The Archon: Spring 2019

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TRUSTEES James M. Pierce ’72, P’08, President James L. Rudolph ’68, P’05, ’12, Vice President Francesca DeMeo ’02, Secretary Steven G. Shapiro ’74, P’09, Treasurer William L. Alfond ’67 William H. Brine, III ’80, P’09, ’14 Kathryn A. Burns P’15 Byung Soo Baik P’18 Colin Cross ’74 Rob DeLena ’87, P’21, Alumni Council President Jonathan J. Doyle P’08, ’09, ’19 William Dwyer P’15 Milan Gary ’12, Alumna Trustee Bruce Ginsberg P’18 Stephanie Ginsberg ’85, P’20 Stephen G. Kasnet ’62, P’95 Mitzi Lawlor P’19, ’21 Karen Ruth McAlmon, MD, FAAP P’13 Meredith Lazo McPherron ’85 Thomas M. Mercer, Jr. ’61 Jen Migliore ’10, Alumna Trustee Felix Motta ’91 Paul Nardone ’86, P’19 Spencer L. Purinton ’75, P’13, ’14, ’20 Peter H. Quimby ’85, P’14, Ex officio Archie Seale ’93 Aaron M. Sells ’96 David Splaine P’05, ’08 Peter Starosta ’81, P’18 Mark B. Whiston P’21

ALUMNI COUNCIL Rob DeLena ’87, P’21, President Morgan Steir ’03, 1st Vice President Laura Sullivan ’07, Secretary Carol Ann Goldberg ’76 Kavy Yesair ’96, P’20 Moira Talbot ’04 Andy Ramirez ’98 Naomi Fink ’99 Daria Grayer ’00 Zenovia Wright ’00 Emily Block ’03 Nicole Costello ’95 Tony Hawthorne ’56 Torie Scott ’05 Chris Barrand ’08 Jason Rivera ’96 Archie Seale ’93 Jen Miglore ’10 Jon Bird ’10 Maria Polcari ’73 Saundra Watson 93 Jackson Wotton ’17 Kyle Rochford ’18 Angela VanArsdale ’03, Ex officio b

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CONTENTS Message from the Head of School ................................2 Finding and Using Your Voice......................................4 With True Courage, The Campaign for Governor’s

CAMPAIGN PROGRESS. . ....................................................... 12

PHILANTHROPY .................................................................. 13

REGIONAL CAMPAIGN LAUNCH EVENTS........................ 15

The Archives: Academy Fashion through the Decades.................................................................16

4 FINDING AND USING YOUR VOICE

Back in Byfield

ON CAMPUS.......................................................................... 18

ACADEMICS, ATHLETICS, AND ARTS.. .............................. 20

CHAT...................................................................................... 32

PUBLISHER Peter H. Quimby, Ph.D. ’85, P’14 Head of School EDITOR

Alumni in Action

Lindsay McPherson Batastini Director of Communications & Marketing

EVENTS.................................................................................. 34

Caley S. Lynch Assistant Director of Communications

CLASS NOTES ....................................................................... 37

In Memoriam ............................................................84 Faculty Profile.............................................................85

DESIGN Graphic Details, Inc. ACADEMY ARCHIVIST Sharon Slater P’16, P’20 PHOTOGRAPHY Carly Gillis Matt Karin ’12 Leo Lin ’21 David Oxton P’03, ’08 Paul Rutherford Rebecca Stratton P’16 William Tangorra DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT William Deptula P’17, ’19 DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI & PARENT ENGAGEMENT Amy R. Swiniarski P’17, ’19

ABOUT THE COVER Each Wednesday morning, a senior or faculty member delivers a speech to the community in Moseley Chapel. The cover illustration depicts a community member using her voice to deliver a Chapel Talk and the thoughts that it provokes for different audience members.

Illustration by Alyssa Grenning

The Archon is published two times a year by The Governor’s Academy.

Letters are welcome from alumni, parents, and friends of the Academy.

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Message from the Head of School

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clearly recall the night before I gave my first Chapel Talk. It was just after Thanksgiving break in 1983, my junior year here at the Academy. I sat in my dorm room in Ingham, the remaining hours of study time slipping away. I was completely unprepared, utterly terrified, and nearly physically ill at the prospect of having to stand before the entire school and talk about something that mattered to me. My memory of that night remains vivid, as well as the sincere support from teachers and friends that followed, even if the actual details of my Chapel Talk elude me. I’ve since had the privilege of speaking in our Chapel many times, and I am grateful that the prospect of doing so no longer brings with it the same dose of paralyzing anxiety!

“[We] are a community that helps students discover the courage to share their true and authentic voices with others.”

Public speaking requires practice, and with practice comes a measure of comfort and confidence. As you’ll read in the main article in this issue of The Archon, we didn’t take our public speaking course until senior year back in those days, and I didn’t realize until later how much I could have used that instruction to guide me in the task I was undertaking as a junior. Our students today get their first introduction to public speaking as ninth graders, and while that technical training is essential, there is something else that our students experience that I would argue is equally valuable. At Governor’s, our students gain the skills they need to truly find their voices. An effective presentation requires research, a cohesive thesis, solid writing, and practice, among other things. But it also takes a tremendous amount of courage and a belief that your teachers, friends, and classmates will support and encourage you in this risky endeavor. As was true when I was a junior, so afraid to take that leap of faith, we are a community that helps students discover the courage to share their true and authentic voices with others. We witness this

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courage as we gather in the Chapel each Wednesday morning to hear a member of our community, most often a senior, share a perspective that is important to them. We also see it on days like Martin Luther King Jr. Day where students are invited to reflect on challenging subjects impacting our world, and their peers are asked to listen with open hearts and minds. And it happens in convocations where students are willing to risk speaking up about their own struggles, or those of loved ones, in the hope that others in our community will find comfort or strength in their words, or even a new perspective on another person’s reality.

I wish I could point to one aspect of the Govs experience that results in student after student demonstrating a willingness to stand up, speak their truth, and risk feeling vulnerable, but the reality is that it’s not just one thing that makes it possible. What I am confident of, however, is that when students are members of a community where they know that adults are invested in helping them discover their unique gifts and passions, and where their peers look at the world with a sense of optimism and a desire to be part of something greater than themselves, they will find themselves capable of accomplishing things they might never have thought possible. We are intentional about this work, and our students are prepared to do great things in the world as a result.

Peter H. Quimby, Ph.D. ’85, P’14

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“Campus by Drone” by Matt Karin ’12

Finding and Using Your Voice:

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he Academy challenges students academically and fosters their development, both intellectually and emotionally, and it succeeds because everyone is committed to living out the community’s values. Nowhere is this commitment to shared values more evident than in the Academy’s embrace of the 7 Essential Skills, core abilities that Governor’s seeks to instill as it prepares students for lives as responsible citizens and productive adults. And today, when confusing and often conflicting viewpoints vie for attention, the third of these skills, communication, is more important than ever. During their time at the Academy, students not only find their voice, but also learn to use their voice.

Art Sager GP’77 teaching a speech class in the fall of 1951

The ability to write, speak, and present effectively and with an understanding of one’s audience is viewed as an integral part of an Academy education, just as it has been since the mid-nineteenth century, says school archivist and history teacher Sharon Slater P’16, ’20. “In the mid-1800s, the Academy’s focus was on speaking, or declamation,” says Slater.

“Students would memorize passages from Virgil and Homer and deliver them at Commencement.

Then, in 1903, Trustee Fred Ambrose sought to elevate the skill further by establishing the Ambrose Speaking Prize.”

Each spring, students competed for the award and the winner was permitted to give the Commencement address. In more recent years, the winner has served as master of ceremonies at the Academy’s Senior Awards Ceremony.

In the fall of 1930, new Academy Headmaster Ted Eames P’48 decided to make instruction in the art of speaking and presentation a more formal part of the curriculum. He hired Art Sager GP’77—a former Olympic track athlete—to teach public speaking. Eames also pushed Sager to step outside his comfort zone and use his own voice in a new way. “I remember a story about Ted asking Art if he could direct a Glee Club, which the school didn’t have previously,” says Slater. “Art said that he had never done that, but Ted didn’t think that should stop him, and Art ended up directing the Academy’s Glee Club for many years.”

Ava Gallagher ’19 delivering her Chapel Talk to students, faculty, and staff in March 2019

For the next forty years, Sager also schooled Academy students in public speaking using his famous SPEC formula: Spark, Purpose, Example, and Conclusion. A dynamic personality and a popular teacher, Sager and his course became a beloved mainstay of the Academy’s curriculum. “Every alumnus from that era has a favorite Art Sager story,” observes current public speaking and English instructor Paul Wann P’94.

In the 1990s, the Academy instituted an intensive curriculum revision and eliminated the public speaking requirement for seniors, but by the early 2000s, the program was back in the sophomore-year curriculum as “Public Presentation Skills.” “We recognized how crucial it was for our students to have these skills,” says Assistant Head of School and Academic Dean Elaine White P’16, ’21. “From the time of its founding, Governor’s has believed in the importance of communicating and publicly presenting oneself well, so we’re very conscious about teaching these skills and providing ample opportunity to practice them.”

From 2007 to 2009, “Public Presentation Skills” was offered as a quarter class to all

Eni Owoeye ’18 delivering the benediction at the 255th Commencement of the Academy

sophomores, and then in 2010, the course became a semester-long requirement for all ninth graders. “We wanted to provide students with the earliest possible access to learning and practicing these skills across the curriculum and for all four years of their time at the Academy,” explains White. “Students must gain the courage to use their voices—in the classroom, in assembly, in writing, and within the student body.” Face-to-face communication can be a struggle for students, White concedes, as it requires them to be seen, but it’s a critical skill to learn. “Being able to present oneself well matters. Students must learn to move out from behind their phones and engage, and we can provide a safe, instructive environment for them to do this.”

In its latest iteration, the course— “Public Presentation Skills and Ethics Symposium”—is led by English Teacher Wann and Director of Affective Education Danielle Kingsbury P’20.

Designed to help students find their voice and gain confidence speaking in front of a group, it requires that students watch two classic films on public speaking (The Great Debaters and The King’s Speech), memorize two famous speeches (Mark

Antony’s speech at Caesar’s funeral and the Gettysburg Address), and, of course, give speeches—at least one per week and sometimes more. Wann uses Art Sager’s time-tested SPEC formula to educate students in the basics of a good presentation but insists that it’s practice that makes the difference. “I can teach body language, vocal techniques, and organizational techniques, but at the end of the day, the key is just doing it.”

Wann also facilitates other community opportunities for students to hone their speaking skills. He requires that his English students present papers they have written and oversees the Academy’s Chapel Talk program, which provides an opportunity for a speaker from the senior class or faculty to address the whole community every Wednesday morning.

The latter presentations are among Wann’s favorite, not only for the learning opportunities they provide, but for the sense of camaraderie they foster. “It’s the highlight of my week,” he confesses.

“Teaching public speaking is part of my fate,” Wann continues. “I enjoy doing it and I love watching the students grow.

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Will Friend ’18 and Sarah Moore ’18 presenting their AP U.S. History papers at the student symposium at the Museum of Old Newbury in November 2017

they begin my courses and how poised they have become by the end. I feel lucky to be able to witness that kind of personal growth.”

Bill Quigley P’04, ’10, a longtime history teacher at Governor’s and director of the Academy’s Writing Center, also believes strongly in the importance of teaching students to speak and present effectively, and by extension grow as individuals.

“When I think about the whole context of education, I believe the ultimate purpose is to develop your own voice as well as a world view that can, and should, evolve as you gain more knowledge and awareness,” he observes. “By teaching our students speaking and presentation skills, we’re giving them the chance to find and articulate their thoughts and then test these views in front of their peers. It’s such an important developmental exercise for this age group.”

Quigley concedes that in these days of pervasive digital technology, it’s a challenge to maintain writing and reading fluencies. “Smart phones and the way they’re being used retards the development of interpersonal skills, and encouraging the qualities of persistence, patience, and delayed gratification is an

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Jack Wood ’19 presenting to his American Studies class, co-taught by Karen Gold P’11, ’17 and Erin O’Connell

“By teaching our students speaking and presentation skills, we’re giving them the chance to find and articulate their thoughts and then test these views in front of their peers.”

—Bill Quigley P’04, ’10 History Teacher, Writing Center Director ongoing struggle.” Fortunately, Quigley continues, Academy students are open to learning and excel when asked to focus.

And teaching students to write and speak well are really two sides of the same coin, he asserts. “Cogency is the work of thoughtful composition and practice, in writing and in speaking. Writing well takes time and you can be assured that those who are skilled at speaking extemporaneously have practiced countless hours as well.”

Quigley practices what he preaches, requiring students in all his history classes to present. “My ninth graders write two research papers, and they give five- to seven-minute oral presentations to their classmates on each of those projects.

Students in our AP U.S. History classes,

one of which I teach, give longer presentations—ten to twelve minutes—on the twenty-page papers they compose during their year-long independent research projects. I think it’s important for them to learn how to be pithy, but substantive. They have to learn how to boil their topic down to its essence without squeezing the life out of it.”

Each year, Quigley and fellow history teacher Slater choose two or three students from their AP classes to present their papers to the public at the Museum of Old Newbury. “The presentations represent a valuable lesson, both for the students who present and for their classmates,” he notes.

“They are a tangible illustration to students

Art Sager GP ’77 giving a football locker room pep talk in the fall of 1951

that their classwork is more than just a box to check. They’re creating something that’s valued by the public, and that’s inspiring.”

Longtime Academy English teacher Maud Hamovit P’09, ’13 is also a proponent of teaching presentation skills to students and relies heavily on the exercise in her AP Language and Composition courses. At the end of each of the first three academic quarters, Hamovit requires students to make a collaborative presentation with a classmate on an independent topic of their choice. For the culminating experience of the fourth quarter, she requires a five-minute chapel speech on American identity, which students deliver to their classmates as well as any guests they wish to invite.

“In today’s society, presentation skills dominate,” Hamovit explains. “Students are geared towards listening and they view technology as their friend. They’re quite comfortable manipulating multimedia sources and accessing information via slides or audio/video clips. And as the world demands different things, we must teach students how to use these new media to present their ideas.” But no matter how you choose to

Wes D’Alelio ‘19 and Grace Studley ‘21 performing in the 2019 Winter Musical production of Little Shop of Horrors

communicate, she adds, the essential requirements remain the same. “You must have an interesting topic, organize your thoughts, provide context and thoughtful transitions; and know your audience.”

Knowing your audience and your subject matter is something AP biology and neuroscience teacher Dr. Katherine Alex demands from all her students, which is why she requires members of her classes to share their findings through instruction rather than presentation. “I don’t like the word ‘present’—to me it implies one-way communication. Instead, I ask my students to research a topic and then teach the class about it. Teaching implies communication and a two-way street, and that’s more engaging for everyone.”

Girls varsity 2018–2019 ice hockey captains leading a pre-game huddle

Approaching the material this way challenges students to change the way they think, Alex asserts. “They have to dig into the subject matter and re-evaluate the way they access information. They must understand the material thoroughly. They can’t just ‘get the gist’ and move on; I’m constantly telling students, ‘I know when you don’t know what you’re talking about.’”

Alex is also in her inaugural year as the Academy’s SMART (Students Modeling a Research Topic) Team leader, and here, too, she asks her students to teach. Scientists should be able to share their work with a wide and sometimes uninformed audience, she argues, and to do this, they must understand the material all the way to its deepest level.

“Making a scientific research poster that depicts complex information in a clear, understandable way is tough; it’s a good exercise for students.”

Nor does education in communications stop at the classroom door. All Governor’s students must also participate in the Academy’s Afternoon Program, a series of extracurricular activities that allows them to try new things or increase their skills in an existing interest. Offerings encompass three broad areas—athletics, the arts, and

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community service—and all encourage students to venture outside their comfort zones and work toward a common goal, observes Director of Athletics & Afternoon Programs Claudia Barcomb. “Participation in these programs, which range from team sports to dance and drama, enhances students’ leadership skills and teaches them to think about the group rather than themselves. Captains and group leaders act as the point person for each activity, so they must facilitate communication among team members and handle group needs. Many of the captains must also speak at morning meeting or at banquets, so they get valuable practice in presenting themselves and their ideas to others, as well as representing the aims of their community.”

“Our faculty are relentless in their quest to weave communication skills through the entire curriculum,” concludes White. “Our job is to meet the challenges of any given time period and to keep communication skills alive in our students, whatever decade we’re teaching in.”

Wann couldn’t agree more. For him, the desire to push for improvement in speaking and presenting is constant.

“Public speaking and presenting are part of our legacy here at Governor’s and in my experience, we’re a community that both listens and speaks well. But I want all of us to get better. In these fractious times, the need is great.”

Paul Wann P’94 in his classroom in 1999

FACULTY & ALUMNI SHARE THEIR STORIES Get to the Point!

K AREN GOLD P’11, ’17 English Department Chair While I’ve spent years encouraging my students to focus on strong verbs and avoid cliches in their papers, I’ve shifted that focus to their speaking as well. How do we get teenagers to eliminate those hesitant “umms…” and “likes” and present with confidence and clarity? While some students struggle to come up with things to say, more of them struggle to get to the point while keeping the attention of the toughest audience: their peers! This year I’ve required them to present concisely and thoughtfully with “one-minute talks.” They never know when I might point to them and ask them to stand and give a oneminute book talk. All of my juniors choose a book to read the first ten minutes of class; their objective is to convince their peers that the book is an excellent choice…without giving away the plot, of course! In January they presented a New York Timesinspired article they’ve written on “How to Be a Better Person

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in 2019” with titles ranging from “Drink More Water” to “Put Your Phones Down!”

When they handed in their papers, they also presented their work in one minute. I’ve found it most effective to give direct feedback immediately after the presentation: Are they making eye contact and is the audience interested and engaged?

Can they deliver their one-minute talk without giving away too many details while convincing their peers that their book is worth reading?

Yes, sometimes they need a reminder to speak up and forego the “like, ums…,” but with immediate feedback and the generous applause from their peers, our students are growing more confident and as importantly, more concise!

Connecting with Your Audience C HRIS MCKINNON ’05 Anchor of Boston WBZ-TV Weekday Morning Newscast

When people hear I anchor the morning news on WBZ, they immediately want to know what time I wake up and when I go to bed, if I do my own makeup, and how hard it is to read the teleprompter. Spoiler alert: it’s nothing like Ron Burgundy from Anchorman.

As journalists, we keep viewers up to date on important issues.

We’re constantly researching, digging, and trying to absorb as much information about as many topics as we can. We sort through it and relay the most important parts to our viewers in a meaningful way. Why should they care? How does it affect them?

Communication is essential in any industry. As news anchors, we are the first to engage viewers, and first impressions matter.

You can’t just read. You have to find your individual voice and

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It is 4:30 on a Tuesday morning. I’ve been up for a few hours editing scripts, while chugging down the last of my coffee, trying to wake up. The music rolls, the red light flashes, and the early morning news begins with a smile and “Good morning!”

have the confidence to use it to connect with your audience. That first clicked for me while on stage during a failed mock presidential campaign at Governor’s.

I didn’t come close to tes yo fW winning, but successfully BZTV delivering that speech in front of the entire school sparked a confidence in me.

Faculty at the Academy constantly pushed me out of my comfort zone. From reading Macbeth passages out loud in English to performing on stage, I learned basic skills that I use today, whether I’m speaking to classes, emceeing events in front of thousands, or talking directly into the camera. If you practice and prepare, you will have the confidence to deliver. That’s why, with the exception of breaking news, I’ve had my hands on every script I deliver on-air.

That gives me the confidence to deliver a product I am proud of.

When the red light goes off at the end of our newscast, we take a quick break. Then it’s time to start preparing for the next show.

Every Voice Matters S TEVE METZ P’07 Science Department Chair One of the great things about The Governor’s Academy community is the opportunity it gives us all to contribute in a variety of ways. Students find and use their voices in the classroom, in advisor groups, and on the athletics fields, ice, court, and stage.

They work collaboratively on important community service projects and academic presentations. They produce amazing works of visual art, poetry, and prose. Our students use their voices giving Chapel Talks and as team captains and school leaders. And equally so, they discover their voice in quieter ways through daily peer-topeer classroom interactions.

In my own career, I have coached varsity boys basketball and baseball, and JV golf. I’ve worked in the community service program, participated in curriculum development through the Square One and Science 2000 projects, served as science department chair, and twice led the Academy through the selfevaluation process for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. I’ve been a columnist and editor for The Science

Teacher, the professional journal of the National Science Teachers Association. I’ve tried to use my voice to support equity, inclusion, and social justice issues.

One thread that is woven through all the roles my students and I play is the necessity for clear, concise, and forceful communication. There is good reason that we have identified communication as one of the 7 Essential Skills that we want students to develop during their time at Govs. Along with other important skills like collaboration and critical thinking, the ability to communicate effectively in a variety of contexts and formats is the one skill that I need to use every day in every role I play. It’s a skill that I have spent a lifetime trying to improve and the learning never stops. I hope that I have encouraged my students and colleagues to develop and use their own voices, and to understand that every voice matters, even the quietest one.

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Finding Joy in Using My Voice J EN MIGLIORE ’10 Liberty Square Group, Blue Lab Manager I found my voice in the fall of 2006 as a ninth grader when I delivered a Chapel Talk about my first few months at Govs. Mr. Rokous, my dorm parent in Farmhouse, challenged us to do one and I, eager to tackle any challenge, didn’t flinch and signed up for a slot the following day.

I delivered my Chapel Talk about my preconceived failures like getting a D on a Geometry test and not making the varsity field hockey team. I made a lot of self-deprecating jokes and got a bunch of laughs. It felt great and in that moment, I realized that I love to speak in front of crowds. After I delivered my speech, I felt confident. I liked knowing that when I spoke, people actually listened. I had never experienced this until Govs.

After graduating from Govs, I went on to attend Wellesley College and since graduation, I have dedicated my professional career to politics. I ran for State Representative and now serve as a political consultant, advising dozens of candidates on how to run for office and win. I use the speaking and presentation skills that I learned at Govs on a daily basis. When I was running for office, I delivered countless speeches at local events, fundraisers, and on the doorsteps of voters. In my current role, I train candidates on

how to deliver an effective and concise stump speech and present themselves at debates. I also have to be confident enough to pitch my services to potential clients and convince them that they should hire me.

Strong communications skills are must for this role.

I’m extremely grateful for the myriad of opportunities I had at Govs to find and use my voice. Whether it was in Mr. Wann’s class, in the field hockey net, or on the softball diamond, I was required to use my voice. I don’t shy away from speaking in front of groups. In fact, I jump at the chance and I owe much of this skill set to the experiences I had at Govs.

“I’m extremely grateful for the myriad of opportunities I had at Govs to find and use my voice.”

—Jen Migliore ’10

Cross-cultural Communication H ENRY SHIN ’88 Partner, K&L Gates LLP When I first stepped onto the Governor’s campus in 1985 from Korea, leaving my loving and supportive family behind, I knew that I was in for an uphill battle. I had no friends and I didn’t know the U.S. education system. I only had my younger brother next to me.

However, the Academy was warm and kind enough to embrace my brother and me into its caring community. Instead of being ignorant to cultural and language differences, my friends were intrigued by them. My teachers were supportive of my hard work and understood my need to study beyond the “lights-out” time.

Communication, in essence, is how you relate to other people and vice-versa: it may be through language, gestures, or even silence.

The Academy taught me how to communicate despite the inherent differences that we all may have.

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As an international corporate attorney, my work often involves cross-border matters. In these matters, I run into multiple forms of business customs, languages, and law differences. The Academy prepared me well for communicating during these complicated, high-stakes transactions. It is important that I communicate well with and on behalf of my clients, who depend on me for their deals to close successfully.

With True Courage

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COMPREHENSIVE FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN IN OUR SCHOOL’S LONG HISTORY. THIS IS AN UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITY TO:

1. GROW THE ENDOWMENT 2. RAISE ANNUAL SUPPORT 3. FUND CAPITAL PROJECTS

All gifts made to The Governor’s Fund since the With True Courage campaign commenced in 2014 are counted in the current campaign total. Please call 978.499.3283 for more information.

Campaign Progress To date, With True Courage, The Campaign for Governor’s has raised just over $48 million for all three campaign focus areas: endowment, annual fund, and capital projects.

Growing the endowment will allow the Academy to fund additional student financial aid and continue offering robust professional development support and competitive compensation for our faculty. The Governor’s Fund, the Academy’s annual fund program, is needed every year to supplement tuition dollars and sustain the school’s programs, curriculum, and campus.

Plans for several key capital projects include the renovation and expansion of the French Student Center. To date, $3 million has been raised toward the project and additional fundraising remains

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a top priority in order to begin construction and complete the project with as little interruption to the community as possible. $14 M on the Plans for a state-of-the-art center $19 Menvironmental studies THE GOVERNOR’S CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND Parker River continue to progress and several additional leadership gifts have been made to the project since last year’s announcement of a lead gift from Trustee Bill Alfond ’67 and his wife Joan.

CAMPAIGN Since the public campaign launch in Byfield in October of GOAL 2017, school leadership has enthusiastically shared campaign BREAKDOWN: announcements, news, and updates with alumni, parents, and friends at regional events in Florida, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, California, D.C., Chicago, Korea, and China. $12Washington M

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Update: French Family Commits $1 Million With Successful Fundraising Challenge Met Thanks to a small group of leadership donors, the “French Family Challenge” has been met! The challenge was presented to the Academy last year by the French family to encourage additional leadership gifts to the project. The challenge was to raise $2 million to unlock a $1 million gift from the French family. By the start of this new year the challenge had been met, bringing the total funds raised to $3 million towards the project.

Fundraising remains a top priority in order to begin construction and complete the project with as little interruption to

the community as possible. Design plans are being finalized and construction timelines will be announced as soon as fundraising is complete. Consider how your leadership gift can make this reimagined and expanded student center a reality that meets the needs of today’s students and generations to come.

Contact the Office of Advancement at 978.499.3283 to learn more about how you can support this project.

“This is an exciting time for the Academy and I have never been more optimistic about the future of our school than I am today. As we begin to see the projects and

ABOVE: A rendering of the exterior view of the Peter Marshall French Student Center. The renovation and expansion will include new day student facilities, a full service café, a wellness room, an outdoor terrace, and flexible indoor spaces.

initiatives from With True Courage, The Campaign for Governor’s become a reality in the coming months and years, these investments in the future of the Academy will have a significant impact on students and programming for years to come,” says Head of School Peter H. Quimby, Ph.D. ’85, P’14.

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WITH TRUE COURAGE

Class of 1971 Honors Peter Alfond

The Class of 1971 launched an ambitious fundraising effort this past summer to establish an endowed scholarship fund in memory of beloved classmate Peter Alfond, who passed away unexpectedly in 2017. A small committee of members from the Class of 1971 have organized and are leading the effort. To date, over $100,000 has been raised to establish the endowed fund. With continued commitment and outreach to class members, the committee hopes to raise $250,000 by their 50th reunion in 2021.

Members of the Class of 1971 have remained close over the years, bound by their shared experiences as classmates during what was an era of significant change for the school. The late 1960s and early 1970s were a volatile time for the country as well as the Academy. The 1970–1971 school year marked the last year of all-male enrollment, and in his final year, Headmaster Val Wilkie

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grappled with a financially struggling Academy. Many other independent schools were also struggling at this time. In addition, the social and political unrest felt across the country impacted the climate on campus. This time of change for the Academy fostered closeness within the class that would pave the way for life-long friendships among classmates.

The Class of ’71 Peter Alfond Scholarship Fund will establish a permanent legacy for the Class of 1971 at the Academy and honor Peter and the ideals for which he stood. Co-chairs of the committee, Ted Northrup, Barry Burlingham, Michael Hoover, and Michael Mulligan said collectively in a letter to their class, “if successful, the creation of the Class of ’71 Peter Alfond Scholarship Fund will permanently secure our great class among the most generous in the history of our

LEFT: Peter Alfond’s 1971 Yearbook Photo; RIGHT: 1971 yearbook photo of class members

school. More importantly, it will serve as a lasting memory of our class, our classmates, and our friend, Peter Alfond, for many, many generations to come.”

If the fundraising goal is fully met, this class gift of $250,000 would rank among the highest ever for any class at the Academy in the last several years (behind only the Class of 1967 in the last decade). The scholarship fund will support endowed financial aid at the Academy—a cornerstone of the With True Courage campaign.

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Regional Campaign Launch Events The Academy continued its launch of With True Courage, The Campaign for Governor’s this fall with celebratory events at the University Club of Chicago in Chicago, IL, sponsored by Evan Trent ’98, and at the Saltwater Grille in Portland, ME. At each event, Head of School Peter H. Quimby, Ph.D. ’85, P’14, gave a short presentation about the campaign priorities, introduced the campaign video, and fielded questions from alumni, parents, and friends. Board of Trustees President Jim Pierce ’72, P’08 also joined these events and together with Quimby, shared progress and offered his perspective on the campaign.

Chicago, IL LEFT: Director of Advancement Bill Deptula P’17,’19, Trustee Colin Cross ’72, Teri Cross, Alice Trent P’98, and event sponsor Evan Trent ’98; RIGHT: Head of School Peter H. Quimby, Ph.D. ’85, P’14 shares campaign priorities with Chicago-area guests.

Portland, ME TOP LEFT: Emma Collins ’12, Bradley Russell ’96, Kate Tierney ’96, Assistant Head of School and Academic Dean Elaine White P’16, ’21; TOP RIGHT: Polly Pierce P’08, Chip Weickert ’77, Leadership Gifts Officer Tom Trafton; BOTTOM: John Leonard ’03, Lesley Clunie ’04, Shane Montminy, Lindsay Clunie ’03, President of the Board of Trustees Jim Pierce ’72, P’08

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ES V I H C R A THE Academy Fashion through the Decades Dress code. It’s as popular a topic of discussion for students today as it has been in the past. The extent to which it governs fashion choices on campus is debatable. Archival photos reveal that despite the restrictions the Academy has placed on attire, students have managed to create looks that clearly reflect their individual personalities and the styles of the era. If there is a time and a place for everything, there is an accompanying outfit for each time and place, as revealed in these photos from the Academy Archives. Check out these fashion choices.

Classroom or casual, plaid stood the test of time on campus, or at least it did for about ten years in the 1950s and 1960s, when both students and faculty seemed enamored with it.

LEFT: Looking casual and cool, one underclassman from 1957 lounges against a classic automobile in a noteworthy stripes/plaid combination. MIDDLE: In the familiar Frost AV Room, students don their plaid blazers from the late 1960s.

RIGHT: Mr. Witherspoon also tries to keep up with the fashion trends of the day, as he enjoys the sunshine through the Frost building windows.

