www.andover.edu/intouch hosted Loraine Washburn, Robin Waters, Susan “Sue” Wheelwright, Marion “May” Irwin, Amanda Cobb, Leslie Hendrix, Anne Weisman Hogeland, and Lissy Abraham ’74. Cathy says “[We] spent most of our time eating, laughing, doing a little dancing, and getting down to what we do best: talking. We realized that at Abbot, we knew little about each other’s lives before/outside of school and that, for many of us, Abbot was a warm and happy refuge, and it was apparent just how much our time at Abbot had bonded us. We had a blast! We’re looking forward to another mini reunion in New England in August.” Kim Grecoe Sherwood, Barbara Contarino Tomkins, and Dianne DeLucia frequently get together for dinner. Kim is a transition consultant for dental practices and dabbles in local politics. She and her husband just celebrated their 35th anniversary and have three daughters. Ellen Hoitsma writes, “Last summer’s reunion was a powerful thing for me—being on campus for the first time since my dad’s death three years ago, seeing the places and people that were there all together at such a pivotal time in our lives. There is a magic in this teaching thing I’ve been doing for 30-plus years, and it helps me to understand my father better.” Ellen loves teaching third grade in Baltimore and singing in her church choir. She met Mary Clements Michelfelder and her husband for a week in the Adirondacks. Jenifer McLean Cooke teaches elementaryage English-language learners and is finishing up a master’s degree. She lives in Andover with her husband and daughter, a Princeton graduate who works at a law firm and plays professional hockey. Their son works for a Boston startup. Jenifer saw Abbie Owen Read, Katy Gass Walker ’74, Peter Lindsay ’73, and Tom Walker ’73 at a School Year Abroad reunion in Maine last September. Anne “Annie” Spader Byerly loves being a new member of the board of directors of the Abbot Academy Association. Annie teaches kindergarten at the Brearley School. Daughter Lily teaches in Wellesley, Mass., while daughter Maisy is a junior at Oberlin, presently studying in Beijing. I often see Elizabeth “Bets” Kent, who has worked for 24 years as an investment consultant at Cambridge Associates. She frequently travels to Michigan to visit her boyfriend and hopes that soon they will share the same zip code. Leslie Hendrix studies Arabic and is working on a project to landmark Tin Pan Alley on 28th Street in New York. Edith “Edie” Wilson-Fleming is an engineering manager at Omnicell in Mountain View, Calif., and a consulting professor of designs for manufacturability at Stanford. Edie had lunch with Marcia McCabe in NYC in October followed by dinner with Lori Goodman Seegers. Elizabeth “Liz” Rollins Mauran, Lori, and I spent July 4th together. Liz is the vice regent for Rhode Island at the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, working in preservation and development, and is on the board of the Providence Zoo. Mary “Mimi” Kessler found a perfect little
Several members of the Class of ’73 enjoyed a December mini reunion in San Francisco. Kneeling, from left, are Leslie Hendrix and Catherine Armsden. Standing, from left, are Amanda Cobb, Anne Weisman Hogeland, Connee Petty Young, Loraine Washburn, Molly Prescott Porter, May Irwin, and Robin Waters.
house in Durham, N.C., and is happy to have all her worldly possessions in one place. Elizabeth “Betsy” Coward Miller and Amanda Cobb met for dinner recently. Betsy teaches tech to grades K–3 and computer science, games, and mobile app development at a community college on Cape Cod. She is taking graduate courses in instructional technology. Julia “Julie” Horowitz lives in South Norwalk, Conn., and works for the Westport Board of Education as a staff social worker. She is busy with family and proud of her stepdaughter Jessica Alexander, whose book, Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid, was released this fall. Catherine “Cathy” von Klemperer Utzschneider, Anne Hogeland, and Jane Demers have met up several times this fall at Cathy’s home in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Cathy is married with two children and is busy as a masters’ athlete, running coach, professor, speaker, and author of two books. Sue Wheelwright, her husband, and three cats live in California; she loves being a social worker conducting assessment interviews with people with developmental disabilities. Molly Prescott Porter is married with two children and has worked for 25 years for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., where she develops educational programs about the Kaiser Permanente integrated delivery model for health-care leaders from other countries. She enjoys the job’s foreign travel. Loraine Washburn is working as a conservation botanist and lab manager at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in California. May Irwin is married with two children. She recently moved from Manhattan to Whitney Point, N.Y., and is working in real estate and getting used to dealing with snow again. For more connection and fun, join the Abbot Rabbits Facebook page!
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In preparation for this quarter’s news, I sent a “guilt missive” out to a dozen or so who were missed at the reunion. A healthy number replied. So here’s to them! (Note: Column length limits are in force. For unabridged news, e-mail me.) The elusive Seymour House responded immediately. He left Scotland long ago and is now dean of the graduate school of theology in a Roman Catholic seminary (Mount Angel) housed in a Benedictine abbey in western Oregon. He says, “Not terribly challenging academically since our only requirements for admission are an XY chromosome set and a BA in philosophy.… Happily, I’m still in contact with my PA roommate Trip Gabriel. I publish…boring historical theology, sit on the board of our local Greenbelt Land Trust, edit for two academic journals, and split a lot of oak from our property here in Oregon (Brooks Bloomfield has been to visit). ... I am on no medications other than Scotch. We travel abroad as much as possible (often by bike) and live in a huge old house with more bedrooms than heads.” He invites everyone to visit him. A long-scheduled, long-overdue family vacation kept Bill Gifford from the reunion. He wished to pass along his own fond memories of Steve “Sully” Sullivan: “I can only hope that someone else recalled some of the hijinks that Sully and I were involved in: the midnight efforts to hit 9-irons over Sam Phil…the Frisbee golf games…” Statute of limitations is up, Bill. In 1996, Bill and his family moved back to the Winston-Salem, N.C., area, where he and his wife Andover | Spring 2014
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