Class Notes

1950s Heli Meltsner ’56 writes: My new book, The Arts and Crafts Houses of Massachusetts: A Style Rediscovered, came out in May 2019. I enjoyed doing the fieldwork, research, and photography and also enjoyed having finished it. If you're interested, it's available on Amazon. Now I'm at work on my next book about Cambridge architecture. Stay tuned!

Lois Knight ’57 is proudest of being a Founding Member of The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, now in its 24th year! She has been in animal rescue work all her life, but the elephants have brought it to another level. Her son gave her “elephants.com” for her birthday in 1995 and it has expanded their outreach globally! In addition to rescuing 27 elephants, their mission is educating and they teach worldwide.

Mary Aswell Doll '58 writes: Next year will be my 20th year at SCAD

Dona Aitken ’68 Columbine Lantern

our little paradise! We so enjoyed seeing everyone at the 50th reunion two years ago - we'd love to see you again.

Gay Donham Quereau ’58, Mary Doll ’58, William Doll ’91

teaching a variety of humanities courses, including “Literature by Women,” “Literature of the South,” “World Mythology,” and “Foundations of Story.” It would be wonderful for me to host prospective students from the Cambridge School.

Gay Donham Quereau ’58 writes: Still ticking. I met up recently with Mary Aswell Doll ’58. We've been best friends since first grade in Chappaqua, NY, and we both transferred to CSW the beginning of our junior year. We had a fabulous reunion together this past week in Lewiston, ME, with her son, William Doll ’95, also a graduate of CSW, and my husband. Mary, knowing I had lost my CSW yearbook, brought me a copy, and it was a GREAT treat! Wonderful memories. My husband and I spend 5+ months of the year in mid-coast Maine. We have four grandsons (9, 7, 6, and 4) who live in Chicago and London. We get to see the London family twice a year and the Chicago crew more often, there, in Maine, and in Cleveland. We both love retirement but this aging thing is sometimes frustrating. We're doing fine all-in-all. Greetings to classmates. I should have gone to our 60th last year! Here are photos Will took of the four of us, including my husband, Quentin. You can see what fun we had. It was a HUGE treat — a great gift!

Susan Jones ’59 writes: After 50 years dabbling in the arts, I returned to the activity more or less full time after my retirement from MIT 13 years ago. This past summer I had my first solo show at the Belmont, MA, Public Library. It was up through the end of August 2019. 1960s Dona Aitken ’68 writes: Past faculty Finlay McQuade and his wife Lynne Giallombardo visited us in June. We showed them Glacier National Park and the lovely environs of Ovando, MT and had a great time. Although I foolishly cut the ends off of two fingers of my right hand with the table saw (note blue wraps in photos) I am happy to say they healed well and I am back at work in the shop making things like this Japanese lantern style lamp for a show in October 2019. Maybe these pictures will inspire classmates to visit us in beautiful Montana, too! We like to share Tom Holzman ’68 and his wife Alison welcomed twin g randchildren. Here they are modeling theirCSW onesies.

Cheryl O’Donnell ’68 writes: I have been retired from social work since 2017, when my position at a hospital diversion program was eliminated. In the meantime, I'm spending time spoiling my poodle and cats and looking for other sources of income to keep cats, poodle, and husband in the style to which they have become accustomed. My daughter Rosalie, 28, flew the nest in August 2019, moving to Salem, MA, to put her newly minted BS in interior design to work.

Tom Graham ’69writes: I enjoyed spending time this summer with CSWersDaniel Lewis ’69, Mark Ames ’69, and Oliver Blackman ’70. All are thriving. Looking forward to exhibiting my tin can collages and other tin can stuff at the 16th Annual Fearrington Folk

Tom Holzman ’68

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Art Show in Pittsboro, NC, February 22 and 23, 2020. Come see me! 1970s Gail Dickersin Spilsbury ’71 writes: My book – Quartetto Sabino, set in the olive oilproducing hills near Rome, was reissued this fall. I toured it to some of the ancient hill towns where the stories take place. It was a special time!