Fashion is about more than clothes; it’s about hair, too.

LEFT: The Afro takes center stage in this 1972 photo. RIGHT: Few women who lived through the 1980s will forget the big hair that was the goal of most high school girls, as members of the class of 1990 demonstrate.

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Members of the class of 1993 will likely remember this performance by some stylishly dressed faculty during their Senior-Faculty Dinner. Alec White P’93, Laurel and David Abusamra P’93, and Lynda Fitzgerald (Bromley) P’93, ’00 wowed the crowd with their song and dance and sequins.

While taking photos in front of Phillips is a tradition, the styles worn by the students in the photos have changed dramatically from the 1950s to the 1990s. White jackets were replaced with black tails and 1950s flair dresses with the puffy sleeved trend of the 1980s and 1990s.

LEFT: Students gather on the front steps of Phillips for photos before the 1955 Milestone Dance; RIGHT: Members of the class of 1991 take pre-prom photos on the front patio of the Phillips Building.

Question: What are two things you would never see today on a basketball court? Answer: Shortshorts or skirts, yet both made their appearance in the Alumni Gym in earlier years.

LEFT: The 1954 varsity boys basketball team’s shorts remained in style through the 1980s, when showing more leg was still popular.

RIGHT: What has not retained its popularity are the not-so-stylish skirts and pinnies worn by the 1974 girls basketball team, which happily were replaced by more suitable uniforms a few years later.

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BACK IN BYFIELD Discussion with Wade Davis on MLK Jr. Day On January 21, 2019, the Academy’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day program began with an engaging, community-wide conversation with Wade Davis. A former NFL player, Davis is also a thought leader, public speaker, and consultant on gender, race, and orientation equality. He opened the conversation with three rules: ask only “what” and “how” questions, be disinterested in the need to be right, and be disinterested in the need to think of oneself as right. He encouraged students to let their world be intersectional and to expand their understanding of others by asking questions of and reading about people whose world is dissimilar from their own.

Davis was the Academy’s 2019 Katherine Krall Guy Social Justice Speaker. Guy retired from the Academy in 2017 as the longest-serving female faculty member in the school’s history.

Throughout her forty-year career at Governor’s, she championed all issues pertaining to social justice, and in her honor, the Academy is committed to bringing a nationally acclaimed social justice speaker to campus every year.

After a Q&A opportunity with Davis, the community divided into two groups for further discussion. Those who identify as male or gender fluid discussed masculinity with Davis. There is a growing sense by some that being masculine is a negative thing—it is not. The group discussed ways to dismantle the unhealthy nature of toxic masculinity. Those who identify as female discussed being a woman in a masculine world with Simone John, a poet, educator, and facilitator. She asked students and faculty to reflect on how socialization impacts identity, specifically gender identity, through a variety of individual and partner exercises.

The conversation continued after lunch when students and faculty gathered in breakout groups across campus. The groups were facilitated by student leaders with the goal of having a shared learning experience amongst all faculty and students in smaller groups. The focus of the conversations was inclusion.

The day concluded with closing remarks by Dean of Multicultural Education Edward Carson, who organized the day’s program.

Carson quoted W.E.B. Du Bois, the late twentieth century scholar and civil rights activist who once exclaimed, “The problem of the twentieth century is that of the color line.” Carson remarked, “And

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Simone John, Dean of Multicultural Education Edward Carson, and Wade Davis

while prophetic, it continues to be true in the twenty-first century.

King furthered Du Bois’ color line calculus by speaking toward the inequality of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. Yet, too many only heard King say ‘I Have a Dream,’ which was not the complete narrative. By celebrating race, gender, class, and sexual orientation on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I hope that students, faculty, and staff gained an understanding that King’s dream extended into the complex nature of the identities we all share.”

Carson continued, “By inviting Wade Davis and Simone John to campus, our community witnessed the actuality of King’s vision from two activists living in their identity. It made sense to have them introduce the notion of intersectionality to our community.

They were outstanding guests.”

Davis is the NFL’s first LGBTQ+ inclusion consultant and currently consults for numerous professional sports leagues on issues at the intersection of sexism, racism, and homophobia.

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Time’s Up Now, he is developing curricula and initiatives to remove institutional barriers that women face in the workplace.

John is a poet, educator, and freelance writer. She completed her MFA in creative writing at Goddard College in 2014. Since then, John has devised youth poetry workshops examining topics from the values of hip-hop culture to the power of poetry as a form of protest. When she isn’t working with talented young people, John writes documentary poetry that blends current events with her lived experiences as a black woman in the United States and abroad. Her work has been published in The Pitkin Review and Elohi Gadugi Journal.

Student leaders enjoyed a lunchtime discussion with Simone John and Wade Davis in the Duncan Phillips Library.

Fall Family Weekend On October 12 and 13, 2018, families enjoyed two days on campus visiting with their students, attending parent/teacher conferences, and connecting with other Governor’s families. On Friday evening, senior parents gathered in the Whiston • Bragdon Arena for our traditional Senior Parent Dinner. At this special dinner, parents heard from Academy President Vinay Metlapalli ’19, and Trustee Paul Nardone ’86, P’19. On Saturday, parent/ teacher conferences continued, and the College Counseling Office held seminars for sophomore, junior, and senior parents.

TOP RIGHT: Jingwei Zhao P’19,19, Sharon Zhang P’19,’19, Head of School Dr. Peter H. Quimby ’85, P’14, Hui Gao P’20, and Jinwen Gao; LEFT: Isabella Wood ’19, Emilia Wood, Danika Edwards P’19, Charlie Wood, and Robert Wood P’19; BOTTOM RIGHT: Gary D’Alelio P’19, Kim D’Alelio P’19, Andrew List P’19, and Sally Hilgendorff P’19

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Academy Seniors Present Research Papers for Fourth Consecutive Year at Student Symposium at Museum of Old Newbury In November 2018, two seniors, Karlaes Morales ’19 and Hee Won Youn ’19, presented their U.S. history theses at the Student Symposium at the Museum of Old Newbury. This is the fourth year that students from The Governor’s Academy have presented at the symposium, a joint project between the museum and the Academy.

Morales presented his paper, “The Tusla Race Riot of 1921.”

For two days in 1921, violence raged after a 19-yearold black man, a shoe-shine worker, was arrested, accused of assaulting a 17-year-old white woman, an elevator operator; the charges were later dropped.

A large, prosperous African-American section of the city was destroyed by white people in one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the history of the United States. Estimates vary on the number of people killed, but historians put the number in the hundreds.

Youn presented her paper, “Agassiz: Developer of 19th-Century Scientific Racism.”

Contemporaneous with Charles Darwin stood Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-American naturalist and professor of natural science at Harvard University whose studies of fish and glaciers made major contributions to evolutionary science. But Agassiz and Darwin proposed rival theories of evolution, and their disagreement stemmed from their different conceptions of “race.”

The partnership between the museum and the Academy traces to the 2014–2015 school year, when history students researched Newburyport’s “tea party,” drawing on museum archives.

History teacher Bill Quigley P’04, ’10 and students presented their findings in a public program at the museum, a successful presentation that paved the way for symposiums.

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Karlaes Morales ’19

Hee Won Youn ’19

“In 2017, we held our first Student Symposium, featuring three students with projects focusing on topics in local history,” said Emily Lawrence, the museum’s assistant director. “Since then, we have had one to three student presenters in the spring and fall present their work here at the museum.”

Quigley said that all eight presenters thus far, including Youn and Morales, have completed their projects as students in the academy’s most rigorous Advanced Placement U.S. history course.

“We at the Academy are proud of the outstanding historical research and writing our students have been doing for the past four or so years: seven published by The Concord Review; several winners of Gilder Lehrman essay contests; seven winners of the Cum Laude Society Paper prize for District I (schools in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont that are members of this Phi Beta Kappa-like society for high schools); and the last of those district-winning papers going on to win the $5,000 award for the single best paper among all students at almost 400 Cum Laude member schools in the U.S.,” Quigley said.

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The Robert F. Schumann Foundation Awards Grant to Support STEAM Classroom A series of grants awarded to the Academy by the Robert F. Schumann Foundation have allowed the Academy to further embrace and commit to the integration of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) within the school’s curriculum and co-curricular programs.

The STEAM concept incorporates projectbased and interdisciplinary approaches to learning, encouraging students to use nonlinear skills and approaches to problem solving and collaboration.

Science teacher Marcus Soule, who has been one of several faculty members leading opportunities for school-wide engagement Alexander Tollman ’19, Ava Gallagher ’19, and Vinay Metlapalli ’19 in Mr. Soule’s Honors Engineering course in STEAM, related activities says of the initiative, “Thirty years ago these hands-on skills were taught in shop class. With that Engineering and science classes spent the first semester on gone from many high schools, this is the next iteration and a good programming microcontrollers and will move on to design-based way to get students working with their hands. It’s not just a teacher projects in the second semester. Inherent in this process is that talking at them. They are experiencing the process physically. It’s a students will fail and therefore engage in an iterative process to solve combination of hand and intellect.” problems. Doing so directly incorporates several of the Academy’s The grants, a gift to With True Courage, The Campaign for 7 Essential Skills: critical thinking and problem-solving; effective Governor’s, were awarded to fund the renovation of an unused collaboration to achieve common goals; communication in written, storage area into a new makerspace and to fund the construction oral, digital, and graphic formats; and adaptation to new situations of a small greenhouse on the east end of campus. The first grant, and information. Students also will develop a project portfolio awarded in June 2017, funded the renovation and provided to document their efforts, which they can then use for college additional supplies and tools necessary for engineering classes and applications or to gain internships. for the Academy’s robotics team. The classroom, completed this past fall, provides a much-needed central location to house the Academy’s 3D printers, laser cutters, and other engineering tools.

Initial construction of the greenhouse was largely completed

by Soule and students who participated in the project as part of their Afternoon Program last winter. Almost complete, the greenhouse will soon provide another opportunity to incorporate the STEAM concept into the classroom by including the environmental science and biology classes. The next phase of the greenhouse project will include the installation of running water, electricity, and an Ethernet switch to allow for the collection and communication of data.

“They are experiencing the process physically. It’s a combination of hand and intellect.”

—Marcus Soule Science Teacher

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Students Win Fifty-Seven Scholastic Art & Writing Awards The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards winners were announced in February, and Governor’s students once again received plentiful accolades. Forty Governor’s students won a total of fifty-seven art and writing awards.

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards program is the longestrunning, most prestigious recognition program for creative high school students in the United States. Since 1923, the awards have recognized the vision, ingenuity, and talent of creative teenagers.

Work is judged on originality, technical skill, and emergence of a personal voice or vision. The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. More than 330,000 original works were submitted by students across the count in twenty-nine different categories of art and writing.

ART AWARDS

Twenty-three Governor’s art students won a total of thirty awards this year. Award winners won: eight Gold Keys, six Silver Keys, and sixteen Honorable Mentions. Four of these awards were for portfolio work, which is considered the most advanced level of art in the competition.

Gold Key winners in photography are Dan Flynn ’19 (photography portfolio), Danielle Aftandilian ’20, and Colin Bourque ’21. The Gold Key award winner in architecture & industrial design is Maria Carpenter ’21, who is also the Gold Key winner in sculpture. The Gold Key winners in ceramics are Leo Lin ’21 and Melina Robertson ’20. The Gold Key winner in mixed media is Nancy Xie ’21.

Silver Key winners in photography are Billy Marella ’19 (portfolio), Scott Burnham ’20, Jack Gilbert ’21, and Parker Deptula ’19. The Silver Key winner in drawing is Anqi Feng ’20.

The Silver Key winner in ceramics is William Nekoroski ’20.

Honorable Mention winners in photography are Parker Deptula ’19 (photography portfolio), Amy Liu ’19 (photography portfolio), Ned Campbell ’21, Albert Cha ’19, Leo Lin ’21 (2),

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Haodi Shi ’20, and Tiger Wu ’20. The Honorable Mention winners in drawing are Rose Anderson ’19, June Stevens ’20, and Alex Taylor ’19. The Honorable Mention winner in fashion is Maria Carpenter ’21. The Honorable Mention winner in architecture & industrial design is Maria Carpenter ’21. The Honorable Mention winners in ceramics are Leo Lin ’21 and Adeliza Rosario ’20. The Honorable Mention winner in printmaking is Jacob Nissenbaum ’21.

WRITING AWARDS

Seventeen Governors students garnered twenty-seven total awards from a pool of over 12,000 submissions. Award winners won six Gold Keys, eleven Silver Keys, and ten Honorable Mentions.

Gold Key award winners in writing are Maria Carpenter ’21 for her critical essays (2) and poetry, Rachel Cheng ’19 for her poetry, Jiarong Li ’22 for her personal essay/memoir, and Annabelle Svahn ’20 for her short story.

Silver Key award winners in writing are Arif Aziz ’19 for his personal essay/memoir, Makayla Boucher ’19 for her poetry, Maria Carpenter ’21 for her critical essays (3), Alex DiBlasi ’19 for journalism, Sarah Griffin ’20 for her poetry, Anuvind Iyer ’19 for his short story, Billy Marella ’19 for his personal essay/ memoir, Rosangela Mejia ’21 for her personal essay/memoir, and Catherine Wilson ’19 for her short story.

Honorable Mention award winners in writing are Maria Carpenter ’21 for her critical essays (2), Rachel Cheng ’19 for her poetry (2), Leo Lin ’21 for his critical essay, Selina Liu ’22 for her science fiction/fantasy, Eliana Mlawski ’22 for her poetry, Kathryn Resnick ’20 for her humor, Annabelle Svahn ’20 for her poetry, and Weizhi Zhao ’19 for his personal essay/memoir.

Congratulations to all of our talented Scholastic Writing & Art Award winners for their tremendous honors!

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Jacob Nissenbaum ’21

Leo Lin ’21

Nancy Xie ’21

Alex Taylor ’19

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Hey! Troublemaker!

Still Tired

Maria Carpenter ’21

William Nekoroski ’20

Daniel Flynn ’19

Haodi Shi ’20

Functional Cigar Box Guitar

Mutation

Disarray

Pan Pan’s Afternoon

Anqi Feng ’20

Adeliza Rosario ’20

Danielle Aftandilian ’20

Melina Robertson ’20

Clandestine

Garden Wall

Open Space

Elephant Spleen

Rose Anderson ’19

Colin Bourque ’21

Billy Marella ’19

June Stevens ’20

Fish Net

Horizon Study

Erosion

Hybrid

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Transforming the First Ten Minutes of Class English Department Chair Karen Gold P’11, ’17 recently began a blog for Heinemann Publishing about engaging and empowering student reading. Her blog post entitled “Transforming the First Ten Minutes of Class” was published by Medium on December 5, 2018.

Gold says she was growing increasingly concerned about students not reading outside of their class assignments.

She said, “After attending Penny Kittle’s workshop at Heinemann Publishing, I decided to build time for reading into the first ten minutes of class. Heinemann asked if I’d like to write about my experience in the classroom. Students may choose what they want to read and they’ve been flying through books!”

Gold reported in her blog post that after the first quarter ended, librarians in the Pescosolido Library reported that in the first two months of school, almost 150 more novels were checked out than last year at this time. Below is Gold’s blog post: Karen Gold P’11, ’17 teaches her American Studies class in the Pescosolido Library.

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ou know what the problem is with kids these days? They don’t read!” As a veteran English teacher, I’ve heard this lament for years. And who or what’s to blame?

Technology? Netflix? My colleagues and I shake our heads and laugh a little, almost resigned.

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But I grew increasingly concerned and frustrated, especially as I listened to students talk about their reading. More often than not, I’d hear, “This book

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is so boring!” and students’ classroom engagement reflected the lament.

Worse still, I’d hear others brag about getting through most of their high school careers without actually reading an entire book. Quite honestly, I worried it was a losing battle.

After attending Penny Kittle’s workshop on 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents last summer, I made the decision to shift my teaching. Like most teachers, I’ve done a lot of professional development. I’d come away refreshed and excited to try something new, but too often, it was challenging to incorporate a big, new

idea into the fast-paced routine of school. Penny’s workshop was different.

Something resonated with me that summer morning, and I thought, “I can do this. I WILL do this.”

On the first day of school, my students and I met in the library. Instead of going over a syllabus or introducing course expectations, the librarians and I gave brief book talks, sharing novels we had read or that we knew were well received by young adults. When I invited my juniors to choose a book to read, they stared at me blankly.

“Anything?”

“Yes, anything.”

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One brave soul whispered, “I’ve never read The Outsiders. Can I actually read that?”

“Yes.” “You mean I can actually read The Hate U Give? In class?”

“Yes.” “Wait, graphic novels count?”

“Yes.” Their first homework assignment was to write me a letter about their relationship with reading. I was amazed by their honesty and vulnerability, especially since I hadn’t taught any of them before. Responses ranged from brutally honest (“Why do you English teachers only assign boring books?) to poignant (“I hate to read aloud because I’m afraid I’ll make a mistake and people will think I’m dumb.”). Most worried they were slow readers. One young woman wrote, “I love to read to escape the realities of the world. Call me a nerd, but until I enrolled here, reading was always my first source of entertainment.” In fact, more than a few wrote they loved to read… until they got to high school. What changed?

What were we missing?

So what’s it been like? Does “transformative” sound like too strong of a word? I’ve been blown away by how reading for the first ten minutes of class has quickly become the norm in our routine. Most days I don’t even need to remind them. One skeptical colleague worried, “Ten minutes is a lot of class time,” but I’ve swapped those ten minutes for the small talk (How about those Red Sox? What’d you do this weekend?) and nagging

reminders to put phones away or stop talking or take your homework out.

They come in, they take their books out, and they read.

One young woman described the first ten minutes of class as “meditative.”

Those few minutes of quiet reading not only serve as a welcome break from their noisy, demanding days, but I’ve found it sets the tone for the remainder of the class. Occasionally someone chuckles or sighs or even fist pumps. Last week, one self-described reluctant reader whooped, “YES!” pumping his fist in the air. While it disrupted the “meditative” quality of the class, it was more than worth it when he said, “I can’t put this down.

You guys have to read it!” He was reading Dear Martin by Nic Stone, and when he finished the book in class, he sighed and put his head down. “I don’t want it to end.” When I asked him the last time he said that about a book, he replied, “Never.”

We overheard another young man push a book toward his classmate, “Dude, I just finished this. You HAVE to read it!” Without my prompting, they recommend books to each other, and — no surprise — high schoolers are far more interested in what their classmates suggest than what I might have in mind. Some habits are harder to change. A few have been reluctant to “break up” with a book they’re not thoroughly enjoying, insisting they want to get through it. My goal is that their next book will be far more enjoyable.

The first quarter just ended. What have I noticed? I spend far less time “settling down” my class than I have

in years past. They’ve settled into the routine of reading faster than I would have imagined. I’m lucky enough to hold most of my classes in the library, an ideal location for our new venture.

The librarians are collaborative and as enthusiastic as my students and I are. They report that in the first two months of school almost 150 more novels were checked out than last year at this time! They’ve become the “goto” people when a student finishes a book and is ready for the next.

Another boon is the change I’ve seen in my own reading. The first six weeks of school I read alongside my students and finished four books. One of my students begged me to read The Hate U Give once she finished it so we could talk about it. Alas, when I watched Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher’s webinar on 180 Days, I learned that time was better spent checking in with my students about their own reading. That being said, it feels as if we’ve created a community of readers, and I wouldn’t change that for anything!

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Fall and Winter Art Exhibits in the Remis Lobby GOVS MAKES

The first exhibit of the year in the Remis Lobby of the Wilkie Center for the Performing Arts featured works of art from close to home. All pieces in the exhibit were handmade by Governor’s faculty and staff members.

“Govs Makes” ran from October 5 through November 20, 2018. It featured a variety of disciplines, from handcrafted woodwork to pottery, photography, and paintings. The exhibit featured a widespread range of textures, colors, and mediums.

WORKS OF PAPER

The second exhibit of the year featured works of art with one thing in common: all works were made of paper. The exhibit was curated by Arts Department Chair Belle Struck ’94 and ran from January 11 through March 1, 2019. It featured artwork from artists up and down the East Coast.

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Fall Play Deed of Trust Showcases Talent The fall play Deed of Trust showcased the talents of our students in two performances—November 9 and 10, 2018. Deed of Trust was directed by Dean of Faculty and Arts Teacher Dr. Monica Palmer P’21. Six actors and fourteen technicians made up the cast and crew of the play.

Of her directorial debut at Governor’s, Dr. Palmer said, “I selected Deed of Trust by Claudia Allen for its strong female characters and for its vibrant and heartwarming story about a Midwestern family who has to confront the decisions of their past. I was drawn to this play because of the deep love these characters have for one another despite the pain and difficult choices that life sometimes presents when a family is faced with a dilemma.”

The production was riveting, and the technical theater work and set design was, as always, remarkable. Fourteen students worked on the tech crew in the months leading up to the performances by creating and painting sets, hanging scenery and lights, ensuring the sound system was set up, and providing invaluable support. Tech crew roles ranged from stage manager to carpenter, stagehand, scenic designer, and sound board operator, all under the direction of Technical Director Joseph Repczynski. Costume design for the show was provided by Bonniejean Wilbur.

Deed of Trust is a story of a rural Michigan family dealing with internal conflicts during the late 1930s. It is a story of family, betrayal, and trust. Most of the story centers around C’Dale (Susa List ’19), a warm-hearted and caring woman who is always fixing the family’s problems. She is constantly caring for her alcoholic husband, Hugh (Jerry Fang ’22), and precocious daughter, Junia (Lily Zhao ’21). Together, they form a loving but dysfunctional family. At the beginning of the story, C’Dale discovers that her estranged brother Oliver (Scotch Wilson ’20) is building his own coffin and has been offering money to anyone who will to shoot him. Oliver hasn’t spoken to his four siblings in the twenty years since their parents died and the siblings had a dispute over the family farm. C’Dale, always the responsible one, attempts to control Hugh and contact Oliver, all while keeping peace in the family. Additional characters in the play are Buckley (Bejunior Fallon ’21) and Millie (Melina Robertson ’20).

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Eight Seniors to Play NCAA Division I College Athletics Eight members of the Class of 2019 will continue their athletic careers in NCAA Division I programs next year. Samantha Davidson of North Andover, MA will play field hockey at Princeton University. Davidson was a four-year starter, served as a team captain in her junior and senior years, was a four-year AllISL, was the 2018 ISL MVP, and led the team in scoring in her senior year. Gracie Kenkel of Gloucester, MA will play volleyball at College of the Holy Cross. Kenkel started as setter for four years, served as a team captain in her senior year, and was AllISL and All-NEPSAC in both her junior and senior years. Luke Moriarty of North Andover, MA will play lacrosse at Princeton University. Moriarty will serve as captain in his senior year and was All-ISL in his junior year. Joe Pridgen of Winchendon, MA will play basketball at College of the Holy Cross. Pridgen

was a team captain and All-ISL in his senior year. Quin Stott of Newburyport, MA will play football at Boston College. Stott was named the 2018 New England Class B Player of the Year and recorded 1,049 rushing yards and eighteen touchdowns in only six games his senior year. Tim Roberts of Melrose, MA will play lacrosse at University of Vermont. Roberts served and will serve as a team captain in his junior and senior years. Kathryn White of Georgetown, MA will play soccer at Sacred Heart University. White served as the team captain this fall, was on the ISL honorable mention teams for the last three years, was the NEPSAC Junior All-Star, and led the team in assists in her junior and senior seasons. Jack Wood of Duxbury, MA will play lacrosse at Syracuse University. Wood will serve as a team captain in his senior year. Congratulations to these student-athletes.

Samantha Davidson ’19

Gracie Kenkel ’19

Luke Moriarty ’19

Joe Pridgen ’19

Tim Roberts ’19

Kathryn White ’19

Quin Stott ’19

Jack Wood ’19

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Field Hockey and Volleyball Play in New England Class B Tournaments For the fifth consecutive year, the field hockey team earned a berth to the New England (NEPSAC) Class B tournament in November. Coming off back-to-back New England titles, the field hockey team (9-7-1) was led by captains Samantha Davidson ’19, Delaney Bashaw ’19, and Reanne Burgess ’20. Davidson was named ISL MVP and led the team in scoring. Davidson was also named to All-Scholastic by The Boston Globe and Boston Herald. Bashaw and Burgess have been the anchors of a strong defensive unit and Steph Tamasi ’19 has been an outstanding leader all year.

In their quarterfinal game, Governor’s field hockey upset third-seeded Lawrence Academy on the road 2-0. Isa Brown ’20 and Tamasi scored for Governor’s, and Bashaw made four saves in the shutout win. In their semifinal game, Governor’s faced second-seeded Rivers and ultimately lost the game 0-1.

For the sixth time in the last eight years, the volleyball team earned a berth to the New England (NEPSAC) Class B tournament. The volleyball team (14-3) was led by captains Gracie Kenkel ’19 and Caroline Gow ’19.

The combination of star setter Kenkel setting to Gow, the team leader in kills, was a winning combination all year. Excellent back row defense, anchored by libero Makayla Boucher ’19, helped transition the ball from defense to offense smoothly all season long.

Before a packed Alumni Gymnasium, Governor’s volleyball defeated sixth-seeded Tabor Academy 3-0 in their quarterfinal game. In their semifinal game, the team defeated second-seeded Pomfret 3-1. The team ultimately lost in the finals to top-seeded Lawrence Academy 0-3.

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Fall 2018 Athletics BOYS CROSS COUNTRY Record: 6-9-0 Coaches Award: Alexander Tollman ’19 Most Valuable Player: Quinn Anderson-Song ’20

GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY Record: 2-11-0 Most Valuable Player: Hollen Knoell ’21

FIELD HOCKEY Record: 9-8-1* (*New England Class B Semifinals) Most Valuable Player: Delaney Bashaw ’19 Most Improved Player: Isabelle Brown ’20

FOOTBALL Record: 4-4-0 Coaches Award: Luke Moriarty ’19 Most Valuable Player: Quintan Stott ’19

BOYS SOCCER Record: 3-11-3 Most Valuable Player: Connor Mooney ’19 Navins Trophy: Parker Deptula ’19

GIRLS SOCCER Record: 2-12-1 Coaches Award: Kathryn White ’19 Most Valuable Player: Olivia Griffin ’21

VOLLEYBALL Record: 15-4-0* (*New England Class B Finals) Coaches Award: Caroline Gow ’19 Most Valuable Player: Gracie Kenkel ’19

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Girls Indoor Track & Field 4x200 Relay Team Breaks School Record…Twice During the first indoor track & field meet of the season on December 8, 2018 at Phillips Academy Andover, the girls 4x200 relay team set a new school record. The relay team of June Stevens ’20, Erin Hanlon ’20, Julia Russolillo ’19, and Kianne Benjamin ’20 set the record with a time of 1:54.53 during the meet against Phillips Academy Andover, Wilbraham & Monson Academy, and the Hyde School.

Then on January 13, 2019, at the Dartmouth Relays, the relay team broke their own record, setting a new time of 1:54.31.

Sprint coach Rebecca Stratton P’16 described the scene at Dartmouth Relays: “The Governor’s relay team was the only high school team, competing against colleges from Divisions I, II, and III. June was the lead-off runner. Her start out of the blocks was excellent, and she posted a great time for her split. Julia ran second, passing a college team to move Govs up a spot. Erin was third and maintained her position, fighting off a college runner who tried to pass her. Kianne was the anchor, running an aggressive, very fast split to ensure a great finish. Every handoff in the 4x200 relay was excellent. The technical improvement in the handoffs and the aggressive mentality in their running formed a great combination that day and is likely the reason for their new record.”

Head coach Steve Suomi said, “This girls team is really impressive, showing no fear. They are a talented group who are willing to push themselves all out. They are also a group of true scholar athletes performing well on the track and in the classroom.”

Prior to this season, the Governor’s girls 4x200 record was set at Dartmouth Relays last year with the team of Lauren Hayes ’18, Rachel Brown ’20, Torie Simas, and Hanlon. Their time was 1:54.78.

Stratton described the impressive record-breaking moment: “It’s hard to break a school record, but even harder to set a new record just two weeks after having established a new record…

They worked on handoffs, learned from mistakes, but most importantly, they believed in each other and knew that each person was ready and able to contribute. Their performance at Dartmouth was the result of improved technique with the handoffs, strong tactical running, and an aggressive approach.

I believe that they were also fueled by a weak performance earlier that week, and were motivated to reach their potential by improving upon a weak performance.”

The girls 4x200 relay team from left to right: Kianne Benjamin ’20, Erin Hanlon ’20, June Stevens ’20, and Julia Russolillo ’19

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Where are you from? How did you learn about Governor’s?

I am from Andover, MA and have lived there for most of my life. I was fortunate enough to attend the Pike School in Andover, which had a team of secondary school advisors. My advisor was the one who told me all about Govs and encouraged me to apply. She believed Govs would be a great fit for me. After four years here, it is easy for me to say that she was right.

What has your experience as Academy President this year been like for you?

First and foremost, not a day goes by without me feeling grateful to each member of our community for giving me the opportunity to be Academy President.

What I think is so special about the position is that you are constantly learning. From facilitating Student Council meetings where we develop new ways of representing the voice of the student body, to running Friday morning meetings, I have found that a leader is only as good as the community he or she represents. I have also committed to learning about different student perspectives by attending a variety of club meetings and forums. I have also learned how essential it is to have someone working alongside you who can offer different opinions or advice when you need it most. Julia Russolillo ’19, our Senior Class President, has done just that.

What advice would you give to your ninth-grade self as a senior?

Balance out all aspects of your Govs experience. Academics, arts, athletics, and social life; do not over emphasize one or the other. Governor’s is structured in a way that promotes balance, and taking full advantage of that privilege is something that I am still learning to do.

Can you describe a faculty member or coach who you look up to?

I not only respect Mr. Soule and what he has achieved as a teacher, but also as a person who has the patience to listen.

One major lesson I have learned this year is the importance of listening, and Mr. Soule is a major reason why listening to different perspectives is something that is so important to me. There have been challenges in my senior year at Govs and Mr. Soule genuinely takes the time to hear me out. He always finds a way to weave his positivity into the situation and prepare me mentally for the day or the upcoming class.

What do you think you want to study in college?

I want to study biomedical engineering in college. I have always been interested in engineering but I have recently developed a passion for the medical field. Biomedical engineering gives me the opportunity to pursue both. Additionally, I hope to continue my pursuit of medicine by attending medical school.

What activities/programs/sports are you involved in?

My position involves a lot of work with Student Council, weekend events, and morning meetings, but I have tried to be involved in a variety of activities at Govs.

