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CAMPUS NEWSLibraries by LariveeMathematics Depart mentHead George Larivee’sefforts to build libraries inrural Nicaragua were featuredin the February 7Boston Globe. After the storyappeared, Globe readers sentLarivee more than $600 tohelp buy books. “At about$5 a book — they’re cheap inNicaragua — that meansanother 120 books for thenewest library in July,”Larivee said.You’ll find a link to thestory in the news archive atwww.concordacademy.org.The Globe’s Web site,www.boston.com, also ranan inter viewwith Larivee onan audio showcalled Acrossthe Divide.Art DuritySharing ADiverse ExperienceCathy Nam ’09 attended theStudent Diversity LeadershipConference in Boston, alongwith Jamie Fradkin ’10,Elizabeth Hoffman ’09, CyHossain ’09, Carrie Hui ’08,Justin Stedman ’09, andfaculty and staff membersJennifer Cardillo, Peter Sun,Dana Fitchett, and MarieMyers. Cathy, cohead ofDiversity at CA, reflected onthe experience:My thoughts came to ahalt as I walked throughthe doors and saw an audi -torium with close to 9,000participants in the People ofColor Confer ence and theStudent Diversity LeadershipConfer ence (SDLC). At thatmoment, I knew that I had justjoined a new community workingtoward a common goal: topromote diversity at each ofour private schools.I was getting jittery justlooking around and feeling allthe energy in the room. Thenthe opening ceremony started,and a speaker mentionedthat 3,446 students wereattending the SDLC—a historicnumber. Writer Frank Wucame up on stage, skillfullyread the energy in the room,and shared personal anecdotes.He explained how oftenpeople complain to him thatwe talk excessively aboutdiversity. “We get it!” theytell Wu. “We shouldn’t beracist nor should we be homophobic!We’re all special inour own way, and we shouldrespect one another.”Wu recounted theresponse he has given toomany times: “Nobody complainsabout having to voteevery four years for a newpresident, because they allknow that democracy is aprocess. We can’t just stopone day and complain thatdemocracy takes too much ofour time, and not vote for anew president. It’s the samewith diversity. We need tocontinuously reeducate ourselves to appreciate what wehave . . . And if you’re sick andtired of talking about diversity,have you ever given a thoughtto those who suffer fromracism, homophobia, andother forms of discriminationon a daily basis?”That was the moment ithit me. I have heard from anumber of people that diver -sity is frustrating since it’s aprocess and we can’t see theend result easily. It made somuch more sense comparingdiversity to democracy. Wuwas right: nobody complainedabout their civic duty to vote,why should they grumble atany mention of diversity?Slam poet Kip Fulbeck andjournalist and author MariaHinojosa also spoke with somuch energy that all of the sixCA students who attended theconference were excited toshare similar experiences withthe CA community and to welcomemore diversity speakersto Concord Academy.—Cathy Nam ’09Planning AheadWhen Head of School Jake Dresden announced in Januarythat he will retire from Concord Academy after the2008–09 school year, CA’s Board of Trustees began plans to findhis successor. The Board created a search committee—comprisedof trustees, staff, faculty, alumnae/i, and parents—that isworking with the Boston-based firm of Isaacson, Miller to findCA’s next head of school and to ensure a smooth transition.Head of School Search CommitteeCOMMITTEE COCHAIRSPeter Blacklow ’87, TrusteeMary Malhotra ’78, p’10, TrusteePoetry HonorsPeter Boskey ’08 was one oftwo high school studentsto receive the Helen CreeleyAward for student poets fromthe Creeley Com mittee ofthe Acton Memorial Library,allowing him to read his poetryat a ceremony honoring JohnAshbery, who received thelibrary’s Robert Creeley PoetryAward in March.Applicants submitted fivepoems, and a dozen finalistswere invited to audition.Olivia Fantini ’10 also competedand made it to the finalround of auditions. As part ofthe award, Concord Academy’sJosephine J. Tucker Libraryreceived $250 to buy poetrybooks.Peter read his five poemsat the event, including “TheVictor,” below.CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 20086COMMITTEE MEMBERSElizabeth Ballantine ’66, TrusteeJanet Benvenuti p’09Jennifer Cardillo, Assistant Dean of Community and EquityEllen Condliffe Lagemann ’63, President, Board of TrusteesJohn Moriarty p’02, ’05, ’07, TrusteeJamie Morris-Kliment, Modern and Classical Languages Department HeadMarion Odence-Ford ’82, President, Alumnae/i AssociationDavid Rost, Dean of Students and Community LifeJudi Seldin, Chief Financial OfficerJorge Solares-Parkhurst ’94, TrusteeLearn about the head of school search at www.concordacademy.org/search.The Victor by Peter Boskey ’08She wants to know his psychology, so she tries picking at his thoughtswith imported chopsticks and eagle-eyes. And he complies, surrenderingvolumes of thought and memories, once recorded on pages of diaries.She wants to learn his way, so she follows him from day to night, hidingin fright, because he stops his walk home to turn around. She steals hisshadow, given life by the moonlight reflecting off plastic windows.She wants to be his one, his only, who is around until the world is done;when Armageddon rips and slices at the world’s spices of life. She has won thiswar of, for, and about the heart that won’t part with something good.

A Child Soldier’s Story2008 HALL FELLOW: ISHMAEL BEAHPhotos by Tim MorseIshmael Beah was eleven when fightingseized Sierra Leone. By thirteen, he hadlost his immediate family—his mother,father, and two brothers—and had been draftedby army forces into a vicious civil war.Beah shared the story of his violent pastand his return to normalcy during an all-day visitApril 3, part of the Hall Fellowship program,which honors former Headmistress Elizabeth B.Hall by bringing distinguished speakers tocampus.During an assembly, the former childsoldier described a countryside where the birdsno longer sang. A river where he could no longerswim because bodies would float by. Childrenwho had never raised their voice to adults butwho were recruited to kill them. And boys, likeBeah, who were savvy enough to run only atnight, when bullets were more visible.Beah’s bestselling book, A Long Way Gone:Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, recounts his transformationfrom a kid living in a tightknit community,focused on soccer and hip-hop, into a young soldierwho routinely killed to survive. To SierraLeone’s army leaders, children were especiallydesirable recruits—cheap and malleable.“Children can be manipulated,” Beah explained.His own commanders pushed rhetoricabout punishing his parents’ murderers and preventingother children from losing their families.“They fed you lots of drugs, and they fed youlots of hate and propaganda,” Beah said. Hefeared for his life daily; nevertheless, those commandersbecame father figures and the otherchildren like brothers. “Violence became a wayto show your loyalty,” he explained.The daily nightmare ended when Beahwas taken to a UNICEF rehabilitation camp,where violent and mistrustful boys would beatup workers who were trying to help them. Evenwhen seriously injured, the workers told theboys it wasn’t their fault. It had been a long timesince anyone had believed in Beah like that, andthe UNICEF staff’s faith and calm eventuallyreached him.In 1998, Beah moved to the U.S., courtesyof a woman he had met at a UN conferencewhom he now considers his mother. In his NewYork high school, he was a loner, a successfulstudent who had no trouble ignoring tauntingbut found one moment particularly difficult—when he was asked for a baby picture for theyearbook. “I felt incredibly sad around thattime,” he recalled.Beah went on to graduate from OberlinCollege, where his commencement brought himto tears. “It was the first time I cried in a longtime,” he said. “I had something that no onewould be able to take from me.” Beah warnedCA students not to look at college as a statussymbol, a means to a good career, or even just aneducation. “It’s a journey of self-discovery,” hesaid. “Education made me discover that there’smore to my life than what I experienced as achild.”At Oberlin, Beah’s first assignment in arhetoric and composition class planted the seedfor A Long Way Gone. Asked to describe how heplayed as a child, Beah wrote not about hisdeadly “play” as a soldier, but about his wholesomeprewar play. Curious classmates wanted toknow more, and Beah realized that people mightwant to read about his country.Since arriving in the U.S., he had beenfrustrated at how little Americans know aboutSierra Leone. “Where is that?” friends wouldask. That worried Beah: “If people don’t knowthis country at all, if they don’t know that itexists, how can they understand what is happeningthere?”If they knew anything, it was a SierraLeone characterized by civil war and madness,not his childhood Sierra Leone, where communitieswere caring and education was valued.Beah wrote A Long Way Gone to shed light onhis country as well as on the war. “It was importantto put a human face to it,” he said. “It wasimportant to write what war is and what it doesto the human spirit.”It was no accident that Beah discovereda strong narrative voice. He’d grown up withelders telling stories to their families every night,then, days later, asking a child to retell a story.Kids became active listeners. “My early sense ofnarrative really comes from that,” Beah said.Beah’s life as a child soldier ultimately createda passionately nonviolent and unflappableyoung man. “I’m always smiling because therearen’t that many things that worry me,” he said.Still, he sleeps only about three hours of interruptedsleep nightly. But he casts his insomnia asa blessing, one that provides extra time to writeand study. That upbeat outlook has helped himlive with memories that sometimes jar him unexpectedly.A person walking by quickly or a loudnoise sometimes sparks wartime images.The memories are too ingrained to leavehim. “I can’t forget,” he explained. “I’ve justlearned to live with them and to transform thempositively.”—Gail Friedman7WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

ALUMNAE IPROFILESCarl DouglasClass of 1984Taking a DiveJonas Dahm/Deep Sea ProductionsCONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008BYNANCYSHOHETWEST’84T H I S I S S U E• Carl DouglasClass of 1984• Susan BastressClass of 1970• Mary Ann “Maisy” Wambaugh BennettClass of 1944• Ingrid Walker-DescartesClass of 19918After seeing what Carl Douglas ’84 has accomplished at thehelm of Deep Sea Productions, his Swedish documentary andpublishing company, one can only wonder what he might achievewere he not afraid of water.Today he calls it a funny story, but being thrown into the waterat age five spooked him well into adulthood. “After that, I was alwaysdeathly afraid of water and am still a terrible swimmer,” Douglasadmitted. But in 1990 he spent three months in Australia, where somefriends persuaded him to try deep-sea diving. He was hooked.Over the next five years, Douglas learned to make his wayamong coral reefs and shipwrecks, becoming increasingly fascinatedby the things he saw under the waters near his homeland of Sweden.“In 1996, I got into technical diving in order to better reach theinteresting wrecks that we have in the Baltic Sea. Technical diving,” heexplained, “is basically diving in caves and using gas mixes other thanair—notably using helium to enable deeper dives than whilst usingregular air.”For years, Douglas had been interested in photography; hestudied it at Concord Academy, though remembered being “intenselyannoyed at the seemingly silly assignments we were sent on—but ofcourse there was a point.” He also studied film for the first time atCA, with no clue that he’d one day be taking his cameras underwater.“I think the whole media experience at CA for me was an odd mix oflearning discipline and at the same time encouraging me to find myown point of view,” he said.After college, Douglas returned to Sweden for ten years ofmilitary service. He was stationed in northern Bosnia with the UnitedNations Protection Force during both the massacre of Srebrenicaand the eventual ceasefire accords of Dayton. He then went on tofound a firm dedicated to intelligence and knowledge managementconsulting. But the lure of diving was irresistible. While runningthe consulting company, he began melding his interests in the seawith photography, starting Deep Sea Productions in 1997. He left hisconsulting company in 2003 to focus on his new venture, whichinitially was devoted exclusively to underwater diving and filming, buthas since branched out into non-oceanic films and books. To date,Deep Sea Productions has discovered well over one hundred wrecksin the Baltic Sea.

Deep Sea ProductionsCarl Douglas ’84. Top, underwater explorationcaptured by Deep Sea Productions, Douglas’scompany.In 2004, Deep Sea Productions made thefind that essentially put it on the underseaexplorationmap—and won Douglas a citationfrom the King of Sweden. “In 1952, a SwedishAir Force DC-3 with eight men aboarddisappeared,” Douglas said. “From the beginningit was suspected that the Soviets shot it down.Over time, many fantastic theories were putforth and many divers and authorities tried tofind the wreck. We decided in 1998 to try . . .and five years later we succeeded. When theROV [Remotely Operated Vehicle, anunderwater robot] cabled up the images fromthe wreck confirming that it was the right plane,I cried.”Last year, Douglas led the diving andunderwater filming of Deep Sea Productions’largest documentary project thus far—a series onwreck diving for Swedish and Finnish nationaltelevision. Douglas said he hoped to take on lesswork and regroup in 2008, “but no such luck!We’re producing a documentary series aboutSweden’s top track-and-field athletes; we’recoproducing a TV series about a number ofmysterious deep-lying wrecks around the BritishIsles, and we’re continuing to explore theBaltic—hard at work for the next book.”Douglas mused on his major influences,admitting that he, like many others, was hookedon Jacques Cousteau at an early age. “Hemade the ocean reachable and made divingavailable and natural for so many people,” hesaid. And ten years in the military showedDouglas the value of team-building “and taughtme the wonders of working together toward acommon goal.”Even when that goal is daunting, thisunderwater explorer remains philosophical, oftenrecalling Henry Ford’s famous observation:“I’ve always believed in the saying, ‘Believe thatyou can’t, or believe that you can. Either way,you’re right.’”Learn more about Deep Sea Productions atwww.deepsea.se.9WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

Susan BastressClass of 1970Middle East EnvoySusan Bastress ’70 with her huband Peter Behringer and children Lindsay,Andrew, and Caroline“DCONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008on’t ever assume you know exactly where you’re going toend up,” Susan Bastress ’70 mused. “You have to constantlystay flexible.”A look at what Bastress has accomplished in the past threedecades underscores why that lesson is important to her. Aftermajoring in zoology at Duke University, she worked for the Fish andWildlife Service in the mid-1970s — then switched her career to law.In 2003, as a real estate attorney at the firm Patton Boggs inWashington, DC, she helped negotiate the purchase of a new buildingfor the Qatari Embassy in Washington. Working closely with the Qatariambassador to the U.S. and other Qataris in DC piqued her curiosityabout the culture. When His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Hamad binKhalifa Al Thani, offered Patton Boggs the opportunity to become thefirst U.S. law firm in Qatar, the firm asked Bastress to go as managingpartner, an opportunity she could not imagine passing up — either onher own behalf or that of the firm. She was to become the first non-Qatari citizen licensed to practice law in that Middle East nation.“My husband served in the Peace Corps back in the 1960s, sohe was equally supportive,” she said, though his own career as a realestate developer prevented him from moving with her to Doha, thecapital of Qatar. Her twin teenagers accompanied her and enrolled inschool there; her husband and eldest daughter joined them frequentlyfor vacations.“Living in the Middle East was an incredible experience,”Bastress said. “My family did so much traveling while we were there:we took vacations to Thailand, Istanbul, Beirut, all through Europe.”Qatar, roughly the size of Connecticut, is one of the U.S.’s closest alliesin the Persian Gulf and sits on the third largest natural gas reserve inthe world. “With a very small population sharing the enormous gasprofits, Qatar is the wealthiest per capita country in the world, witha GDP approaching $70,000 per head,” Bastress explained. “And it’s10“I was accepted by all the Qatari menI worked with. I found it very easyto be taken seriously as a professional peer.”only going to get higher. They have a two-hundred-year supply ofnatural gas.”Bastress said that Qatar is striving to be an internationallyrenowned, knowledge-based economy. “They are reinvesting gasprofits into the country’s social infrastructure, focusing on education andhealth, with a goal of making educational and professional opportunitiesmore easily accessible to students in the predominantly Islamic culture.In Qatar especially,” she explained, “the advances made by women,including the right to vote and hold public office, are gaining globalrecognition and support.”Despite what many Westerners assume, Bastress did notstruggle to be accepted as a professional woman in Qatar. “I wasaccepted by all the Qatari men I worked with,” she said. “I found it veryeasy to be taken seriously as a professional peer. I made many friendsand developed many new clients for the firm.”It wasn’t the first time that Bastress had established herselfprofessionally in a different culture. In 1986, with a two-year-old andnewborn twins, she and her husband moved to the U.S. Virgin Islandsto work on a real estate project. What was intended as a three-yearstint turned into a full decade because their careers and children wereflourishing. Bastress established a highly successful law firm withanother attorney. “I look back at those years as some of the mostrewarding of my career,” she said.During her time there, she also established the Virgin IslandsMediation Service (VIMS), a court-supported association of more thanforty certified mediators. Many of the cases she mediated includedhurricane-related claims and personal injury cases, and she remainsproud that the VIMS program is still thriving today.In 2006, Bastress resettled at the DC office of Patton Boggs,where she headed the real estate practice group. The following year,the law firm Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe hired her to increase itsreal estate practice. It’s another firm trying to establish its foothold inthe Middle East —so Bastress suspects a return to the rapidly emergingGulf region might well be on the horizon. As always, she remainsflexible. “Even at the age of fifty-five,” she said, “I find myselfconstantly retooling.”

Mary Ann “Maisy” Wambaugh BennettClass of 1944Singing Her PraisesMaisy (left) and friends with Seiji Ozawa, then musicdirector of the Boston Symphony Orchestra“Ididn’t think of myself as someone whowould be singing forever,” said Mary Ann“Maisy” Wambaugh Bennett ’44. “I’ve nevereven had any formal voice training. I wasplanning to be a music teacher.”In reality, Bennett’s career as a musicteacher was short and unsatisfying, whereas hersinging talents have carried her through thepast six decades—from her student days atConcord Academy and Vassar to the BostonSymphony’s summer home at Tanglewood,Boston’s Symphony Hall, and the capitals ofEurope and the Far East.“Music has always been part of my life,”said Bennett, who was a piano major in college,an apprentice teaching elementary music atShady Hill School in Cambridge, then ateacher in an after-school program in Boston’sSouth End, which she described as disastrous.“I was supposed to be using all the wonderfulteaching techniques that Shady Hill hadgiven me to teach the kids circle games andfolk songs,” she said. “Well, forget it! Theywould come bounding into the building full ofexcess energy and climb all over the pianowhile I was trying to play it. I had no controlover them at all. Eventually, I was reassigned asa playground aide.”Bennett left professional life to raise fourchildren with her late husband Hank in theBoston suburbs. She sang with severalchoruses, including a local group that in the1960s came under the leadership of a newdirector: “a very young John Oliver.” Oliverwould soon be tapped by the BostonSymphony Orchestra (BSO) to form a chorus.He brought along several chorus members,including Bennett.Maisy (right) with choral colleague Julie Steinhilber“Because there were many groups in theBoston area that already sang with the BSO inthe winter season, the Tanglewood FestivalChorus was originally intended to perform onlyin the summer at Tanglewood. But in fact, ourfirst concert was in Boston in April of 1969 dueto a change in programming,” she recalled.“Leonard Bernstein conducted us in a performanceof Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The crowdwas wild to see Bernstein, who hadn’t been toBoston in a very long time. The applause calledhim back to the stage eight times! I thought Ihad died and gone to heaven.”That same summer, Bennett started performingat Tanglewood. Her first concert therewas under the direction of Seiji Ozawa, whomBennett had never heard of at that point. Shewould spend the next four decades performingwith him. “Back when I started with the Tangle -wood Festival Chorus, there were about seventyto eighty singers and everybody was part ofevery choral performance, of which there wereup to five per summer,” she said. “Now it’sTony Mazzoladifferent; there are about 250 choral members,and you’re selected only for some programs andnot others.” Bennett joined the chorus whenthe youngest of her four children was twelve.“My husband was wonderful about it,” she said.“For a weekend concert, you had to be out inthe Berkshires by midweek for rehearsals. In theearly days, we stayed at Miss Hall’s School inPittsfield; these days performers stay all overthe area. My husband would come up for oneweekend performance each summer.”Bennett performed with the TanglewoodFestival Chorus for thirty-seven years; she retiredjust last summer. “It was a very large commitmentof time, energy, and money, but therewards have been extraordinary in many ways,”she said. “The chorus has performed numeroustimes in Carnegie Hall, but also in Canada,England, Scotland, France, Germany, andSwitzerland. In 1994, Seiji Ozawa led a Far Easttour in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Osaka. Itamazes me to think that I’ve sung not onlyunder the direction of Seiji Ozawa, but also withover twenty other conductors, including ColinDavis, Robert Shaw, and Bernard Haitink, whotook us on the chorus’s first European tour. Italso seems incredible that I’ve performed withwell-known soloists such as Jessye Norman,Renée Fleming, and José Van Dam.”Bennett sings now with her church choir inLincoln, Massachusetts. She plays tennis, readsin a Shakespeare group, volunteers for a localsenior citizen program, and sees her children andgrandchildren as much as possible. “For manyyears I couldn’t imagine retiring,” she said. “Ikept postponing it and postponing it. I couldn’tpicture who I would be if I wasn’t singing withthe Tanglewood Chorus.“Being part of that group and all it entailshas largely defined my identity for almost halfmy life.”11WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Ingrid Walker-DescartesClass of 1991The Smallest VictimsThe lack of contact with actual patients was what Ingrid Walker-Descartes ’91 found most difficult about medical school.“My days were made up of going to classes and cominghome and then doing it all again the next day,” she says of her years atthe University of Rochester Medical School. “Meanwhile, there was awhole community out there that I had no contact with. You go to medicalschool with the goal of becoming a doctor and eventually helpingpeople, but at that point I was impatient to get started.”So Walker-Descartes joined a volunteer program while shewas in medical school and was placed in health clinics, where shewould read picture books to the children waiting for appointments.After getting to know some of the children, she asked the clinic’s pediatricianif she could begin observing appointments.In the examining room, she learned far more about the childrenthan she ever picked up in the waiting room. “That’s where youwould hear about the ugly side of children’s lives: physical abuse, sexualabuse, emotional abuse,” she said. “And what really struck me washow in the waiting room they had seemed like ordinary kids listening tostories, acting playful and mischievous. How was it that, despite allthese mean and ugly things that were happening to them, they stillappeared so intact?”The situations of these unfortunate young children lodged inher brain. After graduating from medical school in 2001, she resolved tocontinue championing such children — but felt she needed more training.So Walker-Descartes completed a fellowship in general academicpediatrics with a focus on child maltreatment at Mount Sinai Hospital inNew York, while also completing a master’s in public health.Still, her attitude toward the children has not changed sincethose early days of volunteering in the Rochester clinic. “Socioeco-nomics has nothing to do with blatant disregard for children,” she said.“Abuse happens in all sectors of society. I’m horrified by how someadults can treat children — our most precious resources. But at thesame time, I’m incredibly awed by the resilience of the children. When Ihear a seven-year-old whose mother held a knife to her throat whilehigh on crack say, ‘Well, that wasn’t really my mother doing that; somethingjust came over her and I still love her,’ I just say, ‘Wow.’ As amother myself, it makes me realize that, as crazy as your kids can makeyou, it’s just amazing how much love they still have for you.”One child she met at the Rochester clinic has remained partof her life to this day. “Every time I was volunteering at the clinic, hecame in with a stomachache. Finally the doctor said to me, ‘He tells hismother he has the worst stomachache, but then he comes in and you12read to him and he’s good as new!’” As she continued beyond medicalschool and into professional life, Walker-Descartes kept in touch withthe boy, who is now sixteen. “I’m his unofficial godmother,” she said.“He has been through so much — foster care, adoption — and whileI can’t say he has blossomed into the perfect young man, he is reallytrying with the supports he has.”These days, Walker-Descartes is an attending physician ingeneral pediatrics at Maimonides Infant and Children’s Hospital nearher home in Brooklyn. Because that hospital has no child abuse team,she also consults on all child abuse cases that come into the ER andhas been charged with starting up a program dedicated to child victims.In addition, she continues as adjunct faculty at Mount Sinai Hospitaland the New York Methodist Hospital, where she teaches doctors intraining about providing care for this special population. “I never getbored with my work,” she says. “Disgusted, yes, but that feeling onlyimpassions me further.”Having two young daughters and three stepdaughters ofher own gives Walker-Descartes an added incentive to continue caringfor society’s most neglected children. “I look at my girls and thinkabout how I don’t know whom they’ll bring home. When you look atthe statistics and realize what the chances are of somebody who’sbeen abused or traumatized in some way getting involved with yourfamily, this becomes a problem no longer ‘out there’ but ‘in here,’”she said. “Maybe by tending to society’s most neglected children, insome indirect way I can improve my own children’s chances of havingpositive experiences in life.”For more information on Ingrid’s efforts to build a child abuse preventionprogram at Maimonides Infant and Children’s Hospital, contact herat IWalker-Descartes@maimonidesmed.org.“I never get bored with my work. Disgusted, yes,but that feeling only impassions me further.”Ingrid Walker-Descartes ’91 with her husband Wallace and daughters Idalisand Demaris

What You WillKatherine Bucknell ’75Fourth Estate, 2007Betrayal comes in all forms for twolongtime friends. Bucknell masterfullydescribes the growing chaossurrounding the lives of Gwen,seemingly secure in marriage andmotherhood, and Hilary, shatteredby a broken engagement and thesudden dismissal from the jobshe loves. As the layers of theirrelationship are revealed, long-heldjealousies emerge while mistakenidentities and midlife crises abound.Whether taken from the alternatetitle of Twelfth Night or not, thisnovel compares with Shakespeare’sin its complexity and deception.Love certainly does drive folks todo some extraordinary things.This Republic of Suffering: Deathand the American Civil WarDrew Gilpin Faust ’64Knopf, 2008American views of death took onnew dimensions during and immediatelyfollowing the Civil War.More than 620,000 soldiers diedduring the conflict; civilian deathsare estimated at 50,000. Neverbefore had Americans witnessedthe carnage of so brutal a conflict.Faust details the horror of death,disease, and suffering, which wasexacerbated by bungled attempts atburial. Following the war, hastilyburied Union soldiers wereexhumed and properly interred innational cemeteries, while privatecitizens in the South took on thetask of burying their own. Inaccu -rate recordkeeping left tens ofthousands buried under the word“Unknown.” Faust records andconveys the devastation that befella divided union and providesinsights into how this definingmoment shaped a nation.Geocide: Placating Humanity’sEnvironmental DemonsAdam Cherson ’79iUniverse Inc., 2008Are you geocidal? In this primer forthe average citizen, Cherson spellsout how everyone is implicated inthe emergence of a new geologicalage—a period marked by chemicaland biological shifts that may resultin mass extinction, or geocide.You don’t need to be Al Gore totake educated actions that can helppreserve our planet. Check outwww.environment-policy.info forCherson’s geocide updates and tolearn more about political ecology.Steeplejacking: How theChristian Right Is HijackingMainstream ReligionSheldon Culver ’66 (coauthor)iG Publishing, 2007Throughout the country, establishedchurches are being approachedby members of the Institute onReli gion and Democracy (IRD), apredatory organization backed bythe religious right. Culver describeshow IRD followers, with greatdetermination and strong-armtactics, work to divide congregationsand take over church leadership.As ordained United Churchof Christ ministers, Culver andcoauthor John Dorhaer work withparishioners and clergy, teachingthem how to stand up to thesemisguided meddlers.CA Bookshelfby Martha Kennedy, Library Director13WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

The Missouri Compromiseand Its Aftermath: Slavery andthe Meaning of AmericaRobert Forbes ’76University of North CarolinaPress, 2007For decades, a young Americannation wrestled mightily over theinstitution of slavery. An embitteredCongress spent years debating howto move new territories forwardinto statehood, while delicatelymaneuvering around the issue. TheSouth fought for the expansion ofslavery into new lands; the Northand West fought against it. Dealswere struck, startling alliances wereformed, and, following years ofdebate, the Missouri Compromiseof 1821 came to be. Forbes carefullyunfolds the events that precededthis historic legislation anddiscusses the consequences of itsrepeal. He also takes on the complexmoral, political, and economicissues that gave rise to whitesupremacy and racism, issues thatresonate today.Schulz and PeanutsDavid Michaelis ’75HarperCollins, 2007Michaelis’s insightful examinationof Charles Schulz, America’s premiertwentieth-century cartoonist,presents a dark and questioningcreator who never seemed satisfied,despite the empire he built.The author connects the creativeand tormented mind of Schulzto his Peanuts characters—Lucy,for instance, reflects Schulz’sdomineering first wife. Over twohundred strips wind throughoutthe text, breaking the tension. Yoube the judge of whether CharlieBrown’s melancholy, Lucy’s bossiness,or Snoopy’s adventurousspirit are parts of Schulz’s person -ality, caricatures of friends andfamily, or merely the creation ofthe artist’s mind.Loves of Harriet Beecher StowePhilip McFarland, Teacher EmeritusGrove Press, 2007McFarland examines three influentialmen in the life of HarrietBeecher Stowe, author of the nineteenth-centurybestseller UncleTom’s Cabin—her father, her husband,and her brother. When LymanBeecher, Harriet’s father and a leadingtheologian, became president ofthe Lane Theological Seminary, thefamily moved to Cincinnati, andHarriet witnessed slavery in neighboringKentucky. She befriended ayoung widower, Calvin Stowe, theman she later married—and thesecond subject of McFarland’sexploration. The author also considersthe influence of Henry WardBeecher, the spirited brother whomade his mark as the top preacherof his day. By painting a picture ofthese men, McFarland creates anuanced portrait of Harriet herself.Click!: One Novel, Ten AuthorsRuth Lounsbury Ozeki ’74(contributing author)Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007A collection of signed photos, anold camera, and a box with secretcompartments are left to the grandchildrenof famous photographerGeorge “Gee” Keane. Jason andMaggie spend their lives examiningthe mystery that surrounded Geeand meeting the many peoplecaptured by his lens and his heart.Ozeki joins Nick Hornby, GregoryMcGuire, Linda Sue Park, RoddyDoyle, Eoin Colfer, and others inthis unique young-adult novel.(Royalties from the book benefitAmnesty International.)CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008✍ Send your book and music newsto magazine@concordacademy.org.14Coming soon in CA Bookshelf, works by:Julie Agoos ’74Alice Domar ’76Laura Davies Foley ’75Isabel Fonseca ’79Jane Fletcher Geniesse ’54Cameron McNeil ’87J.B. Miller ’78Hilary Price ’87Cynthia Saltzman ‘67Nina Tannenwald ’77

Mama Knows Breast: ABeginner’s Guide toBreastfeedingAndi Silverman ’87Quirk Books, 2007This colorfully illustrated how-tois geared toward first-time parentsweighing the benefits of breastfeeding.With humor and practicaladvice, Silverman shares techniquesthat new mothers can putinto practice from day one.Answered are critical questionssuch as: Where do you begin?How can you include your spouse?How do you handle employers,store managers, and others whomay be uncomfortable with publicfeedings? The handy resourcesection includes other guides andWeb sites where new moms canfind additional information. Andthe compact size enables users toread while feeding—a supportgroup at your fingertips.Islamic Gardens and LandscapesD. Fairchild Ruggles ’75University of PennsylvaniaPress, 2008Ruggles explores thirteen centuriesof agriculture and cultivated landscapesin this study of formal gardensof the Islamic world. Includedare floor plans, manuscripts, paintings,photographs, and textiles illustratingthe designs of the Islamictradition. Improvements in irrigationtechniques transformed formerlyparched landscapes into lush oases,and geological settings influencedbotanical selection. Featured sitesrange from Spain and northernAfrica to the Middle East and India.Professor Ruggles is a member ofthe Department of LandscapeArchitecture at the University ofIllinois Urbana-Champaign. Otherrecent books include Sites Unseen:Landscape and Vision (coeditedwith Dianne Harris) and CulturalHeritage and Human Rights(coedited with Helaine Silverman).From Islamic Gardens and Landscapes (from top): Palace of Pashain ‘Abd al-Kari Fez, Morocco and a Mughal garden on Lake Dal inKashmirMusical NotesBig City Sessionsby George Miserlis ’81Parody Records, 2006Distortionby the Magnetic FieldsFeaturing Sam Davol ’88 andClaudia Gonson ’86Nonesuch Records, 2008The Music Box: Songs, Rhymes,and Games for Young ChildrenBetsy Lund Zahniser ’71ELZ Publishing, 200615WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

THE PULL OFCONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008by Gail FriedmanAbove, from left: Nick Deane ‘01,Mike Firestone ‘01, SandraWillett Jackson ‘61, Jill HarkenHall ‘61, Matt Chandler ‘02, andJeremy Tamanini ‘9416It was 4:00 a.m. at Bill Bailey’s campus home when thephone rang. A student in his American Politics and Govern -ment class, Mike Firestone ’01, was calling from Al Gore’sheadquarters in Nashville with the latest news about thehistoric 2000 Gore-Bush presidential race.But Firestone wasn’t reporting only to his teacher. He wasnotifying all the students in his class, who were bundled intosleeping bags on Bailey’s living room floor. “As I look back on it,sometimes I think I lost my mind,” Teacher Emeritus Baileymused. “All these boys and girls. But none paired off, and noparents expressed any skepticism.”If they knew Bill Bailey, they realized he was a passionatedevotee of the American political process, and expected the sameenthusiasm from his students. He had campaigned door to door

POLITICSfor Eugene McCarthy in 1968. He’d worked on Paul Tsongas’sSenate campaign and interned with Tsongas during a sabbaticalfrom CA in 1976. In the late sixties, he invited John Kerry—notyet a senator, but head of Vietnam Veterans Against the War—tospeak at CA.So it was no surprise when Bailey announced a political sleepoverin 2000. He had required his students to work on a campaignand, weeks earlier, had piled several into his car and driven themto Manchester, New Hampshire, to attend a Bill Bradley event andto canvass afterward for the candidate.Bailey’s passion for politics—and that of other CA facultyover the years—spawned a sizable troop of CA politicos, many ofwhom are involved in the 2008 presidential campaign,including Firestone, who remembers the day in Manchester asIllustrationsby Richard P. Clark17WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

T H E P U L L O F P O L I T I C Sa personal turning point. “We went door todoor in the rain,” he said. “Everyone was tiredand sort of cranky after hours in the cold, and Iwas just exhilarated. I said, ‘I’ve got to find away to keep doing this.’”He did. In fact Firestone, a field directorfor Hillary Clinton, was behind the scenes ofher noteworthy upset in the New Hampshireprimary. Firestone had interned on the Gorecampaign, took a semester off from college towork for John Kerry in Florida, worked as afield director for former New HampshireGovernor Jean Shaheen’s Senate race in 2002,then moved on to the Massachusetts DemocraticParty and Massachusetts Governor DevalPatrick’s campaign, where he says he learned thefundamentals of grassroots organizing—skills heput to use in Manchester.Firestone might have settled into a job in thePatrick administration, but he wasn’t ready torelinquish the rush of campaign work. “What Ireally enjoy and what motivates me is seeinghow organizations are built, seeing how peoplecan be mobilized around an idea and around acandidacy,” he said. He spent nine monthsorganizing Clinton’s campaign in New Hamp -shire, eventually managing a staff of twenty inthe region around the state’s largest city—apopulation block important to Clinton’s eventualwin.On a typical day, Firestone would holdClinton signs during the morning commute (“Ibelieve really strongly in never asking people todo things I won’t do myself”), then, around 8:30a.m., would arrive at the office and set up packetsof information and maps for volunteers whowould be canvassing door to door. “You needvolunteers to drive people to polls, bring foodin, make phone calls, go door to door, holdsigns, help other volunteers,” he said. The pacewould continue until about 9:00 p.m., whenFirestone would prepare for the next day’s routine.He’d get home by 11:00 p.m. or midnight—aseven-day-a-week pace with never a dayoff. “Of course there’s a physical toll in the campaign,”he said. “You get up to do what you doday after day because you believe in what you’redoing.”After the unexpected New Hampshire victory,the Clinton campaign named FirestoneTennessee’s field director, and he took the tech-CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Teacher Emeritus Bill Bailey’spolitical legacy at CA(clockwise from above):Bailey with Paul Tsongas;Michael Dukakis with Bailey’sclass (Dukakis spoke at a CAassembly in 2000);Bill Bradley with CA students,including Mike Firestone ’01,far right18Photos courtesy of Bill Bailey

T H E P U L L O F P O L I T I C Sniques he’d mastered in New Hampshire south.Another win, and he was on a roll. As of April,Firestone had worked on the Clinton campaignin New Hampshire, Tennessee, Virginia, Texas,and Pennsylvania.Nick Deane ’01, who was at Bill Bailey’shouse in 2000 when Firestone called, helped hisfriend on Clinton’s New Hampshire campaign.“I ended up in the Clinton campaign for Mike,”he said, but added, “I also have to say I thinkI’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid.”Deane had taken his first stab at campaignwork when Steve Grossman ran for governorof Massachusetts in 2002, then interned forLieutenant Governor Chris Gabrieli, followedby a stint for Shannon O’Brien’s gubernatorialcampaign, where he learned to do oppositionresearch. “O’Brien’s campaign was understaffedand the one researcher needed help,” he said.“He told me to pore through old news reports,read SEC records and tax filings.” Deane cameto understand when a story was pressworthy,and when pitching it would be unethical. Forexample, he didn’t find any reason to implicateMitt Romney in an accident in France, whichkilled the person in Romney’s passenger seat.“It was vaguely damaging, but it didn’t have anybeef, so we passed over it,” Deane said. Evidenceof Romney’s offshore accounts, however, wasconsidered fair game after careful considerationby research and press staff. Deane said theydiscussed, first of all, whether there could bebacklash from the story. Did their candidatehave offshore accounts too? “You have to makesure it’s not going to come back and bite you,”Deane said.Sarah Liebowitz ’99, who covered Clinton’scampaign for the Concord (NH) Monitor, knowswhat it’s like to get tips like that. “If it seemsinteresting you certainly poke around, but sometimesyou poke around and it doesn’t seem likethat big of a deal.” She said candidates’ medialiaisons were among her greatest challenges as ayoung reporter. “You have to be confidentenough to deal with the competing press people,”she said. “You’re going to have press peopleon both sides trying to spin you.”In 2004, Deane went on to volunteer forHoward Dean, then took a break from college towork for John Kerry’s campaign (at one pointalongside Firestone in an Orlando office). WhenJill Harken Hall ’61Adventures in IowaWhen Jill Harken Hall ’61 decidedto campaign for Barack Obama inIowa, she had a hunch that herfamily’s roots there might help her connectwith voters. “My grandfather was the townsurgeon and general practitioner in Osceola, atown south of Des Moines. He opened a smallcommunity hospital and was the principaltown doctor,” she said. “I wondered if peoplewould know the Harken name.”Hall has been a committed Obama supportersince the fall of 2006. “It’s very excitingto feel hopeful and to believe in someonewho I really think can pull the countrytogether, because God knows we’ve neverbeen more polarized,” she said.The first person Harken met in Iowa wasa police officer on the rural stretch betweenOsceola and Council Bluffs. He found herdriving a bit rushed—and being Dr. Harken’sgranddaughter didn’t help. “He kept spittinginto this Mountain Dew bottle. I kept wondering,what kind of illness does he have?” Hallsaid, later realizing that he was gnawing on awad of chewing tobacco.At first, canvassing door-to-door inOsceola wasn’t much more fun. Harken hadmade herself a button with her name on it,hoping to spark some recognition. “I wasgoing door to door, which I have to admit wasjust abysmally tedious,” she said. “A lot ofpeople weren’t home; it was cold and icy andjust kind of boring.”Near the end of the day, an elderly coupleinvited Hall in. They told Hall that her grandfather,Dr. Conreid Rex Harken, was theirdoctor. “They were sitting across from eachother in their recliners in their living room,”Hall remembered. “The husband was a registeredRepublican. The wife was eighty-twoand had never caucused, but was thinking ofdoing it for the first time, and she supportedObama.” Hall offered to pick her up, and(why stop there?) asked if she could put abanner in her yard, which was en route to acaucus site. The husband grumbled a bit butrelented after Hall said she would removethe banner when she brought his wife backhome after the caucus.The next morning, the day before thecaucuses, Hall went to coffee (they don’t say“for coffee” in Osceola), a morning ritual formany residents. It seemed that everyone at thediner knew Dr. Harken. She met her grand -father’s paper boy and several of his patients,including one who told a vivid story about hissister getting her arm caught in a washingmachine’s wringer and the expert skin graftand surgery that Dr. Harken performed.Hall had hoped to connect with someoneat her family’s farm, too, but no one had beenaround when she stopped by. Finally, on herthird try, she spotted a man on a tractor, whotold her he’d always wanted to meet a descendantof Dr. Harken. If that weren’t excitingenough, the farmer was anxious to discussObama. “I wish the wife could meet you,” hetold Hall, who promptly offered to pick himup for the caucus in the morning and spendsome time beforehand visiting with his wife.“When I got there the next day at 6:45a.m., he wasn’t there and she expressed somehesitation. I don’t think they’d ever caucusedbefore,” Hall said. But Hall persuaded bothof them to go, only later learning that thehusband was a registered Republican and hadto change his registration on the spot. “Theyweren’t terribly effervescent people,” saidHall. “They seemed to have had a good time.I can’t say they’ll be lifelong Democrats.”After the caucuses, she took home thefarming couple and the eighty-two-year-oldwoman. Hall kept her word and offered totake the Obama sign out of her yard. “I’dkind of like to keep it,” the woman told her.19WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

T H E P U L L O F P O L I T I C SCONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Kerry lost, Deane followed Firestone to thePatrick campaign, which he called “my first bigexposure to field work, recruiting volunteers,organizing rallies, organizing local elected officials.”Those skills came in handy in NewHampshire, where Clinton’s success and theaccompanying adrenaline counteracted any disillusionmenthe had felt after the Kerry loss.“Cynics weed themselves out,” Deane reflected.“The people who stick with campaigns are pragmaticidealists.” He says working on a campaignactually reaffirms that people are good. “Thereare a whole bunch of people who care. Theyshow up. They hold signs in the rain and snow,”he said. “You have to admire the fact that thereare still people who care that much about theAmerican political process.”The InsiderSandra Willett Jackson ’61, a major volunteer inthe Hillary Clinton campaign, says an intrinsicbelief in that process has driven her to fight forvarious political causes and candidates over theyears. “It’s a longterm commitment that’s basedprincipally on my belief in the democratic system,”she said.20Jackson—a member of Clinton’s Women’sLeadership Committee and Finance Committee,a leader in Wellesley Women for Hillary, and alongtime friend and associate of the candidate—postponed a February interview because of aconference call that included Clinton herself andCampaign Manager Maggie Williams. The discussionfocused on how field staff was preparingfor primaries in Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio,Wisconsin, and Rhode Island.In a typical week, Jackson participated intwo conference calls for the campaign: one forthe Women’s Leadership Committee and onefor the Finance Committee. When she was notconferencing on policy issues, Jackson was helpingto recruit supporters, spreading information,traveling to primary states, and organizingothers to do so. Jackson organized a 2007 Wash -ington rally that attracted thousands to DC’sconvention center; cohosted a fundraiser forleaders of the minority community, attended byHillary and Bill, which raised $300,000; andcoorganized and hosted a Women’s Summitin New York, which “brought women togetherfrom all different states on issues of the economy,health care, international trade, employment,education, the big issues.” She recently“Hillary is extraordinarilyqualified and open andable to learn quickly, and is justincomparable in her outreach to othersand in her global credibility.”—Sandra Willett Jackson ’61Sandra Willett Jackson ’61 and Mary Paul “Pixie”Loomis ’66 at a Hillary Clinton rally in Pennsylvaniacohosted a reception for Hillary and Chelsea,and campaigned (with Mary Paul “Pixie”Loomis ’66) in Pennsylvania, in anticipationof that state’s primary. She has consulted onstrategy, and also held Clinton signs in freezingweather in Youngstown, Ohio.An inveterate networker, Jackson developedher own mailing lists, compiled of friends,Wellesley colleagues, Washington contacts, andothers. “I pass on my concerns and questionsand reasons for supporting Hillary Clinton, andI forward talking points for the campaign. I’m ago-between, but I’m also a translator of all theselong policy papers.”Jackson met the Clintons in 1988, but firstworked closely with Hillary as president of VitalVoices, an organization that nurtures femaleleaders around the world; Clinton was a foundingcochair. Jackson worked on Bill Clinton’s1992 campaign until she went to Hungary asPeace Corps director, returning to volunteer onforeign policy issues with the 1996 Clinton campaign.In 1998, she earned a presidential appointmentto the State Department. Jackson says sheis loyal to Hillary “because I know her as anindividual and I respect her highly as a leader.She’s extraordinarily qualified and open and ableto learn quickly, and is just incomparable in heroutreach to others and in her global credibility.”Changing Their MindsSome CA alumnae/i once felt that way aboutHillary, but over time switched allegiances toBarack Obama. Jeremy Tamanini ’94 was ajunior fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s Senatecampaign in New York. But he found himselfveering toward Obama as the primary seasonprogressed, primarily because he suspected thatrace-tinged comments, references to Obama’sdrug use as a teen, and questions about whether

T H E P U L L O F P O L I T I C She was Muslim seemed too deliberate to be coincidental.“A candidate can’t necessarily control acomment here and there,” he said. “But therecame a point when it was not clear what was andwasn’t tolerated.”Tamanini began his Obama support by makingphone calls in New York, then got involvedin Washington, DC, where he’s attending graduateschool at Georgetown’s School of ForeignService. He canvassed in DC and Ohio, andhelped register independents in Pennsylvania.While the media has played up the policy similaritiesbetween Obama and Clinton, Tamaninisays he strongly prefers Obama’s positions onhealth care and foreign policy. He also fears thatClinton won’t be a stark enough departure fromthe Bush administration. “She brings the legacyof what we’re in now,” he said, “but a Demo -cratic version of it, with a lot of the baggage andthe partisanship.”Tyler Stone ’05 changed allegiances too,but even more dramatically. Remembered byclassmates as the student body president at CAand the leader of the student Republican Club,Stone said he started leaning away from theRepublican Party even before he went to college.“It’s something I’d been wrestling with for awhile,” he said. “My own political position wasevolving.”The “sheer incompetence” in Iraq “reallyjarred some of the assumptions I had about theBush administration, which I’d previouslystrongly supported,” he explained. And he wasimpressed with Obama’s 2004 address at theDemocratic National Convention; his messagesof unity resonated with a student “who hasgrown up in an era of George W. Bush, whichis defined by partisan fighting.”At Davidson College, Stone cofoundedStudents for Barack Obama; he stayed involvedwhen he transferred to Georgetown, helpingto organize a trip last fall that attracted aboutthree hundred students to an Obama rally indowntown Washington. As a student leader forObama, Stone’s biggest challenge hasn’t beenClinton or McCain supporters. “It’s been mostlywith students who were previously apathetic,convincing them that the idealism that theyhold can be put to good use by supportingBarack Obama.”To Stone, young people do want to fight forchange, but haven’t felt empowered to do itthrough the political system. “A lot of kids in mygeneration haven’t registered to vote becausethey don’t feel like their beliefs, their idealism,can be brought to fruition through politics,” he“A lot of kids in my generationhaven’t registered to vote becausethey don’t feel like their beliefs,their idealism, can be brought to fruitionthrough politics. Students really wantto bring about change. In Obama,there’s a real belief that we can express those ideals.”—Tyler Stone ’05said. “They do it through Relay for Life, or byjoining an environmental group. Students reallywant to bring about change, but they’re notdoing it through politics.”He believes his candidate is changing that.“In Obama, there’s a real belief that we canexpress those ideals,” he said.Several other CA alumnae/i rhapsodizedabout Obama and why his candidacy movedthem to volunteer. Perhaps the most noteworthyis Caroline Kennedy ’75, who turned heads withher op-ed in the New York Times supportingObama. “I have never had a president whoinspired me the way people tell me that myfather inspired them,” she wrote. “But for thefirst time, I believe I have found the man whocould be that president—not just for me, but fora new generation of Americans.”Another CA graduate, Matt Chandler ’02,played a role in Obama’s wins in Colorado andWyoming, handling press and communicationsfor those primaries, and in mid-April was thefulltime communications director for Obama’sMontana campaign.After interning at a “rinky-dink” newspaperin Colorado and becoming disillusioned at aPR firm, Chandler found a job at a political consultingfirm in Denver, where colleagues drewhim into the Obama campaign. During a March2007 rally, Chandler and a friend ended upbeing Obama’s “body men” for the day, keepinghim on schedule and attending to his needs.“He left me with a very strong impression,” saidChandler, who opted to leave the consultingfirm to become a media liaison for Obama. Hehas guided celebrities such as Forest Whitakerand Kerry Washington through campaign stops,making sure they got on camera and stayedon message.A few days before Super Tuesday, Chandlerwas sleep-deprived but animated. “We werehanging out last night until 2:30 a.m., answeringemails and making sure our precinct captains hadall the information they needed,” he said, thenwent on feverishly to describe a twelve-year-oldprecinct captain in Boulder and the hundreds ofhigh school students making phone calls andknocking on doors.He stopped to breathe. “I was supposed todo this for a week,” Chandler mused. He iscaught up in the pace, which he finds both exhilaratingand challenging. “There’s an endless21WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

T H E P U L L O F P O L I T I C Samount of work to be done and you never feelthat you are finished,” he said. “People are sodriven; people are so excited and so passionate.”Lynn Adler ’61, another Obama supporter,voted for Bill Clinton and said she recognizesHillary’s intellect and accomplishment. “But Ihave witnessed many women political leaders inthe world, and I have no illusions that genderalone will lead to fair and just decision-making,”said Adler, who has made endless phone calls topersuade independents and others to vote forObama in state primaries. “Furthermore, I reallysee Barack as a world citizen, someone who transcendsa specific race and culture”—a point thatresonates with Adler, whose children are ofVietnamese and Mexican heritage.After Adler graduated from college, sheworked in the civil rights movement, an experiencethat led her to value Obama’s experience asa community organizer in Chicago. She alsoappreciates his detachment from traditional partymovers. “I find him a refreshing change from theestablished and connected Democratic politicalelite, which does include the Clintons,” she said.Political AspirationsSeveral CA alumnae/i have been intimatelyinvolved with politics, but are not working onthe current presidential campaign. MikeRodman ’91, who hopes to run for office someday, may have one of CA’s gutsiest stories ofpolitical tenacity.Determined to volunteer when the 1992Democratic National Convention was in NewYork, Rodman ended up delivering newspapersto delegates’ hotels and running errands. But hedidn’t land a coveted pass to attend the conventionand became frustrated watching the eventon TV. So he headed to hotels where the mediawere based and asked around for an extra presspass. His political cold-calling paid off when theSt. Louis Post-Dispatch gave him one, on thecondition that he write for them if they askedhim to (which they never did). For four days,Rodman volunteered by day and reveled in theconvention action by night.But his doggedness didn’t end there. Whenhe returned to Washington University in St.Louis, he entered a local office for the Clinton-Gore campaign looking to help out. When askedif he had any communications experience, hereplied: “I went to the convention with a presspass.” Next thing he knew he was working eightyhours a week for the local communicationsdirector, “going to classes as best I could, but mypriority was definitely the campaign.” That communicationsdirector in St. Louis eventuallyworked for Tipper Gore in the White House andbrought Rodman along as a White Houseintern. “I was doing speeches, press releases,press advisories,” he said.After graduation, Rodman headed to BostonCollege for law school. He was there five weeksand had been elected class representative whenhe decided law wasn’t right for him. “It was“I really see Barack as a worldcitizen, someone who transcends aspecific race and culture.”—Lynn Adler ’61CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008CA graduates behind Obama: From top, JeremyTamanini ’94; Tyler Stone ’05, far right, with thecandidate and young supporters; and MattChandler ’02 with Obama22

T H E P U L L O F P O L I T I C Sembarrassing,” he said. (Concerned that peoplewould think he quit because a big paper wasdue, he did the paper anyway.) Rodman endedup at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Governmentin 1997, a much better fit, but first did freelanceWeb design, worked for a state representative,and taught computer classes at CA.After Harvard, he worked for Rep. StenyHoyer (D-MD), learning the nuts and bolts ofhow the House worked and writing speechesfor the House Administration Committee onsubjects ranging from the Taliban to the importanceof the soap box derby to Americana. Butthe House Administration Committee also oversawcontested elections, and Rodman became anobserver in New Jersey and Minnesota duringrecounts of Congressional races. That year, hewas a guest speaker in Bill Bailey’s AmericanGovernment and Politics class at CA.Missing Boston and becoming cynical aboutthe political machinations he saw, Rodmanreturned north and worked in communicationsat Harvard, first at the law school, and currentlyat the school of education. “Some people say,‘You’ve given up on the whole political thing.’ Tome, my work is another part of my education,”he said. “I’ve really been immersed in legal andeducation policy. I’m learning so much: NoChild Left Behind, education access, the achievementgap. These are all such important policyissues.”He hopes one day to return to politics—asa candidate. “I still have a lot to learn,” he said.“I want to make sure I could do it right and doit well. I don’t want to run simply because I’vealways wanted to.”CA friend and campaign pro Alec Evans ’97has told Rodman he’s ready to help when thetime comes. It’s possible that no other CA graduateunderstands the grueling pace and personalrisks of campaign work better than Evans, whowas known as the righthand man to AdrianFenty when Fenty was running for mayor ofWash ington, DC—until he was unceremoniouslybooted by his impulsive boss.Now Evans is running Nick Leibham’scampaign for the 50th Congressional district inCalifornia, hoping to ride a Democratic waveof change against a Republican incumbent. “Outof 435 Congressional seats, there are probablytwenty that are really in play throughout thecountry, and this is one of them,” he said.Since his first political job for a DC CityCouncil member, when he worked his way upThe Other PartyConcord Academy magazinesearched for active Republicansamong the school’s alumnae/i.Tyler Stone ’05, once head of theschool’s Republican Club, seemeda good prospect, but turned outto be an Obama supporter. Thehunt continues for supporters ofJohn McCain (if you’re workingfor McCain, please let us know atmagazine@concordacademy.org).Steve Park ’99, however,worked for the Republican Partyand remains a staunch supporter.Steve Park ’99His first job was with the Mary -land Republican Party when hewas in college, then he workedfor the 2000 Bush campaign andthe National Republican Sena -torial Committee (NRSC). Beforereturning home to South Koreain 2005, he was campaignmanager for Jack McMullen’sunsuccessful Senate bid inVermont.Now a political and businessconsultant in South Korea, Parkworks closely with the govern -ment and frequently representsKorean interests in Washington.At CA, he was a minority voiceamong a mostly liberal studentbody. He recently answeredquestions for Concord Academymagazine.What was the focus of yourwork for the Republican NationalCommittee?Serving as a liaison between theNational Republican SenatorialCommittee and the RNC, my workfocused on building close networksand operational unity between eachstate’s U.S. senatorial campaignsand the overall Republican apparatusin Washington, DC. The RNC aswell as the NRSC and NRCC[National Republican CongressionalCommittee] are instrumental inproviding media, fundraising, andresearch support to each candidate’scampaign. It is also the firstbody that screens potential candidateshoping to pick up supportfrom the central Republican Party.I also worked in the researchwing of the Republican Party, whichdeals with both opposition andvulnerability research. Oppositionresearch entails checking theopposing candidate’s life, background,voting record, speeches,and other relevant information thatcould be used to point out flaws inthe opposition’s arguments.Vulnerability research is a preventivedefense research that looksinto the weakest spots of one’sown campaign and candidate.The idea here is to preempt ordeflect any potential attacks thatthe opposition may throw at one’sown campaign. So, in a broadersense, campaign research allowsa campaign to stay true to SunTzu’s maxim: “Know thy enemyand know thyself, find naught infear for one hundred battles.”Who are some of the candidateson whom you did oppositionresearch?Obviously when I managed JackMcMullen’s Senate campaign in2004, I had people doing oppositionresearch on Sen. Patrick Leahy, ashe was our opponent at the time.When I was working for theRepublican Party, I worked with ateam of researchers, so almostevery major Senate candidate’s(both Republican and Democrat)research file was on my desk atsome point or another. We definitelylooked very closely at tossupstates: in 2002 we researchedArkansas, Georgia, Minnesota, andFlorida; in 2004 we worked onFlorida, South Dakota, NorthCarolina, and South Carolina.Were you involved in any campaignsbesides Jack McMullen’s?One of the first campaigns that Igot involved in was during my years23WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

T H E P U L L O F P O L I T I C Sfrom receptionist to chief of staff, Evans hasloved politics. And he especially loves workingwith the press. “I don’t find a lot difficult dealingwith the press; that’s really, really my favoritepart of politics. Working on getting a messageout there and framing stories is really what Ilove to do.”His close ties with the press were apparentafter the Fenty firing. A columnist forWashington’s City Paper, an alternative weekly,described Evans’s eighteen-hour workdays overthe fifteen-month period before Fenty waselected. “Evans seemed an unlikely contender tobe thrown on the trash heap for failing to meetFenty’s all-work-and-no-play demands. Hecomes across as smart, cocky, and nearly as tirelessas the boss. Evans’ swagger was a key aspectof the Fenty brand. He had every reason tobelieve he would be the public face of a youthfulFenty administration that is already turningheads in the newsrooms of national publications.. . . Evans’ biggest mistake, say Fenty insiders,was taking a bit of a breather in recent weeks.”Evans says he’s now back on good termswith the mayor, and shrugs off his dismissal aspar for the political course. “I’ve only beendoing this for six or seven years now. You findpretty quickly that this is a little more commonthan you would think,” he said of his abruptdismissal.Meg Ansara ’97 also has seen a dark side ofpolitics, but in a much different way. Sheworked for Sen. Paul Wellstone and dealt withthe press after the 2002 plane crash that killedhim. “Having a candidate that I really believedin die with his wife, with his daughter, withaides that I knew, was really profound,” shesaid, calling it “her most definitive politicalexperience.”Democrats had hoped that Wellstone’sreelection might maintain a majority in theSenate. “To lose all that was really devastating,”Ansara said. “I was depressed for a while; I thinkwe all were, especially after the memorial service.”But focusing on Wellstone’s ethos “reaffirmedmy feeling that positive change couldhappen through the political arena.” She recognizedthe value of community organizing andthe need for functional democracy. But she alsosaw the limits of campaigning. “Win or loseon Election Day, your whole organization kindof falls apart,” she said.In 2004 she worked for the DemocraticNational Committee, training staff in battle-The Other Party (continued from page 23)CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008at CA; I volunteered for GovernorBill Weld’s Senate bid against JohnKerry in 1996. In college, as presidentof the Johns Hopkins CollegeRepublicans, I worked on the 2000Bush campaign, serving as theregional coordinator in Maryland,serving National CommitteewomanEllen Sauerbrey (former U.S.ambassador to the UN HumanRights Commission and a currentassistant secretary of state nominee).In 2002, I was vice chairmanof the Maryland Youth for GovernorBob Ehrlich, which was the youthcampaign organization of the gubernatorialcampaign.What are some of the mainthings you learned aboutAmerican politics from thesecampaigns?The first lesson I took to heart wasthat there is a difference betweenpolitics and governance, or I shouldsay elections and governance.One can be a great campaigner,but a horrible statesman onceelected, and vice versa. Thus thereis a great difference betweencampaign-craft and state-craft, butmany candidates don’t perceivethat, which often costs them the24election. Classic examples wouldinclude Bill Clinton’s successagainst George H.W. Bush andG.W. Bush’s victory over Al Gore.So in a way, might makes rightduring campaigns, but right makesmight in policy.Which current American politiciansinspire you?George W. Bush. I admire him forhis principles, straightforwardness,and absolute confidence in hisvision. Michael Steele (the firstAfrican American Republican lieutenantgovernor of Maryland) was aconsensus-builder who could reachacross aisles without compromisinghis principles. John McCain inspiresme for his service to the nation,steadfastness to his beliefs, andindependent thinking.You’ve said you returned toKorea in 2005 to improve Seoul-Washington political relations.How does one go about doingthat?Interstate relations can be improvedon many levels, but it always beginswith helping leaders to meet face toface, followed by finding commonground on pivotal issues such asthe U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agree -ment and U.S.-Korea DefensiveAlliance. I work closely with Wash -ing ton think tanks, interest groups,and lobbying firms that share interestin the two nations. Through andwith such organizations, weapproach U.S. government officialsto improve relations. I also rely onmy network in the Repub lican Partywhen needs arise to contact theBush administration. On anothernote, I felt a need to improveU.S.-Korea relations around early2000 as Washington and Seoulbegan to speak separately on NorthKorean issues. There were greatdifferences in how the two nationsviewed and approached NorthKorea, and those differences wereweakening the U.S.-Korea alliance.So I wanted to do something aboutit to change that, as well as to buildnew relationships that wouldstrengthen the two countries’ tiesin the post-9/11 paradigm.How has your work focused onimproving the U.S.-Koreaalliance?The most direct and transparentcontribution that I made to improvethe relationship between theRepublic of Korea [ROK] and theUnited States was my vote to electa new president this pastDecember. Aside from that, Iworked closely with organizations inWashington and Seoul, includingbut not limited to the Korean WarVeterans Association and the NewRight Network, to underscore theimportance of the U.S.-ROK alliancethrough media campaigns. WithPresident Lee Myung-bak in office,the two nations are already warmingup to each other.While at CA, you were in aminority as a Republican. Whatwas that like?For one thing, my experience at CAreally helped me in the politicalarena because I was able to understandthe philosophy and backgroundthat liberals and Democratscame from. CA also permitted meto really hone my arguments andrationale, as I needed to be able todefend my political beliefs on a dailybasis against other members of thecommunity. I really came to enjoythose late-night discussions. In anironic sense, being in the politicalminority at CA made me a betterconservative.

