class notes head to Trinity!" John O 'Connell wrote that the alumni office
helped to coordinate a ski day at Okemo Mountain in Vermont. Russ Kauff '91, a noted ski instructor working at Okemo, hosted the day, along with Ted Austin '82, who is VP of marketing for Okemo. There were nine attendees from classes '81 to '02. John was the only '81, but Dave Congdon '82, also skied with the group. John is the president of C.M . Smith Agency, wh ich cou nsels clients in how to deal with the complexities of health care reform. Sarah Carter Clunan wrote: "It was great spe nding time wi th Sibley Gillis and Dede Seeber Boyd along with many others at Reunion. Around Boston I often get to see Maura Greene, who spent her junior year at Trinity rooming with me, Wendy Jeffrey, and Annie Martin. She and I found each othe r again when we we re in the same law school class. Her daughter is currently a freshman at Trinity. 1 have a family law practice and have just welcomed a new partner, Joshua Robbins, who is Trinity C lass of 2006! My son, Carter (NYU '10), is getting a master's degree in clinical social work at Simmons College in Boston and my daughter, Alexandra, is graduating from NYU this sp ring." Barry Bergquist is alive and well in Salt Lake City Utah , divorced, two kids in college and a 3rd a sophomore in high school. He keeps in touch with many of his old Trinity friends but mentioned tl1at a few (including, but not limited to Jim Wyda) could keep in better touch. Barry, tell us more about you. A.nd yes, I'd like to hear from Jim Wyda as well! Nelson Toner writes: "I am entering my 26th year of law practice at Bernstein Shur in Portland. I am the senior tax attorney at the firm. The firm has lOS attorneys and three offices in northern New England. At the end of 2010, I finished my four-year term as chair of the board of trustees of Mercy Hospital, a community hospital located in Portland. I continue to serve on the board of trustees as tl1e former chair and I lead seve ral committees of the hospital. My wife. Lisa, is vice- president of legal affairs for Dell1aize America. She regu larly travels from her home office in Scarborough, Maine, to Charlotte, North Carolina, and T.'llnpa, Florida. My oldest daughter, Lindsay, has received her MBA in fashion from the London School of Fashion and Design and now works in the mar· keting department of Michael Kors in London. My yow1gest daughter, Melanie, graduated from Boston College last May, became part of Phi Beta Kappa. and now attends Suffolk Law School." Afrer a couple of years of historical consulting, Alex Magoun is now outreach historian for the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. IEEE is the world's largest professional engineering organization, encompass· ing everything from Thomas Edison to Wifi stan dard setting; visit www.ieeeghn.org to get help with your history of technology needs! Karen Campbell is living in the San Antonio area close to her mother and brother. ''I've worked from the armored car, to hotel, to mortgage, to child care and teaching businesses in the last 30 years. I have a 2S· year-old son who's about to finish college and an 18-year-old daughter who will graduate high school next year. Both of them are into dirt car racing. Got my master's degree in bilingualfbicultural studies in 2008 from UTSA. Live on 12 acres with ro dogs. three- plus cats, two pigs, two horses , and a donkey, and over so turkeys , 54
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guineas, and chickens. Michael Reiner competed with a team of five in the 1GFA Offs hore World C hampionships (offshore saltwater fishing) in May 2011. The event was held in Cabo San Lucas Mexico. "My team cons isted of three Mexicans, one South African, and one American (me). Most teams were all from the same country and over 2S countries were represented. Our tean1 won the World C hampi onship. which is me on ly recognized world championship in salt water fishing." A note , and plea, from your co-class secretary, Sue Walsh Ober: "As far as news of myself, 1 ' retired' from BNY Mellon (where I met my husband Doug) four years ago to become a stay· at- home mom. My son, Douglas , is a high school senior, C laire a high school sophomore, and Jed a 3rd grader. We live in Watchung. NJ . I'm involved in a million charitable and am thinking of running for office, going back to work, or at least finally cleaning out my closets. My plea: please make sure the Alumn i Office has your updated email address so I can con tact you about sending updates about yourself! Don't be a stranger! You'd be surprised at how many people are interested in hearing about you!" Alumni l=und Goal: $250,000 Co-Class Secretary: JJennifer 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, #12A. New York, NY 100242107 E-mail: borbara.levison .1 982@trincoll.edu Reunion Co-Chairs: Claudia Piper, Barb Levison