I attend ADL forums and SWAGA and Young Republicans meetings with the goal of receiving a wider range of student voices. The more time I take to better understand the unique perspectives of our community, the better I feel representing us all. Additionally, I race for the alpine ski team, and I am a proud member of the varsity golf team.

What was a favorite class you took at Governor’s?

Honors Engineering has been my favorite class at the Academy. Mr. Soule creates a unique learning environment, which is relaxed, but effective. Mr. Soule never forces information on you; he simply gives you the necessary tools in order to fulfill the tasks

which he asks of you. Additionally, Mr. Soule brings in guest speakers to talk about the field of engineering. Each speaker offers a unique insight into the field, allowing us students to form a genuine opinion on whether engineering is something we might want to study further.

Where do you hope to go to college? How many colleges/ universities did you apply to?

I hope to study biomedical engineering at Boston University. I already have the opportunity to study BME at Penn State University. I am now waiting to hear back from Boston University and three other schools.

What are you most excited about for college?

What most excites me about college is the opportunity to study my specific interests. Throughout my life the adults have more or less dictated what I am to study, but in college I will be at the reins of my academics. Additionally, college is the next step towards the “real world,” which means that it will help me prepare to create positive change in the communities around me. Of course, I am also looking forward to the incredible amount of fun I will have there!

What was a moment of courage you had during your time at Governor’s?

When I came to Govs as a ninth grader, I was most certainly not the largest individual, which made my decision to try out for varsity football all the more interesting. I came to preseason not having worked out at all during the summer, which made the physical challenges of preseason all the more brutal. Despite me standing out on the field for all the wrong reasons, the decision to stick with it was a true moment of courage for me.

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ALUMNI IN ACTION The Governor’s Academy 2018 Fall Golf Classic The Governor’s Academy Fall Golf Classic to support and celebrate the Michael A. Moonves endowed scholarship fund was held on September 17, 2018 at the beautiful Kernwood Country Club in Salem, Massachusetts. This annual event was attended by Academy alumni, parents, past parents, and friends. All enjoyed a perfect autumn day on the course followed by a post-tournament evening of cocktails, dinner, and tournament prizes.

TOP: Headmaster Emeritus Marty Doggett P’04, ’07, ’08, ’08, Brent Mohr, Faculty Emeritus Mike Moonves P’82, Mark Connors P’06, ’10; BOTTOM: Chris Webster ’09, Jeffrey Webster P’08, ’09, Marion Webster P’08, ’09, Sumner Webster ’08

The tournament raised $20,000 for the endowed scholarship and during the brief evening program, a significant gift given to the fund was celebrated. The fund is named in honor of former Director of Admission, dorm parent, and coach, Michael A. Moonves P’82 and supports endowed financial aid at the Academy. Mr. Moonves lead the tournament’s traditional “shot-gun” start and enjoyed reconnecting with alumni and past parents while playing in a foursome that included Headmaster Emeritus Marty Doggett P ’04, ’07, ’08, ’08.

Plans for this year’s tournament, which will be held at Kernwood Country Club, are well underway! Save the date: Monday, September 16, 2019.

THE GOVERNOR’S ACADEMY

SAVE THE DATE Monday, September 16, 2019

The Governor’s Academy Fall Golf Classic Space is limited, register soon!

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TOP: Anand Radia ’03, Jeff Black ’03, Tim Johnson’03, Brian Dodge ’03; BOTTOM: Molly (Scharfe) Prinn ’95, Steve Prinn, Gretchen (Scharfe) Forsyth ’95, Kirk Forsyth

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Cardinal & White Day On October 13, 2018, families, alumni, faculty, and friends enjoyed a warm fall afternoon watching multiple Governor’s athletic teams compete across campus. Alumni enjoyed reconnecting with coaches and faculty throughout the afternoon. Our complimentary chili and chowder tent, plentiful cider donuts, and a talented face painter added to the family-friendly festivities.

LEFT TOP (L-R) Gene Taft ’86, Tim Nesbit ’86, Rob DeLena ’87, P’21, Derric Small ’86, Rob Studley ’86, P’21, ’21; LEFT BOTTOM (L-R) Julia Barresi ’18, Rebecca Schwartz ’18, Sophia Ingemi ’18, Claudia Solano ’18, Caileigh Cormier ’18, Britney Touchette ’18, Hayden Valas ’18; RIGHT TOP (L-R) Joe Turner ’99, Thomas Turner, Oliver Turner, Mica Turner; RIGHT BOTTOM (L-R) Max Lee ’18, Rohan Chaturvedi ’18, Jack Donahue ’18, Josh Monroy ’18, Zach Glendon ’18.

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Annual Alumni Holiday Gathering On November 29, 2018, alumni, faculty, faculty emeriti, and friends gathered at the Boston College Club in Boston for this annual holiday tradition. Trustee and Alumni Council President Rob DeLena ’87, P’21 welcomed the group, provided a brief update on the Alumni Council’s new committee structure, and encouraged alumni to stay involved with the Academy. Trustee and Co-chair of the Campaign Steering Committee Meredith McPherron ’85 followed Rob and provided an overview on the progress to date of With True Courage, The Campaign for Governor’s, and highlighted the impact that the strong connections with faculty, coaches, and directors have on the lives of young people. Guests enjoyed a buffet dinner accompanied by The Governor’s Academy Student Jazz Combo.

TOP LEFT: Faculty member Lynda Fitzgerald P’93, ’00 and Dan Guyton ’03; TOP RIGHT: Kerin Grewal ’15, Cori Grewal ’13, and Ryan Gill ’13; MIDDLE: Lucy Purinton ’14, Trustee Spencer Purinton ’75, P’13, ’14, ’20; BOTTOM LEFT: Trustee Meredith McPherron ’85; BOTTOM RIGHT: Larry Henchey ’64, Don Balser ’64, and Paul Freedberg ’64

New Alumni Council Committee Structure Announced The Alumni Council has restructured its committees to better align its mission with initiatives of the Academy. Three committees, each chaired by an Alumni Council executive member, are supported by separate subcommittees. The new committees are: • A lumni Networking & Affinity Committee - Rob DeLena ’87, P’21, Chairperson • A thletics & Arts Committee - Laura Sullivan ’07, Chairperson • N on Sibi Sed Aliis Committee - Morgan Steir ’03, Chairperson More information on these committees and related sub-committees can be found at www.thegovenorsacademy.org, under the Alumni – Get Involved tab.

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Abby DeLena ’21 and Alumni Council President Rob DeLena ’87, P’21

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CLASS NOTES CLASS OF 1943 Ben Brewster 88 Warren Avenue Plymouth, MA 02360-2428 benbbrew@comcast.net There is one item that should be passed along.

At our 75th reunion, Widge Thomas was the only other member to attend. Sad to say, he passed on around Christmas. I’m happy to say that he was in excellent shape when I last saw him. He will be missed. Other than that, I would urge any of you to go back and see what the school looks like now. Be sure and get a guide or you will get lost. I will say that the mood and feelings of the students remains as we knew it.

CLASS OF 1944 Steve Kauffman 3004 Larkspur Run Williamsburg, VA 23185-3765 steve1926@me.com Save the date for your 75th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

Homer Gibbs shares: after back surgery in October and a 93rd birthday last week, I’m looking forward to attending my 75th reunion in June. No other news!

Jim Waugh reports that his son Seth Waugh, a former Deutsche Bank Americas CEO, has been named Chief Executive Officer of the PGA of America. Waugh will guide the

business and overall strategy of one of the world’s largest sports organizations, serving the Association’s nearly 29,000 PGA Professionals into an exciting new era. An Independent Director on the PGA of America Board of Directors, Waugh is completing a three-year term of service, during which the Association focused on a long-term strategic plan to serve the PGA Member and grow the game. Since 2017, Waugh has served as a Senior Advisor and then a Managing Director at Silver Lake, a global leader in technology investing. He will continue on as a Senior Advisor to the firm. In 2016, he was also appointed Non-Executive Chairman of Alex. Brown, following the sale of Deutsche Bank’s Private Client Services division to Raymond James. Waugh also served in the management of Florida East Coast Industries in 2014. “It is an honor and privilege to be invited to lead this remarkable Association into its second century,” Waugh said. “Like so many, I share a passion for the game that has given so much to me, and in the process, has somehow become a huge influence in my life. The opportunity to work with the nearly 29,000 PGA Professionals and others in the game to give back and to help our beautiful sport evolve is a true gift. I look forward to getting into the field to engage with our Members, learn more about the issues that matter most to them, and look for ways to enhance their careers and lives. I am grateful for the trust that the Officers and the Board are showing in me. It will be exciting to see all the good that we can do together as an Association and an industry.

Leaving Silver Lake has been the hardest decision of my career, and I want to thank my partners for their support and commitment to excellence. There is a reason they are the best in the world at what they do. I am also grateful to my predecessor Pete Bevacqua for leaving the PGA in such strong shape, with a long-term strategic plan that will be the road map for our

planning. Because of Pete’s good work and the work of the leadership team, the PGA Staff, the Board and Officers, and our Sections, I take over at a time that allows us to optimize our impact—and put particular focus on how to add value to our dedicated Members. I am truly grateful for the game of golf and this amazing opportunity, and I can’t wait to get started.” Previously, Waugh spent thirteen years at Deutsche Bank, including ten years as CEO of the Americas, overseeing an unprecedented time of growth for the Bank in the region.

He also served as Chairman of the Deutsche Bank Americas Advisory Board, an external strategic advisory team conceived under his leadership. During this time, Waugh worked with the PGA TOUR to create the former Deutsche Bank Championship (now the Dell Technologies Championship) in Boston. “With Seth Waugh steering the PGA of America as our new CEO, we are gaining a leader who is respected across multiple industries for his vast strategic management experience and vision,” said PGA President Paul Levy. “Seth’s passion for PGA Members and the game of golf—as demonstrated by his service on the PGA of America’s Board—coupled with his global expertise in business, will serve our Members well.” Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Waugh was CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies (QFS). He also spent eleven years in various leadership roles at Merrill Lynch, culminating in serving as Co-Head of Global Debt Markets.

Earlier in his career, Waugh managed the Corporate Bond and International Trading desks at Salomon Brothers. Waugh serves on the Board of Franklin Templeton Advisors and the Advisory Board of Workday, Inc. He also served on the FINRA Board of Governors until 2015. Waugh’s philanthropic endeavors have included serving on the boards of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation; YMCA of Greater New York; Multiple Sclerosis Society

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of Greater New York; Executive Committee of Partnership for New York City; St. Vincent’s Services of Brooklyn; Local Initiatives Support Corporation; and Harlem Village Academies, as well as President of the Board of the Lawrenceville School, and Trustee at Wake Forest University. Waugh holds a B.A. in Economics and English from Amherst College.

Seth and his wife, Jane, reside in North Palm Beach, Florida. Together, they have five children, one of whom, Clancy, played golf at Wake Forest and SMU, and is now trying his hand in the professional game. Seth’s Dad, our classmate, Jim, is rightly very proud.

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Warren Furth reports he is still hopping around with two “English” canes after a botched emergency operation for a broken thigh bone due to a fall. Happy New Year!

CLASS OF 1946 Bill Silver 10 Edgewater Drive, Apt. 5G Coral Gables, FL 33133-6963 billsilver@comcast.net Bob Waugh shares: Still enjoy living on Cape Cod after moving from Delmar, New York nearly thirty years ago. Our family continues to grow—twelve grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. We stay active at Allen Harbor Yacht Club and with friends and family. Two of our daughters live close by. Hope to return to attend a reunion one of these years.

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From Edgar Movsesian: Hello GDA friends; had a very enjoyable visit with my son Andrew and cousin Pauline. We were thrilled to see “Beaulah” the gentle giant at the Topsfield Fair and the dynamic, precision horsemanship of the Canadian Mounted Police. Pleased to announce that my granddaughter, Danielle Young, plans to take part in horticultural

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studies in a couple years. Best wishes to all for good health and peace in the New Year.

CLASS OF 1948 Bob Skeele 400 Seabury Drive, Apt. 5189 Bloomfield, CT 06002 rbskeele@aol.com On a somber note, our class lost another member, Nicholas J. Pappas, on January 9, 2019.

News from Dick Palais came in an upbeat way, captioned “No Complaints,” adding “Life has been pretty good to me. OK, my hearing is awful, but with hearing aids it doesn’t matter so much. I’m kind of unsteady going down stairs, but so far no falls, never had a fracture.

And most days I walk my ten thousand steps.

It’s scary to hear those terrible predictions of climate change, but here in SoCal, for now at least, the weather is beautiful nearly every day.

As a child I learned my expected life span was only sixty-five years, so I wondered if I would make it to the next millennium. Yet here I am two decades beyond that and feeling great, with a loving wife and three wonderful children from my earlier marriage.” Dick MacNair sent the following: “Dick Palais mentioned hearing.

I have had a similar condition for many years and have been using hearing aids for more than twenty. They help but not for all situations and I still have to make sure I hear things correctly in sensitive or important situations. Although retired from my career job I am still managing a relatively small family rental real estate business and am still active in several plant societies.

The rental business takes a fair amount of time but not on a daily basis so there is time for other things. For example, we have a cottage in Maine where we go during warmer months on a commuting basis every week. We do that because we have a large vegetable garden there and perennial beds and house plants here in Cambridge. We found out that you cannot hire anyone to take care of those things in your absence. This year we tried to cut down the yield in the vegetable garden by planting less.

One of the things we planted was Buttercup

squash. We planted one hill instead of three or more as we used to do. But we were surprised to get eighty squash from only a few plants.

It took a fair amount of time to give most of those away. Another activity in Maine is trying to stabilize the condition of the 250-plusyear-old cottage. Of course, someone else is doing most of the heavy work but we have to be there to get supplies and make decisions.

The last two years we have had to remove siding on two sides and replace rotten or insect damaged sills, posts, studs, siding boards and clapboards as well as parts of the foundation. It has involved jacking up the roof to relieve the pressure on the timbers below so they could be removed and replaced. We just barely got that done in early December before the cold and wet weather arrived. Our plant society activity has been reduced a bit but I am still Treasurer of our local branch of the Begonia Society and Wanda is still a National Director representing our Branch at national meetings.

This year the National Convention was in New Orleans. We had not been there before so we went and enjoyed the local history. But one thing we did not anticipate happened at the Convention Banquet. The Begonia Society lost a very active member last year and the Society initiated a Lifetime Achievement award in his name. The first recipients of that award were Richard and Wanda Macnair. We were floored and speechless but very honored to receive the award. We had known the lost member since he was eighteen in 1975.” Bill Lindquist wrote that he and Diane “did a river trip for two weeks last fall—on both Danube and Rhine Rivers—from Budapest to Amsterdam. We still go between Sanibel Island and Kennebago Lake in Maine (winter and summer). The best of two worlds. We are now planning a summer trip which will include driving to the Canada Maritime Provinces, including Newfoundland and Labrador. We use a truck as many of the roads are dirt. Thanks for your efforts in keeping the class together. Any thoughts about the reunion? If we could get three or four guys to come, I’d come down from the woods.”

Duncan McCallum writes: “I still think back to Governor Dummer as one of the best four

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years of my life. The school, professors, friends, playing lacrosse and soccer and all the fun around me...even though I was a day student.

Now I have lost many of my friends. There are still a few with me. My family has grown as they marry and have many new children.

I have been able to enjoy them often as most live in the area. We have traveled a lot and have enjoyed many activities through the years.

Our Congregational Church in Ann Arbor offers many ways to be active in the church helping other members that my wife, Marilyn, and I take part in. We have made many and good friends over the thirty-plus years we’ve belonged. Next...I’m waiting to have my 90th birthday cake! As for Bill Elliot, he was “happy to simply say that my wife (of sixty-three years) and I go where we want and when we want.

Just today we returned from a two-week trip to Belize and Honduras where we did some kayaking, snorkeling and took part in several eco-tours. I haven’t been skiing yet this year, but as soon as I get through some volunteer projects, I plan to get on the hill. Life is good!

Best to anyone who reads this.”

increasing enrollment steadily from 1907 up to his (Ingham’s) retirement in 1930. Although I think of Jack Ragle as the new young master arriving in 1947, his contributions as a historian and later, Headmaster, are certainly very significant.

A historical note: By happenstance, when we learned of former Headmaster John W. Ragle’s passing last December, your secretary (Bob Skeele) had just started re-reading the 1963 history of Governor Dummer by Jack Ragle. The book’s coverage of Dr. Charles S. Ingham’s years as Headmaster (1907–1930) resonate with me for personal reasons. Fire had destroyed my father’s school in Connecticut during Christmas vacation 1912, and the Skeele family had to find another school that could take Dad in. Dummer Academy was it.

So in January 1913 John Skeele took a train to Byfield, and then a streetcar to the Milestone, to attend the Academy for two and a half years before graduating in 1915. We of the Class of ’48 know a lot about the next Headmaster, Edward W. Eames, but we probably associate the name Ingham with a big new dorm across the hockey rink. In fact, Dr. Ingham had come to the Academy in perilous times, and had brought the school “back from the verge of dissolution” (in Jack Ragle’s words) to a strong school, adding physical plant and faculty, and

I would have liked to begin these class notes on a most positive note, but we have recently lost three classmates since I last wrote. Kimball Page died September 9, 2018 at his home, “On The Rocks,” at Orr’s Island, Maine. Kim was born in Evanston, Illinois, June 21, 1929. He attended Evanston Public Schools before he entered Governor Dummer and later graduated from Northwestern University, co-founded by his great, great grandfather, Rev. Philo Judson. Kim first worked for Marshall Field’s in Chicago and continued on with Samuel Kirk & Son in Baltimore where he was a buyer and general manager for specialty silver consumer products. In 1964 he joined Gotham Silver Company in Providence, R.I. and ended his career there as the director of U.S. Retail Sales Training. Along the way Kim met John R. Webster and together they founded and published a shopping guide in Vermont as well as fund-raising for non-profit organizations in North Carolina. At one time, Kim also worked as assistant manager for Robinson’s Department Stores in St. Petersburg, FL. Kim leaves his

CLASS OF 1949 Manson Hall PO Box 328 349 Whidah Road North Chatham, MA 02650-0328 kenneyhall@hotmail.com Save the date for your 70th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

partner John Webster after 44 years together— they were married on December 29, 2012; his daughters Martha Dickinson and her partner, Alexandra Keats, of Vermont and Helen Anne and Dennis Quigley of Florida; proud grandfather of Stephen, Kate, Chloe, and Suzannah; and brother Hubbard O. Page. Kim was one of the most loyal of our classmates.

He attended class reunions, contributed to the school and made my task much easier, as class secretary, with regular notes for The Archon.

Over the years, though I did not know Kim well at school, we had numerous conversations by phone and e-mail and we became very good friends as a result. Charles Benson of Tabernacle, NJ died on June 9, 2018. He was eighty-seven years of age. Born in Haverhill but from Winchester, MA while at school, Charles graduated in the Class of 1948 and joined our class for a post graduate year. He attended Brown University and worked for F. W. Woolworth’s stores in Massachusetts before moving on to S.F. Iszard. A member of the Masonic Lodge, Charles loved golf, fishing and his grandchildren. He married his wife, Joan (nee Zimmerman), and is the father of Leeann Ingraham (Challen) and Robert Benson (Miriam) and the loving grandfather of Kaitlyn Ingraham and Orenda Benson. On October 31, 2018, we lost Alexander “Gordon” Price who died at his lifelong home in Boxford, MA. Gordon grew up on the farm he later farmed for so many years with his wife Susan (Manley) and his children and grandchildren.

After Governor Dummer, Gordon attended the University of Massachusetts, where he met Susan, earning a B.S. in geology. He went on to study at Texas A&M University. A twoyear stint in the U. S. Army in Germany with Susan came next, at which point they returned to run Ingaldbsy Farm in West Boxford.

Gordon leaves Susan after sixty-four years of marriage; four children, Alexander Price and wife Kimberly of Suffield, CT, Martha Price Blackburn and husband William May Jr. of Brunswick, ME, Thomas Price and wife Sheila of Boxford; and 15 grandchildren; his only sister, Anne Myers and husband David of Denver, CO and sister-in-law, Martha Wood

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of Venice, FL. Gordon’s mother Rosamond started the farm after his grandfather bought the land and Gordon grew the farm into 200 acres of corn, green beans and strawberries.

He hired many high school and college students to help in the harvest each year.

But Gordon was also very active in the town of Boxford affairs. He served on the school board, assessor’s and planning boards and was director of the Boxford Historic Document Center. Beyond Boxford, Gordon was active in the Mass Department of Agriculture and the Farm Family Insurance Co. Gordon’s obit mentions his exploring Casco Bay, ME in his boat, his love of skiing with his grandchildren in North Conway, NH, and his travels—always looking for a hotel overlooking a train station so he could watch things come and go. As I remember Gordon, he was the epitome of a gentleman farmer and I mean that with all the respect those two terms should suggest. He loved the school and I urge classmates to read Gordon’s reflections that appear in our 50 Year Reunion book. It describes some marvelous cruising trips all over the Northeast. He lived a wonderful rich life in a most unassuming way.

Your secretary had a chance to talk with Finley Stay’s wife, Emily (Fin was not at home).

Here again, I regret that I did not know Fin at school. It seems that he grew up on the farm where he has now retired. After Governor Dummer, Fin attended and graduated from Clarkson University with an engineering degree followed by a degree from Virginia Polytechnical University. Emily taught both music and photography in public and private schools in the Cleveland area. Emily was most pleasant and she assured me that Finley was, at age eighty eight, in good health. I chatted with Tom Otis by phone recently. He and Mina are happily ensconced in South Dartmouth, MA where he continues to play golf and tennis.

Through what I sensed were clenched teeth, we discussed the winter weather of New England.

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describing the extensive recreational facility that Ed and his wife Zoe had built into one of the largest and most well-attended health/ recreational clubs in New England. That enterprise burned to the ground some two years ago. But did that discourage them? Not a bit—they are just a few months away from re-opening a brand new facility. Their children are very much involved with them in what must be a most satisfying family project. Ed and Zoe continue to sail the Maine coast and, though they did not mention it, I am sure they are playing an occasional game of tennis and cruising the ski slopes of New Hampshire.

And finally, your secretary continues to plod along with his wife Ann at his side, or maybe supervising from behind. We will head for Naples, FL in January for the winter scene, some golf for Ann and tennis for me. I will rejoin my barbershop chorus if I can remember words and music. All six of my children, their various partners, a few interlopers and fourteen grandchildren reported for Christmas dinner this year in Chatham. It wasn’t whether we had enough tables, it was chairs. Happy New Year!

CLASS OF 1950 Bob Goddard 130A Wheeler Hill Drive Durham, CT 06422 bob.goddard2012@gmail.com Mel Robertson: Made it through record cold and is planning to go to Hawaii to visit his daughter. Bob Squire: He’s hanging in there

Chris Goddard ’85 and Bob Goddard ’50 at the Annual Alumni Holiday Gathering

after multiple knee and hip surgeries. Tried several times to get in touch with Stig Rosby with no luck but will keep trying. Charlie Bowen: Still traveling. This past summer took a train across Canada to the far west. Then went east to Connecticut to see his daughter for Christmas and is planning a trip to Peru to see relatives and visit Machu Picchu. Tim Green: He is recovering well from back surgery. Robert Goddard: He and his son, Chris Goddard ’85, enjoyed the Holiday Gathering in Boston and plan to be at Alumni weekend in June.

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Ken Bistany shares: During the Thanksgiving period, Ted Barrows, his wife Jackie, my wife Yolanda and I got together in Sarasota, Florida for a post-Thanksgiving luncheon and a very nice opportunity to renew friendships from our class. We live in Sarasota and Jackie was visiting her sister here as she did last year when we also had an opportunity to get together.

I am happy to report that we are all well and enjoying life. Jackie is still quite busy with her medical business and the Bistanys are still quite busy searching for the perfect retirement. We hear from the Popes throughout the year, but unfortunately have not had a chance to get together for some time. Dave Pope and Sue (Woodie) are a very busy couple as they travel throughout the world on an almost continuing basis. It is difficult to catch up with what they are doing from time to time because the travels

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are so frequent and interesting. Dave has an incredible ability to remember everything that he sees while traveling and to be able to report on it in full. Their family is becoming quite large with close to thirty members in it beginning with their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. If events continue as they are planning they will be taking the entire family on a fabulous cruise in the spring. I have been enjoying reading George McGregor’s reminiscences of his past at GDA in the two most recent The Archons. George, I found that I was able to relate very well to those times and events that you describe including the vocabulary lesson!

Dave Pope remarks that little can be added to Ken Bistany’s very complete class notes.

He was right saying we have a rather large family—thirty-four adults plus fourteen great grandchildren. We are taking thirty-two adults to Italy next fall on a cruise, which we are looking forward to. Ski season has already started and we look forward to a crowd over Christmas. It would be nice to know who could show up for a mini reunion each year—please contact me if you can come—dpopeski@gmail .com. Cheers!

George McGregor writes unfortunately, there is sad news—Jack Ragle passed away December 19, 2018. Fortunately, we have fond memories of a man respected by all those who knew him.

He was our dorm master in Ingham in 1950.

In my personal experience as a Trustee and Treasurer of the Academy during his final years as Headmaster, I learned to appreciate what is involved in being a Headmaster. It is one of the most challenging undertakings that one can aspire to—you are responsible for the students, the faculty and their families, administering the Academy from “soup to nuts”—buildings and grounds to finances and raising money.

You live in a house not your own, and it is a 24/7 existence. Jack Ragle had a life of giving, and living went along for the ride. We all are grateful for his selfless dedication to the school we all treasure: non sibi sed aliis. On a different note, do you remember calling out from our dormitory windows “1763” when

families toured campus? 1763 being the year the Academy was founded, but it was also the cost of tuition, room, and board to attend the school in 1949. Thanks to Sharon Slater, the Academy’s Archivist, for researching and confirming a year’s education was $1,750 in 1948 and $1,900 in 1952—so $1,763 is a good number for us. Can you imagine calling out $61,500 in this day and age? In the next The Archon issue, I will recall the punishments imposed for infractions of school rules.

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Dirk Owens queries “Is there anyone else out there from good ole ’52 (19, not 18)?!

Dave Powers sadly reports that he lost his wife of fifty-nine years last July. He has moved from his home to an apartment in town (Golden, CO). Having given up playing his beloved tenor saxophone, Dave’s chief interest is now photography.

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Don Tracy still enjoys living on the coast of Maine with his wife and many family members nearby. Gone are the days of jumping on planes to Italy, Budapest, etc., yet when I view the news of flight cancellations, cost of extra baggage, misbehaving passengers, etc.

I like it right here nestled between Rockland and Camden. One of our daughters and

her husband turned our attic into a nice full apartment with many windows, built-in storage, etc. My son-in-law is clever, doing most of the work himself with help from his wife.

Now, things I once did (plowing the driveway, caring for the yard, making some repairs, etc.) are done by this wonderful couple. We often have visitors we have met over the decades.

This past summer we rented a beach house at Popham (on the coast near Bath, ME). We shared it with others that we have known over the years. Besides my wife, I sure have met many good cooks over the years. What a way to relax and spend a week talking about “Do you remember when…,” “Whatever happened to…” All six of our children are doing fine.

Four are nearby, one is in a rural area west of Chicago caring for a home with gardens and an orchard, our youngest (with his wife in Arizona) is a traveling nurse who always seems to remain at the same hospital year after year. We finally had them come back to Maine to work at a local hospital. We enjoyed a nice three-month visit with our youngest and his wife. After a long stay in Spain, they have now returned to Arizona, as that big hospital has more pull than any hospitals around our locality. Glad we have telephone, Skype and texting. Except for ageing, which I call “Adam-itus” (if you read your Bible and recall the first three chapters of Genesis), life is fine for this classmate. I do hope many, many of you can say likewise. Yes, if my life was recording on a cassette tape, I would never, never attempt to re-record it.

Donald Tracy ’53 living a good life at 83 along with Kiwi (his conure parrot living a good life at 3)

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On receiving the request for Class Notes for the upcoming The Archon, Newt Hyslop felt the admonition of the late beloved Dick Marr not to leave our space blank until the last light went out. Without any important personal news to transmit, in casting about for content our Class of 1953s Liberian connection came to mind, as both William V. Shadrach Tubman Jr. and Fulton Yancey, graduates of the GDA Class of 1954, were lively and likable young men.

The remarkable “Shad” and his talented cousin Fulton arrived as juniors for two PG years and then went on to Harvard and MIT, respectively.

They were both excellent athletes and mesmerized the members of the varsity soccer team when they brought their magical ball control skills onto the practice field for the first time. Their skill made our GDA team more than competitive with the likes of the larger St. Paul’s School in our Private School League.

Since during my school years at GDA, Liberia and several other nations were brought into our daily lives by overseas students who attended the Academy, ever afterwards I kept an eye open for Liberian news. As the events of its brutal revolution and then civil war unfolded in later years, I wondered if Fulton and Shad had survived. “Shad” as the namesake son of the longstanding President of Liberia, William V. Shadrach Tubman, was expected to someday succeed his father as president, but in the tumultuous years that followed on the death of his father, he was lucky to survive. Shad now would be in his late eighties. According to the Internet search, he was present on the occasion of the national celebration of his father’s birthday in 2012. He may still be alive and available for interview. For many reasons it seemed important to remember them in print now.

Charles Gibbs writes in: Life is a verb. Now a retired general practice physician with one wife, five children, and twelve grandchildren. Have lived in Ohio, Connecticut, Kentucky, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Mexico and back to Massachusetts. No complaints! Hello to all!

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Bob Conklin ’56 dog-sledding in the Colorado Rockies

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Save the date for your 65th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

Dick Michelson shares: My wife Judy and I were on campus early one evening last June. Physically it continues to improve. The foundation established by the “Old Guard” has been enriched substantially from what I read, hear and see. I count my three years at GDA/ TGA as one of my significant blessings.

CLASS OF 1955 George Gardner 10 Winnatuxett Beach Road PO Box 32 Mattapoisett, MA 02739-2127 george.gardner3@gmail.com This past summer Jack Pallotta married Pat who he has known since he dated her when they were freshmen at Colby College.

They spend their winters in Ft. Meyers and summers on the Jersey Shore in Avalon.

They play golf and do lots of walking. Jack

says he guesses life does begin at 80. Peter Scott reports “2018 was a year of body maintenance, but I am still blessed with good health. Played the best golf of my life and won the ‘Geezerville Open’ that I host every summer for my old buddies in Gettysburg.

Quite embarrassing. Took an Orient Express caliber train trip in South Africa for ten days in November. Saw all the wild animals. A land of extremes—luxurious mansions on the one hand, ‘black settlements’ on the other (acre after acre of tin shacks, 15' x 15', no utilities.)

