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 0with the three of us, and I think I shouldbe able to make it to the reunion (if I canhandle the travel from up the road!).Hope lots of us can attend to share thememories.” Puddie Hauge Sword isreaching the end of her fourth year as anorganizational consultant and “wouldnever have imagined that it would be asthoroughly enjoyable a way to spend mydays, or that I would have developed somany wonderful new friends among myclients. Whether moving older couplesfrom their lifetime homes, curating aphotography collection for publication, ordeveloping strategies for small businesses,one job is rarely like the last, andthat keeps life interesting. My husbandand children are very happy in theirendeavors, with the last graduating collegein 2012.” Sarah Logan Wilcox“has a 10- and a 17-year-old who provideendless ‘fun’ for me.” She has so manymemories about CA, including Jackiepiercing her ears sophomore year.(Jackie feels compelled to add that thiswas probably as traumatic for her as itwas for Sarah!) Marcia Johnston Woodis having one of the busiest years of herlife as president of the Oregon PsychologicalAssociation, in addition to her privatepractice. More time consuming thanshe ever imagined, it is also the mostchallenging, stimulating, and rewardingprofessional thing she’s done in ages.“My oldest, Emma, is doing a gap yearbetween high school and starting atWilliams College next fall . . . living inRome for the fall and Buenos Aires forthe spring. I still have a sophomore sonat home and he is giving me (more) grayhairs now that he has his learner’s permit.Nancy Gillespie and I stay in closetouch, which remains a real pleasure.”Melissa Eleftherio Yahia is back in thearts as an artist and cofounder of ForArt’s Sake, a community art associationin Harvard, after a career in advertisingand raising two kids. She is also a holisticlife coach. She and husband Larrydivide their time between Harvard andMiddletown, RI. Daughter Ellery is atRISD, and son Peter is still in highschool. Responding to Jackie’s queryabout how not to be overwhelmed, shereminds herself “to get and staygrounded. Being out in nature a lot reallyhelps me, as well as creating art, whichfor me is largely a meditative process. Ilook forward to reading news from CA.”And I, Jackie van der Horst Sergent,have managed to get elected city commissioner,which is a stunner for a Jewin a small southern town (no church congregationto vote for me). I am still workingfull-time, so devote what is left tolearning all about water, sewer, streets,and the like, as well as about how we allbehave in the face of the sunshine law. Iam trying to keep my mouth shut! Ourson has qualified as a Green Beret, and60our daughter hopes a few jobs will beleft when she graduates this spring—sofar so good. We have the bomb-diggiestclass for so consistently writing in.THANK YOU to each of you—it is sogood to hear from you!1976Class Secretary: Margie SweattKunhardt, mesk712@optonline.netLucinda Jewell is still busy with boardwork for groups like theDepression/Bipolar Support Alliance andthe Boston Public Library. Her daughterBelinda is in fifth grade and nearly as tallas Luci now. Luci stays in touch withElizabeth Paquette, who comes northto visit from her home in Florida. AnneKnight Weber is hard at work on anMFA at the Chicago Institute of Art. Herson J.J. is in Hong Kong for his junioryear abroad and will be finishing at Kalamazoonext year. She and Liz Aelion gettogether in the Chicago area. Lee Wilsonis living and working in centralTexas. He is CEO of PCI Education, acompany that creates instructional materialsfor a wide range of students withspecial needs. His wife Leslie loves herwork “connecting kids with the rightbooks” in middle school. He has a highschool-age son, Peter, who has “inheritedhis father’s love of theatre and badpuns.” Lee’s older son Ted is at the Universityof British Columbia and enjoyedthe winter Olympics. Amy MacRaewrites from St. Louis that she and herhusband, Tom Brown, are doing well.She enjoys her work as a scientist whotroubleshoots for customers of Sigma-Aldrich, a chemical company that alsomakes many molecular and biologicalproducts. She would welcome any classmateswho may be visiting the area. AndI, Margie Sweatt Kunhardt, have fourchildren who keep me very busy. Istarted a master’s in TESOL this year.My oldest, Jessie, graduated from Vassarin 2008. She was instrumental in creating(and now running) the Books tab athuffingtonpost.com. My