AndoverMagSpring2015

www.andover.edu/intouchby joining a Bollywood fusion dance teamcalled Anubhav at Northwestern. He wouldlike to thank Indo-Pak for helping him hone hisdance skills. Emily Ewing, Samantha Johnson,and Helen Leahy so kindly visited Amy Morinfollowing her wisdom-tooth surgery. In truemillennial fashion, they took selfies to documentthe occasion.Vanessa Shrestha and Djavaneh Bierwirthvisited Caroline Chen for Thanksgiving break andhiked to the Potato Chip Rock, near San Diego,together. Caroline and Malina Simard-Halm spentNew Year’s Eve together in Las Vegas.Junius Williams and Katherine Krabek metup in Beijing. Alec Kingston, Zoe Gallagher,Graham Johns, and Natalie Kim all met at theHead of the Charles, where they ran into manyother Andover alums, including Cooper Hurley,Henry Kennelly ’13, and Mike Queenan.John Henry Fitzgerald is headed to VirginiaTech as a civil engineering and internationalenvironmental development double major. Healso spent a month traveling and surfing in CostaRica. Kait Simpson is on the Tulane Universityswim team. Although swimming takes upmost of her time, it has also taken her around thecountry for meets, which has allowed her to visitfellow alumni throughout the semester, includingRebecca Federman and Alexia Rauen. OverThanksgiving break, Renee LaMarche hung outand caught up with other local classmates, includingNekele McCall, Emma Mehlman, SierraHeneghan, Jake Howell, Kavan Canekeratne,Bryan Ackil, Jay Tucker, Olivia Cabral, andTaylor Chin. They stayed up all night playing thepopular Wii game Just Dance and reminiscingabout their Andover days.That’s all, folks. Don’t forget to reach out to us,so we can share your wonderful accomplishmentsand life updates!FACULTY EMERITIPat and George Edmonds28 Samuel WayNorth Andover MA 01845978-655-4598gandped@comcast.netWhat have the faculty emeriti been reading lately?Here is the place to find out.Don and Roxy Barry have been temporarilyliving in Don’s mother’s house in Cedar Rapids,Iowa, where Don came upon a real treasure. Hewrote, “I’m loving reading Pioneer Life in CedarRapids, Iowa, from 1839 to 1849 and discoveredthat Mom’s house is on the author’s 1839farm.” For Roxy’s enjoyment, it has been SusanVreeland’s Girl in Hyacinth Blue.Karen Sturges writes, “I found SoniaSotomayor’s memoir to be fascinating andinspiring.” From Elwin Sykes, this strongrecommendation: “Just finished Daniel Deronda;Family and friends got together for lunch on the day before Christmas in Florence, Italy.From left are Faculty Emeritus Vic Henningsen ’69, Caitlin Henningsen ’01, AllegraIafrate ’05, Faculty Emerita Susan McCaslin, and Ned Henningsen ’05.read Middlemarch just before I read Eliot’s last novel.Highly recommend both novels, especially DanielDeronda, which is one of the three best novels thatI have read.” From John Gould: “All the Light WeCannot See by Anthony Doerr, which I recommendmost heartily.”Marlys Edwards echoes John and also mentionsLaura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, as well as two booksshe read for her Massachusetts master gardenercertification: Botany for Gardeners by Brian Caponand Teaming with Microbes by Lowenfels and Lewis.Becky Sykes recommends two very differentbooks: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieand Dear Life by Alice Munro. Jon Stableford ’63writes, “I’m currently deep into David Mitchell’slatest, The Bone Clocks, which I love. I selfishly gaveit to Cindy for her birthday, but she liked it a lot andgave me a free pass.”From Vic Henningsen ’69: “I came acrossW. S. Merwin’s The Lost Upland: Stories ofSouthwestern France at a library book sale last month.Close observation and wonderful use of languagebeautifully evoke a disappearing rural culture.”Don Abbott likes “the writing of Kent Haruf,whose spare and graceful voice illuminates humanityfound in the fictional small town of Holt in thehigh plains of Colorado. Finishing his most recentnovel Benediction, I turned at once to his earlierworks—Plainsong , Eventide, The Tie That Binds, andWhere You Once Belonged.”Susan Stott read The Reluctant Fundamentalistby Mohsin Hamid and The Submission by AmyWaldman and “reflected on what it means to beMuslim in the post-9/11 U.S.”Susan McCaslin liked Astonish Me by MaggieShipstead for showing “ballet’s capacity to astonishand the twists and turns of a ballerina’s life.” She alsosaid that The Teacher Wars: A History of America’sMost Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein “putsthe current arguments about how to improve studentlearning into historical perspective and offerssome useful suggestions on how to do so.”“You need strong arms to hold a fascinatingbook: The Transformation of the World: AGlobal History of the Nineteenth Century byJürgen Osterhammel. I also enjoyed 1861:The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart,”reports Francesca Piana.Vince Avery recommends Michael Gordin’sThe Pseudoscience Wars, a “history of the Velikovskyaffair, providing an interesting backstory toclimate-change debates.” In contrast, and as “agentle way to learn more about my adoptedcountry,” Vince likes Donis Casey’s mysteryseries, beginning with The Old Buzzard Had ItComing. Carole Braverman calls Anthony Marra’sA Constellation of Vital Phenomena “extraordinary.”Becky McCann writes, “I loved The Boysin the Boat, which gave me a real appreciationfor the sport of crew. Also, Someone Knows MyName by Lawrence Hill, for presenting a glimpseof the slave trade here in the Saint Helena andCharleston [S.C.] area.”From the western foothills of Maine,Tom Hamilton reports, “I am reading Happythe Land by Louise Dickinson Rich. There arenot many books about the Lake Umbagog/Magalloway River/Upton, Maine, area in the1940s! This is an area I have visited (hiked,camped, canoed, or kayaked) many times over thepast 40 years.”Cilla Bonney-Smith also enjoyed All theLight We Cannot See and is now “wading throughThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.”Having heard Karl Ove Knausgaard speakcompellingly at Porter Square Books, NatalieSchorr ’62 recommends his My Struggle, Books 1,2, and 3, as well as Tina Fey’s Bossypants. “Not onlyfunny but very helpful on the subject of bosses,”says Natalie.Dick Lux writes, “I have recently finishedfour of Malcolm Gladwell’s books. I first readAndover | Spring 2015127