stay connected... The product was launched in inimitable Reynolds style, including a party at the home of Will Schutte, the fallout from which was an animated discussion about tequila’s medicinal qualities and the absence (or not) of a hangover after consuming it. Dos Volcanes also made it to Lawson Fisher’s home, where he, wife Christine, and Dave Swanson (America’s house guest) gave it a thorough blessing (picture not fit for publication). Reynolds and I embarked on something of a joint marketing mission, tequila and crime fiction. Picture on Facebook page. Don Lazo expressed his own dismay at the lack of party news and reported that Ted Wood celebrated his 60th in Boulder, Colo., wearing a gorilla suit. Way to go, Ted. Jim Hackett made a road trip up to Andover to have lunch with Carroll and Elaine Bailey. Carroll’s sight is pretty much gone and Elaine is coping with cancer, but they are still full of vigor and absolutely love to spend time with their old charges, so anyone in the area is encouraged to ring them up for a visit. They are at the Atria Marland Place facility, which is by the old Converse shoe factory. Brooks Bloomfield sent a nice e-mail, which as far as I can tell was designed to practice up on his computer skills, as he used phrases like “cut and paste” and “attachment” in regard to news he was going to send but never did. Good ol’ Brooks. Perhaps the news Brooks failed to mention was the same supplied by Sandy Wood, who spent September hiking and golfing around Park City, Utah. Brooks joined him for some hiking and eating. Just got an e-mail from Scott Mead. He wanted me to know that he loves Half Irish (my third novel) and that his twin daughters, Emma ’18 and Isabelle ’18, are ensconced in Paul Revere. The school must have really cleaned the place up after David Donahue, Steve Rooney, Walter Bukawyn, Swanson, John McDonald, Hackett, John von Schlegell ’72, and Dolan got done. Remember the telephone call from Majjid Ahmed, calling from Dubai? He called me again, just to say hi. From Dubai. His daughter is now in NYC, and our government has granted him a visa, so everyone in the greater New York area, stay on your toes. Please feel free to use my e-mail address above and send me some news. I cannot report what I do not hear.
1974 Jack Gray 80 Central Park West, Apt. 20F New York NY 10023-5215 212-496-1594 ray0x@hotmail.com
Marcia McCabe and Lori Goodman Seegers (both Class of ’73) hosted a fabulous party at Lori’s swank Manhattan apartment last fall. The
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occasion was a celebration of Abbot ’73 women as they approached a big birthday; this party was one of several events that weekend. Several members of our class were invited too, even some who never attended Abbot Academy. Lori was perfectly clear: “If I’m going to throw a party, I want men to be there as well as women!” Your correspondent was joined by Kent Vogel and Bob Trehy, both looking debonair as usual. Elizabeth Yoakum came north from Florida and enjoyed a classic Manhattan prepared by Lori’s son and daughter, pitching in behind the bar; Ann Hoover Maddox, visiting from Baltimore, joined her. Sara Grosvenor was there from Washington, D.C., and set up a laptop showing newly scanned images originally taken for our yearbook. Margaret Downs came south from the Upper East Side. Sara Nelson hosted a brunch that weekend—for Abbot alums only, thank you—that was well attended and great fun. That’s all I have this time. Obviously, I need more news!
1975 Mari Wellin King 1884 Beans Bight Road N.E. Bainbridge Island WA 98110 206-842-1885 marjoriewk@gmail.com Roger L. Strong Jr. 6 Ridgeview Circle Armonk NY 10504 914-273-6710 strongjr@optonline.net Peter Wyman 963 Ponus Ridge Road New Canaan CT 06840 203-966-1074 peter.wyman@merrillcorp.com
I’m happy to report that the New Year brought lots of news from the great Class of ’75, including from some who wrote in for the first time! John Lenz and Bill Wong were on hand last fall for the ceremony at the University of Michigan Medical School when classmate Sagar Parikh was named the first Greden Professor of Depression and Clinical Neuroscience. John, a professor of classics at Drew University, sent a great photo of the three of them, as well as a vivid memory of Dick King telling him all about Latin during their first few months of life in Will Hall. On a dark and stormy mid-November night in Brooklyn, a small group of intrepid classmates from the tristate area assembled at Bar LunÀtico, bassist Arthur Kell’s hip, tin-roofed brownstone hangout in Bedford-Stuyvesant, for cocktails, Italian small plates, and live music. The rapt PA crowd included Michael Boldt, Geoff Richards, Mike Galvin, Joe Albert, Roger Strong, Lawrence Kemp, and me (Pete Wyman), as
well as Ellen Greenfield Lewis ’76 and Brooklyn resident Janie Barnett, whose torch song solo enlivened the evening. Leaving “startup hours” behind him by taking a new job at Dassault Systèmes (working on the next generation of their SolidWorks software), Eben Gay is thrilled about “having nights and weekends to build a baidarka (Aleutian kayak).” From down in Texas, Kurt Schwarz, a litigator with Jackson Walker LLP, writes with the impressive news that he was recently appointed by Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to the federal Advisory Committee on Family Residential Centers—the facilities where women and children are housed while they await decisions on their claims for asylum. Kurt, who is also board president of the ACLU of Texas, says, “Since most of the committee’s meetings will be in DC, I’m hoping to find time to check out Gary Lee ’74’s Peruvian restaurant there.” Not only is Vicki Christian back on stage (at Duke University, in a student-directed production of Hamlet), she is also in the midst of creating the new Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. Four years ago, Holly Sutton moved to “the middle of nowhere,” her term for Albuquerque, N.M., where she loves living and is currently developing “a crazy property that includes a fantastic guest house…with an open invitation to pretty much anyone.” Rick Cotten apparently helped Holly get the financing for the property, which includes olive trees that, Holly explains excitedly, “just produced 1.5 gallons of olive oil in first pressing since our trees were planted, five years ago!” Holly’s son, Zander, is in LA and last year created a TV show, Casual, that was nominated for a Golden Globe. How great to hear from Marianne Daniels Guarino, who says, quite aptly, “I guess 40 years after graduation is ‘better late than never’ to write!” Marianne was passionate about lacrosse and field hockey at Andover and sends a shout-out to her PA teammates. Living in Tennessee (just outside Nashville) with her husband of 33 years, one of her sons, and two dogs, Marianne teaches kindergarten at Rocketship United. She also has two sons living in New Hampshire and a married daughter in Nashville with two little girls. Marianne, a teacher for many years while living in Derry, N.H., received both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree at Wheelock College and a post-master’s degree at Lesley University. All four of Marianne’s children went to Pinkerton Academy, and about that chapter she writes, “I especially loved watching lacrosse, field hockey, football, and track and going to the games against our old rival, Phillips Exeter!” “I am currently revolutionizing the personal growth (positive psychology) community in the greater Boston region,” explains Dennis Pratt. He has been busy creating an umbrella group that today has 1,600 members and about 150 practitioners offering more than 200 events a year—parties, practice groups, and workshops. “Ann and I have both retired, and we’re four