AndoverMagSpring2015

stay connected...practicing functional and anti-aging medicine asshe did in Caracas.Congratulations to Thayer Tolles Rogers! Shetied the knot on the Tuesday before Christmaswith longtime beau Ted Rogers, a labor attorney.Ted and Thayer live in New York and madeup their own wedding rules, which apparentlyincluded no flowers but lots of champagne.This year will also bring big changes forNancy Trepanier Lang, who, as most of youknow, spent the past 22 years at Andover serving inmany capacities, most recently as associate dean offaculty. She will be leaving Andover to become thehead of Journeys School, an independent schoolin Jackson Hole, Wyo. We all wish her the best outin the Rockies! To read more about Nancy’s newposition, go to http://bit.ly/1FDC4G7.Deborah Mei is back in Shanghai this yearwith her 2-year-old son. She is running theChinese arm of the Raine Group, LLC, a boutiquemerchant bank focused on the global digital,media, entertainment, and sports sectors, while herhusband finishes a four-year government postingin Spain. Deborah says that Andover rules inChina! Blaise Zerega reports that after six years asCEO of FORA.tv, a website focused on streamedand on-demand video, he has left to pursue otherventures. In the meantime, he’s coaching his son’sbasketball team.I was delighted to receive so manye-mails from our peers in the Golden State.Andrea Feldman Falcione writes from LA thatshe spent a great deal of time last fall travelingaround the globe visiting art fairs with her clients.Andrea encourages those of you who do the art-faircircuit to let her know, so you can connect. Duringher recent odyssey, she drank with Max Drake inChicago, ran into Stephanie Hunt ’84 at the FriezeArt Fair in London, spotted Kyra Tirana Barryat the NADA art fair near Miami, and celebratedher birthday with Amy Kellogg andLaura Culbert Knowles-Cutler in London. Icaught up with Laura in London myself a fewmonths ago over drinks, and we talked Andover,kids, life in London, and life in general. I missedAmy that trip because she had been called to workunexpectedly to cover the murder in Syria of UKaid worker David Haines.Menlo Park, Calif., denizen Susannah Hill andher husband, Pat, celebrated their 14th weddinganniversary in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaiithis past December. Jamie Cohan e-mails thathe is living happily with wife Carolyn and theirthree kids in Tiburon, near San Francisco. Jamiefounded AllRounds Inc., which provides financialapplications for the private capital industry. Alsowriting from San Francisco (but soon moving toLarkspur in Marin County), Ravi Mohan sayshe and his wife, Christy, celebrated the Giants’third World Series win with his two sons, Max(9) and Campbell (6). Tim Choate, writingfrom Berkeley, Calif., tells me that the BerkeleyPlayhouse, the theatre he and his wife founded,continues to thrive. Tim has also joined the104 Andover | Spring 2015board of LandPaths, which fosters a love of theland through people-powered parks, educationprograms, and conservation-land access programs.He and his wife are adopting their fifth child, a girl,from China!From Virginia, where he lives with his wife,Lena, Jeff Rossman reports that he is back teachinghistory at the University of Virginia, afterfinishing a sabbatical year. Jeff ’s oldest daughter,Phoebe, is applying to high schools now, andhis son, Elliot, is in fifth grade. Doug Neff, whomoved to Virginia in 2011, is in a graduate programin cyber security management at UVa. Hischildren are both in high school now, and he andhis wife, Lynn, celebrated their 25th anniversaryin St. Lucia.Angela Lorenz writes that four members ofour class purchased original watercolors that shefeatured in her book The Mansion of Thought. Oneof those has been donated to the Addison Galleryfrom the Class of 1983 in honor of our classmateGreg Simon, who died soon after the paintingwas completed. Angela reports that our memorialmaple tree, planted in honor of our four classmateswho are with us now only in spirit, is doing well.You can find it in the corner adjacent to the GelbScience Center.Kathy Macoul is living in Tampa, Fla.,practicing eye surgery and raising four kids. Heroldest, Sean, has run into Struan Robertson(at the Head of the Charles Regatta) andSarah Rosenfield Worley (at Holy Cross,where her daughter is a senior). Kathy welcomesvisitors looking for warm weather. Bob Buterareports that his third book, Yoga Therapy forStress and Anxiety, is coming out in the fall of2015. Joel Brother and his wife, Betsy, live inAndover with their three sons (one of whom justbecame a junior at Andover). Joel recently helpedDave Lyons and Bill DiAdamo celebrate their50th birthdays.A few news items from our monthly gettogethersin New York: Rufus Jones is buildinghis institutional equity trading business by dayand teaching, writing, and performing blues,soul, and folk songs around the area by night.Original songs that Rufus has recorded includeI’m From Memphis, Baby and Voices Have NoColor. John Floyd serves as chairman of FloydCapital Management, an investment adviser.John Helmers has made it to several of ourgatherings, despite living in Puerto Rico withhis wife, Glenn, and three of his five children.John runs Long Focus Capital ManagementLLC, a firm focused on macro investing. It hasbeen great to have Alexander “Sandy” Kemperjoin, all the way from his ranch in Kansas City,Mo., as well as Jason Bernhard, John Harpole,Karen Humphries Sallick, Jeffrey Stafford,Chris Thompson, Patricia “Tricia” Finneran, andothers. I hope many more of you will stop by—just e-mail me and I’ll add you to the invite list!1984Alexandra Gillespie52 Amelia St.Toronto ON M4E 1X1Canadaacoonpie@gmail.comWilliam P. SeeleyDepartment of Philosophy73/75 Campus Ave.Bates CollegeLewiston ME 04240wseeley@bates.eduAdam Simha84 Rice St.Cambridge MA 02140-1819617-967-3869adam@mksdesign.comIn December I had a wonderful dinner withsome of our best friends from the money patch(New York financial industry). Rich Eisert,Mike Cahill, Derrick Queen, Bob Zech, andKent Lucas were all in fine fettle and weregracious enough to keep shop talk to a minimumand to agree that hockey really is the best sport inthe world. BTW, if you ever want to find anyonefrom our class, Mike is your guy—he’s goteverybody on speed dial.I was sorry to miss Stephanie Hunt, whoremains one of the very few Andover girls Iknow who actually lives in Manhattan. In otherStowe House news (yes, I blatantly favor myown), Auny Abegglen is doing amazing things intech, Laurie Nash is still on top of the recruitingworld, Betsy Biern dominates fundraising, andSerra Butler Simbeck rules social justice causes.Susan Deeds Griffis continues to breed andtrain some of the top competitive show jumpersin the U.S. This is what I know from Facebook:Abby Shuman keeps us entertained and awarewith her wonderful postings that remind usto care for each other and all living creatures.Milisa Galazzi has just finished an amazing workof art in her String Theory series. And I love theway she shares the process online. It’s really inspiringto see a work of art come to life.Nick Bienstock plays polo, shoots birds,and has a million (OK, maybe only five) kids.John Batten speaks and writes perfect French;a highly underrated skill, n’est-ce pas, mes amis?My other favourite Francophile, Alix GoodwinOlavarria, has a very scary portrait of herself hidingin her attic. She’s always running a marathon,skiing, or whupping somebody’s behind in tennis.If anyone has any questions about the moraland medical imperative of vaccinating againstpreventable disease, I refer you to our wonderfulDaisy Smith. She’s a superb advocate forthe cause.Bill Seeley took off his skis long enough topass on the latest sage wisdom from Jim Reische: