50th Bio Book: Class of 1976

class of 1976

I hope y’all enjoy the Reunion! Having retired on 3/31/26, Teresa & I will be extending our annual Florida vacation to include a long exploration of the East Coast. We will be in Venice, FL while you are celebrating and reminiscing in West Roxbury. We’ll be toasting everyone from Venice Beach!

It took a few years for the trauma of those six years to fade. After disappearing for 10 years, I attended our reunion and realized that my classmates were the best part of the experience. I’ve since stayed in touch, much easier now with email/texts/etc. I still have the occasional nightmare, but stories shared by Mike Bent (owner of the world’s most impressive memory) and others bring back memories of how closely we were tied for those years, rather than the grind that never seemed to end.

In these 50 years, I’ve had four or five careers, two families, lots of work and lots of fun. The most fun is about to start —with Teresa, my wife since 2017, we will be enjoying our retired years with the prospects of lots of travel and discovery. Teresa’s a Southern gal, thus the aforementioned “y’all” has become a part of my vocabulary. Our kids (numbering 6 in total) and grandkids (11 and counting!) are mostly self-sufficient, so it’s time for us to “work” on shared experiences, enjoying the fruits of all those working years.

Hopefully we’ll see you at Reunion #55!

Michael Bent

Wesleyan University 1981 BA, History

Boston University 2004 MS, Computer Science

Retired June 30, 2025

I was born in 1957 to Jamaican immigrants in Northwest London Park Royal Hospital. We lived in the districts of Willesden, Harlesden before “settling” in Wembley where I started school from kindergarten to early 4th grade. For anyone who remembers Keith Moon of The Who, I was in his sister Leslie’s class during this time. We left for Jamaica by ship in October 1966.

We arrived in Jamaica where we reconnected with my parent’s friends and relatives. I went to the Meadowbrook Prep School for 4th Grade where I learned a lot about Math, English and Jamaican History. My parents met four Americans from Minnesota in Montego Bay on Winter break with car problems. My Dad and his friend fixed them up, but not before the grateful Americans offered to sponsor them to immigrate to the U.S. We arrived in Minneapolis in August 1967. Now at age nine, I have lived in three countries.

We lived in Jamaica for 10 months, then 10 months in Minneapolis before leaving for Boston in May 1968 where

my mother had several Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and a brother. I completed the school year in Minneapolis, but my mother insisted I go to school. Enrolled at the Farragut School in Brigham Circle (next door to Peter Bent, Brigham Hospital). I met kids who I would join at the Maurice J. Tobin School in September.

Sixth Grade was interesting because of Boston’s Tracking System which made upward mobility for minorities challenging. My teachers saw something to warrant transferring me from the D track to the Advanced track in May 1969. I just missed the cutoff score for Boston Latin, but I made a mental note of my two classmates who got into RLS. My Seventh Grade kept me focused on RL. I was accepted with the condition I repeat the year. Steve Kane was the first member of ’76 I met.

After Spring 1976 graduation, I spent Summer at Mr. Jorgensen’s Oceanic Hotel on New Hampshire’s Isle of Shoals. I attended Wesleyan for 4 years with a semester off in 1978 spent in England with my brother’s family, old friends and family. I spent the Summer of 1980 as an intern working for the Mass State Dept of Education working for the department which desegregated Boston’s schools. I had the task of organizing all the files for a book the Director intended to write. The Director, Charles Glenn, was the priest at my church in Jamaica Plain. I used the information I reviewed to write my Senior Paper. It was supposed to be Thesis length, but the head of Wesleyan’s History department decided I had done enough and shut me down, with credits. Two History professors offered to sponsor me, despite the politics, allowing me to submit my Senior Paper for the Fall Semester 1980.

I returned to Wesleyan University in May 1981 for graduation. Went to Burlington Computer Programming School, got a job with First National Bank of Boston by using a connection from St John’s Episcopal Church in Jamaica Plain. I worked at Bank of Boston for 5 years, 4 plus for Sheraton, Brown Brothers & Harriman, and couple others for a total of 20 years. I completed my Masters in 2003, when I started at Innovative Health Solutions. I worked there for 22 years. It became FinThrive after countless mergers and acquisitions. I retired as of July 1, 2025.

Meanwhile, just like Joseph Warren, I joined the Freemasons in 2005. Went through the officer line and became Worshipful Master twice. Married to Rachel since 2002, with one son by a previous marriage who attended Xaverian. Elected in 2019 to two 3-year terms on the Episcopal Diocesan Council. Certainly, those two GravesKelsey Wrestling Championships were a high point, but the work I did on the most recent Episcopal Bishop Search Committee was a major high. Currently, a member of the Reparations Sub-Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts (EDOM) where David Simpson assisted us to create the EDOM Reparations Fund.

I still socialize with the guys from ’76. We’ve gone on many fishing trips and constantly remind George Curtis to open a BBQ Truck. Lots of RL memories from first day to last as Vic Barakat constantly says. Lots of amazing memories including John Connors and George Connelly wrestling in the hallway. Loved all my teachers from Mr. Chauncey to Bob Ryan and especially Mr. Sharkey who wisely said, “Kenny and Kenney, OUT”. I’m donating mass quantities to the Class of ’76 Scholarship Fund! 50 YEARS!!!

Dirk Coburn

M.B.A., Babson College

Green School certification, U. Mass.-Amherst

I write an essay every five years for my college class. It may be easier to write about five years than about five decades. That said, I enjoy reading the life stories of friends from my youth, and sharing my own story enhances connection among classmates. So here goes. I have warm memories of RL, including my delightful classmates and teachers. I also remember a lacrosse game at Lawrence Academy where I faced off against a player named Dirk. I had never met another Dirk before that, and it took a little time to figure out why the coach of the other team was calling out to tell me what I should be doing. I won the face-off.

After the dismissal of Richmond Mayo-Smith whom I admired, I left RL to attend Weston High School for 10th grade, or IIIrd Class for RL purists; I was a sophomore. From there I applied to the School Year Abroad program run by a consortium of independent schools and spent my junior year living with a dear family in Rennes, France. Upon my return, I had French language skills beyond the WHS curriculum so I took a French Literature course as a special student at nearby Wellesley College. This makes me technically a Wellesley alumnus, though their development office has not pursued me vigorously.

I was accepted at Harvard along with several others from our class. Also among my college classmates was the lovely Jeanine Patricia Kelly, who was to become my life-long spouse, partner, and ally. We raised three children in Natick, where we are now empty nesters. My family, my church, and my community are great joys and comforts. On graduating I took a position with Crimson Travel Service making their back-room computers useful for things like signing large corporate accounts with attractive travel budgets. I became more interested in what my vendors did. After a year researching venture-backed companies for the publisher of the Venture Capital Journal, I found use for my marketing skills with a developer of office productivity software for multi-user computers. H&R Block bought that company. I moved on to launch an innovative data server in the executive information systems market concluding again with an acquisition, this time by Dun & Bradstreet. My offers after that were from

firms in California, where I had no desire to relocate so I spent a couple of years as an independent market research consultant.

In the late 1990s, a friend was ascending to the presidency of his family’s investment advisory and publishing firm, and I joined him as CMO. The conservative board of directors turned out to have less enthusiasm than they had imagined for product development, so after a couple of years I joined IDC as a senior IT market analyst. I shepherded a clientele seeking information about Java and XML. A highlight of that time was touring Japan

16 years ago.

When the dotcom bubble burst, I decided that I had ridden the startup bull enough times and it was time to do something with more soul to it. I had grown up knowing nature, attending Audubon day camps, pursuing Boy Scout merit badges. Even long before RL, my great grandmother had taught me all the Latin names of plants and trees. In 2005 I asked a friend who worked at Weston Nurseries what I might do for them. For the next 15 years I became the plant-health guru at their flagship location. I left that role after the pandemic arrived (and thereby reclaimed a

full weekend for recreational and avocational interests). For the past five years I have been working with Jeanine in her moving and storage business. I continue to sing in my church choir, as I have done for twenty years. I traveled with my uncle in 1992 to make the first contact from our church with a recently assigned partner congregation of Hungarian Unitarians in Torda, Transylvania, site of an event that gave rise to the first written statute of religious toleration in the history of Europe. I have visited there half a dozen times now, and I have welcomed many dear friends from there as visitors to the U.S. It has been humbling and deeply comforting to walk the walk from tyranny to freedom with our partners, and so to get a personal understanding of a community whose history includes centuries coping with the rival empires and shifting borders of which I first learned by drawing maps for Gerhard Rehder.

As friends from various chapters of life have moved on and wandered across the world, I have become the classic boomer Facebooker. I love conversing on-line with friends who live in Europe, Japan, Brazil, Alaska, and less distant places just as if I had bumped into them on the sidewalk. Several RL classmates are among those with whom I enjoy connecting there. Whether or not you are among that cohort, I look forward to seeing you next May.

George Connelly

Email: Gconnelly222@gmail.com

Phone: 215-680-0741

Address: 222 Glendalough Road, Erdenheim, PA 19038

Happily married to Sandy Connelly since 1983 – so at the time of the reunion, that will be 43 years. As best I recall, Steve Kane did attend the wedding here in Philadelphia.

We have two daughters – Katie, who has a son Geordie, and Whitney (no, I did not name her after Dick Whitney

or Whitney Houston – We thought she was going to be a boy, but surprise, we had to pivot to a girl’s name. Whitney was my grandfather’s middle name, and I could not torture her by naming her George or Martin……)

Kay Hubbard showed up in the Chem lab back in February, 1976 looking for me. I figured that meant trouble of some sort but she smiled, pointed to the post card in her hand and announced that I had been accepted to Trinity College. I blinked, looked at the dot matrix printed card, and muttered “That’s wonderful but Mrs. Hubbard, I don’t think I even applied to Trinity.” She blinked twice (as she always did), flipped over the card to check the return address and saw where it was from, looked back at me, and said something like “You ninny, that’s the undergrad college at Duke.” And that prompted me to proclaim, “Great, now I don’t have to work for the rest of the year!” Ken Hawes and Kit Huettig were both in the lab that day and immediately busted my stones and reminded me that the graduation and admission were both contingent on decent grades which they pointed out were never a sure thing.

I did graduate from Duke but barely – it was three solid years of partying plus one final year of actually doing some school work. I tried ROTC freshman year, I joined a fraternity, I sky dived, I rowed in the club team that went to a couple of regattas, I did spring break with fraternity brothers, I did sailing trips in the Bahamas, I worked in the dining hall (that was terrible but still informative), I worked endless hours in the university’s box office so I could go to all the concerts and events, I discovered that basketball did not have to be played on a “parh-kay floorh” like the Garh-den and that college hoops was hugely entertaining, and somehow, I ended up with both girlfriend and job after college. No surprise - that girlfriend did not last.

Somehow the job was perfect – I ended up going to work for the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies in their downtown NYC office as an underwriter (that’s the person who

picks the risk and sets the price). That led to 2 + years of living in NYC, something that seemed perfect as much of my mother’s family was in NYC, and there were loads of Dukies to hang out with. The company moved me around to 3 different NYC and NJ offices, then gave me the chance to go to Sao Paulo Brazil where they were expanding an office. I had just begun dating Sandy, so I had to decide – go to Brazil alone and try to keep the relationship going long distance (this does not usually work based on a small sample of life experiences), or ask her to marry me even though we’d known each other for only 8 weeks. Off to Brazil we went in 1983.

Brazil’s insurance environment was less than perfect, so instead of a 3-year tour, after a year and a half, we shipped off to Houston where our daughter Katie was born in 1985 (and she still has Texan behaviors….she’s very independent). After a couple of years in Houston with Chubb, a former colleague recruited me for job in Philadelphia, Sandy’s hometown. That job with Reliance Insurance was similar but included a ton of US travel. With the arrival of daughter Whitney, I opted for a much more locally focused job with a Philadelphia insurance broker in 1988. This proved ideal – short commute, plenty time to do stuff with the kids, a work focus on the regional business community, and a broker sales and service role that was interesting as well as challenging (brokers are the folks who sell insurance by finding a client and matching it to an underwriter).

So fast forward, I spent 29 years doing that – and playing tennis and squash (both of which I had played at RL!). It gave me time to do other things too – learned to play cricket, was an elected school board director for 8 years (that was interesting talking about banning books) and served on the local country club board for 18 years. When we sold our firm to a local bank, we thought they’d keep us around to run the business and keep the clients happy. Noop – one day in 2019 employed, and the next day not. This turned out to be a superb career move, though hard to take any credit for it. Besides giving me a year off, I could not go back to the brokerage world so I started my own firm as an insurance and risk management consultant to companies that own businesses and properties. I am back to working full time and more and

have been doing so since 2020 – though it is putting a crimp in our travel plans and my sports schedule. The latest change in life is the arrival of a grandson about a year and a half ago – I never would have guessed he would be as much fun as he is. With Sandy retiring from her career in education, we are planning to do a bit more travel and trying to knock off a couple of bucket list destinations. We have been lucky – our daughters each did a semester abroad, so we saw bit of Europe then, and cricket has taken me to Napa Valley, Capetown, Buenos Aires, London and Antigua most recently (with Mumbai and Sydney still to go). We even went to Madrid and Barcelona with daughter Katie and grandson Geordie when he was only 3 months old and it worked pretty well.

