkeley.edu

Classmates, this edition will be short and not entirely sweet, as we must first bid a heavy-hearted farewell to our classmate Mike Turner, lost too soon to cancer this past April 20. He went peacefully, surrounded by family. Shortly thereafter, on the 24th, family and friends gathered at Spinelli’s in Lynnfield to celebrate Mike’s life. In May, his last employer, Setra Systems, Inc., organized a 5k “Run For Turns” in his memory.

Mike is survived by his beloved wife, Katherine Pollard Turner, and their baby boy, Brennan M. Turner; his parents, Michael P. (PA Class of ’68) and Cheryl (Rogers) Turner; and younger sister Casey R. Turner of Melrose, as well as cherished support dog Hunter.

Mike worked as a product marketing manager at Setra Systems, a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation. He graduated from Dartmouth College, where he played on the hockey team for four years, and received an MBA degree from UVa’s Darden School of Business. Prior to Setra, he’d been an analyst at HubSpot and Monster.com.

He also played in the Central Hockey League for the Lubbock (Texas) Cotton Kings during the 2004–2005 season.

His obituary said it best: “Despite all of his professional and athletic accomplishments, Mike will be most remembered for his ability to touch the lives of others. He had a remarkable talent for bringing people together. A natural leader, Mike’s charisma and enthusiasm for life were contagious, creating close bonds among the many people with whom he formed lasting friendships. Affectionately known as ‘Turns,’ he will be greatly missed by his many friends and teammates. His kindness, joy, and humor will always live on in our hearts.”

I know that all of us will forever remember him as he was in class, on the ice, or on the paths about campus.

New life: In March, Tenley Oldak Mueller welcomed baby girl Isla Elizabeth Mueller to the world, just a couple of months before her brother, Trevor Oldak ’02, became a dad to Rosalind Elizabeth Oldak. The wee little cousins’ parents are enjoying every bit of the new experience in Denver and Worcester, MA, respectively. Best congratulations all around!

Grace Hong has been reconnecting with many Andover people this year to catch up, reflect, and move forward after career shifts and other changes.

She’s chatted with Katherine Stirling and met up with Jon Sabatini for dinner in NYC, where she regularly sees Sophie Lam, Kate Roberts Cohen, and Lee Lin ’99. When I bumped into her in the Lower East Side of Manhattan on a humid spring

night, Grace was about to embark on a trip out West to catch up with Mei Mei Hu in Colorado, then continue onward to San Francisco to see Whitney Horn. In an e-mail later, she reflected, “Sixteen years after graduation, it’s incredible how the high school bonds have endured and deepened (and even been a starting point for new friendships in adulthood). On my mind more these days are the messages of non sibi and really thinking about how to be professionally successful while making sure to give back and be a positive force in the world. I’m grateful to Andover for giving me these values. I’m hoping the time in nature and with good high school friends will be rejuvenating.”

Couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

As you enjoy the crisp fall weather and that feeling of homecoming it brings, please consider assuming the non sibi spirit and letting us know what you’ve been up to. You know we all miss one another, wish one another well, and wonder how and what we’re doing, so do write.

2001 Ramesh Donthamsetty rdonthamsetty@gmail.com Jennifer (Zicherman) Kelleher P.O. Box 762 Byfield MA 01922 978-273-8557 jenniferakelleher@gmail.com

We had a strong turnout for our 15th Reunion this June, and the weather was good to us! From hangouts on the Knoll to dance-party hopping (huge thank-you to the Classes of ’6 6 and ’91 for being amazing hosts!) to late-night chats in the Stuart common room, it was a really wonderful weekend for ’01.

The highlight of the weekend was our ’01 “Ted Talk” in Steinbach Theatre, where we heard from five incredibly distinguished classmates on what they are doing. Taking the stage were Ira Renfrew, who is designing robotic lawn mowers; Paige Austin, who is a defense lawyer in the Bronx; Aaron deVos, who recently left the Marine Corps and is beginning a new life in Massachusetts working as a cyber forensic analyst for Lincoln Laboratory; Julia O’Hern, a marine biologist examining and saving endangered whales off the Pacific coast; and Natalie Wombwell, assistant director of admissions on campus at Andover.

There was laughter and tears, and it was incredibly humbling to hear the journeys that each of these classmates have made to be where they are today.

In class news, Ashley White-Stern finished her second year of medical school at Columbia.

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Caitlin Henningsen was on a fellowship at the Frick Collection in NYC this year. She gave a talk in June on paintings by Fragonard and was surprised and thrilled to have Sarah Kline, Rachel Weiner, Elka Gruenberg, Christine Lee, and Sophia Walter in the audience!

I heard from Laura Coppola, who just married Ed McNamara in St. Thomas, USVI. Ed and Laura met in law school almost 10 years ago and currently reside just outside NYC. Jennifer Bronson Callahan was by Laura’s side as her matron of honor. Jenn is living in Massachusetts with her husband and two beautiful children and is working at Harvard. Now that the wedding is over, Laura is excited to start a new position as litigation services supervising attorney at Latham & Watkins in NYC. Ashley Foster Sellers took a sabbatical from work this past January and traveled for six weeks, taking classes and exploring in Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia with her husband, Joe. Ashley completed an MBA degree this spring at Kellogg, joining Corbin Butcher and Ifeolu Babatunde in the ’01 Andover/ Kellogg club.

Desiraé Simmons has been staying busy in Ypsilanti, MI, where she and husband Zander are almost done with their house renovations. Desiraé was sad to miss reunion; she was at a training program for Inside-Out, a prison education exchange where faculty teach courses inside a prison, with students drawn both from a local university and from among the incarcerated. She is excited to be part of such important work!

Daniel Ahn is still in DC and still at the State Department, where he has a new role as the deputy chief economist. Daniel was excited to be asked

by Tom Hodgson this past January to speak to his Politics and Political Economy class about his work.

During his time back on campus, he was asked to address three additional social science classes.

Daniel also caught up with former dean of studies Vincent Avery, as well as Natalie Wombwell, and managed to fit in dinner with Kelsey Peterson the night before his presentation.

Tim Daniels is living in Charlestown, MA, and sees Scott Ward and Scott Darci all the time, as they live within blocks of one another. Gino Rotondi is down in Rhode Island but comes up to Boston a fair amount to hang with the Charlestown crew.

Frank Brodie is living in San Francisco with his fiancée, Rachel, and is an ophthalmology resident at UCSF. Katie Schellenberg started a law and educational consulting and advocacy firm and works as a facilitator for George Lucas’s educational nonprofit, Edutopia. Her summer was jampacked with speaking engagements at educational conferences. Filip Dames is promoting entrepreneurship in Europe. James Wylie is

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finishing off a thesis in environmental economics in London and pondering his next move while hiking around the Inner Hebrides.

Camille Conley Kerr is now associate director of the ICA Group, a nonprofit consulting firm committed to building a more democratic economy through worker ownership. Her little jet-setter son, Cameron, turned 2 in September and tagged along for work trips to New York, San Diego, Phoenix, and Denver.

Vanessa Nickerson is getting married in September 2017 to Jeffrey Forbes at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Vanessa is working for Hernandez & Associates, PC, as an associate trial attorney; Jeff is also an attorney and currently pursuing an MBA degree. If that weren’t enough to keep them busy, Vanessa just summited the highest peak in Colorado, Mount Elbert, and is on her way to her goal of climbing all 58 of Colorado’s “14ers” (mountains with peaks 14,000 feet or above). She is also training for two half marathons, and Jeff is training for the Pikes Peak Ascent (a half marathon up a 14er). They are planning a well-deserved vacation in Barcelona and the Rioja wine region this fall.

Maeva Bambuck has been working with the Associated Press for two years, going to interesting places like Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen.

She had a blast at reunion catching up with tons of classmates, especially Jeannie Kwok, Seyi Fayanju, K.C. Osuji, Rachel Robinson, Nicholas Ma, and Mara Meyer Epstein.

There have been quite a few moves in the past few months for ’01ers. James Kenly and his beautiful family moved from Denver to Vail, CO, this summer and welcome all ’01 visitors coming through the area. Joe Maliekel, his wife, Lindsey, and their two boys, Gil and Mac, moved to New Jersey and are excited about the relocation (though are in denial about giving up their New Yorker status).

After stints in New York, DC, and LA, Nick Mele has settled down in Palm Beach, FL, with his wife, Molly, and 2-year-old son. Nick lives right around the corner from Chris Callahan, and they see each other a lot. Nick is a commercial/ fashion photographer and recently had a piece published in the New York Times Magazine. Nick was sad to miss reunion but lucky enough to attend John Kluge’s beautiful Charlottesville, VA, wedding with Tyson Reist, Ross Perlin, J.P. Chisholm ’99, Faran Krentcil ’99, and Anna Lewis ’00.

Austin Arensberg moved back to San Francisco after 11 years in Asia and is a principal on the investment team for Scrum Ventures, an earlystage venture capital firm. He’s had a great time reconnecting with Andover folks in the Bay Area, as well as in Boston at Luke LeSaffre’s wedding.

Sydney Freas Wilson and her husband were thrilled to welcome their baby boy, Thomas, on Christmas Eve 2015 in Singapore, where they had been living for nearly two years. They returned to the U.S. earlier this year and are living in Phoenix,

enjoying life back stateside. Heather Woodin also lives in Phoenix, so it’s nice to be reunited with her Andover roommate. Sydney caught up with Darcy Brislin recently in Santa Monica, CA, and she had more Andover meet-ups planned for this past summer.

After six terrific years at Choate, Meg Blitzer is moving to DC to teach at Georgetown Day School.

She’s excited for the new adventure, and kicked off some fun travels in July by visiting Kate Kimball and Greg Kimball, as well as daughter Cora, in Boulder, CO. In baby news, Lizzie Heroy Donnelly and husband Mark welcomed their second son, Edward “Ned” Heroy Donnelly, in June. Big brother Hugh gladly accepted the promotion!

Also getting the promotion is Leo Seides, son of Amita Singh and husband Ben Seides, who were expecting a baby girl in August. Amita finished cardiology training in June, and I was thrilled to see her and Smita Singh this summer while on vacation in Chicago.

Thomas James McGrath joined big sister Caroline and big brother Charlie this June. Despite being father to a near-newborn, Gavin McGrath was a champ and came with Caroline and Charlie to our Ted Talks at reunion! First-time parents Greg Sherman and wife Anne welcomed Margaret Julia Sherman in late May in NYC. Update of the quarter goes to Yang Song, who is chef of his own restaurant! He celebrated his first year in business back in February.

These are, sadly, my last class notes, as I am passing the torch after 15 years in the role. With my responsibilities as Alumni Council president, Board of Trustees member, and class agent, it’s time to share the fun! I have loved every minute of serving as class secretary and hope you all have enjoyed my notes through the years.

—Misty Muscatel Davis [Editor’s note: The Academy thanks Misty Muscatel Davis for her service as class secretary and welcomes Ramesh Donthamsetty and Jennifer (Zicherman) Kelleher as the new secretaries for the Class of 2001.]

2002 Lauren Nickerson P.O. Box 711477 Mountain View HI 96771 Lauren9@gmail.com

Howdy, Class of ’02! Thank you, as always, to everyone who submitted updates.

On the West Coast, Lloyd Cuzzo graduated from ophthalmology residency at Los Angeles County+University of Southern California Medical Center (previously Doheny Eye Institute) and recently starting working at Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills specializing in cataract surgery.

Erin Kerrison will be joining the faculty at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare this fall.

www.andover.edu/intouch Katherine Cascio looked forward to moving to Eugene, OR, in August for an internship at the University of Oregon Counseling and Testing Center, which will be her final year in a PhD program in counseling psychology.

Alex Coppock earned a PhD from Columbia University and started a position as an assistant professor of political science at Yale University.

Victoria Yu graduated from Wharton in May and will be moving back to LA. Kwadwo Acheampong ran into Heidi Ashbaugh at his Duke reunion, because Heidi is married to a Duke alum.

Small world.

One of Andover’s finest finally broke his silence and submitted a long-overdue update. After six years in NYC and four in St. Louis, David Frisch recently moved home to Boston (Back Bay, to be exact). He has been with BlackRock for almost seven years and represents the company’s iShares ETF brand across the Northeast. He has enjoyed getting together with his former buddies from Taylor, including Freddie Martignetti. He travels to NYC frequently to visit Abram Mendal and Matt Kelly. Finally, if you’re reading this, Mr. McGraw, Dave has a challenge for you: He is looking forward to getting back into basketball shape and teaching you a thing or two.

