Wedding Bells
Annagret Burtschy ’90 and Alex Sacerdote ’90 were just friends when this photo was taken at the spring concert. They married five years ago.
of girls in Mac House (where I was a monitor) watching out the windows to see if he kissed me on the doorstep. They even had the song ‘Kiss the Girl’ from the The Little Mermaid playing.” Katharine Bryson ’86 met future classmate Andy Winchell before she even came to Taft. “I was still in school in North Carolina, and we met on a summer program in France after our sophomore year. We did the pen pal thing for a year until I came to Taft.” “Our senior year, Katharine had to fly home a week early for spring break because she had mono,” Andy said. “I volunteered to accompany her on the flight and spend the weekend at her parents’ house before flying back to Taft. That trip came with the perk of getting to sit at midcourt for the UNC-Duke game that weekend, which had nothing to do with my decision to escort her…nothing at all.” Andy went on to Amherst and Katharine to Brown. “They are 99.2 miles apart,” she said. “Trust me on that. I kept a notice on the ride board saying I was willing to drive over any weekend I could get enough people to go to pay for gas.” Apparently she made the trip often enough to be dubbed the ninth suite-mate by Andy’s roommates. “Both Andy and I chose to spend a semester of our junior year in Paris. Unfortunately for the relationship, I chose the first semester and he chose the second. One part that worked out really well was that we rented Gerry LeTendre’s (my adviser) apartment near the Bastille, and each got it for five months.” Another Taft couple, Sherrard Upham ’73 and Dan Côté ’74, started dating in 1972, and although Dan went to Trinity and Sherrard to New England College, they “never took a break,” Sherrard said. “We married after Dan’s junior year and lived in Hartford until he finished graduate school. We’ve been together for over 32 years.” They’ll celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary in June. Although Dan and Sherrard, who married in 1977, were the first Taft couple to have children—Sarah in 1981 and Dan in 1984—it is Rob and June Pratt Clark ’72 who hold the distinction of being the first husband and wife alums to send their kids to Taft. When Spencer ’05 graduates in May, he follows not only his Taft Bulletin Spring 2005
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