class notes and letters coming (e- mail or snail is fine!) . We'd love to hear from you! The Trinity Alumni Offices reports: James Gavin Reardon took office as president of the Worcester County Bar Association on Sept. r, 2007 He has been an ac tive member for over 20 years and is a partner in the law furn of Reardon & Rea rdon, which was founded more than 50 years ago by his father and uncle. H e practices with his sister and brother.
Alumni l=und Goal: $175,000 Co-Class Secretary: Jennifer Zaccaro, The Taft School, 110 Woodbury Road, Watertown, CT 06795-2100 e-mail: jennifer.zaccara.1982@ trincoll.edu Co-Class Secretary: Barbara Sherman Levison, 160 Riverside Drive, #l 2A, New York, NY 100242107 e-mail: barbara.levison.1982@trincoll.edu Class Agents: Patty ~ooper Kelley, Claudia Piper, Betsy Swindell, Bi ll Talbot
Greetings C lass of '82. Having read Jen's spectacular fall column, I'm not sure mine will measure up. G reat job, Jen! Lots of news to report. Ellen Lasch and husband, Al ex, live just blocks from Barbara Levison's new apartment in Manhattan . They reconnected at Reunion and recently caught up over lunch. Ellen has left her job at American Express and is doing some consulting while raising her two daughters. Michael Chazan has officially re-emerged! H e writes from Providence where he is a partner at the law firm of Adler Pollock & Sheehan. He has lived there for IO years with his wife, Leslie, and two children, 15 Yi -year-old Sydney, (who, incidentally, was in baby play group with my son, Sam, in West Hartford 15 years ago!) , and 13-year-old Blake. Michael says that John Roy, one of his closest Trinity fri ends, lives on Manliattan's Upper Wes t Side. Glenn Wolff writes from Connec ticut where he lives in Cos Cobb with hi s wife, Caryn, and two children, Benjamin, 6, and Hannah, 2. He continues to provide mental health se rvices to people with HIV/ AIDS and also maintains a private psychotherapy practice. I received a nice, but not very newsy e- mail from Ellin Smith. She and Matt moved back to Connecticut (Fairfield) from Green Bay a few years ago with their daughter, Diana Rose. l ran into Mike Foye '79 when dropping my so n off at college. His daughter happened to be in the same dorm. I also saw Paul Merrigan '83 at the Trinity/ Amherst football game. Paul's nephew is also in my son's class. Peter DeRose writes that he felt our 25th was one of the best reunions ever. He enjoyed catching up with classmates and seeing the great changes in the campus and surrounding area. H e attached some terrific reunion pictures that we obviously cannot reprint here, but suffice it to say that everyone looked like they were having quite a good time! Peter's daughters are now 5 and 7 Connie Smith writes from Sherborn, MA, where she and her husband, Darryl, are on sabbatical after 12 years in Wellington, New Zealand. They will stay for 18 months while Darryl finishes a master 's in computer science. Connie says it is quite a culture shock for them and their IO -yearold son, Bill. Alice Ronconi, an avid reporter to our 62
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class notes, writes from Las Vegas where her oldest son, Alejandro, is a freshman at UNLV and her younger son, Armando, is a high school fresh.man who enjoys playing soccer (he is captain of the j.v. team) and singing in the madrigal group. As of this writing Alice says she is still with Coca- Cola, but as her position was recently eliminated , she is looking for so mething differe nt and hopes to have something to report for our next column. I rece ived a lovely e- mail from Palmer Sloan. She is happily working as a librarian at Gree nwich Cowury Day School, where her two younger children, H eath and Haley, are in the 9th and 7th grade. Her oldest, Spike, is a sophomore at Trinity where "he is famous for stealing the le mon squeezer in front of Jimmy Jones." Her husband, Finley Harckham, is a lawyer with a droll sense of humor. Palmer also writes that her godson, Ian Bain, so n of Sharon Saul Davis, has deferred his accep tance to Trinity for a yea r while he plays tennis in Austrailia. Lastly, her niece, Portia Smith, daughter of Hunter Sloan Smith '85, is also a freshman at Trinity and sings with the Pipes. Lisa Donahue Chizmar writes that she so enjoyed reunion. In her words, "smiles transcended a mutual feeling of warmth that exists among people who will always be a part of the fab ric of ones' life." Thanks to eve ryone who wrote in. Keep the news corning.