Dean Felch, who is a firefighter and poet in New Orleans, traveled with Freddie to visit Stevie Brock in Detroit. I was especially elated to receive this cheery piece of news because, in the last round of notes, Stevie was lamenting the lack of fellow alums in Detroit. Dean also enjoyed a “spirited crossing of paths” with our very own Jeff Sandman, who recently moved back to NOLA. During a crazy Texas road trip with Shuva Chakraborty and his wife, Laurel Aquadro had a Sandman sighting as well, when she met up with him at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. No word from the man himself about either of these encounters. Laurel and her husband started two photography businesses and are looking forward to moving back to NYC after a failed attempt at living in the suburbs. Speaking of the ’burbs, Rachel Sobelson Tash and her husband recently bought a house in Andover! Much to my relief, Rachel confirms that King’s Subs and Thai Sweet Basil are as good as they were when we graduated.

Across the pond, Tanner Efinger is living in Oxford and working as a theatre maker as his husband finishes a PhD degree in the coming months. When I inquired about the term “theatre maker,” Tanner clarified that he freelances as a producer/writer/director/actor/teacher and supports the local theatre scene in different capacities. Tanner visited with Emily Selove, who lives in Teignmouth, England, over Easter, and they played children’s board games and cuddled like in the old days, as one does. Chloe Marsala is also in England and, at the time of writing, was looking forward to visiting Vanessa Lincoln and her baby, Emma, in Paris.

Melanie Cyr Versteeg wrote from India where she was traveling for a week with the Boston

Cardiac Foundation to do charity work in a few hospitals. Mel reported that while there she missed her adorable rescue dog, Luna, and was concerned that that was not noteworthy news. As a crazy dog lady, I can totally empathize! Sandra Leung left her investment banking job at Goldman Sachs Hong Kong to become the COO of the market development division at the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. She welcomes any visitors to Hong Kong.

Finally, it would not be class notes without baby news, and baby, we’ve got a lot of baby news. In summer 2015, Adam Arguelles and wife Megan were blessed and delighted to welcome their daughter, Addison. Adam is officially the first Class of ’02 alum (I think) to choose an Andoverinspired baby name. Any Abbots out there? What about a little baby named Fuess? Alas, I digress.

Amy Dobbins and husband Brian were excited to announce the birth of their son, Tate Vincent Dobbins, who was born in March. Trevor Oldak, who is a senior developer at AthenaHealth, and his wife welcomed their daughter, Rosalind Elizabeth Oldak, in May. Sam Takvorian and his wife were eagerly awaiting the arrival of their baby girl in July, just in time for their move to Philadelphia for fellowship training in oncology. While on vacation in New Zealand, Sasha Corken discovered that she and her husband are expecting their first baby. Their daughter is due in late October.

Congratulations to all!

In January, I had a last-minute trip to NYC with my sister. Ironically, we Hawaii girls ended up traveling to the city during Superstorm Jonas!

Highlights included venturing into Times Square during the blizzard and journeying to Brooklyn to visit Stephanie Hackett and Georgina Brown for a delicious Italian dinner and Junior’s cheesecake.

Until next time, go Big Blue! —Lauren

Rachel Rapp and Anita Taylor. She’s also seen classmates Kate Cooper Sawyer and Sarah Demers when they have returned to the area.

Matt London reported from NYC, his home before a planned move west to the Bay Area.

Matt went to the PA alumni holiday party before the New Year and caught up with Ali Rosen Gourvitch and Brian Emery, both of whom are new parents! He’s also kept up with Kanyi Maqubela and Matt Kane in NYC as well.

Matt’s latest book, The 8th Continent 4, came out in February, and oddly enough, he works with the same literary agency as classmate and fellow author Lucy Keating. The two met up this spring to celebrate her latest book, Dreamology, which came out in April.

Piotr Brzezinski and Erik Trautman are now roommates in San Francisco. They recently hosted dinner with a number of classmates, including Janis Rice, David Beyer, Michael “Rudy” Ruderman, Phoebe Rockwood, Nick Evans, Seb Benthall, Margaret Ramsey, Brian Karfunkel, Katie Dlesk, and James Chou.

I’ve seen a number of our classmates in the Bay Area recently: Nick Franchot and Alexa Franchot at a Non Sibi event; Margaret and Tara Gadgil for dinner; and Matt Lindsay, Rudy, Tom Dimopoulos, and Tom Oliphant in my neighborhood. Our numbers continue to grow, so we are excited to welcome Matt this summer!

Earlier this spring, I also caught up with Andy Hattemer and Chris Skipper, both of whom are recently engaged to their longtime girlfriends! I did the same this spring as well, becoming engaged to my girlfriend in April, the same weekend as Chris.

That’s it for this time. If you haven’t recently, update your contact information in the Andover alumni database, and stay in touch!

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Ali Schouten 1806 Lucretia Ave. Los Angeles CA 90026 617-584-5373 AlisonSchouten@gmail.com

It is hard to believe, but we are now within two years of our 15th Reunion! We’ll have a lot to catch up on, but in the meantime, there’s been some great activity from ’03 in 2016.

Ryan McChristian wrote from Japan, where he recently hosted Julie Bramowitz on a visit. This past spring, he hoped to see Parker Schwartz and Zach Robbins ’02 when they visited as well.

Also abroad, David Linfield recently finished his diplomatic assignment in Bamako, Mali, where he’s been for the past two years. He’s off to Amman, Jordan, for his next assignment, so if you are in the region, let David know!

Danny Dumond Ward and her husband recently returned from a trip to Iceland, on the recommendation of longtime pal Erin O’Hern.

Danny has stayed in touch with a number of classmates who are still in greater Boston, including

Let’s hear it for our academics! Hélène Frohard-Dourlent completed a PhD degree in sociology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Jisung Park hopes to complete a PhD degree in economics at Harvard within the next year. Jisung studies the economics of climate change, looking at the impact of heat stress on student performance. He often sees Patrick Callahan, who is finishing a PhD degree in engineering at MIT. Alanna Hughes is “finally” graduating from MIT Sloan (MBA) and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (MPA) this spring. She will continue working in Boston, and then get back to her world travels next summer, learning French in preparation. Alanna can Andover | Reunion 2016

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Leah Russell and her husband live in New Haven, CT, where they started a video marketing business, Wheel to Sea. Jamie Bologna continues to report for Boston’s NPR station and welcomed twin nieces in February. He is grateful to have caught up with Taylor Yates and Taylor’s wife, Karen, right before they became parents. Taylor was kind enough to share photos of himself as a proud papa holding little Asher Harrison Yates, who sported an adorable Jedi onesie.

Asher was born in March and shares a birthday with Jess Chermayeff! Preceding Asher in January was Harper Josephine Turro, daughter of Audrey Deguire Turro and Steve Turro.

Congratulations to all the new parents!

Alex Thorn is working on his debut rap album.

When he’s not dropping beats, Alex and his fiancée, Hannon, enjoy life in Cambridge, MA, where they relocated from Raleigh, NC. They plan to wed in Raleigh in early December. Alex took Hannon back to campus recently. It was bittersweet—Alex’s mother has moved to Portsmouth, NH, so, for the first time since 1981, there isn’t a Thorn living at Andover. Alex and Hannon see lots of Seth Stulgis and his fiancée, Megan, who planned to wed this summer on Nantucket (that is, if everyone made it back safely from the bachelor party in Nicaragua).

Alex also keeps in touch with Justin Cahill and his wife, Christine. Lolita Munos Taub enjoyed dinner in NYC with Emma Etheridge and Celia Alexander. Matthew Garza and his wife, Kaila, are enjoying spending time in DC with Sam duPont, who just moved back to the area.

They attended the Funk Parade and hit up the best taqueria in the city.

Paull Randt moved from Hong Kong to New York. While in Hong Kong, he hung out with Emma Sussex and her boyfriend, Geoff, who good-naturedly rolled his eyes as Emma and Paull went on and on about the “good old days.”

Paull hopes to be in touch with fellow PA New Yorkers. Lily Kelly is WWOOFing in Ireland while changing careers from environmental sustainability work to women’s health advocacy. She looks forward to returning home to her husband, Dan Adamsky ’06, in Oakland, CA. Ian Hafkenschiel went down to Costa Rica to learn bamboo building at a festival and decided to stay! Now he is involved in permaculture farming, surfing, and working as a “digital nomad.” According to Ian, flights are cheap if anyone wants to visit!

Adam Draper continues to love life in California with his wife and daughter. Adam helps upstart entrepreneurs, particularly in the blockchain and virtual reality fields, through his company, Boost VC. Despite Adam’s protests, Cory Schneider insisted on voting for his inclusion in the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor, for his pole vaulting skills. Let’s hope we’ll all be

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congratulating Adam on that achievement soon!

New California residents Jenny Wong and her husband, Nathan Sharp, are settling in the Mission District of San Francisco. Jenny would love to see other SF alums and enjoyed attending a first birthday party earlier this year for June Gordon’s daughter, Charlotte. Perhaps she’ll bump into Martin Quinones, who lives in Oakland with his girlfriend, Olga, and their teacup Chihuahua, Bisouchka. Martin loves his new job at Tycko & Zavareei LLP. Jenny Byer Elgin and her husband, Andrew, welcomed their second son, Maddox Elgin. Older brother Milo is adorably proud of little Maddox.

When not tending to her two young children, Jenny is often taking care of me, offering life advice, podcast recommendations, and Twitter affirmation to the neediest of her three kids. Jenny got a break from my incessant whining when I had dinner in Los Angeles with Olivia Oran Beaton, who was in town attending a very fancy-sounding conference. Admittedly, I set the bar pretty low for conferences, as I have never attended one. Olivia and her husband, Greg, recently enjoyed a trip to Japan.

Highlights from my life here in LA include a drive down to Torrance to purchase a pasta maker off Craigslist (a score at 20 bucks), enjoying unemployment (paid out via a debit card—who knew?), and comically throwing pennies in the air when receiving residual checks for 76 cents (thanks, Hulu!). Like many of my classmates, I will attend approximately 90 weddings this year.

2005 Ian Schmertzler Ian.Schmertzler.Andover@gmail.com

2006 Jeni Lee 18228 Mallard St. Woodland CA 95695 925-846-8300 Jeni.lee519@gmail.com Owen Remeika Oremeika@gmail.com 617-794-7898 Justin Yi 250 Mott St., Apt. 10 New York NY 10012 978-886-3307 justinyi@gmail.com

I am fresh off our 10th Reunion on an international flight (missed the first one!), full of happiness, pride, and love for ’06.

The weekend began Friday afternoon, where the quad lawns and dorms were dedicated to the Class

of 2006. GroupMe became the go-to place for communication and sharing: The draw of beautiful campus pictures and friends day-drinking in the quad created arrival urgency and serious FOMO. Upon arrival, we found ourselves assigned to Bancroft, Bishop, or Rockwell hall, with the Rockwell common room serving as our home base. Others found themselves in more obscure places like Eaton, Pemberton, or Andover cottage. First encounter: Jeff Zhou and I ran into Jeannette Francis, fellow MUN leader of debate. Upon check-in, a rush of memories greeted me: the XL twin bed that made buying sheets impossible but that I’m sure Dan Bacon and Sam Cartmell appreciated, the square blue recycling bin, even the smell of the dorms.

Reunion classes came together for dinner in the Cage. It was the first sighting of old friends, where years felt like no time at all as we quickly ran down the list of “Where are you now? Doing what? How long?” This year, we were also joined by many fiancés/fiancées and spouses, who were quickly introduced and congratulated.

Most of the alumni gathered for the “Tent Dance” on the GW lawn to reconnect.

Liz Finnegan and Andrea Coravos planned to spend the summer in San Francisco before returning to their business school programs in the fall. Megan Evans works for the Zuckerberg foundation in SF. Sam Cartmell is also in the Bay Area, working toward an MD degree at Stanford.

Meanwhile, Simon Keyes and Carly Williams Engelhardt were tearing it up on the dance floor to 2000’s hip-hop and R&B favorites (aka Friday night Riley Room staples). Paul Engelhardt commutes by ferry to his SF Bank of America office, while Carly manages a hotel in Napa. Also in Northern California, Jamie Neuwirth works for Google on the Google for Education team, based out of Mountain View. Chichi Erondu and Jennifer Meacham live in Los Angeles; Chichi is in residency and Jennifer works for Goldman Sachs. Olivia Mascheroni is a producer in LA. In NYC, Tess Scott Davidson produces fantastic segments at ABC, Whitney Dublin is a rising DJ talent, and Tanisha Colon-Bibb runs Rebelle Agency. Faisal Kassam is also based in NYC, working in finance. The most dedicated of us? Felicity Bloom, Anne Van Ee, and Constantin Calavrezos, traveling from Europe for the weekend.

After the Tent Dance, Rockwell’s common room became the hub for ’06. College staples emerged (flip cup, please?). We reminisced and reconnected well into Saturday morning, winding down past 3 a.m. and departing for our dorm rooms—no lights-out, no sign-in.