Oh, the accident of birth. How lucky we are to have been born in America.”

CLASS OF 1956 Jim Dean 140 Pepperrell Road Kittery Point, ME 03905 covecottage10@gmail.com Joe MacLeod reports: John Wilson and I met for lunch recently and had a great time reminiscing about GDA times. Also, met Steve Winer and think I have talked him into coming to the upcoming Reunion! Pete Renkert shares: 2018 was kind to me. An operation & four restarts cured my A-Fib condition. And my sailboat that several classmates cruised aboard, is standing tall again after being heavily damaged by hurricane Irma. Carolyn and I are having an enjoyable retirement and the grand kids are keeping us on our toes. Thoughts of GDA come up often and are cherished. I learned more at GDA than I did in college! Enjoy life!

Bob Conklin shares: In July, Janet and I joined a Dartmouth College alumni group for a tour of the Canadian Rockies—Banff, Lake Louise, and Jasper. Good company and spectacular scenery. Our most recent adventure was Christmas in Colorado Springs, where my younger daughter and her family live. We went dog-sledding (in a blizzard) at Monarch Mountain in the Colorado Rockies.

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CLASS OF 1957 Lyman Cousens 4 Goodhue Road Boscawen, NH 03303-2500 lymancousens@comcast.net There is not much in the way of news for the Class of 1957 which I suppose is good news when your classmates are either in or approaching their eighties. I visited the school back in October for some kind of parents/ alumni event. Amy, from the Development Office, drove me around the campus in a golf cart and I got to meet several students and the Head of School, a Bowdoin grad.

In her summary of the days’ activities, Amy commented something to the effect that several alumni visited, even all the way back to the Class of 1957. That would be me! My wife Doris recently retired after thirty years with the Academy of Applied Science, and, I think, we are still enjoying each other’s company. We take turns shoveling a path out back for the dogs to do their thing. True love! John Bissell, Dubuque, Iowa, continues in his role as Class Artiste, Iowan for “artist.” John is a local hero, donating several of his paintings to the local art gallery for their fundraisers. Bill Mathews has moved from Sunset Beach all the way to Carolina Shores, which is right next door. You are not escaping the hurricanes, ol’ friend.

Bill still plays golf when his back permits. Jeff Fitts and his gorgeous wife Sandy are back in Sarasota, again escaping those nasty Wolfeboro winters. They attended a play I was in (1776 )

“Class Artiste” John Bissell ’57

last summer and were among a dozen or so who actually applauded! It was not fun for this old thespian. Ned Stone writes he and Lydia have decided to give up their very active life on the Potomac and move to a Quaker based retirement community in Silver Spring, Maryland. God bless you Ned, stay in touch.

Gene Bouley and his daughter visited his grandson Justin where he is working for a year testing a flying taxi. If interested, look up Kitty Hawk on line.

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News from Tom Grose: My wife Missy and I live in London where we have lived since the late 1980’s. Our children were born in NYC and Carthage, Tunisia and those born in New York moved to Tunisia at the age of 10 months.

All began in the French system but switched to the American School of London and then St. Andrews and Edinburgh. Two live in Singapore, one in LA and the fourth is just outside of London. They have given us 11 grandchildren.

Missy and I travel to see them all, especially in winter when London is not at its best. We all summer in Christmas Cove, ME where we spend a great deal of our time on the water.

I continue to run my own financial services business, which I can do from wherever I am thanks to modern technology. I am on the board of directors of a UK list fund. Touch wood, all seem to be happy and healthy and we hope it continues. I have great and fond memories

Gene Bouley ’57 and daughter Debbie in Queenstown, New Zealand

of my time at GDA but have not been very good about getting back for reunions due to geography. The school was an important input into my life. I do often drive through the school on my way to Maine from the Boston airport so have kept up with the physical expansion since our days when things were somewhat simpler. I do hope that I can encourage a few of those still standing to come to Maine for a get-together this coming summer.

CLASS OF 1959 Randy Light 13 Willow Place Cazenovia, NY 13035-1210 clight@twcny.rr.com Save the date for your 60th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

Bob Pouch sent in the following: “Our summer boat trip with the grandchildren featured a voyage through the Hudson River and Erie Canal to Lake Oneida and Lake Ontario to the thousand islands and St. Lawrence River. This was our tenth year of making summer cruises on our Cape Dory power boat.” In addition to his summer cruises, Bob and his wife spend time in southwest Florida, where Bob has had the opportunity to keep in touch with Roy Nash and his wife Erna following Roy’s extensive surgery for stomach cancer. I have also spoken to Roy. He said that he is making progress from his surgery, but that the overall process of recuperation from the surgery will be a long and slow. Let’s all wish Roy a full and successful recovery.

Walt Cannon reported: “My wife and I just celebrated our fiftieth wedding anniversary which seems incredible. Fifty years went by very fast. We are both approaching our eightieth

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birthdays. In spite of that we are quite active.”

Walt is “appalled by our government and what will happen in the next two years” and finds it “Quite scary!” He said that he “will make every effort to come to” the 60th Reunion in June.

Peter Sherin gave me a call. Although he is no longer on the school’s board of trustees, he stays in frequent contact with the school and its affairs. He is doing well and plans on attending the 60th Reunion.

Topper Terhune also is “hoping to make it back to our 60th this coming June.” Topper further said: “Traded emails with Brian Marsh earlier this month and he indicated he is considering attending too! I will continue to encourage him to do so. As for me, I finally retired from the ad agency two years ago and am thoroughly enjoying it. Spend a lot of time golfing, fishing, dining out with friends, and working out at a local fitness center three or four times a week. Two reasons for working out so much: 1) Helps me hit the ball farther on the golf course and 2) I have an attractive personal trainer, which tends to alleviate somewhat the whole ordeal of working out.

Needless to say, I am in reasonably decent shape. Hope to see everyone in June.”

Howard Medwed has retired from the Boston law firm Burns & Levinson. He was a tax attorney with the firm for more than fifty years. Post-retirement, he can be reached at his home in Cambridge, although from June to September he will be spending time in Biddeford Pool, Maine. No doubt in retirement, Howard will be as busy as ever.

Ferg Jansen said that he “just had right knee fixed… so ready to race Hunty.” Ferg also mentioned: “Great family with six super grandkids. Oldest is Journalism major at University of Maryland—she cried all night of Presidential elections, but got to meet Bob Woodward, so that relieved the pain a bit! Linda and I are doing lots of travel, and we both are still working and still loving it. Biggest bummer for me is not being able to discuss the daily trials and tribulations of our nation with Ray Farris on phone constantly. At least saw him every month or two as we hiked the Fire Trails

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in Sunny California. Sad about Durgin Park.”

May I [Randy] add as an editorial comment that I join Ferg in his sadness. It cannot be true that the Durgin Park Restaurant has closed. A special treat, at least from my perspective as a student at GDA, was going to Durgin Park for a meal consisting of a huge slab of roast beef and a big dessert of Indian Pudding. My waistline may still show some hints of those meals.

Fred Huntress reported that he “had back surgery this past year… [but has] recovered well enough… to look forward to spring. Skiing was out [for him] this year but golf, boating, gym work etc. are back to normal.” Fred and his wife Linda have lived in Meredith, NH for the past twenty-one years,” which Fred said is “a terrific place to call home.” Fred continues to perform volunteer work on the town’s “Sculpture Walk” project as well as serving during the summer months as a tour captain on nearby Squam Lake (aka On Golden Pond). Fred said that at the lake he has the opportunity to “meet all sorts of people from all over” and to enjoy the activity of the loons, which are on the lake all season long. For the winter, Fred stated that he and his wife were once again headed to the Florida Panhandle for two months and that although the “area was devastated by the last storm, where he and wife locate ‘seems’ to be back up running.” To which Fred added, “I hope!” Fred also stated: “My wife and I love retirement because I tell people that every day is a Saturday. I try to tell Ferg Jansen that he should slow down and get in the retirement mode but he is counting the bucks. … With new dorms at GDA I want to bring back Moody! I think these new students should relish the great old times which we enjoyed!”

Hope to see classmates at the 60th Reunion. Try to attend if you can and, in Fred’s words, “relish the great old times which we enjoyed,” as well as savor the dynamic environment of the school as it exists today and heads into the future.

CLASS OF 1960 John Elwell 266 High Street Newburyport, MA 01950-3838 johnelwell@verizon.net Don Alexander writes, “Last year was a productive year for my wife Barbara and me.

Our long-time friend and Barbara’s Maine Law School classmate, Janet Mills, was elected Governor of the State of Maine. Barbara and I both enjoy good health and remain active in our careers, me as a Justice of the Maine Supreme Court, and Barbara as a consultant appearing in state utility regulatory proceedings in other states representing the consumer— often the low income consumer—point of view. We visit regularly with our son Philip, his wife, and three grandkids here in Maine; and twice, including for Christmas, we travelled to Montana to visit our daughter Katherine, her husband, and two grandkids. On an academic note, new editions of two of my books, Maine Appellate Practice and The Maine Jury Instruction Manual, were published in 2018.

Best wishes to all our classmates and to The Governor’s Academy in the New Year. And best wishes Don to you and Barbara for all the good you both do!

Carl Youngman I had the good fortune to chat with Carl recently on the phone. Carl is as active as ever spending time in Florida and in Massachusetts. In an email he stated, “We need to connect and stay at the center of our ’60 community more than ever.” I agree that our Class is a community!

Mal Flint shares “I wouldn’t want you to lose your high paying job as Class of ’60 Secretary so here are a few items of what we’ve been up to. After our 50th Reunion, Surrey and I were able to check off one item from our bucket list—we traveled to Australia/New Zealand for a vacation to complete visiting in all seven continents. We still enjoy getting out and seeing various parts of the world. For our fiftieth anniversary (2016), we took our children and grandchildren (thirteen in all) to the Galapagos Islands for a week and had a great family time

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together. Surrey and I had been there ten years prior and it still was just as special a place this time. Our adventure for 2018 was to Vietnam and Cambodia for two and a half weeks in late October/early November—interesting to visit places that were familiar names from the Vietnam War time of the late ’60s and early ’70s. Time to rest up and start planning the next one! Our daughters, Jennifer and Heather, live fairly close to us so we get to spend time with their families regularly. Geoff’s family lives in Mill Valley, CA so it means regular trips to the west coast to stay up with their lives. Our oldest grandchild (Heather’s) is going through the college application process—yikes!—reminds us of how old we are getting. I retired ten years ago and stay busy with children and grandchildren activities plus the work of taking care of the outside house/property maintenance—we still live in the same house—no downsizing yet. Assuming all the body parts continue to function reasonably well, hope to be able to be at our 60th next year. So great to hear from you Mal! And yes…you are keeping busy doing some wonderful exciting things.

Norm Kalat sends the following…Not much going on with my wife Susi and I. We have a geriatric dog that keeps us in Santa Fe. Fortunately, our grown-up children (fortyeight and fifty-one) are healthy and fun to share a weekend when they are here with grandchildren (seven). I have resigned from boards (Boys & Girls Club, and Owner’s Association) to concentrate on repairing my miserable golf game. I do have fun, however high the score. My wife and I work at the food depot which is important in the state of New Mexico, but that does not require me to think or bring work home. Kudos to you Norm for your efforts past and present helping others! It matters much!

Bob Adams before leaving for Florida for the months of February and March sent the following: Have a fun time on your trip to Cuba. Enjoy the rum and cigars! See you when you return. Bob is about a mile and half from my Maple Crest Farm yet we are always so busy we never seem to connect. 2019 will be better!

Peter Stonebraker shared: I have taken a sabbatical this summer, my first since 1988, when I went to Russia. Eva and I have started those “bucket-list” trips that we have always wanted to do. First, it was a trip to Washington, D.C., where we visited several of the memorials on and near the Mall. Followed by trip to Iceland and Stratford, Canada. Iceland was important to us because, after our marriage in Denmark, we flew Iceland Air back to Reykjavik, then to Boston. However, a serious storm developed over Labrador, and the pilots did not want to fly the Keflavik-Boston leg in a propeller plane at 20,000 feet. We were treated all-expenses-paid to two nights at the then best hotel in Reykjavik until the weather was better.

We felt that we needed to go back. Iceland is absolutely phenomenal—as long as the weather at two degrees latitude south of the Arctic Circle behaves. We trekked across glaciers & lava flows for a week, and the weather was great (sunshine & warmth)—though we wore fleeces & windbreakers every day. Our third trip was to Stratford, Ontario to the Shakespeare Festival. (Music Man, Kill a Mockingbird, Comedy of Errors, An Ideal Husband, The Tempest, etc.) This is the eighth summer that we have made the trip. It is always a relaxing

trip to make and it was good to get away from Chicago. At the end of July, we will be going west for our annual jaunt to the states of Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. Mountains to climb and family to visit. The 60th reunion for June, 2020 is now on my calendar; looking forward to seeing everyone then, if not sooner. Amazing “bucket-list” trips!

The Elwell family is doing well. Carol and I now have nine grandchildren from the age of two to seventeen. They are all in the Massachusetts area, which makes it easier to stay connected. I am still operating Maple Crest Farm in West Newbury where we grow strawberries, Christmas trees, blueberries, raspberries, gourds, and pumpkins. This fall my son, Kane, built a beautiful pavilion overlooking the reservoir. Hope to have a gathering of Class of ’60 folks at the farm in late spring and perhaps another gathering during our reunion in 2020. I have retired from my Just ASK consulting and workshop activities, but the farm easily takes up the extra time. As you all know by now, we spent ten days in Cuba with a group of friends in January. A country struggling economically but wonderful caring people! We are looking

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forward to some snowmobiling this winter, then off to another MVPA Convoy this August and September from D.C. to San Francisco along the Lincoln Highway. If any of you are along that route, hope we can connect.

The following notes and information are in memory of our own Jim Deveney who passed away after a gallant battle with cancer on January 10.

Dick Henry shared this special story: The story behind my getting this news. For several years, I was Chairman of the Architectural Review Committee here on Callawassie Island. One day I was called over to a house that a couple had just bought, and they had to remove the old propane tank and put in a new one. I had not met these people; I don’t think they had even moved in. So I go over and start a conversation with the man, and it turns out that he knows one of my good friends from Princeton who was building a house on Spring Island, which connects to Callawassie Island.

My friend lived in Wellesley for many years and then in Boston and is an avid golfer. And they knew each other from golf. So on we go, and, lo-and-behold, he is from Manchester, MA, and belongs to the same club that Dev belonged to. I recognized the name. So I ask him, and, sure enough, he knows Dev very well! I’ve only seen this guy once in two years down here, but he was the one who sent me the news. My wife was not here when I got the news. When she came home, it didn’t take her long to ask, “What’s wrong?” At which point I burst into tears! (Dick Henry, 30 Spring Island Drive, Callawassie Island, SC 29909)

class leaders. I had occasion to observe Jim a lot when he was an important member of the Soccer and Baseball teams, where I was manager. He was someone the teams counted on to step up and perform in the clutch, and he did. Saw Jim less in Hockey, as I didn’t watch many cold outdoor games at the Ingham Rink.

Bob Adams emailed: Sorry to hear of Jim’s passing. I had the pleasure of sharing four additional school years with Jim at Brown.

Norm Kalat added: I am sorry to hear of Jim Deveney, I remember him as a man with a great sense of humor.

Carl Youngman: Jim Deveney contracted pancreatic cancer. He was always a positive thinker, and he thought he would beat it. In six weeks the cancer had invaded his brain, and that was the end. They had a Catholic mass for Jim at St John’s in Swampscott where Jim was an altar boy before coming to GDA. Jim was buried with his family in the family tomb at St. Mary’s in Lynn, next to his mother. I spoke to Sharon who said “I was spoiled and so happy with Jim.” Nice thought. Very comforting!

John Elwell: These comments and remembrances are a testimony to Jim Deveney and the impact he had on all of us. I always looked forward for his class notes submissions and updates on his accomplishments. He was a remarkable person who impacted positively so

many. He will be missed, but his spirit will live on in each one of us!

Sharon, Jim’s wife, wrote this wonderful letter to the Governor’s Alumni Office: I am writing to inform you of the passing of James C. Deveney, my husband of twenty-eight years.

Would you please see that this obituary is shared with the alumni? James C. Deveney passed away on January 10, 2019. Jim had a wonderful three years at GDA experiencing the breadth of the “Old Guard” and other mentors who helped him grow and flourish. Headmaster Val Wilkie was a friend and mentor who influenced Jim throughout his life. Jim served as Senior Council President and co-captain of the hockey team for two years. He was high scorer on the soccer team, which won the league championship (coached by Buster Navins) in his senior year. He also played lacrosse, tennis, and baseball. He felt his three years in Byfield helped him grow into the person he became, and he always cited Art Sager’s public speaking class as very important to him. Jim served as a Governor’s trustee for six years, and he was elected as an emeritus trustee.

For an excellent moving story of Jim’s professional and golf accomplishments written

by Gary Larrabee: Google: The Salem Evening News: “Appreciation: Deveney remembered as a North Shore golf legend and traditionalist.”

Rick Benner writes: John as always it’s good to hear from you. I just heard the news about Jim—I’m so very sad. He was such a wonderful friend—I was blessed to spend time with him last summer. Jim knew then, and he spoke with me about what lay ahead. John, I’m not able to type much more…right now—I just loved that man.

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Members of the class of 1961 gathered at Michael Stonebraker’s home on Lake Winnipesaukee. Back Row L-R: John Carroll, Stan Thomas, Tony Garland, and Geoff Robinson; front row L-R: Tom Woodruff, Michael Stonebraker, Tom Mercer, and Peter Boynton

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CLASS OF 1961 Tom Mercer 5311 Elden Drive Dallas, TX 75220-2101 tmercer@cerescap.net Steve Sawyer 202 South Fileys Road Dillsburg, PA 17019-9563 stevesaw@comcast.net Yet another ‘get together’ of a few members of the Class of 1961 was held this past September. Once again we convened at Mike Stonebraker’s elegant and well-situated place on Lake Winnipesaukee. In addition to Mike and me were the usual suspects Boynton, Carroll, Garland, Thomas, and Robinson.

We missed Ted Dietz but were delighted to welcome Tom Woodruff into our midst. The conversation was constant and interesting.

There is something compelling about exploring thoughts and experiences of those with whom one spent awkward and maturing teenage years after having little or no communication through the bulk of the collective productive years—essentially reconvening on the other side of the mountain. We took a mild hike up to a grand view of the lake, visited a WWII museum in Wolfeboro, and broke bread together. The consensus seems to be that we should do this annually as long as we can. I know I will look forward to that.

CLASS OF 1962 Tom Tobey 1120 Woodside Road Berkeley, CA 94708 ttobey13@gmail.com At the outset of this edition of my class notes I wish to apologize to Ham Agnew for not publishing the class notes in the last edition of The Archon. I will work harder in the future but urge you to send in your own stories, adventures and special accomplishments for all to enjoy.

Heard recently that Bob MacLaughlin has moved his home to join the more cosmopolitan outskirts of Bangor in Hermon, ME. Bob

and Rene are always training for the next marathon wherever it may be. Bob indicates that preparation for this kind of running involves a gradual progression of going from stopping smoking forty years ago, changing to a principally vegetarian diet and starting running, slowly. That was in the late seventies and has currently morphed his schedule into competing in the 24-hour Rowdy Ultimate Race at Bowdoin College, covering more than one hundred miles. That was on his fortieth birthday. Bob reports, “Since then, I sleep in on my birthdays.” Bob still runs about twenty miles every week to stay in shape. He and his wife, Rene, are members of the Maine running club known as the Maine Running Fossils.

Rene says, “It makes people laugh. They’re out there running along and they’re struggling, and then they see their dinosaur mascot, which accompanies them to most events.” That has to conjure up a chuckle or two.

It has been well-documented over the years that Peter Butler has proven his mettle on various occasions doing such things as jumping into a hole in the ice on the first of the year or summiting some mountain. Either way Peter is clearly not just sitting around, instead being active at a revved up level. As we all approach our mid-seventies it is important to keep exercising. I found out where Peter and Marie have been recently. They are currently at home but will soon be off to a windjammer cruise in the Grenadines, then on to St. Vicente, Barbados and beyond. What a life, although Peter did report that he is enduring some aches and pains that he will be nursing while on board the tall ship trip. Try saying that without stumbling—“tall ship trip, tall ship trip, trip…”

Last year I had the privilege of seeing Ham Agnew (via video conference) and his bonsai garden at his home in Florida. He has cultivated quite a large collection of these miniature trees. I had not been up close and personal with this ancient Japanese art form.

It clearly takes patience and time, which Hamilton clearly has.

Doug Coupe graduated with us in the Class of 1962 when he and Colin Studds captained

the football team. He moved on to Springfield College where he captained the undefeated 1965 football team. He went on and served more than twenty years as a Trustee and Corporator of Springfield College, including chair of the Board from 2011 through 2015, and secretary of the Board from 2008 through 2011. He also has worked on two Springfield College presidential search committees. Doug began his relationship with Springfield College in 1962, coming to the College to major in education and play football, where he was a member of the 1965 undefeated football team. During his time on the campus as a student-athlete, Doug chaired the institution’s governing body, and worked on homecoming, reunion, and annual fund committees. He graduated from Springfield College in 1966; earned a Master of Education degree in 1970; and a certificate of advanced graduate studies in 1971. Doug is a retired vice president of State Street Global Investor Services. He was a previous chair of the Bluffton (SC) Community Fund, which assists community organizations in providing human services in the town. Doug Coupe was also honored last spring by his alma mater, with an honorary Doctor of Humanics.

Sorting through the archives, I located Jim Gordon still working as a Financial Advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors, in Bellevue, WA. Jim offers a wide range of services, from helping you select individual investments to developing a retirement plan. With access to a broad array of company resources—including research analysts and economic and market experts— informed investment decisions based on your specific needs. Jim and his wife Marcia still live in Woodinville, WA. In an effort to reach out to our Class of 1962 as it relates to present day led me to the annals of our class for material. My first thoughts went to the special prizes portion of the yearbook at graduation. Peter Machinist received the Thorndike Hilton Cup at graduation being recognized for being the top-ranking scholar in the Class of ’62. As we know Peter continued this scholarship to this day, witness Peter

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teaching two courses at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome the last semester! Peter was someone to be admired for his scholarship then and still is today. Congratulations, Peter.

Charlie Pyne and his wife, Betsy have been in the habit of learning to train dogs specifically as training dogs for the blind. They have one dog at a time and work to find appropriate assignments when each dog is fully trained. Not all dogs reach the stage of being appropriate but the satisfaction of having been involved in the process is extremely satisfying and rewarding.

Charlie and Betsy were featured in Harvard Magazine.

Had a wonderful catch up conversation with Dave Lorenson recently. One of the advantages of writing the class notes is that I also have opportunity to connect with many of the class wives. Yesterday, while Dave was shoveling the driveway, his wife Patricia (I take the liberty of calling her that despite the fact that she may be a Pat or Patty) and I had a humorous exchange on the phone that I enjoyed. Like many of us Dave has endured several joint replacements and suffers from stenosis. I still have a clear memory of Colin Studds for their stalwart defense. Now that incident was better than fifty years ago.

Many years ago I sought out Ted Moore only to discover that Ted and wife, Ginny had emigrated from mainland U.S. to the outer reaches of Alaska. We were delighted when Ted and Ginny made it back to the Pie Race at the time of our 50th Reunion. It was particularly memorable because it was clear that Ted does some running during his recreational time. He and the family enjoy sailing their gaff-rigged sailboat near Seldovia. They were fortunate to not have experienced too much damage in the 7.0 earthquakes there last fall.

I encourage each of you to share some of your adventures. Just send an email to me at ttobey13@gmail.com.

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Bob Mann IS OFFICIALLY RETIRING TODAY [January 30, 2019] AT seventyfour years—WILL BE ON THE COUCH TOMORROW!!!

Bob Taylor (Tails) took his family to California over the Christmas holiday and enjoyed a delightful evening with Ran Langenbach and his partner, Frederick Hertz, in Oakland.

Tails retired from the Small Business Administration in 2018 and now enjoys his retirement in Austin, Texas. Ran keeps busy as an international consultant, writing and giving lectures on building conservation and restoration, including a trip to Nepal and a recent appearance on PBSNOVA (see his work on www.conservationtech.com).

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golf club. Although I am not great at golf, I love it for the sheer fun, camaraderie, and amateur competition. We were playing against eight Europeans in our own Ryder Cup type matches, which we lost 10.5-9.5, including playing our final round at the Royal Portrush Dunluce course, site of the 2019 British Open. In fact, I got photos of Rory McIlroy as he was playing a promotional round for cameras; and a couple of my colleagues got to get photos holding the famous claret jug. This was a rematch for us, since we had bested the Euros 17-11 in our first encounter, that being at Pinehurst, NC in the fall of 2016. Needless to say there was more Guinness and Irish Whisky downed in Ireland than comparative brews stateside.

John Heald indicates he is now enjoying retirement, living in Southport, ME, and also enjoying activities in volunteer efforts in the state, including projects with Bill Alfond ’67.

John also mentioned that he is now able get

Don Balser 12 Hawkes Street Marblehead, MA 01945-3138 dsb-co@comcast.net Save the date for your 55th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

Paul Freedberg: During the fall of 2018, I took my family and rented a villa in Cascais, Portugal outside Lisbon. It was a fantastic trip with my wife, Maria, both daughters, Lexie and Amy, son-in-law John, boyfriend Johan, granddaughter Mallory, and a cousin. Hired a cook for several nights and dined out well on others. Uber and trains were great sources of transportation. Following the family part of trip, I flew to Dublin to play golf for several days in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland with seven other buddies from my Renaissance

Top: Paul Freedberg ’64 at famous 16th hole tee, Royal Portrush Dunluce, 2018; Bottom: Paul Freedberg ’64 with sand sculptures and daughter Amy, Lisbon, 2018

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together with his three brothers, including Tom ’66 (still practicing law in RI), and enjoys these times very much. John will be at the reunion in June, and looks forward to this very much!

Don Balser reports, “Linda and I have really enjoyed 2018, especially in celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary, in June, and also celebrating Christmas and New Year’s in Hawaii with family! Although some friends and family had suggested a 50th dinner and party celebration, we decided to be with our son, Andrew, and his family in Fairbanks, AK, at their relatively new home atop Moose Mountain, just outside of Fairbanks. We had a wonderful ten days celebrating our 50th anniversary, including great river-rafting down the Chatiniqa River, north of Fairbanks, where Andrew guided our large rubber, and wife, Teri, a canoe, down the river—a great trip! The Christmas and New Year’s trip to Hawaii, the big island (Linda and

my first trip to Hawaii), was also wonderful, and we learned so much about the volcanic activity on Hawaii. Never knew that Mauna Kea has an altitude of almost 14,000 feet! We did all of the usual stuff: luau, evening snorkeling with the manta rays, surf boarding, and beaches, including the very secluded “Green Sand Beach”—actual green sand—in South Point, HI, the southernmost point of the USA!

Top Row Right: At the luau, Don Balser’s ’64 granddaughter Madeleine, fire dancer, and wife Linda; Second Row Left: Taking a break on the Chatiniqa River; Second Row Right: Green Sand Beach, taken by Don Balser ’64 from the lava field above; Third Row Left: US vs Euro, Pinehurst, 2016 (note Payne Stewart statue); Third Row Middle: Don ’64 and Linda Balser on their wedding day, June 20, 1968; Third Row Right: Family and friends at the Westin Resort, Christmas (Linda and Don Balser ’64 in middle); Bottom Row Left: L-R in 2013: Terry Golden ’64, Bill Poole ’64, Don Balser ’64, Bob Segal ’64, Jay Cooke ’64, Bruce Fraser ’64 on the occasion of a semi-annual boat trip aboard Jay Cooke’s boat; Bottom Row Middle: Taken from Don ’64 and Linda Balser’s bedroom window, just after midnight in Fairbanks (6/22/18); Bottom Row Right: At the Annual Alumni Holiday Gathering left to right standing: Bob Wise ’64, Don Balser ’64, Larry Henchey ’64, Bill Poole ’64, left to right seated: Paul Freedberg ’64, Charles Parker ’64, Jeff Karelis ’64

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Ken Linberg 6766B Del Playa Drive Isla Vista, CA 93117-4910 ken.linberg@gmail.com

Jim Connolly 47 Green Street Newburyport, MA 01950-2646 jim@connolly.legal

Stan Thomas writes in: I had a hip replacement a year ago, and I am 95% improved. I exercise and walk daily in an effort to overcome that last 5% of weakness. Rosalie and I have spent a quiet winter at home with road trips to see the grandchildren as often as possible. We keep a fire burning whenever we are home so I spend a lot of time cutting and splitting firewood. Ned Helm shares: Currently living on the Cumberland Plateau in Eastern Tennessee where our two Tennessee Walking Horses have hundreds of miles to pace on in the Great South Fork of the Cumberland River Recreation Area (National park with no money!). Following GDA, Colby ’69, USAF Pilot Training ’70, USAF tours in Upper Michigan, Southeast Asia, Korea, England, Germany and North Carolina, Bath Iron Works, owned a small Inn in Bristol Maine, then off to VT, the Pan Handle of Florida, and finally Tennessee.

It is a cold beginning of February this year with the polar vortex, but it is also perhaps a romantic month containing Valentine’s Day. In that light, I am attaching a picture of Christine and Len Johnson posing in front of the enlarged copy of “The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt. This was actually taken last summer at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna while the Johnsons were enjoying a Viking Cruise on the Danube River.

Also, last summer, my youngest daughter, Camila ’08, graduated from Harvard Law School, and she decided to go out to Los Angeles to practice entertainment law. It turns out that Los Angeles is a long way away, but I had to make the trip to visit her. While I was there, I had the opportunity to visit Andy Leonard at his delightful restaurant in Malibu, The Reel Inn. Andy is doing well and enjoying life in Southern California. A picture of Andy and me outside his restaurant is attached.

And, also, last summer, I had the chance to visit with Gary Morgan, who stopped by the Oldtown Country Club on the Parker River for dinner with his brother. Gary is now retired and

Christine and Len ’66 Johnson at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna

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Jim Connolly ’66 and daughter Camila Connolly ’08 at her Harvard Law School graduation

living in Oregon, near Portland, with his wife Yvonne and their two dogs. A picture of Gary at the Oldtown Country Club with his niece, Kristin Mollineaux ’90 is attached.

Ford Schumann writes that he is still recycling, playing music and golf and really enjoying watching his five-year-old grandson learning to play indoor soccer. Ford hopes to find time to get up to GDA to check out the campus, and maybe grab a meal with a classmate.

