Class Notes

 

Haven’t kept all of your Midd Mags?

Wondering what your classmates have been doing since graduation?

Wendy and Peter Mullen hosted a reception at their home for alumni, parents, and current and incoming students in the Seattle area on July 17. W In North Carolina, Joan Siefert Rose gave a talk recently about the challenges facing National Public Radio (NPR) in “this increasingly crowded media environment.” With satellite radio, Internet streaming, and podcasting available, she said programs from NPR “need to be timely, compelling, and entertaining. Public radio needs to be available not just on the FM dial, but also on all the new platforms where people are accessing content.” Joan is the general manager of WUNC in Chapel Hill (which operates five stations) where she has been since 2001. She and husband Jim Rose, a middle school science teacher, live in Chapel Hill with sons Andy (15) and Ian (12). • Linda Dozier-Jones writes, “Recently I was appointed VP at Reliance Trust Co. in Atlanta, Ga. I’ve been married almost 13 years to husband Tom.” • Living on Cousins Island, just north of Portland, Maine, Marti Mayne is in her 11th year of owning Maynely Marketing, a marketing consulting firm specializing in the B & B industry. She’s happily married to Lincoln Fuller and has two girls adopted from Hubei Province, China. She often sees Anne Groton Jacobs. • Still at Maine Bank & Trust as a senior VP, Joyce Rowe Cassidy now heads up a new business, retirement plans and brokerage in the wealth management area of the bank. Daughter Sarah graduated from Lehigh in May. Joyce was married in July to Matthew Charles O’Reilly. • Stephanie Connors Stewart writes, “I’ve enjoyed being back on campus visiting son Conor ’09 who is on the Panther’s lacrosse team. What a great group of kids, parents, and coaches!” • President and CEO of Valley Cadillac Hummer in Rochester, N.Y., Edward Meagher is the third generation to lead the company begun by his grandfather in 1936. His Hummer franchise last year was named a Master Dealer, and his Cadillac franchise has received the Platinum Performer Award 12 of the last 13 years and has been named a Master Dealer 19 times. Living in Pittsford, N.Y., with wife Patricia and daughters Nicole (14) and Josie (11), his hobbies include skiing, golf, gardening, cooking, and off-roading. • Life as the parks commissioner in NYC can involve some odd animal adventures for Adrian Benepe. In one day last June a hawk crash-landed in mid-Manhattan, a wounded American kestrel was found a few blocks away, and a lamb was discovered running around the Bronx, having escaped from a live animal market. As for the birds, Adrian says there is a growing population in Manhattan of birds of prey who nest on high-rises and feast on squirrels, rats, and pigeons. • UPEK, Inc., the world’s leading brand of fingerprint authentication security solutions, announced last spring that Bill Harris had been elected to its board of directors. With an MBA from Harvard, Bill brings a strong background in financial services and consumer markets to UPEK. He has served as CEO of PayPal and Intuit, and president of ChipSoft. Currently he is a private investor in several early-stage technology companies in the fields of financial services and electronic security.

Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Summer 2007

Susie Patterson Nichols hosted a gathering in April at the Josiah Smith Tavern in Weston, Mass., in honor of students accepted into the Class of 2011. • Between a holiday in Mexico and a business trip to Washington, D.C., Kim Wiehl celebrated her 50th birthday during a weekend of festivities in Connecticut. Joining Kim were fellow Midd classmates Sue McIntosh Banville, Amy Dale, Jane Leggett, Phyllis Wendell Mackey, Karen Divalentino McGown, Diane Nastri, and Janice Pedrin-Nielson. Kim has been living in London for 20 years and currently is secretary-general of the International Union of Credit and Investment Insurers. • David Lally earned his MSW in 2001 and has been working as a therapist at InterCommunity Mental Health Services in East Hartford, Conn. His first play, Dream House, will have a staged reading at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford this fall. He and partner Philip live in Simsbury, Conn. • The latest on Janet Kellam comes from a profile done of her and husband Andy Munter in the Idaho Mountain Express. As the director of the Sawtooth Forest Avalanche Center, she has also taken on the role this year as president of the board of the American Avalanche Association. Having been buried in an avalanche herself, she has built her career on promoting safe use of Idaho’s wilderness. • In March, Lisa Hockmeyer Oliveri spoke at a free seminar about her experiences receiving her cochlear implants. After having been mostly deaf all her life, Lisa had an implant put in her left ear in 1999. Five years later, she had one put in her right ear as well. Hearing sounds for the first time took a lot of adjustment, but with some brain retraining to think auditorily, the implants were successful. She describes being able to hear her four sons, Tyler (20), Andrew (17), Nick (15), and Ben (13) and being able to hear their personalities in their voices. • Paul Ode was recently named deputy managing partner and chief operating officer at Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, Vermont’s largest law firm. Active in the Burlington community, Paul also serves as secretary of the United Way of Chittenden County. • As managing director of GCO Education Loan Funding Corporation, Robert Culnane was profiled for “In a Gazette Minute” on the Greentree Gazette Web site last December.


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Spring 2007

In January, Kathryn Allwarden Cruz-Uribe left her post as dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Northern Arizona Univ. to become the provost and VP of academic affairs at California State Univ. at Monterey Bay. She was looking forward to being a provost so as to broaden her administrative experience to “encompass more areas of a university beyond a college.” She also appreciates the university’s emphasis on global perspectives, diversity, and multiculturalism. “I’m particularly intrigued by the nontraditional, cross-disciplinary majors, as well as the emphasis on student learning through internships and field study as well as course work.” • Maine Bank & Trust recently announced that Joyce Rowe Cassidy had been named senior VP and financial advisor. Joining the bank in 2005, Joyce previously had been a financial advisor in Fleet Bank’s Private Clients Group. • Nancy Greenwald continues to practice rehab medicine in Boise, Idaho. Husband Elliot Week was reelected to the state senate, one of seven Democrats.


