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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