C O N C O R D A C A D E M Y M A G A Z I N E S P R I N G 2 0 1 0Deborah Hyde Baldwin just wanted tosay “how wonderful our get-togetherwas.” She was referring to the ultimatebirthday party held at SophroniaCamp’s in June. Liz Bullitt has decidedto retire in 2011 so she can do somethingother than neurosurgery and medicallyrelated computer science projects—“more specifically, exotic worldtravel.” Getting a jump start on thattravel, last summer she went to Ladakh,India, where she explored Tibetan Buddhismand where her oldest son, now inmedical school, ran a marathon at 12,000feet. One of the high points of MargoCutler’s last year was the two-weekwhale watching/photography trip shetook in the Sea of Cortez. She also visitedYellowstone and Maui. Lucy Dilworthis happily enjoying raisingheritage turkeys, Muscovy ducks, andToulouse geese, as well as tending thesmall woodlands property and gardenshe and her husband own in southernOregon. Beverly Nelson Elder continuesher building projects in Peru,recently adding a kitchen to a bedroomlevel in order to accommodate visitorswho take Spanish lessons from her. Shealso uses her Spanish to interpret for thevolunteer American and Canadian doctors,who treat the local residents foreverything from dental problems to cleftpalate and other deformities by means ofplastic reconstructive surgery. LilaGreene and her daughter spent a monthin Mali, where they learned traditionaldances and drumming. She recomthemnow, ages 9 months to 8 years).She, too, is hoping to come to reunion tosee old friends. Katharine Weld Hardingvaliantly typed her news with onehand due to a shoulder injury. Her role asa pet partner, visiting with her cavadoodleat the hospital and a retirementhome, is the best volunteer work shehas ever done. She finds the work relativelysimple, but very powerful andrewarding. Louisa Thomas Hargrave’sCenter for Wine, Food, and Culture wascut from the New York State Universitybudget last year, so she is officiallyunemployed, but continues to write awine column for four newspapers, doesconsulting, attends wine conferences,and, in general, cannot complain. Shelooks forward to seeing many friends atreunion. Susanna Horton has beenstudying alchemy— part of her practicein Chinese Medicine—with the aim ofdeveloping new treatments for fertilityand health that are effective, natural, andsafe. Susie has seen Wendy Arnold.Annebet Everett Muceus is semiretiredfrom the OB department at thelocal hospital, but is still teaching childbirtheducation and lactation. This pastyear, she started teaching watercolor andacrylic painting at Great Basin College,had good snow for skiing at Lake Tahoe,and had a son graduate from Cal-Poly.Husband Ed had gold specimens at theFebruary Tucson Gem and Mineral show,and dogs, cats, and mules keep themcompany. Joan Weidlein Mudge’snews from Kentucky is that she and Tedwill be returning to Baltimore in June.Joanie is still very active at the Universityof Kentucky Art Museum and paints atleast two to three days a week. She hassold some paintings (joanmudge.com).Trixie Oakley lives in Cambridge, worksat the Container Store, and makes pottery.She is also still volunteering withagencies that provide housing and servicesfor folks with developmental disabilities.Trixie’s partner, John Everdell, is afurniture maker; her son Alex, who is disabled,lives in a group home in Clinton,MA, and her daughter Stephanie andhusband have a small architectural firm,FiveDot Design/Build, in Seattle. “Life is,all in all, pretty great.” Susie ShererOsnos spends about half of her timeworking as a consultant to human rightsorganizations and the foundations thatsupport them. The rest of the time she isin the middle of a family sandwich inConnecticut that goes from her 86-yearoldmother to her youngest grandchild,Mae Dickinson Sanford, 2, who arrivedfrom Beijing in July to join brothers Ben,5, and Peter, 4, and their parents, Susie’sFor more <strong>Class</strong> <strong>Notes</strong>, go toconcordalum.org.52daughter Katherine and husband Colin.Susie’s son Evan still lives in China,where he is a New Yorker staff writer.Her husband Peter continues his work atPublicAffairs, his publishing company.Sue Davis Pandey had a “head-down”year in 2009 with both hips replaced andno riding for three months. However hercompany, NuGEN Technologies, did welland is still profitable. Her two horses,Bodhi and Wolfie, dominate their