Class Notes

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 0curator for an exhibition on Lobmeyrglass at Cooper-Hewitt, National DesignMuseum, in New York, where she ishead of the product design and decorativearts department. Sarah says Lobmeyr,an Austrian firm, has worked withgreat designers —Josef Hoffmann andothers, including her exhibit’s co-curator,designer Ted Muehling—to produce topqualityglass from circa 1830 to the present.Sarah worked out the acquisition of160 pieces from the owners of Lobmeyrto document the history of glass-making.“Further down the road is jewelry, a renovation,and various lectures.” She andTom plan to head to Italy for their annualvisit in June. And writing from Italy,Carla Piccinini reports she worked inHaiti for several weeks in February as anemergency psychologist (see page 18).“As you may imagine, it was quite atough experience, and I am still quitestressed, which is weird since I am supposedto be one who cures stressedpeople. But I really saw a lot of pain anddistress. Lots of amputated and severelywounded children (we were by a pediatrichospital), which was probably thehardest thing for me to face, being asyou know a happy and proud grandma ofthree nice healthy kids.” Carla says shefollows friends’ news on Facebook.Though she says she doesn’t writemuch herself, “I am really glad to keep intouch. Is anybody coming to Italy in thenear future?” It’s fun to keep in touchwith classmates and glean some tidbitsof news via Facebook: Molly DillonRaymond went skiing in February forthe first time since she was 16 and had aterrific time. And Anne Boedecker saysshe’s thrilled that her energy conservatectthe rights of the elderly in Britain inmy role as Secretary of Sheltered Housing,UK. In December, I escorted threewomen in a march led by a lone bagpiperto 10 Downing Street to present a petitionwith 15,188 signatures supportingtheir right to receive the support andassistance they were promised whenthey moved into Sheltered Housing. Atthe moment, the wardens’ flats standempty in many Sheltered Housingschemes, and the residents are simplyleft to ‘get on with it’ as best they can.We have had three legal victories in thepast few months, and the political situationis going our way as well, so hopefullyby next October we will all be in thepost-victory celebratory mode.” I, KatieLittle, did indeed retire from being an ERdoc at Dartmouth-Hitchcock MedicalCenter in 2009, but I still seem to be justas busy, doing my snowshoeing thing inthe winter, complaining about frostheaves and mud season to anyone whowill listen, and doing wilderness canoetrips in the summer. Hilde Norlie writesfrom Drammen, Norway, “Busy times asalways. I have been through a differentyear due to my daughter’s health problems.She had two successful operations,and we hope she will soon be ableto move back home after a year’s staywith me. Much of the trouble was actuallycaused by a bee sting in her throatduring summer 2005, and believe me,she will never ever drink from a bottleagain! It has been a relief to have ahome office in this difficult period in ourlives. I sincerely hope for a better 2010and will think of you all in October.” ConsueloCotter Mack asks, “Can I havereally turned 30 twice? It has not sunk in,although I keep telling myself at somepoint it must! If Bon Jovi says he feelslike an 18-year-old, then it is fair to say Istill feel 30. The only problem is, I have a21- year-old son, and I’ve been marriedfor 35 years! Said son, Ranger, is graduatingfrom Indiana University in June andis following in his dad’s footsteps,becoming an officer in the Marine Corpsfor a three-year stint. My weekly publictelevision program, Consuelo MackWealthTrack is now in its fifth season,and I am still enjoying it tremendously.”Not Receiving Emailsfrom CA?If you are not receiving eNewslettersand other emails fromCA, please check your spam,bulk, or junk folders and allowconcordacademy.org as asender address.54Pam McAdoo writes, “We’ve been hithard by the recession/depression/financialcrisis. My husband has been out ofwork since August and isn’t eligible forunemployment. I was working four jobsthis fall, but two have dried up. Our collegegraduate son is living with us andworking at an internship. Just when Ithought things were looking rosy for thepossibility of slowing down here a little. Iam practicing a lot of yoga and making alot of art to try to keep my head screwedon.” Daphne Petri was featured in theWinter 2010 CA Magazine as an alumnae/iprofile (online only at concordacademy.org/magazine),describing the workthat “feeds her soul” in Rwanda. CricketFates Scovil writes that her daughterAmanda and BJ have purchased a homein Arlington, VA, so she is hoping tocatch up with CA friends who live in theWashington, DC area. Cricket lives lessthan a block from Duke, in Durham, NC,but drives nine miles down “TobaccoRoad” to her job at UNC hospitals. “Did Imention that the UNC men’s basketballteam won the NCAA title this year?Tarheel pride!” Please do not forget tocome to our Columbus Day weekendget-together in Harvard, MA, October8–10, 2010.1969Class Secretaries: Isabel BrowneDriscoll, pmdibd@gmail.com; Nancy L.Schoeffler, nschoeffler@courant.comOur class is still reminiscing about ourterrific 40th reunion last June. The weekendbegan with a reunion eve gatheringin Rhode Island, where Lucy Eddy Foxand husband Jim hosted nearly 40 forswimming, kayaking, fishing, and dinner(with a major helping hand from IsabelBrowne Driscoll and her husband Peter)—with 25 people staying overnight.(That’s a lot of pillows, not to mentionsheets, blankets, and towels!) Long-distanceawards went to Susan McEwen,who traveled from Istanbul with her husband,Mostafa Heyame (they have sincemoved to Cairo, where she’s on the facultyat the American University), andKathy Agoos, who made her way backto Concord from Melbourne, Australia,with husband Michael Gerner. The joyousoccasion of Didi Rea’s marriage toTom Smith on August 29 drew classmatesfrom far, near, and even nearer:Sarah Pillsbury from California, NancySchoeffler and husband Scott Frewfrom Connecticut, Julie Preston fromNew Jersey, and Sarah Coffin KlebnikovO’Connor and husband Tom fromNew York. It was an exuberantly happycelebration in the country, with dancingin Didi’s old barn, a down-home dinner alfresco, flowers everywhere, and hikesthe next day through hills alive with theDidi Rea ’69 at her August wedding to Tom Smithsound of music. In a letter to many ofher “beautiful, fierce, wonderful friends”who were there, Didi wrote, “My weddingfar surpassed any dreams I mighthave had. . . . To be surrounded by you,to see your faces in the audience as Isaid my vows, to watch you embraceTom—first on my account and thenbecause you wanted to—all this addedto the joy of the occasion for me.”In other news, Laurie Palmer Aronsteinsays she “heard the brilliant andextremely witty Sarah Coffin KlebnikovO’Connor give a bang-up talk on silverware.Sarah is so enormously informedand so much fun to listen to. For everything she says, she knows about 1,500more facts that she doesn’t have time tomention. The talk was actually about thedevelopment of utensils and what it tellsus about the societies in which theseimplements were invented and used.(Who knew that high-class hookerspicked their teeth au table with two-tinedgolden forks 400 years ago?) This bearsout what I tell my kids, that it is not thesubject that makes the class, it is theprofessor.” Louisa Bradford spentmuch of the winter “shoveling snow anddoing a fair amount of ‘winter camping’in my own house, due to prolongedpower outages. I never appreciated howmuch heat my golden retriever gives off.Actually, I do now that I have completeda course in passive house design so Ican be a certified consultant. Passivehouses are super-insulated, actively ventilatedenergy misers that are becomingthe new building standard in Europe.Looks like I will have a chance to designand build one in Rhode Island soon.”Sarah Coffin Klebnikov O’Connor was