Class Notes

in the role of Jason in William Finn’sFalsettos, which tells the story of a familybroken apart when the father discovershis son is gay. Mary LaClair writes,“I’m still VP of software development atCaliper Corporation and still working notquite full-time (that means 9–5 in thesoftware world). Tim is still doing bleeding-edgemedia technology. He’s alsoback in school at Northeastern studyingelectrical engineering in support of hishobby, building guitar amps. Cecelia is inthe sixth grade and as tall as I am. She’son the Cambridge swim team, the SeaDawgs, and may well be a Selkie. Welove living in Cambridgeport and feelingpart of the neighborhood.” Writing fromVermontville (pop. 1,000), Ellen Bebermansays, “It was a pretty snowy winterin the Adirondacks, not too much, butjust enough. I manage a farmers’ market,where I also sell veggies, and I coordinatea newly established communitygarden. Both of these activities arerewarding; unfortunately not in the formof money. My husband Rich continueshis research in polar meteorology, specializingin optical properties of snow andice. His work takes him to Antarctica,Greenland, and Svalbard on a regularbasis. My older child sets off for collegenext year, but plans to stay within drivingdistance to be close to skiing and a girlfriend(not sure which one has more priority.)The younger one is in seventhgrade and seems to be negotiating middleschool with much less angst than Idid.” Mark Boyer writes, “My work onMannahatta: A Natural History of NewYork is complete. The book was quitewell received and we had a six-monthexhibition at the Museum of the City ofNew York. I did a picture of MannhattanIsland in 1609 that was on the cover ofthe September issue of National Geographic.I’ve now changed direction(once again) and am in the first year ofan MA program at Bard here in NYC,studying metalwork of the European IronAge and focusing on the developmentand transmission of ornamental styles incultures outside the Roman Empire. Itfeels a little strange to be back in schoolafter sooo long—(midterms! finals!papers!)—but I really love it. JanetEisendrath was kind enough to write oneof my recommendations and it is really adirect result of her art history classesthat I am here.” Tasha Garland reports,“I am still living in Italy, organizing programmingseminars and events forPalazzo Tornabuoni. Any creative membersof the CA community—faculty,alumnae/i, parents, artists, musicians—interested in speaking/presenting andstaying in a spectacular private palazzo inthe center of Florence are welcome tocontact me. My son Connor graduatesfrom St. Stephen’s in Rome this June,and by doing so my reason for coming toItaly for ‘a year to expand his horizons’eight years ago will expire, and I will beforced to re-evaluate my reasons forbeing in Italy. Needless to say, it is notan easy place to leave.” From Katy Kinsolving:“I took a course in Februarythat will give me a certificate in nutritionalcounseling. I was happy to be astudent again, but one of the sideeffects of being in school is that my ownfamily ate a lot more pizza—so perhapsa net nutritional loss! I really enjoyed theCA-sponsored NYC screening of What’sOn Your Plate by graduate CatherineGund ’83. I’m hoping to convince thelocal library to include it in their day-longseminar for educators on food andschool gardens. Other than that, I continuemy highly skilled work as personalchauffeur to two semi-adorable boys.”Mary Adler Malhotra says, “By thetime the magazine is published, Maluwill have graduated from CA after threeGREAT years! She has been head ofboarders, taught a freshman seminarsection, played varsity soccer and volleyball,and even negotiated an independentGreek study for herself. She is headingto Franklin & Marshall in the fall, her firstchoice, about which she is thrilled.Devan, 15, is a freshman at Groton andthinks he’s at summer camp—he lovesit. Vikram and I are at home with onlyone child, our 11-year-old son, who lovesbeing an only child. I am still busy withthe nonprofit world, enjoying it but wonderingabout my next steps. I roll offCA’s board in June after six great years.It has been wonderful to be reconnectedto the school. I have taken the bold stepof joining Facebook. The biggest boonhas been catching up with CA classmates!”J.B. Miller was last seen movingto London and getting married to alovely lass named Chloe. He is nowhappy to report he