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1960s 1. Larry Cornell ’68 and Kay Burgunder Stevens ’68 volunteering at the Sidwell Friends Next-to-New Sale; 2. Laurie Price ’68 and her husband, Bryan; 3. Lyn Horton ’68; 1970s 4. Kathy Kleeman ’70
for the organization and gives presentations about it throughout the Los Angeles area. Evelyn also volunteers with her local Smith College alumnae club and has served on their board for four years. Evelyn had her music performance debut as bass guitarist at a small club in Canoga Park earlier this year. Deborah Horner Craydon: I’ve been married 33 years to a Brit/biochemist/science teacher, moving multiple times founding Waldorf High Schools in California, Colorado, and Hawaii. We have two Waldorf-educated kids—one an oceanographer/ surfer and the other a computer programmer. My book Floral Acupuncture (Random House, 2005) just became an e-book; I’ve been teaching healers online for eight years through my company Flora Corona. Randy Curtis: I am still at The Nature Conservancy after 28 years of enjoying many different assignments and challenges. I’m currently working on improving how hydropower dams are sited and built around the world and when they are more appropriate than alternatives. So far Mexico leads the way! I think often about my debt to Sra Supervia and the summer in Mexico City with her husband learning Spanish and
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Mexican history. One grandkid so far, a 6-year-old boy, who lives in Brooklyn and has asked his parents for a 3D printer for Christmas! Rolland Frye: Our son Jody Frye ’12 is now in his junior year at Kenyon College—he’s there with Chris Stevens ’13, the son of Kay Burgunder Stevens. I’m fencing again, after 15 months on “injured reserve” due to two pinched nerves, a resulting operation, and then a concussion. Still, it’s great fun sticking sharp metal implements into other people (yes, how Quakerly). Also, singing and acting again with the Washington Christmas Revels. We performed at Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, in December. . . . Took great trips this summer to Normandy (for the 70th anniversary of the invasion) and Brittany, and then Yellowstone and the Tetons. Finally, I’m still wearing my Sidwell Friends T-shirt that says, “Beat them ’til they reach consensus.” Catherine O’Neill Grace: Work remains more appealing than retirement, so Catherine has added writing for the Wellesley College alumni magazine to her freelance portfolio. “My first assignment was to drive to Saxtons River, Vermont, to
profile a landscape architect. I’m working now on a story about a Wellesley student who is fighting fracking through the Pennsylvania courts.” She’s also working on a memoir about her childhood in India in the 1950s and ’60s, which concludes in 8th grade at Sidwell Friends. She and her husband, Don, are happy to be back in Massachusetts after two years living in New York City. They settled in an apartment overlooking the Charles River in Waltham, and Don heads Thacher Montessori School in Milton. If you’re in the Boston area, give her a shout. Lyn Horton: The year 2014 proved to be a landmark for me. It started off with a trip to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos). The work in my April 2012 show at the Cross MacKenzie Gallery in DC (1625 Wisconsin Avenue, Georgetown) caught the eye of Virginia Shore, the curator of the Art in Embassies Program. As a result, she commissioned me to do a piece for the new US Embassy in Vientiane, Laos. The purpose of my first visit was a cultural exchange in which I learned about the textile industry and purchased many textiles from different regions of the country that would be incorporated into the piece I would install at the embassy. The story of that trip is
told here: http://bit.ly/1ATYRlo. In the interim, the work I did after I returned eventually wound up in a show at the Cross MacKenzie Gallery in September 2014. Installation photos of the show can be seen here: http:// bit.ly/1q1CqTE. At the opening of that show on September 12, I was greeted with the smiling face of Kay Burgunder Stevens and my dear friend and Sidwell Friends faculty member Ed Crow. It was really wonderful to see them both again. Kay has not changed a bit; she still looks as though she is trying out for the top cheerleader for the Sidwell Friends sports teams. Ed has not changed a bit either; he continually expresses his wry sense of humor. In December of this year, I will be traveling to Laos for the second time. I will be installing a piece for the State Department’s permanent art collection in Vientiane. It is a great honor to do so. I am excited and looking forward to the result. It has been a year in the making inside my mind. To see it will be a wonderful and exuberant experience after a full week of the installation process. Lynn McCown: I am absolutely loving retirement, dividing my time between Paoli, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC. Every day is an adventure. Right now we are in Italy exploring its many awesome