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Winter 2007

Carey Field Guth reports from Wilton, Conn., that she crossed the 50 barrier, but not without a big surprise party complete with several pounds of Louisiana crawfish that her husband had shipped up to Connecticut! Her kids are still giving her a hard time because the oldsters danced until one a.m. to “Brown-Eyed Girl” and other oldies (can’t we relate?). Then she says what we all know: “While I definitely feel older when talking to kids in college, I wouldn’t be 20 again for anything. This is a great time in life—we’re old enough to have acquired some wisdom and humility and still young enough to keep up with our kids on rollerblades and skis (although my kids are definitely taking the lead on the slopes!). While my 8th grader and 4th grader keep me busy, I’ve managed to find time to pick up lots of freelance magazine, PR, and marketing assignments, and I’m working on a book that actually involves Middlebury and college in general! I occasionally run into other Middlebury classmates around Wilton; in my neighborhood alone there are two other Midd grads, although I’m the old-timer among them—the other two graduated in ’83 and ’91!” • This comes from Ed Kanze, with apologies from the secretary who lost this in his overflowing inbox: Late-bloomer Ed reports from his beautiful, bug-infested property along the Saranac River in the Adirondacks that he and wife Debbie recently welcomed baby #2 to the household. Tasman (named for the Tasman Sea, along whose shores her parents have enjoyed many fine adventures) was born June 6 and joins big brother Ned. Late last year, Ed also won a gold medal in environmental writing at the International Regional Magazine Awards in San Antonio. He’s wrapping up his first novel, working on his fifth nonfiction book, and soon will write his 1000th installment of “All Things Natural,” a weekly column he writes for a Connecticut-based newspaper chain. Ed’s Adirondack guiding business, the Adirondack Naturalist Company, keeps him busy and outdoors during the summer. Whew! It’s a full, rich, exhausting life. For 10 months out of the year, Ed is also a stay-at-home dad, specializing in diapers, dishes, and disaster remediation. • Michael Abend reports that a lot has happened since he last wrote, before our 25th reunion. Sadly, just after that reunion he and Kathy split up, amicably. He admits that the experience of going through a divorce, even an amicable one, is draining. Things began looking up about a year later when he met Vicky Kahn (through jDate.com!) and after two years together they married in July. The next day they closed on a condo in Wayland, Mass. With all the commotion they delayed their honeymoon until October when they cycled along the coast of Tuscany with friends. • Diane Nastri and children Joseph (10) and Julie (8) relocated to West Hartford, Conn., from Concord, Mass., in August 2005. Diane has been in sales with Avaya for the past three years. Diane and Kim Wiehl have enjoyed mini-reunions in the south of France the past two summers. • Mike ’77 and Karen Divalentino McGown live in Norwalk, Conn. Karen says that she has returned to her Middlebury roots and is now teaching middle school Spanish. Karen and Mike enjoy sailing on Long Island Sound and skiing at Sugarbush with children Justin (14) and Kali (11). • Amy Dale reports that she is living in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband and 7-year-old son and that while celebrating her 50th birthday in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, she ran into Helen Cooke Pyne!


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Fall 2006

In Lake Mills, Wis., Rev. Betsy Miller was recently named to the board of directors of Fort Health Care. Betsy is the director of congregational leadership and resources for the Moravian Church Western District. Previously, she was the senior pastor at the Lake Mills Moravian Church for 10 years. Betsy is studying to earn her doctorate of ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., and she holds a master’s of divinity from Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pa. • Judge Craig Pittman says, “I have a proclivity for fiction.” A judge on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, Craig owns a large collection of books, many of them by contemporary Southern writers and signed with personal inscriptions. Craig loves meeting the writers as much as reading their books. He tries to read an hour or two a day, escaping from his busy legal schedule. Craig studied law at Cumberland Law School and maintained a private legal practice until winning the judgeship in 2000. He and wife Janet live in Mobile and have two children and a granddaughter. • Although he never planned to become a painter, Gregory Kammerer has been painting for 25 years. He recently had a show at Kate Goldsborough’s Art To Go in Littleton, N.H. A resident of Rhode Island, Gregory’s paintings have been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows throughout New England, New York, and Delaware. • Chief Bear Officer Elisabeth Robert says things are going well at Vermont Teddy Bear. Liz took over as CEO in 1997 and helped pull the company out of financial trouble, changing its focus from retail to gift delivery. Since then, she has worked to build it into a business realizing $75 million in annual sales by increasing the scope and customer base of the company with the purchase of a new business, a florist delivery service, and the creation of its own businesses such as PajamaGram, TastyGram, and the Gift Bag Boutique. Last year Liz took the company private, ensuring it will stay in Vermont. Liz also plans to stay in Vermont, working at the job she loves.


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Summer 2006

The secretaries report: Following her service as the special associate counsel in the Clinton White House, Sally Paxton joined the International Labour Organization (ILO), a specialized agency of the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland, where she has been for the past five years. Sally reports that the job—involving improving working conditions and labor rights throughout the world—has been “challenging, with lots of travel to all parts of the world, including countries I certainly would not otherwise have visited!” Though planning to leave in June for the next chapter, Sally will be joining an array of 1978ers for a Paris reunion this spring to celebrate, um, that birthday. Already signed up are Sally Tracy Fitzpatrick, Zoe Peterson Erdman, Susan Reynolds Wallendahl, Martha Jacobsen Durkin, Alison Betts DeWitt and Caroline Christen Boucher. Sally opines, “I’m sure we will look exactly as we did at graduation.” • David Jaffray reports his oldest son, Ben, is surviving his freshman year in college. David and wife Mary both turned 50 this year, “but then so did the rest of our class!” • Jennifer Sullivan Weaver wrote to say her main connection to Middlebury these days is through interviewing prospective students which she has been doing since 1990 when they returned to the States. She is having a rendezvous with Anne Groton, Peggy Baldwin Briggs, and Marti Mayne in Maine to celebrate their auspicious birthdays. • And on a very sad note, the Class of 1978 extends its deep sympathy to the family of Sally Lent Ho, who died in February in her beloved Hawaii after a long battle with cancer. Friends and family members recently held a “Celebration of Life” ceremony in her honor at Kakaako Waterfront Park. An obituary appears in the back of this issue.
 

Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Spring 2006

Martha Jacobsen Durkin was trying to organize a small Midd reunion in Paris with friends who are turning 50 this spring. We hope to hear much more. The Durkins are thrilled that second son Ian will be joining his older brother, William '08, at Midd next year: "It is so much fun to go back to Midd as a parent!" • Other '78 parents are already leaving the fold, including John Whitton: "Eldest Lindsey graduated from Midd last May and is serving as a Teach for America Fellow, working in Spanish Harlem teaching sixth and seventh graders." John still enjoys the bond trading business. The Whittons, who enjoy traveling as a family, spent Christmas in France, "which was incredible." John is active on the boards of many organizations in Fairfield, Conn., and also keeps "way too busy" following his two younger daughters around on their schedules. We understand that his daughters have forced him to adhere to the "silent sideline" rule for all games! • Not so quiet is Bob Carolla, who reports spending New Year's Eve singing "Yellow Submarine" (karaoke) on stage in the middle of Falls Church, Va. His kids' reaction, however, was similar: they "pretended not to know me." Mid-century marks are bringing back memories: On that same night, Bob suddenly remembered "that exactly 30 years before, in 1976, Lee Campbell, Dusty McNichol, Naomi Almeleh, and I celebrated the arrival of the Bicentennial in Times Square." • Wendy Ellison Mullen's book Ronnie Wood's Smile: And Where It Led (published last spring) recently won first place in the 2005 Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards! Congratulations, Wendy! From the blurb: "While countless pages have been written about the Rolling Stones and its members, little attention has been given to the motivations and machinations of the fan base that makes this band the top grossing act in musical history. Author Wendy Mullen describes her descent from regular fan to near stalker as her interest in guitarist Ronnie Wood is propelled almost to obsession by the rise of the internet and a few interactions with Ronnie on stage." This "funny, self-effacing tale" is a must read for the Class of '78. • Mary Gilmore Kirkpatrick is still practicing law in Burlington, Vt. Her oldest child went to Williams College after taking a year off to ski race. Her high school senior son is good friends with Brad Carlson, son of Tom and Nancy Richardson '80 Carlson. Her youngest, Katy, is at Burke Mountain Academy. • Also in Burlington, Vt., Zoe Peterson Erdman is senior credit manager at Merchants Bank. She has one kid at Whitman College, one at Midd, and one at Holderness. Last fall, Zoe went on a five-week bike tour along the Mississippi River, traveling from northern Minnesota all the way to southern Mississippi. "I spend as much time outdoors biking, skiing, etc., as possible." • Sports also play a big role at the home of Mark Smith, who is "still living in Bronxville, N.Y., still an M&A lawyer at Skadden Arps, still happily married to Pam, and still the father of three kids. A junior at Bronxville High, Sam (17) is playing basketball and baseball, while starting to look at colleges. Hilary (16), a sophomore at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y., plays on lacrosse, soccer, and squash teams. Roland (13), an eighth grader at Bronxville Middle School, also plays lacrosse, soccer and squash. All three somehow manage to find time to study!" • Nancy Greenwald wrote when she had just returned from a day of skiing at her local ski mountain in Boise, Idaho: "I'm still practicing rehab medicine, in between knee surgeries from skiing. Husband Elliot is still a senator and our daughter is a teenager and thinks we are idiots." • Steve and Janet Behnken Rawlings passed several milestones in the past year. They celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary, eldest son Trevor got his master's in engineering from Loughborough Univ. (he's now doing a Ph.D. in robotics), and second son Colin finished his first year at Cambridge at the top of the Engineering School class. "It's going to be a tough act for third son Ben (17) to follow, but he's thinking of breaking the engineering mould and following in my footsteps by studying physics." • Jennifer Nicasio is now an administrator for HTG Investment Advisors, based in New Canaan, Conn. She previously worked at Northwestern Mutual Insurance and at Bankers Trust. • Paul Ode was one of 10 lawyers from Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2006. • Hanna Richardson, assistant dean in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse Univ., has been appointed associate deputy director of the university's honor program. Hanna is also known as a jazz vocalist, with work released on several CDs and professional performances in the U.S. and abroad. • Arthur Gallagher is managing his family's Napa Valley vineyard, just outside St. Helena: "Where we once raised cattle and grew walnuts, we now grow Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Merlot, and Petit Verdot grapes. Look for Syrah made by Spencer Roloson winery from our vineyard (La Herradura)." • Business is booming with Diana Munger Hechler's travel company, D. Tours Travel: "Saw a bunch of Midd Kids in Newport this summer. Blythe Hamer, Adele MacDonald Kristiansson, Jon Glascoe, Cori Josias (who came from London), Jennifer Brown, Dyann DelVecchio, Bern Terry, and Katie Shepard (Spanish '78)-all hosted by the ever-popular Chip Callaghan!"