I’d like to retire sometime soon – every time the weather gets nice, I’d rather be playing tennis or gardening (that comes from living with Sandy who is a talented gardener, as is our daughter Whitney – I’m just good at shoveling mulch.) And summer usually sees me sailing (actually racing some of the time) a Sunfish on lake up in NE Pennsylvania. Once in a while, our daughters will invite me to join them on short overnight backpacking treks –slowly but surely, we are doing parts of the Appalachian Trail in VA, MD, PA and NJ. My golf is irrationally poor – how can I hit moving tennis ball wherever I want and yet I cannot hit a stationary golf ball while standing still into a large expanse of grass? Ahh, maybe that is the next challenge.

Looking forward to reminiscing with all at the reunion, especially to hear what everyone thinks is their favorite RL memory. Certainly for me, a lover of maps, history (yes, Aachen, not Aix-La-Chapelle) and games, it has to be our Sixies’ Social Studies curriculum “From Subject to Citizen” that chronicled the multi-century rise of civil, political and economic rights of people. Hard to say which master was the favorite but certainly among of the most memorable would be Gus Rehder, Dick Whitney and of course, Louise Beachboard.

And for advice that I wish we had heard – wear sunscreen (or your dermatologist will love you). Trust me…

Sean Connor

Sean Connor

sconno678@aol.com

857 266 3188

30 Prospect Street

Dartmouth MA 02748

Spouse’s Name: Lisa Connor

Children: Polina Connor and Kat Connor

Boston College, B.S. Business Administration/Computer Science

• Married Lisa Delfino in 1989

• Adopted 2 sisters from Siberia in 2003 at ages 1 & 2

• Sold house I had lived in since 1963 and moved to Dartmouth MA in 2024

• Retiring in late spring/early summer

• Worked at New England Life, initially building & testing the first IBM PCs, moved into the telecommunications field after the breakup of AT&T

• Spent 17 years at American Express as a network engineer with a stint in project management

• Worked at 3 different state organizations (Department of Unemployment, Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, and University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth) in various telecommunications/networking positions for a total of 11 years.

• I enjoy travelling and hope to do so much more upon retirement

• Have been collecting wine for over 35 years. Some bottles still aren’t ready…

John Connors

Email: connorsjjam@gmail.com Phone: 781-223-1573

Roxbury Latin has been with me for my entire life. Family, work, and play all have Roxbury Latin connections in my life since our graduation.

I did 4 years at UMass Amherst. Majored in history and minored in lacrosse, or maybe it was the other way around. Chose my major in my junior year. Played JV lacrosse for 3 years, which was a lot of fun. Played varsity my senior year. It was fun, but with a lot of work, i.e. more drills than scrimmaging.

When it came time to think about life after college, I saw an ad for Peace Corps in the school newspaper. Curious as to why the third world was the third world and with little prospects of employment in the history field, I visited the Peace Corps office on campus and signed up to go anywhere and do anything. They asked if I studied any languages. I said 4 years of Latin, which resulted in the question: “Any others?” My response of “worst in my class for 2 years of French. Got a smile and instructions to put it on my application. As you might guess, I was offered a job in Togo, West Africa, a French speaking country.

I accepted the Togo job. The job was titled “Antrac”, and involved recruiting, training and supporting farmers to farm with oxen. Why oxen? Long story short, tractors were too expensive and plowing with oxen would enable the farmers to plow larger fields. It also provided them with a way to purchase cattle, which is a source and sign of wealth. Farmers were farming with hand tools that were a combination of shovel and pick. We brought in breeds of cattle from the north that were larger than cattle indigenous to the region. The local cattle had resistance to sleeping sickness, but were too small to do more work than a man could do by hand. The larger cattle were killed by sleeping sickness. We could vaccinate the larger cattle against sleeping sickness. I managed to recruit some farmers to the program and made good friends doing it.

door open one night. Another man entered the home in his spirit form. The intruder turned the homeowner’s spirit into a pig, roasted it and ate it. Killing the homeowner. Asked how they caught the perpetrator, he said that the perp confessed. We left it at that. That afternoon, while working with one of my farmers, I told him the murder story. I asked if I needed to worry about that happening to me. It was the dry season, nights were hot, mosquitoes were dormant and I often slept near my open front door. He assured me I had nothing to worry about; no one would bother me. Why? Because everyone knows the white man walks with the devil. Otherwise, how did I explain why we had wealth, power, cars, planes and other worldly stuff. The good people didn’t have that.

I met a lot of great people in Togo, locals, other Peace Corps Volunteers and people from other countries, some volunteers for programs similar to Peace Corps. I highly recommend Peace Corps to anyone looking for something to do. There were senior citizens in my training class.

When I returned from Togo, my first job was with the maintenance department at RL and coaching JV lacrosse. I moved from there to a sales position with a copy machine company. I did not enjoy sales.

Why was the third world, the third world? Not sure I can answer that, but disease, colonialism and poor soils, could explain some of why the third world is the third world. I did learn why the first world was the first world. One morning when I was in town, I ran into a farmer, who worked with another Peace Corps Volunteer. Over a beer, he told me, in both of our limited French, that he was in town for a murder trial. He explained a man had left his

I decided to try law school, following my father, RL class of ‘51. I enrolled in night school, at New England School of Law in Boston, where Mo Richardson, RL ‘47, Mark’s Dad, was a professor. Around the same time, at a Gerhard Rehdar Christmas party, I ran into Greg Jackmauh, RL ’72, who had a construction company and agreed to work for him. While attending law school, I lived at George Curtis’ house for months. Then I leased an apartment with Ed Seadale for a few years and ate breakfast every morning at Eddy’s restaurant.

After graduating from law school, I joined the MA Department of Revenue (“DOR”) as an estate tax auditor.

I expected to get a few years of experience and move out to the private sector. After two years, I transferred to the Litigation Bureau at DOR, expecting to get some more experience as a trial lawyer. I stayed in the Litigation Bureau until I retired after 34 years at DOR. My work mostly involved defending tax assessments at the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board and the Probate Court. I don’t have the exact statistics, but as with most legal work, I estimate that I settled 90 to 95% of my cases. I know I had a winning record in trials with a streak of years without a loss in the middle of my 32 years in litigation.

It may surprise you to know that I have stayed involved in sports. Lacrosse was my primary game. In my twenties and early 30s, in the spring, I played on club teams that traveled around the northeast and also played summer leagues. Fred Kenney played some summer league with me. One summer we had a weekly pickup game at the Flea patch. Greg Jackmauh came out of retirement and helped one of my club teams win a tournament in Maine. I also played hockey (with Fred Kenney, Pete Howard and John McConville), basketball (in the lawyer’s league against LaRoy Brantley, RL ‘83, the only known classics major to try out for the N.E. Patriots), softball (as an alternate on a team featuring Jim Currie and George Curtis), golf ( a founding member, along with Fred Kenney, of the “PGA”, the “Pathetic Golfers Association”, which also includes, Pete Howard, George Curtis, Dave Howard, and Jack O’Loughlin, RL “77), rode my bike ( I will complete my 30th Pan Mass Challenge this year. Thank you for your donations to the Jimmy Fund. Occasionally see Jim Rappaport, RL “74, on the course. He’s faster than I am.), and ran 3 marathons, Boston twice and Dublin (I ran Dublin with a woman who worked for Ed Seadale.), as well as shorter road races.

After my first marriage ended, lacrosse took me to Australia, Hawaii, Vale Colorado and Lake Placid NY. I would still be playing, if I hadn’t fractured my left tibial plateau in the Lake Placid tournament in 2002.

In 2000, I reached the pinnacle of my sports career. Over three weeks, I traveled to Las Vegas for a hockey tournament with Fred Kenney’s team from San Diego. (Fred had to miss the tournament due to his grandfather’s

funeral.) Then flew to Hawaii for a lacrosse tournament. Then flew back to Boston to repack my bag from summer clothes to winter clothes and drove back to Logan to fly to North Carolina for fishing.

For many years, a group of us traveled to the Outer Banks of North Carolina every November to fish. The group has included: Kenny Michael Bent, George Curtis, Jim Currie, Mike Giarla, Dave and Pete Howard, Fred Kenny, and Mark Richardson. This annual adventure has morphed into a wood cutting/skeet shooting weekend at Mahk’s Vermont house for the last few trips.

Other activities with RL connections include attending Boston pro sports games with Tony Kwan, Kenny Michael Bent, George Curtis, Jim Currie, the Howards and Fred Kenney. There are also numerous parties and game watching nights hosted by George; Chili fests hosted by Eric Cunningham; and running into Dave Miller at South Station and finding out he was married to my boss’ sister.

Fred, Pete Howard and I have started a new tradition of an annual PGA golf trip. We took the tour to England and Wales two years ago, Alabama last year and will play in Scotland and northern England this year.

Even my family life involves RL. I have been married twice, but did not have any children. Fortunately, first marriage was short, ending in divorce.

I am happily married to Andria. We were introduced by her coworker, Lisa Morrissey, who you might know by her maiden name, Lisa Kenney. George Curtis was my best man, which guarantees this marriage will be a success. I put Andria to the test right from the start of the marriage. She had her first invalid weeks after our wedding in 2002, after my mishap at Lake Placid. Lucky for me, Andria is a caring person along with being a great cook and baker. Among our travels was a visit in 2019 to England and Wales, which included time with Fred in London. We’re enjoying retirement, helping family and friends and looking forward to some traveling, to Oregon and Washington State (for Fred’s daughter’s wedding) in September, and Italy in October. We’re slowly transitioning our home from 46 Adams Street, Norwood, MA 02062 to 45 Channel Point Road, Hyannis, MA 02601.

Sorry, I couldn’t mention everyone in this bio. I look forward to seeing everyone at the reunion.

Jim Currie

After graduating from Roxbury Latin in 1976, I embarked on a rewarding journey filled with family, career, and adventure. I pursued higher education and later built a successful career in the mortgage business, winning several annual production awards and recognition. I appreciate being taught and guided by the many tremendous teachers at RL.

I attended college at Brown University, earning a degree in economics and enjoyed research/time on labor economics. In 1991, I married Charlene, and together we enjoyed life’s adventures, supporting each other as partners as we traveled and built our home together.

My passion for music has been a constant thread throughout my life. I began performing in bands during high school, starting with JJD&F (Jon Glover, Dave Howard and Fred Kenney) and I continued to play in other bands as well.

After Brown I stayed involved in music/bands. My band,

The Gulf Boys began in the early 1980’s in a basement in Brockton, while living with George Curtis. Various versions of the Gulf Boys lasted for over 30 years. Members included Dave Howard, Paul Dennis (CM), Bob Wogan (Dedham High).

I have enjoyed many trips to North Carolina with Fred, George, John Connors, Ken Bent, Dave and Pete Howard. In all these years, we caught many yellow fin tuna but never the elusive Red Drum, which is akin to Striped Bass caught off of New England. These trips were awesome for star gazing, another life long passion of mine. You will find me outside in the middle of the night, sometimes during freezing temps to see the heaven’s galaxies.

I have enjoyed playing and watching sports over the years. From playing in the West Roxbury Men’s Softball league to cheering on the Sox, Pats and Bruins.

Several of you also know my passion for Sci-Fi – from reading JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings in high school to seeing the many different versions of Star Trek, X Files and many others.

Live long and prosper!!

I am grateful for the friendships and memories from Roxbury Latin, and look forward to catching up with everyone at the reunion.

George “Lucky” Curtis

Lucky! I am one of the luckiest people in the world. Lucky to have the wife I have, the family I have, the friends I have and the career I have (or have had!)

The early days – which most of you know. My folks, Nancy Rodier Curtis and Dr. George W. Curtis raised us in WR (Double-Ya Ah) on Mt. Vernon St. I have two older sisters, Dorothy and Nancy. Both went to Girls Latin and Dorothy went on to MIT, BU and Simmons – Dorothy still works at MIT. Nancy went to Bates, married Joe Scola the fisherman and they have had a wonderful life around all things fish. My mom passed early in my life and my dad got remarried

to Joan Briggs in 1978. My step sister Julie and my step brother Darrell enhanced our clan. Darrell graduated from RL in 1982.

I met most of you jamokes in 1969 at Beaver Brook. A few Yoots, Steve Kane, Vic Barakat and Mike Giarla and I started school together in 1967 at the Sumner School in Roslindale. Steve and I went on to Columbia together so we were together for a combined 12 years.

At Columbia I kept a focus on science (with a minor in frats, pubs and various other diversions – unlike Billy Clinton I did inhale) I took the GMATs for Bio and the LSAT, but decided to hit the pavement for work.