lives,eat up all their vacation funds, andalways need something. Daughter Doeand her family live an hour south, andSuki sees them often. Jeanine MillerRansom’s 12th grandchild was born inJanuary! She has seven from Don’sthree kids and five from her two boys.She still volunteers at her local coopbookstore—38 years—and has movedinto a condo. Where are all the grandchildrengoing to fit? Ginny Redpath ishealthy and has a life filled with family,friends, her two black labs, singing, andsports. Her children are all married andshe has a wonderful man in her lifethese days. She’s looking forward to seeingus all at reunion. Fay LampertShutzer’s family news is the marriage ofher son Jamie, 31, with all kids andgrandchildren in attendance. Fay hasloved her time on the CA Board ofTrustees and getting involved with theschool. She met with Betty MugarEveillard and Suze Sherer Osnos for a“pre-reunion” get-together and hopes tohave lots of classmates at our reunion sothat we can all really catch up. As shesays, “many things have changed overthe years, but the essence of ConcordAcademy has remained the same.” KateDouglas Torrey and husband Allenbecame grandparents last fall. BabyJames is thriving and living in NewHaven, kind of far from Chapel Hill. Kateand Allen continue to work hard in thenewspaper and book publishing business,more and more of a challenge, butthey still enjoy what they do (most days);they bicycle and ski for fun. Joan PierceUraneck is still teaching (part-time), sailing,and hoping to climb Mt. Kilimanjarothis summer. Joanie hopes to come toreunion, primarily for the memorial service,as her sister Edie Pierce Murphy’62 died this year. Jill Peabody Uris skiswith Hattie Motley Branson at Snowmass,where she is an instructor. Shespends the off season on MustangIsland near Corpus Christi, TX, golfingand fishing, and then is back in Aspen inthe summer, where she and her husbandrun a landscaping business. She hopesto make the trip to Concord in June.Margot Willett writes that her family iswell and she is running a youth developmentnonprofit with no plans for retirement.She had back surgery in February,which should have her pain-free andactive when she gets to reunion.1966<strong>Class</strong> Secretary: Sally Crimmins Thorne,thorne_iowa@msn.comLasell Jaretzki Bartlett and Robert arehappy to be moving to the new farmthey’ve been building for four years. It’sclose enough to where they lived beforeso that their activities continueunchanged. Lasell loves working at HighHorses Therapeutic Riding Program asan instructor, program developer, andvolunteer trainer. This past year shestarted at a local community mentalhealth agency. Having spent the last twoyears recovering from a shoulder injury,Lasell has resumed practicing Aikido,which she integrates into her horseactivities. Leslie Davidson spent mostof her six-month sabbatical in London. Atthe end of the summer she joined amemoir-writing workshop and upgradedher sailing skills by becoming certified inbasic keelboat and coast cruising. NewYear’s Eve was spent in Sao Paolo withher two daughters, Alexis and Elizabeth.Holly DeBlois continues to work on herPhD in computer science at UMassBoston. She also has a TA positionteaching programming in java. Her nextgoal, circa 2012: a full-time job. SusanBradlee Grant and husband Pat are ingood health. She spends a day a weekwith her daughter Gillian and her 8-month-old granddaughter Molly, a joyfultime. They enjoy skiing at Sunday River,ME, making New England winter bearable.In 2008, Susan Morse Hodgsonretired from working for the state asNew Jersey’s child advocate andreturned to the real world of pediatrics.Now she works at Newark Beth IsraelHospital on the general pediatric teachingstaff and is also medical director ofthe Newark Regional Diagnostic andTreatment Center. She is involved, on astate and national level, with the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics. Her two children,Emily and Michael, and theirspouses are doing well. Looking towardthe future, she and John are rebuildingtheir family house in the White Mountainsof NH. Susan Kidder is workingwith three clinics in West Marin thatwant to shift their practice modelstoward integrative/functional medicineand still be able to bill insurers for theirservices. They serve a heterogeneouspopulation from the very wealthy to farmworkers—the first time she has workedon a business model