Saturday morning, alums participated in faculty-offered classes, with the most ambitious of us (looking at you, Emily Chappell, Jane Henningsen, Justin Yi, and Dina Burkitbayeva) rowing the Merrimack with Oscar Tang ’56. For others, getting to breakfast by 10 a.m. was the lofty goal. Speaking of, Paresky Commons is incredible:

www.andover.edu/intouch The food—fruit and salad bars, fresh-made crêpes, eggs and sausage—varies across each dining hall.

At 10:30 a.m., we gathered for the alumni parade before the reunion ASM. It was a treat to witness the classes, as far back as 1946, walk (or be driven in golf carts, part of the “Bluber” fleet) the Elm Walk. The showing of the Class of 1966 for their 50th Reunion was impressive—one-third of those still living. Equally impressive were the cumulative donations made by these classes, announced by Head of School John Palfrey: upward of $100 million (by a single class!) to the Academy. We have 50 years to beat that.

A barbecue on the GW lawn followed ASM, along with shopping with Maggie Reich Manus for Andover swag in the GW mailroom. When the weather turned south, we reunited in the Rockwell common room, where photos of our time at Andover greeted us. The general consensus: We look so different, yet still the same. In the quad tent, three alumni shared their start-up journeys: Jeff Zhou (FIG Loans), Susan Ho (Journy), and Andrea Coravos (Ummo).

The State of the Academy presentation at the chapel filled the afternoon, though many ’06ers retired for a much-needed nap.

Since the weather let up, a dozen or so ’06ers, including Julia Littlefield, Derek de Svastich, Morgan Abraham, Jeff Zhou, Andrew Park, and Owen Remeika, played a round of kickball on the quad, with Nick Bowen being the most impressive and spritely player. Newlyweds James Watson and Jenny Wu joined us on the kickball field. Emily Pollokoff arrived from upstate New York with her adorable daughter, Hazel, in tow.

We were also joined by a flood of Abbot Cluster alums: Ben Lasman, Rosie duPont, Fred Wright, Ginia Sweeney, and Emma Dorsey.

The 2006/2011 dinner took place in the Smith Center, atop what used to be the Smith hockey rink. New arrivals that evening included Jake Edwards, Pumi Maqubela and his wife, fresh off their wedding about 24 hours prior (that’s dedication!), and surprises Clinton Prospere and Todd Kwao-Vovo, among many others. Our after-dinner entertainment began with a brilliant crossword puzzle crafted by Claire Collery, which she spent all of Saturday in the PACC creating. The winning team—including Julian Jacobson, Kevin McCarthy, Max Parsons, Brad Colbert, and Faaez Jafarey—was awarded a bottle of peppermint schnapps, while the second-place team, including Tobey Duble and Gabe Worgaftik, “settled” for Malibu coconut rum. Of course, a DJ provided an eclectic mix of high school throwbacks and more recent musical fare. Alyssa Hill, a practicing lawyer in New York, reminded us of the old days when she made the rounds with Katie Faulkner’s identical-looking younger sister, Kristen Faulkner ’11. Rajeev Saxena, Elizabeth Ryznar, Kate Therkelsen, Jen Wang, and Jasmin Baek mixed and mingled on the dance floor. Meanwhile, Justin Yi, Liz Slaughter, Merit Webster, and

Dan Taylor and wife Laura managed to sneak into the 1966 cocktail party in Paresky Commons, complete with a live band!

Alex Wolf scored us our own epic dance party in Borden Gym, where all 2006 reunion attendees partook in the ultimate culmination of the night.

Our incredible DJ wrapped with “Don’t Stop Believin’” (of course), “Sweet Child o’ Mine” as an encore, and a final encore of ACDC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long.” It was the perfect ending to the perfect night, filled with nostalgia and nothing but love for Andover 2006.

Tom Tassinari and his wife, Erica, prepared an incredible after-party at their new home three miles down the road in Andover. Unfortunately, we failed to coordinate nearly 100 alumni at 1 a.m. and opted instead to host our after-party again in the Rockwell common room. Tom and Erica graciously forgave us, and Mike Galaburda helped them transport the libations to Rockwell.

I reconnected with Sarah Takvorian, now in California, over our mutual love for Boston.

Ingrid Murra is now an orthodontics resident at Harvard, while John Lippe recently moved to Oklahoma, after finishing at HBS. Multiple rounds of flip cup later, the last alumni retired to their dorm rooms near 3:30 a.m.

Sunday morning was a bittersweet acknowledgment of a fabulous weekend coming to an end, filled with goodbyes and best wishes until reunion 2021. I had breakfast with Khaki Burke, Jonathan Figueroa, Desmond Bonhomme-Isaiah, and Justin Lee, flying out that very day to LA to start his neurosurgery residency.

Edwin Kulubya also moved immediately after Reunion Weekend, to Davis, CA, to begin his neurosurgery residency. While some of us hustled out of Commons for cabs and trains, others clung to the memories of Andover. Sprawled on the quad, Tobey Duble, Cornelia Wolcott, Luke Cahill, and Sam Cartmell relived the weekend. Newlyweds Jen and Jeff Bakkensen, freshly moved to Boston, said their farewells as ’06ers emerged from the dorms and into their cars. Chris Cahill and Lindsay Baker ’05 returned to Boston as well, while Emily Frumberg, Lauren Bissell, Andrew Park, Charlie Frentz, and Liz Brown ’09 packed in for the commute back to New York.

Our 10th Reunion exceeded expectations.

Of course, returning to campus—staying in the dorms, visiting faculty members, seeing the old classrooms—elicited memories that have been buried for many years. More than that, though, reconnecting with other members of the Class of 2006 held the most significance; despite having graduated 10 years ago, we all fell right back in line with one another. We reminded one another of the intimacy and depth of our relationships—ones that never fade—and that we collectively share and make up the Andover experience. It’s said that people make the place: For the Class of ’06, nothing could be truer.

Until next time, ’06. —Jeni

2007 M. Conner Stoldt 94 Saddle Hill Road Hopkinton MA 01748-1102 508-954-9185 conner.stoldt@gmail.com Catherine L. Crooke 61 Eastern Parkway, Apt. 2C Brooklyn NY 11238-5916 917-375-5551 catherine.l.crooke@gmail.com

Roxanne Knapp is back in Boston as of this summer, doing design-thinking work for a Fidelity incubator. She has one more year of grad school in Chicago, but is “the most excited” to spend some quality time with Andover people in the area.

Allison Callery spent four months at the U.S. embassy in Manila this summer working on South China Sea issues in the political section, then planned to explore New Zealand for a few weeks.

Emma Wood graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop this past spring; this fall, she’s moving to Santa Cruz, CA, where her husband, Conner, will be starting a PhD degree program in English.

After living together in New York for more than a year, Alexa Reid and Colin Smith moved to LA in May. Alexa took a job as artist liaison at David Kordansky Gallery, and Colin is continuing work as a contemporary art specialist at Sotheby’s auction house. Giacomo Chiaro recently moved to Switzerland with his boyfriend to train in neurology. Morgan Broccoli graduated from medical school at Johns Hopkins and finished an internship at the WHO in the spring; she started a residency in emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center in June. After spending the past year in Stockholm, Laura Minasian moved to Copenhagen in August to run recruiting for McKinsey Denmark. Molly Ozimek-Maier moved to Clifton, VA, this past December with her daughter, who is now 4! She mentioned that the participation of our class this year during the 2015 Andover-Exeter fundraising campaign was amazing. If anyone would like to be a class agent, please reach out to her or Eliot Wall!

Lauren Jackson Smiley spent the summer in Europe with her husband, working with Syrian refugees. Rob Sun recently bought and moved into a new place in NYC. Coincidentally, it happens to be in the building where Stephanie Sit ’06 lives. Rob is still at his job, doing real estate private equity with a focus on the U.S. and Brazil.

Olivia Pei is still in SF at Meraki. In March, she and Dina Burkitbayeva ’06 hosted an “Andover munch.” Several PA alums were in attendance, including Sarah Guo. Olivia hosted an Easter egg brunch; Cece Yu and her husband were among the guests. Olivia saw Eliot Wall this spring in Boston and had drinks with Peter McCarthy and Larry Zhou ’09 in May. She also ran into Sarah Andover | Reunion 2016

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Guo and her husband at SFO—they were on the same flight from SF to Denver—and then saw Brooks Canaday in Denver.

Catherine Crooke left her job at the International Refugee Assistance Project in July, spent the summer lazing around in Europe and California, and started at Yale Law School in the fall. Conner Stoldt recently caught up with his old roomie, Danny Silk, and Jocelyn Gully when in NYC for his sister Camerin Stoldt ’12’s fashion show. Danny is doing well, despite moving all the way to Jersey City. Jocelyn is living with her boyfriend, an Andover High School alum.

Miles Silverman proposed to his girlfriend, Renee, this spring. The happily engaged couple is living in LA, where Miles is pursuing a doctorate and focusing on quantum theory and potential time-space-bending implications. In July, Ryan Ferguson wed his longtime girlfriend in Andover.

The reception was out behind the Log Cabin in the Sanctuary. Steve Farquhar, Ben Landy, Steve Stapczynski, and Matt Villanueva were all in the wedding party, and there were plenty of other Andover grads in attendance. Ryan saw and hung out with Lauren Kelleher at her annual “Lamb Jam,” where they roasted a whole lamb.

Steve Blackman made a surprise cameo at the Lamb Jam, so we can confirm he is still alive.

Tori Anderson just graduated from Harvard Law School and is moving back to Portland, OR, to be a public defender. While at Harvard, Tori made Rosemary Bailey hang out with her all over Boston. Claire Voegele just finished her second year of law school and had a note published in the South Carolina Law Review about proposed remedies for administrative shortcomings that befall Vietnam veterans with PTSD and bad paper discharges. Claire was a summer associate at Nelson Mullins in Boston this summer and hoped to see some fellow classmates at A-E weekend.

Finally, please provide us with any of your updated contact information so that we can continue to stay in touch, especially ahead of our upcoming 10th Reunion!

2008 Mary B. Doyle 327 Noe St. San Francisco CA 94114 781-439-5209 (cell) mbdoyle@gmail.com Lydia Dallett 10 Stuyvesant Oval, Apt. 10E New York NY 10009 Lydia.Dallett@gmail.com

Hello, and welcome back to our thrice-annual check-in with the Class of 2008! There is much to discuss, so let’s dive in, starting with the baby news!

Lindsey Branson Crosby and husband Kyle welcomed Charlotte Claire Crosby into the world

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in October 2015. Can we just say baby Charlie is a bundle of cuteness? “She has been such a good baby, and we have enjoyed every minute,” says Lindsey. Congratulations, mama!

Lauren Shevlin married college sweetheart Jon Mace in a beautiful ceremony in Lenox, MA, over Labor Day weekend. Kelly Fox graduated from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and proposed to her longtime girlfriend Amber Brown, who happily said yes. Dr. Fox and Amber will be married in Amber’s home country of South Africa (so you know the wine will be good).

Nicole Duddy, now in her final year at NYU Stern School of Business, became engaged to boyfriend Zachary Weil and was, she says, “so happy to hear from all my Andover friends sending love/ congratulations.” Mercy Bell also made a huge commitment this year and bought a house on Martha’s Vineyard for the purpose of expanding the massage and yoga business she’s building with her brother. The retreat center—in Great Exuma, Bahamas!—launches this fall.

Matt Sternberg is excited to move to Nashville, TN, where he will start business school at Vanderbilt. Alexa Rahman began a doctoral program at Harvard Business School and spent her last exam-free moments visiting her boyfriend in Germany. Hillary Baker traveled to Thailand and Vietnam with Billy Draper ’07 and vowed that, upon her return, she would get back to the wheel and pick up pottery again. Rajit Malhotra finished a master’s degree program at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and now works in New York at the Bank Street School for Children, where he is director of strategy. Hector Cintron lives in Arlington, VA, where by day he is a mildmannered data scientist at a software-consulting firm and by night is frequently found on the dance floor, showing off his salsa moves and cutting a dashing figure in a red silk shirt and black pants.

(OK, I made the outfit up, but isn’t that what you were imagining?) And Sally Poole is still at vet school in Glasgow, where she spends all her time “studying, walking my Dalmatian, and sticking my hand up sheep!”

In May, Annabel Graham’s short film The Ravine made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival and had its world premiere at Laemmle’s Music Hall in LA in June. The film, which Annabel wrote, directed, produced, and starred in, is dedicated to her late father, director William A. Graham ’44, who passed away in 2013. Annabel also exhibited two photographs at the Los Angeles Center of Photography, read short fiction at the Manhattanville Reading Series in Brooklyn, and attended the Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop in Portland, OR. Somehow in between, she managed to catch up with Sara Nosaka and Ellie Shepley. Meanwhile, Rachel Cohen moved to Brooklyn.