A final column from Jen Zacarra and me, Barbara (Sherman) Levison. First, manks to all of you who have written in with news for the past five years. Obviousl y there would be little to write wimout your input. I hope you all are able to join us for our 30th Reunion . I also hope (pray) you elect/ appoint two more class secretaries for the next five years ... An extra special shout-ou t to our own Steve Elmendorf for being named to the New Republic list of "Washington's Most Powerful, Least Fan10us People" T am paraphrasing here: Even people who don 't recogni ze Steve Elmendorf's name will recognize tl1e policies that bear his hidden imprint, such as NAFTA, McCain- Feingold, and the Iraq war resolution , to name a few. Those bills are part of the legacy that Elmendorf built as a high powered Hill staffer and long- time chief of staff to Representative Dick Gephardt, the former Democratic House leader. Since then , he hasn't strayed far from the presidential periphery; mrough a friendship with David Plouffe. Elmendorf enjoys easy access to Oban1aworld, while also maintaining a position as a lobbyist at his five -year-old firm Elmendorf Ryan . Deborah Schwartz Lessne says that she "just wanted to say 'hi' to everyone; sorry to miss the Reunion . Our daughter, Irina, wi ll be graduating from high schoo l here in Potomac. Maryland, on June 8. She's off to Ursinus College in PA in me fall. Hope you all have a great time that weekend." Rima Sirota has checked in from Washington. DC: "Afte r two decades as a lawyer in both private and government practice, I am now very hap-
pily in my fifm year on the full -time faculty at Georgetown Law Center. My husband and l live in the DC area, and we have two daughters- one a so phomore at Carleton College and me other a high school junior. The younger one is interested in Trinity, so I am planning to take her to me Admissions 101 program for alumni in April - my firs t visit back to campus since we graduated!" We have a grandmomer in our class, or at least one that I know of! Jocelyn McWhirter writes: "My news is that I'm still a professor of Bible and Judaism at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. I'm also the grandmomer of a littl e boy, born in July 2010. Steve Andsager visited his daughter at Yale where he watched the Trinity/ Yale squash match. Unfortunately, Trinity lost the match - its first loss since 1998. While in New Haven, Steve had a chance to stop by a local restaurant called Prime r6. On tap was Cottrell Yankee Ale which is brewed by classmate Chuck Buffum." James McGhee II wrote in from Florida, where he runs his family's school, Alexande r Montessori School. "This past summer I was in Manhattan wh ile on vacation, wearing my 'Trinity Alumni' cap. 1 was stopped twice by enmusiastic young Trinity alumni who reside in Manhattan. Their pride in Trinity was evident! So buy alumni gear and wear it wim pride! You might make a few new friends. Bei11g on a lim ited budget, and running a private family-owned school full - time, getting to a Reunion has not been possible. However, l have kept in touch wim a few of my best Trinity friends: David l=elber (resides in Sliver Spring. MD. and works in Washington, DC, directing publishing projects for the Catholic Church USA) and Dr. Gary Romano and Maura (Maclnerny) Romano '83 (residing outside Phi ladelphia) . So I am grate· ful to Trinity for lifelong friendships , among otl1er gifts!" Looking forward to Reunion, Anthony l=ischetti, a fellow lawyer turned someming else, wrote: " Hard to believe I'm now in my 12th year teaching U.S. history, serving as the 8th grade class dean and middle school history coordinator, and coaching football , basketbal l, and golf at Brunswick Sc hool in Greenwich after switching over follow ing IS years in criminal and civil litigation. Things are great, the boys keep me on my toes, and there are many Trinity-inspired stories to provide valuable life lessons. (Really!) My wife Kelly works at our sister school, Greenwich Academy, where our daughter, Jordan Rae, is an 8th grader, a11d I still keep in touch with the AD and Crow boys." Rise Singer continues to work at Brandeis University, where she is a manager for me Hornstein Jewish Profess iona l Leadership Program . In February, she looks forward to accom· pa11ying a group of students and a faculty member to tl1e Ukraine to explore two Jewish communities there and practice her rusty Russian - her Trinity major. She's also me proud mother of a sophomore engineering major at Carnegie Mellon. After a 30 year draught, Joan Shriver Janov responded to my parting plea for news! "I have never provided any type of update, but have always had great intentions of replying each time I get the Trinity Reporter in the mail. I was married in 1993 to Joel Janov and we now live in Evergreen, Colorado, with our two children. Erin ( 16) and Aliya (9) . I have lived in Colorado since 1989, and am constantly amazed at the beautiful state that 1 live in - 1 feel like I am living in a resort every day. I am an information technology account manager,