And Jack Howard sent the following note: First of all I treasure every year. I have finally decided to semi-close my law practice and only do my Judge Pro Tem and Arbitration cases. My wife Liz is putting in long hours as a Nurse Manager and loves her job. My son John is married and teaching fourth grade. My daughter Laurel got married last year to a wonderful man originally from Columbia and both work at Zappos here in Las Vegas. My son Rob is still searching for the meaning of life. I try to work out five days a week but it sucks getting older. May try golf again and ignore that I will never be close to Jack Nicklaus.

I wish good health to all my classmates.

David Oliker writes: “Didn’t like retirement.

Our Finger Lakes vineyard had a great harvest; nine tons of Riesling and Cab Franc. Wine will be sold under the name Robinia Hill Vineyard.

Robinia is Latin for Black Locust or acacia. Thank you Mr. Navins.”

Jim Connolly ’66 with Andy Leonard ’66 at Andy’s restaurant, Reel Inn

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CLASS OF 1967 Ben Beach 7207 Denton Road Bethesda, MD 20814-2335 benhbeach@gmail.com “We head to Florida tomorrow in hopes of getting some fresh air for my aging body while bridge instruction tortures my brain and ego,” Lew Rumford wrote in January. “I am still waiting for the Husband of the Year Award for attending bridge classes each winter. Fran seems to think I will eventually be more fun to be with if I can play bridge. I am sure she is right, if only I could stop objecting to the myriad rules and conventions one must learn to participate. Those who know me realize classrooms are not my sweet spot.”

Our other Maryland native, Alan Rothfeld, reported, “I am trying to keep busy—I think GDA instilled a fear of being idle. Helping to start a new medical school at the Claremont Colleges and doing some consulting that keeps me on the road a few weeks a year. But mainly pursuing a long-delayed teaching career and savoring the joys of marriage.”

Don Gay refereed volleyball last fall and looks forward to doing flag football in the spring. He and Emily visited their son Timothy in California around New Year’s and

continue to enjoy time with their two young granddaughters, Hazel Grace and Isabelle. “I am looking forward to seeing everyone this June,” Don said.

Since the day we took our final walk around the Milestone, business aircraft speeds have increased by less than ten percent. Aerion Corporation, chaired by Bob Bass, intends to change that. In collaboration with GE Aviation, Aerion has completed initial design of the first supersonic engine purpose-built for business jets. Stay tuned for updates on the Aerion AS2.

“Mostly trying to stay warm, get some exercise (the God of hamstrings seems unrelenting), and I could use some sort of computer program to keep track of birthdays for three kids and five grandkids,” Carter Evans reported.

“Fortunately, they are off the payroll and healthy.”

“I am looking out at a snowy New England landscape,” Paul Hemmerich wrote from Vermont in late January, “just like what we introduced Alabamian Jeff Forte to some fifty-four years ago, during our first snowball fight as freshmen—an old-fashioned winter with snow up to your knees. I dutifully cleared a small section of the 300-mile Catamount backcountry ski trail in November, and then Mother Nature bent all the branches and saplings with 18" of heavy wet December snow, forcing a do-over. And I would do it all over again just to enjoy the snowy woods’ beauty celebrated by Robert Frost. I hope all you snowbirds remember the good old days!”

In late December Anthony Gerard managed to ski the Minturn Mile on his new knee. “Back in the game!” he wrote, “Boy, are we fortunate to live in these times when we can improve our quality of life.”

Gary Morgan ’66 and his niece, Kristin Mollineaux ’90 at Oldtown Country Club in Newbury, MA

Ward Westhafer also checked in with upbeat medical news: “After a full year of medical challenges, Barbara and I are about fully recovered! Fortunately, we alternated periods of disability, so we were able to care for each other as the need arose. We had a trip to York Harbor for a few days, our first trip in recent memory.

It was cold, but we could hear the waves

breaking on the shore at night and had a very pleasant time. We are anticipating a healthier and happier 2019!”

“Still working full-time,” reported Jeff Wood, “commuting through the bowels of Manhattan, jousting with the denizens of the subway system—generally a useless activity akin to tilting at Windmills.”

Bill Alfond represented the class at Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, a city he visited often during his Dexter Shoe career, “mostly for conventions like the Super Show.” Bill would have named the Patriots’ defensive team the MVP. Attentive classmates who watched the post-game show after the Red Sox won the World Series October 28 may have seen Bill walking around Dodger Stadium. Will the Celtics defeat the Lakers to make it a trifecta?

“We are launching our eighth fund here at Stone Point,” said Chuck Davis. “Trident VIII will be slightly larger than the $5.5 billion Trident VII but will feature the same strategy as the first seven. Our team has stuck together since 1998, adding young associates every year.

We now have ninety people, own sixty-five companies with the owner/operators who run them, and manage assets of $75 billion. Not sure how all that happened, but I have now been running Stone Point for more than twenty years, longer than I was at Goldman Sachs.

Where did the time go? Not sure how many more of these ten-year-lived funds I can do, but I’m not drooling yet!”

Andy Creed checked in from Hillsborough, NH, with news that should remind all of us to be careful as we hit seventy: “I have been recovering from a fall resulting in a broken fibula in November. No surgery but very inconvenient. Have found that I have a significant amount of furniture-grade timber on my new property so am seriously considering setting up a custom portable sawmill for my own use and to market some of the product. A new career in the offing?!?”

Speaking of tumbles, Harper Follansbee reported: “Slipped off a ladder cleaning the gutters and tore my Achilles. (Ironically, I was

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reading The Iliad with a student at the time.)

No surgery, no pain, but a lot of limping around feeling stupid! Could have spent a good deal more time sulking by the Mediterranean than I did! So it goes.”

Mike Miles took a trip to New Orleans recently.

Another former Moody boy and current Floridian who’s on the move is Jeff Forte, who spent the first two months of the year in Aspen, skiing and enjoying good health and great snow. He was back in Key West to celebrate his seventieth and to prepare for this spring’s Bahamas cruise, dragging along son, Kent, and grandson, Dylan. It will be Dylan’s first serious bonefishing excursion. “Sure, it all sounds a bit self-indulgent,” Jeff wrote, “but hey, life is too short not to try to keep on keeping on, idiot in command or not. Well wishes to all my old Govies.”

“I find there seems to be more demand on my time in retirement than previously,” Dan Morgan observed. “Of course, the options are all mine and generally more fun. One of my commitments is to the Board of Trustees at WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute). One of the very bright spots of being on campus these past couple of years has been getting to know a very talented student, Kate Romero. Gene and Kathleen have reason to be very proud parents.

What a terrific young lady. One thing I find we

have in common is a deep appreciation for her father’s trademark sense of humor.”

“I’ve been promoted to nurse,” said David Marsh, “caring for wife Christie after an ankle surgery. Great patient. Also taking a Color Theory course with the ultimate aim of long-pose figurative painting. By the way, EVERYONE should take Color Theory—and never see the same way again.”

Edwin Beatty has been taking advantage of excellent opportunities to hike and ski near his new digs in Albuquerque. “Best of all,” he wrote, “I just learned that the skiing is FREE when you hit seventy-one. I wish I’d hung on to my fake ID’s from my teenage years!

Otherwise, I’m writing lots and have started tutoring at the nearby elementary school and helping out at HopeWorks, a major provider of meals and services for the homeless.”

Rich Brayton made it to India and proclaimed it “fantastic—a true blending of eastern and western cultures. The citizenry were lovely and cheerful even though conditions can be harsh.

Just don’t go swimming in the Ganges. The Taj Mahal was every bit as grand as you would expect as was Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh. An unexpected treat for us old architects.”

While the Red Sox were marching to their World Series title, GDA Hall of Famer Ray Huard was playing in the Men’s Senior Baseball

League World Series in Phoenix and West Palm Beach. Despite tearing both calves and sustaining a back injury, Ray was able to play twenty of twenty-one games for the Colorado Stars. “Hitting and defense were very good, running very poor,” he reported. “The injuries were a blessing since during physical therapy I found out that my right shoulder can be fixed without surgery. So now I can pitch and improve my tennis serve.”

Phil Congdon saw Paul Hemmerich last fall when Paul was in Boulder. “I’m slowly getting better,” Phil reported. “I have new braces, which will make my muscles work more. This past year my goal was to hike a 13’er, and I was able to do two. In 2019 my goal is to get up and down a 14’er.”

Our other Fitchburg native, Roger Block, and Amy flew south in late January to spend the rest of the winter on their boat in the Bahamas and then sailed across the Atlantic to the Azores and Europe. “Life and health are still pretty good,” he wrote. “No complaints.”

From frigid Upstate New York in January Bill Dougherty maintained that his roster of grandchildren is now complete at sixteen with the arrival of Wynston a few days before Christmas. Bill says he can name them all.

“Things are good here,” wrote Joe Story. “My niece Galaxie, Govs 2012, just got accepted in an MS/PhD program in food science at UMass Amherst. I am very proud of her. I just finished writing a recommendation for a friend’s son who is applying to Govs. He’s a great football player. All for the future.”

Mary and Sid Bird were in Uganda in February to check out the Silverback gorillas. Sid will try almost anything, but he didn’t bring any home.

With retirement in sight, they have bought a twenty-nine-foot motor home and plan to see the country when not babysitting for their three-year-old grandson.

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Stanley Greenberg ’67 and Reid Pugh ’67

Having missed out on an all-expenses-paid trip to Vietnam half a century ago, Ben Beach (draft lottery #323) and Carol toured the country for two weeks in January.

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“I’m relaxing in St. Augustine, and at 4:30 I get a call from Stanley Greenberg,” Reid Pugh wrote. “He and Julie had just arrived in Jacksonville for the night after driving all day on their way to Sarasota. We managed to get together at Murray Bros. Caddyshack (owned

by Bill and brothers) for a bite and a beer and a great few hours of catching up.”

CLASS OF 1968 Ted Nahil 320 SW Panther Trace Port Saint Lucie, FL 34953-8201 tednahil@gmail.com As I write these notes, the rest of the Patriots nation and I await the outcome of yet another Super Bowl in which the Patriots are a participant. Hopefully, this year will have a different result from last and Mr. Brady and the rest of the group will garner another ring for their collection. Go Pats! [Amended by the Advancement Office: Patriots are six-time Super Bowl Champions!!!]

We all continue to stay busy, moving, vacationing, spending time with the family, working, or relaxing, so in no particular order, here’s what we’ve been up to. Discussions about the Red Dog name for the Academy led to a bout of emails involving the subject of the origin of the phrase Red Dog, ultimately leading to Art Veasey’s sharing an old article about Dan Ogg and the “Dogg” nickname.

Rob Lord reminded us all that Dan Ogg’s father named the Danforth anchor after him three decades ago. Veas also pointed out that Dan’s father was Seaman Z during WWII, a fact that pretty much none of us knew.

Veas continues to be a source of historical information, pertaining to our class and beyond. As a shameless plug to him, I would like to mention here that, if you have not done so yet, you should read his latest novella, Sweet Lorraine, a fictionalized account of a woman convicted of the murder of her husband in Amesbury in 1954. Veas has done it again—a great read, especially if you enjoy murder mysteries!

As a follow-up to our reunion, Winsor White wrote in saying that he wished he could have been there with us: “I have fond memories of residing in ‘The Annex’ desk in JBO’s classroom when we wrote to Philip Roth and asked him if the fire engine in his short story symbolized ‘the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.’” After comments from Jon Williams recalling the incident, Rob Lord wrote: “Thanks for that memory Winsor and Jon. While you geniuses were in JBO’s advanced English class, us dummies were in Mr. Kanjorski’s class as he read aloud Grande’ Dan’s latest short story homework submittals. (But then he took us on ski trips in his Corvair, so you smart guys missed out.).” Winsor commented that it may have been Bill Madden who had the “Big Think” idea in his weekly essay that the fire engine symbolized the Four Horsemen in Roth’s story. This, of course, led to some whimsical comments about Bill, wondering where he has wound up after all these years.

Harold Levine believes Bill may have been in Buffalo as recent as ten years ago, but he says he “reserves the right to be wrong!”

Speaking of Harold, he has graciously offered his home on the Cape as a gathering spot for a get-together this coming summer. We will discuss this online in the coming months, more to come. Harold was blessed with his first grandchild at the beginning of 2019. His daughter, Libby, gave birth to Jane Brea, both doing fine and making Harold a new member of the “spoil-them-and-give-them-back” club.

Congratulations, Harold!

The start of the holiday season brought the usual flurry of emails between a number of us.

Dan Ogg was the first to chime in, sending the photo below with thanks to whoever was responsible for sending him a cap from the reunion weekend: “I received this fine cap on my return from fish camp. Thank you to whoever is responsible. And, I received an Archon with many wonderful stories of classmates whose memories are stellar to say the least. A fine job of putting all of that together, Ted. The only sad part is that I was not able to make the reunion. Fishing season starts the ninth of June and the fish wait for no man. It

has been this way for eons and will continue for eons to come. So, as I was tending to the nets, I had many thoughts of the fine times we all had at Dummer. The one thing that bothered me is my memory, because when I looked at the pictures Ted had assembled in The Archon, I had great trouble recognizing those visages and postures belonging to my classmates, then I caught sight of myself in a mirror.” CF Spang followed, suggesting that we might meet in Alaska next year for a reunion. Elliott O’Reilly sympathized, to some degree: “Dan, I think you should send us all a salmon to smoke for missing the reunion! I know your dilemma. For decades I couldn’t make the reunions because I was landscaping and the beginning of June was still crunch time for me too.” Art Veasey offered yet another article (contact him for a copy) written by Dan and him about Dan’s life in Alaska. Steve Robinson commented as well: “Great story, Art. I had missed it before. Danny is truly an amazing guy. I remember how much my father liked him. I hope I get to see him again before the end.” Charles Johnson felt the pain, too, but is glad he can now attend: “I can commiserate with those who had ‘business’ interfering with attending reunions as June is an extremely stressful and busy planting season.

Once I retired in early 2003, on a strong suggestion from my orthopedist, I started and have been coming ever since. I can’t wait for

Dan Ogg ’68 sporting his Reunion cap

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the next one, whenever that is. As to what constitutes a Red Dog, I understood it to be a member of ‘The Class of 1968’ not just a football player.”

Harry Kangis shared an incredible newsletter with all of us ahead of Christmas, along with these comments: “Since you helped me to exercise my bio-page muscles for our reunion, I am sharing our news of the year with you as well this year. It was great fun reconnecting with GDA again, and to renew valued friendships. I also want to thank you all again for the thoughtful gift of the GDA history book. I actually read every page, clearly marking the first time I ever completed a school-related summer reading assignment! I learned many new things about the Academy, and gained a great appreciation for the barriers the school needed to overcome in becoming the impressive place it is today. Happy Holidays to you and yours.” I would like to thank Harry again for an absolutely stellar job putting the memory book together for us! We are forever in your debt! This led to another round of emails between us, with holiday wishes for all. Veas: “Thanks Harry—it was great fun reconnecting in the weeks and month leading up to our reunion. Here’s wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas!” CF: “So glad you shared your ‘news of the year.’ Your observations are, of course, spot on and the quotes are terrific.

Good stuff in difficult times. Thank you. Judith and I visited the Clark Museum at Williams over the Thanksgiving holiday. Our second visit and we still are working through the exhibits— extraordinary collections and setting. We hope to get back in late spring. Happy Holidays to you and your family. Come back to NH!” Jim Rudolph: “Harry—Great to hear from you. Nice Newsletter—we are all honored to have the Class of ’68 mentioned in it! Happy Holidays! P.S. I have read the book too. I think it should really be required reading for all faculty and seniors.”

Mid-December saw the usual holiday dinner, this year at the Phat Cat in Amesbury. The invitation for this holiday tradition included Bill Degen, CF, Chris Page, Jay Worthen,

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Jim Rudolph, Marc Tucker, Rob Lord, Ross Raymond, Wayne Barbaro and Steve Robinson. Not all could attend, and for some reason, no one took a group photo this time, but the sentiment remained as it always does.

Bubba: “Fantastic time, great food, good guys! Many blessings to all for continued good health. To those who couldn’t come, you were missed...Make it to the next one;” CF: “Had a great time with you all at Phat Cat. Best to everyone getting through the holidays and looking forward to seeing you in 2019;” Veas: “Best holiday time ever for a bunch of over-the-hill Govies. Thoroughly enjoyed the company of you boyz. Merry Christmas to one and all;” Steve: “It was a great night!” Ross: “Can’t really improve on those messages. All well said. Just want to add a personal thank you for your continued friendship and wishes for a happy and safe holiday season.” In keeping with the tradition of a holiday donation to a charity in the area, Tuck selected Lungstrong in Amesbury: “I won the opportunity to select which charity will receive our donation. I selected Lungstrong—a charitable, non-profit organization in Amesbury whose mission is to fund innovative research/treatment on lung cancer.” Bill, Chris, Rob and Jim sent their regrets at not having been there. Many emails with holiday wishes were exchanged, and Chuck Johnson continued his tradition of forcing us to look up what he wrote on the internet: “God Jul och Gott Nytt År to everyone from Sacramento.” Nat Smith, Dave Mitchell, Winsor White, Josh Burns and Paul Gares joined in the holiday exchange, as did Don Hayes and Elliott O’Reilly.

The New Year brought a major change for Rob Lord: “I’ll be retiring this coming Monday, December 31. I’ll now be free for Pablo Gares to take me on his next trip to Costa Rica. And for Elliott to give me a ride in his red sports car... we’ll drive to Kodiak to see Dogg. Is there a ferry?” This prompted Elliott to ask, “Rob, do you think you will be joining the mobility scooter racing league or just sticking with shuffleboard?” Grande was his usual subtle self: “My rookie fellow retiree! Welcome. I would suggest that you will experience what I

call ‘preferment.’ You will get to do that which you prefer. Come to NC and help me sail Windshadow to NE. Pablo lives ten minutes from where I keep her. And answering your last question—there is a Santa Claus but there are no ferries.” Needless to say, we wish you the best as you enter this new phase of your life.

Jon Williams ’69 reported: “After forty-nine years in Boulder County, Colorado, Mary and I moved to the New Urbanist development, ‘Stapleton,’ in Denver. We made this move to be closer to our family and our young grandchildren, Blythe Bellville, four, and Hunter Bellville, soon to be two. Our daughter, Rosie, is busy working with surgical robots for Intuitive. Blythe is in preschool, and Hunter is hanging out learning to talk. Mary is still operating Mary Williams Fine Arts gallery in Boulder, and I am somewhat gainfully employed with my structural concrete business, FloR Systems, LLC. Soon after moving, and in the midst of unpacking, outfitting the new house, and finishing our basement, I had a back injury, leading to my second vertebral fusion in four years. With old age, and after a life of skiing, water skiing and other pursuits beyond my natural athletic ability, it seems I need some kind of rebuilding on a semiannual basis! Anyway, I am on the mend, and hope to be on the slopes (groomed only) by spring. I also hope to be in Massachusetts for the Class

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of ’69 Reunion in June. I am sorry I missed the ’68 convocation, but we were under the gun to get ‘downsized’ and get our old home sold at the time. I hope to see my other former ’68 buddy, Joe McIntyre, then. (Perhaps we can see any of you in the area that week as well.) It’s been fun hearing from many of you this last year, so that part of the 50th worked out well. I think of many of you from time to time: Wannop when offered ‘Wianno’ oysters at a restaurant, Westcott when drinking a cold Utica club in the old Stapleton control tower bar, Wayne Barbaro when I sit in my GDA chair, CF whenever I see a big Gretsch guitar, etc. It’s hard to believe we’ve all lived our lives fifty years post GDA. The memories all seem so fresh. P.S. Last year, Mary and I bagged our first 14er! Picture attached. We did drive up in the Escalade, but we ‘bagged’ it nonetheless!” Jon also included a photo of his grandchildren at Halloween–great picture!

Chuck Johnson wrote that he “…had a very quiet holiday season as Chris convalesced from major surgery. Still doing the typical retirement social, cultural and community volunteerism things. Also working on my rain dance routine as the first Sierra Nevada snow pack surveys are pretty dismal.” Other winter updates, in no particular order, follow: Charles Johnson wrote, “Nothing news worthy to report from Kentucky unless you count last

Jon ’69 and Mary Williams at Mt. Evans

night’s winter weather event, about five inches of snow that left most locals in a panicked state. It’ll be largely gone by tomorrow and forgotten by Monday. Spencer [his son] has shifted his educational direction from Spanish/ translation services to Information Technologies and changed schools in that pursuit. Life grinds on.” Ross Raymond: “Really enjoyed connecting with Tuck, Steve, Art, CF, Jay & Bubba for dinner in Amesbury before Christmas. Just finished Art’s latest story Sweet Lorraine, which was a page turner as promised.

References to Newburyport, Amesbury, and Ipswich were special touches for a local boy.”

Tuck recalled that same Phat Cat event, and as Ross and I have already done, included a shameless plug for Art’s new novella: “Art, CF, Bubba, Steve Robinson, Ross Raymond, Jay Worthen and I all met at Phat Cat Bistro in Amesbury in mid-December for a great meal, convivial conversation, and some holiday cheer.

Sorry, Ted, we were having such a great time, we completely forgot about a picture. And Art’s book sales for Sweet Lorraine are going through the roof. Classmates can download the novella from Amazon or email Art for a collectible autographed copy.” Don Hayes has this update, including comments on the ongoing “Old Guard” debate we’re having and the aversion we have to call ourselves by that name: “After a year of travel to Russia, Europe, North

America, South America, and Antarctica—as well as locales in-between—I am back in the USA without new news. However, I am not without opinion on use of the moniker ‘Old Guard.’ Much of my short stay in Byfield involved a strong respect for the Academy’s long-held traditions, and I still grieve the loss of GDA for Governor’s (TGA?). Some of those traditions that we enthusiastically supported, such as illicit activities on and off campus (most notably Boston weekends), need not be continued, recalled, nor documented; but ‘Old Guard’ has always been a respectful reference to those who maintain their support of the Academy years after their stay in Byfield. I vote for retaining ‘Old Guard.’ Besides, ‘Old Farts,’ ‘Old Geezers,’ or ‘Ugly Old Jerks’ don’t have the same ring.” Jay Shay reported in from Thailand and included the picture below! He and Nat Smith (see next page) definitely win the distance award this time around: “Golf in Thailand with Totou, my favorite caddy. I’m here for January and February. Looking for some ex-pats from New England to watch the super bowl with.” Harry Kangis has also been busy: “This past Fall, I began to work probono with both Cincinnati’s Mayor and City Manager on an updated One Page Strategic Plan® and decision-making principles to improve how they and the nine City Council members get along. I may be dreaming, but it’s

Jay Shay ’68 and Totou — golfing in Thailand

Harry Kangis ’68 and Julia on Kauai

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the least I can do for my three grandchildren who live here! Julia and I decided to escape all the craziness and bad weather of Christmas and took our son’s family with us to Hawaii for the holiday week. Kauai is very laid back compared to other parts of the islands, and the weather was as advertised. We loved the peaceful hikes along the ocean cliffs. I foolishly left the golf clubs at home but did not make that mistake again when we went to Phoenix in January for a client meeting and stuck around for two rounds at the totally rebuilt Phoenician course.

We are both looking forward to a first-time tour of Japan in mid-April.”

In the fine tradition of a former class secretary, Dan Look sent in the following report: “Following the reunion and the sail on Forever Young, we headed to Kitty Hawk on the Outer Banks for our summer vacation at the beach. Beautiful weather, a house full of family and kids, the ocean and sailing on Albemarle Sound in Windshadow made for a delightful few weeks. Following that, Anne and I went to Denver for the wedding of a friend’s daughter. From there we went down to Santa Fe and Sedona for a week. The drive through that part of our country was magical. If you have never been to that part of our world, I highly recommend it—great accommodations through Airbnb. Upon returning home, we repacked and went to Portugal for two weeks

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over Thanksgiving. The first few days were spent traveling around southern Portugal by car. We had a wonderful time, stayed at phenomenal hotels and ate incredible food.

One lunch we pulled into a tiny little restaurant on the West Coast of Portugal on the ocean.

Even though there was the understandable language barrier, we ended up having one of the best meals we have ever had. Anne and I split a whole sole that was prepared and delivered to the table, head to tail. A glass of their homemade wine, home-baked bread and a dish of their homemade olive oil went with the fish. We also had a platter of homegrown boiled potatoes, cabbage and carrots. After carefully filleting the fish, we had an incredible meal. We then did a river cruise down the Douro River for a week. What a gorgeous part of the world. A delightful excursion in Portugal was to Favaios, famous for UNESCOcertified heritage bakeries that produce “Four Corner” bread that takes its shape from ancient Roman recipes. I had the joy of meeting a baker who works her magic daily making, by hand, over 600 to 900 loaves of this delicious bread. The heavy crust keeps the bread fresh for up to four days. She has a lovely rhythm of shaping the bread in ten-to-twelve hand moves, scooping a little flour with each move. The ovens are heated with brush cleared from the local forests. After our visit, I went back for a

picture with Louie (a beanie baby given to me by my daughter as a travel buddy twenty years ago) to send to my granddaughter Liza and all the family. We had a great hug. Her arms are understandably strong. My blue jacket was covered in flour on the back. You can see the wonderful loaves on the right—a lovely lady and a wonderful experience. Delicious bread.

Great tradition. Following the river cruise, we went to Fatima for the day and then spent the evening in Lisbon before flying home. We came home in time to decorate and prepare for the entire family coming to us for Christmas and New Year’s. We had a house full of family, laughter and food. New Year’s was quiet with some friends from Connecticut. We have not yet connected with Pam and Paul down in Greenville, but that will certainly happen in 2019. I am also planning to bring Windshadow north to her birth home waters and do some sailing up there this summer. I will keep you posted so we might be able to connect. Work on the veterans’ programs continues to move forward. This is an incredibly rewarding opportunity and I have enjoyed and grown from these connections. Again, if there is any interest from my class brethren, I have room for help.”

CF sent in this update that includes some comments on the holiday dinner: “The ski season in New England started with a robust November, so we’ve been doing our best to take advantage. We’ve managed to ski Sunday River, Loon, and Cannon so far. A new aspect of skiing for us is sharing the slopes with our four year-old granddaughter—lots of fun and lots of cocoa with marshmallow. I enjoyed getting together this December with Art Veasy, Marc Tucker, Wayne Barbaro, Steve Robinson, Jay Worthen, and Ross Raymond for dinner in Amesbury. An annual event where we all chip in $50 to donate to a local non-profit, Rob Lord, Chris Page, and Jim Rudolph missed the dinner but contributed to the charity fund.

Marc won the drawing to choose a charity and he picked Lungstrong in Amesbury, organized to fund research on cures for lung cancer (lungstrong.org/about-us). A great choice and important for New England, where lung cancer

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is the second most diagnosed cancer in men and women in Massachusetts and Maine has the highest incident of lung cancer per 100,000 residents in the US.” Nat Smith sent this update in from South East Asia: “I do not generally offer up much in the way of class news, but you sound desperate for something from the Class of ’68. My wife, Mary, and I are traveling in Southeast Asia for a month starting in Viet Nam, a place I did my best to avoid in the early 1970s. While the communists won that war in the end, today the country is bullishly capitalistic and pro-American investment and tourist dollars.

Maybe that is a lesson that spending $600 billion from 1946 through 1975 on military solutions to a political problem was not a smart investment. We are currently in Myanmar, a country where seventy percent of its citizens lack regular electric service, but cell phones and solar panels are seen everywhere, even in the poorest villages. Next on our itinerary are Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. I enjoyed our 50th Reunion and am still trying to figure out how we got so old.” Elliott had a fitting, final comment: “Now that I’m a member of the Old Guard, with the weather hitting 0° I guess I’ll sit inside, guzzle Geritol and rub BENGAY on my joints while I await the spring thaw when I can get back outside on my Soul Red mobility scooter!” As for Terry and yours truly (Ted Nahil), we continue to enjoy life in Florida.

Our whole family was able to gather here for Thanksgiving, and Terry and I made our annual trip to Denver on Christmas Day to see our son, Jon, and our granddaughters. Last fall, a competitor approached me and offered me a position with their company as a regional sales manager. Not ready to retire, I accepted their offer, and now work for Nautel, a manufacturer of AM and FM transmitters, based in Halifax, NS. My territory is the entire east coast of the US, and as a result, I am looking forward to many more frequent trips to the northeast!

Can’t wait! In the meantime, please remember to keep the updates coming. Take care and stay in touch!

CLASS OF 1969 Bill Clyde 12924 Township Road 474 Big Prairie, OH 44611-9675 coachbclyde@gmail.com

Gordon*, Ned Lattime, Josh Miner*, Ralph O’Leary, Tim Tenney*, and Jon Williams.

Class of 1969 50th Reunion Committee includes (* denotes Development Committee): Jim Bayley, Doug Bradshaw, Billy Clyde*, Peter Dorsey*, Nat Follansbee*, Jeff

Much thanks to many of you who have checked in with news: Bill Strider reports that all is well in sunny California. Hal Terrie and Andy Costello reply “count me in for the Reunion!”

Dave Francis and Bob Amsler are both looking forward to being back in South Byfield in June. Anyone know the whereabouts of Rick Robins? Chris Barker is doing a bit of acting and teaching these days and promises to check in on the fun this June. Jack Connelly has plans to return from the Great Northwest in time for the get-together. He owes me one more round of golf across the street. Nat Follansbee notes that he continues to enjoy his work at Loomis Chaffee. Peter Dorsey is proudly looking forward to June, as he will share his reunion weekend with daughter, Eliza (’14). Doug Macdonald continues to work locally in the home construction industry. We heard from John Pates, who is doing well, but cannot be back in June. I had a super conversation with John Timken. He is content in Vermont and is still undecided about coming back to S. Byfield.

Ned Lattime is quite busy with cancer research these days. Thank you, Ned, for that very important work. I played in the Moonves golf outing this fall, paired with Ralph O’Leary.

It was a great fund-raising event and I must say, Ralph knows golf! Recently, I connected

Josh Miner ’69, Peter Dorsey ’69, and Billy Clyde ’69

Rick French ’69

Save the date for your 50th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

The lines of communication are beginning to really heat up in anticipation of Reunion 2019. Our committee recently completed a very productive conference call. We agreed that our class gift be directed to support the faculty and staff at the Academy. We can each point to a teacher or coach who helped us navigate the rough waters of the sixties! We see this as a symbolic way to honor those mentors. You will hear more on this in the coming weeks.

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with Rick French for a couple of hours over coffee. He is an aviation lawyer and avid gun collector in the Cleveland area. He plans to be with us for the reunion and wonders, “Does anyone have news about Paul Stella?” Jon Williams writes that he is staying as active as he can. He and his wife topped a “14er” in Colorado recently. As for me, my wife and I welcome new grandchildren and continue to travel all over with our bicycles in tow. It has become our version of The Endless Summer.

