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