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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