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music festival in Live Oak, Florida. It was fantastic to reunite with Tom Skeele and listen to some fantastic music for three days.
Ralph Adler | Scott Craig David Baker Hello to all my “old” Suffield friends with a 40-year update! Doing great in Millis, Massachusetts, just west of Boston. Married to my amazing wife Carol for 26 years. Our oldest son David is in medical school in New York City. Our daughter Katie is at Boston College and will be staying for her masters. Jon is a junior at Boston College and plays football (#77). We enjoy going to his games in the fall. Go, BC Eagles! Go, NE Patriots!
1977 Charlie Alfano | Bob Clark | Ed Kaplan Jim Baker I am living in Ridgefield, Connecticut, with my wife Diane. Our two daughters are in New York City and Baltimore. Our oldest daughter Carolyn, who lives in Baltimore, was married last October. I retired after 32 years at Unilever, and I am now working for a privately owned company in Guilford, Connecticut. I will definitely be at our 40th Reunion. Chris Cardone Moved to The Villages, Florida, and working from home. I’m in my 16th year with New York Life Insurance Company doing corporate sales. Tom Skeele After 20 years in the field of land and wildlife conservation, in 2010 I shifted my focus from the US Northern Rockies to an international context with a focus on human communities. Since 2010, I have lived and gained a variety of practical work experiences in Central America, Ecuador, Washington DC, New York City, western Colorado, and western Oregon. In late 2015, I landed in Santa Cruz, California, thus fulfilling a recently-emerged desire to live in a coastal community. As for my late-career shift, I am presently serving as the communications and development director for a rural community development nonprofit called Trailblazer Foundation, which is focused on Cambodia’s Siem Reap province (home to the world famous Angkor Wat complex of ancient religious temples). Rick Smith Ran into an old classmate that I have not seen since graduation day in 1977 at a
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1978 Lisa Longo | Ed Palomba Ed Palomba Things are going great! I am looking forward to being a grandfather in August 2016.
1979 Matt Cartmell | Ruth Kennedy Renee McDaniel Margolis Lisa Palomba Deni | Bob Stanley Stephen Dutcher Nothing too exciting going on down here in sunny Florida. I’m busier than a onearmed paper hanger with sales. Buying 30 acres up in the mountains of North Carolina. Went to Panama in May and attended the World Congress for FIABCI, which is the largest and oldest international real estate organization in the world. Other than that, any and all alumni are welcome to come visit Stuart, Florida. I live in a resort community on the east coast of Florida, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the mile-wide Indian River on the other side. Nancy Follansbee I work in the Immigration Department of Cohen and Gigsby in Pittsburgh. Someday, I will come to a reunion. It certainly is a gorgeous campus. Jim Meyer Wow, that was the fastest 36 years of my life! I hope all my classmates are well. I am still on 7th Avenue in the fashion world. My oldest just graduated from Penn State, and my daughter graduates from Alabama in May. That leaves one in college. My wife Carly and I are actively looking to get out of New Jersey and will be relocating south to Charleston, South Carolina. I will be walking my dogs on the beach drinking eggnog in December. Please look me up if you are coming to town (like I need an excuse to have fun). Might be time for another graduation party; be well my friends. Life is short, because now we are considered old! Regards, JM. Bob Stanley Our youngest daughter Olivia is a member of the Suffield Class of 2016 and is headed
to George Washington next year. Eldest daughter Jordan ’13 is a rising senior at Elon University. Our affiliation with Suffield since the fall of ’75—I as a student, Anne and I as faculty members and as parents— has been a gift that keeps on giving. Fred Tolsdorf All is great in Louisville, Kentucky. My daughter Alexandra graduated from Centre College and is heading to graduate school. My son Wesley is a sophomore at Rhodes College in Memphis.
1980 Jim Hagan | Mary Carroll Graham Lewis | Joe Palomba Bruce Burdge Still living in Tampa, Florida, where we moved in 1992, and continuing to run a business investing in commercial real estate. My wife Katherine and I are about to be empty nesters! Our son Spencer (18) has been recruited to row for Stanford University, the same college where our daughter Taylor (22) was also recruited to row four years earlier (she graduated this spring). We cannot believe we have four more years of traveling to Palo Alto, California, for college visits, but being empty nesters, the travel will be easier! We still spend the summers in Mystic, Connecticut, so look me up if you are in the area. Last year I saw Jeff Randall and Craig Poller ’81 at our Skidmore College reunion. Tucker Killam Michelle and I are thrilled that we are able to enjoy the Suffield Academy community as our children Thomas ’19, Kate ’19, and John ’18 are members of the sophomore and junior classes. Living so close affords us the opportunity to enjoy all that Suffield has to offer parents and alumni. Watching games and attending events brought back so many great memories of my days at SA! Dan Pease I can’t believe where all the time has gone. I graduated from Suffield 36 years ago. I plan on retiring in six years. I hope to stop by and visit campus soon. I was hoping to see my study hall friend Bruce Burdge last year but couldn’t make it. Justin Salvio I hope all my classmates are well. It’s fun seeing how folks are doing on Facebook. My daughter Maya just finished her second year at Smith, and my son Noah will be starting at Eastern Connecticut State University in September.