T H E P U L L O F P O L I T I C Sground states on how to build volunteer networksand organize field operations. But she’snow taking a different path to political involvement—asnational organizing director andinterim state director for the Massachusettschapter of Stand for Children, an advocacygroup that focuses much of its efforts on publicschool reform.Ansara considers herself pragmatic andstrategic, and like other CA alumnae/i who areinvolved in the political system, she is driven bya basic belief in the value of that system. “I’mnot naïve. I realize decisions are based on whatgets people reelected,” she said, “but I do thinkthere’s potential for change. I’d rather be inthere trying to make it happen.”How CA Votedby Christeen Savinovich ’08Spurred by curiosity and aneffort to spread aware ness aboutthe presidential candi dates, themulti cultural student groupMOSAIC organized a mock electionin February.Of 424 students and faculty,261—or 61.5 percent of the community—voted.Barack Obamawas the winner (though fewwould have predicted by howmuch).100%0%73%Obama15%Clinton7.2%McCain 2.2%Romney1.5%HuckabeePhotos courtesy of Jim ParkerCAMPUSPOLITICSCA’s mock Republican Convention, 1964.Top: Faculty coordinator Jim Parker at left,convention chair Drewdie Gilpin ’64, center.Teacher Emeritus Bill Baileysays that campus activismat CA has mirrored thenational climate over the years.“In the seventies, the kids wereincredibly active,” said Bailey, whotaught at CA for thirty-five years.He recalled a “teach-in” onVietnam organized by an Asianstudies teacher and a speech byGeorge Wald, a prominent MITscientist who was one of the firstprofessors to speak against thewar. “[Former Headmaster] DavidAloian deserves significant creditfor getting kids interested in politics,”said Bailey, noting that Aloianinvited not only Wald to speak,but also Chester Atkins, the firstDemocrat since the 1860sto win a Congressional seatrepresenting the Concord-Acton area. The headmasteralso hosted a reception at CAfor Father Robert Drinan, anoutspoken priest who was runningfor Congress—which Baileyremembers as a “wonderful” butcontroversial move.Bailey says campus activismwaned in the eighties, but it did notdisappear. Mike Rodman ’91remembers letterwriting campaignsto free Nelson Mandela, as well asenvironmental efforts. “Nick[Evans] and I started the YoungDemocrats Club,” said Rodman;the club organized students tovolunteer for Michael Dukakis’s1988 presidential campaign.CA students were politicallyactive in earlier years too. In 1964,History Department Head JimParker immersed students in thestudy of presidential politics byorganizing a mock Republican convention(LBJ was already theDemocratic nominee). Virtuallyeveryone on campus participated.Parker said his history students didthe organizing, and students andfaculty signed up to be delegatesfrom different states, eventuallynominating Nelson Rockefeller. “Iremember they were very enthusiastic,”Parker said of the delegates.“They were very anxious totwist people’s arms, lightly, to getthem to vote for their candidate.”There were speeches, debates,and votes—all the features of areal convention—and a chair whowould go on to assume other leadershiproles. “Drewdie Gilpin wasour convention chair,” rememberedParker, who was invited to GilpinFaust’s inauguration as Harvard’spresident last year. “She ranthe show.”25WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

T H E P U L L O F P O L I T I C STell Us What You Really ThinkWhy Matt Taibbi ’87 Never Holds BackPhoto courtesy of Matt Taibbi ’87CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 200826No one would call Matt Taibbi’s political reporting conventional. During the 2004 presidentialcampaign, he met John Kerry while wearing a gorilla suit. He went under cover to volunteer inPresident Bush’s Orlando campaign office. And he thinks nothing of disparaging his colleaguesin the press corps.As political correspondent for Rolling Stone, Taibbi revels in irreverence. His writingis usually controversial, often offensive, always insightful, and never boring. He spoke withConcord Academy magazine via email in early April.

T H E P U L L O F P O L I T I C S“ I think we should spend most of our timefollowing the money and comparatively littletime following the candidates on the trail.What we do now basically amounts to freeadvertising for the campaigns.”You wrote in early 2007 that you knewBarack Obama would be a presidentialnominee after hearing his 2004 conventionspeech. What derailed him in Texas andOhio?He wasn’t exactly derailed in Texas. If youinclude the caucus results, I think the delegatecount ended up going 65–61 Hillary, which isn’tbad considering that he was down twenty pointsin the polls with a few weeks to go before thevote. In Ohio, I think the thing with the NAFTAnegotiations with Canada hurt him, but there areother factors. I saw Hillary give a speech inYoungstown to a roaring crowd that hooted andhollered and hissed every time Obama’s namewas mentioned. The speech was at a highschool that had balked at a plan to merge with amostly black school in the same district. Now Ihate it when Hillary blames her losses on sexism,so I’m not going to say racism derailsObama when he loses. But it’s at least a smallfactor. I think he does best in states that have alot of black voters and a lot of white intellectuals.He fares poorest in states with large disaffectedmiddle/working-class white majorities. Hillary’scampaign is consciously aimed at the sort ofNixonian “Silent Majority” voter, the strugglingwhite guy pining for simpler times. Ohio is chockfull of those kinds of voters, particularly in thesouth. Also, Cleveland and Cincinnati didn’t turnout for Obama as much as he probably wouldhave hoped.Predict the outcome in November, withone sentence explaining why.I now think it’s going to be McCain. I think theDemocrats are suffering from overexposure, andit will hurt them in November.You refer to stump speech fatigue in arecent story about McCain. Roughly howmany stump speeches have you heard?How do you keep your writing fresh amidso much repetition?I’ve probably heard a thousand. In 2004 I had asystem—I memorized [Howard] Dean’s stumpclichés and assigned each of them numbers. Soinstead of copying down the texts of hisspeeches, I would just write 8-4-3-7-26-2-9 etc. Itsaved a lot of time.Tell us about the biggest gaffe you’veheard on the campaign trail?Honestly my favorite campaign gaffe wasn’tsomething I witnessed personally—I just missedit actually. It was when John Kerry ordered acheese steak in Philly with Swiss cheese. Imean, to ask for real cheese at all and not[Cheez] Whiz is bad enough, but Swiss? Thatguy was doomed from the start.It’s pretty clear from your writing that youcan’t stand Hillary Clinton. Did anythingon the campaign trail make you like her(or hate her less)?Well, the Clinton people have a way about themthat’s sort of off-putting. There’s this sense ofentitlement that hovers over their whole operation.They have this attitude—and this bleedsthrough into Hillary’s speeches—that the presidencybelongs to them and other pretenders tothe throne are not legitimate, dirty somehow,evil for even trying. Whenever you ask theirpeople difficult questions, they roll their eyes atyou, like they can’t believe they have to wastetheir time on such nonsense when (insert evilopponent/political adversary here) is gainingground every minute! Their attitude is, “Hey,keep your eyes on the ball; there are enemies allaround!” Except this year, it wasn’t the Repub -licans gaining ground but another Democrat,Barack Obama. But they’re incapable of notdemonizing their opponents. You should hear thehostile tone of some of these Hillary events, thesneering remarks about Obama’s “hope” and“pretty talk,” the anger they direct at their opponent.You’d think that Obama was Satan himselfor something. It’s nuts.What are the main differences betweencovering the 2004 and 2008 elections,aside from the fact that you haven’t (yet)followed a candidate in a gorilla suitthis time?I think there’s a big difference in the way thepress is behaving. In 2004 they were all stillafraid of the Republicans and were constantlyhounding the candidates they thought were “tooliberal.” I heard that question over and overagain: “Aren’t you too liberal to be president?”Now that the war has gone in the tank andBush’s numbers are down, their behavior is justthe opposite. They swoon openly for the Hillary-Obama show and batter the Republicans forbeing bores and clowns. It’s really revolting.You disparaged the press in a Rolling Stonestory called “Merchants of Trivia.” Howwould you change the way the press corpscovers presidential campaigns?I think we should spend most of our time followingthe money and comparatively little time followingthe candidates on the trail. What we donow basically amounts to free advertising for thecampaigns. I think the TV stations and the campaignshave a symbiotic relationship—the networksgive you this credulous, hagiographic viewof the candidates, and the candidates in returnspend mountains of money on TV advertising.It’s in the interests of both to keep a positiverelationship. Meanwhile, the candidates suck uphundreds of millions in campaign contributionsthat will almost all be given back in favors afterthe election. I mean, one in four bundlers [thosewho raise a certain amount, usually $100,000, fora campaign] gets federal appointments. And wepretend the government isn’t for sale? That’swhat we should focus on, the money and thefavors.Describe a political story that you lookback on and cringe.I’m not thrilled with a piece I wrote about Iraq.I think I was duped by the army. They embedyou with these nice kids who you end up gen-27WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

T H E P U L L O F P O L I T I C S“ As a reporter, you sometimes have to invitepeople to say things you know are going to lookstupid when stuffed into some larger andunfriendly argument you’re making. And I don’tfeel good about that.”villains, etc. Spy magazine got people interestedin New York politics by creating a set group ofcharacters that everyone could identify—fromthe “short-fingered vulgarian“ Donald Trump tothe “churlish dwarf billionaire” Ron Lauder. Youdon’t do that, no one cares.When did your writing become so muchfun? Some earlier pieces seem less flipmouthed.Well, I’m not sure about that. Before I was atRolling Stone, I spent seven years writing reallycrazy stuff in Russia. I’ve actually toned downa lot.CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008uinely making friends with, and then when youcome back you don’t want to say anything badabout their mission. A piece I wrote about myembedded experience was colored badly bythis dynamic, and I think I left people with theimpression that I wasn’t against the war. I mayalso have been seduced by the romance ofthe whole war environment, which is a prettygross thing for a sheltered prep school kid tolet happen.When Boris Yeltsin died, your column wastitled “Death of a Drunk.” You’ve calledAnn Coulter “skanky” and much worse.Do you ever hold back? When?I think Boris Yeltsin and Ann Coulter are bothmilitary targets. I will say that, unfortunately, mycareer has sort of evolved into a direction wherepeople are now always hiring me to carve someoneup. As a result, there’s a lot more of thisattack-dog stuff than I would like. Believe me,I’ve spent a lot of unhappy late-night hourswondering what it says about a) me and b) myprofession that no one wants to hire me whenI’m being nice. I’m not sure I even want toknow the answer to those questions.Have you ever, even for a moment, gottenintrospective and thought you might havecrossed the line? When?Let’s put it this way—I don’t worry about crossingthe line when it comes to people like AnnCoulter and Boris Yeltsin. What I will say hereis that I seldom regret attacking public figures. Ido regret it when I have to quote someone in areported piece who is going to be hurt by hisown quote. As a reporter, you sometimes haveto invite people to say things you know aregoing to look stupid when stuffed into somelarger and unfriendly argument you’re making.28And I don’t feel good about that. I also feelqueasy about doing undercover stuff that takesadvantage of the credulousness of the real peopleI end up writing about. But that’s part of thejob. You can’t have too much of a consciencein this business. Writing is always sort of cruel.When I’m wrong, there are always plenty ofpeople who write to me and let me know.Do you think (or fear) there’s an age whenyou won’t be able to get away with theirreverence? In other words, does one outgrowirreverence?That’s a fair question, and I’ve thought aboutthat before. I don’t think so. I think it’s differentfor someone like me than it is for, say, a standupcomic. If you’re a comic and you’re fifty andyou’re still ranting about people who don’t makeup their mind fast enough in line at McDonald’s,that’s kind of sad. But a political columnistalways has something outrageous to writeabout no matter how old he gets. I mean, H.L.Mencken and Ambrose Bierce didn’t have tochange their acts as they got older. The worldis going to be just as absurd and corrupt twentyyears from now as it is now, if not worse. Theonly difference maybe is the kind of languageI’ll use. When it becomes sad for me to dropF-bombs all the time—and it probably alreadyis—someone will let me know.How do you strike a balance betweenpolitical analysis and entertainment?I think you need elements of both. Politics is adull topic, and in order to get people to readabout it you have to make it colorful. The trick isin reducing something complex into terms thatpeople can grasp, and to make them feel likethey’re engaged in the subject by personalizingthe people involved, making them recognizableHow do you get in the right mindset whenyou have to write a long piece?I wait until the very last minute to start and thenlet panic carry me to the finish.You’re sometimes compared to HunterThompson. Have you explicitly tried to belike him? Is there someone else to whomyou’d rather be compared?No, not at all. I didn’t get into Thompson untilpretty late in life. My heroes were people likeGogol, Saki, Evelyn Waugh, Bulgakov, Stendahl,a lot of comic novelists. That’s what I wanted tobe when I grew up. Definitely not a journalist.Now that I am one, I think the guy I’m trying tobe like is Mencken. I think I can be happy in thatsort of role, which, incidentally, doesn’t approachwhat Thompson was. Thompson was a genuineliterary phenomenon. His books read like greatfiction. Mencken was basically a columnist and awitty observer of current events. He was somebodyyou read for a laugh before you went towork. His writing wasn’t nearly as ambitious asHunter’s. Neither is mine, not by a long shot.How much influence has your father, a TVnews journalist, had on your career?My father was a huge influence on me, but Inever wanted to be a journalist. In fact, just theopposite. However, because I grew up aroundit, it was something I knew, so that was whyI did it for money after college. It was the onlyskill I had.What papers, sites, etc. do you read everyday? How much time do you spend watchingconservative talk shows, and do youthrow things at the TV while doing so?I read a lot of weird stuff. I have a subscriptionto the New England Journal of Medicine, forinstance. I don’t watch much political TV for that

T H E P U L L O F P O L I T I C Svery reason: it drives me nuts. For many yearsI had a fantasy about chainsawing Bill O’Reillyin half.Are you as cynical as your writing?I disagree that my writing is cynical. I would sayjust the opposite, that most of the other writingout there is cynical. I write from the point ofview of someone who tries to continue to beoutraged by things that the rest of the press hasaccepted because that’s the way things are andalways have been. For instance, this week I’mwriting about an earmark Hillary Clinton got forLockheed to build Marine One, the presidentialhelicopter. The company gave her thousands indonations and free flights on company jets, andin return they got $11 billion to build helicoptersfor the president to fly around in—helicoptersthat will cost 400 million bucks apiece, or morethan the refitted 747s the Pentagon uses forAir Force One. 400 million bucks for a singlehelicopter? And we’re paying for it? That’s anoutrage, right? So why isn’t anyone else actuallypissed off when they write about these things?Because they take the attitude that this is justthe way politics is; everyone else is calm aboutit, so why should they be hysterical? They don’tsee Tom Brokaw blowing his top about things,so why should they?Well, they should, that’s the whole point.So when I rip these people, it’s not because I’ma cynic and I think the whole world is hopelesslycorrupt. I rip them because things don’t haveto be this way, which makes it all the more outrageousthat they are. The anger in my articlescomes from disappointed idealism, and that iswhere I’m trying to connect with my readers,many of whom feel the same way. [Ambrose]Bierce said that a cynic was a blackguard whosefaulty vision sees things as they are, not as theyshould be. You try to see both, and the distancebetween the two is where you get your outrage.people in Indochina. We’re on our way toanother huge number in Iraq. On the other hand,most Americans are very nice, well-meaningpeople. Even the people I met in Iraq were nice,even when they were occupying a country andblundering all over the place, wrecking stuff andwantonly shooting things. So when you takethe whole picture as a whole it’s very confusing.Andrew BrussoIt’s even more confusing to me now that thissociety has chosen to pay me a lot of money tolisten to me complain about it every week.Matt Taibbi’s latest book is Smells Like DeadElephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire(Grove Press).“ When I rip these people, it’s not because I’m acynic and I think the whole world is hopelesslycorrupt. I rip them because things don’t have tobe this way, which makes it all the moreoutrageous that they are.”Do you consider yourself patriotic?It depends on what you mean by patriotic. I thinkAmerica is amazing. Having lived in places likeRussia, where so few things work, I’m continuallyamazed by how energetic and efficient andinnovative our country is. But I also think oursociety is extraordinarily violent and xenophobic,and that freaks me out sometimes. I look at thepictures of the thousands of deformed kids inSouth Vietnam who got that way from AgentOrange poisoning, and I wonder about a countrythat doesn’t even think about what it did overthere and why. I mean, we killed two millionMatt Taibbi, donning Bush paraphernalia for the 2006 publication ofSpanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season29WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

Each semester, students choose toexpand their education by creatinginde pendent studies. On these pagesare works from the fall 2007 visualarts independent studies—whichranged from ceramics and photographyto fashion and architecture. Theseand other pieces were on exhibit duringConcord Academy’s fall semesterA Reason to CongregateFor Eugene Ha ’08, architecture provides atangible way to improve people’s lives. Hisredesign of the Stu-Fac’s patio was anexploration of how public spaces can containprivate spaces—“translucent but opaque at thesame time.”Eugene settled on the patio for his inde -pen dent study in architecture because hethought the space could be much more invitingand useful. Before he got started, he studiedfamous places where people tend to linger, suchas St. Peter’s Square in Rome, focusing on howthe buildings interact, how open space mixeswith shelter, and what kind of tension thestructures and lines create.On the Stu-Fac patio, Eugene removedthe French doors leading from the dining hall tothe patio, curved the wall, removed shrubberyand stairs, and created what Eugene called “asmaller but better use of space.” In his design, astudent art show in January.THEART OF IN“café-sque” extension of the dining hall isaccessible via a spiral staircase. Vertical polescreate private spaces within the public space,and a bris soleil blocks sunlight from certainangles, protecting parts of the patio from heat.Eugene, who was advised by visual arts teacherChris Rowe, said he hoped to create a designthat would “provide the CA community with areason to congregate.”Inspiration in the EverydayThe inspiration for Peter Boskey’s fiber artsproject started in Drawing 2, when he wassketching insects. Peter ’08 was so intrigued bythe bugs’ wing construction that he researchedbutterfly and moth wings in his spare time.That research resulted in several designs for hisfashion-focused independent study: dressesbased on the luna moth and the monarchbutterfly, a vest based on a ladybug, and a skirtinspired by a praying mantis.For all but the skirt, Peter dyed his ownfabric; for the butterfly-based dress, his mostchallenging work, he also painted the fabric.Originally, Peter intended to piecetogether about fifty separate fabric pieces,building a sort of butterfly mosaic. A realitycheck scaled back that plan, and his designbecame more fluid.In the end, Peter found beauty in theintricacies of something deceptively simple. “Forme, it was taking something as everyday as aninsect and making outfits,” said Peter, who wasadvised by fiber arts teacher Antoinette Winters.“It proved to me that you can have inspirationfrom anything.”Portraits by Jiyoon Lee ’09Stu-Fac patio possibilities, imagined by Eugene Ha ’08Peter Boskey ’08CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 200830Above: A butterfly-based creation by Peter Boskey ’08Left: A ladybug-inspired vest

Form and FunctionThe Surface and BeneathDigital AntiquesSierra Starr ’08 explored the intersectionMatt Goldenberg ’08 combined historicalAre the photographs of Clara Dennis ’08 reallybetween form and function, eventually realizing research about covered jars with a personalas old as they seem? Yes, and no. For herthat function sometimes impeded her art.artistic vision. The result: a carefully craftedexamination of an antique photo process knownInspired by certain people who don’tcanopic jar in the shape of a jackal; ginger jars as kallitype, Clara found vintage photos andlisten, Sierra sculpted a giant pile of earsdecorated with Chinese words (meaningdigitally imposed them onto photos she shot of(below), originally thinking it would be a vase. curiosity, ambition, wonder, and eternity); and an old farmhouse—the Henry David Thoreau“When I got away from function, the piece had a soup tureen inspired by a children’s book.birthplace in Concord. “I raided antique shopsmore impact,” she said. In contrast, addingIn general, form comes easily to Matt, and bought old family portraits,” she said. “Ifunction—a teapot—to a reclining nude “added including the sometimes difficult relationship basically found characters.”a whole new dimension” to the Titian-inspired between a jar’s body and its lid. For his study, he Under the guidance of Visual Arts Depart -work.found himself focusing most on surfacement Head Cynthia Katz, Clara scannedSierra, who was advised by ceramicsdecorations—the hieroglyphics on the canopic negatives and old photos and, using Photo Shop,teacher Kate Oggel, has worked on a pottery jars, the Chinese characters, the raisedcut out her characters for the scene—thenwheel since she was nine. By the time hervegetables on the soup tureen.seamlessly melded old with new.EPENDENCEindepen dent study was completed, she realizedMatt, who was advised by ceramicsTo Clara, who first studied kallitype during awhat she had really learned from the experi -teacher Kate Oggel, knew he was hooked on summer course, a digital negative could restence: “Halfway through the semester, my focus pottery in Ceramics 1. “Once we got to thecomfortably alongside the nineteenth-centuryshifted from producing beautiful work towheel, I never left the studio,” he said. Matt is kallitype process, which allows control oflearning about myself as an artist.”also intensely interested in origami and sees contrast and densities. She explained: “I wasparallels between the art forms: “Out of aapproaching an old technology with a modernsquare piece of paper, you can make something. viewpoint.”Out of a ball of clay, you can make something.”For Matt, the power of pottery is heady.“I like having that direct effect from my hands,”he said.A commentary on poor listeners,by Sierra Starr ’08Ginger jars by Matt Goldenberg ’08Ceramics photos by Kate OggelClara Dennis ’08 combined modern and vintagephoto techniques.31WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

Martin Luther King Jr. DayCONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008K E Y N O T E S P E A K E R:David HilliardCofounder, Black Panther Party32DAVID HILLIARD walked off the pages of history and onto thestage in the Performing Arts Center during Concord Academy’s MartinLuther King Jr. Day celebration, bringing his unique perspective on theturbulent sixties, an era when growing discontent with social inequitiesand racism erupted in America’s cities.Hilliard, sixty-five and the only living founder of the Black PantherParty, described the role of his party in his keynote address, definingthe movement he helped lead and explaining how he would like itremembered.“David Hilliard brought to our students an intimate, firsthandaccount of a time in the 1960s when political engagement had seizedthe United States with unmatched passion, danger, and urgency,” saidJennifer Cardillo, Concord Academy’s assistant dean of Communityand Equity. “His role as founding member and chief of staff of theBlack Panther Party made him a crucial player in one of this country’smost dramatic fights against inequity. His perspective allowed CAstudents a vivid glimpse of that struggle and helped them understandits bequests to today’s social movements.”During his address, Hilliard focused on the Black Panthers’ socialprograms, describing how the group provided food to the needy and

Photos by Amy AlbrechtCULTURE FOR SALEby Alexisvon Kunes Newton ’08Participants in a Martin LutherKing Jr. Day workshop called“Culture for Sale,” led byhistory teacher Peter Sun, usedthe hour to watch and discussa documentary produced byUniversity of California, Berke -ley students. Yellow Apparel:When a Coolie Becomes Coolfocused on diversity issuespertaining to Asian dress, bothtraditional and commercialized.Before watching the film,Sun posed a question: “Howwould you feel if you sawsomeone walking on the streetwearing an item of clothingmeaningful to your culture?”I was surprised to find that anumber of Asian intervieweesin the film answered thisquestion with anger. OneSouth Asian woman arguedthat until an American girlcan empathize with the unjustpain and embarrassmentthat often accompanies thepresence of a bindi on a girl’sfore head, she should notwear one.At the end of the film,I understood the distinctionbetween an Asian womanwearing a bindi for what itsignifies culturally and anAmerican woman wearing abindi as a superficial decoration.I left that workshopwith an understanding of thatwoman’s anger, and realizedher message was one centralto diversity: we must attemptto achieve empathy beforewe can be truly diverse.Tara BradleyThe Chameleons performing for the elderly; workshops exploring Korean games and hip-hop messagesadvocated for affordable housing and universal health care. He said theparty, at its peak, had chapters in forty-seven states, and he called“oppression the single common denominator” among its members.Hilliard described the Black Panthers’ early stages as a “self-defense movement,”fighting against social injustice, and he repeatedly stressed that theparty was more than its iconic image of tough, armed men in blackleather jackets carrying guns. The Black Panthers, who took advantage ofa California law that permitted the carrying of unconcealed weapons,understood the law well, particularly leader Huey Newton, who attendedlaw school. “Every time Huey walked out, he had a law book under hisarm and stated the law,” Hilliard said. Some photos show him with a lawbook in one hand and a gun in the other.In a question-and-answer session, a student asked Hilliard whetherthe group actually broke any laws. “We were very young, adventuresome,and unafraid,” he answered. “We made a lot of mistakes and we brokesome laws.” He then explained that the Black Panthers were willing to goto court and saw the courts “as a classroom.” While Hilliard acknowledgedthat crimes were committed—he served time, as did Pantherleaders Bobby Seale and Huey Newton—he also accused the FBI offrame-ups and “trumped-up” charges.In light of this characterization, another student asked why thegroup was still portrayed as so militant. “Why are we projected as thisorganization without a single virtue?” Hilliard shot back. If he were tostart the movement again, he said, he would “rethink walking aroundwith all those guns,” partly because it gave the state justification fortargeting the group. In fact, the FBI had labeled the Black Panthers the“most dangerous and violence-prone of all extremist groups.” Duringthe movement, twenty-seven members of the Black Panther Party died;forty-seven, said Hilliard, are still in prison.Hilliard also spoke about his youth, how he would buy beer for hisfather while still in grade school and steal sips, becoming an addict by agetwenty. Hilliard beat his addiction, but Panther leaders Huey Newton(whom Hilliard met when he was eleven) and Eldridge Cleaver both losttheir lives to drugs, he said.After Hilliard’s speech, students attended workshops—many of themstudent-led—that tackled subjects including stereotypes, child exploitation,and equity in the presidential campaign. Many performed communityservice in Dr. King’s honor, working at soup kitchens, shelters, andelder-care facilties; some tutored students from Esperanza Academy inLawrence, a school with which CA is forging an ongoing relationship.33WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

Actor Steven Tejada (below)performed an excerpt from hisone-man comedy/drama, BoogieDown Journeys, during a Januaryassembly. Aptly coinciding withthe week of Martin Luther KingJr. Day, Tejada’s work drew on hispersonal experiences in the SouthBronx and its contrast with hisexperiences at prep school and inother privileged arenas.A. TejadaThe Colors of Community Serviceby Fannie Watkinson ’08Our car struggled to gain speed aswe limped along behind a yellowschool bus, winding through theback roads of Carlisle, past plasticreplicas of reindeer and houses with quaintsnow-covered arches. After I-495 we enteredLawrence, a mill town peeking through yearsof grime, and fell behind another bus. A girl intight jeans and a black jacket ran onto the bus.We waited as the bus made no movementforward, then saw the girl run off again a secondlater. She was a mother, younger than Iam, retrieving an item for her child.Once we arrived at the brand-new Law -rence Capernaum Place shelter, affiliated withLazarus House Ministries, we prepared topaint a mural in the nursery, working alongsidesixth-graders from Esperanza Academy,the School of Hope, also in Lawrence. Wewere on a service trip in honor of MartinLuther King Jr. Day.Within minutes, CA and Esperanzastudents paired up and clad themselves ingreen, yellow, orange, red, or blue XL shirts. Imet Liz, my painting partner, a bright-eyed girlwith Portuguese pride and enthusiasm for anytask. As the day wound on, I found myselfstopping momentarily, my yellow paint brushhanging in mid-air, and watching color spreaditself across three walls in the mural, designedand drawn by Duncan Sherwood Forbes ’08.On two of the walls were squares of color,which merged into a big rainbow swirl on themiddle wall. We alternated between painting,decorating mugs for the adults living in theshelter, and sharing games. For some of us,hand claps were tough to recall, but after yearsof practice, they seemed ingrained in musclememory.After all the Esperanza Academy studentsleft, I stood in a spotless room with beigewalls and a couple stray tables. Where werethe noise, the energy, and all the bright colors?I walked into the adjacent room and looked atthe newly painted walls, shelves piled back upwith children’s toys and games. There we allwere on the wall: a rainbow of color and handprintsweaving across the room.It’s funny to leave a place on which youhave made your imprint after just one day. Iwondered what my buddy Liz was doing andwhether she was as tired as I was. I still hadpaint on my hands and clothes, and I didn’twant it to wash out.CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008In the days following the Martin Luther King Jr. Day programming,some history classes discussed Hilliard’s speech. In one class, studentscommented that the group needed militancy to attract attention to itscause. While several students criticized Hilliard for downplaying the party’sviolence, one said she considered Hilliard’s positive approach “totallynecessary” because her impression of the Black Panthers was so completelynegative. “For me to move that even a little bit, he needed to be thatpositive,” she said.In his keynote and his workshop, Hilliard encouraged today’s youthto start movements to change society. But he also discussed how themedia’s influence makes that more challenging. Instead of watching MTV,he said, youth in his day watched protestors marching on TV. “I wanted tobe Malcolm X. I didn’t want to be a basketball player,” he said. “Ourheroes were different.”Now the head of the Huey Newton Foundation, Hilliard has mellowedsomewhat with age. “We coined the phrase that you can’t trustanybody over thirty. That was our phrase,” he said. “Of course I take thatback now.”34David Hilliard in a small workshop following his keynote address

Kathy AngellATHLETICSSki champ Drew Kelly ’08WINTER HIGHLIGHTSThe boys alpine ski team finishedin second place in the Central MassSki League (CMSL), with DrewKelly ’08, the boys individual champion,finishing only nine points shyof a perfect season. Captain RussellCohen ’09 finished third in theleague, while Stephen Sarno ’11finished fifth.The girls alpine ski team alsofinished second in the CMSL, withAlexandra Urban ’10, the team’s topindividual finisher, taking fourthplace. Kyra Morris ’11 finished ineighth place, with Dana Leonard ’08just behind her in ninth. Togetherthe boys and girls finished secondin the combined team title — thesecond consecutive second-placefinish for the team.The girls basketball team finishedwith six wins in the league, includingtwo wins each over NewtonCountry Day School and BeaverCountry Day School. The team,led by EIL All-Leaguer MaryMatthews ’08, finished seventh inthe league and second in the PoolB EIL tournament. Mary’s notableseason included a 22-point effortagainst Newton, including five3-point shots. The team returns acore group for next season, includingJulia Dyer ’10, an EIL honorablemention, and the team’s secondleadingscorer, Olivia Pimm ’10.The boys basketball team finished6–13 overall and 5–9 in the league,in a season so competitive thatsix of nine EIL teams earned bidsto the NEPSAC tournament. CA’steam was led by EIL All-LeaguerEric Benvenuti ’09, who averaged19 points per game. The team willgraduate five players this year,including Mathis Bauchner ’08,Aidan Hanlon ’08, Joe Byrne ’08,Kevin Ting ’08, and Isaiah Sommers’08. Isaiah gave the team one ofits season highlights, netting six3-point shots and a 23-point total35WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

against Pomfret. Josh Reed-Diawuoh ’09 received an EILhonorable mention.The girls squash team won theEIL regular-season title this season,and its number-one player,Fannie Watkinson ’08, was namedthe EIL MVP. Fannie was undefeatedin the league during theregular season and had only oneloss overall. Hannah Kaemmer ’09also finished with an undefeatedleague record and one loss onthe season, and made the EILAll-League team. At the end-ofseasonNew England (NEIGSA)tournament, Fannie and Hannahboth finished third in their respectivefights. The team finishedseventh overall.ATHLETICSThe boys squash team posted anoverall 4–6 record and finishedthe season with a 5–2 win overPorts mouth Abbey, avenging anearlier loss. The team participatedin the NEISA tournament in the BDivision, where Jack Moldave ’11stood out with an eighth-placefinish.CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008The boys wrestling team finishedsecond in the Eastern Indepen -dent League (EIL) regular-seasonstandings and second at the EILtournament, where sevenwrestlers made it to the finalmatch in their weight classes.Two wrestlers went undefeatedduring the season: Scott Bloom’08 (152) and David Hook ’08(285); Scott was named the EILMVP while David made the EILAll-League team. Walter Lehner’08 — who received an EIL honorablemention — finished with oneloss, wrestling up a weight classat 140. Scott, David, and Walteralso finished in first place at theEIL tournament in their respectiveclasses. In addition, Cy Hossain’09 (103), Dylan Awalt-Conley ’10(130), Patrick D’Arcy ’08 (189),and Daniel Lee ’08 (215) finishedsecond in their weight classes;Cy earned an EIL honorable mention.Scott, David, Cy, Walter, andDylan qualified for the NewEngland meet, where Scott andDavid earned medals. Scott,seeded seventh, finished fourth,while David, who was seeded36CA’S DETERMINED MARATHONERSLESS THAN 1 PERCENT of Americans completea marathon.But at CA, more than ten percent of thefaculty and staff—at least eighteen runners—have completed a 26.2-mile trek. Several havefinished two or three—and one has made itthrough eleven. If that weren’t impressiveenough, eleven CAers have run the Boston Mara -thon, one of running’s most prestigious events.Director of Athletics Carol Anne Beach, athree-time marathoner herself, can’t quite explainwhy so many CA people push their limits. “Myguess would be because CA folks tend to bevery disciplined and goal-oriented,” she said.That would be an understatement, especiallywhen it comes to CA’s girls’ cross-countrycoach Karina Johnson, mathematics teacherMark Engerman, and boys cross-country coachJonathan Waldron, who ran the eleven races.Engerman has run a total of nine marathons,including his best time in Sacramento in 1991:2:38. He ran his fourth Boston Marathon thisyear, and credits an excess of natural energy forhis stamina. “I go stir-crazy unless I am physicallyactive. I also love pushing my body hard onruns,” he said.Johnson ran the Shamrock Marathon inVirginia Beach in March, hoping for a 2:47 finish,which would have qualified her for the Olympicmarathon trials. Alas, she finished in 2:57, whichshe blames on fifteen miles of strong winds. Sheran the 2007 New York Marathon in 2:56.Johnson attributes her interest in the sport toher father, who has run for forty-seven years.She admits the journey to her Olympic dream isnot easy. “A great deal of time, pain, dedication,and sacrifice goes into training,” she said, “andthe road to victory is a long one. Which simplymakes the destination sweeter.”Waldron also hoped to qualify for the Olym -pic trials, but wasn’t fast enough when he triedin 1992 (despite a 2:30 marathon). Now Waldronis dedicated to shorter races; he has beennational champion in the one-mile, which hecurrently flies through in 4:16.Several CA marathoners run to fund afavorite cause. Academic Dean John Drew ranthe Boston Marathon in 2004 for the Dana-Farberteam, promoting cancer research; he also ran theMarine Corps Marathon in 1985 and 1986.Director of Athletics Carol Anne Beach (Flying PigMarathon 2006, Boston Marathon 2007 and2008) ran her first marathon with her brotherRick to mark his fifteenth year being cancer-free.

Photos by Dan Sanfordtenth, pinned the second seed in ahuge upset and finished sixth.Walter and Cy both finished in thetop eight, while the team overallfinished seventeenth, the highestplacingEIL team.The girls volleyball team finishedthe season 8–10 and, for the firsttime, qualified for a second-year-ina-rowappearance in the EasternIndependent League tournament,finishing at 1–1. Sarah Thornton’09 finished the season with 96kills, 42 aces, and 21 blocks andwas voted to the EIL All-Leagueteam. Also contributing to CA’ssuccess was Samantha Mankin’10, who stepped in for last year’sAll-League setter Kristian Shaw ’07and, in her first year as a starter,set a single-season school recordfor assists. Sarah Oliveira ’09 andFrances Bothfeld ’08 both receivedEIL honorable mentions.“The last two marathons I have run in honor ofRick but also as a tribute to my dad,” sheexplained. “My dad was incredibly positive andremarkably courageous—and his life was cutshort by cancer—but I feel like he powers methrough the challenges of marathon training.”Though running Boston is a thrill for Beach,“raising funds for cancer research is what it’s allabout for me.” She raised more than $20,000this year for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute,encouraged by the $19,000 she raised in 2007—far exceeding her initial goal of $6,500.While every CA marathoner has a story,some are more unusual than others. AcademicCA’s marathoners—seated, for a changeDean Drew led a blind runner through the secondhalf of the Washington’s Birthday Marathonin Maryland in 1990. In a 5K sponsored by theNational Association of Science Teachers, Drewearned a little-known running accolade: “fastestscience teacher.” In perhaps the gutsiest chapterof CA running lore, an appropriately confidentBen Stumpf ’88, CA’s director of academic technology,took on his first Boston Marathon withoutany training, except for the intense soccerhe regularly played. He completed it without incident,though his second marathon, he cautioned,was “much less exciting and more painful.”—Gail FriedmanCarol Anne Beach Flying Pig 2006; Boston 2007, 2008Director of AthleticsTara Bradley Boston 1989Director of CommunicationsJenny Brennan Marine Corps 2004;Assistant Director of Athletics Greater Hartford 2005Gianna Drew Marine Corps 1986NurseJohn Drew Marine Corps 1985, 1986;Academic Dean Boston 2004Mark Engerman Boston 1988, 1995, 1996, 2008;Mathematics TeacherNew York 1990; California Int’l(Sacramento) 1991; Cape Cod 1994;Vermont City 2000; Bay State 2007Parkman Howe Boston Peace 1988English TeacherPeter Jennings Portland, OR 1996; Chicago 1998Director of College CounselingKarina Johnson Boston 2006; New York 2007;Girls Cross-Country Coach Shamrock 2008Kate Leonard Keybank, VT 2006; Boston 2008Girls Lacrosse CoachJohn McGarry Boston 1992, 1993, 1995Director of Financial AidTim Seston Cape Cod 2003Mathematics TeacherJonathan Smith New York 1986Visual Arts TeacherHilde Steffey Boston 2006Science TeacherSandy Stott Maine Coast 1980Dean of FacultyBen Stumpf ’88 Boston 1999, 2001Director of Academic TechnologyJonathan Waldron BostonFest 1983; Boston 1984,Boys Cross-Country Coach 1991, 1994, 2001; Hyannis 1991;Huntsville (AL) 1991;Cape Cod 1992, 1993, 2000, 2007Eliza Wall Boston 2001, 2003Director of Annual Giving37WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

ARTSDavid R. GammonsThe Beaux’ StrategemStudio DayThe CA community took a break from itsusual schedule in late February to visit areaartist studios, engage with the artists, view theirwork, and learn about the creative process.Studio Day allowed students to learn aboutthe real lives of working artists—including someof their own teachers. They met with painters,sculptors, photographers, documentary film -makers, clothing and jewelry designers, animators,printmakers, letter press artists, aviolinmaker—and more.Said visual arts teacher Jessica Straus, whoplanned the day with Visual Arts DepartmentHead Cynthia Katz: “It’s a great opportunity forkids to get a taste of a workplace that’s anythingbut the cubicle.”Henry Butman ’08CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 200838Snapshot: Boston’sSouth EndWe ventured to Boston’s SouthEnd to visit the studios offashion designer Alfred Fian -daca and visual artists HeidiWhitman ’67 and Lisa Houck.Within just one and a halfhours, my group was able tosee the intricate details ofFiandaca’s garments, Whit -man’s unique paintings anddrawings, and Houck’s watercolors,ceramics, andmosaics—and to hear theunique stories of the three, allof whom offered insights andsuggestions to aspiring artists.Whitman had an interestingway of combining realistic andimagined elements into herpaintings and drawings. Shealso told the group about theimportance of an artist studyingmore than just art, becausethe ideas we gain from whatwe learn in school can be trueinspiration for our artwork.Houck, who showed the groupboth finished works and worksin progress, assured the groupthat, despite the “starvingartist” stereotype, artists canpursue their passion and still besuccessful. She explained thatshe has more commissionedjobs than she can finish.Studio Day gave CA studentsthe chance to visit artistspracticing different art formswith different histories andviews on their work; it hassurely left many students withmuch to think about as theypursue their own artisticinterests.—Alexis von Kunes Newton ’08Artist Deborah Davidson on Studio Day

Jiyoon Lee ’09CA’s freshmen fractured fairytales in entirely new waysduring FroshProject 7.Upperclassmen wrote anddirected the thirteen skits.At right, from top, the cast andcrews of Beauty and the Beast,Princess and the Pea, andSleeping Beauty.David R. GammonsOn BroadwayThe first production of the Future Starsof Broadway Club hit the stage inFebruary, when the club’s originator, KatieAstrauskas ’09, produced Lucky Stiff, underthe guidance of music teacher and club advisorKeith Daniel. Directed by Chessy Normile’09 and Anneliese Cooper ’09, Lucky Stifffollowed the life of Harry Witherspoon, whowas promised a $6 million inheritance if hetook his uncle’s dead body to Monte Carlo.Besides Katie, the murder-mystery featuredElisabeth Beckwitt ’11, Talene Bilazarian ’10,Oliver Bruce ’11, Matt Clarkson ’11, MeghanLeathers ’09, Edmund Metzold ’11, WillNotini ’09 (a coproducer), Therese Ronco ’11,and Isabel Walsh ’10.WiredThe Concord Free PublicLibrary featured the wiresculptures of DuncanSherwood-Forbes ’08 in aMarch exhibit. Above, “I’ll BeOut in a Minute.”Clara Dennis ’08Jiyoon Lee ’09Snapshot: Waltham MillsOne artist at Waltham Mills,Anne Lambert, made sculpturesout of old, used materials,giving new meaning tothe saying, “One man’s trashis another man’s treasure.”Her witty work included large,hard-shelled suitcases with oldmen’s dress shoes attachedat the bottom, giving spectatorsthe sense of the suitcasemoving itself. Another workfeatured an old, tattered globeon a gurney, being carriedaway with the caption, “Rushto Intensive Care.”“The assemblages makeuse of discarded objectsthat speak to me of the beautyof age and the potential thatis latent in every thing forsurvival,” Lambert explained.Among the artists atWaltham Mills—sculptors,painters, printmakers, anddesigners—was a familiarPhotographer Martin Berinstein on Studio Dayface. Antoinette Winters, whoteaches fiber arts and drawingat CA, also opened her studioto the community for StudioDay. Winters displayed worksshe made by drawing piecesof plumbing on small paintchips and assembling thechips into larger pieces. Herpowerful yet simple linesshowed students a side ofWinters that isn’t often apparentwhen she’s teaching atConcord Academy.—Christeen Savinovich ’08Lamb Chops, Film ChopsLucas Frank ’08 and HarveyBurrell ’09 took the wackytemperament of a Roald Dahlstory and turned it into Lambto the Slaughter, a film recentlyselected for screening at the2008 YouthFilm Festival, sponsoredby the Northampton (MA)Arts Council.Lamb to the Slaughter, anassignment for Lucas andHarvey’s Film 3 class, was basedon Dahl’s story of the samename, a tale of a woman whomurders her husband with a legof lamb then feeds the evidenceto an investigator.Both Lucas and Harveyattended the YouthFilm Festivaland introduced their workthere. You can watch Lamb tothe Slaughter at www.concordacademy.org/lamb.39WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

ARTSGive the LieNola Glatzel ’08 had actedin three plays at CA,stage managed a play, wastaking Theater 3, and lastsummer apprenticed in aProvincetown (MA) theatre.But before she was approvedfor a departmental study intheatre, she had neverexplored playwriting.Throughout the summerbefore her senior year, Nolacompiled notes and ideas foran original play. She had beenreading a lot of plays aboutbrothers and found the topic“endearing.” Influenced by asummer theology program,which piqued her curiosityabout “how different peoplesee God and think of God,”she settled on the story of twobrothers who struggle withfaith, family, and friendship.Nola wrote Give the Lieover the month of August, butrevisions extended far longer.The play went through severaldrafts, the first edited by hermother, the second by theatreteacher and faculty advisorMegan Gleeson, and theothers by Nola.The departmental studyrequired not only that Nolawrite the play, but that shecast, direct, and produce itas well. In early October,Nola cast Daniel Lander ’09,Chessy Normile ’09, Will Notini’09, Thomas Rafferty ’10, andNatalia Winkelman ’11, butonly later realized what goodchemistry the group had.That helped during rehearsals,when she would realize, uponhearing her dialogue actedout, that certain parts did notseem realistic. Nola believesthis affected her actors, asshe would frequently makechanges to intonations or dialoguein the middle of directing.However, together she andthe cast worked through thechallenges and “became a verytight-knit group.”Throughout the process,Nola said that Gleeson offereddirecting advice and helped herstay organized. When the nightof the performance finallyarrived, Nola felt both excitedand nervous. Nervous, sheexplained, because it was completelyher own creation, and ifanything went wrong, sheThe cast of Give the Liewould have no one to blamebut herself. The nerves,however, were unfounded,and she felt “really proud ofthe finished product.”In the end, the cast’sinvest ment in their roleshelped Nola shape the performanceinto exactly what shewanted. “I could tell that theactors had really internalizedthe characters I had created,”she said, “and that inspired mewhen I was directing.”—Alexis von Kunes Newton ’08Photos by David R. GammonsCONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 200840The art world has taken notice ofartist Maximilian Toth ’97, andnot just because his mammothpieces (stretching as much as fiftyfeet) are impossible to ignore.The New York Times creditedToth’s “febrile hand and a goodsense for off-center narrative.”The New York Sun called an earlyshow “an alluring debut.”Max had a lot more to say than space allows. See theentire interview at www.concordacademy.org/toth.Q&AMaximilian Toth ’97Was there a big break that putyour career on track?I had the good fortune of beingpart of an exemplary class froman already prestigious graduateprogram. In fact, we were rankedas one of the finest graduatepainting classes in the country.My acceptance to the Yale Schoolof Art was probably my singlebiggest break. I’ve watched theadmissions process and thoughtalent is a factor, in art mostthings are subjective and thereare many worthy applicants whodon’t make it, for whatever reasons.I applied twice before I wasaccepted.Do you intend your art as socialcommentary?At some point I believe that all arthas some social commentarytethered to it. You are making anobject that is going to be put intopublic viewing. And once somethinggoes public, especiallylabeled “this is art,” people makeassumptions and judgments andthen find a way to relate to thatobject. When a piece of art ismade, it usually carries someintended social associations, andoften one finds new associationsonce it is let loose into the world.[My work] usually centers onyoung men, or more specifically,young, white suburban men,engaging in the world aroundthem. And I find that I am mostinterested in those stories thatare retold when groups of friendsget together. All the stories that Iwork with are either biographic orautobiographic. But many ofthese stories do more than makeus laugh; they are the times thatwe messed up because we were

still unfamiliar, we were still figuringthings out.Can you explain this in context ofa specific work?In “We Are This and That Is Other,“a group of young men wrestles abull. The image is froma summer vacation with my familyto a small town in the south ofFrance, St. Hilaire. Once each summer,they staged their version ofthe running of the bulls. Theywould line the street with BFI trashbins and flatbeds, and the wholetown would seek refuge. A groupof five or six of us would hidebetween the bins until the youngbulls passed and we could run intothe fray. The first bull that someonegrabbed was the one the rest of usthrew ourselves into the task ofpulling until it came to a stop. Thesmall town would cheer and wewould let it go, and whoever washolding the tail would then skidown the dung-smeared cobblestonesuntil he lost balance or doveto safety. It was exhilarating.In the painting, I wanted the actionto be the entire composition.Though the crowd plays a part, it’sthose first moments of uncertaintyof where to position your handsand who goes where. In thatmoment it is possible to see childrenbecoming men, you can seesociety being created, you see manas part of nature as well as indominion over nature. There issomething beautiful and compellingabout young men being able to pullthis brutal power to a halt for nomore of a reason than celebrationand gamesmanship.“The Quiet Americans”What could I learn about you thatwould help me understand yourart?My earliest memory in life is beingon Bourbon Street drawing withchalk near Big Daddy’s Strip Club,when I was barely able to walk.The club has a pair of plastic legswith a pink garter, and black highheels that swing in and out of twoholes over the door. I wonderedhow the woman, whom I believedto be real, got up there, and whatit must be like in the mysteriouscavernous room, with a womanswinging thirty feet above thecrowd, and how thrilling it must beto swing that high.Please discuss some of yourmajor influences.I have had passionate art teacherssince Mr. Negrin in the fifth gradein the Carlisle public schools. ThenI was fortunate enough to attendConcord Academy; for inspiration,I had Jonathan [Smith], Jessica[Straus], and Chris [Rowe] in thearts, but also Gary Hawley, SandyStott, and Stephen Teichgraeber.English, reading, and movies havealways been major influences onhow I learn to work with stories.My streak of good luck with teacherscontinued through Trinity andthe College of Art and Design andinto Yale’s graduate art school.My family has been a major influenceon me. They have always welcomednearly complete strangersso warmly into our house that Ihave a tangled web of extendedfamily of no blood relation at all thatspans from an amazing artist fromGulfport, Mississippi, namedTazewell Morton, who designedone of the flags on the moon, to amining crew from Scotland, whowrote a collective recommendationfor CA, to my father’s footballcohort in Arizona, who surgicallychanged his name to Stephanie.To a kid she was just a tall blondwith big hands. My mother’s lovefor an odd person’s story, or maybefor each person’s unique story, wasa wonderful treat for a child towake up to each morning. Thesestrangers would show up seeminglyfrom nowhere and stay a coupleof days or a couple of months,leaving behind their influences.“We Are This and That Is Other”How much time does it taketo conceptualize a piece, versusto actually draw it?There are times I have a paintingthat I think about every day formonths before the idea finally seeslight. Then the most thoroughlyrealized is manifested. I stretchraw canvas to the wall, prime it,and begin to work. The actual artmakingtakes about a month,depending on the size and amountof detail involved. On average,they stand eight to ten feet tall andrange from seven to fifteen feetwide. I completed a paintingrecently that appeared in a show atthe Dallas Contemporary Centerand at a Minneapolis gallery thatis twelve feet by fifty feet. It tooka month just to prime and preparethe surface. I have been morewilling to work smaller since itscompletion.Your works are dark and dramatic.Do you sometimes intendto shock (case in point:“Witnesses Awaiting Judgmentin a Great Vomit of Blood”)?Yes and no. I never want to shockviewers so that they end up notbeing able to enter the work. Partof the reason that I work on thescale that I do is so that the imageencompasses the viewer. One canthen get lost in the line or the surface,parts of the painting, and as itfloats together the narrativebecomes a whole. The stories I amdrawn to are usually physical innature. Specifically “Witnesses”—the title is taken from a CormacMcCarthy novel. And the image is ascene from a personal experienceat Mardi Gras, where, amidst adrunken, half-dressed crowd barteringflesh for beads and enjoyingevery moment, I had my first experiencewatching someone get shotand killed. Although the contrastbetween ecstasy and death seemslike it should be strong, in my mindI can’t separate the violent act fromthe sea of people around it. Italmost fits and makes sense. Imean this without moral judgmentof any kind. Visually and even reasonablythe whole scene fits. Thisphysicality always surrounds us, butI think we often shock ourselves inthese instances when we reallybecome aware of it. Just as thepainting shocks after you havealready, I hope, found some beautyin it. I believe that beauty exists inthe moments that would normallybe peripheral or abject, and I amtrying to show that.41WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Marion Odence-Ford ’82 and Maureen Mulligan ’8042ALUMNAE IASSOCIATIONUPDATEAs I sit to write this final note aspresident of Concord Academy’sAlumnae/i Association, I amreminded of the goals we set whenI took office two years ago: to get more alumnae/iconnected to the school and to achievegreater diversity on the Alumnae/i Council. Thehard work of the many alumnae/i volunteers andCA’s Advancement Office has helped us toachieve these goals.Beginning last summer, we held a numberof gatherings, from Nantucket, where alumnae/igathered at the home of Ann and Graham Gundp’08, to London, where Stephanie McCormick-Goodhardt ’80, p’08, ’12 opened her home toguests, who met with Head of School JakeDresden. Other alumnae/i heard alumnus andtrustee David Michaelis ’75 speak about hisacclaimed biography of Peanuts creator CharlesShulz at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.Still others traveled to Carmel Valley, California,to tour the Cima Collina vineyard and tastewines with host and former trustee DickLumpkin.In Seattle, Cyndie Phelps ’64 hosted a luncheonfor alumnae/i and Jake, who also attended aCA dinner in downtown Portland. In Pasadena,California, alumnae/i toured the Pacific AsiaMuseum and shared their knowledge of theWest Coast with twenty-eight Concord Academyjuniors, who were on CA’s college trip overspring vacation.More than seventy-five recent CA alumnae/igathered at Jillian’s in Boston, just before theNew Year, for the annual Concord AcademyYoung Alumnae/i Committee (CAYAC) event.In Brunswick, Maine, and Providence, RhodeIsland, Concord Academy held gatherings foralumnae/i attending college. More recently, CAgraduates gathered at the University of MarylandObservatory in College Park to hear trustee andnoted planetary scientist Lucy McFadden ’70speak of her recent trip to Antarctica, where shehunted for meteorites. Looking forward, UnsooKim ’84 has agreed to organize a gathering ofalumnae/i in Seoul and, on September 22,Concord Academy alumnae/i will cheer on theRed Sox at Fenway Park.Regarding the Council’s diversity goals, youmay know that Concord Academy has launcheda new initiative to promote community andequity throughout every facet of the school.Students and faculty have attended Communityand Equity meetings and assemblies, whichencouraged exploration of identity and values,media and gender roles, and personal stories. Iwas fortunate to serve on the Board of Trustees’Community and Equity subcommittee, whichconfronted issues of socioeconomic, religious,gender, ethnic, sexual orientation, and variousother differences and inequities in our community.The Community and Equity team took animportant step into the broader CA communityby engaging alumnae/i at the spring Alumnae/iCouncil meeting. Moving forward, the Councilwill continue to incorporate the mission andgoals of the Community and Equity initiative.As I near the end of my term as president ofthe Alumnae/i Association, I am pleased toreport that we have had the strongest year everof Annual Giving. Maureen Mulligan ’80, whohas spearheaded Alumnae/i Giving and has beeninstrumental in many Alumnae/i Council projectsfor the past two years, will take over aspresident of the Alumnae/i Association. KatrinaPugh ’83 will succeed Maureen as vice presidentand chair of Alumnae/i Giving. Dan Towvim ’91,as vice president and chair of Outreach, hasactively sought better ways to connect our alumnae/iwith our school; he will remain in theposition for another year. Vicky Huber ’75, p’07,’09 will become vice president and chair ofNominating, replacing Madeleine Blanz-Mayo’86, who has worked hard to recruit Councilmembers and has directed her energy towardnumerous projects.I encourage each of you to come back toConcord Academy for a visit, to attend anAlumnae/i Council meeting and, when the feelingis right, to join our Council and see whata difference you can make to our school. In closing,I would like to thank Maureen, Dan, andMadeleine for their leadership, friendship,direction, and guidance. I’d also like to thankBillie Julier Wyeth ’76, Director of Alumnae/iPrograms, for her continued support, love of theschool, and for keeping us all on track.Although I am leaving my work with theAlumnae/i Association, I look forward to mycontinued involvement with our school and toseeing you back at Concord Academy or at thenext alumnae/i event.Marion Odence-Ford ’82President, Alumnae/i AssociationNetwork with other CA graduateson the Chameleon Connection—www.concordalum.org.

