stay connected... summer in Asheville, N.C., with Elizabeth Schulte Roth and her beautiful daughter, Caroline. Jenny reports, “It was great fun to watch our children together as they listened to Schulte and me banter about our Bancroft days!” In the fall, Jenny attended the Washington, D.C., evening with Head of School John Palfrey, along with Melissa Hardin and Holly Milton. Also in attendance were Sarah Perkins ’88, Sid Smith ’85, and Rafael Lorente ’86. Eddie Shapiro also continues to churn out the books. No Star Wars here, but rather a return to Broadway. Eddie says, “It seems that all of the time I spent imitating Carol Channing in Commons while others looked on with abject pity finally had some payoff!” The title of his new book is Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater. Check it out on GoodReads (http:// tinyurl.com/PAShapiro), where the review says, “If you are into the theatre, this is an excellent and fascinating book.” Emilio “Mimmo” Iasiello also reports big news on the publishing front with his collection of short stories, Why People Do What They Do. Find it on Amazon at http://amzn.to/1gq5Y3O. Laura Kane Rock continues working as an intensive care doctor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and teaching at Harvard Medical School. She’s also working hard on her Spanish in preparation for teaching a medical simulation course in Spain this summer. She considers herself lucky to be able to hang out with Laura Bewig Chritton, who just got back from a year living in Rwanda with her family. Janet Davis relays her good fortune in spending time each winter with her dad, Steve Clarkson ’55, and several of his Andover friends down in Florida; in particular, she enjoyed a nice dinner with Chris Gurry ’66 and John Doykos ’55. In the summer months, annual visits with Patti Doykos Duquette ’82 and Mae Doykos Dayton ’86, as well as their sisters Bernadette Doykos ’00, Christina Breen ’89, and Juli Doykos McDonough ’81, round out a year of great Andover connections. Finally, Chris Whittier continues to entertain us with his great adventures. The latest was a gorilla veterinary emergency in the Central Africa Republic (CAR) that caused him to get stranded in Douala, Cameroon. But apparently ’87 is everywhere, and Chris thus had the good fortune to reconnect with his old Andover roommate Tom Stiles and Tom’s beautiful family (wife and two daughters) in Cameroon. According to Chris, the vet emergency and getting out of the CAR just before the coup is a whole other story. Thankfully, while still holding a partial position at Smithsonian, Chris has finally relocated back to Massachusetts and is now on faculty at the veterinary school at Tufts (another alma mater) in Grafton. I for one am looking forward to hearing that second story in person one of these days. Be well, Class of ’87, and enjoy the crocuses.
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1988 Terri Stroud 800 4th St. SW, Unit N418 Washington DC 20024 202-486-4189 terri.stroud@gmail.com Laura Cox 21 Merced Ave. San Anselmo CA 94960 415-302-7709 laurajeancox@gmail.com Matt Lavin 1203 Constitution Ave. NE Washington DC 20002 202-365-8593 mattlavindc@yahoo.com Heather Ross Zuzenak 16 Essex St. Medford MA 02155 781-874-1747 hrzuzenak@yahoo.com
Greetings and salutations, Class of ’88. We have a lot of ground to cover so I’m going to dive right in. Try and keep up: Andy Mercy reports from the Galapagos that his family spent an epic Christmas holiday with Britt Lewis’s family near Ancud, Chile. Alex Tynberg and family showed up on New Year’s Eve, and they all rang in 2014 together with rollicking versions of AC/DC and Clash songs, as is apparently the custom in that part of the world. Nick Hofgren lives in London with his wife, Sophie. They have two amazing teenagers: Coco and Felix. They spend most weekends at a small country house near Marlborough. Most of Nick’s business is in Asia, the Middle East, and Russia. Meanwhile, Nick Rosenkranz, who teaches law at Georgetown, endowed the Rosenkranz Shakespeare Fund at Andover. There was a profile on it in the winter issue of this magazine, on page 22. Steve Nezhad is getting things done: He was married on New Year’s Day in Vieques, Puerto Rico, to his gorgeous bride, Aimee, who was due with their first child in February. Exciting! Paula Rand Hornbostel combined business and pleasure in Oregon last year. She rode with 7,999 others in the World Naked Bike Ride (!) and was invited to lead a group of Andover alumni through an exhibit she organized at the Portland Art Museum. This past fall she hosted K-K Smith and daughter Abigail on Long Island and then bumped into Tina Kukk Gulliford and family at a Broadway show. Allan Reeder and his wife, Ginna, live in Arlington, Mass., with their son, Jesse, and daughter, Maisie. After decades as an editor and then a teacher of creative writing at Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Mass., he has launched a new business, Hillside Writing, which provides coaching to writers of all ages.
Darnell Moore missed reunion as he was in Hawaii celebrating seven years of marriage with his wife, Yesenia. This past year he was promoted to senior member, technical staff, at Texas Instruments in Dallas, where he develops 3-D cameras for surveillance and future self-driving vehicles. (Cool!) Tory Stewart moved to LA with her husband, Cory, and their two children, Silas and Madeline. She’d love to find other Andover alums in the area. Her new play, Rich Girl, was performed at the Lyric Stage in Boston this past spring. Also, her play for children, Mercy Watson to the Rescue, was performed at the Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, Calif., in March. Kristin De Vivo moved to California after 10 years in NYC. She is the new executive director of GLEF research for the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Sarah Perkins is still in DC with her husband, Koro, and their two kids, Sofia, 10, and Kadin, 9, working in grants and development at the Chinese immersion charter school, Washington Yu Ying PCS, attended by her children. She met up with Jenny Lim ’87 and Lerothodi Leeuw, who was in DC for an astronomy conference. Lerothodi lives in Johannesburg and teaches at the University of South Africa. Moby Parsons checks in from near Exeter, N.H., where he practices orthopedics. His kids are now 13, 12, and 9, and he has gotten into ski mountaineering and ultra-trail racing to stave off the “middle-age rolls.” (His words!) Dave Goetsch lives in LA with his wife and two kids, ages 4 and 1. He is a writer on The Big Bang Theory and teaches at USC School of Cinematic Arts. Jed Gore plays hockey for the Greenwich Winter Club. When not playing hockey, he works at Millennium Partners. His kids, Gigi and Grady, are now 8 and 6. He planned to be in Andover in February for the alumni hockey game, of course. Cheryl Coutre Kellond writes from Manhattan Beach, Calif.: “Our oldest, Corey [Rateau Jr.], lives in Hyde Park, Ill. Ben is a high school freshman, Grant is in middle school, and Anna is rockin’ it in the third grade. I completed my first Ironman this year and am signed up for a second. And after two long years, my company, Bia-Sport, is about to ship its first products.” Miguel Sancho looked at reunion photos and realized he needed to lose 30 pounds. After months on a treadmill, no booze, and a monastic diet, he’s lost the love handles and moobs. He’s also taken up mindfulness meditation, which he often finds to be an exercise in boredom, albeit a beautiful one. Jose Diaz’s family has a new addition: Penelope Sofia Diaz Curbelo was born in September. (Beautiful name!) Mark Carrie got married last year. He also left the legal world and became the congressional lead for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security. He has enjoyed relocating to California from the DC area. Jim Dand and family moved to a new house in