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 0For Tot Hufstader Balay, life in Minnesotais full, busy, and happy. She andher husband Mike will be sending theiryoungest son, Kit, off to college and willbecome empty nesters. They are lookingforward to travel opportunities, eatingdinner whenever they feel like it (no ravactivism.“I’m still living in the Berkshiresand working for the Trustees ofReservations,” writes Tammis Coffin.“I’m also performing poetry with music,photographing the earliest wildflowers,teaching improve, and wondering how allof you plan to celebrate your 50th!”Isabel Fonseca taught a short course ontorture at Barnard in NYC. “I expected acozy seminar but instead walked into alecture hall with 82 students. It was fun,incredibly hard work, and humbling: hatsoff to teachers!” “The 30th reunion wasgreat fun,” writes Andrew Herwitz, “aperfect trip down memory lane. Myfavorite part was sitting in the commonroom of some dorm looking at old yearbookswith Isabel, Lib, Amanda, Sophie,and others. What a blast. That is whatreunions are about for me: not hearing alot of drivel about children, jobs, andother current day concerns, but insteadbasking in nostalgia. In contrast, theseentries are designed to be updates aboutthe here and now, so I am happy toreport that film financing and sales aregood, and my family is great. We are allenjoying NYC.” Margot Latham had afantastic year as she added to her familythrough international adoption. TessTsega was born in November 2008, andin March of 2009 the whole family travelledto Ethiopia to bring Tess home.Margot is consulting on problem resolutionfor regulated financial institutions, sowork this past year involved nonstoptravel, but it has been very interesting.“We are still enjoying LA (after threeyears), and life is good.” David Slaterreports they are still living in Tokyo, andafter a brief moment considering a moveback to the U.S., realized it would nothappen. “My daughter Sophie is oldenough to go to CA, which is sort oftempting. My son Henry cannot quiteunderstand why I would have gone to agirls’ school, but is also intrigued for thatreason. I would bring them to the nextreunion, but by then, we will be 60, andthey will be gone.” Carey Mack Webershares the exciting news that the newBellarmine Art Museum at FairfieldUniversity will be opening in October.Carey and the director worked to createan intimate teaching museum on thelower level of a historic building on campus.Carey is the registrar of the newmuseum and has been the visualresources curator in the art history programat Fairfield for more than fiveyears. She would love to give a tour toanyone interested in visiting. HelenWheelock celebrated her fifteenth yearwith the CUNY/Creative Arts TeamFor more Class Notes, go toconcordalum.org.62(CAT), an educational theatre company inNYC. Last summer, she piloted anexchange program for students from theUnited Arab Emirates University, whostudied CAT’s student-centered dramawork and indulged in cultural activitiesacross the five boroughs. The project willbe repeated this summer, with four oflast year’s “vets” coming back to getadditional training. Helen contributes tothe Women’s Hoops blog and writes forthe Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.She’s been covering women’sprofessional and college basketball since2000—a gig that included a trip to theAthens Olympics.1980 30th reunionClass Secretary: Lisa Siegel,l.siegel3@gmail.comAs we gear up for our 30th reunion theplea for news may not have been heard,or perhaps folks just feel it is more personalto tell their tales at reunion thisJune. Nonetheless, it is always appreciatedwhen classmates send news, nomatter how small. Lisa Frusztajer saysher daughter will graduate from CA thisJune. “It’s been wonderful to experienceCA from the parent perspective. If anything,the community is even more supportivethan when we were students.”Lisa looks forward to reunion. SebastianJunger spent 2007–08 traveling to aremote outpost in Eastern Afghanistan’sKorengal Valley, where he chronicled thelives of 30 men in a single American platoon.“Some days we were in three orfour firefights. We were isolated on topof a hill with no running water, no hotfood, no Internet or communications,and a two-hour walk from the nearestAmerican base.” Seb’s film, Restrepo,won the Grand Jury Prize at this year’sSundance Film Festival. The title refersto the name of the outpost, which wasnamed after a platoon medic killed inaction. Seb has a new book out, War.Nancy Kates also attended the 2010Sundance Film Festival to raise moneyfor her documentary, Regarding SusanSontag (sontagfilm.org), but didn’t connectwith Seb. Nancy was a fellow at theMacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NHin fall 2009, where she met photographerJo Eldredge Morrissey ’77. “Mac-Dowell is a bit like CA: heaven, but notmuch like the real world,” Nancy said.She also joined the Leukemia and LymphomaSociety’s Bay Area cross-countryski team, skiing a 25k in Yellowstone inMarch and raising almost $4,000 for cancerresearch. “I started this sport at CA,but I was too slow to race.” Nancy raninto her friend and neighbor, JenniferWillmann, while skiing at Lake Tahoe,and she also had wonderful visits withEve Slattery, Maureen Mulligan, LisaHannah Hiam, daughter of Michael Hiam ’80, with Sophie Adams, daughter ofClayton Adams ’81, at Squam Lake, NHFrusztajer, and Richard Bell ’77. Nancyreconnected with long-lost roommateKathryn Drury ’81 via Facebook. AnnKjellberg has started her own literarymagazine after 20+ years of working forsomeone else. It’s called Little Star andhas new work by Seamus Heaney, PadgettPowell, Lydia Davis, Les Murray,Paul Muldoon, Tim Parks, Derek Walcott,Glyn Maxwell, Durs Grünbein, RobinRobertson, and Mary Jo Salter, amongothers (littlestarjournal.com). Friends andassociates think she’s crazy. From AnnieLawson: “Still love living in Somerville,MA with my husband Harry Parker andboys Clay, 11, and Reed, 7.” Annie visitsConcord regularly and recently caught upwith Ron Richardson. She continues towork as a CFA in socially responsibleinvesting for investment advisory firmFirst Affirmative Financial Network. Shecaught up with Jeff Hall and Chris Bordenlast week by phone and attendedthe wedding of Andrea Hamilton ’79 inLos Altos, CA last fall. Annie is lookingforward to our 30th—it’s starting to takeshape—and hoping to catch up withmany fellow ’80ers in person. SteffaniCatanese Lomax sends news that shespent the winter at a tennis club inFlorida training with a coach. “SouthFlorida has a wonderful community ofsenior national tennis players, and I reallyenjoyed meeting and competing withthese women players.” Steffani is thedirector of North American sales for asoftware company headquartered inBoston. She hopes to make it to reunionto catch up with everyone. StephanieNadler sends news that she has a 13-year-old son, Samuel, and she has beenmarried for more than 15 years to DerrickCho. They live in Toronto. Stephaniehas received several grants, including aCanada Arts Council Grant. She has “atiny studio” and needs a larger one(stephanienadler.ca). Phil Rossoni joinedthe MIT ballroom dance team and isworking on his seventh competition atCollege of the Holy Cross in Worcester.He is still volunteering at Boston’sMuseum of Science and is looking forwardto catching up with everyone atreunion. Sina Saidi is looking forward tothis June and hopes “to get updates on30 years of everyone’s life experiences.”Sina, when you say it like that, it makesme feel ancient. I, Lisa Siegel, continueto collect Class Notes (sorry to anyonewho finds this annoying) and, when nothounding classmates, I am busy raisingthree kids with my husband David. Maxjust finished his second year at UnionCollege, Olivia is heading to high schoolnext fall, and Noah is ending 6th grade. Irun a small independent child care business.Last summer I had great fun catchingup with my CA houseparent, BetsyHastings, while vacationing in Maine. Itwill be fun to see everyone at reunion.1981Class Secretaries: Lindsay Millard Clinton,l.clinton@comcast.net; Laura Payne,lxp@u.washington.edu