1931“I lost my wonderful husband after 65years of being p arents, grandparents,and now ‘greats,’” writes Ruth BrooksDrinker. “Never a dull moment andmemories enough to fill an entirelibrary.” Ruth lives next door to MaryLoring Clapp at Carleton-Willard Village,in Bedford, MA.1934Cynthia Northey Martin says helloto all.1936Class Secretary: Helen Reynolds Smith,10450 Lottsford Road, #152,Mitchellville, MD 20721,Helen.Smith@post.harvard.eduFaith Fisher Forbes talks enthusiasticallyabout her seven grandchildren andtwo great-grandchildren and all theiraccomplishments, travels, and activities.She lives in Chelsea, VT, but spendssome time on Naushon off Cape Codeach summer. She sounds like her oldcheerful self and seems to be undauntedlyfacing her 90th birthday. LouisaBabs Garfield Browne and her husbandTed celebrated their 60th anniversary ata family gathering for dinner at theWayside Inn in Sudbury — a family to beproud of. As for me, Helen ReynoldsSmith, I am 90, but still perking prettywell. Keeping up with grand and greatgrandchildrenis a great way to stayfeeling young! I am sorry to report thedeath of Alice Loring Pickman inJanuary 2008.1937Emily Rand Herman and her husbandBill are looking forward to summer visitsfrom grand- and great-grandchildren.1938 70th reunionNancy Parker Clark is looking forwardto reunion. She says it’s great fun beinga great-grandma of three.1940Class Secretary: Lucy Richardson Rand,65 Dartmouth Ct., Bedford, MA 01730Alice Smith Cornish writes that twomembers of the Class of 1965 are leadingorganizations that Alice belongs to,keeping up the standards of our school.Nina Nitze Moriarty ’65 is president ofSpeculating Squirrels, an investmentclub founded 50 years ago, and KittyFisk Ames ’65 is president of the EmoryOrganization, a 100-year-old luncheonclub whose objective is “to promoteintellectual intercourse in an informalway.” No alcohol, candy, or nuts may beserved! Betsy Smith Bagby moved to alarger apartment so she could show offher 72-year collection of British royalcommemorative china. The royal familycontinues to have babies, marriages, andanniversaries. She has seen 20 operasaround the world, from the Metropolitanto Sydney, Australia. She belongs to abook club, two garden clubs, a bridgeclub, and is on several opera committeesin Sarasota. Emily Cobb continuesdriving between Littleton, MA and LongIsland. Her Long Island garden openedin early May in time for the GardenConservancy and the Animal RescueFund events. In October she planted5,000 tulip bulbs in Long Island and2,063 bulbs in Massachusetts! Emilyalso spent two weeks in London with atheatre group. She sees Marie GoodingEaton and exchanges news and letterswith Grace Cheney Mannheimer.Rosemary Baldwin Coffin continues tofight rheumatoid arthritis and loss ofmemory. She spent Christmas with theirdaughter Sarah Coffin O’Connor ’69and July at the Ausable Club in theAdirondacks and hopes to do the samethis year. Marie Gooding Eaton writes:“Whoopee, this year I have some news!I have a granddaughter — Julia Eaton ’11— at Concord Academy! No news isgood news from Priscilla PatchJohnson. Shirley White Scaife has anew shoulder, old body, and asthma,and travels with an oxygen tank. She isable to continue with her mental healthwork. No big trips for Lucy RichardsonRand, who enjoys keeping track of herkids and grandkids.1941Class Notes edited by Ingrid von Dattan Detweiler ’61Class Secretary: Joan Talcott Batchelor,71 Abbotsford Road, Brookline, MA02446, joawil@rcn.comFrom Jane Peck Alexander I learnedthat her family is well but scattered, soit is difficult to see them. Lucy RandEverts enjoys her cozy condo withfriends and family close by and plenty ofdoctors to keep her well. Flora HouseFairchild has made lots of transitionsover the last two years and is gettingsettled with a new address. Sally Fosswrites that all is well in central Vermont.They hope to sell their farm soon sothey can live more simply. World peaceseems to be further away, but that doesn’tmean giving up. Hope fully new electionswill really change the Washingtonpolitical climate and effective government.Cheers to all. Olivia SwaimLeFeaver visited her daughter and familyon Fishers Island, NY in July andwent on a wonderful cruise to the BlackThe Alumnae/i Office would like to thankall the class secretaries who volunteertheir time to collect classmates’ news forConcord Academy magazine. They play a vitalrole—helping to keep alumnae/i connectedto each other and to the school. Pleasehelp us stay in touch by giving your emailaddress to your class secretary.Sea, Ephesus, and Santorini inSeptember. Helen Whiting Livingstonwrites that they have been at their “lastresort,” in River Mead in Peterborough,NH, for three years. Most of her travelshave been locally to Maine, although sheand her daughter made two trips toFrance in June for a granddaughter’s andgrandson’s wedding. Her eldest grandsonand his wife produced her secondgreat-grandson in December. The bigevent for Julie Turner McNulty in 2007was a cruise up the Inland Passage toAlaska, as part of an education programat Dart mouth; the ship had only 60 passengers.Betty Twitchell Snyder writesshe has no real news, no travels, nothingpublished, not running for office. Shedid become a great-grandmother inOctober and asks — does that count?It does for me. Anne Taylor moved intoa retirement home near Chicago andhopes eventually to get back to somepainting. Joan Dodd Tolley is still activewith photo shoots and Wolf Trap inVirginia, near DC. She has eight grandchildren,12 great-grandchildren, and twogreat, great-grandchildren. Margaret(Pete) Peters Urquhart has four childrenand six grandchildren. She writesthat her interests are piano, art (trying tolearn), and minding other people’s business.She had to give up tennis andgolf, with regret. Mary Rowse Westand Ed had their 59th anniversary inDecember and hope to see their 60th.Your secretary, Joan Talcott Batchelor,repairs books in the local elementaryschool library and at the Wellesley FreeLibrary, and last March started to learnhow to play the viola. More usefulwould have been taking lessons onhow to use a computer, but not asmuch fun. Many thanks to all who sentin their news.1942Class Secretary: Rosamond BrooksMcDowell, 10 Longwood Dr.,Ames 224, Westwood, MA 02090,robinmcd0224@comcast.netMargot Fenn Borden lives in Vermontnear all her descendants. She has anapartment attached to her daughter’shome, a beautiful place with family allaround and a welcoming community. Itis the best life she could have withouther husband Walt. Phyllis RothschildFarley had surgery and finds a cane veryhandy for getting a seat on the subwayor the bus. Robin Brooks McDowellreports three classmates turned up forour 65th reunion last June — Kay MullerBullitt, Betsy Day Moulton, and herself.Kay Muller Bullitt and FlipRothschild (who was sidelined with aback injury) received the Joan ShawHerman Award for the truly remarkablework they do in their communities — Kayin Seattle and Flip in New York City.1944CLASS NOTESLucia Cabot Cipolla keeps busy volunteering,including tutoring elementaryschoolchildren, and taking her dog Poloon walks and “play dates.” She visitsher far-flung family and enjoyed anElder hostel trip to England in May. “Mymother died in March at the age of 106.She went from horse-and-buggy to thespace age, New Age, and the disaster in43WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Ati Gropius Johansen ’44Iraq.” Ati Gropius Johansen writes:“Getting aged, they say, is not for thetimid. Everything creaks, squeaks, andgets lost, including too many dearfriends — Sally Sherman Tomaino, mydearest friend, died in 2007. I teach atthe De Cordova Museum in Lincoln andmake two or three visits a year toGermany. I also traveled to England,Yugoslavia, and Morocco. I was onGerman television in 2007, I have lecturedin Dessau, Germany, and taught inErfurt, all in connection with Bauhausand Gropius. “I remember ConcordAcademy with gratitude for the disciplinedstudy habits it passed on to me.They were useful for a lifetime!”1946Class Secretary: Penelope WeadockSlough, 159 Grosse Pointe Blvd., GrossePointe, MI 48236Your secretary regrets to report that thishas not been a good year for the Classof 1946. In 2007 we lost three of ourclassmates, Martzy Borden Moss, PhylClark Nininger, andKye WilsonRogerson. Our sincere condolences goto their families. Cory Benson Johnsonis not in the best of health after a badfall, but she is recovering. Betty EamesHooper reports that her husband Hoops“died on the golf course, after beatinghis younger brother with a 20-foot putt.”Betty will stay on in Oxford and hopesto see some of us in her guest rooms.Her sons are still in Perth, Australia.Sally Hill Friedlander guesses we areall turning 80. “Life is gentle, rich, andrewarding. I am trying watercolor and44loving it — especially in Maine. Comefind me at Bailey Island, ME.” DebbiePerry Clark is still singing in twogroups; she and her dog Widjet havebeen visiting nursing homes for threeyears. An avid naturalist, she helped aneffort to acclimate wolves to humansand slept overnight with a three-weekoldwolf cub on her chest. Debbie alsosold her condo in Maine, and renovationsare started on her “golden agesuite” at her home of many years inConcord. Drucy GreenwoodWithington expresses her sorrow aboutthe passing of our friends and classmatesthis past year. She had lunch withDebbie Perry Clark which was fun, andsaw Lydia Lund Hale ’47; both lookedterrific. They are enjoying their grand -children and all their projects. Drucysays: “Lots of love to you all. Come toPlymouth; our door is always open.”Betty Rowse Wilson says her husbandBob’s medical condition remains aboutthe same. She has two grandchildren incollege and two in high school. She tooka four-day trip to California last summerto help celebrate a friend’s 90th birthday.Penny Weadock Slough continuesvolunteering at the University of Michi -gan’s archaeological museum, cataloguingfor them. She has moved on fromancient and Islamic glass to ancientGreek coinage, a continuation of thekind of work she was doing as a curatorat the Detroit Institute of Arts. “For me,life is good.”1947Class Secretary: Laura RichardsonPayson, 865 Central Ave., Apt. M-304,Needham, MA 02492We report the sad loss of Mary AnneWeld Bodecker and Faith TrumbullReed. Patty Wolcott Berger went toMary Anne’s service last summer withLouisa Noble Drury and Mary LeighMorse Houston. Patty is working for theBoston Authors Club annual book prizes.Mary Leigh Morse Houston enjoyedbeing with five classmates at reunion.Mary Leigh’s winter was broken up withtrips to Florida in January with LouiseHouston ’74, the Bahamas in February,and Colorado in March for a family wedding.“It certainly was a nice change ofpace.” Life in Florida continues muchthe same for Joan Barry Brookes —golf, traveling, and “great Floridaweather.” Joan’s children are all married.One grandchild is in Iraq. TheBrookeses traveled to India in Marchand Turkey in June. Wendy AppelBrown is settling in as a Minnesotanand traveling “as long as we are able.”Liz Enders Costikyan went to St. Croixin January. Her two grandsons weremarried last summer. Phyl DeVeauFrancklyn’s husband tells us she is nowin the later stages of Alzheimer’s. She iswell, but cannot walk or talk and hardlyknows her family, “yet she remainshopefully happy in her own surroundings.”Our thanks to her husband forkeeping in touch. Laura RichardsonPayson enjoys their retirement home,with trips to the Cape in good weather.Bunty Peirson Richardson has fivegrandchildren ranging from 18 years to6 months.1948 60th reunionClass Secretary: Katherine FlatherBreen, 57 Chestnut St., Dedham, MA02026Kitsey Flather Breen, your class secretary,says thank you to everyone whosent news. I hope we have a goodturnout for our 60th reunion in June. Myfamily is well. Addie Eicks Comegys isworking on several tough resolutions for2008: learn the computer, cell phone,and new Volvo; exercise more; be sureher daughter Kate swims several timesa week; take a week’s vacation thissummer near the water; read more; createa manageable garden; and take partin daylong Elderhostel tours. Addie staysin close touch with Pam Cash Fisher.Mary Lawrence Curry had a spinalfusion in the fall and is gradually gettingbetter. She is looking forward to seeingeveryone at reunion. Ann Bemis Dayshares the sad news that her son, AlanDay, died February 6, 2008 after a bravebattle with pancreatic cancer. Ann caredfor him and “watched his spirit soar intothe snow clouds free of the pain.” SallyMcClary Dewey lives in Maine and islooking forward to a family reunion. “Mytwo daughters seem to be following inmy footsteps,” says Zoe ComninosEleftherio. “Melissa started a communityarts association in Harvard, MA, Artfor Arts Sake, and Pam is a real estatebroker on the Cape. I have a new granddaughterwhich makes six grandchildren.I’m looking forward to our reunionin June.” Pam Cash Fisher had a valvereplaced in her heart, feels great, andhopes to be around for a long time. Sheis looking forward to seeing everyone inJune. For Robin Hyde Hatch, an 18-daytrip to Antarctica was difficult due to badweather, but they enjoyed what theysaw. She will miss the reunion becausethey will be traveling, but sends fondwishes to all. Anne Johnson Jones hasa grandson who graduated fromHolderness, in the same town whereAnne grew up with Mary Anne WeldBodecker ’47, who passed awayrecently. “I will really miss her.” Lastyear, Anne was at Squam Lake with SylShaw Brandhorst ’49. A fall in Octoberresulted in a new knee for PollyEdgarton Lanman, who was well takencare of by her children during her recuperation.Polly is doing her exercisesand feels fine. Ann McKinstry Micouwrites: “I had a wonderful CA reunion inSeptember 2007 with Mary SetonAbele ’56, whom I taught 55 years agowhen I was a young English teacher atCA.” Ann’s new book, A Guide toFiction Set in Vermont for Children andYoung Adults, was published in March2008. In September 2007, Nancy BirdNichols directed a dance performance/masqueof Phaeton Myth at arestored chateau in the Loire Valley inFrance. Nancy arranges early music andstill does downhill skiing. She hopes tomake it to reunion. Joan GathercoleRice will miss reunion because she willbe at a Stanford graduation. Summersare spent in Duxbury with her family. Itwill be especially exciting this yearbecause her son and family are movingback to Arlington, VA, after three yearsliving in Cyprus. A grandson graduatedfrom Bucknell University with an engineeringdegree and has a terrific job inDC. Joan sends her best to all. EdieDaniels Tucker is sorry she will missreunion. The winter CA magazine triggeredlots of memories for DeedySargent, who recalls shivering throughFrench classes and the mega knittingprojects for Miss Whitman’s “Bundlesfor Britain.” “I remember Miss Whitmanfondly, and many others — an eccentricand somewhat nutty bunch they were.It is a world long gone but one, in retrospect,I am glad I inhabited.” AngieMiddleton Wilkins continues with hercommitment to promote effectivepreparation for teachers entering thespecial education field. She and Herbtook their annual trip to Hawaii and,in April, Angie went to Singapore towork with the Dyslexia Association ofSingapore.1949Class Secretary: Joan Corbin Lawson,64 Berkeley St., Somerville, MA 02143Class Secretary NeededThis is the 27th year Margot BemisCase has been breeding/training/competingAkhal-Teke horses at theirShenandoah farm in Staunton, VA. Shespent a few months on the Maine coast;August in Alaska for salmon and halibutfishing; and an annual visit to SouthAfrica, Kruger National Park and friends.She had a nice reunion with NashawtucHill friends, including Polly EdgartonLanman ’48 and Sylvia ShawBrandhorst. Barbara Jules Gagewrites: “My husband Harry turned 80 inOctober,” and unending celebrations followedin DC and Virginia, with a memorabledinner at The Inn at Little

Wash ing ton in Virginia. “Our sonJonathan is a cardiologist, and daughterSarah has taken over Gage & Company’sbank consulting business. As a true“Indepen dent” soul, I am relishing thisrollercoaster election year. Where arethe statesmen of either party? But, votewe must. Harry and I celebrated our55th wedding anniversary in February.Hooray for another very happy milestone!”No big changes in our lifestyle,reports Faith Allen Perry. “John and Ikeep daily planners filled with doctors’appointments instead of social dates.We can still ride the roads and enjoy thebeauty of Maine, New Hampshire, andVermont. Wishing everyone good healthand joy.” Rosalind Appel Ritchie had amini-stroke that affected the peripheralvision in her right eye, which makes ithard to read and write, and she cannotdrive. Other than that, all is well.1950Class Secretary: Dianne Stuart Humes,4404 Turnberry Crescent, Pueblo, CO81001From Persis Buxton Ames comesnews that her youngest son, Edward,was married in New Orleans in April.Peedie’s 13th grandchild was born inFebruary. Ed was in Stonehenge inDecember filming a TV series for theHistory Channel on UFOs. This is a sideline to his work at MIT; he also inventsrobots, is starting another company, andgetting ready to be a father. Their otherchildren are all fine: her daughter, aveterinarian, is raising 200 sheep andinoculates reindeer and other large animals.Peedie hopes everyone is withoutgeriatric ills and looks forward to ournext get-together. Molly Shaw Beardenjoyed lunch at Janet Lovejoy’s housein Carlisle with Rosie Corey, LibbyCorey Bourquin ’51, and MarianCameron Korbet ’49. Molly and Johnhad a beautiful trip to Cambodia andVietnam . . . interesting and extraordinary,including birding in adjacent woodsand wetlands. They toured Vietnam bybus and foot, sleeping on an 80-passengercruise ship. Their travels took themto key spots of the Vietnam War,through an underground town where400 villagers survived the daily bombings,to the prisons and torture rooms ofthe Khmer Rouge. “The old Vietnamwas brought into sharp contrast by thenew — highly energetic, resourceful,pleasant Vietnamese we encounteredevery day on foot, mopeds, and thousandsof bicycles.” A February Elder -hostel birding trip to Panama was ahighlight for Rosita Corey, who saysElderhostel does an excellent job organizingtrips where you meet interestingpeople and see wonderful, exotic birds,Family of Dayle Peterson Goddard ’50 (bottom left) celebrating her mother’s100th birthdaylike the resplendent quetzal and thewhite-whiskered puffbird. Regarding theRed Sox, “I never thought they could doit again!” Nancy Colt Couch says: “Allis well with thriving grandchildren andvery busy children.” Her daughter, SueCouch Lowell ’75, changed careersright after college and is now an electronicengineer. She has been leading a35-member team of chip designers forthe last 12 years at Intel. The boys arealso well: one in Texas at EDS and theother a senior vice president at HealthDialogue. Dayle Peterson Goddardenjoyed celebrating her mother’s 100thbirthday this year. Phebe Ham writes:“The longer I live the more I appreciateuncomplicated things. I find computersextraordinary, but getting less and lessuser-friendly. In summer, I lead toursof Concord. There is always more tolearn. At home I enjoy the distinguishedcompany of greyhounds. What are myclassmates reading? I recommendThree Cups of Tea: One Man’s Missionto Promote Peace . . . One School at aTime by Greg Mortenson. FromRemcoline van Tyen Nieuwenhuijs:“We are slowing down, but we try tokeep up with world events; music andcultural events especially give us greatpleasure. All the best to everyone forthe coming year.” Nancy BoardmanEddy had a year of big numbers. “My75th, my husband’s 80th, and our 50thwedding anniversary. Did I ever imaginethat I would travel to Turkey, Alsace-Lorraine, and Mexico, all in one year? In1950, a trip to New York City was a bigevent!” For Dianne Stuart Humes itwas certainly a spectacular summer.“Jamie and I celebrated our 50th weddinganniversary at the House of Lordsin London, followed by a visit with ourfamily — including four grandchildren —to Scotland, where we were married in1957. Then on to our 11-day North CapeBaltic cruise, from Copenhagen to St.Petersburg, where Jamie was a lecturer.We felt so lucky to be able to do it all.”The dinner in the Attley dining room ofthe House of Lords was organized byJamie’s friends from his days attendingschool in England. People filed into thehall, and a toastmaster in royal garb,similar to the Beefeaters’, announcedeach person. Jamie toasted each of the50 people using lines from Shakespeare,finishing with a Shakespearean sonnetfor his wife of 50 years.1951Class Secretary: Patricia CeresoleDunnell, 18 Donald Walter Dr., Sugar HillRetirement, Wolfeboro, NH 03894,tuck10500@surfglobal.netPatty Ceresole Dunnell has been in aretirement community since last August.“It is nice to know someone else will beremoving the snow and ice. Every afternoonI watch a herd of deer come to eatin the trees in back of my unit; mySheltie has a wonderful time watchingthe squirrels in the trees and barking atthem.” Libby Corey Bourquin and hersister, Rosie Corey ’50, went to Panamaon an Elderhostel birding trip. She isenjoying her new pair of snowshoes.Nancy Douglass Gale has been living inan adult community since 2000. “I amstill active in the women’s clubs, bothlocal and state, and serve as healthDianne Stuart Humes ’50 and JamesHumes dressed for dinner at theHouse of Lords on their 50th weddinganniversarychairman. In June I went to Coloradoto visit son Andy, his wife, and kids,which was a great time. I’m still kayakingand cross-country skiing. My best toall.” Amy Lovell Fay writes very sadnews: “The end of 2007 unfortunatelycame as a big bang for me. Dudley fellon the ice on December 14, breakinghis shoulder and causing several othersituations to come to the forefront.He is now in an assisted-living facility inSwampscott and has dementia. I amplanning to move us to New Hampshireto be near my daughter Lela Emery inSunapee. Best to all.” Deicy BakerStockwell traveled to South America —Patagonia and Easter Island. “I movedto a retirement community in Saco, ME.I have 11 grandchildren that keep mebusy and happy. That’s it in a nutshell.Best to all.”1952Class Secretary: Jean Phillips Kelly, 18-1Concord Greene, Concord, MA 01742,jkjazz2000@yahoo.comRobin Welch Ashley is still luggingaround her oxygen tank and loves parkingin handicapped places wheneverpossible. She attends many of her 12grandchildren’s games; some atMiddlesex and some in Lincoln, MA.Her oldest grandchild voted for the firsttime in November. Robin’s new room inher Vermont home is a joy to her andher husband. A great place to relax afterall those games! Maud Palmer Bartonand her husband have taken to the seain a big way. Their boat went to Canadalast summer and down the inland water-45WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

way to Florida in the fall. After returninghome for the holidays, they went backto Florida and the Bahamas. CecilyClark is putting up a windmill that willrun power back into the grid. She saysthe wind is strong where she is, and itshould work well. Cecily is still showingher art work at the New Exit Gallery inVinalhaven, ME. Let the winds blow!Lucy Faulkner Davison had a bonefusion and spent 12 weeks in a castfrom her toe to her knee. She claimsshe had “castrophobia” being unable tomove around as she wished. Shemissed our 55th due to her ankle problem.However, from her wheelchair shecared for her garden and got her canningdone. Good work “Old Shoe.” JeanPhillips Kelly will have a great-granddaughterby the time you receive this.“Thank you all for your congrats. She’llbe born in Phoenix . . . more traveling. Iwas asked to play the piano at one ofthe CA reunion parties last June, and Iwas delighted to see DianaFrothingham Feinberg and Lee DodgeSylvester. We had fun together. Gerryand I had two trips to Europe this pastyear; one on the Rhine River and theother to Burgundy.” Jean DunbarMaryborn had a busy year working onStep it Up ’07 (an effort to wake up thecountry to global warming), DemocracySchool, and the Alliance for Democracyconvention in Arizona. Her children andthe grands are fine. Joan WatsonMcCabe is still working full-time atBrigham and Women’s Hospital’s healthinformation service. Jacie and her husbandhave started a real estate investmentcompany. She says they are busywith rehab of a place in Jamaica Plain.The children and five grandchildren arefine. Harriett Smart Moorman worksfor political groups, and is active in herchurch, dancing, and dating. JacquelineWalker Smith reports everything is finewith her family. Three grandchildren arein college and now she has more coming!She’s added a 3-year-old, a 6-monthold,and is expecting another in August.Jac and Led have been married for 53years. It was wonderful to hear a voicefrom our past as Nancy CrockerStewart got in touch after all theseyears! She was in our class for the seventh,eighth, and ninth grades. She liveson Cape Cod and has just retired after10 years from nurse’s aide homecarework. Nancy is busy with her dogs andremodeling a guest house on her propertyfor the grands. She would love tosee anyone at her place in YarmouthPort. Thanks for coming back to us,Nancy! Lee Dodge Sylvester writes:“Ben and I are lucky to be living on theedge of a small lake in Connecticut, sowe don’t travel much.” However, theyswim and row often and would welcomeguests. Anne Christian Tedeschiis painting a lot and working at a coopart gallery. She says we can read aboutthe gallery at crawfordcountywi.com. Toread about Anne, click on “Artists of theDriftless Area” and go to artists’ profiles.Anne and her husband had a funtrip to Italy with three grandchildren. Allseven have now been to Italy to seetheir grandfather’s childhood home. Shesends us best wishes. Amy FryeThorndike is busy and loves seeing herthree children and five grandchildrenoften. She continues in psychiatric nursing,but has given up horse training andshows. She misses her two Arabianhorses, however she still has four dogsto watch over. Amy sends her best tothe Class of 1952.1953 55th reunionClass Secretary: Joy Hamann Shaw, 120Musketaquid Road, Concord, MA 01742,gojoy.shaw@verizon.netClass Secretary NeededAnne Mize Barnett had a fascinatingtrip to Peru last February and would goback in a heartbeat. She is retired after25 years in real estate, but is not findingany leisure time — there is such a dearthof volunteers. Anne is enjoying work asa Eucharist visitor. She sends her best tothe class. Carol Parks Bernhardt had asecond knee operation in anticipation ofa trip to Scandinavia and St. Petersburgthis summer. Janet Ward Stevenswrites that life continues to be full ofmusic, reading, exercise classes, andspecial friendships. Janet’s summers arefilled with five granddaughters visiting inMaine. Her latest endeavor is tai chi.Lavinia Vicky Davis Downs and Rayhave turned over their mountain cabin inJapan to their son, which feels verymuch like the end of an era. In Seattle,she is playing tennis and writing bookreviews for the Seattle League ofWomen Voters magazine. Lisa JenneyPaige is dividing her life between thefarm and Brunswick . . . peace andquiet, gardening in the summer, andbright lights, movies, friends, and activitiesduring the long winter. She is stillpainting, traveling, and doing a littlepoliticking. She went on a Smith alumtrip to Tanzania, partly safari, partly interactingwith local tribal women in thetraditional settings. It was a WOW trip!She adds that it is sad to think thatMarcie Gates Iszard and DebbyRobertson Clinch are no longer with us.Diane L’Etoile Hood took a month-longtrip visiting her son in Germany andgetting some sun on the Canary Islands.On her return she started her seventhchemo drug; she already has a numberof guiding jobs lined up this spring. FromTootsie Wyman Thomas comes thehappy news that their son, Donald, wasmarried this past October to SarahPerkins, whom he has known for 10years. It was a joyous occasion. Tootsieis still working full-time as the Conser -vation Commission director in Weston,MA. Lefty is semi-retired and loving it.Joy Hamann Shaw writes: “It is withgreat sadness that I am filling in forDebby Robertson Clinch, who died inJanuary. I seem to be doing a lot ofbabysitting lately, but I am so lucky tohave my grandchildren living so close. Ifinished my ‘barn’ addition in CenterSandwich, NH.” Howsie JenneyStewart and Tim moved from a condoback into a house and love it. She is easingup on boards and volunteering soshe can visit nursing homes and hospitalsmore often with her Cairn terrier,Willoughby. Last fall they cruised fromEngland to Italy and enjoyed the beautyof that part of the world. Tim is still playinga sharp game of tennis (as is LisaJenney Paige). Grandchildren range from24 to 6 years and all live within visitingdistance. Check this out! Howsie says:“Polly, the middle daughter wants tomove to Yarmouth so she’ll be here totake care of us.” WOW.For more Class Notes, go towww.concordalum.orgCONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Harriet Smart Moorman ’52 Anne Christian Tedeschi ’52 with family in Pisa, Italy Jane Fletcher Geniesse ’5446

Sally Dabney Parker ’55 and husband Everett with their grandchildren on their50th wedding anniversary1954Class Secretary: Sarah Kraetzer Dallas,100 Keyes Road, #320, Concord, MA01742, GeoSalDallas@yahoo.comClass Secretary Needed“The year 2008 is truly a banner year formy husband and me,” says JaneFletcher Geniesse. “Not only are ourthree grandchildren (6, 4, and 3 yearsold) great fun, but their parents haveacquired a house of their own onFishers Island, so they no longer need tostay with their exhausted grandparents.My latest book, American Priestess:The Extraordinary Story of AnnaSpafford and the American Colony inJerusalem, will be published by Nan A.Talese/Doubleday on June 17. It hasbeen seven years in preparation, and thepast two years were really hard work. Itis the story of a beautiful, blue-eyedwoman from Chicago who sufferedsome terrible tragedies, heard messagesfrom God that she must go to Jerusa -lem, and, accompanied by enthralledfollowers, became a participant in thetitanic events that created the modernMiddle East. Her grand mansion is nowthe famous American Colony Hotel, afavorite of spies, diplomats, and journalists.Doubleday has kindly undertaken tosend me on a cross-country tour fromDC to NYC to Boston, Chicago, and SanFrancisco. What a joy it would be to seesome of my classmates enroute.”Gussie Crocker Stewart says: “I’m stillbusy with my painting. I have picked upmost of my work at various galleries, asI’m doing quite well selling through adesigner, who likes my vivid use of colorin landscapes and florals. This past fallwe took a super trip to Williams town,MA. While Dick hiked, I painted acrylicsand sketched in oil pastels.”1955Class Secretary: Diana Murfitt Meyer, 30Merriman St., Unionville, CT 06085,meyerdm218@snet.netBetsy Atwood Nelson and husbandPeter are still involved with a small foundationin France and the InternationalPartnership Network, which bringstogether people from different parts ofthe world to share good practices ineducation partnerships with business,government, and the community. Theyare getting ready for their biennial conferencein Helsinki in September 2008.Betsy reports their family is doing well,and they see their four grandchildrenoften. Her daughter, Helen NelsonAnderson ’84, has a boy and a girl, andCharles has two boys. “We are hopingthis next election will give us an enlightenedgovernment in the U.S. Our bestwishes to all.” Carolyn Smith Daviesemailed that she saw Mary LeeBennett Noonan in Weston and atEmerson Hospital with her mother . . .[who] was back at rehab, and Mary Leewas on her way to see her new grandchildin NYC. Weecha Buse Crawfordmoved both her office and her homelast year because she retired. To celebrate,she and her husband traveled alot. In the midst of their travels theywere notified of an opening in a localretirement community and decided tomove. Sally Dabney Parker and Ev splittheir time between Maine and Arizona,with brief stops in Concord. They lovethe winter climate, outdoor activities,and cultural offerings in Tucson, plusthe proximity to their two West Coastchildren. Their son, who lives in England,brings his family to Maine every summerand now owns “the big house.”Last summer she and Ev bought andremodeled a nearby cottage for themselves.Their grandchildren count is six,ages 2 to11. When in Concord theyenjoy seeing Carolyn Smith Davies.After 44 years in Denver, Ding HallRichardson moved to Los Angeles. Shelives on a hill looking toward the mountains“and just 200 paces away fromyounger daughter and her family, wholook toward the ocean. It’s a big change,but much as I miss my Denver friends,which I do horribly, I’ve never lookedback.” Ding did get together in May2007 with Carolyn Smith Davies,Deborah Smith Leighton, and SarahBurley Birkett in Maine. Ding welcomesvisitors — she has a guest room.Dagmar Hayden Kadula writes: “Thispast year I had breast cancer and acourse of radiation. [In] January allchecked out well, so that was goodnews!” They are still in their Brooklynhome (with eight cats and a few additionalstrays), working on their apartmentand basement. Son Matt and wifeRose, who live upstairs, are always busyworking and traveling. Bobby LloydMagoon has more wild tales from outWest. Last summer she encounteredboth moose and buffalo. The latter hadapparently escaped from some ranch.The winter of 2008 “has been dreadfulwith the wildlife all over the placesearching for food. The mountain lionsare back. The Division of Wildlife is inconstant contact with all of us here onthe ridge.” Bobby is fine — “still workingat the store” — and sends hellos to all.Edie McMillan Tucker, a reporter forthe NH weekly Coös County Democrat,“enjoyed a wonderful campaign seasonthat started in January 2007 withMayor Rudy Giuliani of NY coming tothe Mt. Washington Hotel and Sen.Hillary Clinton visiting Berlin City Hall inFebruary to kick off her Granite Statecampaign. I heard former President BillClinton speak twice, and Sen. BarakObama three times, and listened andtalked to nearly all the others. I cappedthe experience by being on-air commentatorfor BBC Radio’s “5 Live” programfor 3½ hours on primary election night.”Edie’s granddaughter, Lauren Moye, aMt. Holyoke student, heard it live at herdormitory at University College London,where she is spending her junior year.Betsy Moizeau Shima spent a lot of2007 traveling. They “came east toCambridge in early May . . . and after asummer with the grandchildren here inSanta Barbara . . . flew to Europe wherethey visited Rotterdam, Edinburgh, andGlasgow.” Diana Murfitt Meyer is stillinvolved in local Unionville, CT issues(“redevelopment, a possible historic district,and our small history museum”)and her far-flung children and grandchildren(in the NH White Mountains andthe California Bay Area). “I had a delightfulpreholiday break with my sister,Caroline Murfitt-Eller ’58, sailing thewaters of Tortola, BVI for a week, beforestaying up in the rainforest of El Yunquein Puerto Rico. In my head I still hear thechirps of the coqui, as well as the insistentcrowing of early morning roosters.Betsy Shoemaker Watt emails she’sfine, but there was lots of snow in NH.In addition to shoveling, she workedthree days a week in the ski shop,mainly to introduce old customers to thenew owners.1956Class Secretary: Abigail SenklerKazanowski, 23 Newson Ave., Kittery,ME 03904Molly Arnold Bachman is working onher novel. She and Van continue to lookafter their 70 acres, large vegetable garden,and homeschooling grandchildren.There was a setback when Van experienceda heart problem which, fortunately,was resolved. Congratulations ontheir 45th wedding anniversary. InJanuary 2007, Natalie Jones marriedChauncey Bartholet. They spend mostof the year in Stonington, CT, with acouple of winter months in San Miguel,Mexico. They travel often to visit theirchildren. We all send our best wishes.Kate Wells Brewer continues sellingreal estate, enjoys her three grandchildrenand great skiing. Sue Harris Curtinhas done a lot of traveling — Sedona, AZ,Turkey, Japan, Canada, and a visit to herson Michael, who teaches English inThailand. Daughter Jennifer works at aradio station in Medford, OR. Sue continuesto teach online courses forHarvard, weave, and work on her novel.Tom is enjoying a busy retirement. KayWilson DeFord and Bill have beguntheir 10th year of innkeeping in Chathamand enjoy meeting guests from allover the world. She would love to seeclassmates and other CA alums. TheCranberry Inn is open year-round(cranberryinn.com). Marna Hayden traveledto Morocco, where she slept in atent in the Sahara Desert and rodecamels. She also visited major cities andtraveled through the Atlas Mountains.She is building a house in Nazareth, PAtogether with her daughter, son-in-law,and three grandchildren, which theyhope to move into in June. MargaretLewis Herbert continues to work with47WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008the Citizens Advice Bureau and tries tokeep up with her ten grandchildren.Tinker Jenney Saltonstall and Bill arereally enjoying retirement. They havedownsized to a renovated village home,which gives them time to drive aroundthe country to ski, hike, and visit nationalparks and friends.1957Class Secretary: Carol SwansonLouchheim, clouchheim@yahoo.comAmazingly, we are now more in touchwith each other in 2008 than we were inl958! Eighteen classmates with varioushusbands and close companionsattended our reunion, and 25 are on ouremail list. Tremendous! And, tremendousthanks to Sylvia Fitts Napier, whocalled everyone she could reach, fromLondon, encouraging us to write for theclass book. Even more thanks go toMiphi Brooks Hall, who coordinated ourreunion and is compiling THE BOOK.Reunion was a special, golden momentfor me. The weather and campus werebeautiful. Those who were not presentwere deeply missed. Ally FullerAnderson-Spivy, Louise Smith Bowman,Ann Ingersoll Boyden, Cal AdamsChristy, Barbara Bullard Burn, AnneMcLean Dorr, Barbara FarnsworthFairburn, Holly Nesmith Fordyce, MiphiBurns Hall, Judy Gowing Houck, DianaWilson Hoven, Nancy Newbury-Andresen, Connie Rohrbough, MoniWulff Steinert, Lee Adams Weaver,Sandy Spencer Williams, and I celebratedour friendships. Ansti GreeneBenfield has been in touch withConnie Rohrbough and Franny BehrSunderland, but Ansti says she“missed the 50th due to events at ourhouse in Perkinsville, VT, where I have awonderful round house on HawkesMountain. There is a B29 plane wreckfrom 1947 near us. We had almost 100people from all over climbing up to thatwreck on the 60th anniversary in June.I retired from UMass Boston studenthealth services in 1999, after 18 yearsat the UMB Center for Survey Research.My three kids are Kristen, who lives inNew Hampshire; Becky, who is inSeattle; and Andrew, who lives inIpswich, MA. I have five grandkids.”Ann Ingersoll Boyden and Perry hadan extended stay on Vinalhaven to singconcerts with a community chorus andAnnie’s a cappella group. Annie spentChristmas in Connecticut with her 97-year-old mother, who lives with a l00-year-old friend! In March, Ann organizeda Song of Peace event, connecting withother singers and musicians in the U.S.and around the world (songofpeace.org).Ally Fuller Anderson-Spivy exploredsites significant to Chinese nationalism’s48rise (Sun-Yat-sen University and thetreaty ports) to create an article for theonline magazine Culture and Travel.She is a correspondent for artnet.com’sonline magazine, volunteers at theMuseum of Modern Art and the Colum -bia County Historical Society, andbabysits for the grandchildren. SiriLindberg Branson writes: “We areenjoying winter in Taos and will return toAlaska for summer and fishing.”Barbara Burn Dolensek says of our50th: “It was more wonderful than I cansay, and I loved feeling like part of theschool again.” She is busy with freelancework and supervising reconstructionof the local museum. “My son hasa great job working as a computer techin Cooperstown, NY and he wears a tie!What else could a mother want?” JoeCoreth is recovering well from his surgery,which kept Polly Graham Corethat home in June. They were able to visittheir daughter in California at Thanks -giving. Caroline Adams Christy has putoff singing and writing while she and herhusband deal with a year of his challenginghealth issues. With five surgeries inten months, they are staying near hisdoctors in Westerly, RI, where theysummer. Winters are spent in Niantic,CT. Her kids are fine: Caroline’s daughterand family live in Warren, VT with hertwo grandchildren, ages 8 and 6. HelenHardcastle Gates regrets that familycommitments kept her away from ourreunion. However, she says that AnnieIngersoll Boyden filled her in. MiphiBrooks Hall spends a day each weekwith her 94-year-old father, and anotherday with her two grandchildren, who liveat Concord Academy. She counts onthese extremes for flexibility. Her wintertrek to Florida’s Gulf Coast is a specialtreat. She loves its beautiful beaches,birds, and great company. She is alsodaring — in August, she and her friendTom went skydiving from 2½ miles up,with a freefall and a long parachuteassistedfloat down. This is what shedoes when she isn’t working on theClass of ’57 book! Sylvia Fitts Napiermissed the reunion but created her ownon the phone. Poetic Sylvia writes: “. . .rediscovering my estimable classmateswas as inspiring as admiring a colorfulpatchwork. Each patch of a person wasdense in design, intricately, conscientiouslywoven . . . Most patches werereplete with achievements, with beneficence,with self-assuredness, and mostcontained dark threads of anxiety aboutthe prospects for our country and theworld.” Sylvia and Karolina CarolWells, and Carol’s daughter Nitsa, had areunion in Paris in October. It remindedSylvia of her first wedding in Paris inl962, with Ally Fuller Anderson-Spivy andCarol Wells as attendants. Sylvia informsus that Carol is “a much vaunted artiston the Greek island of Myconos,” whereshe has lived since the early sixties.Barbara Farnsworth Fairburn andDavid had dinner in London with Sylviaand her husband. Sylvia notes, “Theygrow ever more glamorous.” ConnieRohrbough enjoyed some spectaculartravels in 2007, highlighted by a helicoptertour to the west end of the GrandCanyon, followed by a flatbottom boattour of the Colorado River. NinaSwaim’s news takes the cake — thewedding cake! In August, she and herpartner of 29 years, Doug, slipped overthe VT border to NH and got married!Best wishes to both of them. Sylviasays Didette Van Slyck lives a demandingNew York City life. Marcia Synnottenjoyed having lunch with Ansti GreeneBenfield in October. Marcia plans toteach “a small graduate class in historicsite interpretation, a course that I beganteaching in 1979 and which grew out ofmy love for Old Sturbridge Village,Colonial Williamsburg, and old Salem.”Hal and I, Carol Swanson Louchheim,enjoyed a celebratory evening of dinnerand the San Francisco Ballet with SandySpencer Williams and a classmate ofours from Wheaton College. I continueas art docent, French student, and memberof our city’s Housing Commission.1958 50th reunionClass Secretary: Caroline Murfitt-Eller,carolineeller@comcast.netHazel Demille Angeledei writes thather grandnephew and his wife, whowere in the Peace Corps in Kenya, wereevacuated (along with all the other volunteers)after the post-election violencebroke out. Her older son Charles workedin the “back office” with the manresponsible for the $7 billion loss at theSociété Générale bank in France.Gretchen Becker has pursued a widevariety of activities in 2007, includingnursing two large Boer-cross goats;serving as a patient panelist about diseaseson a public TV show in Rochester,NY; blogging on diabetes for HealthCentral; and trying to write anotherbook. She published a third book, TheFour Corners Diet, a low-carb dietfocused on lots of vegetables and fiber,monounsaturated fat, and yogurt/kefir, incollaboration with the authors of a dietcalled the GO Diet (for their names,Goldberg and O’Mara). Her previousbooks, Prediabetes: What you Need toKnow to Keep Diabetes Away and TheFirst Year: Type 2 Diabetes, have beentranslated into Japanese and Chineseand published in England. Her 97-yearoldmother is still in her own homenearby with 24-hour hospice care.Martha Metchear Cunningham commentsthat after spending most of hercareer in clinical social work and crisisintervention, she is now using many ofthe skill sets she accumulated over theyears in running a dog obedience schoolin New Hampshire. Nancy CushmanFairbanks is still loving retirement andthe additional time it affords for friendsand family, music, books, and travels.She notes that “2007 brought twin boysinto our lives, so now we have fiveunder age 4.” The extra time in retirementalso allows her the opportunity toparticipate in “some community service(haven’t our lives been community serviceall along?)” and time to ponder herconcern about the world her grandchildrenwill inherit. She is still “looking forthe 25th and 26th hour in each day —the blessing of good health and a fulllife. I am looking forward to seeingeveryone in June (surely it cannot be 50years!).” “While dearly missing my husbandand best friend since his passing inJanuary 2007, I rejoice in the good thathas unfolded in my life,” writesElizabeth England Fisher. “First, I havetwo new grandchildren. Each of mydaughters had babies within a month ofeach other, so now there are five. Lastsummer my 9-year-old granddaughterand I took a motor home trip to Idaho soshe could learn wood carving and wecould raft the Payette River — great fun!In early October, Hope, my goldenretriever, and I took off in the motorhome for a 2,600-mile trip to Texas, withvisits along the way with my oldestdaughter and her family in Salt Lake Cityand with friends in Sedona and Tucson,AZ. Since November we have beenparked in Austin, enjoying being near myyoungest daughter and her husband andthe newest grandchild. March 1 webegan retracing our steps back toWashington.” Ann Terry Kerns continuesto participate in her church parishmission in Kingston, Jamaica, where shewill be providing health care during ourreunion in June. She misses her grandchildren,who have moved to NorthCarolina. “Time sure has flown, but I’vedone and seen a lot,” notes JackieVaughan Lee. From her 1960 Briarcliffegraduation in business/secretarial skills,she headed to Harvard, working for 12years for the dean of the law school, theCenter for Cognitive Studies, and finallythe medical school, where she met andmarried her husband CS in 1972. “Wemoved to Austin, TX, where he was aprofessor in the department of zoologyat the University of Texas, teaching anddoing research in molecular biology. Ourchildren, Christopher, 34, and Jennifer,33, kept us very busy over the years andboth went to Bowdoin College in Bruns -wick, ME. I did various volunteer jobs attheir schools, entertained lots for UTdepartmental functions, and helped withfamily members back east when possi-