for integrative clinicsthat was not just focused on delivering“rich people’s medicine.” PixieLoomis is “happily ensconced in northernVermont.” She is running a nonprofitthat provides adult education, literacy,and work-readiness education throughoutthe state. Having been in the nonprofitarena all her life, she saysretirement is not an option and wouldlike to chat with anyone who has ideason finding interesting, paying work forthose of us over 60. All three of her childrenhave finished college and seem tobe enjoying their lives. Vicky GimbelLubin received her MBA in May. Sadly,her brother Nick died in November. BethGill Morris writes, “not much newshere . . . no weddings, no babies, nonew job, no retirement . . . pretty boring.”Brina Peck continues to teach ESLmethods and applied linguistics at CalState, Northridge, while husband Gaj isworking on spacecraft design at NASA.Their daughter Emma is studying anthropologyin Bristol, UK, and their two dogs,Eliza and Bruno, are moving more slowly,but are still happy. I, Sally CrimminsThorne, continue to spend time travelingbetween New York City and Castle Rock,CO, visiting my four grandchildren; theyoungest, Megan, was born last June.We had lots of visitors this winter, bothfamily and friends from the cold climes.We are blessed.1967<strong>Class</strong> Secretary: Muche Desloovere,muche498@aol.com
Schuyler Whitman ’67 with her sonNathaniel on a trip to AlaskaJanet Fates Scovil ’68 (second from left) with Mal, Amanda, and Matt inWashington, DClife gives.” Darsie Munger Tordawrites, “Still working, still hiking, biking,etc. So life is good.” She is the grandmotherof a little boy and a baby girl —adorable of course. Heidi Whitman’sartwork is being exhibited quite often inand around Boston and in NYC.Schuyler Whitman traveled to Alaskawith her young son Nathaniel. They tooka small plane ride over Whistler Mountain,where they saw glacial lakes,“which was really fun.” Ellen MacLeishZale reports her alpacas have producedtheir first set of fleece, which she hashad spun into wool. “If I weren’t such aklutz, I might even be able to turn it intosomething beautiful and soft myself.”Her daughter Nora is getting married inAugust, and her son Willy is back atHobart College after spending the fall inNew Zealand.1968<strong>Class</strong> Secretary: Katherine Little, Katherine.Little@valley.netmends “any kind of somatic education ormovement analysis technique to keepwell” and suggested a series of DVDs,one of which she directed (eeg.cowlesfoundation.org).Susan Middleton hasbeen living in Ashfield, MA since ’91, in“my rustic barn apartment (lots of spaceand exposed beams).” Since graduatingfrom UMass-Amherst in ’85 with a BS inscience, she has been a freelance editor,primarily working on science books andtextbooks. Susan participates in localcreative writing groups (based on theAmherst Writers & Artists model) andstarted one this spring with a focus onnature. “I’m still writing poetry (since1996); a chapbook of my early poems,Seedcake of the Heart, is available fromslateroofpress.com,” a small press thatshe and five other local poets startedand collectively run. She continues tolead hikes for the Berkshire chapter ofthe Appalachian Mountain Club.Stephanie Simmons Montgomery hastraded her Memoir Café Web site for ablog, stephanie-mirrorsandwindows.blogspot.com. Michele Moore continueswith her business, Happiness Habit,as well as Happiness in Hard Times,specifically for people suffering as aresult of the bad economy. She still has ahome in Atlanta, but is also traveling andspending time in Washington, DC andNew York. Olga Reigeluth Morrill andher husband miss their children as Skyeand family are stationed in Honolulu andSeth is in Nicaragua, 30 feet from aworld-class surfing destination, where hesurfs every day. Nancy Brown Moyleattempted to describe her life for the last40 years in one page: she and semiretiredattorney husband Mike have livedin Sausalito for 30 years and are enjoyingmore time to travel—Italy being their latestdestination. Son Robert and wifeJanet, both attorneys, are in NYC, whichNancy visits as often as possible to gether hands on her first grandchild, Cece.Patrick is at veterinary school at AuburnUniversity in Alabama, on his way to fulfillinghis dream of becoming a vet. Histwin, Alexander, lives in San Franciscoand works at Dwell magazine (designand architectural topics). Their