Class Notes
Class Notes
| ’78 | ROBERT MACLELLAN
| ’04 | STEFAN SIMKOVICS
Teaching my 22nd year at Londonderry Middle School. After a few decades, I still really enjoy it. I run the political and history club. I had major neck surgery, which stopped any sports, but being in New Hampshire the primary is on it's way and will keep me busy. Hope all is well and as Burton and the Beatles say, we all get by “with a little help from our friends.” Peace.
I was unable to get to my 10 year reunion but I did receive many welcoming phone calls from my classmates like Ralph Fedele, Fred Kridler, and Henry Durling. It is amazing after 10 years that my friendship with my brothers from T-P is still going strong, and we can pick up our stories and memories as if we were still playing football in the south east corner of the quad freshman year. Mrs. Reade remembers that about the class of 2004 vividly. We just wanted to have fun, and we poured out of Hastings and East like kids playing until the sun came down.
| ’82 | WILLIAM J. PEDEN I received a diploma in standard theology from True Light Fellowship Bible Institute. My daughter Dominique is attending Lasalle University for her master's in special education. My wife Nikita has received her master's in education from Chestnut Hill College. I have authored two books that are available on Amazon, Createspace, Kindle and Ingram. Mama Deas’ Eyez has a chapter dedicated to my experience at T-P. I am forever in debt to Trinity-Pawling for teaching me the survivor skills I so desperately needed. The class of 1982 should purchase and read that particular chapter so they can see how honest I was about myself. Also I will take some of the proceeds and give to the scholarship fund since I am a recipient of their generosity. Again I thank you so much!
| ’89 | SEAN R. CASEY
As for me, I was honorably discharged from the Navy about a year ago and hired to be a professional Lifeguard/Waterman for the City of San Diego. I never thought for one second when I was at T-P my future would be held in the lane of civil service, but it has turned out to be a great fit. Often when I am working I think of the lessons I learned on campus. I learned about dealing with pain from Mr. Carp while he screamed constructive remarks during X-C practice. We had a saying that X-C season: "Choose to be better." Running faster was not due to our muscle strength or endurance. It was a choice to persevere mentally. No matter how tired I am or cold, I will forever remember that quote. It's amazing how some things stick with you over the years. That pain I feel is a constant reminder to be better no matter what. For this I am forever in T-P's debt.
OBITUARY
After 17 years in New Jersey, Jill and I moved with our family to Atlanta for the last four years to serve as the upper school principal at Wesleyan School. We recently left Wesleyan to take a position as the head of school at Franklin Road Academy in Nashville. Our girls are in the high school at FRA in 10th and 11th grade. Our boys are in the middle school in 5th and 7th grade. I ran across Ian Craig '86 who is a headmaster at Harding Academy just a few miles from FRA. Small world!
| ’02 | NICHOLAS AMMATURO Nick Ammaturo is director of profit improvement and procurement for Hudson's Bay Company in New York. “I got into supply chain management by chance,” he writes. “I was interning in Beijing as a marketing analyst when a recruiter called to offer me a position in global procurement at PepsiCo.” But he loves the challenges of his chosen field.
| ’04 | GRANT ALBERTSON Went to Basic Combat Training at Ft. Jackson, SC on March 5, 2013 and graduated with Soldier Leader of the Cycle Honors. Was commissioned as an Ordnance 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army in August 2013 at Officer Candidate School in Ft. Benning, GA. Serving currently in Ft. Hood, TX with the 589th Brigade Support Battalion in the 1st Cavalry Division. Working as the maintenance control officer in charge of a fleet of 500 Vehicles. Still playing hockey and lacrosse through beer leagues in Austin, TX.
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BENJAMIN TAYLOR ’98 Ben Taylor ’98 died suddenly from injuries sustained while skiing at Sunday River Resort in Maine on March 25, 2015. He was an expert level skier and an employee of the resort since 2012. Ben graduated from Johns Hopkins in 2002, majoring in psychology. He was pursuing a master’s degree in counseling at the time of his death. A cum laude graduate and Gamage Award winner, Ben grew up on the Trinity-Pawling campus where he was a standout scholar-athlete.
In addition to academic honors, Ben was a member of championship basketball teams and received individual honors as a baseball player. As one faculty member said, “Ben epitomized the T-P boy as a dedicated scholar-athlete, all while successfully navigating the challenges of being a faculty child.” He is survived by his parents John and Margaret and his brother Will ’00.
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