Nick Anschuetz moved to Boston to start a job at MEDITECH and formed Bobsled, a band that focuses on original compositions and deep group improvisation. He also joined Bearly Dead, a

Grateful Dead tribute band that plays Wednesdays at Thunder Road in Somerville. Nick writes, “Aside from all my music icons dying, 2015–2016 has been fantastic!” Stephanie Clegg also reports having an “unbelievable year,” in which she started medical school at UMass, backpacked in Europe, and ran the Marine Corps Marathon. Steph spent her summer looking at patient-reported outcomes of pain and function after total knee or hip replacements in the UMass orthopedics department. Frank Pinto left the company he started in 2013 in order to work independently as a project manager/full-stack Web developer, which is a fancy way of saying he’s getting paid to travel to cool places. (So far, he’s hit up Mexico City, Medellín, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and that’s just internationally.) When he’s stateside, Frank ends up seeing a lot of Chad Hollis.

Victoria Glynn accepted a fellowship at CommunityRED, an organization that brings cybersecurity expertise to journalists, dissidents, and activists operating in countries where free speech is restricted. In May, Victoria visited Rachel Cohen’s new apartment and was asked to bring her own toilet paper because Rachel’s roommate “measures our rate of usage down to the square.” Talk about a violation of free speech.

Joy Fowlkes joined the publishing department at Creative Artists Agency in New York, where she focuses on fiction and young adult interests.

Joy says she’s “more of a fan girl” than she ever suspected she’d be. Silké Cummings graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Dental Medicine and is happy to be starting residency in San Francisco. This spring, she attended the 60th anniversary celebration of The Open Mind, the weekly public affairs program hosted by Alexander Heffner. Last winter, Ben Schley, Dave Holliday, Zach Feldman, Lambros Theofanidis, Ian Accomando, Dana Feeny, and Kevin Zhai went skiing in Whitefish, MT. “Ian wore Chubbies (the shorts) the entire trip,” reports Ben. And finally, I’m now a researcher for the HBO comedy show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, so if you have a topic you’d like to see covered, let me know! If you spot a factual error in our reporting, tell no one. Very best, Lydia

www.andover.edu/intouch 2009 Alexander McHale 101 NE 53rd St., Apt. 2714 Oklahoma City OK 73105 703-786-3330 arxmchale@gmail.com Deidra Willis 2815 Rohret Road, Apt. 201 Iowa City IA 52246 347-342-7447 willis.deidra@gmail.com

What a lovely and productive few months it has been for all of us! It has been so great to hear from you all.

Compiling these class notes for the past few years has not only allowed me to see our lives change in real time, but also to notice general trends. In the past several iterations of the class notes, the theme that comes to mind is “commitment”—a word that I know can sound like a vague platitude sometimes but that actually manifests itself in very concrete ways with us.

Many of us have finished graduate/professional degrees, or are in the process of beginning doctoral studies. Some of us have found a calling of sorts, and have decided to devote time, resources, and energy to academic studies that animate us. We have found fulfillment in things as varied as gender studies, veterinary medicine, and security studies.

Others have finished their first jobs out of college and have decided to focus on a certain industry or field. We might have been hockey players, Blue Key heads, or debaters in high school, but have now become real estate professionals, chemistry instructors, and oilmen.

Most importantly, we are starting to get married—oftentimes to other Andover alums.

The connection here to “commitment” should be obvious: Some of us have found our person.

None of this should be taken as implicit pressure to settle down in one way or another. (I, for one, am still power swiping through Oklahoma trying to find Tinderella.) But it’s amazing to see how quickly things are starting to fall into place for some of us. It feels like the beginning of a new phase in life.

Sarah Rutter got married May 29 in Woodstock, VT. Her husband is one Gordon Vermeer, and the two of them met at Dartmouth a few weeks before Gordon graduated, in 2012. A hearty congrats to Sarah and Gordon! We wish them health and happiness and lots of cute little Dartmouth legacy babies.

Speaking of legacies, our very own Jill Kozloff and Trey Meyer are getting married next summer.

A sincere congrats to the two of you! I think I speak for the whole class when I say we were all rooting for this to happen. Jill met up in Williamstown, MA, with Annie Glancy and Eliza Dewey for a little reunion to celebrate the news.

Lauren Wilmarth graduated from Cornell with a doctorate in veterinary medicine. She is moving

to NYC to spend her internship year working at the Animal Medical Center (AMC). Her sister, Tori Wilmarth, finished three years of work consulting with IBM Global Business Services, where she focused on the life sciences industry.

She was awarded the Park Fellowship to pursue an MBA degree at Cornell starting this past July.

Congrats, Tori!

Alissa Fromkin completed a master’s degree in Middle East studies at George Washington University and recently received a Fulbright Scholarship to study religious practices of genderqueer Jews in Israel. If anyone else is part of the Fulbright family or will be around Israel, let Alissa know!

Johnny Carmona, Kevin Ofori, Mike Kaluzny, and Kyle Ofori were all in Atlanta recently to see a concert. Mike and Kevin are roommates. Jean Fang met up with Chelsea Carlson and Gloria Odusote in Las Vegas, Cleveland, and Chicago this year. She is moving to San Diego for graduate school in August. If anyone is in the area, let her know.

Andi Zhou will begin a master’s degree program in public affairs this fall at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, where he and Kaki Elgin will once again be classmates. Kaki is pursuing a PhD degree in security studies at the school.

Andrew Ang ran into Ricky Chen, Teddy Toussaint, and Brendan Deveney at an Andover alumni event in Cambridge recently.

Ricky is a software engineer at Demandbase and Teddy is a software engineering associate at Vecna.

(What is Brendan up to? Someone let me know.)

In Oklahoma City, I recently ran into Ishan Kapoor, who was driving through on his way to Dallas, where he works for Schlumberger.

In addition to being a crack oilman, he has also started an amazing cold-brew start-up, called Wide Eyed Cold Brew. My office is hooked.

As for me, I continue to plod along here in Oklahoma, where I regularly see Forrest Cox, who works in governmental relations for Cherokee Nation in Tulsa. Deidra Willis recently live-Snapchatted me a jealousy-inducing trip to Thailand, and I continue to follow the Brew Crew adventures of Marvin Blugh and Max Abitbol at Mel’s Burger Bar near Columbia, as well as in the Hamptons.

Overall, 2016 has been a great year so far, the Thunder’s loss to the Warriors notwithstanding. If anyone is ever around in Oklahoma, please let me know! Will happily give you the VIP tour. —Alex

2010 Courtney King 343 15th St. Santa Monica CA 90402 310-984-0882 (cell) courtney.king116@gmail.com

Jen Oesterling moved to NYC in January to work at a veterinary clinic in East Harlem. She reports that “in just three months, I have had more Andover reunions than I could have imagined!”

She met up with Nicole Okai, Khalid McCaskill, and Isabella Uria and ran into Alex Gray, Emily Johnson, and Jeremy Hutton ’11 while exploring the city. She says she is excited to begin veterinary school at the University of Illinois in August. Jen says that she is “hoping to make the most of my time before starting vet school, which will hopefully include more reunions with people from Andover.”

Vivian Chen recently caught up with Michelle Mariko in Miami over brunch. Michelle was visiting New Orleans, Miami, and Orlando, FL, before heading up to Baltimore for her graduation from Johns Hopkins University. Vivian is planning a trip to Japan later in the fall and hopes to hang out with Michelle there!

Will Winkenwerder still lives and works in NYC and, at this writing, was preparing for a six-week trip around the world with Spencer Macquarrie, departing in May. They planned to travel to Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, St. Tropez, and London.

Mat Kelley is approaching his two-year anniversary in Shanghai. He now works as the regional marketing director for Chope Shanghai, which he describes as “a restaurant reservation app similar to Open Table.” In May, he and Stephen Xenakis went to Graham Miao ’09’s place for a party. Mat says it is “always awesome to catch up with alumni in China!”

Trevor Braun worked in the McGill Data Mining and Security lab in Montreal for the summer and will be entering a master’s degree program in economics at McGill this fall for one more year of school. He planned to spend his summer weekends hiking in the Adirondack Mountains. He traveled to Toronto to see the NBA Eastern Conference Finals with Khalid McCaskill.

Duncan Crystal recently drove down to the University of North Carolina with Kate Bulger ’11 to celebrate Alexis Dawkins’s graduation and upcoming move to China. Duncan reports that they were also joined by John McKenna and Jackie Wallace, and that “good times were had by all.”

Matt Renner says that he is “happy to say things are finally falling into place” and that he is tattooing professionally in Denver at a cooperative shop called Illustrated Gypsy. He reports that Sophia Bernazzani, Anne Hunter, and Anne’s boyfriend, Bjarni, stopped by a few weeks ago while Andover | Reunion 2016

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Lucy Arnold got a touch-up on an old feather tattoo done in Boston; he says, “It was great to see them and catch up!” He adds that his girlfriend just graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in English and that they just moved into a new apartment in Lakewood, CO, about 10 minutes from the tattoo shop.

After graduating from Pitzer College, Lily Shaffer returned to Boston, where she launched a business as a birth and postpartum doula. She has spent the year attending births and supporting new families throughout the city, teaching yoga in Cambridge, and wheel-throwing pottery. She just participated in her first gallery sale, which Rachel Coleman attended. Lily will be moving to New Haven in the fall to attend the Yale School of Nursing, pursuing degrees as a certified nurse midwife and women’s health nurse practitioner.

Alanna Waldman has just moved from the Bahamas to pursue a master’s degree in marine biology at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She is part of the Coral Reef Restoration, Assessment, and Monitoring Lab and says she “looks forward to doing research under Dr. David Gilliam in efforts to protect sensitive coral species from anthropogenic pressures off of Florida’s coasts.”

Lauren Kim moved to LA and is working in the business development and strategic planning group at Universal Pictures. She reports that she recently had a nice time catching up with Juliet Liu in LA and plans to create a Facebook group to connect Andover alums in LA. Isabella Uria has been working on the Nuclear Risk Reduction project at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford. In June, she left Stanford to walk the El Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage through Northern Spain. In the fall, she will head back to the East Coast to attend Yale Law School, to study international and national security law.

Courtney King was back on campus in May for Alumni Council Weekend, as cochair for the class secretaries committee. She was happy to run into many other young alumni at the council sessions. The weekend was filled with stimulating discussions with students, faculty, administrators, staff, and trustees, all centered on wellness, which is a primary focus of the Academy’s strategic plan. These wellness discussions culminated in the dedication of the Sykes Wellness Center, a beautiful facility combining the functions of Isham and Graham House, which will support Andover’s commitment to complete student wellness. On Friday, there was a reception and dinner to honor the extraordinary contributions of retiring faculty members Max Alovisetti, Seth Bardo, Kathleen Dalton, Marc Koolen, and Christopher Walter, as well as chief operating officer and financial officer Stephen Carter. Please send Courtney a message if you have any interest in being part of Alumni Council.

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Christopher Batchelder 4 Raymond St. Manchester-by-the-Sea MA 01944 batch@unc.edu

Miranda Haymon 197 Clare Ave. Boston MA 02136 617-308-6252 mirandahaymon@gmail.com

Oriekose Idah 8 Sycamore Lane Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 oidah0608@gmail.com Kevin Song 1 Windy Hill Road Green Brook NJ 08812 kevin@andover11.com Edith Young 470 Park Ave., Apt. 2D New York NY 10022 edithwyoung@gmail.com

This year, the Class of 2011 celebrated our Fifth Reunion back on Andover’s campus. As a testament to our unwavering Big Blue spirit, 2011 won the attendance award, with more than 180 members present. Haley Scott and Teddy Smyth accepted the silver bowl for highest attendance on behalf of the class.

The weekend was full of reminiscing, storytelling, and reconnection. Manwei Chan shared that he was moving to San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.

He’s working on the fourth-highest telescope in the world, CLASS, which is looking at the cosmic microwave background for signs of inflation.

Casey McQuillen talked about preparations to release her new EP. Haley, Sheya Jabouin, Natasha Vaz, Aniebiet Abasi, and Oriekose “Orie” Idah had an impromptu SLAM performance in Borden Gym. Members of 2011 gathered to cheer on the step-team alums as they performed some crowd favorites on their old “stomping” grounds.

Chioma Ngwudo, Kate Wiener, Aleksander Huzar, Daniel Santamaria, and Orie transported back to lower English class with Mr. Fox as he walked them through his course on The Wire.

Ijeoma “E.J.” Ejiogu, former Pine Knoll president, and Mike MacKay, former class president, proudly held the class flag as 2011 paraded to All School Meeting in the chapel.

This reunion, 2011 took a moment to remember and pay tribute to two of our classmates. Michael Kontaxis led the dedication of the new tennisviewing area named in honor of Mark Adamsson.

We heard stories of Mark’s triumphs and character both on and off the court. Melina Prentakis led our remembrance of Alice Hoffman in Bulfinch Hall.

Classmates shared stories of Alice’s lively personality and uncanny ability to brightens anyone’s day.

Reunion was a blast, and we won’t let five more years go by before we get together again. We are looking forward to more chances for the Class of 2011 to connect throughout the year!

