Class Notes
Other Desperate Acts,” and “Losing It... and Taking It Back.” I am forever grateful to Judy Pretat for conning me into writing the second version of “Motherhood,” and hiring me to perform it for the first time in 2006. I’m living in New Jersey (outside of NY) with my husband (formerly an actor, currently an attorney) and two sons Ben (17) and Will (15). They are all Yankees fans (one son’s room is painted Yankee pinstripes), so my life is hell.”
1975
Jody Adams ‘75 made it to the finals as a contestant on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters this past spring, earning money for Partners In Health as a result. She also visited campus as Wheeler’s inaugural Fox Family Speaker this spring. See more photos from Jody’s visit to Wheeler elsewhere in this issue.
Spence Waugh Hobbs writes, “We, my 11 year old son, Forester and I are back living in Lit’l Rhody. Barrington of all the places I never thought I’d be. I stay in touch with some old Wheeler alumni, e.g. Pardees, Alison & Sara, Suzy Scher, Jody Adams, and Lindley Boegehold, Susan Wall. I will try to corral them for the 35th. Hard to believe!”
Murray Riggs Meade writes, “I am still teaching at the Atrium School in Watertown, MA. I have a son graduating from college this spring and a daughter going into her sophomore year at college. I am now living in Watertown. It is fun being closer to Cambridge and Boston as an empty nester. I enjoy rowing a few nights 22
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a week on the Charles River. Life is good!”
1979
Kristin Kruger Kight received a promotion to Senior Director for Business Development at Kaleida Health. She began work at Kaleida as Director of Corporate Planning. In her new position, she is responsible for preparing a corporate-wide strategic business development plan for the company, environmental assessments, informational reports, business plans for growth opportunities, and monitoring evolving external trends in the health care industry.
1980
Michele Steckler writes, “I’m still living in NYC with my partner of 12 years, Cathy Grier. Working as Senior Producer with Disney Theatrical Group continues to challenge and thrill, including frequent travels to manage and look after our various productions. I’m really looking forward to our 30th reunion this year.”
1981
Catherine Cuzzone writes, “I was an athlete at Wheeler (competed in lacrosse/tennis) at a varsity level from my freshman year. Also played field hockey and basketball when I arrived as a seventh grader. I graduated from Manhattanville College with a degree in communications /business management and after a brief stint in the hospitality industry, decided to take the GMATS at Brown (my Gramps, Now & Then @ Wheeler
Father, Uncles’ alma mater) then was recruited into a local bank executive management training program. Subsequently, I spent ten years in commercial banking and technology finance. When my father suddenly passed away, also a healthy and fitness minded individual, I decide to go back to my, “Wheeler Days,” being fit and healthy, and undertook the Pilates profession. With 3 studio locations now in Rhode Island, I am the longest standing Pilates business in the state, and, in 2006, after ten years in the industry, I launched the United States Pilates Association with two business partners. We now own exclusive rights to the first/oldest professional Pilates training program globally, and the exclusive rights to the Joseph Pilates’ original archives. In fact, I helped design our web site, www. UnitedStatesPilatesAssociation.com with inspiration from the gold/purple teams back in the day. Also, one of my school mates from the Class of ‘81, CJ Lovett, now an attorney, sent me a picture this fall of us giving a hug with me in my varsity letter jacket. It made me think back to those days, and how largely, due to my Wheeler sports, “legacy,” I had the confidence to pursue such a fulfilling and inspiring profession with Pilates!”
1985
Jodi Stern Blankstein writes, “I live with my husband Jim and our two children, daughter Sydney - 13, and our son Zach - 11, in Needham, MA. My husband has been at BOSE for the last seven years and I have been in cantorial