Boston Globe Ad – Chemist wanted, must like outside work. Hmmmmm – my sister Julie bought me electric hunting socks…. The plant was located in Braintree MA 3 years in plant, QCing truckloads of toxic waste, 3rd year I ran the night shift and managed through a unionizing drive.

Bought the cheapest house on the South Shore ($29,900! At an interest rate of 17 ¾%) on Day Ave. in Brockton – right next to George’s Cafe. Thanks Joan!!

Spent about 3 years in customer service and began my MBA at Northeastern at night. The plant was bought by Clean Harbors in 1985, and I moved from Brockton to Braintree. I spoke publicly and wrote to the press in favor of a Haz Waste Incinerator – I became wildly popular with my neighbors!!

Bought a boat after graduating from NU in ‘87 and promptly ran aground at Boston Light with Jim Currie 2 weeks later!

Fishing became a passion, or more of a passion. Did I say I was lucky? I took Alan McKim, his daughter Jackie and son Bill fishing in Boston Harbor when I successfully hauled in my first keeper striped bass 36” – on a rapala lure with a dead eel!

Clean Harbors went public in 1987. I did marketing, sales management, quote to cash stuff. Whatever was needed.

Went to Nebraska in 1994, when Clean Harbors bought an incinerator for $1.00 (yes 1 buckeroo) from BP/Amoco. I helped transition the facility into our waste disposal network (after about $60M more investment) as well as opened our first service facilities (hiring chemists and drivers) in Denver and Los Angeles.

Late 90s brought me back to Braintree. Working pricing and sales related stuff.

Huge acquisition in ’02 – Laidlaw division of Safety Kleen –out of bankruptcy. (You can read all about it in Alan’s book “Doing the Doing”)

Then I got married – I think the Vegas odds that I’d remain single were 50:1! To Deanna Yameen, a blind date set up by Trish Seadale (Eddie’s ex). Deanna (she’s technically on professional hiatus) has had an awesome career in higher education administration and most recently been a leader with the HERS organization.

Deanna and I love to cook and entertain our family and friends. We celebrate both Memorial Days and Super Bowls with parties. If you’re in town on either date, you are perpetually invited. I got into smoking briskets, pigs, lambs, pork butts and more – thanks to John Gill (GRHS) of Catholic Memorial fame.

My father-in-law Larry sponsors an annual Fight Night for the Lawrence Exchange Club. A gang of us, mainly from RL, have attended the event for the past 20 years. They mainly sponsor scholarships for kids from Lawrence and the surrounding areas.

Alan and I got into bluefin tuna fishing off of New England almost 30 years ago. Lucky George has had one of the sweetest sportfishing rides on the east coast. 868 pounds is our biggest prize so far.

We bought a beach house in Salisbury, MA, where we enjoy entertaining everyone. We can sleep 18 (if you don’t mind a sleep sofa or two!) We host both our families for Easter and I still color and name the eggs (My favorite for Dorothy is “MIT was my safety school”).

Lots more work stories but I won’t belabor you with the lore of pricing and quote to cash gymnastics in the haz waste industry.

Thanks to the RL (Real Lucky?) family – I regularly see some of the gang (John C, Jimmy, Pete, Dave, Fred, Mark, Vic, Mike B. and MORE). Thanks go out to all of you and of course, the RL teachers (Gus, ERMY, Chauncey, Dilworth, Rea, Conn, Whitney, Bob Ryan, Speca and MORE) and to my friend Alan and all the folks I’ve worked with at the Harbors) Thanks especially to my wife, Deanna. What now, brown cow? Enjoy my luck, enjoy my family and friends. Help feed people, avoid political nonsense and go fishing.

P.S. No AI was used in the creating of this document or it would be much better!

Chris Dilworth

Christopher Dilworth

69 Winslow Ave. Somerville, MA 02144 207-779-7273

After graduating from Harvard, I taught for two years. I then enrolled in law school at the University of Maine and, upon graduating, took a job in Bangor as an assistant DA. Two years later, I opened a solo practice and remained in private practice until I retired in 2023. My practice focused on litigation.

I married in 1988 and have three children: Caroline (1990), Lucy (1992) and Nick (2000). During that marriage I lived in greater Portland but, following my divorce in 2010, I moved to Farmington, which is 90 miles to the north. I remained there until 2016, when I moved back to Massachusetts.

Caroline, Lucy and Nick are all living in Boston. I see them and my five grandchildren frequently and have really enjoyed being a grandparent. I have also remarried. This is the first marriage for my wife, Robin. She has become very close to my family and has been a huge support for me.

I am enjoying myself in retirement. I exercise every day and do a lot of reading. I have become a big fan of John Updike and C.P. Snow, among others. We spend our summers primarily in Westport, which is on the coast and borders Rhode Island. The rest of the year we are based in Somerville.

I have fond memories of Roxbury Latin, particularly of my classmates. I was sorry to leave and look forward to seeing many of you at our upcoming reunion.

Mike Giarla

Greetings from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, otherwise known (here, at least) as “the southern part of heaven”. More about the southern migration of this Bostonian in a bit.

Ellen and I look forward to seeing most of you at our upcoming reunion. For the benefit of those who will not be in attendance, I have provided these two pictures which demonstrate how, as I age, I look more and more like I did when I was a baby.

Special thanks to everyone who contributed to the Class

of 1976 scholarship fund. This is especially meaningful to me since I was a scholarship kid and I know how much our class’ scholarship will mean to countless boys who will, as a result, be able to attend Roxbury Latin long after we are gone. I encourage everyone to participate by making a donation of any amount. This is a true class gift – no contribution is too small.

Before catching up on the last 50 years, I want to share some reflections about our time at Roxbury Latin and what it meant to me. I apologize about the length of my submission, but, hey, 50 years is a heck of a long time!

I suspect each of us has his own list of reasons why our time at Roxbury Latin was special/impactful. I am thankful for each of you – for I have learned to be a better person because of you

and because of our teachers and coaches. My experience at RL was life changing. It changed me intellectually, physically, emotionally, and set me up for economic success. I feel very fortunate to have been born in the right era. Had I come along, say, 50 years earlier, the opportunity to attend an independent school - or even a private college – would have likely not been available to me. In the last half of the 20th century, standardized testing (in no small part due to Bill Chauncey’s father) made college and independent school admissions

more merit oriented. The availability of scholarship money allowed less economically privileged students (like me) access to these previously unavailable schools. The timing couldn’t have been better. What good fortune!

Folks often reminisce about the house where they grew up. I confess to having no such affinity for our house at 85 Belgrade Ave. While my upbringing was very nurturing in many ways – picture being raised by my parents and three wonderful and doting sisters who were 9, 11 and 13 years older – my parents’ unhappy and tumultuous relationship created significant collateral damage. For me, Roxbury Latin was often a more comfortable place to be than my home. The school was also a place where I found an abundance of appropriate role models. So, along with my family, you and the greater RL community helped raise me and sculpted me, for better or worse, into the person I am today.

So … Roxbury Latin IS my Boston “home” and, in some ways, I have never really left. I coached baseball and basketball teams and helped with science classes while I was in college, led the alumni portion of the annual fund for a couple of years, and have been (mostly) on and off the board of trustees since 1992. RL graduations are one of my favorite events – notwithstanding the uncomfortable chairs assigned to the trustees. It has been a great privilege to stay associated with RL and to try to help future students – as countless others who came before us helped provide for our RL experience.

OK, now for a rundown of the last 50 years ...

My Harvard experience began inauspiciously, when I was

assigned to the only all male freshman dorm! Seriously, I frequently wonder what I have done to deserve all of the blessings and opportunities that have been bestowed upon me since suffering this (not so funny) institutional practical joke. The conclusion that I have come to is, unbeknownst to me, I must have won some sort of “behind the scenes” lottery and that my good fortune is exactly that (read LUCK) rather than the result of something for which I can take any credit.

The most wonderful and enriching aspects of my life have to do with the people I have had the privilege to spend time with and learn from – each of you, my RL, college and graduate school friends and faculty, my brilliant and highly principled business associates, and most importantly, to my loving and supportive family.

In 1979, I met my wonderful life partner, Ellen Michelson, while at my part time job (which started with my RL Senior year Independent Study Project) at the HRCA (located on the Jamaicaway next to the Arnold Arboretum.) Ellen had just graduated from Penn State and moved to Boston to begin her career. We were part of a gerontological research team that conducted mostly federally funded projects geared to keeping elderly people out of institutions and understanding more about how to improve their quality of life (hint: the existence of adult daughters living nearby is very powerful, in a positive way). The most impactful study we conducted was the National Hospice Study, which led to the 1982 and 1985 legislation adding hospice benefits to Medicare.

Ellen and I have been together now for 46 years – married for the last 44. I am so blessed to have her in my life. Many of you know Ellen. She is smart, outgoing, strong and independent. She is also incredibly tolerant of my workaholic tendencies and supportive of my proclivity for starting new things and adding more things to my already overloaded plate. I hope others can relate to this in their own experience: when Ellen and I agree on something, I feel like there is nothing we cannot accomplish together.

In 1983 we left Boston for the slower pace and warmer climate of Palo Alto where I pursued an MBA at Stanford B-School. Ellen worked hard to support us while I was in school again, continuing her research work for a while and then holding down some other jobs, including working at Wilson Sonsini – where we reconnected with Howard Zeprun.

At Stanford, I was privileged to learn from a group of Nobel Prize winning economists, including Myron Scholes, Bill Sharpe, Bob Merton, and Robert Wilson, a number of whom I had future business relationships with. Dave Modest (RL 1972) was my professor when I took my very first investments class. It took us a while to figure out

where we had previously seen each other, and we have been friends ever since. I spent a summer working with Fischer Black and his group at Goldman Sachs. It was a great experience, but I decided that I did not want to go back to Wall Street, as I believed I was ready for more responsibility than I would be given right away at a large firm. So, in 1985, Ellen and I moved to Chapel Hill, where I went into business with my former Stanford professor, Doug Breeden, who was joining the faculty at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business (where he is still on the faculty) as the leader of the Finance faculty..

In the early days of Smith Breeden, we pioneered the use of options pricing in the mortgage market and developed the framework for asset/liability management that the banking industry largely adopted. Gregg Smith would tell prospective clients, “…my guys can solve any problem you have…”, and we were arrogant enough to believe it! The analytics we needed to conduct our work did not exist “off the shelf”, so we had to create it. In those early years, that was my responsibility, building on the framework that Doug had established. In 1987, our team used those analytics to enter into some large trades in the relatively new and inefficient mortgage derivatives market with the now infamous Merrill Lynch trader Howie Rubin. In a period of 4 months, those transactions culminated in Merrill’s much publicized $377 million loss – the (then) largest single trading loss in Wall Street history.

This success validated my decision to join a smaller, high tech, financial organization where I could make a difference. However, it brought to light a more important personal conundrum. I continued to have a nagging feeling that something was wrong with me. The adrenaline rush from individual and team academic and business successes were surprisingly short lasting. After each such (albeit) hard earned achievement, I remember thinking “OK, done that, but I’m not particularly motivated to do it again. What’s the next challenge?” It took me quite a while (I’m a slow learner sometimes) to discover that what was (and is) most fulfilling is working on things that lift other people up. So, over time – as opportunities presented themselves – I turned more of my focus to supporting and developing my colleagues and working with organizations that have a significant societal impact. More about this to follow.

I promise, I am almost done! But first, a brief family interlude ….

Many of you remember my parents and my three sisters. My mom moved to Florida with Lois in 1982 – which likely added ten years to her life. She passed away in 1997. My dad passed ten years earlier. Camille passed away ten years ago – but Lois and Carol-Ann and their families are, thankfully, all doing well. Lois is in South Florida and Carol is in Connecticut.

In 1994, our daughter Annie was born, forever changing our lives for the better. My mother always told me “…you won’t be able to understand how much I love you until you have your own children…” Indeed, she was correct. Annie (pictured below with her family) is the product of

an independent school (Durham Academy) and teaches at an independent school – so she drank the entire pitcher of Kool-Ade! Annie married her best friend (who she has known since age 2) and high school sweetheart, Braxton Carr, in 2018 and they have two beautiful daughters –Cammie (named after Camille) who is 5 YO and Rosie (named after Ellen’s mom) who will turn 2 YO in August. They live 160 miles away from us in Charlotte so we see them often and enjoy many trips together with them each

year – as well as a lake house we jointly own with them in between our respective houses. Annie is in her 10th year of teaching at Charotte Country Day and Braxton is in his 10th year of investment banking at Deloitte. I cannot say enough about how wonderful the two of them are as parents to their girls – and as people who strive to make a positive impact. We are so proud of them.

OK – back to the timeline and what am I doing now …

By my later years at Smith Breeden, the business had matured into a highly regarded institutional fixed-income asset manager. I retired twice from the firm – the first time around 2005 when I became Chairman. The financial crisis took a toll on the company and I eventually returned as CEO in 2011 for a final five-year run. During that time we merged into Amundi (2013) and after many dozens of trips to Paris, I retired again at the end of 2015, as there was room for only one CEO – the “grand fromage” in Paris!