It has been a privilege to have heard many of your stories as we head toward the reunion.

Limited space means that I have had to edit them down—sorry! I have a distinct feeling that there are many more tales waiting to be heard.

We all hope that those of you on the fence will ultimately lean toward coming back in June.

After all, if not now, then when? Please keep GDA in your plans. See you soon, Billy

was behind Phillips. It was a great introduction to New England. This year marks our forty-ninth year since jumping the hedge, and it’s been all quiet on the responses for notes. I’m hoping this means everyone is saving their war stories for the big Five-Oh scheduled for 2020. The last year has been most eventful, between hurricanes and flooding from North Carolina to Florida, fires, flooding and landslides in California. Some of our classmates have been affected. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

Notes from Bill Murray in San Diego: I am saddened by the death of my mother on March

4, 2018. She was one-week shy of her ninetyninth birthday, and had lived a rich and full life with my father. I continue to live a rich and full life, in a special way, myself. I have purposely lived an ascetic life for the past few years in order to reorient myself to what really matters in life, and am now returning to a renewed life. I am hoping to go on a river cruise next, from Moscow to St. Petersburg. In November Bill added, “I am deeply honored to have been appointed as a Licensed Evangelist for the Episcopal Church (the first in the Diocese of San Diego) by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Katherine

CLASS OF 1970 Terry Nolan 2211 Brownlee Road Jackson, GA 30233 nolan_t_e@hotmail.com Around this time FIFTY years ago, we the Class of 1970 were enjoying our senior year. As it was my first year at GDA, it was also my first blizzard with snow over my window where the parking lot

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Top: An inside look at Christopher Morse ’70; Bottom: Christopher Morse ’70 and Dan Ogg ’68

Top: Terry Nolan ’70 and Ruby at JeJu Island ROK; Bottom: Michael ’70, Bill ’72, and John ’69 O'Leary at the USGA Men's Seniors at Kittansett in August

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Jefferts Schori, retired head of the entire Episcopal Church and currently the interim bishop of San Diego.”

Christopher Morse posts on Facebook his success with various showings at art centers. Like many of us in the “old Folks” category, Chris reports big fun on Medicare and sends an X-ray.

Christopher writes: “So, I’ve been convalescing at home organizing paperwork and photos as well as designing silk scarves: Silk by Christopher elegant satin scarves fashion couture accessories.

Fashion—go figure—all derived from my photos. Instead of making silk purses from sow’s ears, I’m making silk scarves from dumpsters and old car fenders! (Go to: silkbychristopher.com.)

I don’t do Facebook too much, but do publish images on Instagram: @c_e_morse_abstract_art_ photo. Be well and stay safe! Looking forward to our 50th—maybe Morocco and I could muster up a show for the event.”

Occasional contributors to the social chaos of Facebook include fellow classmates on various social media, Barkley Simpson, Morocco Flowers, Stilman Davis, Henry Eaton, Bob Jaffee, Thomas Turner, Ron Latham, Guy Swenson, and William Tobey. As for me, Terry Nolan, Ruby and I are empty nesters, hiding out down here in middle Georgia. Both our sons and their families have moved overseas for a while courtesy of their military services.

One herd to the Republic of Korea and the other clan to Bahrain. We just returned from visiting family in Korea and I am planning a trip to Bahrain shortly.

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From Stephen Connelly: “Had a good visit from Will Phippen recently. Please see photo of us in front of Andy Goldsworthy wall sculpture at The Presidio, in San Francisco.”

Will Phippen, seen in photo at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in front of one of his favorite pictures: “Watson and the Shark” (1778) by John Singleton Copley writes in to say: “I’m well and very much enjoying the nonnecessity of going in to work every day.” Mike Mulligan reports: “Retirement: After forty-two years between GDA and Thacher I feel like I have stepped off a cliff into an abyss. Anyway, Joy and I are living at the foot of the Tetons in Alta, WY and are enjoying skiing (alpine, crosscountry, skate skiing), riding, fly-fishing—and I have taken up ice hockey (doubtful wisdom here). I started Cross Creek Consulting for the purpose of helping schools create dynamic, positive, and healthy cultures—probably a good thing to keep some intellectual

engagement here on the edge of the Arctic Circle. Saw classmates Clayman and Barry Burlingham back East over Thanksgiving and enjoyed talking to Artie Moher recently. If any of you ’71’ers come to Jackson Hole, let me know. Love to see you.” Michael Reid sent in the following: “I met up with Andrew Nelson in Rockland, Maine, early October. I was on a cruise traveling up the coast of New England and down the St Lawrence Seaway to Montreal.

Andrew very kindly took me to visit the Owls Head Museum (Antique Cars) and the Andrew Wyeth Museum. It was a fairly good day except for the weather and my problems with vertigo. I am looking forward to the reunion in 2021.” From Scott Collins: “I am going strong at UNM. It’s still fun being around smart colleagues all the time, along with energetic students. I pretty much just do what I want and then continue to fool them into paying me.

Great outdoor life in New Mexico. Maybe we will get snow this year for a change and I can go skiing. Richard Guenther reports that he and husband, Ward, took a magnificent cruise on the Norwegian Star from Miami through the Panama Canal, down the west coast of South America and ending in Buenos Aires. This was later followed by a Road Scholar trip to Cuba. He lives in Sarasota, Florida. As seen on Facebook put there by his sister but reprinted with Art Moher’s permission, Art’s father, Mr.

Stephen Connelly ’71 and Will Phippen ’71 in front of Andy Goldsworthy’s wall sculpture, Earth Wall, at The Presidio in San Francisco

Will Phippen ’71 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with one of his favorite paintings: “Watson and the Shark” (1778), by John Singleton Copley

James Fleming 9 Red Coat Lane Redding, CT 06896-1623 jamesfleming817@gmail.com Dave Lampert 4479 Timber Falls Court, Unit 2006 Vail, CO 81657 dljr11@gmail.com

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Art Moher, passed away about a year ago. Many of us remember seeing Mr. Moher on campus when he attended sporting and other events.

In these two photos, he is seen with President George H.W. Bush, as a teammate on the Yale Baseball Team and years later in the former president’s home. The assistant coach of that Yale Baseball team was none other than our own Mike Moonves’ father Phil. We are sorry for Artie’s loss and the nation recently mourned the loss of its forty-first president.

CLASS OF 1972 George Freimarck Frauenstrasse 16 80469 Munich Germany gfreimarck@gmail.com Dear Class of 1972: Greetings from Munich!

I’ve been relocated here by my company to develop Germanic speaking markets for our insurance consulting services. Danke viel mals, Herr James, for making me stick to the grammar. More on Munich below. Meanwhile, there is a lot of good input from you folks as usual, along with some valued photographic evidence. Let’s get to it.

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Christian “Swede” Swenson with a rare sighting of two Cranes—no, not the birds—the Dalton, MA boys, J. Dicken ’72 and brother Tim ’73. Chris writes: “My wife Abigail and I made two trips to New England this last summer. On one of them we drove through campus of our alma mater—I barely recognize the place, especially the campus police patrol cars! We stopped at a fruit stand just down the road in Rowley, and I mentioned I used to go to Governor Dummer Academy and was sorry they changed their name. The young woman running the stand said that the kids who go there now still call it by the old name! We then drove out to Dalton, MA and crashed the Crane family reunion! I took a picture of the two brothers. It was great to see them again.”

Bill “Frosty” Frost reports in from a locale that belies his name: “Hope all is well where you are. Not much happening on my end.

Sold our home in Beverly a couple of years ago and are now residents of Jupiter, FL. As you may or may not recall, I’ve always sort of had some roots down here so it seemed a logical move. Miss Massachusetts a bit but not the lovely winter weather. I retired from teaching tennis in 2001, but have playing more tennis than ever, along with all other sorts of exercise programs. Herniated a disc a year ago, which took me off the courts for three months but we’re staying ahead of it. For all you jocks and

J. Dicken Crane ’72 and Tim Crane ’73 as captured

by Chris Swenson ’72

anyone who has had this type of injury or issue, I would recommend checking out gyrotonics, which is sort of a 3D Pilates. I also herniated a disc some forty years ago when I was teaching at Bass River Tennis Club in Beverly—wish gyrotonics was around then. It has saved my raggedy ***. Sorry to litter up your news with injury reports but figured you might be able to fill up a paragraph. Anyway, take care and we’ll see you around the campus, so to speak.”

Thanks, Frosty, may well have need of the gyrotonics as the spirit of youth outstrips the mortal coil’s capacity.

Chiming in after long pause, from the Pac Northwest is Phil Zenner: “My wife Cynthia and I have retired to small, sunny Sequim, Washington State, where we are enjoying hiking, biking, nature photography, singing in the choir, meeting new friends, and soaking up the natural beauty of the area. Before retiring, I built industry-specific specialty software training groups for younger software corporations, then consulted for a couple of years, and finally retired at age fifty-five, about ten years ago. Immediately began visiting potential retirement spots, and after many visits, finally moved to Sequim, WA last July.”

Sounds like a wonderful Part 1 and Part 2 of life, Phil, well done!

Contributing as she often does, but then urging me not write about it (!) is Sarah Ewell Smith.

Sarah, when she’s not helping indigent oldsters with their tax prep, is busy managing her family’s Maine campground, Taft Camp. Check it out on Facebook. Sarah mused on my being in Munich, travels to Europe, the kids travels to Europe, and the quiet, un-touristy spot in Mexico, Puerto Morelos, where they go with in-laws every March to recover from the Maine winter (sshh, don’t tell anybody!). Those of us in the U.S. North, Mid-West and Northeast sure could use a bit of Mexican sun after this winter!

Another happy retiree, and perhaps busier than ever is Geoff Durham. Geoff, your former faithful class scribe and longtime ER and PGA/ PGL volunteer, is also a rabid fan of his alma mater’s basketball team, Northwestern, and not above a bit of star tripping with Charles Hall,

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son of Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, with whom he photo-ed hisself and passed along to us. Geoff writes: “I’m enjoying retirement these last twelve years. I still do a lot of volunteer work. Most years I achieve my personal goal of 1,000 hours, as I should this year. It is merely an approximation each year, but I can readily determine if I am close. Between two mornings weekly in the local ER and several days a week helping at the local no-kill shelter, the bulk of the hours are accumulated without a doubt.

Add the seven various levels (LPGA, Web. com, IL Open, and college) golf tournaments at which I volunteered and the dozen hours helping out the local Forest Preserve, reaching 1,000 hours was not that hard this year.

Without the golf tournaments locally each year, I cannot always make the goal. Jana is still very involved with the Girl Scouts to fill her volunteer needs. She helps administratively, at the council level, and not the troop level.

Jana and I celebrated our thirty-fifth wedding anniversary this past October. No big event to coincide with it. Our daughter, Andrea, turned thirty-one that month, as well. She lives and works in the Chicago area so we are able to see her regularly. I was able to get back to Wyoming twice this past summer. I usually only make the trip once a year with my brother, Brad, who lives locally, too. However, the group that came out for the eclipse in 2017 wanted

Geoff Durham ’72 right with Charles Hall, Northwestern Basketball player

to spend another weekend on Casper Mt., so I managed to get there twice for that reason. I golf weekly during the summer months with a group of Allstate retirees and help pass the winter months by attending the Northwestern men’s basketball games. Attached is a picture of walk-on Charlie Hall and me in the locker room after one of the team’s open practices.

My friend took it so I could send it to his dad, an NU alum, too. Went on Medicare, as I’m sure most classmates are or will be soon, this December. Nice to have the ‘raise’ coming from the sizable reduction in health care insurance costs each month.” Words of wisdom, and something to look forward to—Geoff, you role model!

Peter Conway is always faithfully contributing photos of an ever-expanding brood of blonde grandkids, but declined to do so this time.

Instead, Peter avers: “I think I’m done with the grand kids pics for a bit, at least until the eldest has her first soccer uniform on!

The only item of interest in business terms is I was with Courier for twenty-seven years and RRD bought us in June, 2015. So, from June of ’15 to June ’19, I will have been with three different companies! RR Donnelley, then LSC Communications and in June of ’19 LSC is being acquired by Quad. Glad I’m old.” Peter, you ain’t old, sixty-five is the new… well, whatever! I was privy to an email exchange twixt Peter, Kevin Kearney ’72, and Paul Commito ’72, wherein details of ricocheted golf balls, hanging younger siblings from balconies by their ankles, and Kevin hullabalooing about Marblehead’s sixth-straight Thanksgiving Day triumph over Swampscott in football. Some people never grow up!

Speaking of living in the past, I came across this very interesting Boston Globe article on Bill Belichik’s PG year at Andover, particularly the football team: www.bostonglobe.com/ sports/2018/09/04/bill-belichick-ernie-adamsand-undefeated-andover-football-team/ LZukk5J8y8b9QJZYBngFoJ/story.html. Those of you in Boston area may have already read it. Even though Gov-land did not have a PG program, a lot of the description of campus

life, all the activities, changing dress codes, questioning of authority, rang true. It also brings to mind our junior year, when varsity lacrosse played Andover, and Belichik, who I believe was a midfielder—though I have no specific memory of him. I played crease defense, between Jeb Bradley ’71 and Brad “Fubar” Young ’71, and I do remember a guy named Frisbie, who was literally running circles around me, scoring every time he had the ball, which was every time Andover had the ball. We were on our way to a real shellacking.

I was completely out of my depth. I tripped the guy with my stick, got a two-minute penalty, and never got back into the game, never started or played again until the Harvard frosh game, when I guarded Henry Eaton ’70, and regained some semblance of self-respect.

Benjamin “Musky” Pearson ’72 more than ably stepped in and was a much better, faster player than I was. But, not a word from Heb

George Freimarck ’72 and younger daughter Averyl at Munich Christmas Market

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about the benching, nor succor from Bob Anderson. The only comfort I got was from Tim Straus ’72, also a defenseman, who turned to me as we sat on the bench the next game and uttered a pithy phrase, which I can’t repeat in a family publication, but still cracks me up every time I think of it. (Speak to me at the next reunion!) Tim did check in with me recently on LinkedIn to congratulate me on my move to Munich. From what I can tell, Tim is still involved with investment management. P.S. Please stop me if I ever repeat this Belichik/ lacrosse anecdote again, in person or in writing—just tell me “enough, go to the corner, and speak to the wall.”

Life here in Munich is great. I love the city, the culture, language, food, and, of course, das Bier! I’ve been rowing with the Munich Rowing Club 1880, and will get some photos of Lake Starnberg and the gorgeous Alps in the background when the weather clears.

Be well, and remember, Not for self, but for others! –George

CLASS OF 1973 Glen Winkel 250 Saddlemountain Road Colorado Springs, CO 80919-2108 drwink@me.com I hope that caught your attention! It’s how we say, Happy New Year in Korean and it literally translates as, “May you receive many blessings in the New Year.” I like that so much better than Happy New Year that I sent it out to the Class of 1973 email group with a call for Spring Class Notes. While I didn’t get back much for the notes, I did get this back from Walter Rivera: “Wishing you and all of our classmates and their respective families the very best in the New Year!” And from Larry Coles, “Happy New Year! To all. And, as Glen said, ‘may your family have many blessings’ in 2019! All the best.” And from Mike Balf in Israel: “Happy New Year to all—may you have a year of peace and health. Since I see that it is in fashion to pass along wishes in another language. This is how we say Happy New Year

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in Hebrew—‫הנש םכל היהתש“ הנש הבוט םכלוכל‬ ‫תואירבו םולש לש‬.” Craig Dowley writes: “I am back in Boston for the holidays. Took my son to a Celtics game. My first and his, as well. He was over the moon! We got to ‘walk on the floor real cool dad!’” Lucky you! Creating great father/son memories! Bruce Sheldon gives us a peek into his life in real estate: “I continue to run my commercial and residential real estate business in Stamford, CT. Have been a Broker for over thirty-four years here. Anyone wanting to reach out can call 203-564-0224 or BruceWSheldonRealEstate@gmail.com.

I recently touched base with John Randall not too long ago and he reported that he and his family are doing well in Long Island. “My daughter is married and living in Pompano Beach, Florida now with her husband who is attending engineering graduate school. He is an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard and once school is finished, he will be reporting to Washington D.C for a four-year stint. My son, Matt, lives in Los Angeles and works at Seth Green’s production studio as Assistant Director. He is part of the team that creates and produces the Robot Chicken animation series. He and his crew each won their own individual Emmy award for this past season’s production. So all things are good with the Sheldons for now. Take care.”

Thanks Sheldon, high honors to your son for his Emmy. Now whenever I see Robot Chicken, I’ll be thinking there is a GDA connection there! Daniel Parker (Parky) Wise writes in from Oregon: “I am still ensconced in Albany/ Corvallis Oregon. I am starting my seventh year in my photo printing business and thanking the powers that be I am no longer standing on an aluminum ladder in the rain and cold pruning fruit trees. I really enjoy turning people’s digital media into physical pictures. My oldest daughter is approaching forty (good grief) and still running the youth hostel in San Diego. The middle daughter has moved to Tucson, AZ and doing well. My youngest lives five houses down from us with her husband and two children.

Needless to say, we see a lot of them. With the three girls gone we have managed to cut way back on the toilet paper budget. When I am not watching the highly successful OSU sports

Top: Friends and inveterate poker players from left—Milt, Steve, Daniel Parker ’73, Scott, and Doug. The canyon behind is one of the places Chief Joseph and his tribe lived before being driven out by the Army; Middle: Daniel Parker Wise’s ’73 family pic at Otter Rock on the Oregon Coast. L to R: grandson Parker, daughter Sarah, son-in-law Cody, grandaughter Hannah, sister Martha Wise ’88, niece Lizzy, nephew Sam, and niece Lizzy; Bottom: Geoff White ’73 performing at his local church

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Top: Snoopy (aka Glen Winkel ’73) with his trusty companion, Woodstock, driving the Zamboni ice resurfacer, during a hockey game at Colorado College; Middle: Glen Winkel ’73, leading the field at the Boulder Valley Velodrome; Bottom: One of Geoff White’s ’73 amazing neo-surreal paintings!

teams (National College Baseball Champions!).

Also, Go Pats—Go Sox! Claudia and I are trying to keep up with the yard and house organizing. After thirty-five or so years living in the same house, I am considering applying for one of those TV shows showcasing clutter. I don’t get out to take photos as much as I would like but do get to the local National Wildlife Refuge fairly often. Especially in the winter it is quite a spectacular place for waterfowl and other wildlife. I did manage to get away for a raft trip on the Grand Ronde river in Oregon this summer. I apologize for not keeping in touch with my classmates (especially Mike). It seems the longer I am here the more hermit like I become.” Thanks Parky, hermit or not, the great pictures tell a visual story! And in the from far away category, Geoffrey White plucks in from Australia: “I turn sixty-five this March and what a life it’s been in the years ensuing since 1973!

I am a professional artist and musician here in Sydney, Australia. I teach five-string banjo, one of the few teachers in this area and I have been doing that since 2011. I created my own style of playing called ‘Pick-Hammer’ which is twofinger and easy to learn. If you are interested in seeing me, go to www.dreamtreebanjos.com for a look. I am composing new work for the banjo and have done my second album, entitled ‘Electric Hollow,’ which features new electrified acoustic banjo compositions. Many of you might remember all the teasing I received trying to learn banjo at the age of sixteen when I first took lessons at the Academy from a VERY fine teacher. I would love to hear his reaction to what I can do now! Anyone who ridiculed me then can see what many years of practice will do now. Patience and persistence, as well as hard work (which does not have to be painful), DO work out in the end! Music runs in my blood and so do the visual arts. Here’s a photo for all to see. Also, attached is a painting in my neo-surreal style. I have three daughters, one is a lawyer with her own practice in Brisbane, one runs a wedding business in Byron Bay and one runs a bookstore and is a creative mind...I even have two grandkids. Write to me—would love to hear from you!” Geoff, thanks for the update and remember while it didn’t happen

at our 45th reunion, we still are hoping you’ll come from “down under” to play at our 50th Reunion. And speaking of our 50th Reunion, it’s really only about four years away by the time you get this copy of The Archon! I do hope that all of you who are reading our class notes will begin to make plans to be in Byfield in 2023 for our 50th. We have some incredible stuff we are planning for that weekend, which will make it very special and memorable for the members of our class, so please don’t miss it! A couple of short notes from Doug Doty, who writes in that he will “soon retire and am planning to move to Portugal” and Tony Hall, who writes, “I have a new dog named Bailey. She can sit, stay, shake, and sit up on her butt in the classic ‘beg’ position. She also knows her name and can differentiate between a ball and a rope, except she thinks that rope means it’s OK to poop in the house and ball means chase the cat. We expect big things from her!” Tony, it’s always a pleasure to hear from you and seeing you at our 45th was a treat as well! I am looking forward to our 50th, aka the BIG ONE! Glen Winkel (your humble class secretary) is always looking for updates and brief notes from classmates and I really do enjoy stepping back into the past to reflect upon good times at the Academy. I found it such a joy to return for the 45th and I hope all of you that are still above ground (and down under) will make it to Byfield. I am still living in beautiful Colorado Springs. We had some fun this Christmas on social media—I drove the Zamboni during hockey games dressed in a Snoopy costume (see photo) with my faithful companion, Woodstock. It was one of the most trending events on social media that day! Still continuing to compete in short track speedskating and road/track cycling and while the world championships this past year didn’t result in any medals, I plan to make it to the World Track Championships in 2020, when I enter the 65–70 age group and can wreak havoc on the older cyclists in that group! So let me end, where I began…. With great wishes to all of my classmates from the Class of 1973, with many blessings to you and yours in this new year!

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CLASS OF 1974 Pam Toner 206 River Run Greenwich, CT 02831 ptoner@optonline.net Save the date for your 45th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

Happy Birthday, Classmates! Many have reported major milestones: 60th birthday celebrations & grandchildren! I celebrated my birthday all summer and I am grateful for all my blessings! Thank you for responding to my e-mail request for news. Please e-mail me with your most current e-mail address.

Alec Andrews: “I just passed the thirty-fiveyear mark practicing law, representing the poor, misunderstood and down trodden corporations of America. I’ve been in charge of our Columbus, Ohio office for twenty-five years now. I have one child in L.A. in the film and TV industry, the other in NYC as an account executive for a major advertising firm.

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Had a great visit by Tim Statler this summer. I have no comment on how old we are getting.”

Woolie Woolson: “Well let’s see… Both of my kids got married this year. My son, Hazen, in May in Moab, Utah. My daughter, Leah, in September here in Salt Lake City. My wife, Jill, and I celebrated our thirty-fifth wedding anniversary and our third year in the west, here in Sandy, Utah. I have embarked on my fourth or fifth career (but who’s counting!). I am teaching skiing at Alta in the winter and coaching mountain biking in Park City during the summer. So if any of you want to ski ‘the best snow on earth’ or experience some of the best mountain biking, come on out and look me up!” Woody Wallace: “I have now been retired for two and a half years and I love it.

Been traveling all over, saw the Dead in Chicago last year on the front rail, went to Scandinavia and Russia, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean to name a few places. My granddaughter is one and a half with some more potentially on the way. I spend my summers in the ADKs and the rest of the time in Hightstown, NJ and NYC. In winter I get away to warm places for at least four weeks. For those of you considering retirement, I highly recommend it.”

Deborah E. Garand: “David and I are doing well in Pittsford (Rochester), NY and spend summer weekends at our shabby chic cottage fishing, sculling, relaxing etc. We are quite excited about our new grand baby expected in

January! Time with Bill Skaff who has become quite the chef, mixologist aficionado, and music buff, has been one of the great gifts this year—hard to believe, we’ve known each other since kindergarten!” Tom Moseley: “It is hard to believe we are all turning sixty! I am still working in Environmental Health for the local health department protecting public health (and to think I studied Forest Management in Montana). Thankfully the sciences overlapped quite a bit. My wife, Cindy, and I just celebrated our thirty-fifth wedding anniversary so it has been a year of rejoicing and thanking God for so many blessings. My son, Thomas, and his wife, Mandy, are currently down at the Cleveland Cavaliers game and are hoping for their first child in the near future. He has begun his own landscaping business and his wife is teaching at Father Marquette Schools.”

Steven S. Epstein: “Jane and I celebrated our baby’s graduation from UNH with honors, my sixtieth birthday, and our thirty-first anniversary within a month last May to June. The baby is still living at home, frustrated at her first fortyhour-a-week job, still doesn’t understand why it is called work. Our oldest and her husband welcomed our first grandchild, Benjamin Elliot, on 9-16-16 at Bryn Mawr Hospital, which means monthly road trips to Philadelphia area to see them and my father-in-law.” David Schumann: “My husband, Michael, and I moved from Killingworth, CT to New Hope, PA last October. I suffered a heart attack in March after my sixtieth and had triple bypass surgery. Doing well now, back in the gym three times a week, regular trips to NYC to see Broadway shows, etc. Planning a major European tour next summer.” Rick Atwood: “Been a good year, still in real estate. In a small bike accident, a trash truck backed into me.

Killed my bike, but picked up a new one and still riding strong. Drove down to Nashville and the Smoky Mountains. Great time. Celebrated my sixtieth in Boston at the country street concert. Life is good, I’ve grown old, but haven’t grown up yet… looking to ride out to the west coast next year, take three months off, maybe ride up to Alaska.”

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CLASS OF 1975 Pam Pandapas 202 Central Street Rockland, MA 02370-2470 pamrobfine@msn.com Pam Pandapas: Things are pretty much the same in the Pandapas/Fine household. We enjoyed going to several concerts last summer and fall and we have tickets for four more this coming summer and fall. I continue to stay busy and out of trouble by taking care of my cats, one of whom has just been diagnosed as asthmatic and diabetic, and doing a lot of cooking and baking. I also hope to get a little more skiing in before the end of the season. Rob continues to work way too hard and way too many hours.

Hopefully, he’ll come up for air soon! Dave Bohman: I continue to work in television news in Scranton, and just capped off a year during which I received two regional Emmy Award nominations for Investigative Reporting. I didn’t win, but in the process, I now have more Emmy nominations than anyone in the history of the Scranton television market which only means I’ve been in Northeastern Pennsylvania a long time. I get back to the area a little more than usual, as my oldest daughter is now a freshman at Emerson College. Last summer, I spent a little time with our classmate Jay Taggart, who has returned to Cape Cod after retiring from a career at Brooks Brothers in Westchester County, New York. I hope to run into many of you this summer, as I plan two trips to Chatham. Starr Gilmartin: Although I love to travel with my husband when the opportunity presents itself, I also love to participate in multi-day bike trips but Gilly doesn’t even like single day bike trips. We had considered walking the El Camino, or the Way of St. James in Spain, but the four to six weeks expected duration did not excite either one of us. I read about a Discovery Bike Tour that would travel the French Way, the most popular of the routes and would only take eleven days. It started in Roncesvalles on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees and ended 780 km later in Santiago de Compostela. What an exciting way to meet people, see sites and get some exercise! It was

also a way to get wetter than I have ever been, as it rained most of the eleven days. Despite the weather, it was a remarkable and memorable trip I hope to add to in future years. By the way, the oldest member of our group was seventy-seven years old, so don’t let age stop you if you have this dream. My only other solo trip was as a volunteer for the American Red Cross disaster relief efforts during the many natural and unnatural disasters that peppered various parts of our country. On my day off in North Carolina, I got to spend it with my brother-inlaw at his new home in his new state. Gilly and I just returned from thirteen days in the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago, where we celebrated Gilly’s seventieth birthday. The islands are amazingly diverse in topography and geography. The western group of islands have mountains rising from the ocean, and the Eastern group reportedly have more of a plateau topography, although there wasn’t enough time to explore them. There were wonderfully kind and hospitable people and if you have Google translate, you needn’t worry about language barriers. Justin is continuing to work and live in Boston. He loves his job, which allows him great flexibility and independence. He has clients at the hospital where I work so, luckily, I see him whenever he is in town. Megan has finally come back home to Maine and just purchased some land about two hours away, where she is planning to build a home, likely with help from her father. Gilly finished his solar workshop, which houses solar panels thus allowing us to reap the full benefits of solar energy. Now Gilly is working on facilitating a solar project for our town hall and our local school. He always comes up with new projects to keep him busy and after the winter thaw, he will no doubt start helping Megan on her house. MaryAnne Polich: Bob and I have lived in Boston for almost eleven years now, having moved here from San Diego with all our cats. I continue to do my daily volunteer work (responding to our online inquiries) with my cat rescue group in San Diego, and I am still the music director and cantor for St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Boston (Jamaica Plain). The big news for me in 2018 is I wrote, illustrated, and self-published

a children’s book! It had been a dream of mine for many years to write this book to help educate children at an early age about the importance of spaying or neutering our pets and adopting our furry family members from shelters and rescue organizations. It is a true story based on one of our cats. I invite you to go to my website: www. singingcatlover.com for a direct link to Amazon and order the book, Sally the Grocery Store Cat! I am giving all the proceeds to unfunded, volunteer-based, cat and animal non-profit rescue organizations. My husband retired from his thirty-four-year career with Procter and Gamble six years ago, which we both can hardly believe! He has been traveling to Croatia every six months to lead seminars for sales and marketing professionals. His heritage is Croatian (he is the second generation born in the U.S.) and he has really found his niche. (How about that Croatian World Cup soccer team!) He continues to lead historic tours for Boston Segway Tours a few times a week for fun and great tips! (Ask for Capt. Bob if you want a five-star tour!) Let me know, and maybe I can come, too! I love living in Boston (West Roxbury), and I hope I will be able to reconnect with some of you! We need to have a reunion event on a Sunday after church so I can come!

Of a sad note, my most beloved uncle, Gordon Price, Governor Dummer Class of ’49, passed

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on October 31, 2018. He was eighty-seven years old and succumbed to cancer after a brave battle.