Diana Murfitt Meyer ’55 and Caroline Murfitt-Eller ’58 Family of Jackie Vaughan Lee ’58ble. Christopher is now a professor ofAfrican history at the University of NorthCarolina, Chapel Hill, after getting hisPhD from Stanford. Jennifer finished adegree in psychology and is now expectingour second grandchild on June 8, thereason I won’t be at the reunion. I willmiss being there.” Sarah SargentLeiser writes that after her mother died12 years ago and family obligations lessened,“I took to the road in my littletruck and went to Alaska twice, theWest Coast, and western Canada, campingall the way. Three years ago, mydaughter, who lived in Seattle, moved toBurlington, VT to join her sister and family,which eliminated one of my excusesto go west. Since then I’ve been takingto the air and going abroad. I found thetravel group I like, Intrepid Travel, andwith them I’ve gone to China, Vietnam,Cambodia (Angkor Wat), and Bangkok.I’ve walked on the Camino de Santiagode Compostela by myself twice, andwhile there last spring, I went toMorocco and ‘Moorish Spain.’ Now I’llgo to Eastern Europe and Turkey. I’malways the oldest person, but I can keepup.” Catherine Holst Levine reports: “Iretired several years ago as a medicalsocial worker. My husband still doessome consulting in health care and visitsacademic centers on the East Coast. Inretirement I have enjoyed resumingpiano lessons and gardening at myWorcester, MA and Jaffrey, NH homes,as well as at the Unitarian Church. In thelast year we have designed and installedtwo new gardens at our church, whichare enjoyed by the public due to thestreet location. Our oldest son, Tom, isan assistant professor at the Universityof Connecticut, and he and his wifehave twin daughters, age 3. Son Billlives in Denver, and he is the budgetdirector for the Department of NaturalResources. He and his wife are expectingtheir first child in June. Our youngestson, Jim, is an internist, and he and hiswife have a 7-year-old son and a 5-yearolddaughter.” Jane Vance McCauleywrites that “2007 was a good year forour family, despite our deep concernsabout the path this country is on. Dickand I celebrated our 45th weddinganniversary in Maine with our entirefamily — 15 of us, plus one blessedbabysitter for the littlest children. What afun time we had. (The lobster populationmay never recover!) The main focus ofthe year, however, was my work withEvergreen Cove — a holistic learningcenter — as I took over as chair of theboard in January. I see regaining a modicumof balance between work and playas my main focus for 2008. I am definitelyplanning to be at our reunion, andhope as many of us as possible willmake the effort to come back toConcord for this special chance to betogether again as the Class of 1958. Ilook forward to seeing everyone!”Caroline Murfitt-Eller continues thenever-ending process of house renovation.I am still striving to gain more controlover my home and my time. Myonly relaxation this year was our annualfamily vacation in Maine, a wonderfulcatamaran cruise in Tortola, and time inEl Yunque rain forest in early Decemberwith my sister Diana Murfitt Meyer’55. Maine brings me back to my NewEngland family and roots and rejuvenationby the sea. My daughter Katie andher family have settled nicely into theirnew house in Alexandria. I enjoy theproximity of her children, Claire, 7, andKai, 4. My younger daughter, LeeWhelan, and her family are not too faraway in Connecticut, where I love tovisit and enjoy my grandson, Connor, 2,as well as my sister, who lives nearby.Sylvia Channing Pope has moved toElmore, VT from Brookline, MA, whereshe and her family lived for 30 years. Avacation house in Cambridge, MA (“aone-bedroom rental apartment”) enablesthem to “chill out and see our grandchildrenand eat and drink. My three daughters:Evelyn, a struggling musician(ASBHBYMUSIC.com); Laura, mother oftwo daughters and wrestling with beinga stay-at-home mom or businesswoman;and Caroline, the free spirit, temporarilyworking for Planned Parenthood inPortland, OR, but her bags are packedfor travel from Borneo to Brazil. We tryto eat local, volunteer for local efforts,ski and do other sports, and travel. Wereturn from China (hopefully) the daybefore the reunion and I look forward toseeing everyone.” Joellen MaloneyToussaint continues to work at theWellesley Free Library, anchors a weeklylocal news show on cable television, andruns a book group in her spare time. Shenow has six grandchildren. Sadly, shewrote that her husband Joe passedaway two years ago. Nancy WolfeStead reports that “Jim and I had agreat year introducing me to semiretirement:a month’s cruise on ourabsurdly small boat through the canalsof Quebec and Ontario as well as theSt. Lawrence, a trip to Sicily (Jim’s birthdaypresent to himself), and a familygathering in Puerto Vallarta (my birthdaypresent to him). Good thing becausethe day we came back from Mexico hesuffered a cerebral aneurysm. We spenta dodgy two months, but all is well now.A good reminder for carpe diem. Seeyou at reunion!”1959Class Secretary: Mary Poole,maryfp@earthlink.netThe Class of ’59 is preparing for its 50threunion (2009) by gathering andexchanging this year’s news. Ourexchanges — all through email — havebeen spirited, open, and funny, and havebrought us closer than most of us haveprobably been since our years at CA. Weare primarily focused on “leaks andcreaks” or the lack thereof, for thesmart few who have stayed in reallygood shape! Much more exciting, we’veshared various ideas on who should bethe next President of the United Statesand why. There has been a distinctchange of opinion since our days at CAfor many, but not all . . . All this throughemails read by all those listed below. Ifyou want to get the news and be part ofthe ongoing discussions, just give us orCA your email address, and you’ll gethooked like the rest of us! If you don’thave email, write any of us (CA will supplyaddresses): Susan Whitmore Allan,Bron Jenney Anders, Ainslie Baldwin,Elizabeth Boardman, Anna LutnickiBourgeois, Ginny Pitkin Bride, FaithChilds, Linda Merrill Ciccone, HenriettaBriggs Cosentino, Belinda Burley Dapice,Janet Spencer Dougherty, Hope49WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Howland Hale, Lyn Hall Hejinian,Jennifer Johnson, Gill Shaw Kellogg,Jane Boynton Nahon, Caroline CravenNielsen, Mary Poole, Ann WilsonPorteus, Ellie Putnam, Judy SpeckmanRussell, Julia Terry, Merrill Hunt Tikalsky,and Helen Stuart Twiss. And BronJenney Anders adds: “One of thethings that came out of the electronicdiscussion was that those who havequick happy success stories about theirkids and grandkids are the ones whorespond in the usual way. The othersbegan to roll out their more complexstories in this more lengthy ‘reply all’electronic format. The typical responsewas a page or two long. The winter CAmagazine had a lot of our classmates’photos. As we identified the photos wecommented on the ever-present kiltsand the hairstyles. We had much discussionaround this year’s presidential primary.Most of us came from Republicanfamilies, but had already begun theswitch to the Democratic Party at CA.Many feminists felt pressure to supportClinton, but just as many have decidedto support Obama, for his charisma andmessage of change. One of us hadheard Castro in Cambridge as he wasjust coming into power in Cuba 50 yearsago! Individual discussions with classmatesbroke off from the main discussionas we recognized folks we hadn’tcommunicated with for many years.Scanned pictures from CA days weresent around. We have developed anew level of kinship for classmates notregularly heard from. With permissionfrom everyone we may put all of ourdiscourse into a booklet for our 50th.”1960Class Secretaries: Pam Prouty Ikauniks,ikaunip@hotmail.com; Eleanor NobleLinton, nlinton@rcn.comBobbie Yonts Buxton still “lovesCharlottesville, NIA class (non-impactaerobics), theatre involvement, andAlliance Française classes, events, andhelping out with their public access TVspot, trying to resurrect some degree offluency.” Bobbie went to Maui with hercollege roomie in March — for “my tropicsfix. I hope to make my annual trek toNew England sometime in the summer,to see old friends, my dear last aunt,and various cousins. My daughter Elinorand my little grandsons, Luke and Henry,are in West Haven, CT, and my sonRuss is in Raleigh. I feel very fortunate.”Margot Dewey Churchill will be moving.“Our Grafton house is for sale andwe plan to move to the Cape. We purchasedsome family-owned land to buildnear Fred’s family’s summer home inBass River. Our hope is to be there bysummer 2009. I have pretty much50retired from my social work jobs in theinterest of this move. I continue to havecreative fun in my metals studio, seeour kids and six grandchildren, and generallyplay a little more with goodfriends. Fred and I both enjoy our goodhealth and each other, which, after 45years, is a good sign down the road withMedicare.” From Nicky Churchill: “Ifinally married my 35-year significantother/partner Wally in November 2006,in time for my father to know about it.We lost Dad in March, after a long,healthy, and, I think, happy life. He wasa very special man, gentle and considerate,and I miss him and find myselfwanting very much to emulate his finequalities. I’m still full-time in corporateAmerica (technology), but trying tofigure out an exit strategy. Singing in achamber choir and working on its boardalso takes a chunk of time. I would liketo replace work with some interestsfrom CA years, such as painting,perhaps some writing. My sister JoChurchill Guerrieri ’65 is to be congratulated,however, as she left her careeras an admissions director and started anew one renovating Vermont “starter”homes with her husband Gary. Theyhave successfully sold their first projectand await the sale of number two. Wallyand I finished most of our multi-year renovationproject, and we have a realguest room now. We live in the hillswest of Palo Alto/Woodside, CA, andwould love to hear from anyone whovisits the Bay Area. Margie HornblowerJohnson says that “this has beenanother sad year for my family. LastJanuary we broke up my parents’ housein Wash ington in the wake of myfather’s death, and in April, my little sister,Nancy Hornblower Rice ’64, diedof ovarian cancer. She was serene andbrave through a long ordeal. My childrenare hale and happy: Declan in Brooklynis bringing up my two grandsons andnow the senior editor at New DirectionsPublishing; Evan, who lives in Worth -ington, MA, has just finished writing theFrommer’s Guide to Iceland. The twinsare in New York: Isaac is a case managerat the Streetwork Project (clientsare homeless teenagers) and Conradgraduates from Columbia in May with adegree in Asian studies. I am stillperched on the mountainside in Color -ado where my husband Chuck puts inlong hours as a doctor, although he istaking more time off for trips and familyvacations. I still commute once a monthto my job in Rockland County, NY as thehouse editor of the historical society,and go from 8,000 feet down to sealevel, where we live in our convertedgarage on pilings in the Hudson River.Tucky Frazier Jones writes that her28-month-old granddaughter (family isonly an hour away) continues to be ajoy. Daughter Sarah works in IT atSloan-Kettering, developing new softwareprograms. Tucky says she had awonderful 15 days in Spain last Octoberwith the Bilboa Guggenheim a highlight,as well as time at the Alhambra and inGibraltar. She says she will most definitelyjoin us for our 50th in 2010. MollyDuane Leland writes: “Steve and I continueto live our seasonal, cross-countrylifestyle — Massachusetts to Arizona andback. Life in six-month intervals isdefined by the old camp song ‘makenew friends but keep the old, one is silverand the other is gold.’ We have wonderfulplay- and soulmates in Scottsdale,while our East Coast family and friendsare the tap roots of our lives. We’reforced to stay flexible and organized,keeping material necessities in the trunkof our car — golf clubs and file folders . .. We’re fortunate to attend courses atArizona State University, and both of usparticipate in small study groups guidedby peers with academic careers. We’reimpressed with emerging technologies,yet concerned about the ethics (readlaws) that will regulate them. Aside fromthat, it’s golf and perpetual sunshine.”It was great to hear from LisaVolckhausen McCann: “This is the firstwinter that I am aware of painful arthritisin a number of places, but most especiallyin my hands. I guess this is reasonablefor the year one reaches 65. I’mthinking of taking the same tablets mydog takes for her joints. I feel very luckyin many ways. Johrden and I are living inthe house in Redding, CT where I grewup. My father died in 2004 and last yearmy mother moved to an assisted-livingplace in Florida. I love this property, butit is too large for us and needs a lot ofattention and $$$$. I’m teaching someclasses in contemplative practices andam also a practitioner of Mahasati meditation,a vipassana (insight) techniquethat emphasizes rhythmic, gentle movements.My teachers are Buddhist monksfrom Thailand. I love the practice andenjoy my teachers, who are funny,sweet, and incisive. Laura Smith Lynchspent six weeks with FEMA in Chehalis,WA, where the flooding from a Dec -ember storm was terrible, so many sadstories. “Last spring I was sent to NJ(Patterson and Hackensack), and in thesummer it was Madison, WI. Octoberbrought us identical twin grandgirls, whoare so precious and easygoing. I amloving my work and am excited about allthe grands. Ulli Schubert Never commentedon how fast 2007 went andsends love to all of us. She had no real“breaking news from Hamburg: keepingup her charity work for two differentNGOs for children, very much involvedwith looking after her grandson (nextgrandchild will be born in June) andpuppy, traveling (Spain, Egypt), playingtennis (realizing that there are certainbones in my body which don’t alwaysgo along.).” Sue Perry has moved toNewbury Court in Concord and is veryhappy that now someone else takescare of all the snow. She is dealing withsome health problems too, so we wishher well. Annette Shaw writes: “I amgetting into my art much more, which isinspiring and necessary. I showed 10pieces here, on Galiano, at a groupshow of miniatures in November 2007.To my great delight I sold five, all to localfolk. I will take part in a show this summertoo. Turning 65 is quite the wake-upcall. I now have a gold card so I travelfree on the ferries weekdays and getdiscounts in health food stores and thelike. We have a group on the islandcalled “The Babes of ’42.” My grandkidsare 9 and 12 and are wonderful company.I am aiming for our 50th CAreunion, if not sooner, to see you allagain. I send you my love.” MeredithBrenizer Sabol has had a tough yearhealthwise with lung surgery and a secondrotator cuff repair, which still hurts.Happily, she writes: “The negativeswere outweighed by the addition of twonew grandchildren. Peter’s sister Alicewas born in London in February. Sawyerwas born in Chicago at the end ofNovember. We had a complete familyreunion in Chicago just beforeChristmas.” I, Noni Noble Linton, waselected vice president of the residentcouncil at the Overlook in May 2007 andfind it challenging to be a member of itsfirst elected council. John and I enjoyedgardening last year and are looking forwardto more this summer. Our bignews was the arrival of a new grandsonin May. In August we had visits from allthe Linton kids and grandkids, one familyfrom Beijing and one from Osaka. Wealso had a wonderful trip to Bermudawith friends. I had reconstructive surgeryon my right wrist in January; thanksto all of you who sent me good wishes.In the small world department, we alsohave another CA family here at theOverlook! Jim and Evelyn Parker, formerfaculty, have moved in, and we’vealready begun sharing CA stories. Bothwere very involved with the school, Jimteaching Asian and American history andEvelyn as librarian from 1961–1976.1961Class Secretaries: Judith CarpenterClark, jcclark61@verizon.net; SarahLanigan Gaitskill, sjgaitskill@yahoo.comJudy Howe Behn writes: “What a year— the Red Sox won the World Seriesand the Patriots played in the SuperBowl. We have a limited season ticketpackage to the Red Sox, so we got tomany games, including two playoff

Sallie Cross Kingham ’61 and familygames. I still spend quite a bit of timewith my mother, who is 93. Mark andLiz live on the Cape and work at WoodsHole — we are so grateful they livenearby. Mark spent three weeks lastsummer in Greenland checking on thedepth of the ice. Grandson Alex is talkingup a storm and so much fun to bewith. Bob and I had a great trip to theSouthwest coast of Ireland last June: awalking tour of Kerry, Dingle, andKillarney with another couple and a wonderfulIrish guide.” Betsy FenollosaBoege is very involved in local adultlearning programs associated withColby-Sawyer College. “I lost my positionas sewer commissioner last spring(the commission was disbanded at TownMeeting) and, strange to say, I was disappointed.It was a fascinating politicalexperience, especially dealing with thestate of New Hampshire after an unfortunatespill into Lake Sunapee in 2004.I’m enjoying the wonderful clean air, lackof traffic, and recreational opportunitiesof this region — doing some hospice volunteeringand serving on the President’sAdvisory Council at Colby-Sawyer. Lastfall Sheldon and I returned to some ofour earlier haunts in Asia — Bali andJapan, with a side trip to Vietnam. Wecouldn’t find our house, let alone theneighborhood in Tokyo, but no wonderafter 35-plus years.” Judy CarpenterClark reports: “Sincerest thanks to allwho sent news! It is great to hear whateveryone is doing. I am still running theannual fund at Lawrence Academy. Wego down to Vero Beach as much as wecan. It’s amazing how rejuvenating evena long weekend can be!” Ingrid vonDattan Detweiler writes: “Doug and Icelebrate our 40th anniversary June 15.We are enjoying our grandchildren verymuch; Carson is 6 and Alexa 3. Theylove visiting Oma and Opa (German forgrandmother and grandfather), and welove having them. Travels took us toNova Scotia, Prince Edward Island,Yosemite and Grand Canyon nationalparks, and California, where we visitedfamily and friends. In July, Gale Hurd,Peggy Williamson Merrill, and I attendedthe memorial celebration for TinaKaufman Thompson in Stowe, VT.Peggy hosted us at her home in Wood -stock, so it was a nice get-together forthe three of us.” Deborah MetcalfDresser “just saw the Glee Club picturein the latest alumnae/i magazine andrecognized quite a few familiar faces,which is in itself quite remarkable. (Wasthat picture really taken in 1958?) I keepthinking I haven’t changed much inlooks — oh, another case of denial. Well,I’m happy to be almost 65, my health isgood, and I continue to love working.I’ve been the rector of St. George’sChurch in Newburgh for 11-plus yearsnow. Although all four daughters areliving elsewhere, Bob and I hardly thinkof our home as an empty nest, whatwith dogs and parishioners coming andgoing. My Suzanna, with husbandRaphael, is in Tanzania, doing medicaltrials for her doctorate in public health.Margaret is in Chicago working as adesigner for Kmart. I’ve been doing afair amount of traveling, some of it forwork. I returned to Palestine in April, myfourth study visit. Later in June, Bob andI will be visiting Suzanna in Africa. Theelection keeps us all jumping — it’s sucha good thing that the country is so politicallyengaged.” Jane MacDougalEldredge is “still practicing law — landuse and family law. I no longer do anygeneral civil litigation. My wonderfulhusband Charlie is still the Hall Professorof American Art at the University ofKansas, where he loves his teaching,research, and writing. I belong to aSmith/Mt. Holyoke book club thatincludes women from 28 to 74 years oldand is a lot of fun. Happily, our two children,one daughter-in-law, and twograndchildren all seem to be at happyand productive places in their lives. Weare in the middle of the country andwould enjoy seeing any classmate whois driving through.” Judith PhelpsFelton continues “with artistic endeavorsand has fallen in love with workingwith fabric. John is studying to becomethe new (70-year-old) Ezio Pinza and isdoing very well. Our children are nowmiddle-aged (yikes!) and doing well professionallyand personally. Rebecca isteaching troubled kids in Vermont andFred is an award-winning corporate chef.We have one perfect 9-year-old granddaughter!My mother, Edith Phelps, continuesto decline, which is very sad forher and her family.” “It has been themost exciting year for me,” says DinnyForbes. “I met my match, at last, onlinelast winter. I’m madly in love with aman named Pan Vera, who moved toVermont from Seattle to live with melast June. Pan teaches non-violent communication(Marshall Rosenberg), theancient arts of Tantra, and builds commercialWeb sites. My new Web site isgetting more fabulous all the time,check it out: georginaforbesart.com.”Jill Harken Hall writes that “SandraWillett Jackson helped organize a CAbook group — including Anne GaudTinker ’63, Amy Dunbar ’74, and LucyMcFadden ’70 — so I see Sandra regularly,which is fun. Among my passionsare our three grandchildren. Our sonAlden has two — Khuan-Yu, 5, andJosephine, 3, and our other son Taddyhas one — Penelope, 2. They are totallywonderful. I started a design consultingbusiness, Planning Works, to help busyhomeowners organize and streamlinetheir house renovation/construction projects.Besides house projects, I coordinatedthe refurbishment of a library in aDC public elementary school. I am havinglots of fun with this work, and itgives me flexibility to see children andgrandchildren, travel with Ridge, and dovolunteer work — at a DC public charterschool and for Obama, whom I trulyhope is our next president.” (See page19.) From Chrissy Griffith Heyworth: “Iam retiring from teaching and coachingat Greenwich Country Day School inJune. My jobs at GCDS for 16 yearshave been awesome and varied, butwhile I’m still in good health, I want totry doing some writing, traveling abroad,taking Spanish and calligraphy courses,and being with Jim and our grandchildren(three boys and a girl in Seattle andNYC). So the exciting process of reinventionbegins. We have already bookedour first trip to China in October, so theearly fall will be busy with reading andcramming in some useful Mandarinphrases; maybe I won’t miss the classroomand kids too much.” Katie MotleyHinckley writes that “2007 was a scaryhealth year for me, but I’m pretty muchover the fright of suddenly losing halfthe sight in my left eye through somekind of unexplained damage to theretina. I was on a horrid high dose ofsteroids all summer, which made melook even more froggish than usual, butwhich brought back half of the lost sightso was probably worth it. I can live withthe three-quarters left just fine. Danretired at the end of February. We wentto Ethiopia to visit my daughter, AnnePfitzer ’85, her husband, Emil Parker,and my two under-3 grandsons, Andréand Theo. Anne is running a nonprofitinternational health organization affiliatedwith Johns Hopkins University. Sixty-fiveEthiopians work for her, training nursesand midwives to give better care tomothers and small children. Ethiopia isan unusual place. It’s the seat of theAfrican Union, with a modern shiny airportand flights to every African capital.Many people speak some English, andare welcoming to visitors. . . . We spentthe whole summer in Small Point, MEwhere my son, Marc Pfitzer ’87, and hisfamily join us for part of the summer.Marc and Anke’s three children do twothirdsof their year’s growing in theweeks that they are there. It is reallyquite extraordinary what Maine air andlobster seem to do! In October, wejoined two of my cousins in Turkey for aweek’s cruise on the Lycian coast . . .Hope that we all work hard to put amore responsible government in placenext year.” Sandra Willett Jacksonloves “serving as a CA trustee withsuch a committed, smart group of directors.I’m thrilled to see the school gettingeven stronger in academicexcellence, creative arts, and athleticswith a unique relevance to today’s globalchallenges. Neal has retired (we say“rewired”) from NPR and we are havinga ball completing our farmhouse on aneastern Maryland creek. My internationalpractice is slowing down to make roomfor volunteering for Hillary Clinton, whichhas brought me in closer touch withother Hillary activists and with Obamasupporters Lynn Adler and Jill HarkenHall.” (See page 20.) Hester ParkerJeswald says: “It’s a good thing Iretired! Joe spent June–September inthe ICU with an illness resulting from amisdiagnosed perforated bowel. It was a51WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008devastating time, as no one could tellme if he would recover. Our lives arechanged, but we are coping. We need tofix our healthcare system! My advice forall — if you have to go into a hospital,rehab, whatever, have someone withyou at all times — have a living will andhealthcare surrogate and ask questions— don’t assume medical professionalsknow what they are doing! We love ourhome, cats, gardens, and studio sobeing ‘forced’ to stay here is not sobad.” Sallie Cross Kingham says: “Wecontinue to be a global family with Dougand Britta in Sydney, Australia, andReed, Lua, and their sons Ramsey andLeo in Beirut. Eva is in Chicago, so onlyJames is close to home in Philadelphia.John and I were in England twice lastyear, both trips concerning his alumniassociations. I visited Reed and Lua inBeirut this past January — luckily missingmost of the unrest there. A big eventwas Doug and Britta’s wedding in Berlinat the end of May 2008. I am still teachingadult classes of English as a secondlanguage at the local community college.With China becoming such a globalpower, I decided to study Mandarin thisfall. It is a challenge to write and to pronounce,but there is very little grammar!My mom and I traveled to Woodstock,VT last fall, where we were treated to adelicious lunch by Peggy WilliamsonMerrill and her husband Fred. Gale Hurdwas a surprise guest and we had a wonderfultime. We also paid a visit to TinaKaufman Thompson’s mother at heramazing home outside of Woodstock.She is still sculpting and doing needlework— fascinating and inspiring. Weloved hosting Ingrid and Doug Detweilerin the fall.” We have our first “formal”news from Penny Brown Willing. Shehas a new granddaughter (daughterAbbie’s child), and her eldest, Jessie,turned 40. This will be her last year ofteaching, so she is beginning to thinkabout “the rest of her life — somewhatexhilarating and somewhat stressful.”Penny tries to be thankful every day thather health remains good and for all theblessings in her life. When LuciaNorton Woodruff’s family visited BigBend National Park last Christmas, shewas thinking of Mrs. Hall, who once recommendedshe visit there. Their familyis expanding as children and nownephews are getting married. “Our timeat CA continues to resonate in my life inmany different ways. I met a man whograduated from Exeter in the late 60sand loved CA girls!” Living in Naples,FL, Shelley Swift Plakans is enjoyinglife immensely. “We are still ‘young’ andcan play golf, tennis, walk, and go to thegym.” Their children are married andhave their own lives, but share their kidsto enrich their experience. They areexpecting their 10th grandchild. Shelley52continues to stay in touch with HesterParker Jeswald and sees her abouttwice a year. Priscilla Smith sawMerrie Crafts Thorpe at a memorialservice in Concord for the first time inmany years. Peggy Williamson Merrillsays that the best of 2007 was seeingGale Hurd and Ingrid von DattanDetweiler last summer, though sad asthe three went to Tina KaufmanThompson’s service. Peggy and Fredvisited their older son, a pilot for AirTran,and family in Georgia and their youngerson’s family in Hawaii. “It is nice to havetime and ability to travel around thisgreat wide world!” As for me, JanieLanigan Gaitskill, I am still event-planningat the conference center at MiamiUniversity in Oxford, OH. My son Clayand daughter-in-law Mandy are now inRaleigh, NC, Clay with SunTrust Bankand Mandy back with Ann Taylor districtmanaging. They love Raleigh, but it isharder than ever to coordinate times tosee them. That part of the move I donot like.1962Class Secretary: Phebe Vance,phebevance@yahoo.comSanna Adams, who lives in Colorado, isenjoying her artistic endeavors, whichinclude pottery, felting, watercolor, andjewelry-making, a new medium for her.Jane Bunker attended our reunion andwrites that it was “wonderful!” Shesays that she “particularly appreciatedhaving the opportunity to see beyondphysical changes, beyond time passed,to a vibrant essence in each person thatI recognized from so long ago. . . . Whata gift to live long enough for old relationshipsand old ideas to come back intomy life after almost half a century andget to learn from them again!” Janesends love to all. Lyn Burr Brignolicontinues her work with mentally challengedchildren, “a work that I love.”In July, Lyn returned to Ghana, WestAfrica, to spend time with a handicappedboy she met in 2000 whosemother, Sibri, has enrolled in the university,“She is the first woman in herMuslim family ever to learn to read andwrite.” Lyn says that her two sons andtheir families (including two grandchildren)“are a great and sustaining joy tome.” Lyn appreciated reading the notesfrom reunion participants, saying “Ourbonds are certainly deep.” From LeeHall Delfausse is news that she retiredin June after 20 years of teachingAmerican literature, writing, and journalism.Her husband Peter is retiring aswell, after practicing medicine for 35years. Also in June, Lee was inductedinto the Tennis Hall of Fame in RhodeIsland. Sally Newhall Freestone andher husband continue full-time workwith their pottery. Check their Web site:freestonepottery.com to view a recentPBS show, “Tennessee Crossroads,”that features the Freestones and theirpottery. Sally’s two daughters and fourgrandchildren, as well as many dearfriends, live in Rhode Island, and Sally islooking for a cottage there. She thinks itwould be a great place to retire “. . . ifwe ever decide to!” Ellen Smith Hardewrites that her family is blessedlyhealthy. The Westford Common restorationproject that she initiated in 1995wrapped up this year with the constructionof a replicated 1861 bandstand,many newly planted trees, and newbenches. “This $75,000 project hasrestored the Common to its 19th-centuryglory!” Ellen says: “Friendshipsforged at CA remain strong and I valuethem deeply.” Ginnie Smith Hibbardwrote to say that all is well. Turi Bogh-Henrikssen Janes continues teachingkindergarten and loves it. Her two childrenare “fine and useful adults — onetraining domestic violence counselorsand volunteers in LA, the other teachingalternative high school students inTucson.” Turi says they are all blessedwith good health, good jobs, and a life inone of the most beautiful parts of ourcountry: “Welcome mat is out, if you arein the Pacific Northwest.” Liz DavidsonKidder continues her work as a ChristianScience practitioner. One of her daughtersworks in law enforcement and theother is doing educational work in St.Croix on a 137-foot, historic nationallandmark schooner, “Roseway,” throughthe World Ocean School. Liz’s husbandRush continues his work with theInstitute for Global Ethics, which hasoffices in Maine, London, andVancouver. Toni Russell Merrickenjoyed a family reunion last June thatincluded Ann Hemingway Tarlton and“crew.” Toni and her husband were“land-based” last winter, giving themtime to get caught up “with stuff andaging parents.” Toni, who has worked inalternative medicine for many years, hasrecently gotten her Reiki certification.She anticipates doing volunteer sessionsin the local hospital. Anne BuxtonSobol shared “lots of newsy bits!” Shesang in a Down East a cappella choruslast summer and loved it. She also sangin a short concert with NevaRockefeller Goodwin’s Bar Harbor summerchoral group. Anne is working tostart a cooperative grocery store in NewOrleans, a project she describes as “atough sell.” Her core group of workersis trying to do “nitty-gritty communityorganizing,” marketing studies, andfinancial planning. Anne was looking forwardto a post-Mardi Gras visit fromEllen Condliffe Lagemann ’63. AnnHemingway Tarlton is completing herJane Bunker ’62 and granddaughterLucysecond year as president of the RumsonGarden Club. She and her husband Peterare getting ready to move from theirhome of 30 years to Portsmouth, NH.“Lots of change and adventure ahead.”They went to Mississippi to build ahome for a Katrina victim, and she hasplans to travel to Bhutan. “I, PhebeVance, am thankful for all of you whotake time to write with your news. I wasvery sad to miss our reunion due to thepostponement of my knee replacementsurgery. Happily, I now have two bionicknees and am enjoying walking aroundwithout pain. This year brought me twonew grandchildren. My son and his wifeadopted a newborn in April of 2007, onlyto create their own “lovely” who wasborn just 10 months later. I have hadgreat fun “grandmothering” these twolittle girls, along with my daughter’s twochildren. Such wonder! My husbandGary and I spent January in Florida andsome time in August doing a littleCanadian fishing and paddling.” SusanKemble West now works for theVisiting Nurses’ Association. She says:“As always, I love my patients, havebeen amazed at being able to translatewhat I did at the VA to these new andvery different patients, who are muchmore functional, and call for whole newskill sets . . . I am not so thrilled at theexploitation that comes with working athome on a laptop on my own time.” InJanuary they celebrated husbandGeorge’s 80th birthday with a formalluncheon for 30. Sue cooked, daughterSophia and her friend were waitresses,and son Zhenya was the parking attendantand wine steward! The party was asuccess, ending with champagne and

Faith Andrews Bedford ’63 and familyPhoebe Best-Devenish ’63 and husband Philip, with grandsons Benjamin andPhiliptoasts! “Both children are happy anddoing well at their respective schools.”1963 45th reunionClass Secretaries: Muffy MyersJohannsen, mjohannsen@meadowbrook-ma.org; Sally Fisher Treat,sweetdogs@earthlink.netFaith Andrews Bedford and husbandBob love the sunny, warm winters inFlorida and summers in Virginia, wherethey see Sarah and her family often.They celebrated Christmas with all thekids and grands (numbering six now)and planned their annual winter ski tripto Park City, UT, where Drew and hisgirls live. In May 2007, Faith was inKatmandu being Granny-nanny to Benwhile daughter Eleanor worked with theNepalese government as a consultantfor USAID. “A dawn flight to see Mt.Everest and side trip to the Taj Mahalwere both breathtaking.” Eleanor andPhilippe are based in Brussels, but Faithsees them several times a year inWashington. “Bob is experimenting withretirement this winter (much more timefor sailing and golf!) as I am ratchetingup my writing — mostly on the artistFrank Benson. We are busy and happyand counting our blessings. I hope tosee you all at the reunion.” PhoebeBest-Devenish emailed from PigeonBay, South Island, New Zealand, “oursouthern hemisphere piece of paradisethat we come to annually from Januarythrough April. I still work two days aweek as an operating theatre nurse here(likewise at home in Hancock, ME); wehave lots of time to hike (or tramp, asKiwis say), travel, or just sit on ourporch, looking across the valley to sheepand cattle grazing. As Philip says, wecan’t make ourselves live any longer, butwe can get plenty more hours of daylight!New Zealand is an awesomelybeautiful country. Otherwise, the focusof our lives is Benjamin and Philip, childrenof our daughter Miranda and herhusband Jason Benefield . . . We hada visit from newly (and I believe quitehappily) retired Anne Gaud Tinker.Otherwise, I’m looking forward to seeingmy classmates at our 45th (who’d-athunk-it!)reunion.” Aileen Ericksonwrites: “Last year a close friend, AnneNicholas Atlamazoglou ’64, died. Anneand her husband Stelio lived nearby, so Isaw her often and miss her company.Cropsey, our wonderful dog of 13 years,also died. I moved into a bigger studiowith more light, better heat, a bettershape, a friendlier view. Joe still paintsin his very small studio at home. Ourdaughter Helen, a freelance stylist workingin NYC, is into the second year ofher engagement. She has done a terrificjob of refining her mother’s style ofdress — you might not recognize me atthe reunion. Last spring it was so nice tomeet Nancy Bentinck-Smith Souletteby chance, leading a bird-watchinggroup around Fresh Pond Reservoir inCambridge.” Daria Bolton Fisk writes:“Been thinking a lot about MaryBuxton’s death and hoping we can dosomething special in her memory . . .Her partner, Lynne, organized a wonderfulservice last summer on the coastof Maine, with Mary’s Maine tennisbuddies in fine form.” Daria continuesworking at UMass Amherst, helpingcoordinate and teach in a program calledLabor/Management Workplace Educa -tion, which offers classes in ESOL, reading,writing, and math, plus the NextSteps component focused on things likecommunication, conflict and stress, classism,etc., all for blue-collar and clericalworkers at the university and in thearea’s colleges and businesses. “I’mhaving fun, but restless to be on toother things, like designing and buildingcluster cottage communities for folkslike us,” Daria says. “I’m also toyingwith children’s book ideas, plus environmentalsculpture. Is this all to assuagethe empty nest realization? Would loveto hear from others who’ve launchedentirely new ventures at this late date.”“We have been fortunate this year, TheGuide to Working Differently is finallypublished,” writes Anne DaignaultHartman. “And I am certainly workingdifferently — my ‘slash career’ includes:business ownership/real estatesales/affordable housing activity/Haitianeconomic development project. My sonsare thriving. My daughter-in- law’s workon her dissertation, while raising Jack,who is 3, makes me so proud. Comevisit Curtis and me in Truro.” BettyGlover writes: “Everything I know aboutlife I learned from running this year.Encouraged by my daughter Maggie, Ibegan running in January 2007. Nowwith the help of my running buddies andour coaches, I am among the fastestdozen women in our age group in MD,DC, and VA. I’ll probably start runningmarathons this year.” Betty feelsblessed to have four generations of familynearby and she sees them often:mom, sister, son Alex, and his youngfamily. Betty loves her job as a graphicdesigner for exhibits and print. “I havetwo kitties and a cute little house. Nowall I need is a wonderful boyfriend, andI’ll be all set!” Margy Jennings Best isstill doing some hospice work, includingworking with an AIDS client for 13years. She also volunteers at a wildliferehab center, working mostly with birdsof prey. At home in the summer sherehabs raccoons and ravens. Margy isalso a woodworker, making furniture,doors, wall hangings, and cages forrehabbed animals. “Life is good in thedesert. Hello to former classmates andfriends.” Laura Kennedy de Blankwrites: “Paul and I celebrated our 40thwedding anniversary this year and feelvery blessed to have made it so far. Weare just taking it one day at a time. Ourtwo incredibly bright and beautiful grandchildrenwill be joined by two cousinsthis summer. Our daughter Gabriel andher husband are expecting a baby in lateMay, and our son Peter and his wife areexpecting a baby in early July. Thedynasty continues to expand!” Lauraand Paul are still at work: he as a lawyer,and Laura as a family counselor, but theyare looking increasingly longingly atretirement. Jeannie KraetzerDidrichsen still lives in Finland, butspends summers in South Londonderry,VT. “I have yet to spot you, M.A.Rowland Swedlund, but I hear a lotabout your brother. Our youngest sonspent his junior and senior years at Burrand Burton Academy, an excellentschool which is very appreciative of yourbrother’s support with the RowlandCenter.” Both of Jeannie’s sons residein the States; Christian is a graphic53WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008designer in San Clemente, CA, andStefan is a student at Colby-SawyerCollege in NH. “Jon and I spend muchof our time traveling, going to concerts,operas, art exhibitions. Helsinki mayseem off the beaten track, but is full ofculture. Try it sometime. See you inJune.” The biggest change in KitMurray Boos’s life this last year washer new status as a grandparent. “Thefew times in which we actually got to do“grandparenting” were delightful, butalas, they live in Madison, which is a bitfar for spontaneity. The other two live innorthern Germany, which isn’t exactlynext door. But we’re adjusting to theempty nest.” Kit is still teaching andenjoying it, and Winfried still spendstime at the university, and is still flyinghis glider. “I, Muffy Myers Johannsen,had two wonderful events this year. Thefirst was the birth in April of our firstgrandchild to son Rem and his wife —joining the ranks of grandparenthood hasbeen thrilling for Pete and me. They livein Germany, but we talk often and seethem not infrequently. The second joyousoccasion was the September weddingof our son Pete. He and our girlslive in the Boston area.” Ellen CondliffeLagemann says: My big news is that Iam the grandmother of three adorablechildren — Hope Elizabeth Lagemannand her (fraternal) twin brothers, EvanMichael Lagemann and Peter KordLagemann. I am on a two-year leavefrom Harvard, where I have been theCharles Warren Professor of the Historyof Education since stepping down asdean of the Graduate School ofEducation. I am now at Simon’s Rock.Simon’s Rock is part of Bard — it’s officiallyBard College at Simon’s Rock —and I am establishing the Bard Centerfor Education and Democracy. It’s a terrificplace — the Halls created a greatinstitution! I am also spending a lot oftime working with the CA board. I hopelots of people from ’63 will come toreunion. CA has changed since our day,but is also still remarkably like theschool we all knew. Come and see.”Anne Lenox says: “Life is so good. I amretired from interior design after 30years and living the life I always wanted.The children are my greatest pride. Nomarriages yet, but they are both thrivingand engaged. My husband Jim and Iare experiencing a renaissance in ourrelationship and it is growing. My mostfavorite place now is Haystack MountainSchool of Crafts on Deer Isle, ME. AndI am still a practicing Wiccan. I am trulyFor more Class Notes, go towww.concordalum.org54looking forward to reunion. It never failsto provide hysterical reminiscences. Iwill be sharing them with all of you whoreturn.” Pam Pyle Powel writes: “Helloto everyone — I am happy to be aliveand celebrating our two daughters (onea writer and mother, one a doctor, justmarried), two great sons-in-law, twograndchildren, and all the usual clichésof our time of life, including survivingcancer twice . . . I am still working 3 ⁄4time as a clinical social worker and enjoymy clients very much. I’m also edgingback into sculpting and drawing, whichstarted at CA and I’ve never made consistenttime for, but still love. Our kidsand grandkids are in NYC, and it hasbeen hard to shuttle back and forth fromSeattle, but worth it. My husband Jakewill retire next year and this presents uswith some challenges, as he isextremely energetic and full of plans. Iam not ready to retire and like havingmy own income, so there’s a lot to sortout. Again, these are good problems tohave. Nancy Bentinck-Smith Souletteintroduced me to Jake 43 years ago on ablind date in college and here we aretoday — what are the odds? . . . Iremember CA with enormous gratitude.I had a full scholarship all the waythrough and couldn’t have been therewithout it. It saved me from what wouldhave been a bleak alternative. My dearestfriends still include Steffi Roeder,Peggy Winship, and Nancy Bentinck-Smith Soulette — they are my family.Congratulations to Mary Nicholas onher excellent book, The Mystery ofGoodness. If you haven’t read it, take alook.” Mary Wright says: “Brightest ofthe highlights was my great-nephewPatrick’s successful completion ofchemotherapy for leukemia . . . Travelincluded the Wilson OrnithologicalSociety annual meeting in March, birdbanding on Appledore in May, thealways-wonderful International HerbSymposium at Wheaton College in June,and back to Appledore for more bandingin September. . . . Saw my name in scientificprint as third author of a paperabout ticks on migrating birds. I alsokept up with frog monitoring, volunteerwork at the hospital, a handful ofclasses at Keene State, a bit of drumming,assorted bird counts.” SallyFisher Treat says: “I am daily becomingmore comfortable in my own skin. It hastaken decades. Four dogs are my kidsand the center of my life. Never in mydreams did I anticipate ever doing anythingremotely athletic, let along achieveany level of accomplishment, butthrough agility, my dogs have led me onsuch a journey . . . Our new neighbor inTampa is Nancy Holst, who bought ahouse in my neighborhood last year. It isfrosting on the cake to have your bestfriend just around the corner.”1964Class Secretaries: Caroline Herrick,ccherrick@worldnet.att.net;Mary Wadleigh, marywj100@aol.comFrom Margo Hooper Blair: “I continuedoing photography, but mainly formyself. I am on the boards of ThacherSchool and the Old Masters Society ofthe Art Institute, and have also joinedthe board of Human Rights Watch inChicago, which is an amazing organization.Son Alden worked at a health clinicin Burundi, daughter Alexandra workedon a radio documentary in North Carolinaand ended the year in Bhutan. Frank isseeing the end of a ’round the world sailon The Maggie B (not named after me,it is a children’s book) and can bechecked out at schoonermaggieb.net.”Barbara Woodruff Haas is still teachingkindergarten and first grade. She reportsthat their younger daughter Kate wasmarried in Virginia in July, and then theywent to Austria for a couple of weekswith friends. Barbara hopes to spendthis summer on the East Coast with hermother, who is in upstate New York.Lisa Wyman Cowley writes: “I still lovemy work in development at the DavisMuseum and Cultural Center atWellesley College and plan to stay workinguntil they kick me out — out ofnecessity as well as enjoyment. Ourdaughter Martha will be getting marriedin Chicago this summer. Many of youprobably have already encountered thewedding industry. My God! What everhappened to subtlety? Love to all.”Betsy Mallinckrodt Bryden is goingthrough the college application processwith her son Edward, which has madeher reflect on the decisions she made atthat age and how grateful she is to CA.Sally Barrett-Page is contemplating hernext move when daughter Chloe enterscollege this fall. She’s leaning towarddeveloping the Colorado JamaicaProject, of which she is the founder anddirector. Ted Barrett-Page, her mate of37 years, is interested in working withher, although he plans to keep hisBoulder psychotherapy practice active.She writes: “Moreover, 28-year-old sonXander has flown the coop for SanFrancisco, my dear old Daddy and sweetdog Izzy have passed over, so it’s timefor this old gray mare to kick up herheels and prance around some more.”Caroline Herrick is still doing freelanceeditorial work and photography. Therewas an exhibition of her work inConnecticut last summer. Marie ReeHall Katrak writes: “Now that work as agraphic designer is behind me, I spendmy days painting and creating monoprints[reekatrak.net]. I also make tripsto Bainbridge Island, WA to visit mygrandchildren, Annabelle, 8, Josie, 6,and Charlie, 2. Other travel with my husbandFiroze has included China, Tibet,and the Amazon.” Mea Kaemmerlenwas awarded first prize from the NewJersey Press Association for columnwritingin New Jersey newspapers witha circulation under 60,000. “A fun littleboost for any columnist in this somewhatsolitary occupation,” says Mea,who describes herself as “somewhatretired,” but still writing a weeklycolumn for the Times of Trenton andworking at Trenton Central High Schoolas a writing coach. Her column,“Serendipity,” is in the news sectionand is about “anything from the unrestin Chad . . . to Ukrainian Easter eggs”(nj.com/columns/times/kaemmerlen).Addressing possible future plans, Meaadds: “I’ve fallen in love with the softunderbelly of Florida and would like toget a small cottage near the Everglades. . . We still live in suburban Plainsboro,just outside of Princeton.” Mea wouldlove classmates to get in touch, if theirtravels take them to the area. Writingfrom Maine, Ba Davidson Kopp saysshe and her husband are enjoying retirementactivities. Most important, childrenand grandchildren are doing well.Catherine Petersen Mack talked abouther grandchildren and finds it challengingto remember all the birthdays, butotherwise enjoys many family activities,her animals, and their beautiful countrysetting in Virginia. Sandra Miller-Sanchez wrote that, although husbandPaul has retired, “I’m still trucking along,but the classes are huge and I’m findingthe commute to Montreal (even with thetrain) more and more exhausting.” Afamily wedding will take Sandra and Paulto British Columbia this summer, butshe still hopes to be in Maine in lateAugust. Sandra “enjoyed staying withHazel Demille Angeledei ’58 in Pariswhile visiting daughter Liza just beforeChristmas. They are both trueParisians.” Sandra adds: “Last summerPaul and I had a lovely visit with LuciaNorton Woodruff ’61 and her husbandPaul (good fellows, those Pauls) inMaine.”From Jenny Holmes Mirling:“What is news these days but milestones?My mum, Jane Holmes, celebratedher 90th birthday in Saratoga inSeptember. She continues to stay in herhouse, thanks to the good graces of BenMirling, who does the lion’s share ofcare. I still work at real estate and dothe nighttime Jane care.” Jenny addedthe sad news of Ben’s son David’s suddendeath last April. “He was almost 43and had an undiagnosed heart conditiondue to undiagnosed high blood pressure(no symptoms).” Jenny and Ben’s twosons, Grier, 35, and Sanford, 28, areboth in Saratoga. Grier “paints housesand takes care of the world,” while“Sanford studies to be a sculptor with

an MFA . . . They are both kind andsmart and interested in their world.What more can a mother ask?”Molly Koch Nudell was a classmate ofsome of us in the seventh and eighthgrade. She became a talented artist andgraphic designer, and was a devotee ofChögyam Trungpa Rinpoche — one offour schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Sadly,Molly died in February 2007 in Halifax,NS, where she lived and where she hadworked closely with the ShambhalaBuddhist Centre. Some interesting andmoving vignettes describing Molly andher life, previously unknown to most ofus, are available at chronicleproject.com/blogs/molly_nudell.html. Jane Palmer islooking forward to imminent retirementfrom her job with an Albany area publictelevision station and plans to devotemore time to her work with the TibetanBuddhist retreat in her area of New Yorkstate. She thinks fondly of CA and of heryears there, but, like many of us, shethinks that those years seem long ago!Casey Morgan Peltier says: “Our lives[continue] much the same (and a goodsame it is!): skiing, fly fishing, and baseball,and travel to enjoy each in its season.Having retired from the teachingworld, I was feeling a little like a socialparasite the other day until I realized thatwe’re doing now what some moderncollege graduates do before they get thereal job, home, and children.” CyndiePhelps writes: “I’ve been leading a veryquiet life, one that’s involved a lot ofmarching in place. My father’s death inthe spring of 2006 has been coupledwith me living alone for the past yearand a half, except for a house full ofanimals rescued by my son and . . . hisfriends . . . left behind when the kidsmoved on. Although I would like tomove back to Seattle, we all knowwhat’s happened to the housing market,so for the time being, I’m still in myVictorian on the bluff in Tacoma. I’ve lotsof plans in my brain, the way from hereto there is being sketched out little bylittle. I planned to be in Mexico inMarch, then it’s back to the drawingboard.” Horses and their care and competitionsoccupy much time, saysMargaret Falk Pirovano, who splits hertime between Wellington, FL, a nationalcenter for this activity, and Pound Ridge,NY in the summer. Margaret’s husbandJohn commutes back and forth toFlorida. Daughter Olivia and sonNicholas are both in NYC and doing verywell. Becca Ramsay writes: “An invitationto my aunt’s 100th birthday partypresented an opportunity to travel crosscountryby train and to visit a few additionalrelatives in Oregon and California.I’m in three French book clubs, onenature book club, church bible study,and I read to an elderly church memberevery other week. To keep up with allthis reading, I put my TV in a box lastsummer. For outdoor exercise, besidesrunning, I’m very active with the Friendsof Fresh Pond Reservation and did 40hours of invasive species removal lastsummer.” Susie Pickman Sargent hasbeen through a truly terrible year, buther attitude is that of a champion. Hermother died in December 2007, “peacefullyand with family. It’s hardest for myDad for whom my mother was his onlytrue confidant.” Susie has coped withcancer diagnosis and treatment and hada hip replacement in February. “Davidand I could never figure out how tomove to the same city, but the cancerbrought him to Boston. He is a verygood caretaker, but I am hoping to beginto have a more normal life as I recover.I’m closing my clinical practice andfocusing on taking care of myself andfamily, keeping a nice house and traveling.Also gardening, piano, sewing, knitting,a language, and anything else I feellike taking on . . . I’ve decided that if Ihave a few disease-free years, I want tocatch up on things that I’ve not alwayshad time for.” I know that we all sendSusie love and support. From DianaDennison Smith: “We are all losing ourolder generation and it is not easy . . .My father died in August 2007.” Dianaadds that daughter Isabel is expecting ababy this July. “The plan is that thisbaby will grow up trilingual, speakingEnglish with Mom, Italian with Dad, andFrench in school because they live inParis. Sounds very ambitious to me.”Ann Dickerson Swanson and husbandPeter are looking forward to moving toTruro on Cape Cod full-time from nearbyMarshfield, perhaps in a year. Ann gardensthere and thoroughly enjoys life onthe Cape. Her longtime career in musicinstruction has been most fulfilling, butshe looks forward to a bit more time topursue other activities. Franny HowesValiente talked about the need to cutback on hours at her demanding nursingjob with the VA. She loves sharing herlife with adorable grandchildren. Frannyis hosting a niece’s wedding this spring.Though it’s fun for her to look forward tothis event — the planning is timeconsuming.Cecily Vaughan’s son andfamily moved back to New England,which is good. Her teaching work atnearby Glen Urquhart School continues.Wendy White says: “As my recoveryfrom surgery in 2003 slowly progresses,part of the joy of re-emerging into thegreater world has been seeing and communicatingwith various classmates.In addition to attending the dinner forDrew Gilpin Faust in Washington, Ihad a lovely conversation with FrancieStevenson ’63, and since then haveenjoyed seeing Becca Ramsay and AliceAuchmoody Arlen. I toured the DavisArt Museum at Wellesley College withDrew Gilpin Faust, Mary Wadleigh, and Wendy White (all ’64) in Washington, DCLisa Wyman Cowley. I treasured thattime with her and can report that she isthriving in her job there, which bringsher into contact with alumnae, currentstudents, and other professionals whilerequiring travel to view private collections.Sandra Miller-Sanchez and herhusband Paul stopped by in Februaryon their way back to Montreal, a treatall too rare. We spoke of our deardeparted petit prince Anne NicholasAtlamazoglou, and I repeated my admirationfor Sandra’s eulogy, which I wasable to transmit to Anne’s sister, CloverNicholas ’59.” Clover reports that thefamily chose to hold Anne’s memorialservice in the Chapel “because Annehad loved her years at ConcordAcademy so much.” Wendy celebratedher son Alex Capilli’s 21st birthday. Alexis a junior at George Washington Uni -versity. Betsy Devine Wilczek writes:“The biggest change in my recent lifehas been that Frank is on sabbatical thisacademic year (2007–08). We spentSeptember through December in afurnished apartment in Stockholm, veryScandinavian, all white paint and pale,shiny wood grain, industrial washingmachines in the basement with a longlist of rules and a military schedule forjust how to use them. It was fun to goback to all the Nobel parties in Dec -ember, especially because Frank and Itook ballroom dancing lessons last year,which turned him into a glorious dancerand me into someone who has a goodtime on the dance floor. We spent thespring in Oxford. I am working on abook called Meta-Physics when I’m notwandering around just gazing in wonderat all the glorious stonework. I recentlygot some compliments on the Frenchaccent I long ago copied from Made -moiselle Bilinska. My blog moved tobetsydevine.com.” Karen Smith Younglives in Andover, MA. After CA, shewent to Columbia and has since enjoyedmarriage, raising two fine daughters,and a lifelong career as a nurse atMcLean Hospital. She finds encouragementin the evolving, innovative treatmentof mental illness at McLean. Onedaughter and son-in-law live in Floridaand the other daughter lives close tohome. Mary Wadleigh writes: “I lovebeing back in Washington, DC fromSeptember to June, with occasionaltrips to the renovated house on theharbor’s west flank in Brooksville, ME.I plan to be in Maine for most of thesummer and have arranged my part-timework so as to accommodate this schedule.I’ve visited with Alice AuchmoodyArlen in Maine and Wendy White inWash ington, where we attended aHarvard-sponsored dinner honoringDrew Gilpin Faust in December. Weactually got to talk briefly with Drew. Ifinally collected that long-delayed degreefrom Smith this past May with bothkids, plus significant others, in attendance.My daughter Alice WadleighJayne ’97 is a newly minted lawyer,serving as a Massachusetts publicdefender in Essex County, and son Tobyis a financial analyst with WellingtonManagement, now in Wayne, PA — butmoving to London in September.” Maryexpressed appreciation for the supportof CA classmates after her mother’sdeath. “My own mother, Joy Shane, CA‘40 died at age 83 in September 2006,and I spoke about her at the memorial55Freed PhotographyWWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Chapel service at CA this past June2007. It was a very moving event, especiallybecause there were beautiful reminiscencesabout members of our ownand nearby classes, who had died wellbefore their time, in the preceding year.Mary Buxton, Nancy HornblowerRice, Anne Nicholas Atlamazoglou,and Ann Fritts Syring’s sister DebbieFritts Stavrou ’68 were among thoseremembered. I know that we all missthese special women — and grieve, withtheir families, at their loss.1965Class Secretaries: Cornelia KennedyAtkins, cornelia_atkins@comcast.net;Tracy Barker Greenwood, tgreenwood@verizon.netCornelia Kennedy Atkins has marked25 years teaching at Beauvoir School inWashington, DC. Although no plans toretire are on the horizon, she and Larrycompleted a renovation/building projecton family property in Chatham, MA withhopes of living there full-time in thefuture. A first trip to Spain (Costa delSol) was a highlight of 2007. WendyArnold writes: “I had two trips to Africain 2007 to continue my trainings inHIV/AIDS prevention through peer education.Some fun news is that I returnedto CA in April to speak to students in anassembly. I recommended that theyparallel my passion and venture to workin challenging international countries, asI have done. One person really canmake a difference, and this is so evidentwith so many classmates from ’65.”Kathy Travers Bittner writes: “Sadly, Ilost my Dad, William O. Travers, Jr., onOctober 27, 2006. As some of you mayremember, he was a longtime teacher atFenn School. I am still teaching specialed students at the middle-school level inJefferson, ME. My son Adam is living inLos Angeles and works for PicturehouseFilms, a subsidiary of New Line Cinema.I keep in touch with Hattie MotleyCleveland and we see each other everysummer when she visits Maine. Hopeto see some of you at our 45th reunionin a few years.” “The past year hasbeen one of transition for me, and forour family,” says Hilary BaldwinBrown. “Two of our grown daughterswere married: Miller’s youngest, Shana,to Daniel Holden, in Hawaii where theylive and she teaches at the university;my youngest, Robin, to Ken Forsberg,in a simple and lovely Quaker ceremonyin Washington, DC where they live, bothworking on the Hill. Our first grandsonwas born, Dashiell Miller Holden, muchto the delight of his two cousins,Ruby and Pearl, who live in Ogden, UT.Jasmine is living and working inProvidence, RI as a clinical MSW at56Rhode Island Hospital. I decided, reluctantly,to close my private practice as aclinical MSW psychotherapist after 17years due to a benign, but compellingmedical condition, post-polio syndrome.Though I have a host of other creativepursuits to devote more time to, I missthe work I have so loved doing, in varioussettings, for the past 30 years. Myhusband Miller is still in robust healthand teaching courses in the philosophyof medical ethics and philosophy of artat Trinity College in Hartford. I still turnto Wendy Arnold when I need a goodfriend to talk to, as I did all during oursix years in Chapel and assembly, wherewe were always seated alphabeticallynext to each other. Some things justnever change.” Hattie MotleyCleveland was in her third year as presidentof the board of directors (and seventhyear on the board) for the AspenChoral Society, running all aspects ofthis small nonprofit organization togetherwith the music director. Hattie sings (stilla soprano) and produces concerts fortwo seasons, Christmas and spring. Sheresigned her position after the springconcerts because “I met someone inthe spring of 2006 (after being a widowfor six years) and now have a wonderfulman in my life, Elliot Branson, a retiredattorney, professor of philosophy, andaeronautical engineer, with whom I wantto travel, ski, and play. We will travel toSpain for my niece Lindsey’s wedding(the daughter of my late sister BeeMotley Livermore ’63) in July. I visitedwith Kathy Travers Bittner in Maine lastsummer and often rendezvous withGinny Redpath in Concord when visitingmy sister Susan Motley Hansen’69, who lives in Carlisle.” After 30years in the UN system at the WorldTourism Organization in Madrid, RozDeming is close to retirement and willfinally have more time to devote toother pursuits, such as environmentalwork. “For the last five years I havebeen travelling back and forth to Wash -ington, DC, frequently to help with thecare of my father, who died on March20, 2007 at age 98. He had a long andinteresting life and was a wonderfulfather, grandfather, and great-grandfather.Right until his death he was fullyengaged in life and was looking forwardto voting for Hillary Clinton and seeing awoman in the White House. I shall stayin Madrid after retirement, but willspend more time at the family summercottage in Michigan and with family andfriends in the U.S., and maybe evenmake a reunion at Concord!” TracyBarker Greenwood’s year was “filledwith four generations of family, fromgrandchildren to my mother, who turned90. I still work in an elementary schoollibrary and spend weekends and summersin Westport.” Amy Handy wrotefrom Huntington, VT that she is a psychologist/psychotherapistat a regionalmental health agency, helps out her parents,has four wonderful grandchildren,and still maintains her interests in art,music, the outdoors, and the friends andfamily that come with these pursuits.Katharine Weld Harding has a newpassion. She and her Cavadoodle puppyare being trained to be Pet Partners withthe Delta Society so they can “makehappy visits” to children or anyone inhospitals, nursing homes, etc. She isalso serving on a countywide board thatawards grants for the Oregon CulturalTrust. Louisa Thomas Hargrave had aterrific year: making wine for RichardLeakey and his family at their Nairobivineyard, judging wines in California andVerona, writing her now syndicated winecolumn, and making two barrels ofMerlot with her kids on Long Island. Shealso had a delightful time this summerat the wedding of Nina NitzeMoriarty’s daughter Heidi, where shesaw Becky Sherrill More, DianaDennison Smith ’64, Sandra Cuneo’66, Molly Ackerly, Kitty Fisk Ames,and also Kedzie Penfield’s lovely daughters.Congratulations to Susie Hortonon her great profile in the CA wintermagazine as a practitioner of ancientChinese medicine, healing, and acupuncture.Louisa Chevalier Matthew is stillteaching art history at Union College andis “engaged in interesting research onartists’ pigments and the commerce inartists’ materials during the Renais -sance, especially in Venice.” Also, feelfree to contact her regarding anyprospective Union College students!Joanie Weidlein Mudge wrote fromher new home in Lexington, KY whereshe is “enjoying getting to know a beautifulpart of the country, which I amtrying to see through the lens of an oilpainter . . . I have also joined a women’scommittee that works on fundraisersfor the University of Kentucky ArtMuseum.” Suki Davis Pandey wrote awonderful “nutshell version” of herself:“Married to Bob Farwell for 30 years;living in Pasadena; one daughter; twograndsons, Xander and Foster, namedafter my brother who died six years ago.I’m vice president of commercial operationsat NuGEN Technologies, whichmakes and sells a novel amplificationsystem for nucleic acids (RNA/DNA),most typically used to generate c-DNAfrom total RNA for differential geneexpression analysis on microarrays . . .I reverted to my childhood about fiveyears ago and started riding hunters andjumpers again. After 30 years, it was arude awakening. I now own and obsessover two horses . . . both splendid fellowsthat keep me in a constant state ofsoreness and decrepitude.” KedziePenfield is still teaching actors aboutmovement and is also a movement psychotherapistin Edinburgh. She is notthinking about retirement at the momentand is in good health, in part due to two“wonderfully successful” hip operations!Kedzie and her two daughters,Kate, 17, and Jane, 21, will be inManhattan for 10 days in July. FromSidney Walker comes the news that“daughter Sara Walker ’97 marriedSanjir Shah, and we hosted a three-day,five-part fete at our summer house inBuzzards Bay. The storm and wind godsparted just in time to offer sun and agolden evening, with a sunken gardenand a magical tent for 150 lit withJapanese lanterns. Saris everywhere.”Neen Miller Ransom had a good year inDenver “trying to keep up with her 11grandchildren” and traveling as much aspossible. Suzanne Samson’s “life hasbeen meandering on happily — somethingthat would have sounded boring acouple of decades ago, but now feelsgood.” She has found that “taking upyoga at 60 is something my body doesn’tquite understand yet.” “It’s been ayear of events,” says Emilie SissonOsborn: “My mother, Barbara Sisson,died (a trustee at CA in the 70s); myson got married, and I turned 60. I havesurvived, but I certainly feel older.” FayLampert Shutzer wrote, “I love myvisits to Concord, because as much asthings have changed in my life and atschool, it is still essentially the sameplace we loved in the sixties . . . I havetaken a year off from my private practicein psychology to paint full-time, and Isublet studio space that comes completewith rats and termites, for a genuineartist’s experience.” Our hearts goout to Joanie Pierce Uraneck and herson Chris, whose husband and fatherDoug died in October from ALS (LouGehrig’s disease). In his obituary, Dougwas described as a “generous, creative,joyful soul with an extraordinary breadthof interests.” Our deepest sympathyalso to Page Hurley Shugrue on thedeath of her daughter Molly, age 26, inJanuary. We extend our sympathy aswell to Kate Douglas Torrey, whosemother died last year. However, Katealso wrote that “2007 brought two trulywonderful and memorable events: ourson’s wedding and the inauguration ofDrewdie Gilpin Faust ’64. I’ll savoreach of those memories for quite sometime, full of overflowing joy and hopeand pride, and the promise of greatthings to come.” Margot Willett loves“being 60 and feeling 45 (generally).”She had a great, long-overdue catchupwith Suze Sherer Osnos last year andkeeps up with Concord news throughher sister, Sandra Willett Jackson ’61,who is on the CA Board of Trustees.Margot is hoping to travel to Nepal withdaughter Liza in the fall to work in a

