stay connected... Stephanie Kindel in mid-June in Connecticut. And Mary Olivar and Merritt Lear were present to celebrate Hilary Williams’s August wedding. Congratulations, all! Dan Haarmann wrote just before embarking on his “fifth annual weekend of togetherness” with Tushaar Agrawal and Mike Schulte. Last year they were in Mexico; this year, Chicago. He also included the news that “Chris Keady is moving home from Germany. The Marines are bolstering their defenses in the Carolinas, and we’re all happy to have him home after five years in Europe.” Nina Steiger sent word that she is “still living in London and started a new job a few months ago at the National Theatre, which is great.” She juggles that with her busy 4-year-old, Zachary. “Amazing for me that what started as a totally temporary move over here, for a year or two tops, was actually 13 years ago, and this November will be the third U.S. election I’ll be voting in by absentee ballot, this one seeming more urgent than the others!” Stacie Ringleb emailed to say, “I have to be honest, I can’t remember if I ever announced the birth of my third child, Abraham (we call him Abe); he was born in April 2014.” Having three kids myself, I can totally relate to not remembering such details! Stacie also let me know what she’s up to professionally. “I am still an associate professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, and am currently the secretary and membership chair of the American Society of Biomechanics and am also a part of their diversity committee. In addition to my usual biomechanics research, I am starting an educational project this fall where I’ll be pairing freshman engineering students with third-year teacher-prep students to develop and deliver engineering lesson plans to pre-K through sixth-graders (we’re starting with fourth-graders at the elementary school just off campus and the 3- to 5-year-old classroom in our on-campus child-care center).” Jessica Glasser Kaufman had some cool news about her professional life to share as well. As of this writing, she is the winner of four Emmys— the most recent one for her role in her television station’s coverage of the Baltimore riots in 2015, for which she also received a national Edward R. Murrow Award. And, after seeing several Facebook posts about the Class of ’91’s reunion, she said, “I think we should start a push to have Darryl Cohen ’92 DJ ours in two years. (It looks and sounds like everyone had a great time.)” Susannah Smoot Campbell wrote with an update on Mike Kodinsky, who “just finished a massive home remodel” and is living with his family in Marietta, GA. She also forwarded a note from Laila Kuznezov, who has been living in Dubai for the past few years with her husband and two kids. Laila is working in government and public-sector management consulting. And David Jackson touched base with Susannah from Germany,
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www.andover.edu/intouch where he’s been working for Amazon for the past year. Susannah wrote, “After tons of travel around Europe this past year, he popped back over stateside for a visit with the family in Maine. His German improving, Dave is looking forward to another year in his new home.” When you’re a class secretary, you come across press releases and industry articles about your classmates who are making all Andover alums very proud. The two most recent were about George Weinmann and Dan Smith. George, the chairman and CEO of Mega Maldives Airlines, was recently profiled in a piece headlined “George Weinmann:The Man Behind Maldives’ Largest International Airline.” Mega Maldives started up in 2011. Dan was selected to serve as president and CEO of the Vermont Community Foundation. He had been, until this past summer, president of Vermont Technical College. The press release announcing his new position pointed out that Dan is an eighth-generation Vermonter. Wow! Finally, this message was sent out to class secretaries earlier in 2016, and we want to make sure you all see it. It comes from Karl Novick ’07. “Alums who have served or who are currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces are invited to join PA’s Andover and the Military affinity group. There are no dues or commitments! You’ll receive the Blue Guidon newsletter, connect with fellow veterans, learn about upcoming affinity-group events, and help Andover and the Military familiarize students, alumni, and faculty with Andover’s rich military history and traditions. To join, please contact Capt. Karl Novick ’07, USMC, Andover and the Military’s membership subcommittee leader, at karl.a.novick@gmail.com, or complete a simple form at http://www.andover.edu/forms/ AndoverMilitary/contactinfo.aspx.” I think I can speak for Susannah and Ted Gesing when I say we hope you’ll drop us a line or two from time to time. Not only does it help us write notes worth reading, but your emails and posts really do make us happy. Keep in touch!