is the new dad oftwins, Theodore and Eloise, born onJune 8, 2009. Theo and Eloise, even attheir tender age, enjoy tri-nationality,sporting passports from the USA, UK,and Australia (where their mum is from).J.B. is still writing plays and doing somecopywriting to pay for all the nappies andbaby formula. He loves living in Londonand spending time in the family getawaydigs, in a lovely arts and crafts house inLyme Regis by the sea. Available forrent! Walter Judge is growing increasinglynostalgic about all the time he isspending in the town of Concord as heshuttles his elder daughter Phoebe, 15,back and forth between Vermont andMiddlesex School, where she is a sophomore.For Anne Barrett, “life is going inreverse! My husband Tom and I are movingback to Burlington, VT with no jobs insight, and going back to apartment livingin my old apartment that I left ten yearsago! Let’s hear it for the economicdownturn. We’re looking forward tobeing home in a community and placethat we love. I’m still cartooning anddoing web design, and we still have tworescued Australian shepherds and aManx cat.” Cindy Goff Muther writesthat she is “still living and working atTabor Academy, where I will be for thenext eight years, at least. By then, all ofmy kids will have graduated, and I will beable to move on. It is very exciting havinga high school senior and looking at allthe great schools in this country. Sammiis most interested in the College ofWooster in Ohio. Ry is a sophomore, lovingschool, doing some drama andModel United Nations in his spare time.Chris, 12, is in seventh grade and veryinto sports, friends, and music. He playssoccer, hockey, and baseball and is makingnoise about picking up lacrosse.Luke, 10, is in fifth grade and identifieshimself as a ‘math guy.’ Mom is pumpedto have another math geek in the family.Dick and I spend most of our time goingto games, working, and wondering howwe will pay for college in the next fewyears. We are lucky to still have threeparents on this planet and are able tospend plenty of quality time with all ofthem.” Henri Lazaridis Power says,“With any luck, by the time this newsappears in the spring magazine, I’ll haveput out the first issue of the new onlineliterary magazine I’m starting, The Drum(drumlitmag.com). It features short fiction,essays, and author interviews asaudio files. You’ll be able to listen to newand established authors read their workaloud on the Web site, or download thefiles and listen to them on your iPodwhenever you want to. Starting this fall,I’ll have two kids in college, so while II’ve named Concord Academy as beneficiaryof my retirement plan. It was simple—I justfilled out my investment company’s formto specify what percent I want steered to CA.What an easy and rewarding way to supporta school that has given so much to me.—Nathaniel Stevens ’84If this idea interests you, please contactthe Advancement Office at (978) 402-2240 or visitconcordacademy.org/plannedgiving.expect to enjoy having more time towork on my fiction writing, I’m excitedabout working with collaborators inBoston and elsewhere to put togetherthis new magazine. Don’t know wheredaughter Nike will be next year, but myson Eoin will return to Middlebury afterbeing in Slovenia for one semester, Virginiafor another, and doing an internshipat Harvard for yet another. We call himBoomerang Boy.” Heidi ReichenbachHarring is now working on the innovationteam at Citizens Bank, after manyyears at Fidelity. Heidi was a keynotespeaker at a capital campaign fundraiserfor oncology services at Concord’s EmersonHospital, where Heidi had all of hercancer treatments in 2005. She closedsaying: “I hope that for those of you whohave not been touched by cancer, yourlife continues that way. But should youor a family member find yourself in thatunfortunate position, please just thinkthe way Dorothy did at the end of theWizard of Oz: ‘I won’t look any furtherthan my own back yard.’”1979Class Secretaries: Sophie Carlhian,svc@charter.net; Lisa Zimble,lzimble@aol.comLaura Bry recently spoke to ElizabethAguilar-Imsland in Seattle andwished her a happy birthday—as we allrapidly roll toward 50. They will see eachother in July when the Red Sox play theMariners. Laura says winter in Sandpointwas mild, but the skiing was great; sheis deeply involved with local and IdahoDemocratic politics and human rights61C 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