Francie Fleck Yeager ’66, Katrina Yeager Farmer ’95, and Jodi Yeagerdental clinic and trek with a womanfriend who leads treks to raise moneyfor a safe house in Katmandu.1966Class Secretary: Sally Crimmins Thorne,thorne_iowa@msn.comLucy Boyle is working part-time as anaccountant and volunteering in a localelementary school as a math tutor. Shefinds working with the “challenge”groups of third and fourth graders aswell as the remedial group very rewarding,and is glad to have the opportunityto teach. It’s a good life balance forher. Lasell Jaretzki Bartlett is busywith the High Horses Therapeutic RidingProgram, training the volunteers whohandle the horses as well as trainingsome of the horses. She also has asmall business, Creative Collaborationwith Horses, helping people have a goodrelationship with their horses. Ongoingis the building of their farm and dancingtwo to three times a week. A new interestis aikido; she is the oldest studentin the class. Susan Bradlee Grant’sdaughter was married in September toJohn Arathuzik, whom she met onmatch.com. Small world, he lived aroundthe corner from cousin Loring Bradlee.Susan’s son Brad moved to his ownplace. She and Pat are enjoying beingempty nesters but they do miss him.Both are self-employed, Susan as aspecial education consultant and Pat asowner of a medical products company.For the first time, they rented a condofor the season at Sunday River. Shehosted a birthday party for her motherwho turned 90. Loring and Susan try toget together monthly and she runs intoJudy Strohmeier Reece at the countryclub in Brookline or at the retirementcommunity where both Judy’s and Pat’sdads live. Jane Hotchkiss continues tohave her mother live with her and is notable to travel as much as she’d like. Shedid go to Orcas Island for a cousin’swedding. Driving there, she enjoyed thevaried topography from Medora, SDthrough Montana and Idaho, to theGrand Coulee and Chief Joseph damsand, finally, the North Cascades scenichighway. Patty Kellogg writes that after36 years of child-rearing, she has startedher own business, Wellspring Fitness.She is a personal trainer using theADAPT system, both at the Lake PlacidWellness Center and at home, and ishoping this will carry her into old age,both physically and financially. AnneKessler continues to work with pastels(annekessler.com). She had three successfulshows this year, almost enoughto enable her to quit her day job as adatabase engineer. The study of herbsand healing is a new and exciting interestfor Anne, who lives with David andhis daughter Renee in the wilds ofnorthern California by the Garcia River.Suzie Kidder continues with her consulting.Vicky Gimbel Lubin has adream, to start a business or write anovel when her twins “fly the nest”next fall. She returned to CA, saw the“beautiful renovated Chapel,” and had agreat visit with Ellie Bemis and BrinaPeck. Julia Page is enjoying some freetime after selling her rafting companylast June. She lobbied for the NorthernPlains at the state legislature, a newendeavor, and enjoyed cross-country skiingthis winter around Yellowstone. It’stime to move on to something new, butJulia’s not sure what that will be. LisaPhelps is in her fifth year as part of atwo-person team at Assabet Advisors,registered investment advisors, and isenjoying working in a small businessafter years in a large corporation. At theChapel of the Cross in Westborough,she serves on the Council and leads theStephen Ministry, along with variousother duties. Lisa is still living in thehouse that she, Dick, and Erin (now inher last year of college) moved into 16years ago. This year marked the 10thanniversary of Dick’s death. Lisa is wonderinghow not to volunteer for so manyactivities, a goal for 2008. Hal and I,Sally Crimmins Thorne, continue splittingour time between Florida andColorado. We spend as much time aswe can with our two grandchildren, whoare a joy. The highlight of Francie FleckYeager’s year was the marriage of herdaughter, Katrina Yeager ’95, to SethFarmer in August. Daughter Jodi washer sister’s maid of honor. “There werepuppets, flags, humor, and a recessionalthrough an arch of ribbons and bells.”1967Class Secretary: Muche Desloovere,muche498@aol.comDeborah Hyde Baldwin and husbandJohn traveled to Florida to greet grandsonnumber three, Beckett. “Otherwise,life stays pretty steady. I enjoy my psychotherapypractice a lot, find it verymeaningful, find insurance companiesa pain in the (neck), and enjoy timeswhen we get together with family andfriends.” Elizabeth Bullitt “continuesto direct the computer imaging lab,CASILab, at the University of NorthCarolina, working both on methods ofevaluating tumor vessels (my primaryinterest right now), but also on imageguidedsurgical methods.” Her threechildren are in college, but enthusiasticallyattend the family’s annual Christ -mas Colorado ski vacation. “I, MucheDesloovere, am still involved with localpolitics, for which I am being sued again(my group’s attorney has done a fantasticjob of winning or having the otherlawsuits dropped). I recently was diagnosedwith central pontine myelinolysis(it took me a long time to learn how tospell, much less pronounce, it). It’s theloss of the protective sheath around thenerves at the brainstem. It can affectone’s entire nervous system, but so far Idon’t have any symptoms and hope itstays that way.” At our reunion, BeverlyNelson Elder presented a video withphotos of flowers taken by daughterRosalie, accompanied by music composedby Hugo. It was really quitebeautiful. Lynn Li reports that she is“suspending her life” so that she cantake care of her ailing mother. SusanMiddleton, who was considered “lost”by CA for many years, has been found(!) and came to reunion. She is a poetwho was busily signing copies of herbook at Sophronia Camp’s “dorm.”Teddy Mohn has enrolled in North -eastern’s executive MBA program andloves every minute of it. “It is intensebut is providing me all the information Ihave needed for some time to launch acompany, and do many other usefulthings in business.” Olga ReigeluthMorrill and her husband Steve recentlycompleted the addition of a masterbed/bath onto what used to be a logcabin house, originally built by them in1979. They are refacing the house’s oldlogs with beautiful, old-fashionedMontreal (manufactured) brick. It’s lowmaintenanceand looks terrific. And sheand Steve love being grandparents toSkye’s daughter Alexis, 8, who’s alreadyhelping to take care of her baby sisterEvelyn, born last September. KathyPerkins still finds her work “engaging,stimulating, and rewarding,” helpingfamilies through adoption. “Brag time:my son Nicholas has gotten awards forhis Web site, getmiro.com, a freeInternet TV and video player that givesyou access to more free HD contentthan any other video player. My daughterNaomi is logistics coordinator forProject Bread’s Walk for Hunger 2008 inBoston. She will be making sure the40,000 walkers don’t get lost. Miranda isin her second year at Lesley Universityand loves hospital work.” AlisonChalmers Rodin was very glad to haveattended the dinner at Sophronia Camp’sbefore the reunion, in particular seeingTia Cross after a long time. She wondershow long she and her husband canwithstand the daily grind, but find reliefas regular weekend commuters to theirhouse in Woods Hole, where they dolots of local conservation work. Ally evensailed in the New Year’s Regatta! Theyenjoy traveling to see their daughterDiana, who is at Berkeley studying for amaster’s degree in public health. Ellen-Alisa Saxl’s son James (and all the menunder his command) returned safely,once more, from Iraq. He’s now retiredfrom the Marines and attending college.Daughter Ali advocates for social justiceand better neighborhoods in Denver’slower-income communities. Ellen-Alisaspends happy hours “walking in thefoothills with my woofies. Life is wonderful!”Lindsay Davidson Shea saysshe loved attending reunion and alsomentioned how wonderful it was to seeTia Cross. She promised to send morenews and photos. Darsie MungerTorda continues to teach ESL to adults.57WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008She is also “enjoying being a grandmother— my daughter’s wonderful littleson recently turned 2.” Darsie hasstarted painting with acrylic paints againafter many years — “alizarin crimson,anyone?” Joan Underwood apologizesfor not being able to convince PieWhitman to come to reunion. Lastsummer she saw Lila Greene, whosemother is a summertime neighbor.1968 40th reunionClass Secretary: Katherine Little,Katherine.Little@valley.netPamela Aall McPherson is vice presidentfor education and training programsat the U.S. Institute of Peace, a federalinstitution established by Congress topromote international conflict resolution— she’s been there since 1993. Her husbandCharles is at the InternationalMonetary Fund, working on oil anddevelopment and focusing on corruptionand transparency issues. Daughter Ellais 28 and a PhD student at CambridgeUniversity in sociology/politics, and sonAndrew, 25, is at the American BarAssociation in their Rule of Law forAfrica program. “We’ve just bought arundown house on the Maryland EasternShore and would be happy for visitorswho aren’t alarmed by mice.” AliceBeal is still practicing medicine and isnow the director of palliative care at theVA in Brooklyn, but covers theManhattan VA as well. She and BillKuntz are celebrating their 30th anniversarythis spring. Bill practices law inNYC, but is debating his next move. Hecontinues to be the Brooklyn representativeto the NYC Civilian ComplaintReview Board. Will, 23, graduated fromWilliams College and is working for “TheEvil Empire” (i.e., the NY Yankees);Kate, 21, is a senior at Pomona, majoringin comparative languages, and Lizzie(our “sleeper cell,” according to Kate) isa freshman at Harvard and loving it.Carla Bloedel Clark is still practicingpediatrics in Albuquerque. Her 26-yearoldethnomusicologist son studiesAustralian aboriginal cultures and languages,and her 18-year-old daughter isstill finding herself. After 21 years ofwoodworking in Acton, Lissa Coolidgehas moved upward to a beautifully light,high-ceilinged shop in Stow, MA. She isstill making custom cabinets, bookcases,and other odds and ends out of wood.Louise Ewing’s daughter Zinnia isstudying Chagas’ disease in Quito,Ecuador; her son Eli is adventuring onNew Zealand’s South Island; and she’sfeeding the birds in Salt Lake City. Butshe did join Josie Smith Koehne andfriends last spring on a wonderful trip toZion National Park and spent an afternoonat Summer’s End with Kerry58Munro, exploring old haunts. SuzanneGriffith is a professor at the Universityof Wisconsin at Superior and recentlytook over coordinating the graduate programin school counseling, in addition toteaching. Her daughter embarked on anew career in culinary sciences this winter.“I have now lived in Wisconsin andMinnesota longer than in New Englandand feel a part of it. I enjoy the naturallandscapes; my home overlooks LakeSuperior and the St. Louis Bay thatdivides Minnesota and Wisconsin.”Larkin Hilliard has completed an 18-month, full-time certification program indiagnostic (as opposed to therapeutic)sonography, aka ultrasound technology,and is in the job market once more. “Ithink sometimes of a line from a songfrom our CA class play: ‘Never knowingwhether we would live or die.’ I imaginedthen that our fate was an either/ormatter — succeed or fail, live or die. Butthe correct answer was that we woulddo both. Somehow, realizing that simplefact has taken a lot of stress out of situationsthat used to paralyze me withfear. Either this new career focus willwork out or it won’t — or both! All I cando is keep dancing forward.” PamMcAdoo will be coming east for herson’s graduation from Dartmouth inJune. She finished a master’s of finearts in illustration last summer, through anew degree program at the University ofHartford Art School. Pam is still teachingart at the local community college, isvery involved with the public library,enjoys doing some graphic design andillustration out of the house, and has forsakendance for yoga. Tamsen Merrillhas lived in the small town of Ashfield inrural Western MA for the last 24 years.“In the last year, by tapping the energyof the resident young farmers and alocal contractor, we have built a lovelypost-and-beam barn, with solar panelson the roof, to house animals. The barncontains a small-scale dairy that wehope will produce certified organic goatcheese within the next year.” She hasalso begun to explore filmmaking: “I cando most of it on the same computer onwhich I am typing this letter. And I canpost it for you all to see on YouTube. I’mcool.” Son Abbott will be graduatingfrom RISD this spring with a major inpainting and will join daughter Eleanor inthe real world. Eleanor received hermaster’s in social work at Smith Collegeand is working with an eldercare nonprofitand living in Holyoke. Hilde Norliestill has her own finance and propertycompany. Her grandchild Hannah, 1, is anatural little wonder, a happy and harmonicchild with proud parents. Hilde’sson Jan, 27, will finish his master’s infinance this year. Her daughterCharlotte, 34, unfortunately has manyhealth problems. Pauline Lord’s daugh-ter, Megan Harlow ’04, had a greatexperience at CA: “excellent teaching;friends who were bright, caring, andoriginal; the encouragement to developself-expression in many directions . . .plus she learned to think and write andcompute. Megan’s travels since thenhave included Senegal, Guatemala, Italy,and Spain (speaking French, Wolof,Spanish, and Italian), and she is atAmherst, loving life. Her parents love livingin their wonderful, lake-surroundedhouse in East Lyme, CT and working onour organic farm (whitegatefarm.net).The whole process, from seeding to harvestinghealthy food to be scarfed up byavid ‘locarians,’ is my complete passion.”Cary Ridder lives in DC, workingas a fundraiser for the TheodoreRoosevelt Conservation Partnership — aconservation organization composed ofsportsmen working to protect wildlifehabitat. Her husband, Dave Alberswerth,works for the Wilderness Society;daughter Kate just graduated from NYUand is working in NYC for Bidoun magazine,which covers contemporary MiddleEastern art and culture; and son Matt isa freshman at Reed College in Portland,OR. Pamela Shaw is still working forEileen Fisher, “putting together work/lifeprograms for the company, helpingemployees juggle work and the rest oftheir lives (kids, aging parents, etc.). Thecompany functions more collaborativelythan most corporations, and the ownershipis gradually being turned over to theemployees. It’s a different kind of capitalism,and a very interesting place towork.” Her husband Kent is still workingfor the Wildlife Conservation Society inNew York, and daughter Sofia will graduatefrom Mt. Holyoke in June, hoping towork in public health, while son Hugh isa sophomore at Grinnell in Iowa, majoringin philosophy. Ann Boling Solbergis fine, doing Pilates in the hope that bythe time she has grandchildren (nonescheduled so far) she’ll still be able topick them up. Son Christian graduatedfrom college and is gainfully and happilyemployed at BTS in NYC. DaughterNancy is a sophomore at Mt. Holyoke,hoping to be an anthropologist. Annoccasionally sees Consuelo CotterMack, who remains wonderful. BetsyWeiss will miss our reunion, as she willbe participating in her first mini-triathlon!She has only recently learned to swimthe crawl for more than a few strokes,and her running time is that of mostpeople’s walk, but it will be fun!For more Class Notes, go towww.concordalum.org1969Class Secretaries: Isabel BrowneDriscoll, pmdibd@verizonmail.com;Nancy L. Schoeffler, nschoeffler@courant.comMany of our classmates are already gettingjazzed and making plans to BETHERE for our 40th reunion! Mark yourcalendar now: The dates are June12–14, 2009! Kathy Agoos writes fromher home in Melbourne, Australia thaten route to these shores for Christmasand her mother’s 80th birthday, she andher family stopped to visit DebbieBandler Bellman in London, “which wasa real treat as always.” They both planto return to CA for our 40th reunion,“figuring that if we both say it, it’ll happen.”Kathy works as the educationmanager of a community center not toofar from home. “Michael continues hisplanning work within a firm of environmentalscientists and geologists. Jesseis still in Boston working for NESN andcontinues to look for an opportunity tocrack the baseball industry in the administrativeside of things. Talk about aclosed shop/old boys network!Alexandra completed her degree at theUniversity of Melbourne and will do anhonors year in history — a thesis onimmigrant soldiers’ experiences in theCivil War, having discovered relativeswho fought for the Confederacy.” LauraPalmer Aronstein says her son Duncanis having a fine time at Vanderbilt, andher second son, Angus, is a high schooljunior. Laurie is “having fun with tutoringand lots of sports stuff. My hardworkinghusband makes the trek to NYC everyday. We have a lot of fun with friendsand family near and far. I love talking toeveryone from Concord.” DebbieBandler Bellman’s daughters, Racheland Jessica, are almost 16. “The Britishschool system is full of ‘important’exams at this stage, but they manage tofind time for the flute, violin, horseriding,a social life, and their shared love ofmusical theatre.” Debbie’s husbandMartin is a consultant pediatrician. Inwhat Debbie calls her “neverending pursuitof professional development,” shequalified as a psychoanalyst last year(she was already a child, adolescent, andadult psychotherapist), and continues towork part-time in private practice. Herleisure pursuits include “gardening onthe rare occasions it doesn’t rain” andgoing to art exhibits and musical theatre.“But the last few years have alsobrought sadness. My sister Jane diedfour years ago after a long illness, andmy mother died this past April, at thegrand age of 97. . . . It feels strangenow being part of the older generation(my father died 15 years ago), and thefamily home in Cambridge, MA, always

our American base, is being sold.”Mellen Candage, whom we knew asMary Ellen our sophomore year, hasbeen running a publishing company,Grammarians, Inc., for 30 years. Thecompany specializes in the editing,design and layout, proofreading, andindexing of books for international developmentagencies, working in about 30languages with about 200 freelancers.Mellen went on “an absolutely fascinatingassignment in Nairobi, helping tocraft the language for the five-yearpeace plan for Somalia.” Mellen’sdaughter Madeleine “is a junior atBerkeley, on the lacrosse team andmajoring in political science/internationalrelations . . . My son Taylor graduatesfrom high school this year. Not surewhere he’s going to college, but he’salready into a couple of places. Or hemay just don a backpack and travel theworld for a year. He’s a wild card. I’mabout to be divorced after being separatedfor what seems to be half a centuryand married for about 19,000years.” Mellen lives part of the year inFrance; her house is “in the Dordogne,where all the prehistoric caves are.”Mellen marvels that she has “realizedpretty much all my dreams. And I doattribute that to the amazing education Igot, starting very early in life from thewonderful schools I went to.” SarahCoffin O’Connor is a senior curator atCooper-Hewitt, National DesignMuseum, where she is head of theproduct design and decorative artsdepartment. She co-curated and wrotethe book on Rococo: The ContinuingCurve, 1730-2008. Sarah says she hadfun seeing a few CA friends in 2006 duringher first big exhibition, FeedingDesire: Design and Tools of the Table,1550-2005. “My sainted husband Tom,who moved from DC to NYC to anotherjob with an international nonprofit whenI took this job, has seen almost as littleof me while I worked on this show andthe book as when we commutedDC–NYC. We go to our house upstatefor R&R. My stepchildren from my firstmarriage and their kids are nearby, andwe see a lot of them, which is great,except for the huge loss of stepson PaulKlebnikov, who was editor of ForbesRussia and murdered there almost fouryears ago.” Sarah says that in additionto Linden Havemeyer Wise ’70 andCynthia Perrin Schneider ’71, sheoccasionally sees Julia Preston, PodieLynch ’67, Linda Stillman ’66, andsome of the others who also went toYale. Libby Covington says “life hasbeen interesting in the last severalyears, by far for the better.” She separatedfrom her husband in 2005, initiateddivorce proceedings, and also moved toTennessee, where she lives in a littlefarmhouse her great-grandfather built inthe late 1890s. She’s tackled somemajor improvements but figures she’son a 10-year plan. A downside of themove is being so far from her children:Kate, 30, and Jeremy, 26, who live inCalifornia with their respective spouses.Libby’s medical transcription work alsostayed in California. “These days, I do abit of needlework design and a bit ofphotography and enjoy both. I also functionas ‘Geek On Call’ for friends whothink their computers are intimidating. Ireassure them that they are muchsmarter than ‘the box.’” Isabel BrowneDriscoll is “alive and well in Aspen.Shoveling a lot of snow, so it feels likethe old days on the farm. I am findinglong-distance grandmotherhood a bit trying,”particularly because Cora, now 3,“is growing by leaps and bounds! She’sa big reader, so I buy books. The oldones are the best.” Connie Burr Evansasks, “Whatever made me think I’dslow down when we moved toVermont? I’m working (ostensibly parttime,ha ha!) as a language tutor at theGreenwood School in Brattleboro, fordyslexic, middle-school-aged boys — anincredible place, and I’m totally hooked.”She and Norris are “back to an emptynest, at least for now. Younger sonGalen may graduate as much as a yearearly from George WashingtonUniversity (hello $50K!), and is off toChina this summer. Older son Owen ison the slow boat through college, butseems to be picking up steam atRochester Institute of Technology.”Marion Freeman and Corky “are adjustingto our quiet house now that bothkids are in college. We’ve taken somelong-delayed trips — to California to hikealong the Big Sur coast, and up to theNapa Valley. And we went south toavoid some of Maine’s cold weather.We’re having fun!” Carrie Harwood is“settling into life in Seattle at theUniversity of Washington, where sheand husband Pete have been for threeyears as professors of microbiology.“Our son Ted is in college in Santa Feand our daughter Barbara, who has sufferedwith cystic fibrosis for 22 years,was given a new lease on life in Octoberwith a double lung transplant. I urgeeveryone to become an organ donor, ifyou aren’t already. This has been anincredible gift.” Debbie Mason is stillpotting and teaching at her studio inDuxbury, MA and has added galleryspace attached to her work area. “I’malso still raising and showing goldenretrievers and English cocker spaniels . .. I call them my four-legged children. Imanage to get to England every year tosee friends and the beautiful countryside. . . my first trip was with Kate Brooks,when we were both at CA . . . I fell inlove with the country and now havemany connections, with potters and dogbreeders, which draw me back.” SusanMcEwen says our query for newsarrived just as she and Erin PearsallBrayton were in her living room, drinkingwine from Cappadocia and checkingtheir email. Susan says Erin was inTurkey for 10 days, visiting and collectingitems for her home and gift store inRoslindale, MA. They spent a few daysin Cappadocia staying in a cave hotel(with central heating) and hiking throughthe otherworldly landscape of strangevolcanic rock formations, carved by thewind, to visit churches, monasteries,and underground cities that date back tothe third and fourth centuries. “Theother person from our illustrious classthat I encountered this year was JennyScheu, who was in town with friendswhile on what sounded like a fantasticTurkish/Greek excursion.” Wrapping upher third year in Istanbul, Susan saysshe is “beginning to feel my customarywanderlust.” But she loves her house,The Agoos and Bellman families in London: Second from left, Debbie BandlerBellman ’69; far right, Kathy Agoos ’69.Carla Maria Piccinini ’69 (left) with her family and her American “parents,”Norman and Nancy Beecher (in chair)59WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008and son James, now 12, “seems tohave adjusted well to the British School,which is only five minutes down theroad.” She says her new favorite activityis watching English Al-Jazeera. Whileshe is spared constant U.S. electioncoverage, and can see what’s actuallyhappening in the world, some of theprogramming “can be very depressing(no limits on bombed cars and bloodstainedstreets) since you get to seehow humanity is doing in places thatbear the brunt of our foreign policy.”Doris McMillon, who was in our classfor freshman year, was honored as theleader of one of the top 100 minoritybusiness enterprises in the state ofMaryland. Doris, who is president andCEO of McMillon Communica tions, alsois the first woman to serve on the boardof Carver Bible College in Atlanta. If anyoneis in the market for a budding curator,Doris says, her youngest daughter isjust finishing her master’s in curatorialstudies at the California College of theArts in San Francisco. Carla MariaPiccinini, who attended Concord as anAFS student during our senior year, metup in Venice last summer with herConcord family, the Beechers, includingCathy Beecher ’70. Carla is a grandmother— likely for a third time by thetime you read these notes. She likes herwork as a psychologist and psychotherapistfor Italy’s national health system (“Ireally think that health should be a rightfor everybody, and paid by general taxationand not by insurance for those whocan afford it”). She says she has beeninvolved in local politics for a few years.Though she writes that she feels “quitedesperate about how the world isgoing,” she is optimistic about a changein the U.S. government and believesthat “mankind is making enormousprogress in many fields,” despite thepeople in power. Sarah Pillsbury says“with an historic election on the horizon,”she continues to work with thenonprofit Voter Engage ment Network.“Our goal is to dramatically increaseturnout among people who are underrepresentedand underserved, by providingtools and training to the nonprofitsthat serve them, and by lowering barriersto voting” by upholding voters’rights and pressing for reforms that willmake the process more democratic(nonprofitvote.org). She adds: “Despitethis being ‘no country for old women,’particularly in this town, I am still workingin film. The latest, Quid Pro Quo,was just at Sundance and will be playingthe art house circuit in early summer.”Daughter Nora, who just finished Yale, ispursuing a career writing for TV and film.A TV movie she cowrote with her dad,Queensize, aired on Lifetime in Januaryand will most likely air again from timeto time, Sarah says. Meanwhile, Will is a60sophomore at Yale and “couldn’t be happier.”Didi Rea recently bought a 30-acre farm in upstate New York with afriend — “barns, silo, pond, woods,house, the whole shebang! My kidsthink it is hysterical — me on a farm, thatis — but we all love it.” (Check it out atphotocollage.com/farm.) Didi says that“Ali has applied to graduate schools inart history — fingers crossed — and Josiehas made a successful transition tomiddle school and has her brown belt inkarate. And I sold a series to the CWand a script to Universal and continue tomanage the unmanageable. And dating.And loving it.” Lea Morse Sloan saysher biggest news is that her grandbaby,Xander Elsas Chatterjee, is walking. “Helives in NYC with his terribly busy,lawyer parents, but I get to New Yorkonce a month or so to see him, and theyvisit me in DC.” Lea is still vice presidentfor communications at PBS,“where along with shouldering the missionof saving public broadcasting, I dealwith media/government/viewer crisesregularly, some big, some not so big,some funny, some not so funny.” Sheloves living in DuPont Circle, but alsoescaping to Tilghman Island on theEastern Shore on weekends for “gardening,writing, watercolors, sailing,motorboating, and occasionally fishing.So boomer of me.”1970Class Secretary: Elizabeth “Bobbie”Brown, Elizabethfbrown@hotmail.comBobbie Brown apologizes for missing ayear soliciting news for Class Notes.“I’m truly sorry, but am planning tocome on strong next year. On the otherhand, I am willing to step down as classsecretary if there is someone else whowould like to take on this responsibility.On a personal note, our daughterFrances Bothfeld ’08 will be graduatingfrom Concord this spring, and has experienceda fantastic past three years. Weconsider her Concord education worthevery penny of the considerable investment.I can also add a word about LucyMcFadden, who spent six weeks livingin a two-person tent while zippingaround Antarctica on a snowmobile lookingfor meteorites. Belle Choate writes:I have finally found the time to paintagain. I haven’t painted this much sincemy CA days, and I am thoroughly enjoyingmyself. I’m working mostly in watercolor,but have also gone back to oils.The high point of last year was a threeweektrek cross country for a workshopat Ghost Ranch, outside Santa Fe.Georgia O’Keefe is one of my favorites,and I was able to walk and paint herNew Mexico landscape. My sketchesand the 1,500 photos I took will keepCynthia Perrin Schneider ’71 andAnne Lauderdale Lee ’71 in Shanghaime busy painting for years! I visited theCA campus for a chapel and enjoyedthe chance to connect with this currentgeneration of students. Edith ChaseKeller and her husband Rob celebratedtheir 24th anniversary on St. Patrick’sDay. “My 89-year-old parents are stillchugging along. My three sisters —Helen Chase Trainor ’67, Mary ChaseNicholson ’73, and Lucy ChaseOsborn ’73 — are also doing well. LucyMcFadden visited a couple of times.We also saw Steff Pickman Monahan,Priscilla Stevens French, and a glimpseof Susie Wood Vermullen at Steff’smother’s funeral. These are old andcherished friends. I am very pleased thatCA has diversified as much as it has,and hope it will continue in the samevein. I am proud to be an alumna.Marilyn Byfield Paul and David continueto be madly in love with their fouryear-oldJonathan. “Lucky for us he is agreat traveler — we have been to Israel,Australia, California, Colorado, and manyother places. He grabs his suitcase andgoes. He gets around airports on his littlescooter since he has given up thestroller. We are moving to Brookline, MAthis summer. Brigid Williams is ourarchitect and so great to work with. I amhappy to report that Emily Wheeler’sdaughter Clara has been babysitting forJonathan. I am also blessed to seeStephanie Pickman Monahan fromtime to time. My book, It’s Hard toMake a Difference When You Can’t FindYour Keys (Penguin 2004) has soldalmost 40,000 copies. That’s good newstoo.” Elizabeth Ruml attended a DCenvironmental film festival that premiereda movie she cowrote and helpedproduce on the work of the AmericanPrairie Foundation. “I continue to try touse visual images to spread the wordabout this great project I have beenworking on since 2001. I am lookingforward to this summer when I will visitfive wildlife reserves in Namibia to learnmore about successful wildlife modelsand to bring home ideas for the Ameri -can Prairie Reserve. I love living inVermont and am deeply grateful that Iam no longer working on Wall Street.My oldest daughter and her husband arefinishing up their graduate programs inSan Diego and will be moving back toLas Vegas this summer. My youngerdaughter is teaching at Georgetown andenjoying living in DC. I have startedsinging again, which has added great joyto my life.” J. Brown Johnson hasswitched roles slightly to president ofanimation for Nickelodeon, after 20years leading the preschool entertainmentdivision. “I am juggling my timebetween NYC and LA, happily so. Mydaughter Louisa is 22 and lives in LA,too. If any classmates are in the LAarea, you can reach me through the NickAnimation Studio in Burbank.” SallyTrafton “retired” from the University ofRochester School of Medicine in June2006, after a string of back surgeries,only the fifth of them successful, “convincedme I should be doing something Iam passionate about. I landed in a smallregional health-planning agency, wherethey pay me for 30 hours a week,though my husband will tell you I spendmore time than that. I am delightedto be walking an hour a day, withoutthe cane or crutches I used for close to23 years. My daughter returned inDecember after two years in the PeaceCorps in Turkmenistan; she has beenwith us since then, coaching basketballand softball and substitute teachingbefore she heads off again for her nextgreat adventure.” Carol White Williamswrites: “I am quilting away here in FortWashington, MD. I am the chair for theUhuru Quilters Guild, which sponsors aquilt show in June. I haven’t retired yet,but I do take time every now and thento practice being retired. I’m still workingfor the public school system as aninstructional specialist. My son Jonathanis a senior at Hampton University, majoringin graphic design.”1971Class Secretary: Elizabeth AmesMacdonald, elizabeth.macdonald@comcast.net; Anne S. Lee,aslee640@hotmail.comSusan Everts Allen writes that herhusband Kent took a new job as theminister of a church in Yarmouth, ME,resulting in a move last spring, after

20 years in Newburyport, MA. Susancontinues her private practice in clinicalpsychology, has added some life coaching(secondhalfcoaching.com), and isbeginning to think about writing a bookabout parenting twentysomethings.She welcomes stories about this part ofthe journey. With son Josh, 25, in Austinas a singer-songwriter and daughterChristine, 22, in Tucson doing volunteerwork, she and her husband have at leasttwo great reasons to travel. Other tripsin the pipeline for the next few yearsinclude Alaska, the San Juan Islands,Costa Rica, and hopefully some goodcycling and hiking trips. Anne ShattuckBailey thanks everyone for sharing storiesand voyages over the many yearsRoz Smith Rea, Nancy Reece Jones, Jeanne Jones, Rebecca TraftonFrischkorn, and Dede Hatch, all from the Class of 1971A 1971 Field Tripby Nancy Reece Jones ’71since we graduated. “As the years havegone by I have come to appreciate whata special time and place CA was,” Annesays. Both children are out of the nest.Jamie, 22, resides in CamphillCommunity for the disabled. “He is anaccomplished weaver and very autistic!Every member of this unique communityis dedicated to the wholeness ofspirit, body, and mind, so we considerhim lucky to be living in such a caringand supportive environment.” Carolinestarted RISD this year with an eye on adesign career. “She is quite differentfrom me and I have been constantlyimpressed and challenged by her manyobservations. Oh, the growth you gothrough with children, always trying toWhat started as wishful thinking on the Sunday morning of our35th reunion (standing in front of Admadjaja where we’d spent theweekend together) blossomed into a true trip of a lifetime for sixclassmates. Agreeing that we didn’t want to wait another five yearsto reunite, we noodled about a future rendezvous. When JeanneJones extended a gracious offer to stay at her family’s farmhouse inMonte rubbiano, Italy, we jumped at it. So 18 months later, inSeptember 2007, Dede Hatch, Roz Smith Rea, Becky TraftonFrischkorn, and I, Nancy Reece Jones, joined Jeanne in the Italiancountryside for a magical seven-day stay. Jeanne, the consummatehost, shared with us all the delights of the special place where she andher family have vacationed for 35 years. After our Monterubbianostay, we savored another five days in Rome. Abigail Gillespie, aresident Roman, graciously introduced us to her favorite haunts andeateries. What an experience of sisterhood and connection in acountry so rich with pleasures!be the thoughtful adult without beingoverbearing.” Anne says being happilymarried “has been my greatest joy nextto our children. This sounds unfeminist,but sometimes when you get it right, ittranscends everything else.” She volunteersfor various groups, runs a businesswith her husband, and occasionallyworks in her studio. Lisa ComptonBellocchio and her husband purchaseda condo right on the Merrimack River inHaverhill, MA, after six years living inSeneca Falls, NY (home of the women’srights movement). “We are experiencinga new lifestyle, having done the majordownsizing of our lives!” Daughter Hollyis at MIT studying urban planning. Lisaworks for The Trustees of Reservations,a Massachusetts land conservancyorganization; she oversees the tour guidingprogram at three houses in EssexCounty, including the former CraneEstate in Ipswich (a 23,000-square-footsummer house with 59 rooms and 11bathrooms). Ellen Bloedel writes: “Ifinally figured out that life’s great tennisgame is something besides the friendly‘first ball in’ sort you might play withfriends. We each have to reinvent theart of living for ourselves.” She hasbegun to apply a sort of catechismrecently that goes like this: “What isreal? What is important? What’s right?Who am I? What good am I doing?” Shesolemnly intones that the best answersin any situation tend to involve humor.She hopes class members are doingwell. “I heard the news about SylviaHowe Thompson with great sadness —also with awe, for discovering someonewho had mastered the art of livingpretty well.” Catherine Carter was marriedto her partner, Wendy Harris, onMay 27, 2007 on the shores of PugetSound. Attending the wedding wereStephanie Greene and Lynn Chapman.Elizabeth Eggert is still working as anattorney, but has also started divinityschool, hoping to become a hospicechaplain. She is also active in Obama’scampaign. 2007 was a year of transitionfor Dede Hatch. “To preserve my sanity,I shifted my photography work awayfrom the commercial and more to thepersonal.” She relocated her studio/office(no small task), while giving upher darkroom and committing herself tothe “humbling quest for digital fluency.”After a few difficult months, her fatherdied in July, “which stretched my heartin surprising ways. And then inSeptember, I finally grabbed the carrot atthe end of the long stick: I went toItaly!” Elizabeth Ames Macdonaldworks full-time at a financial softwarecompany. Occasional trips to the Londonoffice allow her to visit with SallieCoolidge Seymour and to breathe foreignair. Hugh, 21, graduates fromJames Madison University in financethis spring, while Adrian, 19, is a sophomoreat Gettysburg College and isdevoted to track. Alan will hopefullyweather the latest downturn in the stockmarket and, in the mean time, avidly followsAdrian’s running career via computer.Karen Herold sends news of herfamily: son Noah, a freshman atBowdoin; daughter Anna, a senior atOberlin, writing her senior thesis on landdevelopment around Beijing; daughterTess, a Bates graduate; and son Peter,working toward his PhD in planetarygeology at Brown. “It’s bizarre to thinkthat when I was in high school an astronautpicked up the rocks from the moonthat Peter is analyzing now.” Karen’shusband Mark has an energy consultingcompany and is involved in wind powerprojects. Karen and a friend went on afantastic kayaking trip on Great SlaveLake in arctic Canada. Nancy ReeceJones says the horsemanship programshe and her husband developed called“Equimersion” went well last summer,with clients from New York to California.“It’s been quite the experience buildinga new life and business here inMontana, but it suits us really well. After2½ years, we feel like we’re reallybecoming part of the community. In theoff-season, I’m happily doing freelancewriting and cross-country skiing aroundour meadow with our dogs. Life isgood!” Life in Shanghai continues to bean adventure for Anne Lauderdale Lee.Not only do she and her husband have afront-row seat to all the changes (goodand bad) that are happening in China,but in the past year have traveled toCambodia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand,Tokyo, Singapore, and Melbourne,Australia, as well as several trips withinChina, including one to see the pandasat the Wolong Sanctuary in SichuanProvince. Another plus is Shanghai is acity people want to visit. In July, Anneand Calvin had dinner with CynthiaPerrin Schneider and her family as theyended their tour of China; they reallyenjoyed catching up. “I continue tostudy Chinese and only hope that wedon’t have to leave before I start toreally get it. Calvin has new responsibilitiesfor GE in China so it looks like wewill be here for another two to threeyears. We are always happy to showpeople around, so please don’t hesitateto get in touch if you find yourselvesand/or members of your family comingto this part of China.” Gail Percywrites: “I feel as though we have comefull circle from the ’70s as globalwarming and the environment makenews. Our daughter, Tara Davis ’06,who loved filmmaking her sophomoreyear at Concord Academy, is in GrandCanyon Adventure, a 3D Imax film,helping to draw attention to the perilfacing our planet’s fresh watersheds61WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008(grandcanyonadventurefilm.com). I amlooking forward to a fresh political startfor our country in 2008.” Susan Polkand her husband are enjoying the mostlyempty nest. They have one son still incollege; the first two graduated in 2007and 2008. They are very happy theyhave only one college tuition to pay forthe next two years. Susan has a parttimework schedule with small businessand personal accounting clients. In thefall she had coffee with Abby Gillespie.“It was fun to hear about her latestendeavors and to imagine what it mustbe like to have lived in Rome for somany years.” In November, Susan andLibet Campbell Peters ’73 had a privatetour of the Crane Estate in Ipswich,thanks to Lisa Compton Bellocchio, whois on staff at the Trustees of Reserva -tions. Rosamond Smith Rea startedthe year with a Rea family trip to WaterIsland, Virgin Islands to celebrate hermother-in-law’s 90th birthday. “It was awarm and relaxing getaway from theMaine winter. I was very fortunate toenjoy a second major vacation inSeptember, traveling to Italy with someclassmates. It was my first trip to Italy,and now I realize why so many peoplehave flocked there for centuries.” Rozworks as collections manager andadministrative assistant at the Wood -lawn Museum in Ellsworth, ME. Herhusband Fred works at Mount DesertYacht Yard. Their older son Stephen hasreturned from a year of teaching Englishin South Korea and wants to pursuea PhD in sociocultural anthropology.Son James is a junior at WesleyanUniversity, studying earth and environmentalsciences, and hopes to studyvolcanoes in Argentina with one of hisprofessors. Roz sends best wishes to alland hopes to see everyone at the nextreunion. Writing from England, SallieCoolidge Seymour says, “Photos tellmore than words at this point . . . Wehad a fabulous Christmas in Egypt in2006, while in 2007 we spent all ourtime and resources working on our farmhousein Suffolk. 2008 is a big examyear for all three children: Charlotte, 17,has a place at Christ Church, Oxford ifshe passes her A levels. Edward, 16,hopes to move on to sixth form, andWilham, 13, is trying for a scholarshipexam to Rugby in May.” Sallie’s husbandThomas is working hard at the Bar,“while I drift about, complaining abouthow much work everyone else has.”Kate Tweedy quit her job teachingEnglish as a second language and beganwriting a book about her mother, grandfather,and their racehorse, Secretariat,who won the Triple Crown in 1973,something she has always wanted todo. Disney is making a movie aboutKate’s mother and the horse, to bereleased in time for the 2009 Kentucky62Evalyn Bemis ’72 in KentuckyDerby. “I’ve enjoyed working with thescreenwriter, Mike Rich. If you see themovie, a 20-year old rebellious Katemight have some lines; at least shedoes in the current version. I can’t waitto see who plays me and even more,who plays Mom. My book will be lessabout The Horse and more about howhis legacy helped me reconcile with mymother. One underlying theme concernsmy investigation of and distress over ourancestors’ slave ownership in Virginiaand our recent reconnection with theirdescendants, who helped raise Secre -tariat.” Kate’s youngest daughter AliceMcGrath is a 2008 graduate of NYU’shonors program majoring in English andFrench, and plans to get a PhD inEnglish and to teach. Her sister Elena isalso considering grad school, studyinglaw or history. Kate has a beautiful logcabin in the Rockies that is available forrent. “Sleeps six to eight, with viewsto die for . . . I write there wheneverI can. Come visit!” Cynthia Wilson isenjoying every minute of being herown boss again. She and her partnerEmile Wennekes’ company is thriving.“You can read all about our projectsand publications on our Web site,wwclassicsonline.com. Click on thecredits page for a glimpse of the wonderful16th century farmhouse we arehappy to call home.” Projects that havekept Cynthia busy include a major concertproduction in Amsterdam’s Concert -gebouw for a Dutch national broad castingcompany and the Yo! Youth OperaFestival, held in April 2007. Cynthiaalso has finished writing the biographyof Beaux Arts Trio pianist MenahemPressler, a project of many years.Susan Angevin, Janet Eyre, Anne Dayton, and Lorna Potter Walker at the Classof 1972 reunion1972Class Secretary: Jennifer WiseBlackman, jennyb_05492@yahoo.comIt seems that many of us are still baskingin the glow of our 35th reunion ayear ago. All in all, we’re a pretty sassybunch whose talents, skills, and experiencescover an astounding range. Beproud! Since then . . . Evalyn Bemis isworking as a photojournalist on assignmentsfor the U.S. Eventing Association.“I have moved from being a competitorto being an observer — both have beenrewarding pursuits. As ever, the bestthing I took away from my CA educationis the belief that I can be anything Iset my mind to.” See her photos atimageevent.com/evalyn87508. We havesome big news from Janet Eyre, whowrites, “This will come as a huge surprise— I have moved to Concord, MA!Yup, you read that right. Over thesummer, after having lunch with himjust before our 35th reunion, I fell in lovewith Tom Martin, Middlesex ’72. I’mstill not sure how it happened, but I leftHawaii and frequent scuba diving forthe charms of Concord. It feels strangeand yet oddly comfortable to be back.Strange how life turns out.” Congratula -tions Janet! Louisa Heyward writes,“My daughter Chloe is 6 and enjoyingkindergarten at nearby PoughkeepsieDay School, which preserves some ofthe community warmth and happy,relaxed spirit that seems to have sosadly disappeared since the ’60s. Ourbig adventure this year was a month longvisit to the elementary school nearDarjeeling, India, which MariaLauenstein-Denjongpa, her husbandSonam and son Pintso founded twoyears ago. Chloe participated in the firstgradeclass.” Louisa feels that Taktse,the new school, is unique in that itencourages children to think for themselves,rather than learn by rote memorization.Mary Anne Mayo reports thatshe and her husband Steve (Stephen J.Nelson, honorary ’72) have been focusingon their tiny but growing law firm,and that means precious little playtime.Our reunion was a highlight of theirsummer, as was their annual sail toMartha’s Vineyard in late August. InOctober, they did an “insane” crosscountrydriving trip with their dogBowdie to attend the Portuguese WaterDog National Specialty in Ventura, CA,where he “struck out completely.”Meanwhile, after graduating fromColorado College, the “human child,”Parker, has completed internships inatmospheric science at Colorado Stateand biogeochemistry at the SmithsonianEnvironmental Research Center, and isheading to grad school next fall. LibbyHaight O’Connell missed our reunion:“That weekend I won an Emmy for adaytime documentary I coproducedabout crystal meth, aimed at highschoolers. Most of my work is for TheHistory Channel, so this was a realchange of pace for me.” Libby did get tosee the CA–New York crew during thereunion’s planning stages and praisedPam Frischkorn Doyle’s great organizing.Libby also visited Jane DeBevoiseln Hong Kong. “She is a wonderfulmother to four teenagers (the very ideaexhausts me) and is doing really groundbreakingwork in contemporary Chinese