1994 Moacir P. de Sá Pereira 244 Greene St. New York NY 10003 312-792-8828 moacir@gmail.com
You’ll receive these notes much later, of course, but they’re being written right in the middle of back-to-school season. This accounts in part for how excited I am to be writing them (everything about back-to-school time fills me with joy and stress, but the kind of stress that is still joyful), but also, alas, may account for why they’re so short. Labor Day weekend is apparently not the best time for my last-minute requests for more information,
but perhaps this installment’s brevity will encourage future correspondents to be more forthcoming. Jess Lunt wrote from Woodstock, NY, where she teaches yoga. The “centerpiece” of her summer was buying a “sweet house.” She’s rather excited to be joining the propertied ranks, and she also added that she travels to Costa Rica regularly for yoga and 5Rhythms retreats. 5Rhythms is a dance/ movement practice, and Jess is undergoing training so she can bring it to her students back in nearupstate New York. Another infrequent contributor, Rachel Rivkind, wrote to announce that she’s moved back to Massachusetts from NYC. In midSeptember, she began working at her new job as partner at Rubin and Rudman, a law firm in Boston. Aaron Sharma wrote with the same end-ofsummer feeling many of us have: that it went by far too quickly. The unstructured time (for someone like me) gets to be too much, but the end of summer means the end of all those projects you had hoped to complete over the summer. Yet they languish, incomplete. Those are my thoughts, though. Aaron, instead, wrote that his daughter Ellie is starting second grade and his twins Harrison and Emmett begin preschool. Donna Kaminski wrote that she’s loving her job as faculty in a residency program, and she enjoys teaching residents and seeing her own patients. She planned to take three residents along with her on a medical mission to Vietnam in the fall and then two more to Malawi in April. Otherwise, all is well for her in New Jersey. Aaron Flanagan sent a note that his 4-year-old is bicycling with no trouble on a regular two-wheeler. Aaron also speculated about a variant of Pokémon Go (will anyone even remember this game by the time this sees print?) where one aims to gobble up various burritos in their environment. That strikes me as a project worth pursuing, though securing funding may be difficult. David Callum sent in a longer update, so it’ll be the last (save my own). He celebrated his 40th birthday last October with a surprise party but was met with another surprise shortly thereafter. His second daughter, Kaydyn Sienna Callum, was born three months early, weighing only two pounds. Her name means “little fighter with a fiery spirit,” and nominative determinism seems to have helped. Despite four major surgeries and four months in the hospital, she has met all her milestones at five months (adjusted). I wish the Callums all the best going forward. Further, David has added an anatomy and physiology course to his chemistry load at Hull [MA] High School, while still coaching track at Thayer Academy. Back in June, he had his last USATF club national track meet with the Greater Boston Track Club, where he’s been co-head coach for 17 years. He’s taking some time off, but the tone of his email suggested that this is a temporary condition. In the meantime, he’s also considering a second master’s degree, beginning with a medicinal chemistry course he’s taking this fall.
I’m sort of taking a course myself this fall on digital literary studies, taught by one of my colleagues here at NYU. But I’m also teaching my own version of digital literary studies to undergraduates, a course titled “Does It Work?” Our first class is tomorrow (as I write this, of course), the syllabus is finished, and I’m ready to go. Students are going to spend five weeks reading The Great Gatsby and its critical tradition before trying to use digital methods on the text (word collocation, concordances, geographical distributions) for the second five weeks. The end of the semester will give students the opportunity to blend the various methodologies on more contemporary texts. I’m very excited about this. And that’s it! Please join our Facebook group (http://tinyurl.com/pa94fb) and keep the stories coming. To those of you—the really young ones— who still haven’t turned 40, happy birthday!
1995 Erik Campano DeMartini-Spano via Saccardo 44 20134 Milan Italy +39 338 740 0452 campano@gmail.com Lon Haber 2645 South Bayshore Drive Miami FL 33133 323-620-1675 lon@lonhaber.com Margot van Bers Streeter +44 077 393 77700 margotstreeter@gmail.com
It is with heavy hearts that we report the loss of two of our classmates. Matthew Goldstein died on April 7, 2016, while on business in Kiev, Ukraine. In addition, shortly before submitting these notes, we learned of the July 20, 2016, death of Allen “Jamie” Klein. Jamie, you may recall, studied Japanese and loved film when at Andover. He went on to become a prominent and groundbreaking blogger whose writings built connections between Japanese and American popular culture, particularly in the field of computer gaming. Jamie’s huge blog audience, family, and friends remember Jamie as kind and compassionate, with a very clever sense of humor. Chris Barraza shared with us his memory of Jamie. “We were reading the Odyssey freshman year,” Chris writes, “and Jamie pronounced ‘Penelope’ like ‘cantaloupe.’ We all got a good laugh out of that.” Meanwhile, Sebastian Frank sent us this tribute to Matthew: “Matt Goldstein was passionate, hilarious, and courageous. I have many striking memories of Matt, all of them good, and now they are painful. Here is an early memory: He was acting in Buried Child, and for three performances he had his hair cut on stage. Each day in English class,