Lauren Howard P.O. Box 1352 Lexington VA 24450 860-682-4641 (cell) howardl16@mail.wlu.edu Sydney Keen 520 Franklin St. Reading MA 01867 781-640-3037 sydneykeen93@gmail.com

Greetings, ’12ers! It was great to hear from so many of you this class notes season. Without further ado, here are some updates on what we all are up to.

Alexandra Morrow graduated from Bates in May and soon after moved to Portland, ME, with her fiancé, Chris, and her cat, Gus. She’s working as a freelance filmmaker and is currently contracted as an associate producer on two feature-length documentaries.

Asia Bradlee enjoyed her last semester at Tulane exploring the city and tasting all the amazing food before she leaves. In February, Mariana Budge and Vita Lampietti joined Asia in New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras. It was a wild week, and Asia couldn’t have been happier to have two of her best friends there to celebrate. Asia graduated from Tulane in May and is excited to be back home in Boston after graduation.

After graduating from Tufts, Daniel “Danny” Gottfried planned to serve in the Peace Corps as a secondary education English teacher in Moldova.

Training began May 29, and Danny will have a couple of chances to visit home, but otherwise will be there until August 2018.

To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Sean Ballinger and Sung Yup “Sam” Jung, along with a few friends of Sean’s from MIT, went on a bar-crawling adventure in Boston. The group had a delicious meal of corned beef and cabbage. Sean’s on his way to becoming a nuclear physicist, and Sam is back from a four-year hiatus, having attempted to become a monk in the mountains of South Korea.

Starting this fall, Sam will be studying ceramics and photography at RISD. Tailor Dortona is working full time at the U.S. State Department for the special advisor for international disability rights. She is currently apartment hunting with Ariana Brenner, who landed a job as an analyst at Cornerstone Research. The two are excited to finally reunite!

After completing a degree in computer science from Williams College, Tafarii McKenzie is happy to be moving back to NYC. Starting in October, Tafarii will be training for five weeks in

www.andover.edu/intouch Pune, India, before beginning work as a software developer for ThoughtWorks in New York.

Margot “Maggie” Shoemaker spent two weeks last semester cycling from Germany to Portugal to raise money for charity. Maggie cycled through Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Portugal with a group of 30 students from her university in Germany. The group slept in hostels, an old army bunker, two fire stations, a surfing champion’s house, and sports halls. Part of the trip was on the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage route to northwestern Spain, which is where Maggie and her companions ended up on Easter.

Marcus Smith has been busy in Amherst, MA, and encourages anyone in the area to come visit him at the Amherst Farmers’ Market, which he just started managing, on Saturdays on the downtown common. Marcus now manages the winter and summer farmers’ markets in Amherst. He will be doing an internship with the Neighboring Food Co-op Association to explore the different possibilities of farmers’ markets as cooperative businesses and is also in the middle of becoming the secretary of the board of directors of the Amherst Community Co-op, a food cooperative looking to provide a full-service fresh foods hub in Amherst.

This past semester, Michelle Hantman interned at Nickelodeon Animation Studio and was hired for a full-time position in the original movies department. Michelle began working the Monday after her graduation from USC. Sydney Keen worked as an editorial intern with W.W. Norton Publishing in NYC over the summer while living in the Bronx. She began her senior year at Fordham University in the fall. Sydney and Laura Lee ’11 planned to host Kelsey Phinney ’11 for a weekend in New York over the summer.

Thank you to everyone who submitted notes.

Special congratulations to those of our classmates who recently graduated from their respective colleges and universities! Only one more year until our first Andover reunion. Crazy how time flies!

—Sydney Keen

2013 M.J. Engel 414-477-5563 mjengel8@gmail.com Connor Fraser 9 Scotland Drive Andover MA 01810 978-857-4443 cfraser142@gmail.com Chiamaka Okorie 347-981-0429 okoriesc@ymail.com

Devon Burger and Abby Chung rang in the New Year together in New Hampshire and celebrated Abby’s birthday at Stanford University

in April. Devon also visited Boston while on her a cappella group’s spring tour and caught up with Alexandra Donovan, Emily Field, Malynna Mam, Nalyn Yim, and Unwana Abasi. Claudia Giles, Dylan MacDonald, and Susanna Rademacher spent New Year’s Eve together in Sunapee, NH, and Claudia and Veronica Harrington had a lovely day together in Miami Beach during their spring vacation weeks. Claudia lived in Washington, DC, over the summer, where she worked as a Web designer for Ritz-Carlton’s corporate offices.

Christiana Nguyen started 2016 snowed in at Columbia University, but she was able to visit Jing Qu and Nikita Singareddy. She also caught up with William “Zach” Merchant in April when he came to visit Cornell University. Raeva Kumar was regretfully unable to attend that meeting of The Phillipian’s CXXXV commentary editors, but Christiana and Zach look forward to seeing her at the next one! Bo Yoon, Sarah Lee, Lauren Kim, and Christiana were also able to meet up for drinks for Sarah’s birthday. Christiana ran into Franco D’Agostino and Jessica Lee at a crew race at Yale, and she saw Henry Kennelly, Jake Rauh ’14, Marc Sevastopoulo ’15, and Jack Lane ’15 when they came to race at Cornell. Christiana and Hailey Novis, who now rows for Radcliffe College, caught up when they happened to be staying at the same hotel. Over the summer, Christiana lived in Dallas while she interned with Neiman Marcus.

Mark Meyer visited Purdue University this winter to speak at Purdue’s Calumet Big Sell Entrepreneurship Competition about advertising and user acquisition. He continued his work at the start-up Getmii over the summer at the company’s offices in Bangkok and at Harvard University’s Innovation Lab with his brother, Max Meyer ’08.

In the course of his travels, Mark stopped by a meeting of the University of Chicago’s German Club, which Sam Koffman worked to expand during this past academic year.

David Crane and Connor Fraser caught up at Princeton University in December. Connor also ran into Lucy Frey in January while both were on winter training trips to Puerto Rico, for Columbia’s and Wheaton College’s swimming programs, respectively. Emily Carrolo visited her sister, Elizabeth Carrolo ’11, Jing Qu, and Connor in NYC in March for Italian food and ice cream.

Connor and Jing spent the summer living together in the Financial District while they interned in NYC. Rory Ziomek and Ross Bendetson were fortunate to work on a class project together during their spring semester at Tufts University, in which they analyzed Kanye West’s music career. Rory, Tim Superko, Sahil Bhaiwala, and David McCullough all saw Richard “Swiss Rick” McAllister on the basketball court at Tufts this winter, when Bowdoin played Tufts. Rory stayed in Boston over the summer while he worked for the U.S. Commercial Service.

At Cornell University, Alexandra Donovan

helped launch a grocery store that aimed to provide healthy, affordable, and accessible food to all students. Rhea Lewis, Devon Burger, Malynna Mam, Nalyn Yim, Emily Field, and Abby Chung surprised Alexandra at her home for her birthday in December. They all missed Andrea Vargas dearly! Alexandra continued to pursue her passion for design by interning at an architecture firm in Boston over the summer.

Gabbi Fisher and Justin Appleby caught up during the spring over the fire pit at the Slavicthemed cooperative house where Gabbi will live during her final year at Stanford University. This summer, Gabbi worked as a software engineer for Palantir Technologies in Washington, DC. Angela Batuure and M.J. Engel enjoyed spending their fall semester together at Columbia.

Angela spent the spring jet-setting around Europe during her semester studying abroad in London and even attended the Cannes Film Festival in May. Esperanza Mata and Yeo Bi Choi caught up in Madrid this past spring. Pearson Goodman, Jason Nawrocki, Hemang Kaul, and Brendan O’Connell were able to hang out in Andover during their spring breaks and were all up to their old shenanigans. Julia Kichorowsky and Lucy Frey still keep in close contact while at school, and they frequently sing Taylor Swift songs to each other over the phone. Julia spent the summer working as an analyst at Centerview Partners in NYC. There were several Andover reunions overseas when members of the Class of 2013 studied abroad during their spring semesters. Jimmy Hunter and Emily McKinnon reunited at the Stockholm School of Economics during their semesters abroad in Sweden. Jimmy had an amazing time exploring Stockholm, getting to know his host family, teaching English at a local school, and traveling to Norway, Finland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, and the Czech Republic. He hopes to make a return trip to Sweden in the near future.

Over the summer, Jimmy worked as a business development intern at Turner Company in Boston.

During their spring semesters, Erin Wong and M.J. Engel studied abroad together in Vietnam, Bolivia, and Morocco, where they both took part in a program focused on climate change and the nexus of food, water, and energy around the world.

Erin worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Beijing over the summer.

Thank you to everyone who submitted news.

The 2013 class secretaries wish you good luck as many of you embark on your senior years of college, and we look forward to hearing more from everyone in September! —Connor Fraser

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2014 Djavaneh Bierwirth 3456 Sansom St. Philadelphia PA 19104 978-933-1910 djavaneh@wharton.upenn.edu Kai Kornegay 3650 Spruce St., MB 960 Philadelphia PA 19104 609-670-6658 kaikornegay@gmail.com Cat Haseman 5400 Fielding Manor Drive Evansville IN 47715 812-204-9113 cchaseman@gmail.com

Kate Mesrobian ’12, Djavaneh Bierwirth, and Meghana Jayam trekked through Patagonia, in Chile, for a week during spring break.

Armaan Singh’s sister, Arzu ’16, visited him twice, over the winter and the spring. He also traveled to Cleveland in April for Bollywood America, where his team took first place! He has also been fostering a newfound interest in hip-hop dance.

More than ever before, he wishes that he had joined Hypnotiq. Finally, Armaan will be studying in London this fall.

Michael Kim continues to do what he does best and is simply living, breathing, and playing puck. Cat Haseman spent four months abroad— in Peru, Rwanda, and Palestine—interning at three local NGOs. The highlight of her semester was living in Bethlehem, in the West Bank, and working at Holy Land Trust, an organization committed to the nonviolence and empowerment of the Palestinian community against all forms of oppression through understanding, equality, and justice. This summer, she interned in Washington, DC, at the International Justice Mission headquarters and lived with Emma Kahn.

Mayze Teitler had a great time seeing Lily Rockefeller while in Providence, RI, for club fencing nationals, where Lily helped Mayze wash (and lose) team gear; she also had a chance to catch up with Jessica Yin over some hot pot while visiting Boston. Ryan Miller visited Katherine Vega in Chicago in January, and Jess Gammon came all the way from China for a visit in February.

Katherine worked at the Clinton Foundation in NYC this past summer.

Over Easter, Hannah Sorkin and Anna Fucillo ’15 went to Harvard to watch Caroline Garrity ’15 play in a lacrosse game against Princeton. This summer, Hannah interned in Giverny, France, before returning home to work on a congressional campaign. Kit “Jerry” Li met up with Malina Simard-Halm at an arcade, where they won a mini iPad! Our former copresident Junius Williams lived across the hall at school from Iman Masmoudi, so they

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enjoyed regular meals and coffee dates. Junius also stays in contact via Skype with Clint Yoo, who is currently serving with the South Korean military.

Kai Kornegay was recently elected cochair of Tangible Change, a funding body at Penn that allocates its $40,000 budget to student events that bring together disparate communities. She also has an assistantship with the school district of Philadelphia and the Fairmount Water Works developing curricula for middle school science.

That’s a wrap, folks! Don’t forget to reach out to us with any updates.

2015 Devontae Freeland 1455 Harvard Yard Mail Center Cambridge MA 02138 732-841-1839 dfreeland@college.harvard.edu Tessa Peterson 70 Pennsylvania Gulch Road Nederland CO 80466 303-717-2764 tessa@boulder.com Kailash Sundaram 3465 Sansom St. 410 English House, MB 123 Philadelphia PA 19104 408-417-2033 kailash.s.sundaram@gmail.com

Wow, it’s already September—the start of sophomore year for some of us and freshman year for others. Congratulations all around!

Our resident filmmaker, Jack McGovern, currently in his first semester at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, had an action-packed gap year.

He studied cinematography and film theory at Boston University over the summer of 2015, and in the fall, he took a job at a hockey broadcasting company as a live game monitor. What’s that? Let’s ask Jack: “When I came into work, I monitored up to 24 hockey games simultaneously for video and audio quality and helped resolve any issues that arose,” said Jack, who also somehow managed to find time to volunteer at the Red Cross’s Boston food pantry. He attended the Sundance Film Festival with John Little in Utah in January. What a year, and good luck on your first semester!

Let’s check in on other classmates’ college careers. Rob Bakerian recounts a great first year at the University of Michigan, where he’s applied to the business school and become involved in local volunteering. He connected with Tom Mullen ’14, who has mentored him through pledging. Over the summer, Rob interned at a bank at home and carved out time to catch up with Culver Duquette in New Jersey and Kyle Moss in Massachusetts.

