www.andover.edu/intouch by classmates Matthew Weatherley-White, Jeff Hunt, and Mike Sokolov. Restwise helps athletes train smarter by understanding recovery from their workouts. Matthew and Jeff, both endurance athletes who have competed on the world stage, were inspired to develop the system by their own experience overtraining—Jeff as a cyclist at the Olympic Training Center and Matthew as a rower at Dartmouth. Together they approached Mike, who, with 12 software patents to his name and the common sense to stop training before becoming overtrained, seemed to have all sorts of relevant expertise. MIT’s website lists Mike as using “computers to promulgate new forms of communication and expression.” I assume, given the MIT imprimatur, this is something more sophisticated than emoticon design. Your scribe would have paid big money to be at the table when Matthew and Jeff pitched Mike on joining in. I imagine something like this: Jeff and Matthew: Dude, we want you to help us design a system to help athletes understand recovery. Mike: Oh, yes, I’ll get right on that. Did I tell you I have been working to help folks see? A threat to make Mike relive History 35 may have done the trick. I recall his suffering through that with Scott Corry. Whatever it took, Restwise has since been used by such athletes as the All Blacks rugby team (the New Zealand national team), sailing legend Ben Ainslie, and marathoner Ryan Hall, on their way to winning scores of Olympic and world championship medals and NCAA titles. Perhaps they can sign up Robert Tuller. Robert’s accomplishments in 100-mile ultra– marathons, completing 25 to date, have been mentioned in previous class notes and would seem to indicate a need for software that signals when a rest might indeed be wise. Classmates interested in following Robert’s athletic and culinary adventures should seek his Coach Robert Tuller Facebook page, where they will find him no less interesting than we remember. Other classmates’ athletic endeavors are spotted from time to time among their Facebook posts. I reached out to Ellen Nordberg, noticing a great frequency of spectacular backdrops in her photos. She reports that she bikes to raise money for college scholarships, skis, and hikes, but “no more than anyone else around here.” Since “here” is, in this case, Boulder, Colo., perhaps she too might be a candidate for Restwise. Ellen is a freelance writer, focusing on “health and fitness, parenting stuff, and humor.” She also performs in story slams (precise definition pending) and is coproducing the Listen to Your Mother show in Boulder. The show “celebrates motherhood and is staged in 41 cities across the country each year around Mother’s Day.” Ellen has had fun hosting many visits from Amy Starensier Lee and Liz MacDonell—happy, I’m sure, for the opportunity to ski. She reports, though, that despite her efforts she can’t seem to talk Mary Ogden out of Vermont to join them. Among our skiing classmates, Parker Quillen,
sommelier de la neige, has evidently become a fan of the snow in Japan. He has journeyed there a few times to enjoy the powder and provide the rest of us with some spectacular ski photos. I skied with Parker years ago and plan one day to join him in Japan, intent on, among other things, encouraging him to inflict his a cappella interpretation of “Me and Bobby McGee” on the locals. I imagine filming a version of Rashomon in which, instead of offering conflicting interpretations of events, the unwilling listeners are uniform in their reviews and requests that I remove him. Back to Scott Corry. In correspondence with him a few months ago, he and I agreed that, unlike the athletes mentioned above, we’re both in better shape now than we were during college. In our case, the secret to the accomplishment is the low bar set for comparison. Perhaps Restwise can build this fundamental insight into human physiology into their software? —John Barton
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Artists and writers! I’ve noted in past columns how many of our classmates are published authors and recognized artists of all sorts, among them Angela Lorenz, Chris Fitch, Holly Peterson, Sheri Caplan, Richard Murphy, Bill Storey, Jeffrey Stafford, and many others. Well, Chris’s work was included in a show of internationally acclaimed “automatists” at Heron Arts in San Francisco this April. And Angela’s mosaics of bikini-clad athletes, titled Victorious Secret and based on originals in Piazza Armerina, Sicily, are on display in the Education Commons at the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field. Jason Bernhard writes that Warren Zanes’s new book, Petty: The Biography, is a fabulous read, and the reviews are terrific. (Warren, Jason’s looking for a signed copy.) Stephen Blackwell also has a new book coming out in the first quarter of 2016. It’s a collection of anatomical butterfly drawings by Vladimir Nabokov called Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art. While teaching Russian literature at the University of Tennessee, Steve also finds time for photography, rowing, biking, and hiking. Architect Harry Elson has designed a Center for Multifaith Education and Engagement for New York’s Auburn Seminary. As part of the project, Harry conceived the Macky Alston Media Lab, in honor of the founding of Auburn Media by Wallace “Macky” Alston, 15 years ago. Harry describes the lab as a “state-of-the-art flex studio designed to equip leaders of faith and moral courage to frame and win today’s critical values debates in the media.” Paul Chutich got to meet Robert De Niro, Zac
Ephron, and Aubrey Plaza, stars of the movie Dirty Grandpa, which came out in early 2016. Apparently they filmed a few scenes at Paul’s restaurant in Atlanta. Look for a fictitious place called “Sweet Peaches Café.” From Hong Kong, Jin Park, a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and leader of the firm’s Korea practice, writes that he goes back to Andover quite a bit to see his daughter, who is an upper. Jin also has a 6-year-old daughter, and invites any of us who pass through Hong Kong or Korea to give him a shout. From nearby Taiwan, David Chen reports that he and his family of four are enjoying life on the island. He is general manager of the Taiwan life insurance business for BNPP Paribas Cardif and invites any classmates who pass through Taiwan to look him up. My predecessor and friend Susannah Hill tells me that she is the director of the Menlo Park– Atherton Education Foundation. Her husband, Pat, serves as a radiologist at O’Connor Hospital in San Jose, Calif. Susannah seems to be getting quite involved in community service these days, because her son Andrew, a seventh-grader, enjoys such service and makes her accompany him. In other kid news, Jeffrey Rossman and Corinne Field’s daughter, Thea ’15, is now at Stanford. Nat Worley and Sarah Rosenfield Worley’s daughter Nina graduated from the College of the Holy Cross and is now teaching eighth-grade English at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Malden, Mass. The Worleys are now empty nesters and conclude that their work here is done. And so it is time to renew old friendships; they have recently reconnected with Derek Johnson, Joshua Hubbard, and Carolyn McGowan, among others. Vivian Bache Quam’s oldest, Justin, is working on a PhD degree in German at Georgetown University. Daughter Cassandra works at a middle school in St. Paul, Minn., and Seth is a junior at Syracuse University. All of them are, like Vivian, involved in music. Vivian, an oboist from her Andover days, still plays in two community orchestras near Chicago, while her sons both sing. Justin, a former Whiffenpoof at Yale, performs with the Capital Hearings and the 18th Street Singers, both around DC. Charlie Neff, Eagle Scout, is on his way to the College of William & Mary. Charlie is Doug Neff’s son. Doug’s daughter made the varsity soccer team as a high school freshman but also now has a learner’s permit and, to her dad’s dismay, seems to enjoy driving fast. (I know the feeling: My son, Jason, is now 17, with a full driver’s license, and can cite the top speed and acceleration of every Porsche, Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, and McLaren ever made.) After completing some classes at UVa in cybersecurity management, Doug changed jobs and is now chief information officer at MicroStrategy, Inc. In other big life changes, John Byrnes writes that after nearly two decades in Los Angeles working in digital media, he and his wife sold their Andover | Summer 2016
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