Cla s s Notes sustaining one final careerending concussion. I moved to New York in 1981, where I participated in Smith Barney’s institutional trading training program and spent nearly eight years there before moving to Kidder Peabody, Inc., where I moved into the equity trading seat formerly occupied by one John Havens ’75. After several years in the same trading capacity, I chose to take a year off, and I accepted an invitation as a guest instructor teaching economics at a university in Leysin, Switzerland. I subsequently returned to New York to join the futures/ derivatives firm Refco Inc., LLC, where I worked with classmate Roly Morris ’80 for several years. Sadly, 9/11 was my last day in New York as my office was partially destroyed and my wife was pregnant with our first son, Max. I reevaluated and decided to stay closer to home. Later I joined the investment management firm Akre Capital Management, LLC in Middleburg as president and COO, where I worked for nine years until recently retiring, or perhaps semi-retiring…we shall see. At any rate, I am now just a husband, dad, driver, and coach of my two boys, who are avid travel hockey players (50-game schedules) and look forward to each summer, where we spend valuable time as a family at our island home on Chebeague Island, ME. Family photo is from our home in Maine.” Peter Halpert reports: “Just published a new book by one of our artists, Jordan Sullivan, and organized events in LA at the UCLA Hammer Museum and in NY at ICP, as well as London in 2014. The London Times Magazine will be doing a feature story to accompany the event there. Playing squash with
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Buck Buckley ’78 and friends at the Awards Dinner, November 9, 2013.
Bo McMenamin ’26, son of Rob McMenamin ’76. my brother, Sam Halpert ’89. We’re in a doubles tournament at the R&T in NY, scheduled to play against Ben Stokes ’02 and his partner. Also been playing a fair amount with Chris Metcalf ’01, yet another EA squash alumnus.” Rob McMenamin reports: “Hello to my fellow Class of ’76 classmates. I do have the pleasure of personally spending time or conversing via email with many of you as well as a good number of alumni from the Class of ’75. For those of you with whom I have not connected, I offer an update on the life I am very fortunate to live. Workwise for the past 13 years, I have been at US Trust, where I manage the business in Pennsylvania and Delaware, offering wealth management to individuals and nonprofits. In addition to work, I have the pleasure of serving on the board of trustees of both the Philadelphia Zoo and the Franklin Institute. “I recently celebrated my nineyear wedding anniversary with my truly wonderful wife,
Leanne, who also grew up in the area as a graduate of Agnes Irwin. Thanks to our son, Bo, I have had the opportunity to spend more time at EA, as I proudly watched him graduate from pre-K to kindergarden at EA this year. Yes, Bo has the opportunity to follow in my footsteps as a 14-year lifer at EA and graduate in the class of 2026....yikes! “It’s been such a treat to be reintegrated with EA and experience the new campus. Although I did find a touch of the old campus one night last year at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony when I ran into Hank Albrycht, Hon., a former teacher of ours, who has now been teaching shop for over 40 years at EA, after starting in 1973. Amazingly he not only remembered my name, but correctly identified me as taking his mechanical drawing class. While there is so much new at EA, at the same time much has changed very little. I encourage any of you who have not visited the new campus to stop in one
day and see where our school is headed. You will be pleasantly surprised. I include a picture of my son, the poster child for a November open house, and look forward to seeing those of you who I don’t see regularly soon.”
1977 Class Agent: Jim Alton While on a trip to California, Pete Hare visited Chris Giles ’84 and Anne Hall, Hon. in Santa Barbara. They had a great time reminiscing about the 1990s and 2000s at Episcopal. They all agreed that they dearly miss EA and cherish their years working there.
1978 Class Agent: Jim Borum Sam Olshin enjoyed seeing many classmates at his recent 35th Reunion, May 2013. He is currently working on the design of a new 130-bed residence hall at Bryn Mawr College as well as projects for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and UPenn.