Today I am as busy as I have ever been – but, thankfully, I don’t have any clients to care for - so retirement means simply that “nobody pays me for what I am doing” (other than in Diet Cokes and cookies at board meetings). Some of the other entities I am spending time with are noteworthy and hopefully of interest, so I mention them here:

I’m a multi-decade long board member of the Self Help organization, whose mission is to create and protect ownership and economic opportunity for all. Started over 40 years ago, the organization is the largest CDFI (by capital) in the country – over $1.5 billion – and has provided more than $11 Billion in financing to help more than 160,000 borrowers buy homes, start and grow businesses, and strength community resources. We are a third of Climate United – currently scrapping with the US government who wants to reneg on its $7 billion GGFR grant made during the previous administration.

At the Burroughs Wellcome Fund I am a board member and chair all the investment and finance committees. This foundation of about $900 million provides more than $40 million a year in grants for medical research.

I play a similar role at the Core Knowledge Foundation whose founder E.D. Hirsch explains “Only a well rounded, knowledge-specific curriculum can impart needed knowledge to all children and overcome inequality of opportunity.” Core Knowledge flagship K-5 Language Arts curriculum is bring used by more than 6 million students in the US and is directly related to the recently publicized gains in reading made by Louisiana and Mississippi elementary grade students.

I’m involved as a board member of three other non profits and also two for-profit entities that I helped get going – one public and one private.

In my remaining waking hours I try to keep my aging body (or what is left of it) in shape. I became a certified personal trainer (just for “the halibut”) after I retired – and I do spend some time lifting weights – but my main form of cardiovascular exercise now takes place on one bike or another. You can find me outside when the temperature is over 80 degrees (about half of the year in NC) and inside in high intensity spin classes the rest of the time. (I’ll be going to SoulCycle when in Boston for the reunion, so let me know if you want to join me for a “spin”. I hope to be able to do this for a long time (absent collisions with vehicles) but I do need to take swim lessons one of these days so that I will have another form of exercise once I can’t bike any more. By the way – for those who were wondering - I simply ignored the “required” swim test in college - and the diploma was issued to me, anyway. Go figure!

Ellen and I travel a fair amount (sometimes in search of Elvis) and when at home we are often seen walking our two large dogs – Pluto and Tahoe. Ellen does more in a day than most people do in a week. Her main mission right now is looking after her almost 99 year-old mom, Rose, who lives a few miles from us. Everyone who reaches an advanced age needs an advocate – and Ellen plays that role superbly for her mom. Ellen occasionally squeezes in a ride on her horse, Marley or some time digging in her large and productive vegetable garden. She somehow manages to continue to operate (going on 44 years) a successful business as a Mary Kay Senior Director. She also does a good job of keeping me out of trouble – but has not succeeded in curtailing my long winded tendencies – as

you have just experienced.

Please come visit us! We have plenty of room. I wish you well and hope to see you and yours at the reunion soon.

4324 Trenton Road Chapel Hill, NC 27517

Phone: 919-270-9458

Email: giarla.mike@gmail.com

Joshua Goldhaber

Email: jgoldhaber@gmail.com

Cell: 310-612-8985

Address: 1650 Sunset Plaza Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90069

Spouse’s Name: Xin Yue

Children: Nicole (1989), Matthew (1993), Raylan (2024)

Education and degree(s) after RL: Harvard College, AB, Sociology 1980 Harvard Medical School, MD, 1984

After graduation, I spent a glorious summer riding around

in an ice cream truck with George Curtis, Jim Curry and a rotating crew of RL classmates in my dream job: selling ice cream confections and “other items,” while enjoying the freedom of luxury chauffeured transportation in a Step Van (e.g. George). Some memorable moments: undercutting soda sales at the Tall Ships event by the waterfront during the Bicentennial and pissing off all the other vendors. Of course, we ran out of product quicky and left; showing up at massive summer parties in Dedham, Needham, or somewhere I can’t even remember and providing treats, which may have included the “Amazing Banana Thing” among others, and narrowly avoiding fights (or state police)? Anyway, I can’t thank George enough for one of the highlights of my youth.

After failing to earn Board of Trustee status through ice cream sales, I decided to try my luck at college and spent 4 years at Harvard, perhaps not fully appreciating how great it was to be close to home and old friends from RL (and to have a drinking age of 18). At college I discovered and was thoroughly distracted by something that was completely hidden from us at RL– women! It was so awkward after 10 years at all boys schools (I was at Fessenden before RL). You may remember I was into the “Glee Team” and “Drama” at RL. I expected I would do the same in college and meet a lot of ladies in the process, but the experience

and the sorts of people I met were not at all what I expected or wanted, so I left that all behind with no regrets after freshman year. Instead, I focused on journalism, writing for the Harvard Crimson while trying to convince myself I didn’t want to be a physician like my older brother Sam (RL ‘68). The Crimson was an amazing experience, and I learned a great deal from some passionate writers and reporters, many of whom went on to the highest levels of journalism, winning Pulitzers, etc. Perhaps because I was majoring in Sociology, I panicked about my future and raced to catch up with the premeds by taking summer classes, ultimately ending up at Harvard Med School. Looking back on college, the best part was a close group of roommates (including the great Dave Steigman-who also went to med school), and the totally legit liquor license our dorm had – plus the probably totally illegitimate way my roommates and I abused it to sell wine out of our room. And college was co-ed.

After graduating med school, my then girlfriend/classmate and I moved to Los Angeles and UCLA to do our residency training in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Cardiology. We married, raised two kids – Nicole (now 36, a surgeon in San Diego still in training) and Matthew (now 33, and a Design Director for a video game studio in the San Francisco Bay Area) – before divorcing almost seven years ago (COVID). Since then, I moved to the Hollywood Hills for a true LA experience, fell in love and married another cardiologist (this one originally from China). We have a wonderful 2-year-old boy (Raylan). One benefit of being a senior citizen and having a baby – social security benefits for the kid (while the program lasts)!!!

I rarely get back to Boston, but try to visit my brother and his family when the weather is good. Having been away for over 40 years, I’ve lost all capacity for tolerating the cold.

I completed my clinical training in Cardiology and joined the faculty at UCLA in 1990, rising through the ranks to Professor as UCLA emerged as a credible force in academic medicine. My career is rooted in the increasingly rare category of “Physician-Scientist” (our own Donald Bloch is also a P-S). Not only have I been practicing Critical Care Cardiology since then, I also served as director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at UCLA for many years. In

addition I ran a basic science laboratory studying electrical activity in single heart cells and tissues funded by the National Institutes of Health. I also ended up carrying a huge teaching load, developing new courses to improve the way we educate medical students, and along the way received many teaching awards from students and faculty alike. To grow professionally, I moved my lab and practice from UCLA to the affiliated private hospital down the street, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. At Cedars, I was given an endowed Chair position, helped run their cardiac ICU, but focused my teaching on so-called graduate medical and research education – I became the Director of the Cardiology Fellowship program for clinicians and obtained a grant from NIH to train these fellows in science. I credit Donald Bloch’s big brother, the late Ken Bloch (RL ’74), with helping me figure out how to get that grant. Recently, Cedars has become so firmly established as a top 10 academic medical center in the US, that we have taken the leap of establishing a Health Sciences University and I am its first Vice Dean of Graduate Education, overseeing several PhD and Master’s programs. My research lab continues and I still do my ICU work, but it’s a struggle together with the Dean job, especially with the recent government funding limitations on healthcare research. There are many indicators that I should retire. But did I mention I have a 2-year-old?????

I still love photography and am fully digital; I went through a period where I was obsessed with PCs, but my biggest hobby now is sailing (my ex-wife and I co-parent a beautiful 41-foot cruising sailboat). Credit Hitch (David Miller) with my first introduction to sailboats larger than 15 feet (and to my understanding of how difficult it is to weigh things on a mechanical balance while on the water. Also, that buoys should definitely be avoided when steering).

Favorite RL Teacher or RL Memory: Sitting in Mr. Jarvis’s office for “Man’s Search for Meaning”; getting chewed out by Mr. Chauncy and serving Saturday detention for trying to call the Pope from the hallway payphone using a penny; taking time to visit the woods on campus; travelling to the USSR with the Mr. Farris, the Glee Team and ?Beaver?; Mr. Ryan and our righteousness; The inspiring and progressive Gerry Speca (if only he could have turned me into a Matt

Damon or Ben Affleck instead of leaving RL for Cambridge Rindge & Latin and discovering those guys there); Mr. Conn (RIP) showing us the right way (the French way) to use a pipe; Eric Cunningham dotting the t’s and crossing the i’s – I still use that phrase almost every day; an ancient DEC computer programming in BASIC with a paper tape console; mimeographs, stencils, ink spills, ancient stage lighting controls, Juba this and Juba that...

Tim Hinman

Phone: 207-415-7475

Address: 25 Vincent St., South Portland, ME 04106

Spouse: Mary

College: Dartmouth 1980, AB Economics

Children: William (39), University of Maine, 2008; Paul (36), Bowdoin, 2010

Grandchildren: Lenora (3) and Phoebe (1)

I recently retired after spending most of my working career in sales and management of special hazards fire protection systems for data centers, marine vessels, and industrial manufacturing from Boston throughout northern New England, with a stint in the Houston Gulf Coast area.

I’ve always enjoyed the outdoors and traveling. Hiking, canoeing, skiing, hunting, and fishing provided many opportunities for adventure and fun. I am continuously entertained by sports, music, reading, my family, and grandchildren.

I’m looking forward to catching up with everyone at the reunion and hearing lots of RLS stories.

Wow, fifty years to try and summarize. After RL I went to Penn, systems engineering major. I studied a lot, worked as a cook in the faculty club (good free food), played a little rugby, was a drummer in a band. Mostly kept my head down and expenses low.

In my twenties I stayed around Philly working in software on telecommunications projects. Kind of a blur, the eighties. Played on company softball teams and started creating original music with my college bandmate. Nothing all that toe tapping but it was fun and educational.

Turning 30 somehow made me look in the mirror and focus on my future. I moved back to the Boston area to get back with old friends and help my parents out. I got a long term contract job as a software engineer for DEC in NH. I joined a band with Jim Currie as the bass player. As fate would have it, I met my soulmate Kristine and got married. We bought a house in New Hampshire, had two kids and kicked off a real grownup life.

My forties and fifties were all about family. I worked long hours as a software consultant in various industries. I coached rec basketball, drove the kids everywhere, attended more dance recitals and games than I can remember. We had a nice house in Hollis, NH close to Beaver Brook. It was always fun to go for hikes and remember being there as a sixie. I played in some dad bands to keep the fire going. Mostly it was just amazing to be so blessed to have raised a family and somehow have the kids actually turn out ok.

Now in my sixties, we downsized to a house in Nashua just a mile away. I’ve been working for a big global tech company. I’m thinking about retiring this year. My sad golf game needs some serious attention. I’m also working as the treasurer and tech for Kristine’s non-profitnhnursehonorguard. org. I’ve got a decent home studio and continue to work with my pal John from Philly. Not exactly killing it with stream counts but we keep at it anyway (shameless plug - our latest EP is Go Dancing by The Lost Four).

Our daughter Grace, 30, is a doctor of physical therapy working locally at St. Josephs hospital where Kristine is also a nurse manager. Grace has always been in great shape having been a head coach at Orange Theory, a personal trainer and Disney marathon runner. She’s got a great career ahead of her as a DPT.

Our son Connor, 32, is a special ed teacher back in Hollis at the primary school he attended. He has an amazing ability to handle and empathize with the kids, parents and other teachers. He’s married to our awesome daughter-inlaw Kelly and they have a four-year old boy Henry. Being a grandfather has been an unexpected trip and another reason to retire soon.

Memories of RL - I mostly remember enjoying calculus, physics and writing classes. And all the sports, proud of having earned 10 letters. And being in a band with Jim Currie, Jon Glover and Fred Kenney and thinking we were all that. I liked Mr. Davey and Whitney and coach Ryan. It wasn’t easy especially for my mother who had to get us there and back everyday, God bless her. It got easier once my brothers and I figured out the public buses. And thanks to Mrs. Hubbard and Ken Maider for giving us all those rides.

So what now, who knows. Closing in on 70 and ready for a new phase, enjoying wife and life after a respectable finish of the rat race. Its great that a bunch of us classmates still hang out in the Boston area to watch games and go on guys weekends. Brothers from other mothers for sure.

Very psyched to see you all at the reunion. Cheers!

