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. The director of the Addison Gallery, Judith Dolkart, hosted a well-attended special tour for our class Saturday afternoon. She emphasized her commitment to the artist-in-residence program and the impact it has on PA students and the Andover | Reunion 2016
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