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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