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Winter 2006

Life as an oncologist remains interesting, but challenging, for Tom Davis: "Financial pressures to see more patients and several pounds of medical journals per week mean there's no boredom." He chairs Dartmouth's Cancer Institutional Review Board, where he oversees clinical trials: "Fascinating stuff, but lots of paperwork and ethical dilemmas." He and wife Robin Wonnacott Davis '76 "see more of each other in the cancer ward (where she's a nurse) than at home." Son Bruce '07 is WRMC's technical director, Alison is a Colby freshman, and Will a sophomore at Milton Academy. Some things, of course, (thankfully) never change: Tom's band, Miles to Go, still has gigs lined up. • Then, of course, some things do change: "After hemming and hawing for 15 years," Susan Votaw West reports that she and husband Jonathan and daughter Eliane (7) have moved to Tasmania! The Wests had been leaving snowbound Cambridge for summery Tasmania every year, and are now living there full time, on the coast 20 minutes outside town. Jonathan left Harvard Business School to be a prof. at the Univ. of Tasmania, while Susan "is a full-time mom (oops, mum), teaching handwork at the local Waldorf School, playing bridge, gardening, and generally enjoying the transition to a safe, beautiful, healthy place to raise a family." Like Tom Davis, she assures would-be visitors that there is plenty of guest space. • Betsy Bradley Coughlan sends greetings from Kennebunkport, Maine, where she's an associate broker with Coldwell Banker. Daughter Kelley (18) is a freshman at the Marshall School of Business at USC in Los Angeles, son Ian (15) a sophomore at Deerfield (Mass.) Academy, and son Christopher (8) in third grade at Berwick (Maine) Academy. • Lee "Elwin" Campbell made an August visit to the Twin Cities with wife Ceci and their two children. After a family wedding, they spent a sunny afternoon with Peter Marshall, watching the kids play and reminiscing about other sunny days three decades ago. An occupational medicine doctor in Minneapolis, Peter enjoys spending time at his old farmstead in Wisconsin, "where I putter around on a 50-year-old Ford tractor, play Irish fiddle music (not while driving the tractor), and learn about digital movie making as the videographer for daughter Madeline's (15) school and community theater projects." • Also in the heartland, Marty Cleary opines that "just when you think you have life figured out, one of your children turns 16." Marty maintains his busy practice in Warren, Ill., and is also "building a new house on one of our farms (almost as stressful as a 16-year-old). We continue to increase the size of our cattle herd and will meet steady state pretty soon." Like many of us, Marty is already looking forward to our (gulp!) 30th reunion. • Some classmates are not waiting for 2008: Jim Stolley and partner Tom Wilhite, together with Jim's sisters Beth Drucker '80 and Karen Stolley '77 and their husbands Harry Drucker '80 and David Littlefield '79, hosted a mini-reunion in October at the Middlebury Inn. The impetus was Fall Family Weekend for second semester freshman Will Drucker. Attendees included grandparents Prof. David Littlefield and wife Jeannie, among other family members. Will "was a great sport, trailing about 14 of his relatives to classes and dining halls." Joining them for a Pine Room reception on Saturday night were Profs. D.K. Smith and Roberto Veguez, Tom and Robin Wonnacott '76 Davis, Ellen Fisher Stockmayer '77, Gregor Kammerer, Bern Terry, Chip Callaghan, Maggie Paine '79, Megan Wonnacott Sutton '81, former Rosebud Café owner Tony Blake, and assorted spouses and children. Second semester freshman Maddie Terry was away at a Katrina fund-raiser and Willa Kammerer '07 was studying in Italy. Jim reports visiting with Prof. Howard Munford, "who remains as incisive and astute as always." Also in attendance was Katie Shepherd, who writes of the "frightening" feeling of being a parent at parents weekend (although she has a child at UVM): "It seems like just yesterday that I was plotting to have my parents take me somewhere with excellent roast beef." She sums up: "Each time I go to something like this, I'm struck by what wonderful people I went to school with. We've really all turned out much better than one might have imagined!" • Voters in Alabama may agree: Craig Pittman, first elected to the state's civil appeals court in 2000, announced a bid for re-election in October. • Bob Carolla, wife Stacy, and children Jonathan (12) and Megan (6) visited NYC for a week during summer: "Kudos to Adrian Benepe; the kids loved Central Park, and the sea lions underneath his office windows in the Armory." Heading into his eighth year with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Bob also serves on the board of BP, a magazine for people with bipolar disorder, their families, and friends. In December 2005, he was one of several people featured in a documentary, Shadow Voices: Finding Hope in Mental Illness, airing on ABC and produced by Mennonite Media and the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission of the National Council of Churches. • Dunstan McNichol (who covers Trenton for the Newark Star-Ledger) won TWO first place awards from the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors, an association of reporters and editors covering state politics throughout the U.S. Con-gratulations from newshounds, Dusty! • Secretary Noble (an admitted newshound) offers gratitude to Jeanne Meserve '74 for her haunting, heartbreaking, live reporting from New Orleans on the night the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina. At presstime, her late night report on Aaron Brown's show was still available on the Internet—a powerful reminder of the importance of a free, determined press during a national catastrophe.


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Fall 2005

"In Search of Something Lost," an essay by Edward Kanze, won the 2004 John Burroughs Award of Recognition for an outstanding published natural history essay. The essay appeared in the 2004 May/June issue of Adirondack Life. The award was presented on April 4 at the American Museum of Natural History. • Jessica Moore and Rick Lansdale (M.A. English '82) were married July 9, surrounded by family and friends—including many from Middlebury and Bread Loaf. Rick teaches English and coaches lacrosse at the Taft School. Jessica is an architect working in NYC. Following a honeymoon trip to Italy, Rick and Jessica are living in their home on West End Avenue. During Rick's sabbatical year, they're enjoying travel and Rick is taking courses at Columbia. • Tom Stacey and wife Cheryl are enjoying life in Colorado. As a director with RMS Solutions, Tom travels around the country assisting hospitals with information management. Son Eric is a junior at Avon Old Farms. As always, Tom continues to try to lower his golf handicap. (He's too humble to want it in print, but it's already amazing!) He welcomes friends to contact him in Lafayette, Colo., at tom_stacey@comcast.net. Tom has enjoyed seeing Keith Block '76, whose law firm Block, Markus, and Williams is in Denver. • Dave Jaffray reports that "in June, both families Cater and Jaffray graduated their firstborn from high school." Dave's son, Ben, is going to Montana State at Bozeman ("skiing"). Mark Cater's daughter, Kelsey, is heading to the Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth. Dave was having fun this summer "doing a contract IT consulting gig for a month or so." • Bill Harris has joined WebSideStory's board of directors. He also serves on the boards of Macromedia and Earthlink and is currently chairman and principal shareholder of four early-stage technology companies (PassMark Security, XTec, Isochron and MyVest). • Paul Aaronson has been named chief executive officer of PlusFunds Group Inc. He was previously the executive managing director of Standard & Poor's. • We were so sorry to learn of the recent death of our Anne Reding. We extend the condolences of the class to her entire family. A memorial appeared in the summer issue. Her family wrote to let us know that Annie died on May 14, "after a five-and-one-half-year battle with ovarian cancer, which she fought with grace, dignity, and vigorous determination. Survivors include her partner of 13 years, Mark Coleman; her mother, Lorna; and her loving brothers Andrew '75, Paul (and his wife, Rosa), and Phil '82 (and his wife, Nancy). While Annie had no children of her own, she adored children and was a loving and revered aunt to Steve, Laurianne, Emily, Luke and Katie. Annie lived the last years of her life in keeping with the message in one of her favorite quotations from Fra Giovanni: "The gloom of the world is but a shadow; beyond it, yet within our reach, lies joy. Take joy."


