AndoverMagSpring2015

stay connected...In January, Abbot classmates and friends turned out in force to celebrate Connee Petty Young ’73’s 60thbirthday in Cambridge. Seated in front, from left, are Elizabeth Hall ’72, Catherine von KlempererUtzschneider ’73, Jenifer McClean Cooke ’73, and Amanda Cobb ’73. Standing, from left, are Jamie Young(Connee’s husband), Faith Barnes ’74, Anne Weisman Hogeland ’73, Peggy Bliss ’74, Connee Petty Young,Marion Irwin ’73, Diane Aigler Cook ’74, Elizabeth Coward Miller ’73, Debra Heifetz Stein ’73,Elizabeth Rollins Mauran ’73, Jane Cashin Demers ’73, Walter Demers (Jane’s husband),and Lucinda Leach ’73.PhRMA executive vice president and fellowDC-area resident, often.Liz Miller is an assistant professor at BunkerHill Community College, teaching programmingand basic IT courses in the computer informationtechnology department but focused on developingcourses and requirements for mobile appdevelopment certificates and degrees. She recentlymoved to Charlestown, Mass., and is grateful tofellow rabbits Amanda Cobb, Judith Webster,and Phoebe Aina Allen for helping her feel moreat home.Marion Irwin loves the house she recentlybought in Binghamton, N.Y. She is cooking,gardening, and decorating at home while workingat McKinney Real Estate and taking a grant-writingcourse. Her recently graduated daughter, Mary,lives with her, and her son Homer passed theNew York bar exam. Her husband does IT projectmanagement in NYC and travels to Binghamtonon the weekends.Join our Abbot ’73 Facebook group, and happy60th to all!in Connecticut before heading to Cambridge,Mass., where 15 “rabbits” toasted her at abirthday dinner on January 11. Amanda Cobband I were there, along with locals Cathy vonKlemperer Utzschneider, Jenifer McLeanCooke, Liz Coward Miller, Debra Heifetz Stein,Elizabeth “Bets” Kent, and out-of-towners AnneWeisman Hogeland from Williamstown, Mass.,Liz Rollins Mauran from Providence, R.I., MarionIrwin from Binghamton, N.Y., and Lucinda Leachfrom Takoma Park, Md. Diane Aigler Cook ’74,Peggy Bliss ’74, and Faith Barnes ’74 were there, aswas Liz Hall ’72. At the last minute, Amy RogersDittrich, Kathleen D’Abre, Josie Martin, andMindy Feldman could not come.Loraine Washburn continues as laboratorymanager and conservation botanist at RanchoSanta Ana Botanic Garden. She does geneticstudies on rare plants and runs the molecular lab.Spare time is spent checking out desert plants,climbing mountains, and exploring LA’s “weirderfeatures.” She loves her job but misses Maine.Edith Wilson is director of hardwareengineering at Omnicell, travels to China regularly,and is in her 22nd year of teaching at Stanford’sengineering school. She had a wonderful dinnerwith Marcia McCabe in September, then wenttruffle hunting in Provence over Thanksgivingwith husband Tony and daughter Olivia. Oliviatransferred to Vanderbilt from Northeastern, whereshe rowed in the second varsity eight as a freshman.Edith writes, “Jane Demers was [Olivia’s] kindsurrogate Boston mom, watching her races, textingme photos, and taking Olivia cookies. Abbotclassmates are the best!”Mary “Mimi” Kessler loves living in Durham,N.C., in a cute little house with her two dogs.Nancy Clifton Collier has lived with husbandJohn in Hanover, N.H., for more than 30 years. “Weraised our two boys here, and they are now living in96 Andover | Spring 2015the West, working as engineers. We visit them oftenfor mountain biking vacations. John and I enjoylots of time outside around our home, playing pondhockey on our own pond with friends, harvestingfirewood, or making bike trails throughout ourhillside property. My career in community planninghas involved all volunteer work of late, chairing ourlocal planning board and now guiding a small localland trust. John teaches engineering at Dartmouth.He will retire sometime soon, so we are lookingforward to lots more time outside at home andprobably out West in search of good biking trails.”Liz Mauran recounts, “En route to MountVernon for our fall board meeting, I attendedJane Demers’s mother’s 90th birthday celebrationin New York. Jane’s siblings Anne CashinGoldenheim ’69 and Dick Cashin ’71 and friendsfrom around the world were there, includingLori Goodman Seegers. I realized I had knownthis family longer than anyone in the room (since1969, yikes), thanks to our Abbot class, and had areal sense of the importance of our 1973 group.”Lori Goodman Seegers writes that life is gooddespite lots of work travel. She enjoys being in NYCwith her children, Jesse Seegers ’05 and Molly. Jesseand wife Ellie recently moved into an apartmentin Brooklyn; Jesse works at Columbia’s GraduateSchool of Architecture.Christina Landry and daughter Jacquelinespent several wonderful days in Nantucket thissummer with Susan Urie Donahue and husbandPaul. Jacqueline is a freshman at Georgetown;Christina enjoys visiting her there and would loveto meet up with any DC classmates. Christinais a real estate agent with Michael Saunders inSarasota, Fla. She loves living there and invitesclassmates to visit her.Lucinda Leach is married and has three sons outof college. She teaches art at the Edmund BurkeSchool in Washington, D.C. She sees Josie Martin,PHILLIPSPete Morin41 Border St.Scituate MA 02066pbmorin@comcast.netwww.facebook.com/pete.morin2Say, classmates, you’re all getting a bit laconic inyour advancing age. I know when the magazinelands in your mailbox, this is the first place youlook, and everyone likes to see his name in print. Sodon’t be a lurker. You’re making me work too hard.I messed up in the last issue, failing to passalong fascinating news from Gabriel Warren. Ina series of e-mail correspondence, he said, “Fromtime to time I have written to the class notes whenthere was a tale to tell, and I think it might be thattime again. Here is a question: Are the class notesonline? This time of year I live in remote NovaScotia, so I am not really getting mail. That sked isalso the reason I have never been to the reunions—it is a brutal haul from here to there and I am alwayshere in June. For whatever it is worth, my son wasPA ’07, so I must think something of Andover.”What is Gabriel doing? you wonder.Here’s a partial answer, from his website: “InAugust [’14], I will embark on my fourth polarexpedition to nourish my sculpture. This time, Iwill join a climate research science team in the ‘lakedistrict’ on the Greenland ice cap. In midsummerin this area, supraglacial rivers form, which createlakes. These are often drained through holescalled ‘moulins’ to the bedrock far below, whichcan open with astonishing rapidity. My workingmethod requires personal witness of the naturalphenomena involved, since it is the only way toinject emotive content into the art—to me, oneof the most important components. Other polartrips include Antarctica twice (courtesy of the