Peter Howard

Email: phoward205@gmail.com

Cell: 508-677-7294

Address: 24 Winchester Street, Brookline, MA 02446

Spouse: Noreen Howard

Children: Twins Nicholas (Brookline) and Sarah (Mashpee) age 34, and Alexandra (Lexi, Chestnut Hill) age 32

After six wonderful six years from 1970 to 1976, I left RL, and Massachusetts, to go to the University of

Chicago, a tough school that I was barely qualified for (the origin of my imposter syndrome!). Mrs. Hubbard must have really had some pull. I somehow made it through, barely, owing much to Gus making us “read with a pencil” as sixies. I ended up working out in Chi-town for most of the 80’s, getting my MBA part time also at U of Chicago. I had to listen to Bears fans give me grief in ’86 when they tromped the Pats. In 1988, with my U of C education and a few years of work experience, I arrived back in Mass. Literally on my first Sunday back, Jim Currie and I were in a famous watering hole in Norwood when Jim convinced three wonderful women to sit with us. (Those Rodney Dangerfield impersonations really paid

off!) Noreen Joseph sat next to me, and BOOM - the next year we were married. Sometimes things are meant to be. It’s now been 36 years of happiness.

We were blessed with twins in 1991, Sarah and Nicholas. They were born severely premature, and we spent the next 80+ days in intensive care. But one year later, at the twin’s first birthday, with the kids smearing cake all over their faces, and with me dressed up as Big Bird… yes I did dress up as Big Bird …. we knew things would be ok. Then we had Lexi in 1993, and now we are lucky to have three great adult children who live close by. Blessed.

Now for career. I’ve spent most of my career immersed in the world of direct marketing, which evolved to catalog marketing, which led to digital business and e-commerce. A few years ago, I left the corporate/consulting world and settled into academia. I’m at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, as the Executive Director for Action Learning and Professor of the Practice. I also founded the Digital Business Institute. We bring in corporate partners for paid consulting and also classbased projects. I also teach MBA courses on Digital Business Strategy, eCommerce Strategy and Crisis Leadership. I was even honored with the Questrom Award for Institutional Leadership in 2023. And to keep the RL connections alive, I brought in Rick Lake to lead an executive education program in 2024, and I recently had George Curtis as an honored guest speaker!

Before BU (and a bit overlapping) I was a Managing Director at Accenture (2013-2022), where I ran large digital transformation programs for Fortune 1000 clients. Before that I spent 12 years at Staples (2000-2012), which was quite a ride. I even lived in Paris and Amsterdam for a couple of years, heading up Staples Online & Marketing for Europe. Before that, I was running the North American eCommerce business.

Some other fun stops included a year as Chief Marketing Officer at Fareportal in NYC (online travel) and a decade at Ross-Simons in Rhode Island, where I led the team that launched their eCommerce business back in the day (with my brother Dave leading the eCommerce tech platform as a consultant).

Noreen and I walk a lot, enjoy life in Coolidge Corner, we read, play a little golf and try to stay in shape. We also spend time at our North Falmouth place, which gets us closer to our daughter Sarah who lives in Mashpee.

I’ve always been involved in causes related to disabilities, having served on the board of United Cerebral Palsy of Metro Boston, and was a founding board member of the House of Possibilities. Last year I started coaching Special Olympics Golf, which was awesome. I will be expanding my involvement this year. And I’m joining a new angel investment group focused on disability tech, called Adaptation Ventures. (Anyone who is interested please contact me).

Ken Conn taught from 1973 until his retirement in 2009, totaling 36 years of service. Coach Conn seemed to know how to push me in just the right way to keep me motivated. On the football field and in the classroom, he could give you that look, raising his eyebrows with a sly smile, and just say come on! You can do better! I believe he was the first one to say “the two Howards at guard”. I remember Coach Conn for his dedication, mentorship, and deep care for all of us.

There are so many memories. Chasing each other around Beaverbrook in 1970 (did Bent really bend the tent?). Getting to know everyone on the basketball court as sixies (still sorry about the accident Fred!). Sneaking out to Lena’s, McDonalds, Lum’s, and ok, maybe Cronin’s. But most of all my lasting image is a six-year sprint of studying hard, playing sports and most of all, growing up with a true group of brothers with whom I feel a lifelong bond.

Stephen Kane

Email: skane@richmaylaw.com Phone: 617-852 9371

I have been very lucky in the 50 years since my graduation from Roxbury Latin. My luck probably started when my family moved to West Roxbury in the early 1960s. If not for that move, maybe I wouldn’t have gone to RL. I hope to be as lucky in my next 50 years.

After graduating Roxbury Latin in 1976, where I believe I set a Varsity Athletics record still standing today (see answer below), I attended Columbia for seven years, for both undergraduate (Economics major) and law school. Although they made me take courses in order to get degrees, I actually spent the vast majority of my time playing Ultimate Frisbee, which was just establishing itself in colleges at that time. I played over 100 games as an undergraduate. I was captain from 1977-1980. In law school I played some for Columbia, but also for New York City all-star teams in 1982 (Earth) and 1983 (Kaboom), which went on to win the National Championship shortly after I left -correlation does not imply causation. The Columbia Ultimate team holds an annual reunion where, until we all turned 60, we used to play (a very slow) game of Ultimate against each other We have switched to disc golf instead after the last few years’ games included a broken rib (mine) and a separated shoulder (someone else’s). In June 1982, while in NYC for Mike Giarla’s wedding,

Will Kussell and I went to a friend of a friend’s party on the Upper East Side, where I was lucky enough to meet Cindy Boyer. So I have to thank Mike and Ellen for that invitation to their wedding and Will being my wingman & talking to another girl (rather than Cindy) that night.

Even though I liked NYC while I was there during its “the Bronx is burning” nadir, 7 years in NYC was enough and I started as an associate lawyer at Rich, May, Bilodeau & Flaherty (now just Rich May) in Boston in 1983. After 43 years, I am scheduled to retire in December 2026. I specialize in corporate and business law and have worked on NDAs, M&A, LBOs, IPOs, and other legal matters that only go initials. I have been a Managing Director there since 2002 and was President from 2007 to 2024. It is great being an ex-President, where one can give his opinion and advice and let another person be responsible for making the final, often difficult, decision.

I married Cindy in 1984, whose Indiana Hoosiers expect national championships in basketball, but their 20252026 football run was unexpected.

After living in Brookline (Mike Giarla’s old rentcontrolled apartment actually) and then Brighton (top floor of a triple decker converted into condos), we have lived in Newton since 1988. We have three kids: Matthew, who somehow is about to turn 40, is a Senior VP at Digitas in NYC - so click on any Samsung spam ad you receive to be sure he gets a good bonus this year; Jack, based in NYC, is an event planner with jobs throughout the world; and Tory, an education consultant living in Waltham. Matt has 2 kids and Tory has 2 also, so we have 4 grandkids, the oldest of which, Fiona, turned 7 on Exelauno Day.

With my 3 kids, I coached many, many seasons of youth soccer, basketball and baseball throughout the ‘90s into the early ‘00s. I was President of Newton North Little League in 1998 – a position I highly recommend to anyone who feels they don’t otherwise receive enough criticism, unhelpful comments or useless suggestions in their life. Anyway, somehow the 1998 NNLL team won the state championship - correlation does not equal

causation. Being the ex-President of Little League is an especially good position.

Because dunning you for donations for dear old RL wasn’t enough to keep me busy, I joined Columbia Alumni Association of Boston Board of Directors in 2002. I advanced to the President (2008-2016), and simultaneously served 6 years on the University’s Alumni Association Board of Directors (2011-2017). I was awarded Columbia University’s Alumni Medal at the 2017 Commencement. Despite my love of being ex-President, in retirement with more free time I may once again become President of Columbia Alumni Association of Boston, so I might become an ex-exPresident.

Other stuff I should mention: RL teachers and especially you, my fellow classmates, shaped the good parts of who I am today. Special thanks to Kevin Sharkey for his teaching and coaching, Bob Ryan, who gave George Curtis & me our first triangles, Gerry Speca for encouraging me to go to Columbia, the late Dave Smoyer and Mr. Whitney, whose Physics class taught me that even if I think I am totally confused and don’t think I know what is going on, I may know more than I think and may be learning something - which was very helpful in the first year fog of law school and in raising kids.

My Mom is still going strong. She celebrated her 98th birthday in January and lives in Walpole’s New Pond Village independent living.

Special thanks to George for his many Memorial Day and Christmas parties, which I attend less than I should, and to Mike for his service as a Trustee over many years to keep this great institution great. It is 58 years since I first met them at Charles Sumner School in Roslindale.

The answer to my RL Athletics trivia question is: I believe I hold a record that hopefully will never be broken - senior with most varsity losses in a year (36). Alas, correlation may equal causation in this case.

Looking forward to seeing you all at the 50th Reunion.

Frederick Kenney Jr.

Where to start? I was born in a hospital in Dorchester. Why? Because I wanted to be close to my mother! Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck. OK, that’s enough of that!

After largely squandering my RL advantage by enrolling in UMASS-Dartmouth, I lasted there for 2 years, where I had a great time, but didn’t study too much. Realizing I needed to get a little more serious, I transferred to Michigan State where I studied more, played lacrosse, delivered pizza for Domino’s and also had a great time. Summers back in Norfolk were spent working in a bank, and part-time in the Good Vibrations record store in the Walpole Mall, still the best job I ever had.

After graduating from MSU, I stayed with banking, and quickly discovered that I really hated it. Fortunately, at a family gathering, a cousin of mine, who was in the U.S. Coast Guard, said “you should sign up for three years. You’ll have fun, and it will give you time to figure out what you want to do with your life.” Well, I did have fun, but apparently never figured out what I wanted to do with my life, because I wound up serving for 33 years. Along the way, I got married, raised two great daughters, got divorced and also saw the world – sailing on every ocean and standing on every continent. After spending

three years on a polar icebreaker, going to the Arctic and Antarctic, my specialties became law enforcement and law. I spent many years chasing drug and migrant smugglers in the Caribbean and the Pacific, enforcing blockades in the Middle East and the Adriatic, and training officers around the world. The Coast Guard also sent me to law school; I subsequently had fascinating legal tours in Boston and Washington, appearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, prosecuting numerous courts-martial and federal criminal cases, and serving as an appellate judge, eventually becoming the Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel of the Coast Guard.

Shortly before I retired from the Coast Guard in 2014, I was asked by the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a UN agency in London, if I would become the Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations. I jumped at the chance and moved to London the same year. I’ve have been there since. Working in the UN system was at the same time fascinating and frustrating, but a great experience overall. The highlight was when I was seconded in 2022 to be the lead negotiator and eventually UN Coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement between Ukraine, Russia, Türkiye and the UN, to allow grain shipments out of Ukrainian ports to prevent a famine in Africa.

I retired from the IMO in 2023 but have stayed in London, which I now consider to be home. (I even got to meet the Queen.) I work part-time and am about to finish up a Ph.D from Swansea University in Wales, one of the three universities where I am an adjunct professor. I am with a wonderful English woman, Fiona, whom you will meet at the reunion. I’m back in the Boston area frequently to visit my daughters and my two grandsons, the lights of my life. I’m still playing beer league hockey, golfing really badly (often on golf trips with John Connors and Pete Howard) and skiing. Still playing the bass - the years between 1999 and 2014 where Dave Howard, Jim Currie, Jon Glover and I were able to re-form and re-live our J,J,D+F days were an absolute blast.

Through all this bouncing around and life and career changes, the one thing that has been constant, along with my family, is the relationship with my RL classmates; you

know who you are. You have been the home port to which I could always return, and pick up where we left off in 1976. I will be forever grateful for such good friends. Now, spread out! Nyuck, nyuck, nyuk!

Will Kussell

As I reflect upon our upcoming 50th Reunion, I think back to fond memories of great friendships, sports – even though we didn’t win many varsity baseball and soccer games – and incredible teachers like Bill Chauncey, Dave Rea and Jerry Speca. I liked RL so much I sent my son Dave who graduated in 2012.

After RL, I attended the University of Pennsylvania where I majored in European History and Sociology. My UPenn experience was full of meeting new friends, challenging academics and many fun experiences. My original pre-law track was changed after graduation by a decision to defer my law school admission and work for a year. That year off turned out to be a pivot point for me as I eventually interned at the Coca-Cola plant in Needham helping to market the launch of Mello Yello into New England. Since I didn’t even know what marketing entailed, it was a true epiphany when I not only liked it so much but also decided to go to BU for my MBA.

The BU experience led me on a long career in marketing

starting at General Foods in White Plains, NY and onto Polaroid International, Reebok and Dunkin’ Donuts where I eventually spent fifteen years and became COO of Dunkin’ Brands and President of Dunkin’ Donuts. After moving back to Boston in 1987, I met my wife Ada and quickly realized how great we were together. We met and married in nine months in 1989. We were fortunate enough to have two great children – Melanie and Dave who now live in Needham and Chestnut Hill. I have happily become a grandfather of a beautiful girl named Ava who is named for Ada, who battled cancer for nine years and passed away in 2023. Ada was a truly unique woman whose joyful life and incredible spirit touched everyone around her.

For the last sixteen years I have been an operating partner with Advent Global Private Equity focusing on the U.S. restaurant segment. It has been a terrific chapter in my business career and I now have “semi-retired” and serve on the First Watch Restaurant Group Board. My transition to a different life phase has included becoming a Florida resident in Boca Raton and playing a lot of golf and pickleball. I still enjoy spending the spring and summers in the Boston area with my family and friends and shuttle between Newton and Mashpee. I have been fortunate to meet a very special woman, Caryn Effron, with whom I have developed a great relationship.