Sian Ballen ’73 After more than a decade of writing and editing articles on Architecture and Interior Design, I published a book with Rizzoli, "Making Rooms Your Own, Lessons from Interior Designers." It's available on the Rizzoli Website as well as Amazon. Along the way (prepare for excessive bragging), Julie and I raised three phenomenal children who were as wonderful as kids as they are inspiring as adults. John, our eldest, is an evolutionary biologist (plant geneticist) living outside of Denver with Ashley and raising two fantastic boys. Samantha, our middle child, is a new mother and in her 7th year teaching second grade at the Pierce School in Brookline. She and Andrew live in Charlestown near us and have their hands full with their son who is an energetic eight-month-old. Our youngest lives on Beacon Hill, works hard every day at Smartsheet as a customer success manager, and is one fun person and cool customer. In 2013, Julie and I packed up the suburban house and moved to Charlestown (Boston), where we have a two-bedroom, third-floor walkup. We pretty much love the place as our roof deck has a beautiful view of the city and our neighbors and neighborhood are quiet and friendly. Our dog Izzy has finally adjusted to city life. We still have our house in northern New Hampshire, which we try to visit as often as our busy schedules allow. This is the same house in which many Cambridge School memories were made, including the aborted snowshoe adventure up Mt. Adams and the building of our hillside cabin after graduation in 1973. Julie and I just celebrated our 41st wedding anniversary. We make good use of our little motorboat on Boston Harbor. Some fishing, lots of island exploration, and often just a cruise to nowhere. I work as a clinical trial imaging specialist at Takeda Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge. It's a good job and the commute on foot, bike, or car is 2.5 miles and manageable. Life is good.

I heard recently from Larry “Stroker” Rogovin ’73 who lives nearby in Arlington and is still playing music professionally, doing woodworking, and helping with the AMC in New Hampshire. I also stay in touch with DavidPaul ’73 who moved to Boulder, CO, a few years back. He and Kathy seem to do everything right in life. My brother Ben reports that Matt McCabe ’73 continues to tickle the keys professionally in and around the Boston area. I caught up via email with Carol Robey ’73, who has, I think, retired from her pediatric MD practice to focus full time on painting. Carol has an amazing gift. I see Marilee “Sunni” Meyer ’72 occasionally for lunch in Cambridge. Sunni and I had a quick visit with Rob Moir ’72 a year or so ago. Sunni keeps the city of Cambridge on their toes as an architectural advocate and historian.

Andy Postlethwaite Riedy ’73 writes: Life is a’changing in all so many (but NOT all) ways. My husband, Mark, and I are celebrating 30 years married and are almost empty nesters as our two children are all grow(ing) up. Our daughter is a senior at the University of Virginia, studying

Christopher Lovel ’73 writes: I have had an amazing life before, during, and after CSW. In 1970, I followed my brother Ben Lovell ’72 and Jonathan Russell ’71 to The Cambridge School as I was wasting away as a marginal and unmotivated student at Newton High. Upon arrival at CSW, I continued being a marginal student but became highly motivated in almost everything else CSW: theatre, sports, art, and friends. This was the most transformative time of my life. Thank you CSW. I went on to college and then to work, which I have done non-stop for 42 years. No regrets, although the prospect of retiring has huge appeal.

WHY I GIVE

JOAN CURHAN ’55

CSW deserves to have a substantial endowment because they’re so good at what they do. I also believe strongly in planned giving. Long ago, when I wrote my first will, I put in money for CSW, and each time I revise my will, that directive stays right in there. The key to bringing in money is involvement and relationships. Stewardship is really a sense of direct involvement in the outcome. It is that which leads people to give and it is what The Cambridge School of Weston is about, becoming involved and feeling that you can and have made a difference.

ALANA ZOLA ’09

Ten years since graduation, I recognize that CSW was fundamental to developing my critical thinking, my empathy for others, and the values that are core to who I am. I donate to the Annual Fund because I’m grateful for the way in which CSW shaped my life and I want to make sure others will be able to experience CSW in the future.

Priscilla Alpaugh Cotter ’78

Biomedical Engineering. Our son, Alex, stayed in Denver after graduating from University of Colorado Boulder with a BS in architectural engineering and has been doing multi-unit construction management for the last two years. I am now fully retired and enjoying the flexibility where I can choose what I want to do versus making the time for what I have to do. Hopefully, I will start to travel and be able to catch up with you all.

Sarah Speare ’74 is the CEO of Tootie's Tempeh, a social enterprise business dedicated to providing organic, plant-based tempeh that is high in protein, locally made, and friendly to the earth, human health, and animals. New recipes coming soon!

Jake Allderdice ’76 writes: I’m still living in Toronto, teaching architecture and writing. My sister Frances ’78 is teaching elementary school in Concord, NH. My son Jasper ’13 graduated with a BA in history from UBC (Vancouver, Canada) and spent six months this past year teaching ESL in Prague. He will be entering law school at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, in September.