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Summer 2005

Secretary Noble reports: I write this from my new (old—1820) house in Old Town, Alexandria, a small delightful city which resembles Bedford Falls in It's a Wonderful Life, except with cobblestones and preserved Federal houses, including one where Washington really did sleep (it was his). One of the Bedford Falls features is an old-fashioned movie theater complete with marquee, which recently featured (in BIG letters), Born Into Brothels, Pam Tanner Boll's Oscar-winning movie. Congratulations, Pam! • Phyllis Wendell Mackey and Jane Leggett (along with their delightful children) and I met for lunch at the new National Museum of the American Indian. Jane and her daughters, Elise (11) and Katie (9.5), are busy and well in D.C., where Jane is senior adviser on climate change at the EPA. She frequently travels to Paris and Mexico City where she endeavors to keep our international relations constructive around climate change issues. Thank you, Jane, and good luck! • Laurie Galbreath writes that she is busy raising three sons (who are in three different schools and two different sports—lacrosse and baseball) andstarting a new company with an architect and interior designer. The company will buy and rehab old houses in an effort to maintain economic diversity in neighborhoods, saving instead of scrapping old houses and donating a percentage of any profits back to the neighborhood. Laurie says she was inspired by seeing so many of her peers being displaced from neighborhoods they grew up in as a result of skyrocketing real estate costs. • Katie Shepherd Furney was sad to see the snow leave Lincoln, Vt., where she recently hosted (along with sister Ruth and Ruth's husband, Ken Pohlman) a local Olympics. Chip Callaghan, Peter Young, Jennifer Brown, and Brad Allen participated in person; Steve Rayhill "participated by phone at midnight, which spared him from having to run a slalom course on cross-country skis." While waiting for spring, Katie was preparing for big transitions: Hannah (17) goes to college in the fall and Liza (15) heads to California for a three-week summer adventure. Katie herself is "writing madly in hopes of getting tenure (better late than never) at UVM in fall 2006." • Janet Rawlings writes of big changes, too. "I'm entering the final years of child-rearing. Trevor (22) will graduate from Loughborough Univ. with a degree in engineering this summer. Colin (18) started at Cambridge Univ. last fall, again studying engineering. Ben (16) is doing A-levels and deciding which universities to apply to. The Empty Nest is just around the corner." • Not so for Allison Lee Worthy, who spends most of her time "in the car, chauffeuring Alexander (15) and Sophie (7)." Allison serves on local boards and volunteers at both of her children's schools. Apart from the mosquitoes and summer heat, Allison is enjoying Chapel Hill: "I think I've finally given into it, because I actually paid attention to the ACC tournament this year. I don't know if this counts as progress or not." • In February, Kevin Ray was appointed vice chairman and deputy head of U.S. corporate for Scotia Capital, an investment banking concern he joined in 1980. During the '90s, he served as the bank's most senior officer in Europe while he was head of European operations based in London. Kudos, Kevin! • Phyl got an update from Mark Efinger, who teaches theater at Phillips Academy (Andover): "I left Midd on a four-year Army hitch (ROTC funded my education), so a theater major one day, and four days later a nuclear weapons tech officer. That's military intelligence for you. (A scarier thought, however, is the idiot who took the job when I left.) So the good part was three years in Germany where I had two significant occurrences. I blackmailed my way out of Nucs, and became the director of an Army theater program. In the middle of this process, I met a soldier from California with whom I fell in love, married, and now have three boys. Oldest Nate is a track star and music ed major at Ohio Wesleyan. He'll be helping build a home in the Berkshires this summer on some forest land we bought in October. Son Tanner is headed for Paris to attend clown school. Youngest Trevor is finishing senior year at the performing arts high school in Natick. My wife, Cindy, is the director of student activities here at Andover. She also coaches girls' water polo. We have finished up our years in the dorm and now live in a nice little house on the edge of campus. I'm coaching wrestling and teaching theater, right now working on a dramatization of Things Fall Apart, which I plan to take to the Grahamstown Festival in South Africa this summer." • NOTE: Many e-mails are bouncing back. If you have updated your e-mail address, please let us know! And keep those cards and letters coming!


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Spring 2005

Secretary Noble reports: Last May, I left private practice to become general counsel at Middle East Television Network, Inc., a 24/7 news and information channel that satellite-casts Alhurra TV to millions of people in 22 countries in the Middle East. Though our funding comes from Congress (our broadcasts are commercial free), the company is a private nonprofit and is editorially independent. We broadcast only in Arabic and only in the Middle East (you cannot get the channel here). Helping to manage a start-up television network (Alhurra TV didn't exist a year ago) designed to offer an alternative voice to Al Jazeera has been fascinating and challenging. And I am struggling to learn Arabic! • An anonymous West Coast source recently informed me that Maddy Terry (daughter of Bern Terry) was heading off to Midd as a February freshmen, bringing the total number of '78 kids at the College to, well, it's got to be at least a gazillion. • Dirck Roosevelt is the new director of the Brandeis Teacher Education Program. Until last summer, Dirck had been the director of teacher education at the Univ. of Mich. in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he completed his doctoral work before joining the faculty. • Steven Kolyer continues to live in Manhattan and spend weekends on Long Island's North Fork with wife Andrea and children Abigail (3.5) and Henry (1.5). Steven reports that he is head of U.S. securitization at Clifford Chance, the world's largest law firm. • Paul Cody writes: "My co-parent, Cindy, is homeschooling our son, Kevin (13), for eighth grade. My lover, Matt, was laid off due to funding cuts last June, so he decided to pursue his associate's in education at the community college. I am in my 17th year at the UNH Counseling Center." • Mitchell Uscher wrote the book and lyrics to Mamaleh!, which premiered in Florida in 1999 and was running recently in New Brunswick, N.J. With a score by Roy Singer, the musical is about the lifelong friendship of three Jewish-American women, a musical tribute to Mitchell's mother and her two best childhood pals. • While many CEOs are exploring ways to outsource work, Elisabeth Robert, CEO of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company, is reportedly doing just the opposite. She believes that by skipping the middlemen, she and her team members can learn quickly what's effective and what's not. Must be something to it, since she has transformed Vermont Teddy Bear from a money-losing small company into a much bigger, profitable company, while maintaining the small-company culture and quality. • Adrian Benepe and Charlotte Glasser have checked in from NYC, where Charlotte is in her last semester at the Columbia Univ. School of Social Work. With an MSSW in hand this spring, she hopes to work as a high school counselor. Son Alex, a senior at the Bronx High School of Science, is awaiting spring college letters. Son Erik, in eighth grade, has taken up the electric guitar—loud hard rules!