Fifty years is a long time. When I think back to my RL days I am grateful for six full years of challenge, personal growth, and the setting of a foundation that has helped along my life journey. Perseverance, resilience and rigor have been lessons well taught and will always be remembered.

Anthony Kwan

Email: tkwan98@hotmail.com

Phone: 781-315-1708

Address: 47 Parker St Unit 1 Quincy MA 02169

Spouse: Sabrina Sun-Kwan

Children: Nicole Kwan, Timothy Kwan, Jason Kwan

Education and degree(s) after RL: Bachelor of Arts in Microbiology - Cornell University Master of Health Science - The Johns Hopkins School of

Hygiene and Public Health Certificate of Applied Sciences in Software EngineeringHarvard Extension School

My first year 1970 was my favorite year, full of promises and optimism under headmaster Richmond Mayo-Smith. He was one of the mentors during the Beaver Country Day orientation. My family had emigrated to Boston in 1966 so I had no ideas how to dress or to buy a sleeping bag for the overnight camping trip. But Mayo-Smith and Mr. Dilworth (my favorite teacher) made it enjoyable for me, at least during the day when I was not freezing.

Headmaster Mayo-Smith would be someone I could have comfortably consulted in my senior and junior years. I really did not know what “preparatory” meant till I was a senior so I had not developed a college strategy. It was all “on a wind and a prayer” that I got through the college process, with help from Mr. Hanson.

I don’t know how much RL now prepares the juniors for the college process, especially for students whose families had only recently emigrated to Boston.

Mr. Dilworth introduced us to the Battle of Thermopylae as well as The Hobbit and To Kill a Mockingbird. It was such an eclectic year of reading literature and learning the rules of grammar that I never found another equally challenging English class of ideas after the Sixies year.

After RL, I studied Microbiology at Cornell and Public Health at Johns Hopkins.

After a couple of years in the health field, I studied computer programming at Harvard Extension. From there, I worked the gamut of application programming from mainframe to client/server to the internet to finally, mobile app and AI, from which I retired.

While working as a married programmer, I found living in suburban Reading for 30 years to be a waste of natural resources, trying to manicure Nature with lawn and landscape, to conform with our neighbors. Conformity and lack of diverse thoughts seem to be valued in the suburban school and community living. We have downsized to Quincy.

Notable accomplishments are your evolving relationships with your wife and children. My wife Sabrina and I have been up and down on the East coast and the West, Chicago, Hawaii, Canada, Denmark, and London. I have briefly used my RLS French in Quebec and Montreal.

We have walked many miles together in San Francisco and in Vancouver but we also share and appreciate each other. One day I hope to enjoy the Australian Open in Melbourne.

Did our children learn from our morals/values and are capable of critical thinking? Nicole, Tim, and Jason have matured, found their partners, and are pursuing their own careers, different from their parents.

It is about as best as we have prepared and hope for them. All those visits to different museums, cultural events, and historical sites have kept them open-minded.

In retirement, I’ve varied and improved my tennis game. To my RL classmates, if you wish to pick up a tennis racquet and not a golf club or a pickleball paddle and are in the South Shore, I will be glad to play with you Anywhere. See you at the 50th Reunion!

Rick Lake

I suffered a brief metaphorical period of unconsciousness after opening Mike Giarla’s letter on our upcoming 50th reunion. Half a century? What? We all blinked and here we are.

Heck, what happened?

I left RLS and majored in Folklore & Mythology at Harvard. That makes me a trained storyteller. Since Harvard, I have divided my years between finance and the performing arts. One pays for the other. Guess which is which.

A triumph of my performing arts endeavors was dancing a Mambo in Moscow at one of the most prestigious Ballroom and Latin dance competitions in the world: The Kremlin Cup. My mambo coach and brother from another mother,

Benito Garcia, and I had been touring the US and world with our side-by-side Mambo and Cha Cha routines based on the macho club dancing of the 1950s.

Actually, unknown to all, the routine was really based on the unintentionally comic teenage performance of George Curtis, Jim Curry and I in “Count Yorga and the Three Stooges”, in which we mistakenly drove our plywood car into the set in Rousmaniere Hall causing it to collapse on all 3 of us to the delight of the audience.

Benito and I also brought down the house in the exquisite Kremlin ballroom. During our improbable standing ovation (when the announcer said in Russian that we were the most popular dancers of the evening, despite being the most primitive), all I could think was: “Sweet irony. You Russkies chased my ancestors out of here a century ago and now you stand and applaud.” The real honor? Being that kid-at-heart on the parquet floor with some of the most exquisite professional Latin dancers on the planet. It was my personal Dancing With the Stars.

grandchildren, my wife and I carpool our son to debate tournaments, after-school activities, and his volunteer work to serve the less fortunate and make the world a better place. We go to the Kennebunks in Maine every summer where Jenny and I have been going for more years than we can remember.

My first job offer out of college was to be a resident playwright at a small theater in Vermont. The bus tickets to Boston would exceed the pay, so they offered me a free bunk in the barn. I become a stockbroker instead. Most of my years in finance were spent with my brother, Ron RLS ’76, as we launched Lake Partners, one of the nation’s first hedge fund consultants. That journey lasted for three decades, which included a decade at the helm of a mutual fund, and an invitation from the SEC to speak in Washington, DC. Of course, we also launched a hedge fund-offunds called the Exelauno Fund.

My performing arts activities have also included producing and writing for the musical theatre. My theatre creations have included The Last Mambo and Rhythm of Love (ballroom dance shows), Elephant & Castle (bringing Alice in Wonderland to the London Blitz), and Oy Vey to Broadway (an ode to the American songbook).

My theatre activities led me to my greatest achievement: marrying Jenny Ober, my theatrical muse and partner, not long before my 50th birthday, the same week I got my first membership solicitation from the AARP. (I tore it up.) Our 16-year-old son is now a sophomore in high school and a rising champion debater.

My tardiness on this family endeavor can only be attributed to being a clueless, socially impaired graduate of an all-boys school. While most of you are spoiling your

Career-wise I now produce thought leadership and content for alternative asset managers nationwide, having had to read all their jibber jabber for so long. Basically, I am an RLS English teacher for portfolio managers of complicated strategies who are too distracted to put clear sentences together. I have even won a variety of national awards for doing what we were expected to do in English class in 10th grade. Go figure.

As an old dog who has learned new tricks, I also write, speak, and run university symposia on how digital transformation and AI is changing the asset management industry at light speed. Not bad for a guy who learned how to type on his grandfather’s Underwood.

And of course, not a day goes by when I do not think of my blessed parents in heaven, who guided me to the doors of Roxbury Latin.

What’s next? I hear the tick-tock of the mortal clock. The pressure of time compels me to make a worthy life for my family and to finish all those damn musicals I’ve been working on for what feels like forever. You’re all invited to that dream Broadway opening I’ve yearned for across the years.

Bob Lipson

My first stop after RLS was actually Tampa, Forida where I honed my tennis skills for two months and then played in a whole bunch of tournaments down there and then around New England. However, the next fall my visions of tennis glory were quickly disabused on my first day at Harvard. All five of us in my rooming group had visions of tennis glory including one roommate who would be the top player all four years. It turned out for the best as I realized there were way more interesting things to do on campus. And it was there that I took several architecture courses and developed my life-long passion for architecture. After getting my MArch from Washington University in St. Louis, I headed to New York City where I’ve lived and practiced ever since.

As an architect, I always say: “you are what you build.” Over the last 40 years I have been fortunate to work at several firms on a wide array of project types all over the world. I’ve done a commercial skyscraper in Dallas; Detroit Tigers ballpark; hospitals in Princeton, Brooklyn, and the Bronx; corporate headquarters for advertising agencies in NYC; Barney’s department stores in NYC

and Beverly Hills; hotels in Minneapolis and Chicago; numerous restaurants including one for Gordon Ramsay in London; and many residential projects including my first project in the Boston area which was a house in Wellesley.

I am currently working at 1100 Architect where my most recent work has been for various government agencies –hospital renovations for the Veterans Administration; the historic restoration of a WPA era rec center and pool; and several embassy and consulate projects for the US State Department. If you are curious, check out my photos on www.Lipson.net.

On the home front, I have been married to Felicia, a Winsor girl, for 35 years. One of the first things we did when she moved to NYC was get Knicks season tickets together. They’ve been the one constant throughout our marriage. One of these seasons they might win it all. Another constant is we both love to travel and have spent most of our vacation time checking out great buildings and great art around the world. Felicia has had a long career in marketing and product management and is still at it.

Our oldest daughter Sophie is in her second year of surgical residency at Geisinger Hospital in Danville, PA. Our son Gregory is an aspiring Broadway producer currently working for Inside Tix, a company that sets the ticket prices for several Broadway shows including Hamilton. Neither of

our kids particularly enjoyed checking out buildings. But in the 2010’s my daughter and I decided it would be fun to try to climb the stairs to the top of the tallest building on each continent. We made it to the top of Chicago, Santiago, Melbourne, Johannesburg, and as high as they would let us go in the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The tallest European building is in St. Petersburg, but when we asked we got nothing but nyet, nyet, nyet.

Two final reminiscences. For almost 25 years, I played hoops with the same group of guys in a local lawyers league. (They were lawyers, I was supposed to be a ringer.) We were leading our division when Covid shut everything down. That, and old age, put an end to our visions of hoops glory. We are still good buddies, but now we just watch games. Second, in the early 2000’s, I got to know a few professional pool players form my local pool hall. They asked me to join the board of the United Professional Poolplayers Association and help them develop their billiards tour. I actually produced a few events that were broadcast on ESPN. The most exciting was the one held at Grand Central Station. But I’m pretty sure you didn’t see it because it was broadcast the same night as Game 4 of the 2004 World Series. That was the end of my producing career.

Looking forward to seeing everyone soon.

Paul Marcovitch

Email: paulovitch58@gmail.com

Cell: 312-532-8842

Address: 3621 N. Campbell Ave., Chicago, IL 60618

Spouse: Christine Young

Children: Will (20), Mali (17)

Education post RL: NSHS*, Columbia University, BA, Northwestern University School of Law

Professional career: Lawyer. First at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago for 3 years, and since 1987 at the Law Office of PBM.

Favorite RL teachers: Mr. Davey and Mr. Dillworth.

Favorite class: 8th grade English with Mr. Mergondoller.

Best memories: A bunch of good kids.

• I know, I know. I didn’t exactly graduate from RL but I gave it a good faith effort. And I did graduate from a high school.

John Poulson

415.828.1177 pianosoldier@gmail.com

Thank you for the invitation to the reunion. Unfortunately, I can’t make it.

I finished high school at Lawrenceville School , in Lawrenceville in NJ and can;t make that one either. I graduated college at University of Rochester ‘81.

Married to Dr. Joan Steidinger, a clinical psychologist- 25 years plus the 5 years it took her to convince me. Great partner and co-conspirator. My wife and I retired this year.

It’s going to be a busy spring. We are selling our long term home in Marin county, CA and moving to Sonoma county. My wife Joan and I have lived in Mill Valley, CA for 36 years and are ready for a quieter, slower pace. We’re preparing our house to sell and are planning on downsizing the house but increasing the amount of land. Joan is going to walk the Camino in Spain and I’ll be heading over to meet her and take some holidays in Spain and Portugal.

We’re lucky to live in Mill Valley, in Marin county. Great spot for the outdoor enthusiast, blue water sailors, high altitude trekkers, divers, open water swimmers, cyclists, hikers, trail runner (Joan). We’re a mile above town on Mt. Tamalpais and share quarters with two goofy Golden retrievers. My golf exploits extend to wacking my way around our town’s nasty little golf course. I can no longer swing a golf club but there are plenty of great courses in the Bay Area, the Monterey Peninsula as you know is packed with world class tracks.

I spent 10 years in pleasure yacht building, marketing and

sales for boat builders from Taiwan to France. I never made any money at it, but it did land me a place in France for a few years.

When I got serious, I spent the next 30 years in various aspects of environmental engineering, and construction.

I’m a keyboard player and have been in a bunch of bands and gigged all over the bay area. Again for no money. John Poulson “Pianosolder” on YouTube.

Former sponsors of an orphanage in Kathmandu, Nepal. We met the adults and children on our way to Everest in 2010. We would return 10 times, establishing a foundation and raising money.

We’re sponsors of the United States Olympic and Paralympic team, Rotary members with interest in hands-on community service. Now we’re scouting for a retirement in Sonoma County.

I recently caught up with Tim Hinman who mentioned the reunion. I still get back to MA periodically and would love to get together with some of you guys. It would be gr eat to hook up on the Cape. One of my good mates from here is originally from Cambridge. He and his wife moved back to the Cape a couple years ago. They’re in Truro and we visit them most summers. I have been coming every Memorial Day but can’t swing it this year with the move. I’m probably going to come through next spring.

