stay connected... in Hong Kong for the past 20 years with his wife, Julia, and six kids, two of whom are at Andover: Max ’16 and Freddie ’19. Harold writes, “We have several classmates here, including Calvin Hsu, John Kim, Albert Rim, Stephanie Yoo Han, and Yichen Zhang, as well as a host of ’83ers, including Stephen King, Henry Cho, X.D. Yang, and Jin Park. The Andover folks get together fairly regularly.” Hadley Soutter Arnold and her husband, Peter, live in LA and run an institute devoted to climate adaption in drylands. Her daughter, Josie ’19, is now in her first year at Andover. Hadley writes, “We enjoy occasional collisions with beloved classmates Elise Balboni, Christina Fink, Phil Harrison, Katrina Sorenson Peterson, and Catherine Monteiro de Barros and their delightful progeny.” Eric Ren lives with his wife, Rosemary, in Marlborough, Mass., and is the principal engineer at the material science laboratory at EMC. Their daughter Alexandra ’17 is an upper at Andover, joined by her cousin, the daughter of Eric’s sister, Caroline Ren Jackson ’84. Dorothy Bisbee is living in West Concord, Mass., with her husband, Mike, and their 10-year-old daughter, Sophie, plus “a Jack Russell terrier that would benefit from Valium and two middle-aged guinea pigs that would benefit from amphetamines.” Derrick Harris’s Atlanta-based firm is enjoying its third inclusion in the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing companies. Growing equally quickly is his 16-year-old daughter, Chloe. Derrick notes he is better equipped to handle the growth of the former than the latter. As if he weren’t busy enough, he is opening a new restaurant in Atlanta named Savoy. David Fairman travels internationally in his public policy conflictresolution consulting practice. He lives in Lexington, Mass., with his wife, Juliette, sons Josh and Isaac, and dog Keenan. David writes, “Enjoying an occasional beer with the help of PA classmates.” Dan Besse, who’s been with Fidelity for 29 years, is back in Boston after a stint in Dallas. He writes, “Chip Campbell is doing what he loves—teaching English—at St. Paul’s.” Cybele Raver recently married Clancy Blair at the Prospect Park Boathouse in Brooklyn, N.Y. Congrats, Cybele! Cybele serves as a vice provost of NYU and runs a federally funded program on children’s learning in the context of poverty and income inequality. Betsy Minno is living in Palo Alto and consulting to startups in Silicon Valley. In nearby San Francisco, Chris Dean is CEO of Swrve, a mobile marketing firm with 50 employees in Dublin and London and 20 in San Francisco. He and his wife, Lisi, have been married for 19 years and have three children, Eliza, Diana, and Nick. Art Small is a visiting fellow at Cornell, working on the intersection of ethics and climate change. He lives with wife Dawn and daughter Zoe in State College, Pa. Amy Hobby lives in NYC, where she founded Tangerine Entertainment, a production company focused on films directed by women. Thank you all for the news! —Graham
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1983 Andrew L. Bab 170 East 83rd St., Apt 6F New York NY 10028 212-909-6323 albab@debevoise.com
Welcome back, Class of 1983! I hope each of you had a fabulous summer. Send me your news, news of your classmates, news of other Andover alums! Send me your essay about how you spent your summer vacation. And since this won’t get printed until winter, send me your essay about your autumn adventures. Hope to hear from you all.
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
Dear classmates, this edition begins on a sad note with news of the passing of W. Kendall Coor on July 20, 2015, following an 18-year struggle with multiple sclerosis. With him at the end was his wife, Lynne. Born in St. Louis, Mo., in December 1964, Kendall moved at age 11 to Vermont, where he completed his elementary and middle school years. He was active in the Boy Scouts and the Burlington Tree Committee, and was a competitive skier as a member of the Smuggler’s Notch Ski Team. Kendall Coor came to Andover as an 11th-grader and successfully requested to be reclassified to do a second upper middle year. During his time at PA, Kendall excelled in architecture and the arts. Among his major accomplishments were winning the Winfield M. Sides Prize in mathematics in May 1983, receiving an invitation to mount a one-man show in the Gelb Gallery, and having his 20-foothigh sculpture, Proteus, placed on the steps of the Addison Gallery at our graduation in 1984, when he received senior honors in art. He was a Blue Key, held the G. Grenville Benedict Fellowship, was awarded the Morse Art Prize, and pursued an independent project his senior year (spring 1984) on Joseph Conrad’s views of human nature.
Kendall studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, participating in major workshops in Spain and Italy and attending the Sorbonne in Paris for a year. Missing Kendall, Jenny Van West ’86 remembers an extended visit to Paris during that time as “two wonderful months of writing, drawing, cracking jokes, smoking cigarettes, drinking espresso, perusing bookshops, walking all over Paris, and traveling all over Normandy and Brittany. ”Kendall earned a master’s degree in architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCIARCH), working in the studio of Frank Gehry as he did so. He was working with Chanen Construction Company of Phoenix, Ariz., when MS caused his early retirement. Kendall is survived by his wife, Lynne; mother Ina Fitzhenry; and father and stepmother Lattie and Elva Coor. Online condolences may be made at www.minorfh.com. In other news, a number of folks it seems have succeeded in egging on the next generation; Claudia Kraut Rimerman, Ben Schlosser, Jennifer Tessier Antonucci, Caroline Ren Jackson, Duncan Robinson, Sarah Jane Cohen Grossbard, and Nick Bienstock all have children beginning or continuing their PA journeys this fall. Murchelle Brumfield is teaching and living in Singapore with her family. Carlos De La Rosa is currently working as CIO at Howard University. Courtney Keppelman reports settling nicely into her new Laguna Beach, Calif., home—surfing and horseback riding as well as visiting with Beth Serlin (along with Beth’s husband, Craig, and daughter, Perrin) and joining Serra Reid for brunch in San Diego. Yours truly [Adam Simha] came ever so close but failed miserably to get together with both John Henry Fullen and Auny Abegglen this past spring and summer. Hans Wydler reports feeling much, much better, finally, after having been involved in a train derailment in May. Whew! My fellow scribes, Bill Seeley and Alexandra Gillespie, enjoyed summer in Maine, Bill camping and Alex working hard on her novel. Alex reports that she did, however, find time to have a very nice, though brief, visit with John Caulkins, who is producing movies in Prague and music in LA. Or maybe it’s vice versa? She also enjoyed time with Brooke Williams, whose family has really grown into spending summers on a small island in Maine: boating, bonfires with the natives, and foraging for plants like kale and beets. Finally, Rachel Mercy Simpson writes that after a successful run of raising backyard turkeys, she is now considering dabbling in alpaca. Always something new and interesting— such an inspiration!