78 Class Notes
Hotchkiss; he is now playing soccer for Boston College. Outside of work and writing, I spend lots of time with family; time in Princeton, Boston, and Middlebury, especially during soccer season; and lots of time doing activities outdoors if I can. I am working on developing a program to help young people through the teenage years.”
Rob Whitlock ’78 and wife Roby at their restored home in Stuyvesant, NY
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Cathy White Mertz: “Oscar and I had the great pleasure of spending an October evening with Hazard Zenzie and his wife Kathleen Wetherby. They live all of 11 minutes from us, in Dover, MA; it took a year and a half (since our 35th reunion in May 2014) of concerted effort to finally get together! The evening flew by, and none of us could believe it when I announced that it was 11:30, and we really should think about getting going. We’re already looking forward to our next get-together, which we vowed would happen before spring. I hope it happens before this issue is published!”
Martha Hicks Leta PO Box 205 Marshfield Hills, MA 02051 7818375308 mhleta@aol.com Catherine White Mertz 67 Rybury Hillway Needham, MA 02492 781-449-4993 pettifog@verizon.net
Long about now, we’re all looking for a break from election year shenanigans, so we bring you breaking news from several members of the class of 1979. And what a Sweet Thing it is to see our PDS peers enjoying life to its fullest and showing no signs of lagging.
From Harriette Brainard: After living largely in Vermont and some in Connecticut since 2005, I have moved back to be local. Now divorced and living in Chestnut Hill, PA, doing some volunteer work; writing essays, web work and articles; and in the process of a career move. While in Vermont, I developed and co-published VT SKI + RIDE Magazine, and I coached the Middlebury High School girls’ lacrosse team for a number of years, frequently revisiting the championships, and winning the State Championship in 2008. My oldest, Samantha, graduated from Amherst, and then The Fletcher School (of International Affairs) at Tufts University this past May. She lives in Boston and works for the Boston Foundation, specifically the Haiti Development Institute, and spends a great deal of time in Haiti. Alexander (Z) has spent the last couple years in Peru working in the Mountains of the Sacred Valley with a holistic institute, building a community and supporting the local people. He is now working in Brooklyn and focused on natural wellness and community building. Spencer graduated from St. Lawrence this past May; she is living and working in Princeton, and will be moving to NYC. My youngest, Bradford, is at Middlebury, playing on the soccer team and working hard. I also include a young man, Moro, in our family, as he has been a part of our family since he played soccer with Brad at JOURNAL
Hazard Zenzie ’79 and Cathy White Mertz ’79 enjoying an evening at Hazard’s home.
Pam Kulsrud Corey ’79 with her husband Troy at an STS9 concert at Red Rocks in Colorado. Pam Kulsrud Corey: “I live and work in Pound Ridge, NY, with my husband Troy and rescue mutt, Shadow. Our home abuts 90 acres of nature preserves and hiking trails. After 25 years as a class action securities fraud litigator, I formed my own law firm and now litigate/manage trust and estate matters and antitrust class action cases. In my free time, I love entertaining (especially baking), hiking with Shadow, taking in live music, and coloring. I frequently host adult coloring events. I also volunteer at sandwich-making events and distribute the food to community centers and homeless shelters in NYC and Westchester for “One Sandwich at a Time.” I recently assumed the position of Treasurer of the Pound Ridge Land Conservancy, which owns and manages 357 acres across 17 nature preserves in Pound Ridge. For the past five years, I have volunteered as counsel for The
Princeton Festival, a local music festival that presents an opera and musical theater work every June. I sent this update from St. John, where I vacation every winter with my husband.” Chris Horan is Senior Project Manager at Synergy Environmental, where he has been for eight years. His son, Sean, is a freshman at Penn State, major undecided, but something in the sciences. Daughter, Kate, is a sophomore at Central Bucks South High School, and spends her free time playing soccer and ice hockey. Cathy found David Rosenbloom in Park City, UT! After Lawrenceville, David graduated from Colgate with English and philosophy degrees. He met his future wife on a ski trip in Utah, it was love at first sight! He started and ran a ski shop on Main Street, 19862000, and sold it prior to the Olympics, which paid for law school at the University of Utah, followed by a well-earned hiatus. He now practices criminal defense law, with a focus on DUI defense. He has three kids: Alison Carol (1996), Elizabeth Katherine (1998), and Daniel James (2000). Tom Rebman: “I left PDS after sixth grade and spent most of the rest of my primary schooling in the Lawrence public school system. I did a couple of years at Notre Dame, but hated it (‘the lost years’), and then returned to Lawrence High. I went to Tulane University, where I earned my BS in physics in ’83. I returned home to live with my parents for a year, working mainly as a waiter at the Cranbury Inn. I moved back to New Orleans, took some programming classes at UNO, and applied to graduate schools for a MS in engineering. I graduated from the University of Colorado with my MS in Computer Science in ’87, went to work for Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ, and stayed there until ’91 when I was relocated to Denver. In ’94, I left Bell Labs and joined Qualcomm in Boulder where I stayed for 21+ years, until I was laid off this past November due to a substantial office downsizing. On the personal side, I was married in ’94 for a brief stint. No kids, but I had a hand in raising a stepchild, and am now a step-grandpa to a seven-year-old and a one-year-old. I remarried in ’04, and we have two kids, Spencer (11) and Trevor (7).” Martha Hicks: “The past year or so has brought some fairly seismic changes to my life, including downsizing to a smaller house, which hopefully I will have done without having a nervous breakdown by the time this goes to print. I have spent a good deal of time in NJ in these past months with PDS friends, including having dinner with Lucy Englander ’78 and others. A proposed dinner date with Cathy White Mertz, Ann Gillespi and Laurie Hapgood Carpenter was scrubbed due to inclement weather, but is rescheduled, so hopefully we’ll have a report on that for the next Journal. My connections to the PDS community continue to grow in surprising ways and have become a very meaningful part of my life after these many years.”