class notes son, Peter, is entering 8th grade and we are in the throes of the public/ private decision process for high school. Life is good! But as good as things are here in the Garden State, I'd really like to spend at least a week or two living Beth Tudor's Life. She writes from a place I had never heard of. Surabaya: "I am still working after 14 years at the Pottery Barn catalog as a VP of merchandising. It enables me to satisfy my lust for travel ... in the last six months I have been to Chile Argentina, Brazil, The Bahamas, Vietnam, China: Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia - all for work. When I am at home in San Francisco, I split my time between my apartment in Pacific Heights and my weekend place in the wine country of Sonoma. No complai~ts! I do not have any Trinity friends m San Francisco, but I do keep in touch with Amy Waugh Curry, Mark Tiedemann, John Josel, and Debby Vinnick Tesler (who will be visiting me this summer with her family!) and try to see them all when I am on the East Coast." Jonathan Goodman continues to work as English Department head at Hope High School in Providence. This summer he is a mentor teacher in Brown's Education Program; here he works with Paul~ Guzman '06, who student taught at Hope and 1s now a co-principal of Brown Summer High School. Katie Finck Gardner writes from Princeton. "My husband and I have three daughters, 14, 12, and IO. _Our oldest daughter, Armie, starts high school this fall, which ts hard to believe! Summers include lots of swimming and visits to Madison CT, where we are in touch with Dave and Laura Lenahan. I have not gone back to work, but volunteer at the girls' school, McCarter Theater, and a school in Trenton. It's great to see Trinity doing so much for Hartford." Erin Poskocil is living the good life in Hudson OH. "We recently had over 3,000 people troo~ through our house in a home and garden tour that our local garden club sponsors to raise money for trees and community gardens in our town. After joining the garden club board of directors (in a moment of weakness) , I could not say no when they asked us to be on the tour. Now I understand the glazed expression on my neighbor's face a few days before their home was on the tour last year! It is a ltttle unsettling to have so many strangers see your home. We have hosted fundraisers for non-profits and a Senate candidate before, but that was only on the first floor and in the garden. They went through almost every room on rhis tour- even my pantry! My house and garden will probably not be in such great shape again until we are ready to sell! I don't think I would do it again, but 1t did provide a great impetus to get all those little rhings around the house done. "Sid and I recently celebrated our IOth anni versary and our daughter, Manet, just turned seven. She is a delight- most of the time. She is a bit precocious- reading books like Jane Eyre and Thmugh the Looking Glass at five and six. Parenting is gettmg physically easier as she grows up, but mentally more challenging. We will be taking Manet on a trip to Central and Eastern Europe next month. My husband is still working 120 hours a week, so it will be nice to spend 17 days together." .Erin is hoping to get in touch with Peggy Smith (Margaret Snead), since she and her family are plannmg a tnp to Richmond and Williamsburg. She also is cunous to know if John Arbolino runs 60
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into Martha Stewart often! T hariks to all who offered news and I hope that even if I didn't hear from you, Life is good. Susan
Alumni Fund Goal: $125,000 Class Secretary: Stephen J. Norton, 9 Ninth St., SE, Washington, DC 20003-1333 e-mai l: stephen.norton.1985@ trincoll.edu Class Agents: Annette M. Boelhouwer; Kath i O'Connor Boelhouwer; Marc Chabot; Christopher Hogan; Stephen Norton; John Wi lson
I read that D.C. is the most e-mail-addicted city in the . country Apparently, 82 percent of Washingtoruans have multiple e-mail accounts and four in IO D.C. residents say they keep a Blackberry or some other such device by their pillow. In a stat that speaks volumes of our delusional self-importan_ce - and lack of modesty - 58 percent of city residents admitted to checking e-mail while sitting on the toilet. All the more reason to use the phone to gather news! Neil Smith gave an update with his inimical energy and humor. He has been at UBS for 19 years, trading energy and industrial stocks. He !ives in Westchester with his wife Margo Austin 86 and works m Stamford. Their children are ages 15, 12, and II, and Neil describes himself as an avid runner. Joy Hayden lives about 40 miles from LA, in the "inland empire." Her husband is a "pastoral coordinator," which means he effectively runs a Roman Catholic parish but does not celebrate Mass or perform other sacramental functions. When I talked to Joy, she was trying to corral their three children, ages 5, 3, and I, for a camping trip. She still talks to Jane McDonough Bayer at least three times a week. En route to Cape Cod some time back, she ended up stranded by thunderstorm activity at the airport in Dallas. Ever resourceful she called Tom McKeown '83, who opened up hi~ home to Joy and her family for the night as she made new travel arrangements. See the benefits of keeping in touch with people? I noticed the picture in the previous Reporter of Mary Reilly Mooney preparing her daughter for college shoppmg. A few of us number in that position. However, Tish Barroll Burton decided to help pick up the rear. In the course of a fine conversation about international trade and globalization, she announced she had a one- month-old baby girl named Whitney Tish acknowledged it was a very hard decision to have another child. However, I pointed out that is unfair for people to burden their 70-year-old children with taking care of them as they get into their 90s. Whitney will still have plenty of stamina when Tish gets to the geeze_r years. She sounded very happy with Whitney JOlmng two other children. She works fro~ home for Accenture, editing the company busmess JOUrnal. Her husband is an entrepreneur whose latest project is a DVD series for infants called eebee's Adventures. It has won awards and did well enough at FAO Schwartz to merit a national rollour. Baby Einstein, beware! Doug Burbank e-mailed me (which I read at my desk!) and said he was very excited to be entering his 22nd year of teaching high school at
Brooks School, where his son will be an entering 9th grader. As you read this, Doug will be in the throes of serving on the headmaster selection commjttee. This will be only the fourth headmaster the school has had in its 80 years. That process has got to be better for Doug than recovery over the summer from hip resurfacing surgery. "Bad genetics and overuse without adequate stretching took their toll on my hip; however, I do believe the body was meant to move so I hope to return to playing squash with my son and participating in triathlons w1thm a few months," he wrote. . Last, but certainly not least, Chris Hogan and his wife Elizabeth left their longtime perch in the middle of West Hollywood nightlife some months back and bought a great old house in Silver Lake closer to downtown LA. "It's like living in th~ cow1try in that LA kind of way. We actually have trees ~ow. . They're like condo towers for really '.oud birds, he observed. Chris is doing more writing more. than acting now these days and making videos with the geniuses for mobile content and YouTube. r.3 million views so far - pretty excitmg. " _Chds paid homage to Jamie Kapteyn '83. Hilanous, mtell1gent, a great athlete, and friend , compassionate (except on the pong table) ." Last January, Chns, Andrew Nash '86, John Conway, Boog Powell '. and other AD alums drove up for an 111cred1bly moving and packed memorial at Deerfield Academy where Jamie taught and coached. Let's hope Jamie's wife, Kirsten Kimball , and sister, Katie, are healing as well as can be expected. Please share news - and return my phone calls! The Alumni Office reports that N. Louis Shipley, general manager and group VP of Citrix's management systems group, has joined the board of directors at Makana Solutions, developer of innovative on-demand software.
Greetings from your northern Virginia/ Washington, D.C.-based co-secretary. To all of you who were wondering what happened to our Class.Notes in the previous issue of the Reporter, an oversight on the part of the Alumni Office resulted in our Class Notes not being included in the spring issue. I hope you'll find the following well worth the wait ... . ... As the first of your co-secretaries to report smce December, it's my honor to announce that co-secretary Kim Crowley Hart is now the proud mom (mum?) of Cameron Bower, born December 9, _2006. Observant readers of the Hariford Courant might already know a little bit about Cameron, who