Class Notes
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Sara Cooper ’80 and nephews Henry and Keel Cooper, Thanksgiving 2014
Suzanne Albahary D’Amato’s ’80 children: Justin, Kira, and Amy with the social media aspect and would love to share your updates and photos — both new and old — on our class’s Facebook page.”
I (Suzanne) live about an hour north of Boston in New Hampshire with my husband Dante, our three children, and our feisty Boston terrier; we settled in the Boston area after college. I’m dealing with the issues common to many of us now, I’m sure: raising teenagers, sending children off to college, and watching our nest slowly empty out. My oldest daughter is a junior in college, my younger daughter graduates from high school this spring and will be attending college in the fall, and my son is in seventh grade. After working in the marketing communications field and doing freelance writing for years, I’ve recently started my own interior-design business, which I’m trying to grow. Design and architecture always have been my passion — fostered by the architecture courses I took from Bob Whitlock, one of many wonderful teachers I’d encountered while at PDS.”
1981
Camie Carrington Levy 2212 Weymouth Street Moscow, ID 83843-9618 208-882-5658 camie@palousetravel.com Kirsten Elmore Meister 1004 Tasker Lane Arnold, MD 21012 kmeister5@yahoo.com
From Rosalind Waskow Hansen:
In case you haven’t heard, it has been snowing in Princeton. Fortunately, I got the chance to escape to sunny Naples for a little respite. While there, I had lunch with Julie Rodgers, who resides in Naples. She is doing well and JOURNAL
seems to be loving life down South. Over the past few months, I have been very fortunate to have seen many classmates. I have seen some under sad circumstances, such as the incomparable Cis Chappell’s celebration of life where I saw Tebo, Scott Egner, Suzanne Spiegel, Lawrence Shannon, Kirsten Elmore and Mr. Bing (possibly the nicest man in the world!) and others on happier occasions such as the Princeton vs. St Lawrence hockey game, which I attended with Kirsten, where I saw Jon Drezner and his wife Bentley. I was torn about which team I wanted to see win. On one hand, I live in Princeton, while on the other hand I spent many crazy nights at St. Lawrence. The game ended in a tie, assuaging any guilt over loyalty. Living in Princeton has many perks such as seeing Debby Burks Southwick, when she comes down from Connecticut to visit her parents on Fridays. We have coined those days Fun Day Fridays, which often include seeing Dr. and Mrs. Burks, without whom I never would have been admitted to PDS. I am also thrilled that Mrs. Burchfield has moved back to Princeton because I get more chances to see Burchie. My husband and father joined me for a great evening full of laughter at Mrs. B’s along with Burch, her husband Gib and children, Christopher and Eliza, two nights before Thanksgiving. I also get to hang out with the Drezner boys, Nathan, Benjamin and Julian down on LBI or bowling at the new and improved Colonial Lanes. Additionally, over the past year, I have seen or spoken to the following people, Camie, who is a travel agent and would love to make travel arrangements for all of you jetsetters, be sure to ‘friend’ her on Facebook, John Marshall, who continues to serve good grub at Main Street Cafe, Barbara Zeitler, who is always wise counsel, Sarah Sword Lazarus, who I believe is under 18 feet of snow in Concord, MA at the moment, the talented Eva Mantell, the dashingly handsome Michael Southwick, currently being divine at Yale Divinity School, the lovely Laura Jacobus and John Denny, who is busy raising three hockey players. I can also count on bumping into Wade on Election Day, if memory serves me well, that is where I saw him last. If I include “seeing” people on Facebook, I can include Shaun Tobin who clearly looks like he needs to work out, Jane Vawter, who can’t decide if she lives in NJ or MA, Hilary Bing, who has become a serious runner and competes too frequently for me to keep up with from the comfort of my sofa, Lily Downing, the newlywed who is always packing a suitcase and flying off to some fancy digs, Jeff Olsson, the skier whose wife Helen took a dare from their child to wear a stuffed teddy bear on her back for a day of skiing (look for the video, hilarious!), Kevin Johnson, last seen playing in the snow, Pete Bordes, who apparently is a big shot doing something in NYC, Phillip, who still lives in Phoenix, Ellen, who still lives in Ireland, Mandy, in DC, Hana, living the good life in Newport Beach CA, Lisa Carpi Gorsch, making her family getaway into a working farm complete with sheep, goats, chickens and bees, Mike D. aka Kartitkeya Arul, or as I like
to call him Kittycat, making music wherever he can. I can imagine Ms. Lockhart marking on that last bit with ROS all over, which I thought was endearing until she pointed out that ROS was her abbreviation for run-on sentence; ah, but this is merely a list! And, as for our ‘lost souls,’ terrible moniker (how about ‘souls back in the fold’), the newly wed Linda Littell of Park City Utah, Linda Yuan of Torrance, CA, raising her two sons, Lee Eppel address anywhere USA where he can ski or paddleboard, Eliot Ammidon, who just celebrated the marriage of her oldest child, Morgan, which brings me to Matthew Morgan, who I see around Princeton, Jane Gerb, who I believe still has pierced ears and is raising her son in Princeton, and of course, my fabulous friend, Tara Lynch, who just made the move from the Bay Area to Seattle with her husband and daughter, Karly. Keeping track of all of you is exhausting! I can happily report that I am in one way or another in touch with approximately 34% of our class. I am thrilled and lucky to continue to call all of you my friends. As for the rest of you, please excuse me if I have forgotten to mention anyone who I have seen or communicated with over the year, get in touch or at least make plans to come to, dare I say it, our 35th reunion in May of 2016. Oh, and in case you are wondering about me, life is good. I continue to tutor and assist students with secondary and college placement, while trying to work in time for paddle and golf and trying to catch up to my husband on a kite board. I’ll keep you posted on the kiteboarding, a new and challenging sport for me. Hopefully, I will be able to keep my head above water! From Kirsten:
Jon Drezner, Losco Hanson and Kiersten Elmore Meister attended the St. Lawrence versus Princeton University hockey game Saturday, February 14. They were joined by Larry Pearson ’80 and David McCord ’79
From Camie: After 18 years of not seeing my best friend from high school John Banse ’80, we finally got together last fall. John flew out from Boston to Idaho and spent five days hunting, eating great food and catching up on the last 18 years. It was by far one of the best parts of 2014 for me. It was just like old times talking about the fun we had in high school and all that has happened since. I hope that John will make this a yearly trip.
1982
Lorraine Herr 9S021 Skylane Drive Naperville, IL 60564 LHerr@herr-design.com
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