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Winter 2005

Profuse apologies to classmates who have searched in vain for the class notes they recently submitted for this column! A series of computer glitches and the demise of one elderly computer have resulted in the loss of many interesting reports. Please accept our sincere apologies—we're ready and able to receive your news and look forward to hearing from you soon.


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Fall 2004

Emory Williams checked in from China a while back. He has lived in Beijing, China, for the past eight years, building a company that he started in 1996. He is also very involved with the American Chamber of Commerce in China, serving as vice-chairman this year. Emory reports that it is always interesting and challenging being in China, a bit like having it be "game day, every day." His son (6) lives with his mother in Chicago, but Emory is able to spend some quality time with him every couple of months. He bought a home in Beijing and would welcome visiting classmates to call when they are "passing through." • Heather Allport-Cahoon writes: "The joy of the Lord continues to be my strength and song! We are serving God gladly in our new home here. I continue to minister to college students through the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, which helped me so much when I was at Middlebury." Heather is the campus minister at SUNY Buffalo. • Kathleen Davis has been named to the board of Union Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and New England Guaranty Insurance Co. As deputy managing partner of law firm Downs Rachlin Martin, she practices in the firm's Burlington, Vt., office. • Mark Cater has had an exciting year-perhaps too exciting. While keeping up his NASTAR Ski Challenge ranking (#32 in the U.S.!), the old ACL gave way. While that was mending, a little motorcycle issue broke his clavicle. Both parts are healing nicely, and he was ready for the golf course! • Correspondent Jaffray was attending a friend's birthday recently when a familiar face appeared: Jeannie Sutton Hamm '79. Jeannie lives in Wayzata, Minn., with her husband and three sons. Although she graduated with the '79s, she's interested in connecting with some of her Class of '78 friends. Look her up in the alumni directory!


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com)
Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842
Anne Rowell Noble (annenoblemail@aol.com)



Summer 2004

Secretary Noble reports: Congratulations to the expanded Fuller family! Maine resident Marti Mayne returned from Guangzhou in February with a second daughter adopted from China. Her name is Kim Han Fuller, her age is two, and her four-year-old jie jie ("older sister" in Chinese) has welcomed her with open arms. Marti and family are also enjoying get-togethers with NYC transplant Anne Groton, who has moved to Yarmouth, Maine, with her family. • Dyann Delvecchio has been traversing between Jamaica Plain, Mass., and Puerto Rico on an "off the beaten path" trip. While continuing to practice law in Boston, she's daydreaming about establishing a beachhead for future frolics, perhaps in Guanica, home to the "eerily beautiful desert-by-the-sea" and to many rare bird species, which she continues to enjoy. • Pamela Tanner Boll was the co-executive producer of Born Into Brothels, shown at the Sundance Film Festival and dubbed by Variety as "an engaging documentary about a British photographer who endeavors to help the children of Calcutta prostitutes by teaching them how to use a camera." She also recently had an exhibit of her paintings at the Winchester Public Library. Pamela and husband Hunter '77 continue their active involvement in many philanthropic ventures. • Bob and Alison Betts DeWitt see many alums at Deerfield Academy events, including Pam Sperry Findlay and John Whitton. Zach and Andy DeWitt are both Deerfield students. Alison and Bob ran into Bruce Johnson and wife Terri during a Caribbean vacation, and "shared many laughs and rum drinks together." Alison notes that she and Bob had a wonderful time at reunion and remain impressed with the great tenure of President McCardell. • From Georgia, Linda Dozier Jones writes that she and husband Tom are healthy, happy, and getting ready to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary in August. • Phyllis Wendell Mackey will never report this, so I (Anne) will: Living in New Hampshire, Phyllis did not have to rely on CNN or CBS for news of the presidential candidates. Instead, the candidates showed up on her doorstep. No matter whom you support, please vote this fall. • In gorgeous Sausalito, Calif., Jim Stolley enjoyed a visit early this spring from Midd roommate Chip Callaghan. Supervising 40 attorneys in San Francisco, Jim continues to help keep us all safe as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration, and Customs Enforcement. Jim stays in touch with Dyann Delvecchio, Gregor Kammerer, Tom Wolf, Chris Christopher, Diana Munger Hechler, Clare Pierson, and Bern Terry. Jim loved reconnecting at reunion with Adrian Benepe, who graced the cover of this magazine last summer. • After Boston, Moscow, Prague, and London, David Ayres is practicing law in Munich, where, he notes, the Germans "seem to find America and Americans increasingly mystifying." Of all these enchanting cities, he loved Prague best and hopes to return. Dave's still with Hale and Dorr, the Boston firm he started with in 1981. • Col. John Sowdon is serving as deputy director of intelligence for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. His oldest son recently made Eagle Scout. • Bill Harris has been appointed chair of the board of Isochron Data Corp. Previously, he worked with PayPal Inc. and Intuit Inc. • Steve Strong was sorry to miss our 25th Reunion and sends greetings to all those he missed seeing. • In January 2004, Bob Carolla was appointed to the steering committee for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Center Against Discrimination and Stigma, as part of President Bush's New Freedom Initiative on Mental Health. • When you're back in Middlebury, be sure to drop in at the Blue Hen Market on College Street. You'll be sure to find Beth and Peter Ross serving up full breakfasts, brick-oven pizza, and lots of comfort food. The Rosses and another couple bought the business, formerly known as Baba's Market and Deli, in February. • Ken Gart recently joined the board of trustees of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation. Since 1982, Ken has been president of Specialty Sports, Inc., operating over 100 specialty ski and outdoor shops, primarily in Colorado. • Carey Field reports that she "finally finished a major home renovation and am getting my life back in order! I am coauthoring an interior design book with an interior designer in Westport, Conn., and getting ready for Cadeaux, a semi-annual accessories and gift show that I organize in Wilton, with over 20 designers selling their work. My kids are now skiing faster than me, but I'm not slowing down. Life is good!" • Watch for Carey's book, and also read the phenomenal first book by Sarah Erdman '96, Nine Hills to Nambonkaha, about her two-year Peace Corps stint in the Ivory Coast. Simply breathtaking. • Everyone enjoys class notes, so please send yours!


