part of the Long Trail with Brian Greenho and our sons, catching a concert in Brooklyn with Scott Lewis, and a lobster bake with Bill Phipps and his family up to Maine. I also plan to see lots of Tom and Suzy Harris ’87 and their children while summering in Landgrove, Vermont. I hope to see more SA alums in the coming months as well.
how I learned the importance of what it means to be a part of something bigger than myself. All the best to everyone! Want to get in touch? Email me at destlund116@gmail.com.
Brinley Ford Ehlers I was recently appointed the head varsity field hockey coach at St. Luke’s School. I am very happy to be back on the varsity field. My daughters, Lucy and Kathleen, are 7th-graders playing field hockey. The Ehlers family will be spending their second summer on Lake Champlain in Vermont at Camp Kiniya. Class of 1986, please save the date for our 30th Reunion in October 2016. Hope to see everyone back!
Kate Cleary | Patrick Dorsey Jack Warren | Jenn Yamzon Jordan
Dominique Smookler Estlund Greetings from Portland, Oregon! I am happy to report that all is well in the City of Roses. I have recently transitioned from my work as a fundraiser. Over the past 12 years, I’ve aligned with various nonprofits (The Classic Wines Auction, Special Olympics Oregon, The Freshwater Trust and The James Beard Public Market) to produce large scale culinary-centric fundraising events. Overall, I helped to raise over $5.5 million for the community. Since my transition, I’ve redirected focus to my love of curating and selling vintage collectibles. I also spend my time enjoying the many splendors of being middle-aged, which include cooking, yoga, playing golf, spending time with my awesome son Scout (21), and traveling with my darling husband Bjorn. He is a technical producer for Pac 12 Networks so I have the good fortune of being able to tag along during football season. I still stay in touch with a few classmates. I had the pleasure of spending time with Donna Fitzgibbon Raymond. She lives nearby in Bend, Oregon, with her wonderful husband Peter and three amazing children Anna, Claire and Alistair. One of our gatherings included the unexpected adventure of seeing Marilyn Manson and going backstage together. It was a trip! I also stay in touch with Chris Ziadie. He teaches English at a private school in Miami. The athletic apple has not fallen far from the tree as, daughter Chelsea attends Harvard and plays ice hockey. I also stay in touch with Fred Hoecker. He and my sister Rachel are in love and live together on his farm outside of Cobleskill, New York. Every day I attribute my years of being a part of the Suffield community as something extremely positive in my life. I especially appreciate
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1988 Frank Molander Had a great dinner with Tom ’88, Aimee Hodgkins ’89 and their son Zane while they were back in town for revisit day at the Academy. Tom and Aimee were sweating it out over dinner having come from a revisit to Berkshire earlier in the day. Suffield Academy came out on top and Zane had a Suffield Academy hat on when I saw him the next day. This gives the administration a good five months to prepare for a Molander (Carlin ’17) and a Hodgkins again on campus. Jenny Sherer Janisch Shout-out to classmates from 1988. I haven’t made it to the East Coast in years—too cold and too far away. I’m happily, sometimes begrudgingly, struggling (in a good way) with the challenges of parenting and balancing work and life while the years are flying by. Working for Apple for what seems like forever, constantly wondering just how early one could retire early and just do fun stuff with family. Hope everyone is enjoying their life out there. Would love to hear from anyone coming through the San Francisco Bay Area. I love reading about all the cool things others from Suffield are doing around the world.
1991 Julie Paganelli Bodnar | Kim Ames Ide Pat Kennedy Yuki Murata This January, I set aside the work I had been doing in Santa Fe for the last 10+ years (moderngoods.com and residential design) to accept a full-time job with a local non-profit, Creative Santa Fe (creativesantafe.org). I am the new director of design and programs. As the design director, I oversee the design, brand, and image of the organization and the events we produce. As the program director, I am in charge of crafting and developing new programs. While it has been exciting times working for myself and with my husband,
I started feeling that my life and heart’s work needed to be more purposeful and connected to community. Connecting with Creative Santa Fe has given me an inspired sense of direction and hope. We are using art and design as vehicles for approaching challenging and timely topics like nuclear weapons and interplanetary exploration. New Mexico is uniquely situated to address these topics because of our history with the atomic bomb being built in Los Alamos and the world’s first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America, located in the southern part of the state. While Creative Santa Fe is based in New Mexico, the problems we are tackling are relevant to us all as global citizens, regardless of where we live or what we do. Overall, Santa Fe has been a wonderful place to live and raise a family. The high-desert climate, dark night skies, rich culture, and easy access to alpine skiing and extraordinary camping keep me grounded here. I am very excited to come back to Suffield this fall for my 25th Reunion (gulp!)—hoping, in fact, to bring my 10-year-old son so I can plant the Suffield Academy seed for high school!
1992 Marigrace Canter Morris | Ntsekhe Moiloa Wadiya Peterson Wynn Marigrace Canter Morris A warm hello to the Suffield community. All is well with my family. It is hard to believe I have children who are 12, 11, and 7. Every year seems to pass by even more quickly! Hoping to visit Suffield soon and show them what a special place it is. Nicole Pisapia Doyle Hello, Suffield! Dan Doyle and I are doing well. Our kids, Logan (13) and Caroline (11), are the light of our lives and keep us very busy with their many sports (hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and baseball). Caroline’s hockey team, the South Windsor Knights Squirts C team, won their state championships this year. It was an exciting time! I recently had the pleasure of meeting up with some SA grads in Worcester, Massachusetts. Marcy Milionis Minogue, Jenny Russo Murphy, Andrea Lembo Ericksen, and I had a blast meeting up over lunch and reminiscing about our wonderful four years at Suffield. It was great to see them, and it felt like no time had passed since we graduated in 1992. I hope the Class of 1992 is doing well. Would love to hear from everyone, and I hope to see lots of faces at our next reunion!