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Marsha Lenz’s son, Ezra.
hopes for a West Coast reunion
of MCS 2 sometime soon.
Marsha’s local-foods restaurant,
Folie Douce in Arcata, CA
(www.holyfolie.com), is getting
rave reviews, while her children,
Ezra and Kobi, are busy with
Legos. Amy Mayer lives in
Greenfield, MA, with little Elias,
who is “fascinated with trucks and
sled dogs.” Her partner, Beth,
continues work on a Ph.D. while
teaching oceanography. Amy is a
science and technology reporter
and on the board of directors of
the Association of Independents
in Radio. Sara Kirby Mitchell
(boys camp staff ’89, ’90; former
trustee; current advisor) left her
teaching post at the Sheepscot
Valley Children’s House in
Wiscasset, ME, and is now a fulltime
mother to Michael (now
almost 3) and Colin, born 1-21-
10. She still finds time to serve as
an EMT and has worked on the
Wiscasset ambulance crew. Laura
Borden Richter lives in Zurich,
Switzerland, and provides
learning support to children with
dyslexia, ADHD, and other challenges.
She gave birth to her third
child on 5-29-08 and writes that
she was “swimming in diapers,
breast milk, and Legos.” Critter
Thompson (boys camp staff ’93;
former advisor) and his wife, Jody
Kennedy, welcomed a son, Bryce,
on 4-4-08. Kathy Kwei Wong
(advisor) was married in Bali in
’08. She and her husband now
live in NYC, where she is the
owner and designer of Katherine
Kwei Handbags, distinctive for a
weave inspired by the Chinese
eternity knot. She received a
master’s degree in accessories
design from the London College
of Fashion.
MCS 3
Fall 1989
Class Agents: Teal Krech Paynter,
tkpaynter@gmail.com; & Will
Redfield, wredfield@gmail.com
Liz Bluhm has been living in
Washington, D.C., “working on
some National Institutes of
Health studies of environmental
causes of cancer and genetic-environmental
interactions,” she
reports, but is about to begin a
job at the Washington Hospital
Center, “where I hope we can put
more of the research into action.”
She also serves as a mentor for
public-school students through a
program called College Bound.
Tina Hartell works at the
Mountain School in Vermont.
“Recently, I’ve been writing
college recommendation letters,
weaning myself off coffee,” she
writes. “I’m looking forward to a
surf trip to the Dominican
Republic next month.” Sarah
Kapocias Maheras teaches
kindergarten in Walla Walla,
WA, where she also enjoys
“sweet, sweet daughter” Mattie
and “inquisitive and wild stepson”
Mason. “I am forever grateful for
the positive impact of MCS 3,”
writes Sarah. Chelsie Wheeler
Olney gave birth to Scout Elsie
Olney on 10-24-08. Scout and
her older brother, Myles, are
keeping Chelsie busy but very
happy. Teal Krech Paynter
moved to Washington, D.C.,
from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in
’09, with her husband, Nat
Paynter (boys camp ’83), and
their daughter, Clara. “It was fun
driving around Tanzania with a
Chewonki bumper sticker on the
back of our car,” recalls Krech.
“We met one person who had
spent time on the Neck!” Will
Redfield, who lives in Chicago,
sat out the ’08 presidential
Scout Elsie Olney.
election in Mexico with his young
son. Brandon Stafford (boys
camp staff ’93–’95, ’97; staff ’04–
’06), while working for
GreenMountain Engineering,
designed a 180 L ethanol fermentation
system that uses woodchips
as its feedstock. Brandon and girlfriend
Sharon Komarow (boys
camp staff ’04) bought a purple
house in Somerville, MA. If he
were to ignore traffic laws, he
says, he could coast to work on
his bike. Goody-B. Wiseman is
an artist living and working in
Castine, ME. Her bronze sculptures
will be exhibited over the
next few months in Toronto, Los
Angeles, Miami, and NYC.
MCS 4
Spring 1990
Class Agent: Mitch Levesque,
mitchlevesque@tuebingen.mpg.de
Briana Eickhoff Brumaghim
and husband Neal are relishing
time with their daughter Cady
(born 1-11-05) as well as four
dogs and six cats (“from many
years of volunteering/fostering
with rescue organizations”).
Briana works as a trusts and
estates paralegal in Hartford, CT.
Gregg Carville (boys camp ’85–
’88) received a master of fine arts
degree in lighting design from
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts
and is now the technical director
for Merrill Auditorium and the
City of Portland, ME. Elise
Elliott-Smith studied birds and
works in Oregon for the U.S.
Geological Survey. She organizes
large-scale monitoring of shorebirds
of conservation concern,
“no doubt due in a large part to
my field biology class at
Chewonki,” she writes. Hilary
Trenkamp Greenwood lives in
Zurich, Switzerland, with her
husband and their son Bryn.
They are enjoying great hikes in
the Alps! Kristin Listerman
Indge lives in Leominster, MA,
and teaches first and second
graders in the Acton public
schools, while her husband, Tom,
serves as a police officer at
Bentley College. Kristin enjoys
being godmother to Haley
Morland, daughter of Aimee
Clark Morland (boys camp staff
’93, ’95, ’96). Aimee lives in
Briana Eickhoff Brumaghim.
Aimee Clark Morland.
Mitch Levesque.
Rowley, MA, with husband Erik
Morland (boys camp staff ’95), 6year-old
Haley, and 3-year-old
Emma. Mitch Levesque (boys
camp staff ’93) continues to live
in Germany with his wife and
children, Leo and Beatrice. Mitch
is a scientist at the Max Planck
Institute.
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