son Philip is ajunior at the College of the Atlantic in BarHarbor, ME. My son Harry, 18, is doingafter-school tutoring for at-risk children inthe Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans asa gap-year activity. My son Clinton is aneighth grader who is into computer programmingand theatre and Parkour running.My husband Philip is adocumentary producer, scholar, and professorwho has written two books forthe Lincoln bicentennial, Looking for Lincolnand Lincoln Life Size.For more Class Notes, go toconcordalum.org.Sara White Lennon ’77 and herdaughters, in Cancun1977Class Secretaries: Jean Dunbar Knapp,jean_knapp@tufts-health.com; Jean M.McCormick,jean.mccormick8@gmail.comRachel Lipson Glick lives in Michigan,where she and her husband Gary stillwork for the University of Michigan. Sheis in the department of psychiatry, wheremost of her time is spent on administrationof the clinical programs, but her clinicalwork and interest is still inemergency psychiatry. Their twins are 14and busy with activities. Hannah is theathlete and her current passion is volleyball,“resulting in my spending mostweekends driving throughout the Midwestto tournaments. Jeremy loves theatre,especially musical theatre. Life ishectic, but we are all healthy and happy,so overall things are good.” “All in all,life is good” for Sara White Lennon aswell. They are still living on the frequentlycold and sunny coast of Maine,just outside Portland. Three girls, 11, 13,15, are all happy in the Cape publicschools, “while I do battle as a towncouncilor, trying to keep the schoolsintact in the face of ever-increasing budgetarychallenges. I often long for mydays in private schools and the flexibilitythey offer, rather than negotiating a millionlayers of mandates, regulations, andgovernment funding. As finance chair onthe council, I wish I’d stuck with math atCA past Algebra 2.” She encouragesanyone headed to Maine to get in touchwith her in Cape Elizabeth. Tim Gollinand his wife Donatella moved to Manhattanin early December. They are close toHenry Thorne’s old stomping groundson Wooster Street (what a difference 30years makes). Tim celebrated his 50th onJanuary 9 with CA alums Debra Fine,Wilson Kidde ’76, and Kristin Jones’75. Eric Bergemann is working at MIT’sSloan School of Management ExecutiveEducation. Gwen Storey Feher had agreat time in NYC seeing JeanMcCormick and Marguerite Lee at oneof Jean’s several 50th birthday parties inthe fall. She has also stayed in touchwith Gena Paris Hatch, HannahMahoney, Wendy Melville Mains, andothers on Facebook. Holley Atkinsonwrites, “I’m pointing myself in a differentdirection these days.” After 13+years running the interactive unit of TritonDigital Media, a radio syndicationcompany, seven years running a smallFrench software company, prior to theInternet, and five years as administratorof NYU’s Institute of French Studies, sheleft a senior executive position to focusher time and energy on local food andsustainability. Last month she waselected vice chair of Slow Food NYC,which sponsors urban agricultural projects,such as a youth farm. She’s alsoworking with the Slow Money Alliance toencourage investors to bring their money“down to earth” and invest in small foodenterprises close to home. Her daughteris a high school junior and starting thecollege process. Stephanie Siegelturned 50 in September. All four of herchildren were home which was “a gift.”Her son Sam graduated from UMichiganlast May and starts law school in the fall.Jessi is at Whitman College, Aliza justbeginning the college search, and Danielin eighth grade. Stephanie has retiredfrom law and volunteers for school andcommunity programs; her husband Jeffstill works at Nike.1978Class Secretary: Martha E. Livingston,marthalivingston@verizon.netThe news from our class is, as usual,diverse and fascinating—we’re returningto school, publishing, gardening, birthingbabies, and sending kids to college. Yourfaithful class secretary, Martha Livingston,is surprised that no one mentioneda big event for many of us thisyear, the 50th birthday! I’m celebratingby participating in a national over-50women’s ice hockey tournament inFlorida in late April. I work as a recruiterat a growing software company inBurlington and enjoy watching my kidson the stage and on the field. Johnny,12, had his first experience with film thiswinter, appearing in a 10-second sceneas a “drug-crazed altar boy,” completewith latex track marks on his arm andoozing fake blood. Hannah, 15, appeared