oldestson, Andrew, was married last year—actually eloped in Buenos Aires (veryromantic). Lynne Dominick Novack hasa new position as senior fellow and associatedirector of the SMU Tower CenterNational Defense Program in Dallas—“more academic prestige, longer title,and much less money.” She helpedorganize a major conference—Lessons& Legacies from the Conflicts in Iraq,Afghanistan, and Pakistan—before travelingto Patagonia in mid-December (seeher blog, g-manonegra.blogspot.com,describing her part-time life in Chile.).Son Kurt and family visited them fromParis, son Dylan welcomed a baby boy,and son Xander bought a house and gotmarried. Felicity Pool celebrated numberslast year: her mother’s 90th, her60th, and her son’s 21st. However, sheis dismayed by other numbers: 225,000humans added to our planet every 24hours and 72 species extinguished inthe same amount of time. She wonderswhat CA is teaching about this and whatwe, its well-educated graduates, aredoing about it. Ali Chalmers Rodin andher husband are happy that their daughter,having finished her master’s in publichealth at Berkeley, is now only a trainride away in Brooklyn,doing consultingwork. Louise Farley Rogen revels incross-country skiing and was able to doa lot of it this winter. She is finally overa bout with Lyme disease (it should benoted that it was not from the tick wetook out of her hair at Sophronia’s).Ellen-Alisa Saxl celebrated her 60thwith a huge, multi-generational beachcamping trip that even her brother fromEngland attended. “To have both mychildren in the U.S.—safe, sound, andsuccessful—to bask in love and laughter,good food, and absolute admirationfor one another is the greatest gift!”Dana Denker Semmes, known to us asa very spiritual person, became aCatholic last year. On a more earthboundnote, she and her husband Guy visitedGreat Britain last summer where, in additionto the traditional must-see spots(St. Pancras Railway Station, where theyfilmed the Harry Potter railway scenes),they visited Guy’s 94-year-old cousin,who is still actively raising prizewinningHighland bulls! Lindsay Davidson Sheawas horseback riding on the morning ofher son’s wedding when she wasthrown and broke her back (she missedthe wedding, but the horse is fine). “Ihave titanium rods fusing five vertebraeand am very upright. I believe I will rideagain—I need to develop more flexibility,but each week brings new milestones:going up and down stairs and being ableto pick up the dog dishes without the‘grabber.’” During her lengthy and ongoingrecovery, she could not “do much soshe stayed upstate on our farm wherelife is slower.” As a result, she found herrecovery has been a period of bliss—most unexpectedly. “Funny what turnsMelinda Sherer Ashton has two grandchildrenliving in Charlottesville, VA, twohours away from her. After four sons,buying lavender tutus for her granddaughteris great fun. Her 13-year-oldson keeps her busy with Boy Scouts andalgebra. She is looking forward to workingagain—perhaps not back in clinicalpractice. Plus, “I am in a CA alumnaebook club. I know a few of the membersfrom CA days, including Elizabeth Ballantine’66, Lucy McFadden ’70, andGail Weinmann ’67. Our diverse professionaland personal backgrounds bringdifferent perspectives to our lively discussions—it is a fantastic group.” ChrisAlmy Bachrach retired from the federalgovernment in January and is makingarrangements with a couple of universitiesto take up a new research career.Chris is happy with the change and lookingforward to spending the summer attheir vacation home on a New Hampshirelake. Suzanne Griffith writes fromDuluth, MN, “Last summer I took theopportunity to get involved in one of theuniversity’s liberal arts initiatives, andnow I coordinate the first-year seminarprogram, which actually involves memore with faculty development and campuspolitics than with working with students.Each course is limited to 15students, is discussion-focused, andworks on developing critical-thinking,questioning assumptions, thinking moreopenly, broadly, and globally, andempowering them as learners. It hasbeen fun and invigorating to take on anew focus.” Larkin Hilliard moved toPalo Alto, CA and started working at theVeterans Affairs Palo Alto Medical Center.Anne Watson Jepson writes fromDevon, England, “I am working to pro-53C O N C O R D A C A D E M Y. O R G S P R I N G 2 0 1 0
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