stay connected... business and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with their 3-year-old son, Nikko. They love hiking in the Presidio and living near their entire extended family (members of which occasionally serve as babysitters). What would this year’s class notes for the Class of 1983 be without the reminders that we are all turning or have turned 50? Frederick “Fritz” Reichenbach would like to thank David “Max” Williamson for inviting him and his son to join his celebration, sailing in Maine on the Lewis R. French, an 1870s schooner operating with its original equipment. Sounds like some of the sailing work reminded Fritz of crew practice (is that good or bad?), but he felt that he earned the wood-stovecooked meals and local libations. Andrea Feldman Falcione celebrated her 50th birthday in England and France this past October, together with Quincey Tompkins Imhoff and Laura Culbert Knowles-Cutler. This news came from Tammy Snyder Murphy, who has been seeing a lot of John Kim and Karen Humphries Sallick; their three girls are best friends at Andover. Tammy has also just joined the board of visitors at UVa. Well, that’s it for now. It was great to hear from so many of you. Please keep it up!
1984 Alexandra Gillespie 52 Amelia St. Toronto ON M4E 1X1 Canada acoonpie@gmail.com William P. Seeley Department of Philosophy 73/75 Campus Ave. Bates College Lewiston ME 04240 wseeley@bates.edu Adam Simha 84 Rice St. Cambridge MA 02140-1819 617-967-3869 adam@mksdesign.com
Hi, folks! Winter has finally arrived in Maine. We have some snow, and the temperature is dipping to some unfathomable negative number on the Celsius scale tonight. Even the bottoms of my skis are cold. Thanks to everyone who took time to drop us a line with news. I was particularly happy to see the reckless abandon and creativity with which we collectively address the simple matter of out-of-office replies. Maybe it’s because we are the last generation to be raised predigitally. A couple of you were kind enough to remind me that we have reached a milestone: We are turning or have already turned 50 this year—making us just as old as the Super Bowl (in case you get forgetful). I’m sure it’s the new something.
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Mike Bayer writes that he used the benchmark as an opportunity to climb the technical route up Kilimanjaro (apparently his birthday lasted 12 days: nine up and three down). Of the highest mountain in each of the 50 states, he has now summited 46. Last fall he managed Utah. He’s planning Montana for 2016. Lest you think he’s not too busy, he also writes that he has changed jobs and is now general counsel at Miramax. I guess I hope he’s saved Delaware (451 feet), DC (410 feet), and Florida (345 feet) for the last three! Ho Nam writes that he had a chance to catch up with classmates Willie Woo and Jim Chung in Washington, D.C., at the first gala for CKA (Council of Korean Americans) a couple of months ago—old Facebook news, but breaking news for class notes! Willie made the flight from Boston and Ho flew in from San Francisco. KT Vahan is just back from trekking through the Panamanian jungle with her mother. She writes, “Amazing birds, sloths, orchids and more. The birds were so spectacular! Plus, we were there when an enormous hawk-and-vulture migration was going on—millions (no exaggeration) of birds flying south for the winter.” Duncan Robinson—recently remarried— ran into Ben Schlosser, Caroline Ren Jackson, Kathy Baxter, Claudia Kraut Rimerman, and Paul Murphy on campus this fall. Duncan was dropping off his daughter, who started at PA in September. Duncan also saw Joel Post recently for a delightful holiday repast. Courtnay Smith Perevalova is back stateside chasing her son’s alpine racing exploits across northern New England. Beverly Tillery has switched jobs. As of this past October, she is the executive director at the NYC AntiViolence Project. Robert Townsend says of middle age that he has decided to own it! During the holiday season, Robert wrote, “After 19 years at Bayer, I left the company in May and joined Cerus Corp. (in the blood safety space) in order to be part of a more nimble and dynamic company environment (Bayer was just about to go through yet another big reorg, so I decided to bail before that happened). Still located in Berlin and loving it. Have been in Germany for 13 years now. Over the summer, I was fortunate to be able to catch up with Laurie Nash, who was in Berlin on business. Some people (I guess especially men) get Porsches when they go through a midlife crisis. Others get multiple girlfriends. I could not afford the Porsche and am happily married, so instead I ran the Berlin Marathon on my 50th birthday. Currently, we are at my in-laws’ in Alicante, Spain, and my 4-year-old daughter is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Three Kings, who arrive tonight bearing presents.” Claudia Kraut Rimerman waxed poetic about my brother-in-arms Adam Simha: “My 15-yearold son and 12-year-old daughter were held in rapt attention as Adam showed my family around his workshop and explained how he pursued his passion for design to arrive at what my kids
think must be the coolest career ever! They may not be wrong.” News is that Adam has moved from designing knives to wrestling them. Claudia also mentioned that she saw Scott Crabtree speak about his work with his company Happy Brain Science at Andover recently. My other partner in crime, Alex Gillespie, is, as always, secretly plotting to replace the maple leaf on Toronto’s road sweaters with a life-sized decal of Lanny McDonald’s moustache (in low relief). Jim Reische’s reply to my recent call for news was that, although he was out of the office and would not be checking e-mail, we should call him if we had any immediate needs. Jim did get back to me. After years among the rolling cornfields of Iowa, he and wife Aimee are packing up the prairie schooner and riding the trade winds back East from Grinnell for a new job as vice president of communications at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md. I suppose his sage words about dynamic systems and the social fabric will now come to us in Greek as thickly veiled metaphors for the sea! They’ll miss the occasional Iowa pork product and the ritual corn dance but not the Alberta clipper they’ll be riding all the way home! (It’s a wind, not a semi-pro hockey team affiliated with the Oilers, Alex.) Sarah Bullock and I caught up by e-mail a couple of weeks ago. Last I saw her, Sarah dropped by my office at Bates nearly unannounced (from a coast away). She and her son were back East on a college tour and (if I recall correctly) visiting family in Bangor, Maine. It was the nicest surprise of the spring! In news on the home front, we have moved to Bath, Maine. I’ve been moonlighting at Yale and Bates this year but have officially moved my academic offices to the University of New Hampshire. The move to the coast came with quite a surprise. There was a cool photo in the local paper recently. One of the new destroyers they are building down the road at the Bath Iron Works was making its way down the Kennebec to the sea on its inaugural voyage. As my eye lingered on the misfit scale of the ship in the picture, I noticed a familiar name in the photo credits: Paul Kalkstein ’61. I guess he was having coffee and caught it drifting by from points unknown! —Bill Seeley
1985 Pamela Paresky P.O. Box 8878 Aspen CO 81612 pamela@ayearofkindness.com
Before going on to the rest of our class notes, I begin with sad news. Though it will have been several months by the time this is published, many of our classmates may not know that in February, Peter Stark’s daughter unexpectedly passed away. Our heartfelt condolences go out to Peter and his family.