Alumni l=und Goal: $325,000 Co-Class Secretary: Marissa Ocasio, 88 Wolcott ~ill Rd., Wethersfield, CT 06109-1243 e-mail: marissa.ocasio.1983@ trincoll.edu ; fa x: 212-251-8543 Co-Class Secretary: Wendy i=arnham Schon, 194 Bartlett Drive, Madison, CT 06443 Co-Class Secretary: Tina Tricarichi, 5610 Chelmsford Dr., Lyndhurst, O~ 44124-4007 e-mail: tina.tricarichi.1983@trin coll.edu; fa x: 216687-0779 Class Agents: Todd Beati; C. Mark Boelhouwer; Timothy Clarke; Anne Collins; ~enry D'Auria; Wendy Kershner; Lisa Lindquist; Bruce Silvers; Tina Tricarichi Margot Blattman is working with an executive recruiting firm and still working a bit with wine. She finds thi s combo to be a bit of a Zen balance! She concluded that all the event news for the crew team and the boathouse makes her wish she still had rowing in her life. Todd Beati wrote so me family news: He and his 12-yea r-old daughter Samantha went to the Trin-Tufts football game in MA in Oct., and while he didn't find the Trinity Club of Boston tent, he was thrilled to run into Rusty Williams and his 13-year-old son. They caught up and watched the game together. I can't list all th e '83ers who returned for Homecoming, but we got a good turnout. Anne Collins supplied a great deal of welcome news about classmates. (She wouldn't brag but I will for her - she is presently head of the MA Bureau of Motor Vehicles). She goes on to say that having atte nded her 25th high school reunion, she decided how satisfying it was catching up with the folks that meant so much along the way. Ruthie Flaherty Beaton said yes to Reunion and would convince others to attend. Connie Newton is a dentist in CA. Also in CA, Anne caught up with Andrea Mooney Leavitt. Also, Anne co nnected
with anotl1er North Cam pus and DKE friend , Jake Edwards, who it turns ou t lives about a half mile away from her. Alison Benz Czuchra is back on Cape Cod , and Danny Taitz has maintained his
clever wit (which she is sure is an asset in the legal world and also hopefull y at Reunion). Will iam Wubby Wubbenhorst is back in MD and weighing the all important question - do I bring my famil y to Reunion or are there so me things better done alone? Anne was able to reach Tom Eid and Sarah Heminway, too, and has high hopes they will try to attend. There were a few folks on Anne's list without address or telephone number, but for exampl e, Carmie/Joy Fulton Smith- if you are out there, she'd love to catch up, as would I. The other quali ty time Anne spent with classmates was in perso n. Sadly, she reports, Michael Topp's father passed away recently and a number of Trin friend s were together for that service, like Otie Brown Filkown, Dave Warren , and Sandi Scott '85. O tie and Michael each have two ado rable kids and it was a nice slice oflife, Anne says, being both happy and sad times. Bert Banta reports that life is still great in Cal and that he has three daughters and one son. His oldest daughter is a freshman at Holy Cross and when he visited her, he took her to game # 2 of the World Series where they met up with Ben Howe and hi s youngest son. Mike lsko desc ribed his family's rejoic ing over the recent news that his yow1gest siste r's stage four stomach cancer is miraculously in remission. H e says that to everyo ne who has to get o n thi s roller coaster, he sends his prayers and love. Janet Bollinger Huley says that she took her daughter, Laura, to the junior weekend in the spring so that she could see what Trinity was like, and they both were very impressed. She highly recommends that other alumni take advantage of it. H er daughter was thrilled to participate in a debate on impeachment and to sit in on interesting classes. Her daughte r also spent a week in Nicaragua with their church group, building houses in very prinlitive conditions. Janet reports that she is still with Greenwich Associates, with almost 23 years there, and is now in the LT department. Her son, Scott, is still playing baseball, and started playing football as a sopho more in high schoo l. Janet's husband, Jo e, manages Merritt Associates, a Greenwich real estate company. Mike Elia has lived in Erie, PA, since 1990 and helps e mployers with their health insurance. H e and his wife Lynne have four girls: 16, 14, 12, and IO. H e reports seeing Pat Sclafani, Mike Collins, Bob Pigue, Kevin Slattery, Mike Cooke, Kevin Sullivan, Amy and Doug Kuzmicki, and Jim Callalian '82 on Oct. 6, at Trin for our foot ball ga me against H amilton. It was Mike's first trip back to Trinity since '88 and he loved it. Sclafani has recruited all of the above to return for Reunion. "S lats" is pl=ing on coming back from Thailand for it, and Mike told Todd Beati that, yes, he will be at Reunion. Andrew Aiken tells that this fall Trinity dedi cated the new third fl oor fo r the boathouse, and at that event he got together with Steve Morris and Ellen Coffey and their other boat mates from the '81 Henley crews. He says that thanks to Ellen's extraordinary fundraising efforts, they donated a much-needed trophy case for the amazingly fast me n's and women's crews of late (e.g. las t month's Head of the C harles Collegiate Event sweep by the Bantams) .