stay connected... moved to Washington, D.C. While there she picked up a book coauthored by Sara Corbett, published in 2013, titled A House in the Sky. Congrats, Sara! Patrick Kennedy also coauthored a book called A Common Struggle, about addiction and mental illness. Congrats, Patrick! We have another class author, Hannah Nordhaus, who wrote American Ghost: A Family’s Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest, following her book The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America. How exciting to have such talented classmates! Well, that’s all, folks! Don’t forget to come to the reunion. I can’t wait to catch up with you! XO —Kath Campbell DiPaolo
1987 David Kopans 2 Princeton Road Arlington MA 02474-8238 781-646-4515 617-947-2454 (cell) dave@kopans.com
From atomic sit-ups to the demise of the dartthrowing chimp to weekend trips to China, there’s lots to report, so let’s get going. First off, in honor of Stanley Tarr and family visiting Boston, a few folks got together and kicked off the first day of 2016 in casual style. Reports from that party are of Stan and Lauren having raised perhaps the most polite boys ever (can you imagine a 12-year-old offering to take out the trash?), Dan Medwed and Sharissa having yours truly step in and opine on Class IV laser policy issues, Paul Marston and family perfecting the art of treetop drone retrieval, and John Greco and family discussing the Brownian-motion nature of Pee-Wee hockey. Toasts were raised to Annie Gatewood, Cindy Greene, Jonny Bush, Ruth Webb, Matt Bellows ’86, Christian Ehrbar ’86, Newt Davis ’86, Jon Bernstein ’86, and Travis Metz, who were out of town at the time and could not attend. Speaking of Travis, in November, he, Steve Hopkins, and I traveled over to China for the weekend (yes, weekend), and not just because the flights were cheaper than those to Montana (they were). We went to celebrate the opening of one of the top new museums in Asia, the Mu Xin Art Museum in Wuzhen. Designed by our own Hiroshi Okamoto, with some hard work and critical bench design from Steve, it was amazing (http://tinyurl.com/HiroshiMuseum). On other artistic fronts, Josh Coleman is a cast member at one of the nation’s premier classical repertory theatre companies, A Noise Within (http://tinyurl.com/JoshPA). Josh is too kind and humble to toot that horn, so just blame me on that front. What he did write in about was the recent birth of a daughter. Congrats to Josh and his wife! More congratulations are in order: April Peters
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is also a new mom. I received a lovely e-mail from April that read: “It was a busy 2015 for me. I finished school in May and was ordained a rabbi. In September, I gave birth to a sweet baby girl. My wife, Emily, and I are thrilled. We are living in Manhattan, and I changed my last name to Davis so that the three of us would match. I get to see Janet Choi frequently, and I had dinner with Janet, Aimee Vincent Jamison, and Jay Jamison ’89 when they were in town this summer.” Also on the new-parent front, Caroline Cannon and Whit Spaulding ’85 doubled down with twins in 2015. I was lucky enough to see all four of them tromping around in style and with smiles at Annie and Bob Gatewood’s annual pig roast party. Sue Graham Johnston reported moving to London to take on the role of managing director of British Oxygen Company, running the business in the U.K., Ireland, and Africa. A big change from high tech, for sure—and a big change from her role as the “damsel in distress” in the famous Batkid Make-a-Wish event in SF about two years ago. This wonderful event was organized by her husband, E.J., who starred as Batman. Check out a picture of Sue and E.J. here: http://tinyurl.com/ BatKidPA. And, if your fashion sense says you just must have Sue’s cool green Joker gag, check out her Instructables site, http://tinyurl.com/ BatKidPA2. Sue looks forward to connecting with folks in London. Like her sister, Liz Graham is also on the move. Liz reported that she had the surreal experience of moving her daughter, Miriam Feldman ’18, into her old dorm, Stimson. And on a less surreal front, Liz recently moved herself into a new role heading global sales and service for Wayfair.com. Her husband, Brad, is in his 16th season broadcasting New England Revolution soccer. Jonny Bush takes us farther into Europe with a trip to Berlin. In true Bush style, he rallied the troops and connected with Jonathan Lutes and Todd Fletcher for a night of revelry. Apparently Lutes and Fletcher have been living there for quite some time—within a block of each other—but did not know it. Jonny fixed that. Berlin might never be the same. Jay Ulfelder brings us back to North America. Jay reported in that his younger son, August, has become obsessed with cyclo-cross. Recently, August won the Maryland and mid-Atlantic under14 regional championships, and he is headed to nationals. Good luck, August! On other fronts, Jay shut down his famous Dart-Throwing Chimp blog, freeing him up for listening to older son Parker’s digital music. Jay writes, “If anyone’s in the business and wants to offer advice or insight to an aspiring professional, Parker would be grateful to hear from them.” Erica Hollern Kelly and husband Jeremy celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in 2015. Out in California, they are responsible for founding the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation (www. myotonic.org), which grew out of Erica’s personal connection to this disease. Erica reports that
foundation-supported researchers have drugs in trial and in the pipeline that may offer a cure to her two boys (both in high school) as well as herself. As Erica wrote to me in an e-mail: “We have a lot of hope—which goes a long way! And we couldn’t appreciate each day more than we do. Carpe diem, everyone.” To see a smiling picture of Erica and learn more about the MDF, go here: http://tinyurl. com/EricaPA. Robin Koster-Carlyon e-mailed from Down Under. Robin sent me a beautifully written e-mail with lots of info that she summed up as “know your farmer, know how your food is being grown, save the planet, and be healthier for it!!” Check out Robin’s smiling face and incredible farm at http:// tinyurl.com/RobinPA. Kirstin Hoefer wrote in to report taking a short break from working hard to make the world a better place. For many years, Kirstin has been a real power player in renewable energy (pun intended). From Sungevity to Clean Power Finance, we can all thank Kirstin for helping put more solar on roofs in America! During her break, Kirstin saw Jenny Ogilvie and reports that Jenny has two adorable boys, ages 3 and 5, whom she adopted from Ethiopia. On the same trip, Kirstin saw Tyke Higdon O’Brien ’88 and husband Jamie O’Brien. And of course, no matter how it ends up, I am ever thankful to Kirstin’s husband, Robert, for the help he provided since Kirstin’s e-mail to me months ago. More on that story as it develops, so stay tuned.
1988 Terri Stroud 800 4th St. SW, Unit N418 Washington DC 20024 202-486-4189 terri.stroud@gmail.com Laura Cox 21 Merced Ave. San Anselmo CA 94960 415-302-7709 laurajeancox@gmail.com Matt Lavin 2221 46th St. NW Washington DC 20007 202-365-8593 mattlavindc@yahoo.com Heather Ross Zuzenak 12 Ginn Road Winchester MA 01890 781-874-1747 hrzuzenak@yahoo.com
Greetings, ’88ers! Here’s the scoop. My comrade in football fandom (“Go, Giants!”), Keil Decker, writes that he is the director and head of national accounts marketing at BlackRock. He lives in Princeton, N.J., with his wife, Nora, who works for Deloitte, and his three children,