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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