art.” Libby’s son Charlie, 26, and daughterLucy, 23, have graduated fromWesleyan. Charlie is in grad school atUVA and Lucy is working at an adagency about two blocks from Libby’soffice in Manhattan, so they frequentlyget together for lunch. Libby and herhusband Matt celebrated their 30thanniversary this spring. Amanda Powellstill floats on Cloud 9 whenever sheremembers that great June reunion.“Looking good, you girls, and doingeven better! I don’t think we shouldwait another 35 years. Greetings andthanks to all who attended, in bodyand/or spirit!” Jane Waldfogel writes:“Certainly one of the highlights of lastyear was our wonderful reunion at CA. Itwas great seeing so many people andreconnecting after all these years. I can’twait for the next one!” Lorna PotterWalker agrees, and adds, “I’m sorry ittook me so long to realize how muchfun CA reunions could be . . . it wasgreat to be surrounded by such a creative,smart, thoughtful group ofwomen! Staying in the dorm and chatting’til the wee hours with classmates,some close old pals, some I hadn’t seensince ’72, felt just like old times, butwithout some of the old anxieties andpressures of the teen years. I thinkwe’re all old enough to feel comfortablesharing both our successes and our failureswith little self-consciousness.”Christina Wagner is still “happilyretired,” with time for her new hobby:cross-country ski marathons. “As far asmy racing times, let’s just say ‘finishing’can be a goal in itself.” Her daughterjust finished sixth grade and is startingto think about looking at high schools.Felicia Woodward wants you all toknow that she’s already made her reservationsfor our 2012 reunion.1973 35th reunionClass Secretary: Sarah Witte Marshall,sarahmar@maine.rr.comPlus ca change...! But some big surprisestoo! Read on! Sarah Bartlettwrites: “I went to Spain with my kidsand Jan Rosenfeld and her husbandand two kids for the Christmas break. Itwas fun to travel together and enjoy thebenefits of such a long-lasting friendship.I’m in the second year of teachingat the City University of New York’sgraduate school of journalism and feelvery lucky to be there. Great, smart,diverse students and dynamic colleagues.The other thing going on in mylife is a major renovation — I know, I’vebeen saying that for the last 25 years,but this time I really do hope it’s the lasttime!” Candace Browning Platt is alsoin New York: “Still going downtown tothe financial district every day, butchange is all around me. We will soonbe empty-nesters as my daughter isalready in college and my son is applyingto boarding school (a much more complicatedprocess than it used to be). Mymost surreal experience this year washaving coffee last month with JoanneTurnbull at our favorite ‘bulochnaya’(bakery) in Moscow. Joanne and I studiedand worked together in Moscow inthe ’80s, but I hadn’t seen her sinceabout 1990. It was great to catch up andit seemed the same . . . except we are alot older!” Amy Cammann Cholnokyand family took a trip to Kenya to celebratetheir 25th anniversary. “Our oldest,JB, graduates from Dartmouth inJune, so I’m feeling on the cusp ofsomething big . . . I remember HilaryHeyl and I talking for hours about ‘transitions’during our senior spring at CA,and now it’s almost time for another —same bittersweet sense of moving on,yet excitement about new adventuresahead. Family vacations are golden now,soon they will be platinum, which is whyI may not make reunion. It is a weekafter JB’s graduation and we hope tosqueeze in one more trip before hestarts his next chapter in life.” JenniferHowell is sorry to miss reunion, but herdaughter is graduating from Smith in lateMay. “Otherwise, working hard; all myprojects are centered on reducing ortransporting waste — and finding time tohike, read, and garden. I have embracedthe local food movement by having alarge edible garden. Still love the PacificNW.” Sarah Witte Marshall is about tobe the very proud mom of a hunky newmale nurse! Byron graduates from theUniversity of San Francisco in May, andplans to work in community health. “Tokick off the career, we’re taking a fewdays in Sonoma Valley.” Sarah and herfellow, Drew, have had some greatadventures including a frenzied paddleagainst the tide in the Everglades and aninsane effort to kayak around Little DeerIsle, ME with white caps rolling overthe bow. “Last May we went to NewOrleans, and I designed a new site planfor a UU church that was destroyed bythe flooding. I’m celebrating my 20thyear with the landscape architecturefirm I helped start in 1988.” LaurieMatthews is at Harvard BusinessSchool, as an associate director in MBAcareer services. “It’s a neat position,where I oversee our 30+ careercoaches, and all the student careerdevelopmentprograms and communications.I absolutely love the energy ofworking with students, and it harks backto my first jobs out of Bowdoin, teachingschool. Scott and I are newly in love,as we adopted a Portuguese water dogpuppy, Lucy, last summer. . . . Everyoneshould come back in their next life as adog in the South End — and she lovesLaurie Matthews ’73 and Lucy onCape Codweekends up in Sunapee, NH evenmore. Our life is good!” Sue McDonaldsays, “My family and I are still inHamden and loving the New Havenarea. I’m about a year into a new job asdirector of finance and administration atYale Law School, which is stimulatingand challenging and involves constantchange. My oldest son, Dan, is back atTufts after taking a semester off andbeing a volunteer English and mathteacher in Ghana; his younger brotherJon has applied to colleges; theiryounger sister Hannah loves her highschool sophomore year and a widerange of activities that keep her busy.My husband Corey is healthy (still inremission) and living through the anxietiesof operating a small start-up financialservices company in an era ofsub-prime mortgage meltdown.” NancyParssinen Vespoli and her husbandMike have been in the business of manufacturingrowing shells for almost 28years. Their daughter Lauren is a juniorat Choate. Nancy has been busy volunteering,participating in numerous sportingactivities, doing a little bit of painting,and coaching girls’ crew at Choate. “Irun into Laurie Matthews in Newbury,NH. It turns out we are just miles aparton Lake Sunapee. Amy CammannCholnoky and I see a lot of each other atChoate. As usual, Amy’s in charge ofmost everything and doing a great job atit! Her son Robbie and Lauren are classmates.Occasionally, Robin TraversGosnell and I catch a few hours withPui Lamsam Panyarachun, when sheis not roaming the Himalayas or doingphoto treks in exotic places. I hear thatMongolia is her next destination. I seeMary Bush and her birds a few times ayear when we have the opportunity totravel to DC. I almost got to see EllenGravallese last summer when consultingwith her husband Tim, an orthopedist.But Ellen’s life is getting very busy;she has become division chief ofrheumatology at UMass Medical School.Cynthia McCallister and I have just realizedthat we live less than 30 minutesapart.” Confirming the wonderful news,Cindy McCallister writes: “Some ofyou may remember that I was brayingabout wanting a baby at our last reunion.Well, now I have one and, oh boy, becareful what you ask for! Having him at51 was a piece of cake (in case anyone’sstill contemplating the craziness), butkeeping up with a 15-month-old at 52 ismy definition of insanity. He’s eitherkeeping me young or killing me and Ihaven’t yet figured out which. Anyway,his name is Wilkinson RhodesMcCallister and he’s the love of my life;I can’t wait to bring him to the reunionand have him wreak havoc at CA. To theCA friends who encouraged my madness,thank you so much for your support!”So, everyone come see Wilkinsonand all the other smiling faces this June!1974Class Secretaries: Amy Dunbar,akdunbar@aol.com; Cecily DeeganMcMillan, cecilymcmillan@hotmail.comMarj Aelion writes: “We are doing welland looking forward to some sabbaticaltime in a year or so. I am the associatedean for research for the Arnold Schoolof Public Health at the University ofSouth Carolina, and Tom continues aschair of anthropology for another semester.Renee is a senior at CA. Drew is asophomore at Tulane and loves it. Wehave no foreign high school exchangestudents living with us. That leaves Tomand me to do more in town, hit thebrew pub one block from my office, andthen the independent theatre to seemovies, many of which no one hasheard of. Life is too good.” From PeterFisher: “I’m travelling much less nowthat I’m no longer running BlackRock’sAsian businesses and thus have moretime and fun at home with Mary Sueand Duncan, 17, who just (barely) finishedhis college applications. Charlotte,15, has finished her first semester atFoxcroft in Middleburg, VA, so justmonths from now we’ll be emptynesters.The mind boggles.” Alex Kenthas been doing some work with theObama campaign, as well as the usualfamily obligations. “My eldest sonJoshua, 16, is a junior and in the throesof that stress-filled year. My other twoboys, Ben and Jordan, are now in middleschool, a transition that has been63WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008rough for my youngest. Otherwise Ihave been busy with traveling, playingtennis, running, coaching, writing, andthe usual crazy kid stuff. My motherpassed away from Alzheimer’s in the fallof 2006, and we are still wrapping up allthat paperwork, taxes, and selling thehouse I grew up in. Hope everyone isdoing well!” Lesley Koenig just finishedher fifth year as general manager of theSan Francisco Ballet. “It is the company’s75th anniversary this year —we’re the oldest professional ballet companyin the country and started theNutcracker craze that pops up everyyear all over the country. It’s fun to‘own’ Christmas and to watch little kidstwirling around on the sidewalk afterperformances. Life is great. There wassomething so cool about turning 50 andclimbing through another career andknowing that, somewhere out there,you’re all doing it too.” Amy Dunbarwrites: “Washington is very exciting inan election year. Like Alex, I am helpingsome on the Obama campaign andbeing very active in community serviceactivities, both as vice president of communityservices at Emily’s NationalCathedral School and through severalWashington women’s organizations.Emily’s soccer keeps me busy on thecomputer and in the car, as she now hasschool, travel, and Olympic developmentsoccer. Fortunately she loves it and recognizesthat it helps keep her organized— so long as I am organized! Isn’t itwonderful how we teach our children toavoid our own shortcomings? Ted hasmore clients on the front page of theWashington Post than is reasonable forone human being. Democratic oversightis good for the country and business,just not for time to get home. Life calmsdown on Wednesdays when I take careof our 19-month-old grandson — thegrandparent role is all they say it is —enjoy the good times now that youknow what you are doing.” HappySayre McCord writes from NorthCarolina that she is now head of schoolat “the Montessori school our sonsbrought us to 18 years ago and where Itaught in the ’90s. It is a wonderfulschool, great work to do, and Montes -sorians are the best people to have ascolleagues. I am glad to be at a point inmy life where I can pour myself into thiswork (aka 12- to 14-hour days).” FromTom McManus: “The past year haseasily been the most challenging in mynearly 30 years on Wall Street, but onemust recognize the great fortune wehave enjoyed . . . to experience so manygood years since we began our careers(especially when compared to the muchmore difficult conditions that prior generationsfaced). It’s much more importantthat family and friends are mostly well,and I pray for continued good fortune for64us all.” Ruth Lounsbury, who has beenlecturing across the country, writes:“The food and environment themes inmy books have made them quite timelythese days, and they are frequentlyselected for common book programs atcolleges and universities, and even highschools and municipalities. As a writer,of course I’m delighted that the readershipgrows, but as a citizen of theplanet, I look forward to the day whenthe novels are looked at as quaintlyanachronistic — oh, wow, things werereally bad back then, so glad all thoseproblems have been taken care of. Butfor now I talk about the issues and problemsand hope that helps somewhat. Iintend to hunker down for the springand summer in Cortes Island, BC, plantall sorts of exotic Asian vegetables inthe garden, and work on a new noveluntil it’s done.” Susan Minot’s also writing,between New York and NorthHaven, ME, with daughter Ava, who issix. Eve Stockton showed her largescalewoodcuts at the H. Pelham CurtisGallery in the New Canaan library thisspring (evestockton.com). Evan Youngremains in California after all these yearsof threatening to move back East,working as a lawyer on death penaltyappeals. Happily married with three girls— one daughter is finishing high schooland two stepdaughters are out in theworld as grownups. As for me, CecilyMcMillan, my son Tom McMillan ’03is also out in the world, working in LA,and I’ve moved back to coastal SouthCarolina, with a writing job online and anidea about new work. I like being in thecountry again — vast numbers of stars,noisy birds, and flowers — and I look forwardto getting out the vote in this ruralarea come fall. These are such historictimes. Stay in touch.1975Class Secretaries: Christine d. Fairchild,cfairchild@hbs.edu; Jacqueline van derHorst Sergent, jsergent@gvdhd.orgJay Clark reports on three very creativekids finding their way in the world: sonWill is eager to head to the Cordon Bleuafter graduating from high school thisyear; Henry is interested in pursuingglassblowing after completing his stintin high school; and Delaney, bringing upthe rear in seventh grade, has her eyeon either RISD, Brown, or NYU. Jay’swife Carlyn balances an interest indesign with that of Tibetan Buddhism.And Jay spends lots of time at 36,000feet, jetting back and forth to Jakarta forthe firm RTKL. Jesse Cohen is balancinga similar age group: one senior andone junior in high school. Clearly theyhave run him ragged as he’s just undergonea total knee replacement and isnow working hard to regain his statureon the soccer field. Meg Richey Haugeand her husband John are still fullyentrenched in the younger parent syndrome. . . David is a delightful 10-yearoldwho is reveling in all those thingsthat keep mothers and fathers runningfrom pillar to post — chess, piano,sports, school, friend-gigs. Meg, likemany of us, turned 50 this year andthrew herself a big shindig . . . but Megbeing Meg, she was thinking of ways tobrighten the lives of others in need. Shehad a singing group from Jackson Hole,WY, and when the 50th birthday bashwas over, she took them over to WalterReed Medical Center for a private concertfor wounded soldiers. “The humorand the quality of music the Bar Jshared was just what these woundedwarriors and their families needed. TheBar J distributed free, signed CDs at theend of the evening. It was a truly magicalnight.” Meg is married to PuddieHauge Sword’s brother, John Hauge,who is at the Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank, focusing on Centraland South America. And as for me,Christine Fairchild, life continues toperk along. I’m travelling a bit more thisyear in honor of Harvard BusinessSchool’s 100th anniversary — we’re takingfaculty on the road to visit withsome of our furthest flung alumni. I’mtraveling to Australia and New Zealandand then to Beijing and Shanghai. I lovethis job! It’s especially gratifying to haveone of CA’s best with her hand on thetiller at Harvard — Drew Gilpin Faust’64 has a remarkable voice and clearvision for Harvard University. It’s anhonor to work with her. Susan CouchLowell, who’s working for Intel on afuture computer chip and looking forwardto a two-month sabbatical, says: “Ido find myself wishing for somethingdifferent in my work life — not sure if it’sretirement or more likely, simply retirementfrom the norm. This sabbaticalidea starts the dreaming again, youknow, but the kids aren’t quite oldenough, the mortgage not quite paidenough. But what if there is somethingelse? I am a very lucky mommy — twoboys, 13 and 8, who surprise or agitateme every day and make me proud, anda husband who endures the hints ofmenopause quite, um, quietly, so far.”Jamie Parker is “VP of marketing atWGBH in Boston — the nation’s leadingproducer of the best in public broadcasting.Love it. Live in Newton with longtimeBF and four combined kids. My sonZach is a sophomore at MarlboroCollege and plays in a contradance band.Wyatt’s 13 and in junior high in Newton,acting and video-gaming (I still can’tmake it through Foghat on Guitar Hero,pretty pathetic). We have a 15-year-oldbeagle who wears diapers but is proudthat his breed won Best in Show thisyear at Westminster. Life is fun.” DedeRuggles is a full professor at theUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,for which she was rewarded with asemester sabbatical in Spain last fall.“My husband and I put our 14-year-olddaughter (somewhat fluent) in a Spanishschool and, guess what, cafeteria foodis just as awful in Madrid as it is inUrbana. Instead of paella and olives itwas fish fingers and watery soup. Whoknew?” Jinny Sisson is director of ageology field school for the University ofHouston, taught in Red Lodge, MT. Sheis also president of the nonprofit thatruns the facility for UH and several otherschools and says the big accomplishmentwas replacing a bridge supportedon one side by a fridge filled with concrete.“Other than that, I spend most ofmy days running after my 3-year-old sonAlex. I also fit in two short trips toGuatemala this year: one to do fieldwork and the other to co-lead an internationaltrip of 55 interested in jade andhigh-pressure metamorphic rocks of theCaribbean.” Brooks Stevens writes thatMerrill and Tomasen are sophomores atConcord-Carlisle High School and doingfine. She continues in her private psychotherapypractice in Lexington.“We’re all fine. Not much news, butthat’s a good thing, I think. Hope everyonein our class is well.” Puddie HaugeSword is about to launch her third (andlast) child to Trinity College in the fall.“In the meantime, I am thoroughlyenjoying my business, Sword Solutions.I organize anything: home offices, collections,basements, estates, any roomin the house, anything that doesn’twork. I have wonderful clients, fromWashington to Boston, and it gives methe chance to drop in on friends alongthe way.” Jane Wang has been composingmusic for two choreographers inthe Boston area, Danny Swain and KeeChin. She is working on music for a Keepiece to be performed at the DanceComplex in Cambridge, MA on June 13and 14. Last summer she toured in Italywith Sabir Mateen’s Omni-Four, and inthe fall composed and performed forHanne Tierney’s Leibniz’ Folly at FiveMyles, a Brooklyn gallery. She wasinvited to join the Mobius Artists Group(of experimental artists) and has finallyput up a Myspace page of her compositionaland multidisciplinary endeavors(myspace.com/janewangcomposer).Marcia Johnston Wood is having whatis probably the busiest year of her life,but she can’t figure out what to eliminate.Still working the same 3/4ish timein private practice, she also chairs theOregon Psychological Association’sEthics Committee, which has been themost stimulating, challenging, andrewarding professional thing she’s done

Brooks Stevens ’75 with her twins, Tomasen and Merrillin years. Still playing a lot of squash,“my 16-year-old daughter has finally gottento the point where she beats memore times than not. We’re also hostinga 17-year-old German student for thisschool year; having three teenagers inthe house can be a challenge at times,but has also been incredibly rewardingand fun. CA friends Nancy Gillespie andLani Peterson-Arnzen tell me that theyare equally busy and vital in what fillstheir lives. So I think this midlife thing ispretty good on the whole, except for theexasperatingly longer time it takes tocome back from a sports injury orremember where you left something orfigure out if it’s really hot out or if it’sjust you.” And I, Jackie van der HorstSergent, am watching with slight distressas my face heralds the slide intomiddle age, with cheeks that seem tolisten more to gravity than to my inspirationalpats and pep talks. Work to createpolicies and environments that supporthealthy behaviors has a tendency toinvade my life more than I like (whichdoesn’t help the gravity issue), but I stillfind it interesting and challenging so amcompelled to continue. Buying a getawayplace at a nearby lake has been abreath of fresh air — an opportunity toexperience a mini-vacation at a drop of ahat without the to-do list that time off athome encompasses, and the everpresenthope that our kids might want tocome home more now that there is afree vacation spot with room for friendsand more junk food than we everallowed across the threshold before (Iam not beneath a bribe or two)! Thankyou to all who wrote — it is always a joyto hear from you — please keep it up!1976Class Secretary: Lucinda A. Jewell,portiaspeace@hotmail.comClass Secretary NeededAmy MacRae and her husband Garyhelped her dad and his wife move intoa wonderful retirement communitywhere they live. “They are doing verywell, but need a little more assistancewith daily living. I still love my job atExecutive Financial Group here in St.Louis, where I assist individuals, families,and businesses with financial planningand insurance. On a personal note,I have started Weight Watchers andjoined a spinning class. I feel great, betterthan in a long time! Gary is doingWeight Watchers with me, and we areboth losing rapidly!” Life continues tobe busy in a good way for Alice Domar.“I have a new book called Be HappyWithout Being Perfect and have juststarted another one, coauthored withDr. Susan Love, called How to be PrettyHealthy (although I think it should becalled Real-Life Advice from a Surgeonand a Shrink, and our editor wants to callit How to Take the Hell out of Healthy).”In March, Ali was interviewed on TheToday Show about her book. She continuesto be a clinician, researcher, andexecutive director of a mind/bodywomen’s health center, and says shefinds the work/life/family balancing actchallenging. “My husband Dave is ahappy Sox fan, Sarah is in sixth grade,and Katie loves first grade. We have anew puppy, a mini-dachshund namedCarly, and we have learned the hard waywhy it is idiotic to get a puppy justTom Lincoln still wears his CA soccersocks weekly, and they likely have a fewmore years of soccer left in them.“Hope I do too,” he writes, “but theaging this year versus last is more obviousthan it’s ever been.” Tom took acanoe trip in the Adirondacks with hissons Sam, 11, and Jay, 15; received agrant to set up a jail-to-community HIVand mental health program; andattended a Beatles 1965 tribute concert.Mary Adler Malhotra writes: “Much tomy surprise and delight, my oldest childMalu began her CA career in September2007 as a new sophomore boarder. Sheloves it! What struck us was 1) howwell the faculty knew Malu as a studentwhen we visited over Parents’ Week -end, just six weeks after school startedand 2) how well and quickly they cameto know her as a person. In some ways,the school hasn’t changed: the studentsand faculty still live side by side, enjoybeforewinter in New England. We continueto see Nancy Denardo and herfamily frequently, and Dave and PeterWallis took our combined girls skiing. Ivisited Emily Gordy in DC last fall; hertwin sister had just died so we hadsome bittersweet reminiscing time, butit was still wonderful to see her and herfamily. Am already looking forward toour next reunion!” Charles Davidson isthe publisher of The American Interest(the-american-interest.com), a politicalmagazine based in DC with great articleson government policy and America’splace in the world. Elizabeth Paquettecontinues to live in Palm Beach, whereshe has become a greyhound racing aficionadoand involved in greyhoundrehoming. The Palm Beach trackrehomes 98% of its dogs. She no longerhas as much time for golf, but then,work as an anesthetist has to be fit insomewhere. As for me, LucindaJewell, I have just completed renovationson my new home off Brattle Streetin Cambridge. I still love the People’sRepublic, and my daughter is now in thethird grade at Fayerweather StreetSchool. I have been persuaded by myfellow board members at the Manic-Depression and Depression Associationof Boston to run for the presidency thisJune, so I bid a fond farewell as yourclass secretary. Be sure to let IngridDetweiler know if you are interested intaking up the pen (or, in this case, thekeyboard). Until our next reunion!1977Class Secretaries: Jean Dunbar Knapp,jean_knapp@tufts-health.com;Jean M. McCormick,jean.mccormick8@gmail.comGreetings to CA friends from JoEldredge Morrissey, who left Concordin ’75, graduated from her local highschool, then lived in Southern Californiafor ten years, attending Cal State Fuller -ton and continuing the photographicstudies she started at CA. Now inPeterborough, NH, with her partner DonGanley and her two daughters, Brianna,19, and Lauren, 16, Jo took over ColdComfort Farm when her parents died.“I have a motley collection of animals,a small maple sugaring operation, and alarge vegetable garden. I have beenteaching music for many years at TheWell School (Tasha Garland ’78 was astudent with me). I am also a selfemployedphotographer. I’ve done mostof my work at the MacDowell Colony,an artist’s colony here in Peterborough.A number of CA graduates have had fellowshipsto MacDowell, including SusanMinot ’74 and Kristin Jones ’75, withwhom I stay in touch. I also photographedNadya Aisenberg (mother ofJamie Aisenberg ’77 and KateAisenberg ’78) and Perdita Buchan,who was one of my dorm mothers atCA. Small world! I stay in sporadic contactwith Alison Muyskens ’78 andgreatly enjoyed seeing Peter Wallis ’76and Meg Jackson ’77, among others, ata reunion a few years ago at Concord.Gary Hawley, congratulations on yourretirement. You were a great teacher!”Louisa Hufstader and her husbandJohn Ruch will celebrate their 18th weddinganniversary this year. They live inNapa, CA. John works at ProvenanceVineyards and plays guitar with theMean Time Playboys. Louisa is the“Napa Insider” columnist for North BayBiz magazine, a contributing reporter forNapa Valley Marketplace magazine, anda correspondent for the daily Napa ValleyRegister. Denise Rueppel Santomerois “at a particularly busy time with threeyoung children (two 10-year-olds andone who is 4), a wonderful house torestore, and community commitments.”Nina Tannenwald shares great news:“I gave birth to our second child, adaughter, Naima, in April 2007. I thusmay win the competition of oldest momin our class (at least to date!). Our sonIsaiah is five.” Nina’s book, The NuclearTaboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945,was published in December byCambridge University Press. She continuesto enjoy her job at Brown’s WatsonInstitute for International Studies. Herhusband has joined the sociology departmentat Brown, so his days of commutingbetween Providence and Madison(UWisconsin) are mercifully over.1978 30th reunionClass Secretary: Martha E. Livingston,marthalivingston@verizon.net65WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Dinah Huntoon ’78 and Kathy Drasher’78 atop Brunelleschi’s dome inFlorence, Italy66Bob Elwood ’78 in the 2007 Pan-MassChallengeing and learning together. What haschanged is for the better (much better!).CA is well managed and well run onmany different levels. It is great to see. Iknow I am a little biased, but check itout at reunion and I think you’ll agree.What else is new? We are still in NY.Besides Malu, we have two boys, 13and 9. I am busy with nonprofit workand trying to keep up with everyone.See you at reunion!” Tasha Garlandwrites: “I continue to live and work inFlorence, Italy, and have created anunusual but interesting business asmarketing/concierge consultant forbusinesses dealing with high-end visitorsto Tuscany. My 15-year-old sonConnor has returned to English languageschooling and boards at St. Stephen’sin Rome. I have enjoyed visits withKaty Kinsolving here and in London,and walks with Kathy Drasher. ThoughJune is the busiest work month for me,I am planning to attend our 30th!” Alsoliving in Italy, Kathy Drasher has seenseveral classmates: Dinah Huntoon,Mary Rhinelander, Katy Kinsolving, TashaGarland, and J.B. Miller. Kathy marriedRobert Deutsch, an anthropologist, inSeptember, and writes that she is“becoming a real connoisseur ofParmigiano Reggiano and some sort ofstory animator. See everyone in June!”Katy Kinsolving says: “I’m still living inLondon, though we are currently entertainingthe idea of moving back to theUSA sometime in 2008; I should knowmore by reunion. I’m still teaching cookingand working as a private chauffeur totwo small people who happen to be mysons. I’m looking forward to seeingeveryone at our 30th!” J.B. Millermoved to London in April, where hisplay The Dorchester was staged at theJermyn Street Theatre in November. Hewrote The Acme Climate Action Kit,published by HarperCollins this spring.J.B. married Chloe Emmerson, a castingdirector, in January in Lyme Regis.They’re very happy, living in Notting Hilland working in the cinematic and theatricalworld in London. Cindy GoffMuther’s daughter Sammi is a sophomoreat Tabor, where she plays JVsoccer and is on the JV sailing team,which “thrills me to no end as I coach atthe varsity level.” Sammi is “makingnoise about turning 16 and getting herlearner’s permit; I am ignoring her.”Ryan is 14, finally enjoying school, andapplying to Tabor for next year. Chris isin fifth grade, “not wild about school buthaving seen Ry go through this stage, Iam not so worried.” Chris plays trumpetin a jazz group and sings in the schoolchoir. Both Chris and Luke, a thirdgrader, play soccer, hockey, and baseball.“Luke looks forward to next year,when he can choose an instrument.He is threatening with the drums.”Husband Dick is athletic director atTabor. “We live in a senior girls’ dormwith 28 17–19-year-olds, and we bothteach math. Last year’s highlight waswhen Tabor’s varsity sailing team wonthe high school nationals for the firsttime in eight years. Can’t wait to seeyou all in June.” Bob Elwood bikednearly 200 miles across Massachusettsduring the Pan-Mass Challenge to raisemoney for cancer research; he ran intoHeidi Reichenbach Harring, who wasalso riding. Heidi writes: “We are professionalsideline, race course side, poolsidecheerers and coaches for our threegirls. Alas, our ski racing has had to takethe back seat since all three girls (10, 8,and 5) are now ski racing. Looking forwardto reunion; I think I can make thesix-mile trip!” Fran Stahl Ballo says:“Unfortunately, I can’t make the reuniondue to a family reunion in Colorado. Alecis 16, Lissa is 15, and Max is 12. I’ve cutback my dermatology practice to oneday a week to be more available toPhil Powers ’78them. My husband Rob and I celebratedour 20th anniversary this May.” PhilPowers writes: “My two boys, Archieand Lee, 15 and 12, have become verygood company. Unfortunately they arecommitted Californians, so they look atme askance whenever I suggest theymight try an Eastern school. We go backto Maine often, where my family stillhas a timber farm way up north inAroostook County. I took the boys backfor some snowmobile adventures inFebruary. All is well, and I would like tomake it back for our 30th; I’ll see if I canslink away as the time draws near.” Anaround-the-world trip for Jane LassenBobruff and her husband Neal was trulya life-changing adventure. “We went toten countries on three continents. Thehighlights were Vietnam, Iran, Togo,Benin, and the Galapagos Islands. Wewere particularly impressed by Iran. Thewarm welcome of all the locals we metwill stay with us forever. We found thathumans, as opposed to their governments,despite enormous differences inhistory, culture, and religion, all havecommon goals, dreams, desires, andfears. Whether it be providing for yourfamily, giving hospitality to strangers,fear of the unknown, pride in one’s history,hopes to provide better times forthe next generation, or establishing arelationship with a deity or deities, peopleeverywhere have far more in commonthan their governments are willingto admit.” Check out Jane and Neal’sblog: nealandjane.blogspot.com. MarkBoyer reports: “I’m still working withthe Wildlife Conservation Society on creatingimages of what Manhattan islandlooked like on September 12, 1609when Henry Hudson sailed past. TheNew Yorker did a very nice story this falland National Geographic is doing a longstory next year. It looks like our work isgoing to be the centerpiece of New YorkCity’s celebration of the 400th anniversaryof Hudson’s voyage. We’re planningto build an immersive cyclorama ‘timemachine’ in Battery Park that will let yousee the island as it appeared to Hudson.Lindsay Soutter Boyer ’76 and I spentthree weeks traveling through SouthIndia with a group of Hindu monks, duringwhich we walked 10 miles barefootaround Mount Arunachal!” News fromMartha Livingston: “I continue to runmy recruiting business and play hockeyseveral times a week on two teams. Ienjoyed seeing Henri Lazaridis Powerat a hockey skills program in the fall. Ilearned that her eldest is a freshman atMiddlebury. My daughter Hannah, 13,will be a freshman at CCHS in the fall,and my son Johnny, 10, will start sixthgrade at the middle school. Hannah isplaying Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Streetand dancing several times per week,and Johnny continues to enjoy soccer,piano, and oboe (in that order). ‘Ohyeah, school too,’ he says.”1979Class Secretaries: Sophie Carlhian,svc@charter.net; Lisa Zimble, lzimble@aol.comTammis Coffin is back in the Berkshiresdoing community outreach and educationfor the Trustees of Reservations.“I enjoy developing preschool programsfor Naumkeag Gardens, Mohicanthemedwalking tours in Stockbridge,canoe trips on the Housatonic, and abike trip that tells the story of anenslaved woman who took a stand thatended slavery in Massachusetts.”Jennifer Beal enjoyed being on campusrecently as her daughter Katalina appliedto CA and got in! She thinks CA “stilllooks like a great place!” Katalina will bea ninth-grade boarder as her proudmother begins another Concord experience.Jennifer and her family will bemoving to Ithaca, NY, this summer andwould like to know if there are anyclassmates in the area. Laura Bry continuesto enjoy life in northern Idaho.She and her son Will are active inlacrosse at the local and state level andwill be traveling to the Vail LacrosseShootout in June. Her former coach atCA, Susan Ford, was recently inductedinto the Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Laura isin touch with Elizabeth Aguilar-Imsland in Seattle and has enjoyed gettingto know her neighbor Jean DunbarMaryborn ’52. Sophie Carlhian had achance to spend time in Concord lastMay, working on a documentary about

Louisa May Alcott for the AmericanMasters series on PBS. Since then, herwork has taken a back seat as her twodaughters, 4 and 2, have kept her morethan a little busy. Isabel Fonseca is backin London “after three dreamlike yearson our windy beach in Uruguay.” Hernovel Attachment was due out in May.Whitney Hoyt is the California politicaldirector for NARAL Pro-Choice ofCalifornia. She works with legislators onpro-choice policy and works hard to getpro-choice candidates elected. Whitneyreceived the MLK Humanitarian of theYear Award for her work with youth,both in schools and on the fringe. “I amlooking forward to a new tone for ourcountry as the current state of our worldscares me. I would love to catch up withall Chameleons in the Bay Area!” JaredKeyes writes with news of CasperNilsen. Casper is a psychologist in ahospital in Norway and has just finishedbuilding a boathouse/cabin along thecoast near his house. His wife Sirencame to the marriage with two boys.Margot Maffei Latham made a goodmove to Los Angeles from OrangeCounty last summer, due to a corporaterelocation, and expressed “a clichédparental lament that children grow upshockingly fast.” Beth Olsen Johnsbecame a grandmother to two girls, oneis 16 months and the other was bornjust before Christmas; they are a joy.Her other daughter moved out for collegeand she is dealing with an emptynest. Beth is busy with her marketingbusiness; she gets to use her photographyskills, as well as computer and othercreative skills. She does a lot of handbellringing and has taken up solo ringing.She hopes to schedule a trip for the30th reunion next year. David Slater isin Tokyo working at Sophia University.His daughter is taller than his wife, andhis son recently asked him, “Daddy, didyou play sports in high school?” Hisrecent research has to do with digitalsociality — “how young people use newtechnology to create and transform theirsocial relationships, use of time, Tokyospace, sex, and rock ’n’ roll — that sortof thing.”1980Class Secretary: Lisa Siegel,L.siegel3@gmail.comThere was a wonderful response to therequest for news! Sharmin EshraghiBock had an opportunity to catch upwith Aldus Chapin and Carlos Vanegasin DC. She said it “felt like we wereback in high school.” Sharmin was onthe East Coast to launch her PaddockCakes horse cookie business. Sharmin(as DA in Oakland) has shifted her focusto DNA cold hits cases, trying to solve abacklog of unsolved murders and rapes.She is using cookie profits to help fund asafe house in the country, with a therapeuticriding program, for girls 11–17who are victims of sexual exploitation(paddockcakes.com). She says her safehouse project is a 501c3 and any donationwould be tax-deductible and helpful.Allison Boyer could not believe it hasbeen 27 years since she touched basewith classmates in this format! Aftergraduating from Smith and receiving amaster’s in African studies from theUniversity of London, Allison worked asa journalist in West Africa. In 1997 shecompleted a second master’s in internationaleconomics and conflict managementat Johns Hopkins SAIS in DC. Shejoined a DC-based consulting firm offeringstrategic advice to West and CentralAfrican governments. While in Africa,Allison met “a fine Zimbabwean”named Dan. They were married in SouthAfrica in 2002 and started a small companywith the aim of promoting businesslinks between southern and WestAfrica. Allison and Dan now live inKingston, Jamaica, with their two daughters,Frances, 4, and Lucia, 2. Allisonhas been in touch with Julie Bebermanand Claudio Lilienfeld. Sarah Brace ’81attended Allison’s wedding in SouthAfrica. Lisa Frusztajer sends news thather daughter, Marina Long, is in the CAclass of 2010. “We have come full circle.”Lynn Alley Graham writes thather news “is certain to shock a fewclassmates.” At age 46 Lynn is grandmotherto Emilynn Sky Pinkham, bornMarch 19, 2007. I think Lynn is the firstof our class to reach this milestone.Lynn has three children who have graduatedhigh school and a sixth grader; shecontinues to live a full life in Bar Harbor,ME. Jeff Hall shares his news for thefirst time: “I moved to Minnesota inMay 1999 and currently reside in St.Paul and work in Shakopee. I am in fairlyregular contact with Annie Lawson andGerry Zyfers ’79. I briefly exchangedemail with Micaela Schneider Harari’81 in Israel. My big news is that, for thefirst time, I am engaged to be marriedon August 9 to Becca Nielsen of Tyler,MN. I am particularly curious if anyonefrom our era lives in the Twin Citiesvicinity.” Steffani Catanese Lomax is inher fifth year of running her own IT consultingcompany (swspartners.com).Being self-employed allows her flexibilityto travel and do what she enjoys.Steffani and her husband continue tocompete in national tennis tournaments;each has achieved top-10 singles rankingsin their age division. CynthiaObadia and her partner Colin havemoved to San Diego after three years inLondon. She loves the “soCal” lifestyleand all its outdoor activities. “I have awhile to go to totally get in the grooveas I have not managed to stand up on asurfboard yet!” Cynthia continues towork for Shell in energy trading with afocus on cleaner fuels and renewables.Stefano Paci changed jobs and is nowat Skidmore Owings and Merrill, workingwith NY and London offices on a corporatecampus for Qatar Petroleum. Hiswife Alison teaches at the New SchoolUniversity Parsons School of Design. Hisson Alexander, 16, studies hard at SaintAnn’s School in Brooklyn “and otherwisetalks to his parents as though he juststepped out of Scorcese’s film TheDeparted.” His son Tristan, 12, is a hugeYankees fan. Stefano adds that hehopes to see Monsieur Richardson, Mrs.Eisendrath, and Mr. McFarland as soonas possible! Sebastian Junger hasbeen married for two years and residesin NYC. He is part owner of a bar calledThe Half King, on 23rd at 10th. He isfollowing an American combat platoon inAfghanistan for a year. “I go back andforth every couple of months, and I amstill running.” Lisa Siegel continues toraise three kids: Max, 18, who heads toUnion College in the fall; Olivia, 12; andNoah, 10. “I volunteer at a local adolescentdepression-awareness organization,sharing my time and social work skills.Our community has lost four high schoolstudents to suicide in the past fouryears, and as a parent of teenagers, Ifelt I had to get involved.” MaggieWinslow is still teaching economics in asustainable business program in SanFrancisco. She loves it! Congratu lationsto Maggie on the birth of her third child,Jasper, born in December 2007. He joinsbig sister Elsa and brother Toby. Maggiespent a week last summer in Vermontwith Holly Payne and her kids. Theyalso got together with Vicky Fish.Maggie has run into Jenny Willmannand on occasion sees Nancy Kates.Maggie looks forward to our 30 yearreunion!! Now that makes us sound old. . . It is great to share all this news, bigand small, and to see how our lives havechanged since our days at CA. Pleasecontinue to send your news or just dropa line to say “hey.” If you are in touchwith other classmates who haven’tchecked in, please encourage them toemail me.1981Class Secretaries: Lindsay MillardClinton, l.clinton@comcast.net;Laura Payne, lxp@u.washington.eduTot Hufstader Balay had a busy yearhelping her son Nick through the collegeprocess. They’ve traveled the entirecountry visiting schools — she likesto call this the “anywhere but here”syndrome. They had a lovely visit inHollywood with film editor RichGlazerman, who showed them his editingsuite and the opener of the film hewas working on with Meg Ryan andWilliam H. Macy, which was selected forthe Sundance Film Festival. Her youngerson Kit, 15, is turning into a real actor:MacBeth last fall and The Music Manthis spring. Tot is still busy makingmusic with the Minnesota Chorale andthe Minnesota Orchestra, under thebaton of Osmo Vanska in StephenPaulus’ holocaust oratorio, To Be Certainof the Dawn. She’s also doing publicrelations and development work for theGreater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies.Catch up with them in Edgartown onMartha’s Vineyard again this July.Kathryn Drury lives in Vermont with herthree children: Meg, 12, Henry, 10, andBruno, 5. Kathryn is freelance writingand copyediting, para educating in alocal public school, playing guitar, crosscountryskiing, and jamming withfriends. After 20 years in NYC, she istickled pink, agog, and happy to be inthe country. So much space and air andsimplicity. No telly, no DSL, no cellphone. Solar, wind, and a wood stove!Lindsay Millard Clinton found herselflooking for a job after Peoplesmith wassold; she’d worked there 14 years. Afterseveral failed attempts at a new career,she is working as a technical writer forEagle Investment Systems, a subsidiaryof New York Bank Mellon. Her daughterAlyse was chosen as a Johns Hopkinstalented youth scholar last spring andhas been giving readings of her book,Our Neighbor, Millie, about the 330-footwind turbine near their home. Lindsay’sson Charlie competed in his first karatetournament last November and tookhome the first-place trophy in fightingforms! Micaela Schneider Harari stilllives in Jerusalem, teaching and performingflamenco dance. She has twoboys, 13 and 14, and lives with MosheAmirav, who in addition to being herpartner has been active in peace talksand projects related to the Israeli-Palestine conflict. They live in the EinKarem neighborhood, where pilgrimsflock to Mary’s well and variouschurches. She would love to hear fromIsabel Fonseca ’79 about a projectrelated to Palestinian Jerusalem gypsies.Suzy Seymour Gaeddert moved toWeybridge, England, last August to bepart of the ministry team of the Interna -tional Community Church of Surrey. Hersons, Zach and Micah, love being part ofthe TASIS School, with kids from 41 differentcountries. After six months, theyare now used to driving on the left sideof the road and are slowly learning theQueen’s English. After four great yearsin Boston, Peter Smith moved to NewYork to manage multimedia and designat Barkley Kalpak; he’s reconnected withChambliss Giobbi ’82 and Alice Abell.67WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Cynthia Gorey ’82 and Deborah Bernat ’82 celebrating Deborah’s birthdayPeter’s son Carter will perform trombonewith his high school band in Chinain 2009, and daughter Maya is in theexceptional youth program at her school,achieving greatness at every step!Gardner Powell writes: “I got marriedand have become a gypsy, living in amotor home and working on a bookabout relationships between mastersand disciples/teachers and students. Theworking title is Teacher, Teacher.”Gardner published an interview withformer Poet Laureate Donald Hall in thefall 2007 issue of the Nimrod Interna -tional Journal, still judges horse shows,and likes to meditate; she says “life isgood!” Meanwhile George Miserlis, ourrockin’ CA Holly wood representative,sang with Jason Alexander at theHollywood Bowl in 2007, for PlacidoDomingo’s induction into the HollywoodBowl Hall of Fame. “The great news isthat ABC and not NBC has taken overScrubs, putting the show on for one fullyear more.” Libbetts Yerkes writes fora Connecticut newspaper; her eldeststarts at Wesleyan in September, hermiddle child will be a junior at CA, andher youngest was awaiting acceptanceletters from high schools. Every nowand then Libbets gets to see KathrynDrury, who moved to Vermont, and shesaw Maggie Kannan while walkingdown Madison Avenue in NYC. Petravon Dungern writes from Saigon:“Happy New Year of the Rat! We havejust emerged from a very special year ofthe Golden Pig, as we welcomed SimonHenry George von Dungern-Tailyour onOctober 24, 2007. Just when wethought we would get away with nothaving to change nappies he thought68he would teach us a lesson or two! Toprevent my brain from shriveling, I haveenrolled in a two-year executive MBAprogram in the evenings.” Petra hopesall those management principles willcome in handy in raising her son. LizaMcAllister is still at Wesleyan, teachinga course on mixed-race, mixed-heritageidentity. With three kids in privateschools, she’s living the familiar crisis ofstatus-to-income ratio: high status jobbut disproportionately low income (“Ican go on about what makes a goodbottle of wine, but I can’t afford to buyone”). Her oldest daughter is a junior atHampshire, writing a play about emigratingfrom Haiti. Her middle daughter juststarted at the Catholic girl’s school intown “and definitely does roll theminiskirt even higher than it is.” SonJulien is in third grade, studying Puritansand slavery, natives and light beams.Liza writes, “I really wish our class couldconnect more often. When your kidsstart visiting college, please come visit;we live right on campus and very muchbelieve in Wesleyan.” Writing fromPeru, Jonathan Moller says: “Someof you may know that my work/lifehas focused on Central America,mostly Guatemala, since 1991, whereI spent seven of the past 15 yearsworking with NGOs as a human rightsactivist and freelance photographer(jonathanmoller.com). I’ve been living inDenver since 2001. In 2004 I publisheda book of my photos from Guatemala,Our Culture is Our Resistance:Repression, Refuge and Healing inGuatemala, which documents the experienceof populations displaced by theprotracted violence in the context of theinternal armed conflict and the work fortruth, justice, and reconciliation throughthe exhumations of clandestine cemeteries.I’ve got two traveling exhibitions,with copies in the U.S., Europe, andLatin America. The book-related expo ismoving around several countries inSouth America. Laura Payne workspart-time as an environmental scientistin Seattle, while raising daughter Luna,4, with partner Daniel. To offset the mismatchof being country mice in a snazzycity, Laura’s been gardening, flying kites,and skating, and is striving to spendmore time living out her environmentalistand equality-for-women principles.She stays in close touch with sibs JohnPayne ’79, who also lives in the Seattlearea, Holly Payne ’80, who is raisingthree kiddos and stays in close touchwith Maggie Winslow ’80 (also a momof three) and Becky Campbell ’80, a vetand mom living in NYC. Little bro SamPayne ’83 continues his stellar career asa circus acrobat, recently earning a silvermedal with wife Sandra at the worldclassMonte Carlo circus festival.They’re performing with Teatro Zinzanniin San Francisco this year, and sincenone of us are getting any younger,catch them if you’re passing through theBay Area!1982Class Secretary: Gordon S. Gabbay,Gordon@humblemonkey.com; NadiaBelash McKay, nadia.mckay@yahoo.comOur 25th class reunion was a niceevent, even if it was sad to see theretirement of some of the core teacherslike Gary Hawley and Dr. T, who madeCA such a wonderful environment. Foodfor thought from Tom Wilcox — he was33 years old when he became headmaster.He and Whitney were graciousenough to show up, so I am assumingwe are all forgiven for being his firstsenior class! Nadia Belash McKay ispleased to be spending more time withher husband and kids. Her new venturewith Mom Corps is creative and providesa new level of flexibility that justwasn’t possible in her past corporatelife. Mom Corps places professionalwomen in meaningful, flexible workarrangements so they can find more balancein their lives (momcorps.com).Christopher Lamont reports on his tripto Morocco: “I had a great time ridingcamels, haggling for Berber rugs, gettinglost in the labyrinthine souks (markets),mangling the Arabic and French languages,eating pigeon pie, and generallymaking a nuisance of myself with thelocals. I even put on a little jugglingshow at an orphanage I visited. The people,for the most part, seemed wonderfullysensible, moderate, and hopefulabout the prospects for their country.I’m looking forward to going back.” EricGoodheart and his wife Alia vacationedin Puerto Rico. They are enjoying life inMaynard and new jobs. No children yet— they did announce the arrival of a pugnamed Baskerville that has broughtthem into the local doggy subculture.Susan Armstrong Mueller is doing thetypical busy mother-wife-computer consultantrole in PA. She and her familyrecently moved from their horse farm toexperience the in-town lifestyle inPottstown with their boys, Tyler, 16, andNathan, 14. The boys are involved inwrestling, football, baseball, and crosscountryat school. Susan’s looking forwardto the 30th reunion and would loveto see anyone headed to the Philly area.David Swaebe and his family traveledto Greece this past summer in search ofhis wife Connie’s family. Not only didthey discover her family — they discoveredouzo as well. His boys were playinghoops after another successfulbaseball season. He was impressedwhile on campus how much of a jockschool CA has become. Cynthia Goreyand her family thoroughly enjoyed theCA reunion last summer. They were inBoston in late December to celebrateDeborah Bernat’s birthday — dining anddancing the night away. Cynthia and herkids (Liam, 10, Catherine, 8, and Brian,5) are still in Darien, CT. 2007 was a sadyear as both Cynthia’s mother and herhusband’s mother passed away. BethLatchis was in the homestretch of a 20-month master’s program in managementfrom Antioch. Besides commutingmonthly to class in NH, she was alsoworking full-time, but looking forward toa little rest and perhaps a business analystjob in a warmer climate. WarrenFord indicates that besides picking upskateboarding and golf (not at the sametime) — he plans on living up to hisWASPy heritage with a commitment to4 p.m. martinis and being pickled by our35th reunion. He’s also convinced he isa Democratic superdelegate. Happilyensconced in the Pacific Northwest,Tara O’Brien Pride is trying to keep her11-year-old daughter immunized againstthe ads and fads of popular media.However, she concedes that a trip toDisney World is in the works — driven byTara, with a very reluctant daughter.Andrea Lucas Lucard is discovering anew fashion sense. Her job at theInternational Baccalaureate has her travelingfrom Geneva to the Gulf States —so she’s wearing an abaya — available inboth basic black and black. She indicatesit’s done wonders for her travels asshe’s down to a single carryon. Herhusband and two boys (8 and 6) still loveliving in Geneva. Heidi WillmannRichards reports from 10,000 milesaway in Sydney, Australia. While her two

Aussie boys Nathan, 9, and Sam, 4,might not be enrolling as day studentsat CA any time in the future, Heidi indicatesthat school down under involvesuniforms, cricket, and a five-week“summer” vacation at Christmas. NinaFrusztajer Marquis is back in Lexingtonafter a move from California. Her kidsare adjusting well to the East Coast andshe’s looking forward to getting back intouch with friends. Life in Cambridgeremains largely the same for MarionOdence-Ford. “We’re happy to be livingclose to Lynne Carvalho Adamian; ourgirls, Abigail and Madeleine, are in thesame school with Lynne’s sons Louieand Nat (Abby and Louie are in the sameclass this year). It’s been nice to haveNina Frusztajer Marquis back east, andit’s been fun meeting her at CA andallowing our kids to run around campus.Ray and I had a fabulous dinner atAnnisa, Anita Lo’s ’84 restaurant inNYC. Helen Bird Guidotti is reporting anew career: her life in Durango, CO hasher shoveling snow nonstop. No complaints,however, as the snow may limitthe drought effects in the summer.200% more snow means that riding hershorter horses has her heels dragging,and pets can become very lost. Her husbandcontinues to play music three daysa week in Telluride; Helen traveled toPeru last year. Julia Pierce Fenske isback in the San Francisco area whereshe grew up — a new but familiar placeshe is rediscovering with her family.She works for Dreyer’s Grand ice cream,which means that CA alums have icecream connections on each coast now,between Julia and Marion Odence-Ford’s venture. Julia enjoyed a Yosemiteadventure with her children, Paul, 6, andHelen, 4 — reminding her of the daysslogging to class in the snow at CA.She would love to catch up with any CAbuddies in the SF area. Betsy PierceDallape has all good things to say —including a friendship with Nadia BelashMcKay that has been strong all theyears since CA. Her boys, James, 7, andCharlie, 8, are into lacrosse and saddenedby the Patriots’ loss; their homeis chock full of hockey sticks, footballs,golf clubs, bats, and balls. They all loveSan Francisco but miss the Red Sox.Lynne Carvalho Adamian was happy tohost the recent CA festivities. Herdaughter Eleanor, 3, just started preschoolat Perkins School for the Blindwhile Nat, 8, enjoys tournament chess,and Louie, 6, is the family pictorial documentarian.They are loving Cambridgeand recently saw Michael Rosenthal’83 and his family. They are also findinga nice connection with Marion Odence-Ford and her family, now that their firstgradersattend school together. DavidKukla is completing his first-level certificationto teach tae kwan do and recentlywon the Presidential Award for Excel -lence in Math and Science. "I creditDeanna Douglas, Clare Nunes, StephenTeichgraeber, Doris Coryell, GaryHawley, Deb Gray, Tom Bierly, GerryBergstein, Gerry Burgess, Dave Dee,and all the other faculty, staff, and peersat CA with helping me to win thisaward." Otherwise he is playing onlinescrabble with Andrea Lucas Lucard andher 7-year-old, Ulee. Incidentally, Davidand his son James are looking for invitesfrom anyone with a bouncy ride like theone Lynne had. David Greene getskudos as the first one to respond for ourClass Notes. This means two things —he’s constantly online in his role as asoftware trainer, and he’s probably stillstuck in his hotel room in Little Rock.David wishes he was traveling a bit lessand spending more time in his livingroom in Maynard, MA. The nice peopleof Little Rock have great barbecue buttalk funny. He’s in touch with SibleyBiederman, who missed the reunionbecause she was checking out cavepaintings in France . . . likely story, andBarbara Dane ’81, who missed thereunion because she wasn’t in our class.As for the Gabbay family — NY is onebig bouncy ride. We had a nice respitelast year — spending August inAnnisquam, MA, where we had visitsfrom the Swaebe family, Denise andWarren Ford, and Chris Lamont.Our children, Joshua, 9, and Jamie, 4,learned how to catch lobster off therocks (by hand!) as well as to boogieboard till their remaining fingerswere numb.1983 25th reunionClass Secretaries: Adam Ford,Puttyhead@aol.com; Katrina B. Pugh,katrina.pugh@fmr.comSPACE: THE FINAL FRONTIER (or perhapsjust a page that needs words on it).THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THECLASS OF ’83. ITS 25-YEAR MISSION:1) TO EXPLORE STRANGE NEWWORLDS (for instance, Chris Dunning’sworld of Web site programming; Liz(you knew her as Libby) Baker’s classroomof environmental science; PollyHubbard’s new orange-tinted houseremodelwith space for a harpsichord;and, oh, I dunno, Vermont?) 2) TO SEEKOUT NEW LIFE (like Don Wright’s kidsand stepkids, who play every sport thereis; and Catherine Gund’s kids, whohave somehow morphed from the fourthey were a year ago into four completelydifferent ones; and Liz (“I’m asingle-mom”) Baker’s new easygoingson.) 3) AND NEW CIVILIZATIONS(Brave New Films, where SarahIngersoll is working; the U.S. DistrictAttorney’s office in LA, where AndyNicholas, Masha, Sammy, Ned, and Peter Reifenstein ’83Brown is working; that Internet thing,where Aeron Mack Hynes is immersingherself and her artworks; Hollywood andall over, where Maia Javan is productiondesigning; Portland State U, whereMichele Gamburd is too, too busy; andprobably some other disturbing entitiesand/or places.) 4) TO BOLDLY GOWHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE(Like Prague, where Maia’s been spendingsome time; or Dubai, where Micheleis conferencing; or Toronto, where somebone-headed driver blindsided DamonSchreiber while he was on his bike (helived); or all over the U.S., where JenMiller Clarke has been traipsing andrecording and fishing; or maybe somewhereon 1% of the Appalachian Trail,where Adam Ford walks his dogs (OK,a lot of people have boldly gone to theseplaces before). CUT! TAKE 2. A LONGTIME AGO IN A HIGH SCHOOL FAR,FAR AWAY . . . Um, never mind. Andnow for some advertisements: WatchAeron’s show, Flip That Horse, onYouTube! Buy her “Aeron Riding Halter”on eBay! Listen to Jen’s new CD wheneverit comes out (or buy the older oneson CDBaby!) and watch her hubby onRescue Me and Life On Mars! BuyAndy’s wife Yxta Murray’s new book,The King’s Gold! Get some Asian bodyworktherapy from Chris! Or order up afancy-schmancy Web site from him andBrooks Beisch! Go see Maia’s latestmovie! Check out Catherine’s upcomingfilm about food and the children and theearth and our future . . . or whatever.TAKE 3: IN A TIME WHEN OLDER PEO-PLE WERE YOUNGER, WHENGNOMES RAN THROUGH THE HALL-WAYS, WHEN DON STILL HAD KNEES. . . Oh forget it. In a nutshell, Aeronis painting and snowboarding, Sarah isliving through her Palm Pilot, Chris isproud and delighted to be a stay-athome/work-at-homedad, Damon hasn’tyet been abducted by aliens, Don’s stillrunning his tennis management companyin Auburn, VA (visit!), Liz has beena science-geeky teacher for 15 years,Maia survived the writer’s strike byworking on commercials, Michele is renovatingher house and trying to actuallyteach her students things, Polly’s writingresearch proposals, and Adam’s trying tosell the children’s books he’s written,teaching snowboarding, and slowlygoing broke. Ahhh, what a successfulclass we are. Now back to your regularlyscheduled Class Notes. Pam CollinsCafiero’s eldest daughter is playing basketballand softball “but I swear it is byher own choice!” Pam’s younger daughterenjoys dance, and her son can’t waituntil he is big enough to play baseball.“Work is crazy-busy this year, to thepoint that I try not to think about it toomuch or I’ll just get depressed. Still, lifeis good.” We’ll see Pam at reunion.Tricia Brown Fugée still lives in theMidwest, which has been in the news alot during the winter “thanks mostly toMother Nature.” Husband Greg andTricia are still rambling around their oldhouse, “valiantly trying to finish the variousprojects before the next millennium.”They are empty-nesters most ofthe time, though the college kids seemto come and go quite a bit. (“And yes,”gloats Tricia, “empty nests are as awesomeas advertised. We’ve been travelingand entertaining, and gasp —spending time home alone!”) We’ll see69WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Wedding of Dean C. Forbes ’83 and Bereket Nunu Assefa. Third from left, GinoRichardson ’83; far right, George Reyes ’84.Tricia at reunion. Alexis Kraft has beenteaching architecture at Parsons for fiveyears. “As it turns out, I’m good atthis.”(We’re not surprised, Alexis!)He’s also been invited to CranbrookAcademy, Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, andPratt to review students’ work. Alexis’spractice has focused on residentialwork, designing houses, restoring/modernizingtownhouses, and doing competitions.He delights in having clientsoutside NYC. “It’s really fulfilling work;I have a staff of one besides myself.We’re the little studio that does.” Alexislives in Brooklyn, still married, stillchildless, and still skiing regularly. Buthe can no longer afford to go to Europe.“Please all you money manager types,let’s get the dollar back to world classcurrency!” Alexis stays in touch withKimberly Holden ’84 and DanGrunebaum. Dan is planning a returnto the States. Lisa Moricoli Latham’schildren, Amie, 6, and Ian, 8, attendVillage School in Pacific Palisades. Lisa’sstill writing, doing lots of yoga, and hasstarted making a documentary film.“It feels like every other thing in my lifeis in transition . . . must be a midlifethingy.” Lisa talks to her webmaster,Adam Ford, a lot and sees fellowAngelenos Maia Javan and SarahLaeng-Gilliatt once in a while (“I love itwhen I do”). We’ll see Lisa at reunion.Sharon Oleksiak moved back toProvidence, RI, from the suburbs, andher husband and four boys are veryhappy. They live ten minutes away fromthe glass studio, and the boys can walkto and from school. (“What could bebetter?”) Sharon’s coming to reunion.Tony Patt lives just outside Vienna,70Austria, with his wife Dagmar and twochildren. Their son Seon, 2, is showingsigns of a good Austrian dialect and littleenthusiasm for speaking English(“except for the word ‘zoom,’ whichmeans going fast on his sled, skis, orlaufrad, a bike without pedals or trainingwheels that all German kids seem tolearn their balance on.”) They had ababy girl, Luz Magali, in March. Tony isplanning on coming to reunion, combiningit with some work. For the rest ofthe family, however, “It’s too far totravel, and too big a carbon footprint.”Katrina Pugh is still living in Lexington(working for Fidelity Investments), andis engaged to Peter Van Walsum, aprofessor of chemical and biologicalengineering (read: biofuels) in Orono,ME. She’s also enjoyed singing in anambitious choir, with two major musicalevents each year. “I live near theMinute man National Park, so come for ahike or reenactment any time.” GinoRichardson has two wonderful daughters,Claudia, 11, and Marissa, 8. Heworks as a mailroom supervisor in adowntown Philadelphia office and doesvideo camera work for his church’smedia ministry and TV broadcast. He’salso the adult advisor for GenIsUs, ateen group that produces a monthly TVprogram about issues that the teensconsider relevant. He’s done video forcorporate and private functions andhopes “to develop, expand, and perhapsturn this into full-time fun!” Gino is frequentlyin contact with Dean Forbes,who is Claudia’s godfather; Gino wasbest man at Dean’s wedding. BlissFreytag Smith has traded her passportfor home life. She has now lived inDallas longer than anywhere else: herchildren are Texans and her husband (aBirmingham native) is a true Southerngentleman. “The travel bug never completelyleaves, however.” They havestarted taking their children, 7 and 5, onsome trips, with more mapped outalready — including Asia in 2009, to introducethem to their “favorite corner ofthe world.” Bliss is beginning to contemplateworking again, something thatcan be squeezed between kids’ activities.She looks forward to seeing everyonein June. Even our 20th collegereunion last summer has not convincedher that “we really are as old as thenumbers suggest. Until then, happy2008. Kung Hey Fat Choy!” SoniaUyterhoeven still loves living in NYCand running the home gardening programat the NY Botanical Garden. In herspare time she visits museums, thetheatre, or tries new restaurants. Sheworked on an exhibit on Darwin’s botanicalresearch and is looking forward toan exhibit this summer on Henry Moore.Sonia would like to make it to reunion,but worries that her work and travelplans will be a little crazy. She ran intoSally Solomon ’82 last year at hercollege reunion. Scott Winslow, in hischaracteristically succinct humor, writes,“I am living vicariously through my kids,successfully avoiding midlife crisis.”Luanne Zurlo continues to devote herfull-time professional efforts to World -fund, the nonprofit she started overfive years ago, dedicated to improvingeducation in Latin America. Worldfundnow has seven staff members, recentlyopened its first office in Mexico, andhas expanded into three major programareas: schools, teacher training, andgifted youth. As Worldfund spends nomoney on public relations or advertising,Luanne welcomes word-of-mouth supportfor worldfund.org; she is lookingforward to reunion in June.1984Class Secretaries: Kimberly J. Holden,kjh@shoparc.com; Sarah Huntoon,sehuntoon@cox.net; Nancy ShohetWest, NancySWest@hughes.netHelen Nelson Anderson is running acool little preschool in Yarmouth, ME,with her friend Betsy. This was her firstyear and they are already full for nextyear, with a waiting list for both classes!Her husband Scott and children,Madeleine, 11, and Eli, 6, have beenincredibly supportive. Darcy Brown-Martin had a spring visit with MeganMack when she traveled from her homein California to DC with her husbandJamie and daughters Mia, 7, and Natalie,5. Tatiana Zadow Chabas’ son Tristanand daughter Daria are in the equivalentof ninth and sixth grade in the UK. Lastsummer the family was in South Africa,accompanying Tristan’s rugby team ontour. They played four games (twoagainst township sides in Soweto andCape Town, two against schools inDurban). “It is an amazing country andwe were all profoundly moved — a highlightof our year.” They are all lookingforward to traveling back to Concord thissummer. Jonathan Peretz Chancewrites: “I trust every darn one of you isdoing your best to save Earth from theEvil Empire and having fun too. I’m notsure what’s up with my children, as I’velost count and they’re allegedly doing allkinds of inventive things on planet Earthand elsewhere. If you’d like to speakwith them, just dial a random numberand perhaps they have a cell phone.Have another thrilling year, and don’tforget to play for the free world.” JohnFunkhouser says hello to all and ispsyched to see everyone at our 25threunion next year. Kimberly Holden,husband Gregg, and daughter Vanessa,5, welcomed baby Emilia BrucePasquarelli on May 31, 2007 in NYC!Kim met up with Helen NelsonAnderson and her family at ElizabethHolden Thompson’s ’87 fantastic, firstart show in Portland, ME in September.Catherine Gunn writes: “Loving beingan aunt to SophiaRose, 2, bright daughterof MaryHelen Gunn ’87 and MattLaurence ’85. I’m still living inGloucester, working mostly from homefor Oracle, which allows me more timeto continue community board work andbe with the dogs, Annie and Chester.Highlights include September travel tothe Amalfi Coast of Italy in both 2006and 2007, visits with Nancy ShohetWest and her twins! I had dinner withMegan Mack in VA, and marveled overher glow, as she is expecting her firstbaby with husband Leo in June . . .means she’ll miss our 20th BrownReunion!” It seems several classmatesare clustered in Vermont: Rob MacLeodwrote from the beautiful Green Moun -tain state that “we’ve had snow coversince November 16, and I am completelysick of it all . . . I still enjoy teachingU.S. History and civics at Harwoodand the farm continues to grow — 20head of cattle, and this spring my wifewill have two working Suffolk Punchdraft horses she raised and trained fromcolts.” Vermonter Liz Dewey Leveywrites: “With a husband, two daughters,a full-time job, a band, and variousvol unteer efforts, I am one busy gal.The most fun is The Big Basin Band(bigbasinband.com), where I get to be arock ’n’ roll singer, with husband Johnon lead guitar. We are an eclectic sevenmembergroup with a strong local following(big fish in a small pond!). Myvolunteer work focuses on fundraising

