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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