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Many alumni and friends turned out to congratulate Instructor in History and Social Science Kathleen Dalton and Faculty Emeritus Tony Rotundo when the couple received the McKeen Award on the Abbot campus in November. Front, from left: are Andrew Case ’90, Troy Selvaratnam ’89 with wife Mary Skinner, and Barbara Dalton Rotundo ’00. Back row: Dan Ankeles ’00, John Michael DiResta ’00, Oliver Schwaner-Albright ’90, Robin Hessman ’90, Tom Doherty (Barbara’s fiancé), and Robin’s husband, Lorin Wertheimer.
Las Vegas, traveled 200,000 miles this year, speaking to audiences around the world on philosophy, economics, creativity, leadership, and modernity. Sarah Gray Rakovshik is into her third year at the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, where she helps run postgraduate psychotherapist training programs for the University of Oxford and continues to work as a researcher and therapist. She and her family spend part of the summer on Martha’s Vineyard, so let her know if you’ll be on the island! In Japan, Betsy Wiedenmayer Rogers and her clan are preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and request that you don’t wait until the last minute to show up on her couch for that or the Rugby World Cup in 2019. Come visit sooner! Although she misses living close to high school friends, she loves life in Japan. Costas Anastassiadis is spearheading the business development effort at Innora, an engineering consultancy outside Athens that produces robotic prototypes. He also manages a vacation rental business on the island of Kea. After 18 years working in New York, Peter L. Juhas started a new job in Ireland in September. Wife Katie and their three boys will be joining him there next summer. John Eagleton retreated to a château in northern France with his wife and five children to write screenplays and children’s books. Mirabelle Kirkland, who lives within walking distance of Versailles, is head writer for a TV comedy series and produces (and sometimes appears in) a Web series called Mr. Piji. She also reports that Jon Luongo was selected for the Child Life Council’s Leadership Academy program for his work helping children through difficult and painful procedures. From Arambol, Goa, in India, Anshula Kedar writes, “This place is the most amazing nexus of music and love. I’m going to London, pretty much stone cold for the summer. Don’t know anything
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about it but got my tix already so am going. So please, if you are there, find me!” As I write this in my home office, eerily similar to my room in Rockwell, I am in a twilight zone of acting and working with my education company, Quantum Prep. It’s been many years, but I feel that, at any moment, Mr. Lorenço is going to step in and bust up our Twilight Zone marathon party. —Curtis Eames
1990 Thomas W. Seeley 1572 Heifer Road Skaneateles NY 13152 315-263-0052 (cell) 315-685-3416 (work) twseeley@gmail.com
Hard to believe it has been nearly a year since so many of us met on the beautiful grounds of our alma mater. As I write with snow falling outside the window, it still feels as if only moments have passed. I am hopeful many of us have managed to keep our resolutions to be in closer touch and spend more time together. Wonderful to ring in the New Year with members of our Andover family! Had a fantastic visit with Susan Marcus and Carl Smit and their families at the Marcus family home in Queechee, Vt. My road trip continued through Maine, where I was able to visit briefly with Molly McGrath and meet her amazing family. Andy Case’s debut novel, The Big Fear, was released on April 1. Andy reports positive reviews are already pouring in: Publishers Weekly’s starred review called it a “standout among Serpico-type crime thrillers.” In more literary news, word has it that a second novel by Sonya Chung is scheduled for release later this year. Though he hasn’t formally opened an account (as far as we know), a Joe Bae sighting was
reported recently on Facebook! Joe accompanied his wife, Janice Y.K. Lee, as she toured the country promoting her new novel, The Expatriates. Yvette Lee recently accepted a post as executive director of the Skystone Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed to oversee the Roden Crater, a monumental art installation by light artist James Turell in the Northern Arizona desert. Prior to accepting this post, Yvette worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Foundation, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the American Federation of Arts in NYC. Great to catch up with Julia Cumes, who sadly could not make it to reunion because she was planning a photography workshop scheduled for February and July 2016 at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Uganda. A photographer based on Cape Cod, Julia’s work has been published in National Geographic and in newspapers all over the world. In the past, she has also coordinated photo workshops for children in Rwanda. You can check out her work on her blog, Apertures and Anecdotes. If you haven’t watched Mr. Robot yet, what are you waiting for? So amazing to see our very own Alexandra Shapiro among the stars at the Golden Globe parties celebrating Mr. Robot’s victory as Best Television Series: Drama. Alex is executive vice president of marketing and digital at USA Network. She lives in New York with her husband and two children. In NYC, Michelle Pae is revolutionizing restaurant ratings. Michelle helped launch Renzell, a new app designed to provide holistic rankings of 54 elite New York restaurants. Watch out, Michelin and Zagat! That’s all I have for now. Miss you and love you all. Who’s up for crashing reunion this June?
1991 25th REUNION June 10–12, 2016 Hilary Lerner Gershman 6124 SW 104th St. Miami FL 33156 305-467-6581 hilarygershman@yahoo.com
Greetings, fellow ’91ers! As hard as it is to believe, five years have come and gone in the blink of an eye, and our 25th Reunion is around the corner! Indeed, by the time you are actually reading this update, you might be revving it up in the Sanctuary or on your third trip to Harrison’s for another “large heavy, radish and onion.” As we have been for the past half-decade, the great Class of 1991 is busy. Lex Carroll got the party started in May by marrying Emma Reid in Boston. Congratulations, Lex! I think a year should just be enough time to get Emma mentally prepared for the 25th. Sasha Alcott had