Classes ending in 2's and 7's will have their reunion in the 2017-2018 school year, beginning the weekend of October 13-15. Please save the date!
CLASS NOTES Speaking of RCS traditions and continuity, Niki Vorhaus, Robert Goldrich and I went to Burning Man together last month (below); the laughing, riding bicycles and dancing certainly made the days since RCS feel continuous. I also was lucky to have a visit from Jill Solomon on Fire Island this summer while she was in from Tokyo. It has been great seeing and hearing from all of you; please keep writing, and of course, if you have e-mail addresses of classmates that I don’t, please send them to me!”
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We are saddened to report Nicholas Sprayregen passed away on July 13, 2016 from melanoma. He was the owner and president of Tuck-It-Away Self-Storage and a founder and managing member of Rising Development. QUAD extends condolences to Nick’s family and friends, including his sister, Pamela Sprayregen Weissman ’87, who notes, “He will be missed by the many whose lives he touched and enriched. He is known for fighting the good fight and there is one that even made the history books, and is explored currently at RCS in Grade 6 History: Tuck-It-Away’s legal battle against the wrongful use of eminent domain by New York State for
Columbia University’s expansion into West Harlem.”
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From Class Correspondent Eve Reppen Rogers: “We are all turning 50 this year! Happy birthday, everyone!” Lars Kry says, “I’m overdue for an update. I’m living in Portland, OR, with my son, Charlie. It’s just the two of us. He’s 10 years old, loves sports, is a good student, and keeps me out of trouble. I’m in the middle of launching my own brand, called Uncle Lars...good taste. It’s initially focused on salad dressings, with more to come. I’m sold in New Seasons Market in the Portland metro area. I’m currently searching for other retail partners to team up with. So that’s my life in a nutshell. If you hear of anyone coming out west, tell them to give me a shout.” From Tony Barkan: “Still living in Williamsburg. My daughter, Sammie, graduated from Friends Seminary and is now attending Macalester College in Minneapolis, where she plays softball and is pre-med. My daughter, Julia, is a sophomore at Friends, where she was named all-conference basketball as a freshman. “In March 2015 I left my job (was a founding partner of Seer Capital and ran various parts of the
investment portfolio and business over 7+ years there) to take a little time off and then start my own asset management firm, Allagash Partners, focusing on commercial real estate debt opportunities. I’ve just started raising both operating capital for the business and investment capital for the fund. As an aside – I’d be remiss not to mention it - if you know of anyone, either in or out of the RCS network, who does VC or angel investing or is interested in helping fund a hedge fund start-up with a successful and experienced manager, or anyone who wants to invest in commercial real estate, feel free to throw them my way. “I also used the time to focus on some of my outside interests; I’m a partner in Fleisher’s Craft Butcher and we just opened our fifth store on the Upper East Side. I helped start Bronzeye, a new cybersecurity firm for asset management companies, and I’m helping start a video production company, Liner Notes, creating content focused on musicians, concerts and the music industry.
PLEASE SEND YOUR NEWS TO YOUR CLASS CORRESPONDENT(S) BEFORE MAY 1, 2017. 1981 Elizabeth A. Holoubek-Sebok eholoubek@aol.com Lisa Burge Swotes lswotes@gmail.com
1982 Meryl Poster meryl.poster@ superbentertainment.net
1983 Eric Yamin eric.yamin@ubs.com
1984 Eve Reppen Rogers evejewels@earthlink.net
“I also started teaching a weekly economic and financial literacy course at Cristo Rey Brooklyn, a high school serving lower income and immigrant families around NYC. The school graduates over 95% of its students and sends almost 100% of those graduates on to college, making many of those kids the first in their family to graduate high school, much less attend college. Also, as part of their curriculum, each student gets a job at a local company and gets to go to work once a week, both getting experience and defraying part of the cost of their schooling. “As part of my first few months off, I spent about a month in Italy (Rome, Amalfi and Umbria, mostly) with my girlfriend (see next paragraph) and my girls and my parents all joining in for various parts of the trip. It was great! I also
Niki Vorhaus, Dana Swinsky Cantelmo and Robert Goldrich, all Class of 1980, went to Burning Man recently. WWW.RIVERDALE.EDU | 27