Mark Richardson

Email: markbus4106@gmail.com

Cell: 617-827-7119

Address : 30 Roundtree Drive, Duxbury MA 02332

Spouse: Priscilla

Children: Jennifer (34), Sarah (30), Andrew (27)

Education and degree(s) after RL:

BA Hamilton College, ’81

MBA Columbia University ‘86

Fun Fact and/or Hobbies

Biking, hiking, cross country skiing, snowmobiling

Favorite RL Teacher or RL Memory

Bob Ryan – Biology Teacher and Wrestling Coach

Brief Bio:

Greetings to Roxbury Latin School and Class of ’76 classmates! It’s hard to believe it has been 50 years, I had to do the math twice on the reunion this year to make sure it was correct! I come from an RL family, my father and my 2 brothers all attended.

RL was a special place for me, and I look back on it with fond memories - the masters, the students, the facilities, and the experience. Not to mention the education. I enjoyed sports including soccer, lacrosse, and wrestling. The highlight was winning the Graves Kelsey personally and team-wise in senior year. I enjoyed being president of the outing club planning hiking and canoe trips to

New Hampshire and other locations, venturing off in the school van accompanied by volunteer teachers such as Yerbaugh and Ryan. The best part has been forging lifelong friendships in high school that continue to this day in various get togethers throughout the year including George’s house and my place in Vermont (you know who you are)!

My career path has been in bus industry management, an interest which began in college driving sightseeing bus tours on Marthas Vineyard for 4 summers and driving charter buses at Hamilton College transporting sports teams and tour groups. A highlight was driving to the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid 3 times in 1980. In my driving days I have driven groups all over the country including New England, New York City, Washington DC, Penn Dutch Country, Florida and Canada. I’ve managed several private bus companies in MA, CT, VT, NY, and have served in public sector ground transportation management at Reagan and Dulles Airports in DC and

Logan Airport in Boston (Massport). In 1984-86 I attended Columbia University in NYC to earn an MBA degree. In 2014 I served as President of Limoliner for 5 years (daily luxury bus service between Boston and NYC), thenstarted in 2020 in my current position as General Manager at South Station Bus Terminal in Boston for a commercial real estate firm under contract to the property owner, MBTA. For the past 5 years I’ve been involved with a capital project with Hines Development to add a new passenger concourse onto the bus terminal, adding 13 new bus gates for a total of 42, and connecting the bus terminal with the train station; along with a 51-story high rise tower above. I recently hosted a Roxbury Latin Alumni Real Estate group for Mike Price for a presentation and tour of the facility.

I continue to enjoy empty-nester life in Duxbury with my wife Priscilla, and head up to our vacation home in northeast Vermont once or twice a month all year around. Retirement could be a possibility in a few more years! Best wishes to all of you.

Bob Ryan

Email: ryanconslt@aol.com

HEY BOYS, 50 FREAKING YEARS AGO we left together in that tumultuous winter/spring of 1976, and, for me, while it was difficult and stressful to be sure, I have always felt a strong connection with you for providing strong support ( the walkout ) and exciting moments ( the truly 2 made-for-movies wrestling endings with the Friday night out-of-the coffin comeback at Nobles capped by160 pound David Howard pinning the 240 pound Nobles heavyweight, followed a week later by the slimmest margin of victory in Graves-Kelsey history made possible by the remarkable performances of Ken Bent, Fred Kenny, Mark Richardson and Ed Seadale.

Okay, so what have I been up to over the past 50 (YIKES!!! ) years? Let me try to cover it in several categoriesprofessional/career; family; interests/adventures; causes.

Professional/Career: My years ( 1967 - 1976 ) at RL

activated my deep interest in human behavior - individual, group, organizational - particularly what motivates individuals and groups to perform well was/has been my core interest. So, I pursued getting into the field somehow, and, continuing my serendipitous career journey, in 1977 fortuitously I joined McBer & Company, a small Back Bay boutique applied behavioral sciences consulting organization founded and headed by David C. McClelland, chair of the Harvard Social Relations Department and one of the foremost research psychologists of the 20th century - most known for his Theory of Motivation and pioneering work on Job Competency Assessment, leading to the leadership and management models defining the importance of Emotional Intelligence. I was lucky enough to be on the ground floor of applying these models just as the organizational behavior field took off. I ended up working with hundreds/(into the) thousands of managers and leaders in all manner of organizations and industries. In a nutshell, I would describe my work as being a bit of an organizational anthropologist, identifying individual and group behavioral patterns which needed to be modified to improve bottomline performance, while at the same time, improving job satisfaction and motivation. Ten years later I became president and ceo. One side effect of doing this work is that it took me from my 15 minute commute from Brookline to West Roxbury to traveling all over the country and around the world - stimulating, challenging and very satisfying work. And, guess what!, a major driver in choosing this path was the stark contrast behind my own RL experience of working under 2 bosses with vastly different leadership styles - the first was one who emphasized participation in developing inspiring goals and taking initiative, leading to my feeling energized and determined to give it my all, and, the latter, whose style was all about “do it my way”, leading to my feeling disheartened, angry and unmotivated. As an aside, his choice of apparel for his portrait speaks volumes.

Family/Interests: somehow Ellen put up with me all these years. I have 2 great children - my 44 year old son Rob, who lives in London and has delivered three wonderful grandchildren who bring me great joy - and my, 39 year old daughter Tara … here is a great small world story - who do I meet 45 years ago at her kindergarten parents night? - Steve Kane ( great reconnecting! ). Among our most enjoyable family activities were extended camping tripsmany in the National Parks in the Rockies. I also did a lot of running ( until a knee gave out ), caught the golf bug, and did some coaching of my kids’ baseball and soccer.

Causes: over the past 25 years I have devoted a considerable amount of my time to social and climate justice endeavors. In 2000 I joined the Interaction Institute for Social Change assisting a wide variety of organizations and individuals in public schools, public health, community development, and the climate crisis movement. I am a cofounder and active member of Elders for Climate Justice, a member of 350 Newton, and an advisor to a student groupClimate Justice Boston College. Fellas, if I might leave you with one plea to consider involving yourselves in - the science is irrefutable re the crisis/ emergency point nature of the Earth’s climate and the current and coming consequent catastrophic consequences. Needless, to say, you can only imagine how upset I am by our country’s incomprehensible rollback of all variety and scope of commitment and actions to address this existential predicament - led by our train wreck of a president and his dreadful lieutenants.

I hope that you are all doing well, and I would be very happy to connect with any of you - so please reach out if you feel so inclined.

Davidpaulsachs@gmail.com

561-441-5228

6185 NW 31st Ave

Boca Raton, FL 33496

Divorced

Brianna, 30, lives in Chicago, IL. Brianna is a consumer public relations manager for United Airlines.

Jared, 29, lives in Westchester County, NY. Jared will graduate from medical school in May 2026 and start his orthopedic surgery residency at Westchester Medical Center in July 2026.

Brett, 24, lives in NYC. Brett is a CPA and auditor and works for Ernst & Young.

Jill, 22, lives in Orlando, FL. Jill will graduate from college in May 2026 and plans to do graduate studies to become a clinical psychologist.

I earned a B.S. in Chemistry in 1981 and an M.D. in 1985, both from Tufts University.

I completed my residency in Neurological Surgery at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, NY, in 1991. I have been in private practice in Palm Beach County, FL, since 1991. Currently, I work at both Level l Trauma Centers in Palm Beach County.

After I got divorced, my children lived with me full-time.

I hired another neurosurgeon, who was a good friend from residency, to do some of my work and cover for me so I could have more free time and be a full-time, handson dad. This allowed me to become very close with my kids and to have many wonderful experiences with them. Prioritizing spending my time being a father was the best decision I ever made. We’ve taken many fun and interesting family trips around the United States and the world. These included a month at a Spanish language school in Costa Rica and a summer in Alberta, Canada, where I learned about robotic surgery and intraoperative MRI at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. We love to go to sporting events together. Once or twice each year we all fly to the closest airport to a stadium where there is a game we want to see and explore the area. Most recently, we flew to Memphis in November and drove to Oxford, Mississippi, for the Ole Miss Rebels vs. Florida Gators football game. Three of my kids attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, so I’ve spent a lot of time there. For 30 years I had a busy general neurosurgery practice. I trained in the era before neurosurgery became highly subspecialized which allowed me to have a surgical practice with incredible variety. I did surgery for brain tumors, hydrocephalus, head trauma, spine trauma, spine tumors and other spinal conditions including spinal stenosis and herniated discs. Two years ago I closed my elective practice and now focus solely on being a neurosurgical hospitalist doing emergency and trauma care for patients with head trauma and acute stroke. It’s still fun to work with my colleagues in the hospital and a big challenge to take care of sick patients. On average, I take three weeks off for every 7-day shift that I work, so I have plenty of free time. Look forward to seeing everyone!

Mr. Whitney was my favorite teacher because of the high quality of the learning experience he provided, both in the classroom and in the science labs he taught.

Kevin Sharkey

Roxbury Latin’s Class of 1976 was so special to me, but I think you already knew that. You were so gifted academically---it was a challenge for me each day to try to teach, to encourage learning , and to challenge you academically every day. I loved the challenge.

Of course, after classes were over, we were free to pursue my 2 favorite sports, basketball & baseball. Even though I was privileged to serve as an assistant varsity coach with the great Bill Chauncey for 3 years (what an extraordinary human being) and loved throwing BP every spring day at practice (Bill Chauncey was always the best hitter on the field each day), I loved, simply loved, coaching and teaching basketball to you and your JV teammates. Since leaving RLS, I have coached more than a dozen basketball teams of all types, i.e., college women at Lasell College, varsity boys at St. Paul’s for my son’s senior year (no booing, please), all of my son Brian’s and my daughter Megan’s teams from grades 3-8, another half dozen or more Town of Bow youth travel teams, AND yet your JV group was my favorite. Your group worked so hard and with such energy and enthusiasm each day, gave maximum effort and then some in games, and were a joy to be around. That group epitomized the phrase “ The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” So thanks again to your JV group for bringing me so much more joy than I imparted to you!

As to the reunion gathering, I can not really commit to attending at this moment. As a senior citizen, I have the usual array of health issues that sometimes interfere with my attending reunions. I will skip the long list and recitation of replacement body parts and various surgeries that I have had. But over the last few years, I

have been battling leukemia with the help of the docs and staff at MGH. Right now I am in remission but relapses have occurred and will likely occur again. If so, chemo drugs work wonders for me, but while I am on the drug regimen and for a period thereafter my immune system is compromised and I follow my doctors’ orders to avoid larger groups like reunions.

So , please keep me informed about reunion plans for May 1st at George Curtis’ home since, with the ok from my oncologist, it is possible I could drive down to Weymouth that day. I will know more right before May 1st. I will pass, however, on the formal gathering at RLS although I am curious to see what the new & renovated buildings and athletic fields look like and what my old home in West Roxbury looks like now.

I hope that this note finds you and all your families well. I am still married to my wonderful Nancy, the absolute love of my life for more than 55 years (Yikes!). My son Brian, who played college basketball & baseball at Carlton College and then professionally (basketball) in Ireland, is carrying on the Sharkey coaching tradition by coaching all three of my grandkids’ basketball teams this year (6th grade girls, 4th grade boys, 2nd grade girls). So I couldn’t be happier attending as many of their games as my leukemia docs permit.

Thanks for giving me a chance to reminisce.

Best,

Kevin (You need not call me Mr. Sharkey any longer but whatever you are comfortable with is fine with me.)

kevinsharkey65@gmail.com

Steve Shuman

I started a year later than many of you, which could have made it awkward. Instead, I found a welcoming group of individuals/classmates and some warm and compassionate teachers. Bob Ryan and Kevin Sharkey helped with the transition, and they were incredibly supportive when I needed it most.

Post RL- After Graduating RLS and attending Salem State University for 1 year, I took a year off, working 2 jobs and growing up. I took 3 weeks off in August of ’78 and drove across the country with a good friend. There were so many highlights and a newfound appreciation of the beauty that we have in America and the Coors brewery. I was able to transfer to UMASS Amherst business school for my sophomore year, Graduating with a BBA.

Having found a Passion for Solar Energy; but no job opportunities, I ended up working for an energy conservation company which transferred me to SoCal for 3 years.

Living in Huntington Beach, Ca. could certainly be considered an extension of college.

I liked the work, the weather and the lifestyle but without cell phones, or ease of communication, I decided to head back East.

Settling Down-Career, Marriage and ChildrenBack in the Boston area, I started working in our Family business, manufacturing and supplying shoe components to footwear factories.

Eventually, moving to Metrowest and having a second boy, Jason (now 35, living in NYC as a Venture Capital Investor). We settled down between Framingham and Sudbury for 30 years.

I found a new passion coaching youth baseball, soccer and even a little basketball (I still played for a while too).