his hair looked wonkier and wackier, and then for weeks he wandered around campus with the worst hairstyle imaginable: half normal and half crazily chopped off. That was gutsy. As our friendship grew, I realized that Matt was not just a goofball. He had, as they say, a very sensitive side. Maybe others never saw that side (or maybe that’s all they saw), but Matt was often troubled. In muttering Shakespearean asides he would narrate the probing of his own mind. It was fascinating. He was very intelligent, probably more than he realized, and hanging out with Matt could be intense. I guess it was all pretty intense, but Matt had a gift for interpreting and performing our collective ferment, by blending the profundity of his and our angst with that unmistakeable stylized affectation of prep school ennui and rebellion. And so we hit the road. It would be impossible to think back on Matt without thinking about him driving. He shepherded us away onto the best adventures we could muster. I can still hear Maria Taft Swanson ’94’s hysterical laughter from the time he, having tapped a pickup, somehow permanently attached the bumper of his mom’s minivan to the truck’s trailer hitch. Or the time he let Miriam Bertram-Nothnagel spontaneously and surreptitiously practice driving for the first time, roadkill immediately ensuing. Or the time we ran out of gas on the side of the highway coming back from New York the evening of the senior-faculty dinner and had to hike into some Connecticut village and beg strangers for some fuel and a canister. But we always made it home safely. Brave Matt, I’m sorry and sad, intensely, profoundly, ridiculously sad, that you’re not coming home this time.” Seb also updated us on his own family. “I’m 10 years married in rural Vermont,” he explains, “with two daughters and two goats. I am deeply engaged in a battle with the state over who controls public education and how we fund it.” Lon Haber is spending time in south Florida, “building up the Miami office of his PR firm, and working as an actor on some new hit shows, like Bloodline and Documentary Now!, and in the Baywatch film set to be released next year.” He has also been teaching at various locations, and he expects to be moving into academia before long. Lon points out that the “infamous Under the Bed improv troupe he began with Rachel Levy ’96 has now been going strong for just over 20 years!” By the time you read these notes, Tom Chapman Wing says, he will have been married this fall— twice. The first time, he writes, will have been “a small destination wedding at the Grand Canyon,” to be followed by “a larger Catholic wedding for the bride’s grandmother.” Tom and his fiancée—I hope I got that spelling right, because Tom’s a professor of French—have been “enjoying the toils” of owning their new home in Princeton, NJ. It is “an awesome Dutch colonial with a pool and a lawn, and we haven’t figured out how to deal with it all yet. But we’re happy!” Stuart Shapley writes from Austin, TX, that he is
a patent attorney, the “proud parent of an ebullient 3-year-old girl,” and “looking forward to the arrival” of his “second kiddo in November.” Jillian Lewis also happens to live on a ranch outside of Austin, which was the site of her wedding to John Rawls, a “fellow IBMer (aka the other Big Blue).” In attendance were Jennifer Lewis Hershman ’92 and Linnea Basu ’92. Laurie Coffey writes that, by the time you read this, the Navy will have moved her and her family to Naples, Italy. Her tour there should last two years. Meanwhile, in June 2016, Laurie sailed up the East Coast to Stamford, CT, with a group of midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy, in her role as the academy’s deputy director of sailing. “We have a fleet of over 20 offshore boats we sail/race all summer,” writes Laurie, “from 44-foot sloops and TP52s to a 100-foot John Alden Schooner.” As for me, Erik Campano, Laurie and I share two coincidences of geography. First, I was born in Stamford, and second, I still live in Italy—alas, a day’s sail north of Naples, in Milan. I have been working with an NGO here called Emergency, which is similar to Doctors Without Borders, and am crossing my fingers in hopes that the organization will place me for six months on a humanitarian mission as a medical technician and translator, most likely in Bangui, Central African Republic. Whenever I am in Milan, my guest room is open, with a warm welcome to any classmates who happen to pass through.
1996 John Swansburg 396 15th St. Brooklyn NY 11215 john.swansburg@aya.yale.edu
1997 20th REUNION June 9–11, 2017 Jack Quinlan 514 S. Clementine St. Oceanside CA 92054 760-415-9054 illegalparietal@gmail.com Kelly Quinn 2538 NW Thurman St., No. 205 Portland OR 97210 919-949-0736 illegalparietal@gmail.com
We were delighted to hear from Danielle Brown about her recent career change, business venture, return to speak on Andover Hill, and participation in a dialogue that’s been at the forefront of many of our class discussions of late. Two years ago, after resigning her position as assistant professor of music history and cultures at Syracuse University, Andover | Winter 2017
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