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Sotheby’s to Douglas Elliman. I’m sure it will be a good move. Kelly Dwight Heuga-Hamill came out to Aspen for my birthday again this year. It was a fun weekend of skiing and merriment. I’m so lucky that Kelly always takes such great photographs of our adventures. She’s such a talent! Lisa Berman Edmunds and Edith Keville joined me on an impromptu trip to the beach this past spring. Had such a great and relaxing time. The most vigorous exercise of the trip was laughing hysterically. Just what the doctor ordered after a long winter season. I also see Marka Brenner McLaughlin and Suzie Linton Ver Schure for nice hikes or lunch. Kelly Dwight Heuga-Hamill: Seattle is an amazing place to live! I’ve been here with my husband Geoff and two dogs, Roxy and Killy, for 20 years now. Having retired from a successful corporate real estate career, I’ve been focusing on health and transformation with passion endeavors, such as VP of the Jimmie Heuga Endowment Board, which provides support to Multiple Sclerosis programs, all things dogs, and photography. We travel a lot, mainly back home to Colorado and L.A., to visit the multiple litters of sibling from my Heuga/Dwight tribe. After recent trips to Hawaii and two new hips, I’m trading in my ski bunny tiara for beach life! Hillary Fleischer: I live in Walnut Creek because it’s the closest I could get to S.F. and still have warm summers. Happily divorced since 2000. I have three kids: Peanut, Junebug, and Rosie. They’re cats, siblings, and they’re 6. Seven years ago, I started an accounting firm that services small businesses and love watching my clients grow. I thoroughly enjoy being the boss and could never go back to working for somebody else. My free time is seriously limited but that’s okay because I’m the lead singer/manager of a rockin’ blues band called Loose Blues. We do about 50 shows a year and it’s super fun. I’m sure GT on the Rocks prepared me for this! It’s how I met the love of my life, John Chandler, who plays blues guitar in his own band when he’s not doing his day job in IT for the University of California. It’s so weird to say I’m 50. I don’t feel it, and I certainly don’t act it, but “live and learn” is the most accurate cliché ever. Wouldn’t give up the years and all those lessons for nuthin’! Life is good. (Note: I, (Mindy Malisoff Baggett), encourage you to follow the famous Hillary Lee and Loose Blues on Facebook. They are amazing and travel all over Northern CA. I suggest you hit up one of
their gigs if you are in the area.) Bridgette Lacerte: My son Diego Francisco de la Cruz Veras and I celebrated our birthdays on May 11. Mommy is 51 and Diego is 10. We share a birthday—weird, right? We live in Pasadena and Santa Ynez, CA. I just love being a full-time mom, and volunteering at his school, St. Monica Academy. Lesley Shreeve Clausen: I’m living in Portland and married. Drew is my oldest (19) and going to University of Oregon; Grant (17) is a junior in high school. Deborah Petteway: After I reached my fifth cancer-free anniversary and felt like the shackles of healthcare were released, I decided I need to add to the “stories” of my life’s book and improve my quality of life. I left a very stressful job as a PA in family practice, and moved up north to Alaska. No shopping malls, restaurants, alcohol. We have one grocery/hardware store; so pick up your reindeer meat and buy some ammunition and fishing line. Vegetables are hideously expensive and in small amounts. I order my vegetable box from Bethel Organic Farms. I live in a very remote part of the Yukon Territory called St. Mary’s, Alaska. It is on the Andreafsy River, near the mouth of Yukon River. I am the second PA at a rural health clinic where we treat patients in our village (550 people) and neighboring villages. Since here, I have been on three life flights traveling to other villages with the paramedic crew to get patients out of their small villages and bring them to our big town of Bethel where the “big” hospital is located. I delivered an 8 lb. baby girl in February. I had to place a chest tube for a pneumothorax on May 5, that was more exciting than a margarita for sure—feeling that big whoosh of air and he could breath better! My favorite thing is being able to see the elders (over 70) in their homes. This is very cool. I ride around on an ATV; no cars here unless you are a construction worker and have it barged in. When traveling to neighboring villages I have to carry a gun, for safety as there are lots of animals out here. I have seen fox and moose but still looking for the bear. It is a simpler life! I feel I have gained a decade in life expectancy due to reduced stress. I miss my friends for sure. My Sacramento crew, (Beth Skinner Harney, Dina Nassar Guill, Cathy Dee, Colleen Duffy) and I got together before I left. I must be doing something right as my son Justin says he is very proud of me. (Note: I, (Mindy Malisoff Baggett), had to send Debbie a care package of gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan treats because her little village had never heard of gluten-free
brown rice pasta or artichoke hearts.) Did I mention a stock of celery costs $11.95? Yep, you read that right! Suzie Linton Ver Schure: Dave and I are in year 19 of running our coffee shop, Abbey’s Coffee, in Summit County, CO. I also sit on a nonprofit board that raises funds for spay/ neuter and veterinary assistance for local pets and their humans. Other than that we’re usually found hiking, skiing or cycling, most often with our three dogs in tow. Dina “Ida” Nassar Guill: My third cookbook, Plank Grilling, came out last summer and this one was really special for me because four of the recipe testers for this book were my Santa Catalina classmates: Betsy Black, Susan Lockwood, Lisa Berman Edmunds, and Stacey Pruett Taddeucci. It was so much fun working with them on this book and I’m so grateful for their help. Plank Grilling can be found on Amazon. Lisa Berman Edmunds: We are back living in Scottsdale after a seven-year absence while my husband had business in Park City, UT. Very happy to be back! We have four children. Our oldest Charles (24), graduated from Boston College in 2013 and has been living and working in N.Y.C. ever since. He does sales and trading for Citicorp. Our oldest daughter, Caitlin, graduated from Chapman University this past June and is now working for Paypal doing analytics outside of Baltimore. In 2006, we welcomed home Andrew Feleke Ferede, an infant boy born in Ethiopia, he is now nine and such a great joy, full of life, love, and energy. Addison Hirut Tamirat came home to us in 2008 as a six-year-old and is now 12. I have the honor and privilege of being home to raise all four children and this past year, Scott and I celebrated our 25th year of marriage. Courtney Tunney Hotchkis: Loving this past summer! My daughters just started their senior year in high school and 7th grade. In June, we went on a wonderful river trip with my husband’s family down the Colorado River. We started in Moab and traveled about 90 miles down river to Lake Powell. I am happy to say we all survived, but only after my 12-year-old daughter and husband’s boat flipped in what is called Big Drop 2 and they rode the Class 5 rapid in the water! What a wild ride! Looking forward to seeing you at the class reunion. Catherine Dee: My husband Jonathan teaches sailing and does charters on S.F. Bay, and I’m a contract writer at Google. My sister, Sarah Dee Longaker ’86 and I really miss our mom, Fran, who died almost a year ago of Leukemia. She was