He always maintained his wonderful sense of humor and positive attitude and you would not have known he was sick. He lived in West Boxford, MA and will be profoundly missed by all who knew him. “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” – Anatole France. Lisa Johnson: Things are moving along at a breakneck pace in the Johnson world. I hope to find a way to slow things down, but it seems unlikely. Work, committees and outside organization time, and just keeping the household moving forward in an orderly way keeps things hopping. With Mei Li living in Chile, and trying to find opportunities to see each other, there is lots of traveling. I am taking care of my wonderfully active and vibrant ninety-three-year-old father which brings me great joy daily. And trying to keep my own head above water keeps me on my toes. All in all, life is good! Charlie Albert: Not that I want to encourage you, but… This is to all those distaff pioneers who broke down the gender barriers to education, and may have had reason to lecture the primitive me on the topic of equality. I had to deal with you shrews all the way through grad school. As Mischievous Providence would have it: my daughter beats a bass drum in the Longhorn Marching Band (yeah, that Sugar Bowl was…uh...SWEET!) and majors in chemical engineering. She is a gifted and beautiful young woman. She is also a 5' 3" nose ring sporting, Thumb-in-the-Eye-of-thePatriarchy young woman, ’cause I was determined to raise her that way. Her great grandmother (Boston Latin, pre-WW I) would be very pleased. Thanks for rubbing my face in the light, ladies! Brit Babcock: Nothing that much new. I’m living more primarily in San Diego rather than Palm Springs, although we have a lot of business in the desert. My niece, Kenagh, was just out visiting my brother, Ted ’77, and shadowing him at work, where he is a producer for various TV shows, currently the Magnum PI remake. It’s been cold ‘as all get-out’ here but nothing like the Northeast. I’m hoping Trump is handed his walking papers soon and escorted off in handcuffs. (Just my opinion!)

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Macy and I have been working out at a gym every morning at six since New Year’s and, gratefully, starting to see progress. Mike Ponce: The Ponce family enters 2019 with hope! The year 2018 was a disaster for me! I had a long year of heart procedures, pacemakers, ablation, and cardio conversions. Then I topped off the New Year with a severe case of shingles on my face. Good-bye 2018! Jen has been hard at work supporting us while I try to change jobs after thirty years in the municipal bond business.

Annie, after two gap years working in the fabric business, is now a freshman at SCAD in Savannah. Lindsay is now sixteen so, thank God, no more trips to the mall! She is pulling a 4.15 grade average and is trading clothing on Poshmark. She is also working to fund her trip to Italy and Greece. The chickens, rabbits, cats and, Penny, the Lab are all entertaining us. And we are swapping out our vegetable garden to grow flowers and herbs and we’re cultivating bulbs for future sales. We’re expanding our growing capacity twofold. We are also hoping to meander up to Mount Desert Island sometime in the summer. I am so glad to be alive. Cheers!

Bill Shaheen: I’m in semi-retirement mode. I play eighteen holes of golf each morning at The Orchards in South Hadley while still consulting for a few select national and regional clients.

Rich O’Leary: After thirty years in the ad business, I have ventured out into entrepreneur land and have started a small tech company with some colleagues. It’s challenging but fun. I frequently see Sam Gilliland, who is our financial advisor and neighbor. And I also played golf with Spencer Purinton this summer on the Cape. I still love keeping up with the excellent progress that Govs continues to make as a school. Like many things in life, it gets better and better. I’m looking forward to our next get together at the Academy and seeing many of you. I hope it’s soon. Peter Richardson: The big news in our household is that our younger son, Seth, is getting married in October. His bride-to-be is the lovely Katherine Phipps, originally of Fort Wayne, Indiana, but now of New York, NY. Much to our delight, they are getting married in Maine, in a venue overlooking Casco Bay. They plan to

honeymoon at our house in Vieques, PR. My wife, Beth, accepted a position in August with the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project, responsible for lawyer recruitment. The mission of the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project is to increase access to justice in Maine through volunteer engagement. The VLP connects pro bono attorneys to individuals with civil legal issues who cannot afford attorneys. She loves it.

Peter Templeton: Well, we are plodding through winter here in Taos. The days are getting longer! This past year has still been quite busy for my company, Tree of Life Woodworks.

We have been continuing to build furniture and custom cabinetry. One of my biggest projects this past year was building a library for the new Ernest Thompson Seton Memorial Library at the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico. Ernest Thompson Seton was a naturalist and one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. The library will house his book collection and archival materials. My wife, Linda, is still teaching fifth grade at the Taos Integrated School for the Arts (TISA) charter school, which she founded. Our three children are spread out variously in Colorado and as far as Newfoundland, Canada. We continue to live on the mesa North of Taos with our Jack Russell Terrier, Lucy, and our big old kitty cat. That’s about it on this end. Craig McConnell: Nothing to mention from Northeast Ohio.

Cold and snow are the flavors of the day!

(Submitted by Kristi McConnell) Pam Post: I enjoyed traveling to Ireland in November where I hiked the Wild Atlantic Way on the West Coast, from Dungarven to the Dingle peninsula.

I stayed in some lovely and unusual Airbnb accommodations, including a converted tack room at a cow farm on the sea, a teepee, and in a gypsy caravan. I stopped over in Stockholm on the way back to the states, and enjoyed staying in the old town there. I am back in Florida for the rest of the winter. I would love to catch up with anyone passing through Hobe Sound!

Leslie Haas: Judy Tamposi and I are expectant Grandparents! Judy has her grand baby due midFebruary, and I will become a grandmother in early March. We are both very excited. Hope all is well.

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CLASS OF 1976 Carol Goldberg 185 East 85th Street, Apt 32C New York, NY 10028-4718 caaydin@aol.com

CLASS OF 1977 Vicki Murphy 22 Lilac Lane Haverhill, MA 01830 vmurphy@mhl.org Carrie Nissi 467 Massachusetts Avenue Lunenburg, MA 01462 cnissi@me.com Vicki Murphy shares: My middle daughter just got engaged and my husband retired from teaching high school culinary arts after twenty years. He will probably never retire from working but for now, I’m expecting gourmet dinners every night. Looking forward to my first trip to Rome and Tuscany in April where I’ll be cooking with an Italian chef who is a new in-law in a small hotel, a very exciting adventure for a big birthday year. I occasionally see some familiar faces from Byfield around Andover where I work at the Memorial Hall Library. If anyone is in the area, please stop by and say hello. Happy New Year to my friends of ’77. Carrie Nissi reports: daughter Sarah ’13 graduated from MassArt in May and is living in Somerville. Two days after graduation she came home to care for Andrew while I went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. We’ve relocated to central Mass. and love being in an area with so many state parks and forests and conservation land. Winston (our Springer Spaniel) and I enjoy exploring the woods as much as possible.

Sarah comes home when she can to explore with us. Andrew is happy and keeping us on our toes. Joseph is well and working hard as usual. We are renovating the house we bought, so I suspect it will be an interesting spring. Late May we (all of us, including Winston) will head to Hilton Head for a couple of weeks to visit with friends from our old neighborhood in Bradford. Life is good.

From Elisa (Sam) Adams: Hello Everyone!

Thank you Vicki and Carrie for all your hard work over the years to keep us together! Life has been a wonderful adventure. My daughter, Ariana (thirty), is graduating from Acupuncture school this August, as she has continued to work remotely for the public health group in Northampton. She is two-plus years married to a wonderful man. My stepson, Kailin, was married this past August and I performed the ceremony!

It was a blast! Anyone wanting to get married I am a certified marriage minister from The American Marriage Ministry! My stepdaughter and twin fifteen-year-old grandsons are happily out in Palo Alto. My partner and I are enjoying semi-retirement together. He has been a GC and builder for over forty years. I think it is time to slow up on slinging the hammer around... (yet I took it up with sculpting!). I have been having a great time with my budding sculpting career (since 2004). As an emerging artist, I have been in over fifty exhibitions. Locally in Concord, Cambridge, and Boston, and in NYC, Chicago, and the first museum show (where I won Distinguished Achievement Award in sculpture) at the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California. I was represented at the Abigail Ogilvy Gallery in SoWa, Boston’s Art District and currently have work at L’attitude Gallery in SoWa and Michael Joseph Gallery in Ft. Lauderdale. I have made over 150 sculptures

over the past fourteen years. And many of them have found new homes! In the photo I am with White Buffalo Woman. She just flew off to Idaho. A perfect place to roam! This year, I was accepted to a sculpture symposium in Morges, Switzerland. The jury chose thirty sculptors from a worldwide pool of over twenty-two countries.

We have twelve days to complete a sculpture out of a 400 lb. limestone block. I am working out like crazy to be able to do twelve days in a row of sculpting. I am currently three days a week in my chiropractic practice and two to three days a week sculpting in my newly finished studio in my home in Concord. Sculpting has certainly aided my travel bug. I was also asked to have a show in Sarteano, Italy in a small gallery there, but I think I will wait until 2020.

There is a lot going on this year. I just returned from an amazing eight-day trip to Zimbabwe with my daughter. Her bestie was married there. We traveled to Victoria Falls and saw a lot of indigenous sculptures! Very inspirational.

I hope everyone is embracing life to its fullest!

We only have one! Might as well do everything we want! Especially seeing we will be the “Old Guard” soon...YIKES! You can see my work at www.ElisaAdamsSculptor.com or follow me on Instagram @eadamsart or come and visit me in my studio! If you want to be on my art mailing list, e mail me at drelisaadams@gmail.com. Look forward to hearing from you!

Carrie Nissi ’77 on pilgrimage to the Holy Land watching the sunrise over the desert in Jericho

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Carrie and Vicki are stepping down from their duties as class secretaries after many years of great work and dedication. If you are interested in this volunteer position, please reach out to Dionne Kelly at dkelly@govsacademy.org to find out more!

CLASS OF 1978 Brad Clark 3 Jutland Way Ipswich, MA 01938 rectoramc@gmail.com Scott Pope Abtsdorferstrasse 22B Salzburg, Austria 5020 scottpope23@yahoo.com With the Academy’s June 30th fiscal year end approaching, now is a good time for all well-intended classmates to make your charitable gifts in support of our Class of 1978 GovsPLUS Financial Aid Fund. To date many of us have already made generous gifts and some have chosen to establish multi-year pledges or recurring credit card payments. Our gift committee members, Dave Drukker, M. Phil Graham and Jamie Purinton, thank those who have already given and encourage the rest of us to support our class effort. You all received an email and a regular mail letter back in October about our class gift. As a quick reminder, with your donations, we can make a difference by giving financial aid to those who deserve the education and opportunity we had, regardless of their ability to pay. Each year, some students who have graduated from the GovsPLUS summer program (for motivated middle school students from Lawrence, MA) are admitted to the Academy—all receive financial aid. Eventually with our donations over the years to come we will help to cover tuition costs, and we will be able to directly support GovsPLUS graduates enrolled at The Academy. Thank you all for your consideration.

To make a gift, please visit the Academy’s support page on the web site or contact our gift officer, Daryl Robicsek, at 978-499-3152.

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CLASS OF 1979 Troy Dagres 18 Chestnut Lane Pelham, NH 03076 troydagres@aol.com Save the date for your 40th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

I have no news to report from Byfield, other than the very special news of our 40th Reunion in June. Please plan on making an effort to attend. It’s always great to be back on campus.

I’m sure that over the past forty years the good memories have been embellished, and any bad memories have faded…

CLASS OF 1980 Helen Mazarakis 222 North Mountain Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042-2307 hmazarakis@yahoo.com Gretchen Putnam writes: “Hi Helen! I haven’t submitted any notes for years, so here’s my news in a nutshell—after sixteen years in LA working for E! Entertainment Television, I moved back to the Boston area to be closer to family. I worked for HBO in NYC for nine years before moving to LA. I’m doing some freelancing in Boston, in addition to volunteering for Mass Audubon and a local animal shelter. I’m also taking a Russian language class, which is really interesting and very challenging! Swimming is a big part of my life. I joined a masters group in LA in preparation for a triathlon in 2001, and haven’t stopped since! I joined the masters group in Cambridge when I moved back East five years ago.”

Pam Kurtz Welch writes that she is still living on Cape Cod. “My business, Graham Eliot Interior Design, just celebrated its twentieth anniversary.

We are fortunate to be very busy, not only on the Cape and in Boston, but with great projects currently in Snowmass, Sonoma and Miami.

My husband, Chris, is the presiding judge at Falmouth District Court. Graham graduated from Georgetown and BC Law and works for a large Boston firm in their litigation department.

Caroline graduated from George Washington University, spent two years in Oklahoma with Teach for America and received her M. Ed. From Hopkins; she lives in NYC and teaches at a public charter in Brooklyn. My best to all!”

Abner Mason has been working on a tech solution to a non-tech problem. Abner is the founder and CEO of ConsejoSano, a health and wellness mobile app for Spanish-speakers. He was recently profiled in Med City News about his work, including founding a new organization to advocate for the importance of keeping Medicaid. Go Abner!

Send me your news, classmates! Facebook, Instagram, email (hmazarakis@yahoo.com)

CLASS OF 1981 Kathryn Shilale 215 North Street Medfield, MA 02052-1301 kathryn@shilale.net In July, Dave Brown hosted me and my family to a wonderful dinner at Portland City Grill.

We laughed and caught up before he and Caty

Dave Brown ’81 and Kathryn Shilale ’81 in Portland for lunch

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(empty nesters now) headed off on an Italian cruise. Hope to hear from more of you for the next round of notes!

CLASS OF 1982 Nancy Wickwire 78 Smith Road Bedford, NH 03110-6322 anwick@comcast.net This edition of “tell your classmates something” requests an answer to the question: “What is something fun or great or funny or exciting that you did during the month of January this year?” Not everyone stuck to the script exactly, but here are all the answers, starting with me: Nancy Wickwire: January started off for us empty-nesters with the nest re-filled temporarily, for the holidays. Eddie (twentythree) went back to his apartment in Portland, Maine on New Year’s Day. MLK weekend, I went up to visit him, and took Martha Lawlor Krauch with me for company. Eddie is so proud to be living independently up there, and really thriving after graduation from STRIVE U in June of 2018. Also in January, we put Layla (twenty, and a junior at BU School of Communication) on a plane bound for London, where she is studying for spring semester! Great opportunities for travel and sightseeing—she’s going to Brighton this weekend, and to Barcelona next weekend. I

Bobby Low ’82, Athletic Director at Groton School, and Kevin Hulse ’82 (who was at Groton watching his son play hockey)

understand that there is also some kind of academic component to this program? But anyway, I’ve booked tickets for Andy, Eddie and me to London at the end of April for an eight-day family holiday with Layla once her program ends. Harry Potter & the Cursed Child and a tour of the Warner Brother’s Studio are already scheduled, along with the usual Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace and general pub-going and tube-taking escapades.

moved into a loft. The kids were shocked and upset, but we’re (McDonald’s jingle) LOVIN’ IT! Call us trend setters or call us crazy, but the whole process took less than eight weeks.

All the while my parents are still in their house of fifty-four years and are only talking about making the move. We are also restoring a Federal house in NYS that provides a little more elbowroom than our 850 sq. foot loft.

Cheers, John.

Martha Lawlor Krauch, as usual, did not send in notes but I think the highlight of her month was driving up to Portland for the day with me (our original plans to spend the night got scuttled by the huge snowstorm that night)!

We took Eddie to see The Upside and then out to dinner before driving back to NH in everincreasing swirls of snow and limited visibility.

Her kids are 1.) A labor and delivery nurse at MGH; 2.) A nursing student at U-Mass Boston; and 3.) A nursing student freshman at UVM. Martha is totally set for old age and caregiving. I’ve already asked to borrow one her kids when the time comes for me. She can’t need all three nurses!

Trina Chiara: Hi Nancy and All! The best thing that happened to me in January is that I reconnected after decades with Jonathan Wade and have scheduled a dinner together in the near future AND I got a Christmas card from Alison Miller Montague! Stay well everyone—I think of you and our days together often!

John Nye did reply: I’m on the Archive Committee at Govs, so trying to figure out what to preserve (Bubba’s cleats, Phil Parry’s ’fro pick, JP’s football jersey, Holloway’s dip cup, Demetri’s Scout, etc...) has been interesting and challenging lately. Kathy and I did the unthinkable and sold our house, downsized and

Claire (Dober) Danaher: Hello everyone! The highlight of my January was watching Marie Kondo’s Netflix series and then clearing out boxes and boxes of stuff that didn’t spark joy, thanking it all for its service and then sending it on to its next life. Ahhhhh. Love to you all!

Bobby Low writes: Thanks again to Nancy for spurring us all on...As many of you have already experienced, we’re in the midst of youth sports mayhem, with Cooper (nine) playing hockey and indoor soccer, and Natalie (eleven) soccer (let alone wife Stacey playing on a women’s hockey team)... So a constant juggling act all week (evening practices) crescendoing into an explosion of weekend getaways to Massachusetts rinks and indoor soccer facilities.

Add into the mix our brimful Groton athletic schedule AND Stacey’s coaching schedule (Grot Girls’ JV hockey), and...What a winter!

All good, nonetheless. Keeps us all moving.

Saw Hulsey as we played Pingree in hockey; his son is quite a skater (like the old man). Saw Paul Nardone ’86 as well, as his son carries on family legacy on the hoop court (Govs beat us.). Best wishes to all this winter.

Will Friend: Hey Nance, All’s well here on the North Shore. Will (nineteen) graduated from TGA last May and is half way through his first year at Colgate and having a great time.

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student teaching (sixth grade) at Brookwood in Manchester and loving it. It’s been a quiet January here for us otherwise. I’m in touch regularly with Bob and a few other classmates mostly via text, but it’s nice to be and stay connected. And of course I stalk all of you on Facebook and Instagram so I think I kind of know what folks are up to :-) Would love to get some tips from John Nye on how to downsize in eight weeks or less. Though Maryann and I talk about it, it will definitely be a much slower process for us. Check in where we’re at with that at our next reunion! Hoping to get up north for a day of skiing here and there in February and March and maybe a trip to somewhere warm before winter’s done. Other than that I’m looking forward to being relieved of the polar vortex and the warmer weather of spring, which I hear is just around the corner. Best!

Heather (Vickers) Ryan: Did not send in notes, but I swiped this from Facebook tonight: Connor’s Eagle Project, an Information Kiosk at our town’s Community Pool, is finally completed!

Thanks again to those who helped fund the materials and those who volunteered to help.

Way to go Connor! Sounds like the next edition of The Archon will contain the announcement that Heather’s youngest has earned the rank of Eagle Scout, which is awesome!

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Danielle Jacobs 91 Pond Street Marblehead, MA 01945-2604 dljacobs@aol.com An update from John Stahl: I thoroughly enjoyed the Class of ’73 reunion; the wrestling teammates of Mike Mulligan ’71 adopted this orphan. They told me about “Mully’s” Granby move, and I told them how Heb Evans banned me from his dorm for the sin of responding when one of his sophomores said hi when I was there during study hall to work on a class project with Fred MacDonald. The

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to India recently with my family. Would be great to be in contact with other classmates in Europe like Paul Bartholomew believe living in Austria and Jean Jasse maybe in Spain, others? Perhaps Dr. Quimby needs to organize a European tour soon given the number of us over here? Hi also to Stephan Marculewicz— it’s been a long time since we raised a glass in Geneva, do you still come through?

Harry Taormina writes in: My business is expanding! We are moving into outdoor living construction (fire pits, outdoor kitchens, water features). It’s a lot of fun designing and building really cool features that the customers really

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Save the date for your 35th Reunion!

Cat Eveleth 113 Hawthorne Road Fulton, NY 13069-4525 catmando_ent@msn.com

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great conversations and lack of any hulking out was wonderful. Finishing the night watching Bewitched DVDs in my dorm room was fun.

I also enjoyed visiting with our own Bob Ross Caleb Ham at his exhibit; he is talented, but a happy little tree would have been fun. Beyond that, PROFESSOR (yyaaaa) John Sylvain was a huge help with me launching my new film and TV review site Unreal TV 2.0 http:// www.mattnelsonreviews.com It is doing well.

This site, the content of Unreal TV OS, and I are all up for sale for someone interested in combing their online savvy with 2,000 posts and a reviewer with good knowledge and humor. I further want to remind folks that the quiltogram reference in my yearbook blurb is to a drinking game and not to anything that could be considered (highly justified you cheaters) offensive behavior. On a serious related note, I REALLY want to remind folks that anger only triggers more anger and that actively inciting anger is uncool; that is why we have voting booths and an information superhighway on which road rage never leads to anything good.

It is sad when even a prep school campus is not a safe space within the reasonable meaning of that term. Again, the ’73ers fully embrace that spirit.

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Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

Kimberlee Burgess shares: We enjoyed a late summer bike ride on a wonderful rail trail in the Laurentians in Canada (St. Jerome, Autobus Le Petit Train du Nord). Looking forward to the 35th Reunion! Timothy Clark writes: Still based in Geneva, CH, I travelled

Top: Kim Burgess ’84, with husband Jay and son Cam, during a late summer bike ride in Canada; Bottom: Timothy Clark ’84 with his wife Vinciane, son Cosmo (8), and daughter Astrid (4) near Udaipur

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love. My son, Aiden (twelve), is taking up golf and is really loving the game and making me step up. My daughter, Haley (seventeen), has committed to play softball at George Mason University. She is really excited about taking it to the next level. My wonderful wife, Rebecca, is keeping me straight and hopes someday to meet some of my classmates that I always talk about. I played in a fantasy football league with Brett Engel. I can’t say I did very well.

daughter, Laura Ames, is getting her real estate broker license and will focus on farm and ranch in the area! Check out my great listings! www. liveandplayincolorado.com.

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Thanks to Tom Von Jess for organizing a gathering on campus to remember Raul Valdes-Fauli and dedicate a beautiful bench in his memory. Joining Tom at the gathering were Cassie Frank, Tim Nesbit, Rob Studley, Paul Nardone, Bill Sweeney, Rob Delena, Derric Small, John Baily, Kim Rochford, Amy Northup, Lindsay Seward and Greg Waldman. There’s still time to donate to the fund being raised to honor Raul so please get in touch with Tom for details.

Nathalie Ames PO Box 114 Mesa, CO 81643-0114 names@nathalieames.com Some exciting news!! Jon Shain WON The International Blues Challenge (IBC) for Best Solo Performer of 2019, in Memphis, TN after an intense week of competition! Keep an eye out for Jon’s and FJ Ventre’s tour dates (www. jonshain.com)! Congratulations Jon! I decided to take a big step in my real estate career and have partnered with two associates to open our own company, NextHome Grand with two locations—Mesa and Grand Junction, Colorado. We love being associated with the innovative NextHome franchise and are extremely happy with our first six months. My

Jon Shain ’85, winner of The International Blues Challenge (IBC) for Best Solo Performer of 2019

CLASS OF 1986 Paul Nardone 190 Summer Street Lynnfield, MA 01940-1857 paulbnardone@gmail.com

CLASS OF 1987 Carla English 93 Prescott Street North Andover, MA 01845-1715 carla_english@yahoo.com David Miller 28 Hunters Village Way Manchester, NH 03103-5936 davidnowis@gmail.com 2018 was, and 2019 will be, a big year for many of us as we enter into a new decade of life. Some of us may be choosing to celebrate quietly with a large brownie sundae with extra whipped cream and hot fudge at Flatbread, (want to join me?) while others are really marking the transition with adventure. Rob Delena put us all to shame when he celebrated his fiftieth in the most novel way. He writes,

Also good to hear from Sumant Singh Bhatia who reported meeting up with Elysa Marden in London last year at the launch of Sail GP. And, there was a sighting of John Huard’s two sons (Thomas and Connor) on campus and leading the boys through the tour was Casey Nardone ’19 who is now a senior at Govs.

Nathalie Ames ’85 making moves in her real estate career

Top: Gathering to remember Raul Valdes-Fauli ’86 and dedicate a beautiful bench in his memory, L-R: Tom Von Jess ’86, Cassie Frank ’86, Tim Nesbit ’86, Rob Studley ’86, Paul Nardone ’86, Bill Sweeney ’86, Rob Delena ’87, Derric Small ’86, John Baily ’86, Kim Rochford ’86, Amy Northup ’87, Lindsay Seward ’86, and Greg Waldman ’87. Bottom: Bench in the courtyard outside of the Pescosolido Library

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“Here are some pictures from my trip to Antarctica with Ryan to ‘celebrate’ turning fifty. The day that we climbed the peak in the picture, I wore my Govs hat to bring a bit of Byfield to Antarctica.” (Wow…He’s a man of a certain age with guts. I’m a woman of a certain age who likes brownies.) Glen Distefano writes, “Lisa, myself, Guido, and Nunzio (our two black labs) are still in Florida and doing very well. The company I have been with as a founding employee since 2005 has had dramatic growth spurt over the last year or so. I serve as the company’s Chief Technology Officer and have managed the growth from about seventy-five team members at the end of 2015 to over 300 presently with Corporate here in Bradenton and offices in Dallas, TX, Mechanicsburg, PA, Folsom, CA, Lexington, KY, Maitland, FL, and soon Southern California. Last year Lisa and I celebrated twenty-five years of marriage with an amazing two-week trip to Italy. I continue to enjoy my passion of cooking and am always looking for new restaurants and recipes to try…send them my way! Looks like many of us turn the big fifty this year...so hard to believe. I would love to catch up if you are ever in the Southwest Florida area or if I am visiting one of my offices in your area. As always love catching up with so many of you on Facebook as well. Best, Glen” Thank you for the invite Glen. It’s three degrees in Massachusetts. Florida sounds like Eden at the moment. Darryl Conte shares: “Five years ago, Jen ‘retired’ from the stress of pharmaceutical research, and we bought farm property in Hartford, NY—east of Glens Falls, NY, near the Vermont border. It’s beautiful country. We’re about thirty minutes from her dad, who is ninety-five and lives near Saratoga Springs, NY. I’m still a faculty member in the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Medical School in Worcester. But I’m no longer at the bench. Now I work as a scientific consultant and writing coach, helping graduate students, helping people tell their stories clearly. The science is awesome, and my colleagues are wonderful. I’m most thankful that my department has been flexible. I’m in the office three days a week (I stay with friends

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for two nights), and work from home the other two. Jen keeps a large vegetable garden, flower gardens, berries, grapes, and a few fruit trees. She spent her summer and fall preserving food. This time of year she is resting the body, planning gardens, doing her crafts, keeping the wood stove warm, and caring for animals.

We have twelve chickens, forty-seven guinea fowl, three cattle, three barn cats, four house cats, and a dog. I most enjoy the cattle: they’re amazing creatures. The last few weeks, I’ve been culling trees for next winter’s wood pile.

You know the adage: ‘Wood warms you three times.’ It’s been a different challenge for us, at times physically demanding. I don’t know about you all, but this mind still says ‘twentysomething,’ yet the body says otherwise.

Regardless, we love being here, and we’re always learning—mostly about ourselves.” I, (Carla English), have been bubbling with happiness every time I’ve visited Govs this fall and winter to see our son, Aiden, who is a boarding student living in Cottage. As I eat in the dining hall among students, sit in the Cobb room as a volunteer for admissions, or just walk around the campus, I sometimes feel the most profound sense of deja vu. It’s like I’m not sure what year it is. Am I student? For a split

second, I am. It just feels so eerily familiar… “the same.” I can tell you some things have changed though. The food is so yummy now.

There’s an entire wall of different freshly prepared salads in addition to a salad bar, a flatbread pizza station, and a pasta station, as well as vegetarian and ethnic cuisine options.

I’m just floored every time I eat there thinking back to 1983! The only thing I remember was the peanut butter cookies. What is so clear though, even beyond running into Mr. Wann or seeing Ms. Ruhl walk by, is that The Governor’s Academy is still very much a warm, exciting, embracing place to be. My husband and I will never be able to express the depth of our gratitude for the opportunity Governor’s has given Aiden. Thank you to everyone who contributes to the Annual Fund because it is the reason he’s able to attend. Wishing you all a wonderful fiftieth birthday if you haven’t rung that bell yet. Cheers to us! May we make it into the “Old Guard” years and carry the flag on reunion morning! (It’s not that far off.)

Rob DeLena ’87 celebrating turning 50 in Antarctica

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CLASS OF 1988 Deana Boyages 156 Aurora Street Hudson, OH 44236-2943 dboyages@msn.com

CLASS OF 1989 Kristin Brown 45 Georgian Road Cambridge School of Weston Weston, MA 02493-2110 kristinbrown29@yahoo.com Save the date for your 30th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

John Wilson reports: Things are great in Dallas. My wife, Kelly, and I spend most of our time following around our two boys, Jack (eighteen) and Gray (fifteen). Jack is a junior, actively involved in his high school theater program and trying to start a skeet & trap team. Gray is a freshman, plays baseball and keeps us on edge constantly. I run in to Jon Bonnell ’90 occasionally when he isn’t busy cooking or running a triathlon. Other than Jon, my only real Govs information comes via social media, which has been a wonderful way to reconnect. Kelly and I are planning to be in Byfield in June for our 30th (ouch!) and hope to see many of you there!

beautiful Lake Mascoma. I live just a mile from campus. In addition to teaching, I am a dorm parent and will be a tennis coach for the first time ever this spring. So far, I am having a great time. I also ran into alumna Meg Lloyd ’01 who is a new English teacher this year at Cardigan Mountain.” Thanks for writing in Dave! Great to hear from you and congratulations on your new position and location!

Pete Longo writes: “No major news or life events to report. Simply enjoying life with friends and my wonderful wife and children, including this GDA supporter.” (See photo below.) Your son is adorable in his GDA hoodie.

Great to have Don Conley submit to The Archon for the first time! “First time reporting...nothing crazy to report. Spoke with Ike Suggs ’78, alumnus and former faculty at GDA, on January 23rd. He is doing well in Florida not having to face the cold. Texted Jeff Leggette a couple of weeks ago to catch up with him. He and his family are doing well (again in warmer climate… lol). Hope to catch up with Kimani Jones at some point. Heard he is also doing well.” I hope more people who’ve never written in take the step and follow your lead for future issues.

A big thank you to a consistent contributor to our notes, Dan Vinkovetsky who writes: “Still working at High Times, coming up on seventeen years. Things in the industry are changing fast! Living in Brooklyn NYC with my wife, Sarah, and our eight-year-old son Alexander (we call him Sasha). He’s in third grade and doing well. Greetings to all my classmates and their families.”

CLASS OF 1990 Nikki DelliColli

Top: Darryl Conte ’87 with newborn calf, its uncle Newton, and mom Mocha; Middle: Darryl Conte ’87, his wife Jen (right), sister-in-law, and fatherin-law; Bottom: Newton the steer enjoys scratches from Darryl Conte ’87

Dave Johnson wrote to share: “My wife and I have recently moved to New Hampshire to start a new job as a Latin teacher at Cardigan Mountain School, a junior boarding school in Canaan, New Hampshire near Cardigan Mountain and on

Peter Longo’s ’90 son supporting the Academy

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CLASS OF 1991 Nicole MacLaughlan 23 Webster Park Needham, MA 02492 latourdecor@verizon.net Hello, Class of 1991! I hope you are all having a great start to 2019. I am ready to step down from my duties as your Class Secretary…it has been a lot of fun and I’ve enjoyed doing it and am ready to pass it on to someone else. If you are interested, feel free to reach out to me or Dionne Kelly at dkelly@govsacademy.org, to find out more!

