www.andover.edu/intouch refreshments for needy students on those many Saturdays at Avis Swamp? No, that again was us, ’82. Did ’81 fire up school spirit and set the tone by beating Exeter on the gridiron? Oops, no—they lost and left it for ’82 to buckle down and restore school honor. So I say fifty, schmifty; it’s nothing for us (at least that’s what I keep telling myself), and we will continue to marshal on as we have all these years! Yes, years were on my mind as I sat down to pen this note. I had just received an invite to a 50th birthday party for Celia Imrey. Sadly, I was unable to attend the festivities, but I figured a birthday call to our youthful friend was in order. It was great to hear Celia’s voice and get life’s lowdown. Celia has recently merged her architecture firm, Imrey Studios, with RAFT Architects and is now a principal there. She was particularly excited about the breaking of ground for the new Edgartown [Mass.] Public Library, which she designed. She has two teenage sons living with her in Manhattan. It sounds like her boys, despite Mom’s protests, demonstrate the same questionable taste in programming as the Quillen household, with regular viewings of Walking Dead and Game of Thrones— nothing quite like a good beheading or zombie evisceration before bedtime! Since I was missing Celia’s party, we agreed to grab a few other local alums and go out for a separate evening. Hilary Jewett, John Barton, and Bayard Chapin ’81 signed on. I had suggested that we start our evening at the Russian baths on 10th Street. Barton, not one to turn down a cleansing sweat, particularly if promised a beating with oak leaves, expressed enthusiasm. Celia said she’d think about it. Hilary was dead set against it, claiming that the last time she’d consented to a sauna with Andover alums, en route to our 25th Reunion, she was “ogled” by certain classmates. (Was that a bad thing? Personally, I would count myself lucky to receive anything resembling an ogling these days, but that’s just me.) Hilary did update me on her professional and family life. She, too, has a couple of kids, girl and boy, at school in Manhattan. She just finished editing a book, The Humanities and Public Life, which has received strong early reviews. Certain informed circles know that nobody can perform an ogle better than Robert Tuller. And all this talk of it inspired my next call to him. Rob lives with his wife and two sons in San Francisco. His lads, 9 and 11, are still at that wonderful stage where Dad is cooler than almost anything, including zombies. Rob is doing the occasional triathlon and sometimes even more aggressive endurance challenges, like a 100-mile run across the Continental Divide. Rob insists that these activities aren’t an effort to compensate for anything. Still, I offered that a few sessions with a shrink might be a more practical approach to purging the demons that drive a man to such extremes. But Rob will have none of this and has incorporated his passion into a career—coaching his CrossFit clients to deal with chronic pain through vigorous physical
training. Rob also keeps close ties with Andover and serves on the Alumni Council, typically returning to campus twice a year. I recently received another birthday invite. This time it was for Christopher Dean and his father (another Andover man, Andrew Dean ’57) jointly celebrating 125 years. I checked in with “Dean Tunes” to find him happily unemployed in San Francisco, after having successfully done a number of Silicon Valley stints. He confessed that he will probably get involved in another company soon but in the meantime is content watching his three kids grow (two girls and a boy, ages 10 to 13), planting vegetables at his weekend place in Sonoma County, and enjoying the local wine tastings. (I think it best if we not picture the film Sideways here.) Well served, CD! Uh-oh, it appears we are out of space. They are very stingy, with a firm 900-word limit, at the magazine. I cannot depart, though, without saying to Fannie Iselin Minot how glad I am to learn that your daughter is likely to matriculate at Tulane this fall. It’s a great school in a great town, and let’s hope it will offer us an opportunity to overlap while visiting our kids and, naturally, laissez les bon temps rouler! Well, bye for now, class, and happy 50 to all! — Parker Quillen
1983 Andrew L. Bab 170 East 83rd St., Apt 6F New York, NY 10028 212-909-6323 albab@debevoise.com
Wow! So many of you responded to my plea for news that I’ve had to hone my editing skills in short order. I hope it’s not just out of pity for a first-timer and that you’ll all keep in touch with news during my tenure as class secretary. I volunteered for the position, despite the formidable challenge of following in the oversized footsteps of Susannah Hill and Blaise Zerega, both to give something back and to keep in touch with classmates I rarely see more than once a half-decade. And it has been fabulous not only connecting over e-mail, but also talking with many of you—like Amy Kellogg from London, still the intrepid senior foreign-affairs correspondent for Fox News and recently returned from covering unrest in Ukraine, and Adam Wise, who is celebrating his 20th anniversary at Boston University and who was thrilled to celebrate the Andover career of his father, Kelly Wise, in New York City in April. We as a class just can’t seem to get enough of Andover. Many of our classmates are now ending their time as Andover parents, among them Angela Lorenz, Jason Bernhard (whose daughter Adele ’14 captained the girls’ varsity squash team), and Frederick “Fritz” Reichenbach. But some, like Peter Cleveland, are just beginning their
tenure, and others, like Jonna Gaberman, Amy Pullen, Patrick Wilson, Tammy Snyder Murphy, and Karen Humphries Sallick, have one or more teens haunting the GW halls. Meanwhile, Abraham “Nick” Morse and his wife, Loren, will consider themselves successful parents, says Nick, if they can keep their two boys “out of (a) the ER and (b) jail for the foreseeable future.” Answering the call from the PA art department, Angela Lorenz helped organize an alumni art show celebrating 40 years of coeducation at Andover. The show opened on April 5 with works by Chris Fitch and Thayer Zaeder, among others. Chris is going on his 12th year as a single dad to his daughter, Lyla, and Warren Zanes is raising two sons on his own. Warren reports that he’s working on an eight-part PBS series on the history of recorded music and is finishing a new solo recording. “The last one was the break-up record, this one is the love songs,” he says. Warren is also in the home stretch of his biography of Tom Petty. Our class is prolific. Holly Peterson has just written her second novel, The Idea of Him, which she describes as a “fast-paced work of social satire...also jam-packed with sex and romance.” By its second week on the shelves, it had gone into a second printing and been translated into six languages. Sheri Caplan’s Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street’s History won the 2014 Axiom Business Book Award Bronze Medal in the Women/Minorities category. Writing from Mississippi and pining for good Chinese takeout, New Yorker Bill Storey reports that his “new book about the First World War is shorter than most of the other centennial books, so comes highly recommended.” Congratulations to each of you! And good luck to Jeffrey Stafford, who e-mails from New York that he is also working on a number of book projects. Another prolific writer, Richard Murphy, returned recently to his Andover roots, shadowing John Palfrey around campus, conducting interviews, and preparing a profile of our head of school for a fall issue of Town & Country. Rich writes that he “even joined Palfrey in a practice with the girls’ varsity soccer team, which was a humbling experience for me.” Know the feeling. Sam Avrett, who is apparently living at GPS 41.875983, -75.018602 if anyone wants to look him up, is working at the Fremont Center (www. TheFremontCenter.org), an HIV/AIDS advocacy consulting partnership, and looking for ideas about how and where to celebrate his 50th birthday. Yikes! Tammy Snyder Murphy, back in New Jersey after four years in Berlin, stays in touch with many classmates, including Laura Culbert Knowles-Cutler, Quincey Tompkins Imhoff, Andrea Feldman Falcione, Alison Beaumont Hahn, Corinne “Cori” Field, Cynthia Lamontagne, John Floyd, and Josh Steiner. I can report, having bumped into Josh on a flight out to Deer Valley, Utah, that he is happy in his new position at Bloomberg. But, sadly, I have nothing to relate about the others. Tammy, an Andover Andover | Fall 2014
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