not do justice here to their impact on our class, and perhaps on many of our lives, so I will just assert a general class sentiment of great sympathy and thoughts to their family and loved ones. I am sure individual se ntiments could be entered on the Trinity Web site. Maybe we could do something in their honor at the next Reunion in 2008 - can you believe it? Also, let me, on behalf of our class, express our deepes t sympathy to Cynthia Ogden, who lost her father, Professor Ogden. Obviously we cannot mention eve ry loss here, but as many of you know her father was an integral part of Trinity and Trinity life. Just after the deadline for the last Class Notes, I received a very nice, informative note from Dean Sophocles, who made up for what he calls his lengthy time of not writing in and reported back in late November that he recently had dinner with one of his Trin roommates, Michael Topp, and they encouraged each other to reco nnect with the school they loved. (Hey, Michael, where are you?) Dean sent a section of his Web site, deansophocles.com, which sums up a good deal about his post-Trin life and he wants to share it with the class. I'll try to give a brief synopsis here, and by all means, go to the Web site and read more. It reveals that Dean chose to follow in the footsteps of both parents, practicing dentistry by day like his dad and by night he is a session player, a solo jazz pianist, and an ensemble keyboarder in both rock and jazz, following the musical bent of his professional violinist mother! Dean is an active member of his dental school's alumni society, is a clinical ass istant professor at tl1e UPenn Dental School, and plays in local venues both solo and as a member of the Doug Markley Band. Last, but by no means least (actually it was first in his e-mail) , he has been married to Jody for IO years and they have two children, Elenj (7) and Cal.Ii (3) , and the Sophocles family live in the lovely college town of Swarthmore, PA. I-leather Musante wrote that when we don't have much class news it makes her feel old, and her teenagers do enough of that already! Her son is off to college in the fall and is wrapping up his high school career with the Cheshire High School hockey tean1, and the quarter finals for Div. II were tl1e next night in early March. Also, she would be remiss if she rudn't mention that her son had two hat tricks this past season. Equally busy, her "15going-on-who-knows" daughter also plays hockey with an e\jte girls team (defined by Heather as making "the parents writing the checks feel better") named the Polar Bears. In th e off season, her so n, Brent, plays golf wim a seve n handicap and daughter Lindsay plays lacrosse. She reports m at she is still doing the Webster Insurance gig and enjoying the smiles and perils of the dating scene. She has hilarious stori es to report from mat sce ne, but apparently they are not Trinity Reporter-appropriate material. Heather got a "Happy Birthday" song from Susan Coleman from her London flat, and Heather bumps into Al Subbloie '82 when her job draws her into the technology world. She closed with, "Be well my Trinity friends." Mike lsko was delighted to report mat Gabriel, meir eldes t, was a Bar Mitzval1, mi s past November. (Congrats, Isko family!) H e reports that his son rose to the occasion and didn't mumble at all during the service or the subsequent luncheon. Also, his son and daughter Emily played along with the Klezmer band. Furmer, Gabe soloed with the
Where else do you go to a school where 25 years later a professor remembers your name?
