stay connected... 1990 Regina A. DeMeo 1666 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 250 Washington DC 20009 240-621-0559 reginademeo@yahoo.com Thomas W. Seeley 1572 Heifer Road Skaneateles NY 13152 315-263-0052 (cell) 315-685-3416 (work) twseeley@gmail.com Hamlin O’Kelley 104 Mary Ellen Drive Charleston, SC 29403 mpandham@bellsouth.net 843-209-2231
[Editor’s note: This edition of class notes was written by Hamlin O’Kelley, at the invitation of class secretary Tom Seeley.] With apologies to Richard III, “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by the sons and daughters of Andover,” the discontent of our epic reunion being in the distant past where summer was a verb and your fine faces greeted one another smile after smile after smile. Still suffering from the blues these many months? This struggle is real. To combat that malaise, I took pen to paper and composed “The Andover Blues” the Monday after reunion. Copies are available upon request. Thanks to Thomas Reifenheiser for putting my words to music. Let’s be honest, kids. Class notes fill the void for those not following our class page on Facebook. This means you, Erik Moody, Joe Bae, Stacy Metcalf, and about 200 other classmates. Please reconnect. Over the summer, post-reunion, Tom Seeley and Stacy caught up in Skaneateles, N.Y. At the other end of the state, Chris Swihart, Erik Moody, Richard Shin, Michelle Pae, Susan Marcus, and Oliver Schwaner-Albright got together in the city to keep reunion’s momentum going. Not to be outdone, Dan Gilbert, Jared Jackson, and Jen Foss Smyth brought that same spirit to Rye Beach, N.H. Jen Foss Smyth and her family are now living in South Florida, in North Palm Beach. She says people are welcome to come visit. Jen is commuting to the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina for her job with PurThread. Lynne Langlois Hunter reports that she and Giles Bedford also kept the reunion spirit alive with three generations of their families meeting up in July at Lake Winnepesaukee in New Hampshire. Allison Rainville, Erin McCloskey, and Robin Hessman all beat the Andover Blues by being in, well, Andover. The deadline for submission of these notes is right before the Todd Isaac Memorial Basketball Game and tour of the National September 11
88
Andover | Winter 2016
Memorial & Museum by its chief designer, our own Jake Barton. Barton brought us to tears during his talk on the Saturday of reunion. I cannot fathom how moving the actual tour would be. In addition to Barton and Seeley, Laura Vinroot Poole, Andreas Buchanan, Seth Schiesel, Richard Shin, Giles Bedford, Willie Tate, Burke Gibney, Jared Jackson, Sanders Adu, honorary Class of ’90 member Uche Osuji ’91, former faculty member Bobby Edwards, and PA Athletic Director Leon Modeste were also planning to attend. Laura recently launched her men’s store, Tabor, in Charlotte, N.C., with a grand opening weekend in October. I am proud to have been invited. You can shop at Tabor using House Account, Laura’s shopping app designed to replicate her high-touch, customer-service-oriented shopping experience. Amy Zimmerman’s daughter is a junior at PA. How did we get so old? Anne Wolfe Postic has taken her first full-time job in 18 years, as a content developer for Cyberwoven, a digital-services agency. Anne has time for this as her eldest child is at boarding school and her younger two are “rearing themselves,” according to Anne. She is still a freelance writer for food website The Kitchn. At the opposite end of the child-rearing spectrum is Ida Hsu, whose daughter started kindergarten this past fall. She says that is as exciting as it gets these days. Rob Milton tied the knot in New York City this past summer. Chris Swihart attended and promised to send a photo. Mike Zetlan welcomed Sol Cassidy Brodie Zetlan to his family in May, which is why he missed our reunion. Zetlan hopes his son will be PA Class of 2032. Congratulations! Katy Burdett O’Connor moved to South Africa shortly after our reunion. She joins other PA alumni overseas: Giles Bedford in London, Luis Roth in Paris, J.K. Fagan in Munich, Miranda Lutyens in Lima; Phil Lisio in Shanghai. Not to be outdone by our expat classmates were Wanda Mann, who made us green with envy taking her Black Dress Traveler website to Italy; Meredith Persily Lamel, who enjoyed a wedding on Santorini, in Greece; and Carl Smit, who won the SAP 505 World Sailing Championship in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Olivia Morgan and family recently moved to San Francisco. It took Olivia no time to have a mini reunion herself with Gretchen Whittier, Kathy Huibonhoa, Kari McPhail Rodgers, and Heather Anderson at the Andover summer gathering in the Bay Area. In that same spirit, Bo Wilmer and Jen Amis caught up with one another in Omaha, Neb., at the end of August while Wilmer was making his way cross country, just a man and a motorcycle. Jen wants me to remind everyone that we should all winter in Omaha. Terry White also moved to California recently. He is practicing medicine and most likely memorizing the local phone book. Carrie Ann Quinn and her husband, Grayson Powell, spent time in Flat Rock, N.C., where Grayson performed in Crimes of the Heart.
For the last of the mini reunions, I had one with John Berman in Charleston, S.C., in June. Berman was here covering the tragedy of the Emanuel AME Church shootings. In the midst of all that sadness, it was great to drink a cold beer with Berman in a dimly lit bar in my neighborhood. Please come see us in Charleston. My wife, Mary Perrin, and I would love to see you. —Hammy
1991 25th REUNION June 10–12, 2016 Hilary Lerner Gershman 6124 SW 104th St. Miami FL 33156 305-467-6581 hilarygershman@yahoo.com Matt Fleming 221 Edgevale Road Baltimore MD 21210 410-375-8302 mattfleming48@yahoo.com
As I write this installment of our class notes, I can’t help but start looking forward to our 25th Reunion this June. And though I find it hard to believe Mara Raphael and Victoria Farley Hostin when they tell me how much fun and how comfortable it was in the dorm during our 20th Reunion, I may be joining them there this time! My parents have finally sold “Camp Lerner,” our house in New Hampshire and the site of one of our (very, very tame) graduation parties. Whether in the dorm or out, I hope to see many of you on campus in June. In scouting around for talent for our reunion, Vicki found that the best choice was one of our very own: Sasha Alcott and her husband, Chris Viner, otherwise known as When Particles Collide. Vicki and Sasha met up last July in Denver, which was one of the stops on the band’s summer tour. Sasha is a chemistry teacher at Exeter, so the summer (and the occasional long weekend or week-long vacation) is when she can really focus on her music. We hope that Sasha and fellow Exeter teacher Shane Cooper LaPointe will be ready to don some blue in June! Representing our class agents, Uche Osuji wrote that he “can’t wait to see and hug you, so please start making plans to attend reunion.” He also asked that each of us participate in the annual fund, not only as a way to honor our reunion but also “in the spirit of doing better than other classes!” We should all expect a call or e-mail from Uche and hardworking fellow agents Nat Furman, Desmond Butler, Francisco Contreras, Tiffany Chanel Corley, and Kinn Chan de Velarde. Please make sure to respond! Speaking of Kinn, she wrote a fantastic e-mail