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com), 18427 Heathcote Ln., Deephaven, MN 55391; Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842; and Anne Rowell Noble (anoble@bode.com), 3926 Highwood Ct. NW, Washington, DC 20007.



Spring 2004

Many thanks to Mike Abend and Helen Cooke Pyne for 10 years as class secretaries! We have enjoyed your news and commentary and appreciate all of your hard work—including serving as cochairs of our 20th Reunion. Thank you both! Anne, David, and Phyl hope to follow your able lead. Classmates, please e-mail your news to Phyl, David, and Anne at their addresses below. • Phyllis Wendell Mackey looks forward to serving as class secretary with Anne and David. She's hoping to have a little more free time, now that she has completed her master's in marriage and family therapy at UNH. Although the past two years are a bit of a blur, she's thrilled to be finished and looks forward to her new job with a mental health agency in Maine. • Class Secretary Noble reports: Some of us have been far more far-flung than others! I'm sure you'll all recall that Dave and Betsey Flanagan Martens couldn't make our 25th Reunion because of a planned world tour. A wonderful picture of them with the children and the llamas appeared in our 25th Anniversary Yearbook. Betsey recently sent news of their travels: "We set out with children Brian (15), Emma (13), and Izzy (10) to find a world more peaceful than newspaper headlines would have you believe, and more diverse than life in Boulder, Colo., offers. We left Boulder in May 2003 and went through Panama, Peru, Chile, and Argentina. From Buenos Aires we flew to Cape Town, South Africa, and made our way overland to Kruger National Park, and then on to Zambia, Botswana, and Namibia. From Africa we continued east to India and then to southern Thailand. A stopover in Seoul preceded the final chapter in Hawaii. After four months, we arrived back in Boulder, ever so much richer for the experience. We were healthy, happy, and welcomed in every country we visited. I could write 400 pages!" • Ty Howe also sent a delightful summary of life in Massachusetts, which your above-named secretary subsequently lost during the new-server-new-software-old-computer transformation at her law firm. She sends profound apologies to Ty! Let's try again! • Steve Dunn continues assiduously on the road back to health. His Web site recording his battles with cancer (www.cancerguide.com/) is truly inspiring. Take a look! • Writing in January (per deadlines), your secretary was at the Fairfax County Court (Va.) this morning for motions (having spent 2.5 hours doing the usual 25-minute commute in an ice storm) and noted that Jane Marum Roush was back on the local bench on criminal duty (yards of motions). Jane recently finished yeo(wo)man's duty as the presiding judge at the trial of Washington sniper Lee Malvo, and has been featured in articles and artists' drawings in the Washington Post and other publications. • Your secretary will be flying to California shortly to visit wonderful nieces and to play Jeopardy! I'll be announcing the airdate ONLY if I do well. A current Middlebury student won the College Championship (and a $50,000 scholarship for Middlebury) last September. I hope not to embarrass the alumni! I had a mini-reunion with Judy Jacob and Jane Leggett shortly before reunion. Jane is doing her best to protect our environment with the EPA; Judy continues her struggle to keep our nation's important monuments in repair. She has completed her work on the Washington Monument and has begun work on the Jefferson Memorial. Willa Kammerer '07, daughter of Gregory and Annie Kammerer '79 Kammerer is one of our many class children now at the College. We wish all of them the happy memories we share. • Please send news! We were all so fortunate to see each other in June and need to stay in touch.


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com), 18427 Heathcote Ln., Deephaven, MN 55391; Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842; and Anne Rowell Noble (anoble@bode.com), 3926 Highwood Ct. NW, Washington, DC 20007.



Winter 2004

Stephen Kessler is doing well as one of the few remaining ob/gyns in Philadelphia. He reports that his father finally retired from the ob/gyn group after 42 years of practice. Son Alexi (8) and daughter Katie (6) are in bilingual (Hebrew and English) school. Wife Julie recently received her Ph.D. in special education from Temple Univ. • It is with great sadness that we must report the recent deaths of two of our classmates, Charles (Andy) Harrisonand Trey Hunt. We extend the condolences of the class to their families and to their many friends. Their memorials appeared in the fall issue.


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com), 18427 Heathcote Ln., Deephaven, MN 55391; Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842; and Anne Rowell Noble (anoble@bode.com), 3926 Highwood Ct. NW, Washington, DC 20007.