CLASS OF 1992 Cassie Firenze 44 Dean Street Belmont, MA 02478-3257 cwfirenze@gmail.com Always good to hear from classmates near and far. As I write this, it’s a few days before Superbowl Sunday—always fun to be in New England this time of year.

Hoyt Morgan reports on his two little cuties: as you can see from his vacation picture they like the summer better than winter weather. Every time I hear from Hoyt it’s another amazing venture: this time he shares that his Johns Hopkins spin-out neuroscience technology company was acquired by a Swiss company, but he’s still back and forth to Baltimore helping out with the transition and the rollout of their first FDA regulated product. Between that, collecting wine, gourmet cooking, and chasing the two little ones, life is good for the Morgans!

Dierdre Heersink had a good recent visit with Nicole (Bellaire) Downer and Erin Grogan— laughing at the old days (see pic) and denying the passage of time. Otherwise, Deirdre is delicately balancing three kids and three jobs!

Sam Nickerson writes that he and Tim Getto met up last summer in Pamplona, Spain where they joined the Running of the Bulls! True story or not, it’s a great image and I’m glad to hear they both made it out safely!

As for me, it will be fun to see what’s changed by the time this gets published. We just got a building permit approved on our house in Belmont so hope to add a little more space.

We’re ready (or at least braced) for whatever adventures home construction may bring. I’ve learned a lot about expecting the unexpected— and continue to be grateful for the support I’ve received from friends and family and the incredible professionals at Dana Farber. My husband rode in the Pan Mass Challenge last summer, and enjoyed it so much that our son joined a kids’ ride, and together they raised over $10,000 for Dana Farber: as soon as the ice clears, they’ll start training for the 2019 races.

Best to you all for a healthy spring and summer!

Hoyt Morgan ’92 and family

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Ingrid Cunney 35 Prince Street Beverly, MA 01915-2007 icunney@gmail.com Shawn Markey 192 Kingsbury Avenue Bradford, MA 01835-8173 stmarkey58@yahoo.com

CLASS OF 1994 Kris Hughes 5649 Colbath Avenue Van Nuys, CA 91401-4725 kris.hughes@sbcglobal.net Save the date for your 25th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

We’ll be celebrating twenty-five years since graduation at our reunion in June! Save the dates (June 7–9, 2019) and make plans to gather in Byfield to reminisce and reconnect!

Josh Lappin writes in with what is likely a timely plug for his business. Live locally and have kids who could use some summer academic support? Reach out to Josh at www. summerblazers.com: he runs a tutoring placement service, connecting kids with independent school teachers. Could be a great resource. During the school year, Josh is teaching at Dexter Southfield.

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Left to right: Nicole (Bellaire) Downer ’92, Cindy White ’93, Erin Grogan ’92, Rebecca (Martin) Rully ’92, Dierdre Heersink ’92, Ann Rogers ’92 and Carin McLean ’92

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CLASS OF 1995 Mike Noon 14 Hillcrest Road Beverly, MA 01915-2131 michaelcnoon@aol.com

CLASS OF 1996 Janna De Risi 1 Walnut Tree Lane Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 jannaderisi@hotmail.com Jeff LaBelle 1394 Westwood Drive Birmingham, MI 48009-4834 labejef@gmail.com

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CLASS OF 1998 Elle Escobar 888 Main Street, #611 New York, NY 10044-0216 ericksone_e@me.com

CLASS OF 1999 Jessica Karlin 36 Wilshire Park Needham, MA 02492 jess.karlin@gmail.com

Rick Binelli is happy to announce that he and his wife, Jennifer, welcomed their third child on June 15, 2018. Emma Marie Binelli weighed eight pounds, fourteen ounces and joins her two older brothers, John (four) and Nathan (two).

Don’t forget our 20th Reunion is this June!

CLASS OF 2000 Catherine Correia 109 Westchester Road Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 catherine.correia@gmail.com Eve Seamans 45 Rantoul Street, Unit 207 Beverly, MA 01915 eve.seamans@gmail.com Hi all, Eve here! Hope you are all enjoying your winter/spring! I’ve been busy, working and taking care of my twins. Your other class secretary has some exciting news. Catherine Correia and her husband Andrew welcomed a baby boy, Ryder Andrew Urquhart on January 13! Lindsay Gobin wrote in, “Got to spend a week with Beth Coolidge at a medieval reenacting event this summer, which included the twelve-hour road trip to get there. So much fun! Missed her terribly. Also headed down to Cancun this fall to see my brother Tyler ’05 get married. My brother Ben ’03 was also there. It

was a vacation and a wedding at the same time.

Gorgeous location. I didn’t want to leave!” I also heard from Elizabeth Turnbull Henry, “I welcomed baby Douglas in October and am now a mom to three kids. This marks my second year as President of the Environmental League of Massachusetts, a 120-year-old advocacy organization focused on Beacon Hill. My days are full of offshore wind, clean transportation and climate resiliency. Exciting and timely stuff.” A happy 2019 to everyone from Natalia Averett: “I haven’t submitted class notes in years so I think the biggest news for me is that I moved to San Diego, from the Northern VA/DC area, a few years ago, and met my significant other (SO). I keep in touch with a few classmates and was lucky enough to see Mark Lipman and Paige Ramsdell (and baby AJ, who is the cutest!) during a trip back to Boston last year. My SO and I are planning a trip to spend time with friends in Boston and Provincetown late May. I have a lot of family events and work trips that bring me back East for short trips and I’m hoping to connect more with people during each trip. Thanks for keeping in touch and best wishes to all!”

Save the date for your 20th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

Rick Binelli’s ’99 third child, Emma Marie Binelli, age four months

Ryder Andrew Urquhart, son of Catherine Correia ’00

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CLASS OF 2001 Meg Lloyd 62 Alumni Drive Canaan, NH 03741 lloydy505@gmail.com Hello, Class of 2001! I hope you are all having a great start to 2019. I am ready to step down from my duties as your Class Secretary…it has been a lot of fun and I’ve enjoyed doing it and am ready to pass it on to someone else. If you are interested, feel free to reach out to me or Dionne Kelly at dkelly@govsacademy.org, to find out more!

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Ted Chen writes: “Our classmate Wilson Tung got married in June. Wilson married Irene a nurse from Southern Taiwan city Kaohsiung.

After marriage they will be residing in Hsinchu where Wilson is working as product test engineer for Singaporean firm Infenion. Yu Nakagawa ’02 also attended the wedding with his wife. Yu currently spends most of his time between Tokyo, Japan and Nairobi, Kenya.

There are other friends of Wilson from Fay School, who asked where was John Thomas?”

is ever in Houston, please reach out to me...

I would love to meet up. I also met up with Mike Woods while I was in Boston for a couple of days on vacation with my family.”

CLASS OF 2003 Taso Kapernekas 447 Flanders Road Coventry, CT 06238 tkap07@gmail.com

David White wrote that 2018 was actually a huge year for his family. “My wife and I had our third girl named Sophie born in May and I bought into my orthodontic practice in The Woodlands, TX this last summer. If anyone

Heather Jameson-Lyons 62 Walnut Street Lynnfield, MA 01940 jameson.heather@gmail.com I hope everyone is doing well. Larry and I have had a busy year which included the arrival of our daughter, Hope! The night before Thanksgiving we got together with Delia Cox ’02, Joe Levitt ’01, Rachel Sayer ’00 and her children, Joe Fannon ’01, his wife and daughter, and Derek Falvey ’01 and his wife and son. We had so much fun visiting getting all the kids together!

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Top: Left to right: Meghan Falvey, Derek Falvey ’01, Jack Falvey, Delia Cox ’02, Joe Levitt ’01, Kristen and Cece Fannon, Joe Fannon ’01, Mason Sayer, Rachel ’00 and Juliette Sayer, and Heather ‘02, Hope, and Larry ‘10 Lyon; Bottom: At the wedding of Wilson Tung ’02 (groom) with Yu Nakagawa ’00 (lower right)

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CLASS OF 2004 Lesley Clunie 101 Neal Street Portland, ME 04102 Lesley.clunie@gmail.com Save the date for your 15th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

Great to hear from a few of you, I hope to see many of you at this spring’s reunion—hard to believe it has been fifteen years since we jumped over the wall!

Erin Giblin writes: “I got engaged earlier this year. Wonderful man named Scott, he’s Canadian. We’re both lighting designers; I’m focusing on film and television, as well as some architectural, and he does live event lighting including concerts and sports.”

Congratulations, Erin and Scott!

Tim Mauritz will be getting married on March 2 in Charleston, South Carolina, to a Miss Hadley Roberts, a State Department officer.

Doug Richardson and Ben Bell are expected to be in attendance. Congratulations, Tim and Hadley!

Jackie Meinhardt writes: “Life has been a little extra exciting lately. I gave birth to my son Camden on November 22, Thanksgiving Day! As a first-time mom, every day is a new adventure, but my wife Katie and I are enjoying the ride. Besides that, we are still enjoying life in San Francisco and thankful we are driving distance from snow. I won’t be able to make it to our reunion this summer, but I hope everyone has a fun time! Has it really been fifteen years?! Cheers!” Congratulations, Jackie and Katie! Hope the rest of our class is doing well!

CLASS OF 2005 Nicole Zografos 279 West 3rd Street, Unit 1 Boston, MA 02127-1631 nicolezografos@gmail.com Hello ’05! Just a brief update for you all. (I better hear more from you next time.) Jim

Zografos and I are doing well, still living in South Boston with our daughter, Thea. We recently had a visit from Max Dornbush, who writes “Against all expectations, Max Dornbush turned out alright.” We were thrilled to have Max back out on the east coast and made the most of his weekend visit celebrating Audrie Grigun’s birthday with Barrie Stavis, Rachel Stavis ’07, Josh Stavis ’09, and Bobby Rudolph.

Further north, Andrew Guyton shares “Guytons are all doing well. Kids are three, two, and one and the oldest, James, learned to ski last weekend. Dan and I had him up at Sunday River and it was a blast.” Over the border, Brendan Giblin has recently moved to Toronto. Brendan writes: “I moved to Toronto back in July and am working for Marriott Hotels of Canada. I live downtown and love the city. I’ve supported the Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins when they have played here on the road.

I’m still enjoying lots of travel, including recent trips to NYC, DC, Minneapolis, Chicago and Montreal. If anyone wants to make it north of the border feel free to drop me a line.”

Out west, Chris Vancisin shares that he and his wife Abby are doing well. In early 2018, Chris started a new role with Union Bank underwriting to the wine industry along with other C&I clients in the Greater Bay Area.

He still lives in Laguna Beach, CA and was fortunate enough to attend World Series Game 5 to watch the Red Sox close out the Dodgers at Chavez Ravine.

That’s it for this time—start planning your update for the next The Archon!

David White ’02 and Mike Woods ’02 in Boston, MA

Jackie Meinhardt ’04 and wife Katie with their son, Camden, and fur-baby, Cooper

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CLASS OF 2006 Emme Hughes 47 Winship Street, Apt. 8 Brighton, MA 02135 m.esther.hughes@gmail.com 2018 flew by, I feel like there was hardly a chance to take a breath and reflect at all! I (Emme Hughes) am lucky enough to see Morgan Bradford, Mackenzie Matt, and Cameron Archibald often at book club, and it was wonderful to see so many alumni at the GDA holiday gathering this year including Daniel Lundquist and Lizzy Guyton. I hope everyone has enjoyed a great start to 2019, and I look forward to hearing from you all soon!”

CLASS OF 2007 Jack Lamson 173 Arrow Wood Place Malta, NY 12020 jalamson5368@gmail.com Rachel Stavis 144 West Concord Street, #2 Boston, MA 02118-1508 rachel.stavis@gmail.com Jenna Glendye writes, “Summer of 2018 my husband Luke and I spent a lot of time hiking all over upstate New York and New England, training to hike Mt. Washington, which we did! We hiked up and spent the night at the Lake of the Clouds hut, and the next morning

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CLASS OF 2008 Perry Eaton 21 Easton Street Allston, MA 02134 peaton@bcdschool.org Abby Shaffo 3755 Mimosa Avenue Memphis, TN 3811 aharris0719@gmail.com Decia Splaine shares: just wanted to pass along a photo of Chelsea Barnett and I from a recent hike up in NH over Christmas break. We try and get together on a pretty regular basis.

(Adult scheduling is hard!) We are also hoping to play some pond hockey soon to relive our glory days of JVWH. Anyone else that is in the Newburyport area, feel free to come join!!

Herbie Kent: Was married to his wife Francesca in the Moseley Chapel on July 20th.

He also has recently joined the Advancement team at the Academy as the Assistant Director of Annual Giving and Alumni Engagement.

Top: Herbie Kent ’08 and wife Francesca celebrate their marriage in Moseley Chapel; Bottom: Chelsea Barnett ’08 and Decia Splaine ’08 on a winter hike in New Hampshire

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reached the summit of Mt. Washington with 30mph gusts and a windchill of freezing.... in JULY! Quite the challenge, but totally worth it in the end. I still freelance with my wardrobe skills for theatre and concerts at Madison Square Garden but mostly I am kept busy running my own handmade accessories business, which continues to be an amazing wild ride. (JennaAliyah.com if you’re curious!)”

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CLASS OF 2009 Amanda Correnti 75 Carolina Avenue Jamaica Plain, MA 02130-3215 a.corrents@gmail.com Hannah Fitzpatrick 99 Fulton Street, #5-5 Boston, MA 02109 hannah.b.fitzpatrick@gmail.com Jimmy King 6 Dritwood Drive Chelmsford, MA 01824 jamesmking41@gmail.com Save the date for your 10th Reunion!

Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

Hello! Hope everyone has been having a great start to 2019 and is excited for reunion!

Hard to believe it has been ten years since we left Byfield. A few updates from our class this spring. Demi Wittman (Leone) is expecting her first child in July 2019 with her husband Ryan! Congrats Demi!! Christine Alli reports that she is still living in NYC and works in the healthcare and IT industry,

Demi Wittman (Leone) ’09 wedding in Minnesota—September 2018. Left to right: Liana Conway ’08, Jamie Hansen ’09, Mike Kenny ’08, Becca Block ’09, Ryan Wittman, Dan Hines ’09, Linley Block ’09, Carlota Caicedo ’09, John Diamond ’08. In Front: Demi Wittman, Hannah Fitzpatrick ’09

training professionals on how to use software called Epic. She travels frequently to different hospitals helping people transition from whatever system they are using to a better system called Epic. She also wants to be a YouTube star!! Brittany Caruso is currently living in Pennsylvania and in her final year of medical school at Temple University School of Medicine. She has decided on Plastic Reconstructive Surgery as a medical specialty and is excited to find out where she will be moving for her residency soon! Eric Dunstan reports that he has been doing some writing and is starting a real estate business that renovates and sells properties. Becca Block is back living in Boston coaching lacrosse at Harvard! Sung Bin Lee is currently living in NYC, working at the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as an attorney since last fall. Will Kavanagh reports; “I am living in Raleigh, North Carolina now. I’m the Community Manager for Gamepedia, proving John Banister-Marx wrong that me playing video games would never pay the bills.” MaryLeah Dinisco has been living in NYC since she graduated from Lehigh and is working at a MarTech company called Movable Ink. Dan Hines & I are getting married this August and excited to have lots of Govs alumni in attendance!! Hope to see everyone at the 10Year Reunion June 7–9th!!

CLASS OF 2010 Emily Harrold 5 Hopkins Avenue, Unit 1 Beverly, MA 01915 emilycharrold@gmail.com We have a few exciting updates to report from the Class of 2010. Laura Andrews recently moved to California and started a new job working for Apple. Jack Harris recently

Top: Laura Andrews ’10 in California; Middle: Jack Harris ’10 (glad to see the harness!); Bottom: Jack Harris ’10 spending time with children while on deployment

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finished up a deployment in Asia and the South Pacific. He is now living in San Diego and perfecting his mustache! I, Emily Harrold, am still working in compliance for the institutional asset management arm of John Hancock.

CLASS OF 2011 Nora Kline 90 Moulton Street South Hamilton, MA 01982-1223 nora.k.kline@vanderbilt.edu Katie Reilly 24 Porter Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 katiemacreilly@gmail.com Skylar Frisch moved to Boston and is working as an orthopedic surgery PA at New England Baptist Hospital on the arthroplasty team.

Chrissy Toomey jumped across the pond and is currently living in Oxford, England.

She is working as a nurse at John Radcliffe Hospital. Haley Gould started a new job as an Account Executive in Inside Sales at Envoy in San Francisco. As for us, Nora Kline is in her first year of the clinical psychology Ph.D. program at Clark University. She is researching the etiology of post-traumatic stress disorder in survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Katie Reilly is reporting on education and politics for TIME in New York City.

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John Damianos 8 Winterberry Lane North Hampton, NH 03862-2055 john.a.damianos.med@dartmouth.edu Not much from the ’12s, but here it is! For this note, Tamara Wong-Azaiez, Kim Uggerholt, and Emily Gray have requested that the only updates to be featured this time around should concern the adoption of a dog. We must not have many canophilists among us ’12s since nobody shared any dog updates or cute pictures apropos...

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CLASS OF 2015 Katy Maina 837 Main Street West Newbury, MA 01985-1304 katherine.n.maina@gmail.com

CLASS OF 2016 Samara Gallagher 7 Wayside Farm Lane Hampton, NH 03842 samarajgallagher@gmail.com Mitzi Wiggin 38 Chapel Road North Hampton, NH 03862-2248 mitzisnow123@gmail.com

CLASS OF 2013 Esther Tram 1006 Broadway Apt 223 Bayonne, NJ 07002-4083 esther.tram@gmail.com

CLASS OF 2014 Emilie MacDonald 45 Pine Street Exeter, NH 03833-2720 emiliemac95@gmail.com Lucy Purinton 61 High Street Newburyport, MA 01950 lucy.purinton@tufts.edu Save the date for your 5th Reunion!

Audrey Cheney 25 Pinecrest Lane Glendale, RI 02826 audreypcheney@gmail.com

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Other exciting news include John Damianos getting engaged to a fellow Dartmouth alumna, Maya Martignetti also getting engaged, and Catherine Pirie (now Preston!) getting married.

Congrats to all! Emily Shea has been living in NYC since graduation, working as a Social Media Strategist for Dove. This fall she went to LA to produce social content for Dove in partnership with Shonda Rhimes, SZA, and other inspiring women as part of the Dove Girl Collective, a live event and program challenging beauty stereotypes. She is always thankful for the Govs community, and this November celebrated Thanksgiving in Scotland with Emma Collins, her sister Carly ’16, and other fellow Govs alums.

Keep in touch and Go Govs!

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Join us June 7–9, 2019 in Byfield.

Keep an eye on the Academy’s website for a full schedule of events and online registration. Families are welcome and lodging is available on campus. Please contact us if you are interested in helping to plan for Reunion.

Katie Quimby shared the exciting news that she and Reinaldo Feliciano got engaged in Barbados on Saturday, October 13, 2018!

Mark your calendars for our 5th Reunion!

Katie Quimby ’14 and her fiancé, Reinaldo Feliciano III in Barbados

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CLASS OF 2017 Rachel Ross 75 Friendly Crescent Stittsville, ON K2S 2B6 Canada rachel.ross13235@gmail.com Our class hasn’t even been graduated for two full years yet, but we have already started making our mark on the world. In particular, our class has been putting the Governor’s motto of “not for self, but for others” into action through many service initiatives, as well as finding success by following our passions.

Three members of our class—Chloe Quigley, Maeve Pattie, and I (Rachel Ross)—traveled to Guatemala City this past summer. There, Maeve and I, along with Rob Driscoll ’16, helped build a home for a very deserving local family, while Chloe was hard at work with administrative duties for her non-profit, Oso. Chloe started Oso this past year after she received a grant from Georgetown’s Social Innovation and Public Service Fund. Oso employs women living in the Guatemala City Garbage Dump Communities to make stuffed teddy bears by hand. This empowers these women to make double their community’s average income. The bears are sold online at www.osomicroenterprise.weebly.com. Since this past August, Chloe has partnered with multiple different organizations. Among these, Govs has helped to sell over 100 bears to current

students. On the horizon, is a partnership with McKenzie Perkins ’18 and I am in the works of bringing Oso to my school, the University of Waterloo.

Another member of the Class of 2017 who has been able to shape an interest of hers into a brand is Charlotte Hulseman. After a year spent studying in D.C. and working for a political communications firm, Charlotte is now dominating the New York scene in many domains. To name a few, she’s been working at a Hospitality Public Relations firm and modeling and acting with an esteemed agency, all while studying Digital Design, News Media, and Journalism full-time at Fordham University. You can keep up with Charlotte and her many NYC adventures by following her blog at thelettersee.wordpress.com, a platform she’s created to share her expertise on many topics including fashion, beauty, travel, and lifestyle.

CLASS OF 2018 Eni Owoeye 929 Rockhill Avenue Baltimore, MD 21229 beo230@nyu.edu To all my wonderful classmates: Our section is looking a little bare, but don’t fear! Please send me the best email to reach you for updates on all things Govs. The best email is the one in which you are the most active. My email is beo230@nyu.edu and pass this news along to anyone you think may not be receiving emails.

I hope you all are living incredible fulfilling lives and cannot wait to hear about them by out next The Archon release. – Your Secretary (and friend), B. Eni Owoeye, Govs 2018

I’m so excited to see where the next year takes the Class of 2017, but by the looks of how we’ve managed our past couple post-grad years, I’d say the opportunities are endless.

Left to right: Chloe Quigley ’17, Maeve Pattie ’17, Rachel Ross ’17, Rob Driscoll ’16, and Hadley Woelfel ’20 in Guatemala last summer to build a home for a family with Hope's In, a non-profit 501c3, started by a Govs family

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IN MEMORIAM

In Memoriam

JACK RAGLE, HEADMASTER 1972–1983 co-education, and in his second year as Headmaster, the Academy admitted the first female boarding students. He played a significant role in transitioning the school to be co-educational and by the time he left in 1983, the number of female students was nearly that of male students. Despite the challenging financial times of the early 1970s, alumni and parent giving to the school increased significantly during his tenure. His impact on the school included expanding the community service program, rerouting Elm Street so that it did not run through the middle of campus, and overseeing the construction of the Peter Marshall French Student Center.

John W. (Jack) Ragle died Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at home in Canaan, New Hampshire at the age of ninetyseven. Jack was the Academy’s 25th Headmaster, a position he served in from 1972 to 1983.

Jack was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 28, 1921, to Dr. Benjamin Harrison and Marguerite (Williams) Ragle. He was an alumnus of Phillips Exeter Academy.

A short three weeks after graduating from the University of Chicago in 1943, he was assigned to 456th Bomb Group, B-24s and served on active duty in the Army Air Corps for twenty months in Italy. Though he was ground echelon, he flew on several missions as a bomb-strike photographer.

Upon discharge and after a year of graduate study at Harvard University, he taught and coached in secondary schools, public and private, for more than twenty years.

In Jack’s first stay in Byfield, he was a member of the English department, a coach, and the dormitory master in Peirce from 1947 to 1950. After leaving the Academy, he taught at Springfield High School in Vermont from 1950 to 1966. In 1951 he earned an MA in English from Middlebury College. In the 1953–1954 academic year he returned to the Academy as a writer-in-residence, during which time he researched the history of the Academy. Putting his literary talents to work, Jack authored Governor Dummer Academy History 1763–1963, which was published as part of the 1963 Bicentennial Celebration.

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A 1963–1964 recipient of a John Hay Fellowship for study at Columbia University and a 1964 member of the National Teacher of the Year Honor Roll, he was appointed in 1966 as Director of Teacher Preparation at Dartmouth College. He later became the first Director of their new Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program.

In 1972 he accepted appointment as the Headmaster of Governor Dummer Academy following Val Wilkie’s retirement. When Jack returned to campus in the summer of 1972, he did so with his wife Shiela MacLaren and three young children—John, Allison, and Neil. He returned to the Academy during its second year of

Though school and college administration occupied a significant share of his career, classroom teaching and coaching athletics were his first loves. In 1983 he returned to New Hampshire to teach English and coach tennis at Kimball Union Academy. He retired in 1997, ending fifty years in education.

A lifelong Red Sox fan, Jack was a kind and gentle man who touched the lives of many. Jack was happiest when giving to others. He loved to walk and delighted in making new friends along the way.

He carried a bag on those walks to help keep his neighborhood clean because he was that sort of person. He lived through many changes in the world and believed there was a peaceful solution to be found in all things.

Top Row Left: The Ragle family in front of Mansion House; Top Middle: Jack walking his dog Angus on campus; Top Right: Jack presenting an award to a student in Thompson Auditorium; Bottom Left: Jack working in his office in the Phillips Building; Bottom Middle: Jack giving Senator Ted Kennedy a tour of campus; Bottom Right: Jack playing his beloved harmonica in 2016

COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS REFLECT ON JACK: “I first met Jack when I arrived on campus as a new sophomore during his final year in the Mansion House and began a friendship that continued through the years my wife, Laurie, and I lived in the Hanover, New Hampshire area.

Throughout my tenure as Head of School I enjoyed an ongoing correspondence with Jack, including regular phone calls and visits that were too infrequent. He was a kind and gentle soul who always cherished the years he spent in Byfield and his enduring connection to the Academy.”

– Peter H. Quimby, Ph.D. ’86, P’14, Head of School “In your lifetime, you will not meet a finer person than Jack Ragle. Rarely did anyone ever see Jack angry. In fact, the students nicknamed him ‘Smiling Jack.’ I was the head baseball coach and Jack was my assistant. In those days, the coaches wore the same uniforms as the players. On game days, he would quickly change in his office and then rush down to the field. Often he would forget his spikes and be wearing his wingtips while on the bench in the dugout.”

– Mike Moonves, Faculty Emeritus

“Jack was incredibly supportive of me as a newly minted science teacher and boarding school coach and dorm parent. Jack was one of the kindest and most considerate people I have known professionally. He brought a thoughtfulness to his position and was willing to consider not just the black and white of issues, but also the gray nuances.”

– Steve Metz, Science Department Chair “I was hired by Jack in 1980 and grew very close to him and his family over the years that they lived in Mansion House. I considered him a dear friend of mine. Jack loved to play the harmonica. One day while eating lunch at a tavern in Lebanon, New Hampshire, he told me that this was the place he would come to at night to play his harmonica when the Sox were not playing. I had the pleasure of hearing him play two times: in the Chapel for his son John’s memorial service and on a fishing boat almost three years ago in honor of the tenth anniversary of his son’s passing. There was not a dry eye on either occasion. His heart and soul was put into playing that instrument.”

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IN MEMORIAM In each issue of The Archon we honor those community members who have passed since the previous publication. The death date of those alumni, faculty, and staff who have passed are listed here. Full obituaries are posted on our website at www.thegovernorsacademy.org/inmemoriam.

1943

Kimball Page

1958

Robert Tannebring

Died September 9, 2018

Michael Dunsford

Died April 11, 2018

Alexander “Gordon” Price

Died September 28, 2018

Widgery Thomas

Died October 31, 2018

John Morse III

Died November 22, 2018

1951

Died December 30, 2017

1944

E. Ronan Campion

1960

Gordon Hoyt

Died October 10, 2018

James Deveney

Died December 17, 2018

Ben Hawkins

Died January 10, 2019

Died October 28, 2018

1945

1969

Richard “Dick” Cousins

1952

Frederick Sang

Died October 02, 2018

E. Richard Rothmund

Died February 5, 2018

Died September 15, 2018

1947

1983

Norman Brown

1954

Timothy Pierce

Died March 20, 2018

Frederick Tarr

Died November 5, 2018

Died September 25, 2018

1948

1993

Nick Pappas

1955

Stash Karandanis

Died January 9, 2019

Orrin Colley

Died October 4, 2018

Died December 4, 2018

1949

Charles Benson

1956

Died June 9, 2018

John Gowel

John Canepa

Died October 29, 2018

Died January 26, 2018

Faculty & Staff

Jack Ragle Headmaster Died December 19, 2018

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FA C U LT Y P RO F I L E YEARS AT GOVERNOR’S

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University of Wisconsin - Stout, BA Lesley University, M.Ed. RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES (CLASSROOM, AFTERNOON PROGRAM, STUDENT LIFE, ETC.)

Teach Introduction to the Fine Arts (IFA), Film, Documentary Filmmaking, Architecture, Animation, History of Cinema, and Sculpture; Eames dorm parent; recreational soccer; winter musical FAVORITE BOOKS

The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Razor’s Edge, The Lorax FAVORITE MUSIC

Rolling Stones

Geoff Brace

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great teacher and mentor to the students. A hardworking drama director and coach. A stern, but fun-loving dorm parent. A teacher of more courses than can fit in the academic day. Geoff Brace has been a fixture at the Academy for two decades and a true friend to me.

We have been friends since his first year in Byfield and have shared great times together: football games, cribbage, the York Beach firepit, and family dinners.

In the late 1990s, I began a breakfast group with senior proctors. A group of male faculty and staff, along with senior boy proctors, leave campus at 6:00 a.m. every Friday. The van ride to the restaurant is quiet, but after some coffee and food, the conversation about movies, politics, and current events picks up. Geoff can converse like an encyclopedia on any topic—ask him a question and he will surely have an answer. Many think that his responses are jokes because it is hard to believe his vast knowledge. Perhaps it is his love for reading, his passion for film, or his extensive travels.

Geoff is one of the most hardworking, kind, witty, and happy people that you will ever meet. If something needs to be done, Geoff will be the first person to raise his hand to help and be the last person there to finish the job. He works diligently and professionally on videos that he has only days to prepare. Extra work at the Academy is Geoff’s forte. He just doesn’t know how to say “no.”

ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

Listening to great music, reading books, traveling, hiking, building structures, cooking PASSIONS

Teaching and going to the movies

Geoff also helps faculty away from school. He has built decks, put on roofs, raked leaves, planed boards, and driven to the airport. He also fired up a chainsaw at midnight under only the headlights of a car to cut down two large trees that had fallen across the driveway of Steve Ogden’s P’19 cottage in Vermont. All of this was done before anyone else arrived during a late spring snowstorm and followed by wading in the frigid water of Lake Champlain to put in the water pump the next morning.

He loves to share good food and jokes with friends. He loves to make hot sauce for chicken wings. He loves to travel and share his experiences with others. He loves to bring memories and laughter to our community— sometimes at my expense, as in the case of the fox video this fall.

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TH E GOVER NOR’S ACADE M Y

BY FIELD, M A 01 92 2

June 7–9, 2019

SAVE THE DATE TO CELEBRATE! Celebrating the Academy’s classes ending in 4s and 9s.

Preparations are underway for an unforgettable Reunion Weekend filled with special events and activities for all our returning alumni and guests to enjoy.

Visit www.thegovernorsacademy.org/reunion2019 for a schedule of events and registration information.