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’85 Classmates Jennifer Taback Anderson, Pat Courtney and Tonya Elmore Davis Jennifer Taback Anderson, Tonya Elmore Davis and Patrick Courtney met up for dinner in West Los Angeles. Patrick was in town and Tonya made an epic drive to meet up with them.
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Things are great for Steve Utaski in Seattle. He drank champagne with Rad Roberts this New Year’s Eve and is otherwise busy with his production company, Remedy Pictures, and raising two girls, ages 12 and 15. “I also decided it was time for a follow-up to my guitar debut playing Dust in the Wind by Kansas at assembly prior to the eighth grade class trip to Kendall Park Roller Rink. So I started jamming with some musicians in Seattle and we had our live debut last December. World tour dates to follow. Not.
Steve Utaski ’86 with his wife and daughters Scott West lives in Upper Makefield, PA with his wife Lori of eight years, and their son, James, who turns six in April. He is headed to Seattle WA this August to play in a member/ guest golf tournament with Scott Haveson. “I think it will be a tremendous week filled with many high school musings. We are going to set a ‘meeting’ with Steve Utaski for beer and food. If anyone is in Seattle the first weekend in August for Seafair, please reach out. We would love to meet up.” Kat (Kathy) Song has transitioned back to full-time work after a decade of part-time PR consulting (and parenting). She’s a communications and digital strategy director at AAAS JOURNAL
Kelly Noonan O’Shea’s oldest daughter is a senior in high school this year. “It is funny to think about PDS as I am watching Abby choose a college and think about graduating soon.” All three of her kids are very active in HS and club sports. Between the three of them, they play soccer, field hockey and lacrosse. “I was just thinking of Cheryl Silva the other day, my HS field hockey coach. She was a great coach and mentor; PDS had some really good teams in those days (80s!).” Kelly is in touch with Regina Sheerin, who lives in Spain. “She is my go-to person for most travel related questions.” She also sees Liz White Meahl and Christi Curtin McCarthy at least once a year. “We have a long-running friendship that is a lot of fun, and always includes reminiscing about PDS!” Steve Anderson spent three years on Maui (1997-2000) doing research for his PhD in ecology from the University of CA, Davis. Married in 2004 at the tender age of 35 (and 50 weeks), he now Steve Anderson ’86 has two children, and his wife Jennifer Liam and Lucy, who are ages 7 and 9. He’s lived in Davis California since 1993 and is five miles west of Sacramento and 70 miles east of San Francisco He met his wife Jennifer at fellow ’86 alum Rad Roberts’ wedding in Stehekin, WA (Lake Chelan) in July 2003. “We’re big SF Giants fans! The kids’ first big league game, when they were 6 and 4, was a perfect game by Matt Cain. 10-0. We loved all nine innings.” Jamie Mayer and her husband James are alive and well out in Los Angeles! As two freelancers, they had some challenging work/life balance adjustments to make after their son, Sander, was born four and a half years ago, but Jamie found time to write a young adult novel that’s currently out to publishers, and she’s about to start writing and producing a series of webisodes for A&E/Lifetime. Her husband James is a composer for TV and film and also co-founded a music licensing company a couple of years ago that is growing each year. “It’s not the easiest thing to start a business at the same time as having a young child, but so be it! We’re enjoying our late entry to parenthood — and though time, energy and sleep are scarce, we can’t imagine it any other way. Hope you PDSers are well — so nice to have reconnected with many via Facebook — and please get in touch if you find yourself in LA!” Last summer Susan Hockings visited her parents, who still live in Princeton. “We took my boys, ages 6, 8, and 10, to see PDS and discovered the nice playground equipment, garden, and animals.”
Jack (White) Meahl, Sumner (White) Meahl, Emma (Noonan) O’Shea, Molly (Noonan) O’Shea, Abby (Noonan) O’Shea in Acadia 2011 Liz White Meahl has had fun times with Kelly Noonan O’Shea and Christi Curtin McCarthy gathering in NJ, and PA over the past few years. Kelly is quite the tour guide/travel agent! Liz also had a great trip to Acadia with Kelly and her gang a few summers back. Liz and her husband Pierre “love living in Portland — even in all this snow! Great city with much to do and great food. We love visitors!” Liz’s 13-year-old daughter, Sumner, has a great sense of humor and loves to dance. Her 15-year-old son, Jack, loves high school and has quite a passion for basketball. Jack attends a school in Portland, Maine that is reminiscent of PDS.
Jen Prescott ’86 and family. Jen Prescott is living in Mamaroneck, NY, and has three sons. Those who wish to read about their exploits and adventures can visit Jen’s blog at http://thepartypony.blogspot. com, where she chronicles stories about topics such as the drunken whacknut who used to live in their attic, violent poo explosions, and even some zany PDS misadventures. “It’s all very irreverent and inappropriate.” Last year, Jen published an entirely kid-friendly fantasy/ science fiction novel called The Hundred: Fall of the Wents. The link is available on her blog, and the book is best for ages 10-14. “If anyone’s kids read and enjoy it, I love to get feedback in the form of Amazon reviews! When I think of PDS I recall so many amusing hijinks with my comrades in ‘the Ferret Force.’ One vivid memory consists of Regina Sheerin and I running like Olympic champions through the woods to reach the school before our slavering pursuer, one Eamon Downey, could ID us as two unidentified kids who had strayed off grounds to take a very innocent dip in the PDS pond. We evaded him. A glorious moment, indeed.”