band performing My One and Only Love on his alto sax. Apparently the boy got game, Mike remarked. Plus, the weekend before the Bar Mitzvah, Scott Nesbit called to see if Mike was attending a surprise birthday party for music professor Gerald Moshell and many alums flew in for the event. Michael just joined the board of directors of the Greater Hartford Educatjon Foundation, which is a small, non-profit dedicated to funding teacherinitiated programming for students in Hartford. Finally. he is heading out to Thunder Ranch , WY, in June to attend Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyer College's Death Penalty Seminar (I am so jealous!). Michael is buying some cowboy boots, bringing hj s six-string, and heading west, yeee-haa! Tom McKeown wrote that he recently spoke to his annual travel partners: Tom Merrill, Chuck Petridis, and Leif Fellinger re: their next golf trip; last July they went to Pamplona, Spain, and witnessed the running of me bulk Apparently, on.ly one of mem was brave/ crazy enough to actu ally run, and if you want to know who it was, come to the 2008 Reunion and buy him a drink. (I say buy him many; many drinks!). Tom Merrrill has recently bee n named as the general counsel for the Department of Health for the city of New York and will be leading the fight to ban the trans-fats and cure Red Sox fans like himself A remarkable achjevement was made when four Trin '83 women graduates met for dinner at a small Del Mar, CA, restaurant in late Feb. 200? Wendy Gorlin and Amy Climer live out in that area, Jane Klapper was down south from northern California, and I was attending a legal conference and turning it into a vacation in the San Diego area. It was pretty amazing and a bit of a time warp, the four of us sitting mere after all this time, having one really strong margarita, and talking about our Trin years as if they were almost yesterday. Jane brought her daughter down soum, too, who pals around with Wendy's younger daughter, Melanie. Both Jane, her daughter, and I camped out at Wendy's, the always hospitable and gracious host! Saving one of the real high points of t!1at trip for last, the night after our dinner, Wendy arranged for Jane, herselÂŁ and me to attend a small , intimate Joe Walsh benefit concert in Solano Beach. It was a blast and me fact that there was no one there under 40 made us feel the youngsters in the crowd. I can't resist one comment I heard right behind us at the concert: A woman behind us turned to her boyfriend and said (about the lead singer of the backup band) , "hey is that Joe Walsh>" His reply; "No, that's the backup lead; Joe Walsh is probably in the back lighting up!"-some things never change, thank God. Let's see how much things have changed or not at the June 2008 Reunion- start talking it up. Always want to hear from you guys. Peace, out, Tina
-Penny Sutter Grote '81
Alumni Fund Goal: $50,000 Class Secretary: Susan Sherrill Canavan, 403 S. Maple Ave., Glen Rock, NJ 07452-1536 e-mail: susan.canavan.1984@ trincoll.edu Class Agents: Patricia Adams; Janice M. Anderson; Salvatore Anzalotti 111; Amy Curry
Happy spring from New Jersey, where as I write mis on a cold, rainy, early April day; the warm, sunny weather of the season still see ms a good ways off! My plea for news resulted in a note from one of my freshman roommates, Marian Korth Mullaney, which brought me back to the crazy year we had in Jackson 315. (Don't worry; girls, I'm not telling any secrets .. .) Marian also led me down memory lane with the sad news that Timothy's has closed. Nothing lasts forever, but on my last trip to Trinity- on a Sunday in February - 1 drove by Tim's and was thrilled to see it was still there- although, unfortunately, not open that day. This funky; beloved, neighborhood restaurant was one of the inspirations for my own foray into the business, however unlike Timothy's, where Tim Otte stood behind the stove for an astonishing 32 years, I lasted just IO years before someone bought me out. I'm much happier writing about food (for (201) Magazine in Bergen Coun ty, NJ) , than cooking it! Marian's good news includes living in Glastonbury; CT. Her oldest boy is doing well as a freshman at UConn; she also has a daughter in IOth grade and a son in 7th grade "giving her mini mal trouble." (As a fellow parent of a 7th grader, I can smile and relate .. .) On April 26, Marian and her husband celebrated their 21 st wedding ann iversary and their daughter turned 16! Her niece is a freshman at Trinity, so she gets to campus pretty regularly. Peggy Smith (now Margaret Snead) wrote in from the Virginia countryside, where she and her family live on 25 acres between Richmond and Williamsburg. Margaret, who graduated from Georgetown Law School and practiced law for 14 years, now owns a local manor house/ plantation where she and her husband host weddings and other special events. If that wasn't enough to keep them busy, the Sneads have four boys between the ages of four and nine and also have a German, high-school-age exchange student living with them for the year! Stephen Cook writes in with the big news that he and his wife have brought a baby girl home from China. Her name is Rebecca Ketziili Cook, and she turned one on March 30. Anyone can surf over to her personal baby blog at wwwdaughterfromcruna.blogspot.com. John Arbolino is enjoying life in Katonili, NY, and NYC with his wife, Maija, and eight-year-old son. He has been an executive recruiter for almost 20 years and keeps in touch with quite a few of our classmates. From John: "I spoke to Bill Gregg this morning; he's doing well, flying between NYC and Chicago, where he lives, raising money for TRINITY REPORTER
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