Mia (top) and Natalie, daughters ofDarcy Brown-Martin ’84for my girls’ school and being on theboard of Green Mountain Global Forum,which presents about six speakingevents a year. The family is well —Nadine, 8, is a ski racer; Margot, 11, isan origami protégé; and John is a skiguide and instructor. I work with myfather (now in his 80s) and assist invarious business interests.” As for me,Sarah Huntoon, I am still living inTucson, working for a local nonprofit asa program director for several preventionprograms, working with youth and atriskfamilies. We now have three dogs inour brood, acquiring a new hound lastyear, and Ben is almost 9 (hard tobelieve). This past summer I connectedwith Amy Gallitano-Mendel ’83, whomoved to Phoenix to work for theUniversity of Arizona medical school. Itis heartwarming to see her two adorablesons play with Ben, thinking that theymight be lifelong friends. I marvel atthe idea that we met so many years agoand now have children the same agethat also seem to have an easy way andaffinity for one another. I also had agreat time with Sallie Johnston whenshe came to visit me last summer —escaping the heat and humidity ofHouston for the desert monsoons ofTucson in July. If you’re in the areaplease call. Speaking of SallieJohnston, she writes: “After sevenyears as a contractor at Lyondell, I’vefinally taken another contracting positionat ConocoPhillips. I really like the company’sculture, and working for a companythat has money to spend is a verynice change. The other exciting eventthis past year was taking a trip in July2007 to visit Sarah Huntoon in Tucson.Cici Smith ’84 and her son Eden inBrazilban elementary school system to a middleschool in Seattle. “It is a bit lessorganized (read: less anal), but I have alittle more freedom in some ways than Idid in my last job. I’m still very overworked,but I like the people, and thestudents are more diverse, which is afun challenge.” On the home front:“Abby, 2, talks a mile a minute aboutthe kids in her day care class and isdoing everything herself (‘My do it!’);Sam, 5, is learning violin and has discovereda love of drawing. We are still livingwith my husband Dan’s sister’s family,which makes it a pretty energetic andbusy household (they have two youngkids as well). I still send an open invitationto CA people to come to Seattle tovisit — we have a big downstairs withtwo extra bedrooms and a kid-friendlyhouse!” Also in the Pacific Northwest isJuliet Stumpf, who teaches at theLewis & Clark Law School in Portland.She has two children, Liam, 3, and Kai,2, a husband, and a dog. “So I think Inow have all the elements I need for afulfilling life; I just have to figure outhow to fit in enough sleep and time fortoothbrushing twice a day!” SamShepherd reports that he is still a seniorlitigation partner at Quinn Emanuel, thelargest purely litigation firm in the U.S.,where he tries intellectual propertycases such as patent, trademark, andcopyright cases. Peter Ullian continuesto live with wife Michele and sonsAlexander, 7, and Caleb, 4, in Beacon,NY, where they frequently get to singand perform with neighbor Pete Seeger!Along with his sons, Peter is learningtae kwon do. His career as a playwrightand author continues to thrive. After hismusical, Flight of the Lawnchair Man,was produced at two New York City theatres,production rights became generallyavailable, so for the first time one ofhis shows is getting produced at highschools and colleges. His other musical,Terezin, was presented in concert atSymphony Space in NYC, then at theVillage Theatre outside Seattle. He justhad a short story accepted by Ceme teryDance magazine, and an excerpt fromhis novel-in-progress To Repair theWorld was made available as anamazon.com short (and received over200 five-star reviews in two months).Over the past year, Nancy Shohet Westwrote feature stories for the BostonGlobe, Outdoors and North Bridge magazines,as well as alumni profiles for thisvery publication (including one on classmateCarl Douglas for this issue). In anadmittedly bizarre strategy intended tostrengthen a somewhat tenuousmother-son relationship, Nancy and 9-year-old Tim joined the odd and obscurecult of “streak running,” which is NOTthe same as streaking — they run atleast a mile together every single dayYou know you’re friends for life whenyou can just pick up where you left offand have a great time. Thanks Sarah, forbeing a wonderful hostess! In May,Perry and I vacationed in the Bahamasfor a few days. We’re also remodelingour master bedroom and bathroom. So,that’s pretty much the news fromHouston.” Amy Rosenfeld reports onthe end of a mini-era: after 12 years ofpaying for her own health insurance, shehas left the freelance world to join ESPNfull-time as a staff producer. “It will bethe end of jokes about covering curling,as this means my Olympics career isnow over, but the regular paycheck hassoftened that blow.” Amy lives inCarlisle and gets together with NancyShohet West and Nancy Cowan whenshe’s not on the road. Sarah Wymanwrites, “My daughters, Delphi Lael, 13,and Lydia, 9, are thriving. I teach literatureas an assistant professor at SUNYNew Paltz. My partner Jeff and I are renovatinga Victorian house in Rosendale,NY, and expecting a baby this summer.”John Wilson’s writeup required thisclass secretary to take a couple of tripsto the dictionary, or at least to Google,as he wrote that he is “still working withPDP-11s and playing baroque/earlymusic when not working. I’ve beenteaching myself woodturning, and nowI’m restoring a 64-year-old metal lathe(the newest decent one I could afford)so I’m hoping to learn to make my ownreamers for the wood lathe, or at leasttry until I lose some fingers. I’d love tohear from anyone.” Erika Waltherremains in Washington state but hasmade a professional move in her careeras a guidance counselor from a suburandas of press time had reached 212consecutive days. If they make it awhole year, she will try to write a bookabout the experience. Nancy had awonderful, focused, uninterrupted,kid-free visit with Julie Baher last fall,and had the privilege of hostingCourtney Celi Haan along withCourtney’s two babies for a winter lunchthat also included Catherine Gunn.1985Class Secretary: Martha G. Leggat,mleggat@maine.rr.comGreetings to the Class of ’85! MarcosAthanasoulis reports he “is enjoyingspending time with his daughters,Amanda, 7, and Isabel, 5, bicycling a lot,and working on expanding the HealthyCommunities Foundation — when he isnot crazy busy at Harvard MedicalSchool.” Stephen Buttenwieser lives inCambridge with his partner Rachel andtheir almost 3-year-old Maya. Stephenworks as a family practice doctor at aclinic in Lawrence, MA, and Rachel is ingraduate school for psychology. Theyare both busy and happy with theircareers but find Maya is their life.Stephen sees a lot of Charles Collier,Tom First, and their families. CharlesCollier also mentioned seeing Stephenand Tom, and writes: “The last year hasbeen filled with numerous positivechanges. On the home front we sold ourcondo in Boston, and have now becomesuburbanites in Waban. My company,Mount Vernon Strategies, was acquiredby the Hale Group, where I head up theglobal, private equity consulting practice.Both kids, Ben, 2, and Sarah, 4, are inpreschool and doing great, but keepingus very busy.” It was great to hear fromCullen Curtiss, who lives in Santa Fe:“My husband Toner, my nearly 2-yearoldson Gus, and I are working up to ourfifth year in Santa Fe. We travel a fair bitas Toner’s fly fishing business has himguiding on promising trout rivers, and asfamily and friends are scattered throughoutthe states and beyond. My writingcareer is taking off in a minor but funway — many personal essays are nowpublished, and a short story recentlywon second prize in the Santa FeReporter short story contest. I still hopefor my novel to see the light, but Gusdemands too much of my time at themoment, and I am happy to give it.”Cullen celebrated her 40th birthday inBarcelona and the Pyrenees. Doug Hallhad fun this spring racing on the WorldCup speed skiing circuit; “I have alreadyexceeded 100 MPH on skis! The nextgoal is 200 kph, or about 125 mph! AndI’m looking for sponsors if anyone wantsto ‘buy’ in! That, and I’m going back toschool — hope to be enrolled in a master71WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Cullen Curtiss ’85 and her son Gushiking in Spain’s Catalan Pyreneesof architecture program in September.”Lisa Hall says all is well in Maine:daughter Matilda is 5 and in kindergarten,so Lisa now “has to relearn howto work a full day.” Her jewelry businessis great (I have seen her work to confirmthat!) and gives her an opportunity to goto Florida for a month of jewelry showsand sun. Julia Hubbard reports: “Billand I are still living at the far eastern endof Long Island, taking on the real estatecraziness of the Hamptons. I am designinggardens for Hamptons’ homes, andBill is doing some beautiful houses. Thekids are great — Harlan is 7; Lucy is 5and starts kindergarten next fall. Ournew addition is a Cairn terrier namedBear, and I have become a crazy dogperson.” Julia invites anyone who wouldlike to come to the beach to visit.Dereck Jones had quite a year, welcomingtheir fourth child Sophie in June.With their expanding family, they movedinto a new house in January that theystarted building in November 2006.Dereck realized one of his dreams, withthe delivery of his own Steinway grandpiano. It is a 1914 ebony Steinway O,completely refurbished. Dereck looksforward to pursuing his quest to masterall four Chopin ballads. Go Dereck!Matt Laurence has also had quite ayear. He won his second MassachusettsInteractive Technology Exchangeaward and first WedAward. His wifeMaryHelen Gunn Laurence ’87 is in herfifth and final year of school, and theirdaughter SophiaRose turned 2 inFebruary. The family moved to a beautifulhouse in Jamaica Plain, Boston. Mattnotes anticipation for the election seasonwith hopes of good things to come!72Left: Sarah Zelda Mehl, daughter ofJill Conway Mehl ’85 and Marc.Right: Greta Leigh Conway, daughterof Ben Conway ’91 and Anikke.Anne Maffei’s year was another remarkableone. In February she married awonderful man named John Eaton. InJune, she was promoted to presidentand CEO of her firm, Vista Research,and “best of all,” on October 29 gavebirth to their son, John Harold Eaton III,or Jack. Way to go Anne! Anne alsoreflected on a very sad piece of 2007,which was that Sarah Block passedaway on March 14. The class feelsSarah’s absence. Jennifer RussellMahoney writes: “Life continues to begreat up here in Maine, still living inFalmouth, with lots of running aroundwith kids. I spent a great weekend inNYC with Martha Leggat and our twodaughters, Katherine and Lucy, who aregood pals.” Jill Conway Mehl reportsthe exciting arrival of their first child, onNovember 27, 2007. “Her name is SarahZelda Mehl, and she is pure delight,sleeping well and checking us all out,starting to smile and coo, and evenscoot like she’s getting ready to crawl.”Jill says that everything in her worldrevolves around being a mom. They’respending the rest of the winter in theirhome in Florida and will return in thespring to enjoy NYC. Anne Pfitzerwrites: “I am living in Ethiopia with myhusband Emil and two sons, Andre andTheo.” She still works for JHPIEGO [aJohns Hopkins global health organization],where she is country director for alarge HIV program as well as programmingto improve maternal and newbornhealth. “We work with the Ministry ofHealth and universities to improve thequality of services directly, or indirectlythrough education of the next generationof health care workers.” While thework is fascinating and keeps her busy,“the lack of infrastructure and precolonialbureaucracy can drive one crazy.”Anne does some travel within Indonesia,and has also been to Kenya for additionalbeach time. Lucienne SpaldingSchroepfer says her son Otto is “8going on 16 and a fun and charismatichandful.” Her daughters, now 4, “playpretend nonstop with Otto’s old actionfigures. Superman loves to go to thegrocery, Batman has a baby.” Lucy stillworks out of the neighbor’s garage,often not going out for days at a time. Inher spare time, Lucy explores Japanesequilting and sewing. Twice a month she“puts on her black suit and venturesto another city to meet with a nonprofitclient.” Lucy finds Dallas, Houston,Tampa, Atlanta, and LA all very welcometrips in the middle of winter. LauraSafran Shepard is still living inMosman, NSW, Australia, but anticipatesa new assignment by July or so.“Australia has been absolutely fabulous.We just returned from a month-long tripthrough Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia(try getting that much time off inAmerica) and had many exciting familyadventures. We ate boiled silkwormsand roasted water snake, rode elephantsthrough the gates of Angkor Wat, spenta night in a junk boat on Halong Bay, andfed sticky rice to saffron-robed monks atsunrise. Definitely memories for a lifetime.”Tracy Slater, a freelance writer,lives half the year in Osaka, Japan,where her husband and his family arefrom and where he works. “The rest ofthe year I live in Boston, where I teachwriting, literature, and gender studies onBU’s main campus and in their collegebehind-barsprogram at medium-securityprisons around the state. I also run theliterary series Four Stories, which holdsmonthly events in Boston, Osaka, andTokyo.” Tracy got together last year withKate Stoia, Fernanda Moore, TimPryor ’86, Jen Fallon ’87, Chris Baker’86, Sarah Koenig ’86, and AntoniaKoenig ’84. And finally, I, MarthaLeggat, continue to enjoy life in Mainewith my husband Steve and our crew ofkids, Katherine, 8, Elias, 5, and Tommy,2. Life feels full between our differentpersonal, professional, and outdoor pursuits,and we feel fortunate that thepace of life in Maine gives us time tosavor life’s small pleasures. Thanks to allof you who wrote. My best to everyone!1986Class Secretaries: Madeleine R. Blanz-Mayo, madeleineblanz@aurean.com;Melanie Campbell, otters@rcn.com;Julia B. Foster, juliadance@aol.comMadeleine Blanz-Mayo and her familymoved to Bow, NH, last summer, wherethey are thrilled to be living in a nonantiquehome for the first time in 12years! The kids (Cameron, 10, Bryn, 8,Alistair, 7) were troopers for the wholeprocess and are embracing the newschool and sports opportunities withenthusiasm. Madeleine took her work asan independent representative forSilpada with her, and her husband’scareer took an unexpected and excitingturn in March with a new job. MollyCallender writes that “my husband andI have just about completed a 9-monthrenovation of a meandering Craftsmanhouse in the Los Feliz neighborhood ofLA. (I am almost done obsessing aboutarchitectural salvage and sleek Germanrefrigerators.) I am also still on staff as aproject specialist at the Getty. And thereare kids: Finn, who will be 5 in June,and Maeve, who turned 2 in October.We spent a week in NY where we sawmy ridiculously talented and delightfulsister Brett Lally ’90 and a bunch ofother old friends. Longer voyages areplanned for summer, in honor of my40th year.” This past winter, MelanieCampbell created a database of localsummer camps for families living in herarea: “no mean feat considering that Icreated it in the moments when I wasn’tchasing Emma (she’s 2) around thehouse. Having spent years watching myson’s martial arts class, I started studyingkung fu, and I love it.” RandellDrane has started a new job at a startupdoing warehouse automation. JessicaPutz Farrelly writes: “My volunteerismat school has evolved into subbing regularly,mostly K-1-2. My wellness teamwork has evolved into an after-schoolcooking club. I’ve had a few CA contacts.Elissa Meyers Middleton and herhusband Clark showed up on Vinalhavenlast summer! That was really fun, butway too short. I had a pleasant lunchwith Sarah Huntoon ’84; again, tooshort. Eliza Vaillant, Meredith StrawnSudborough, and I pulled off a secondannual Columbus Day weekendtogether. Truly a good time! Anytimeanyone comes to Vinalhaven, please docall. We’ll pack a picnic and hit thebeach.” Eden Parker Grace wrote fromNairobi, where she and her family havebeen displaced following the violence inKisumu, their hometown in the west ofthe country. She is helping coordinate aQuaker response to the humanitarianneeds and longterm issues exposed inthe post-election crisis in Kenya. Folkscan support her work at fum.org. Inaddition to coping with the Kenyan situation,Eden and her family also lost theirhome in Maine to a fire in late August.Jim spent three months apart from Edenand the boys, dealing with the insuranceclaim. Despite these difficulties, Eden,Jim, Isaiah, and Jesse continue to thankGod for their lives and their work, and

would love to welcome any visitors andvolunteers. Chandra Lane Hanson isnow in Ohio (near Pittsburgh), studyingphilosophy and theology at FranciscanUniversity of Steubenville. “After teachinghigh school Latin for a year, I’m fullyappreciating the luxury of being back onthe student side of the desk. I think lastyear I was doing penance for all thetrouble I caused teachers when I was inhigh school. My biggest excitementlately, though, was visiting Eden ParkerGrace and her family in Kisumu, Kenya,over my Christmas break. The trip wasnot quite what I had imagined, sinceKenya’s contested presidential electionoccurred when I had been in the countryfor only 12 days. I remained there for aweek of the ensuing turmoil, and wasfortunate to be able to return to the U.S.a week earlier than planned.” WhenJennifer Keller sent me her contributionto these notes, she urged me to checkout the footer on the email, a footerwhich identified Dr. Keller as Chief ofAnesthesia Services in what she calls a“fantastic community hospital” near herhome in Vermont. Over the holidays,Jenny reports that she and her family —Felix, 2, Rose, 6, and Don, 49 — ran intoAlisa Golodetz Darmstadt and herfamily at a performance of ChristmasRevels, and says that it was all she andAlisa could do not to “whip out ourrecorders” and join in on the performance.Noting that it had taken her tenyears to return, Sarah Koenig enjoys livingin New York. She has a 19-month-oldson named Rueben, “a bruiser.” Sarahcontinues to produce the excellent radioprogram This American Life. MaryaChapin Lundgren is involved in severalJulia Baumgarten Foster ’86 and Logangreen efforts in her town of Andover.She is providing her children’s schoolwith at-home green challenges andactivities. As a member of the AndoverRecycling Committee, she is coordinatingthe town’s fourth annual Zero WasteDay, an event that helps reduce wasteand benefits local charities. It keeps herbusy along with caring for her two children:Cora, 8, and Eric, 5. Annie Lareauhas been acting in different projects allover Seattle, most recently a productionof Persuasion. She’s also training for atriathlon in Hawaii (her fifth). Shedescribes 3-year-old Madeline as “thelight of my life.” Elissa MyersMiddleton is also performing, and alsoin New York. She recently played thelead in the play Reckless, by CraigLucas. Jennifer Nadelson-Gleba’s children,Sarah and Teddy, enjoy playingwith Phoebe Shay, daughter of LisaBrenner Shay ’87. Jenn says Teddy andPhoebe are best buddies. JuliaBaumgarten Foster and husband Gregwelcomed home Logan Kyoo (born12/28/06 in South Korea) in June of2007. They are over the moon withexcitement at being a “forever family”and Logan is a source of joy every day.Also new parents are Antje Neumannand husband Wayne, whose little boyQuindin was born in March. Antje is stillliving in Baltimore and working as a contractconservator for the National ParkService in Harpers Ferry, WV, conservingartifacts from national parks throughoutthe U.S. For over a year she has beenpreparing artifacts from Gettysburg forexhibition at a new visitor center.Elizabeth Saltonstall Repenning is stillin Belmont, MA, trying to keep up withher 8-year-old daughter Rena and 5-yearoldson Robbie. She spends a lot of timeat the gym lifting weights, as that is theonly thing that has helped chronic backpain, and it helps her keep up with skatinglessons, sledding, dance, karate,bike riding, swimming, Girl Scouts, andthe occasional hike. Nancy Reynoldsand partner Susan moved to Chicago inspring 2007 and in June their “wonderful,amazing” daughter Zoe was born.“Zoe has a great sense of humor and isalready determinedly independent.”Nancy is still practicing union-side labor.James Rosenblatt and family celebratedthe bat mitzvah of the oldest oftheir three children. The Rosenblatt lawfirm, which James started almost threeyears ago, continues to grow. Jamesplans a family trip to New England thissummer: “I am sure we will stop in andcheck out Concord.” Jeanne Yang continuesto travel around the world for herjob, style consulting. “It has been hardwith my two beautiful, identical twingirls, but with the help of my wonderfulhusband and ichat it has been a lot easier.”She invites anyone visiting LA tosend her an email. Also living inCalifornia (San Francisco) is PeterYeomans, who is completing a clinicalinternship in psychology at the SanFrancisco VA. Last fall, Peter and hiswife adopted a baby boy.1987Class Secretary: Kerith Gardner,Concord1987@yahoo.comI am pleased to report the followingnews from our classmates around thecountry and the world: Peter Blacklowis still running an online games companyin Newton called WorldWinner.com,which is owned by Liberty Media. Hiscompany is also merging with GameShow Network (GSN); he is head ofGSN Digital. When he’s not traveling,he’s at home with Haley and his littlegirl, Avery, 3. Anders Bratt reports: “Ilive in Stockholm with my wife Lovisaand three kids. I can probably thank oneof the best biology teachers of all time,Becky Bemisderfer (teacher of APBiology), that I now work in the biotechbusiness. [Becky B. Gilmore is nowdirector of advancement at the FoxcroftSchool in Virginia, a nifty Google searchinformed us.] I talked to Marc Pfitzerand made plans for a skiing weekend inSwitzerland. We see each other once ortwice a year. He lives in Geneva with hiswife Anke and three kids.” KarenCipriani writes: “I was sorry to miss thereunion, but it was for a good reason:that same day I was married to RobSkiba and became stepmom to threegreat kids, Ben, 10, Max, 8, and Amelia,5. We were married on Cape Cod on abeautiful, sunny, 80-degree day, whenthe forecast had been for rain . . . wetook it as a good omen, and it’s proventrue so far!” Anna Henchman writes:“I’m finished at Harvard’s Society ofFellows and started as an assistant professorof English at BU.” Alexis Goltraand his wife Lynne welcomed theirdaughter Charlotte into the world onJuly 31 (also Harry Potter’s birthday).They could not be happier. NickRathbone is pleased to announce thathe and his wife Cindi became parentson December 8 to Nathaniel AugustusRathbone. After a long gestation,Andrea Silverman Meyer’s book,Mama Knows Breast, is finally for sale.Emma Weiler writes: “After working atthe library for almost four years, I amgoing back to school to get my librarydegree. I’ve been knitting a lot — enoughthat I started a blog about it (joining theother millions): femblog.typepad.com.As for my children — Anna is in seventhgrade, Justin is in fourth, and Abby andHelen are in second. I’ve also been intouch with Eden Parker Grace ’86, whois still in Kisumu, Kenya, in the middle ofall the political turmoil. Those who wishcan donate to fum.org specified to theKisumu mission, because what theyneed most right now are funds torebuild Kenya — it’s a mess.” HilaryPrice wrote a Christmas play, Santacide,that was staged in 2007. From AramZadow: “I recently left AIG Insuranceafter four years to reenter the legalrealm. I joined a Chicago law firm,where I serve as coverage counsel to asingle client, a Lloyd’s of London insurancesyndicate. One of the decidingfactors in taking the job is that I canwork remotely out of a small rentedoffice two miles from my house, andonly have to go to Chicago three times ayear! Karen Cipriani-Skiba and her husbandRob are my neighbors after buyinga wonderful home a mile up the road inNatick, MA. My two boys and her stepkidsare sledding buddies, and we frequentlyhang out together.” NaomiZikmund-Fisher has, over the last severalyears, added to her workload as aschool principal (voluntarily, although shecan’t remember why) by becoming ateam leader with the district crisis teamas well as serving on the county team.She is working on an advanced credentialin critical incident stress management.It is the kind of work she lovesdoing and hates that there is a need for.Your class secretary, Kerith Gardner,has little of note to recount though isglad to report seeing Jody Cushing ’86,Leslie Taylor Davol, Claudia Gonson’86, Brenden Hussey, Philippa Kaye,and Cameron McNeil, in and aroundNew York.73WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 20081988 20th reunionClass Secretaries: Jay Golden,jaydgolden@yahoo.com; Katharine H.Hammond, khammond11@msn.comCorwin Alston writes: “Things aregoing well. No new news to report here.Just chuggin’ along.” He talked to KeithGelb before Thanksgiving. SusannahSchmitz Amiteye and her husbandWilliam welcomed their first onDecember 18, Ellis Isabel Amiteye. “Weare thrilled, if somewhat bleary-eyed!”Claudia Bernheim says hello. “BeckyManzer Chandler and her husband Ronare enjoying the expansion of their healingpractice, R&R Wellness RejuvenationCenter, having moved it into a largerclinic closer to home, on the northwestside of Tucson.” George Chang saw HKPark and his wife Sarah in Tokyo lastsummer. George and Marcel plan tocome back to Concord for the 20threunion. Samara Berk Fangman andher husband John “moved from Bostona little over two years ago, to the ‘upand-coming’city of Milwau kee, whereJohn took a job as medical director of anHIV clinic. “We have an 8-year-old girlnamed Sophia and a 2-year-old boynamed Eli. I used to work in managementconsulting — which meant I traveledall the time — but after having achild, I left consulting and started doingdesign projects for friends and family.Since moving to Milwaukee, I have beenworking very slowly toward doing anMBA, but mostly arranging play dates,baking chocolate chip cookies, helpingout in my daughter’s classroom, drivingto soccer games, and other stereotypicalMidwestern mom activities.” JamesGeary writes: “After many years comingand going from Taiwan, Christine andI made a move to Phuket, Thailand lastsummer. I’m teaching literature and writingclasses at a small internationalschool that has an incredible array ofstudents from all over the world. I loveit. I ask myself regularly if my classesare as interesting as the classes Ienjoyed at CA, holding myself to thatmark. Who knows? It’s a bunch of fun,anyway. As always, if there are CA folksscampering around Thailand, I’d love tosee some of the old faces and have achat. I live in a beautiful village calledKamala, on the Andaman Sea, continuallyamazed by my good luck in life.”Jay Golden welcomed AlexanderGolden to the family this year and washappy to serve as class secretary again.Jared Green writes: “I don’t think Ihave anything newsworthy to reportexcept perhaps that we now live inConcord, where my wife Laurenceteaches French at — where else — CA! Ithas been an odd shift, but so far sogood. Otherwise, I continue teaching74Avery Hammond, daughter of KateHammond ’88modern literature at Stonehill Collegeand I’ll be going on sabbatical in the fall,when I’m aiming to complete a novelI’ve been working on for several years.”Kate Hammond “added a kid to theuniverse this year — Avery Hammondwas born on November 3. She’s a cutie!My husband Geoff and I are still inWashington, DC, in the second year ofmy two-year legislative fellowship withthe National Park Service. It’s been interestingseeing how Congress works, butI look forward to getting back to a fieldjob.” Deborah Bailey Herrmann is“looking forward to the reunion thisspring . . . nothing new here, still live inWellesley with my two daughters andmy husband Mark.” Stacy MarkisHorne has been busy since she had hersecond daughter, Natalie, in August.Joanna Coolidge reports from near theequator: “I think we have moved fromthe rainy season to the dry season, butI’m not sure. School is going along fine.I haven’t failed anything yet, but there ismuch work to be done to keep thattrend going. It’s a long way to our nextbreak in May. I won’t be returning to theStates, so I will miss our reunion.Maybe next time.” Julie Boyer Hickeywrites: “We are all well here, my ownkids older and increasingly independent,which is a whole new feeling. I don’tknow whether I will be able to come tothe reunion, but I hope it will work out.”John Maffei is in Seattle, where helives with his wife of 10 years and histwo boys Alex, 6, and William, 3. Johnruns an online gaming content network,zam.com, and is looking forward toseeing everyone at reunion. AaronMcClennen has “so far survived thepurchase of BellSouth by AT&T thatoccurred at the end of 2006.” He andEve still live in Decatur with their twokids, Veronica, who is in second grade,and Gillian, who is in first. Havingrecently decided to grant herself a sabbatical,Caragh McLaughlin writes fromSE Asia: “I’m in the middle of almosttwo months of travel throughout SE Asiaand already feel like I need at least twomore months over here to do it justice.However, at some point the Colorado skiseason will pull me back and then I’llhave to go back to the world of theworking. My last job gave me thechance to catch up with DavidGoldberg in NYC last year, and I’m stillmad at Kate Hammond for leavingColorado for DC. I do see Laurie WhiteEnsley when I’m visiting my mom inConcord. Looking forward to seeingeveryone at our (say it isn’t so) 20threunion in June!” Rebecca StiritzMoore and husband Caleb are living inGreen wich, CT. Caleb finished his residencyat Yale and started his internalmedicine practice this fall in Darien, CT.Rebecca continues to work in her clinicalpsychology practice in Greenwich parttimeand spend the rest of her time withtheir girls, Ella and Natalie, who are now4 and 2. From David Oppenheimercomes word: “Home ownership is mybiggest report. Still in Brooklyn — onlymoved five blocks — couldn’t managemore than that. And watching my businessbecome ‘big news’ is interesting —climate change/environmental financekeeps being in the headlines.” KatiePakenham has been working on astartup nonprofit search firm calledCommongood Careers for several yearsnow with a great and growing team ofpeople that includes the fabulous LauraMcConaghy ’01. Todd Pearce and wifeEmily welcomed their second child,Lucas, in August 2007. Todd writes that“older sister Mira is crazy about him, asare we.” Jen Schmitt has experienceda lot of changes in her life: “In the lasttwo years, I left my job at MIT anddecided that doing web design workwasn’t what I wanted to be when Igrew up. I discovered woodblock reliefprintmaking in the fall of 2006 and havebeen making my way into the world asan artist ever since. I work part-time atthe DeCordova in Lincoln and the restof the time work on art, do shows, andrun my online Web site business atAzureGrackle.com.” Doug Stewart andhis wife Diane welcomed their thirdchild, Henry, on December 8, 2007.Doug writes that “we cannot decide ifhe will have red hair like his two oldersisters. I am in the midst of a 5-yearopportunity at the National Institutes ofHealth to run my own lab and clinicinvestigating the genetic disorder neurofibromatosistype 1. I enjoy the mix ofseeing patients and (trying) to solve aset of interesting problems.” AmyWilensky and her husband welcomedtheir second daughter, Annika, inSeptember. Amy notes that “two kids isa little nuts, but then again, so was oneuntil I had two.”For more Class Notes, go towww.concordalum.org1989Class Secretaries: Andrew Heimert,ahonline@heimert.org; Mike Romano,remylacha@yahoo.comThe Class of 1989 appears to remainfocused on careers, kids, and/or a mix ofthe two. Liza Walker is working as aregional director for the Vermont LandTrust, a nonprofit organization protectingland from development. She marriedMike Brouillette in 2000, and they live atthe end of a long dirt road in Waitsfield,VT, with their son Leif, 4, and daughterJuno, 18 months. Liza hopes to make itto Concord for the 20th class reunion.Tracy Welch is pleased to announcethat her family got a bit larger with theaddition of their third child (first boy!),Bradford Welch Adams, on January 26,2008. Tracy, her husband Steve Adams,and Bradford’s older sisters Tory andMandy are all very excited. SarahCosgrove Stoker is still living inManhattan Beach, CA, and is working asa clinical psychologist in private practice.She and her husband Dave “have twoincredible daughters, Annabelle, 5, andWhitney, 3.” Deb Bailey Herrmann ’88came out to visit, and Sarah reports thatit was “a trip” to see Deb’s older daughterBailey, 5, playing with the Stokergirls. Meanwhile, Mike Romano is backin law firm life in DC after selling his lastcompany in late 2006. His wife Gaby isworking for the Pan-American HealthOrganization in DC, and they live justover the river in Virginia with their twosweet little troublemakers, Simo, 4, andMateo, 2. John Carter receivedhis PhD in counseling psychology fromUSC and is assistant professor of psychologyat the University of WestGeorgia. Kaya Adams remains in theDemocratic Republic of Congo, headingup the democracy and governance teamof USAID. She’s very excited to be onthe ground floor of establishing a newgovernment and helping citizens take anactive role. When she was home at herparents’ over the holidays, she receiveda call from Lauren Victor, who was inSouth Carolina campaigning for BarackObama. Kaya’s other big treat wasmeeting up with Martina Falter in Parislast June to taste-test chocolate forMartina’s shop in Berlin. Elise BillingsDe and her husband Arup live on theirfarm (a longtime dream) in Chatham, NY,with their two children, Diba, 5, andJaidev, 2. They both work at a rural academicmedical center, where they’rehappy, but their agrarian side of tendingfarm they hope to improve (althoughthey have cows!). John Faigle movedto Hong Kong last June with his fiancéeKimberly on a two-year assignment forFidelity Investments. They’re reallyenjoying the new culture and are taking

advantage of the location to travel extensively.They invite classmates goingthrough Hong Kong to visit. MartinaFalter begins her days happily sampling(er, munching) premium chocolate. It’sall part of her efforts to establish herchocolate shop, Cokolado Florado(cokolado.com) in gourmet circles — buyher chocolate so she can survive thetough first three years. AlexandraKlickstein Glazier had another baby girl,Lila Kate, last spring. With three daughters,life in the Glazier house is verypink. It calms them in the happy chaos,however. Alex is still doing public healthlaw (organ donation/transplant work) andcontinues to teach at Boston UniversitySchool of Law. Lori Julian Jazaeri andher husband Amir also added a thirdchild this past January, Elliot Wiley, whojoins Alec and Sophia. They are living inCharlottesville, VA. Lori says that she’sbusy enough with three kids not to haveanother job.1990Class Secretary: Robin E. DeRosa,rderosa@plymouth.edu; Sarah AmoryWelch, sarahawelch@yahoo.comBelinda Griswold is happily settled inSeattle in a sweet old house with herboyfriend Robert Lee. She is continuingto practice family law, especially mediation— an interest she and ChristinaWiellette share (that and surf camp,which they hope to attend soon).Belinda is “still doing the Buddhist thing,which lately involves a lot of fingercrossingfor the upcoming election!”Jessica Knight Hansen is enjoying lifein Guilford, CT, with Tim and their sonAlex. She welcomes anyone for a visitto the beach. Tom Doggett is living inthe Cascade mountains outside Seattlewith his wife Jenny and two girls, Lucy,4, and Bailey, 8. They enjoy fishing forsalmon and steelhead, taking hikes withtheir dogs in the Cascades, and enjoyingthe fine cuisine of Seattle. At the end of2006, Mary Sarah Baker moved fromCarnegie Hall to Lincoln Center, whereshe is now the director of booking. “Thejob is challenging but exciting, and it’s alot of fun meeting the musicians webring to the Lincoln Center campus. It’sbeen great reconnecting with AndreaCross, and I also enjoyed seeing SarahAmory Welch last October.” Andrearecently left NOVA and has moved toGermany with her fabulous boyfriend;she is reinventing herself like the gutsychick that she is! Jason Cook is still inArlington, MA, finishing his fellowship.He and Sonia had a brief visit withJeneye Abele out in Boulder, and hesees Ryan Kelley ’91 and Ben Conway’91 regularly. Samantha Halem had ababy boy, Jacob Ian Himelfarb, onJanuary 1, 2008. Sam writes: “His bigsister Maya, 4, is completely in lovewith him.” Robin DeRosa has been promotedto associate professor withtenure at Plymouth State University, andher second book, being published byMcFarland Press, will be out next year.Her daughter Ruby plays ice hockey forthe White Mountain Avalanche (she’s 4,so it’s all relative). Last November,Catherine Moellering was named presidentof Best & Company. LenaSchniewind’s life has changed a wholelot: “I’m in London doing an MA entitled“The Visual Language of Performance”at Wimbledon College of Art. I’m lookingat ways to integrate the presence ofvideo and sound-based artists into liveperformances so that our contributionsto the performance aren’t simply theoutput from the machines we’re operating.The way this has manifested itselfis me jumping back in front of the cameraand singing — something I haven’tdone consistently since high school! It’sbeen really challenging, interesting, andfun. I’ve also found myself with a wonderfulman (a big reason why I’m here!),with whom I am planning to continuedown the path of life. Things are prettyfantastic. NO idea where I’ll be this timenext year, but that’s what Class Notesare for, right?” Kate Vilter and her husbandare celebrating the birth of theirson, William Blakeley Sawyer (Will). “Hewas born July 12, 2007, and he is justamazing, the happiest little guy.” Theyalso bought a new home — more spacefor all the toys. The restaurant is doingvery well — 11 years now — althoughthey are looking for a new sous chef —so pass that along! Jason Weinzimerlives in Chelsea in NYC, happy to besingle (again). He works for a PR firmmanaging a global account that giveshim good travel opportunities to placeslike Singapore and Thailand — prettycool, huh? Also, he’s studying improv atthe Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.It’s the best stress-release activity he’sever had and way more interesting thanhe expected. Sarah Amory Welch andher husband Andrew welcomed daughterLily on June 3, 2007. Sarah is lovingmotherhood, but still figuring out howto balance it with her role as VP of marketingfor TripAdvisor, a travel planningWeb site. “If any more experiencedworking moms have cracked the secret,please let me know!” Tremaine Wrightreports that “my coffee shop, CommonGrounds, A Neighborhood CoffeeHouse, is celebrating its first anniversaryand had a favorable review in the NewYork Times. We’ve had a wonderful yearand are excited about the year to come.A bunch of CA folks have been by theshop: Jason Weinzimer, Carol Shoudt,Ann Houslin Winston ’89, TracyRandall ’91, Thandi Mbityana, RachelTremaine Wright ’90 hosted a book party for Janelle Greene ’91 at her coffeeshop. Janelle contributed devotional writings to A Drink from the Well:Refreshment for the Soul (by Donna R. Dyson).Grossman, Anne Givens ’91, andKeith Tashima with his family. I’m stillworking at Skadden as a staff attorneyand enjoying my life in Brooklyn.”1991Class Secretaries: Hope A. Egan,hope.egan@gmail.com;Stephanie Solakian Goldstein,steph.goldstein@comcast.netIt’s been great to connect with so manyclassmates via the Web and in personlately! I, Hope Egan, am still in LA(going on my 17th year here, much tothe chagrin of my family) and quitehappy as a staff attorney at O’Melveny& Myers downtown. I’ve been happy tospend some time with Dan Hendersonand his wife Bethany, and also withWinnie Kho ’94 and Sarah ThompsonEvans ’93. There are signs of intelligentlife in LA — you just have to find theChameleons! James Chiang is living inSan Francisco, teaching at the Academyof Art University in the graduate photographydepartment, and continuing towork as a commercial photographer(jameschiang.com). Liza Cohen Gateswas married to “a great guy” onSeptember 1 at the IntercontinentalHotel in Boston, with Stephanie SolakianGoldstein present. Liza and her newhusband, a Rhode Islander namedAndrew Gates, live in Boston. Liza’sgoing on ten years at Digitas in Boston.Writing from northern Virginia, NickEvans says: “Charlotte, 3, and Will, 18months, are keeping us very busy and(sometimes) learning to share books,toys, and other important things. I continueto do government relations workfor an IT consulting firm and get thepleasure of traveling to all sorts of funstate capitals in the southern part of thecountry . . . it’s a long way fromConcord.” Nick’s wife Moley has starteda business teaching after-school enrichmentclasses in area schools — hereports that it’s “fabulously successfuland I am already dreaming of earlyretirement!” Congratulations go to AnnGivens, who reports that William GivensGuzman was born December 24, ringingin at 6 lbs. 13 oz. and 19 inches long.Ann says he’s “a handful and a delight!”Ann and her husband Rafer live inBrooklyn, where she is a reporter forNewsday covering courts. Ryan Kelleysays: “I’m 35 and living with my momagain! My wife Una and I are anxious toreturn to our house in Arlington, MA,upon the completion of some majorhome renovations (converting our atticto a master suite). We are also anxiouslyawaiting the arrival of baby #2 — a boy(if the ultrasound technician got it right)to complement our wonderful 3-year-oldgirl, Abbey. I’m lucky enough to getto hang with old CA friends like DanHenderson, Ben Conway, Jason Cook’90, and Mike Sandler ’92, althoughnot nearly enough.” A few more newbabies to report for the Class of 1991:Lucy Perla Newman was born on July21 to proud parents Wendy AaronsonNewman and her husband Adam.Wendy reports that Lucy is bringingthem loads of happiness. On December26, Stephanie Solakian Goldstein andhusband Randall welcomed their secondson, William John, who joins big brotherAndrew, 2. Betsy Nicholson Thielscher75WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

William Givens Guzman, son of AnnGivens ’91and husband Eric also welcomed a babyboy, Whit Thielscher, on December 9,and have already enjoyed play dateswith Ben Conway’s little Greta andStephanie’s little William!1992Class Secretaries: Sarah Hsia,hsia@alumni.brown.edu; Adria A. Linder,linderadria@yahoo.com; Meredith R.Sterling, meredithsterling@yahoo.comNathalie Kim moved to San Franciscoand is running marketing for a smallhealth care products company calledCarex. Her new consumer target is theexact opposite of Mattel’s, but actuallyreally fun. She is “LOVING the Bayarea.” She joined a ski share in Tahoeand is eating very well! Nathalie wouldlike to reconnect with Concord classmates,so if you’re in town, please getin touch. Charlie Grandy and his wifeare enjoying life in Ridgewood, NJ, withTheodore “Teddy” Davis Grandy, 1, andhis sister Annabelle. The adventures ofPeter Maxfield continue: He and hiswife Andrea “spent two months last falltouring China, Turkey, and Greece.”They only wish they could have stayedlonger! Peter writes “it was quite anexperience. We are still living inPortland. Everyone’s invited to visit andtaste the best beer on the planet.” A bigcongratulations goes to Yves Mantz! Hecompleted his doctorate and continuesresearch as a physical scientist at theNational Energy Technology Laboratoryin Morgantown, WV, where he beganlast September. He writes: “Myresearch is the application of advancedcomputational/theoretical methods tounderstand better and, eventually,improve solid oxide fuel cells for cleanenergy production, in collaboration withexperimentalists working here. Life inMorgantown is pleasant — I have a shortcommute to work from my apartmentand enjoy socializing with my lab colleagues.You have to be here in the fallto experience and appreciate the WestVirginia Mountaineers football mania.”Stefanie Riego Bester is very happy inColumbus, nearing the end of her secondyear as a general pediatrician in theambulatory department at NationwideChildren’s, splitting her time betweenseeing patients in clinic and training/supporting physicians on a newly implementedelectronic medical record -keeping system. She and her husbandMatt still sing in a church choir andjoined a newly formed group, the NewWorld Vocal Consort, for a two-weektour in Italy last summer (“outstanding”).Stephanie is “slightly embarrassedto say” she’s “addicted to Facebook,Guitar Hero, and fantasy baseball.”Thanks to her Facebook addiction, wealso learned that Lauren Moffa just gotengaged! Sarah Cross is in Brighton,England, on a one-year creative writingfellowship. She is enjoying her studies,but finds her “writing is constantly interruptedwith little visits to London (theTate and the British Library), walks in therolling hills and along the tidal river Ouse(pronounced ‘ooze’ — where VirginiaWoolf washed up), and social eventswith the incredible group of very internationalpeople” she’s gotten to know.“I’m co-teaching a class at the Institutefor Develop ment Studies (IDS) at theUniversity of Sussex on reflection andsocial change, which is exactly what I’mabout! It’s a huge opportunity — IDS is avery respected place for studying propoor,participatory, international developmentwork, and it’s the kind of workI’ve been doing one-on-one withactivists but now have the opportunityto do with a large (26) group of peoplefrom many regions of the world.” Sarahkeeps in touch with Caroline Kelley,who is living in Santa Monica doing apost-doc at UCLA. Caroline defendedher doctoral thesis in modern languagesat the University of Oxford in January.So far she is really loving the WestCoast. Several CA classmates were onMartha’s Vineyard in September 2006when Jake Cumsky-Whitlock marriedhis wife Nadia; they live in Brooklyn andkeep in touch with old CA friends. Jakeis working for Basic Books, editing nonfiction,and Nadia is a lawyer. “Alex andI are having fun with our sweet babyboy, Gabe,” says Emily Potts Callejas.“He’s 6½ months and a riot — oftenmaking us laugh as he attempts to crawland talk to us. I’ve returned to workpart-time, still doing mental health consulting(classroom, teacher, and familysupport) in Head Start preschools. Werecently played karaoke on PlayStationat Mette Aamodt’s house with JessErdmann-Sager, Sara Langelier, MikeSandler, Eddie Peselman ’91, RyanBarrett, and significant others. Thatgroup can sing!” Mark Mullane, “theCowboy,” sends regards from BostonCollege, where he earned his PhD inmedieval studies in October. He is a“visiting professor of early modern,modern, and Viking history” in BC’s historydepartment. Zandy Mangold’sflashbulb continues to go off! He isworking as a freelance photographer inNew York, and his work has appeared insuch places as the NY Post, NY Times,Penthouse, and Rolling Stone. JenniferNeal works at Bloomfield High School inBloomfield, CT, still teaching Spanishand traveling every summer. “Thissummer I will be in Spain, France, andIreland, so if anyone wants to meet up,I am always willing.” Simon Takashinais now based in Shanghai, handlingproduction for his family’s company. “Imoved here with my wife and son(8 months!) at the end of 2007. So far,we’ve enjoyed the great restaurants intown, but it never gets as good as itis in Japan. I miss Osaka, but newchallenges are always needed to keepmoving forward!” Bizzy Glasser Rileylives outside Seattle in a little towncalled Issaquah, in the foothills of theCONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008Emily Potts Callejas ’92 holding Gabe, with her husband Alex76CA classmates celebrate the wedding of Jake and Nadia Cumsky-Whitlock ’92on Martha’s Vineyard.

Danielle Lynch Lee '93 with her daughter Morganand classmate Anne Rose Moller's daughter SkyeLeo, son of Justin Samaha ’94 and Eliza Miller ’94Sarah and Paul Sommer '94 with Thea KathrynCascades. She is a naturopathic physicianand writes: “My practice is gettingbusier and busier. I am starting to getthe hang of running a business and seeingpatients at the same time, and I’mactually really enjoying it. I got hitched inAugust to one Mr. Colin Riley.” SarahHsia, Adria Linder, and MeredithSterling occasionally get together inNYC, outside their alumnae/i newsgatheringritual. Sarah is an attorney at aprestigious law firm, doing intellectualproperty litigation. She often travels toEurope on business. When she’s notworking, she’s busy with friends or chillin’with her pup. Adria started her ownrecruiting business after the abruptcrash of the hedge fund where sheworked. Her field is quant, research, andtechnical folks for the financial servicesindustry. Meredith is a paralegal, but isconsidering moving back to Boston. Shewants to know, “has anyone movedfrom the Big Apple back to Beantown?People say I’ll be bored, but maybe achange of pace is just what I need!”1993 15th reunionClass Secretaries: Andrew Newberg,arnewberg@gmail.com; Sam ThayerWilde, revwilde@hotmail.com; David J.Wolfe, david_j_wolfe@yahoo.comDevin Beringer writes: “I’ve spent thelast seven years living in China (HongKong, Beijing, and Hangzhou) working asa marketing consultant. For the lastthree years I’ve been in Hangzhou workingfor a local dotcom called Alibaba —interesting to say the least. I’m currentlybased in Bangkok, but plan to moveback up to Shanghai soon. I haven’tseen any other CA alum in eons, buthappy to get in touch!” Ben Bellreports: “My wife and I have been livingin San Francisco for the past few years.We hang out with Leigh Okies andChris Nicholson. I’m an executive producerat Electronic Arts. It’s a great companyand I work with fantastic people. Inmy free time I ride and race bikes.” TheClass of 1993 baby boom continues!Amy Goorin Fogelman welcomed LilyJune on December 2, and “big sisterElla, 4, is very proud!” Amy lives withher family in Needham and has returnedto work at MGH, where she is a generalinternist. Nancy Haas Hillis writes withmore happy news: She and her husbandare expecting baby #3 in August. Olderbrother Ryan, 4, and sister Natalie, 2,keep her busy when she’s not workingas a pediatric hospitalist at a communityhospital in New Jersey. Her husband willfinish his cardiology fellowship in Julyand has taken a job at a hospital in thePhiladelphia area. “I talk to Amy GoorinFogelman often and saw Ella and newbaby Lily when we were home overChristmas.” Aaron Jacobs, his wifeSuzi, and daughter Sylvia (Class of2024?) are doing well. They’ll be missingour 15th reunion for a very good reason:a second baby, a son, is due June 30.But Aaron does hope to make it to SethBlumsack’s wedding in September.Anne Rose Moller sends news of avisit with Danielle Lynch Lee. Anne hastwo children, Tobey, 4, and younger sisterSkye. Danielle is expecting a son inMay to keep her daughter Morgan company.Sam Thayer Wilde and her husbandwere expecting baby #2 in lateApril. “My 18-month-old son is strong,healthy, eats like a horse, and brings usso much pleasure.” Next winter, Sam’sfirst novel will be published, followedthe next year by another, both byBantam. “This is a great lifetime dreamcome true for me.” Sam continues toteach yoga and run a small interfaithministry. She always keeps in touch withSarah Thompson Evans, who is happyliving in LA. Amani Willett is living inCarroll Gardens, Brooklyn with his wifeAli. He works as a photographer, shootingeditorial assignments, and recentlypartnered with Fariba Alam to shootweddings. “If anyone is getting married,let us know!” Still in Boston, DaveWolfe is an attending physician on themedical psychiatry service at Brighamand Women’s Hospital. He also servesas director of education and training forpsychiatry, managing teaching programsfor medical students and residents.1994Class Secretary: Elizabeth Pinsky,egpinsky@hotmail.comTess Munro Bauta traveled aroundNew Zealand for a few months with herdaughter and husband, and is expectingbaby #2 before moving back to NewEngland from Chicago. Seth Bruningwrites from Portland, ME, where he isworking as the program assistant for asocial service agency that opened awomen’s shelter last January. Seth isengaged to Amy Donahoe! NickConiaris lives in San Diego and runs acommunity mental health clinic that provideshousing and psychiatric services toindividuals with major mental illnessesand criminal involvement, with the goalof helping them live more independentlywhile reducing their use of jails andemergency room services: “Todaysomeone threw a golf ball at someoneelse’s head and two people got arrested.Never a dull moment!” StéphaneDreyfus moved back to Berkeley and isteaching all over the world, includingNew York City, Maui, Arizona, and anumber of places in Asia. Mike Greenhas moved back to NYC (Brooklyn) andis leading business development forKaboose, a network of family-focusedWeb sites. Ben Harder returned to U.S.News & World Report, where he’s nowthe deputy health editor. He’s still livingin DC, and he recently discovered thatyou can snowboard in Maryland — if youdon’t mind coming home very bruised.Zöe Cooprider is also still in DC andalso has a new job, as program managerfor Alliance for Peacebuilding and theGlobal Peace Index. Jorge Solares-Parkhurst checked in to say hello; he isserving on the CA Board of Trustees.Congrats to Siri Sahaj Kaur, who gother master’s of fine arts in photographyfrom Cal Arts in May 2007 and marriedTroy Morgan in Vermont last July. Theylive in LA, where Siri teaches at OtisCollege of Art & Design and sees SandyRousmaniere and Ben Upham all thetime. Congrats to Kristin Spinola, whowas also married this past year (an intricateIndian-Italian merger that requiredthree ceremonies) and relocated fromCambridge to NYC. Morgan Robinsonalso reports from NYC, where he iscodirecting a documentary about solarenergy in Africa, doing freelance filmwork, and visiting the Samaha-Millerclan. Jeremy Tamanini is back fromDubai and is a first-year graduate studentat Georgetown in the ForeignService master’s program, with a focusin foreign policy. Living in DC has beengreat, starting with his first day of apartment-huntingwhen Erin Shoudt spottedhim on a street corner and took himfor a ride in her convertible! Jeremy andAndrew Gardner also have a fewYouTube videos under their belts, eachdealing with a different culinary pursuit(the first was about making marinarasauce from scratch and the secondabout grinding meat). And now for “TheSpawn of 1994”: congratulations toNick Lauriat and Courtney, who welcomeddaughter Caroline on March 21,2007. They are still living in Arlington,and report that all is well. Congratula -tions as well to Sarah Russell and SeanMcElligott, who welcomed CharlieMcElligott Russell on January 19.Furthermore, Paul Sommer and wifeSarah are thrilled to announce the arrivalof the joy of their lives (which have beenturned upside-down): Thea Kathryn onSeptember 25, 2007. Randi LevinsonLeigh and husband Darby welcomedyounger daughter Ariza Ayela Leigh onApril 24, 2007. The family is having a big77WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

Avery Rose, daughter of KimMaster ’95Joia Spooner-Wyman ’96, Spanish teacher Steve Cambria,Javier Mendoza, Polly Hunt Mendoza ’95, Elissa Spelman’96, Liz Najjar ’95, Mae Clarke ’95, and SampsonOnyinyechim at Polly and Javier’s weddingKim Holzer ’96 in the waters off BermudaCONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008year: this June, Darby will be ordainedas a rabbi, and Randi will finish medicalschool (she’s officially postponing graduationto conduct a year of research inpreterm birth, before her residency inobstetrics and gynecology). Randiwrites: “It’s been a long road gettinghere, but I do finally feel I am landingexactly where I belong, which is bothexciting and terrifying.” And lastly inbaby news (that we know of), ElizaMiller and Justin Samaha welcomedLeo Edward Samaha on October 11. Hejoins big sisters Eve and Dorothea inadding to the general chaos of theMiller-Samaha household. Since thewhole dance company thing was gettingto be too much work, Eliza has decidedto switch tracks and is starting medicalschool this fall. It’s a great way to relaxand get away from the kids. Justin isproud to be creating music and sounddesign for the groundbreaking World ofWarcraft Machinima series on the Web,validating a lifetime of playing D&D(mmovie.voig.com). Someday you cansay you were there when it all began,Friday nights in Russell Robb. (Your classsecretary would like it to be clear thatshe was never, ever “there” when itcame to Dungeons and Dragons.) I, BizPinsky, am busy muddling through yeartwo of pediatric residency in Boston.1995Class Secretaries: Jennifer Cotton,JWCotton@wellington.com; RachelRaymond, roozer@hotmail.comKim Master is living in Boulder with herhusband Noah and daughter Avery Rose78(born last May). Katrina Yeager Farmerwas married on August 11. She is freelancingand teaching in NH while workingon her master’s. She and herhusband look forward to traveling thissummer. Alex Erwitt lives in Brooklynwith her husband Jon — they are thrilledto announce the birth of their baby girlViolet Erwitt O’Hara, born June 4, 2007.Iwei Chen is busy preparing for herwedding this summer to her fiancéShine. They plan to move this summerto San Francisco. Kate Cross is living inArlington, MA, and still running herdance school, Moving Arts, in Harvard,MA. Kate and her students performedwith The Bang Group this winter inBoston, and she also performed withEgo Art at the ICA and Green StreetStudios in January. Sam Holtzman hasbeen living in Nagoya, Japan, for a year,where he is a professor at a businessuniversity. He is exploring Japan andworking with several Japanese bands.This summer Sam plans to travel toNew Zealand and Australia. KarenaDetweiler is a product manager at BoseCorporation, continuing to get somegreat marketing experience. She wasvery excited this year to be able to buy aone-bedroom condo near Central Squarein Cambridge, so she can continue tohold on to a slice of city life while workingin the ’burbs. Nora Lehmann, anartist-in-residence at Boston University’sSchool of Visual Arts, showed figurativeworks at the Sherman Gallery at BU lastfall in a show entitled “Corpora Nova.”Jen Meagher Cotton was married inSeptember and moved to Portland, OR,in March. Ninian Stein has degreesfrom Brown, Yale, and Harvard, cappedoff with a PhD from Brown, and isnow at U Mass Boston. Arielle Raff ismoving to an area just north of SanFrancisco, where she will be working ona small but established organic farm.Sam Zimmerman-Bergman, who isstill living in DC, had a great story torelay to all of us: While at a workmeeting in Baltimore in December heended up presenting to Tom Wilcox, inhis role as president of the BaltimoreCommunity Foundation. RachelRaymond is still living in Bethlehem,PA, and has recently gotten out of constructionand customer relations andmoved into the sales department forPulte Homes, where she has workedfor the last three years.1996Class Secretary: Emily BockianLandsburg, Emily@headdownwind.comHello Class of ’96. From the notes itseems we’ve had a pretty good yearthis time around, save for the strangefact that we’re all turning 30, which previouslywas an age reserved for old peopleand adults. Lauren Bernard hasexciting news all around: “In August Ileft the corporate 9-to-5 to officially goout on my own. I have been workingfrom home doing mostly residential projects.”She was expecting a baby boy inMay with her boyfriend of 3½ years.”Congrats Lauren! Ali Ardalan is workinghard, enjoying San Francisco life, andlooking forward to welcoming 30 thisJune on the beach in Italy at a goodfriend’s wedding. He had drinks withGeraldine Alias and Damien Rodgerover the holidays and is trying to meetup with Ed Notosoehardjo and EugenePark. Scott Armstrong is finishing anMBA at UChicago and entering the venturecapital world in California or Boston.“I am loving Chicago and having a greattime at school (a two-year vacation). Ifanyone wants to visit, I have a sparebedroom, so come on out.” AnnieBarrett is also wrapping up her last yearat grad school. She took a three-weektrip to Japan and China and is hoping toget some more traveling in this summerbefore reentering the 24-hour work dayof architecture. Emily BockianLandsburg has fallen victim to the 24-hour work day, as the newly appointedchairman of the National BiodieselBoard’s first sustainability task force.Thoughts of starting a family wereimmediately pushed off for another year.Boo. But maybe, just maybe, this is theyear she stops talking about it and finallygets a dog. Adam Cutler wrapped up amaster’s in international education developmentand works at a Latino communitycenter in Boston. “After a lot ofhard work, I got it off the ground and toa self-sufficient stage, and now I am adirector of education at a Latino immigrationcenter in Boston.” NoahDeGarmo returned from a trip toAustralia and decided to become a professionalscuba diver, just as he finisheshis 12 long years of medical school andtraining. If scuba doesn’t pan out he’ll bean attending for Northwestern UniversityMedical School at Evanston Hospital,and also performing with a violinist fromthe Lyric Opera later this spring. MaryGallaudet is house-hunting in Phila -delphia with her new husband David.