Alex Jiang joined Rice’s club Ultimate Frisbee team and was part of a team that won the Excellence in

Freshman Design award at the Rice Engineering Design Showcase. At Amherst, Robby Schwartz joined an a cappella group called Route 9. While traveling to Dartmouth with the group, Robby met up with Marcus Thompson. They solemnly swear that they were up to no good.

At Swarthmore, Keton Kakkar occasionally cooks and has “(pseudo)intellectual get-togethers” with Marion Kudla and Joe Woo. Will Reid and Paxton Hyde also visited Keton for some exploration and a run in Crum Woods. Keton and Ryan Brigden had summer internships at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Other classmates who worked in Boston this summer include Kayla Thompson, David Gutierrez, Katie Santoro, and Isabella Berkley.

Several ’15ers have also been traveling, and a bunch were in DC! Paul McGovern met up with Greg Burgess and spent the day catching up and visiting museums and national monuments.

Last fall, Alex Humphreys interned at the Cato Institute, briefly hosted Elijah Aladin, and met up with Bianca Navarro Bowman.

Kailash Sundaram and Caroline Hoskins met up with Reid Bradt and Victoria Skrivanos in DC in February and stopped by the DC hotspot Milkbar.

Justin Curtis spent the summer at the political consulting firm American Continental Group. On Sept. 18, Justin delivered a TEDx talk at Harvard on the flaws of the electoral college.

Now, on to our classmates overseas. Several spent time in the UK over this past year, including Frank Geng, who worked in London this summer and met up with Stanley Ng, Hector Cho, and James Towne. In Scotland, Alex Humphreys visited Arthur Gildehaus, crashing on his floor at St Andrews in February. Dorothy MacFarlane, also studying at St Andrews, has taken up mixed martial arts and is really enjoying her time. She “definitely recommends” studying abroad at St Andrews. John Gorton visited Rebecca Somer in Edinburgh over spring break and worked at PA’s Summer Session as an intern and complementary house counselor.

A few hours away from our classmates in Britain, the Kemper Scholars had a mini reunion in Paris, attended by Corentin Thomas, Antonella Menta Fernandez, Hannah Hagemeyer, and Carlotta Onnis, who is currently studying medicine at the University of Cagliari, Italy.

Also in Paris this summer, Sam Glazer studied international business. Sam also had the opportunity to cheer on Will Young ’14, Austin Gaiss ’14, and Jack Beare, playing for the Notre Dame lacrosse team at a game in Orange County, CA. Roshan Mathi worked at a hospital in Argentina in May. Paulina Munn attended a graduation in Peru, interned at a South African safari company, worked with jaguars in Brazil, and had lots of jetlag. China Kantner visited Evelyn Liu and Harriet Chiu in Hong Kong over winter break—apparently, they spelunked a

www.andover.edu/intouch pirate cave on Cheung Chau Island. Tell us more!

Miles Neumann met up with Rhaime Kim in Hong Kong and Henry Curtis in NYC. While home this summer, Henry set up a will-rap-forclaps stand in Union Square. When asked for updates, our resident activist, Lily Grossbard, had this to say: “Put that I got arrested again!”

In New York, Maddie Mayhew was a summer intern at Us Weekly, and Anoush Shehadeh and her family hosted Rani Iyer, John Gorton, and Olivia “Lane” Unsworth for Easter dinner. In March, Ben Yang explored Northern California with Frank Geng and Max Chung. Arsenal fan Conner Cameron celebrated St. Totteringham’s Day with Tottenham fan Andrew Zheng. For the uninitiated, this is the day that Arsenal Football Club (soccer) fans celebrate the fact that Tottenham can no longer catch Arsenal in the Premier League. Yay, sports!

And finally, more sports: The 2015 HarvardYale Game brought Talia Rockmore, Michael Panepinto, and Foster Leboeuf together in New Haven. I guess Andover-Exeter Day gave us all a taste for a good school rivalry. Speaking of A-E, we hope to see some of you on campus in November for our first home Andover-Exeter as alumni! — Tessa, Kailash, and Devontae

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FACULTY EMERITI Pat and George Edmonds 28 Samuel Way North Andover MA 01845 978-655-4598 gandped@comcast.net

On May 14, our annual emeriti brunch, hosted by John Palfrey, took place in the new Rebecca M. Sykes Wellness Center, complete with a tour and a welcome by Dr. Amy Patel. Head of School Palfrey spoke about a faculty focus on

wellness and his offering prizes to students who logged in eight hours of sleep a night for a month.

Becky and Elwin Sykes and their family attended the dedication ceremony the week before, and Becky gave a moving speech to celebrate the occasion. Also attending were Barbara and David Chase, Don and Britta McNemar, and Nancy Sizer—representing all the heads of school Becky had served with.

Picking up the wellness theme at the brunch, Pat Edmonds found that Susan Garth Stott planned that afternoon to lead an eight-mile hike on the Bay Circuit Trail to see trillium, a great blue heron with her two chicks, and a horned owl sitting on another heron nest.

In Newburyport, Eleanor Lyons is still doing SHINE counseling for seniors and, since 1980, has done 35 Walks for Hunger, all 20 or 10 miles each.

In Los Angeles, her granddaughter led her on a trip to attend opera, museums, and movie studios.

Phil Zaeder asserted that he is still preaching, but the words go to the birds and to the stone walls he still builds. Sylvia ’54 enjoys spending time with her Abbot classmates supporting the Brace Center.

Dick Lux says he enjoys playing computer games when he can’t sit in the sun reading. He still regularly volunteers at the Andover town library.

Hardly a retiree, Elliot Hacker has, for the past several years, served as financial officer for a Jewish day school, two Catholic day schools, and, more recently, nearby Brooks School.

Among our traveling emeritae, Francesca Piana recently returned from a six-week, seven-country jaunt in Europe, speaking the native languages. She is happily celebrating her 70th birthday and looks forward to teaching her 10th course at the Beacon Hill Seminars, where she has taught for the past seven years.

Phebe Miner has so far kept the School Street home that she and Josh enjoyed for so many years and is now also happy in her apartment here at Edgewood, joining the many other emeriti in active retirement living. She and her daughter escaped the winter winds by capturing the sun on Captiva Island in Florida.

Wendy Richards said, “I feel extremely grateful for all I had living in the PA community that I can now bring to my Exeter community.” She volunteers singing, walking, and talking with community residents who need some joy in their lives. Drea Thorn and Karen Sturges recently visited her for lunch at her home in Riverwoods.

Karen, living in Boston, is as active as ever. As a trustee of Wheelock College, she has served as cochair of the committee to select a new president.

She teaches two days a week at Mother Caroline, an independent school for girls in Dorchester, takes a course on English women mystery writers, and goes to the Boston Symphony with her brother. Summer plans included taking her two granddaughters to the Galapagos Islands.

Other emeriti attending the brunch were artist Laura Allis Richardson, photographer Don Bade and Ursula, and birders Don and Betsy Abbott,

who brought beloved dean, teacher, and house counselor “parents” Carroll and Elaine Bailey.

The week of the brunch, Vic Henningsen ’69 began chairing meetings of the school’s Chapel Cemetery Trustees, having been elected last year to replace Betsy Parker Powell ’56, chair for the past 15 years. Other emeriti serving as trustees of this group helping to preserve and enhance the cemetery memorials and landscape include Pat Edmonds, Dick Lux, Carolyn Skelton, Susan Garth Stott, and Joe Wennik ’52.

Having sold the beautiful home in Williamsburg, VA, that Audrey and Lou Hoitsma had for many years, Audrey is now well-situated close by in a retirement community. From her apartment window, she enjoys scenic views of flowers and trees and regularly hears an owl hooting. Her daughter, Ellen ’73, visits her often from Baltimore, where Ellen teaches at the Gilman School. Her son, Todd ’80, visited for two weeks, a respite from his booming solar panel business in Montana.

Randy and Jackie Peffer enjoy sailing and sun as they move among their places in Marion, MA; Long Beach, CA; and the Bahamas. In April, Randy’s new book, Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U-Boat, sailed into very sunny reviews and top sales. It details the search for and the discovery of “the last unfound, diveable wreck of a U-boat off the United States coast” and the battle, 70 miles south of Nantucket, where it was sunk by American forces.

Tony Rotundo and wife Kathy Dalton traveled for three weeks in China and visited their son, Peter ’05, who is teaching at the YK Pao boarding school near Shanghai. Their daughter, Barbara ’00, will be married in the chapel at Mount Holyoke College, where Tony’s parents were married. Two book projects are occupying Tony.

One is about white masculinity and right-wing populism (Tony says, “Donald Trump is ‘writing the book’ for me”). The other involves interviews with producer/musician Robert Jones, the father of Chris Jones, current head of the PA history department, and concerns the festival productions in Newport, RI. As Kathy joins Tony in retirement this year, they will continue to live nearby in East Lexington.

In addition to Kathy, we are pleased to welcome this year’s retirees to the lively faculty emeriti group—Max Alovisetti, Seth Bardo, Steve Carter, Marc Koolen, and Chris Walter— and look forward to having news from them.

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1. Noted New Yorker cartoonist William Hamilton ’58 passed away in April. Not long before, he was guest of honor at a lunch with classmates at Mustards Grill in Napa, CA. From left are Hamilton, Lawry Chickering, John Murphy, Blitz Fox, Roger MacKenzie, and Phil Woodward.

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2. Graham Anthony ’82, Angus Deming ’44, Stefanie Scheer Young ’81, Jack Gray ’74, and Alex Mishkin ’85 connected at an April brunch for class secretaries in Brooklyn, NY. 3. Members of the Class of ’75 met at a Hartford, CT, screening of a documentary about their late classmate Thomas Chapin. From left are Geoff Richards, Lisa MacFarlane, Phil Hueber, and Cathy Chapman.

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4. Three former PA rowers—Henry Kennelly ’13, Grant Bitler ’14, and Jack Lane ’15—met up at a Brown-Harvard heavyweight race at Brown University in April.

5. Lauren Nickerson ’02 (center) traveled from Hawaii to NYC to visit classmates Stephanie Hackett (left) and Georgina Brown (right), arriving just in time for Superstorm Jonas in January.

6. Kyle Ofori, Mike Kaluzny, Johnny Carmona, and Kevin Ofori, all Class of ’09, got together before attending a concert in Atlanta, where Mike and Kevin are roommates.

7. Several members of the Class of ’64 went on a tour of the Addison Gallery. From left are John Axelrod, Addison curator Allison Kemmerer, Jackie Meyers Eby, Jo-Anwyl Foster Keefe, curatorial assistant Kelley Tialiou, Addison Director Judith Dolkart, Tony Sapienza, Lee Porter Hoehn, Andy Crane, and Sam Allis.

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8. San Francisco roommates Piotr Brzezinski and Erik Trautman, both Class of ’03, hosted a dinner for classmates in May. Front, from left, are Janis Rice, Michael Ruderman, and Phoebe Rockwood. Back, from left, are David Beyer, Nick Evans, Sebastian Benthall, Piotr, Erik, Margaret Ramsey, Brian Karfunkel, Katie Dlesk, and James Chou.

9. Friends from the Class of ’84 gathered for dinner in New York to support Derrick Queen, who was recently diagnosed with a serious illness. Front, from left, are Kent Lucas, Torrance York, and Rich Eisert. Standing, from left, are Mike Cahill, Sean Stone, Art Muldoon, Stefan Kaluzny, Derrick Queen, Jordan Smythe, Bob Zech, Sturgis Woodberry, Joel Post, Andy LeSueur, and Jeff Nordhaus.

10. Alumni from several classes turned out for the Napa, CA, wedding of Terry Friedlander ’95 and Brendon Kearney in April. From left are Cem Karsan ’95, Elliott Friedlander ’99, Evan Stone ’89, Candice Koo ’95, Terry, Brendon, Karen Friedlander ’01, Nicole Friedlander ’94 with husband Serge Mezhburd, and Miles and Liz Lasater, both ’96.

11. In June, Courtney McBride ’03 got married in Washington, DC, surrounded by classmates Kathleen Minahan, Katie Dlesk, Phil Caruso, Kaitlin Ainsworth Caruso, Ryan McChristian, and Sam Weisz.

12. The annual Benner Cup, for members of the Class of ’62, was held at the Kittansett Club in Marion, MA, in June. From left are Marty Shulkin, Richard Leger, Brent Mohr, Jay Wescott, Jonathan Sox, Mike Moonves, Charlie Stuart, Sam Caldwell, and Rev. George Andrews.

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which had served it well throughout its history,” he wrote. “I was then, and remain, immensely grateful to have had the opportunity to be some part of it.” He returned to the Abbot campus for celebratory events, most recently in spring 2014.

Gordon went on to author articles and books and serve as an education consultant. He was a college instructor in New Hampshire and Colorado prior to retiring in 2006.