Fall 2003

Reunion weekend was spectacular. Everyone who made it back appeared to have an awesome time. The long weekend began on Thursday night with a reception in the new Ross Commons. Then, on Friday morning, many more classmates arrived to enjoy an afternoon of golf or tennis and a hike up Snake Mountain. Friday night we enjoyed dinner at President and Mrs. McCardell's house, then on to the Grille, a modern and major upgrade to the Crest Room, located in the McCullough Student Center, where several classmates performed live, playing guitar and singing. Saturday began with another breakfast, full of lingering conversations, and an engaging panel discussion on how some of us have spent the last 25 years. The fine weather saw lots of families enjoying ball games, frisbee, and milling about on the lawns before a moving memorial service for our lost classmates. At the late afternoon convocation, our strong showing—196 classmates in all—was recognized by all reunion classes. All the classes feasted on a fantastic lobster and chicken dinner in numerous tents across Battell Beach, after which our class adjourned to Johnson to dance the night away. Sunday morning found us saying farewells over brunch and then departing, to return to the post-Middlebury lives we've made for ourselves. It was a weekend of many memories, old and new. • Jonathan Ratila was sorry he couldn't make the 25th, but Bill McGowan was there, signing a few copies of his best-selling book, Coloring the News. • Also at reunion was Judge Craig Pittman, of Mobile, Ala., who makes it to most of Midd's football games to watch son Craig '04 play. Craig Sr. was first elected to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals in 2000 and is serving his first term on the court. • And on a sad note, the condolences of the class are extended to Joyce Rowe Cassidy on the death of her husband on March 25. She writes: "Soul mate and husband of 11 years, Fran passed away of acute lymphocytic leukemia." Joyce was relocating in July to a new home in Stratham, N.H. In January '03, she relocated to a Portsmouth, N.H., office, where she is in her fourth year as a financial adviser for high net worth individuals. • After 10 years of secretarying, Helen and Michael wish to bid everyone adieu. It has been a lot of fun. Hearing from so many friends, from classmates we hardly knew, and also having an excuse to keep in touch with the College on the Hill has been a pleasure. Our tenure has seen the task of secretary enter the Internet age, where e-mails have replaced the tedious mailings back and forth with the wonderful magazine staff. A great side benefit of our efforts has been our own online friendship. We wish Dave and Phyllis and Anne the best of luck and encourage everyone to send in all your news.


Class Secretaries
David Jaffray (djaffray@mchsi.com), 18427 Heathcote Ln., Deephaven, MN 55391; Phyllis Wendell Mackey (phylmackey@hotmail.com), 120 Glade Path, Hampton, NH 03842; and Anne Rowell Noble (anoble@bode.com), 3926 Highwood Ct. NW, Washington, DC 20007.



Summer 2003

Vermont Teddy Bear Co. president and CEO Elisabeth Robert was named the Vermont Small Business Person of the Year for 2003 by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Since Elisabeth took over the company in 1997, revenues have grown from $16.5 million to $39 million. The company opened a second factory in Newport in 1999 and recently added two business segments to its core Bear-Gram business: The PajamaGrams gift service introduced in 2002, and the TastyGram gift service. Ellen Fechter Guerci is the new director of the newly expanded Millbrook (N.Y.) Free Library. She was a librarian and head of reference and adult services in the Shenendehowa Public Library in Clifton Park for nine years.... As a corporate attorney, Steven Kolyer is overseeing an active practice at the world's largest law firm, Clifford Chance. He lives in NYC with actress wife Andrea and daughter Abigail (2). They spend weekends on the shores of Southold on Long Island's North Fork. • After almost two years in London, Suhail and Saba Ahmad Shaikh and kids Aazum (6) and Fazl (4) have moved back to New York: "We are happily settled in Scarsdale, where we have begun to reconnect with a number of old friends and would love to catch up with others in the area (saba_a_shaikh@hotmail.com). • Laurie and Joe Marino live in western Massachusetts with daughters Eleni (16) and Tessa (12). Laurie teaches biochemistry labs at Mt. Holyoke, while Joe is a senior software developer for Synthetic Networks, a very successful high-tech software startup. After earning his instrument rating as a 350-hour private pilot last fall, Joe joined Angel Flight, an organization that flies patients from remote areas of the Northeast to sophisticated medical service hubs, such as Boston. Organized to assist disadvantaged patients, pilots donate their time, plane, and expenses. Joe anticipates the opportunity to combine his passion for flying with the satisfying experience of providing a greatly needed service. • When Janis Tropp married Keith Ground October 19 in Mamaroneck, N.Y., she inherited three teenagers! They're living in Littleton, Colo. Keith is a managing director of Gas Technology Resources of Denver, while Janis works for the Colorado Permanente Medical Group/Kaiser Permanente, "truly a hidden gem in the health-care industry." Janis says she "can't wait to reconnect with Midd friends at reunion!" • Dan Ingwersen reported from Bangor Theological Seminary in Greenbush, Me., that he enjoyed a December visit to Sugar Bowl in Norden, Calif. "This seminary semester is going well, even though my anti-war activities are starting to distract me." • Ritchie Porter and wife Wendy Lanxner have two sons, Nick (6) and Robin (2). In Silver Spring, Md., they live a block away from Mark Felsenthal and a mile away from Jim Baird. Ritchie is still happy teaching drama, directing, writing, and occasionally performing. • Lisa Sheera (sheeran@earthlink.net) cherishes fond memories of Middlebury, but will miss reunion. Living in the Bay Area since 1986, she's concentrating on her public relations consultancy, Sheeran/Jager Communication. Her other big interest is Frisco Pugs. She writes about Pugs, is president of the N. California Pug Club, and has been exhibiting and breeding AKC-Champion Pug dogs for eight years. • After five years in California, Tom Stacey and wife Cheryl moved to Colorado two years ago. Tom keeps up with best friend Keith Block '76 and roots for the Aus as long as they are not playing his beloved Canadiens. • Steve Mahoney sent greetings and hoped to see many classmates at reunion. "Still in the banking business (Bank of American Securities) and have lived in the San Francisco Bay area for eight years. Would welcome friends to stop by, if they are on the Left Coast."


Class Secretaries
Michael Abend (mikeabend@aol.com), 119 Maple St., Carlisle, MA 01741; David Jaf-fray (djaffray@mchsi.com), 18427 Heathcote Ln., Deep-haven, MN 55391; Helen Cooke Pyne (hcpwrite@aol.com), 69 Stern Ln., Atherton, CA 94027  

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