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