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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