April 2012 - Alumni News - Williams College

Lohrer, Dan Katz ’79, Bill Sprague
’80, Jeff Seymour ’79, Warren
Feldman ’80 and Joe Flaherty ’80.
Malathi Jayawickrama and
Calvin Schnure are still living in
Bethesda, Md. Malathi is an
economist at the World Bank,
working in agriculture. After
11 years working on Africa, she
joined the Europe and Central
Asia region and regularly visits
Montenegro and Macedonia to
assist them with two projects on
agriculture and EU accession.
After several years at the Federal
Reserve, JPMorgan Chase and
Freddie Mac, Calvin joined the
National Association for Real
Estate Investment Trusts in DC
in April, and he loves his work
and his bike ride to and from
work. Malathi writes, “Our two
kids, Nilan, 21, and Melissa, 19,
are both at Princeton. Nilan is a
senior; he runs track and sings
in an a cappella group, while
Melissa is a sophomore and in
two dance groups. They love
Princeton.” Malathi sees Erika
Jorgensen regularly, as Erika also
works on Macedonia and is very
much into “green growth.” She’s
also in touch with Sean Bradley,
who also works at the World
Bank.
The award for brief and intriguing
note: Nick Lyle and Jean
Whitesavage installed 20 panels
of their ironwork for MTA at
the Elder Avenue Station on the
Pelham Line in the Bronx.
Troy Elander tells us: “Our
oldest daughter Samantha is
a freshman at Wake Forest in
North Carolina. Diane ’83 and
I have a high school junior and
fifth-grader left at home. … I am
serving as the president of the LA
County Medical Association. In
these times of health care reform
it is especially interesting. I still
have my busy ophthalmology
practice, but at night I am often
downtown at meetings.” When
he wrote Troy had just had dinner
with four congressmen to discuss
approaches for Washington
regarding health care issues.
Tad Read reports: “Nancy
Shapero, husband Bill and I spent
Nan’s January birthday together
enjoying dinner and the first episode
of season two of Downton
Abbey. Any Eph not familiar
with this addictive period British
melodrama airing on Masterpiece
Theatre should throw all caution
to the wind and plunge in.”
Old entrymate Todd Tucker is
working four hours south of me
in Singapore.
Kira (Mary Tom) Higgs sent: “I’m
amazed to see from a distance
how much Williams has changed
and thrilled with the school’s
direction. Life on the other coast,
specifically in the Rose City, is
wonderful. I’m just back from
Hawaii, the key to surviving the
low-hanging gray of the PNW.
Most of my consulting in the last
four years centers on education
reform. It’s not a niche I targeted;
it found me, and I’m glad it did.
Uphill work and very satisfying.
Monthly dinners with Margaret
Olney are always a joy. She’s
practicing law in Portland when
she’s not visiting Carnegie Hall to
see her son perform.”
Sharon Gosselin McCormick
lives in Durham, Conn. In 2002
she founded Sharon McCormick
Design, a national interior design
firm. Five of her projects will
be published in a coffee table
book titled Ava Living: The Best
Western Interior Design, published
in China and distributed
in Asia and Europe. She is now
planning to go global.
Kevin Weist is working for the
cable channel AMC as executive
producer of “a thing called
‘Story Notes.’ It’s like pop-up
trivia over their primetime
movies. Finally found a use
for all the movie trivia rattling
around in my head! My lovely
wife Katharine (Bowers) is back
in the fashion world, designing
for a company fittingly called
Catherines. She and I have been
up to Williamstown more often
than usual because our daughter
Madison is Class of ’15. One of
her classmates is Tatum Barnes,
son of Dave Barnes and Lizzie
Halsted ’80. We’ve convinced
our kids that their getting into
Williams was all part of a ploy
so we could spend more time
together.”
By the time you read this, Kevin
will probably have re-lived some
old college-ness by playing in the
semi-annual Williams Trivia contest
on a team with Dave Barnes,
Will Hahn, Charlie Singer ’82,
Mitch Katz ’79, Wayne Wilkins ’79
and Bruce Leddy ’83. “We play as
‘Geezers on Stun.’”
Mary Tokar carried the flag
for ’81 at a dinner in London
organized by John Botts ’62 to
allow London-based alums to
meet Collette Chilton, the chief
investment officer for Williams’
endowment.
Rachel Duffy took up running
last summer after a more than
30-year hiatus. “I started running
this summer to honor a running
friend of mine who died suddenly
in June and to spend time with
his wife. I ran my first 5K in
n 1981-82
Waterbury, Vt., in October and
hope to run a little bit more than
that in the Burlington Marathon
(just a leg of course) in May. I
can’t believe I like running, but
I do.”
1982
REUNION JUNE 7–10
Will Layman
8507 Garfield St.
Bethesda, MD 20817
Kolleen Rask
55 Pine Hill Road
Southborough, MA 01772
1982secretary@williams.edu
You hold in your hands the
latest edition of Lavender Bovine,
the smallest-circulation quarterly
poetry journal published in the
Western Hemisphere. To those
who say that poetry, the oldest
form of literature, is no longer
relevant to the lives of 21st
century Americans, the editors
of Lavender Bovine simply say,
“Duh.”
We aspire to neither relevance
nor popularity but only to a
delicate poignancy that The New
York Times described as “something
other than idiocy, though
it’s hard to say what.” Exactly.
This quarter’s journal ranges
from haiku to Ginsberg-ian free
verse. Enjoy.
Georgia Tech Haiku by Will
Foster
“The Sam Nunn School of
International Affairs
is my future home.”
Song of My Week (excerpts) by
Jay Hellmuth
1.
I celebrate and sing myself
and what I assume shall you
as every atom of my Sundays
is listed for you here—
“Watching the morning news
reading the Sunday NY Times
Saturday Wall Street Journal
Monday’s papers after 11 p.m.
online.”
And the multitude of sports
Does occupy my beard and
my soul, which are inseparable
“during the appropriate
seasons:
NFL—Jets and Cowboys
English Premier League
MLB—Mets
NHL—RangersStarsCoyotes
and tennis
and le Tour de France
and Formula One
and 24 heures du Mans.”
7.
A child said, What do you do
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