www.andover.edu/intouch will share the lovely fruitions of some of our investigations when they can come to the public light. My wife continues as a partner at Winston & Strawn, where she manages her growing practice. I recently had lunch with Steve Ackroyd at Tap 415 and found myself apprehended with laughter. I keep in touch with Craig Lewis on FB; we joust over kids, weight, [whether] we still got it, and other typical over-50 issues. I had lunch with Lee Vodra in Pasadena and, as Steve put it, ‘She still is an amazing pole star of intelligence.’ ” Greg is connecting with classmates on FB and looks forward to seeing some local ones soon. Be sure to keep us apprised, Greg! Amy Davidsen reported two separate summer visits at her home near the Berkshires: one with Dianne Hurley and the other with Kate Thomes. Amy wrote that Dianne and Kate “were roommates junior year, so it was a shame their visits did not coincide. Dianne joined us for dinner one evening and we caught up on family, friends, work, and mountain biking. Dianne truly looks the same—and has retained her never-waning energy level. I like to think it is buoyed by her gorgeous little daughter! “During Kate’s visit, she kept me laughing all weekend with stories of her various adventures— such as taking a white stretch limo with her young niece to see Taylor Swift at Gillette Stadium. From the photos, I am not sure who was having more fun! Later in the summer, Kate sent a postcard from the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, before heading off to meet Cassie Doykos in Greece.” Amy hoped for a joint Dianne-and-Kate visit this past fall. That’s it for now. Hope you enjoyed your fall festivities with friends and family—but don’t forget to write and tell us all about them! Cheers. —Jane and Amy
and and PA 1981 (private)—for event news, photos, and entertaining banter. Your Houston correspondent spent the majority of the summer packing, moving, and unpacking with the assistance of Jasmine, his trusty Jack Russell/Chihuahua (we think), and other associates from the local ice house. In case anyone is thinking of moving to or from Houston in August, it is definitely not recommended. Purging lots of old stuff was cathartic and badly needed, and by Labor Day everything was more or less in place at the new apartment. George Carlin sure nailed it when he observed, “A house is just a place to put your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” On the flip side, one of the many positives was finding lots of old photos and correspondence in the attic and garage of my old house, where I resided for 15 years. Hopefully, my next move will be to a retirement community, and not any time soon. Post-move, my focus turns to the college and NFL football seasons and to Premier League soccer. Peter Hill ’80 and I frequently get together to watch both sports. Saints vs. Pats in February? Man City top of the Premiership table? —W&S
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Parker L. Quillen 170 E. 87th St., Apt. PH1B New York NY 10128 917-923-7400 parkerlquillen@gmail.com
35th REUNION June 10 –12, 2016 Warren Jones Houston Texas 281-450-6457 wcjonesllc@gmail.com Stefanie Scheer Young New York NY 917-287-6111 stefanie.scheer@gmail.com
Greetings, classmates. Preparations for our 35th Reunion (can you believe it?) are well under way! Be sure to save the dates, June 10–12, and we look forward to seeing everyone on campus. Sarah Horowitz, Katie Leede, and Stefanie Scheer Young will be organizing the festivities, with Bill Kummel throwing in his two cents. Please follow our class Facebook pages— Phillips Academy Andover Class of 1981 (public)
1982 Graham Anthony 2502 Waterville Drive Champaign IL 61822 434-989-5800 grahamanthony@earthlink.net John Barton 480 Hulls Highway Southport CT 06890 203-254-7751 (home) 212-230-3235 (work) jwb@tfm-llc.com
Last summer, Andover asked us to reach out and verify our class’s e-mail addresses and contact info. Never ones to miss an opportunity to unearth info on our classmates, we also asked for updates—and we got ’em. Thank you! Here are the updates in (more or less) reverse alphabetical order: Matthew Weatherley-White is, alas, not raising a pet moose. He travels from his home in Boise, Idaho, to speak globally on impact investing. He recently skied with Colorado residents Trina Peterson and husband Jess. The Petersons’ daughter Tessa graduated from Andover this past spring along with David Duquette and Patti Doykos’s son, Culver, and Chandri Navarro’s daughter Bianca. After a visit to the White House, Yalda Tehranian-Uhls dined with Chandri and Jennifer Scheer Lieberman in DC. Yalda recently
wrote a book, titled Media Moms & Digital Dads, on managing children’s digital life. In counterpoint, Paula Lee is writing a kids’ adventure book showing that “tech-free” outdoor fun and adventure is compelling. After having daughter Faith, Tracey Philpot traded a career in financial accounting for teaching math to eighth-graders in Connecticut. She and her attorney husband recently rescued a pitbull mix (insert your own attorney joke here). Scotti Parrish and husband Bruce live in Ann Arbor, Mich., with their three children. She is a professor of English—for which she cites Lou Bernieri as the catalyst. Rick Kimball continues his life in the world of the Big Time: after years running the health-care practice at Goldman Sachs, Rick is a fellow at the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford. He’s starting a health-care company, too. Phil Harrison has spent 22 years in Atlanta as an architect and celebrates 25 years of marriage to wife Susan. Their daughter is a senior at Dickinson, and their son is in his first year at Harvard. Peter Crabtree is a psychologist in Portland, Ore. Peter’s son, Owen, started at Whitman College in the fall, and daughter Ella is in 10th grade. Jane Simoni is a psychology professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. Paul Gormley is a professor of criminal justice at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., having recently moved there from Marblehead, Mass., where he defended mentally ill criminals—the subject of his PhD dissertation in law and policy at Northeastern. Rev. Nick Porter, his wife, Dorothy, and their three daughters spent 18 years in Europe and the Middle East prior to returning to the US in 2005. After a stint in Connecticut, where Nick saw Parker Quillen, Stu Kensinger, John Barton, and Ming Tsai fairly regularly, in 2013 Nick and family moved to a farm in Vermont, where they are working on civilian peace-building between Israeli and Palestinian families. Mike Sabina and wife Jenny have run their Palo Alto restaurant, St. Michael’s Alley, for 22 years now, helped occasionally by 10-year-old son Milo and daughter Maggie. Recently, Mary-Ann Somers left CocaCola and Atlanta for central Pennsylvania to manage Hershey’s U.S. chocolate business. Marie Oddo and her husband, a law professor, have two sons and live in Aix-en-Provence, France, where she runs an insurance business. She recently saw Jane Pollard in London and can confirm that Jane remains as beautiful and fun as ever. Landi Fannin lives in Portsmouth, N.H., with partner Dave and daughter Paige, now in college. Landi writes, “I work in IT—enough said!” Living in NYC, Ken Seiff runs Beanstalk Ventures, an early-stage VC fund focused on retail technology. He writes, “Still running, just a bit more slowly.” When not competing in ultra-endurance mountain bike races, John Sagebiel is guiding the environmental program at the University of Nevada in Reno. Harold Kim has been living Andover | Winter 2016
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