www.andover.edu/intouch 1979 Amy Appleton 2201 Hall Place N.W. Washington DC 20007-2217 202-338-3807 Applta9@aol.com Rick Moseley Philadelphia PA 19118 215-275-5107 rdmoseley@gmail.com Doug Segal 1028 Kagawa St. Pacific Palisades CA 90272 310-617-9988 dougsegal@earthlink.net
You return home from a long day and casually flip through the daily mail and its typical contents of bills and junk. Credit card offers, another AARP solicitation, and then you see it: Andover magazine! Your heart races as you eagerly thumb through to find the ’79 notes (ominously creeping closer to the front of the publication). And then, like a punch in the gut, there’s nothing there! Fine. You suck up the disappointment and let it go, maybe check the surrounding years for familiar names before placing the magazine in the company of the Pottery Barn and Sharper Image catalogues. You return to your life, and the months quickly pass until again, the next issue arrives. Surely, there must be something this time. You give yourself permission to feel that excitement again, risking paper cuts as you speed toward ’79, and then… “Are you kidding me? Again? What the—!” For this torturous emotional roller coaster, I sincerely apologize, on behalf of my fellow secretaries and myself. The unpredictable nature of life sometimes interferes, and commitments such as these unfortunately become casualties. I (Doug Segal) might as well start with news of some of my own PA encounters. As son Michael prepared to enter his first year of college, our family road-tripped to visit some schools, ending up in New Orleans, where we had a great stay with Josh Kaufman. Josh, a doctor, is remarried, with two kids from wife Vicki’s first marriage and two girls of his own, who are off in college. Continuing the adventures, wife Susan and I were invited to visit friends in England for Thanksgiving and planned to spend a few days in Paris beforehand. A week before our scheduled visit, the attacks happened. After much debate, we kept our trip in place, and while in Paris enjoyed an afternoon with Sallie Doyle Boulet-Gercourt ’80; the photo posting on Facebook prompted some enthusiastic “Likes,” including one from the lovely Jane Moncreiff. Jane is a chief investment officer in Boston; she and husband Josh have two kids off at college. Jane and I have yet to see each other— entirely my fault, as Susan and I managed to get to Boston for a day over the Christmas holidays,
stopping to have lunch with Susan Palermo, who lives in North Andover and balances daughter Josie and a busy work life (the nature of which I can never get exactly straight). From there, we had dinner with Rachel Cartmell, who recently relocated with husband Tim and daughter Lucia to Lexington, Mass. Rachel is now director of communications at Harvard Kennedy School. Though we exchanged messages, I didn’t get to see Paula Elias Ross, out in Northampton, Mass. Jennifer Melville and husband Alex spent some time with us last fall after dropping their son, Caleb, off at UCLA, a far cry from Maine, where Jenny works in land conservation and preservation. In news from around the globe, Rachael Horovitz sends love from New York, where she is still producing movies but considers Ed Hill’s Facebook postings the best entertainment around. Beth DiRusso Grenauer lives in New Canaan, Conn., and is figuring out the next chapter of her life, after spending several years working as a litigator in London. Her daughter, Madison, is inquiring about an Andover education, but, like many of us, Beth has a hard time imagining being away from her child. (Steve Chernow and Sylvia Platt, if you’re reading this, Beth would love to hear from you.) Forty Conklin continues to row, row, row his boat and sing in his glee club, and last Christmas he and his wife, Sandra, headed to upstate New York to visit Jorge Pedraza. Forty is one of many classmates who currently have kids at Andover. Roger Kass, who’s in NYC, has a daughter who is currently a PA junior. (Tim Finn, Roger is requesting to know your whereabouts.) Geri Pope Bidwell has twins, Brooke ’17 and Alex ’17, who are in their upper year, and a graduate, Lucy ’09, who was recently featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine for her series of virtual reality films. Geri can always be counted on as the glue for ’79ers, advocating for classmates such as author-artist Kris Timken and her recent book, The New Explorers. And in other book news, Bruce MacWilliams ’77 attended a party Geri hosted for Head of School John Palfrey, celebrating his new book. Bruce is branching out from commercial directing and into features with his screenplay, Trombone. Geri also reports that Cindy Farrelly Gesner ’80’s son Finn was recently accepted to UCLA. (Betsy Campbell, Nancy McCormack Liva, and Tory Read, Geri—and I—would love to hear from you.) Janet Milkman sounds like she’s got things figured out, having recently quit her job, sold her house, and moved to Cape Cod, where she is busy paddleboarding and making Dark ‘n’ Stormys. Other movers include Bill Schultz, who is relocating for the 14th time, now headed from Atlanta to Toronto to run the Coca-Cola bottling facility there. After 25 years, Dan Ryan recently moved his family and software company from Laredo, Texas, to San Antonio and is enjoying the change and closer proximity to his son. Doug Sun was urgently summoned to Chad, hastily relocated from New York back to Africa
to serve as the economic/commercial officer at the U.S. Embassy there. Augustus Schoen-Rene has been serving as technical director for the Smith Opera House in upstate New York and caring for his ailing mother. Carol Whitaker attended a reunion of Frost House residents, including Molly Fields Walls and many ’78ers. David Hartzell reports of a PG reunion at a Patriots-Eagles game last December. In attendance were Steve Collins, Eric Jordahl, and Steve MacDonald. David, now a PA parent, frequently returns to Andover, often seeing other classmates such as Forty, John Francis, Sue Warren, and, of course, Jim Ventre, who heads up the admission office. And rounding out the reunions, Scott Drescher reports of the blowout SYA (School Year Abroad) 50th anniversary celebration, with many friends and classmates in attendance. Scott’s in Dallas with wife Patty; they have a daughter who just turned 30. But it’s Paul Whittall who gets special mention, as his 30-year-old daughter just gave birth to a baby boy. Congratulations, grandpa! If you’re not getting e-mails from us, that means we don’t have your current e-mail address, so please contact the Office of Alumni Engagement and update your records. Trust me, there are many out there who would love to know what you’re up to. And we’d never have to face a blank ’79 page again. —d
1980 Jane Shattuck Mayer mtwjshattuck@gmail.com 781-710-7532 Amy Davidsen 451 West End Ave., Apt. 14E New York NY 10024 917-545-9617 amydavidsen@gmail.com
Greetings to all! I am writing on behalf of our trusty head class secretary, Jane Shattuck Mayer, who received news from several classmates. We would love to hear from more of you, especially any four-year seniors, because this September marks 40 years since that major life-changing moment, the start of our junior year. Just a few quick memories from me: I recall that my first week of school was a bit of an adjustment as a boarder. Under the watchful eye of Mr. and Mrs. Eccles, I lived in Tucker House in West Quad South, where I inadvertently caused a few headaches regarding curfew. A lower in Adams South had assured me that it was fine to play cards in his room late into the night, but I quickly figured out my error in judgment when I returned to Tucker House to find the door locked—and had to ring the bell for a puzzled Mrs. Eccles to let me in! Other memories of the first week include walking through the quad with Paige Crowley. Andover | Summer 2016
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