He is survived by his son, James; his daughter, Alexandra; a granddaughter; and his life partner, Ruth Van Voorhis.

Donald A. Gordon ’52

Loveland, CO; June 23, 2016 The Andover community lost a legendary leader with the passing of Don Gordon ’52, Abbot Academy’s 18th and final principal. Gordon served from 1968 to 1973 and was among those instrumental in the merger of Abbot and Phillips academies. A graduate of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, Gordon was just 33 years old when he was hired to work with then Phillips Academy headmaster Ted Sizer and many others to guide the two schools to a successful merger.

In 2013, the 40th anniversary of the merger, Gordon shared with Andover magazine the lifelong affection and respect he held for the women of Abbot: “When I became principal of Abbot Academy in 1968, my board chair Philip Allen ’29 was rightly plain: ‘An eventual merger is the aim here. You’ll be working yourself out of a job,’ he told me.… I was OK with that. But a funny thing happened on the way to the merger: I fell in love with Abbot Academy. I fell in love with Abbot Academy’s academic seriousness, its long history, the de facto challenge, the opportunity to work with Phil Allen, the sheer enjoyment of working with so many bright students, [and] Abbot Academy’s strong belief in education for women and equality.”

Although charged with preparing the all-girls school for the merger, he focused on making life at Abbot as progressive as possible. He raised teacher salaries, expanded scholarship programs, modified the dress code, and improved the physical plant. He wrote recommendations for faculty members he felt would be best suited for teaching on the Hill and presided over Abbot’s final commencement ceremony.

“Abbot Academy met the culturally fractious times, the pending end of its 144-year run and all the attendant challenges, by energetically embracing the times, the issue—indeed, every aspect of the task—with its own warm, intelligent, let’s - get - it - done - and - done - well attitude,

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Shirley J. Ritchie

“Miss Ritchie was a caring, understanding person, a patient teacher who seemed to treat us all the same,” said Nancy Donnelly Bliss ’54.

“She always walked with a determined gait and had a ‘laughing’ smile. She was an enthusiastic supporter of both Abbot and PA and faithfully attended reunions as long as she was able.”

Paula Prial Folkman ’54 wrote, “I remember Shirley Ritchie with much affection. I was not a very good basketball player, and she told me so with a twinkle in her eye. In the years after graduation from Abbot, whenever I would see her at reunions or at the school she took particular joy in reminding me of that fact! Of course it was all in great fun.”

“Miss Ritchie was my house counselor in Abbey House,” wrote Sylvia Thayer ’54. “She spent lots of time with us, laughed and cried with us, and fed us often, and, of course, we loved her! She treated us all as if we were her younger sisters.”

Ritchie, who retired in 1984, received the NEPSAC Distinguished Service Award in 1991 and was a 2008 inductee into the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor. Survived by two nephews and a niece, she was the great-aunt of seven and the great-great-aunt of 13.

Silver Spring, MD; April 2, 2016 Shirley Ritchie, longtime member of Abbot and Phillips academies’ athletic departments, passed away at age 92. She joined Abbot Academy in 1951 as a physical education instructor, coach, and house counselor and was named head of athletics in 1961. Along with carrying on the school’s long tradition of Gargoyles vs. Griffins intramural contests, she instituted a formal schedule of interscholastic athletic competition.

Prior to the 1973 merger, PA administrators sought advice from Ritchie and Abbot Academy colleagues Marge Harrison and Cristina Rubio about how to create a welcoming environment and an equitable athletic program for young women. In 1973, the trio joined the athletics department on the Hill, helping to smooth the transition for 100 or so former Abbot athletes.

Ritchie coached varsity soccer, basketball, and lacrosse. “It was the happiest time of my life,” she told an Andover magazine writer in 2013.

In 1979, Ritchie was promoted to assistant athletic director. “Shirley became the face of coed Andover athletics and consistently represented the school beautifully,” said Joe Wennik ’52, athletic director at the time. “Along with coaching, scheduling games, organizing officials, and greeting visiting teams in her own gracious way, she proudly invited the whole PA community to use and enjoy the facilities of the coed athletic complex and its new Abbot Academy Wing. I will forever admire her devotion to her athletes and her many, many positive contributions to Andover athletics.”

Jean M. St. Pierre

Harwich Port, MA; Aug. 10, 2016 Jean St. Pierre, faculty emerita of Abbot and Phillips academies, died at her home in Harwich Port, MA. She was 79.

St. Pierre joined Abbot Academy as an instructor in English in 1963 and served as English department chair from 1971 to 1973.

As Abbot and PA worked toward becoming one, she helped lead the early curricular integration and shepherd Abbot’s faculty, students, and alumni through periods of discord. Colleague Tom Regan ’51 called St. Pierre “an angel of mercy, the personification of counseling, consoling, and cooperation.” She was one of only a handful of Abbot faculty members hired to teach

at PA following the merger. In 1982, she became the first woman to chair PA’s English department.

Born in Lowell, MA, St. Pierre graduated from Lowell High School and earned a BA degree at Wheaton College and an MA degree at Columbia University. Although the town of Andover was her home for four decades, she traveled to Europe often. Her study of Romantic literature at Oxford University in 1979 sparked a passion for theatre that led to a renaissance in dramatics at Andover. St. Pierre helped produce and direct dozens of ambitious student performances and was instrumental in persuading Head of School Donald McNemar to pursue the renovation and expansion of George Washington Hall’s theatre space.

In 1983, St. Pierre became a member of the Coeducational Study Committee, formed to assess the outcomes of the merger 10 years on.

The committee’s landmark report, A Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover, concluded that much work remained in creating a climate of gender equity. The report also gave rise to discussions about the climate of racial inequity on campus and the creation of the Faculty Equity Committee, led by St. Pierre and Vincent Avery, then chair of the philosophy and religious studies department. The group’s decisive and aggressive measures to recruit more teachers of color led to the eventual formation of the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers and Andover Bread Loaf.

St. Pierre received the McKeen Award in 2003 for four decades of teaching (her signature course, Man and God, remained among the Academy’s most popular courses until her retirement, in 2004) and for her role in creating a healthy coeducational environment at PA. Her final visit to campus took place on May 7, 2013, when she celebrated the dedication of both the newly renovated Bulfinch Hall and, with dozens of former students and colleagues, the outdoor St. Pierre Classroom.

She is survived by her sister, Mary Baroni; two nephews; and numerous godchildren. Memorial donations may be made to the Jean St. Pierre Scholarship Fund at www.andover.edu/giving.

A memorial celebration of Jean M. St. Pierre’s life and teaching at Andover will be held on Saturday, November 5, at 11 a.m. in Cochran Chapel with a reception on the Abbot campus to follow. All are welcome to join in this special occasion.

FORMER FACULTY Yi-an R. Chou

New York, NY; April 12, 2016 “Miss Chang” taught piano at Abbot Academy from 1958 to 1962 and left a lasting impression on many of her students. She died of pancreatic cancer at age 89.

Yi-an was young and cosmopolitan, filled with energy and a zest for life. Students loved her fascinating stories about a childhood spent in Europe, where her father was China’s ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Portugal. Others stories were about her Juilliard days and touring Europe in the 1950s, giving recitals and studying with Walter Gieseking and Marguerite Long. Yi-an especially loved learning about Abbot girls. She wanted to know about your family, your interests, and where you bought those terrific shoes! “She certainly affected many of us in a wonderfully positive way,” said Sandra DeLeeuw Dell ’63, Yi-an’s former piano student. “My life would have taken a very different path had she not been in it.”

“Miss Chang was a light of positivity and kindness in the halls of Abbot,” said Anita Schenck Zednik ’63. “It was a special treat to have her at our 45th Reunion.”

—Danica Miller Eskind ’63 David E. Irwin Jr.

St. Petersburg, FL; June 23, 2016 David Irwin taught music at Andover from 1975 to 1980. He was described in a 1980 letter written by former headmaster Ted Sizer as “singularly successful as a teacher of music at the high school level.” Irwin gave clarinet lessons, worked with experienced music students of all abilities, performed in many faculty recitals and with students in concerts, and served as a Whitney House house counselor.

“David loved to laugh, and that humor helped as he conducted orchestras for musicals and traveled with PA student musicians and actors to England in 1978,” said Irwin’s former student, Timothy Regan ’79. “His students adored him.”

Said Brian Linse ’79, “Dave was an inspiring teacher, a monster musician, and for all these years since Andover, a cherished friend whose sense of humor, intellect, and vast musical knowledge made every conversation memorable. He taught me for 35 years. I will miss him terribly.”

“He was far and away the best shaggy-dogstory-telling, joke-telling person I ever knew,” says current music instructor Peter Lorenco, who kept in touch with his friend and former colleague over the years.

Raymond A. Wolff Jr.

New York, NY; May 23, 2016 Raymond A. “Dutch” Wolff Jr. died in Manhattan at the age of 91. After serving in the 142nd Infantry Division during WWII and then graduating from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Dutch Wolff joined Phillips Academy in 1952 as an instructor in music. At Andover, he established the Aces and a student jazz band, and was chosen by the senior class in 1954 as one of Andover’s favorite teachers.

As a further indication of their affection for their music instructor, the class dedicated the 1954 Pot Pourri to Dutch and his wife, Joan.

After leaving Andover in 1954, he played saxophone and clarinet professionally in Manhattan and, in 1970, established Dutch Wolff Orchestras, which he managed until his death.

He is survived by daughters Margaret Layne and Melora Wolff, seven nieces, and two nephews. He was predeceased by his wife in 1994.

—Melora Wolff & Margaret Layne

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Tampa, FL; Sept. 27, 2009 1932 Edwin O. Tilton

Buffalo, NY; April 4, 2016 Edwin O. Tilton died in April at the age of 100.

A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Ed served in Army Intelligence from 1941 to 1946. He came to Buffalo, NY, in 1946 to join the Hodgson Russ law firm, from which he retired as senior partner in 1985. A longtime member of the Buffalo Tennis and Squash Club and the Harvard Clubs in New York City and Buffalo, he also served as a member and secretary of the New York State Dormitory Authority from 1974 to 1978.

He is survived by his son, Samuel Tilton; his daughter, Anne Jalali; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife of 69 years, Elizabeth, and son Stephen.

—The Tilton Family 1938 Mary Elliot Brown

Stony Point, NY; March 12, 2016 Mary Elliot Brown, a former resident of Andover, died peacefully at her home surrounded by her three children. She was 95. After graduating from Andover | Reunion 2016

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Abbot Academy, she attended Oberlin College and Katherine Gibbs School in Boston.

In 1943, she married John C. Brown, a dentist.

They resided in Andover for more than 40 years before retiring in 1983 to their farm in Hill, NH. An avid naturalist and swimmer, Mary served with local garden clubs, libraries, historical societies, and preservation organizations and was an active member of several churches during her lifetime. Mary also served the Class of ’38 as head agent and class secretary. She leaves many friends and admirers, field notes of phoebes nesting at her back door, and a fine patch of asparagus.

Mary is survived by daughters Margaret Coakley ’63, Helen Brown, and Jane Brown ’68; six grandchildren, including Anne Simeone ’99 and John Simeone ’02; five great-grandchildren; and siblings Nancy Stewart ’48 and Gordon Elliot ’42.

—The Brown Family Don S. Friedkin

Rye, NY; Nov. 30, 2013

College. He is a former director of the American Ireland Fund, the Irish Georgian Society, New York Life Insurance Company, the New Yorker, and numerous other institutions. Honorary chair of the French American Foundation; chair emeritus of Sotheby’s International Advisory Board; trustee emeritus of the American Hospital in Paris and of the Frick Collection, and a member of the Council of American Ambassadors and the Council on Foreign Relations, he was the author of Vanishing Kingdoms, Monarchs in Waiting, Letters from the Pacific, and Almost a Century: An American Life East and West of Suez.

He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Mary; children Margaret Bacon and Walter J.P. Curley III; and seven grandchildren.

R. Patricia Elliot Sullivan

Honolulu, HI; May 4, 2014 1941 Margery Martin Martin

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Homer J. Rose

Palm Beach Gardens, FL; July 1, 2012 Walter J.P. Curley Jr.

New York, NY; June 2, 2016 Ambassador Walter J.P. Curley attended Yale University, Harvard University, and the University of Oslo, Norway, and received an honorary doctorate in law from Trinity College, Dublin.

During WWII, he was a Marine Corps infantry combat officer, serving in Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guam, and North China campaigns. He holds decorations from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Republic of China.

Following his military service, Curley earned an MBA degree from Harvard and worked for Caltex Oil Co. in India and Italy. He later became a partner at J.H. Whitney & Co., a venture capital firm. In 1973, Mayor John Lindsay tapped him to serve as chief of protocol and commissioner of public events in New York City. President Gerald Ford appointed him ambassador to Ireland, where he served from 1975 to 1977; he then opened his own venture capital investment firm, W.J.P. Curley & Co. Under President George H.W. Bush ’42, Curley served as ambassador to France from 1989 to 1993, participating in negotiations relating to French-American relations during the German reunification, the dissolution of the USSR, and the Gulf War. He held bilateral and multilateral responsibilities as chief of mission in France and achieved the rank of commandeur in the French Légion d’honneur.