Ultimately, having a third child, a daughter, Jenna (now 26 who works in the same elementary school in Sudbury that she attended). We still do our annual ski weekend and have pasta dinners on Thursday nights.

This job led me to travel first throughout the USA, then Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, parts of Europe, Mexico, China and finally the Dominican Republic. Theres a lot of frequent flyer miles notched on my belt.

After getting married and having our first child, Jeffrey, (now 38, living in Boston and doing residential real estate) I ended up back in West Roxbury. Living in a condo at Park Place (I always wanted to own this and Boardwalk) on VFW Parkway.

NowadaysYou can find me living back in Newton with my Fiancé Linda (we were just engaged in November ’25). I’m still working in the same field, but with perhaps a little less intensity.

Working out, Walking, Playing Tennis and Pickle ball and looking forward to traveling more for pleasure than for business.

Enjoying and Appreciating Family, Friends and Holidays together whenever possible.

My mother is still around at 91 living in Natick. Available to assist with any teas. Still asking about Bob Ryan.

RL gave me a strong education, one that I didn’t realize until I got to college, kind Friends and many supportive teachers. Good times on the playing fields and in the gym. The opportunity to try different things and be myself in a safe environment.

Dave Simpson

A life-long student, I attained the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree in 2023 at the University of Liverpool. My dissertation centered on impediments to adopting innovative technologies in government agencies. The DBA complements an MS Finance from the University of Colorado, the AB from Harvard in Psychology, and I am a CFA charter holder. Basically, after not finding meaningful work in my 20’s, I caught on with Charles Schwab in the early 90s and started building an academic foundation in finance attending classes in the evening (and then just kept going).

Around 2005, wanting to transition towards institutional money management, I moved to Durango, Colorado and began working for the Ute Indian’s portfolio where

I cut my teeth on private equity. For twenty years, I managed portfolios for two county pension plans (SF and LA) sandwiched around a five-year adventure working for a Saudi family office based in Dubai. Across my career, I underwrote over $3 billion in commitments to private equity, venture capital, credit, and infrastructure investments globally. In my 50s, I went from having three stamps in my portfolio to now having close to forty on virtually every continent.

I served on numerous Advisory Committees and spoke at conferences globally. I was a strong advocate for DEI and emerging market investments, evidenced by my service as a member of ILPA’s Diversity and Inclusion Council and as a judge on LAVCA’s annual ESG Deal Awards competition. I was also honored to assist Pastor Mike (Kenneth) Bent and the Archdiocese of Massachusetts as they wrestled with an approach to reparations.

A true renaissance man, I am also an award-winning filmmaker. My 18-minute allegorical animated short, “The Incredible Journey of Oscar Berger” (https://youtu.be/ ixWGFxb-zrE) played in festivals globally (in categories

as diverse as children’s, environmental, and spiritual) and won the prestigious Platinum Award at the International Film Festival in Malaysia. I am a competitive tennis player and winner of two USTA 4.5 level tournaments, and I have cashed in several Omaha 8OB World Series of Poker events.

Personally, I find the current period to be the most fascinating and liberating. My first job was in 1972, delivering newspapers alongside David Walker in Roxbury and Dorchester. And up until September of 2024, I was a full-time employee or student (or both). After leaving LACERA in 2024, I joined the faculty at the University of Miami where I teach Alternative Assets to undergraduate students. I continue to write screenplays, explore financial products, play with AI, and travel. Miami has proven a great locale for so many things I love to do. Tomorrow, I head to LA to check on my condo in the Pacific Palisades (still doing repairs from the fires a year ago), then on to Melbourne to watch the Aussie Open, a few days in Auckland, and a plunge at Waikiki Beach before returning to the States. Maybe I should have retired long ago!

Gerry

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on vacation, right?— since the procedure and I’m looking forward to continuing the tradition. (An interesting sidelight to that medical news: the whole process was assisted/influenced by Bruce Rosengard, a name you might recognize for obvious reasons.)

I remember you and your classmates. Characters all. You graduated the year I resigned my position at RL, and I also believe you and your classmates wrote a rather glowing appreciation of Bob Ryan and me in your yearbook. Hard to forget that kind of thing.

Unfortunately, my wife and I will be away on May 1st and 2nd and won’t be able to celebrate with you and your classmates. We’ll be in New Orleans for the Jazz and Heritage Festival from April 21 until May 6. We’d been going to the event for about thirty years but had to miss last year because I was having aortic valve replacement surgery so this will be my first “vacation” —retired folks are always

What I DO want you all to know is that I loved my time at RL and cherished my experience there. The circumstances leading to my resigning left me uncomfortable about returning or maintaining an active connection to the school in any way, but, as I’ve been reminded recently, the three years I spent at RL were fulfilling in so many ways. My appointment to the English department was my first full-time teaching gig and was a vibrant laboratory for working out all the things I hoped to accomplish as a teacher. I found some kindred spirits among my fellow faculty, I loved my students, and was inspired by the work. Can’t ask for better than that on your first shot.

The rest of my life? I’m satisfied with the road I traveled. I like to believe I did things my way (thank you, Frank Sinatra) but that perspective might be a bit of an overstatement. Hard to say. After I left RL, I taught in the Cambridge (MA) Public School system, first in its alternative high school program (The Pilot School) and then in its Dramatic Arts department. I wrote and directed a few plays. In the late 90’s I took some time off to write— the not-so-great American novel and a couple of screen plays for which I was well-compensated but which never made it to the big screen. I’ve made music since I

was twelve and I’ve worked as a stage director and writer for several youth programs over the years. I returned to teaching at Bentley University in 2000, first as an adjunct professor and then as full-time senior lecturer. I retired from professional life in 2014. My first marriage ended in divorce shortly after I left RL, and a few years later I met my beloved Mary Ann and we’ve been together for 45 years and counting. Since 2015 we have lived in East Falmouth on Cape Cod.

Enjoy your reunion and your time together. I’ll toast you from NOLA that weekend. Avanti!

David Walker

After graduating from Columbia University in 1980, I spent nearly 30 years in New York City working for various notfor-profit organizations. In 2008 I accepted a position in Costa Rica and relocated to Atlanta to work, part time, in that organization’s Atlanta office. And because I soon discovered Atlanta’s many charms-most especially the mild winters - I decided in 2011 to make Atlanta my permanent home.

Over the years, I have enjoyed domestic and international travel and NYC and Atlanta were perfect locations for that habit. I think I have visited nearly every state and 61 countries.

In my spare time, I have been an avid collector of etchings and engravings, as well as antique snuff and small boxes. I am also a passionate gardener and for nearly 20 years waged a losing battle with weeds at my farm in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. And a good book is always a welcomed friend any day and any time.

After retiring from full time work in 2019, I started a small consulting practice, Exelauno Associates LLC, which keeps me involved helping various not-for-profit organizations. Of course, my classmates applaud the creativity behind the selection of the name for my consulting practice!

While I have not had the opportunity to experience the joys of children of my own, my partner has a son, who is currently a sophomore at Yale, and I have also had the greatest of pleasure and joy of being a devoted “uncle” and friend to many young people who have matured into wonderful adults.

Much of who I am today and what I have accomplished, can be traced back to my time at Roxbury Latin School. I am grateful for the life-long habits of mind and discipline that RLS helped to nurture 56 years ago. And I am especially grateful for the many, many dear new and old RL friends that have enriched and blessed my life and so far, I have enjoyed the journey—And as the old school songs reminds us, “May thy luster of thy glory through thy children ever brighter grow.

Howard Zeprun

As most of you know, I moved out to California - land of sunshine, silicon and taxes - after retiring from the bagel industry at a young age. Sadly, unlike many around me, I did not invest $14 in crypto in 2010 and become a centibillionaire. I do, however, see myself as a very fortunate person and am grateful for the life I’ve had.

I get more fond every year of my memories of RL and each of you, as can happen with nostalgia. I am looking forward to the reunion. For some period of years I was able to join many of you at the Allston Depot for annual mini reunions the night before Thanksgiving, but it has been quite a while since those days. I envy that you all get together so often. Big shout out to George Curtis for what he’s done in that respect, as well as folks like Mike Giarla and Steve Kane who have helped keep the embers glowing over time. (And to John Connors and George Connelly, who make it a point to call me almost every year, even though they always seem to ask me for money.

One of the things that makes me appreciate you all so much looking back is when I consider how relatively well I was accepted into the class after joining you all in the middle of your RL lives. I was an insecure, awkward kid with a speech impediment and, while I know it didn’t always seem that way at that time, with the greater wisdom of a long life I appreciate just how decent and gracious you all were, and are.

But enough about you…

I am pleased to report that I have grown out of being an insecure, awkward kid to being an insecure, awkward older guy.

I moved out to California in 1983, after law school. During law school I interned two summers in NYC. I loved NYC and found out I enjoyed working on complicated financial transactions at a major law firm. As I contemplated whether the pace of that life was sustainable, however, I discovered a group of law firms in the Bay Area that were doing IPOs, mergers and other transaction work for emerging technology companies. These were small law firms where even young associates were given significant responsibility on deals. You will also recall I always enjoyed science, and technology, and got an engineering degree in college. So I was very excited by what was emerging then in northern California. I figured, if I go to a large firm in NY, I would spend my whole life there and never know anything else. If I go to Silicon Valley, if it did not work out I could always move back. It did in fact work out and I have had a very fulfilling career. I worked for Wilson Sonsini for 16 of 19 years as it grew from 56 attorneys to 700. In the middle of that I did a 3-year stint at Apple Computer that was probably the most fun job I ever had. Subsequently, in 2002, I joined a VC firm called Trident Capital as COO and GC, and then moved to a similar role in 2015 at its spinoff PE firm, Sunstone Partners. Like most lawyers, my career has been somewhat low profile, working in the background, and a big part of me prefers that. But I have been privileged to work with and socialize with many brilliant and very successful people, and have managed to tag along for on an undeservedly large number of special journeys along the way. I am currently on a path to cut back from full-time work at the end of this year, and then work half-time for 2 to 3 more years. I still enjoy what I do, but the older I get, the more tolerance I have for life in general but the less tolerance I have for annoyance at the office. So I am looking forward to cutting back.

Family…

I am married to Jane Chueh. Jane is still working as well. She is a high-risk obstetrician and clinical professor at Stanford Medical Center, and a rock star at what she does. The campus is less than a mile from our house, and Stanford has been a meaningful part of our lives in many ways. Becoming empty nesters has been great for us. We are in the best space we have ever been, and it seems to keep getting better. We have two girls (one each), four

years apart. The two of them largely grew up together. You will recall that I lost my first wife, Tai, close to 30 years ago. Jane and I have been together now for about 20 years. My Marilena, the older of the two, lives in Portland and works for Nike, while Jane’s Leah lives in LA and works for Fanatics. Yes, I get outstanding discounts on shoes and athletic apparel, and have a wall of Air Jordans. : ) The girls are each lovely, delightful, caring, and also very strong willed with its many pluses and definite challenges. Each of them has a long term boyfriend that Jane and I like a lot – we tell everyone, including the girls, that we love the girls but we like the boyfriends even more. No grandkids yet, but hoping that happens at some point soon (especially Jane, who sees newborns all the time). Envious of all you granddads. Marilena is getting married later this year, an excellent step in that direction.

Fun…

You will be pleased to know that I remain an avid Boston sports fan, and that we raised our daughters properly to love Boston teams and hate the Yankees. (Really, even if they did not like Boston teams, hating the Yankees would be enough.) We also love SF teams. And the girls also hate the Dodgers. I am so proud. They have seen 22 championships between the two cities since 2000. We have had Niners season tickets for many years, and frequent the other major sports teams as well. One side story will tell you all you need to know about Marilena: We are at a Niners Vikings game, and a very drunk Vikings fan is nonstop blowing this nordic horn he sneaked into the stadium. My 20-something daughter decides she has had enough. She stands up, commands his attention five rows behind us and says, “Hey, Buddy, that is not allowed here, stop doing that or we will get security to make you stop.” Of course the guy doesn’t stop. So my daughter actually goes and gets security, points out the guy, and they haul him straight out of the stadium. Marilena got a standing ovation from the entire section. Like I said, I am very proud of both of them.

I play a fair amount of golf. Less than I’d like and more than my back can take. I do belong to two golf clubs, Olympic and Sharon Heights, and I also have a great group of old friends that I travel with for golf. Between those guys and

other well connected friends I have managed to play a lot of golf at many great courses in my time. I will definitely be playing a lot more after I go half-time at work. Jane and I both like to travel and explore, and plan to travel more as we start to cut back, as I am sure is true with many of you. I actually hope to spend more time back near you all in the not too distant future, as we have recently joined the ranks of MA property tax payers.

I do still like to bake, particularly when I do not have to do so in front of an open 500 degree oven at 4 in the morning. In recent years I have refined my renditions of a number of items including challah, babka, pandebono, cheesy jalapeno bread and, most recently, a dark and rich rendition of Irish soda bread. I have made exactly one, very large, everything*, bagel since 1983 (see below).