Priscilla Alpaugh Cotter ’78 writes: I'm pleased to report that I am now a very busy illustrator of art for children. In July of 2018 I was signed by Christy Ewers at the CAT Agency. I recently completed art for the picture book, Space Mice, by Lori Haskins Houran, which will be released by Albert Whitman and Co. in the Spring of 2020. I also reached a life goal of creating an illustration for the Cricket Magazine Group. It was for Ladybug Magazine. I will also be among a fabulous group of illustrators at a show this fall at the Umbrella (formerly known as Emerson Umbrella) in Concord, MA. The illustrators are Brian Lies, Sarah Brannen, Wayne Geehan, Nicole Tadgell, Julia Miner and Ilse Plume. I'll soon be

Ayla Barreau ’05, Amos Glick ’85, and Andras Jones ’86.

teaching illustration locally. 1980s Mike Luce ’83 writes: Max Levine ’81 and I are still best friends. We're still the Dungeons and Dragons nerds we were when we went to CSW. Recently we decided to share another love, that of cinema, with the rest of the world by starting our own podcast, "Max, Mike; Movies." We're over 50 episodes in and having a blast. On the side, I write and draw comics and experiment with portraiture and abstract art. My partner and I have been together for 23 years and live in Michigan.

Amos Glick ’85 writes: Here’s a photo from a party at my apartment. Andras Jones ’86 and Ayla Barreau ’05 were there. Andras is no surprise, but Ayla ended up there because she knows my housemate. I met her at a CSW event in LA a few years ago, but we also, it turns out, have the same agent! We had a blast talking CSW! Funnily enough, I also see Valerie Luce Kuhns ’80 all the time at Impro Theatre, where we both study improvisation!

Niho Kozuru ’86 writes: I wanted to share - to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Sister City relations between Boston and Kyoto, 30 artists from the Kogei-Kyoto collective are exhibiting their work at the Society of Arts + Crafts. The exhibition is co-organized with the Japan Society of Boston and on view through November 10, 2020. I have been involved with bringing the artists and their artwork from Kyoto to Boston and am happy to be supporting this significant exhibition and related events. To help fund the show, I am contributing proceeds of artwork purchased from my Exhibition on Main Street to go directly to SA+C to support the Kogei-Kyoto show. My installation, commissioned by the deCordova Museum, spans 100 feet of windows and is currently on view 24/7 at 1 Main Street, Kendall Square, until December 31, 2020. Please take a look at the link and share this catalogue with anyone who may be interested: NihoKozuru.com/Market.

Jenny Burkin ’87 writes: I am currently living and working on Martha's Vineyard. I am a practicing artist, and I have done a lot of art teaching, library work, and museum work over the years.

“Japanese Garden 3” by Jonas Wood ’95

I recently adopted a rescue dog from Texas named Charlie. I will be turning 50 this year and am thoroughly freaked out about it. It doesn't seem possible that it was so long ago that I was at CSW! 1990s Libby (Sunshine) Prang ’93 writes: My family and I moved to Boulder, CO, from NYC in January. We couldn't be more happy to be here so close to nature!

Jonas Wood ’95: In May 2019 Jonas Wood’s ’95 painting “Japanese Garden 3” (2019) was sold as part of an initiative to fund a 600,000-acre reserve in the South American rainforest. The Global Wildlife Conservation and the Rainforest Trust's plan is to match the hammer price by 400 percent, to go toward the conservation project. This is in conjunction with Christie’s Auction House and Art to Acres wildlands conservation through the combined sale of artwork and support of matching funds.

2000s Erica Wessmann ’03: I have accepted a one-year full-time Lecturer position in the Sculpture Department at Yale School of Art. I will also be teaching adjunct at NYU in the fall.

Ella Brandon ’06 writes: CSW faculty Eli Keehn and I celebrated our wedding this past May in Gloucester, MA. CSW was well represented at our tiny backyard wedding. Siena Evans ’06, Cooper(Evans) Evello ’10, Sarah (D’Angelo)Evello ’10, Lydia Carroon ’07, and visual arts faculty Tom Evans attended. Photography faculty Anne Rearick took beautiful photos.

Eric Simpson ’10 writes: Getting married in September of 2020!

Shari Stiell-Quashie ’12 writes: I recently co-founded Shuga N' Spice magazine. Shuga N' Spice is a print publication offering a genuine view of Caribbean culture, entertainment, and lifestyle in the region and the

Libby (Sunshine) Prang ’98 and family.

diaspora. I was inspired to create this magazine because of the Caribbean's single-story and the lack of representation in mainstream media as a Grenadian. Our magazine is creating a lane for Caribbean culture in media. Visit shuganspice.com for more information. Additionally, I recently graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Science in strategic communications. My story was profiled on the School of Professional Studies website. I also pitched and led a panel at SXSW this year on why nuances are the future of marketing. The panel included Lisa Atia of Backstage Capital, Janel Martinez of Ain't I Latina, and Wadnes Castelly of Mimconnect. Ellery Chalmers ’12: Ellery's film, James R. Thompson, was featured at the Chicago Underground Film Festival in June 2019.

IN MEMORIAM

Sue Poverman ’47 Brenton Groves ’48 Kathy Tugendhat ’51 Bob Winslow ’56 Dick Lehne ’61 Marc Mitchell ’66 Bill Paly ’71 Vali Kahn ’94