Sophia, daughter of Emilie JospeGruhl ’96Their October wedding in Maine wassurreal and wonderful, and attended byseveral CA friends. She continues towork toward her clinical social worklicense as a therapist for traumatizedchildren, and feels very lucky indeed.Peter Gross and his wife Jennifer havesettled into their new home in Scotts -ville, VA, and were expecting a baby girlin February. Although he left his publishingjob to return to the world of financialmanagement, Peter continues to write acolumn for his local newspaper. DaveGullette left Korea for Kyrgyzstan and iscurrently working with an NGO, reportingon conflict prevention in CentralAsia. “It has been four years since I washere, and it is good to be back,” hewrites. “My wife and I are enjoying it,apart from the very bad winter thisyear.” Emily Havens is living in theWest Village with her boyfriend and theirdog. Emily is a private curator for two artcollectors. Alex Hogan is happily cohabitatingwith her boyfriend Dan inCambridge, which she calls the “land ofCA grads.” Kim Holzer is still commutingbetween Virginia and Bermuda, collectingdata in Bermuda and runninganalysis at UVA. Kim writes: “My husbandand I met on ‘the rock’ and havebeen married a year.” Kim received agrant from the EPA and National Centerof Environmental Research to investigatethe impact of overgrazing andhuman consumption on aquatic plant life(sea grass). Emilie Jospe Gruhl isenjoying work as a labor and deliverynurse in San Francisco and being a momto 17-month-old Sophia. Ah, we allremember when Sophia was but a largebump at our 10-year reunion. JamieMay is at Duke doing a joint master’s inpublic policy and environmental management,focusing on energy policy. “In myspare time, I try to do things like eat andrest, but mostly I’m just studying constantly.One nice thing is that I’ll bespending three months this summer inGeneva working for the UN doing climatechange policy, but really it could beaccounting as long as I get to hang outin Switzerland.” Chris Millerick andwife Ali had a great summer traveling inItaly for their one-year anniversary;they’ll be moving from NH back toBoston soon. “I’ve taken on a new roleas a senior product marketing specialistwith EMC for our core products and I’mplanning to pursue my MBA.” DamienRodger finished his PhD in bioengineeringat Caltech, where he worked on newmicrofabrication technologies and developmentof materials for high-density retinalprosthetics to restore sight to theblind. “I’m now back in medical schoolat USC (Go Trojans!) finishing my lasttwo years before starting residency in2009. Someday I hope to actually finishschool, but being able to go to USC footballgames is a nice perk!” If anyone isaround LA, look him up. KatherineStanley teaches at the Concord middleschool. “I’m living with my boyfriend,who is in vet school, and our dog, aFrench bulldog named Wallace. They areboth very handsome.” After living inbeautiful Vancouver for the past 10years, Fiona Suteja is moving to SanFrancisco to join her husband, afterdoing the long distance thing for fiveyears. They were married last June andare planning a small reception inIndonesia this summer. Jared White isstill in Brooklyn with girlfriend Farrah, finishinghis MFA in creative writing atColumbia. He published poems in abunch of journals in the last year — seehis blog at jaredswhite.blogspot.com —and submitted a book of poems calledAccords to several smallish publishinghouses and contests. Liza Zapol startedThe Combustibles, a New York theatrecompany (thecombustibles.com). “Wecreate original plays about poeticthemes — our current project delves intotrash/waste in New York City!” [Hmm,sounds kind of trashy.] Folks, this is mylast run as class secretary, at least for awhile. I’ve served long enough to earnmy pension, and I need at least adecade to think of more clever and sarcasticside comments to include in thenotes. The lovely Alex Hogan will be takingthe reins starting next year, so staytuned for a harassing email from herinstead of from me. In gratitude for herfuture service to our class, CA has presentedAlex with a free copy of the2004 edition of CA Class SecretariesGone Wild. Good night, and good luck.1997Class Secretary: Johanna E. Rosen,johanna.e.rosen@gmail.com: Sara H.Walker, sara.holt.walker@gmail.comNina Cloppenburg married her highschool sweetheart last year and onFebruary 6 gave birth to MirabelleLouisa. They moved to Zurich,Switzerland, in March for work. JanelleGilchrist married Carsten SchmidtSeptember 30 at the Newport YachtingCenter in Newport, RI. Sara Walker wasa bridesmaid. Janelle enjoyed seeingeveryone at our reunion this past June.In July 2007, Rob Knake marriedElizabeth Hole in a secular ceremony inBoothbay Harbor, ME. Fellow CA alumSam Lampert was a groomsman andhis wife, Jennifer Moisi, was a reader.Rob and Liz still live in Washington, DC,and have dinner every Tuesday with Jenand Sam Lampert, where they oftenwonder what happened to the thirdmember of their CA trio, Chris Roth.They used to run into SarahCheeseman all the time, but now theyare old and married and don’t go out asmuch. Chris Roth and Nicole RawlingRoth bought a house in San Franciscoand are fostering dogs. Chris is coachinghigh school lacrosse with his brother.Alice Jayne passed the bar inNovember and has returned to wearingadult clothes to her job as a publicdefender on the North Shore (MA).Steph Burton is still living in LA, workingas a floral designer, and was promotedto manager of her shop. Last fallshe celebrated Lizzy Mayer’s weddingalong with Sara Walker and JohannaRosen. Lizzy Mayer married HichamBennani August 25. They live inCasablanca, Morocco, where Lizzy isteaching middle school science at anAmerican school. Johanna Rosen is stillcodirecting the Mill Creek Farm inPhiladelphia and working on her house.She spends winters hibernating, traveling,and collecting Class Notes. SaraWalker and her husband Sanjiv Shahmoved to Cambridge last fall. The highlightof her year was hosting a creative,black-tie ball on Mishaum Point,Buzzard’s Bay, attended by JanelleGilchrest, Shannon Miller, Alice Jayne,Sinead Sant ’95, Sarah RousmaniereReed with her daughter Mica, MichaelMahoney-Pierce and his brotherPadrick, Sidney Walker ’65, andMargaret Walker ’63. Olivia HowardSabine and her husband Ernie werelooking forward to the arrival of theirfirst child in late February/early March.Sara and Alice report that being pregnanthas not deterred Mme. Sabinefrom heels or mod-minis, and that shewas looking fabulous when last theysaw her. Cort Stratton recorded a30-minute solo album as part of NationalSolo Album Month (postgoodism.com);it’s free, still he apologizes in advance.1998 10th reunionClass Secretary: Eddie Concepcion,eddie_concepcion@hotmail.comLadies and gentlemen, can you believewe are only months away from our 10-year reunion! It’s crazy to think abouthow much our lives have changed fromthe May afternoon when we walkeddown the senior steps for the last time.Time sure has flown. ElizabethGutowski Munder’s life has completelychanged in the past six months! Whileworking in NY she met her fiancé, AdamMunder, who was a grad student atNYU. They were married in April andrelocated to Florida. Michael Edwardsis a lawyer for the Credit Union NationalAssociation (CUNA), the largest creditunion trade association in the UnitedStates, located in Washington, DC. Aftergraduating from CA, Michael earned hisBA in English from the University ofPennsylvania in 2002 and his JD fromAmerican University-Washington Collegeof Law in May 2007. In addition to workingfor CUNA, Michael is completing hismaster’s in international affairs atAmerican University-School of Interna -tional Service. Michael married his wife,Teresa, in August; they live in theCleveland Park section of DC. CarolynAdams reports many changes: in Juneshe moved to South Africa with herfiancé Chris. Unfortunately that necessitatedleaving CA, where she taughtmath for two years. The move gaveCarolyn the opportunity to visit everycountry in southern Africa, where shehas seen some truly amazing things.At the end of January she moved toLondon and will be married in July.Alex Ambrose is living in Park Slope,Brooklyn, and is happily working as aproducer for Evening Music at NewYork Public Radio. Anna Lee is finishingTuck Business School at Dartmouth andwill move to San Francisco to work atMcKinsey Consulting, doing someenergy work and general managementconsulting. Sylvia Bronson got herMBA from UCLA last June and is nowdoing marketing for Gallo Winery. Shelives in Modesto, CA, with her boyfriendof almost five years, David Mason, andan exuberant 6-month-old yellowlab/weimaraner puppy named August.Sylvia sends a big shout out from theWest Coast! Emily Weisner is living inBrooklyn with her fiancé Quentin, workingin fashion sales and going crazyplanning her September wedding. TedGoodspeed resides in Chicago, wherehe is the lighting director for a 13,000-seat arena church. Ted also freelances79WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008as a lighting designer/technician andhas worked on a couple of independentfilms. Sarah Schindler Williams graduatedfrom NYU Law in May 2007, thankfullypassed the NY bar exam, and isnow a real-life litigator at Kramer LevinNaftalis & Frankel, a midsize law firmin midtown Manhattan. The last semesterof law school was Sarah’s favoritebecause she participated in a clinicinvestigating and preparing the postconvictionpetition of a death-row inmatein Alabama. Living for two months inMontgomery and working in the SEcorner of the state was an unforgettableexperience and made her laugh at allthe times in high school when wewould complain about what a smalltown Concord is. She recently becameengaged and will hopefully be Ms.Schindler-Williams (not Miss) by the endof 2008. Sarah has also seen GabeGreenberg a few times and ran intoEmily Warren at the DUMBO subway afew months ago. She is looking forwardto the reunion and would love to hearfrom any other CA Brooklynites (or even— sigh — Manhattanites). Will Decaneasrang in the New Year up in the NorthCountry with Gabe Greenberg andAndrea Cooper, eating good meals,huddled by the fire pretending to behardy outdoorsmen. He’s also run intoJay Briedis and managed to whip himin Wii bowling! Beatrice Putnamreports “after six months living inEngland she’s back in Portland OR,engaged, and happily working on ourhouse, our garden, and my art.” Sincegraduating with a master’s in engineeringfrom Cornell in 2004, PongAbhakara returned to Bangkok, wherehe is an engineer at AEROTHAI, the airtraffic service provider for Thailand. KymNicholson rang in 2008 with Jay Briedis,Jon Schechner, and David Lang. Shealso met up with Mi-Hyang Kang fordinner earlier this winter for the firsttime in 10 years, though it didn’t feellike that much time had passed. EmilyCoit is completing her PhD in English atYale. She likes New Haven less and less,but life is generally pretty good, and sheshould be out of there in a year or two.Emily is looking forward to attendingreunion. Over the past year, much ofNashan Vassall’s life has been dedicatedto applying and getting into businessschool. This fall he’ll start MBAstudies at Wharton. Rosie Branson-Gillis pursuing a master’s in the publichumanities, focusing in public art andcuratorial studies. While in school, shecontinues working for Errol Morris, adocumentary filmmaker who investigatesthe relationships between photographyand truth. She is currently in agreat relationship and considers herselflucky to live a happy life. Corey Mastersmarried Mark Bartley in May 2007 in80Jed Spiegelman, Micah Spooner-Wyman, Sarah Anderson,Adam Geer, and Nicholas Jorgensen, all from the Class of1999, in December in BostonBermuda, where they are living. SylviaBronson was a bridesmaid. Before settlingdown, Corey sailed from Spain toBermuda during the Tall Ship race week.She also won third prize in a photo contest,and one of her photos was publishedin the book, Moods of Bermuda.As for Eddie Concepcion, I am currentlyworking as a benefits associate forPublicis Groupe, the world’s fourthlargest communications group in corporatebenefits. I am in a wonderful relationshipwith my girlfriend Melissa andam beginning to get my act together forgrad school (knock on wood!). I cannotwait to see everyone in June! I wannagive a shout out to my boys in NY whocouldn’t get me updates in time: EvanGatica and Steve Siu! And I’d like toofficially welcome back to the mainlandMr. Michael Cook.1999Class Secretary: Elizabeth K. Prives,lprives@yahoo.comAmi Boghani lives in Prospect Heights,Brooklyn. She is still working withdirector Mira Nair, focusing on generaldevelopment as well as the coordinationof Nair’s nonprofit initiatives in India andEast Africa. Willie Diaz lives in Yuma,AZ, where he is a border patrol agent.He and his wife Melonie recently celebratedtheir sixth anniversary. Williehopes to return to the East Coast soon.Maggi Pattillo is doing a master’sprogram at Drexel in information scienceand working at artnet.com. She enjoyshanging out with her family— husbandDavid, stepdaughter Taima, 10 — andseeing CA friends. She sees MaggieInnes ’00 and Rob Seward ’98 a lot.Liz Prives retired from NBC UniversalTelevision Studio last June and is enjoyingher new career teaching at BingNursery School at Stanford University.Micah Spooner-Wyman is still inBoston and looks forward to his annualvisits from Sarah Anderson, MeganKellett, Nicholas Jorgensen, AdamGeer, and Jed Spiegelman. Micah andSarah visited Jed in Chicago, and as aresult of Jed’s musical ties, got to attendLollapalooza 2007. Micah and his familyrecently spent time in Cambodia, wherethey provided dental supplies to underprivilegedstudents. Micah is a diehardfan of Miss Fairchild, featuring SamPosner and Schuyler Whelden ’98.Yemi Talabi received her MBA fromBrandeis two years ago and bought ahome. Last May she married ChrisOates in Jamaica. Ruth Landy was hermaid of honor, and Joselin Pichardoand Lise Godshalk were bridesmaids.Yemi and Chris are expecting their firstchild. Ginny Bonavia is also having ababy, due June 22. Dan Schulmanmoved to Oakland in January; he took athree-month trip to South America.2000Class Secretaries: Sarah K. Green,sgreen@gmail.com; Erin Hult,ehult@stanford.eduDan Epps was sad to be graduatingfrom Harvard Law School, which he hasgreatly enjoyed — especially workingwith Jane Kucera on the Harvard LawReview and taking classes with MarkEgerman. He is, however, excited tobe moving to Charlottesville, VA, nextyear to clerk for the Hon. J. HarvieWilkinson, III on the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the Fourth Circuit. Heencourages anyone who’ll be in thearea to look him up, as long as theydon’t mind that he now spends muchmore time thinking and talking aboutboring legal things than he did at CA.Ariana Green is spending the year ona Gates Scholarship, which is fundingMatt Bassett ’02, a volunteer fireman with a day job inhomeland security for the State of Marylanda master of philosophy in social andpolitical sciences at the Universityof Cambridge. Her research is on thepolitics of genetic testing for breast cancer.She also works with the Londonbureau of the New York Times, continuingcollaborations she began last yearwhile on a Fulbright in London. Arianaspent eight nights on the road coveringJuly terrorism in London and Scotland,wrote for the paper’s ArtsBeat blog, andmade an NYT Web video on the invasionof U.S. football into Wembley Stadium.“Cambridge, UK, is a bit like Cambridge,MA, but with many more chapels,cobblestones, and punts,” she writes.“‘Tis quite quaint, indeed.” Sarah Greentraveled quite a bit this year, visitingSuz Tolwinski in Tucson and joiningNoah McCormack and Julie Kleinmanin Provence, as well as hitting up theBahamas with her boyfriend. She worksin the editorial department of HarvardBusiness Press while continuing to writeher weekly sports column for theBoston Metro. Her baseball blog,UmpBump.com, has been picked up byESPN.com, the New York Times,Deadspin.com, and AOL Sports, amongothers. Isn’t it about time you startedreading it? “Ale and I got engaged lastyear,” writes Keith Katz on behalf ofhimself and Alejandra Hernandez. Theymarry in Boston in July, then move fromNew York to France “as I’ll be startingbusiness school at INSEAD, and Ale willbe continuing her career in women’sfashion in the fashion capital of theworld. Can’t believe we’re only twoyears from our 10-year reunion. Crazy.”Liana LoConte is living in Providenceand working to improve public educationin RI. She sees Sarah Green and SuzTolwinski whenever they are all in MA,and she saw Luke Garmon, ChrisRivest, London Parker McWhorter,and Ethan Dobrow at PrabhakarMithal’s engagement party last fall. Erin

Hult is still in graduate school atStanford and is enjoying having her sisterLauren Hult ’98 in the neighborhood(working on an MBA at Stanford).Darren Lefkowitz is living and workingin Chicago: “I’m freezing my ass off.And I’m thinking about grad school.”Noah McCormack got engaged lastJune to Priscilla Parris; they marry inAntigua June 14. Sarah Green, DanEpps, Julia Cohen, Maggie Innes,Maggi Pattillo-Dugan ’99, and TomMcCormack ’05 will attend. Noah andPriscilla will move to London this fall soNoah can pursue research for his PhD.Sarah Millerick has been working atGenzyme for over a year and is alsopursuing an MBA at Boston Universitypart-time. She is loving city life in hernew Cleveland Circle condo. After a fewmonths traveling in SE Asia, BethMitchell and her boyfriend Jesse are offto Rio de Janeiro for six months or so.Her goals include becoming trilingualand learning how to samba. SathyaMohan reports he has been travelinglots, for work and fun, including a monthskiing and climbing in the Italian Alps.Sathya is in close touch with Jeff Fabreand Mayank Mehta ’99, both in theMBA program at UPenn, and he hopesto head to graduate school himself soon,most likely in international relations.Congrats to Beth Myers, who is gettingmarried to her girlfriend Suzanne inOctober. Beth is in her second year oflaw school at North eastern. She andHilary Goss escaped the cold with a tripto Florida in February. With a dog andplans to buy a house, Dugan Tillman-Brown seems to be getting settled inMidland, TX. He is a financial analyst foran oil and gas company. “I neverthought I would do this, but I rather likeit.” Jon Roth plans to marry inSeptember. This spring, he enjoyedcoaching lacrosse at Woodside HighSchool in California with his brother,Chris Roth ’97.2001Class Secretaries: Caitlin K. Grasso,ckgrasso@gmail.com; Katherine V.Liebesny, kliebesny@gmail.comRob Adkins has returned to Brooklynfrom Shanghai, where he had a gig forthe last five months with a jazz groupcalled the Theo Croker Quintet. Thegroup played six nights a week at aplace called the House of Blues andJazz. “It was pretty far out. Everythingwas super cheap and poppin’, but the airquality made NYC seem like a nationalpark.” Eric Berger is still consulting inBoston and recently got back from aninteresting UN conference in London onthe future of AIDS. Rebecca Brigham isstill living in Seattle, working at a residentialtreatment center for boys in fostercare, and loving it! “I’m enjoying mylast spring in my beautiful adopted citybefore heading back to the Northeast inthe fall to start my master’s in socialwork. I am looking forward to reconnectingwith some CA folks when I am backon the East Coast.” Ben Carmichaelwas recently awarded a MarshallScholarship, with which he hopes togain two environmental master’sdegrees, starting at Oxford’s Environ -mental Change Institute and finishing ateither Cambridge or LSE. In the meantime,he is writing speeches and bloggingfor the Natural Resources DefenseCouncil (NRDC) and planning plenty ofexcursions abroad. “If anyone wants togo skiing, fishing, or tramping in Europe,let me know!” Siu Ping Chin Feman ishaving a great time in her second yearof med school at Tulane, and has alsobeen hanging out with Dave Liebowitz’02 in New Orleans. Yung-Yul Choi isfinally graduating from college (Emory)after seven years. He prides himself onbeing the oldest among all seniorclasses. Meanwhile, halfway around theworld, Roger Chung is busy studyingfor a graduate degree in the School ofPublic Health at the University of HongKong. He’s still singing in the shower. . . and occasionally in nightclubs,churches, and at ceremonies. AbigailCohen is in a master’s program inschool psychology at Fordham Univer -sity. She loves NY and keeps runninginto random CA people all over the city.She recently went on a crazy trip toTunisia in January with fellow alumHilary Falb and “yes, we came back,and no, we are still not sure why wewent, but it was interesting.” Hilary is ina PhD program in Middle Eastern historyat UC Berkeley. Our long-lost classmateJeff Cutler is in his second seasonworking as an interpreter for SuntorySungoliath Rugby Club in Japan. Hehopes to make it back to the U.S. for abrief vacation soon. Nick Deane hasstarted work for a family business, buthas taken several breaks to join MikeFirestone on the Clinton campaign. Heis also a major beneficiary of the skilland expertise of Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli behind the bar. Liz Down willleave DC and her job with Congress -woman Maloney in May, after threegreat years, and will be taking the summerto travel before starting law schoolat Cornell. Shira Drossos is teachingfourth and fifth grade English toadvanced students in a Boston publicschool. Caitlin Grasso is still living it upin Boston on Beacon Hill and gettingready to start law school in the fall.Brian Gray is working in RI and still livingwith Mike Firestone in Cambridge,“although he hasn’t been around toomuch in the last year due to his lovefor Hillary Clinton.” Haninah Levine isliving in Washington, DC, working for aconsulting firm and singing. He looksforward to every chance to go to Israelto visit his two nephews, 3-year-old Elyeand 1-year-old Ariel. On the other coast,Stephen Lloyd and Alex Aronson areenjoying life in Portland. Stephen is ageographic information systems technicianfor the conservation-based nonprofitEcotrust. At Ecotrust, he has had exposureto both social and environmentalissues of the Pacific Northwest, particularlyrelated to the salmon fisheries. Everthe outdoorsman, Stephen recently traveledto New Zealand with family, despitean indoor soccer knee injury. With awell-timed winter ACL repair, he hopesto return to his outdoor adventures bysummer. Margot Lubin continues towork with Realtor Gail Roberts, sellingCambridge and Boston real estate. Thenext future female doctor of our class,Annie Mancini, is finishing her premed,post-baccalaureate program at BrynMawr. She has had many reasons to celebratethis year, including her brother’smarriage in February and the birth of herniece, Zoe Rose. Annie looks forward tomoving back to New England. (MaybeMargot can help her find something thatfits in the med school budget!) Speakingof moves, Laura McConaghy made aquick move up to Brattleboro, VT, thisfall to start a new job with TheExperiment in International Living. Shetravels all around New England recruitinghigh school students for the programand is looking forward to leading one ofthe international trips this summer.Another new Vermonter and futurephysician, Katie Mygatt, loves living inBurlington and “can’t imagine studyinganywhere else.” A perk of studyingmedicine in the country, Katie X-countryskis through organic farm fields to clearher head! She also hopes to head toSeattle this summer to study complementaryand alternative medicine.Cecilia Roussel is also headed back toschool, to study architecture. She hopesto move from Philadelphia to Texas orOregon in the fall. While Cecilia hopesto move West, Meggie Stoltzman isworking her way back East after aseven-month trip around the country,hiking, biking, and visiting friends andfamily. Headed to NYC? You just mightfind Chloe Temtchine performing hersongs, recording her first album, andgenerally propelling her way to musicstardom. If you are in the city youshould contact her to find out her performanceschedule. For those of us outsidethe Big Apple, we’ll have to settlefor Myspace and YouTube performances!Closer to me in the frigidMidwest, at least Carey Tinkelenbergmakes good use of the ice that surroundsus. She remains director of theskating school she founded a few yearsago (northfieldskating.org) and is writinga column for Skating magazine aboutmanaging and improving programs.She also continues her work for theUniversity of Minnesota, doing clinicalinterviews for a behavior genetics study.Finally, I am so pleased to announce toall those not on Facebook that EmilyWhiston and Nick Schuller areengaged! The wedding will be in August2009, which will hopefully give Emilyenough time to plan the extravaganzaaround her PhD studies in microbiologyat Berkeley. Nick is happy teaching middleschool English and working on histeaching certification. Thanks to everyonewho shared their news. I,Katherine Liebesney, continue toendure medical school in Chicago andam nearing the transition from the classroomto the hospital! Life, however,has been a little sweeter since I foundTed Goodspeed ’98, who contacted meafter moving to Chicago last spring.2002Class Secretary: Natalie A. Krajcir,Nerli315@sbcglobal.netAdil Bahalim joined AccentureConsulting after graduate school last fall.Although he enjoys not doing homeworkon the weekends, Adil misses the bubbleof school and hopes to go back oneday. He’s also been doing quite a bit oftravel — Europe twice in the last yearand, to top that, on a trip to Vegas hewon a jackpot! Okay, well, it was not ahuge jackpot — he walked away fromgambling after winning $50 on a $1 slotmachine. Matthew Bassett is living inDC and working for the state ofMaryland on homeland security andemergency management projects. Mattenjoys DC, but is happiest when he isspending time out on the truck or theambulance with his volunteer fire stationnear Baltimore. Sarah Bertozzi enjoyedher second year at Harvard Law and isspending her summer in NY as a summerassociate at Cravath, Swaine &Moore. She loves being back in Bostonmost of the year and near so many CAfriends, although she wishes she couldsee them more. Next school year, shepromises! Maria Harris is living in SanFrancisco while working at the Environ -mental Defense Fund. She has seen alot of Kasia Cieplak-von Baldegg, wholives just a few blocks away. They bothenjoy the fact that spring comes to theBay Area in mid-February! NatalieKrajcir continues doing research for theCleveland Clinic’s Department ofPediatric and Congenital Neurosurgery.One of Natalie’s gynecologic copublications,concerning female infertility, waspublished in the Modern Trends section81WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

CONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 2008of Fertility and Sterility and received anhonorarium from the American Societyof Reproductive Medicine! She movedto a gorgeous apartment in downtownCleveland with a view of the CuyahogaRiver. She also rang in the New Year ona beach in Sao Paolo, Brazil, andreturned to the U.S. rested, tan, withthree very full suitcases, and a newfoundlove for Brazil. Colin Levy finishedhis first year at Boston College LawSchool. Despite what many say andthink about law school, he is enjoying it,thanks in large part to the number oftruly great, bright, and caring people thathe has met. He also performed in theLaw Revue, a show that makes fun ofthe law school and some of its morewell-known personalities, quirks, andprofessors. Colin is working for a smallfirm in Boston this summer as a summerassociate. If anyone else is in theBoston area and wants to catch up, letColin know! Peter Li is waiting for peopleto holla’ at him in NY. Laura Lively’sbig news is that she became happilyengaged to her fiancé, Michael Stabler,on June 29 by New found Lake, near herparents’ home in NH. She’s excited tohave Jocelyn Ronda, Laura Erban,Natalie Krajcir, and Alexandra de Juniacin her wedding party, and KristenJorgensen, Liz Stahl, Polly Anderson,and Sarah Antos in attendance. Lauraenjoyed her last few months as an internationaldialogue observer and democracyresearcher before starting as ananalyst at the DoD. David Rabinowitzfinished his second year of teaching(Teach for America) at KIPP: GastonCollege Preparatory, a school in ruralNorth Carolina. He taught eighth gradescience. David returns to being a studenthimself, attending graduate schoolat NYU, where he will work toward aPhD in the history of art. Kian Wilcox iscurrently a software consultant for theChicago Tribune. Since moving to theWindy City in the fall of 2007, Kian hasbeen learning to play the guitar (which Igot the pleasure of hearing over thephone) and having a great time. Thankyou to CA for putting together a wonderfultime at our fifth reunion in 2007.Speaking on behalf of my classmateswho attended, being on campus felt justlike being home — we appreciated yourefforts and enjoyed seeing each otheragain. Also, a special thank you to SarahAntos’ family for hosting our after party!2003 5th reunionClass Secretaries: Stephanie F. Bowen,steph.bowen@gmail.com; Heather G.Reid, reidh@bc.edu; Christie L. Wilcox,wilcoxcl@eckerd.eduHope Crocker is a 2007 corps memberin Teach for America; she lives in Harlem82and teaches eighth grade English in theSouth Bronx. Steve Harris has beenperforming with the slunk rock groupMeatgod and working on a cultural andcritical exegesis on the apocalyptic andpost-apocalyptic works of Walter M.Miller, Harlan Ellison, and William S.Burroughs. He is working on his master’sin English literature, which willhopefully bring him to the SequentialArts and Comics Track PhD program atthe University of Florida two years fromnow. Whitney Leonard is finishing upher last year at Williams. She’s beenkeeping busy with classes, the OutingClub, the student environmental group,and a thesis on environmental economics.Whitney is looking into a career inenvironmental policy and is planning todrive across country this summer.Heather Reid graduated from BostonCollege in May 2007 and spent lastsummer teaching sailing and racing onthe weekends. Heather loves her job atFidelity Investments, in real estate marketing.She has not left the art worldbehind; she continues to work at JudyAnn Goldman Fine Art on the weekends.Heather constructed a dress out of Lord& Taylor shopping bags for the store’sannual design contest. Her work was ondisplay at the downtown Boston store inthe spring of 2008. Alex Worgaftik is inher second year of work at the NationalFair Housing Alliance in Washington, asproject assistant to the vice president ofpublic policy, communications, andenforcement. Following graduation inMay 2006, she moved from DupontCircle to the historic U Street corridorand loves her diverse neighborhood.Alex heads to law school in August.2004Class Secretaries: Elena Mead,elena.mead@tufts.edu; Samantha Siegal,ssiegal08@amherst.eduMandy Kolbe went on Macalester’sjoint geology/poli sci department trip toJordan and Cyprus in January. “Wewent swimming in the Dead Sea andvisited Mount Nebo, where Moseslooked out and saw the Promised Land.The most amazing part of the Jordan legwas our day trip to Petra, a very old tradingcity with buildings carved out of thesandstone valley walls. We walkeddown the Siq to a building called theTreasury (featured in Indiana Jones andthe Last Crusade). We also stayed in thecapital of Cyprus, Nicosia, and visitedarcheological sites in both the north andsouth of the island. On a day trip toPaphos (the birthplace of Aphrodite), thedirector of the Cyprus American Archeo -logical Research Institute, Tom Davis,gave us a tour of a settlement destroyedin an earthquake just outside of Paphos.Since then, Mandy has been working onher honors thesis and trying to find away to relax during senior spring. ElenaMead is going to Europe, where she’llvisit Maya Gupta in Oxford and see theEnglish countryside. After England, shewill travel hundreds of miles to roamlarge and small museums of art, tryingto see as many countries as possible.She has her BA in art history and filmstudies, and plans to live in Bostonwhile searching for a job as a bartender.Sarah Seegal loves Vassar, though shemisses everyone at CA and is lookingforward to a summer in Boston, NY, orSan Francisco. Even amongst her summerplanning, Sarah still takes time toreconnect with fellow CAers, includingMatt Roosevelt, Rebecca Patterson,Sarah Straus, and Minh Dinh.2005Class Secretary: Christine Kue,c.lakue@gmail.comCasey Freedman spent her junior yearin gorgeous Salamanca, Spain. She hada blast, traveling around Europe andSpain. Her goal is to become fluent inSpanish. “I couldn’t have done it withoutSteve Cambria!” She hopes to use herSpanish skill at Bowdoin this summer,tutoring local kids in Spanish or workingfor the psychology department. AjieAkers and Shara Zaval spent their fallsemester abroad with the InternationalHonors Program, a program similar toCITYterm, an urban studies program.They stayed on home stays in Argentina,India, and China. Ajie says: “I really loveChina and want to learn Chinese and goback at some point! It was a wild andcrazy trip, but I’m so glad to be homenow.” Ajie then spent her secondsemester back at Barnard and acclimatingto life in the States. She is learninghow to cook, working as a writing fellowat Barnard, and playing Super SmashBrothers on her N64 (purchased oneBay). “I don’t know what I’m going todo with my life, but right now I’m interestedin sustainable development andinternational development, and whateverI do, I would like to write on the side.But after I graduate, I plan on movingout to the Bay Area for a while to figureit all out.” No breaking news from AlyseRuiz. “Classes are pretty normal.” Sheis finishing up an urban studies programat Brown. Ehjeen Kim is a double-majorin music and Japanese at Wellesley. Sheis going to Vienna this summer to studymusic and German and is very excited.“I’m ready to basically live in the ViennaState Opera House.” At this point, sheis unsure what she wants to do, butmusic is definitely her passion. “I wouldlike to take a year off to pursue somethinggastronomy-related before goingoff to grad school for music theory.”After taking a year off after CA, BethOlesen finished her sophomore year atScripps College. She is a humanitiesmajor and will be an RA next year. Sheis traveling to South Africa this summerwith Student Movement for RealChange, which runs educational andrecreational day camps; they teach inprimary schools and complete communitydevelopment projects, such ashealth days targeting HIV/AIDS and STIs.Another major goal is to get runningwater to the villages where Beth will bestaying. Always helpful, Tory Hayesspent the month of January teaching atthe local middle school. “It was awesomeand exhausting. Other than that,life in Vermont is freezing but great.”Kimmy Kung is in a five-year master’saccounting program at the University ofWisconsin-Madison. She is staying anextra year in Wisconsin and then willtake the CPA exam. Bryan Hobgood isstill working hard at Columbia University.“I am directing a show for the ColumbiaMusical Theatre Society, as well asstarring in a musical theatre song cyclecalled Edges.” Brian is majoring inchemical engineering and teaching highschool students who are seeking helpin math and English in preparation forcollege. Amanda MacLellan is studyingEnglish and education at Barnard. “Ispend most of my time interning for amedia literacy organization in Man -chester, NH and constantly running intoCA alums in NYC.” She has beennamed a Truman Scholar, one of just 65from 595 nominated from 283 collegesand universities. Amanda’s field of interestis education. Pook Panyarachunis loving every moment at Brown. Shehad her first solo art show, titled“Illumina tions,” on Valentine’s Day. “Theshow featured oil paintings inspired byilluminated manuscripts and religiousicons that I saw and studied during mygap year in Greece and Italy.” ManyCA alums showed their support andattended the reception, traveling far distancesfrom Columbia and Bard campuses.Using her Boarding Councilexperience from CA, Pook is also aboard member of Buxton InternationalHouse, one of Brown’s housing programs.“Being a board member is somuch work, but I love it. If any CA kidsare interested in seeing what dorm lifeis like/what Brown is like, Buxton is agreat way of experiencing that. Theyshould feel free to contact me. Wethrow REALLY classy parties and do funthings.” Pook also manages to find timeto play club lacrosse and is interning atthe Hanart Gallery in Hong Kong. AdamFried spent his first semester at theUniversity of St. Andrews in Scotland. Ithas been a “total blast.” Always beingmodest, he reports that “beyond that, I

Matt Paley ’05, Alyse Ruiz ’05, Pook Panyarachun ’05, Amanda MacLellan ’05,and Kenny Aronson ’06, in front of one of Pook’s paintings at her art showdon’t really have any exciting news.”Katie Ricci spent her spring semesteraway from Washington University in St.Louis, studying French and art history inToulouse, France. “This summer I willbe doing an archaeological dig in Irelandat a medieval ecclesiastical site.” ArielDorflinger transferred to NortheasternUniversity and is majoring in marketing.“I’m really happy to be back in Boston!”She is also looking forward to doing asix-month internship in July, but she isunsure where she will work. UrsulaKwong-Brown is taking a year off fromColumbia and studying composition andvoice at the Royal College of Music inLondon! “It’s sooo much fun. I’m lovinglife, and this has been the happiest yearever.” Erica Reisman spent her springsemester away from Brown Universityto visit Belfast. Erica enjoyed all thepleasures Ireland offers. “It is amazing. Ijoined a caving club and had my firstcaving expedition in January.” StevenBertozzi spent his junior year studyingEnglish at the University of Exeter witha group of 13 other Kenyon students.He enjoyed traveling around the UK andthe rest of Europe, as well as gettingclose to other Brits. “This year the programI am on has combined Englishand drama, so I’ve had the opportunityto see some amazing theatre, includingIan McKellan’s King Lear, EwanMcGreggor’s Othello, as well as thehistory plays in Stratford-upon-Avon.You’ve gotta love the Brits and theirShakespeare! It’s scary how fast it’s allbeen going.” Alexis Plukas is “kind ofobsessed with Penn,” which helpswhen work piles up into mountains.Alexis had a fracture in her left shin,which lightened up her tennis load.However, she reports that she has beenable to pursue other passions, such asher “ultimate love of film.” Last summer,she had an internship with BenStiller’s production company, Red HourFilms. “It was UNREAL!” Rory Sheafinally turned 21 in his sophomore yearand still maintains his passion for theatre.He spent last summer interning atthe Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theater. Heis in London, “where the dollar is weakand the nightlife is strong, studyingShakespeare, surrealism, and British arthistory while thinking about graduationas little as possible . . . It’s been one hellof a ride.” Eliza O’Neil writes: “Thingsare going well on my end.” She spentthe fall semester with Sea EducationAssociation, which sends college studentson a sea semester, sailing a 134-foot tall ship while learning nauticalscience, maritime history, and conductinga full marine science research projecton board. The crew sailed from St.Croix to Key West with a port stop inRoatan, Honduras. Since then, Eliza hasgotten her land legs back and is at Batesfor her second semester. This summerEliza will spend her second summer inNew Hampshire’s White Mountains as acrew member for one of the Appala -chian Mountain Club’s huts atop Mt.Washington. I, Christine Kue, am enjoyingmy time at Bowdoin. When theweather is nice (note: when), I manageto lace up my running shoes to enjoythe Maine pine. Aside from academics, Ihave become a yoga enthusiast butmiss playing volleyball at CA. This summer,with the support of a Mellon Maysundergraduate fellowship, I am travelingto Siem Reap, Cambodia, where I willlearn Khmer and study Cambodian history,culture, politics, and developmentat the Center for Khmer Studies. I amextremely excited and thrilled at theopportunity to travel to Southeast Asia(though a bit nervous!). Needless to say,it will be an amazing experience.2006Class Secretary: Andrew Wolf,awolf2@wisc.eduThis summer Jack Arsenault will be inNew York looking for new viruses at aColumbia infectious diseases lab. “I’llalso be trying super hard to keep itreal.” Garrett Cook runs the on-campuscoffeehouse and books musical acts atSkidmore. “I am on the board for theradio station, WSPN, and help keep thestation up and running. I make a lot ofart and some of it has been shown ingalleries on campus. I’ve played a coupleshows in NYC promoting a mediocreband.” Grace Cinquegrana is in schoolin DC, will spend her summer in LA, andhopes to spend next spring in Italy.Cliff Farrar was in boot camp fromMarch to June 2007 in Parris Island, SC,followed by training at the School ofInfantry through August. “I specialize inSMAW rocket launchers, demolitions,breeching, and APOBS operation. I’mnow stationed in Camp Lejeune, NCwith the 1st Battalion 2nd Marines inWeapons Co. Mobile Assault Platoon.I’m a 240B machine-gunner in myHumV, and I deploy to Iraq in July2008.” Anna McConnell spent springbreak at the Grand Canyon and will goto Mexico this summer and India in thefall. Christopher O’Connell furthersthe cause of diversity by being the onlystraight white male in the Parsonsfashion department. Chris Maire sendsword that he is a worthless lazy jerkwho is a drain on society. But he isgetting real good at yo-yoing. MauraFitzGerald is in California attending Oxy.Last summer she was a publicity internfor the Weinstein Company, working onCliff Farrar ’06, training for deploymentto Iraqmovie premieres and such things. EmilyBurke attends school in NYC and enjoyscelebrity sightings on a regular basis.David Gainsboro plays for the TuftsUltimate team and is a member of theSynaptic Scholars, through the Institutefor Global Leader ship at Tufts. He is alsotreasurer for the Mountain Club andbusiness manager for a new magazine,Discourse. Leah Munsey-Konops isshop manager of Eldred Theater, anintern in the Cleve land Playhouse (costumeshop), and is doing local freelancework (theater, costumes). Andrew Wolfis majoring in industrial labor relations atCornell University and is tired of explainingwhat that is.Faculty and FriendsIn April, Janet Eisendrath returned tothe Czech Republic to teach for sixweeks. She taught there 13 years ago.Since leaving CA, Gary Hawley hasbeen teaching at the Cambridge Schoolof Weston. This year he taught chemistry,physics, and the ethics of science.He also spent a great deal of timeworking on getting his metalsmithingbusiness up and running. They adoptedtwo Labrador retriever mix puppiesthat have ruled the house for the pastfour months. Retired French teacherNicole Fandel traveled for two months—covering Nepal, India, Thailand,Tibet, Bhutan, Cambodia, and Vietnam.“During the last week of October, Iexplored North Thailand, all the way tothe Golden Triangle where Burma, Laos,and Thailand stare at each other, separatedby the Mekong. I watched it flowand wished I could spend anothermonth at my pace, stopping along theway where I wanted, but it was time togo home, and that I did.” BrettMorrison (advancement staff 2000–06)joined the Student Conser vationAssociation (SCA) in December 2007 asthe regional development officer for theNortheast. The SCA is the oldest andlargest national conservation serviceorganization in the country, placing highschool-age through young adults in“hands-on” service roles in all 50 states.Brett heard about the opportunity fromnow colleague Hugh Montgomery, whois married to CA alumna StephanieSimmons Montgomery ’67. Brettwould love to hear from CA alumnae/iwho have served on SCA internshipsand encourages recent CA graduates tolook at SCA. In terms of family news,Turner just celebrated his 9th birthdayand has become a capable snowboarder.Evangeline and Jack are 6 and 4! Jodi,Brett, and the family extend an invitationto anyone heading to southern Vermont.83WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

IN MEMORIAMCONCORD ACADEMY MAGAZINE SPRING 200884Louise S. Bandler, mother of Deborah Bandler Bellman ’69Pete F. Boardman, brother of Elizabeth B. Boardman ’59Dorothea Cherrington Bingham ’55John Clark, husband of Sharon Lloyd Clark, father of Courtney E. Clark ’99 and Geoffrey Clark ’06Deborah Robertson Clinch ’53Mary F. Crowe, mother of Mary Crowe Crisman ’76, Lisa Crowe Uthgenannt ’78,Marc R. Crowe ’80, and Kristen Crowe Stevens ’82Edward Henry Cumpston IV, husband of Catherine Maguire Cumpston ’42Jean L. Davidson, mother of Cynthia D. Gorey ’82Alan Ashley Day, son of Ann Bemis Day ’48Elizabeth Evarts de Rham, mother of Jerry de Rham ’75 and mother-in-law of Amy Wang de Rham ’75Olcott H. Deming, father of Rosamond Deming ’65Marshall J. Derby, father of Rebecca A. Derby ’84 and Sarah B. Derby ’87, and uncle of Laura Drachman Troncoso ’79,Jessica Drachman Blaustein ’81, and Abigail E. Cohen ’01Mary St. John Douglas, mother of Katherine Douglas Torrey ’65William D. Eberle, grandfather of Benjamin Q. Eberle ’99, Daniel T. Eberle ’99, and Katherine W. Eberle ’04Janet Harrington, grandmother of Tully B. Foote ’02 and Tudor F. Foote ’05Leo Hebert, grandfather of Katherine McNally ’08Morton Hooper, husband of Elizabeth Eames Hooper ’46Peter W. Jackson, father of Elizabeth D. Jackson ’93Geraldine Swope Johnson, stepgrandmother of Alexandra A. Brokalakis ’00Frank W. Jones, Jr., father of Jeanne R. Jones ’71, Robin M. Jones ’73, and Kristin A. Jones ’75, andgrandfather of Michaela J. Slavid ’07Elsie F. Kent, mother of Alexandra L. Kent ’74Elizabeth S. Lowell, grandmother of Isabel S. Lowell ’98 and Alexander Lowell ’01Howard M. Metzenbaum, grandfather of Leora M. Kelman ’05Molly Koch Nudell ’64Alice Loring Pickman ’36, mother of Daisy Pickman Welch ’63Elizabeth Ann Pickman, mother of Susan Pickman Sargent ’64, Stephanie Pickman Monahan ’70, andElizabeth Pickman-Flanagan ’73Elizabeth Miller Poutasse ’38, sister of the late Katrina Miller Tadema-Wielandt ’34Faith Trumbull Reed ’47, sister of the late Mary Trumbull Locke ’35 and Joan Trumbull Wright ’40Ruth C. Rosenfeld, mother of Jan E. Rosenfeld ’73 and Amy B. Rosenfeld ’84Leila Sears ’37, sister of Elisabeth Sears ’39, aunt of Leslie Sears Stahl ’59, and cousin of Nancy Ela Caisse ’58Mary Elizabeth Shugrue, daughter of Page Hurley Shugrue ’65 and granddaughter of the late Donald J. Hurley, former trusteeEleanor Park Skinner ’33, mother of Sandra Skinner Fabian ’64Charles Stevenson, Sr., father of Frances Kellogg Stevenson ’63William O. Travers, father of Kathryn Travers Bittner ’65

Investing in ValuesCourtesy of Megan Harlow ’04Pauline Lord ’68 Believes inCA’s Power to Teach for GoodIn 2001, Pauline Lord ’68 became a farmer.After a successful career as a psychotherapistin California’s Bay Area and a laterincarnation as a community activist, Lordwas ready for more hands-on work. Adevoted environmentalist, who had spent yearsadvocating for greener foothills near her home,Lord realized she had a rare opportunity to takeher passion for the land to a new level. Her husband,David Harlow, had recently retired from hislongtime position with the U.S. GeologicalSurvey; their daughter, Megan Harlow ’04, wasabout to enroll as a sophomore boarder atConcord Academy—and Lord’s mother owned a100-acre organic farm in East Lyme, Connect icut.“David was enthusiastic about the move, so Idecided this was my chance to go cultivate myown garden,” said Lord.Aside from growing potatoes in their tinygarden in Menlo Park, Lord and Harlow knewnothing about growing food, but they were ableto get a good start at White Gate Farm. “We hadgreat help, but we also ended up learning a lotfrom our mistakes!” said Lord. Seven years later,she speaks with joy of filling greenhouses with lettucesin winter and ordering seeds for springplanting. “It’s so much fun,” she said of her currentlife close to the land.Lord recalls her years at CA as filled withintellectual growth—and a few growing pains.“Phil McFarland taught me to write, and JanetEisendrath was a constant inspiration,” she said. “Iboarded from my freshman year on and madegreat friendships in the CA community, but sometimeswe got a little restless and unruly.”Returning to CA in 1994 for a six-year tenureon the Board of Trustees, Lord found ConcordAcademy to be “a fantastic place for students toPauline Lord ’68 and her daughter Megan Harlow ’04 during a March 2008trip to Mexico“I feel good giving to CA becausethe school embodies so many of the thingsI believe in.”pursue their individuality and flourish. I found somuch acceptance and emotional safety at theschool, and I loved the fact that the arts continueto thrive at CA. It was inspirational.”Megan’s enrollment gave Lord a chance toreengage yet again. “It was the best!” she said ofher daughter’s experience. “How wonderful to seeMegan in that milieu after having rediscovered itmyself as a trustee.” Megan, currently a studentat Amherst College, speaks of being exposed toa wide variety of learning experiences at CA,including three years with the Dance Company.A high point, she said, was her senior chapel,which she delivered on her birthday. “One thingyou don’t realize until you leave CA is the amazinggroup of individuals who are there,” she said.“I’m not sure I’ll find that many interestingpeople in one place ever again.”One of the ways Lord has chosen to expressher appreciation for her and Megan’s time atConcord Academy is to include the school in herwill. “I realized that a gift to CA would addressmany of my values all at once,” said Lord. “CA isteaching students to care for community, education,citizenship, and the environment. And it’salso doing great things to address students’ healthand welfare, which is so important at that age. Ifeel good giving to CA because the school embodiesso many of the things I believe in.”For information on how you can make a difference, contact Meg Wilson, Director of Advancement,at meg_wilson@concordacademy.org or (978) 402-2240.85WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008

Non-ProfitU.S. PostagePAIDHanover, NHPermit No. 8Concord Academy166 Main StreetConcord, MA 01742Address service requestedUpcoming Special EventsJaye R. PhillipsMay 30CommencementSpeaker: Dean of Faculty Sandy StottChapel Lawn, 10:00 a.m.June 13–15Reunion WeekendRegister at www.concordalum.org.June 13Art and Author Exhibit and Opening ReceptionRansome Room, 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.June 14Reunion Weekend Memorial ServiceElizabeth B. Hall Chapel, 9:30 a.m.June 15Reunion Weekend Pancake BreakfastSponsored by the Concord Academy YoungAlumnae/i Committee (CAYAC)Stu-Fac, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.August 24Southern Maine ReceptionHosted by Sarah Russell ’87Cumberland, MaineSeptember 2First day of classesSeptember 22Alumnae/i at Fenway ParkRed Sox vs. IndiansOctober 10–11Parents’ WeekendOctober 86 18Alumnae/i Council MeetingRansome Room, 9:30 a.m. to noonDancing-On-View: The ICA Variations, July 26–27Summer Stages Dance at Concord AcademyWorkshop begins July 6.July 10Tere O’Connor Dance: Rammed EarthPerforming Arts Center, 8:00 p.m.$25, $10 for studentsJuly 17Eiko & Koma and Margaret Leng Tan: MourningPerforming Arts Center, 8:00 p.m.$25, $10 for studentsJuly 26Choreographers’ Project ShowcasePerforming Arts Center, 8:00 p.m.$25, $10 for studentsVisit www.summerstagesdance.org for more information.July 8, 22, and 29Show DownCabaret dinners with David Parker & The BangGroupRialto, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge, MA$150July 26–27Dancing-On-View: The ICA VariationsAn installation by Sara Rudner, Summer StagesDance artist-in-residenceInstitute of Contemporary Art, Boston, noon to4:00 p.m. Free with museum admission.Dan Sanford