Fall/Winter 2010 - Pingry School

search engine will return a list
of the best prices available on
the web and facilitate their
buying or renting the book.”
Rob Williams P ’06, ’08, ’12
writes: “2011 is a big year for
the Class of 1976—our 35th
reunion! What a great opportunity
for our class to get
together to celebrate a milestone
and reconnect with
Pingry. Brooke Alper of
Pingry’s Alumni Relations
office has graciously agreed to
help coordinate a Class of
1976 celebration, but we need
your suggestions and feedback!
Please send your ideas to
Brooke at balper@pingry.org or
me at rwilliams@milbank.com,
and we’ll get the ball rolling.
Do we have any tech-savvy
classmates who could set
up a Class of 1976 reunion
Facebook page Save the
dates: Friday, May 13 and
Saturday, May 14, 2011. We
hope to see you Reunion
Weekend!”
1977
Chuck Allan writes: “Jamer,
where are you”
Frank DeLaney writes: “We
sent our first daughter Zealand
to the College of Charleston.
Spending the rest of the time
with Corey ’12 and Trevor at
various sporting events.”
Reflecting on the Alumni
Soccer Game, Skot Koenig
writes, “A good day of alumni
soccer with no red cards.”
Charlie Louria P ’09, ’11
writes: “I am working in
Morristown in wireless. All
three boys are doing great—
Stephen is a senior at Pingry.
My passion is getting into the
mountains at every opportunity.”
Stephen McCarthy and
Laurie Leonard have welcomed
a new baby boy,
Thomas Berwick McCarthy,
born on April 5, 2010, in
New York City, measuring
9 pounds, 1 ounce. “May
the road rise to meet him,”
Stephen says.
Thomas Berwick McCarthy.
Former trustee Martin B.
O’Connor II P ’11, ’14 has
joined the Board of Directors
of both Rentrak Corporation
and Cinedigm Digital Cinema
Corp. Rentrak is a global
digital media measurement
and research company, and
Cinedigm is a pioneer in the
digital cinema industry. He is
Managing Partner of the law
firm of O’Connor, Morss &
O’Connor, P.C.
Dr. Michael Schatman writes:
“I guest edited a special issue
of Psychological Injury and Law
on traumatically-induced pain
and am guest editing a special
series of Pain Medicine on the
devolution of the ‘profession’
of pain medicine to the ‘business’
of pain medicine. What
could be more fun than angering
the special interest groups
that have destroyed pain medicine
(as well as medicine at
large)!”
Former trustee Sue Barba
Welch P ’06, ’09, ’11, ’13, ’16
writes: “After 20 years of volunteer
work, I have reentered
the workforce. I started working
with David Ellis Events.
Every day is different which
makes it a very exciting place
Dr. Geoffrey Duyk ’77, a physician
scientist (he has both an M.D.
and a Ph.D.) and an entrepreneur
who has started multiple biotechnology
companies, is a partner at
TPG, a leading global private
investment firm. He co-leads the
Biotechnology Venture Capital
Group and the firm’s Clean
Technologies investment initiative.
Dr. Duyk’s personal focus is on industrial applications of
biotechnology, investing in new technologies and business
models in both the developed and emerging world, and
enabling the cost-effective conversion of biomass and waste
into energy, fuels, chemical intermediates, and/or materials.
Examples of recent investments include Amyris (www.
amyrisbiotech.com), Elevance Renewable Sciences (www.
elevance.com), and Genomatica (www.genomatica.com).
Dr. Duyk works with scientists, entrepreneurs, universities,
and industrial and agricultural companies to help
build innovative companies that will accelerate the evolution
of the petrochemical industrial sector—including oil,
gas, and chemical companies—toward a more secure and
sustainable footprint, as well as foster the development of
the next generation of novel high-performance products,
such as jet fuel, diesel fuel, surfactants, and lubricants.
“While it is trite, it is also true that we do this in the spirit of
doing well by doing good. In the end, we hope to demonstrate
that one can translate basic science and emerging technologies
into solutions for global problems,” Dr. Duyk says.
to work. We catered the Pingry
Spring Benefit last March, and
it was a great time turning the
gym into a nightclub with a
runway for the senior fashion
show. We have two children
in college with one of them
graduating in the spring. Our
third daughter graduates from
Pingry in June, with only two
left to go!”
1979
Trustee and PAA President
Steve Lipper P ’09, ’12, ’14
joined the boys’ varsity soccer
team as a chaperone during
their pre-season trip to Italy.
The boys played very highlevel
soccer against three
Italian teams as a warm-up for
the season. They also learned
about the local cultures with
tours of Milan, Lake Cuomo,
and San Marino. Finally, the
boys got a taste of the intensity
of Italian professional soccer
by attending the Inter-Milan
vs. Roma game with 65,000
passionate fans. In addition to
Steve’s son Matt Lipper ’12,
there were six other alumni
children on the trip: Stephen
Louria ’11, son of Charlie
Louria ’77, P ’09, ’11; Wade
Homer ’11 and Harrison
Homer ’13, sons of Stu
Homer ’70, P ’07, ’11, ’13;
Brian Forness ’14, son of
Lindsay (Liotta) Forness ’80,
P ’11, ’14; and Reeve Carver
’14 and Sean Carver ’14, sons
of Chip Carver ’77 and former
trustee Anne DeLaney ’79, P
’09, ’11, ’14.
1980
Sabina Coronato Emerson
writes: “I enjoyed seeing everyone
at our 30th class reunion
in May. We had a decent
turnout, but many people were
missed (especially Lizzard
Ridgway Hughes and Dani
Shapiro)! I also had the
opportunity to get together
with Jan Brown and Susan
Foti McClanahan in
Baltimore in June. If you’re in
the D.C. area, please contact
me at sabeme@aol.com.
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