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president of the Investment Bankers Association of America and named Investment Banker of the Year by Finance magazine. From 1963 to 1968, he served as mayor of Wayzata, MN. In retirement, Wheelock cofounded the Johnson Institute, served as chair of the National Council on Alcoholism, established the Minnesota Council on Health, and taught management at the University of Minnesota. The library at Minneapolis Community and Technical College is named in his honor.

An avid sportsman, Whitney was pivotal in bringing professional sports to Minnesota. He served on the board of the Twins and was a coowner of the North Stars and Vikings.

He is survived by his wife, Kathleen Blatz; children Wheelock III ’67, Pennell, Joseph, and Ben; stepsons Hunter, Carter, and Max Berkelman; 11 grandchildren; two stepgrandsons; and three great-granddaughters.

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Latrobe, PA; Sept. 6, 2015 1942 Raymond P.S. Cuthbertson

Kilmarnock, VA; Jan. 16, 2015 Margaret Goodman Decker

St. Louis, MO; Nov. 29, 2015 Vernon E. Midgley

Phoenix, AZ; Nov. 17, 2015 Noel M. Seeburg Jr.

Dataw Island, SC; April 9, 2016 1943 Walter J. Cahners

Boston, MA; April 11, 2016 Kenneth N. Davis Jr.

Stamford, CT; May 17, 2016 Oswald S. Lowsley Jr.

Bonita Springs, FL; May 16, 2016 1944 James P. Christie

Keene, NH; April 16, 2016 Wheelock Whitney

Independence, MN; May 20, 2016 Wheelock Whitney died peacefully at age 89.

After graduating from Andover, Whitney served in the U.S. Navy for two years, then attended Yale University, graduating in 1950.

He was CEO of J.M. Dain & Company from 1963 to 1972. During his tenure, he was elected

Broughton H. Bishop

Portland, OR; Aug. 7, 2016 Trustee Emeritus Broughton H. “Brot” Bishop, who served Phillips Academy as a charter trustee from 1995 to 2002, died at his Portland, OR, home from Parkinson’s disease.

“Brot’s voice at the board table always brought the discussion, no matter how difficult, back to the highest values of the Academy,” said former head of school Barbara Landis Chase. “He had a way of cutting through details to find the essential elements.”

Along with serving as a trustee, Bishop contributed to the future of the Academy in a number of fundraising roles, including as a member of the Academy Resources Committee and Andover Development Board, as vice president of the executive committee of Campaign Andover’s leadership group, and as a class agent and chair of his 50th Reunion.

Bishop joined the Marine Corps on his 18th birthday, after graduating from Phillips Academy. Following his discharge from the Marines, Bishop enrolled at Yale University and graduated with a BS degree in 1950. He attended

Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (from which he later received an honorary doctorate) before joining the family business, Pendleton Woolen Mills, full time in 1951. Bishop was proud to continue the tradition established by his great-grandfather, Thomas Kay, who came to Oregon in 1863 to pioneer the local woolen-mill industry. (It was during one of Bishop’s father’s frequent trips East to the mills of Massachusetts’s Merrimack Valley that he heard about a topnotch high school called Phillips Academy; his sons were enrolled, sight unseen.)

Bishop became chair and CEO of Pendleton.

He took enormous pleasure from his work and his co-workers, and he always valued the importance of the greater community. He coached youth football and served on many boards, including those of the U.S. Bank, Pacific International Livestock Exposition, American Textile Manufacturers Institute, Portland Junior Symphony, and Friends of the Columbia Gorge.

Although business was an important part of Bishop’s life, his family was always his primary focus. He and wife Mary had five children in seven years. Their family life was active and adventure filled, centering around team sports, skiing, hiking, and fishing.

Bishop will be fondly remembered for his generous spirit, kindness, and humility as well as his great attention to detail. He had a wonderfully wry sense of humor that often emerged during difficult times to bolster those around him.

He is survived by Mary, his wife of 60 years; their children, John ’75, Charlie, Broughton Jr. ’79, Harriet Bishop Bakken ’79, and Peter ’81; and 14 grandchildren, including Jon Bakken ’12, Thomas Bakken ’14, and Peder Bakken ’16.

William F. O’Shea

Aix-en-Provence, France; March 26, 2016 William A. Prior

Raleigh, NC; May 4, 2016 Edward L. Wheeler

Southbury, CT; July 4, 2016 1946 Richard G. Knowland Jr.

Fayetteville, NY; Dec. 29, 2015 Thomas F. McCormick

Dresden, ME; Oct. 1, 2015 Merlin W. Packard

Washington, DC; Oct. 18, 2015 Carl E. Stenberg

Singer Island, FL; Feb. 9, 2016 Marjorie Sommer Tucker

Winter Park, FL; March 18, 2016

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Lakewood, WA; July 21, 2014 Richard B.C. Warren

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1948 Philip S. Aronson Needham, MA; July 14, 2016 John W. Cooper

San Antonio, TX; Oct. 1, 2015 Richard Haenschen

Chatham, NJ; Jan. 6, 2016 N.K. Parker Jr.

Verona, PA; April 12, 2016 Clyde A. Selleck Jr.

Durham, NC; May 12, 2016 1949 R. Quintus Anderson

Lakewood, NY; June 26, 2016 Robert G. Brayton

New York, NY; March 8, 2016 Henry A. Into

Cromwell, CT; March 6, 2016 Harvey A. Zarem

Los Angeles, CA; Nov. 1, 2015 1950 Ralph H. Blum

Los Angeles, CA; March 27, 2016 A gifted writer and Class of 1950 poet, Ralph Blum declined radical surgery for his prostate cancer for more than two decades—and coauthored a book about his experience. He died following surgery for an unrelated condition.

Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers, written with oncologist Mark Scholz, relates Ralph’s personal history with the disease and provides helpful facts and advice about treatment options. The coauthors also collaborated on a blog about the subject.

Ralph graduated from Harvard with high honors. He became a cultural anthropologist and an author and spent time in Italy as a Fulbright scholar. Ralph wrote three novels; numerous magazine articles, among them a series on Soviet culture published in the New Yorker; and several nonfiction books, including one about UFOs. Beginning in 1983, he wrote a series of books popularizing the ancient practice of casting runes (ancient letters) for divination.

Ralph is survived by his wife, Jeanne.

—Eric Wentworth ’50

Baton Rouge, LA; March 12, 2016

Charles A. Bradley III

Briarcliff Manor, NY; May 23, 2016 Charles A. Bradley III, an attorney who devoted much of his career to public service in municipal and state governance, died at home following a long illness. He was 82.

After graduating from Williams College in 1955 and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1957, he worked at a law firm in Elmira, NY, and then became Chemung County assistant district attorney. In 1970, he was appointed to the staff of the attorney general of New York State to serve on the Organized Crime Task Force and was then assigned as a special assistant attorney general in the investigation of the Attica prison riot in 1971. He later joined the staff of the attorney general’s office in New York City.

Bradley became corporation counsel for the city of White Plains, NY, in 1979; he returned to private practice in 1990. In retirement, he served for more than a decade as a docent at Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate, and as an archivist at the Rockefeller Archive Center.

He is survived by his wife of 34 years, Eileen; children Margaret Bradley Van Orman, Katherine Bradley Irwin, and Charles A. Bradley IV; stepdaughter Jennifer C. Earl; and siblings Susan Bradley Lee ’56 and Peter Bradley ’55. He was predeceased by his twin brother, William ’52.

—The Bradley Family John F. Howard

Tyler, TX; May 12, 2016 Philip P. Maxwell Jr.

Twain Harte, CA; April 19, 2016 Albert G. Moe

Koloa, HI; June 6, 2016 1952 Eugene A. Bay

New York, NY; June 18, 2016 Myron J. Bromberg

The Sea Ranch, CA; April 30, 2016 Henry S.F. Cooper

New York, NY; Jan. 31, 2016 Robert B. Leete

Guilford, CT; March 7, 2016 William B. Stevens

Gerrardstown, WV; Jan. 30, 2016 1953 David Bowman New York, NY; May 5, 2016 Andover | Reunion 2016

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Alan R. Alberts

Michael E. Batten

Racine, WI; May 6, 2015

1995 Matthew E. Goldstein Andover, MA; April 7, 2016

Philip D. Block III

Roger W. Hooker Jr.

A. Jameson Klein

Chicago, IL; July 4, 2016

Palisades, NY; Dec. 8, 2015

Hayward D. Harvey Jr.

Richard R. Jacunski

Phoenixville, PA; Feb. 9, 2014

Barnegat, NJ; Sept. 24, 2013

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Standish D. Lawder

David A. Linforth

Victoria J. Taylor

Denver, CO; June 21, 2014

Ridgewood, NJ; Feb. 5, 2016

North Andover, MA; June 4, 2016

Charles A. Schwartz

1962 Freeland K. Abbott Jr. Barnstable, MA; Sept. 8, 2013

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Anthony F. Connors

Crescent City, CA; Feb. 20, 2016

Andover, MA; April 1, 2016

Dennis M. McCullough

The PA community is saddened by the passing of Anthony “Butch” Connors, who worked at the Academy for nearly 14 years in many different capacities, including Central Services clerk and Addison Gallery security officer. He and his wife, Kathy, who worked at the Academy for four years as a greeter at the Addison Gallery, retired in 2014.

Bellingham, WA; April 19, 2013

Needham, MA; April 24, 2014 1957 Joan Pelletier Isabel

Chapel Hill, NC; March 18, 2016 William Jay Sikkenga

Ann Arbor, MI; Oct. 3, 2015

Norwich, VT; June 3, 2016

1958 William Hamilton

Lexington, KY; April 8, 2016 The Class of 1958 has tragically lost one of its real luminaries: Bill Hamilton, a cartoonist whose work appeared in the New Yorker for more than 50 years and a 1979 recipient of the Claude Moore Fuess Award, Andover’s highest honor, died in a car crash in April.

Bill grew up on a family estate in Napa, CA, which persevered on dwindling trust funds.

“A hint of money in the past, but not much in the present,” he once said. At Andover and as a member of Yale’s Class of 1962, Bill honed his cartoonist craft, drawing for Pot Pourri, the 8 ’n 1 Sour Grapes album jacket, and The Yale Record, a humor magazine. He suffered his first rejection notice at age 12, and the wall over his Andover desk was papered with New Yorker rejections.

His great success at the New Yorker began in 1965 as he stylishly and wittily satirized his world of Wasp ascendancy and class pretension.

Bill also wrote a handful of plays and novels; his self-deprecating summary borrowed his cartoon line: “Although I haven’t been published or produced, I’ve had some things professionally typed.” Bill would be amused at a recent Amazon review of his novel Lap of Luxury: “Five Stars” with the one-word comment, “Good.”

He is survived by his wife, Lucy; daughter, Alexandra; and son Gilliam.

—Dermod O. Sullivan ’58 Thomas E. Myers Jr.

Charleston, SC; April 25, 2016

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1964 John C. Wiles New London, CT; June 24, 2016

John Wiles majored in physics at Yale and graduated from the Yale School of Medicine. After completing residencies in internal medicine and dermatology, he set up a private dermatology practice in New London, CT, in 1984. John found the practice of medicine to be very rewarding and was greatly respected not only for his medical expertise but also for his compassion and the interest he showed in his patients.

In his free time, John was a serious runner and loved taking hiking, skiing, and white-waterrafting vacations with his family. His wide variety of interests also included playing the piano and solving puzzles.

He is survived by his wife, Joan Harney Wiles ’64, whom he met at the Class of 1964’s 20th Reunion; their son, Christopher Wiles; and his brother, Peter Wiles.

—Joan Harney Wiles ’64 1973 Scott K. Midgley Phoenix, AZ; Feb. 7, 2016 1974 Patricia Finn Landback Tampa, FL; Sept. 22, 2013

Andover, MA; July 20, 2016

Michael P. Turner Jr.

Melrose, MA; April 20, 2016

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Farthest distance traveled

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1,125 attendees

6. Michael Blanding, Rebecca Uchill ’96, Fritz Gotha ’96, and Mekka Okereke ’96 7. Front: Trustee Emerita Mollie Lupe Lasater ’56, P’86, GP’17, and Garland Lasater Jr. ’56, P’86, GP’17. Back: Trustee Emeritus Oscar Tang ’56, Steve Snyder ’56, Head of School John Palfrey, and David Paresky ’56, P’85, GP’18 8. Jessica Weng, Brandon Lam, Kevin Qian, and Jonathan Leung, all Class of ’11 9. Lee Eddy and Art Harris, both Class of ’66

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